THE PATH TO LIFE

“For everyone has sinned; we all fall

short of God’s glorious standard.” 

- Romans 3:23 NLT. 

“For the wages of sin is death, but

the free gift of God is eternal life

though Christ Jesus our Lord.” 

- Romans 6:23 NLT. 

“But God showed his great love

for us by sending Christ to die

for us while we were still sinners.”  

- Romans 5:8 NLT. 

“If you confess with your mouth

that Jesus is Lord and believe in

your heart the God raised him

from the dead, you will be saved.

For it is by believing in your heart

that you are made right with God,

and it is by confessing with your

mouth that you are saved. 

- Romans 10:9,10 NLT. 

“For ‘Everyone who calls on the 

name of the Lord will be saved.’” 

- Romans 10:13 NLT

TODAY'S PROMISE

Jesus Christ said;

"I tell you the truth, those who listen to my

message and believe in God who sent me have

eternal life.  They will never be condemned for

their sins, but they have already passed from

death into life."

(John 5:24 NLT)

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"He who loveth God with all his heart

feareth not death, nor punishment, 

nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect

love giveth sure access to God.  But he

who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if

he is afraid of death and judgment."  

-Thomas A. Kempis

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"Some day you will read in the papers the D.L.

Moody of East Northfields is dead.  Don't you believe

a word of it!  At that moment I shall be more alive

than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is

all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is

immortal - a body that death, cannot touch, that 

cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious

body.

I was born of the flesh in 1837.  I was born of 

the Spirit in 1856.  That with is born of the flesh,

may die.  That which is born of the Spirit will live

forever."  

- D. L. Moody

TODAY'S PROMISE

"Now listen!  Today I am giving you a choice

between life and death, between prosperity

and disaster.  For I command you this day to

love the LORD your God and to keep his com-

mands, decrees, and regulations by walking in

his ways.  If you do this, you will live and multi-

ply, and the LORD your God will bless you and

the land you are about to enter and occupy."   

(Deuteronomy 30:15,16 NLT)

TODAY'S PROMISE

"Therefor dear brothers and sisters, you

have no obligation to do what your sinful

nature urges you to do.  For if you live by

its dictates, you will die.  But if through the

power of the Spirit you put to death the 

deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.  

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are

 children of God."

(Romans 8:12-14 NLT)  

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY.

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"Death and life are in the power of

the tongue." (Proverbs 18:21 NASB)       

Consider the Titanic.

You know the story better than I do.

Allegedly the architect of the ship, Thomas Andrews

states that, "God himself could not sink the ship."

In case you are not aware of it, it's not smart to

put a challenge up before God.  So, April 15, 1912

God showed him differently.  The ship went down with

Andrews himself on board and over 1,500 other lives

with him.

Oh!

By the way, Thomas Andrews knows better now.

I do not know about you, but I want to tame my

careless tongue. 

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"The only saving faith is that which casts

itself on God for life or death."

-Martin Luther

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"We are told that Christ was killed for us, 

that His death has washed out our sins,

and that by dying He disabled death itself...

That is Christianity.  That is what has to be

believed."   

- C.S. Lewis

WHY LORD? WHY?

Many of us have had family members or known of 

people who were living for God and a blessing to all

around them, and yet had a premature death.

My own son was that way.  A young man helping his

church and it seemed everyone in the community.  Yet

he was killed in an auto accident.  It was one of the 

largest funerals I have ever attended because of his 

love for God and all around him.

I could not help but wonder, "Why Lord?"  Why some

one like that instead of an old worn out man like me.

I believe the answer is in the Scripture below.

"The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;

And devout men are taken away while no one understands,

For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

He enters into peace;"  

(Isiah 57:1,2 NASB)   

I feel like God gave me my answer.

POWER OF THE TONGUE

POWER OF THE TONGUE

Did you know that there is a lot of power in our tongue.

Power to help or power to destroy.

The "Good Book" [The Holy Bible] tells us:

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue,"

(Proverbs 18:21 NASB)   

The problem is that by our natural nature the tongue

is:

"And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity;

the tongue is set among our members as that which 

defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of

our life, and is set on fire by hell."

(James 3:6 NASB)   

In the natural state our tongue is set on fire by the very

forces of hell it's self.  That is why we need to turn our

life over to God and invite Jesus Christ to come in and

take control giving us a new nature.  THEN, or tongue

can be a tongue of:

"But the tongue of the wise brings healing."

"The tongue of the wise makes knowledge

acceptable,"

"A soothing tongue is a tree of life."

(Proverbs 12:18, 15:2, 4 NASB)    

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"The most significant moment

of life is death."

- Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D.

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"When death is chasing you

in the emergency room

there is no atheist."

-Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D.

OUR ALL IN ONE

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"In his life, Christ is an example, show-

ing us how to live; in his death, he is a

sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his

resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascent-

sion a king; in his intercession, a high

priest."

- Luther.

WARNING

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READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

BECAUSE

A.  The "Establishment" does not want you to know these facts.
To know them will put you in disfavor with the world system.

B.  You will be held accountable for these facts.  The time is
coming that  you will have to give account for your use or
misuse of them.

FACT NO. 1
"It is certain that all men die one time.  And, the judgment
day comes after death."

FACT NO. 2
"everone has sinned and is far away from God's glory."

FACT NO. 3
"The pay you get for sinning is death."

