Salvation Is In Your Self-interest
When you open the Bible and read all about hell, you’ll not want to go there. Hell is a real place and if you haven’t received the Lord, that’s where you’re going.
Healing is in your selfinterest. It’s in your selfinterest to have love, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit. These things are in your selfinterest. But when you give yourself only to the things of the world, then that is selfishness and it will destroy you.
So Jesus’ financial advice comes out this way: Invest in yourself, but invest wisely, because the final test of every investment is its permanence. Dewdrops are as pretty as diamonds—until the sun comes up. They’re not permanent; they don’t last. Jesus says not to invest on this earth because it is not permanent. Invest in his kingdom and he will give it back to you on both sides of the Jordan River.
“Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” Send it ahead of you, and it will be there when you get there. To the carnal mind that’s insanity, because the carnal mind will only believe that it can see, touch and hold. But those who are persuaded that the word of Go is true can firmly fix themselves upon the fact that the Lord is faithful, and he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
Somehow people get in their minds that when they give money to the Lord, they’ll never see it again. But that’s the only money you’re ever going to see again! There’s a tombstone in England with this inscription:
What I spent, I lost.
What I kept, I lost.
What I gave, I now have.
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