Jesus never ever shunned anyone to sit with Him or to eat with Him ----if the rich ---poor ----Pharisees or Scribes came to Jesus and wanted to sit with Him ---talk with Him or eat with Him ---He accepted them --
By your quote here
He sort of shunned the powerful/rich/Pharisees/Scribes
Your making Jesus a respecter of persons and that goes against Scripture ------
Romans 2:11 AMP
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For God shows no partiality [no arbitrary favoritism; with Him one person is not more important than another].
Jesus looks at the heart not the person -----
amen this example
“Then
Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him,
One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come,
take up the cross, and follow me.
And
he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples,
How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!”
Mark 10:21-23 KJV
and this example shows another rich man with a different heart being saved
“And, behold, there was a man named
Zacchæus, which was the chief among the publicans, and
he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying,
That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
And
Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
And Jesus said unto him,
This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Luke 19:2-3, 5-10 KJV
paul later actually says that having a lot of wealth is a spiritual gift in the church meant to be shared with the poor among them even commanding them to be generous and help
Others with thier much
T he issue is when
money is more important to us than generousity and helping those we can help with whatever we have little or alot mammon can’t be something that we chase and value so much like zacceus we need to be quick to share generously if we have wealth and mammon to spare it can otherwise become this
“And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But
they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou,
O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”
1 Timothy 6:8-12 KJV
We have to carefully attend our heart we’re commanded to love other people and if we have a lot of money that means we can really help them out in deed and truth
airs definately the heart because he knows what we do comes from the condition of our heart if we’re serving money and possessions we need to repent and start sharing with the needy around us
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