THE NTEB HOUSE CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICE: You Have An Expiration Date

While in the midst of a typical Saturday in our house that included running errands, grocery shopping and and the usual litany of little projects that always seem to need doing, a text message popped up on my phone which made me stop quite literally in my tracks. My friend Ethan, who has been on the prayer list for many months now battling Stage 4 cancer, was rushed to the hospital with serious complications, with his wife Shannon telling me he may not make it through. As of this writing I don’t know his condition. And just like that, you are faced with eternity. Ready or not, here it comes. I was reading the other day that the NFL opening game between Detroit and Kansas City drew a record 27 million people. According to recent a Gallup poll, Church attendance is lower now than pre-pandemic levels. When the apostle Paul tells Timothy that he ‘fought a good fight’, he was talking about fighting against the things that would seek to prevent him from living a life spent in service to God. That’s the biblical fight against the world, the flesh and the Devil that we who are saved are all called to engage in. On this Sunday Service, and as we prepare for our new Bible study series tonight on spiritual warfare, I’d like to take a moment and remind of of the ‘expiration date’ that we all carry, and what the Bible says you need to do about it.