Welcome [music] to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 16th. [music] Do you understand the connection between how you live today and your destiny [music] and eternity? Let’s begin a compelling series titled Countdown to Judgment and gain a sober biblical [music] understanding of our predestined appointment.

>> Do you realize that the moment you were born, the countdown started on your life? a countdown to the judgment of God. The moment you became a person, the countdown started. And every single tick of the clock, you’re that one second closer to that moment of an inescapable, predestined, planned, unavoidable appointment with Almighty God.

There are a lot of people who say, “I don’t believe in life after death.” That doesn’t make a bit of difference. I don’t believe the Bible matters not. I don’t believe anything about life after death. That’s that’s no issue. There is a countdown going on in your life right now. You’re going to meet with the Lord Jesus Christ.

You’re going to give an account for your life. And whether you believe it or not is not the issue. The issue is how ready are you to meet him? Because when he calls our name, we go in. And I want to remind you that no doctor, no matter how skilled he is, can keep you here. No, no prayer meeting, no matter how powerful the prayer meeting may be, can keep you here.

There is an appointed time, a predestined time for the simple reason, that’s what the word of God teaches. And there are multitudes of reasons for it. Now, the title of this series is Countdown to Judgment. The title of the message is our predestined appointment. We have an appointment with Almighty God. We all have one.

You say, “Well, I didn’t sign up for that.” You didn’t have to. He signed you up. You will be there. You will be on time. There’ll be no delay. God knows exactly this moment when you and I will breathe our last breath and we’ll be in his presence. The Bible says, “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.

” that is for all of us who are believers. And so Paul writing in this scripture we’re going to read a few moments uh he was writing to the Corinthian church and he was writing this to believers. Now there is a judgment of unbelievers and while I’ll mention that and give a brief description we’re talking primarily about the judgment of the Christian the believers in Christ Jesus.

So, if you’ll turn to 2 Corinthians and look if you will in chapter 5, chapter 5 of 2 Corinthians and what Paul is talking about here, he’s talking about this whole issue of death and our physical bodies and what’s going to happen and so forth. And so, here’s what he says beginning in verse one. For we know that if the earthly tent, speaking of our earthly body, which is our house where we live, is torn down, dies, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.