How many of us are prepared to meet our Maker?
Whether we are rich or poor, clever or dull, this is a most crucial question: “Where will we be spending eternity after we leave this earth?”
As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God (John 1:12).
Jesus declared: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
All the prophets testify about him (Jesus) that everyone who believes in him receives forgivenessof sins through his name (Acts 10:43).
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love (1 John 4:18).
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance (Matthew 3:8).
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it (Matthew 7:13-14).
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one whodoes the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21).
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead (James 2:26).
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things (please see above in blue), you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1: 5-7, 10-11).
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified (1Corinthians 9: 24-27).
- Once we are saved, we will remain saved (OSAS, once saved always saved, eternal security).
- All our future sins are forgiven at conversion.
- There is no need to confess sin as we merely need to rest in the imputed righteousness of Christ.
- We can afford to banish sin consciousness from our lives as the sin issue is a thing of the past, being settled once and for all when we believed in Jesus.
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What are the dangers of overemphasising grace?http://limpohann.blogspot.com/2013/07/going-overboard-with-grace.html
Note: Dr Lim Poh Ann is a medical practitioner. He was the former editor of Asian Beacon magazine (December 2008 – October 2011).
Source :
Porridge For The Soul By Dr Lim Poh Ann
http://limpohann.blogspot.com/
http://limpohann.blogspot.com/2013/10/back-from-heaven-and-hell.html
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