YOUR FORTUNE TOLD
04/18/08
1 PETER 1: 18--20
INTRODUCTION: HAVE YOU EVER HAD A DESIRE TO “LOOK INTO THE FUTURE?”**** (FORTUNE TELLERS, HOROSCOPE)
I’M NOT SURE WE COULD REALLY BE COMFORTABLE, KNOWING WHAT LIES AHEAD OF US IF WE KNEW IT IN ADVANCE.*****
WEIGHT AND FATE 25 CENTS STORY(note!!this story is not original i heard it several years ago and do not know the author):A GENTLEMAN ON HIS WAY TO CHICAGO WAS FASCINATED BY A WEIGHT AND FATE MACHINE. HE PUT IN A QUARTER AND RECIEVED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:" you are a black man, 6 ft 2 180 # on way to Chigago. he went around the corner and bought an indian head dress to try to fool the machine. he put in another quarter and out came this information:"you are still a a black man, you are still 6 ft 2, 180 # on way to Chicago He went back around the corner and bought a full indian "war" dress, complete with war paint and a tommahawk(full Indian attire**)he put in a quarter and recieved the following information: you are:
still a black man, still 6ft 2 still 180# and you were on your way to Chigago but you have fooled around with that Indian and missed your bus.
it is best to leave the past, present and the future with the one who knows all.***
YOUR SPIRITUAL FORTUNE:
I. LOOK AT THE PAST. ROMANS 5:12: BY ONE MAN (ADAM) SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MANKIND FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED. RM 3:23: ALL HAVE SINNED, COME SHORT.
(A) THIS COVERED EVERY PERSON.
1.REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL STANDING *****
2. REGARDLESS OF RELIGIOUS STANDING ******
3. REGARDLESS OF MORAL STANDING *****
(B) THIS COVERS EVERY SIN.
EPH. 2: 2,3: IN WHICH IN TIMES PAST, YOU WALKED ACCORDING TO THE COURSE OF THIS WORLD, ACCORDING TO THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, THE SPIRIT THAT NOW WORKETH IN THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
1. PAUL SPEAKS HERE TO THE SAVED,*****
HE REFERS TO THE PAST LIFE BEFORE SALVATION.
2.HE REFERS TO THOSE WHO WALKED*** IN DARKNESS AND WHO WERE* THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
HEBREWS 10:32: BUT CALL TO REMEMBRANCE, THE FORMER DAYS (PAST) IN WHICH AFTER YOU WERE ILLUMINATED, *** YOU ENDURED A GREAT FIGHT IF INFLICTION******
1. IN THE PAST (LOST) SATAN DID NOT BOTHER YOU
2. IN THE PAST HE DID NOT CONDEMN** YOU
3. BUT NOW (AFTER YOU ARE SAVED) YOU ARE BURDENED WITH A GREAT FIGHT OF AFFLICTION******
4. SATAN NOW ACCUSES YOU AFFLICTS YOU WITH TORMENT FOR SINS HE ONCE OVERLOOKED.********
(C) DO YOU KNOW WHAT SATAN CAN DO ABOUT THE PAST?
1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN LIGHT OF SALVATION****
2. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN LIGHT OF SPIRITUAL FUTURE.
3. HE HINDERS YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH (IF YOU ALLOW IT)
4. HE ROBS YOU OF JOY AND BLESSINGS (IF YOU ALLOW IT)
5. HE KILLS YOUR CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE (IF HE CAN)
YOUR SOUL IS OFF LIMITS TO HIM.*******
II. LOOK AT THE PRESENT.
(A)FOR THE UNSAVED PERSON. . RM 3:23: ALL HAVE SINNED, COME SHORT OF GOD’S GLORY.****
1. BY MAN CAME DEATH. IN ADAM ALL DIE.
HEBREWS 9:27: IT IS APPOINTED TO EVERY MAN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT.****
HEBREWS 10:31: IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD.
2. THERE IS A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH****
3. THERE IS A FEAR WORSE THAN DEATH***
MT. 10:28:FEAR NOT THE ONE WHO HAS POWER TO KILL THE BODY, BUT NO POWER TO KILL THE SOUL, BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHO HAS POWER TO DESTROY BOTH BODY AND SOUL IN HELL
(B) FOR THE SAVED (PRESENT STATE)
JOHN 3:14: AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP
(ON THE CROSS) THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
1. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, IN THE WILDERNESS, WERE PLAGUED BY POISON SNAKES. BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF.
2. GOD TOLD MOSES TO TAKE A SERPENT OF BRASS, PUT IT ON A POLE, AND WHEN A PERSON WAS BITTEN, HE COULD LOOK UPON IT, AND IF HE HAD FAITH HE WOULD LIVE.
3. CHRIST WAS LIFTED UP ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS.
HE BECAME THE POISON OF SIN FOR US.
4. WHEN WE BELIEVE UPON THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS**** WE ARE SPARED OF THAT SPIRITUAL DEATH. OUR FAITH REDEEMS US FROM THE CURSE OF SIN, WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
III. LOOK AT THE FUTURE.
FOR THE SAVED: I PETER 1: VS 3,4: BLESSED BE GOD THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HAS BEGOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD. TO AN INHERITANCE, INCORRUPTIBLE*** UNDEFILED**** AND THAT WILL NOT FADE AWAY**** RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU.
IF YOU DIE UNSAVED, LOST IN YOUR SIN.
JOHN 3:36: HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT THE SON, SHALL NOT SEE LIFE, BUT THE WARATH OF GOD ABIDES*** ON HIM.
JOHN 3:18 HE THAT BELIEVETH UPON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY BECAUSE HE HAS NOT BELIEVED UPON THE NAME
OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
REV 20:15: WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE (NOT THE CHURCH BOOK, NOR THE SOCIAL BOOK.) WAS CAST (WILL BE CAST) INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
1. THIS IS THE PAYDAY FOR THE LOST UNREPENTANT SINNER.
2. ROMANS 6:23: THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.
************* WAGES AND GIFT CERTIFICATE***********
CONCLUSION:
GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR THOSE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE PLAN OF SALVATION:
1. AN ETERNAL HOME IN HELL, NO PROBATION, NO EARLY RELEASE, FOREVER AN ETERNAL TORMENT FOR THE UNSAVED. NOT WHAT HE DESIRED****1 PETER 3:9
2. THANK GOD HE HAS PROVIDED A PLACE FOR THE SAVED.
3. ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVENS SWEET HOME
4. THIS IS WHAT IS GOD’S DESIRE FOR ALL MANKIND TO REPENT, BE SAVED, SPEND ETERNITY IN HEAVEN FOREVER.
5. WE KNOW WHAT OUR PAST WAS.
6. WE KNOW WHAT OUR PRESENT IS.
7. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR FUTURE IS?
YOU CAN KNOW THAT TODAY BEYOND ANY DOUBT.
1 JOHN 5: 11--13: THIS IS THE RECORD* THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON,
HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE, (ETERNAL) HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS NOT LIFE (ETERNAL) THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN TO YOU THAT BELIEVE UPON THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD; THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE UPON THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD.
