Because of this Iam gonna share this message with you.. 1. The possibilities for joy and misery after you die are trillions of times greater than in the few years on this earth before you die, the Bible compares this life to a vapor that appears as you breathe on a cold winter morning and then vanishes, the Bible describes the time after death as "ages of ages." Not just one or two ages of thousands of years, but ages of ages; thousands and thousands of ages, it matters infinitely what happens to you after you die. 2. This theme forces the question as to whether our faith is real, substantial, biblical, faith in objective, external reality outside ourselves. Namely, is our faith in God or is it a mere subjective experience of feelings and thoughts inside ourselves that function as an emotional cushion to soften the bumps of life and give us a network of friends. Facing eternity has an amazing effect of sobering us out of religious delusions. 3. Thinking about death and eternity helps keep God as the center of our lives by testing whether we are more in love with this world than we are in love with God himself, does the thought of dying give us more pain at losing what we love on earth than it gives us joy at gaining Christ? 4. When the Biblical truth of this theme grips you it frees you from fear and gives courage to live the most radical, self-sacrificing life of love, the person who can truly say, "To die is gain," will be able to say like no one else, "To live is Christ" (Phil. 1:21), but if you can't say, "To die is gain," then you will you will probably say, in one degree or another, "Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" (1 Cor. 15:32), being sure of what happens when you die is indispensable as a believer in Christ for your daily courage and for not losing heart through the pain and the diminishing health of this life. What happens to you when you die is no more significant than what happens to a tree when it dies, it's over, you go out of existence, you feel nothing, know nothing, have no consciousness, and it has nothing to do with reality what is really going to happen. Like millions of others, you have met Jesus Christ in the pages of the Bible and have been persuaded that he is worthy of your trust, then you do not have to be unsure about what is coming when you die, he has told us many things, to encourage us and free us from the emptiness evolutionary creeds and from the fear of death. What we have seen so far is that believers in Jesus go to be with him when we die, for the those of us who trust Jesus as Savior and Lord "to live is Christ and to die is gain" (Phil. 1:21); "to depart and be with Christ is very much better" (Phil. 1:23). All Christians will stand before Christ as judge, "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ" not just unbelievers, but "WE" and not some of us, but "all of us." Our judge will be Christ, it is God's judgment too, "We must all stand before the judgment seat of God", but God "has given him authority to execute judgment", so God the Son and God the Father are one in their judgment, but the Son is the one who stands forth as the immediate Judge, to deal with us. Our judgment will be after we die, that's implied in the text, but Hebrews 9:27 makes it clear. "It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment" before we enter the final state of glory with our resurrection bodies on the new earth, we will stand before Christ as Judge. When we stand before Christ as Judge we will be judged according to our deeds in this life, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." This is not an isolated teaching in the New Testament, Jesus said in Matthew 16:27, "The Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and will then recompense every person according to his deeds" and in the last chapter of the Bible Jesus said, "Behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward is with me, to render to every person according to what he has done" (Rev. 22:12) in other words the way you live is not unimportant. Our deeds will reveal who enters the age to come, and our deeds will reveal the measure of our reward in the age to come, it sounds to many like a contradiction of salvation by grace through faith; "By grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works lest anyone should boast." Salvation is not "of works" that is, works do not earn salvation, works do not put God in our debt so that he must pay wages, that would contradict grace. "The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 6:23); Grace gives salvation as a free gift to be received by faith, not earned by works. Our deeds will be the public evidence brought forth in Christ's courtroom to demonstrate that our faith is real and our deeds will be the public evidence brought forth to demonstrate the varying measures of our obedience of faith, in other words, salvation is by faith, and rewards are by faith, but the evidence of invisible faith in the judgment hall of Christ will be a transformed life; our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation, they are not foundation, they are demonstration. There are varying degrees of reward for the faithfulness of our lives, but it also moves beyond that and also teaches that there is a loss not only of reward but of eternity for those who claim to be faithful but do nothing to show that they prize God's gifts and love the Giver, that's the point of the servant who did nothing with his gift, he did not just lose his reward, he lost his life, Jesus says in Matthew 25:30, "Cast out that slave into outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." The second purpose of the judgment is to declare openly the reality the faith and the salvation of God's people by the evidence of their deeds, Salvation is owned by faith, Salvation shown by deeds, so when Paul says we "will be recompensed . . . according to what we have done," he not only means that our rewards will accord with our deeds, but also our salvation will accord with our deeds. Paul listed certain kinds of deeds and said, "those who do such things shall not inherit the Jesus put it like this and he used exactly the same words for good and evil deeds that we have here in 2 Corinthians 5:10, he said (in John 5:29), "An hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment." In other words the way one lived will be the evidence whether one passes through judgment to life or whether one experiences judgment as condemnation. "Remember the story of how two harlots brought a baby to king Solomon, each claiming that the baby was hers, they asked king Solomon to act as judge between them, he said that a sword should be brought and that the baby should be divided and half given to the one and half to the other, the true mother cried out, "O, my lord, give her the child and by no means kill it" Solomon said, give this woman the child, for she is its mother". King Solomon was not looking for a deed that would earn the child, he was looking for a deed that would prove that the child was already possessed by birth, that is the way God looks at our deeds, God is not looking for deeds that purchase our Salvation in his judgment hall, he is looking for deeds that prove we are already enjoying our Salvation, the purchase of our Salvation was the blood of Jesus, sufficient once for all to cover all our sins, and the means by which we own it is faith and faith alone. Examine yourself; Do you long mainly for the second coming "Judgment day"? Do you long to be at home with God even if it costs you the surrender of your body? Are you committed to walk by faith until he comes or until he calls?
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Regarding the previous post "ela waledi" the man who died 3amo abu Samuel, till now I cant believe he is gone, we still talking about him and mention him in our conversation as he is still there, you know why? Because this man affected all our lives and made a difference even without talking to us, just by looking at him you will see how much God is good then you will be blessed and get encouraged and you will remember that God is good all the time.
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On May, 14, 2007 2:01 PM , NIW
said:
A great post. Very meaningful and thougt provoking. Just the spiritual muse I needed.
On May, 14, 2007 2:59 PM , wedadf
from Jordan
said:
from Jordan
said:kinzi, yes he was :D thnx for keeping coming here
NW, im happy this post provoked u;)
On October, 04, 2008 8:05 PM , shelley
from United States
said:
from United States
said:Wedad, this is a beautifully thought-provoking essay. Thank you for this.
:)
shelley
On October, 06, 2008 8:28 AM , wedadf
from Jordan
said:
from Jordan
said:shelley thnx for th encouraging words :)
blesses
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Oh, Lord, let me answers be yes and yes!
I just heard today about Abu Samuel. He was/is a dear brother in Christ!