Timeless Truths

God has provided a way for us to be sure that we spend eternity with Him in heaven.

That way is through faith in His one and only precious Son.

IILUSTRATION: I heard of a man who was dying some time ago, a man of great wealth. When the doctor told him he could not live, he sent for a lawyer to come to make out his will. The dying man’s little girl, only about four years old, did not understand what death meant; and, when the mother told her that her papa was going away, the little child went to the bedside and looked into her father’s eyes and asked, "Papa, have you got a home in that land you are going to?" The question sank deep into his soul. He had spent all his time and all his energy in the accumulation of great wealth. He had a grand home and had now to leave it; and how that question came home to him!

III-WE SEE THAT SIN IS SERIOUS:

Psalm 51:5-Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Ever since Adam and Eve allowed sin into their lives, everyone has been contaminated with it. This world is full of sin, and it has entered your heart and mine.

ILLUSTRATION: Twenty years later Rembrandt painted another picture of himself. As a young man he determined to deny himself no pleasure. He, therefore, sought out every delight and followed his appetite. Hence, one by one the torches of his life went out. Having been untrue to himself, he lost faith in others. In middle age we see the artist shrunken, an old rag around his throat, weakness in his chin, the mark of the beast upon his brow, the eyes heavy and dull, without vision or beauty. There are two pictures. The second shows the result of sin. His body was ruined by his own wickedness. In his youth he lived for his own ideals and for God. Twenty years later, after living for self and sin, the lights had gone out of his life. His body was a noble mansion given over to darkness and decay.

What is sin? It is rebellion against God. It is breaking His law. It is unbelief.

Unbelief is the worst kind of sin, it is that which damns souls to hell.

If a person could journey through the halls of hell and could talk to its inhabitants, we would find all kinds of people there: thieves, adulterers, liars, murderers, good people, moral people, respectable people, people who always obeyed the law. What are they doing there? Well, if we would ask them, they would say, We are here because we did not repent and receive Christ into our lives. To ignore Christ is to choose the devil.

ILLUSTRATION: Ozzy Osborne, now famed for the reality show, The Osbornes, was asked if he was a Christian. He said yes. Then he was asked what he thought of God. His reply was that he was okay with God, it was that Jesus he had a problem with.

Well Jesus is what makes us Christians and Jesus is the one who shows us the way home. Without Him, we’re LOST!!

I saw a church sign the other day that suggested a New Year’s diet plan: Loose the weight of sin, feed on the word of God!

IV-WE SEE THAT HELL IS SURE:

Matthew 5:29-30 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.