Some years ago, the renowned world boxer, Muhammad Ali was asked openly in a program by a young boy what he would like to do when he retires from boxing. His reply was, “When I retire from boxing, I really don’t know. I wanna say something right here and this might make you all think. Life is real short, so you add up all your travelling, all your sleeping, your school, your entertainment, you probably been half your life doing nothing.
So now, I’m 35 years old, 30 more years, I’ll be 65. We don’t have no more influence, we can’t do nothing much at 65, your wife will tell you that. When you are 65, it ain’t too much more to do. So, did you know I’ll be 65 in 30 more years? In those 30 years, I have to sleep 9 years, I don’t have 30 years of daylight, I have to travel back to America 6/7 hours, all my travelling, probably 4 years of travelling in the next 30 years, about 9 years of sleeping, television, movies, entertainment, about 3 years of entertainment. Out of 30 years, I might have about 16 years to be productive. So, this is how we can all break our individual lives down. What am I going to do in the next 16 years? What is the best thing I can do? GET READY TO MEET GOD.
Going into real estate, going into business, teaching boxers, all that won’t get me into heaven. How many believe there is a supreme being? Believe there is a God? How many believed there is some power that made the sun, the moon and stars? How many believe that this stuff didn’t just come out here? Somebody wiser than us made it. How many believe there is a God? If I told you, you who don’t believe in God that this glass sprung into existence, this glass made itself, no man made this glass, would you believe it? When I tell you, you wouldn’t believe it right? If I told you that this television station popped into existence, no man made it. You’ll say, ‘Muhammad Ali is crazy’ Alright, if this glass can’t make itself, if I told you that those clothes you have on wove themselves, nobody created them, those clothes made themselves, you wouldn’t believe it. If those clothes didn’t make themselves, if that glass didn’t make itself, if this building didn’t make itself, then how did the moon get out there? How did the stars, Jupiter, Neptune, and Mars, and the sun, how did nature and all these come here if didn’t no wise something planner make it? So, what I’m saying is, ‘I believe we are all going to be judged.’”
He continued further by
saying, “Should a man like Hitler kill all the Jews and get away with it?
Somebody should punish him, maybe he don’t get it now, but gets it when he dies.
In hell for eternity. So, what I’m gonna do when I get out of boxing is to get
myself ready to MEET God, because my plane might blow up. Don’t planes blow up
in this country sometimes and crash. Don’t people die everyday? It’s a scary
thing to think that I’m going to hell to burn for eternally FOREVER.
So, what I’m I gonna do? Reason, why I’m explaining what you asked in the question, you asked a question I can’t just answer like that. When I get out of boxing, or when I’m through, I’m gonna do all I can to help people. That’s why I’m here with Jonny Walker. Here is a poor man, came all the way to America. There’s a bunch of boys need some money, and somebody is calling me to help them. GOD IS WATCHING ME! God don’t praise me because I beat Joe Frazier, God don’t give nothing about Joe Frazier, God don’t care nothing about England or America. As far as we are aware of, it’s all His. He wants to know how we treat each other. How do we help each other? So, I’m going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities, helping people, and uniting people. People bombing each other because of religion.
We need somebody in the world to help us to make peace. So, when I die, if there is a heaven, I want to see it, because we live how long? 80 years? The odds are everybody in this room, some of you gonna be dead 20 years from now, some 50 years from now, some of you 30, 60, 70 years from now. We all gonna die soon, and if you live to be say 125 years old which we don’t do, right? Let’s say we live to be 250 and you can have sex for 145 of those years, you gonna come to an end after that. So, we don’t have but about 80 years on earth. This is a test to see where we will spend our life, heaven or hell.
This is not the life now, your real self is inside you, your body gets old. Some of you go to look at the mirror. You don’t have no teeth, your hair is leaving you, your bodies get tired, but your soul and your spirit never die, that’s gonna live forever. So, your body is just housing your soul and your spirit. God is testing us on how we treat each other, how we live to see where our real home will be, in heaven. So, this physical stuff don’t last for so long. My car, this building is gonna be here when the man who built it is dead. There have been many kings and queens of England, they all dead. After this one is gone, another one gonna come. We don’t stay here, we are just trustees, we don’t own nothing, even your children are not yours. If you think I’m lying, your wife is not yours. You don’t own your children, you don’t own your family, so, what am I saying?
The most important thing about life is what’s gonna happen when you die? Are you going to heaven or hell? And that’s eternity. How long is eternity? Let’s imagine, take the Sahara desert, there’s a lot of sand on the Sahara desert right? Imagine that one grain of sand represents 1,000 years and when you in hell burning, when you die, and go to hell, you gonna burn forever and ever and ever, NO END! How long is that?
