POSSESSIONS

HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST?????????

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HAVE YOU COUNTED THE COST?

I mean, really counted the cost?

The best thing on earth a person can do is turn

to Jesus Christ and accept him as one's LORD

and savior.  Become his disciple and follow Christ.

The results are out of this world, and forever.

BUT,

it is astounding the promises being made by

many in an effort to draw people to the very

God who made them.  They are promised health,

wealth and wisdom.  You know, instant prosperity

or healing.  Money in the mail and all wishes fulfilled.

The people who make these wild promises most likely

are after a following so they can become popular, or

your money.  But what ever the case, they are either

misinformed by not believing what God himself said,

or out right lying.

What did Jesus himself say about it?

Jesus taught us that as followers of him we will be

hated and have persecution.

See how you like his statement in Luke 14:33

"So then, none of you can be My disciple

who does not give up all his own possessions."

Is it worth it?

Yes, of course, every dime and every pain.

Turn off the stupid TV or Facebook or put

down the latest "Christian" book and see what

the cost is and the reward that Christ promises,

 in his word - the Holy Bible -not what someone 

after your money says.

TO VALUABLE TO USE.

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TO VALUABLE TO USE.

In the motorcycle world I noticed something.

The more the motorcycle cost - the less it is rode.

Take an expensive custom bike.

Pay $50,000.00 to $100,000.00 for the motorcycle

and you will not see it on the road.  There is too much

chance it might get scratched, or heaven forbid, get

some dust or dirt on it.

Take the junk motorcycle below.

The owner will ride it everywhere and just have

a blast riding it.

If it gets a scratch or a dent.  Well, it just got

more character.

The expensive motorcycle.
The only time you will see it on the road is on a trailer
on the way to a motorcycle show.

Am I saying, "Get a cheap motorcycle."  NO.
I am saying we have missed placed values.

A short time back I saw a "baseball card" up for auction.
The current bid at that time was $21,500.00.  If you could
get it at one tenth of that price, what on earth good is it to
anyone?  Well, except to care for and protect it.

Or,
a shelf full of inexpensive "nick nacks".  What is their
value?  Just something to dust and keep from breaking.

A mess of "stuff" is not life.

God said,
"Beware, and be on your guard against every form
of greed; for not even when one has a abundance
does his life consist of his possessions."
(Luke 12:15 NASB)

MATERIAL POSSESSIONS SATISFACTION

"I made great works;

I built me houses; I planted me vineyards.

I made me gardens and orchards,

and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits;

I made me pools of water, to water the forest 

of growing trees.

I got me servants and maidens

and had servants born in my house;

also I had great possessions of great and small cattle

above all that were in Jerusalem before;

I gathered me also silver and gold,

and the treasure of kings and of the provinces;

I got me men singers and women singers,

and the delights of the sons of men,

as musical instruments, and that of all sorts......

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done,

and on the labour that I had laboured to do:

and, behold,

all was vanity and vexation of spirit,

and there was no profit under the sun."

(Ecclesiastes 2:4-8,11 AJKV)