I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High …

http://bible.com/100/PSA9.1.NASB I will give thanks to the L ord with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders. I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
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http://bible.com/100/PSA8.1.NASB O L ord , our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas. O L ord , our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
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Happy New Year!

Next week we begin our Ezra study, and I am very much looking forward to plunging into this OT book of the Bible.

This week, however, we look at “men come and men go.”

• In Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage, his biographer, Richard Stengel, wrote this: I once asked him [Nelson Mandela] about his mortality while we were out walking one morning in the Transkei, the remote area of South Africa where he was born. He looked around at the green and tranquil landscape and said something about how he would be joining his “ancestors.” “Men come and men go,” he later said. “I have come and I will go when my time comes.” 

And we, as people, not just men, come and then we go. The question is – Where do we go?

In his book – Hell Is Real (But I Hate to Admit It) – Brian Jones speaks of his sojourn of faith as a seminary grad and a pastor who just could not accept this teaching of the Bible. He lists all of his “good” reasons for not believing in hell, but what he couldn’t escape was the clear and abundant teaching of Scripture.

• Do you want to know what’s scary? When I confessed this, nobody really cared. In fact, the response from a man on my Leadership Team captured the response of just about everyone: “Oh, thank God. You really scared me,” he said. “I thought you called us together to tell us that you did something serious like have an affair.”
  — Jones, Brian (2011-08-01). Hell Is Real (But I Hate to Admit It) (pp. 26-27). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition.

And as he noted, even the words of Jesus …

• Matthew 13:41–43 (ESV) ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, ⁴² and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

It is sometimes very hard to understand and accept that good people will go to the lake of fire. But God says it. We don’t have all the answers, but we do have some very important answers:

• God is love.
• God is just.
• God is light.
• God is merciful.
• God is holy.
• God is sovereign.
• God provided salvation through the death of his own Son.

Here are the handouts for this week.

Message Title: Men come and go … Heaven OR Hell!

Message Text: Psalm 90:1-12, Revelation 20:11-21:8

• PDF Men Come and Go : 010514 : FFC : Dave Scott : Psalm 90-1-12 : Revelation 20-11-21-8 : HANDOUT ONE
• PDF Men Come and Go : 010514 : FFC : Dave Scott : Psalm 90-1-12 : Revelation 20-11-21-8 : HANDOUT TWO

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.”-ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (1225–1274)