Monday, May 18, 2009

Why Do We Gamble Eternity

Luke 18:18-27

    And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"   And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.  You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'"  And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth." When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich. Jesus, looking at him with sadness, said, "How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!  For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God." 

 

Matthew 6:19-21 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 

Matthew 6:25 (ESV) 

    "… do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on." 

 

Matthew 6:27-28 (ESV) 

    Which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?  [28] And why are you anxious about clothing?"

 

Matthew 6:31-34 (ESV) 

    Do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'  [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.  [33] Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

    [34] "Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

 

Luke 12:15 (ESV) 

    "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." 

 

Luke 12:16-21 (ESV) 

    "The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'  And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."

 

 

 

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