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Making journeys of pleasure |
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In our
society we are continually bombarded with alluring advertisements through
which we are invited to go on pleasure journeys (at favourable prices) in
many countries of the world to find out the beauties and the wonderful things
of those places. And since here in |
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I exhort
you not to make these journeys of pleasure because they are a waste of time
and money. Paul says that “all things are lawful for me, but not all things
are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify” (1 Corinthians
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If you
really want to make useful journeys in African countries or in South American
countries or Asian countries, then you can go to visit some poor Churches of
those countries to meet their needs, that is, to help the widows, the orphans
and the poor among the saints of those Churches by bringing some money to
them or doing some other good works for the sake of those needy people. |
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By so
doing, your journey will be helpful to you and to the needy believers living
in those places. Be wise, brothers, and see that you use your abundance (which
God has given you in this period of great plenty for this country) in order
to glorify God. Take heed to yourselves because the pleasures of life are
able to choke the Word planted in you. |