You can't take it with you. How many times have you heard that? Even though this is true that we can't take anything with us when we die, there is still things that we can do while we are alive. The Scriptures tells us that we are made from dust and to dust we shall return. But you should do all you can to tell people about Jesus so that when they die they will go to heaven. So in a sense you are taking someone with you because you were willing to spread the gospel and tell them the way, and maybe they will give their life to Jesus.
When someone tells me that I can't take it with me, I agree with them and then I tell them that I can make sure that my family and friends know about Jesus, and pray for their salvation. If we can just help our family and friends and those who are willing to listen to the gospel, then we have done what we can to take people with us to heaven.
If we aren't willing to share the good news, then how will others hear. Right now everyone who has not accepted Jesus as their Savior is destined to burn in hell. This isn't a maybe, it's a fact. There is no getting around it, Jesus is the only way to heaven. Being nice isn't going to get you there. Your good works isn't going to get you there. Going to church, being raised in a Christian family, helping others, reading your bible, and the list goes on. None of these are going to get you into heaven. These are all good things to be doing, but they are not the way into the kingdom of God.
[THE WAY IS JESUS]
Jesus tells us over and over in the Scriptures that He is the way into heaven.
John;3:3
(Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.")
John;3:16-17
("For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.)
John;6:40
("For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.) This is more proof that Jesus is God the Son.
John;6:47-48
("Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. "I am the bread of life.)
John;14:6
(Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the father but through Me.)
1John;5:11-12
(And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.)
[WE ARE ALL SINNERS]
We are told by God that we all are sinners, everyone of us, no exceptions, we are all guilty and deserving of death.
Romans;3:23
(for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.)
1John;1:8
(If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.)
1John;1:10
(If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.)
[WHAT DO WE DESERVE?]
We all work for our wages, but what should be our wages for our sin?
Romans;6:23
(For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.)
What we deserve is to die for our sins. We are all guilty, everyone of us, you and I, and everyone who has ever lived on this earth. The only one without sin was Jesus.
2Corinthians;5:21
(He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God through Him.)
God the Father sent God the Son to bear our sins on the cross and take the full wrath of God in our place. That is why we don't have to pay the wages and die for our sins. Jesus has already died for us in our place.
[WHAT CAN WE DO THEN?]
We have a way out and the way is Jesus. He says he will save us if we only believe.
Romans;10:9-10
(that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.)
Romans;10:13
(for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.)
That's not hard to do. Jesus has made it so easy for us to have salvation. It wasn't easy for Him, He suffered terribly for us in our place. All we have to do is confess and believe.
[WHAT WILL JESUS DO FOR ME?]
He will save you from eternal life in hell and give you a home in heaven with Him.
1John;1:9
(If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us for all unrighteousness.)
Ephesians;1:13-14
(In Him, you also after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed , you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.)
It's a great feeling to know that we belong to God, and are one of His children.
[OUR HOME IN HEAVEN]
John;14:2-3
("In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.)
Jesus has told us that he is preparing a place for you and me, all who are born again. Don't wait!
Give your life to him today, right now. The next breath you take might be your last, we are not guaranteed another moment.
God Bless You!
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