Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters.". You cannot be a servant of God and
a slave of money at the same time. I understand this passage as: a person's life
goal can only be positioned in one direction, or the pursuit of spiritual
greatness, nobility, transcendence, or the pursuit of secular interests, it is
impossible to walk in two directions at the same time. Of course, in real life,
it is entirely possible for a person who is spiritually excellent to be
materially rich. Whether a person is a slave of money or a master of money
depends not on whether he has money or not, but on his attitude towards money.
It is when a person is rich that we can see this more clearly. A poor man has to
worry about survival. Money means life to him. We have no right to judge his
attitude towards money. Jesus went on to emphasize that we should not worry
about our daily needs. He told a parable: The clothes of the illustrious King
Solomon are not as beautiful as a wild flower. The wild flower blooms in the
morning and falls in the evening, and God dresses it like this. Why do you worry
about clothes? What he means is that in material life, we should let nature take
its course and be satisfied with the simple conditions provided by nature, so
that we can concentrate on spiritual undertakings. A fornicating woman One day
when Jesus was preaching in the temple, some scripture teachers and Pharisees
who were trying to frame him brought a woman and asked him, "This woman was
caught in the act of fornication.". Mosaic law says such a woman should be
stoned to death. What do you think? Jesus bent over and wrote on the ground with
his finger. The men kept asking, and he straightened up and said, "If any of you
has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." With these words,
he bent down and wrote on the ground again. Everyone slipped away, and in the
end, only Jesus and the woman were left. Then Jesus stood up and asked her,
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they?"? Is there no one left to condemn you? The woman said, "No, sir." Then
Jesus said, "Well, I do not condemn you either.". Go and sin no more. The story
recorded in the Gospel of John made me feel good about Jesus, a wise man with
wisdom,
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ficus tree, humor and understanding of human nature. Think of him bending
over and scribbling with his fingers on the ground, looking neither at the
malicious accuser nor at the poor defendant, and what pleasant thoughts are
going through his mind. How easily he defeated the plot of the scribes and
Pharisees against him, saved the life of the woman, and, more importantly, broke
a cruel law of Judaism. In any autocratic system, there must be a harsh moral
court, whose duty is to judge human nature as evil in the name of morality. In
fact, on such a scale, everyone is guilty, or at least potentially so. But,
perhaps because of this, moral judgment is more likely to arouse crazy
enthusiasm. According to my guess, people's psychology may be like this: on the
one hand,
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tree, what they want to do but dare not do, someone actually does it, so the
jealousy will be disguised as righteous anger to erupt violently, of course,
must not let the person who got the advantage have a good end; On the other
hand, if you have done something similar, it becomes an instinctive reaction of
self-protection to firmly identify with the court and draw a clear line with the
sinner, as if the higher the tone of condemnation, the safer you will be.
Therefore, wherever moral courts prevail, people are bound to be full of cruel
struggles, human nature is bound to be distorted, and love is bound to be
strangled. Jesus was wise not to judge the case itself, but to take a drastic
measure against the traditional moral court of Judaism: since everyone is
subject to human weakness, and in this sense everyone is guilty, then no one has
the right to be a judge. Through this story, I am also very envious of the world
at that time. After listening to what Jesus said, all the people present asked
themselves and retreated from sin, which showed that their conscience was still
there. In another era, for example, during our Cultural Revolution, what would
have happened? It can be concluded that as soon as Jesus' voice fell, people
would immediately rush to stone the woman to prove their innocence, and the
woman would immediately die under the stones. As for Jesus himself, he would
certainly be sent to the cross in advance by the revolutionary masses on the
charges of being a black backstage supporter and an apologist of an adulteress.
Jealousy in the Spiritual Realm A vineyard owner hired workers to tidy up his
vineyard and agreed that each person would be paid a silver coin for a day. On
this day, he hired five groups of workers, some in the early morning and some in
the evening. When he settled his salary, he gave everyone a silver coin. The
workers who came early in the morning protested. His answer was, "I didn't take
advantage of you.". Didn't you agree to a silver dollar a day? I also give the
last so much, do I have no right to use their own money? Are you jealous of my
generosity? Jesus used this story to illustrate that in the Kingdom of Heaven,
God treats all people alike, whether they are religious or not. Undisguisedly
contemptuous of those who envy the latecomers because they are early, he
declares categorically, "Those who are second will be first, and those who are
first will be second." Indeed, in the spiritual field, including religious
beliefs, ideological exploration, artistic creation and so on, qualifications
are totally ineffective. If someone is jealous of the achievements of later
generations because of his seniority, then the more jealous he is, the more he
shows his spiritual inferiority, and the more his position will be inferior.
There is no prophet in the eyes of native people. When Jesus returned to his
hometown to preach, the people were surprised and said, "Isn't he the son of the
carpenter?"? Isn't his mother Maria? Are not James, Joseph,
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cherry blossom tree, Simon, and Judas his younger brothers? Don't his
sisters live with us? Where on earth did he get all this? So they rejected him.
Jesus reasoned about this, "a prophet is not without honor in his own country
and in his own house." (Matthew) Or: "a prophet is never welcome in his own
country." (Luke).
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