A. Preface:
1. Kan Bu Kai! Behold not open!
2. Think! Suicide is the only way out!
3. Think! Suicide is the way to liberate the self from unwanted sufferings!
4. Believe Jesus the above thinks disappear!
B. Recognize the reality!
1. Each has 3 lives! 1Thes.5:23
2. Suicide can only kill the body! Matt.10:28
Jesus is clear on this! Kill the body is the devil! Kill the soul is God!
3. Depression that causes suicide is in the invisible soul!
Suicide is killing the wrong party! The soul is the one need to be liberated! (Ro.7:24)
4. Believe Jesus your soul will find rest in him! Matt.11:28-29
5. If you kill your body, God will kill your body and soul in hell!
Sufferings in the body is temporary, in hell is eternal!
6. Behold what happened to the rich man! Lk.16:23
That is the time you wish you can commit suicide!
7. Please be sure to know this! Heb.10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
8. Up to here! I wonder why anyone still hesitates to come follow Jesus with us!
C. Things that cause suicide!
1. Gambling lost, drug abuse.
2. Lost the one you live for!
3. Business failure.
4. Life pressure too heavy to bear!
5. Constant aggravation.
6. Long term sickness pain.
7. Influence of evil acquaintance.
D. Believe Jesus all the above causes disappear!
1. Jesus believers do not gamble, do not have drug abuse!
2. Jesus believers live for the Lord! You can never lose him!
3. Jesus believers do not have business failure that can cause suicide!
4. Believe Jesus do not have constant aggravation! We practice Eph.4:26!
5. God promised he will not let us fall into temptation beyond what we can bear!
6. Jesus believers do not have evil acquaintance!
7. There is this forever comforting word! Ro.8:28
E. They quote Ro.8:38-39 say commit suicide can go to heaven!
Scriptures as recorded:
1. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2. *** Attention please! To whom do these words address? Ro.1:7
To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. Words in Ro.8:38-39 address to saints in the Lord Jesus Christ!
4. If you are a beloved of God, you will never commit suicide!
5. Jesus also promised this! Jn.10:28
I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
6. All beloved saints are in the church of Christ! Ac.2:47, 20:28
7. Saints in the church of Christ will never commit suicide!
F. Conclusion:
1. Ro.8:38-39 prove no saints drop out from the church of Christ!
2. Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Preach this July 14, 2019.
VIDEO SERMON BY BROTHER CHAN ON July 14, 2019