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  ONE LIFE TO ANSWER FOR
  by Jason Bellard
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of submitting to God,
resisting the devil, drawing near to God, cleansing oneself from sin,
and humbling oneself before the Lord. It also addresses the dangers of
speaking evil of others, judging them, and being overly confident about
the future. The message urges listeners to reflect on the brevity of
life, the need for repentance, and the choice between serving a sinful
heart or surrendering to Jesus to truly live.

Topics: "Submission to God", "The Brevity of Life"
Scripture References: James 4:7, James 4:11, James 4:13, James 4:14, James 4:16

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of submitting to God, resisting
the devil, drawing near to God, cleansing oneself from sin, and humbling
oneself before the Lord. It also addresses the dangers of speaking evil
of others, judging them, and being overly confident about the future.
The message urges listeners to reflect on the brevity of life, the need
for repentance, and the choice between serving a sinful heart or
surrendering to Jesus to truly live.

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Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee
from you. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Be afflicted and mourn and weep, and let your laughter be turned to
mourning and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of
the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another,
brethren.

He that speaketh evil of his brother and judges his brother speaketh
evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, thou art
not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver who is able to
save and to destroy.

Who art thou that judges another? Go to now, you that say, Today or
tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy
and sell and get gain, whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for little
time, and then it vanishes away. What is this life that you live, and
all of these things that you live for, what do they matter? In light of
eternity, the unending emptiness in you, and oh how you run from all
that's true.

You turn and say that it's all okay, remember those nights all by
yourself, you thought about heaven, death, and hell, and then you chase
away all reality, though death is uncertain life can be, to all who in
Jesus now are free, to all who have the victory, cause you have one life
to answer for. Will it be your one desire to be faithful to the Lord? Or
do you have one life, one life to give? Will you serve a sinful heart,
or cry out to Jesus, and live, and live? The hate in your heart has run
you dry, you've done all you could now to live a lie. But what have you
become? You've seen such pretend, you just don't know, the right or the
left, which way to go.

And yet all you do is run. You look in the mirror, what do you see? The
face of a once hypocrisy, and again you turn away. But why can't you see
you don't have long before your one life is here and gone? And then
comes the judgment day, cause you have one life to answer for.

Will it be your one desire to be faithful to the Lord? Or do you have
one life, one life to give? Will you serve a sinful heart, or cry out to
Jesus, and live, and live? Cause you have one life to answer for. Will
it be your one desire to be faithful to the Lord? Or do you have one
life, one life to give? Will you serve a sinful heart, or cry out to
Jesus, and live, and live?

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/jyKahA-CY64.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jason-bellard/one-life-to-answer-for/
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