Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go Hungry!

Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting on Food Prices in 2012 While Hundreds of Millions Starved - Infowars.com

But there is good news, at least for the millions who go to bed hungry. Our Lord Jesus said "To the poor the gospel is preached." (Matthew 11:5).  If you are poor, please take time right now to read Pastor Charles Spurgeon sermon, Preaching for the Poor.

You may also want to check out Ron Reed's 2 minute podcast on James 2:5: "Hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"

As for Goldman Sachs, well, the news isn't quite so good. The Bible says:

"Go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankard; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath. Ye have lived in pleasure on earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you." - James 5:1-6

Recommended reading:

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, by Ronald Sider
Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People, by Jon Jeter

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)