What really counts in your life now ?
[Need a mandatory pause here, or repeat]
“What really counts in your life now ?”
Will it count for keeps, forever ?
What makes you ready for your last day, to meet your Maker ?
Set aside any dependence on (your) church.
Set aside any dependence on family background.
Set aside any dependence on your exemplary life.
Set aside any dependence on your reputation.
Set aside what you think about yourself.
Set aside what you think or say about God—or what you might say to God.
Set everything aside—on your last day it will all be set aside.
What will be left, on your last day ? (And we all have a last day coming)
What will be left ?
— You
and
— Jesus
And Jesus will be in charge, covering your case on His terms.
And what are His terms ?
Everything He already said and made perfectly clear and wrote down in the Bible.
And that was available to you in your life.
His Terms:
- God is good and holy.
- You are not good.
- You are a sinner.
- God must punish sin.
- “The wages of sin is death.”
- God already punished sin, with death.
- The death of God’s Son, Jesus, on the cross paid for sin, all sin, your sin.
- God offers forgiveness for all your sin.
- Admit you’re a sinner and accept His offer, now.
Jesus has a Book in heaven—The Lamb’s Book of Life—with names of every person who accepts His offer.
If your name is in there, you’re “IN”, wecome into heaven.
If your name is not in there, you’re not in‐‐‐sent to hell.