Returning a kindness is like a grain offering;
Giving to the poor is like a thanksgiving offering. –Sirach 35:2
Keeping the Law is worth many offerings; It is a fellowship offering in itself. Returning a kindness is like a grain offering; Giving to the poor is like a thanksgiving offering.
Keeping away from sin will please the Lord and make atonement for sin but don’t come to the Temple without an offering; the Law requires that you bring one. When someone righteous offers a sacrifice and the fat drips down on the alter, a pleasant smell rises to the Most High. The Lord will accept the offerings made by a righteous person and will not forget them. Praise the Lord by making generous offerings to Him; Don’t be stingy with the first of your crops. Be cheerful with every gift you make and when you pay your tithes, do it gladly. Give to the Most High as He has given to you, just as generously as you can. The Lord always repays and will do it many times over but don’t try to bribe Him or rely on offerings that you have obtained dishonestly. He will not accept them.
The Lord will give each of us what our thoughts and actions deserve. Because of the Lord’s mercy, His people will be happy when He has judged their case. –Sirach 35:1-12; 19
The Rich Man
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man run up and knelt before Him and asked Him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the Commandments: You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.”
The man said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go sell what you own and give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come follow me.”
When he (the rich man) heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving for he had many possessions.
Then Jesus looked around and said to His Disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!”The Disciples were perplexed by these words but Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.”
They (Disciples) were greatly astounded and said to one another, ‘Then who can be saved?’
Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible but not for God; For God all things are possible.”
Peter began to say to Him, ‘Look, we have left everything and followed You.’Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for My sake and for the sake of ‘The Good News’ who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age — houses, brothers, sisters, mothers and children and fields with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life but many who are first will be last and the last will be first.” –Mark 10:17-31
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