Salvation Series by JQuisumbing

We make different kinds of decisions every day of our lives. Trivial decisions like “Where to eat?” or “What to wear?” Significant decisions like “What career should I pursue?” Life Changing ones like “Who do I marry?” And believe it or not, we make Eternal choices as well, though most of the time, we’ve done it unaware.

What ‘choices’ were those?

Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. (Matthew 7:13,14)

It is a choice that leads to either Life-eternal or forever damned.

That fork-in-the road had visited me many times in the past. God had called me to choose His way or the world. I admit that I had foolishly chose the WRONG way until the year 1990. That was the year of a momentous world event which actually caused me to ask, ‘When I die…’

Would God let me into heaven?

The answer was way too obvious in my heart. I would have been denied entry and I didn’t know why. I had to find out. Unknowing to me, of course, was that I was finally on the right track and to my surprised JOY, it was both eye opening and quite freeing. 

This is what I learned. 

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EYE OPENER 1:  God’s Intention

GOD loves us all & HE desires that we have eternal life.

More importantly, GOD desires all of us to be with HIM. But there is bad news!

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EYE OPENER 2: Sin Problem

Because of SIN, we all are separated from GOD. You see, only those who are as HOLY as Him can be with Him in eternity. Why?

“There is no righteous person, not even one.” (Romans 3:10)

Since WE all have sinned… WE fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)

But that is not the worst part. Because of sin, we are confronted with this inescapable consequence – DEATH PENALTY.

“For the wages of sin is death, …” (Romans 6:23)

Meaning: because of sin, death is earned and deserved. There is no other way to interpret it.

What happens when someone dies in sin?

And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment… (Hebrews 9:27)

But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Revelation 21:8)

Earlier I said that this penalty was inescapable. Maybe, there is a solution to this problem, you would think. If there is a solution…

• It is not because you belong to a particular RELIGION;
• Nor could you buy your way in through GOOD WORKS;
• Nor could your sense of GOOD MORALS hide your sinfulness. 

Don’t lose HOPE! There is Good News.

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EYE OPENER 3: Good News

JESUS CHRIST is GOD’S only way to ETERNAL LIFE!

Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”  (John 14:6)

He was not boasting!

And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved. [Acts 4:12]

Why Only Jesus? HE COMPLETELY PAID THE PENALTY OF OUR SINS. How?

…Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures… (1 Corinthians 15:3,4)

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God… (1 Peter 3:18)

Why did God let Jesus die?

God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

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EYE OPENER 4: Our Part

Jesus did His part. God wants you to do your part.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he/she dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25,26)

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8,9)

GOD PROMISED THAT YOU CAN KNOW TODAY THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE  WHEN YOU TRUST IN JESUS.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:13)

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You are now facing the fork on the road. The choice is yours. If you believe… then use this prayer as a guide.

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EYE OPENER 5: Assurances

If you have just trusted Jesus Christ, then the following things have happened to you:

YOUR ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD BEGINS TODAY.

“This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.” (John 6:40)

ALL OF YOUR SINS ARE PAID FOR AND FORGIVEN. (Past, Present, and Future Sins)

“He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:13–14)

YOU BECAME A CHILD OF GOD.

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name…” (John 1:12)

YOU ARE A NEW PERSON IN GOD’S EYES.

“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

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FINAL NOTE

READ THE BIBLE

GET TOGETHER WITH OTHER BELIEVERS TO GROW

And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. (Hebrews 10:25)

Jesus said, “For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.” (Matthew 18:20)

Eternal Life is at hand