{"id":632,"date":"2009-04-02T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2009-04-02T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T20:21:24","slug":"632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/632\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend Money on Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”<\/p>\n

That’s one of my favorite verses, it’s from Luke 16:9. Yeah, Jesus said that! I can’t imagine how this will play out or what it will look like, but it’s pretty clear to me. I find it so cool that, if I’m generous now, it will come back to me someday! I think about this a lot when I find myself being stingy with people.<\/p>\n

What’s even more surprising is doing a study of all the verses that promise eternal rewards for Earthly deeds. I collected these and put them all together, and there’s so many of them I put it in a separate text document:<\/p>\n

Reward Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, if you’re interested in the subject, I highly recommend this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” That’s one of my favorite verses, it’s from Luke 16:9. Yeah, Jesus said that! I can’t imagine how this will play out or what it will look like, but it’s pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}