Million Dollar Yachts
So,
you believe the money for
yachts is a blessing from God.
Well, before spending it on quarter million dollar yachts, let alone 250
million dollar yachts like Paul Allen's
Octopus (photo, see even bigger million dollar yachts on the side), consider this:
for $1, one Bible can reach a country where they are banned, and every Bible that
reaches such a place results on average in 5 new Christians (
source).
For the price of a quarter million dollar yacht, such a place can receive 250,000 Bibles
and 1,250,000 souls saved. For a $1,000,000 yacht,
1,000,000 Bibles can reach it and
5,000,000 souls saved.
The number rises to 50 millio
n souls for a
$10,000,000 ya
cht; for the half-billion dolla
r
gigayacht, 500 mil
lion
Bibles can reach the lost and 2.5 billion souls - 35% of the earth's population - saved!
As
mentioned earlier, a yacht is by definition a pleasure boat. Do
you really think that God,
in whom you believe, wants you to spend money - His money - on a (multi-) mil
lion dolla
r
floating toy so that you can lounge around in the sun in the middle of the
ocean while millions of
Christians and those who want to know about Christ around the world are without Bibles?
If you truly can't do without a ya
cht,
why not pick a small one and invest the rest in eternity?
And let's remember the Words of Jesus:
"And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did
not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes,
shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much
will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask
the more." (Luke 12:47-48)
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