Establish Godly Priorities, Part 2: Choosing the Eternal over the Temporary

We’re reviewing the priorities highlighted in a sermon Dr. Mark Corts preached to high school seniors at his church some years ago. As Christians, let’s always choose the eternal over the temporary. Hebrews 11:24-25 says, “By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.” Centuries later, Paul wrote, “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown” (1 Cor. 9:24-25). Let these examples encourage you also to choose eternal things over things that surely will fade away.

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