"The Appointment"

Notes for Meditation

Living prepares you for dying, then, dying prepares you for the judgement and the judgment prepares you for your destination.

Life has an expiration date, not a best used by date because that would suggest that God provided you with the date of departure.

Life prepare you to die

Death positions your for judgement based on what you've done in your life.

1. Living is part of the dying process.

die (apothnesko) - the process of dying

2 Corinthians 5:1 NKJV

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Job 14:

God speaks of the birth process as season because of two individuals coming together, but the writers specifically states death is appointed to all men because death is the great equalizer.

Job 14:5 NKJV

Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

2. The appointment (death) position you for judgment.

appointed (apokeimai) - necessity as a law of human experience -- "inevitability, what is bound to be, to have to be."

2 Corinthians 5:10 NKJV

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Living prepares you for how God will judge you at the seat of Christ, how does your evaluation look?

3. Judgment justifies why you waited on the Lord.

judgment (krisis) - the content of the process of judging - "judgment, decision, evaluation."

Three things we are waiting for: the hearse, the judgment, the sentence

Isaiah 40:31 NKJV

But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

appointed (apokeimai) - necessity as a law of human experience -- "inevitability, what is bound to be, to have to be."

1 Corinthians 15:50–58 NASB95

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

die (apothnesko) - the process of dying

judgment (krisis) - the content of the process of judging - "judgment, decision, evaluation."