REVIVALTALK

          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 pre...

  Ephesians 2:1-3 – “ And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.”              Salvation is the pathway of life. Ephesians 2:1 says, “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. When we experience salvation, we are born again. In John 3:3 Jesus reveals, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”              When we are saved, we experience a resurrection. Ephesians 2:4-5 says, “Bu...

  Acts 16:25-30 – “But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, ‘Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.’ Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved’?” Paul and Silas were beaten, unjustly imprisoned, and locked in the inner chamber of the prison. What was their response? At midnight they were praying and singing hymns to God. They were not murmuring and complaining but giving praise to God. I Thessalonians 5:18 ...