Living Through Death

 Revelation 2:17

“Anyone who is willing to hear should listen to the Spirit

and understand what the Spirit is saying to the churches. 

Whoever is victorious will not be hurt by the second death.”  (NLT)

     Jesus Christ is our Lord God and Savior; the One who defeated sin and death for us because we are incapable of doing it on our own. He accomplished what we cannot. He became our sin and was victorious over its sting by becoming the first to be resurrected from the grave with a glorified body.  All people are cursed with sin and death. We all sin and we all die because of sin—a very real reality that we must all face someday. If we are not taken out early in life, we can count on our bodies growing old, wearing out, and finally dying. God made man from the dust of the earth, and so shall we return in this present fallen state. But we don't have to decompose in the darkness of the grave forever, for there is Good News for those who embrace the death of the Sacrificial Lamb of God as their own.  The child God grew into the God Man to die for the sins of mankind—so that whosoever believed in the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus our Lord would escape the second death of eternal condemnation. But for those who have rejected the saving grace of Jesus' death, Judgment Day will be a dreadful day indeed, for every non-believer will be raised from the darkness of their grave to face the Lord and give a full account for how they lived their lives, and then be thrown into the eternal burning Lake of Fire.

     There are only two basic choices you can make in this first leg of your life-journey.  You can choose to live in the Light of God's saving grace, or live in the darkness of this dying world.  You can trust Jesus with your life and live forever, or you can trust in the many gods of this evil world and forever die.  You can choose to take up your cross and follow Jesus to receive the Crown of Life, or you can choose to indulge in the sins of this wicked world while you can, and hope that God does not exist.  In the light of these choices my friends, there is only One Choice that is wise.  The Lord God, your Savior, has graciously given you the opportunity to choose, but only in this life.

                                 A Whisper of Hope  

I give you a choice, dear child...a time to choose how to live this life.  It is not an easy decision to make amidst the many voices of this fallen world that want your soul.  All I ask is that you study your choices carefully, weigh your options, and choose wisely—for your very life is at stake.

1 John 5:11

For there are three who bear witness in Heaven: 

the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit who

bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. And this

is the testimony:  that God has given us eternal life,

and this life is in His Son.  (NLT)

                           “If the righteous are barely saved,

        what chance will the godless and sinners have?”

                                 (1 Peter 4:18)