Our Motive for Missions
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
Luke 16.19-31
Just a few weeks ago on October 31st at 1:50 a.m., the engines suddenly shut down on a Boeing 767 and plunged 33,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. All 217 people on EgyptAir Flight 990 perished!
The USA News and World Report writes that ''217 lives were lost in a matter of seconds.'' Lost? What do you mean lost? Lost where? Where did they go? Where are they this morning?
One minute they were sitting comfortably on board that plane and in moments they were in eternity! But where are they this morning?
Last year in this city 1119 people died! Do you know how many people that is? If you were to fill this worship center on January 1st, come December 30th, it would be empty! One minute they were here .. the next minute they were gone!
I was visiting with a woman who lives in Houston recently with cancer. She began telling me about her situation and then she asked, ''What do you think the chances are for my survival?'' I thought to myself, ''Zero.''
The Bible says in Hebrews 9.27, ''And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.'' Once you die, your condition whether blessed or doomed .. is fixed forever. There's no such thing as a second chance after you die!
Everybody is going to live somewhere when they die .. be it Heaven or Hell. You see, the Bible says that just as there is a Heaven .. there is a Hell. And Jesus Christ is the only way to get Heaven and avoid Hell. And in Jesus .. there is abundant life and eternal life.
Friend, the Bible teaches that the very moment a person dies, the Christ-receiver goes to the place called Heaven; and the Christ- rejecter goes to the place called Hell!
That's why I'm asking you to join me next Sunday morning in giving more to World Missions than ever before: $195,000.00!! For souls are at stake! The issue is eternity! That's our motive for sharing! That's our motive for praying! That's ou ...
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
Luke 16.19-31
Just a few weeks ago on October 31st at 1:50 a.m., the engines suddenly shut down on a Boeing 767 and plunged 33,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. All 217 people on EgyptAir Flight 990 perished!
The USA News and World Report writes that ''217 lives were lost in a matter of seconds.'' Lost? What do you mean lost? Lost where? Where did they go? Where are they this morning?
One minute they were sitting comfortably on board that plane and in moments they were in eternity! But where are they this morning?
Last year in this city 1119 people died! Do you know how many people that is? If you were to fill this worship center on January 1st, come December 30th, it would be empty! One minute they were here .. the next minute they were gone!
I was visiting with a woman who lives in Houston recently with cancer. She began telling me about her situation and then she asked, ''What do you think the chances are for my survival?'' I thought to myself, ''Zero.''
The Bible says in Hebrews 9.27, ''And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.'' Once you die, your condition whether blessed or doomed .. is fixed forever. There's no such thing as a second chance after you die!
Everybody is going to live somewhere when they die .. be it Heaven or Hell. You see, the Bible says that just as there is a Heaven .. there is a Hell. And Jesus Christ is the only way to get Heaven and avoid Hell. And in Jesus .. there is abundant life and eternal life.
Friend, the Bible teaches that the very moment a person dies, the Christ-receiver goes to the place called Heaven; and the Christ- rejecter goes to the place called Hell!
That's why I'm asking you to join me next Sunday morning in giving more to World Missions than ever before: $195,000.00!! For souls are at stake! The issue is eternity! That's our motive for sharing! That's our motive for praying! That's ou ...
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