REVIVAL TALK

        The media is filled with advertisements encouraging people to plan for the inevitable. Funeral homes encourage individuals to pre-plan and to pre-pay for their funeral services.   Financial planners will encourage families to have a will.   Life insurance companies spend heavily advertising the fact that we need to provide for our loved ones in the event of our death.          Many in our society have pre-paid their funeral expenses, purchased life insurance to take care of their loved ones, and have drawn up a will. They have made the necessary physical preparations, but they haven’t made spiritual preparations for eternity.   The Bible teaches in Hebrews 9:27, “And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.”   The words, “after this,” are very important.   They reveal that there is something beyond the grave that we must be prepared for.          What is it beyond the grave that we must be prepared to encounter?   We must be prepared to en