Save Your Breath! For real!

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.’”‭‭Acts‬ ‭4:12‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

“They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved – you and your household.’”‭‭Acts‬ ‭16:31‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” There is no commandment greater than these.’”‭‭Mark‬ ‭12:30-31‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

“‘If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you for ever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”  ‭‭John‬ ‭14:15-17‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

“Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: ‘The person who does these things will live by them.’  But what does it say? ‘The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,’ that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: if you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”  Romans‬ ‭10:4-5, 8-9‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

The secret of escaping the fury of the unknown future is found not in wishful thinking and winning arguments and debates as our souls spiral towards a definite destination. It is found in making a decision as we approach the forked paths that suck our souls up to heaven or to hell. There’s no third option. You jump off one track and you are on the road to heaven. You jump on the other and you’re on the way to hell. 

This my friends is the truthful and factual reality. Whether you choose to jump wearing a fur coat or a grass skirt doesn’t make any difference. Everything that clings to our souls will be stripped clean off, as we head off in one direction or the other. No more superfluity. Nothing will be hidden any more.  Our souls are destined to be laid bare before the stark naked truth in an eternal heaven or an eternal hell!

To be on the track to heaven means we are saved and to choose the opposite is to be lost in an abysmal eternity!

This is the full story and the noise and great clamour of Christianity. This, my friends, is why we do not keep silent. This is the reason why, in spite of all the meanness and persecution that we may face, we will not stop shouting out warnings and alerts to our friends and loved ones!

Jesus Christ came from heaven to lead us to heaven and we have just got to trust Him to lead us safely there. There’s is no time to gamble with your destiny. We are caught up with so much activity in life that life just slips by too fast to its finish line in this world. Every other noise that you hear in this life is calibrated to distract you from this truth: your job, your projects, your pet hopes and dreams, your investments, and the glitz and glamour of the bazaars of life. If you put your trust in these you will suddenly run out of the breath of life and be lost forever, not having had sufficient time to put eternity into its proper and correct perspective.

The secret of this truth I am telling you is what generations of people of integrity have even sacrificed their lives to pass on to the next generation.

Just read how the Apostle John, who lived and worked with and had first  direct contact with Jesus Christ, summarises it all:

“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”‭‭1 John‬ ‭5:11-14‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

We are fighting a formidable fight for our souls, for the souls of our loved ones, for the souls of our acquaintances and for the souls of whoever will pay serious attention. This is no scary fable. It is the horrible reality. Closing your eyes and pretending that all is well is not going to automatically fix or solve problem.

The instructions to be saved in eternity are these:

1. Put your full trust in Jesus Christ

Jesus says in John 14:

“‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.’ Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”‭‭John‬ ‭14:1-6‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

2. Love God and put His interests first in every thing that you are doing. Abandon doing anything that does not honour God. Jettison all that is full of lies, emptiness and crap.

3. Love your fellow human being as you love yourself. Do good to all people even to those who hate you. Respect your life and the lives of others.

If you do everything to stay firmly fixed on this track and be sure to be found on this track at and to the very end of your life on this earth, you can be sure 100% your soul will be sucked up into heaven!

See? I have told you. If you want to hate me for telling you this then I’m sincerely most sorry. But there is no other way out!

May God open your eyes to see this truth and make up your mind to do something about it today, amen!