Are You Ready

The question is "Are you ready?".  People get ready for all sorts of things.  They get ready to get married, get ready for the wedding. They get ready for a career by getting an education, ready to buy a house and save for it.  There are all kinds of things people get ready for in this life; it consumes them, they are totally preoccupied with it. It takes most all of their time and energy, just always getting ready for something. Some people get ready by spending a lot of time and thought getting fit and eating a healthy diet, thinking it will help them live longer. Everybody wants to live as long as they can on this earth.  But how sad that most people usually never give much thought to where they are going to go when they die. They just live and act like this life right here and now is the only thing there is to live for.  But truly, if you stayed fit and ate healthy and lived to be 100, (if you are lucky enough to be spared accidents, natural disasters, shootings,  etc., ) what would that even matter if you died without Christ and end up having to spend eternity in hell forever.

 If you want to live a long life, why not call upon God to save you, and you will live forever and ever.  John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should  not perish but have everlasting life.  (That's a long time, everlasting," meaning never ending.")

The best part about it is you can get ready today.  It doesn't take years of planning, figuring, or doing any type of works, etc.)  It's a matter of the heart.  If you believe in your heart that you are a sinner who deserves to go to hell, and you call upon Jesus and trust in his name, (as the one and only saviour), and believe the gospel (the death, burial, and resurrection), then you will be saved instantly and have everlasting life.

Romans 10:9: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 
Romans 10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

The everlasting life will begin now and even before you die you will have an abundant life by knowing Jesus.  For his spirit comes into our heart to dwell with us forever and he gives us peace and joy and great blessings by washing our sins away.  Acts 10:43: To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.  Being saved is the best life that anyone could ever have for here now and for eternity.  Colossians 1:14: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

John 5:24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life.  

John 17:3: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

I John 5:11: And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

I John 5:13: These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

When you put your faith in Jesus, he gives you peace.  Luke 7:50: And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

Romans 5:1: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Being saved also brings joy.  Romans 5:11: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Christ's sacrificial death on the cross for us.)


Poetry About Jesus And Salvation

Religion Does Not Save

There is only one way to heaven, and it is not by being religious, but by trusting Jesus as your personal savior.  John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

All the different religions in the world do not believe in or serve the same God.  You hear a lot of talk nowadays about "lets just all come together and be united", but the bible says that Jesus came to bring division.  Luke 12:51-52: Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.  

Religions and denominations will never save your soul and give you eternal life.  

There are actually only two religions in the world.  One, is that God saves man by grace through faith in his son Jesus, or two, man tries to save himself through his own good works, deeds, and right living, etc.  The reason there are so many different religions in the world is that man is always trying to devise his own plan of salvation through something he can do instead of just receiving the free gift of salvation that God provided for us by faith in Christ.  The bible says that all our own self righteousness is as filthy rags to him.  Isaiah 64:6: But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Also, there is a social gospel out there that says to be a Christian we should just feed the hungry and care for the poor because that is what Jesus did, but that is not the real reason Jesus came into the world at all.  The main purpose Jesus came into the world, sent from God the father,  is so that he could die on the cross and purchase our redemption with his own shed blood.
I John 4:14: And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.  Jesus came to save us from our sins, not to be a good example of how to live, etc.

I Corinthians 15:3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.

Revelation 1:5: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

1 Peter 2:24: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Jesus is the only saviour.  There is no other saviour or any other way to heaven. 

Isaiah 43:11: I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.  

Hosea 13:4: Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me; for there is no saviour beside me.

Luke 2:11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.


God's Simple Plan Of Salvation

Are We All God's Children

Sometimes at funerals you will hear a minister say something like, "We are all God's children, "insinuating that all you have to do to be one of God's children is just to be a person born into this world.  However, nothing could be further from the truth.  It is true that God created every person in their mother's womb, but that does not make them one of God's children.  There is a big difference, as it says in John 1:12: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. (Speaking of Jesus).  This verse makes it clear that we are not just automatically his child because we are a human being, but we become his child by receiving Christ.

Another portion of scripture that makes it clear that not all people are God's children is found in John 8:44: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. 
John 8:45: And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

People don't want to believe the truth about some people being a child of God and some people being a child of the devil, but it is still true whether you believe it or not.  God's word says it and his word is true, He cannot lie.  They deceive themselves into thinking they are okay because they are just like most the other people in the world, so they would rather believe the lie of Satan, rather than to believe
God's word.

God loves every person ever born and wants them to become his child, as it says in II Peter 3:9: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God wants you to become his child by trusting in the name of his Son that he sent to die for you.

John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
18: He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

These verses prove and make it very clear that God loves you and wants to save you, but you must of your own free will accept Jesus and receive him.  God will not force anyone to trust in Christ,  though he is eager and willing to save anyone who will.  In John 3:16 where it says whosoever, you may put your name right there and receive the gift of salvation that God freely offers.

Revelation 22:17: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.  And let him that heareth say, Come.  And let him that is athirst come.  And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

The promise of eternal life is to whosoever will come and receive it by faith.

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.


