What Are We Laboring For?
Scripture: Luke 17:26Devotional Series: Money: Not the Root of All Evil
Teaching: Money: Not The Root Of All Evil pt. 1 (WED 2024-09-25) by Pastor Star R Scott
The Lord is good; amen? His mercies endure forever. We’ve been talking about striving to enter in at the strait gate. Paul said, “I have finished my course…Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness…and not to me only” (2 Timothy 4:7-8). Aren’t you glad we get to participate in this? But for all those, the Scripture says, that are preparing, that are looking for His soon coming. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. We’re right on the verge and as we look at our society today, the chaos, the lawlessness “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the coming of the Son of Man” (Luke 17:26).
So, we see this great lawlessness and the lasciviousness that was going on in that hour. There was wickedness to the point that only eight souls were able to survive. We heard Abraham’s great intercession, “Lord, if there are ten souls” (Genesis 18:32); amen? God is merciful. What a heart that Abraham had! What a heart that God was revealing! “Okay, for 30, I’ll spare it.” Isn’t He a good God? You know we want to judge Him sometimes—don’t we? —of being harsh and thinking that He doesn’t care. “But I’ll save it for 20.” “How about ten?” “When I come, will I find faith on the earth (Luke 18:8)?” “Ten?” Eight souls entered that ark.
God’s wrath and judgment, then, was poured out. A restart. And a greater salvation, now, to those of us who’ve come to know the final revealing of the mystery of God, Christ in us, the hope of glory. A new redemption through the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus who was made sin with our sin. And He said, “I’m coming for a church that’s looking for me, that loves me.” Do we love Him? Or how much of this world still has worth to us?
I think as we’re examining our hearts in this last day—the Scripture is spoken to us and said He’s going to come to those that love His appearing. That means we are loving—we’re looking to get out of this life. There is nothing here in this temporal realm of worth. As it was destroyed by water, it will be destroyed again by fire; amen? If Jesus were to come back—think about it. In that moment, we’ll see how insane some of our thinking is. But that judgment is coming prior to it for those that are loving His appearing. The trumpet will sound, “the dead in Christ shall rise” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). We’ll be changed and then we’ll lay aside our insanity.
Think about it for just a moment. As soon as we’re changed and corruption takes on incorruption, and mortality, immortality, we’ll see how worthless our homes are, how worthless our jobs are, how worthless all these things that are important to us are. We’re going to see Him and we’re going to be like Him. Hallelujah! What are we laboring for? This life is vanity; amen? Let’s stir ourselves up and remind ourselves of that on a daily basis. What are we laboring for? You notice, as we get a little older, it seems time goes by faster and here we are at the end. And soon, one way or another, we’re going to be standing before the King; amen? And we’re so looking forward to hearing, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).
So, we see this great lawlessness and the lasciviousness that was going on in that hour. There was wickedness to the point that only eight souls were able to survive. We heard Abraham’s great intercession, “Lord, if there are ten souls” (Genesis 18:32); amen? God is merciful. What a heart that Abraham had! What a heart that God was revealing! “Okay, for 30, I’ll spare it.” Isn’t He a good God? You know we want to judge Him sometimes—don’t we? —of being harsh and thinking that He doesn’t care. “But I’ll save it for 20.” “How about ten?” “When I come, will I find faith on the earth (Luke 18:8)?” “Ten?” Eight souls entered that ark.
God’s wrath and judgment, then, was poured out. A restart. And a greater salvation, now, to those of us who’ve come to know the final revealing of the mystery of God, Christ in us, the hope of glory. A new redemption through the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus who was made sin with our sin. And He said, “I’m coming for a church that’s looking for me, that loves me.” Do we love Him? Or how much of this world still has worth to us?
I think as we’re examining our hearts in this last day—the Scripture is spoken to us and said He’s going to come to those that love His appearing. That means we are loving—we’re looking to get out of this life. There is nothing here in this temporal realm of worth. As it was destroyed by water, it will be destroyed again by fire; amen? If Jesus were to come back—think about it. In that moment, we’ll see how insane some of our thinking is. But that judgment is coming prior to it for those that are loving His appearing. The trumpet will sound, “the dead in Christ shall rise” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). We’ll be changed and then we’ll lay aside our insanity.
Think about it for just a moment. As soon as we’re changed and corruption takes on incorruption, and mortality, immortality, we’ll see how worthless our homes are, how worthless our jobs are, how worthless all these things that are important to us are. We’re going to see Him and we’re going to be like Him. Hallelujah! What are we laboring for? This life is vanity; amen? Let’s stir ourselves up and remind ourselves of that on a daily basis. What are we laboring for? You notice, as we get a little older, it seems time goes by faster and here we are at the end. And soon, one way or another, we’re going to be standing before the King; amen? And we’re so looking forward to hearing, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).