Human nature is constantly trying to find any way to escape from Reality (guilty conscience, Christ Jesus, Death, Eternity, Judgment, etc.) through amusements (sports, smart phones, television, internet), and alcohol and prescription or illegal drugs. Human nature seeks the keep the mind fixed on anything but the Holy Bible and the Person and Blood of Jesus Christ. "Health"care will never save from the inevitable - Death. Here are five words that frighten the mind of every atheist and religionist - Infirmity, Frailty, Mortality, Reality, Eternity.
Do you love darkness? Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. *John 3:19-20* Human nature innately loves immoral filth. Are you the kind of person that can't wait for the sun to go down, so you can enjoy your sinful pleasures one more time? If you love your sins, you will wind up Hell. You are chock-full of sin and in desperate need of the Savior's blood and mercy. If you are tired of your sins, come to Calvary's Cross. A real Christian fights and struggles with his sins. Prepare to meet God - Reality is just over the hilltop.
People no longer think that when they die, that God is going to catch up with them. They believe that God will have to accept them no matter what they believe. They think that they can reject Christ and still enjoy Eternity. They don't think God knows what they are doing. America children, teenagers, and adults no longer think that God knows what they're doing when no one else is looking. If you mess around with sin, you're going to get what you want, plus a little extra. If you really believed God knew what you were doing all the time, you would be more careful about how you acted in public and in private. Every man without Jesus Christ is going straight to Hell, and if you're not careful, you're going to make it. Your sins deserve eternal Hell Fire, and if you die unregenerate in your sins, you've got Hell coming, that's for sure.
God knows everything that goes on behind closed doors. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgment. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. One day every man will be judged by Jesus Christ, the Judge of all the earth. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to the Gospel (Romans 2:16). The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good (Proverbs 15:3). Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. No man can hide himself in secret places where God shall not see him (Jeremiah 23:24).
If you died tonight and had to face the record for what you had thought in just the last 48 hours, you would be in a real mess. If you don't think you have dirty and judgmental thoughts, you're just as dishonest as the devil. If everything you had thought in the last year was put out on a screen in public for all your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to see, you would want to run and hide or leave town. You have a guilty conscience, you know you've done wrong, you need Someone to protect you from the wrath to come. Only Christ's Atoning Blood can avert the wrath of God from your guilty soul.
If you died tonight and had to face the record for what you had thought in just the last 48 hours, you would be in a real mess. If you don't think you have dirty and judgmental thoughts, you're just as dishonest as the devil. If everything you had thought in the last year was put out on a screen in public for all your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to see, you would want to run and hide or leave town. You have a guilty conscience, you know you've done wrong, you need Someone to protect you from the wrath to come. Only Christ's Atoning Blood can avert the wrath of God from your guilty soul.
If you sin against a Holy Being that lives forever, you won't quit paying for that sin until the day God dies. As long as God lives, you will have to pay for your sins in the Lake of Fire; that is called eternal retribution. Jesus of Nazareth was God Almighty in the flesh; your sins killed Him; this is called Deicide. Sin is high treason against the Majesty of the Universe.
God is your Creator, you are His property, and you have stolen your life from him. A thief is someone that takes something and doesn't leave an adequate return. You will go to Hell for what you didn't do - a sinner goes to Hell because he rejects the Cure for his sins - Christ's Precious Atoning Blood. When you reject Christ, you are hopeless. People say, "I don't have the right feeling; I don't think I'll be able to live it; they are too many hypocrites in the church." You don't go to Hell because your soul is sick with sin, you end up going to Hell, because you reject the only cure for your sin. That's your problem Sir.
God is your Creator, you are His property, and you have stolen your life from him. A thief is someone that takes something and doesn't leave an adequate return. You will go to Hell for what you didn't do - a sinner goes to Hell because he rejects the Cure for his sins - Christ's Precious Atoning Blood. When you reject Christ, you are hopeless. People say, "I don't have the right feeling; I don't think I'll be able to live it; they are too many hypocrites in the church." You don't go to Hell because your soul is sick with sin, you end up going to Hell, because you reject the only cure for your sin. That's your problem Sir.
The LORD searches you and knows you every day. He knows when you sit down and when you stand up, He numbers your steps, He numbers the hairs on your head, He understands every one of your thoughts, He surrounds your path and your lying down, He is acquainted with all your ways. There is not a word in your tongue that God does not know altogether. You cannot flee from God's presence. God knows the imaginations of all your thoughts. God knows every thought that comes into your mind, every one of them. You've never put your hand any place that God didn't know it. Are you ready to have your secrets judged by a thrice-holy God?
Most people believe that when you die, you will meet God, and He will place your good works on one side of a scale, and your sins on the other side of a scale, and if your sins outweigh your good works you'll go to Hell, and if your good works outweigh your sins, you'll go to Heaven, and if they come out in the middle, you go to purgatory or some other place of limbo some religionist dreamed up. Wrong!
