But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
But 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.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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He helped others, then he took his life. The last days of film producer Steve Bing
He donated millions to the Party of Death Democrats and a slew of regressive, godless man centered, dead end causes.
He battled depression and drugs.
During his final years, Bing was searching for the meaning of life. Friends say he talked about God. “He wanted to find out what’s on the other side," Keltner said. "He wanted to know if there was more to this whole thing.”
Bing’s death shook the expansive and interconnected worlds of entertainment, Democratic politics and social activism in which he loomed large. Yet, while the multimillionaire Bing lived a life of glamour and privilege.
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Fame & Wealth is the god that always fails those who chase after it .
Depp, 57, and Heard, 34, met on the set of the 2011 comedy “The Rum Diary”
Comedy always turns to tragedy when you ignore your Maker and choose to play the part of 'little god'.
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The Folly of Riches
10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).
11 When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach (greed) of the rich [who hungers for even more] will not let him sleep.
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily on men:
a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the power or capacity to enjoy them [all those things which are gifts from God], but a stranger [in whom he has no interest succeeds him and] enjoys them.
from Ecclesiastes 6
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He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time.
He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]
—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
from Ecclesiastes 3
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| Chasing after the big lie |
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| He (they) will tell you. With much wealth comes Much Misery |
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“As for me, I baptize you with water because of [your] repentance [that is, because you are willing to change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret your sin and live a changed life], but He (the Messiah) who is coming after me is mightier [more powerful, more noble] than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to remove [even as His slave];
He will baptize you [who truly repent] with the Holy Spirit and [you who remain unrepentant] with
fire (judgment).
12 His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom),
but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”
from Matthew 3
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RELIGION WITHOUT a personal relationship with JESUS or with a fake JESUS IS GARBAGE,
...and there's very little of The real Jesus in this corrupt and rebellious world.
The Way to Salvation is narrow and few find it.
Most chose the wide, easy road to destruction and fake, empty, evil world loving religion that requires no real repentence or change.
Victim is burned to death in savage church hostage massacre: Thirty gunmen storm South African place of worship and leave five dead after 'feud between warring Christian religious factions'
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By their fruit you shall know them
Behind their dead religion facade and $ they act like the world because the evil prince of this world is their god, who they really serve.
How SAD and EMPTY this life is,
ReplyDeleteseparated from our CREATOR.
Money is DEAD, Fame is Foolish and USELESS.
Nothing satisfies. ALL IS VANITY.
Then, the years are Over, and ones life has been spent in chasing after that which one CANNOT KEEP.
Then Death comes.
Reality begins when we close our eyes in death
That which we have served in this short life we will carry with us into Eternity. STARK Reality sets in.
Locked away from ALL that is Good and Holy.
All that is left is the Agony that we have been Deceived
and have served Death and Darkness with our life.
REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF LIFE
JESUS CHRIST, Eternal SON of GOD will take
you into more Beauty and Glory than you ever thought existed. Turn NOW and Obey JESUS and follow HIM+ in the Straight and Narrow Way
that leads to ETERNAL LIFE.
Bless you Marcel,
Thank you for this Good and Truthful post.
Samson7able + + +
Superb message, well preached.
ReplyDeleteThanks brother couldn't have said it better, a great completion to the message on the worthless idols so many waste their lives, and souls setving in this short time here on earth we have.
Blessings