The Certainties of Life
- For All Men -- TROUBLE & SORROW: Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
- For the Christian - PERSECUTION & TRIBULATION:
- Matthew 5:10-11 -- for RIGHTEOUSNESS' sake
- Acts 14:22 -- in entering the KINGDOM
- 2 Timothy 3:10-15 -- because of GODLY living
- John 16:33 -- be of GOOD CHEER
- Matthew 5:12; 1 Peter 4:12-16 -- don't WORRY, be HAPPY
- DEATH: Hebrews 9:27
- 2 Samuel 2:1
- Genesis 5:5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 27
- Life is SHORT
- Job 14:1 -- "man born of woman is of FEW days"
- James 4:14 -- our life is as a VAPOR
- Psalm 90:10, 12 -- we are SOON cut off
- 1 Peter 1:22-25 -- we are as the GRASS of the field
- The SECOND COMING of Jesus:
- John 14:1-3 "I WILL come again"
- 2 Peter 3:1-10 the day of the Lord WILL come
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 the Lord SHALL descend from heaven
- The Resurrection of ALL the Dead:
- John 5:28-29 both GOOD and EVIL
- 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
- The DESTRUCTION of the Universe -- 2 Peter 3:10-13
- The JUDGMENT:
- Hebrews 9:27
- Revelation 20:12-15
- Acts 17:30-31 the RESURRECTION is proof of the Judgment
- ETERNITY -- Matthew 25:31-46