Topic: A Closed File
Text: Acts 1:13-20

There is nothing as bad as getting to a destination from where a return journey is impossible. You will have no one to blame but yourself for reaching a destination where you regret eternally.

Therefore, you must look before you leap. Anyone who starts a journey must know his destination. By the time Paul was writing his second letter to Timothy in, II Timothy 4:7, he said clearly that he had arrived at the right destination. “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.”

On the other hand, Judas according to our text arrived at a wrong destination. The passage says he had gone to his own place. He was down and out. His case was a settled matter. His file was closed.

In Judges 16:20-22, you will read about Samson. Samson had a great fall. His eyes were plucked out. He was bound with fetters of iron. However, the hair on his head started to grow again. This means that he was down but was not out. In other words, his fate was not sealed yet.

No matter what state you find yourself in, never get to a point where your file will be closed.

Today, you still have an opportunity. You can make amends before it is too late. God’s grace is available to you. Even you.

Memory Verse: Numbers 25:9 - “And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.”