Know Before You Go!

Know Before You Go! Before going to do hospital visitation today 6/2 on my drive south on MD210. There are signs that MDOT changes to notify drives of road conditions as well as traffic during rush hour. Since today is a Sunday the message on the digital sign read “Know before You Go dial 511”, I thought about that and chuckled a bit and thought it is wise to know before we go. I always hear people say how hard life is, how depressing it can be if you do life alone. I think about it life does suck but the problem is this; you spend your whole life with the emotive feelings of how bad life is or the next it is great. What we tend to forget is that even though we have ups and downs, we still live our lives as if tomorrow or the next year or for the next minute is guaranteed. Let me get to my point as the sign reads dial 511 to gain information about your travels toward your destination. We all must come to grips that we shall all die one day, and yet after we die as it is written in scripture Hebrew 9:27 we will die and face judgement. Yes judgement in the afterlife and when this world will all be destroyed and renewed more on the renewal part another time. However we can know for sure that we will have everlasting life in this life and yet when we hit our life’s end we shall know that we will live forever. Let me just take sometime to share what the bible says. We are sinners in need of a savior someone who is sinless who can bare the iniquities all of humanity.(Romans 3:12, 3:23) Who by his death can satisfy the wrath of God for the sins of humanity.(Roman 6:23) Who’s blood can cover the sins of all humanity, which by our association to Jesus as brothers and sisters we become co-heirs with him. By faith while we were still sinners Christ died. Jesus death on the cross was done so that we my be healed from all our unrighteousness and that believing in him we my have everlasting life. Through God love for the word he gave us his son so that belief in him we may have everlasting life. (John3:15-15) Jesus being the manifested in the flesh full deity and fully man yet without sin was able to die for the world. This is love that a man lay his life down for his friends, not only for his friends but for his enemies. (John15:13) So we are to believe in Jesus and we will have eternal life. Belief is the same as knowing in the illustration is 2+2=4. That if you have paid your electric bill the lights will come on when you flip the switch. You have faith and hope and hope is not life a subjunctive in that you assume something might happen. No hope is the assurance or the certainty that it will occur, that certainty is life eternal because we believe in Jesus, life death burial and resurrection. Therefore we place our trust in him and not in things of this world. Jesus says in John 11 I am the resurrection and the life the one who believes in me even if he dies will live. Everyone who believe in Me shall never die. Than he asks the question “Do You Believe this?” The title entry is know before you go. That is to know that when you die if you place your faith in Jesus that you will be assured of entrance into heaven based on the work and grace and faith of Christ alone. After reading are going to heaven when you die?