In Ecclesiastes 3:11, the message centers on eternity in the human heart. Explore Ecclesiastes 3:11 and the longing for eternity God has placed in the human heart, asking how an eternal perspective reshapes life today. Rather than treating the passage as abstract theology, the sermon traces what these truths reveal about God, the gospel, and the way followers of Jesus are called to live.
The teaching brings biblical truth into the places where faith becomes deeply personal: fear, uncertainty, suffering, desire, and the questions we carry about what comes next. It invites listeners to let Scripture shape their perspective instead of allowing circumstances, emotions, or cultural assumptions to have the final word. The emphasis is on a durable hope that changes how we think, pray, endure, and respond in the present.
Along the way, the message engages themes including Ecclesiastes 3:11, eternity in the human heart, ecclesiastes 3, eternal. These ideas help place the primary passage within the larger story of Scripture and show how its theology speaks to real spiritual formation. At its heart, the sermon helps answer questions such as: What does Ecclesiastes 3:11 teach about eternity in the human heart? It also considers how should eternity in the human heart shape the way Christians live?
For someone studying this passage, exploring the Christian faith, or looking for practical biblical teaching, this sermon offers a clear path from the text to everyday discipleship. The invitation is to hear what Scripture says, receive it with humility, and take the next faithful step in following Jesus.
What does Ecclesiastes 3:11 teach about eternity in the human heart? | How should eternity in the human heart shape the way Christians live? | How can believers apply Ecclesiastes 3:11 in everyday life?
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Funny side note, but every time I say judgment day, in my head, I had this little cartoon in my in my mind, and I'm going to say it to you, so you won't be able to unsee it as well. Um, but I'm a mom. I watch little, you know, cartoon movies and all the things and whatever. And there is this movie that's a children's movie, and there's a little tiny character in there, and he's got really long arms, kind of like a monkey kind of cute little guy. And every time something dramatic happens in the movie, he goes dun. And so every time I say judgment day, I'm hearing like in my head. So now you can enjoy that little tidbit with me. So without further ado, like let's get into it. Okay. So we typically view our life in a linear fashion, right? That's something that our brains can easily grasp and understand. There's a clear beginning, there's a clear end. We can make sense of that, right? It affects the way that we live. And there's that famous saying, you know, if I told you you were going to die tomorrow, how would that change the way that you lived, right? That usually helps us in thinking about our life in a shorter lifespan and to take or seize the moment of every single day. Well, I kind of want to flip that on its head a little bit and I'm actually going to ask if Dena and Casey will come up really quick just to hold something for me really fast. Okay? I'm not going to have you do anything crazy, but most of us see our lifespan as this right here. This is the representation of our like 80 to 90 years here on Earth. If we're lucky, 100, right? So, we have this and that's typically how we view. And normally when you stretch out this lifespan, if you'll take this other end here all the way over, typically when you look at this, people will say, "Oh yeah, look at your life. It's this little blip right here in the timeline of history. But I want you to actually think that because when we take our view from being something that's here on earth and all the river is is this 80 to 90 years and we start looking at things as eternal. Imagine this string just going on and on and on and on and on and never ending and representing eternity. When we think about it like that, we're not this is not the end. But when we die here on earth, we transition to something eternal. So our lif line actually looks a lot longer. Okay, so you guys are good. Thank you so much for helping me. I know that's an that's a different way to look at it. Um, but when we have that eternal perspective and you realize that when you die here, you just transition to something eternal, that affects the way we live. It's very different than someone who views their lifespan as only 80 to 90 years here on earth. So I want us to start transitioning to thinking of our lives as something that is eternal. No one can begin to understand eternity. In Job 36 26 it says how great is God beyond our understanding. The number of his years is past finding out. Our minds cannot comprehend infinite subjects. For example, think about where is the end of the universe? Like just think about it for a second. Okay, is there a wall there at the end of the universe? If so, what is that wall made of? Okay, is there matter or space or anything on the other side of that wall? If so, is that the end of the universe? We can very quickly when we start thinking about these things go, okay, my mind is blown. I just I'm fried right now. Um, it's very difficult to comprehend because it's not something that we can actually understand. So now let's think about God and the fact that he is eternal. Just think about God in your mind for a second. Just try to understand. No beginning, no end, no mother, no father, no one created him. Eternal, right? Psalm 90 verse 2 says, "Before