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  THOSE WHO HUNT AFTER IT ARE DOGS!
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: The sermon warns against prioritizing the world over heaven,
emphasizing the consequences of such a choice.

Topics: "Eternal Value", "Worldly Pursuits"
Scripture References: Psalm 16:11, Matthew 6:19-21, Matthew 16:26, Luke 12:15, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Philippians 3:19, Colossians 3:2, Hebrews 11:24-26, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15-17

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DESCRIPTION
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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the grave danger of prioritizing worldly
pleasures over the eternal soul, warning that many are so captivated by
earthly delights that they risk losing their spiritual essence. He
illustrates this peril with the Arabic proverb that likens those who
chase after worldly gains to dogs, highlighting the folly of valuing
transient, carnal satisfaction over the eternal joys found in holiness
and communion with God. Brooks calls for a reevaluation of priorities,
urging believers to seek the true treasures of heaven rather than the
empty pursuits of this life.

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CONTENT
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Though of all losses, the loss of the soul is the greatest, the

saddest, the sorest, the heaviest, and the most intolerable,

inconceivable, and irrecoverable loss--yet a man bewitched

with the world will run the hazard of losing his eternal soul,

of damning it--to enjoy the world.

Men who are bewitched with this world in these days, oh, how

do they prefer their sensual delights, their brutish contentments,

and their carnal enjoyments--before the beauties of holiness, and

before heavenly glory, where holiness sparkles and shines in all

its refulgence, and where their souls might be abundantly satisfied

and delighted with the most ravishing joys, the most surpassing

delights, and the most transcendent pleasures which are at God's

right hand!

The Arabic proverb says that "the world is a carcass--and

those who hunt after it are dogs!" If this proverb is true,

what a multitude of professors will be found to be dogs--

who hunt more after earth--than heaven;

who hunt more after terrestrial things--than celestial things;

who hunt more after worldly nothingnesses and emptinesses

--than they do after those fullnesses and sweetnesses which

are in God, Christ, heaven, and holiness!

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