This sermon was preached by Pastor Nelson Turner of www.AV1611Reformation.com on the Lord's Day September 13, 2009 from the inspired word of God the AV1611 King James Bible for the edification of God's Elect and a witness of condemnation to the reprobate who deny that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead and is the Son of God who saves His people from their sins. All persons have an appointment with death. This is just for we are conceived in sin and by our sinful nature inherited from Adam and Eve we deserve death. Some, written in the Book of Life from before the foundation of the world, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, are granted a dispensation by God, Who, doing as He pleases, grants them a reprieve through His Son from the curse and condemnation which otherwise would be upon them. These chosen are destined for eternal life. Others, despite their unconcern for for their fate after they pass from this life; having no regard for what happens after death, are destined to know the wrath of God, and to experience the second death, eternal punishment. In this world the Christian is a spectacle, a public show, before God, the angels, the lost and the saved. In the world to come, the damned will be a spectacle showing forth the perfect justice of God unto His glory as they forever burn without being consumed for their lack of faith in the revealed God and His word. Significantly, we must understand that our suffieciency is of God, and not of ourselves. God cares for us by His power not ours, and NOT by our following of rubrics. Nothing we can do of ourselves, by our will, makes us pleasing to God. "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5). Only what God does in us can make us pleasing to Him. "This is the work of God that you believe on Him whom He hath sent." Our souls can only rightly boast in the Lord. In God we trust. He is a shield to those that put their trust in Him. As Christians we should understand that by our new birth in Christ we are a new creation. When we are tempted henceforth we know that when we are tempted in Christ we stand, whereas when we are tempted in the old man, which is from Adam and sin, we fall. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness..." (2 Peter 3:10-11). Verses from the AV1611 King James Bible used in this sermon include:1 Corinthians 4:9; 15:19/ John 11:20-32/ 2 Corinthians 1:8-12; 3:4-6/ Psalms 34:2; 91:2; 118:8-9; 115:3,11; 36:1-4/ Proverbs 29:25/ 1 Timothy 4:10/ Ephesians 6:16/ Phillipians 3:3/ Job 4:18; 15:15-16/ Isaiah 51:1-8 Less