To lose money, job, health, eyesight, hearing etc. are great losses but a person's most valued possessions is his or her "SOUL."
MAT 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
HEB 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
ROM 14:10-12 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
When the sound - color review of your every thought, word and deed is flashed on the screen, "YOU WILL BE WITHOUT EXCUSE:"
"I LIVED A GOOD LIFE."
ROM 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
ROM 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
ISA 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags.
"I COULDN"T BE SAVED; I WAS TOO BAD."
MAT 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
1TI 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
"TOO MANY HYPOCRITES IN THE CHURCH."
ROM 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
"I COULDN"T HAVE LIVED IT."
PHI 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
"I WAS WORKING AT IT; I WENT TO CHURCH; PAID MY DEBTS; I NEVER HURT ANYONE."
EPH 2:8,9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
TIT 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
"I WAS GOING TO GET SAVED BUT HAD THINGS TO STRAIGHTEN OUT FIRST."
PRO127:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2CO 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
1JO 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
"I DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO READ THE BIBLE."
You found time for the radio and TV; time to read all types of books; time to study the manual for a driver’s license. God is just;
He gave you 365 24-hour days a year and a manual that you might know His laws.
- GAL 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- REV 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
"HOW TERRIBLE IT WOULD BE TO HEAR THE LORD SAY."
MAT 24:51; 25:41 Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels for causing the rebellion in heaven and for all the misery on this earth. God made man to be with Him for eternity, but He will not force him to do so. Those who reject His offer and follow the devil in this life will also follow him to hell. The "CHOICE", therefor "IS YOURS," "GOD HAS DONE HIS PART."
- 2PE 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- JOH 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
- ISA 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- JOH 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
- GAL 4:4-7 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- REV 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
- JOH 3:5-8 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Being "BORN OF WATER" is the physical birth, a definite time of coming from darkness into light and newness of life. The "SPIRITUAL BIRTH" is just as definite; coming from the "darkness of sin" into the light of glorious gospel"
- 2CO 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Jesus likened the ‘NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE" to the wind, which can be heard and felt but not actually seen. We do not see God, nor our sins being erased but when we sincerely repent and confess our sins to Jesus and by faith believe that He has done His part, what a feeling of relief and peace!
- ROM 8:16-17 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
EPH 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
What GOOD NEWS! "The choice is yours." Jesus extends His nail-pierce hands and tenderly invites you to come to Him.
Wouldn’t you like to have all your sins erased completely forgiven and forgotten by God, and the opportunity to start all over again as if you had never sinned? Wouldn’t you like to be in a royal family - a child of the King? Wouldn’t you like to be a citizen of a country where no one will ever be sick, not even have a pain, nor shed a tear, nor grow old; where there will be no more war, nor death but only peace and joy forever with the Creator of the Universe providing everything?
