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Lift the Precious Savior Up
Missing SermonThe Tragedy of Being LostOne
StepThe Ethiopian Man His BibleThe
CrossChrists Return
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One Step
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One Step

• 1 Samuel 203 There is but a step between me
  and death. NKJV

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step
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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• I Samuel 203 NIV there is only a step between
  me and death

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.
• Job 141-2 Man who is born of woman, Is of few
  days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a
  flower and fades away He flees like a shadow and
  does not continue.

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.
• Psalm 9010 The days of our lives are seventy
  years And if by reason of strength they are
  eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and
  sorrow For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.
• Luke 1220 But God said to him, Fool! This
  night your soul will be required of you then
  whose will those things be which you have
  provided?

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.
• James 414 whereas you do not know what will
  happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is
  even a vapor that appears for a little time and
  then vanishes away.

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The Distance Between Life and Death Is One Step

• Life is short.
• James 414 whereas you do not know what will
  happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is
  even a vapor that appears for a little time and
  then vanishes away.
• The Brevity of Life

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?
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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step no one can take for us.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step no one can take for us.
• 2 Samuel 1833 Then the king was deeply moved,
  and went up to the chamber over the gate, and
  wept. And as he went, he said thus O my son
  Absalommy son, my son Absalomif only I had died
  in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step no one can take for us.
• Parent

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step no one can take for us.
• Parent
• Spouse

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step no one can take for us.
• Parent
• Spouse
• Grandparent

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step we take one time.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step we take one time.
• Job 1021 Before I go to the place from which
  I shall not return, To the land of darkness and
  the shadow of death,

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step we take one time.
• Job 1021 Before I go to the place from which
  I shall not return, To the land of darkness and
  the shadow of death,
• Once

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step we take one time.
• Job 1021 Before I go to the place from which
  I shall not return, To the land of darkness and
  the shadow of death,
• Once
• Exceptions

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which is common to all.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which is common to all.
• Hebrews 927 And as it is appointed for men to
  die once, but after this the judgment.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which is common to all.
• Rich and Poor

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which is common to all.
• Rich and Poor
• Presidents and Prime Ministers

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which is common to all.
• Rich and Poor
• Presidents and Prime Ministers
• Saved and Lost

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which will change things.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which will change things
• Ecclesiastes 127 Then the dust will return
  to the earth asit was, And the spirit will
  return to God whogave it.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which will change things
• Family Relationships

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which will change things
• Family Relationships
• Business Relationships

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step which will change things
• Family Relationships
• Business Relationships
• Friendships

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step between life and judgment.

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step between life and judgment.
• Hebrews 927 And as it is appointed for men to
  die once, but after this the judgment

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What Does Gods Word Say About the One Step to
Death?

• Death is a step between life and judgment.
• John 1248 He who rejects Me, and does not
  receive My words, has that which judges himthe
  word that I have spoken will judge him in the
  last day.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!
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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• Isaiah 381 In those days Hezekiah was sick and
  near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of
  Amoz, went to him and said to him, Thus says the
  Lord Set your house in order, for you shall die
  and not live.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• When house in order?

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• When house in order?
• Why house in order?

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• When house in order?
• Why house in order?
• Luke 1623 And being in torments in Hades, he
  lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and
  Lazarus in his bosom.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?
• Acts 412 Nor is there salvation in any other,
  for there is no other name under heaven given
  among men by which we must be saved.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?
• Acts 412
• Faith Hebrews 116

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?
• Acts 412
• Faith Hebrews 116
• Repentance Luke 133

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?
• Acts 412
• Faith Hebrews 116
• Repentance Luke 133
• Confession Matthew 1032

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• How house in order?
• Acts 412
• Faith Hebrews 116
• Repentance Luke 133
• Confession Matthew 1032
• Baptism Mark 1616

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• Faithful to Death

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• Faithful to Death
• 2 Timothy 47-8 I have fought the good fight,
  I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
  Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me
  only but also to all who have loved His
  appearing.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• We cannot set our house in order after we die.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• We cannot set our house in order after we die.
• Luke 1624 Then he cried and said, Father
  Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that
  he may dip the tip of his finger in water and
  cool my tongue for I am tormented in this
  flame.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• We cannot set our house in order after we die.
• Luke 1625 But Abraham said, Son, remember
  that in your lifetime you received your good
  things, and likewise Lazarus evil things but now
  he is comforted and you are tormented.

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We Need to Be Prepared When We Take the One Step
to Death!

• We cannot set our house in order after we die.
• Luke 1626 And besides all this, between us
  and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that
  those who want to pass from here to you cannot,
  nor can those from there pass to us.

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death
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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• The Flood

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• The Flood
• 2 Peter 25 and did not spare the ancient
  world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a
  preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
  on the world of the ungodly

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Wedding Feast

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Wedding Feast
• Matthew 222 The kingdom of heaven is like a
  certain king who arranged a marriage for his son

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Wedding Feast
• Matthew 223 and sent out his servants to call
  those who were invited to the wedding and they
  were not willing to come.

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Wedding Feast
• Matthew 2213 Then the king said to the
  servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away,
  and cast him into outer darkness there will be
  weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Wedding Feast
• Matthew 2214 For many are called, but few are
  chosen.

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 251-13

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 251-13
• 5 Wise, 5 Foolish

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 251-13
• 5 Wise, 5 Foolish
• Bridegroom

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 2511 Afterward the other virgins came
  also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us!

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 2512 But he answered and said,
  Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you.

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The Danger of Not Preparingfor the One Step to
Death

• Ten Virgins
• Matthew 2513 Watch therefore, for you know
  neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of
  Man is coming.

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Are You Prepared to Take the One Step to Death?