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Success In The Life After Death

We usually define success in terms of money, power, influence and fame, etc. The
bible as a different view of success. In the bible Jesus assures us that we may
endure hardship, not success in the usual sense. He did not tell us to give up
pleasure in this life. He just told us that there were higher, better things to focus on -
things that would last forever, and things that make worldly success seem trivial.

Working hard to gain success is not wrong unless all our focus is on it. True success
comes when we first focus on God...then I will reward our efforts with success.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by
the devil. Matthew 4:1 (NKJV)

Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed
Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, "All
these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus
said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the
LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.' " Matthew 4:8-10 (NKJV)

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this
world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews;
but now My kingdom is not from here." John 18:36 (NKJV)

"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew 16:26 (NKJV)

and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:31 (NKJV)

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God
made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Corinthians 1:20 (NKJV)

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has
chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the
base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things
which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. 1 Corinthians
1:27-29 (NKJV)

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. 1 Corinthians 7:23 (NKJV)

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 (NKJV)

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything, but a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and
upon the Israel of God. Galatians 6:14-16 (NKJV)

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living
God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 1 Timothy 6:17 (NKJV)

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore
wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4 (NKJV)

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all
that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the
world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:15-17 (NKJV)

"He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:25 (NKJV)

See also Work, Humility, Judging Others, Money, Seeking God