the mountains were born, you brought forth the whole world. From everlasting to everlasting, you are God. How can we grab that? How can we wrap our minds around it? Something that's incomprehensible. So, why should we try? That that that has been my question for years is why should we try? Why bother trying to break my brain over something I'm not going to be able to comprehend anyway? And this is something that's so beautiful. This is probably my favorite part of today. Um because God says, his word says that he has placed eternity in our hearts. It's really cool. Listen, Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart. Yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." This is speaking to the fact that our deepest parts of ourselves and our beings know that there is something more. We long for something more, something eternal, something we cannot fully grasp or comprehend at all. A better way to summarize this would be, God has created people with a longing for eternity and for himself. We instinctively know there is more to reality than what we can see. But we cannot fully understand God's complete plan. That longing is meant to draw us towards trusting him rather than assuming we can figure everything out on our own. God cleverly put those questions in our heart. What's my purpose in life? Why are we here? Isn't there more than this? What's the point of life itself? He put those questions in our hearts so that we would be drawn to him. So clever. I just love that he does that. And it's the sweetest gift, I think, to be given a curiosity that is within my nature that is constantly pulling me towards him. And we all feel it. Whether we're Christian, whether we're atheist, Buddhist, Catholic, we all have this eternal longing for eternal things inside of us. So now just take a deep breath. Okay, shake it out a little bit. Relax. Because today is not about trying to break your mind or break your brain with matters that we can't comprehend, but rather it's about getting us to turn our hearts to him. It's about allowing ourselves to be drawn to him and trust him above all else. So today the focus is allowing our hearts to be drawn to him and then sharing that excitement with others. To capture the best view of eternity, we have to look at God himself. He is self-existent. He forever was and forever will be. He is called everlasting father in Isaiah 9. And he is called king, eternal in 1 Timothy 1:17. All that is eternity is found in him. Eternity itself is found in him. All that is outside of him is temporal and will change. No matter how good, no matter how noble, no matter how enduring it may seem, it will eventually cease. So God himself is eternal. God set eternal longings on our hearts. And our longing for the eternal draws us closer to him. We find the eternal things when we look at the eternal one. Okay, this is our source. I'm building. Okay. So, another thing to note is that because God is eternal, what God speaks is eternal. He cannot lie. What he says cannot be broken. And so, side note, what he says about you cannot be broken, taken away, stolen. That means when he calls you a son or a daughter, that can never be broken or taken away. Therefore, there can never be a change in what he says or he would no longer be eternal. eternal will never change. And so it's important to pay attention to what he says. This is really difficult for us to understand in today's society because our laws, our judgments, our opinions are constantly changing. And this is not the way it is with God. With God, he's from everlasting to everlasting. His word does not change. And many people today are investing their lives in temporary things rather than eternal things. But one day we will all stand, each of us will stand before God. The question is not if we will stand before him, but how we will stand before him. So we're we're continuing. We're laying the foundation. We're building things up. Okay. If [snorts] you're with me, say you're with me. Okay, I haven't lost you yet. That's good. Good sign. Okay. Now, you might be saying, "Is there really a judgment day? Didn't Hollywood just make that up? Didn't someone just create that just to scare us? No. There really is an appointed day and time in which God decided in which God will judge the world through Jesus Christ. The whole world, the Bible talks about it. The early church talks frequently about it. It's worth paying attention to. Acts 17:29-31 says, "God overlooked people's ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed. And he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead." This states that everyone everywhere is being called to repent and to turn to him. This clearly tells us that he created a day for judgment not for some of the world, not just for Christians, but for all of the world. And he is the one um the one that he raised from the dead is Jesus Christ. And he will be that judge. And now when we look at later on in Acts 24:24 and 25, we see the early church talking about this. We see an example of Paul who's here with Paul who we've just talked about. He is on trial in this scripture. You can go back and look it up and read it if you would like. But just to paraphrase, he's now teaching to a guy named Felix and his wife Drusilla. Felix is a governor. He's someone of prominence and he is not a believer. Okay, guess what Paul preaches to him? He teaches righteousness, self-control, and the coming day of judgment. Felix becomes frightened from this and says, "Okay, go away for now. I'll call you back whenever it's convenient for me, but I I can't handle