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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswat devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us.

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Speaker 3: Today's topic is about the importance of choosing to follow

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ today because tomorrow is not promised to us.

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Speaker 3: We'll return with an emotional after a message from our sponsors.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow is not promised, written and read by Alexis A

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Speaker 3: Goring never boasts about tomorrow. You don't know what will

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Speaker 3: happen between now and then. Proverbs chapter twenty seven, Verse

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Speaker 3: one g NT. There was a time in my life

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Speaker 3: when I used to make plans for tomorrow and talk

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Speaker 3: about my plans as if they were sure to happen.

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Speaker 2: Until one day a.

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Speaker 3: Friend carefully told me that she's learned to say God

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Speaker 3: willing when she mays planned, because the Bible says tomorrow

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Speaker 3: is not promised. Her words resonated with me and still

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Speaker 3: being true today. Nowadays, when I speak of my plans

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Speaker 3: for the future, even if it's only twenty four hours away,

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Speaker 3: I say God willing at the end of my sentence.

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Speaker 3: As I reflected on this recently, two songs came to

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Speaker 3: my mind. They share the same title but preach a

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Speaker 3: different message, one secular with worldly wisdom filled with temporary promise,

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Speaker 3: and one biblical with words of caution, grace, with eternity

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Speaker 3: and mind. The secular song Tomorrow from the original movie Annie,

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Speaker 3: produced in nineteen eighty two, and the gospel music song

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow performed by the NaNs both give a message of pope,

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Speaker 3: but only one tells of hope. Does everlast thing. Let's

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Speaker 3: look at the core message of these songs and think

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Speaker 3: about it.

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Speaker 2: The lyrics of the song Tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: From the nineteen eighty movie Annie, performed by a Lean Quinn,

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Speaker 3: say and I payaphrase. The singer banks on the sun

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Speaker 3: rising tomorrow. She believes you can bet your last dollar

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Speaker 3: that tomorrow will arrive. As she thinks about the beauty

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Speaker 3: and promises of tomorrow, she fills the sorrows in her life.

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Speaker 3: Lifting When days are dark and she feels depressed and lowly,

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Speaker 3: she rises and declaims with a wide grin that tomorrow

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Speaker 3: is on the horizon, so she will be okay no

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Speaker 3: matter what happens, because tomorrow will be a better day

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Speaker 3: and it's only twenty four hours away. The lyrics for

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Speaker 3: the song Tomorrow performed by the Whineans say, and I

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Speaker 3: paraphrase Jesus Christ is knocking in the door of your heart,

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Speaker 3: say he is here, asking you to let him into.

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Speaker 2: Your heart and life.

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Speaker 3: He reminds you that he supplies everything you need. The

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Speaker 3: person then responds that they know this to be true.

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Speaker 3: They tell Jesus that they will, and then not today,

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Speaker 3: but tomorrow. They say tomorrow is a better telling for

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Speaker 3: them to give their life to Christ. They don't fill

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Speaker 3: our urgency and choosing to serve the Lord today. The

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Speaker 3: stingers of this song then caution the listen there that

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Speaker 3: the Bible says tomorrow is not promised, so it might

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Speaker 3: be too late.

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Speaker 2: Because they may not live to see the next day.

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Speaker 2: Here's the main point.

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Speaker 3: We cannot vet our bottom dollar unless getting better tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Because the Bible says tomorrow is not promised. Does this

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Speaker 3: mean that we should not look forward to tomorrow and

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Speaker 3: make plans for our future.

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Speaker 2: Of course not.

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Speaker 3: We ought to stay fully focused on the present and

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Speaker 3: look forward to the next day. But we are not

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Speaker 3: supposed to plan without including God. And when it comes

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Speaker 3: to our salvation in Jesus Christ, we should accept him

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Speaker 3: into our life today because we don't know if we

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Speaker 3: will live in twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: According to the Bible.

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Speaker 3: When God tells Jesus Christ is time for him to

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Speaker 3: return to earth to take his faithful followers to heaven.

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Speaker 3: It would be too late for us to give our

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Speaker 3: heart to Jesus and follow him. The Angel of the

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Speaker 3: Lord says the Revelation, Chapter twenty two, verses ten through eleven, MSG.

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Speaker 3: Time is just about up. Let evil diers do their worst,

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Speaker 3: and the dirty mind.

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Speaker 2: It go all out in pollution.

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Speaker 3: But let the righteous maintain a straight course, and they'll

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Speaker 3: holy contain you on and holiness. When we see Jesus

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Speaker 3: Christ returning the cause of glory, we who lived for

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Speaker 3: him will be choice because we know we're going to heaven.

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Speaker 3: But those who kept delaying their decision to follow Jesus

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Speaker 3: will be terrified because they see it's too late and

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Speaker 3: they will not be able to go to heaven. Let

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Speaker 3: us take this seriously, because our salvation is a stake.

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Speaker 3: I encourage you to, if you have not already, let

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ into your heart now, especially if you feel

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Speaker 3: urgency to do so. But if you don't fill our urgency,

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Speaker 3: nor hear Christ knocking out the door of your heart,

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Speaker 3: or you're entrenched in sin, it is not too late

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Speaker 3: for you because you're still alive.

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Speaker 2: Please seek God while you are living. It would be

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Speaker 2: too late when you were dead. If you are alive.

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Speaker 3: In breathing today, reach out to him. God loves you

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Speaker 3: and he wants to welcome you into His kingdom with

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Speaker 3: open arms. Finally, we must always be ready for Christ's return,

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Speaker 3: because the Bible says he will come when we least

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Speaker 3: expect him. Matthew, Chapter twenty four, verse forty four. And closing,

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Speaker 3: I like for you to listen to the song tomorrow

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Speaker 3: by the Winans and to recepting faith in life.

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Speaker 2: Will you let Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Christ into your heart today and follow him all the

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Speaker 3: way to heaven. Further reading Heye chapter nine, verse twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: Matthew Chapter twenty four, verse thirty First Thessalonians Chapter four,

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Speaker 3: verse sixteen. Revelation Chapter one, verse Revelations, Chapter nineteen, verse eleven.

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