"And I saw a great white throne and the One who was
sitting on it.  The earth and the sky ran away from His
face, but they could not find any place to hide.  I saw dead
people ---important and unimportant.  They were standing
in front of the throne.  Books were opened.  And another
book -- the Book of Life -- was opened.  The dead were
judged from the things which had been written in the books,
according to the way they had lived.  The ocean yielded
the dead people who were in it.  Death and Hades
yielded the dead people who were in them.  Each person
was judged by the way he had lived.  Death and Hades [Hell]
were thrown into the lake of fire. (The second death is the
same thing as the lake of fire.)  If someone's name was
not found in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake
of fire."

FACT NO. 4
"but God's gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord."

FACT NO. 5
"God loved the people of the world so much that He gave
up His only Son.  Every person who commits himself to
Jesus will not her destroyed.  Instead, that person will have
eternal life.

FACT NO. 6
"While we were still helpless and ungodly, Christ died for us--
at exactly the right time.  It is rare when someone dies for
another person --even for a good person.  However, some do
dare to die for a good man.  But God reasures us of His love
for us in this way: 'While we were still sinners, Christ died
for us.!"

FACT NO. 7
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life!
The only way anyone can come to the Father is through me!"

FACT NO. 8
"If you confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord' and if
you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from death,
you will be saved.  To become right with God a person believes
with his heart.  Declaring it openly, that person comes into
salvation."

(Quotations taken from the Holy Bible.)

COMFORT IN DEATH

First realize that this Scripture passage is taken out of context.

As it is said, a Scripture taken out of context is a pretext.

This then raises the question who is "good"?

Good according to God, or something that

a person has concocted in their own mind.

In this case it is someone who has been walking and

living with and for God.  And in todays time setting,

that would be someone who has been born of the

Spirit of God.  That is, born again and living with

and for God.

If that describes you,

then this Scripture is for you when  that day comes.

"Good people die, and no

one understands or even

cares.  But when they die, no

calamity can hurt them.  Those

who live good lives find peace and

rest in death."

(Isaiah 57:1,2 GNT)

"Death has nothing terrible which life

has not made so.  A faithful Christian

life in this world is the best preparation

for the next."

- Tryon Edwards

GOD'S REFRESHMENT

I met a man a few nights ago who works long hard days -

seven days a week.  Right now he is young (By my standards.)

and strong.  But you and I both know that in time it will kill

him.  Then, who gets his farm?

That is the why they work political prisoners so hard in slave 

labor camps.  They work them to death.

When I was a kid I worked in what we called a packing house.

This one packed the growers lemons.   One of the "bosses" told

my dad that by giving the women a ten minute break in the 

morning and another one in the after noon, they got more work

out of them than if they did not have a break.

Years ago I read that Andrew Jackson said he could march his

men further in six days than he could in seven.  Are you getting

the point?

Even Jesus said,

"The Sabbath was made for man, 

and not man for the Sabbath."

-Luke 2:27 NKJV

What is the "Sabbath"?  A day of rest.

Hey!  God himself rested on the seventh day.

And he made you so that you need a day of rest.

I am not pushing for some particular day over another

as a Sabbath or day of rest.  Nor am I pushing for a

return to the old Jewish laws.  If you will look it up

the "Sabbath" was given even before the "Law" that

was given up on the mountain. 

But I am asking you why you insist on pushing yourself

into a premature death when God wants you to take a

break every week?

PRIORITIES

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I HAVE BEEN STARING DEATH IN 

THE FACE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS 

NOW.

Do I need to tell you that it will change your priorities?

Most of my life I have been sort of a "hot rodder".

But how fast my car is does not matter - now.

In fact, of my several motorcycles,

it does not even matter if they run - now.

The outcome of the world series [What ever that is.]

does not matter.

The size of the house I live in does not matter.

Nor how large or small my bank account is.

When you are looking at death as being just around the 

corner, you realize that most of what we think is important 

in life is mere frivolous, shallow trivia.

I have more or less lived a "full" life.  I am only 80

 years old now.  And if God is willing would like to

do a little more.  But that is in God's hands.

LESSONS.

You may be only one half of my age.  But that does not

mean you will out last me.  How much more of your life

are you going to waste before you stand before the God

who gives you life?

Right now I am living on other people's blood.

The Bible tells us that the life is in the blood.  

I will assure you, that is true. 

But there is one more fact of life.

Jesus Christ willingly gave his blood for you so

that you can have real life here on earth now and

forever.

You will not make it without the blood of someone

else - the blood of Jesus Christ applied to your life.

Not well now, and certainly not in the life here

after.

TODAY'S PROMISE

"And it is the will of him who sent me

that I should not lose any of all those

he has given me, but that I should raise

them all to life on the last day.  For what

my Father wants is that all who see the 

Son and believe in him should have eternal

life.  And I will raise them to life on the

last day."

(John 6:39,40 GNT)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNT)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

TRUE LIFE

"But you do not live as your human 

nature tells you to; instead,you live 

as the Spirit tells you to - if, in fact,

 God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever 

does not have the Spirit of Christ,

 does not belong to him. But if Christ 

lives in you, the Spirit is life for you,

 because you have been put right with

 God, even though your bodies are 

going to die because of sin.  If the Spirit 

of God, who raised Jesus from death, 

lives in you, then he who raised Christ 

from death will also give life to your

 mortal bodies by the presence of his 

Spirit in you."

(Romans 8:9-11TEV)

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