This is YOUR
Life!
Text: Revelation 21:27.
“But there shall by no means
enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only
those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.”
Do you remember the TV
show “This is Your Life”? In the show the
host surprises a special guest, before taking them through their life with the
assistance of the “big red book.” Sharing the good and bad things in the
guest’s life.
Well
today I want to tell you about God’s “Book
of Life” and to ask you the question, “Is your name written in the Book of
Life?” For only believers in Jesus Christ as
Saviour, and whose names “are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life,” are
allowed by God to “enter” into Heaven?
The “Lamb’s Book of Life”
contains the names of the redeemed of all ages, all colours, and from all
nations. No one who is not redeemed by the blood of Christ (this is God’s
“red book).” Will ever be permitted to enter into the presence of God. For
there is a great gulf fixed between the saved (those that accept Christ as
Saviour) and the lost (those that reject Christ as their Saviour).
1.
GOD’S RED BOOK OF LIFE.
Let us think
for a while about being in “God’s Red Book of Life.” The Psalmist says that
every day that we live it is though we are writing a book, not with our hands
but with our lives. What kind of book are we writing?
A. A Complete Story.
All of
our lives are being recorded in heaven's books. Whether our deeds were good or
bad, praiseworthy or unacceptable, they are all recorded. One day heaven will
finish an account on your life. Then it will be placed on God's library shelves
and will one day be opened.
There is
no way that human researchers can know everything about the people they write
about. There is a part of the story untold by human authors. What we have said,
done, and thought will be recorded in the books. God's record will be complete.
B. A Condemning Story.
“And I
saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened.
And another
book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the
dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written
in the books” Revelation 20:12.
The Great
White Throne Judgement will be a story of condemnation. That is the judgment
of the lost.
Will the
pages of your book be filled with sin from the front of the book to the close?
Will you have to blush and hang your head down in shame? The darkest blots
in the book will be those times the sinner could have come to Christ and would
not let Jesus into his heart.
C. A Cleansed Story.
There is
a debt of sin to be paid. Man could not do that for himself. In the place in
God's book where my sins have been listed I believe in letters of red God has
written; “Sins forgiven for my Son's sake.” Your story can be a cleansed story
of blessing and mercy by you accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour.
2. THE KEEPER OF THE BOOK.
The book
described in Revelation 21:27 is
called, “The Lamb's Book of Life.”
The Lamb of God (Jesus) created it, complies it, and keeps it. Our relationship
to the Lamb is by faith, which gives us the right to have our names inscribed
there.
3. THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.
If we are
right with God, our sins have been forgiven, forgotten, cleansed and gone
forever. God has put our sins in the sea of His forgetfulness.
“This Book” is the book of the
redeemed, the “Lamb's Book of Life.”
A. If your name is there you should
be delighted.
Do you
remember the first time your name appeared in the newspaper? You were thrilled
to get that acknowledgement. If you are a child of God and if you could see
into God's Lamb's Book of Life tonight, you would find you name is there.
B. If your name is there you should
rejoice.
Luke 10:20 says “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that
the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are
written in heaven.”
We cannot
always rejoice in people, or in the world conditions, but you can rejoice
that your name is written down in heaven in the Lamb's Book.
C. If your name is there you should
walk close to the Lord.
We do not
live a certain way to get our name in God's book, but we live holy because our
names are there, recorded in The Book of all books.
CONCLUSION:
Make sure
that your name is recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life. Because, one day the
“Books” will be opened! And it will be Christ Jesus who you will stand before
when He says to YOU.
This is
YOUR Life!
