{"id":6470,"date":"2026-09-18T01:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:31:29","slug":"too-rich-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"Too Rich For God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If someone isn&#8217;t a Christian and they go from poverty to becoming super rich overnight, the odds are they will never convert. They&#8217;ll begin to trust in their riches, so it isn&#8217;t likely they&#8217;ll ever turn to Christ. That&#8217;s not to say they can&#8217;t get saved, but the money becomes a barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8216;Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.&#8217;<strong>Matthew 19:23\u201324<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone isn&#8217;t a Christian and they go from poverty to becoming super rich overnight, the odds are they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/watermarked_img_7235548404584626244.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}