MONEY-TRANSITORY
Riches may
leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by
I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 248.
Quit
being satisfied with little five percent yields of pleasure that get eaten up
by the moths of inflation and the rust of death. Invest in the blue-chip,
high-yield, divinely insured securities of heaven. A life devoted to material
comforts and thrills is like throwing money down a rathole.
But a life invested in the labor of love yields dividends of joy unsurpassed
and unending.
John Piper
Desiring God, 1996, p. 110, Used by
Permission, www.DesiringGod.org.
For
we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world
(1 Tim. 6:7).
There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
John Piper
Desiring God, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1996, p. 161, used by
permission, www.desiringGod.org.
You can't
take it with you – but you can send it on ahead.
Randy Alcorn
Excerpted from The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn © 2002 by Eternal Perspective Ministries, p. 17.
When Jesus
warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might
be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we
live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions… Realizing its value is
temporary should radically affect our investment strategy… According to Jesus,
storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.
Randy Alcorn
Excerpted from The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn © 2002 by
Eternal Perspective Ministries, p. 13-14.
When you
leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth
that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures
in heaven that you couldn't lose?
Randy Alcorn
Excerpted from The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn © 2002 by
Eternal Perspective Ministries, p. 79.
All our
pieces of gold are but current to the grave; none of them will pass in the
future world. Therefore as merchants when they travel make over their monies
here, to receive them by bills of exchange in another country; let us do good
with our goods while we live, that when we die, by a blessed bill of exchange,
we may receive them again in the Kingdom of heaven (Luke 16:9). To part with
what we cannot keep, that we may get that we cannot lose, is a good bargain.
Wealth can do us no good, unless it help us toward
heaven.
Thomas Adams
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E.
Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000,
p. 250.
That only is
worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which
death cannot tear out of my hand.
C.H. Spurgeon
Sermons 29.509.