1. “From Here to Eternity!”
1 Peter 4:1-6

2. Remember these “before and after” pictures
Remember these “before and after” pictures?... The point is obvious: as Christians we don’t have a “past AND present”; instead, we have a “present AND future.”…

3. Secularism: you are a cosmic accident… nobody knows for sure how you evolved…

4. You can shake your fist at God but you will stand before Him someday and give an account of your life…

5. to see how the reality of judgment ought to affect our lives
Purpose:
to see how the reality of judgment ought to affect our lives

6. I Take the HOLINESS of Jesus Seriously

7. Lasorda lost all that weight but then later on gained it all back and more!

8. I Take the HOLINESS of Jesus Seriously
A. His Attitude Toward Sin

9. Ephesians 4:22-25
“You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”

10. Matthew 27:45-46
“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ – which means, ‘My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?’”

11. 1 Corinthians 5:21
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

12. I Take the HOLINESS of Jesus Seriously
A. His Attitude Toward Sin
B. Our Attitude Toward Sin

13. Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved, and delivered Himself up for me.”

14. Galatians 5:24
“Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

15. Galatians 6:14
“But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

16. Romans 6:1-3
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?”

17. Romans 6:6-7
“…knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.”

18. II Take BEARING the Cross of Jesus Seriously
A. Live for Him and Flak Will Come

19. To live Godly for the Lord in this wicked world, you can bank on this, hostility will come…

20. John 3:19-20
“And this is the judgment that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”

21. II Take BEARING the Cross of Jesus Seriously
A. Live for Him and Flak Will Come
B. Cross is an “I” Marked Out

22. III Take Time to SHARE Jesus Seriously
A. This is the Reason
B. Sin is Going to be Judged
C. Judgment Isn’t Bad News if You Know the Good News

23. Do you know the Good News?

24. Summary and Conclusion
Washington D.C., a friendly undertaker closes all his correspondence with: “Eventually Yours.” Such reminds us as to the significance behind the question: “To Whom do you belong?” So we ask you, to whom do you belong? Who is your Master and to whom do you give your allegiance?...