He was the best runner we had, and I liked running. He was the best at cricket, and I liked cricket. He was the best soccer player in the school and that’s what I wanted to be. His name was Renton, and he sat just across the aisle from me. You know, I didn’t mind school too much, but in those days I was very envious of the school Captain. I want to tell you a story about when I was a young boy going to school. „For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” -Romans 14:10 Paul’s United Methodist Church, 2000 Shutterlee Mill Rd, Staunton, VA 24401.Author/Preacher: Leonard Ravenhill Source: via The concert starts at 7:00 PM in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church but you have to answer the invitation. You are invited to this benefit concert at St. I hope to see you tonight for an earnest time of worshiping the Lord together. This is one of Jesus’ exclusive and inevitable promises to you. John 6: 37īut, like a Good Shepherd Jesus will lead you and lay down his life for you. The amazing thing is Jesus will not turn you away if you come to Him.Īll those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. You turn to the Lord, deny yourself, and die to everything else so you can live in Him. You don’t try to qualify it for yourself or qualify yourself for it. When you are offered the good news of Jesus Christ, you take it. The exclusive and inevitable response Jesus is commanding? Repentance and faith. It’s time for the kingdom of God to assert its primacy over our lives. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1: 15) Eventually, Jesus says our time runs out. When the gospel begins Jesus says, “The time has come. Judgment is the last exclusive and inevitable part of the gospel but what is the first part. God gives the answer to the question, “Are you married to me?” All of our deeds, misdeeds, and missed opportunities will reveal the truth to all. In judgment, God is applying the same standard. Your heart, soul, mind, and strength only have one lover. Right?īut, what is the exclusive and inevitable conclusion of this? You’re only going to be married to one person. You consummate your love and commitment together. When you are married, what happens immediately after? You go away together. Knowing this is one of the ways God sanctifies our life. “Because the prince of the world is already judged.” (John 16: 11)īut, it is one of those exclusive and inevitable “things to come” the Holy Spirit must show and teach to the Christian. Indeed, judgment is one of the exclusive and inevitable works of the Holy Spirit, too. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.” Leonard Ravenhill
That if they continually sing in heaven, “Worthy is the Lamb”, (then) in hell the only thing they sing is, ” The harvest is past. That if there are a million roads into hell, there’s not one road out. I find the book of the Revelation a book of mystery, a book of majesty, and a book of misery because it shows me the final stage of lost men that forever and ever, they’re going to be cut off from God. I was listening to Leonard Ravenhill preach on YouTube last night when he expressed one of the exclusive and inevitable parts of the gospel: “We shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 5: 10) Act for God in this moment!
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