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 prepared for.    ...

2 Chronicles 29:3 – “In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.”             King Hezekiah was a reformer.   He came to the throne at a very difficult time in the southern kingdom of Judah’s history.   He succeeded his father, Ahaz.   Ahaz had done evil in the sight of the Lord.   2 Chronicles 28:1-4 reveals the following about the character of Azah: “Ahaz  was  twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do  what was  right in the sight of the Lord, as his father David had done.  For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals. He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out befor...

Luke 5:17 – “Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.        In the last part of this verse it reads, “And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”   Throughout the four Gospels Jesus healed those who were sick.   He healed those afflicted with leprosy.   He opened blinded eyes, made the lame to walk, and set the captives free.         In Luke 4:18-19 He stands in the synagogue of Nazareth and announces His mission.   “The Spirit of the Lord  is  upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to  the  poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to  the  captives and recovery of sight to  the  blind, to  set at liberty th...