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“And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it” (Matthew 7:26-27).
Several people were in one house on the Humber River, which was surrounded by water. The water was rising, and men with a boat came along, calling out to those people to come out and get in the boat. Three people came out and two got into the boat. But then the third man stopped and said, “Wait! I forgot something.” The men in the boat told him not to go back into the house, as it looked about to fall into the water. But the man went back anyway, and while he was in the house, it tumbled into the water. The men in the boat did their best to get him, but they could not. Later, when his body was recovered, they found out what he had gone back for. Clenched in one hand was a twenty-dollar bill! He lost his life for twenty dollars!
You and I would say, “How foolish he was!” Yet many people in this world are neglecting their eternal salvation, and choosing to go after the things of this world. But nothing is worth losing our souls. Let us not be foolish with our eternal destiny.
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