Reminder of Our Mortality
Praise Jesus everyone today.
I want to share the true gospel of Jesus Christ, that’s the reason why I
live, move and breath, to live for Jesus Christ, not for my own self, not for
my own flesh, not for the desires of the flesh, but for the will of my Father
in Heaven. Today is my birthday and the
Holy Spirit remined me just of our own mortality, He reminded me of my own
mortality. I remember waking up when I
was 12 or 13 just knowing that one day I was going to die. You wake up you’re 25, you wake up your 35…
one day you are going to wake up and… you are NOT going to wake up. But you are going to stand before God and
He’s going to judge. Every single one of
us are going to be judged, by our words and by our actions. And this life goes by like a flash. I was just reminded so quickly of my own
mortality, and I know that we HAVE TO LIVE FOR THE LORD, NOT for
ourselves. The true gospel is that men
are like grass that are perishing. This
flesh is going to perish. Every single
one of us will have the same fate, whether we die of old age or when we are
young, whether it is cancer or an accident, ALL of us are going to die, but the
question is WILL WE HAVE LIVED FOR JESUS CHRIST OR OURSELVES?
I want to
remind you of the words off the prophet found in Isaiah 40:1-8, which is about
OUR SALVATION: “Comfort, yes, comfort My
people!” says your God. Speak comfort to
Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is
pardoned; for she as received from the LORD’s hand double for her sins. The voice of one crying in the
wilderness: “Prepare the way of the
LORD; Make straight tin the desert a highway for our GOD!. Every valley shall be exalted and every
mountain and hill brought low; the crooked places shall be made straight and
the rough places smooth; the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” The voice said, “Cry out!” and he said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is
like the flower of the field. The grass
withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely
the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, BUT THE WORD OF OUR
GOD STANDS FOREVER!”
Isn’t
that a wonderful blessing? The words of
Jesus are forever and ever. Everything
in this world is going to die, it’s gong to have an end. Nothing lasts forever. The only thing that will be forever and ever
IS THE WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST! His words
are forever and ever and you will be judged according to HIS words. The one crying in the wilderness was John the
Baptist and the one who came and still is, IS JESUS CHRIST! John the Baptist baptized Him, and He started
His ministry. John prepared the way, and
the way truly is by the blood, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ! If we die, die to ourselves, die to the
flesh, then we can receive the words of Jesus Christ, but no one can receive
the salvation of Jesus Christ, His words, His gospel, His truth, without first
dying to themselves, dying to their own flesh.
We have to spiritually die to ourselves, and then one day after we have
spiritually died to ourselves, we are physically going to die. We are mortal, and if we see our own
mortality, then we can look to what is greater, which is immortality, the true
gospel, the words off JESUS which are FOREVER AND EVER. And if we are able to put on immortality
because we have died to ourselves, then we are able to enter the Kingdom of
God. The true gospel is you are going to
die, but everlasting life is in JESUS CHRIST.
I encourage you to receive HIM before it is too late. When I was a kid in church, they always
taught you could repent on your deathbed, so I thought that even if I jumped
off of a 100 story building I could repent on the way down before I went splat
at the bottom, I could have prayed myself up.
But that’s just not the truth.
You need to prepare now. Jesus
knows the hearts of men and women and that they are wicked. If you do not repent and realize your own
mortality, repent of your sins, death is gong to catch you by surprise. Most people have no time to repent. Don’t wait until a death-bed experience. Get your life in order with Jesus Christ
NOW. Realize your own mortality. May the
grace of Jesus be with you.
