One Year To Live
"The question is - what would you do if you knew today what Hananiah knew? Suppose God were to say to you today, "This year you are going to die." Suppose He told you that on December 31st at 11:59 pm you would draw your last breath on this earth. Here is the question.
Would that make any difference in how you would live this year and how would it make a difference?
"A lot of you are blowing me off right now. What you are saying deep down to yourself is, "This message doesn't apply to me. I am young. I am in good health. I feel great. I work out. I watch my diet. There is nothing wrong with me and I intend to live to a ripe old age." perhaps the greatest defensive lineman ever to play pro football, Reggie White, felt the same way. He died in his sleep at the age of 43. How many of the 120,000 people that we know have been killed so far by that massive earthquake in Indonesia, thought they would see 500 mile per hour waves taking their life in a split second?
"We are all going to die. We don't know when. We don't know where. We don't know how, but we are going to die. It could be for some of us this will be our last year. I believe that all of us should write every letter, give every testimony, preach every sermon, present every offering, make every decision and live every day as if it would be our final act on earth, because there is always the possibility that it will be.
"I am going to share with you four things I would be and hope to be and intend to be this year as if it was going to be my last one. Before I do, let me say this. Above all things, I wouldn't let another minute go by, regardless of how long I had to live, without giving my life to Jesus Christ. That is the first thing I would do as I faced my last year. I am going to tell you in one sentence why. "
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Keywords: death, life, service, stewardship, service
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