{"id":483,"date":"2007-11-14T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-11-14T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:31:49","slug":"of-camels-and-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/of-camels-and-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Camels and Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Luke 18:15-30<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This is really about the kingdom of God and most people who read this. (The &#8220;camels and needles&#8221; things is supposed to be a catchy title.)<\/p>\n<p>Most people who read this should take solemn warning at these words of Jesus:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (24).<\/p>\n<p>By historical standards as well as global averages, most of us who read this are rich. No doubt we even qualify as very rich.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we should ask ourselves if that wealth imperils our entrance into God&#8217;s kingdom. After all . . . .<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (25).<\/p>\n<p>So what am I to do?<\/p>\n<p>Put my mind and my heart and my treasure and my affection in the right place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/530.shtml\">Anything else?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/onething-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/onething-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Thou knowest the commandments -- Yet lackest thou one thing (Luke 15:20,22)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 15:20,22<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 15:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8240\"><font color=green><strike>Impossible<\/strike> Possible!<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Luke 18:15-30 This is really about the kingdom of God and most people who read this. 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