Forever Pt 3
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Testimonies of how “Forever” has effected your thinking or behavior.
The Bad News you Can’t Escape
The Bad News you Can’t Escape
Describe a funeral scene.
This is not the way it’s supposed to be.
Death - It’s not a part of God’s original plan.
Death - It’s not a part of God’s original plan.
God created Adam and Eve in a perfect world. In a place where all their needs were met.
They would have lived forever. They were created for forever.
But they sinned. They were too busy trying to be God to be motivated by forever with God.
And the punishment was and is death.
Gen 1:26
English Standard Version Chapter 5
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned
We don’t like talking about it. In fact, it’s hard for us to even say it, “no longer with us.” “passed away” “gone home”
Humanity has created technology to conquer many things, but id hasn’t defeated death.
wilted boquet, stale of slice bread, soured mil, firewood, old dog, aching knees, reading glasses - all remind us that death is around us and coming.
Physical death is all around us.
And it isn’t supposed to be this way.
But even death is preparation.
But even death is preparation.
You won’t escape it, but you can prepare for what lies on the other side.
The death all around you is meant to get your attention.
Have you attached your identity and joy to things that will die?
Have you attached your identity and joy to things that will die?
Friends, health, job, a dog, a house, your spouse.
Decaying creation will never be the messiah you need.
When you work to deny the reality of death, you look for life in things that re dying - and that never works. Only when you face the bad news of death can you begin to find hope in the good news of life - life that begins here and now and lasts forever.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
English Standard Version Chapter 4
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17
The dark side of forever
The dark side of forever
We were made for God and to live for him.
But we sinned.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned
The consequence is hell.
The he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels
Hell is eternal
What makes hell, hell?
What makes hell, hell?
Separation from God.
Separation from God.
Eternal torment
Eternal torment
Living in light of the dark side of forever
Living in light of the dark side of forever
Use every means available to fight the delusion that what you choose to do or say doesn’t make any difference.
Use every means available to fight the delusion that what you choose to do or say doesn’t make any difference.
Require yourself to see sin as sinful as it really is.
Require yourself to see sin as sinful as it really is.
Be thankful fot the final justice of God.
Be thankful fot the final justice of God.
Celebrate forgiving grace every day.
Celebrate forgiving grace every day.
Let the dark side of forever remind you of what is important
Let the dark side of forever remind you of what is important
Nothing is more important that relationship with God.