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Looking back at the questions so far.
Domino effect - “If …then...”
We’ve referred to the revelation of God in answering these questions.
We’ve asked God these questions.
Today we ask God the question:
What happens when I die?
Prayer (brief)
1) The Choice is yours:
Luke 23:32-43
Without God:
Criminal #1 railed (slander, blaspheme) at him “Are you not the Christ?
Save yourself and us!”
Challenged Jesus’ identity and mission
Likes the sound of the requests made by the scoffers to Jesus - takes advantage of an opportunity - selfish??
Request of reward - to be saved from the circumstance, from the punishment
No sign of remorse
No thought beyond the physical
With God:
Criminal #2 rebukes the other criminal “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Reverence for God
Acknowledges the wrongs and their due penalty
Acknowledges Jesus’ innocence
Pleads to Jesus as King.
“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Request of grace - totally undeserved.
Request of relationship
Illustration:
DO YOU WANT THIS COOKIE?
(situation with Eli and Libby)
We have to make a choice (Yes or no answer, no third option…cake, ice cream, candy)
Limit of time to choose - if you wait to long Daddy will eat it
Live with the results of that choice
Numerous choices we have to make - though many have a fill in the blank option (car, menu item, college, house, career, phone company, church, etc)
The greatest choice we will make in our lifetime is our relationship with God
DO WE WANT TO BE WITH GOD?
Unlike the other choices we make, this choice requires a yes or no answer
This choice is limited to the days you live on this earth
You will live with the results of that choice forever
Application: Understand that there is a difference to being with God and being with the blessings.
Being with God requires our submission, obedience, loyalty, and love.
Reaffirm this week your choice to be with God.
Be intentional to be with Him even now.
Read your Bible, pray, be still and know, meditate, worship.
2) Long term results of that decision
With God = relationship and blessing by proximity
Revelation 21-22:5 : New Heaven and New Earth
God dwells with Man
Former things pass away (death, mourning, crying, pain)
Holy city Jerusalem (vv.9-27)
Space /community
Large enough for all the inhabitants (15,000 miles cube - possibly a pyramid) almost double the height of the height of the earth from pole to pole
Worship
No temple - “temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb”
Light
No need for sun or moon - Glory of God gives it light
No night
Freedom to come and go
gates never shut
Life not curse:
(vv.1-5)
Return to the Garden in a perfected state
River of the water of life
Tree of life
No longer anything accursed
God dwells with mankind
Forever and ever
Illustration:
Beauty and the Beast - curse is broken
Application - Do we anticipate our future home with God more than the things of this life.
Long for a life with God more than the blessings of proximity
Without God = isolation and curse by proximity
Rev. 21:8 - their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death
Rev 21:27 - But nothing unclean will ever enter it (the holy city) nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Rev 20:11-15 - Great white throne Judgment
v. 13 “they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.”
v. 15 “If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Illustration:
Effects of life on Earth if the Sun disappeared
Application: Realize the depravity of existence apart from God.
If that is your current future, know that you have a chance to change it.
If it is the future of your family member or friend, how does their future effect you?
What does it motivate you to do this week?
So today’s question is yours to answer.
God is asking you:
What will happen to you when you die?
Will you be with God or not with Him?
God has made a way for you to be with Him forever.
You don’t decide by mental thought or word alone, but by a life of surrender.
If you want God to be with you, you must allow him to be your God.
Choose this day whom you will serve.
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