From sports, certainly we will see boxer, Evander Holyfield.
Evander is a born again Christian and has suffered so much. Some dishonest bank loaned him $10 million to build a house. Understandably, the house is now under forclosure of the banker.
Then, there is the bad fortune he had with his marriages. He has had six divorces from six bad wives. They bore him eight children. These children, and their mothers, should now be making payments on his house.
A born again man who has suffered so much will be there, I am sure.
You see, I like Handel's Messiah, and Zadok The Greek, and cannot wait to meet him.
But he wrote music for the coronation of George the Second, Father of the despotic George the Third who oppressed the holy American Revolution.
SO Handel, by all accounts did not have a denomination, so we cannot tell if he was a perfidious catholic, or more likely a protestant. Some even suggest he was a humanist!
But to counter I say his quote to a servant on completing the hallelujah chorus “I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself.”
My question, to those closer to GOD than me, is Handel in heaven?
I'm not sure about stars (Hollywood?) but I'm hoping to see the great Jesse Helms in Heaven.
"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
Amen, Brother! Along those lines, I hope Jesus forgave him for miscegenation, because I would sure like to meet Strom Thurmond behind the pearly gates.
And this godly fellow who kept America safe from the Communists for decades. One of America's greatest men ever, J. Edgar Hoover!
I'm not sure about stars (Hollywood?) but I'm hoping to see the great Jesse Helms in Heaven.
"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
While I appreciate your input on this thread, the lawyer training in me compels me to point out to any unsaved trash that these posts do NOT constitute a guarantee that any of these people will be in heaven. (Except God and Jesus, of course.) While they may have lived a life full of service to the Lord and to their fellow human beings, there is always the chance that they could have sinned just before their died and did not have enough time to ask for forgiveness.
For example, a Godly star might have fallen in their old age and accidentally used the Lord's name in vein just before their head hit the counter top. They could have ended up in a coma and died without every asking for forgiveness and ended up in Hell.
Conversely, any sinner who lived a life of drugs, debauchery, and murder without a thought for God or his fellow human beings could, theoretically, on his death bed, genuinely repent and ask for Jesus to enter his life, and that person would be in heaven for all eternity. (Unless at any time in their lives they committed the ONE unforgivable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit, then they are Hellbound fore sure!)
Tough, but those are the breaks God blessed us with. This is why everyone here at LBC asks for forgiveness every few minutes.
In tragic news today, one of God's own elect quarterbacks died today.
Dandy Don Meridith quarterback for was the Dallas Cowboys quarterback for eight years. He was known for his electrifying style of passing and bringing a smile to God's face every time he would beat the Redskins.
Most definitely, fellow True Christian™ Pat Robertson. I met Pat in the mid-70's and we've been good friends ever since. He's also a very wise man and I look up to him with much respect.
Do any business with his good friend Mr. Taylor yourself, Reverend? Perhaps an evangelization campaign in Liberia's diamond fields?
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