Peace with God
A woman I know was struggling with what happens to people who do not choose Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord before they die. I told her their souls would spend eternity with Satan in the Lake of Fire. She thought God should just turn them into dust, when Jesus Christ judges Satan after His 1000 year reign, so they wouldn't have to suffer forever, only for a short time. So I asked, "Then what difference would it make to choose Christ?" She said, "Well, you'd live."
The question is "How do you want to live out your life?" Do you want to end up in heaven with the smell of smoke still on you from barely escaping the devil's grasp or do you want to live in Jesus Christ and at peace with God? I lived a lot of years before I came to salvation in Christ and those years now seem worthless. They did not offer me any hope, peace, or sense of accomplishment. I was lost and am thankful daily that I found the God of grace and mercy.
Everyone wants peace, but they don't want to believe in the only way to peace, the Messiah Jesus Christ who died for all the evil deeds done by humans from the beginning of time until the end of this time. Only due to His shed blood on the cross as a sacrifice for my sins can I enter into the presence of the Most High God. Christ is my intercessory and without Him my invitation into heaven is null and void. Just as you probably wouldn't let a sinning stranger into your wedding feast, those that haven't called out to Jesus Christ to be their Savior and Lord, will be considered strangers at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
The question is "How do you want to live out your life?" Do you want to end up in heaven with the smell of smoke still on you from barely escaping the devil's grasp or do you want to live in Jesus Christ and at peace with God? I lived a lot of years before I came to salvation in Christ and those years now seem worthless. They did not offer me any hope, peace, or sense of accomplishment. I was lost and am thankful daily that I found the God of grace and mercy.
Everyone wants peace, but they don't want to believe in the only way to peace, the Messiah Jesus Christ who died for all the evil deeds done by humans from the beginning of time until the end of this time. Only due to His shed blood on the cross as a sacrifice for my sins can I enter into the presence of the Most High God. Christ is my intercessory and without Him my invitation into heaven is null and void. Just as you probably wouldn't let a sinning stranger into your wedding feast, those that haven't called out to Jesus Christ to be their Savior and Lord, will be considered strangers at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb.
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
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