Almost everyone has experienced moving from one house to another. When relocating there's so much to do! Sometimes it’s hard to know what to tackle first. Move planning usually starts about two to three months out from your actual move date. Planning and preparing for your move helps reduce stress. Getting rid of unnecessary clutter, packing valuables, and taking a box of bare necessities that will need to get started at your new residence is always critical.
But there is different kind of move and relocation that we all must go through. One day our soul must vacate our body and enter eternity. Our souls moved into our bodies at birth and will exit at death. Our souls must move out eventually - it is inevitable. You cannot escape death. Preparing for death is prudence. God made and sustains this house of flesh we live in; He is the Landlord and we are the tenants. God made your bodily house in the womb of your mother, and He has been sustaining your body's health for years and years. There is much rent due to God for the house in which you dwell. Your life is frailer than a soap bubble or a flower and could be crushed at any moment. Man in his pride thinks he will live forever.
Many people live their lives as though they will for a thousand years. But what is your life? The Bible says, "It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Man lay out their selfish plans for months and years; where they will retire, but they know what a day may bring forth, much less a year. If you getting ready to move, you normally get rid of a lot of unneeded junk. The same is true at death, many things that we thought we're important will be dropped immediately. When you move, you normally tell all your friends goodbye, the same is true at death - we must say farewell to earthly friends and enter into eternity.
Many people live their lives as though they will for a thousand years. But what is your life? The Bible says, "It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Man lay out their selfish plans for months and years; where they will retire, but they know what a day may bring forth, much less a year. If you getting ready to move, you normally get rid of a lot of unneeded junk. The same is true at death, many things that we thought we're important will be dropped immediately. When you move, you normally tell all your friends goodbye, the same is true at death - we must say farewell to earthly friends and enter into eternity.
You do not own your body, you are only residing in it for awhile. God built it and He let you live in it. Your body belongs to the Creator who built it; He sustains it, and keeps the title deed in His possession. Your body belongs to God Himself; you are God's property. He created you for His glory. Your soul was spoken into existence by Him. Your physical strength, health, and abilities were all given to you from God's gracious hand. You were fearfully and wonderfully made by the Almighty. Every vein, nerve, bone, muscle, and organ of your body was skillfully made by God alone. Your breath is in your nostrils; but the LORD keeps it there. You are a walking pile of dust maintained by the omnipotent hand of God. If God's hand of mercy was withdrawn from your bodily house, you would fall down and die immediately. Your strength and intellect have all come from the Lord Jesus Christ. Hour by hour the infinite mercy of God keeps you alive physically. You owe all you have and all you are to Jesus Christ.
You must set your house in order before you move into eternity. No one can do it for you - you yourself must go to the Landlord and settle up. You have lived in your body for years and have willfully avoided the Landlord, and you're way overdue on your rent. The Landlord has lovingly visited and knocked on the door of your heart numerous times, but you chose to ignore and avoid Him. He is willing to help you. Christ Jesus is so longsuffering and He is still willing to freely forgive your sin-debt if you will only cry out to Him for mercy.
If a person is being evicted and put out on the street, he doesn't look forward to moving. This is man dying without Christ. But if a person is moving out of a shack and into a mansion, he is longing for that day. This is a poor and needy sinner that has been saved by grace divine, and he is longing to move out of his vile body and depart and be with his King of Grace forever.
Prepare for moving day - the movers could show up in your driveway any day. Your lease in this life will soon run out. The Landlord could send you an eviction notice any day now; no one knows when they will die. There will be no hope of you resisting God's eviction notice, you will have to vacate immediately, even if the wisest doctors and best medical technology may be helping you avoid His eviction orders. The pillars of your body will start to shake, the windows will grow dark, you will expire, and your house will cave in. By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Sinful men cling to this mortal life for this is all they have. The Landlord reserves the right to enter and leave your house, condemn it, and even tear it down, because it is His property, not yours. But the Lord Jesus Christ, in meekness and lowliness, humbly knocks at your heart and patiently waits for you to let Him enter and save you by His free grace and dying love. The dust and filth of sin is now lying all over your floors. But the Lord will sweep your life with the broom of His law, and then wash you with His precious blood. The windows of your life are very unclean and spotted, and the light of the glorious gospel cannot enter. The sewage of sin is backed up and is polluting and killing your soul.
