If I Die in Sin

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IF I DIE IN SIN
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IF I DIE IN SIN

• We all have choices to make daily.
• Joshua 2415
• And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD,
  choose you this day whom ye will serve whether
  the gods which your fathers served that were on
  the other side of the flood, or the gods of the
  Amorites, in whose land ye dwell but as for me
  and my house, we will serve the LORD.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• We all have two special choices
• 1. We all have the choice of living in sin
• 2. We all have the choice of living for God.
• Gods Word reveals the choices and the end result
  of each choice.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• I. I have refused heavens pardon
• John 141-3
• Let not your heart be troubled ye believe in
  God, believe also in me. In my Father's house
  are many mansions if it were not so, I would
  have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
  come again, and receive you unto myself that
  where I am, there ye may be also.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• I. I have refused heavens pardon
• Matt. 1128-30
• Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
  laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke
  upon you, and learn of me for I am meek and
  lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your
  souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
  light.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• I. I have refused heavens pardon
• II Pet. 39
• The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as
  some men count slackness but is longsuffering to
  us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but
  that all should come to repentance.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• I. I have refused heavens pardon
• John 667-68
• Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also
  go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to
  whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal
  life.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• II. It will mean I made a foolish decision
• I Cor. 1533
• Be not deceived evil companionships corrupt
  good morals.
• It means that I have been influenced by those who
  desire to live a life of sin.
• I have been foolish in selecting my companions in
  this life.

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• II. It will mean I made a foolish decision
• Prov. 2323
• Buy the truth, and sell it not also wisdom, and
  instruction, and understanding.
• I have foolishly ignored the truth.
• I trusted my decision more than Gods truths.

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• II. It will mean I made a foolish decision
• Jer. 1023
• O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in
  himself it is not in man that walketh to direct
  his steps.
• It means that I thought I knew more than God in
  living the way I lived.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• II. It will mean I made a foolish decision
• Prov. 1412
• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• It means that I have chosen death over eternal
  life.

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• III. It will mean I didnt value my soul
• Matt. 1626
• For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the
  whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall
  a man give in exchange for his soul?
• Soul more valuable than whole world but I didnt
  honor that value.

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IF I DIE IN SIN

• III. It will mean I didnt value my soul
• II Tim. 410
• For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this
  present world
• Co-worker with Paul but he didnt value his soul.
  He turned back to the world.

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• III. It will mean I didnt value my soul
• James 44
• whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
  world is the enemy of God.
• It means that I chose the world as the most
  important thing.

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• IV. It will mean I have walked wrong Road with
  wrong crowd.
• Psalm 11
• Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
  counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way
  of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
  scornful.
• Progressiveness of sin in this verse.

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• IV. It will mean I have walked wrong Road with
  wrong crowd.
• Psalm 14
• The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff
  which the wind driveth away.
• I have run with the wrong crowd they lead me
  down the road of sin.

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• V. It means I missed the Joy of Godliness
• I Tim. 66
• But godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Holiness with self-satisfaction is the greatest
  contentment to be found.
• It means that I missed all of that Joy.

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• V. It means I missed the Joy of Godliness
• I Pet. 18
• Whom having not seen, ye love in whom, though
  now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice
  with joy unspeakable and full of glory
• There is eternal joy in serving God!

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• VI. It means I wasted my whole life
• Eccl. 1213
• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
  Fear God, and keep his commandments for this is
  the whole duty of man.
• God made man to worship Him!

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• VI. It means I wasted my whole life
• II Tim. 46-7
• For I am now ready to be offered, and the time
  of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good
  fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
  faith
• This is last letter the apostle Paul wrote

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• VI. It means I wasted my whole life
• II Tim. 48
• Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, shall give me at that day and not to me
  only, but unto all them also that love his
  appearing.

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• VI. It means I wasted my whole life
• Mark 1030
• But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this
  time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and
  mothers, and children, and lands, with
  persecutions and in the world to come eternal
  life.

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• We do not want to die in sin!
• The most horrible place that could be designed
  awaits the one who dies in sin.
• The most glorious place that God could design
  awaits the one who dies in the Lord.
• Which life do you want to live?
• The Lord or the devil the only choices!

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• To live for the Lord obedience is a must.
• 1. Hear Rom. 1017
• 2. Believe Heb. 116
• 3. Repent Luke 133
• 4. Confess Christ Acts 836-37
• 5. Be Baptized Acts 238
• 6. Remain Faithful Rev. 210

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