WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?: DON'T TRY TO LIVE BY A MYTH
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Is Your Life?
a) James asks, “What is your life?” (James 4:14). There's not a lot of realism about life. The nature of life on this earth is fairly evident, yet people live life as though it were far different to the reality.
James 4:13-17
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
2. Don't Try To Live By A Myth
a) Some people say that eternal life in heaven is a myth. They hold that physical life, this mist, is all there is. When the mist vanishes there is no eternal life revealed. There is nothing at all. Well, that is the myth.
b) Don't live believing the myth that life is temporary and death is for ever. Live with "hope in God... that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15).
c) Jesus has the power to make death temporary and life everlasting — life on earth is mist that lasts a little while, but death lasts a little while too, and life in heaven will last forever.
d) This is the true basis for your life: "People are destined to die once, and after this comes the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).
e) This is the true way of life: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of humans" (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
The End ...
1. What Is Your Life?a) James asks, “What is your life?” (James 4:14). There's not a lot of realism about life. The nature of life on this earth is fairly evident, yet people live life as though it were far different to the reality.
James 4:13-17
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
2. Don't Try To Live By A Myth
a) Some people say that eternal life in heaven is a myth. They hold that physical life, this mist, is all there is. When the mist vanishes there is no eternal life revealed. There is nothing at all. Well, that is the myth.
b) Don't live believing the myth that life is temporary and death is for ever. Live with "hope in God... that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust." (Acts 24:15).
c) Jesus has the power to make death temporary and life everlasting — life on earth is mist that lasts a little while, but death lasts a little while too, and life in heaven will last forever.
d) This is the true basis for your life: "People are destined to die once, and after this comes the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).
e) This is the true way of life: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of humans" (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
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