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warned over and over against covetousness.

We cannot serve, you cannot serve, I cannot

serve God and mammon. “And having food

and raiment let us be therewith content” (1

Timothy 6:8). Let us serve God and be faithful.

Yes, we've got to work and we've got to make

money, but let us serve God and follow Him

and be pleasing to Him, and He says that He'll

supply the things that we need — and I believe

that we really need to pray and search the

Scripture when we spend money and buy

things. In other words, hold loosely to these

worldly goods because one day we've got to

leave them. I quoted Jim Elliot recently, a

missionary martyred for Christ, and he said,

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to

gain that which he cannot lose.”

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