{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"2.2 / Does God want me to be rich? What the Bible actually says","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4155,"description":"If your household makes the median American income, you're richer than the vast majority of people on earth. Do you feel rich? If not, where does your lack of sufficiency come from?\nA stranger walked up to me at the gym and asked if I was a pastor or something. I told him I was more of an “or something.” Then he found out where our church was.\n“Oh, you’re one of those prosperity gospel churches.”\nSo I asked him what the prosperity gospel was. He couldn’t tell me. So I asked him a few questions instead. Do you believe in God? Do you want to make more money? Do you want to win in life? Do you think God wants that for you?\n“It sounds like you believe in the prosperity gospel.”\nEverybody uses words they can’t define. Before we can answer whether God wants you to be rich, we have to agree on what rich means. Not the culture’s definition. God’s.\nThis is Season 2 of The Dialog: God and money, what the Bible actually says about wealth, generosity and winning in life God’s way. In this episode, I go through the Hebrew and Greek words the Bible actually uses for prosperity, with the receipts so you can look them up for yourself. We look at Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. I also talk about my two grandfathers, and why the real inheritance was never the money.\nWe land on two simple definitions.\nOld Testament: The blessing of God to have and grow my assigned dominion for generations.\nNew Testament: I have everything I need, and I have enough to meet other people’s needs.\nScriptures\nProverbs 10:22 · Proverbs 13:22 · Deuteronomy 8:18 · 2 Corinthians 8:2 · 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 · Acts 17:11 · Romans 12:2 · Genesis 26:13 · Job 42:10 · Hosea 4:6 (quotes above: ESV)\nThinkers and sources\nSocrates (define your terms first) · G.K. Chesterton · Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler · a line often attributed to Mark Twain\nWord studies: Brown-Driver-Briggs, HALOT, TWOT, Strong’s, BDAG, Mounce, TDNT\nNumbers: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 median household income\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}