I got to see the Olympic closing ceremony. They gave honor (or more like worship???) to John Lennon. Erected a huge sculpture in the shape of the former Beatles face. ( An Idol?) As one hundred children wearing "Imagine" t-shirts sang and praised the message contained in the words. A humanistic, heathen, mantra which harkens to the "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die" ideology which takes God out of the equation. Or the only thing that matters is the here and now.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
Matthew 18:10 (Jesus) “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven."
John 14:2 (Jesus) " In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?"
Philippians 1:21-23 (Paul) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Philippians 3:20-21 (Paul) But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
No hell below us
Above us only sky
"do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (MATT 10:28)
"the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power..."(2 THESS 1)
"4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; "
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."(Matt 7)
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
" eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. "(Ecc 8:15; isaiah 22:13)
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
"God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord..."(Acts 17)
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
"The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good." (Ps. 53)
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
"In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”(Matt 16:33) Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 16:33)
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
Commendable thoughts but impossible in this present evil age. Peace, real peace will never be achieved in our fallen world. There will always be someone who will want to subjugate people, to control and even in the name of helping enslave.
Peace, real peace, real freedom, real good only comes in and through The Lion of Judah. The Son of David. The Lamb of God. The Son of God. The King of Kings. and Prince of peace.
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. ...And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. "Rev 21)
You can have that peace now through the only name under heaven by which we can be saved. Not only from the wrath to come but from the hopelessness and confusion that confounds this world. A world that tolerates the profane, glorifies the perverse and calls evil good and good evil. The standards of God still prevail. The standard by which all of us will be judged.
Jesus said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24)
"he who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. "(1 John 5:12)
"if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)
Saved? From what???
"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
"We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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