The Appointment We Must Keep

THE APPOINTMENT WE MUST KEEP

HEBREWS 11:27

INTRODUCTION:

TALK TO THE FAMILY

ENCOURAGE THEM

THERE ARE MANY APPOINTMENTS WE MAKE:

1--DOCTOR

2--LAWYER

3--BEAUTICIANS

4--BARBER

ALL MEN HAVE TO DIE AND OUR DEATH IS BY DIVINE APPOINTMENT. IT IS ONE APPOINTMENT EVERYONE WILL KEEP. AFTER DEATH COMES JUDGEMENT.

THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT CAN KEEP THE APPOINTMENT WITH ,IF THERE BE ANY PROBLEMS WE CAN CALL AND SET UP ANOTHER APPOINTMENT.

BUT I DECLARE TO YOU I STOPPED TO WARN YOU WHEN GOD SETS THE APPOINTMENT DATE, FOR DEATH TO KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR YOU CALL IF YOU HAVE TIME YOU HAD BETTER BE READY.

MANY THINGS ARE DONE IN A LIFETIME, AND IF THEY ARE NOT SATISFACTORY, WE MAY DO THEM BETTER ANOTHER TIME. SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES OCCUR OFTEN AND IF AT FIRST WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR THEM WE MAY PREPARE FOR THEM AGAIN.

BUT DEATH IS AN EXPERIENCE WHICH NEVER RECURS: IT IS A JOURNEY WHICH WE SHALL TRAVEL ONLY ONCE. THEREFORE WE MUST BE READY. NO ONE GOES ON A TRIP WITHOUT FIRST PREPARING.

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING BY CAR TIRES, TUNE UP, FLUID LEVELS ARE OK, YOU MAKE SURE ITS RUNNING PROPERLY. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING BY PLANE, TRAIN OR BUS (SMART PEOPLE) YOU GET YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE. THE TICKET COUNTER MAY BE CROWED THE COMPTER MAYBE DOWN, OR SOMETHING ELSE MAY GO WRONG.

ON THIS JOURNEY THAT THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE GOING TO TAKE, CALLED DEATH THE COMPUTER HAS ALREADY PRINTED OUT YOUR TICKET, YOUR APPOINTMENT HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE, THERE ARE ONLY TWO DESTINATION HEAVEN OR HELL.

THE TEXT

HEB. 9:27--AND AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGEMENT=THE FINAL TRAIL OF ALL MANKIND: EVERYONE OF US WILL STAND BEFORE GOD TO BE JUDGED.

(1)DEATH IS APPOINTED

(2)JUDGEMENT IS APPOINTED

WE MUST KEEP THESE APPOINTMENT

CLOSE:

AS I CLOSE I WANT TO WARN YOU, WHO HAVE NOT ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR. BEWARE YOUR APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN MADE YOUR DAY IS COMING, YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN HOW OR WHERE. GET READY HOW DO I GET READY ACCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HOW DO I ACCEPT HIM? THE BIBLE SAYS IN ROMANS 10:9-10: THAT IF THOU SHAL CONFESS WITH THOU MOUTH THE LORD JESUS AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD THOU SHALT BE SAVED. ROMAN 10:13- FOR WHO EO EVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.

TWO THEIVES--BARABBAS

TAKE JESUS TO THE CROSS- BRING HIM DOWN