• Where’s Your Name Written?
• Luke 10:16-20
• “If you had a choice …”
• What People will do …
• What People will do …
• What People will do …
• Bizzarre records …
• Bizzarre records …
• More crazy things people will do …
• More crazy things people will do …
• Guinness records…
• Guinness records…
• Places your name is written …
• Birth certificate
• Report card
• Driver’s license
• Marriage license
• Contract
• Luke 10:17-20
• 17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
• Luke 10:17-20
• 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
• God knows each of us by name …
• Psalms 147:4-5 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. 5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
• Luke 15:7 I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
• God’s book of names
• Exodus 32:32-33 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin -- but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written." 33 And the LORD said to Moses,"Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
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• Children of God are recognized by name
• Philippians 4:1-3 Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved. I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.3 And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
• Children of God are recognized by name
• Revelation 3:1-6 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, : "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
• Children of God are recognized by name
• Revelation 3:4 You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'
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• The Lamb’s Book of Life
• Revelation 13:4- So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying,"Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?“ …8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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• The Lamb’s Book of Life
• Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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• The Lamb’s Book of Life
• Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
• The Lamb’s Book of Life
• Revelation 21:27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
• The Lamb’s Book of Life
• Revelation 22:18-19 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
• Where’s Your Name Written?
• Luke 10:16-20