Leviticus 25:35–46
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age of profound economic confusion. On one side, you have the socialists and Marxists, who believe wealth is a fixed pie and that the only way for one man to get a slice is to steal it from another. They preach a gospel of envy, resentment, and state-sponsored theft. On the other side, you have a certain kind of rapacious capitalist who believes that greed is good and that the goal of life is to accumulate as much as possible, with no thought for his brother. Both of these systems are godless, and both are fundamentally inhumane. Both begin with man as an autonomous economic unit, and both end in tyranny, either the tyranny of the state or the tyranny of the market. It is a way rooted not in abstract economic theory, but in the covenant relationship between God and His people.