Saturday, May 5, 2012

There is no quick easy salvation


There is no such thing as a quick salvation. Many people are banking on a death bed repentance. They just quickly want to say "Lord, Jesus I am sorry for my sins, please accept me." It won’t work. You need to OBEY JESUS and be in a REAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, live in HOLINESS and OBEDIENCE TO HIM.
 We read in Matthew 22:11 about people who thought they could just SLIP INTO HEAVEN without being HOLY and OBEDIENT TO JESUS.  I read from  verse 11 "But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes? And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; in that place where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” If you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you must truly repent and follow Jesus, obey Him. As Jesus said, I read from Mark 16:15-16 “And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who HAS BELIEVED and HAS BEEN BAPTIZED shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.” You must believe in Jesus, you must repent of sin, you must turn away from your former lifestyle, accept Jesus as your KING and then you must be baptized in water for the forgiveness of your sin or else you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You must live in holiness and righteousness or else you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. As Paul also wrote in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. But such WERE some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
When you repent and come to Jesus, he forgives your past sins and He justifies you. Your past sins are never remembered again but from there onwards you must live in UTTER HOLINESS or else you are not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven. If you keep on sinning after you have come to Jesus then you have gone back to your former lifestyle, you have turn your back on God and you are not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven. We read in Hebrews 10:26- “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the TRUTH, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a caertain  terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.” If we go on sinning after we have come to Jesus and we have accepted Him as King, then we have no more hope. Then we have disqualified ourselves and we will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Dear friend, there is no such thing as a quick salvation. You must have a heartfelt REPENTANCE, turn away from sin and your previously lifestyle and dedicate your life to Jesus, obey God or else you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The UNRIGHTEOUS will NOT ENTER the Kingdom of Heaven. REPENT and BE BAPTIZED and ask Jesus for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit then obey Him and follow Him. Serve Him with all your heart or else you will not have eternal life. There is no easy way of getting into Heaven.
May Jesus bless you.

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