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You can be 100% Sure of Eternal Life


Do you know where you’d be if you died today? The Bible says that you can “know that ye have eternal life” (1 Jn 5:13) and that you are in fellowship with God. This life is so short compared to all of eternity.
“For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14)

In order to know where you’ll end up and what your standing is with God, you need to understand the bad news and the good news:




Bad News



1.) YOU ARE A SINNER

God’s standard is “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Mt 5:48),

But, according to the Bible, you have fallen miserably short of His holy glory.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
“There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Rom 3:10-12).

The Lord Jesus Christ said that unjust anger is murder (Mt 5:21-22), and a lustful thought is adultery (Mt 5:27-28). If you have done these things, you are a murderer and an adulterer. You have lied (Prov 6:16), been proud (Pr 6:16-19), bitter (Ro 3:14), unthankful (2 Tim 3:2), covetous (2 Tim 3:2), and hypocritical (Is 33:14).

You have broken the greatest commandment of all, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind” (Mt 22:37).

Indeed, until you are born again, you “cannot please God” (Rom 8:8). This very moment, “the wrath of God abideth” on you (Jn 3:36).


2.) YOU DESERVE A PENALTY FOR SIN

God’s law says, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them” (Gal 3:10).

You have not continuously and perfectly obeyed, so you are cursed. Since “the wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23), you are subject to both physical death, the separation of the soul and spirit from the body (Heb 9:27), and to spiritual death, the separation of a person from God.

“This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:14-15).

The question arises: “How can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Mt 23:33).




The Good News



3.) JESUS DIED FOR YOU

Jesus Christ is “God manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim 3:16).
The Son of God, who existed from eternity past with the Father and the Holy Spirit—the three eternal Persons of the one and only true God (1 Jn 5:7)—took to Himself a human nature, so that, although He was still 100% God, He became 100% Man as well.

“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Gal 3:13).
“Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but [made alive] by the Spirit” (1 Pet 3:18).

Since by “one offering he hath perfected for ever” those that are washed in His blood (Heb 10:14), there is nothing that you can do to save yourself, or to keep yourself saved.

“Salvation is of the LORD” (Jon 2:9).


4.) YOU MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST

To have the Lord Jesus’ blood wash away your sins, you must place your faith in Him. “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (Jn 3:16).

Saving faith involves repentance and trust:

a.) Repentance:
“Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Lu 13:3).

b.) Trust:
“For by grace [undeserved favor] are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph 2:8-9).



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