Memory & Immortality

Luke 16:19-28, Matthew 12:36, and Romans 14:7-12

I: Recognition of Friends in Heaven:
1. Ancient Greek Philosophers.
2. Kings of ancient India.
3. Religions of many countries.
4. The Early Church:
a. The Mount of transfiguration.
b. The hopes of the early church.
5. The reality of separation between the saved and unsaved.
6. Eternal relationship, enduce tenderness, and forbearance.

II: Memory and the Future Life:
1. “Nothing is absolutely lost from the memory.”
2. The Mohawk Indians council at Albany in 1689.
3. The mind startled by danger calls up memories long forgotten.
4. The Cathedral of Limerick bells on the banks of Shannon.
5. The memory of real old people.
6. Memory quickened by disease.
7. The Rich man’s memory.

III: Conscience Memory and Immortality:
“God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:14.

1. A book of remembrance kept within.
2. The power of cinscience to bring past sin to bear.
3. A conscience void of offense toward God and Man. Acts 24:16.
4. “The testimony of our conscience.” Cor. 1 1:12.
5. “The answer of a good conscience.” Peter 1 3:21

Proverbs 10:7
Malachi 3:16