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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Is it a Sin to be Rich?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Pastor Mark talks about the four financial categories in scripture. Tune in to find out which one is the best!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What he's talking about here are the rich and the poor.

0:02.1

He's talking about the godly poor

0:03.9

and then he's talking about the rich

0:05.1

and the commentators are split 50-50,

0:07.0

whether it's godly or ungodly rich.

0:09.1

But here's the problem when it comes to our wealth, possessions, and finances.

0:13.1

We tend to think culturally, not biblically,

0:15.0

so we think in two categories, not four.

0:17.9

I wanna show you the four biblical categories. and if you are younger, went to public school

0:23.4

and or a university, you need to pay careful attention because you've been lied to and brainwashed.

0:28.9

Okay, here are the four categories.

0:30.9

Godly poor, godly rich, ungodly poor, ungodly rich.

0:34.1

Now what happens in our culture, the economic discussion politically is largely

0:38.2

dominated by Marxism. Marxism is atheistic and godless. It is not biblical in any sense of the word.

0:46.9

It manifests itself in communism and socialism and other kinds of evils that end with ism.

0:52.5

And the result is that you tend to see only two categories,

0:55.9

the oppressor and the oppressed. The oppressor and the oppressed. So everything is in those

1:01.7

categories. I'll give you an example. So right now, if you're not vaccinated, you are an oppressor,

1:06.9

and if you are vaccinated, you're oppressed. So these categories keep getting applied to everything.

1:12.6

The way it gets applied economically, the rich are the oppressor,

1:15.6

the poor are the oppressed.

1:17.6

Therefore, in the name of justice,

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