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“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, prepare to die.”
-The specter of death hangs over all of us.
-We will all die, short of Christ’s return.
As the poet Longfellow said “our hearts, though stout and brave, still like muffled drums are beating, funeral marches to the grave.”
-We live in a world that is deathly afraid…of death.
But this is the truth:
So knowing that we will all die, shouldn’t we be prepared for it?
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas penned for his dying atheist father:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
People are dying every day, passing into eternity with no idea of whats next (if there is a whats next), and people are living every day in mortal terror of that reality.
And so in the chaos of their uncertainty and unbelief they fill their lives with lots of nothingness in order to squeeze out the most the can from an otherwise meaningless existence.
Two important thoughts:
The way you live your life is profoundly shaped by the certain knowledge that you are dying.
The importance of how you prepare for death lies in the fact that you will live forever.
Let’s consider the first one: the way you live your life is profoundly shaped by the certain knowledge that you are dying.
Luke 12:
Observe
The worldly-mindedness of the man in the crowd.
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the Word of God through whom God created the world and sustains it
Jesus is the bread of life and the living water
Jesus is the revelation of the glory of God the Father
Jesus is the only means of salvation
Jesus is the God-man—he is Emmanuel—God with us
Jesus is the covenant fulfillment of the law and the great hope of the prophetic word
Jesus is the great prophet, priest and king
Jesus is the only mediator between God and men
Jesus is the Messiah of Israel
Jesus is the light of the world!
And this man who gets to ask one question of Jesus, his chief concern is what?
He has an estate question.
It is like listening to the David Carrier show, which deals with content so riveting, it can even displace the Fruitbasket Flowerland show for the coveted Saturday morning slot.
He is concerned only with the matter of his earthly inheritance!
What a profound danger: to be near Christ and to still care only for the most unworthy things!
Consider the contrast between this mans inheritance and the worthiness of the gospel of Christ!
—>In this story we are confronted with a man who is wasting his life on unworthy affections.
2. The great irony in Christ’s response
Christ is dismissive in his reply “Man” is as unfamiliar and cold as possible
He is not interested in solving this man’s estate probate question
He has come to establish the kingdom of God, not delineate the fiefdoms of man.
He refuses to be the judge in this matter
But the irony is that Christ is the great judge of mankind, including this man, and in far weightier matters!
3. Consider the great tragedy in Christ’s parable
Here is the tragedy: this man has not lived in the tension of the certain knowledge that he is dying!
He lives with an eye to the delights of a certain future, a future he trusts in but will not see!
because he has not considered the reality of perishing, he has seen no danger in defining his life around perishable things!!!
The consequence: this man has wasted his life!
As Christ says in introducing the parable “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
It is like those who retire to devote themselves to seashells!
(Piper Book)
Only one life,
Will soon be passed.
Only what’s done,
For Christ will last.
The unspeakable tragedy of is the condition of so many who are rich in their self-confidence and destitute in their standing before God!
The intensity this morning is that I speak as one who is dying to those who are dying: don’t waste your life!
The second assertion: The importance of how you prepare for death lies in the fact that you will live forever.
Pilgrims
Eternal inheritance
1 Peter 1:
3. Therefore, live in the light of eternity
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