The Answer to Life's Greatest Question

"...And so, I go back to where I started. You're going to live forever. Everybody is. Bodies die, people don't, and you will live forever as you. Annihilation again is a lie, soul sleep is a lie, reincarnation is a lie, evolution is a lie, you're not evolving into somebody else and you're not cycling back as somebody else, you're you and you'll be you forever somewhere and you have only two places as possibilities. First Timothy 4:8 Paul says, "Bodily discipline is only of little prophet." You spend all your time fussing around with your physical body, it has little prophet because it's a perishable commodity. "But godliness is profitable for all things." Why? Because it holds promise not only for the present life but for the life to come. If you're going to work on something, work on the part of you that lasts forever. See this society in which we live, maniacal about the perishing flesh and indifferent to the eternal soul.

All evangelism, beloved, begins here. It is not about this life. It is not about prosperity in this life. It is not about health in this life. It is not about happiness in this life. It is not about healing in this life. It is not about success. It is not about money. It is not about possessions. It is not about freedom from trouble, that's junk-bond evangelism. It's not about that. That bilks people out of their souls on false premises. Run from people who sell that, they're false teachers. And so if you're going to do some evangelism, you've got to move people from Jesus is going to fix me here, to Jesus is going to deliver me in the life to come. Until the sinner really understands that, evangelism can't even start." -John MacArthur

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