[" I was born with nothing, and I'll take nothing out with me"]

I have been pondering this for some time now; are we really born with nothing and when we die we take nothing with us? Quite often we hear at someones funeral this statement " I was born with nothing, and I'll take nothing out with me"

 Personally with my limited knowledge I have come up with this.

 Are we really born into this world with nothing, and that we leave this world with nothing?
   
 Now I ask what is; “sin”? Disobedience, we are born with a nature to sin, as the results of Adam’s disobedience to God’s commandment, which has been passed on to us and what is the results of “sin” it is death.
 Because of this “sin nature” we can not enter into “eternal life” with God and His kingdom. Now we are offered and given the free gift of “eternal life”, upon our confession of this “sin” and ask for repentance through our Lord and Savoiur Jesus Christ.

 Now I ask what is; “eternal life”?   It is spending eternity, in Heaven with God; where there is no more death; sorrow; sickness or pain.  God says his last enemy to conquer is death.
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b]If this “sin nature” is nothing; then we are born with nothing; therefore we do not take anything with us. The same for “eternal life” if this is nothing than again we can not take anything with us.[/b]

Now I know that when we are speaking of or on this subject, we are most always referring to material things and earthly possessions; and in this situation, we are not born with anything and we can not take anything out with us.

O, there are those who say they were born with a silver spoon, and yes that; and any other material possession we have can be put in the grave with us when we leave this world, and where does it go?; Nowhere, it does not pass on to our spiritual life, whether it be with God or satan; I think an example could be the rich man and poor man in Luke 16:19-24. If the rich man was able he would have took a watering vessel with him,right? Then he would not have to had asked for Lazarus to dip his finger in some water tocool his tormented tounge.



What I am asking here is what others may think or have in-put to this question.

[Jesus]

How very true, what we will do for our own sake and for the sake of our children.
 I believe this is what our Lord has in mind as to his sake.

John 13:34  
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:35  
By this shall all  know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 13:36  
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
John 13:37
  Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

John 13:38  
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

If we were faced with that very same event today, how many of us would be as Peter ?

 I pray that if ever faced with such a event that I do just what our Lord Jesus  has all ready set in motion before the beganning of time
God Bless
Dave

Praise be to our Lord, as nothing gets done without him.

 Thanks to all who have welcomed me here. I consider myself a work in progress,learning every day and until my graduation day with our Lord in heaven, I'll always be just a work in progress.
As for my acronym, B-I-B-L-E , I have to give credit to another fellow christian brother who told me that one day.  BUT Lord knows, to me, that just feels like his everlasting arms are around me.

Thank you Lord
and
God Bless all

 What a blessing that we have such places to share our faith. I am new here to this forum, I have and do use the discussion board faithhighway.

God bless all

I am new to this forum as well. I have and do use faithhighway at time though. Anyway that we can keep the word of our Lord alive is a blessing. I haven't read all of the messages here, but what I have I've found  nothing but for the Glory of our Lord Jesus.