When the roll is called up yonder
are you ready to answer the call?
The book of life is referenced directly 9 times in the bible:
This book is very special because there is only one book of life. there are many books for remembrance and books of transgression, but only one book that God seems to keep near him and writes in personally.
some day God will read from the book of life.
• In that book will be no tears
• no failures
• no mistakes
• no qualification
• no insecurities
• The book will only have names
Will yours be there?
• How many of us are waiting to hear our names to be called on that bright eternal morning?
› call for amen
Why not answer today
The book of life may only be read once, but the roll call is being made everyday. Are you showing up the call right now?
The Roll Call goes out today
The roll goes out today because
1. The harvest is great
2. the laborers are few
3. discipline doesn’t happen over night
4. service keeps you close to the cross
The harvest is great
Matthew 9:35–38 ESV
35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Luke 10:2 ESV
2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
the laborers are few
Matthew 20:1–2 ESV
1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 22:14 ESV
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”
discipline doesn’t happen over night
1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV
25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
When we answer the call to serve, we train our spirit for heaven and for answer the call on yonder
service keeps you close to the cross
Philippians 2:8 ESV
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
John 19:25–27 ESV
25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
When we answer the call to serve it correlate with a closeness to the cross of Jesus. Do you wish to be near the cross? know that there will come with it a call to serve. We were not saved for saving’s sake, we were saved to effective good
Ephesians 2:8–10 ESV
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
The appeal
Can we really call him lord if we are not his servants?
can we really look up and say, “that’s the master I serve?”
Don’t measure what you pour out
We can’t afford to measure what we pour out in service for God when that God spilled his infinite blood for you.
Sometimes I forget that I'm complaining about such small things in the presence of Jehovah.
› make the appeal
The roll is being called up every day. Answer it while there is still work to be done. Don’t be afraid of failure. All men fail. Don’t fear your inadequacy, because none are qualified. Don’t fear your inexperience, because when the roll is called there will not be a long list of achievements. When the roll is called up yonder, it will only be your name.
Are you ready for Jesus to come?
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