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Ask bridges questions
Do you have any kind of spiritual beliefs?
What is your understanding of Jesus Christ? Relationship or not
If what you believed was not true would you want to know?
Good News/ Bad News
May I ask you a question? Has anyone ever taken a Bible and shown you how you can know for sure that you are going to heaven? The Bible contains both good news and bad news. d is about you and the good news is about God. Lets look at the bad news ; We are all sinners (Romans 3:23 ESV) says for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,sin means we miss the mark. When we lie,hate or gossip, we miss the standard God has set. Suppose you take a rock and try to hit the North Pole. You might throw further than I but neither one of us will hit the mark. The Bible says we will have sinned and we all fall short of God's standards and perfection in thoughts words and deeds. We have not been perfect, but the Bad news gets worse. The penalty for sin is death. (Romans 6:23 says, For the wages of sin is death. Suppose you worked for me and I paid you $50, that $50 would be your wages. That's what you earn by sinning we have earned death. That means we deserve to die, and we deserve to be separated from God forever. The good news; since there is no way we could come to God. The Bible says God came to us. Christ died for you (Romans 5:8) says but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Just as the bad new gets worse the good news gets better! Christ died for you. Suppose you're have cancer, I come to you and say let's take a cancer cell from you and put it in my body. If that were possible, what would happen to me, what would happen you. you would live and I would die in your place. The Bible says Christ took the the penalty we deserve for our sin on himself and died in our place. Three days later, he came back to prove that sin and death has been conquered. His claim to be God is true. Just as the bad news got worse the good news gets better. You can be saved through faith in Christ . (Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV) For you can be saved by faith in Christ. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, [9 ] not a result of works, so that no one may boast. And that not of yourselves, but it is a gift from God. Faith means trust. What should you trust Christ for? You have to depend upon him alone to receive eternal life. Just as you trust a chair to hold you through no effort of your own. So, you must trust Jesus Christ to get you to heaven through no effort of your own. You may say I'm religious. I go to church. I don't do anything is really bad. I'm a good person. I helped the poor. These are all good, but good living; going to church; helping the poor etv but to enter Heaven you must trust in Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior and repent and turn away from sinful living. Christ's love and is a gift, his taking the punishment for our sin is a gift. Is there anything keeping you from trusting Christ right now. Think carefully, there is nothing more important than your trusting Christ.
If you would like to pray right now. Would you like to tell God you trust in Jesus Christ, his son as your Lord and Savior ?
Remember
It is not a prayer that saves you. It is trusting Jesus Christ that saves you. Prayer is simply how you tell God what you are doing. Dear God I know I'm a sinner. I know I have sinned against you and for that deserve punishment. I believe Christ died for me ; washed me clean and rose from the grave. I trust Jesus Christ alone as my Savior. Thank you for your forgiveness and the everlasting life I now have. In Jesus Christ name amen
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