Set your house in order. Unless Christ enters and helps you, there is no hope for you. Unless Christ and the Holy Spirit come to your rescue, your house will remain filthy and in disarray, and will be condemned. You must go to Christ personally. He came into the world to save sinners; He died in your place. You will be not right with God until you are right with Christ. Your lease will soon run out, and your rent must be paid; but you can't afford it. You need someone with riches beyond your understanding to pay your awful debt. Christ died to PAY for your sins. Give up the key (your will) to the Landlord, let Christ in your bodily house, and let Him go where He wants. Let Him renew your soul, purge your conscience, regenerate your spirit, forgive all your sin, and save your soul immediately and forever. Remember - you must have Christ's redeeming blood on your soul when you die in order to escape the wrath of God. God's blood is applied to your soul by faith in Christ alone.
The rent on your house must be paid in full before you depart this world. You are in the arrears; your debts to God are unpaid and way overdue. Your duty and obligation to God is live a perfect life, but you have sinned many times against Him, and have fallen way short of God's perfect holiness. Every time you've sinned in your life, your sin-debt (rent) has been climbing higher and higher. You have rejected Christ, the apple of God's eye. You have lived carelessly and wasted paid all your soul's rent money on your self, sin, and Satan. Your rent is way too much for you to pay now. You must settle up with the Landlord before you move out of your body, or face going to Eternity without God. Prepare to meet thy God-flee the wrath to come. Since you're bankrupt and flat broke spiritually, you must cry out for mercy and ask the Landlord to forgive your sin-debt and blot out your sinful bills. Christ is waiting for your desperate cry for help. You need Christ's charity-you need a free hand-out from Heaven - your soul is desperate and destitute because of your sin. You cannot work enough to pay your sin-debt before you die and meet God.
Prepare for your moving day now-your departure is at hand. Please do not procrastinate and leave your house in a dilapidated state at death. Open your heart's door to Christ, turn your keys over to Him, and surrender complete possession to Him before it is too late. Don't let your house cave in on you - you don't know when you will die. Let Christ come in now and save you before it is too late. Commit your soul to Christ by faith and trust in His precious blood alone. If you die without your rent being paid, you will have to pay it forever in hell. Your sins must be paid for by death and wrath. Christ suffered that death and wrath for you; but you must choose Him, believe Him, yield to Him and receive Him. Come now, leave all your sins with Him, Trust His Blood and Rely on His Righteousness - Count On HIM alone.
Please stop rejecting and neglecting Jesus Christ; in God's eyes, this is the most heinous sin you can commit. You need Christ's holiness to enter into Heaven and dwell with God forever. Consider this - you're a sinner, and all sinners belong to Satan's family before they are born again into God's family. Satan has been judged and he will soon be sentenced to Hell and the Lake of Fire. If you are lost and belong to the devil when you die, you will go to live with Satan in hell. The time of your departure to another world could be soon. Your life may be a dirty and disorganized, your rent-bill (sin-debt) may be way behind and growing every day, but there is One Person that can cleanse your soul and prepare you to enter eternity safely - His name is Jesus. Trust in His name alone - look away from yourself, turn from trusting yourself and loving sin, and look only to the bleeding Lamb of God. Christ Jesus is alive, He is risen from the dead, and He is able to save you to the uttermost, if you call upon HIM right now.
The Gospel Message says Jesus died for your sins, He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the scriptures. He loved you and gave Himself for you. He took the place for all the punishment (death and wrath) that your sins should receive. He paid for your sins, so you could go free – that is substitution. The Bible also says that the Lord Jesus, after He died, rose from death and is alive evermore. Today, He offers the free gift of eternal life. If you believe the Gospel Message and receive Christ as your Savior, you can have eternal life. The scriptures say, “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Salvation from sin is a free gift. You can have a home in Heaven, forgiveness of sins, be one of God’s born again children.
Jesus didn’t die because He sinned, He died for your sins, so you could go free and not be judged and damned. The Bible says that everybody has sinned, so we must all have our sins punished. So must must make a choice - Christ or sin. If we don’t accept the punishment that Jesus went through for us in our place, we will have to be punished for our own sins in the lake of fire forever. Jesus rose from the dead and He offers you eternal life by believing the Gospel Message and receiving the Person of Christ Himself. You must call out for Him – He will heed the sinner's cry - a desperate cry for help. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
