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/How many of you have ever heard the old saying, “When it’s your time to go, death will find you.”/
/            /A widow was preparing for her first airplane flight to go see her son and his family, but she was very nervous about flying.
As she shared her concerns with her son over the phone, the son remarked, “Well, Mom, you know when it’s your time to go, it doesn’t matter where you are.”
To which the mom replied, “I’m not worried about that.
What I’m worried about is being stuck on the plane when it’s the /pilot’s /time to go!”
/“When it’s your turn to go, death will find you.”
There is some good practical theology in this /
/old saying.
It emphasizes God’s sovereignty over life and death.
If God is in charge of when sparrows fall, then surely He is in charge of death’s timing for you and I.
If He sets that date, then you can be sure it will be an appointment you will keep.
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/That’s the rule, but the Bible records some notable exceptions.
Genesis tells us Enoch’s /
/time never came, because God translated him directly into heaven.
Centuries later the prophet /
/Elijah missed his date with death by hitching a ride on a fiery chariot to heaven.
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/            But tonight I’m going to tell you about a man who didn’t miss his appointment with death—he delayed it.
Somehow he persuaded God to give him 15 more years of life.
He is the Man Who Lived a Little Longer, and I want to introduce him to you to help you and I learn a little more about life, and death, and how to face them both.
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/            /His name is Hezekiah, and he is one of the Bible’s good guys.
He especially shines bright among the line-up of wicked rulers in the books of King and Chronicles.
Hezekiah inherited the throne from his father Ahaz, who led Israel into idolatry and almost to complete ruin.
But Hezekiah turns all that around, reopens the Temple, reassembles all the Levites and priests, reinstitutes the sacrifices of the Mosaic Covenant.
He shuts down almost all the idol worship going on, and even manages to take a shot at reuniting the nation of Israel.
More than just a man of accomplishments, Hezekiah is also a man of character.
The Bible says about him
*2 Ki 18:3, 5 */3// //And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
5He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him./
*2 Kings 19 *describes Hezekiah as a man of prayer and great faith, who asks God for protection when the Assyrians threaten to invade Israel.
His trust is not only in soldiers or weapons, but in God.
Hezekiah is the best thing that’s happened to the nation of Israel in many years.
Which makes it all the more shocking when in *vs.
1* Hezekiah comes down with an illness and God sends the prophet Isaiah with a message: /Get your affairs in order.
You are about to die.
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            /Die?
How can this be?
/thinks Hezekiah.
He’s still a young man, probably around 39 years old.
He’s tried to live a good life, tried to do what was right.
He’s served the Lord, served his people, tried to make things better.
He’s still got ideas and plans for the future, plans which now evaporate like steam into the air.
As good and godly a man as Hezekiah is, he cannot escape the cold hard reality of death.
/Neither can you or I.
In these first few verses Hezekiah faces his mortality, and sooner or later, you and I must face the fact that our days on earth are numbered.
In fact, the Bible recommends reminding ourselves of this often in /
*Ps 90:12* /So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom./
/            //I don’t believe this means becoming obsessed with death.
I don’t think God wants us daily scanning the obituaries and becoming more depressed wondering what they’ll print about us when we die.
I don’t believe numbering your days means giving up on life.
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/On the other hand, you and I don’t need a prophet to come and announce to us the fact that /
/we will die.
Every time you pass the graveyard should remind you of the reality of death./
/Every /
/time you glance at a photograph of a loved one who has passed away should remind your turn is coming.
The question is not *will I die?* the question is *am I ready to die? *Is my house set in order?
How can you be ready?
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/            First, being ready for death means being sure you’re right with God.
You don’t get any more chances after you die.
You have as long as you’re breathing to believe in and received Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord.
If you don’t do it before you die, you never will.
This is why it’s so important that you and I follow the advice of /
*2 Pe 1:10-11 */10//Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ./
/            Peter isn’t suggesting you are saved by works, but he is advising us to be sure where we stand with God before we step out of this life into the next.
Be sure you are right with God through faith in Christ.
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/            Second, being ready for death means being sure you’re right with everybody else.
Death interrupts our relationships with the people we love.
We can buy insurance to help with the financial cost of death, but what about the emotional cost?
Are there people you need to be reconciled with?
Do it now, before death steals your last chance.
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/Do the people who mean the most to you know how much you love them?
Take time to remind them now, so they won’t have to wonder later.
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On a cold winter evening a man suffered a heart attack and after being admitted to the hospital, asked the nurse to call his daughter.
He explained, "She is the only family I have."
The nurse went to phone the daughter.
The daughter was quite upset and shouted, "You must not let him die!
You see, Dad and I had a terrible argument almost a year ago.
The last thing I said to him was 'I hate you."'
The daughter cried and then said, "I'm coming now.
I'll be there in thirty minutes."
The patient went into cardiac arrest, and code 99 was alerted.
The nurse prayed, "O God, his daughter is coming.
Don't let it end this way."
The efforts of the medical team to revive the patient were fruitless.
The nurse observed one of the doctors talking to the daughter outside the room.
She could see the pathetic hurt in her face.
The nurse took the daughter aside and said, "I'm sorry."
The daughter responded, "I never hated him, you know.
I loved him."
The nurse took her to the room, and the daughter went to the bed and buried her face in the sheets as she said good-bye to her father.
The nurse noticed a scrap of paper on the bed table.
She picked it up and read: "My dearest Janie, I forgive you.
I pray you will also forgive me.
I know that you love me.
I love you, too.
Daddy."[i]
/You may not have time to write that letter.
God wants us to know death is certain, and even though He when, we don’t.
We need to number our days and get our house in order, as God told Hezekiah to do.
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/            /But Hezekiah is not only holy---he’s also human.
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