this right now." Paul scared him. Felix had a reputation for corruption and injustice and his wife Drusilla had actually left her husband to be married to him. And so Paul's message would have publicly and personally confronted them both. When Paul spoke of righteousness, self-control, and God's coming judgment, Felix became afraid because the message exposed his need for repentance. Sadly, we don't actually ever see evidence as to whether or not Felix became a believer, which also makes the story one a little bit about um a timely manner and a warning of the dangers of delaying the response when the truth is clearly understood. Now, you may be saying, "Okay, pause. This is heavy. Gosh, this sounds kind of scary to be talking about judgment day." Well, I've been right there with you. I've in the past, this is not a topic that I've wanted to dive into or look into, but I understand now more the importance of doing so. And let me tell you, there is unhealthy fear and there is healthy fear. Felix was afraid because he was convicted because he saw that his life was not lining up with what Paul was saying. The opportunity came from God through that message for him to realize the disconnect and to be able to redirect. realize and redirect. So when we hear something from God and it causes us to kind of wse or to be in fear a little bit, it could be that it's an attack of the enemy just trying to instill fear in you. It could be because you don't understand something and lack of understanding can produce fear sometimes. But I want to also present that it is it possible that God could be pointing out something that is not lining up with his word in your life? Is it possible that he is giving you an opportunity to redirect and to line things back up with him? An opportunity. Okay. When we die, it is not the end, but a transition like we talked about with the string. It is eternal. It's e it's eternity in either heaven or hell. So, when we stand before God on judgment day, we will either go to heaven or hell. So when God calls things up in your life and you look at it from that standpoint, it's worth looking into. It's worth diving into paying attention to. And this is not a fear tactic of the Lord. This is not a fear tactic of mine to try and get you all worked up. The Lord is always just and he is always loving. He can not choose to be either one. He is always both. Um and this is where the gospel comes in. The gospel shows us so clearly that he is both of these things. And some people say like, "Okay, well, why can why is can God just not snap his fingers and just make it all better and make us not have to go to hell? Why did it have to play out this way?" And I actually heard a really good story from a pastor. Um, so this is not my story, okay? I'm not I'm totally stealing this from him. Um, but I just wanted to give you a a condensed version of the story to help you get that clear picture of what we're really looking at of him being both just and loving. So, there was a he tells the story that there was a king that was a ruler over a kingdom and he was known to be both just and loving. And one day, someone ended up stealing from the king's treasuries. You may have heard the story. Um, but someone ended up stealing from the king's treasuries. And he sent his men out to go find those those people or whoever it was and said, "Okay, the pun the punish punishment penalty will be 10 lashes." They did not find who it was. And this continued on. They continued on more stealing, more going out. They didn't find it. The punishment increasing until finally the punishment was at 40 lashes, which would be considered a death sentence. The men finally did end up feel figuring out who was stealing from the king's treasury. And it was none other than the king's daughter. And so what was the king supposed to do? If he carried out the judgment, then he is not seen as a loving father. If he saves her from that and doesn't carry out that, then he is no longer just. and he has to be both just and loving. So the time came for the punishment to be carried out. His daughter was brought up to the platform and was bent over and the man takes his hand and raises up the whip to get ready to lash her. And the king cries, "Stop." He says, "Stop." No. And he begins to take off his shirt and come down and to lay his body over top of her and says, "Okay, proceed." And the guy goes, "Um, no, you don't deserve this. if I hit you, you are going to die. And he says, "Yep, proceed." And so they carry out the punishment. And the king dies and his daughter was saved. So this is very clear picture of how both justice and love come together in a beautiful picture that has saved us through the gospel. I know there are a lot of opinions and controversy today about whether heaven or hell are even real. And you could debate about this all day long, but I personally have to say, how could you not believe that they are real because both are very real and forever and eternal. The Bible speaks clearly about them both. And there are people even in our lifetime who are alive today who have experienced one or the other. They have either experienced heavenly visions and gone to heavenly realms or they have had moments in which they have died and experienced brief moments in hell. Heaven and hell are a part of the gospel. We cannot exclude them. The gospel being that death and separation from Christ came into the world through the sins of Adam and Eve. But [snorts] God had a plan all along, a loving plan to save us from eternal separation that death and sin brings. So he sent his one