Does It Pay to Serve God?

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

Religion & Spirituality, Education

5 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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(Ecclesiastes 7:15-18) As a bygone preacher famously said, "There's a payday someday." Eventually, God will reward the righteous and the wicked. The believer's task is simply to serve the Lord and leave the recompense to Him. (09173250718) Keep Studying Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. 👉 Take the next step on your journey with Jesus —start today at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides thousands of Bible studies and resources for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/ Thank You! All new and returning donors will receive FREE access to two of Scott's audiobooks (read by him). You may make a one-time gift or set up a fully customizable recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Solomon closes the book of Ecclesiastes with these words. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.
0:14.6	Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Each of us have been given only one life. What will we do
0:25.3	with it? Life. It's not a game. And in this journey through the book of Ecclesiastes,
0:31.1	Scott Pauley will guide us to better understand the true meaning of life.
0:47.6	I had a dear pastor friend that for many years had a motto.
0:53.3	In fact, when I would visit him, he always had this somewhere prominently placed, and it was this, it pays to serve God.
0:57.7	I love that expression.
0:59.6	My dear friend is with the Lord now.
1:01.7	In fact, in some ways, by human expectations, his life was cut short, and he left this world
1:08.7	before any of us were ready to say goodbye to him.
1:11.9	But I've thought so many times of my dear friend and of his words, it pays to serve God.
1:17.5	Does it?
1:18.5	Does it really pay to serve God?
1:21.5	The answer to that question is yes.
1:24.0	Yes, it does.
1:25.3	The Apostle Paul would say that if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we're of all men most miserable,
1:31.3	but friends, there is a world to come.
1:34.6	And I think one of the things that this statement causes me to do, it makes me think about eternity.
1:40.8	It makes me think not about the immediate and not about just monetary gain,
1:49.1	but about what really matters. And so we turn our attention today to the words of Solomon
1:53.9	recorded for us in Ecclesiastes chapter 7, beginning in verse 15 down through verse number 18 Solomon writes all things have I seen in the
2:05.2	days of my vanity there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness and there is a wicked man
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