When Edwin H. Hughes was a young preacher, he served a rural Methodist church in the middle west. One day, in his sermon, he said that we own nothing; it all belongs to God.
After the service, a farmer took the preacher home for dinner, and after a sumptuous meal, the two walked out to see the acres of farm land. The farmer told how he and his wife started out without a dime from anyone, but working together, they now possessed this farm.
"If we don't own this farm, who does?" was the farmer's question to the preacher.
The preacher replied kindly. " Ask me that question one hundred years from today."
"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26)
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