Thursday, March 30, 2017

If I Reject Jesus?


What happens "If I Reject Jesus?"  What does happen to someone who lives a seemingly good life... is a moral person...maybe he or she even goes to church occasionally... yet never buys into the "Jesus story?"

The Bible is clear that God does not want anyone to go to hell.  In fact 1 Timothy 2:3-4 seems to say this very thing:  "This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,  who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."  And, then there is the Apostle Peter writing: "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (1 Peter 3:9).

Universalist proponents simply state that God is a loving God and would not send anyone to hell.  However, if this is true (for the sake of argument) then God's condescension, as the Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Philippians 2:5-11, Christ Jesus (God the Son), was foolish and His sacrifice was completely unneeded since in the long-term of all things God will not send anyone to hell.

However, the facts of truth are this:  God's may not want (desire) that anyone would be judged to eternal punishment (John 3:16-17), but because He is a holy and just God, the Universalist teaching cannot be true. He is holy, meaning that in Him is complete perfection and He cannot tolerate anything or anyone in His presence that is unholy (is blighted by any sin).  And He is just, meaning that He has established a standard for any and all who would desire to have fellowship with Him in heaven, and to fail that exclusive standard makes an individual unqualified for eternal life.   In Matt. 25:46, Jesus said, "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."  Therefore, God is just in condemning anyone who rejects Him and His plan through Jesus Christ.

When a person rejects Jesus, he or she rejects the one-and-only path to "eternal life" and thus holds onto, by that rejection of Jesus, the just condemnation of a righteous God. 

Does God desire this?  No!  Is rejection terminal?  Yes!  In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13-14).

Foolish is the "Broadway" when God has made "Eternal Life" so attainable!  The choice is set before all people: Reject Him, or Receive Him!  Make Him Lord of your life and you will never turn back.  "Heaven is for Real," as the book and movie state, and it is yours if you will.  Choose righteousness, please!  Choose Jesus!
........... https://www.gotquestions.org/narrow-path.html



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