June 16---Angels, Death and the Afterlife

Death
A word or thought we do not like to think about.
This Sunday Morning at 11:00 Am I will continue to preach the series, God's Special Force, Angels.
The message for Sunday is titled, Angels, Death and the Afterlife.
The Bible has much to say about death and I pray if you are in our area you will come and hear this very important message.

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Hope Within

Just as God is within you, so is hope. Hope is within you because God is within you. Whenever you think there is no way at all you can fix problems, get answers, or climb over the obstacles of your life, look within you. You should not look within you as some kind of meaningless exercise. You should look within you because of all the promise, all the hope, and all the great expectations that could ever become from within your heart. Hope does not just pop into your head from a TV commercial or even from these words you read on a computer monitor. Hope appears in your life because there is within you this instant a great reservoir of living hope called Jesus. All the good things, all the good thoughts, all the good deeds, all the good imaginations that have ever been or will ever become from hope and hope is from God. Hope is within you because God is within you. When you begin to think there is no way out, contact God within you and realize there always has been and there always will be a way out with God. When circumstances appear to be hopeless in your life, you may be facing the greatest opportunity for hope to come alive that has ever existed in your life. In the natural world, the most hopeless circumstance is when someone dies. In the supernatural world, the greatest moment of hope is the moment just before someone dies because, in the next moment, there is eternal life come to life. Hopelessness turned into hopefulness is not confined just to death turned into eternal life. Hopelessness is turned into hopefulness every time you reach within your heart to God.

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Focus On The Task Not On The Score

Proverbs 4:25--- Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

When we think we are behind and we keep looking at the clock or looking at the scoreboard, we are looking in the wrong direction. When we focus on anything other than the task at hand, our focus is not where our focus should be. When we focus on the task at hand, we are dramatically more successful than when we are looking at the clock or the scoreboard to see whether we are ahead or behind. If you keep looking at the scoreboard and you see you are behind, you may get so dejected you put winning out of the question. The objective in any circumstance defines what our next step must be. Knowing the score may help us change our objectives but when we change objectives we must still implement the tasks to be accomplished rather than continually trying to determine what the score is or will be.

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Consequences Of Thought

Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Unfortunately, too often, we worship the things of earth. Things of earth disappear at some point through deterioration, demolition, being sent to the dump, thrown out in the trash, burned, or destroyed in some fashion. Like the wrapping paper collected after the unwrapping ceremony of Christmas, all the things of this life eventually disappear. There are consequences to our thinking. There are both immediate and future consequences to the kind of thoughts we have each moment. There are heavenly consequences and earthly consequences to the thoughts you hold in your mind this moment. When you hold thoughts about Christ and His love and grace, love and grace are the consequence.

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How Thoughts Expand

First, what you think about gets larger or expands. What you think about expands out into your heart, mind, soul, and body. What you think about expands out into all you say, think, and do. What you think about expands out until your thoughts or thought energy actually becomes your life or life experience. Second, thoughts expand out and become expectations. Expectations determine your actions and your responses. Third, you come to experience what you believe you will experience, what you plan to experience, and what you prepare yourself to experience. If you expect trouble from others, you often bring on trouble. If you look for faults in others, you usually find faults. If you look for the good in others, you usually find good. Fourth, most important of all, you can choose your responses with your expectations of hope and well-being, or you can choose despair and sickness. We move in the direction of our expectations.

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From God's Perspective

When you are unsure of what you should do, try to see things from God's perspective. Try to see things like God sees them. Try to see how God could take a situation you are in and make the situation better or make the circumstance come out OK. Try to see how you could open doors in a circumstance so God can do his work. In other respects, God needs you to pave some highways on this earth. He needs you to make straight the way, so others can follow. Even in very bad, desperate circumstances, God can do great works but He still needs you to open doors, pave roads, and Move Mountains for Him.

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Bringing People Together

Although the world is in great anguish over conflicting theologies and systems of religious belief, God decided to bring some of His people together by sending Christ into the world. What is truly amazing is the way God has brought people together. God has brought people together by sending a baby, His only Son, into the world. God had unlimited options about how to bring His Son into the world as well as unlimited options about how He could bring people together. Although we take it for granted, amazingly, God chose to have His Son appear to us in the form of a newborn child. Over the last two thousand years, millions upon millions of people have been brought together to worship, rejoice, and celebrate the birth of Christ because God chose to bring people together in this amazing way.

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