Love of money

[Alex44]

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

[lovethelord]

Hi Alex44

Are you asking if it is okay to use your money to fund resources such as books, videos, music to enhance your Christian life?  This would not effect salvation. You could spend your money on a hobby or buying non essentials and still be saved. When God tells us not to love money, it is to put your trust, belief and confidence in money to meet your needs rather than seeking God and trusting Him.  

[dhchristian]

5 hours ago, Alex44 said:

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

Alex, the Love of Money is the root of all evil, Not the Money itself. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (matthew 6;24)

The Word mammon in the above verse Means "Wealth personified", Just like Jesus is the Truth personified, Wealth and our confidence in wealth "personifies Money", and we begin to love and trust this money for our well being. When we do this we fall victim to denial that we need God to provide for us, and this denial of the need for God is symptomatic of the Laodicean church age we are living in.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (Rev. 3:17) 

Do You see the denial of need in this verse, and the culprit, riches? Here is the solution. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (Rev. 3:18)

Using your money to increase your love for the Bible is a good thing, But even that can become a reliance on money. we can buy the best degrees, and best biblical resources, and best study bibles out there, But the Best teacher we cannot pay for and He is the Holy Ghost. He must be your teacher, and the one you rely on to increase your love for the Bible. When He does begin to teach you, the Word of God will become "alive". You will know when this happens for the Word of God then begins to "read" you, cutting to the marrow. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb. 4:12)

God Bless. 

[missmuffet]

7 hours ago, Alex44 said:

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

No, you can possess money but the Bible says the love of money is evil. It can lead to greed and all kind of sins. 

[enoob57]

not just the love of it for it is called by Jesus unrighteous mammon

Luke 16:11

11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
KJV

for the clear distinction

Matt 6:24

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
KJV
 

[Billiards Ball]

8 hours ago, Alex44 said:

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

Salvation isn't from avoiding the love of money.

Salvation isn't from loving money.

Salvation isn't from loving the Bible.

Do you know what salvation comes from?

[johnthebaptist]

11 hours ago, Alex44 said:

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

No.

[Behold]

12 hours ago, Alex44 said:

Can I love money if I’m using it to increase my love for the Bible, and still be saved?

Are you saved?

Are you born again?

Have you trusted in Christ, and taken Him into your heart by Faith?

Do you remember when you did this, as this is your 2nd Birth

And if you did......then That is  the end of it.

You're SAVED.

Then next, you begin learning how to be a <>sold out/all in<> Son of God, or Daughter of God (Discipleship). You stay within this discovery process regarding how to be what God wants you to be...(Just Like Jesus).....So,  You  are always learning, and this learning takes a lifetime because we are ever learning how to be the truest disciple  of Christ we can become.   Paul the Apostle explained that this is achieve when He said.."It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me"....

This (conforming into Christ)  process never ends until we are dead or Raptured, and then we are finalized, we are completed by the Almighty...... with the end result being a new body and never-ending Joy we find in the Presence of Jesus The Christ.

This learning process, (Discipleship)  takes place all your life, BECAUSE you ARE saved.   But this process is not saving you...it is CONFORMING YOU........As its the Blood of Jesus that has ALREAD Saved you, when you were born again.

And after this, you try, we try, i try, our best, to be what God would have us to be.    If we fail, if we fall, if we don't, the Atoning Blood of Jesus is always the same, it saved us and it keeps us saved.

Edited October 22, 2019 by Behold

[Who me]

Test your self what is more important to you.

Attending church or earning money?

If the latter you have a problem.

[Raven]

Love of money is to use what is outermost to fill the inner most, but only the uppermost can do that.

There is nothing wrong with having money as a means to exchange energy, such as using money-energy to by food-energy. However, if one loves and/or fears money, then they cannot let it go. It is the grasping and hanging onto it as means of self-worth which keeps a person in bondage to this world.