{"id":4908,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/37-cant-get-you-in\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:58","slug":"37-cant-get-you-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/37-cant-get-you-in\/","title":{"rendered":"$37 Can&#8217;t Get You In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot buy your way into heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You know this, but rich people think a little differently.  Back in 2006 Warren Buffett announced that he was giving his fortune to charity.  At the time Buffett was worth $44 billion just in stocks.  He said he was giving away $37 billion.  Most of it went to the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation.  By anyone\u2019s thinking &#8230; that\u2019s a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>When he presented his gift to the Gateses, he made the remark, \u201cThere is more than one way to get to heaven, but this is a great way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly a generous gift, but not a sufficient to get to heaven.  $37 billion is not enough.  Only the blood of Jesus can get you in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot buy your way into heaven. You know this, but rich people think a little differently. Back in 2006 Warren Buffett announced that he was giving his fortune to charity. At the time Buffett was worth $44 billion just in stocks. He said he was giving away $37 billion. Most of it went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4353,2592,4352,724,1396,430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}