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As a result of his deeds and lies, Cain was cursed and banished to the Land of Nod, doomed to a life of vagrancy and wandering.Ananias and Sapphira weren’t as fortunate, with both experiencing immediate death. On March 12, 2009, after decades of fraudulent practices, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies. He died at a North Carolina prison on April 14, 2021 at the age of 82.Preceding him in death were his sons. Mark committed suicide in 2010 and An drew died of cancer in 2014. His wife Ruth is still alive at the time of this writing. I read recently about a man who laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Mistaking the poison for food, the ants began picking up the granules and taking them throughout the colony. Returning later, he noticed hundreds of stinging ants car rying the deadly material down into their hill. Interestingly, some of the poison was moving in the opposite direction, as a colony of non-stinging ants had discovered this “food” and were stealing it from their neighbors.Thinking they were getting the other ants’ treasure, they unknowingly poisoned themselves.As someone once wrote: Money can buy companionship, but not friends. Money can buy entertainment, but not happiness. Money can buy food, but not an appetite. Money can buy a bed, but not sleep. Money can buy a crucifix, but not a Savior. Money can buy a good life, but not eternal life. Eternal life comes only from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36). Money can buy medicine, but not health. Money can buy a house, but not a home.

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