and only son whom he loved so much to come and take on flesh to live a perfect life here on earth without sin to die a criminal's death upon the cross paying the price for all of our sins. And when he rose three days later he defeated death and darkness and sin and now we have the ability to live with him in eternity in heaven if we so choose. That's the gospel. And notice the end part of that. The ending of that is where we end up. It's it's the ending of that of giving us a choice. He made us and gave us free will so we have that choice. But he has done as a just and loving God everything he can within his power to make it so that we don't have to live eternal separation from him. But we can live in heaven with him forever. But we don't really like to share this with people, do we? We don't really like to share the gospel and end with, "Is heaven or hell your decision?" Right? We don't want to scare people, but is the gospel really about our comfort? Is it really about other people's emotions? There used to be a big um, you know, turn or burn kind of movement several decades ago and even a little bit when Nick and I were growing up. I know he's mentioned it from the platform a little bit um before, but there were conferences, movements, skits, walkthroughs, you name it. And um I actually remember one particular walkthrough that they had um and it was kind of set up like a haunted house. And I think they actually did it during Halloween time and it was insane because they would take you through and you'd enter into one room and you see kids that are turning to sinful living, drugs, alcohol, all the things. Then you see someone as you continue walking who comes and they preach the gospel to them and they ask them and the person rejects them and says, "No, I don't want anything to do with that." Then you walk into the next room and you see a big car crash and this person has died. And then you go into the final room, which is an incredibly terrifying scene of that person screaming in hell and going, "God, okay, I'm just kidding. I'm coming." And he's like, "Nope, it's too late." And then you get to, you know, walk out and there's like a thousand prayer partners who can help you walk through the trauma that you just experienced and pray for you for your salvation, right? It sounds crazy. It sounds scary. It sounds bad to to do things that way. But I would the more I think about it, the more I venture to say that this movement probably got started because someone got it. There might have been some people that used it and abused it and whatnot, but I venture to say that this movement probably started because someone actually got it. Someone understood what was at stake. Those people that have had visions of hell or experienced it for even a moment, when they get revived, when they come back, they change their entire life. They will tell you the stories and they will they spend the rest of their life sharing their experience with people and begging and pleading people not to reject Christ and not to go through what they went through for even a moment. Let me describe it to you this way a little bit more of a practical. So if I had an incident in which I experienced thirdderee burns and I went through all of that trauma and all of that healing process which I don't know if you realize but it takes like literal skin growing grafting surgeries all is very painful slow recovery for months. If I go through all of that you better believe I'm going to have a healthy fear of what fire can do to me. You better believe that I'm going to from then on exercise pro proper fire caution and safety. You better believe that if I see somebody who's about to pour a whole can of gasoline on a fire and stand too close that I'm going to say something to them. You better believe that I'm going to teach my children about fire safety because I don't want them to go through the pain and the trauma that I had to go through. Can you blame those people for doing that? Would you blame that person for for being for being cautious for for reaching out to people? Well, let's flip it on the other side. If I was that person that was about to touch a hot stove or about to pour gasoline on a fire or make some kind of mistake, I would want someone to tell me that I was about to do something stupid or to get hurt or whatever it was. I would want someone who had experienced that to tell me, "Hey, you really need to avoid this. You do not want to go through what I'm what I've been through, right? you do not want to experience this. Makes sense when we look at it that way. Kind of brings out the importance of it a little bit. See, God talking to us about judgment day in the early church talking about judgment day doesn't give us an unhealthy fear but a healthy one and we're missing it today. We're not talking about it. This is really hard for me. I know. I mean, if it's not a conversation in which someone goes, "Oh, you're great." And I go, "No, you're great." Like, I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to have difficult conversations and confrontations and difficult truths that I have to that I have to talk with someone about. But it's important, but it's necessary. Let's look at another foundational scripture for today, which is in Hebrews 6:1. And it says, "Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of eternal judgment." Now according to the Hebrew writers um the Hebrew the writer of Hebrews um then elementary and foundational doctrine is eternal judgments. Now if we go back and think to that elementary education that you received those building