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*What Happens After I Die?*
*Sunday, November 9, 2008*
Various Scriptures
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Subject: Death
Theme: Preparation for Death
Proposition: You can be prepared to face death
T.S. ???.
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INTRO: Stats on life in US. Stats on death.
My favorite show on TV is Jeopardy.
I like to consider myself a wealth of useless knowledge and statistics.
This week I learned:
Cell phones:
* 2~/3 of the people use the back light to see in the dark
* a 2004 MIT survey.....said that cell phones was ranked as the one invention that people hate the most, but can't live without..it beat out the alarm clock and TV
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Germs: A U. of AZ study found that your office desk has up 400x more bacteria than a toilet seat.
(amusingfacts.com)
3% of pet owners give their pets gifts on Valentine’s Day.
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
(TRANS) There are also some sad statistics about accidents and death.
1 out of every 350,000 American’s gets electrocuted in their life.
Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Each yr, more American’s die in fires at home than in all natural disasters combined.
The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.
Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death.
Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.
In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack.
Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise.
More than 100 people have been injured.
(TRANS) I got most of the statistics from online sources, and I can’t vouch for the validity of them.
But one stat I am very certain of - *One out of every one Americans dies.*
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We all wonder what happens to us after we die.
Separation of body and soul~/spirit.
We all know what happens to the body – it’s gets laid in the grave.
What happens to your soul?
Bible tells us it goes to one of two places.
What is one place (point up)? Heaven.
What is the other place (point down)?
Hell.
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*IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU DIE (TWO PATHS) *
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Right.
Those are the basics.
This morning we are going to go beyond the basics to see what happens to each of us after we die.
Along the way you may hear a few things that will challenge your concept of heaven and hell.
If that happens, be sure to let God’s truth in the Bible be the source for our understanding.
Do you have a bulletin?
Please take out the manila insert.
On here you will see a little diagram that we will follow in our time together this morning.
There is some blank space on here for you to write down notes or scripture references so you can check these things out later for yourselves.
We are going to start at the left and work our way across the page, explaining each little picture along the way.
GRAPHIC: split path and tombstone
We are all on the single line, headed for a fork in the road.
That split happens when we die.
Which path we take after death is determined by a decision we make in this life – the decision to accept or reject Jesus Christ.
The Bible is very clear about this.
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s standard of holiness, or perfect righteousness.
The penalty for these rebellious actions is death.
That is what each of us have earned by our sin.
God’s Son, Jesus, came to earth and lived a perfect life, one of absolute righteousness.
Yet he was crucified as a criminal.
When he died that death which he didn’t deserve, God laid on him the guilt of my sin, your sin, and the sin of every other person who has ever lived or will live.
Jesus paid the penalty for us.
We are each given the opportunity to believe and repent.
Believe that Jesus really did that, and that his death really is the payment for our sins.
And repent, or turn away from our sin and give our lives over to God.
If a person does that, he stands before God acceptable b~/c he is clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
If a person doesn’t believe and repent, he stands before God still bearing the guilt of his own sin, and God cannot accept him.
The beauty of this is that each of us are given the opportunity to believe and repent.
But this is one of those opportunities that is “for a limited time only.”
We can only make that decision while we are still alive.
Once we have died, the chance is gone.
That is why your diagram shows a fork in the road at that tombstone
(APP) The whole key to this message is to understand this point: the time to decide is now.
You may never get another chance to make this decision.
(TRANS) Now I want to walk you down both of these paths and explain what you can anticipate after you die.
The top path shows you what you will experience if you are made righteous through Jesus’ sacrifice.
The bottom shows you what you will experience if you do not make that decision.
Let’s head down the bottom road first.
Remember I said there would be a few things that may challenge your thinking.
Here’s the first.
Did you know there are two hells?
The Bible describes two different places where the unrighteous go after they die.
We use the word “hell” to describe both of them, but they are different.
We’ll look at the second “hell” later this morning, but the first one is called Hades.
In the OT it is referred to as Sheol.
We have a really good picture of this place from a story Jesus tells to a group of religious leaders.
It’s found in Luke 16.
Some Bible translations just use the word “hell.”
I’m going to read from the NASB b~/c they are careful to translate it more specifically as Hades.
Let’s start in Luke 16:19.
STAND
*Luke 16:19-31*
19 "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
20 "And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21 and longing to be fed with the /crumbs /which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
22 "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.
23 "In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 "And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'
25 "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
26 'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and /that /none may cross over from there to us.'
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