You deserve to die!
You deserve to die!
You deserve to die because of sin!
But God sent his son down to save us, so that we won't have to suffer in eternal seperation from our creator, but eternal unification with him! You don't deserve this!
YAWNNNNN..... you may find this boring. U heard it upteen times! But let me tell you in another perspective.
But the fact remains: YOU DESERVE TO DIE.
The fact still remains: You can be saved, only you accept the Lord Jesus Christ of the bible into your heart, accepting him as your personal savior. And worship him as the one and only God and savior. No one else.
You deserve to die. I deserve to die.
Let's say that you get a high distinction in your test. But you get your answers because your teacher told you the answers. You should fail. The teacher believed that you would buck up the next round.
Still, no matter WHETHER OR NOT you buck up and pull up your socks after the test, you STILL deserve to fail.
Same for man. We are sinful. We can make an effort to sin less. We can do a lot of good. We can make a lot of sacrifices to do good, be peaceful. But still, we deserve to die.
NO MAN CAN STAND IN FRONT OF GOD AND SAY
"I have done so much good, I have lost my leg to save a suicidal lying on a train track, I have bankcrupted myself because I donated so much money to charities, I lay in the hospital bed for half a year because I am trying to save the ENTIRE family, which I suceeded, from a firestorm. I should go in to heaven!"
"I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, I am saved, I did what you (God) want me to do, I exercise all your purposes, I deserve to enter"
The first man is wrong because no matter how hard you try to go to heaven, no matter how "holy" you can be, no matter how "sinless" you can be, no matter how "good" you try to be, no matter how often you go to church, donate to church, said that you believed in Jesus and accepted him as the only God and personal savior, no matter how u say you are a christian,
If you don't say it from your heart, and don't mean it, but just saying for the sake of saying it,
You go to hell.
The second man is wrong in a sense that he don't deserve it. Going to heaven is through the rescue of Jesus' death on the cross. Jesus' blood that never fails us it's the GRACE that God gave us.
"But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own grace"
2 Timothy 2:8b-9a (NIV)
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—"
Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."
Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)
Of course anyone who accepts the Lord Jesus as his personal savior from his heart, wil go to heaven. But that's by God's grace that anyone's saved. In conclusion:
YOU DESERVE TO DIE.
BUT EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE POPE, THE MOST "HOLY" CHRISTIAN, IS SAVED BY GRACE, AND DESERVES TO DIE.
BUT ANYONE WHO ACCEPTS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOR, WILL LIVE FOREVER.
