Developing 20/20 Spiritual Visionbefore

its too late!

byBrian Birdow

Sermon text: Luke 16:19f

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Brevity of lifeJames 4:13 Come now, you that say, Today or

tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

James 4:15 For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Judgment Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men

once to die, but after this the judgment:

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?..............................ref. 1 Tim. 3:15 (but if)

Righteous know and ask.?Turn to Matt.25:34

I can’t take it with me

God gave it to me

Can I use my resources to guide others to God

How does God view me

Self sacrificing

How does this please God?

Scarcely

Or NarrowMatthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate:

for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Why develop 20/20 spiritual vision?

1. Because it pleases God

2. Because it is the best life

3. So that we can lead others to Christ

4. Because judgment is sure!

5. The results of the judgment are eternal!

Ecclesiastes 12

• Turn with me please

Go, Baptize, Teach• Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came to them and

spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

• Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

• teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.