One Thing You CAN'T Do In Heaven

Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Peter, Paul-all dead. If they came back to planet earth for any amount of time, what would they want to do? What would be their focus as they walked the streets of our world? Would Spurgeon want to go to the Super Bowl, Final Four, or a World Series game? Would Wesley or Whitefield go on a cruise or spend hours watching this new marvel called television? Would Peter want to take a plane ride, since that was not part of his former life?

There is really only one thing they would agree on because as long as they have been in heaven, it's something none of them have been able to do. They haven't shared their faith with a lost person. Why? None there. Zero. Only God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and saved people. No one else allowed. It is an exclusive club and you must have the right ticket stamped in the blood of Jesus Christ. Those servants of the Most High God would come back here and hand out all the tickets they could, giving as many as possible the experience of being with the Lord Jesus Christ; the forgiver of our sins; the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world, forever and ever and ever.

Have you ever wondered why this isn't every Christian's perspective? Before he died, Bill Bright said that only 2 percent of all Christians share their faith on a regular basis. Why don't we have the same zeal the apostles had to reach the lost, knowing we can't do that once we die? In 2005, Promise Keepers claimed 90 percent of all Christian men have never shared their faith even once. How far we have fallen in this age when men of God do not think it is their responsibility to warn the lost, before they take their last breath, about the judgment to come.

In the story of the rich man and Lazarus, there is a very interesting statement made in verses 27 and 28 of Luke, chapter 16: "Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment." Do you hear what the rich man said? He wanted his five brothers warned not to go anywhere near hell when they walked into eternity. How can it be that people in hell believe in personal evangelism, but there are people reading this article that do not? We, as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, are to be zealously passionate about reaching the lost individuals around us.

Jesus Christ came to seek and save that which was lost. If it was good enough for Him, it ought to be good enough for you and me. If it was good enough for Jesus to talk with the rich young ruler and the woman at the well about eternal matters, it ought to be good enough for us to strike up a conversation with a lost person today. A teenager emailed me and said, "We are not on a pleasure cruise going to heaven, but on a battleship at the gates of hell trying to prevent anybody from going there." That teenager has it figured out. Do you?

Kirby Puckett, Peter Jennings, Johnny Carson-all dead. The world tries to tell you they no longer exist. Not true. Those men are either alive and well, or alive in hell. One or the other. No other options. Your family members, friends, and strangers are all going to be alive 300 million years from now in heaven or hell. Do you care? But do you care enough to do something about it? Be one of those followers of Jesus that obviously care about others' eternal destiny. Time is precious. Use it wisely in the days to come.

Excerpted from an article by Mark Cahill - Author/Evangelist
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