blocks of the rest of your education remember we cannot build a healthy life without the elementary principles and teachings of Jesus Christ. It includes eternal judgments. It is a foundation according to God. So it's worth taking a deeper look. So we'll continue to dive deeper. Um the problem that we have with this a lot of time is that when people hear the word judgment they hear condemnation which judgment can mean condemnation but this word judgment from the Greek is the word crema and it basically means it's a root definition of the word decision. So it's a decision that is resulting from um in an investigation. It's to separate to look through to make a verdict. So if you go back and read Hebrews 6 that way, it reads a little bit differently, ending with, "Let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of eternal decisions." Sounds a little less scary, I feel like, when you say it like that. Okay, he's going to make a decision on the appointed day when Jesus Christ judges mankind and the world. He's going to make decisions. There is one final judgment day and two judgments. So there is the judgment for believers and this is referred to as the judgment seat of Christ. So the judgment seat of Christ is for Christians who have already accepted God's gift of eternal life and who stand before him on that day to receive their rewards for a life of faith in its varying degrees. Okay. Then there's the judgment for a person who has never received Christ or who has rejected Christ, which is referred to as the great white throne. The great white throne represents God's authority, supreme justice, purity, and judging. And it is for the non-believers and is referred to actually in Revelation 20 11-15. And this is one of the most sombering scriptures I think that there is. It says, "Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and the books were opened. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, they were thrown into the lake of fire." That is the Bible's description of what will happen. Not mine. That is not opinion. That is straight up Bible. And on that day of judgment, he's going to do an investigation into everyone's life. And the result of that investigation is going to be a decision being made. And those are eternal decisions that cannot change or be revised. They stand forever. So the next question for us to ask is, okay, what is the criteria for those for those decisions? How is he going to make those decisions? What guidelines are there? And we have the word of God that has been given to us to dig into and find those answers. The New Testament is identified in two ways. It's referred to as scripture, but it's also referred to as the law of liberty. Um, look at James 2:12. And remember that he's writing to believers on this one. He says, "Speak and act as those who are about to be judged by the law of liberty or freedom." This phrase to be judged here in the Greek word actually means kro which means to separate evaluate by the law that sets you free. The law of liberty. The criteria and the law of God is meant to set us free. It is not a law of bondage. The Bible consistently teaches that preparing for the day of judgment is not primarily about predicting when it's going to happen, but it's about a right relationship with God. Different books in the Bible emphasize different aspects of this, but they all come together with one unified message that it's about the heart. I don't want anyone, okay, to to start freaking out. I don't want anyone to start freaking out as I go through this next piece and creating a checklist of things that they have to do and mark off to try and get into heaven because it's not about that. I want our hearts to desire a right relationship with God. I want us to have a desire to follow his word. I want us to have the desire for what he wants for us in our lives, his plan. So, with that in mind, let's look really quickly at what the Bible says um that God desires for us in preparation for judgment day. I'm going to kind of read through this list, but one is believe in Christ. The New Testament teaches that the foundation for being prepared is faith in Jesus. The Bible prevents that presents that Jesus's death and resurrection as a means by which sinners can be reconciled with God. Two is repent of our sins. Repentance means turning away from sin and turning toward God. This involves more than just feeling sorry. It's a true heart change that leads to a life change. Three is a life of living a life of obedience. The Bible teaches that genuine faith is reflected in how a person lives. And James 2:17 it says faith by itself if it is does not have works is dead. The New Testament does not teach that good works earn salvation, but they are the evidence of living faith. Four is love God and love others. When asked about the great commandment of all, Jesus answers, love the Lord your God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. He's presenting that love is the fulfillment of God's law. And five, remain watchful and faithful. Jesus frequently urges his followers to keep guard, to spiritually be alert um because no one knows the time of his return. Six, persevere in faith. The New Testament encourages believers to continue trusting Christ throughout their lives. Seven, remember that everyone will give an account. Back to our story with Paul and Felix. Paul told Felix about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment. Paul's message was that every person will answer to God for their life. Likewise, Paul also wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil." What