MANY OF US AMERICANS CARE FOR THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OUR BODY, BUT NEGLECT TO CARE FOR THE ONE THING NEEDFUL, THAT IS, THE NEED TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL. ALL OF US AS AMERICANS KNOW WE ARE DYING, AND THUS WE PREPARE FOR OUR DEATH, BY SAVING FOR OUR RETIREMENT, ETC. , AND MAYBE A SUDDEN DEATH WITH LIFE INSURANCE, AND WE CARE FOR OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS BY EATING HEALTHY, EXERCISE, ETC. BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL, FOR OUR SOUL IS IMMORTAL, IT IS NOT GOING TO DIE, BUT...
MANY OF US AMERICANS CARE FOR THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OUR BODY, BUT NEGLECT TO CARE FOR THE ONE THING NEEDFUL, THAT IS, THE NEED TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL.
ALL OF US AS AMERICANS KNOW WE ARE DYING, AND THUS WE PREPARE FOR OUR DEATH, BY SAVING FOR OUR RETIREMENT, ETC. , AND MAYBE A SUDDEN DEATH WITH LIFE INSURANCE, AND WE CARE FOR OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS BY EATING HEALTHY, EXERCISE, ETC.
BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL, FOR OUR SOUL IS IMMORTAL, IT IS NOT GOING TO DIE, BUT WHEN IT DEPARTS FROM OUR BODY OUR BODY IS CONSIDERED DEAD.
SO THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR SOUL?
OUR UPCOMING TEMPORAL DEATH OF OUR BODY IS A SIGN THAT OUR SOUL WILL EXPERIENCE ETERNAL DEATH IF WE HAVEN’T EXPERIENCED THE ANTIDOTE OF BREAKING GOD’S COMMANDMENT.
AND THUS THE QUESTION THAT WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC ASK, IS, WHY IS OUR BODY DYING?
WOULD IT NOT BE THE SAME REASON WHY ADAM DIED: HE BROKE A COMMANDMENT.
THUS WOULD NOT THAT BE WHY WE AS AMERICANS ARE DYING, WE HAVE BROKEN A COMMANDMENT.
SO IT APPEARS THAT WE AS AMERICANS ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD ON DEATH ROW.
SO OUR BODY DYING, IS SIMPLY A WARNING TO US THAT WE ARE UNDER THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DEATH, IF BREAKING A COMMANDMENT OF GOD LEADS TO ETERNAL DEATH.
WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE WE ARE SAY TO OURSELVES, THE ANTIDOTE TO DEATH WOULD BE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IS CAUSING DEATH, AND THEREFORE WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF BREAKING A COMMANDMENT BUT NOT BREAKING A COMMANDMENT.
BUT IF ALL OF US AMERICANS BREAK GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, WAS THERE EVER A MAN THAT DID NOT BREAK GOD’S COMMANDMENTS?
ANSWER?
2Cor. 5: [21] For he(JESUS’ FATHER hath made him(JESUS) to be sin for us, who knew no sin( KEPT HIS FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS PERFECTLY)
WHY?
(IN ORDER) that we
might be made
the righteousness(PERFECT OBEDIENCE OF JESUS) of God in him.
THEREFORE HOW DOW WE OBTAIN THE ONE THING NEEDFUL FOR OUR SOUL.
WE AGONIZE TO OBTAIN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY FAITH BEFORE WE DIE PHYSICALLY AND THAT WILL BE THE ANTIDOTE TO ETERNAL DEATH.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THIS SERMON EHORTS US AS FOLLOWS:
The care of the soul is the one thing needful, because “without it, you cannot avoid a state of eternal misery, which will be aggravated, rather than alleviated by all your present enjoyments.”
Nothing can be more evident from the word of the God of truth. It there plainly appears to be a determined case, which leaves no room for a more favorable conjecture or hope. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, even all the nations that forget God,” Psalm 9:17. “They shall go away into everlasting punishment, Matt. 25:46, into a state where they shall in vain seek death, and death shall flee from them. Oh! brethren, it is a certain, but an awful truth, that your souls will be thinking and immortal beings, even in spite of themselves. They may indeed torment, but they cannot destroy themselves. They can no more suspend their power of thought and perception, than a mirror its property of reflecting rays that fall off its surface. Do you suspect the contrary? Make the trial immediately. Command your minds to create from thinking but for one quarter of an hour, or for half that time, and exclude every idea and every reflection. Can you succeed in that attempt? Or rather, does not thought press in with a more sensible violence on that resistance; as an anxious desire to sleep, makes us so much the more wakeful. Thus will thought follow you beyond the grave, thus will it, as an unwelcome guest, force itself upon you, when it can serve only to perplex and distress the mind. It will for ever upbraid you, that notwithstanding all the kind expostulations of God and man, notwithstanding all the keen remonstrances of conscience, and the pleadings of the blood of Christ, you have gone on in your folly, till heaven is lost, and damnation incurred; and all, for what for a shadow and a dream?
