Proverbs 10:16-17

The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin. He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, But he who refuses correction goes astray.
Proverbs 10:16-17

The labor of the saints will yield eternal fruit as their lives are changed as a witness. The work of the wicked, however, will only lead to ruin. While one receives the word and finds life, the other rejects it and so goes astray on his own; one works and finds life, the other only more misery.

In 1923, the greatest men in American finance met at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago to discuss their financial futures. Included in the meeting was the president of the largest steel company in America, the president of National City Bank, the president of the largest utility in America, the country’s wheat baron, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, a member of the president’s cabinet, and the president of International Settlements Corp.

Yet 26 years later, Charles Schwab had died bankrupt, and Samuel Insull had died a fugitive from justice. Howard Hopson had gone insane, Arthur Cotton died abroad insolvent, Richard Whitney was released from Sing Sing Prison, Albert Fall received a pardon so he could leave prison to die at home, Jesse Livermore committed suicide, Ivar Kreuger, whose suicide had shocked the financial world, was found to be a fraud and forger and Leon Fraser had killed himself. If they had only known…

Wanting to labor for the fruit of eternal life,

Pastor Jack Abeelen