“Save Yourself?!” Hebrews 9:27-28

Sounds like riveting reading, doesn’t it Sounds like riveting reading, doesn’t it? Want to use this to introduce the idea there are still some matters that warrant our concerns…

UNIVERSALISM The belief that ultimately everyone goes to heaven. After all, God is a loving God, and a loving God wouldn’t send anyone to hell, right?…

SYNCRETISM Literally means “a union of communities.” You simply take what you like about various belief systems and put them all together into your own self-made religion…

to better understand what being saved by grace alone means Purpose: to better understand what being saved by grace alone means

“Everyone should go to the ballet just as often as they can…”

Don’t you like those pithy sayings with the “pregnant pause” in the middle (i.e. use of ellipsis…)? “Everybody ought to go to Warm Glow Candle Outlet as often as they can… and I have!” “Ignore youth teeth… they’ll go away!” “Falling from the 50th floor won’t kill you… it’s the sudden stop at the bottom that will!”

I Everyone is Headed to Heaven… JUDGMENT A. All Will Die Physically B. Then Comes the Judgment

Matthew 25:31-46 “When the Son of Man comes… All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats… Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

II All Roads Lead to God… ONE WAY A. How We Approach God

If everyone is gong to heaven anyway, how we all get there must not be that important… the way we approach God really isn’t important…

So many have decided to teach that the way we approach God really isn’t important. Listen how kindly, loving and politically correct this all sounds:

II All Roads Lead to God… ONE WAY A. How We Approach God B. God’s Way of Approaching Him

Exodus 20:3-5 “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.”

Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Ephesians 4:3-6 “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit – just as you were called to one hope when you were called – one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, Who is over all and through all and in all.”

1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

John 14:5-6 “Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

Romans 3:20 “Therefore no one will be declared righteous in His sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.”

III You Have All the Time in the World… But a Moment A. All the Time You Need

U.S. Supreme Court Building “A pardon is a piece of paper, the value of which depends upon its acceptance by the person implicated. It is hardly to be supposed that a person under the sentence of death would refuse to accept a pardon; but, if it is refused, it is no pardon. George Wilson must die.” U.S. Supreme Court Building

III You Have All the Time in the World… But a Moment A. All the Time You Need B. Guaranteed Time is NOW

A conservative figure for automobile fatalities each day in the U. S A conservative figure for automobile fatalities each day in the U.S. is 100…

Each day a conservative figure for those who die because of heart disease is 1,500…

2 Corinthians 6:2 “For He says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”

Summary and Conclusion: “Yesterday is history… Tomorrow is mystery… Today is a gift. That’s why it is called ‘the present.’”