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TAKE
HEED...
...
(lest) that day come upon you unawares" Lk 21:34, is the warning of Christ
relative to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, and its future destruction in the
approaching Tribulation; but it relates also to His second coming: first to remove
His Church, and seven years later to establish His millennial kingdom.
Both advents will occur with the speed of lightning, Lk 17:24.
Are
you prepared for His coming - certain that you'll be taken to heaven when He removes
His Church? If you're left behind, His second coming will result in your being
banished into hell to await the resurrection of damnation, Jn 5:29, and consignment
to the eternal torment of the lake of fire, Rev 20:15.
Prepare for His coming by admitting that you're a sinner, and by believing
that He died in your place for your sin. In response to that faith God will accept you into heaven.
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SAVED
FROM WHAT?
You
may know that the Bible teaches the need of being saved, e.g., the Philippian jailor
asked, "What must I do to be saved?" and was told, "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved," Acts 16:30; and in John 3:17 it is written, "God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved." But do you know what you
need to be saved from?
God
warns that all who die without having been born again, John 3:3,7, will enter hell,
and remain there in torment until the resurrection of damnation, John 5:29, following
which they will be cast into the eternal torment of the lake of fire, Revelation
20:15. That is what Jesus Christ
died to save you from!
If
you die without having had that new birth, a terrible eternity awaits you, your
eternal remorse being compounded by the fact that the salvation you rejected was so
simple that even a little child can understand it.
To be saved, simply admit that you're a sinner without any righteousness,
Romans 3:23; believe that Christ loved you enough to die in your place for your sins,
and that in response to that faith God will pardon all your sin and receive you into
heaven, John 3:16.
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HEAVEN
OR HELL IT'S YOUR CHOICE
Contrary
to popular belief, you don't have to die to find out whether you're going to heaven,
for Scripture warns that all are going to hell, and can be fitted for heaven only by
being born again by choosing to believe in Christ as Savior.
That belief however, requires more than just mental assent to the historicity
of Christ: it requires
(1)acceptance
of God's indictment that all are unrighteous,
(2)belief
that Christ loved me enough to die in my place for my sins,
(3)belief
that in response to that faith God will pardon all my sin and receive me into heaven.
And
there is another requirement. The choice
must be made in God's time; but that undisclosed time frame does not include
all of one's life, hence the warning, "Now is the accepted time."
Once you pass beyond that time you may live for many years, but you cannot be
saved. By default you will irrevocably
have chosen hell as your eternal abode.
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BORN
DEAD
There
are two kinds of life: physical, and spiritual; and natural birth has given us only
the physical, which fits us to live only here on earth, so that spiritually we are
dead, hence Christ's warning, "Ye must be born again," for to die without
spiritual life is to enter hell. Unlike
physical life, relative to which we had no choice, spiritual life, without which we
can't enter heaven, must be chosen. How?
It is received by faith, faith to believe that
(1)
you lack it, and are therefore destined for hell,
(2)
Christ loved you, and died in your place to make spiritual life available to you as
God's priceless gift,
(3)
in response to that faith God pardons your sin, bestows His gift of spiritual life,
and will receive you into heaven.
Choose
today. Tomorrow you could be dead.
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IS
THERE ANOTHER YOU?
Natural
birth brought you into this world as you, and death will take that same you out of
it; but Jesus Christ offers a new birth exempt from death, and without which death
will take your body to the grave, and your soul to hell.
By the new birth men become new creatures destined for heaven at the death of
the natural body or at Christ's return, their physical bodies being but the chrysalis
enveloping the new creature. For those
born again, death is the opening of the chrysalis that releases the new creature into
its proper environment, heaven.
Is
there another you? Have you been born again through faith in Christ as your Savior?
Or are you still as you were at birth, without spiritual life, and destined
first for hell, and then the lake of fire for ever?
Christ loved you enough to die in your place for your sins, so that you might
be born again. It is eternal tragedy to
waste His sacrifice by unbelief.
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YOUR
FUNERAL
Your
funeral service will probably include a eulogy which will cause some to wonder
whether the eulogist is talking about the person they knew in life, for death often
endows the deceased with virtues not readily apparent in his life.
Nor does the misrepresentation stop at the eulogy.
He is portrayed as being at rest in heaven, when Scripture declares that he is
in torment in hell.
Do
you wish truth to be spoken at your funeral? The
minister will be able to assure the audience truthfully that you are at rest in
heaven only if you have been born again by confessing yourself a sinner without
righteousness, believing that Christ died in your place for your sins, and that in
response to that faith God will pardon all your sin and receive you into heaven.
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THE
SIGN OF JONAH
Jonah
is the butt of ridicule, yet not to believe the story is to make Christ a liar, for
He said, "As Jonah was three days and nights in the whale's belly; so shall the
Son of man be three days and nights in the heart of the earth" Mt 12:40. Jonah's experience is a picture of Christ's, his time in the angry
sea portraying Christ's suffering at Calvary, and his being swallowed and vomited by
the fish, a figure of Christ's burial and resurrection.
At
his own command the sailors saved their lives by throwing the prophet into the sea,
but this is also a typological picture, for as they believed that Jonah's death would
save them, so can men be saved from hell and fitted for heaven only by believing that
Christ died in their place for their sins, as it is written, "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.
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"THE
GREAT HARLOT...
...that
sitteth upon many waters" Rev 17:1, is the great false church which is Satan's
counterfeit of the true Church, and as the true Church consists of born-again men and
women, so does the counterfeit consist of those who profess to be Christians,
but who have never been born again, false teaching having deluded them into believing
that baptism, confirmation, church membership, etc., are the equivalent of the new
birth. All such are members of the
travesty which God calls "the great whore," and His warning is, "Come
out of her" Rev 18:4. If you
haven't been born again, it doesn't matter what church you attend, you are
spiritually a member of "the great whore," and are on your way to hell, not
heaven. If you can't remember a time and
place when you were born again, your danger is great, for the rapture of the true
Church, and the judgment of "the great whore" are both imminent.
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THE
MARK OF THE BEAST
Who
or what is "the beast" mentioned in Revelation?
He is the man, who in the fast approaching Tribulation period, will rule the
old Roman Empire revived as a ten kingdom confederation.
He will be one of the trinity of evil: Satan, the beast, and the false
prophet, opposed to the Divine trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. After the now imminent removal (rapture) of the true Church, he
will be revealed, and the false prophet will compel all to receive the mark of the
beast and to worship him or die. Some
will refuse, and many of them will die, and go to heaven; but those who receive his
mark will be cast into hell at Christ's return to reign.
Those who have heard the Gospel, but who haven't been born again during this
present Church age, will be left on earth at the rapture, and will worship the beast.
Have you been born again? The
Church could be raptured today, leaving you to become a worshipper of the beast,
thereby damning your soul eternally.
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ALL
THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU
About
600 years before Christ, God said that Christ would enter Jerusalem on April 6, 32
A.D., riding on an ass's colt, and He did. Could
anyone but God have made such a prediction? That
same God warns that all who die without having been born again, will first enter hell, and then the lake of fire to endure eternal
torment. He has made many other
predictions, not one of which has been wrong. What
makes you think He will be wrong about your entering hell and the lake of fire?
Only a fool would gamble the eternal fate of his soul against such impossible
odds. You can be born again today by
admitting that you're a sinner, believing that Christ loved you enough to die in your
place for your sins, and that in response to that faith God will pardon you and
receive you into heaven. Tomorrow could
be too late. Tomorrow you could, to your
eternal horror, learn that He was right when He warned of the need to be born again.
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