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\"Luke\"<\/a>This is another chapter that challenges our hearts regarding our surrender to follow the Lord.\u00a0 Treasures without being rich towards God is folly; however, if you are rich towards God and you\u2019re blessed with treasures, life is good.\u00a0 As I said in a message a few weeks back, \u201cIf you robbed God to get what you got you\u2019re not blessed, you\u2019re a thief.\u201d\u00a0 We have struggles with ‘should I have possessions or should my only possession be Christ.’\u00a0 I do like the old saying, \u201cyou can have things but the things should never have you.\u201d\u00a0 I like it but I do not think it is all that easy.\u00a0 The desire to have creates a desire to have more.\u00a0 Ask yourself, when will I have enough?\u00a0 Christ explains to us how we should be consumed with the Kingdom of God above everything, even our families.\u00a0 What if the Lord returned today?\u00a0 Where is your heart?\u00a0 Is our life consumed with the abundance of this world or the eternal life?\u00a0 One day, and it could be today, Jesus will return and there will not be any time to change.\u00a0 Do you believe God will be happy with your \u201cbigger barns\u201d or your eternal account?\u00a0 The road of being a follower of Christ is not an easy one, but it is one that is rewarded for all eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}