Friday; June 28
How certain is the possibility of judgement? How certain is the opportunity for salvation? Interestingly, when an early Christian writer tried to explain these concepts he used something familiar to everyone – death! One writer observed, “And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.” (Hebrews 9:27-8). As the first generations of Christians were searching for a way to invest themselves in these new concepts, they were assured they could believe. The salvation of Jesus and the accountability of mankind we are certain as death! We live in a time when truth seems arbitrary – your truth … our truth … no truth – but the Bible makes a point of saying there are some things that can be counted on. A questionable faith is no way to live – it produces a lot of stress. That’s why a confiden