Investing in Eternity: The Value of Our Actions

In Malachi it says that God has a book of remembrance and I think it will do your good before you go to bed every night this week to ask God what did you put in your booklet today from my life. But even though the Baleno with all your work they're either wood or hay off double also there are gold or precious stones. [00:00:05]

Now let's visualize we give a man over here ten thousand dollars me invested in wood the next man is getting 10,000 he invested in hey the next man offense and it sings double the man over here are ten thousand invested in gold wouldn't get much of $500 an ounce footing and the next minute silver even get too much of thought twelve dollars an ounce and the other man in precious stone but when the fire goes through what you have all you have is that word going down until you've got ashes maybe up to your ankles and that's all that is left a man's life all is finished. [00:00:18]

What's your devotional life this morning who you like gave your hand me the book of your devotional life for the last months and read it to this fine audience the gold is gonna be tried to our devotional life the silver what is a silver the Book of Proverbs says the tongue of the judge is a choice silver yes every Idol won't do spoken even think she was made God had the kind of annoys only the tape recorder but he has an eternal record of it in all the gossip the slander the criticism the prejudice. [00:01:34]

Can you think of all those awesome look can you think of all the word we've preached to thousands of people over the years and we're going to answer that and the fire is gonna be put to them well will they be hay and stubble off or will their by the fire the fire to try every believers work silver got precious stone well what other the precious stones when I read that I think of the I I think of the breastplate that was on the priest and he went into the holy place to pray with a breastplate on him. [00:02:01]

I've said it many times I say it again this morning but no man is greater than his prayer life I don't care about his organization on this let me live with a man or Island share his prayer life and I'll tell you what how tall I think he is or how majestic I think he is Inger I think again of a statement dr. Tozer Nathan II once he said lending awhile he said will hardly get our feet down to slime into eternity. [00:02:29]

I'm gaze on eternity what we've our heads in shame and humiliation and say my god look at all the riches they will in Jesus Christ and I've come to the judgment seat all modes of profit so God has not barely given us Jesus Christ he's given us all things and because not even enough enjoy the house of God we need entertainment because entertainment is a devil substitute for joy because of him enough power in the house of God people are always looking for the last science in its development and their hair stands up when they're seasoned. [00:02:50]

Sometimes they show on TV when I see the church in the newspaper they didn't have stately buildings they didn't have paid evangelist they didn't have a lot of money did not organization they didn't get on TV and back I'll tell you what they did they turn the world upside down and I'm embarrassed to be part of the Church of Jesus today because I went to a holy God. [00:03:17]

Can you share it sorrow with you if you're gonna get with children guard all the dwarfs around you will finish sizes near-vacuum so you're trying to be holier than the rest of the that you did cover this for men or being austere heroes for God having the men with the greatest devotional life I preach out of my heart all I believe not die for it say am I just a showman what's my what my secret life life you know if we can't live as a different breed of people on this earth with no right to live you should be affected by changing customs or changing styles or changing opinions. [00:03:41]

We ought to live every day or so we come out of another world into this world with the power of that world upon us to live and speak about Jesus Christ it's all all the saints of all the ages and you and I had to stand there alone on the diet and be judged for the deeds done in society for every aspect of our lives but I'm praying for our giving for our living for our talking only one life they'll soon be past only one. [00:04:12]

John would laugh when I am saying how glad I should be if the lamps of my life has been burned after they know it's not essential to be a Christian after all it's an adjusting thing we ought to live eternity conscious in time it's going to be an office day with the King of Kings and the Lord of lords and the judge of judges if it is not possible there's no possibility of any rehearsal take off again they face a final judgment. [00:04:34]

Holiness when the plays in breathing holding it where's all the madness in an awesome God and he reads the records of my polite they put all the saints of all the ages can you see the holy dead all lined up where all the things in the assessment is not only true that we live in a world of bankrupt politics we live in a world and it is the most tragic of all of a bankrupt Church eternity on my eyeball when I stand at the judgment seat of Christ and he shows his plan for me none of my life and it might of mean had he had its way and I see how I blocked him here and I checked him there and I would not yield my will will there be breathing my saviors eyes grease so he loves me still would he have me rich and I've done therefore stripped of all but it's great when we runs like a hunted thing down the path I come every tray out of the year that are left to me I give them to thy hand take me and break me and told me to the pattern the bowel is fast let's look at all the apostles and all the saints of all the ages that spinning up that feeling how it is amazing the night. [00:05:03]

Founder of the Salvation Army there's young West with here all the great heroic figures we've all read about them and here they are all watching us while the book is handed out and and somebody's gonna read the record when God was that look of intercession when he puts the fire to their prayer life their devotional life I'll tell you once so be nothing lasts it won't be rude it won't behave zombies devil not concerned about you an opinion not asking come on to spend prodigally on our favor but the old God and one needs with life of mine adjusting try when I stand in your presence and James said we shall not be ashamed until appealing. [00:06:04]