{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"2.3 / If God wants you rich, why aren't you?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2870,"description":"The Pharisees caught Jesus' disciples eating with unwashed hands. That wasn't a sin. It was a tradition. Jesus answered, \"You cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition.\" (Mark 7:13)\nMost of what we believe about money works the same way. We didn't get it from Scripture. We got it from our parents, our church, our culture, and every bad example we've watched. Then we see more evidence for what we believe than for what God actually said.\nThis episode is about the gap between what God says and what we believe about what God says. I talk about Epictetus and the high school breakup that felt like the end of the world. I talk about why praying \"God's will\" in a hospital room is often unbelief dressed up as something spiritual. And we look at Mark 6, when Jesus couldn't do miracles in his own hometown.\nJesus was amazed twice in the Gospels. Once at unbelief in Nazareth. Once at the faith of a Roman centurion. You get to decide which one He sees in you.\nSo does God want you to be rich? Yes. The only question left is whether you believe it.\nThis is part 3 of God and money, Season 2 of The Dialog: a search for what the Bible actually says about wealth.\nScriptures\nMark 7:1-13 · Isaiah 29:13 · Mark 6:1-6 · Matthew 8:5-13 · Romans 12:2 · Isaiah 55:8-9 · Hebrews 12:11\nThinkers and books referenced\nEpictetus: it's not events that disturb us, it's our opinions about them (Enchiridion 5)\nRyan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: objective events, subjective judgments\nSeneca: regard all adversity as training (On Providence)\nSøren Kierkegaard: life is understood backwards but lived forwards\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:50 God and money, part 3\n2:06 The problem with God wanting you rich\n3:57 Bad examples and godly people who don't prosper\n5:21 Mark 7: unwashed hands and tradition\n6:48 Isaiah 29:13: rules learned by rote\n8:02 \"You cancel the word of God\" (Mark 7:13)\n9:44 Money beliefs that don't come from Scripture\n10:47 What God says vs. what you...","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}