13/02/2022
*THINK 🤔*
*For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. Romans 14:7*
Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. *SO, WHY NOT LIVE FOR HIM* 🥰🥰🥰
Many people live their lives and die, as if they are accountable to no one. They are like the rich man in *Luke 12* who was so blinded by his material prosperity, that he, apparently, did not even consider giving some of it away to the poor and needy; but, instead, hoarded it all for himself. His selfish plans to live comfortably, to eat and drink was suddenly interrupted when God said to him: " *You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you, then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" (Luke 12:20).* Mark those words: *"This very night your life will be demanded from you."* The God that made man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life so that man became a living soul, is the same God that will bring him to account in a soon coming day. The Lord, we are told, *"will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom"* *(2 Timothy 4:1);* neither the living nor the dead shall escape it.
According to *Matthew 25:31-46,* the living shall be judged the way a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The sheep are His and He will welcome them into His kingdom; the goats are those who did not receive nor acknowledged God's authority over them. To them He will say: *"Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41).* Those who have died, that is, all who died without Christ, will be raised to stand before God. Books will be opened and they will be judged by their deeds, and will be cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. This is recorded for us in *Revelation 20:12-15.*
In contrast to the wicked, as Christians, we are members of eachother, and are called to l