Give you an idea how long eternity is. Take the Sahara desert and I told you told you to wait 1,000 years and every 1,000 years, I want you to pick up a grain of sand until the desert is empty, ok wait 1,000 years pick up a grain, wait another 1,000 years before you pick up the next grain, keep that up until there’s no more sand in the desert. You know how long just…I mean, America is not but 200 years old, we got 800 more years before 1,000, so, just scares me to think that I’m gonna die one day and go to hell. I’m on an airplane that might blow up, I’m always travelling and to go to hell and God is going to judge my soul. The police, I might kill people, I might rob people, the authorities might not catch me. The FBI, Scotland yard might not catch me, but when I die, somebody’s watching me and keeping count and I CAN’T GET AWAY, and I’m gonna burn forever and ever I’ll go to hell. So, what I’m I gonna do when I’m through fighting, I only have 16 years to be productive, get myself ready to meet God and go to the best place ”
Agur in the above verse recognized the need to stay close to God despite the numerous enticements of this world. He asked for a middle state and indeed daily bread to meet his family's immediate needs. He asked that God may take from him riches which lead to vanity, and poverty which leads to lying and deceit. Some being full of the riches of this world are tempted to deny that what they have, they have received of God. Agur's prayer of wisdom in the verses above shouldn't be far from our lips if we want to make heaven.
So, what I’m I gonna do? Reason, why I’m explaining what you asked in the question, you asked a question I can’t just answer like that. When I get out of boxing, or when I’m through, I’m gonna do all I can to help people. That’s why I’m here with Jonny Walker. Here is a poor man, came all the way to America. There’s a bunch of boys need some money, and somebody is calling me to help them. GOD IS WATCHING ME! God don’t praise me because I beat Joe Frazier, God don’t give nothing about Joe Frazier, God don’t care nothing about England or America. As far as we are aware of, it’s all His. He wants to know how we treat each other. How do we help each other? So, I’m going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities, helping people, and uniting people. People bombing each other because of religion.
We need somebody in the world to help us to make peace. So, when I die, if there is a heaven, I want to see it, because we live how long? 80 years? The odds are everybody in this room, some of you gonna be dead 20 years from now, some 50 years from now, some of you 30, 60, 70 years from now. We all gonna die soon, and if you live to be say 125 years old which we don’t do, right? Let’s say we live to be 250 and you can have sex for 145 of those years, you gonna come to an end after that. So, we don’t have but about 80 years on earth. This is a test to see where we will spend our life, heaven or hell.
This is not the life now, your real self is inside you, your body gets old. Some of you go to look at the mirror. You don’t have no teeth, your hair is leaving you, your bodies get tired, but your soul and your spirit never die, that’s gonna live forever. So, your body is just housing your soul and your spirit. God is testing us on how we treat each other, how we live to see where our real home will be, in heaven. So, this physical stuff don’t last for so long. My car, this building is gonna be here when the man who built it is dead. There have been many kings and queens of England, they all dead. After this one is gone, another one gonna come. We don’t stay here, we are just trustees, we don’t own nothing, even your children are not yours. If you think I’m lying, your wife is not yours. You don’t own your children, you don’t own your family, so, what am I saying?
The most important thing about life is what’s gonna happen when you die? Are you going to heaven or hell? And that’s eternity. How long is eternity? Let’s imagine, take the Sahara desert, there’s a lot of sand on the Sahara desert right? Imagine that one grain of sand represents 1,000 years and when you in hell burning, when you die, and go to hell, you gonna burn forever and ever and ever, NO END! How long is that?
Give you an idea how long eternity is. Take the Sahara desert and I told you told you to wait 1,000 years and every 1,000 years, I want you to pick up a grain of sand until the desert is empty, ok wait 1,000 years pick up a grain, wait another 1,000 years before you pick up the next grain, keep that up until there’s no more sand in the desert. You know how long just…I mean, America is not but 200 years old, we got 800 more years before 1,000, so, just scares me to think that I’m gonna die one day and go to hell. I’m on an airplane that might blow up, I’m always travelling and to go to hell and God is going to judge my soul. The police, I might kill people, I might rob people, the authorities might not catch me. The FBI, Scotland yard might not catch me, but when I die, somebody’s watching me and keeping count and I CAN’T GET AWAY, and I’m gonna burn forever and ever I’ll go to hell. So, what I’m I gonna do when I’m through fighting, I only have 16 years to be productive, get myself ready to meet God and go to the best place ”
Proverbs 30:8-9 says, "Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion, That I not be full and deny You and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of my God. "
Agur in the above verse recognized the need to stay close to God despite the numerous enticements of this world. He asked for a middle state and indeed daily bread to meet his family's immediate needs. He asked that God may take from him riches which lead to vanity, and poverty which leads to lying and deceit. Some being full of the riches of this world are tempted to deny that what they have, they have received of God. Agur's prayer of wisdom in the verses above shouldn't be far from our lips if we want to make heaven.
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