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Bad Bargains: Lessons from a Sabbath School

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 18, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 3.

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Bad Bargains: Lessons from a Sabbath School

Once a Sabbath-school teacher remarked that he who buys the truth makes a good bargain, and inquired if any scholar recollected an instance in Scripture of a bad bargain. “I do,” replied a boy; “Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.” A second said, “Judas made a bad bargain when he sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver.” A third boy observed, “Our Lord tells us that he makes a bad bargain, who, to gain the whole world, loses his own soul.”