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Leadership

WHAT REALLY IS THE POINT

IF IT ALL ENDS IN THE GRAVE?

By Samuel Phillips

hat really is the point What really is the point of the making money through legitimate
if it all ends in the killing of more than ten million means is wrong, or that getting
grave sounds like a Congolese by the evil and money material things for physical en-
Wpoetic line. And yes loving king Leopold of Belgium, if hancement is sin, but my point still
it is poetic, but it’s definitely deeper none of the wealth he amassed by remains, are there other realities and
than a poetic line. It is a very valid such magnitude of genocide could values that man could chase after
question everyone must look in the enter the cold and lonely grave with rather than the chase after money
eye and give an answer to. him? What really is the point of it that men kill and destroy others
all? Why do we really do the things for? I think the answer is yes and it’s
If the love of money, as the Bible we do for money, fame, acceptance captured in what Jesus said when He
says, is the root of all kinds of evil, and popularity, when the grave is said“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures
how much deeper is the evil that the still the cold space each one will find on earth, where moth and rust destroy and
chase and the acquisition of money themselves in at some point, unless where thieves break in and steal; but lay
can really make a person become? such a person has a connection to up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
The level of evil in our world right eternal realities that makes them live neither moth nor rust destroys and where
now can give you an indication of beyond the grave? thieves do not break in and steal. For
where we are with the chase after where your treasure is, there your heart will
money. And I am definitely not saying that be also.” See Mathew 6:19-21.

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