From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
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   People used to be careful to plan for their futures. They want to have   
   a good pension when they become old, and good nursing while they   
   are living. They provide pension insurance, life insurance, and many   
   other insurances for themselves, against fire, accidents, theft, etc.   
   For them cannot know what that can happen to them. Yet, they dare   
   live their whole life without any insurance for the eternity.   
      
   This time that we are living here on the earth is so enormously short   
   in comparison with the eternity, so that it must be a million times   
   more important how the eternity may be for us. Yet, regarding most   
   importance of all, how it becomes for us after the death, then most   
   people are very gullible and nonchalant. They mean that it will be   
   all right. They know that once they come to die. Nevertheless, they   
   do not know when or how. It is idiotic that do not prepare themselves,   
   but before the death, they are quite unprepared. Many people set their   
   hope to the Church and think that the priests care about them, but   
   what can the Church do? The Church can deceive you to hell,   
   in the same way that the Church has deceived millions of others!   
      
   Many people have a comprehension of that if they would be   
   Christians and believe in God, then almost everything is forbidden.   
   It is on the contrary. The ungodly, and not the Christians, are obliged   
   to obey God's law. "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a   
   righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient ..." 1 Tim. 1:9-10.   
   "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them   
   who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the   
   world may become guilty before God." Rom. 2:6, 3:19. Matt. 16:27.   
   Jesus says in Matt. 12:36, "But I say unto you, That every idle word   
   that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of   
   judgment."   
      
   "Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the   
   sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live   
   peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but   
   rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I   
   will repay, saith the Lord." Rom. 12:17-19.   
      
   Those who do not want to turn to Jesus and believe in him, they have   
   rejected God's grace and come to get full revenge for their deeds. God   
   hath committed all judgment unto the Son. John 5:22. We don't need   
   to repay those who are against us. Lord Jesus does it for us. God is   
   just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief   
   to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the   
   Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful   
   angels. 2 Thess. 1:6-7.   
      
   If people comprehend the Bible as an exacting law book, it is because   
   they are under the law. We who believe in Jesus and have received   
   him as our Saviour are not under the Law, but under the grace.   
   Rom. 6:14. "But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."   
   Gal. 5:18.   
      
   Since we are sinners before God, we cannot decide the condition   
   for our salvation. It is God who demands and we have to obey him.   
   What we can decide is if we want to subordinate us to God, or be   
   lost forever.   
      
   Some people mean that they believe in God, but now they are not   
   willing to receive Jesus as their Saviour. Now they want to live   
   according to their own pleasure. When they become old, then it   
   is suitable that be a Christian. On their deathbed they want God   
   to care about them, but it is in the highest degrees injudicious that   
   delay this so urgent sake until they become old. If they cannot   
   decide to clear up their sake before God when they are young and   
   healthy, how would they then can makes such an urgent decision   
   when they are old and sick? Many people die suddenly and get   
   no deathbed.   
      
   Many people think they are good. They are conscientious and do   
   not hurt any person's feelings. They pay their tax and do their share.   
   They think that their position before God is good, but in the reality   
   their position before God is very bad.   
      
   When the prophet Isaiah in a vision saw the Lord he said, "Woe is   
   me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I   
   dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have   
   seen the King, the Lord of hosts." Isaiah 6:1-5. When Isaiah,   
   God's prophet, could not stand seeing the Lord in a vision, how   
   could then those self-righteous people stand before God in all   
   eternity? They would experience that our God is a consuming   
   fire. Hebr. 12:29.   
      
   "The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the   
   hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?   
   Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burning? "   
   Isaiah 33:14.   
      
   It can seem to be no great difference between those who believe   
   in Jesus and other decent and well-behaved people, yet it is an   
   essential difference. Through our faith in Jesus we have the   
   forgiveness of sins and the blood of Jesus purifies us from   
   every sin. Acts 10:43, 13:38-39. Eph. 1:7. This is our life   
   insurance for the eternity.   
      
   You, who have not received Jesus as your Saviour, consider   
   that you are without this life insurance for the eternity. Jesus   
   gave his life on the cross to save you. He has authority on the   
   earth to forgive sins, but if you do not accept his offer to salvation,   
   then you must yet perish. Matt. 9:6. Hebr. 2:1-4.   
   After the death, the differences between those who believe in   
   Jesus and "other decent and well-behaved" people, become so   
   great as the difference between heaven and hell.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
      
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