Listen to this, all you people!
Pay attention, everyone in the world!
High and low, rich and poor-listen!
(Psalms 49:1, NLT)
48A.1
To whom did God address His call or
invitation?
In Psalms 49:1-2, this is recorded:
Hear this, all you
peoples; Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
Both low
and high, Rich and poor together.
(Psalms 49:1-2, NKJV)
Through His servant King David,
God
addressed His call or invitation to all men all over the world, irregardless of their status
in life - low and higher, rich and poor.
48A.2 Who among the people does God
want most to heed His call?
In Psalms 49:6, this is written:
those who trust in their
wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
(Psalms 49:6, NRSV)
God wants those who trust in their wealth, and
those who boast about their riches, to heed His call. God wants them to
listen.
48A.3 Why does God want the wealthy to
heed His call? What does God want them to know about their wealth?
In Psalms 49:6-9, this are written:
They trust in their wealth
and boast of great riches.
Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death*by paying a ransom to
God.
Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough
to live forever and never see the grave. (NLT)
God wants men of to realized that wealth and great riches is of no
use, for it cannot redeem them from death. Their wealth—no matter how
large it is—will never be enough to pay in order to live
forever and never see the grave.
48A.4
What
further proves that wealth and great riches is of no use to redeem a man
from death?
In Psalms 49:16-17, the Holy Bible further proves:
So don't be dismayed when the wicked
grow rich, and their homes become ever more splendid.
For when they die, they carry nothing with them. Their wealth will not
follow them into the grave. (NLT)
God wants men to also realize that, man will
carry nothing to his grave. Their wealth will not follow him into the
grave.
48A.5 Who
else among the people did God want most to heed is call?
In Ecclesiastes 2:14-16, this is recorded:
For the wise person sees,
while the fool is blind. Yet I saw that wise and foolish people share the
same fate.
Both of them die. Just as the fool will die, so will I. So of what value is
all my wisdom? Then I said to myself, "This is all so meaningless!"
For the wise person and the fool both die, and in the days to come, both
will be forgotten. (NLT)
God want men to realized that, that wisdom does
not make a wise man better off that the fool when they die.
Fools and wise men will meet the
same fate which is death. So how does a wise man die? As the fool!
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God
addressed His call or invitation to all men all over the world, irregardless of their status
in life—low and high, rich and poor, wise and fool.
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God wants
those who trust in their wealth, and those who boast
about their riches, to heed His call. God wants them
to listen. God wants men to realized that wealth and
great riches is of no use, it cannot redeem them
from death. They can never pay enough to live
forever and never see the grave.
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God also want men to realized that, wisdom does
not make a wise man better off that the fool when they die. Fools and wise men will meet the
same fate which is death. So how does a wise man die? As the fool!
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