A Fair Chance At Eternal Life?
(June 7, 2003)
What is a fair chance? Are you being given one? If you are living in North America or Europe or many other places of prosperity, I think you are.
You have Bibles, dictionaries, concordances, books, booklets, magazines, other publications, computers, the internet, ministers and church services available to you at your discretion from which you can learn the truth.
God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24
Truth is learned by all the above mentioned ways.
Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7-8
The New American Standard Bible, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1977.
God has created you with freedom of choice. You have freedom to search, research, read, study and a memory to remember by.
Be joyful always; 17 pray continually; 18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984.
Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. 14 For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it. Matthew 7:13-14
The New American Standard Bible, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1977.
For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:14
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. John 14:15
The New American Standard Bible, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1977.
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:22-23
If you are reading this brief discourse I believe you are being given a fair chance at eternal life.
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