What happens when you die? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tim Stephens   
Friday, 02 April 2010 20:53

God made this universe for a purpose. God made humanity for a purpose. Jesus Christ died on the cross for a purpose. God made you for a purpose. God has also made His purposes known.

Do you know what our purpose is? To glorify God. People can do this in two ways, by loving God and enjoying Him forever, or by being objects of God's wrath, making His power known.

Do you know why Jesus Christ died on the cross? To save a people from being objects of wrath, instead making them objects of mercy; so that those who belong to Jesus Christ could love God and enjoy Him forever and not suffer the wrath of God.

God has standards, they are not the same as the world's standards. Everyone has broken God's standards: I have broken them, you have broken them. Since everyone breaks God's laws (even just one), we are lawbreakers. Since God is so perfect, He despises lawbreakers, and under God's perfect justice, lawbreakers will not be tolerated but are condemned to death.

Jesus was the only person to have lived a life meeting God's perfect standards. Not only that but He was obedient unto death, dying on the cross willingly as a sacrifice for sin.

Since we are lawbreakers, we are enemies of God, but God demonstrated His love through Christ. If we turn from our sin, believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead and acknowledge that He is our master, this belief, this faith will grant us peace with God. Therefore, as people who were once enemies, having been justified (made right) by faith, we have peace with God. All this is a gift from God and is for His glory.

If you fail to acknowledge God and Jesus Christ in this way then you remain a lawbreaker, condemned to an eternal death.

Everybody dies; do you know where you'll go when you die? Why do you believe that?

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