LIFE'S TOMORROW

ISAIAH 56:1

A. "TOMORROW SHALL BE AS THIS DAY, AND MUCH MORE ABUNDANT"
  1. The context of our text will show that:
    1. The suggestion of our text came from false shepherds who lived in luxury at the expense of God's neglected people
    2. They enjoyed their way of life and felt that it would continue; "Tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundantly"
  2. "Come ye, say that they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink"
    1. It seems incredible that the shepherds of God's people should have thoughts like that at an hour when disaster threatened the nation
    2. But that has been that way and the past and we are told by the Lord, that some shepherds will follow that some line of reasoning in the last days - Matt. 24:45-51 B. THE BIBLE SHOWS THAT THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO LIFE'S TOMORROW
  3. Man's tomorrow - Prov. 27:1; James 4:13-15
    1. Is in God's hand only
    2. In many instances man's tomorrow never comes - Examples - Belshazzar's tomorrow never came - Dan. 5:1-30; the rich farmer's tomorrow never came - Matt. 27:5
  4. Man's limitations are at best - today:
    1. "Today if ye hear his voice" - Heb. 3:13-17
    2. Not even today is any security for all men
  5. But there is a deep sense in which our subject title is true:
    1. Today's wealth may be tomorrow's poverty
    2. Today's health may be tomorrow's sickness
  6. Only that which is eternal has assurance of tomorrow:
    1. Today's God will be the God of tomorrow
    2. Today's Christ will be the same Christ tomorrow - Heb. 13:8
    3. God's promises of today will be the same tomorrow - Heb. 6:13-18. But, we must keep in mind that all God's promises to man are conditional. These are sobering but eternal truths and we shall do well to deed them C. LIFE'S TOMORROW
  7. Has brighter sides to it:
    1. For many of us, today is a day of sorrow because we are laying to rest a loved one whom we shall miss, if we live tomorrow
    2. Their love and affections have been arrested, and their voices silenced
  8. But God's tomorrow shall be brighter than today:
    1. It promises to heal our broken hearts
    2. It assures us that God's tomorrow will abolish death and the grave - Hosea 13:14
    3. Says God, "Thy dead men shall live again" - Is. 26:19
    4. Said Jesus to sorrowing Martha, "Thy brother shall rise again" - John 11:23
  9. But God's tomorrow as far as we are concerned depends upon our today:
    1. If my life is God's today, I need not fear about God's tomorrow - Examples: the thief on the cross made sure of tomorrow - by giving his life to the Lord today - Luke 23:42-44. Zacchaeus, the tax collector had no need to worry about God's tomorrow because he made things right with God and men today - Luke 19:1-9
    2. Note what God promises to His sorrowing children - of the life of tomorrow:
  10. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes - Rev. 21:4
  11. they shall never again experience the pain of death - Rev. 21:4; Hosea 13:14
  12. The voice of crying or the persistent pain in our bodies will disappear forever - Rev. 21:4
  13. our mouths shall be filled with laughter - Ps. 126:2
    1. The former sorrows, the former pain shall never come to our memory anymore
  14. Dear sorrowing ones:
    1. Turn your eyes and your hopes to God's tomorrow and rest them there
    2. For God's tomorrow is brighter than today


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