Let me say again that we can no longer make the salvation message, “God has a wonderful plan for your life, pray this prayer with me and now ask Jesus into your heart.” There is really no Biblical foundation for this and it has the horrible possibility of giving it’s hearer a false security of a salvation that probably didn‘t happen. People have to be given a lot more information to base this eternal decision on. The Holy Spirit is very powerful but He can only convict and work through the knowledge based on the amount of truth given. He never usurps anyone’s fee will. The faith needed for someone to believe also comes with the hearing of the word of God and not our nice well meaning words. It is only the combination of the word of God being spoken and the working and ministry of the Holy Spirit that can bring a person unto true salvation.
1Peter 1:23 NKJV having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
Romans 10:17 NKJV So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
John 16:8 NKJV And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Please take the time after reading this book to read the Ray Comfort messages "Hell's Best Kept Secret, True and False Conversion and his free online book called. “God Has a Wonderful Plan For Your Life“ The Myth of the Modern Message. http://www.livingwaters.com
1John 1:4 CEV Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law.
Sin in when we break God’s law or commandments
Romans 3:19 CEV We know that everything in the Law was written for those who are under its power. The Law says these things to stop anyone from making excuses and to let God show that the whole world is guilty. 20 God doesn't accept people simply because they obey the Law. No, indeed! All the Law does is to point out our sin.
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The law, God’s commandments are to keep us from making excuses about our sins and to show us we are guilty because the law points to our sins.
Romans 3:23 NKJV All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.
All! Means, ALL! Everybody! Everyone! You! Me! The neighbors! ALL HAVE SINNED! ALL ARE GUILTY AND WITHOUT EXCUSE BEFORE GOD BECAUSE THE LAW BUSTED US OUT & EXPOSED US FOR WHO AND WHAT WE REALLY ARE, SINNERS.
Romans 5:12 CEV Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die.18 Everyone was going to be punished because Adam sinned. But because of the good thing that Christ has done, God accepts us and gives us the gift of life. 19 Adam disobeyed God and caused many others to be sinners. But Jesus obeyed him and will make many people acceptable to God. 20 The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen. Yet where sin was powerful, God's kindness was even more powerful. 21 Sin ruled by means of death. But God's kindness now rules, and God has accepted us because of Jesus Christ our Lord. This means that we will have eternal life.
We all have sinned but it is Adam that made us sinners. We have just followed what was in us when born, the sinful nature of Adam.
Romans 6:23 NKJV For the wages of sin is death.
Sin has a wage we all earn. It’s not the death of when we die and are buried. In (Revelation 2:11) the Bible talks about a second death which is a death that damns us and eternally separates us from God with out hope of ever escaping from Hell.
Luke 16:24 NKJV “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
This is the story called, "The Rich Man and Lazarus". The man who had been rich while on earth was in a place after his death where he was dying of thirst, tormented and with a great gulf separating him so there was no way of escape. The rich man had received all his good and wealth while on earth. Lazarus even though very poor and sick went to heaven where he receive his reward.
Mark 9:43 NLT If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 44 where ‘ Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—
This doesn’t mean to literally cut something off but to show you hell is so bad that you need to remove from your life whatever is causing the sin. Hell is where the fire is never quenched and the worm never dies.
Matthew 23:33 NLT Jesus says, "Snakes! Sons of vipers! (Pharisees) How will you escape the Judgment of HELL?"
Matthew 25:29-30 NLT Jesus says, "To those who use well what they are given, even MORE will be given, and they will have an ABUNDANCE. But from those who do NOTHING, even what little they have will be taken away. Now throw this USELESS SERVANT into OUTER DARKNESS, where there will be WEEPING & GNASHING OF TEETH."
Matthew 25:41 NLT Jesus says, “Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the Eternal Fire (HELL) prepared for the Devil and His Demons."
Matthew 25:46 NLT Jesus says, “And they will go away into Eternal Punishment (HELL), but the Righteous will go into Eternal Life.”
Luke 6:24-26 NLT Jesus says, “What SORROWS AWAITS YOU who are RICH, for you have your only Happiness now. What SORROWS AWAITS YOU who are FAT & PROSPEROUS now, for a time of AWFUL HUNGER awaits you. What SORROWS AWAITS YOU who LAUGH NOW, for YOUR LAUGHING WILL TURN TO MOURNING AND SORROW. What SORROWS AWAITS YOU who are PRAISED BY THE CROWDS, for their Ancestors also Praised FALSE PROPHETS."
Luke 12:5 NLT Jesus says, "I’ll tell you whom to Fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill you and then THROWN INTO HELL. Yes, he’s the one to Fear."
Matt 10:28 NLT Jesus says, “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both SOUL AND BODY IN HELL."
Luke 16:19-31 NLT Jesus says in (Luke 16:23-24 only), "His Soul (Rich Man) went to the place of the dead. There, in TORMENT, he saw Abraham in the fardistance with Lazarus at his side. “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some Pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames...."
Matt 13:41-43 NLT Jesus says about Himself: "The Son of Man (Jesus) will send His Angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes Sin and all who do Evil. And the Angels will throw them into the Fiery Furnace, where there will be WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. Then the Righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s Kingdom."
Matt 13:49-50 NLT Jesus says, "That is the way it will be at the End of the World. The Angels will come and separate the Wicked people from the Righteous, throwing the Wicked into the FIERY FURNACE, where there will be WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH."
If the above Scriptures aren’t enough to convince you then go to these web sites, (http://www.soulchoiceministries.org) & (http://spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesinHell_Text.htm) to hear a message about one man’s personal experience in Hell called, “23 Minutes in Hell” by Bill Wiese.
The Word of God says we are all sinners because of Adam and we all have sinned by breaking Gods commandments.
You might say you have never broken His commandments.
Exodus 20 lists God’s Ten Commandments which is His Law He judges us by.
1. You shall have no other gods before Me. (Have you always loved God above all else?)
2. You shall not make yourself an idol. (Have you made a god in your mind that you're more comfortable with, a god to suit yourself?)
3. You shall not take God's name in vain. (Have you ever used God's holy Name as a cuss word?)
4. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and mother.
6. You shall not murder. (God considers hatred to be as murder).
7. You shall not commit adultery. ("Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matthew 5:27-28); this is for a man looking at a woman, a woman looking at man and the same sex that might be looking at another with lust and also includes sex before marriage with anyone).
8. You shall not steal. (Have you ever stolen anything? the value of the item is irrelevant).
9. You shall not lie. (Have you lied even once? Including answering these questions).
10. You shall not covet. (Have you ever jealously desired what belongs to others?)
The Bible says that God will punish all murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, adulterers, idol worshipers, the disobedient, etc. He will even judge our words and thoughts. On Judgment Day, will you be found to be guilty or innocent of breaking His commandments?
Perhaps you think that God is good, and will therefore overlook your sins. But it is His goodness that will make sure that murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, the sexually immoral, etc. receive justice. He would be a corrupt Judge if He turned a blind eye to injustice. Have you kept the Commandments?
The Bible says that the Law is perfect. It commands you to be perfect (Matthew 5:48). Are you perfect (in thought, word, and deed)? Will you make it to Heaven? You may say that you are still good, but God says you're not (Psalm 14:2-3). So one of you is lying, and the Scriptures tell us that it is impossible for God to lie. Remember that all liars will be cast into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8) God's Law demands justice, and the penalty for sinning against Him is death and Hell.
James 2:10 CEV If you obey every law except one, you are still guilty of breaking them all.
Very simply put if you have only broken one of the commandments your guilty of breaking them all. Anyone who would truly be honest would have to admit breaking most of them many times during their life.
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