Three Absolute Facts of Life

The point: Do not seek comfort that comes at the expense of facing the facts of death and judgment; true comfort comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ.

This analogy illustrates that a false sense of comfort can come from ignoring impending judgment, just as a man slated for the electric chair might feel good if he stays drunk and forgets his fate.

Sure, a man who's slated to go to the electric chair the first of September can feel good right up to July 31st if he keeps himself drunk and forgets about the electric chair.

15:57 - 16:11 Read in full sermon

The point: Recognize that your one supreme responsibility in life is to get ready for your exit.

This story illustrates the supreme responsibility to prepare for one's exit from life. A man given six months to prepare for a 50-year journey to a new land, with a manual of instruction, would be a fool to spend his time on trivial pursuits instead of preparation.

Your one supreme responsibility is to get ready for your exit. Your one supreme responsibility while you are here in life is to prepare for your exit out of this life. Let me illustrate. Suppose there was a certain man who was told that he was going to have to leave the land in which he was now living.

17:59 - 18:19 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not try to enter God's presence in your own native pollution and uncleanness; you must be clothed in the righteousness of Christ and united to Him.

This illustration, heard from a Scottish preacher, explains how sinners are accepted by God. An orphan lamb is covered with the skin of a ewe's dead offspring, so the ewe accepts it as her own. Similarly, believers are clothed in Christ's righteousness and accepted by the Father.

So the Father now has a basis of saying to every sinner who comes and casts Himself upon His Son I will now accept you in the Beloved. I will see you as in My Son and accepted in Him. Paul McCoy, one of our members was recently abroad and in the course of his travels he visited up in Scotland up in Edinburgh and while there he listened to a friend of mine preach and he told me a very touching illustration that this Scotsman gave in his sermon when preaching to the children and I've been looking for a good opportunity to pass it on and I think this is a good opportunity up in that area there th...

33:01 - 34:29 Read in full sermon