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how many whose father Mike Smith's and
this is essential presents so we all
know about the what they call the four
last things right ever since the
beginning of Christianity the Catholic
Church has taught about the four last
things death judgment heaven and hell
that every single one of us has to die
and at the moment of our death we have
what they call the particular judgment
right our lives are judged whether we've
chosen to say yes to God and chosen him
or we've chosen to say no to God or even
been indifferent towards him we either
get heaven or hell God's justice is
completely just God's judgment is
completely just and we get actually what
we've chosen heat's factors in every
everything that is a factorable factor
in our lives every mitigating factor
every circumstance he knows it all
through and through he knows our hearts
through and through and we actually get
what we've actually chosen because Jesus
has made heaven possible so that that's
what they call the particular judgment
but the Catholic Church is always taught
about and though Scripture is always
taught about this thing called the final
judgment weight so yet at the moment of
death you get judged and then in the
last judgment you get judged again so
how what the difference between the
particular judgment and the final
judgment this was confusing to me until
I actually read this book called the
Catechism of the Catholic Church and it
sheds a lot of light on this this is a
really great book you guys these really
chick it should check it out but in the
Catechism actually it's catechism 1039
it highlights some of the unique parts
of of the Last Judgement it says this it
says yet in the presence of Christ who
is truth itself the truth of each
person's relationship with God will be
laid bare that's gonna I like that in
the presence of Christ whose truth
itself the truth of each person's
relationship with Christ will be laid
bare be completely clear we will know
you know what scripture says even then
we will know we will fully know even as
we are fully known part of that is
clearly knowing God fully as fully
possibly pasta possibly can as finite
creatures with an infinite God but we
also would fully know ourselves consider
that moment where you get to you realize
okay these are all my wounds these are
all my weaknesses and I actually know
how they fit in my life all these
opportunities I had and all these great
strengths that that got to give me and
here's how that fit in my life like
there
we'll be absolutely no room for shame
and no room for pride because you will
see every single opportunity that the
Lord had extended to you that you say
yes to but it was His grace and every
single opportunity that the Lord
extended to you that you said no to
because of my own my own sin and I will
fully know myself and you'll fully know
yourself you'll know you'll fully know
your whole story and not just the
surface of stuff but all the meaning and
the reason and the the hidden stuff
behind it but also I want to extend this
and I'd say so in the presence of Christ
to his truth itself the truth of each
person's relationship with God will be
laid bare I would propose that we would
also fully know each other that every
person in heaven would also be fully
known so that's I think that's one of
the reasons why there's no pride in
heaven no because if people will have
you know more capacity for love more
capacity for joy they'll be kind of
higher in heaven and others will be
lower
I could imagine if I was lower I think
well I feel ashamed of myself
but if the truth of my relationship with
God is laid bare in the presence of
Jesus Christ then I no no no there's no
shame this is exactly where I belong in
God's love exactly where I belong by His
grace and if someone was prideful I mean
someone was really really high in there
there would be any room for pride
because they say no no I just know this
is just the truth this is exactly where
I belong because of God's grace and
because of your yes cooperation with
God's grace so think about this there
are so many things that causes to be
prideful that's basically we pose right
we fake we pretend we want people to see
our strength but not our weaknesses or
there's so many opportunities in life to
feel ashamed and that's where we don't
want people to find our weaknesses we
don't want people to know the things
that were ashamed of well in heaven it
will all be known therefore there's no
reason for pride and no reason for shame
there's just reason for joy goes on to
say the Last Judgement will read the old
even to its furthest consequences the
good each person has done or failed to
do in their lifetime think about this
the Last Judgement what's that mean that
means time is over the story is written
like you know when Christ comes again
that means like life on Earth as we know
it is complete so if this is a book it's
the last page the last word
period at the book so the whole thing
will have been written so it says the
last judgement will reveal even to its
furthest consequences the good each
person has done or failed to do in the
course of their lifetime and this is so
cool because what it reveals is it
reveals that the fact that at the moment
of the particular judgment I get judged
on my own life like here's what I did
here's what I did and failed to do
here's what I said yes to the Lord and
the Last Judgment what's revealed is not
my own life not merely my own life but
how my own life fit into God's great
story of salvation and we will know even
to its furthest consequences how your
good choices or your bad choices fit
into that great story and consider this
consider that um the good Act do you
choose today will have ramifications to
your great great great great great
grandchildren and the Last Judgment
you'll know even to the furthest
consequences and to their lives into the
people other people's lives and you'll
see the great way in which God that was
able to use your little life your small
life my little life my small life and
will also will be able to see the evil
we chose and how that radiated out as
well to its furthest consequences as
well here's the last thing you know
there are some people who like you go
through a lot of suffering you've gone
through a lot of pain and one of the
things that um that plagues you is like
God don't you care
god whatever you gonna can you how can
you possibly bring good out of all the
stuff had that to go through my life and
this is catechism 1040 it says this it
says then you know in the Last Judgement
through His Son Jesus Christ God will
pronounce the final word on all history
and we shall know the ultimate meaning
of the whole work of creation and the
entire economy of salvation and the more
and understand the marvelous ways by
which God's providence let everything
towards its final end like we don't see
it right now but at the Last Judgment
you will see okay here's all the ways in
which God was able to use that cross you
you you carried I was able to use the
free world that he allowed someone to
have that was that was so awful it was
used in a terrible terrible way but how
he was able to use that to achieve his
final end that he wanted as much
salvation as
on this planet and here's the last
sentence I don't want to share the last
judgement will reveal that God's justice
triumphs over all the injustice
injustice is committed by his creatures
and that God's love is stronger than
death
a lot of times you just think like God
is this story mean anything does this
life mean anything um why are we in this
world that there's so much pain and
suffering that question will be answered
and every gosh you guys every good
action that you choose today and
tomorrow and the rest of your life has
an impact at the particular judgment our
lives are judged in the final judgment
the way our lives fit into God's
incredible story is finally and fully
revealed I cannot wait for that day and
I just pray that for you and for me that
we keep saying as to God's grace so that
that day when it's fully revealed we
realize wow God you even my little life
you were able to use me in powerful way
from all of a serious sin she presents
my name is father Mike
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