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“ You Might Not Finish This Sermon”. By The Seldom Right Reverend Jeremy J. Cummings. “You Might Not Finish This Sermon”. Genesis 3:19
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“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” By The Seldom Right Reverend Jeremy J. Cummings
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 19Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. 20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Ecclesiastes 7:2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Psalm 39: 4-5 4 Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. 5You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Psalm 90: 5-6 5You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning- 6though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Psalm 103: 15-16 15As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Job 7:6-8 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. 7Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again. 8The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Job 7:9-10 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Luke 12:13-14 13Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 14Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?"
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Luke 12:15 15Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Luke 12:16-19 16And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' 18"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” A Closer Look at Luke 12:17-19 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' 18"Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Luke 12:20-21 20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' 21"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Luke 12:20-21 20"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' 21"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
“You Might Not Finish This Sermon” Matthew 16:26-27 “26What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? 27For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.”