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Inside the Gold Casket

If you try to hide behind a coffin of gold in order to impress others—no matter how beautiful the outside is, it doesn't change what's inside.

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Transcript

Archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt. When they opened the casket the found another casket inside which was covered with gold leaf. When they opened this they found a third casket.

Inside this was a fourth casket made of pure gold. Now inside this last, fourth casket, was something wrapped in gold cloth with the now famous gold facemask.

But when they unwrapped the cloth, do you know what they found? A dead body of course - all shriveled up, dried and leathery.

There's a lesson here. You can't hide what's deep inside. Jesus said "You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." (Matthew 23:27-28 NIV)

If you try to hide behind a coffin of gold in order to impress others – no matter how beautiful the outside is, it doesn't change what's inside.

Now's the time to come clean. You can change your life and transform what's on the inside. Choose to learn and live God's way. Then you'll truly discover that it's what's on the inside that counts.

For Beyond Today, I'm Steve Myers.