KEEP ME FROM HELL (1 OF 2)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Romans 2 , John 3
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Keep Me from Hell (1 of 2)
Series: Pack Your Bags
Scott Maze
Selected Scripture
This morning we start a short two week sermon series devoted to the Bible's picture of the afterlife. Christianity places a powerful emphasis on the world to come. I want to encourage all of you to think deeply about your eternity.
Find Romans 2 and John 3 in your Bibles or page 1195 and 1130 in your pew Bibles. I want to examine five questions about eternity with you for the next few moments.
1. Why Should I Think about Eternity Now?
Your view of the end can have a profound effect on how you live your life in the present. If you believe in reincarnation, then perhaps you'll view the disabled as Glen Hoddle, an English soccer coach. Hoddle believed that the sins you committed in a former life were punished by disabilities in the next life. ''You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.'' He later apologized for his comments calling his comments ''a serious error of judgment...'' But he soon lost his job as soccer coach when groups representing the disabled protested his public comments.
Thinking about eternity greatly mattered on 9/11 now almost twenty years ago. Muslim jihadists diverted passenger planes into office buildings in Washington DC and New York City killing several thousand people. What made these men do this? Several reasons but chief among them was this: these men were promised reward in the afterlife, an everlasting paradise. Anat Berko sat down with Palestinian who had attempted to be suicide bombers against Israel. Berko was a Lt. Col in the Israeli Defense Army and also had her Ph.D. in criminology. She noted many of the many of the male bombers believed that they would be wedded in Paradise (Heaven) with b ...
Series: Pack Your Bags
Scott Maze
Selected Scripture
This morning we start a short two week sermon series devoted to the Bible's picture of the afterlife. Christianity places a powerful emphasis on the world to come. I want to encourage all of you to think deeply about your eternity.
Find Romans 2 and John 3 in your Bibles or page 1195 and 1130 in your pew Bibles. I want to examine five questions about eternity with you for the next few moments.
1. Why Should I Think about Eternity Now?
Your view of the end can have a profound effect on how you live your life in the present. If you believe in reincarnation, then perhaps you'll view the disabled as Glen Hoddle, an English soccer coach. Hoddle believed that the sins you committed in a former life were punished by disabilities in the next life. ''You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.'' He later apologized for his comments calling his comments ''a serious error of judgment...'' But he soon lost his job as soccer coach when groups representing the disabled protested his public comments.
Thinking about eternity greatly mattered on 9/11 now almost twenty years ago. Muslim jihadists diverted passenger planes into office buildings in Washington DC and New York City killing several thousand people. What made these men do this? Several reasons but chief among them was this: these men were promised reward in the afterlife, an everlasting paradise. Anat Berko sat down with Palestinian who had attempted to be suicide bombers against Israel. Berko was a Lt. Col in the Israeli Defense Army and also had her Ph.D. in criminology. She noted many of the many of the male bombers believed that they would be wedded in Paradise (Heaven) with b ...
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