A teacher, making some remarks on the Scripture, “Buy the truth and sell it not,” observed that he who buys the truth, at whatever cost, makes a good bargain. He then asked his pupils if any of them remembered an instance in Scripture of a bad bargain.
“I do,” said one “Esau made a bad bargain when he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.”
“I do,” said a second, “Judas made a bad bargain when he sold Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver.”
“I do,” said a third, “our Savior says that he makes a bad bargain who, to gain the whole world, loses his own soul.”
The testimony is true. Of all bad speculations there never was one so ruinous as that of bartering our souls for the profits and pleasures of the world. Are you guilty of this folly?