JUNE 4

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Revelation 1:17-18

“And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.  I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.”

John 14:6

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

John 14:19-21

“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.  At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.  He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

John 15:5-8

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.  If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.  By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”

John 15:11

“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.”

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We will be reading from a book by Erwin Lutzer, President of Moody Bible Institute.  It’s a short book about Christ’s sacrifice for us.  It’s called simply, “For Us.”

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John 14:1-7

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.  And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.’”

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“Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit!”

Those who haven’t accepted Christ’s redeeming work have every reason to fear death.

Every last affront to God’s holiness will be paid for with your personal suffering ~ for eternity.

But if we have accepted Christ, we have nothing to fear.  Jesus has gone ahead of us to prepare the way; and when we die, we’ll find Him waiting for us.  What could be better?

We’ll be in heaven, with our own personalities and memories intact, surrounded by those friends who have also accepted Christ ~ and we’ll be sinless, in a place with no tears or sorrow.

This isn’t our “eternal reward” for something we’ve done right.  It’s Christ’s victory over sin and death ~ His free gift to us.

Paul wrote, “when the perishable puts on imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“ ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’” (1 Corinthians 15:54)

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