The story is told of a incarcerated man who once escaped from a state penitentiary. Twenty-four hours after his escape, his mother turned him in to the prison authorities.<\/p>\n
What is truly sad about this story, is that the man only had twenty-three days left to serve when he fled from a work detail. A judge gave him an additional five years for his escape.<\/p>\n
We might say, “What a fool that man was, risking five years for twenty-three days.”<\/p>\n
Yes, he was indeed a fool. However, let us consider how many folks risk eternal life for that which is infinitely shorter. Many risk that glorious dwelling place called heaven for “the pleasures of sin for a season” (Hebrews 11:24-25).<\/p>\n
Some would rather “sleep in” on Sunday mornings than worship God as He has commanded (Acts 2:41-42; Acts 20:7; Hebrews 10:24-25).<\/p>\n
Brethren, let us not trade eternal life for satisfying our own selfish desires. Let us faithfully serve God that we might escape eternal damnation (1 Corinthians 15:58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The story is told of a incarcerated man who once escaped from a state penitentiary. Twenty-four hours after his escape, his mother turned him in to the prison authorities. What is truly sad about this story, is that the man only had twenty-three days left to serve when he fled from a work detail. A … Continue reading “Let Us Faithfully Serve God – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}