Take note of the fact that it says, "shall prosper." It is significant that it is not that he has, or that he is prospering. What we see here is all in the future tense. The only thing in which you can invest your money, so that you can take it with you, is in that which is going to heaven. And, quite frankly, the on ly thing going to heaven are men and women, boys and girls, re deemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you can invest in souls you have got something the New York or the American Stock Exchange could never give you! The dividends are computed for all eternity. Now we come to a very dark verse. The declaration is simply but pungently made, "The ungod ly are not so." That is to say, they do not meditate in the law of the Lord. They are not like the tree that is planted by the rivers of wa ter, bringing forth fruit in its proper season. They are not really pros perous at all, no matter what their bank balance may appear to be. "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driv- eth away." In Hebrew, the original would be translated something like this, "Not so the ungodly, not so, no, not at all." You see the double negative to that? It may not come out in the authorized version but it is there in the original. How ter rible to have a double negative put across on these blessed promises of Cod. Webster says that chaff is that which is dead, dry and worthless. Have you ever heard of anyone taking chaff, even chaff as recent as this past year's harvest, and placing it out in the fields, hoping to get a crop out of it? This wheat Page 53
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