{"id":1235,"date":"2025-03-16T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-03-16T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T00:02:36","slug":"last-four-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLast Four Things\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am torn between the two: I desire to depart\u00a0and be with Christ,\u00a0which is better by far.\u201d Philippians 1:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just read a quote from Matthew Kelly. He said, \u201cThe last four things most folks think about are Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell.\u201d He may be right, but I think about those four things now more than I ever have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At age 78, I\u2019m at the tail end of my last quarter of life. Anything beyond age eighty is a bonus. :&gt;) I do think about my death and I see it as a win\/win. I know Jesus now and I will know Him even better in Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life is full of ups, downs, laughter, tears, successes, failures, etc., but death is inevitable. A 2023 Gallup poll found that only 74% of folks believe in God, 67% believe in heaven and 59% believe in hell. Therefore, I continue praying for the people in my own family and others wallowing in the darkness of unbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How much thought have I given to the Last Four Things? How well do I know Jesus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cI am torn between the two: I desire to depart\u00a0and be with Christ,\u00a0which is better by far.\u201d Philippians 1:23 Applying God\u2019s Word I just read a quote from Matthew Kelly. He said, \u201cThe last four things most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}