A Excerpt From A Spurgeon Sermon..

You remind me, some of you, of that story of Dionysus the tyrant, who, wishing to punish one who had displeased him, invited him to a noble feast. Rich were the viands that were spread upon the table, and rare the wines of which he was invited to drink. A chair was placed at the head of the table, and the guest was seated in it.

Horror of horrors! The feast was rich, but the guest was miserable, dreadful beyond thought.

However splendid were the array of the servants, and however rich the dainties, yet he who had been invited sat there in agony. Why? What was the reason?

Because over his head, immediately over it, there hung a sword, a furbished sword, suspended by a single hair! He had to sit all the time with this sword above him, with nothing but a hair between him and death.

You may conceive the poor man's misery. He could not escape; he must sit where be was. How could he feast? How could be rejoice? But O, my unconverted hearer, you are there this morning, man, with all your riches and your wealth before you, with the comforts of a home and the joys of a household; you are there this day, in a place from which you cannot escape; the sword of death above you, prepared to descend; and woe unto you, when it shall cleave your soul from your body!

Spurgeon

Death Stalks Every Man..

Think of it.. We never know when we shall die. Death is stalking each of us. He waits in the shadows and then without warning suddenly he is upon us. Our lives in this world are extinguished. Hebrew 9:27 states, "It is appointed unto men to die.. And then the Judgment."

The horror of death is not annihilation. The horror of death for the non-Christian is judgment. We will stand before a just God and have to answer for our lives. The books will be open and we will have to make an account of our lives. We will answer to the things that we did wrong. The sins that we committed, the lies we told, the cheating, the evil thoughts, the hurts.. We are undone. Some will say I am a good person. You are saying I want justice. Listen, we all know that we have done evil and we know that we can enter Heaven if we are sinners. We are all sinners.

What are we to do? We must be changed. We must get rid of our sinful nature. We need to be new people. We need someone to pay our debt. How does it happen? Jesus, God's own Son, came and paid for our debt. He who was sinless, took the penalty of our sins, so that we could be changed. He then sent the Holy Spirit into this world to change the hearts of evil men to hearts that want to do right instead of wrong. That same Jesus is reaching out to you. The only way we can be ready to face a just God is deal with our sinful nature now.

What are we to do? Admit you are a sinner. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and ask him to forgive you. Confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior and begin life anew by allowing Him to guide you to a better, richer life to the glory of God!

All you have to do is turn to him.. Right now and say, "Jesus, I believe. Forgive me of all my sin. Come into my life and be my Lord. I give my life to you. I acknowledge you as the risen Son of God, who paid for my sin and has made a way for me to be a child of God." If you prayed that simple prayer.. You are now a Christian. You prayed because you believed and because you believed.. you are saved. Don't believe me, look at Romans 10:9-10, and rejoice.

Now go and call someone and tell them of your decision. It will build your faith to publicly confess your decision. If you want.. E-mail us and we will send you a helpful booklet. Get into an exciting Bible believing Church and discover the joy, peace and wonder of living for Christ.

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