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From Eternity Past
“Labor not to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.” “He that is
greedy of gain troubleth his own house.” “They that will be rich fall
into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
Proverbs 23:4
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15:27
;
1 Timothy 6:9
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When Lot entered Sodom, he fully intended to keep himself free
from iniquity and command his household after him. But he failed.
The result is before us.
Like Lot, many see their children ruined, and barely save their
own souls. Their lifework is lost; their life is a sad failure. Had they
exercised true wisdom, their children might have had less worldly
prosperity, but they would have made sure of a title to the immortal
inheritance.
The heritage that God has promised is not in this world. Abraham
“sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God.” We must dwell as pilgrims and strangers here if
we would gain “a better country, that is, an heavenly.”
Hebrews 11:9,
10, 16
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