“Your money — or your life!” That is an expression I had heard since I was a boy. As most everybody knows, this is a line spoken by a holdup who wants you to hand over your money, or else he takes your life. And if you don’t, the thief kills you — and he gets your money just the same!
In an increasingly wicked world which we live in (Matthew 24:12; 2 Timothy 3:1-7), people daily confront situations which are also increasingly matters of life and death: