What Happens when a Lost Person Dies?
Mike Stone
Luke 13:3
A man in a cemetery saw a headstone with an inscription, ''As I now am so you will be, prepare yourself to follow me.'' He took a piece of chalk and wrote, ''To follow you I'm not content until I know which way you went.''
The only reason that is humorous to us at all is because we often lose sight of the simple reality: when some people die they don't go to Heaven. People who never get saved go to Hell when they die.
That's a Biblical truth that I think we place into our doctrinal statements and write into our creeds but it doesn't ever really become a practical reality in our lives.
That is, this belief is in our minds but it doesn't seem to get down into our hands, our feet, or our mouths.
Our own doctrinal statement, The Baptist Faith and Message states our belief that ''Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment.''
That's what we SAY we believe but I think we would have to admit that our behavior does not line up with that statement.
I am personally convinced God wired us in such a way that eventually our belief and our behavior will match. You will change one to accommodate the other.
You will change your beliefs to justify your behavior OR
You will change your behavior to submit to your beliefs.
With that in mind, I want to bring a very DOCTRINAL message today on the subject of the just condemnation of the lost.
1. The depravity of people
Years ago, the London Times ran a question on its editorial page asking, ''What's wrong with the world?'' After a number of responses, preacher G.K. Chesterton answered, ''Dear sirs, I am, G.K. Chesterton.'' And he was exactly right.
A. Depravity extends itself universally
In this text, Jesus was talking to a good ''church-going'' crowd. ... moral... upright... religious. He described 2 infamous tragedies, the slaughter of some Galileans by Pil ...
Mike Stone
Luke 13:3
A man in a cemetery saw a headstone with an inscription, ''As I now am so you will be, prepare yourself to follow me.'' He took a piece of chalk and wrote, ''To follow you I'm not content until I know which way you went.''
The only reason that is humorous to us at all is because we often lose sight of the simple reality: when some people die they don't go to Heaven. People who never get saved go to Hell when they die.
That's a Biblical truth that I think we place into our doctrinal statements and write into our creeds but it doesn't ever really become a practical reality in our lives.
That is, this belief is in our minds but it doesn't seem to get down into our hands, our feet, or our mouths.
Our own doctrinal statement, The Baptist Faith and Message states our belief that ''Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment.''
That's what we SAY we believe but I think we would have to admit that our behavior does not line up with that statement.
I am personally convinced God wired us in such a way that eventually our belief and our behavior will match. You will change one to accommodate the other.
You will change your beliefs to justify your behavior OR
You will change your behavior to submit to your beliefs.
With that in mind, I want to bring a very DOCTRINAL message today on the subject of the just condemnation of the lost.
1. The depravity of people
Years ago, the London Times ran a question on its editorial page asking, ''What's wrong with the world?'' After a number of responses, preacher G.K. Chesterton answered, ''Dear sirs, I am, G.K. Chesterton.'' And he was exactly right.
A. Depravity extends itself universally
In this text, Jesus was talking to a good ''church-going'' crowd. ... moral... upright... religious. He described 2 infamous tragedies, the slaughter of some Galileans by Pil ...
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