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I have a question for you: do you want to go to Heaven? Here's another: WILL you get there? Let me tell you 1. Whether you will go there and 2. If you find you're not on your way there, I'll tell you how to get there. Only two kinds of people get to Heaven: perfect people, and forgiven sinners. What is perfect? Well, not stealing regardless of how insignificant it may seem, not saying a single evil word against anyone - not to mention God sees our thought life. And like a judge in court, a penalty has to be paid when evil is done and laws are broken (e.g. if a murderer was let off in court there would be uproar so how much more God)? In short - we arent perfect, at all. And rather than Heaven, God, if giving us justice, will have to make us pay for our crimes by death and eternal damnation in an everlasting fire and torment. BUT: There is a way that we can be saved. Jesus - the Son of God - came down to live a perfect life without sin, conquering all evil and the devil's sinful, lustful traps that so easily ensnare us. Jesus overcame all of that, and then was sentenced to death on a cross. While on the cross, God poured out the anger and wrath of sin on His Son - getting Jesus to pay OUR fine of damnation, unbearable pain and being separated from God. EVERY single evil thought, word or deed that doesnt line up with God's perfection, every sin you ever have committed or will commit knowingly or unknowingly, Jesus took the complete, undiluted wrath for. And, like a fine in court, Jesus paying for it means that we can go free. Not just free, but we can experience God's love as all punishment was carried on the cross and crucified there for all who believe. He rose again on the third day, demonstrating His sovereignity and innocence and power over not just the sins of this life, but DEATH. GOD HAS POWER OVER DEATH. There will come a day when Jesus will return and those who died believing in Him will rise from their graves will go to Heaven, and those who rejected His salvation, message and teachings will suffer Hell to pay their deserved fines for all eternity without a second chance. He wants you to repent (turn away from your sin and pursue God's perfect intent for your life, striving in the opposite direction). This is your chance now. God has a plan for your life, a plan that involves you being recreated into the perfect moral image of Him as we were before the sin in the garden. He loves you and doesnt want you to suffer - Hw wants to show you mercy and show you what true love looks like. He suffered FOR you to set you free and you can walk in His strength, experiencing His love, being taught what it means to be part of His family. He loves you and wants you to have faith in Him, letting Him take the wheel of your life (dont forget, when you're doing God's will you're doing the will of perfect love - when you follow God you can be certain that you are never doing the wrong thing- imagine how cleansing that feels). What if I still sin when Ive accepted Christ's death and resurrection on my behalf? Thats why Christ died. For your SIN. When God looks at you, striving towards Him or even falling, He sees the righteous life of Christ covering you in place of your current, sinful reality. For those who strive to turn from sin, regardless of the pitfalls, God sees Jesus's life in place of your inability, and His blood so that yours will never have to be shed for your sin. Sound opposite? Thanks to our natural sinful nature, it likely does, but God knows our weakness and struggles and pitfalls with sin. THAT'S why He died for us. Just pray to God, tell Him you are struggling and are unsure - God can and will work with even the slightest desire within you to follow Him and be free from sin. Ask Him to make you willing - if you are willing to be made willing, pray for it, simply shut your eyes and talk to Him. When Satan knows people have left His camp, He will not take it lying down, He often tries harder with more trials and temptations but EVERY trial is Father-filtered, Satan cannot be anything beyond what God permits, and God will only allow things that will strengthen you or bring you closer to Him so long as you cling to Him and trust in the promises of His word. Where do I start to learn about God's plan and His promises to me? Well, I'd advise you to FIRST read Matthew (or Luke if you want a more detailed account). Do it in stages and try and imagine the events and miracles as they really hapoened - the Bible is a true account after all. And when you struggle and fall, kmow you can pray for forgiveness, dust yourself off again and get up because Jesus already bore our guilt and shame. God wants FAITH from us, not legalistic works and outward piety, but FAITH. The gospel is faith alone in Christ alone, Christ already lived that perfect life FOR us, but the fruits of the spirit "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" are what come through true maturing faith and a relationship with the conquerer and overcomer of the world and its sin. Trials come to strengthen us and produce these fruits overtime. Its a lifelong process of faith and striving alongside God, but remember that Jesus is the ultimate foundation, the reason we are given Heaven through His soon return in the first place. If you lack faith (as i did for a long time) pray. God wants honesty from us and is not angry when we come to Him and pray for faith. All it takes is a little - Jesus said all it takes is faith "as small as a mustard seed", the smallest seed in the world. God will take it - give it to Him amd ask Him to make it grow. He desires to, He wants to and He will give strength and faith to His children in time when they ask Him. So in short, WHEN - and note it says WHEN - we sin on our striving towards Gods will and life of love and service to others, Remember that God understands our faults and can sympathise with our weaknesses, He wants us to see, understand and walk in His perfect, unfailing love and strength rather than our own, because His love and His strength never fails. If you want to let Jesus into your life, even to help you to take the first step, then read through this prayer here once to get the gist of it and then just say it - trust God and give it all to Him because He has a plan. If you take a step - just a step - towards Him, He will take a step towards you. Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and there is nothing that I can do to save myself. I confess my complete helplessness to forgive my own sin or to work my way to heaven. At this moment I trust Christ alone as the One who bore my sin when He died on the cross. I believe that He did all that will ever be necessary for me to stand in your holy presence. I thank you that Christ was raised from the dead as a guarantee of my own resurrection. As best as I can, I now transfer my trust to Him. I am grateful that He has promised to receive me despite my many sins and failures. Father, I take you at your word. I thank you that I can face anything now that you are my Savior. Thank you for the assurance that you will walk with me through the deep valley. Thank you for hearing this prayer. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Thank you so much Eden Alexandria!! That takes some guts to say. A lot of people in our world are going to mock, scorn, ridicule, and possibly one day persecute you for your beliefs. What you did in that comment was brave and I applaud you for it. Regardless of what others say or believe about us, it is our duty as Christians to respond with, love yes, but also unwavering/unchanging truth. We are called to speak the truth in love, but that does NOT mean we change our beliefs in our Lord just because we are going to offend someone. That is not loving them. Thank you so much for the bravery and truth in your comment. Keep on keeping on Your friend Joshua Ps. here are some scripture verses of promise:
I have a question for you too. Are you telling me that your god made me the way I am, and now tells me that his own creation failed so badly he has to sacrifice himself (his son) to himself in order to save me (his creation) from himself?
@@tomi-Q Originally God created humans perfect and without flaw, but He also gave them the freedom of choice to choose to love Him and embrace and obey Him. He gave them the choice to live in perfection and do His will (which was naturally what they did anyway) OR to eat the fruit that He told them not to eat. It was not just the fruit itself that was the situation, eating it would show they no longer obeyed God, which Satan tempted them to do. The result is like cause and effect, they chose (out of their own will and choice) to go against God and eat the fruit instead, and if they didn't belong to God, by default they belonged to Satan, the one who they had obeyed. It has corrupted the way we are, turning us from selfless and caring, into selfish creatures in all aspects of life. The way you are now is not the way God truly wanted you to be. Not just that, but the effects of Satan having control over the human race is clear. God didn't do anything wrong, He simply gave them the choice - if Adam and Eve were never given the ability to choose to say "no" to God ever, that wouldn't have been love, but machine-like control. With that freedom, they made the choice to be against Him. But, like in a law court, when the law is broken and you go against what is right, punishment naturally follows. God knew that, and that is why He did not want us to 1. Turn away and 2. To be punished. So, we turned away, but God removed the punishment for us. Why did Jesus have to take it for us? Because God could not just let sin off and leave it. If in the law courts a judge let off a murderer without punishment or batting an eyelid, that judge would be seen as evil and corrupt. Likely fired. So how can God be good, if He does not truly hate evil in all its forms? That's why the punishment of Hell is so severe. God however did not want us to be punished as the law demanded for those who broke it, but rather he sent Jesus to die FOR us, taking all our sins upon Himself as if He were a guilty criminal, so that we could go free without the penalty. Like a fine paid in court on our behalf. Not only that, but Jesus did it for us so that we can have a right relationship with Him again like before the fall. He loves us and that's why He did it. He did not need saving from us, we needed saving. That's why He took our pain and guilt and suffering for us, so that we can legally come into a right relationship with Him as if we'd never sinned.
@@edenalexandriab9120 I did not eat the fruit, nor did you. Why is god punishing us for what Adam and Eve did? And more importantly, are you saying that when god created humans, he did not see the future? He didn't know what would happen when he gave them a free will? If he did, why did he continue with his creation? Doesn't that mean he created them to fail? If I'd have a child and I would KNOW my child like god surely must know his creation, I'd know that if I were to leave a piece of chocolate on the table and before leaving the room I'd say to my child "do not eat that chocolate because you are allergic and you will die", he would eat it anyway. Wouldn't you blame me for leaving the room or putting the chocolate there? If i were to punish my childs little sister for what his brother did, wouldn't you blame me? To me that sounds like a horrible parent who doesn't deserve his/her children. And if god did not see what would happen, why call him a god?
Would you rather: Survive in 3 days on a jungle forest with wild animals Survive on a winter forest without shirt, shelter, sweater and blanket in 3 days Survive on a raft with sharks in 3 days Survive a cold fog forest with danger floor and it doesn't gets night in 3 days Survive on a hot sand island without trees, water, shades and hat but with only food and it doesn't gets night as well in 3 days *Edit:* *what would you choose?*
