What do you know, Joe?

We have been in revival at our church this week, and we were blessed to hear some wonderful messages. A preacher from the Evangelism Association in Montgomery preached on Sunday night. His message was simple but SO TRUE. He preached on 5 SIMPLE TRUTHS:

1. LIFE IS BRIEF (Psalm 90: 4-5; James 4:14; Psalm 39:5)

My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath. Psalm 39: 5

He started by referring to our lives as a clock or a full day. He asked for each of us to first round our age to the closest 10th. Since I am 27, I rounded my age up to 30 (SCARY!!). He compared our age to a specific time during the day. He said that those closest to 10 years old are at 8:00 in the morning. They are just getting up and getting their day started. People with an age closest to 30 are at high noon and already put half a day of work behind them. Those closest to 50 are at the time of getting off work and heading home. People near age 60 are preparing dinner and getting ready to settle in for the night. Those near age 70 are at 8:00 pm and ready to "call it a day". Those closest to 80 are at 10:00 pm and time for the lights to go out. Sad. It is so true though. The point was you only get to wind the clock of life up ONE TIME and it goes very fast. What time are you at??

TIME AGE
8:00 am 10
10:00 am 20
12:00 pm 30
2:00 pm 40
4:00 pm 50
6:00 pm 60
8:00 pm 70
10:00 pm 80

I am going to assume that nobody close to age 90 reads my blog. Leave a comment if I am mistaken, but you are probably not going to like what I have to say about age 90 and midnight.

2. DEATH IS CERTAIN (Hebrews 9:27)

News Flash: we are all going to die!!

3. JUDGEMENT IN INEVITABLE (Hebrews 9:27; Revelations 20; Matthew 12:36)

And I tell you this, that you must give an account on judgment day of every idle word you speak. Matthew 12:36

4. HELL IS AWFUL (Luke 16:24-28)

And real!!

5. JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY!! (Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9; Romans 10:13)

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

I'm sure if the preacher read my blog he would say that I didn't explain things very well, but hopefully you get the point. I should also explain the title of my post since nothing I've typed up to this point is about Joe. Preacher man said that next time somebody ask you, "What do you know, Joe?" don't answer "not much" or meaningless chit chat. Tell Joe and everybody else 1. life is short 2. death is certain 3. judgement is coming 4. hell is awful 5. Jesus is the ONLY WAY!!