No Amount of Money....

​In the last 100 years, advances in medicine have added two years to the average life expectancy every decade. But apparently, for many people, this is not enough. There are attempts to accelerate life expectancy especially among the rich and powerful. Here is what some of the world’s wealthiest have pursued:

• Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has spent $430 million on anti-aging research and spent $200 million on his cancer institute at the University of Southern California. He has often been quoted as saying “death never made any sense to me.”
• In 2014 Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced a $1.5 billion research center. They launched Calico, a life-extension company focusing on genetic research and the development of pharmaceuticals targeting diseases associated with old age.
• In 2016 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and other investors gave $116 million to Unity Biotechnology, whose aim is “targeting cellular mechanisms at the root of age-related diseases.”
• Entrepreneur Dave Asprey, the creator of Bulletproof Coffee, takes about 150 supplements a day to delay cognitive decline. Asprey believes he will live to be 180. His various pioneering treatments on himself have cost him at least $1 million so far.

 
The truth is that no amount of money or technology can cure death.  It is inevitable.  Scripture tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  And, the wages of sin is death.  However, the gift of God is eternal life through faith in Jesus (Romans 3:23; 6:23).  Jesus’ death and resurrection assures us of this.  Of course, this is the good news of Easter Sunday.  God raised Jesus from the dead, conquering death in the process.  The Apostle Paul tells us, “Where, O death, is your victory?  Where, O death, is your sting?  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God!  He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Eternal life through faith in Jesus does not cost a single dollar.  Have you made that faith commitment?
 
Happy Easter!
 
Pastor Tony