What Are The Works We're To Do?
The people walking with Jesus were a little startled when he turned and commanded them to stop toiling for the bread that perishes (John 6:27); and it's not as if this was the first time He had minimized the importance of the pursuit of the basics of life. On other occasions He had told them that birds didn't toil or save yet the Father took care of them; the Gentiles were obsessed with these things ( intimating that this was a pursuit well beneath them) but they were not to be. He blew the disciples minds declaring that the rich folks would have great difficulty entering into the kingdom of heaven. In fact, Jesus plainly declared that it was impossible to serve God and mammon( a contemporary pagan god ) both.
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