You are going to Hell. It doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus or not. You are going to Hell. Regardless of anything you do you will burn in the fire and exist in complete separation from God for the rest of eternity. Now, what are you going to do? Will you still serve God? What about church? Will you give God praise for the life you live or will you reject God and demand a recount...? Will you say that isn't fair and choose another religion to follow? Will you just give into your sinful nature completely and just do what you want?
Well I think the point I make is a valid one. I do not know about you, but if you had asked me that question a few years back I would have been kinda in shock. I would have not been sure what I would have done and quite possibly answered the last question with a certain yes. I came to this point somewhere along my walk when I realized that I was working for my salvation. I was going to church because that's what a Christian does on Sunday. I put my ten percent in the plate because God would take care of me and I wouldn't ever be without. I did what those around me did including saying we needed fewer services and that they needed to be shorter! My reasons were simple I had failed to recognize who I was serving. I didn't truly know God and I had little respect for Him. He was as I used to say the Big Man Upstairs, but all of this changed when I began to learn about Him and His ways of doing things. I suddenly became confronted with my failure to give Him what He is owed which is my very existence, to do with it as He chose not as I chose. When you come to that point you see the world in a new light. You begin to understand that it really doesn't matter what happens to you because you work until the work is done. I came to that conclusion and fully stand behind it even now.
Even if God decided to send me to Hell when I die, which I fully deserve, I will serve Him because it is better to know Him, even if for only a short while, than to die having never experienced His presence.
Part of this lies in the fact we all deserve Hell. In truth God would be completely justified in throwing every single human being on the face of the planet in the pits of Hell, but He doesn't and He instead offers every individual the opportunity to come to a saving knowledge of Him in Jesus Christ. Do you see the issue? When we deserve the worst He actually gave the best. The funny thing is that isn't even the reason we owe Him our very existence. The reason is that He created us and gave us this life we live and so we owe Him everything. When you think about it, the fact we are alive and continue to breathe is because He chooses to allow it.
The time for change is now. You know the reason why we as Christians should never fear death. We serve the one who created everything and He will never fail us. We are here to serve Him. We have taken what Christianity started as which is a Kingdom meaning we have a King, a direct authority figure, and turned it into a voting system that is dependent not on God, but the masses idea of what is right and wrong. This lies a the heart of working to get to heaven and redefining salvation by saying you go to church on Sunday because you are supposed to and a failure to say we come to together as the church to praise our savior because He deserves it, not because He saved us, but because He has the right to our very being.
My challenge is for change! The system we have created is broken, and people are flocking in droves away from this organized religion. I challenge people to return to the church of Acts. A church that says my King has commanded me to take care of those in need both physically and spiritually. A church that is self sacrificing not self centered. A church that is a beacon of light in the darkness not bringing people to it, but bringing Christ to them. A church that follows the man who they are named after. We need to stop serving ourselves and begin serving others. We need to stop being like the world around us, and that starts by saying we will step out of our bubbles and develop relationships with people. Discipleship is the heart of Christian development. Find someone and begin challenging each other to delve deeper and to conform more completely to Christ's image. Seek out the light....
Work until the work is done... not for the reward, but for His glory.
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"And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” Isaiah 6:8
So true, may God have mercy upon us! we are sinners and we sin as if we don't know the truth. so sad:-(
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