WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY?
	WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY Our subject is, Where Will You Spend Eternity? You will find the text in John I6: 5, “Whither goest thou?” Jesus Christ was about to leave this world, He told the disciples that he was going, but none of them asked Him whither He was going. He reproved them for not asking. Well He might, for the most important question that can face any man when he comes to leave this present world is “Whither goest thou?” First of all, REMEMBER THAT THERE IS AN ETERNITY. That is certain. We may try to shut our eyes to the fact, but the fact stands. Look ahead tonight. You may live five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty, forty, fifty years. But then what? The fifty years will soon be gone. Then what? ETERNITY! On it stretches before us, on and on and on. Never ending centuries will roll on, ages roll on, but still eternity stretches on and on. It will ever stretch on, never any nearer an end. Oh, thank God for eternity! If I knew I were to live a thousand years it would not satisfy me. I would always be thinking of the end that would come some time. I am glad that as I look out into the future I see an eternity that has absolutely no end. There is an eternity. In the second place, REMEMBER YOU MUST SPEND THAT ETERNITY SOMEWHERE. The time will never come when you cease to be. You will be somewhere throughout all eternity. Remember in the third place that THE QUESTION WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY IS VASTLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE QUESTION WHERE YOU WILL SPEND YOUR PRESENT LIFE. Suppose I am taking a day’s journey to a place where I shall spend forty years. Which is the more important, the comfort which I have as I travel or the comfort which I have when I get there? This life is a day’s journey to an endless eternity. The next point to consider is that IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US TO KNOW WHERE WE SHALL SPEND ETERNITY. Jesus knew where He would spend eternity. He said, “I go to Him that sent me.” Paul knew where he would spend eternity. He said, “For me to die is gain.” And again, “I depart to be with Christ which is far better”. The fifth fact to bear in mind is that WE WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN ONE OF TWO PLACES - IN HEAVEN OR IN HELL. Heaven is a place of holiness, happiness and love. Hell is a place of violence, misery and hate. In one or the other you and I shall spend eternity. With Christ or with the Devil. With the holy and pure, or with the profane, the blasphemous, the vile. Which will it be for all eternity? Just one point more. WHERE YOU SPEND ETERNITY WILL BE DETERMINED BY WHAT YOU DO WITH JESUS CHRIST. If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will spend eternity with Him. If you reject Jesus Christ you will spend eternity away from Him. Listen to the sure Word of God, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on Him.” John 3:36). Listen again, “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall suffer punishment, even everlasting destruction from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His might”. Where we spend eternity will be determined by what we do with Jesus Christ in the life that now is. There is an eternity; we must spend that eternity somewhere; the question where you will spend eternity is vastly more important than the question of where you will spend your present life, it is possible for us to know where we shall spend eternity, we shall spend eternity in one of two places, where we spend eternity will be settled in the life that now is; where you spend eternity will be determined by what you do with Jesus Christ. My friend, whither goest thou? Where will you spend eternity? By DR. R. A. TORREY