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Where Would You Go If You Died Today?

If you died today, do you know where you would go?

Heaven
Hell
Don’t know.
Don’t care.

Do you know why?

Everyone is born with a malignant disease. There are no vaccinations or shots; there is no chemo or radiation that can stop it. There is no cure in sight. It is called sin. Its basic characteristics are rebellion and selfishness.

Most of the men here have had problems with one or more of the following:

Parents
Wives
Girlfriends
Lying
Rage
Sex
Drugs – pot, cocaine, heroin, meth, etc.
Homelessness
Joblessness
Prison – gangs or threats

It is easy to think that these symptoms of the sin-disease can be stopped by willpower, education, rehab, or prison. But they can be stopped only be receiving Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

There is something more basic than these awful symptoms. Jesus speaks of it more than all of the other problems.

“And the LORD God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.’” (Gen. 2:16)

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:18)

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” (John 3:36)

“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” (John 5:24)

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins.” (Eph. 2:1)

“I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8:24)

“Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.” (Rev. 20:15)

You might want to be delivered from the symptoms of your sin. The real issue is everlasting life or everlasting death. When you receive Jesus, you receive life and are delivered from all of your symptoms and from death.

“Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil.” (Heb. 2:14)

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” (Rom. 5:6)

If you know someone who is a Christian, ask if they would be willing to introduce you to God the Father through Jesus the Son of God. Or you can make an appointment with me. God has helped me introduce sinners to Himself for the last 70 years. My phone number is 208-882-4383, and my email address is jimwilson27@frontier.com.

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