GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 24

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

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HEAVEN OR HELL

Micah 2:10

“Arise and go, for this is no place to rest.”

D.L. MOODY

Though some think of this world as heaven, it is the home of sin, a hospital of sorrow, a place that has nothing to satisfy the soul.  Men go all over the world to get out of it all they can – and yet are unsatisfied.  People soon grow tired of the best pleasures it has to offer.  Someone has said that the world is a stormy sea whose every wave is strewed with the wrecks of mortals that perish in it.  Every time we breathe, someone is dying.  We all know we are going to stay here but a very little while.  Only the other life is enduring.

ERWIN LUTZER

A number of years ago, I was asked to take a funeral.  I didn’t know the  family, and when I went to the funeral home the son said to  me, “I want you to know that we are not religious.  We don’t believe in God.  The only reason you are here is because some member of the family thought that a minister should be present.”  He said, and I quote:

“Anything you say will not be too short.”  I said to him, “Why is it you want it to be so short?”  “Well, he said, “We feel uncomfortable because we don’t believe in God.”  So, I made a deal with him.  I said “Look, I’ll tell you what, I will be brief, but I do need to have the opportunity to tell you what I think about death in general, and Christ in particular.”  He reluctantly agreed.

Despite the beautiful things said about the man whose body lay in the casket, what he was experiencing in those moments was the beginning of eternal agony.  This world makes promises it cannot keep.  It may present itself like a form of heaven, but for the unbeliever, hell awaits.

May I emphasize that your eternal destiny is determined in this life, not in the life to come.  Who in your life can you witness to about their eternal destiny?

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, I long to live for the  life to come, not this fleeting world.  Please bring into my life someone who needs to know You so they might flee from the wrath to come.

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Matthew 12:36

But I tell you that for every careless word that people speak, they will give an account of it on the day of judgment.

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Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ,

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Acts 13:47

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,

‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,

that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’

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Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”

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2 Timothy 2:15

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

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John 3:34

For He whom God sent speaks the words of God; for He does not give the Spirit sparingly.

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1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking actual words of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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