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It takes only one sin for God to impose the death penalty!

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Hebrews 2:14-15 - "Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (New King James Version) "Some religions make no mention of Satan as a reality. Others include him as a reality and enemy, yet they make little or no accounting of him actively working to destroy mankind and God's purpose. Jesus makes no bones about Satan actively working to destroy men. In John 8:44 , in accusing the Jews of unbelief, He puts Satan's nature in plain words: ""You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the fa...

At the Cross, Jesus Gave Us the Gift of Everlasting Life!

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Do you want immortality and everlasting life, to live free of pain and sorrow, sickness and death throughout eternity?   If this is something you desire, then be assured that you can receive everlasting life the moment you accept JesusChrist as your savior.   John 5:24 says “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hear my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”; 3:36 says “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”; and 4:14 says “But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”. If you believe in Jesus, you will receive everlasting life and the character of Jesus.   This will be displayed and shown by how you act, appear, and how you...

How do we even begin to grasp the holiness of God when our nature is fallen and corrupt and His is uncompromisingly holy?

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His holiness defines Him as singular and separated from the world of sin and death that we humans experience. Yet, here is the most amazing thing: God offers us the opportunity to participate in His holiness. That’s part of what a covenant relationship with Him is about. “ ‘Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” ’ ” ( Lev. 19:2, NKJV ). Or, as the book of Hebrews says: “ ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. . . . For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people’ ”( Heb. 8:8–10, NKJV ). In these texts we can see the connection between holiness, covenant, and law. We cannot be holy apart from obeying God’s law, and we obey His law only as...

The Reality of Escaping Death.

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DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY ONLY AFTER JESUS RETURNS! Nobody can or will escape death.   The reality is as certain as life itself.   Most are uncertain of the meaning and interpretations of death vary considerably among Christians and non-Christians alike.   There is a belief that the dead are really still alive and that death simply opens a door into a larger life, unexplained but still believed by many.   There are others who say that death is finale, that everyone who dies just cease to exist. There are many who search for the answers to death and to suffering and blame God saying He is the one responsible for even allowing it to happen.   That God is the one who is the major contributor to all the pain, suffering and heartbreak in the world. Where do the dead go?   Do they go to heaven or hell or do they just exist in a certain level of consciousness until the God of the universe decides it is time to judge them?   Can the dead c...

DEATH AND TAXES - BOTH ARE INEVITABLE!

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YOU WILL DIE! IF YOU DO NOT KNOW JESUS WHEN YOU DIE, YOUR DEATH WILL BE ETERNAL! It is a fact.   10 out of 10 people will die.   You just never know when it is going to happen.   There is no alternative to this fact. So, what can you do?   Do you just need to accept this fact?   The simple answer to these questions is, “You need to know and believe in Jesus. The Word of God tells us, “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him,” (John 3 : 36 ). We are all sinners and as sinners we can never have everlasting life unless our sins are forgiven.   The only way to do that is through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. “…sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, ...

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL US ABOUT LIFE AFTER DEATH?

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? The Bible  has a definite view about life after death and it may be contrary to the popular belief of most Christians .  The Bible does not tell us that when we die we go to heaven .  It is very true that this is a popular Christian doctrines preached by most Christian denominations today, but just because it is a Christian doctrine does not make it true. Their are many varied doctrines in the Christian religion today.  Each church professing a particular doctrine will swear on the Bible that what they are preaching is the truth and that if you do not believe them you will go to hell.  The question is, how can all these different doctrines be true?  The short answer is that they can't.  There can only be one truth. If this is the case, then there are a lot of Christians out there who believe that they were going to go to heaven when thy die who aren't.  The Bible actually tells us that no one goes...

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN YOU DIE.

That is by studying the scriptures, the word of God. If you do not understand what the scriptures are trying to tell you, you will be in for a big surprise at the end of this age! Contemporary Christianity would have you believe that when you die your soul and\or your spirit goes on living separate from your body. Christians believe that the good go to heaven and the bad go to hell. The problem is, the Bible does not teach this. The only way you can establish this concept is by taking scriptures and interpreting them out of context. Your soul and your spirit do not exist separate from the body. Your body is powered by your spirit which in turn generates your soul. Without the body, the spirit has nothing to power and therefore the soul can not be generated. Contemporary Christian doctrine teaches that dying is like going through a door. You will often hear the phrase when someone is near death, "he/she is a deaths door". The problem is what Christians believe i...

MAN HAS QUESTIONED DEATH SINCE THE BEGINNING.

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Death has probably been on the mind of every human being since the time when Cain killed his brother Able. Adam and Eve were living under the first lie that Satan told them, that “...“You will not surely die”...”. In the very beginning God told Adam and Eve a very basic truth. That truth is the fact that man is not immortal. Man can die!   And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2: 16-17) But Satan told Eve a different story . Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’? And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You...