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A
Sure Investment
One
year ago the stock market peaked at a record high.
Yesterday, it plunged 679 points, deepening the
current financial crisis.
This was the sixth day in a row in which the
Dow suffered a triple-digit loss.
Since the peak one year ago, “frozen credit,
record foreclosures, cascading job losses and outright
fear have seized the market and sapped 39 percent of
its value.” *
In
the midst of these financial woes, Eddy Gilpin asks,
“What if, during these uncertain times, you could be
offered a sure investment – one that would
absolutely pay the greatest dividends and guarantee
the safety of your capital outlay?”
I am interested, aren’t you?
GOOD
NEWS:
There is such an
offer!
This
offer does not consist of those things that are
material and temporal, but with those that are
spiritual and eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
This offer centers in eternal, heavenly
treasures, not the fleeting treasures that this world
has to offer.
Jesus
said, “Do
NOT lay up
for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay
up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break
in and steal. For where your TREASURE is, there your
HEART will be also” (Mat 6:19-21).
“What
a plan! ” writes Eddy Gilpin.
“A guarantee of EVERYTHING you have
invested; a SURE thing in times of uncertainty; an
unparalleled return on your investment – and ALL
backed by the greatest ‘Guarantor’ ever!...
There are no market fluctuations that can alter it, no
‘runs on the bank’ that can stop it, no corrupt
politicians that can destroy it, no institutions that
can crash it, and no panic that can devalue it.
It is the only SURE investment we can make.”
The
offer has been made by God through His Son, Jesus
Christ.
Due to
our sin, we are "bankrupt" in
debt. But
due to His great love, God sent Jesus to
"pay the price" for
our sins by dying on the cross on our behalf (2
Corinthians 5:21).
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians
1:7).
To
accept God’s offer, we must: believe
in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from our sins in repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized
(immersed) in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of
our sins (Acts 2:38).
Then, when we continue to follow Him
faithfully, He will continue to “erase our debt”
(1 John 1:7).
Don’t
put your trust in uncertain riches! Accept
God’s offer of salvation and eternal, heavenly
treasures today!
It
IS the only SURE investment you can make!
--
David
A. Sargent, Minister
Church
of Christ at Creekwood
1901
Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
*
Information gleaned from “Dow plunges 679 for 6th triple-digit
loss in a row” by Tim Paradis and Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics
Writers and “A Sure Investment” by Eddy Gilpin in The West Side
Epistle, bulletin of the West Side Church of Christ in
Salem
,
VA
(www.westsidecofc-salem.com)
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