Job 36:19

19 Will he esteem [`arak] thy riches [shuwa`]? no, not gold [batsar], nor all the forces [ma'amats] of strength [koach]. KJV-Interlinear

19 'Will your riches keep you from distress, Or all the forces of your strength? NASB

What is man? Dust and nothing more. What has man created out of nothing? Nothing, and he never will create anything original from nothing.

Man can only use the materials, tools, and talents, which God has provided. Man has never provided nor will ever be the provider, of anything.

So whatever wealth, talent, intellect, age, reputation, authority, power, rank, status and so forth, that man has (or thinks he has), will never save man from sin. These things will never save man from death. These things will never advance mans life even one more single heartbeat.

As we noticed in yesterdays study, God has set and established a plan. God has presented a design for the history of humanity. Man can never alter, modify, change or even cancel that which God has established.

A great deal of it balances on mans freedom to make his own choices, and thus sin and evil enter into the picture of mans history.

All of those bumper stickers of wishful thinking, 'Imagine all the people ,' 'make love no war,' 'Imagine no war,' 'Get out of war,' and on and on, are stickers proclaiming the stupidity and ignorance of those who placed them on their cars.

Man can never free himself of sin. Man can never design anything which will ever be perfect. Any type of thinking in that regard is only an expression of arrogant ignorance.

God placed into history, principles by which man can survive this life and history and continue on to eternity. Wishing them away will never make them go away. Mans destiny is not for this world, but for the next life.

Mans beliefs and good intentions will never equal Gods righteousness and justice or guiding principles of life. Which, by the way, is the only path to truth. All of mans paths lead to violence and mans ultimate end. That is what the Tribulation will finally teach.

All sin, no matter how insignificant, originates from mans rejection of truth. And all sin (sin upon sin), goes in only one direction - violence and destruction.

Disregard of truth comes easy when life is good to you. But remember that life comes to you courtesy of God and no one else. When life is good to you through circumstances of birth, circumstances of gifted talents, circumstances allowing your success through your own hustle, then these things should be identified as gifts from God and never from the origin of your own abilities. Of which, by thee way, you have none. Dust, remember!

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