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Question: ARE YOU ETERNALLY MINDED?
John 6:47: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has EVERLASTING life.
When conceived in your mother’s womb you were destined to live forever. You will never die. You will never stop being the person you now are.
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James 4:14: What is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
James is talking about life on earth. Like a vapor rising from a kettle, life will soon be no more. One second and two seconds and three second and…. gone! Compared to eternity, life is that short, even for those of old age. When your body stops functioning you simply move to another location. Another location…. ?
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John 6:47: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
Lord Jesus assures the christian that “he who believes in” Him will live forever with Him. Where will christians spend there eternity…. ?
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John 14:3: I go to prepare a place for you.
Jesus – awesome Jesus, creator of the universe – said those words almost two thousand years ago. There is no greater architect than Jesus Christ. Can we not safely conclude that heaven is indeed stupendous?
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1 Corinthians 2:9: As it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him.”
The most wondrous vista you have ever seen is drab compared to heaven’s beauty. The most pleasant music ever produced cannot compare to heaven’s majestic sounds. The most imaginative person could never imagine the grandeur and wonder and joy of that place “God has prepared for those who love Him.”
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Revelation 22:5: There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord gives them light.
There is no darkness in heaven. Nothing scary. No dark corners. No dingy alleys. No dreariness. Everything is bright. “The lamb [Jesus] is its light.”
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Philippians 4:3: whose names are in the Book of Life.
If you have been “born of the Spirit”, if you have made a SINCERE decision to embrace Jesus Christ and His wondrous salvation, you can be assured your name has been recorded in “the Book of Life”. Lord Jesus awaits your arrival. Friends who have passed before you will greet you heartily.
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John 3:18: He who does not believe is condemned already.
Sadly, more people will refuse Christ than those who will receive Him. Why is this? Why do some come (“Come to Me , all you who labor and are heavy laden”) and others refuse Christ’s great invitation to be reconciled to God? Jesus gives us the answer….
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John 3:20: everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light.
This is Christ’s explanation why most people will not come to Him to be saved, why they reject the salvation Jesus purchased with His life. What is the future of those rejecting “Jesus Christ and Him crucified”…. ?
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Luke 16:24: “I am tormented in this flame.”
This was the desperate cry of a wealthy man cast down to hades. He is still there. There is no hope, no relief, no escape. The wealth of the wealthy is the ruin of many. Jesus: “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God.” Jesus taught us, “Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God AS A LITTLE CHILD will by no means enter it.” An impoverished man is more childlike than the one prideful of and reliant on his wealth.
This wealthy man was not eternally minded. He lived for today, not for tomorrow. The same is true for every person ignoring Christ’s invitation to a much better life.
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Matthew 6:19: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth.”
Most christians are also not eternally minded. They were but are no longer. Why? Enthusiasm for Jesus has faded. Their speech gives them away; what’s in comes out. (Jesus: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”) Christians, with relish and determination, do exactly what Lord Jesus told them not to do. (Jesus: “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things that I say.”)
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Matthew 6:20: “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
Most believers give scant attention to the upcoming “judgement seat of Christ”. (Rm.14:22: “Each of us shall give account of himself to God.”) Most “Lay up…. treasures in heaven” scantily, not abundantly.
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2 Corinthians 5:10: We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Most christians assume this will be a happy time. I do not. After considering the matter over several decades, I conclude this will be a time of remorse for many (most?) believers as they watch much of life’s works (“wood, hay, straw”) burn before them. (1Pet.1:7: “It is tested by fire.”)
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Matthew 6:20: “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
My precious brothers and sisters in Christ, I ask again: ARE YOU ETERNALLY MINDED?
Do you live in a playground or in a battlefield? Will there be “gold, silver, precious stones” remaining after the test of fire? Are you financing Christ’s Great Commission (“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”) or accumulating “treasures on earth”?
Are you following Christ or following christians? (Jesus: “Come, follow ME.”) Are you a New Testament christian or have you given yourself over to one of many batches of evangelical “commandments of men” (religions)? Will you be rejoicing or remorseful at that day of accountability?
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NOTE: Very few write like I write…. because…. I am a New Testament christian, one directed by the teachings and precedents of the New Testament….. and because…. I am unattached to a religion…. and because…. unlike most…. I believe YOU have a calling and a responsibility to preach “Jesus Christ and Him crucified”. As such, I invite you to visit my library of books, articles and videos at www.larryjones.ca