That won't do at all
How can good deeds be pressed down, shaken together and running over. Yes He might well say today "woe to you who are rich"
The wrong people were rich in those days, the Herods, the Caiphas's, the Annas's all Jews who were the toadies of the Romans. They cruelly exacted taxes upon their own people, when the Pharisees demanded tithes to be paid of course they were the recipients of the tithes.
The wrong people are rich today, woe to them.
There are two kinds of prosperity, there is worldly prosperity and there is godly prosperity. The wealth of this planet belongs to God, the gold, the silver, the cattle on a thousand hills. How do YOU want that wealth to be distributed? do you wish to send rockets to the moon? to build enough explosive power to destroy mankind many times over? what?
Now I agree with Nicolai the Christian's business is not to chase after uncertain wealth, we chase after God and God says if we will pursue righteousness He will make wealth to chase after us and to overtake us.
For myself I will love God if I have got nothing and have done, if I have money I want to see where I can use it to prosper God's work, The worldly way to wealth and riches is to GRAB and to horde. The godly way is to GIVE.
Many Christians love their money too much to give too much. They give God the left overs.
But Paul said on the first day of the week set aside what you intend to give, put God FIRST.
The gospel, the good news of the Kingdom of God, that is the next age when God through Christ take back reign of this earth, it is the age of righteousness, peace and prosperity. But for us it is at hand.
I do believe that it's better not to have excess wealth, I believe excess money takes hold of us. Once people see it building up in the bank they find it hard to let it go, I've seen this many times in people.
Matthew 6
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Material wealth)
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
When the young rich man asked what he should do to inherit eternal life and then said that he had followed all the commandments from his youth. Jesus said this in Matthew 19
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
You can see that there were many who had a different heart to that young man, seen here in Acts 4
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
We can inherit all the wealth of the world, but it's nothing and material wealth is nothing to God, and when greed gets a hold of us, it's a bad thing, it's better to share what we have, Jesus saw more heart in the woman who gave her 2 mites than the man giving out of his plenty. It's easy to give out of wealth, but it's hard to share all that you have, unless God is in the heart, then we become a giver and it's better not to build our treasure on the earth but to build our treasure in heaven by loving others the way Jesus taught us to and be a giver. And I can't see Jesus having money for long, I think he would have shared everything he had to all who needed it. But he didn't seem to have much at all. At times he didn't even have a place to lay his head.
The love of money, is the root of all evil.
I believe that it's better to give it out before the love of it sets in.