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I can not agree more. Christ first. When I was young I collected baseball cards and as I grew into an adult I ended up on the wrong path in life. I remember hearing the verse seek the Kingdom of God first and I was like yeah that is good but somehow I thought I needed to earn money to wear nice clothes to church and offer big money in the offering. And one day as I believe I was being pulled aside in life and was,in my opinion, being giving an ultimatum if I wanted the world or my soul? That is at least how I felt and still feel anyways. After that occurred I looked at my life and took my focus away from my pursuit of money and realized my life was totally a disaster. All those years I was trying to pursue money I had nothing to show for it . In fact I actually had more in assets as a little child in baseball cards. And had I read the word instead of depending on the what i saw around me,which I know now as deception, I was never going to get wealthy apart from the Lord. I'm not saying I turned to the Lord to get wealthy I'm just saying my pursuits before I turned to the Lord were worthless. And then I started seeing how Christians were being persecuted and I honestly didn't even believe that that stuff was still occurring.I guess what I'm trying to say is hey i needed to totally wake up and not be so easily deceived. When we see ungodly people in big houses or fancy cars we need to serious take heed and understand that that may just be sheer deception. I also needed to wake up and see that just as there are truly persecution of Christians occurring, there are many false prophets around just as the word proclaims. So what I'm saying is that just because we see many, even professing, Christians doing certain things, we are to believe God over everyone. Also while we may think we need the "American dream" and a fat ride and security by having lots of money when we are young we must continue in the word and be set free from sin and truly follow Christ completely because when Christ says His kingdom is not of this world, that is completely true. There is so much more occurring around us than people trying to provide for there families and animal in the jungle and such. And we will only be able to endure until the end as God shakes heaven and earth by learning to completely take Christ at His word.