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A Good Man Lost And A Bad Man Saved by akon4u: 5:59pm On Oct 01, 2012
Luke 12:24, “Strive to
enter in at the strait gate:
for many, I say unto you,
will seek to enter in, and
shall not be able.”
Many people will be
shocked on Judgment Day
when they are turned
away from Heaven and
cast into the Lake of Fire.
Matthew 22:29, “Jesus
answered and said unto
them, YE DO ERR, not
knowing the Scriptures,
nor the power of God.”
Most religious people
today ERR in the
Scriptures and are
woefully ignorant of the
power of God.
There will be adulterers
and murderers in Heaven,
who obeyed the gospel
and believed solely upon
Christ's righteousness for
the forgiveness of their
sins.
And yet there will be
many morally upright
people, who did their best
to give to the poor and
abstain from wickedness,
who will go to Hell
forever because they died
in their sins, in their self-
righteousness without
Christ.
Religion is a paved road to
Hell. Religion wants to fit
us with glasses, but Jesus
wants to open our eyes.
Most people have
churchianity without
Christianity, and religion
without truth.
No amount of goodness
can earn a person Heaven.
There are many good
sinners in this world, but
they are still sinners.
Salvation is not by works
of righteousness. Titus
3:5, “Not by works of
righteousness which we
have done, but
according to his mercy
he saved us, by the
washing of
regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy
Ghost.”
Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by
grace are ye saved
through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man
should boast.”
The hardest part about
getting a person saved is
first convincing them that
they're lost.
Acts 10:1-2, “There was
a certain man in
Caesarea called
Cornelius, a centurion of
the band called the
Italian band, A devout
man, and one that
feared God with all his
house, which gave
much alms to the
people, and prayed to
God alway.” Cornelius
was a good man who
feared God, gave to the
poor, and prayed always.
Yet, he was not saved.
God told Peter in a dream
to go witness to Cornelius.
The hard part wasn't
getting Cornelius saved, it
was getting Peter to go
witness to Cornelius. This
is the same problem in the
Church today. Getting
people saved is not the
hard part, it's trying to get
believers to go
soulwinning that's the
difficult part. Most
Christians don't obey The
Great Commission to go
soulwinning. In Matthew
28:19 Jesus said, “GO YE.”
This is the most difficult
part. The reason why
more believers aren't
concerned about the lost
souls of sinners is because
we don't hear enough
preaching these days on
eternal punishment.
It matters not how good
you may be, you can't
make up your own rules.
The strait gate which
leadeth unto life is by
faith alone in the
righteousness of Jesus. We
are saved by HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS! Matthew
6:33, “But seek ye first
the kingdom of God,
and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS;
and all these things shall
be added unto you.”
God will forgive the vilest
sinner who comes by way
of Jesus, the Christ, the Son
of God, for forgiveness of
sins. John 20:31, “But
these are written, that
ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God; and that
believing ye might have
life through his name.”
Amen and amen!
The nicest, most loving,
kindest person in the
world will go strait to Hell
to be tormented in flames
of fire forever and ever if
they die in their sins
without faith in Jesus, the
Christ. It's not what you're
doing that gets you to
Heaven, it's where you're
looking. Look to Jesus.
Isaiah 45:22, “Look
unto me, and be ye
saved, all the ends of
the earth: for I am God,
and there is none else.”
Look to Jesus!
Most religions teach that
good people go to
Heaven, and bad people
go to Hell. The truth is that
we are all bad people. We
are all guilty sinners,
having broken God's Law
(Romans 3:19). There is
NONE RIGHTEOUS (Romans
3:10). Even one sin makes
a person guilty of all in
God's eyes (James 2:10),
because even one sin
brings the curse of God's
Law upon us. Only
through Jesus Christ can
the curse be removed. We
are saved by God's grace
and mercy. No one is
worthy of Heaven.
There are some people
today who think they
must live a good life to
keep their salvation. They
have been led down a
false path and will not
make it to Heaven. Self-
righteousness is a false
road. Calvinists teach that
a person must “persevere”
in faith in order to be
saved. It is a false path of
self-righteousness.
Lordship Salvationists;
such as John MacArthur
and Ray Comfort, teach
that a sinner must cease
from committing their sins
to be saved. It is a false
path of self-righteousness,
and a heavy burden to be
borne that no man can
fulfil. Who can forsake all
their sins?
Anyone who tries to stop
living in sin as part of
their salvation is going
down a wrong path. The
gate to Heaven is the
great Shepherd, Jesus
Christ. He stands at the
gate and freely invites
anyone to enter. We are
saved by simply believing
on Jesus as the Christ, the
Son of God, to forgive our
sins. The necessary
changes to be made in a
person's life is God's
department and has
nothing to do with the
gift of eternal life. Many
good men who teach
religious doctrines will go
to Hell, because they DO
ERR, NOT KNOWING THE
SCRIPTURES (Matthew
22:29).
The simplicity that is in
Christ is that we are the
SINNERS and Jesus is the
SAVIOR.
Re: A Good Man Lost And A Bad Man Saved by Nobody: 6:55pm On Oct 01, 2012
little mind,you already judged some certain people by calling them sinners. It is a shame you can't think right without reading your primitive book. Learn to think for yourself!
Re: A Good Man Lost And A Bad Man Saved by Lawconfessor(f): 7:11pm On Oct 01, 2012
Gud elaborations dear.

WORD OF GOD:: 'Judge Not, for u nt to be judge'

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