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Are you prepared for your
FINAL EXAM?
How well do you think you would do on a final exam, if you never opened the textbook or attended class one time? You would probably fail the exam.
Your LAST final exam.
One day, you are going to take your LAST final exam. High school is going to be over, and college and graduate school are finally going to be finished. Is that the time to finally celebrate? No, because there is still ONE final exam for you to take after that. For what course?
Life 101
Yes, at the end of this course (at the end of your life), you will stand before Almighty God who created all things. “So then EVERY ONE OF US shall GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.” (Holy Bible, Romans 14:12, KJV) Are you really ready for that? Not if you have failed to open the textbook (the Bible), or attended class (a good, Bible-preaching church). When you stand before God, you better be prepared. “PREPARE to meet thy God…” (Holy Bible, Amos 4:12, KJV)
“Why do I have to stand before God for this FINAL EXAM?”
If you really do not know the answer to that question, then it shows that you have never opened the textbook for Life 101, because the first ten words are, “In the beginning GOD CREATED the HEAVEN and the EARTH.” (Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1, KJV) Just down the page is written, “So GOD CREATED MAN in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Holy Bible, Genesis 1:27,KJV)
As you well know, if you create, or invent, or compose something, then that makes you the owner of that work. With that ownership comes certain rights (copyrights, patents, etc.).
That is the exact reason why you must answer to God one day — because He created the earth and mankind. “The EARTH IS THE LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN.” (Holy Bible, Psalms 24:1, KJV) So you better start preparing to meet God. How long do you have to prepare?
Just like in any course, you only
have until the final day of class (in this case, the final day of your life), to prepare for the final exam.
So how many hours, days, or weeks, do you have to prepare? You do not know. In fact, God warns in the textbook, “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? It is even a VAPOUR, that appeareth for a little time, and then VANISHETH AWAY.” (Holy Bible, James 4:14, KJV) Your life is like the vapor or fog — it quickly vanishes.
In a few moments, your life upon earth could be gone. You could be hit by a car, shot in a robbery,
or suffer a massive heart
attack or stroke.
That is why God says in the text-book, “Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.” (Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 6:2, KJV)
The textbook reveals why you are not ready to meet God.
þ — Have you ever LIED?
God says, “Lie not one to another.” (Holy Bible, Colossians 3:9a, KJV)
þ — Have you ever said a BAD word?
God says, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth.” (Holy Bible, Ephesians 4:29a, KJV)
þ — Have you ever LUSTED?
Jesus said, “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (Holy Bible, Matthew 5:28, KJV)
þ — Have you ever HATED anyone?
God says, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (Holy Bible, 1 John 3:15, KJV)
þ — Do you ALWAYS do GOOD?
No. God says, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” (Holy Bible, James 4:17, KJV) “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” (Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:20)
You will fail the exam, and this is the penalty. “For the WAGES of SIN is DEATH.” (Holy Bible, Romans 6:23, KJV) That means eternal death in the lake of fire. “Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE, prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Holy Bible, Matthew 25:41, KJV)
God loved you enough, to pay that penalty for you. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Holy Bible, Romans 5:8, KJV)
“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have NO PLEASURE in the DEATH of the WICKED; but that the WICKED TURN from his WAY and LIVE” (Holy Bible, Ezekiel 33:11a, KJV). TURN to the LORD JESUS CHRIST right now, and ask Him to FORGIVE you, and to CLEANSE you, and to SAVE you.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God Almighty in the flesh. He is Master, Savior, and Messiah; the Creator of heaven and earth. He died on the cross for you, and gave His pure, sinless blood to pay your sin debt. The Lord Jesus Christ then arose from the grave the third day, proving that His blood fully paid for your sins. To be SAVED, you must CALL upon Him from your HEART. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt BELIEVE in thine HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED.” “For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be SAVED” (Holy Bible, Romans 10:9,13, KJV).
After we ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save us, then God instructs us to openly confess Him by getting baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When we go under the water, it pictures death to the old life of sin, and when we come up out of the water, it pictures a new life serving the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, I just asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save me, and I desire to now live for Him.
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