Posted on 02/09/2022 10:19:17 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death” (Proverbs 10:2 KJV).
All the wealth in the world that you could get by wickedness wouldn’t profit you anything. Take these guys that pull off the biggest heists in history, and soon after got caught. What did it profit them? A few more decades in prison? One guy was caught within a day, and the other guy was hunted like an animal until they got him also. The only thing they have to show for it is maybe a paragraph in Guinness Book of World Records . . . the biggest heist in history. I can guarantee you that that is not much consolation for a guy spending his life in jail.
“What does it profit for a man to gain the whole world and lose his very soul?” How long is eternity compared to the 60-70 years we spend down here? And even in that span, you can’t really enjoy this time with wealth got the wrong way. There are too many testimonies of men that gained their riches the wrong way. Most of us are aware of the Kennedy family and the horrible things that followed them. Read the book, “Intrepid” which tells of the things that the communist Joe Kennedy did to harm both England and the United States, probably worse than all the Panzer tanks and the Luftwaffe put together. Joe Kennedy was our ambassador to England, and that rascal . . . while England was fighting for their lives, he was telling America that they should not get involved. If England would have fallen, the whole country would have been wrapped up in Hitler’s hands. Even with England eventually on our side, it still took us four years to get on the mainland to defeat the Reich. And then, Joe made his riches from bootleg whiskey, and it cost him three of his sons tragically. He trained all of his sons to be president. His first son died in World War II. He was flying a bomb. He flipped the switch to arm it, but it blew up before he could get to the door. His next son, we know, was killed by an assassin in Dallas, and another was shot during the primaries. His last son was a drunkard that caused the death of a young woman in a car he was driving drunk, and eventually died of brain cancer. The curse of the Kennedy family was real.
“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,” it doesn’t no matter how much the world may tell you that stolen waters are sweeter, it’s a blind alley and a dead-end street. Many saved later in life can speak from experience. So many times, they walked down those streets, and those alleys, and listened to the world say that we could find pleasure, and we could find happiness—but there was never any fulfillment in those things. A man could sit in a bar amongst hundreds of people and still be as lonely as any person out in the pacific on an island by themselves. The world promises, but it can’t deliver.
“. . . righteousness delivereth from death,” All the riches in the world can’t deliver you from death, but righteousness can. We are going to live forever. Paul died a pauper, the only thing he asked for before his death was the parchments. That was all he had in this world. This issue is not how are you going to live, but how are you going to die? Paul had treasures laid up in store for him in heaven. How about you?
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