All Dressed Up and No Place to Go
… said the announcement regarding an atheist funeral.
According to the atheist, the corpse was all dressed up by the undertaker, but alas, the person that once lived in that corpse, since he or she simply ceased to exist … had no place to go.
But … is that … the truth?
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of America, spoke these last words: My sufferings, though great, are nothing in comparison with those of my Saviour, through, whose death, I look for everlasting life.
The Self-Convinced Mind
Atheists seem to have convinced themselves that faith in the promised Messiah and Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, is an invention for weak-minded unstable people, as a crutch to help them through life and in the day of their death. But … is it not gross slander to label such as Andrew Jackson, George Washington, and multitudes of other mighty Christians, (like the Apostle Paul), weak-minded and unstable?
The atheist in life may be brave, but in the day of death … how different! His mind has absolutely no hope … no future!
Thomas Paine, the often quoted American author and infidel, came to his last hour in 1809. During the final moments he cried out: O Lord help me! Christ help me! O God what have I done to suffer so much? But there is no God! But if there should be, what will become of me hereafter? Stay with me, for God’s sake! Send even a child to stay with me, for it is hell to be alone. If ever the devil had an agent, I have been that one.
Voltaire, the king of atheists, died an horrible death, crying out in fear … and his attending nurse exclaimed: For all the wealth in Europe I would not see another infidel die.
In Psalm 14:1 God says: The fool has said in his heart ‘There is no God.’ So, to the atheistic mind set, there is no divine Judge to account to for all sinful behaviour. But alas, how futile and false, for God has clearly warned us: Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know this, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment … For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 11:9; 12:14) … And so, if we would be wise, we then must … Prepare to meet your God. (Amos 4:12)
The Great Ancient Question
This question was asked about 4000 years ago: But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he? (Job 14:10) The medical, philosophical and intellectual world cannot provide the answer that is given only in the unerring and indestructible Manufacturer’s Handbook … the Holy Bible: destruction in **everlasting** torment in hell … or … heavenly life.
Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
Since all have sinned (Romans 3:23) … to arrive in God’s Holy Presence we must be saved from sin … as Jesus said: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3) This new birth from above is indicated by our believing God’s Holy Word and taking God’s Holy Son, the promised Holy One of Israel, The King of kings and Lord of lords, Yeshua (Jesus) as Saviour and Lord … But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13)
Taken/edited from: Evanglist Robert E. Surgenor, The Gospel Messenger, 4527 West 226th Street, Ohio, 44126-2513
Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen. (Revelations 1:7) You may also like to see: http://sites.google.com/site/andeveryeyeshallseehim/
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night ** for ever and ever.** And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelations 20:10-15)