1. Rom 14:8
“If we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.”

3. Jesus
The Judge of All
&
His 2nd Coming

4. Acts 17:29-31

5. God’s Pattern of Judgment
The Initial Disappointment/ Decision

6. God’s Pattern of Judgment
Gen 6:5-7 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. And the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.

7. God’s Pattern of Judgment
Gen 18:20-21 And the Lord said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."

8. God’s Pattern of Judgment
The Initial Disappointment/ Decision
God’s Patience and Warning

9. God’s Pattern of Judgment
Gen 6:3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."

10. God’s Pattern of Judgment
1 Pet 3:20 Who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

11. God’s Pattern of Judgment
2 Chron 24:19 Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord; though they testified against them, they would not listen.

12. God’s Pattern of Judgment
The Initial Disappointment/ Decision
God’s Patience and Warning
Judgment Comes

13. God’s Pattern of Judgment
Matt 24:37-39 "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. "For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.

14. God’s Pattern of Judgment
1 Peter 4:17-18 "For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?”

15. God’s Pattern of Judgment
The Initial Disappointment/ Decision
God’s Patience and Warning
Judgment Comes

16. God’s Grace and Our Works
These Biblical Truths Should Help.
Most Often They Do Not…Sometimes Even For Christians.
Titus 2:11-14
1 Pet. 1:13-16

17. Judgment Day…This Is What We Do and Why We Do It.
The Christian/Easy Funeral
1 Thess. 5:4-9

18. Many Will Not Be Ready On That Day.
The Pattern of Shock
1 Thess. 5:2-3
Do We Live Our Lives the Same Way?

19. The Easy Funeral