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Do you know 100% for sure that you're going to Heaven when you die? My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of you life! Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends on your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a member of a church, but are you saved? Are you 100% sure you will go to Heaven when you die? God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again." In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How? First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. "For the wages [payment] of sin is death" (Romans 6:23a) This death includes eternal separation from God in Hell. "... it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place! "...He hath made Him [Jesus, who knew no sin] to be sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus had to shed His blood and die. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11). "... without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]" (Hebrews 9:22). "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8) Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true, God cannot lie! My friend, "God... commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross. In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: "Sirs...what must I do to be saved?' And they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved... .'" In other words, simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried and whom God resurrected on the third day. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim EVERLASTING LIFE when Jesus is received as Savior. "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name" (John 1:12) "For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved. Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, with repentance, lift your heart to God in prayer and ask Him to save you. It's simple! In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
After
you are saved, there are three things to practice daily
for spiritual growth: Pray - you talk to God.
Read your Bible -God talks to you. Witness
-you talk for God. This
page copied from the most successful Gospel tract in the world: GOD'S
SIMPLE PLAN OF SALVATION, written by Ford
Porter, who holds the copyright. |