How Redemption and Eternity Expose the Folly of Finding Purpose or Joy in This World

What can keep us from fearing those who seem to have great or lasting influence in this world (or for becoming those who exult in their own)? Pastor leads his family in today's "Hopewell @Home" passage. Psalm 49 looks forward to the opening portion of morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these twenty verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that it is utter folly to think that wealth or influence in this world makes an enduring difference. But God exposes this folly by the need for and human impossibility of redemption. He alone can redeem, and those who have Him as Redeemer have nothing to fear.