Hello;

May I ask you a Question?

Has anyone ever taken a Bible and shown you how you can KNOW FOR SURE that you’re going to heaven? The Bible contains both bad news and good news. The bad news is something about YOU. The good news is something about GOD. Let’s look at the Bad news first…

Bad news #1; WE ARE ALL SINNERS.

Romans 3:23 says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD. “Sinned “means that we have missed the mark. When we lie, hate, lust, or gossip, we have missed the standard GOD has set.

Suppose you and I were each to throw a rock and try to hit the North Pole. You might throw farther than me, but neither of us would hit it.

When the Bible says” All have sinned and fall short”, it means that we have all come short of God’s standard of perfection. In thoughts, words, and deeds, we have not been perfect.

But the bad news gets worse…

Bad News #2; THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.

Romans 6:23 says.” For the wages of sin is death”. Suppose you worked for me and I paid you $50. That $50 was your wages. That’s what you earned. The Bible says that by sinning we have earned death. That means we deserve to die and be separated from GOD forever.

Since there was no way we could come to GOD, the Bible says that GOD came to us!

Good news #1; CHRIST DIED FOR YOU.

Romans 5:8 says, “But GOD demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”.

Suppose you are in a hospital dying of cancer. I come to you and say,” Let’s take the cancer cells from your body and put them into MY body”.

If it were possible, what would happen to me? What would happen to you? I would die and you would live. I would die in your place.

The Bible says Christ took the penalty that we deserved for sin, and placed it upon Himself, and died in our place. Three days later Christ came back to life to prove that sin and death had been conquered and that His claims to be GOD were true.

Just as the bad news got worse, the good news gets better!

Good news #2; you can be saved through faith in Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-9 says, ” For by grace (undeserved favor) you have been saved (delivered from sin’s penalty) through faith, and that not of yourself; it is the gift of GOD, not of works, lest anyone should boast”