(WILL YOU BE READY WHEN CHRIST COMES?)
There is a man who narrated the following night vision :
He saw himself as a man, who was going about looking for people who want to go to heaven. He met people gathered somewhere and asked, “Is there anyone here, who wants to go to heaven, let the person put up his hand?”
Only a few put up their hands. He then said, “OK, let those who want to go to hell, put up their hands.”
Surprisingly, it was a large crowd that put up their hands in a large field of countless people. On a closer look he found out that the mammoths crowd were countless children. The man said, “No wonder they were children.”
This night vision is what is happening in the congregations of people, who say they are for Christ in this physical realm.
People across the nations of the world stand before God as children. Those who want to go to heaven are so few, compared with a mammoths crowd who want to go to hell.
THE DRAMA IN THE LIFE OF MEN.
Every thing in the life of men are completed in the spiritual realm, where the invisible God dwells. All that happens to men are completed first in the spirit realm before it manifests on physical earth.
This night vision shows the condition pf many people, even while here on earth they are not aware they are hell bound. In the same way many are dead already in the spiritual realm, while still walking about in the physocal realm and doing many evils not knowing what awaits them with time to come.
Except the atheist, who does not believe in God, and does not think of hell or heaven, most other people will never want to be in hell, even though they live in the contrary, to the demands of heaven.
THE PRAYER I WILL NOT MAKE FOR ANYONE.
I will never wish that even my enemy should go to hell. Why? The Bible records that hell is a place of suffering for ever. There is no amnesty in hell, but there could be amnesty on earth. Those who go through the gates of hell are locked in for ever.
I beg all who read this sermon never to desire hell, but rather work in righteousness to be with God in heaven, which is also a place, to be lived eternally with God in bliss.
READ THESE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE :
This has to do with the unjust judge before a helpless widow.
18:5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
18:6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?( Luke 18 : 5 – 8).
The woman had wonderful faith.
Because the widow troubled the judge he was ready to give her justice lest she wears him out.
NOTE THIS :
“People who do what ever good they do for self convenience are doing no good at all.”
In Luke 8 : 8 (b) the caution comes ” when Christ comes will He find faith on earth?
We are talking of real faith in Christ in all that He stands for us, which compels us to do what we do.
This woman had unfailingly faith, and was prepared to keep the pressure until she received justice. If the unjust judge was able to answer this woman, Jesus was asking why will God not answer the request of the elects, who call on Him daily.
Reading from the background, it will appear that even the elects, do not have the kind of faith of the widow who was facing an unjust judge.
Most people are repeating the Biblical comparison of the righteousness of men as that of a filthy rag.
NOTE CAREFULLY :
64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. (Isaiah 64 : 6 – 7).
In our filthiness we cannot embrace God for He cannot behold us, so we keep an aimless march to eternity.
Many us try to do good, but in all there is filth in what we do. The judge was bent to show justice to the widow so as to set himself free from being bored by her . Ordinarily he was doing that for self comfort and not in compassion.
ANY GOOD WE DO IN SELFISHNESS IS NOT DONE TO ANY ONE PLEASE, BUT TO OURSELVES.
THE GOOD WHICH IS DONE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, IS THE GOOD DONE AT A COST TO US. SUCH GOOD IS DONE BASED ON LOVE AND IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD.
WE MUST BE MINDFUL.
LET US PRAY:
LORD GOD WE DESIRE TO BE WITH YOU IN HEAVEN.
FOR THAT PURPOSE, WE WERE CREATED BY YOU. GRANT TO US ALL THE GRACE WE NEED TO ENTER HEAVEN IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
Sermon from Miracle Valley @ Covenant Bethel, Miracle Valley at Umuehiri Umuele Njaba LGA, Imo State Nigeria November 10th, 2024.
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