The way the Judgment will happen according to the Holy Bible, that is, God will place you on one side of the scale, and His Son Jesus Christ on the other side of the scale, and then he will weigh you both out. And if you don't weigh EVEN with Jesus Christ, down you will go into the Lake of Fire. The Standard is Jesus Christ, not your religion or good works. Some day soon God is going to judge you by a Perfect Man that bled and died in your place. Because God hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in Righteousness *by that Man* whom He hath ordained; whereof God hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. You're going to die, you're going to be judged, and you will be judged by a perfect moral Standard, and that Standard is a Sinless Man who loved you and gave Himself for your sins.
The way the Judgment will happen according to the Holy Bible, that is, God will place you on one side of the scale, and His Son Jesus Christ on the other side of the scale, and then he will weigh you both out. And if you don't weigh EVEN with Jesus Christ, down you will go into the Lake of Fire. The Standard is Jesus Christ, not your religion or good works. Some day soon God is going to judge you by a Perfect Man that bled and died in your place. Because God hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in Righteousness *by that Man* whom He hath ordained; whereof God hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. You're going to die, you're going to be judged, and you will be judged by a perfect moral Standard, and that Standard is a Sinless Man who loved you and gave Himself for your sins.
If any other man judged you, you wouldn't have a problem, because you could find as much wrong with him as he could find wrong with you. You can pick holes in any man's character, including Muhammed, Buddha, any Pope, the Dalai Lama, Joseph Smith, and all the rest of them. But listen, the Holy Bible says that one day in the future, God is going to judge you by a Perfect Man - His name is Jesus Christ. Jesus never had to confess a sin, He never had to correct what He said, He never had to apologize to anyone for anything. Jesus Christ is the holy Standard. God knows what you're doing. Men are afraid of the ridicule that they might receive if they trust and follow Jesus Christ in this life. Men are scared of the wrong things. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The Creator is going to settle accounts with every man. Be wise - don't try to justify yourself before God. You need to plead - No Contest. You need to turn your case completely over to the Advocate - Jesus Christ the Righteous. You might think you're tough down here, but not at the Judgment. God is a bookkeeper, and He is writing a book about everything in your life. All the books will be opened, including yours, at the White Throne Judgment. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. God knows what you're thinking, saying, and doing all the time (Psalm 139:1-8).
Nothing ever escapes the attention of God; either at home; or at work; or at worship; or at play; or on vacation; or while spending money; or while surfing the internet; or on business trips - nothing in thought, word, or deed, in private or public. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, BEHOLDING the evil and the good. Thou God seest 'me'. This Biblical truth alarms all atheists and religionists.
For God’s eyes are upon all your ways: they are not hid from His face, neither is your iniquity hid from His eyes (Jer 16:17). The Lord is great in counsel, and mighty in work: for God’s eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings (Jer 32:19). How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job 15:16). For thy heart is not right in the sight of God (Acts 8:21).
Can any [sinner] hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord (Jer 23:24). But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Gen 6:8). For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him. (II Chron 16:9). For God’s eyes are upon the ways of man, and He seeth all your goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves (Job 34:21-22). Are a worker of iniquity or a worker of righteousness? As long as you neglect and reject Jesus Christ, everything you will ever do is a work of iniquity, even when you think you are being a good guy by giving some of your money or time to some community organization.
Can any [sinner] hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord (Jer 23:24). But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (Gen 6:8). For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him. (II Chron 16:9). For God’s eyes are upon the ways of man, and He seeth all your goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves (Job 34:21-22). Are a worker of iniquity or a worker of righteousness? As long as you neglect and reject Jesus Christ, everything you will ever do is a work of iniquity, even when you think you are being a good guy by giving some of your money or time to some community organization.
God numbers your steps: and He watches over your sin (Job 14:16). God shall judge the 'secrets' of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. (Romans 2:16). Until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts (I Cor 4:5). For God looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven (Job 28:24). Every one of us shall give account of himself to God (Romans 14:12). Why dost thou strive against God? for He giveth not account of any of His matters (Job 33:13).
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! (Isaiah 45:9) But we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God (II Cor 4:2). Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in God’s sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Heb 4:13).
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! (Isaiah 45:9) But we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God (II Cor 4:2). Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in God’s sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do (Heb 4:13).
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts (Prov 21:2). If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? (Prov 24:12). And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth (Gen 6:12).
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He pondereth ALL his goings (Prov 5:21). God withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous (Job 36:7). Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let Him be your dread (Isaiah 8:13). The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men (Psalm 11:4). The eyes of the Lord, run to and fro through the whole earth (Zech 4:10). Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? (II Sam 12:9).
Lord, thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance (Psalm 90:8). Shall not God search this out? for He knoweth the secrets of the heart (Psalm 44:21). And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in Righteousness (Isaiah 5:15-16).
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He pondereth ALL his goings (Prov 5:21). God withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous (Job 36:7). Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let Him be your dread (Isaiah 8:13). The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men (Psalm 11:4). The eyes of the Lord, run to and fro through the whole earth (Zech 4:10). Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? (II Sam 12:9).
Lord, thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance (Psalm 90:8). Shall not God search this out? for He knoweth the secrets of the heart (Psalm 44:21). And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in Righteousness (Isaiah 5:15-16).
