I do not know [if] you have heard about liberation theology. One of the things that has put all of Latin America in turmoil at the time of writing this, is liberation theology. And a lot of the problems in Central and South America today has come from the apostate Christian church and a lot of it from America. Now, liberation theology is the theology which says poor equals child of God. If you are poor, you are by definition one of the children of God. And what you need to do is join in this great effort by the children of God, the poor all over the world, to rise up in revolution and take what the rich have, so that you will be blessed. A lot of the trouble in these countries where there is civil war today, is due to this thoroughly Marxist misreading of the Bible. It is not true; the Bible does not say that all of the poor are the children of God. There will be a lot of people in hell who were poor here and they are going to be poor hereafter.
The reverse of that is also to be remembered. The Bible says, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven; harder than it is to put a camel through the eye of the needle. That is awfully hard to do. Try it sometime. But even though our Lord says this is impossible with men, it is not impossible with God. And that is why you read about some very rich men in the Bible who went right through that needle because God was able to make them saints. Abraham was a wealthy man, but did he have his heart fastened upon the riches of this world? No, the Bible says, he went out looking for a city whose builder and maker is God, because he wanted to live in that city which has foundations. You can also read about a man named Job. Job was a wealthy man and you all know what happened to him in all the midst of that wealth, but did Job give up on God? Did he have his treasure in this world? No, he had his heart fixed upon God and his kingdom. David was a rich man but he was a man after God's own heart. I could go on and on. One of the great rich men of the Bible who gave up everything was Moses. He could have had a place in the kingdom of Pharaoh, and he gave it all up because he considered it better to have a place with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin; and I might also add the luxury of earthly riches. And so you can go right through the Bible and see this lesson.1
G. I. Williamson
9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,