LIFE IS UNCERTAINTY: TOMORROW WE MAY DIE
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Life Is Uncertainty
a) Isaiah that are quoted in the New Testament leads us to think about the uncertainty of this life compared to the certainty of what lies beyond.
2. Tomorrow We May Die
Isaiah 22:13
13 Instead, there is gaiety and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”
a) Many people take a superficial and careless attitude toward life. Their philosophy is, "eat, drink, and be merry" Pleasure and leisure has its place in life. We ought to make a place for it, and not work ourselves to death (Ecclesiastes 8:15). Pleasure, however, is not the point and purpose of life. God condemns "gaiety and gladness" when people should be regarding their sins with sorrow and their God with fear. Their attitude toward life, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die" is foolish. Instead, they ought to lay aside eating and drinking, and they should fast and pray and be in sorrow until they have made themselves right with God (Isaiah 22:13). Paul quotes this passage in Isaiah as an appropriate attitude toward life only if there is no resurrection of the dead, only if death is the end of everything (1 Corinthians 15:32-34).
The End ...
1. Life Is Uncertaintya) Isaiah that are quoted in the New Testament leads us to think about the uncertainty of this life compared to the certainty of what lies beyond.
2. Tomorrow We May Die
Isaiah 22:13
13 Instead, there is gaiety and gladness,
Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
Eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”
a) Many people take a superficial and careless attitude toward life. Their philosophy is, "eat, drink, and be merry" Pleasure and leisure has its place in life. We ought to make a place for it, and not work ourselves to death (Ecclesiastes 8:15). Pleasure, however, is not the point and purpose of life. God condemns "gaiety and gladness" when people should be regarding their sins with sorrow and their God with fear. Their attitude toward life, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die" is foolish. Instead, they ought to lay aside eating and drinking, and they should fast and pray and be in sorrow until they have made themselves right with God (Isaiah 22:13). Paul quotes this passage in Isaiah as an appropriate attitude toward life only if there is no resurrection of the dead, only if death is the end of everything (1 Corinthians 15:32-34).
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