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who's Jesus teaching in Luke chapter 16 makes it clear that we can't serve both God and money.

And trusting in our possessions is a futile endeavor.

Today on Truth for Life, Alice Terbeg explores the many ways God helps us

let go of earthly treasures to lay hold of eternal riches.

If you think about heaven this afternoon and the fact that you're going to live in heaven as a believer,

and you're going to fall down before the throne of God, and you are going to worship the Lamb for eternity,

I suggest that that will make a difference about the way in which you view the prospect of our evening communion service.

Then if you view the balance of this day simply in terms of now, once you introduce then to the now, the now

is affected? What prospect is there for a rich welcome in heaven, unless first we've been

confronted by his divine power, and then that we've become convinced of his precious promises.

And as a result of being so convinced that the promises he said are true, it changed the way

in which we lived in this culture. And so as a result of the change

that was brought about in living in this culture, we began to escape from the clutches of the

culture. Not by going and living in a wardrobe, not by going and living in a cave, but by living

differently in the now, because unlike the children of this world, who are without God and without hope,

we know that the then is actual reality. Now, I say to you again, unless you come to this passage of

Scripture and recognize this vital distinction, I don't think you're ever going to get close to it. We

didn't be in any doubt about the prospect. To Corinthians 5.5, Paul says God has given us the

spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. He's actually put within us his spirit

so that we have this sense of dissonance. We have a not yet dimension always to our

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