Commentary: You maybe familiar with the story of Balak and Balaam? This story is in the Book of Numbers in your Old Testament. Balak was rich and powerful! So he hired Balaam to put a curse on Israel. God had to even enable a donkey to speak to Balaam of his error! Balak tried to buy God off and change his will for Israel! How foolish! It is usually the wealthy that persecute the church! Persecute the followers of Jesus! While ministering in India for 3 years I witnessed the Hindu Priests divining for money! Someone would come to them and put a curse on someone else either their spouse or an enemy to bring sickness and death for money! How different when Jesus says we are to pray for our enemies! It was funny in that the party cursed would go to the same Priest and pay more money to get the curse reversed! The Hindu Priests would tell me that their curses worked on everyone except the Christians! So how does the church today divine for money? Book sales! Get rich selling books! My Bible has 66 Books so do I need millions of Books written about the Bible? I think not! When a church leader gives special priorities to the rich members and neglects the poor he is divining for money! Jesus had a lot to say about this! The widow threw in her two mites and Jesus said she gave more than the rich because she gave her all! I will never forget preaching in a remote mountain village in India. After the service this bare foot lady brought me a skinny little chicken with a string tied around the leg as her tithe offering to me! It was all she had! Inside I wept for she will miss some meals for this offering but the Holy Spirit said receive her gift for it is unto me! God gave his all for you on a Cross for your sin! To reject his gift is the cruelest thing you can do sacrificing your eternity separated from God forever! Pride trapped Satan and Adam and Eve producing death for themselves and future generations! But Jesus conquered death for you! Will you reject him? There is salvation under no other name in heaven and earth! Whose name do you trust today? His or your name? James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com