In New England, there is the grave of an old Yankee skinflint. While he was alive, he offered his future heirs their legacy in advance if they would give him 12 ½% interest on it. When he died, they put this epitapth on his tombstone:

Here lies old 12 percent
The more he saved, the less he spent
The less he spent, the more he saved
Oh Lord, can Ichabod be saved?

Now that’s a good question, and we could preach a sermon on that. You remember Jesus said on one occasion that it was as difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as it was for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. That’s a pretty tough saying, isn’t it?

But don’t begin to squirm too quickly. I’m not preaching on that text today. I would say parenthetically that Ichabod can be saved, because all people can be …