Poetry About Jesus And Salvation

The Bible Way to Heaven video

Life Is A Vapor

To everything in life there is a start and a finish, a beginning and an end.  One day someone starts school and another day they graduate from college.  A person goes to his first day of employment and then on another day retires from work.  Everything is only for a particular season, it never goes on forever.  Even our allotted time here is only temporary and goes by so quickly that the bible calls it a vapour that vanishes away and a flower that fadeth away.  James 4:14: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.  For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  

I Peter 1:24: For all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of grass.  The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

But there is one thing that WILL never end and will go on forever, and that is eternal life, which is a free gift to those who put their trust in Jesus as their saviour.  Heaven will be a wonderful place, where there will be no sin, sickness, sorrows, or troubles.  All you have to do to go there is accept Jesus into your heart.  He loves you so much that he gave everything for you to pay for your sins so that you could go to heaven.  But you must be born again to go there.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
3:6 That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The good news is the gift of eternal life will never end and will go on forever and never fade away if you get born again.

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
3:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.

God's Simple Plan Of Salvation

Poetry About Jesus And Salvation

Don't Be Left Out

No one likes to feel left out, they like to be included.  When people look at a school program, music or band program, or graduation program, etc., they always look to make sure their name is in it, that they are included.  But of a much more important place to have your name written is in the Lamb's Book of Life.  Every person who ever lived had their name written in the Book of Life at one time because God loves everyone and sent his only begotten son to pay for all the sins of the whole world, so that anyone could be saved, no matter what degree of a sinner.  John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  I John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

You see, God loves everyone and wants everyone to be saved, but some people will not come to Jesus and trust in him alone to save their souls, and so God has no choice, but to blot their name out of The Book of Life.  God cannot permit any sin into Heaven, and that is why he provided us with Jesus, to bear the punishment for our sins and pay the price for them, so we could enter Heaven by Jesus's merit. Instead of our name being blotted out of the Book of Life, our sins are blotted out by Jesus's shed blood in our place, if we accept him as our saviour.  Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.  

Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that you sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

Repent does not mean to repent of all your sins, it means to admit you are a sinner and deserving of going to hell, but are putting your trust in what Jesus did for you on the cross and that he was buried and rose again as payment for your sin, and only through his mercy will you be allowed into heaven.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Who would not want their name in the Book of Life.  How tragic and how heartbreaking it would be when the book is opened to look for you name and it is not there, but blotted out, because you didn't trust Jesus as your saviour.

If you have never trusted Jesus as your saviour, I hope you will today.  The bible says that today is the day of salvation.  We are not promised another tomorrow.  2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the day of salvation.)


Poetry About Jesus And Salvation

Everyone Is A Sinner

Some people think they are okay and safe because they are not as bad of a sinner as other people. They reason that if they're pretty good by man's standards there is nothing to worry about. But in all reality, that is a false asumption because the bible says that we are all sinners, and all means every single person who has ever lived. The worst of sinners and the least of sinners all come under the umbrella of "all". All means all, not just some.

Romans: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Man's standards are not God's standards. No matter how good of a person you think you are, you still fall short; we all do no matter who we are. That is just the simple fact of life. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden by eating the forbidden fruit, sin entered into the human race and every person born since then has inherited a sinful nature, which in turn sins. Romans 5:12 Whereby as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Speaking of Adam).

Galatians 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

What is sin? 1 John 3:4: Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 3:5: And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. No person could ever keep all of God's commandments. It is impossible because of our inherited sin nature. That is the reason Jesus died on the cross to take our sins away by paying the penalty for them. He never did one sin, but he paid for our sins so we could obtain forgiveness and be justified in God's sight.

Since everyone is a sinner, everyone needs a saviour. 1 John 4:14: And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

1 John 2:2: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Your sins have already been paid for by Jesus, but in order to receive the gift of your sins forgiven and everlasting life, you must accept him as your own personal saviour. John 1:12: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:


Poetry About Jesus And Salvation

The Bible Way to Heaven by Pastor Grayson Fritts

Who Are Saints

Who are saints? A lot of people think that a saint is someone who does good deeds for others, like helping people who are going through hard times from a natural disaster, etc., and we should help people in that way, but the biggest disaster for anyone is to die unsaved and be cast into hell forever and ever. It has been heard so many times said about someone, "She is really a saint". But in the bible the word "saint" means someone who is a saved person, born again by faith in Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's. The word saints is used 61 times in the new testament, and it always refers to a Christian. So if you want to be a saint and don't know Jesus as your saviour, just turn to him for salvation and you will become a saint instantly, even before you have a chance to do anything good for anybody. Of course, born again Christians who want to be like Jesus will certainly want to help people because that is the way Jesus is, especially by going through all the pain to save sinful people like you and me. The most compassionate thing you can do for someone else is to tell them how to be saved so they can have eternal life and not have to spend an eternity in hell. If someone saw their neighbor's house on fire, if they had a heart they would go over there and warn the people in the house to get out. Jesus loves everyone and is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right hand offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

30: And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Obviously, no one would ever cut off their hand or pluck out their eye, but what Jesus is saying is that it would be far better to do that than to be cast into hell. Jesus loves you and wants to save you. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God has already done everything he could to keep you out of hell by giving Jesus to pay for your sins, so you would not have to pay for them yourself. All you have to do is call upon him and put your total trust in his death on the cross and his ressurection three days later. Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.


Poetry About Jesus And Salvation