The Danger Of Thinking You Will Live Forever

Eternity comes swiftly!

Death is ever hovering!

Praise be to God, Jesus has conquered death!

and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, - 2 Timothy 1:10

by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. - Colossians 2:14

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.  - Psalm 90:10

This is assuming God will allow you not to be killed by sickness, accident, murder or self.

Infinite God

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 

3 You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!" 

4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.  - Psalm 90:1-4

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 

15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.  - Psalm 139:13-16

Our prayer should be!

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.  - Psalm 90:12

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.  - Psalm 90:15

Not only for Israel but for me and you!!

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

4 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.

6 So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. - Deuteronomy 8:2-6

When?

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” John 9:4

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

Robert Moffett, a great missionary statesman, said, “We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before the sun sets in which to win them.”

Life’s setting sun is sinking low. There are only a limited number of days in which to save souls. Are you going to spend your days investing in the things of this world, or putting up treasures in heaven? When?

Are you going to start sowing seeds of salvation or are you going to plant happiness in this life alone? When?

Are you going to do something nice for your wife? When?

Are you going to write your father? When?

ACTION POINT:

Make a promise to yourself right now that you will not put off until tomorrow what you should be doing today.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

Who Are You Burning Your Candle For?

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” Romans 8:13

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

We preachers are fond of saying, “Get right with God. You may die!” It is far better to say, “Get right with God. You may live!” The greatest joy in life is living for Jesus. Why waste more time? There is a life to live.

Friend, the best thing that you can say about a life lived without Christ is that it is a wasted life. Billy Sunday, a revival preacher from the 1920s, said that the deathbed repentance is “burning the candle of life for the devil, and then blowing the smoke in God’s face.”

ACTION POINT:

If you are not saved, it’s not too late for you to be saved. If you want to be saved – wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you’ve done, Jesus wants to save you. Repent and believe and you will be saved.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

His Peace and Joy in Suffering

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps.” 1 Peter 2:21

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

Christ suffered for you.

“But I don’t want to suffer for Him.”

You’re going to suffer anyway—whether you are saved or lost. That is life in a fallen world.

When you submit to Jesus Christ and obey the Word of God, He is going to arch a rainbow of hope over your suffering. He is going to write Romans 8:28 over what you are going through. You will know that your current trial is for your good.

ACTION POINT:

Surrender and submission to God is the only way to get His grace and power over your life. Joy, peace, and worry-free days are ahead for the one who lays his life down for the glory of God. Suffering will come, but joy will follow.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

An Offering of Continual Praise

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

In the Old Testament, the priests would offer an animal sacrifice to God. What do believers offer today? Romans 12:1 tells us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices.

And just as the altars of old had two flesh hooks to keep the sacrifice from slipping off, we have two hooks that hold our bodies there—discipline and devotion. Are you disciplining yourself and devoting yourself as a living sacrifice to the glory of God?

In the Old Testament, the priests would burn incense as a fragrant offering to the Lord. What do we do today? Hebrews 13:15 says we continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise.

ACTION POINT:

Our incense of praise should be going up out of our body, as we are the temple of the Holy Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 3:16). Are you giving God a continual offering of praise every moment of every day?

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

Sin Rooted In Unbelief

Who is the greatest threat?

Modern Pharisee or local atheist?

What always stands in opposition to the gospel is sin and its root in unbelief.

It's not a people but their unrighteousness and that they dwell in darkness.

When Jesus walked this earth, He was faced with the Jewish religious establishment.

God's mission for Jesus was to go first to the house of the lost sheep of Israel.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. - Romans 1:16

God's revelation is meant to shake the church which is full of worldliness, sparse spiritually and at best it is nominal in its pursuit to take the gospel to the world. Are we broken over our sin? Do we spend time in the gospel with the hope of it changing us to be more like Christ? Are we wholeheartedly seeking God's wisdom from the pulpit? 

Let's be clear, there is plenty of opposition in some churches to the truth of God's word.

We expect opposition from the world, in settings such as classrooms, business meetings or any other non-Christian gatherings. Sin and unbelief abound. We must be faithful to the whole counsel of God that is found in the scriptures!

Examine every group of people, in church or out, have in your mind that they all need the gospel irregardless of who they might be. Darkness invades everywhere. 

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation in the church and in the world.

Thanks Pastor John!!!

God is Beautifully Arranging You!

BIBLE MEDITATION:

 “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

I’ve had the privilege of pastoring churches in the midst of building campaigns, and it’s been a faith-growing experience to watch God work. In fact, I will never forget the first church where that happened: in Fort Pierce, Florida.

There was an elderly architect who was over the job, and he said something I will never forget. As we were looking over the plans I said, “It can’t be expensive because we don’t have much money.” And he replied, “Oh, my boy. Good architecture is not an arrangement of beautiful materials. It is a beautiful arrangement of materials.”

You see, the Lord can take people like you and me from the quarry of sin. And with His grace and His Word, He can fit us together into a majestic temple of God.

ACTION POINT:

You are an irreplaceable part of His beautiful workmanship.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers