What Would Jesus Do in Today's World

of oppression, understanding the central core of the Gospels as Jesus' identification with the poor

Money has been a life objective since they introduced it back in early 5,000 BC. People are so focused in acquiring materialistic things in order for them to feel special or overall happy. In most cases people focus on becoming rich to feel important and start to lose morality. In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, there is a specific character named Walter Lee. In the play Walter is concerned about money and has some morality because he was willing to let his future baby die from abortion, risk his family’s money for selfish needs, and thinks money is life. But deep down inside him he cares for his family more than money.

Money plays an important role in everyone’s life, but having money doesn’t mean you can buy happiness or love. A person being wealthy, having all that money can cause fame and popularity, but true happiness can never be obtained. If you have money you can buy any happiness you want. But no one thinks about the opposite side of it. If you don’t have that money, because money is something you get if you’re destined to have it. Money can be a source of limited happiness, but not for lifetime. Money does have value, but you don’t need that to be happy. It’s not necessary to have money to be happy. Sometimes people with money, can be careless, they don’t care about others. They only think about themselves, only about their happiness. This causes

Nowadays, money can make most everything happens. People run after money because they think money can give them better life. It is true that we need money to support our life. However, we need to remember that once we have a good quality of life, we should use our extra money to benefit those who have need instead of keep money in our pocket. We need to remember that God rewards us with succeed is because he wants us to take care of our brothers. In addition, if we pursue over luxury life, we will end up being controlled by money.

Luke’s Gospel greatly emphasizes the social justice aspect of Christian living. Throughout the third book in the New Testament, the story and history of Jesus Christ is written, and Luke preserves the many sayings of Jesus warning that those with material possessions have a

The author perpetuates his Christian viewpoint that it is not Godly to strive towards riches, or to obtain an abundance of material possessions on earth, but more important to seek the rewards in Heaven (Lines 27-28). Additionally, the Bible teaches, “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have” (Hebrews 13:5 NIV). His perception is that every man should be being Christ-like by heading Jesus’ warning, “You, my

Reverend Young addresses Christians about wealth inequality as he states that Jesus cared for the poor and consequently, followers of the faith have an obligation to do the same.

The lack of generosity that plagues the body of Christ is an attribute that must be detached from the Christians ethos. The very essence of greed is something that must not be named among the body of Christ. It is an antithetical to what God has called the church

He is mentioned to by Paul as "Luke the beloved physician" (Col. 4:14). Luke fixed forth the humanity of the Son of Man and cites it in chronological order the life of Christ. Being a physician, he is more precise when using language. For example, when he indicates a leper he uses the identical medical term to describe the circumstance, for example "full of leprosy" (Luke 5:12). Luke’s gospel is particularly focused towards an individual named Theophilus and is focused on the complete story and past events of Jesus Christ from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection. A major theme in Luke’s gospel shows how important the poor were to Jesus and how we should not neglect the poor. Examples of this are seen when the book talks about the distinctive beatitudes “blessed you are poor…hunger now...weep now...” and the distinctive woes “woes to you that are rich...that are full...that laugh now…” which overall say, money and power will tend to bring judgement upon you. In addition, the gospel of Luke refers to certain parables like the Rich man and Lazarus. This sends a message to warn the rich who tend to trust in their riches more than in God, wealth tends to pull us away from God and that if we neglect the poor and prioritize our riches more we will go to hell. Asking oneself- is your existence a blessing for the

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” Benjamin Franklin.

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”

Differently stated, all of the different things each sinner felt happiness from on this earth, after the Lord’s return, will be turned into the things that will create one’s miseries—and those things will be worth nothing. James explains the innocent people the sinners treated poorly, (by cheating them out of their pay, condemning them and unfairly murdering their people), will stand before him or her in front of God and tell the Lord how they were mistreated. The passage continues to focus on those who are in power and how they used their power. The Lord is not telling us it’s a sin to have wealth, he is telling us the sin is how it is used. Is it used for good to help others or for our own selfish gains? When it becomes everything to us and affects the way we treat other people, then it is a terrible sin against God. “You have fattened yourselves,” he says, you have indulged in everything too

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants." - Benjamin Franklin

Exposition- Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it (Benjamin Franklin). I was only a small child when I was introduced to the cruelty of the world: money. Money can make a person do almost anything if they want it bad enough. That’s why it’s so evil, it can change everything about a person; making them into something they are not. It’s not their fault either, people make it seem like nice things are worth everything and that it will make their life perfect; but it won’t, I know that better than anyone else.

Keener, Matthew’s Gospel was written after the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70 (17). The Matthean group was having a difficult time keeping its identity and staying on good terms with other Jewish groups (Keener, 17). Matthew wanted to attempt to keep Jewish tradition within the Christian movement. He wanted to show that the Torah was still important too (Keener, 17). In Matthew 6.25-34, Jesus is telling the people to not worship “mammon,” which is a term for money (Keener, 223).