“I charge thee before God and witnesses and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing manifesting himself and his Kingdom in heaven. Preach the Gospel with intelligent speech; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort calling him to your side with all long suffering and doctrine as a good teacher.” Commentary: Would these words spoken by the Apostle Paul be your last instructions to your family and the church before your departure? If you knew you only had a month to live would you do anything different today? Would you make a will to protect your family? Would you take out a life insurance policy? Increase your coverage? Would you make that last mortgage or car payment? Would you sell your house and your car! Would you visit a mortuary to prepare for your death? Would you dump trash on your neighbor’s lawn? Would you do good or evil? Would you get even with someone or would you forgive them? Would you take out a loan? Would you do something I thought I could get away with now! My father told me at age 87 that he was too old to lock up so I can do what I want to do now? I did not ask him what that was? Rob a bank? Rape a woman? Kill my long hated relative? Get even with my ex-spouse? Become a suicide bomber? It would all depend on what kind of a future you believed you had! What kind of a future after this life? Should I be cremated or buried? Was Jesus cremated? I cannot understand the Green New Deal folks? So many contradictions! Cremation takes fossil fuels! Then the smoke from the crematory entering our atmosphere! Global warming on steroids! What we believe about our future is predicated on what we believe today! People with no hope do bad things! So what is lasting what is eternal! It has to be something outside of ourselves! What can I give you that will outlast me? Faith in the God I serve! That is what my grandparents did for me! The material things they left are all gone but the faith in Christ the living God they planted in me will live on in me long after I am gone from here! In fact forever! The Apostle Paul understood this and instructed his young disciple Timothy to prepare people for this life and for heaven! Preach the Gospel! Prepare the way in the wilderness of this life for others! Be a good teacher of the Gospel and be willing to suffer for it! Rebuke evil and teach sound doctrine! Our future depends on whether we prepare others for heaven! If Christ is a reality to me then I want to share him with others! My purpose is not to make money but to save souls! To point people to the Savior! God owns it all! I die to self so I may live for others! I do not sacrifice others for self but sacrifice myself for others! The Kingdom of God is a sacrificial system! Paul understood this truth and was passing it on to young Timothy as he was passing the batan on to him before his departure! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYouChurch.com