Churches of Christ -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 20th century
In one instance they had a graveyard between the boys’ dormitory and the
administration building. Of course the boys did not walk around it. They
made a path right across it. One day the caretakers digged a grave ten
feet deep across the path and failed to put up a red light, leaving the
grave open during the night. After it got dark a boy started from one
building to another and fell into the open grave. He tried to climb out,
but the walls were straight up and down and ten feet high. Finally, he
gave up and sat down in the corner to await developments. It wasn’t long
till he heard another boy coming down the path—“pat, pat, pat.” He sat
right still, and boy number two fell off in the grave with him. Then boy
number one said, “Can’t you let a man rest in peace in his own grave?”
The second boy jumped right out of the grave like a cat—without any
trouble at all. He had a stronger desire to escape than the first boy
did. He was scared worse!
This illustrates the point that you can do anything you want to if you
want to badly enough. If you are scared enough of hell, you will go to
heaven. If you want to go to heaven more than you want to do anything
else in this world, then you will go there, and there is no power on
earth, or in heaven, or beneath the earth that can keep you from going
to heaven if _you_ want to (Rom. 8:35). You are the only person in all
this universe who can keep you out of heaven.
Now I may surprise you a little bit when I tell you that there are not
many people who want to go to heaven. I can prove it by the Bible. The
Bible says that very few _are_ going to heaven, and since anybody can go
who wants to, then only a few want to go. If many wanted to go, then
many would go; but the Bible says that there is a strait and narrow way
which leads to life everlasting and few there be that find it. But there
is a broad way that leads to destruction and many there be that travel
it (Matt. 7:13, 14). Anybody can go to heaven who wants to, but only a
few are going; then only a few want to go. If you will examine yourself
and observe the people around you, you will soon become convinced that
not many people want to go to heaven.
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