©09/16/2001 Jim Welch
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Laboring for Heavenly riches
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Your ways, Oh Father, are better than the ways of all others combined and Your Voice far better than the sum total of the contents of all books ever written.
John 21
24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
To walk alone with you, Oh Father, is far better than all the rest of life's other experiences combined. Amen.
Philippians 1
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
All the riches amassed by men are but a vapor that will quickly pass away and be no more.
James 1
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
The treasure laid up in Heaven will endure to everlasting and never pass away.
Luke 12
32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Therefore a single small treasure in Heaven is far more valuable than the sum total of all the riches amassed by men.
Yet men will labor long and hard to accumulate earthly treasures, which are here today and gone tomorrow.
They won't lift a finger to acquire a Heavenly treasure.
Brethren, are you laboring for Heavenly riches or earthly wealth?
Matthew 6
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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