WHAT GOOD IS IT
Sis. Leatha Augustus
Pearl of Great Price Tabernacle
People are looking for so much in this world today. People serve God for a long time, then they get older and think they don’t need God anymore. They turn their back on God and walk away, but still believe they are going to heaven. How is anyone going to heaven that has turned from God, and stopped serving him?
Job 27:8; For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
They are hypocrites, and God will take away their soul. People are not realizing that what good is it if they win the lottery, they cannot buy their way into heaven. They can do everything in this world that they want to, but what good is it if they lose their soul.
Ezekiel 22:12; In thee (Jerusalem), have they taken gifts (bribes) to shed blood, thou has taken usury (interest) and increase (profits), and thou has greedily gained of they neighbors by extortion (oppression), and have forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
What good is it if people do all the ungodly things, and still don’t have anything to show for it, not even the salvation of the Lord.
V.13a; Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou has made. Though you gained it, God can take it away. It’s like putting your money in pockets with holes in them. You may have some now, but you can’t take it with you. Once you leave this world, everything you had is left behind.
So strive for what is good, strive for things that will get you to Jesus, not these things that the world is seeking after. Seek for the things that be of God. The enemy is fighting, trying to get Saints to turn against God, and if they do, they have no hope, no help. Hold on to God no matter what the enemy brings your way. Put your trust in God, let him lead you, guide you, and walk the strait and narrow.
Matt. 16:26; For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
There are people who sell their soul to the devil, some for fame, fortune, some for all the pleasures of this world. But what good is it when they die lost and go to a burning Hell, where the fire is not quenched, and the worm never dies.
Matt. 25:24; Then he which received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee, that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not strewn.
He knew his Master was a hard man, and the Master said, “Why didn’t you use the talent I gave you.” What good is it if we don’t use what God has given us.
Matt. 6:33; But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
People are looking for everything this world has to offer, but Jesus said we are to seek first the kingdom of God. He will give you what you need, what good is to keep adding things in this life, but don’t have God, or to store up everything here and lose your soul as the rich man in Luke 12:15-20. God called him a fool! What good did it do him to store up and do all that labor just to miss out on God.
We have got to get it right on this earth, before we stand before God. We’ve got to be obedient to Him and His Word. If we lose our soul, What good was all this?