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"Everyone will be required to render up his entrusted gifts. In the day of final judgment men's hoarded wealth will be worthless to them. They have nothing they can call their own. COL 372.1"
Related principle 90% Matthew 6:19-20
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:"
Both passages discuss the worthlessness of earthly treasures in the face of eternal judgment/life. The EGW passage reinforces the idea of not being able to take earthly possessions with you, which aligns with the principle of laying up treasures in heaven.
"Those who spend their lives in laying up worldly treasure show less wisdom, less thought and care for their eternal well-being, than did the unjust steward for his earthly support. Less wise than the children of this world in their generation are these professed children of the light. These are they of whom the prophet declared, in his vision of the great judgment day, “A man shall cast the idols of his silver, and the idols of his gold [margin]; which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.” Isaiah 2:20, 21 . COL 372.2"
Direct citation 90% Luke 16:8
"And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light."
The EGW passage explicitly references the unjust steward and the children of light, directly alluding to Luke 16:8. It also includes a direct quote from Isaiah 2:20, 21.

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