Im sure you know what a mansion is. I use my computer for fellowship, and also for learning skills online, and as far as a roof over my head goes, its not a mansion. My home is about 800 sq ft.
Thanks Hank77Sure and keeping up with the Jones can be coveting. They have a new car, I want a new car so I will look as well off or as important as they do, or even out doing them with something better.
Mat 23:5 `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Mat 23:6 they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
I'd say that one might have a couple extra bedrooms for visiting family or friends without it being considered too big.Per google
man·sion
ˈman(t)SH(ə)n/
noun
- a large, impressive house.
So I would say a larger and costlier house than what is needed for shelter for and individual/single family. If a house takes away from your resources to care for your neighbor, it may be a mansion.
1 Timothy 6:9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Any thoughts on this scripture?
I'd say that one might have a couple extra bedrooms for visiting family or friends without it being considered too big.
Now that we have an empty nest and two extra bedrooms most of the time, we have been considering volunteering our home as a safe house for abused women and their children. Years ago I knew a retired Christian couple who did this in a partnership between the courts, the women's resource center, and the church.
I only mention this for the consideration of others on this forum who may be able to do the same or something similar where your mansion can be a blessing to those in need.
Good to know.
Perhaps He also supplies someone else with a 8,000 square foot home.
So are you saying that the devil is the one blessing people with mansions?I don't believe that God would bless a man with a mansion when some people are homeless and others are in poverty, hungry and struggling to survive. You see, its not the money here that is an issue, but rather the love of money, in the form of a luxurious mansion.
To a man who has never had a home....your home would be a mansion. You could have gotten a 400 Sq ft home and gave the rest of the money to the poor. Maybe you feel this is the minimum requirement.........but there are some who are in small homes who say you could do with less. It is all subjective. When we judge...we are immediately judged.....like the bible states.
Perhaps he’s pointing out the irony of calling others “carnally minded” for having more than you while ignoring the fact that you have more than others. It’s that whole plank in the eye thing.Its not subjective but is spiritual. So i'm judging? Is that it? Are we not to judge the truth?
Matthew 7:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
No, people work for them, or some steal for them.So are you saying that the devil is the one blessing people with mansions?
I see no fault in you judging. Just letting you know that you are spiritually judged when you judge others. "Judge not!" was not a command given to stop the one being judged from feeling bad.....It is to help the one doing the judging. Everyone is free to accept or reject the help.Its not subjective but is spiritual. So i'm judging? Is that it? Are we not to judge the truth?
Matthew 7:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
How do you decide which parts of the bible to interpret spiritually, and which to apply to the outward world?No, people work for them, or some steal for them.
No where in NT doctrine do i see godly rich men living in mansions. I see Godly men selling their land and giving to the poor. This world is passing away. They knew this and built their house on the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, 31 and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
2 Corinthians 8:14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality. 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”[a]
Acts 4:32 Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. 34 Nor was there anyone among them who lacked; for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 35 and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need.