do all of these sound like? Believe in Christ. Repent of your sins. Live a life of obedience. Love God. Love others. Persevere in faith. Remain watchful and faithful. and remember you will give an account. That sounds like the gospel to me. That sounds like Axio's church to me. It sounds like a father who loves his children. It sounds like a father who desires for his kids to live with him, to live a life that is worthy and to be with him forever in eternity. If we put all of this together, the Bible's message is not do enough so that you can earn God's grace and acceptance and whatever with your deeds, but rather it is trust in God, trust in Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, receive God's forgiveness, live a life marked by love, holiness, and obedience, and stay faithful until the end. A verse that summarizes this really well is Micah 6:8. He has told you, oh man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. For Christians, confidence about judgment day ultimately rest not in our perfection and our ability, but in his grace. Grace through Jesus Christ to live a life of faith that is demonstrated by repentance, obedience, and love. It's faith and action. We can face eternal things. We can face the day of judgment with confidence. How do I know this? He already gave us what we need in the law of liberty. He gave us his eternal word that brings freedom and draws us to him because he his desire is for us to be with him in eternity. I mentioned that this is not about perfection and it's not about completing a checklist. All of this is a crazy romantic love story by the one who loves you eternally. If you don't believe me, read 1 John 4:17. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. That word perfect literally means mature. As we set our eyes heavenward, as we get into the word of God, our love begins to mature, we begin to mature so we will not be afraid on the day of judgment. 1 John 5:3 says, "In fact, this is love for God to keep his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome." You want to know why they're not burdensome? because God has given his grace, a grace that empowers us to obey his word. Now, let's look at that from an everyday earthly scenario. Okay, we have laws here. We have laws for how fast we can drive on the road, right? And then we are also given speed limit signs that are placed along the way to help enable us to remember that law and to follow that law for everyone's safety. Now, if I'm driving 80 miles an hour in a 55 mph zone, do you think I'm going to have much confidence? No. I'm going to be gripping the steering wheel. I'm going to be scanning the roads. I'm going to be watching for cops. I'm going to be sweating maybe a little bit that something's going to happen. I am not going to have confidence. But if I'm driving 55 in a 55 mph zone, I am confident. I'm not worried about anything. I am able to go from point A to point B. I'm not thinking about a ticket or a cop or anything. I know what's expected of me and I'm following what's expected of me and I have those speed limit signs to help me and guide me along the way so I don't forget and I don't have to fear or worry. I can move forward from A to B confidently. Okay. So when we accept Christ as our savior, we gain confidence. His word has the guidelines like those speed limit signs that are put up to give us confidence when followed. It helps us to follow the law of liberty. The apostle Paul makes the statement, "So I run with purpose in every step. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others, I might I myself might be disqualified." In 1 Corinthians 9:26. You know what Paul is basically saying? He's saying, "I'm running with purpose." He's saying, "I am driven by eternity." And if you look at that word driven is to propel, to guide, to control, to direct. His word is eternal. We are driven by his word towards eternal life. God says that heaven and earth can pass away, but my words won't pass away. These guidelines will not change. When we understand and we have a good grasp on who he is and on his word and we follow those instructions, it's like driving 55 in a 55 mph zone. And we can have full confidence because we know that the king of the universe is pleased with us because we are walking in his ways. Um I'm going to go ahead and invite the band or whoever is is coming up. Um, so I said that this topic is not one that I previously had cared to dig into and I don't consider myself an expert with any mind-blowing statements for you today. Um, but when I [music] begin to look at this topic and sit with the Lord on it in preparing this message, he really gripped my heart from a mother's point of view and from an individual's point of view. God showed me very p practically my part to play. Someday I will have to stand before him and give an account for my life. Can I honestly say that I lived a life worthy of the gospel? That I lived a life worthy of repentance. That I desired a deeper relationship with him. And that I tried, as best be it by me, with the help and the guidance of the Holy Spirit and his word to line my life up with what he desired for me. and am I encouraging others to do the same? One day my kids will have to stand before him on their own. I can't be there. I won't be there for them. Can I honestly say that I told my kids the full truth, the full gospel truth, and that I taught them through example and through words how to live a life for Christ, how to follow him. One day that friend or that family member that I know who has not accepted Christ as their savior
