Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 16th.

Do you understand the connection between how you live today and your destiny and eternity?

Let's begin a compelling series titled Countdown to Judgment and gain a sober, biblical understanding of our predestined appointment. Do you realize that the moment you were born, the countdown started on your life?

A countdown to the judgment of God.

The moment you became a person, the countdown started. And every single tick of the clock, you're that one second closer to that moment of an inescapable, predestined, planned, unavoidable appointment with Almighty God. There are a lot of people who say, I don't believe in life

after death. That doesn't make a bit of difference. I don't believe the Bible matters not.

I don't believe anything about life after death. That's no issue. There is a countdown going on in your life right now. You're going to meet with the Lord Jesus Christ. You're going to give an account for your life. And whether you believe it or not is not the issue. The issue is, how ready are you to meet him? Because when he calls our name, we go in. And I want to remind you that

no doctor, no matter how skilled he is, can keep you here. No prayer meeting, no matter how powerful the

prayer meeting may be, can keep you here. There is an appointed time, a predestined time, for the simple reason, that's what the Word of God teaches, and there are multitudes of reasons for it.

Now, the title of this series is Countdown to Judgment.

The title of the message is our predestined appointment.

We have an appointment with Almighty God. We all have one. You say,

well, I didn't sign up for that. You didn't have to. He signs you up. You will be there. You will be on time.

There will be no delay. God knows exactly this moment when you and I will breathe our last breath and will be in his presence.

The Bible says, absent from the body, present with the Lord, that is for all of us who are believers.

And so Paul writing in this scripture, we're going to read a few moments, he was writing to the

Corinthian Church, and he was writing this to believers. Now, there is a judgment of unbelievers,

and while I'll mention that and give a brief description, we're talking primarily about the judgment

of the Christian, the believers in Christ Jesus. So if you'll turn to Second Corinthians,

and look, if you will, in Chapter 5, Chapter 5 of 2nd Corinthians. And what Paul was talking about, he was talking about this whole issue of death, if you will, in chapter five, chapter five of Second Corinthians. And what Paul is talking

about here, he was talking about this whole issue of death and our physical bodies and what's going to

happen and so forth. And so here's what he says, beginning in verse one. For we know that if the

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