If you don’t believe that Jesus is your Lord and Savior and He died for your sins, you are on your way to hell. You may think this is pretty gloomy, but its reality. Ah hell, it’s the real deal, that’s for sure! This brings to mind a quote from Ice Age:
Dodo: Now don't fall in. If you do, you will definitely... ...Burn and die.
1. First off, we deserve to go to hell, for eternity. Cuz we’re a sinners. There’s nothing we can do about, we are NOTHING to God as sinners. And is no way, shape or form, can we “earn” our way to heaven by “being a good person”.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)
“All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.” (Isaiah 64:6)
“I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (Galatians 2:21)
If we could earn our way to heaven, there would be no reason for Jesus to have died for our sins and there would be no reason for his grace.
2. God’s Holy. We’re sinners. They don’t mix. God’s nature prohibits any fellowship with sin. We’re screwed by ourselves. It’s a fact.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
Its set in stone, if you sin, you die. Its God’s law.
3. God’s loves you. Period. Remember John 3:16?
“Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.” (Ezekiel 33:11)
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” ( 2 Peter 3:9)
4. Jesus was your substitution sacrifice, paid for your sins with His life. It’s the free gift of grace, and YOU had nothing do with it, other than accepting it. You must believe Jesus died for your sins and rose again in three days. You can’t just go to church, or be a good person , or even believe just in God. Even the demons believe in God, but they aren’t going to heaven. (First few chapters of Job?)
“If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:15
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
5. The Bible is the word of God and in the Bible, God testifies that Jesus died for your sins and was buried; and that on the third day He rose from the dead. You must believe and confess this in order to be saved.
“That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9
6. We’re sinners and apart from Him we can do nothing. He’s the perfect sacrifice. Unless we believe that, we’re going to spend an awful long time in a pretty nasty place. God is Just, but He's also righteous and merciful. While we deserve hell, He's given us the option to receive His forgiveness if only we ask for it, because he LOVED us enough to provide a way out.
“Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!” (James 2:13)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” (Romans 5:8-11)
7. It’s His love for us that allows us to be with Him for eternity. It’s your choice; you just have to accept it.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes through the Father but through me.” (John 14:16)
That means there is only one heaven, one way to be saved, and only one God.
It’s an exclusive club. Either you’re in, or… you’re out. Sink or Swim.
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