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Today
Jesus is asking you and me if we understand that there are only two categories
of people living around us or with us, in our communities, in our country, and
in the world. Those with whom we rub
shoulders in our everyday life. Do we
understand the eternal consequences of being in each category?
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Now
that we have read Jesus’ emphatic teaching in Matthew 13, we are without
excuse. We, too, understand that there
are only two classes of people, and with
that knowledge comes responsibility. Responsibility
for sharing Jesus with those immediately around us all the way to the throbbing
masses in the uttermost parts of the earth.
However, not just responsibility is ours—but so is the almost
incomprehensible privilege of having
been entrusted by Jesus today with their eternal destiny.
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Jesus told us in John 12:46 why He came to planet earth: I have come as a light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.
And we Christians have been entrusted to bring that Light--Jesus Christ--to those lost in darkness.
It is time for ACTION!
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Jesus told us in John 12:46 why He came to planet earth: I have come as a light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness.
And we Christians have been entrusted to bring that Light--Jesus Christ--to those lost in darkness.
It is time for ACTION!
So where do
I begin? It begins with God. He is the one who has the power to open
people’s hearts. He is the one who will
open doors of opportunity for me to share Jesus’ love with my family members.
Then I make
a list of my family members and begin praying for them and asking God to
open a door of opportunity to talk to each family member.
Yes, this
will all take time and an effort, but it is so…. important to begin today. I do now know what tomorrow will hold. I do not want to live with regrets that I
never told someone I love about Jesus’ love and plan of salvation.
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Jesus
clearly describes hell as a place of fire.
When
He explained the parable of the tares, Jesus told us that hell is a place of
torment. He calls hell “the furnace of
fire” and says, “In that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:42
Second
Thessalonians 1:8 tells us that hell will be a place of punishment, not
reformation, for those who do not accept and obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus. Then the very next verse explains
that these will be banished “from the
presence of the Lord” while paying the price of eternal destruction. Of all the aspects of hell, this would be the
most devastating to me. Banished from
the Lord—from His love, His protection, His comfort. Banished from all holiness and goodness.
Hell
is forever.
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Hell,
according to Jesus, is where everybody without Him will be—eternally.
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Is
God asking you to help people get ready to die?
Wow, my
heart is filled with a passion to share Jesus’ great love with people I love. I will be praying for
every person in my family. It is
urgent. We never know from one day to
the next when anyone we know will die.
How would I feel if I never shared Jesus’ love with them? How would I feel if I knew they would be in heaven. Big difference!
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