Life Ministries

Proverbs 10:11 “The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life.”

Several things are clear and lie right on the surface of today's text. The first obvious thing is that God is the giver of and a lover of life; he likes to promote life, not violence and death.
    I have come to believe that life is the gift of God - both this life and the life to come. And, like any gift, it is freely given out of love; but it must also be received, and opened, and experienced in order to become a true reality in our hearts, minds and souls.
    There are only three things that I find in the Bible concerning death; One is found in the Book of Genesis 2:6 where it says “And the Lord God commanded the man; ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but, you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you shall surely die”… Man of course, disobeyed God, which was sin, and the result of sin is the curse of death. “The wages of sin is death.”
    The second thing the Bible says about death is that it is the destiny of every man to die once, and after that to face the judgment”(Hebrews 9:27) Let me emphasize something here; Man is destined to die ONCE. This becomes important because of the third thing God’s Word says about death;
    The third, is rather interesting - and probably most important - from the Book of Revelation 20:12-15 - “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
    That’s basically all the Bible has to say about death; Death is the result of sin. It’s man’s destiny to die once…But, if our name is not found in the Lamb’s Book of Life, we face what is called the “second death.”  Basically, that’s it. Because that’s all we need to know about death! You see, the truth is God’s Word is concerned - from beginning to end - about LIFE.  Not just eternal, spiritual things as some would believe, but even more so with this life, right here right now. From this came the title of my first book “In It For Life.” This is also why I call what I do “Life Ministries.”
"The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of LIFE."

To be continued…