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DO YOU REALLY KNOW JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR? BY RYAN HICKS © 1996-2001 Ryan Hicks |
If you refuse the blood of Christ for your cleansing and purifying you are destined for an eternity in hell. You truly are on a "Dead End Street" (Matthew 7:13). You will be tormented night and day BY REAL FIRE! There is nothing metaphorical about hell like the devil's teachers want you to believe. You will not be annihilated, rather damned to burn for ever and ever. Playing games with God by listening to devil possessed men teach you how to not believe the Bible will only further your eternal punishment.
You have a choice today to repent and believe the gospel or to stay as you are (damned) and end up in hell. Your refusal to be biblically saved will not damn you, for you are already damned. Getting saved from sin (Matthew 1:21; Romans 6) by the Lord Jesus Christ also saves you from the punishment of your past sins (Romans 3:25; 2 Peter 1:9). The Lord Jesus Christ can change your damnation by laying His righteousness to your account if you repent and believe on Him (John 3:16) and the One Who sent Him, the Father (John 5:24).
If you think that you can put off making a decision for the Lord Jesus and wait around until you are old or until you get time "for religion" you are terribly wrong! There was a man who assumed that he could store up fruits and goods and lay back (much like you, if you put off salvation), let us see what happened to him:
Luke 12:16-21
16 ...The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow all my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
You may think that hell is not real, but I say believe God and the Bible. If you want one more witness, how about a man that is in hell now? Would you like to know what he calls hell? He said that it is a "place of torment" (Luke 16:28). You may say, "Well I don't deserve to go to hell." You are right. You deserve much worse than hell. Hell is far better than we deserve for our sin. We deserve at least hell a thousand-fold.
If you claim to be saved, but your salvation is only to escape hell, you probably do not have any more salvation than the devil. That kind of attitude in salvation is self-centered and contrary to everything salvation stands for. True salvation is being reconciled to God, and made free of the thing that keeps you apart from Him, sin.
You must now decide. Do you want to be reconciled to God by salvation from sin and the devil? It does not matter that this will also free you from the eternal punishment in hell. All that matters is for you to let God save your soul and serve and love Him with all your heart, mind, and soul. Make the right decision today!
