suicide very sad for the family friends loved ones and most times unexpected
usually when somebody keeps threatening suicide they're not going to commit suicide that's my
experience over the years of counseling i've had it believe me i've had that happen time and
time again it's usually the ones that don't say much and that's the sad part and there are signs
and i'm not a psychiatrist or anything but they are signs um because i had my own my
own cousin commit suicide on the farm that we used to go and visit my grandmother's farm
and so we are we we've had that in our home in our family and in fact there were more than one
and we knew nothing we didn't think it would ever happen because the there were no threats
now the the question that most people ask is are they in heaven or are they in hell well the first
i would get away from the suicide aspect of it because suicide doesn't take you to hell otherwise
we all be in trouble because suicide's not a greater sin than anything else you're taking your
own life you're not supposed to take anybody's life including your own um so in saying that
um we can't cannot differentiate between the sins and the level of sins sin is a sin and
if i commit a sin and then i die it doesn't mean i'm going to hell at all and the way to
explain that to you is by taking you to romans chapter 8 romans chapter 8 is one of my favorite
chapters in the bible in his brilliance was able to deal with so much in romans chapter eight he
goes through we us being led by the spirit and if we are led by the spirit we are the sons of
god can you imagine that he doesn't say uh if you washed in the blood of jesus which we know is true
you are the sons of god he says if you are led by the spirit of god you are the sons of god
if it's as important as that then we've got to deal with this being led by the spirit factor
what's this god do suicide just bear with me you're a son of god if you are led by the spirit
for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear so any preacher that gets you
into a place of bondage to fear get away from him you did not receive that but you received
the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out of a father i don't most people don't know this
but in the hebrew days in those times adoption was not like it is today for instance i have a
son jacob he is he is now 17. there was an age when an actual son would be adopted by a father
a jewish father most people don't know that so in other words they were not given the inheritance
until they were legally adopted so they had so many years to prove that they were worthy
of being adopted by that father the adoption meant he would receive the inheritance that's important
so he says you did not receive the spirit of bondage but you received the spirit of adopt
adoption by whom we cry out abba father and we are children of god and if children then heirs
heirs of god and joint heirs with christ if we indeed suffer with him that we suffer with
him we may be glorified together now i wanted to read that to you to give you the understanding of
inheritance we have the inheritance that has been granted to us which is not given in totality until
we die and go to heaven so we get a portion of it to be used on this earth but your inheritance is
not just earthbound your inheritance is also in heaven where the bible tells us we get rewarded
for what we did so let's keep that in mind because you can you can you can receive salvation
and that is your blessing and your gift but then an inheritance is a different thing altogether
the way to explain that is that if you come to my house you have entered my house
but you did not inherit my house you understand what i'm saying you go to a hotel you get a room
you've entered that hotel but you don't you have not inherited the hotel it doesn't belong to you
there's a difference between entering and inheriting a very big difference with that
in mind you'll understand as justification sanctification and glorification as spoken of
in the book of romans by paul which i'm going to take you to now so you'll have this assurance that
if at least your child your husband your loved one your friend had given their life to christ at one
time in their lives they are not in hell because of suicide let me read it to you he speaks at you
know about all things work together for good to those who love god and who are the called
now i have a teaching which i cannot do today but it's about the call the chosen and the faithful
three categories of people that return in the book of revelation with jesus you've got to look it up
one day i don't know where the scripture is but i taught on it once and it caused a lot of havoc
because there are those who are called they have a certain portion those who are chosen they have a
greater portion and then they are the faithful the faithful have the greatest portion 30-fold 60-fold
and 100-fold very interesting i don't have time and i threw it out so you at least go and do some
studying yourself but the bible says that when he returns in revelation he shall return and those
who are with him are the called the chosen and the faithful he categorizes each one right there
so there are those that come into the kingdom that are saved
but you wouldn't really know it i mean you've met people like that they just they called they saved
they're happy they're going to heaven and they'll never do anything for god on the earth maybe one
or two little things you get those people they're going to heaven they don't have the reward billy
graham has but they're going to heaven so now let me read something to you that will help you
in verse 29 of romans chapter 8 for whom he foreknew he also predestined to become
to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn and whom he predestined and
don't get let's get this predestination thing out the way where you were chosen you weren't
chosen that is now it is and i don't have time to do that but when chuck missler comes he can teach
on that because it's brilliant the way does it however from my point of view this is what he says
he also called whom he called he also justified and whom he justified he also glorified now there
are three things that you need to understand justified sanctified and glorified three
things that you have in the kingdom justified means you are free from the penalty of sin
when you give your life to christ if it's just a prayer calling to him and you and he accepts you
which we know he has you are justified which means you are free from the penalty of sin
forever now people have a problem with that they say well what if he turns his back on god that's
another issue altogether but if that person called on the name of christ the bible says
that he is justified and somebody once said justified means just as if i'd never sinned
it's quite beautiful that's salvation everybody can have that
but then you've got the next level while you're on the earth and that's called to be
sanctified what is sanctified means sanctified means that you are free from the power of sin
so in other words it doesn't have control over you there are many christians that have
sin controlling them and they are not sanctified they're not in the they just don't
really care about it and doesn't mean they're not going to heaven it means the inheritance
their reward is less you need to understand this and then you have glorification which we know we
can experience the glory of god while we're on the earth but it's little snippets of it
and i'll close with this glorification ultimately is free from the presence of sin i don't think
anybody watching me now understands what it's like to live in freedom from the presence of sin
can you imagine being free from any thoughts of hatred or anger the internal dialogue that's going
on when you walk into a to a place and you feel fear imagine being free from the presence of sin
that's never going to happen until we die and get to into eternity now hold on a second
i've experienced it people that have been caught up for that flashing moment into the glory of god
there is no presence of sin and that's why they weep that's why they they go their bodies begin to
respond they get these feelings because sin dampens sin depresses some sin affects your body
even though you may not be sinning i'm not talking about you sinning the presence of sin around you
affects your thinking your being uh your your your everything your even your physical body that we
will be free from one day but there are times when we have meetings and the glory of god comes in
that the presence of sin is suddenly removed for that moment and it's the most unbelievable feeling
some people are so desperate to be free from the presence of sin that they take their own life
and that's what judas did so i want you to know that even though there may have been many reasons
for them doing it ultimately they wanted to be free from the presence of sin that exists in this
world if they gave their life to christ whether it was just a cry one day they were justified
and therefore they are free from the penalty of sin and that's the best way i can explain it