Wednesday, May 29, 2013

If You Were To Die Tonight?

It is not really a question really, but a start the a question. So let me ask it in its entirety; If you were to die tonight and stand before God and God were to ask you why should he let you into heaven? If you answer is you don't know that is a good answer because there is help for you. If you are unsure also there is help for you. The problem is that God will not let you into heaven. Why because we are all sinners and it is written in the bible that for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.(Romans 3:23) It also says that there is no one who does good.(Romans 3:12) The bible says that for the wages of sin is death.(romans 6:23) Yes we will all die that is correct but the bible tells us that when we die we will face the judgement.(Hebrews 9:27) We will face a death physically and spiritually meaning that all who have disobeyed God will be thrown in the lake of fire which is the second death. Because God is holy and is light he cannot stand does not want to be in the presence of unholy people. It is like when the dog poops on the floor after you have trained him to stand at the door to go but instead he just goes right on the floor in front of you as if to say see there take that. That is what our righteousness is before a Holy God. Because he has the right to punish in his righteous judgement he also provides righteous love shown to us also. That is done through his son Jesus, who is God. Because he is the only one to be righteous to take the wrath and bare the sins of all of humanity. In doing so Jesus tasted death for everyone (Hebrews 2:9) His death, burial and his resurrection and by grace through faith God has given us a gift in Christ. (Ephesians 2:8,9) What is this gift it is the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus. The bible says For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever shall believe in him shall have everlasting life.(John 3:16) Jesus also says "whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgement but has passed from death to life.(John 5:24) Listen again to what Jesus says "I say to you whoever believe has eternal life" (John 6:47) Jesus when he performed the miracle of bringing his friend Lazarus back from the death, after being in a tomb for 4 days in burial clothes. Jesus said that I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believe in me though he die, yet shall he live and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? Only God is able to rise the dead, tell people to believe on him, break no law and die so that he death might be a sufficient sacrifice for the whole world. Do you believe by faith If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord and believe that in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. Everyone who believes in him will not be but to shame. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:9-13) Listen! If you believe that you are saved and you can say without a shadow of doubt that you are saved and if you are to die tonight, tomorrow, next week or 30 years from now you are saved and God will bring you into heaven because the will of God is to believe in Jesus. Jesus says this in John 10:27,28 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand." There are the promises that are found in scripture that you can read an verify and know that you are saved to the uttermost. Please comment and let me know that you are saved.

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