What is life?

James 4:13–16 NLT

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.

What is Life?

money and resources

Relationships

Cycle of life

material things

James 4:14 KJV 1900

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

I. Life is Unpredictable

II. Life is Brief

Psalm 90:12 KJV 1900

So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

1 Samuel 20:3 KJV 1900

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

Hebrews 9:27 KJV 1900

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

What do I believe about life?

What are the important things in life?

What really matters when life comes to an end?

What place has God in my life?

What Do I believe about death- life after death?

What place has God in my life?

Do I believe Jesus Died on the cross For Me so that I may not fear death?

John 3:16 KJV 1900

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Joshua 24:15 KJV 1900

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

The Book of life

Revelation 20:15 NLT

And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 3:5 ESV

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

The blood of Jesus