Man Immortal: His Mind and Conscience

Matt. 10:28, Acts 24:14-16, Titus 1:15

I: Immortality the Heritage of the Human Race: Acts 17:26
1. Ciciro: “If at death I am to be annihilated, as some philosophers suppose, I am not afraid lest those wise men, when extinct too, should laugh at my error.”
2. The ancient Scandinavians: the future life and continual banquet, drinking from the skull of their enemies.
3. The American Indian and the happy go hunting ground where game would be plentiful and no pale face to disturb.
4. The minds of all ages have enlarged and thought upon the future state of the dead.

II: Immortality and the Conscience.
1. “Conscience is that moral faculty which gives us an instinctive conviction of obligation and duty, and also an instinctive apprehension of a future attribution.”
2. The evidence of conscience is found to reach every race of people of all ages.
3. Conscience is the inner voice that whispers to every man “do right.”
4. Conscience enters the halls of mirth and mingles with the gay scenes of dissipation and travels the road of life that leads to the grave and in the hour of death utters words of immortality.

III: The Testimony of Prophecy.
1. The godly man of Uz – “I know that my Redeemer liveth…” Job. 19:25
2. David: “My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:25
3. Paul longed to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
4. Death does not change one’s identity, (rich man in hell).
5. The thief on the Cross “thou shalt” not another.

The future should concern us and move us to prepare for eternity for man is immortal.