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ETERNITY... You have Questions??? We
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ETERNITY... it's a fact.
Did you ever wonder... how can anyone have peace and confidence
in the face of LIFE and eternity?
Did you know that the Bible tells how you can know for sure
that you have eternal life and will go to be with God in Heaven?
It's true!
How would you like to know God personally? You can. The fact
is, God is so eager to establish a personal, loving relationship
with you that He has already arranged for it to be possible.
Now, He is waiting for you to respond to His invitation. You
can receive His forgiveness for your sins and through faith
in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, receive assurance of eternal
life.
There is a barrier that prevents us from knowing God personally,
though. That barrier is ignorance of who God is and what He
has done for us. The following principles will help you discover
how to know God personally and experience the abundant life
He has promised. Read on to discover for yourself the joyful
reality of knowing God personally. If you have a Bible, you
may want to look up suggested verses.
God's Love
"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16
God loves you and wants you to know Him personally. In fact,
that is the reason He created you! What prevents you from knowing
God? Man is sinful and separated from God. Because of this,
the loving relationship He desires with us is unattainable
unless we confess our sin and ask Him to come into our lives.
Man Is Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
Although we were created to have fellowship with God, we
chose to be independent and go our own way. Our stubborn self-will
broke the fellowship with God we were created to have. This
self-will characterizes itself in two distinct forms: active
rebellion and passive indifference. Both of these are attitudes,
and the Bible calls these attitudes "sin."
Man Is Separated
"The wages of sin is death [spiritual separation from God]." Romans
6:23
God is holy and we are sinful. It is simply the truth. A
great gulf separates us from Him. We can try to live a good
life; we can try to be religious; we can attempt to unlock
the truths of life through philosophy. Yet no matter what we
do through our efforts to reach God, we inevitably fail. The
fact is, we can do nothing to overcome the gulf between God
and us.
God's Plan
"God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
But there is a way. Jesus Christ is God's only provision
for man's sin. Through Him alone we can know God personally
and experience God's love. How? Jesus Christ died in our place
and rose from the dead. Through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection,
He made it possible for us to know God and to experience His
love.
Jesus Is the Only Way
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes
to the Father, but through Me.'" John 14:6
God bridged the gulf that separates us from Him by sending
His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our place to
pay the penalty for our sins. It is important to know these
truths, but even still just knowledge of the facts is not enough.
We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord;
then we can know God personally and experience His love.
When we receive Jesus Christ into our hearts, we experience
new birth. Receiving Christ involves turning to God from self.
This is also called "repentance." We must trust Christ
to come into our lives to forgive us of our sins and to make
us what He wants us to be. Just to agree intellectually that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross
for our sins is not enough. Nor is it enough to have an emotional
experience. We receive Jesus Christ by faith, as an act of
our will.
You Can Receive Christ
"...and everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."
Acts 2:21
You can receive Christ right now through prayer. You can
pray aloud if you choose to, but it is not important. God knows
your heart and is not so concerned with how you pray to Him.
He is most concerned with the attitude of your heart. If you
would like to ask Jesus Christ into your heart and life, here
is a suggested prayer. If you pray to Him, you can be assured
that He will come into your life and begin showing you how
much He really does love you:
"Lord Jesus, I want to know You personally. Thank
you for dying on the cross for my sins. I want to open my
life to you and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank
you for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life.
Take control of my life. Make me the kind of person You want
me to be."
If You Have Prayed to Receive Christ, Congratulations! You
now have the auurance and know the peace and confidence that
YOUR eternity is in heaven!
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