WHY BE RELIGIOUS?: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Why Be Religious?
a) If you ask, “Why be religious?” We assume you genuinely want to know the answer. Some people say, “Why be religious?” but mean, “I don't see any point in religion.” Not you, we hope. we'll try to give good reasons for being religious.
b) First we must be a little critical of religious people. Some folk are religious, yet when asked why they are so, they cannot "give a reason" (1 Peter 3:15). Such people are only emotionally religious. Their religion is not "in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). Their web of faith is weak and without integrity, because it is not spun from the answers in the gospel to life’s fundamental questions.
c) To those elemental questions, the answers are, like the spider’s web, at once both simple yet profound. While there may be many answers to the question, “Why be religious?” Two reasons are outstanding; and both of them are linked to death.
d) Here is one of them.
2. You Are Going To Die
a) Death is inescapable. As the sticky strands of the spider's web trap the mosquito, so we are snared by death, and conquered. Across the world, someone, somewhere, dies every second or so (6000 a day). One day, you don't know when, it will be your turn, and death will catch up with you. You know your birthday, but you don't know your death day.
Hebrews 9:27
"It is appointed for man once to die, and after this comes judgment."
b) There's no better reason to be religious in following Christ who "will judge the living and the dead at his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:1)
The End ...
1. Why Be Religious?a) If you ask, “Why be religious?” We assume you genuinely want to know the answer. Some people say, “Why be religious?” but mean, “I don't see any point in religion.” Not you, we hope. we'll try to give good reasons for being religious.
b) First we must be a little critical of religious people. Some folk are religious, yet when asked why they are so, they cannot "give a reason" (1 Peter 3:15). Such people are only emotionally religious. Their religion is not "in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). Their web of faith is weak and without integrity, because it is not spun from the answers in the gospel to life’s fundamental questions.
c) To those elemental questions, the answers are, like the spider’s web, at once both simple yet profound. While there may be many answers to the question, “Why be religious?” Two reasons are outstanding; and both of them are linked to death.
d) Here is one of them.
2. You Are Going To Die
a) Death is inescapable. As the sticky strands of the spider's web trap the mosquito, so we are snared by death, and conquered. Across the world, someone, somewhere, dies every second or so (6000 a day). One day, you don't know when, it will be your turn, and death will catch up with you. You know your birthday, but you don't know your death day.
Hebrews 9:27
"It is appointed for man once to die, and after this comes judgment."
b) There's no better reason to be religious in following Christ who "will judge the living and the dead at his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:1)
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