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HEAVEN’S PLAN for Life on Earth
“What It’s Like Living According to God’s Plan”
His Plan for Giving Life – Ephesians 2:1-10
Sometimes people say, “How do you know you’re a Christian?”
“Well, you don’t have a right to ask that! That’s a private thing! Just mind your own business!”
We hit a nerve when they don’t’ know. We just assume that. We think that’s the right thing to do. If somebody’s going to be offended when we ask them about their birthday then they probably haven’t had one and they’re just mad and it hurts their pride. And they’ve gone along so many years in all this pomp and circumstance and serving and doing all this.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
In James chapter 3 it says the teacher is going to enter into greater judgment because he’s teaching.
What more critical, more serious judgment could fall on a man who confused the Gospel so much that people study together and go away and not be a Christian and not know Christ because it was so confusing that they didn’t get it plain. Or they didn’t understand what they’re supposed to do.
It is that same surpassing power that’s going to raise us from SPIRITUAL DEATH to SPIRITUAL LIFE.
All of us are born spiritually dead into the world.
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned:
We were born SPIRITUALLY DEAD into the world.
Therefore before we are prepared to meet the Lord, we have to have a spiritual birth!
A man born once, dies twice.
A man born twice, dies once and it’s no big deal.
We’ll die physically just like everybody else. We can’t escape that. We’ve all got one of those dates out here. We don’t know when it is. God’s got a great big calendar on His desk and He’s saying “Well there’s one day less and one day less.” And pretty soon it’s going to be our day and the Lord’s going to say “It’s his day! POP! Bring him on!” And it’s over!
So teach us to number our days, apply our hearts to wisdom.” (Ps. 90:12)
We don’t know how much time we have left.
(Taken from Don's messages in Ephesians)
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