Don’t be distracted and deceived by the culture of this world. We live in a fallen world influenced by Satan. The bible calls him the god of this world. He hates anything that has to do with God, including all mankind. He uses music, movies, and false religions to deceive and distract people from the truth of Jesus. Don’t be deceived. Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life. No one will enter the Kingdom of Heaven without him. He is the Word. In order to love Jesus, you must read his Word (the Bible) and keep His commandments. Jesus is the only way to be reconciled to the Father. No man can come to the Father without Jesus.
Don’t let the busyness of life and entertainment keep you from developing a relationship with God. As you develop your relationship with God, he will open your understanding and change your desires for things that please Him. Don’t wait to give your life to God. After death, it’s too late. This life is so temporary. Don’t trade eternity with God in Heaven for the pleasures and comforts of this temporary life and be thrown in the lake of fire for eternity with absolutely no hope of redemption. God is love and full of grace and mercy, but he is also a God of judgment. The time for grace in everyone’s life will expire. You will either be saved by the blood of Jesus and be exonerated of your sins, or you will pay for your own sins in the lake of fire for eternity. It’s your choice, and your choice alone. No one can make it for you, and no one can pray you out of Hell. Choose this day, this hour, this minute, who you will serve.
Romans 10:9 NIV
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
2 Corinthians 4:4 KJV
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 4:4 NIV
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 16:24-27 NIV
[24] Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. [25] For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. [26] What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? [27] For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
John 14:15-17 NIV
[15] “If you love me, keep my commands. [16] And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— [17] the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Revelation 20:12,15 NIV
[12] And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. [15] Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Deborah K. Givens, Admin
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