Leviticus 27:16–25
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is economically illiterate because it is theologically illiterate. Our culture thinks of property, money, and land in entirely autonomous terms. This is the foundational lie of all materialism and all statist tyranny. The materialist thinks he owns his stuff in a brute, ultimate sense. The statist tyrant agrees, but simply believes that he is a bigger brute with a prior claim. The Bible, from Genesis 1 onward, establishes the absolute ownership of God over everything. He made it all, and therefore He owns it all. We are not landlords; we are tenants on God's great leasehold estate. And the terms of the lease are all laid out in His law. When we forget this, we get into all sorts of trouble. We either become arrogant hoarders, forgetting the Giver, or we become envious socialists, demanding what God has given to another.