12-1-20   THOUGHTS

We understand PROFIT don’t we?  The biblical ideas are  INHERITANCE and HEAVEN!
Eccl 3:9    What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
Matt 16:26  "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Heb 11:24-26    By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,  25  choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,  26  considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.
Most simply...       “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”       Php 1:21
Some other passages for our thinking:
Hag 1:5-6    Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways! 6  "You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes."
Heb 4:2   For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Heb 12:10  For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good [our profit], so that we may share His holiness.
Jas 2:14  What use is it [what profit], my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
1Cor 13:3   And if I give all my possessions to feed [the poor,] and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Php 3:7-9    But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8  More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9  and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
1John 4:4    You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
CHRIST IN ME IS PROFIT!  Anything else is a great negative exchange of our soul!
We must OVERCOME CHURCH!

My Prayer:
Lord, thank you for the victory that is in Christ Jesus.  Help s to carry on with diligence the work you have started in us. Make our faith active and our love powerful in this world.  Teach us to speak your name boldly in every place. Give us the strength live Christ, to overcome!  We love you our God,  for you loved us have taught us love.  

  In Jesus name        Amen