Discipleship - Part 6 Series

While some admitted that they were not indestructible and that one day they might die, they were silent on what goes on after the grave. I imagine they are silent because they didn’t know and if they knew they didn’t believe it.

Young man, the Bible says that death is coming and after that the judgment. Hebrews 9:27 says, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment…”

Satan wants you to believe that you are indestructible. He wants you to live like you are invincible. If he can get you to believe and live like you do not fear death, then the odds are increased that you will die at an early age. If you die at an early age without acknowledging Jesus as your Boss and the Forgiver of your sin, you will spend eternity in Hell.

That is Satan’s MO. The Bible says the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. He wants your life. He wants you to die in your sins. And this is happening right before our eyes today.

Our young men—some of your friends---are either in prison or dead having never considered that one day they will find their spirit, soul and body in a burning Hell for eternity if they did not turn away from their sins and come to Jesus Christ.

Young men, you are not indestructible. Related to this is my second point.

(2) What you end up becoming depends on what you do now.

In hip-hop music there is a lot of boasting about tomorrow. But be warned young man of the Word of God in the book of James 4:13-14 “Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”

I hear about the dreams and aspirations of young men and what they are going to do when they “make the pros” or “hit the charts” or sit in their executive chairs and run the corporation. But you do know what is going to happen tomorrow?

James goes on to say, “Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”

Someone said, “I will get my life together tomorrow” but his tomorrow never came. Tomorrow is the devil’s day but today is God’s. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow. All men don't live to be elderly fathers, like Isaac and Jacob. Many children die before their fathers. David had to mourn the death of his two finest sons; Job lost all of his ten children in one day. Today we are living in a time when so many sons die before their fathers.

Eccl 12:1 says, “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them…”

Someone has said, “By the shoot that springs up we can judge the type of tree that is growing, by the blossoms we judge the kind of fruit, by the spring we judge the type of harvest coming, by the morning we judge the coming day, and by the character of the young man, we may generally judge what he will be when he grows up.”