What Will You Do with Jesus?

What if this were the last day of your life? What will you do with Jesus? Have you ever come to terms with your eternity?

I blog about many things on His Unmeasured Grace, but the main reason I share is to encourage women to go deeper with God as they serve their families at home.

But what use is all I share if someone stops by and never gets a clear picture of how to be saved and go to heaven?

Your soul will never die. Someday, your body will die and no longer be of use to you.

Have you made the most important choice you will ever make?

Your eternal life depends on it!

I don’t want you to reach the end of your life, slip from your body into eternity, and discover that it’s too late. You never made the most important decision or answered the most vital question you would ever be asked.

Are You Absolutely Sure?

Your joy or sorrow for all eternity depends on taking this question seriously and answering it.

This question has nothing to do with how good you are or whether you attend church, read your Bible, or pray.

Are you absolutely sure you are saved? Are you certain you will go to heaven to be with Jesus when you die?

Nicodemus was a Pharisee who came to talk with Jesus at night. Jesus explained that to enter heaven, he must be born again.

“You must be born again.”
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:7)

God’s plan is so simple, and yet so many people get stumped on this question and rebel, not wanting anything to do with Jesus, who paid the price for our sin.

What will YOU do with Jesus?

 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23)

We have all sinned—including you and me. No matter how good we think we are, without accepting that Jesus died for our sins, we must face the penalty we deserve: eternal death and separation from God in hell.

But God doesn’t want us to perish. That is why He sent His only Son to die in our place.

Because you are a sinner, you stand condemned. But through Jesus, you can be forgiven and receive eternal life.

For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans 6:23)

” . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27)

God loved you so very much that He gave his only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place.

” . . . He hath  made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

There had to be blood shed to cover the cost of our sin and Jesus was willing to shed His blood and die in our place.

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood“ (Leviticus 17:11) ” . . . without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22)

Before I was ever born, God knew I would someday be alive and that I would break His commands and sin. He loved me so much that He died for me ahead of time!

” . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us“ (Romans 5:8)

It is impossible to comprehend how God can wash away our sins with His blood. Your sins and my sins were all laid on Jesus and He died in our place. He became the substitute for us. This is true. God does not lie.

“God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent“ (Acts 17:30).

Repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.

I love the story of the Philippian Jailer who asked Paul and Silas . . . ” . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. . . . ‘”

It is so simple, yet sometimes we overcomplicate simple things.

All you need to do is believe in Jesus, the One who bore your sins, died in your place, was buried, and rose again.

His resurrection assures you that when you receive Jesus as your Savior, you receive everlasting life.

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (John 1:12)

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved“ (Romans 10:13).

Whosoever is you if you have never asked Jesus into your life before.

Shall be saved doesn’t mean maybe, nor can, but shall be saved!!

If God has spoken to your heart and you realize that you are a sinner, you can repent right now, wherever you are.

Lift your heart to God and invite Him into your life.

The prayer itself doesn’t save you; it is placing your faith in Jesus Christ and receiving Him as your personal Savior that saves you.

In Luke 18:13, the sinner in that passage prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.”

What will you do with Jesus?

You can talk to God, remembering that the prayer itself doesn’t save you—placing your faith in Jesus does:

“Oh, Lord Jesus, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am a sinner. I believe You took my place when You died on the cross. I believe Your shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive You as my Savior. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me salvation and everlasting life through Your merciful grace. Amen.”

That is all there is to receiving Jesus by faith. Neither belonging to a church nor being “good” can save you.

Remember, God does the saving—all of it!

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)

God’s power is what saves you and Jesus will keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life.

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man” but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Do not ever trust your feelings. They change and can never be trusted. Stand on God’s promises. They never change.

Three things to practice daily once you are saved:

1. Pray — You talk to God.
2. Read your Bible — God talks to you.
3. Witness — Share what has happened to you with others.

Find a Bible-believing church to attend and get involved in without delay.

“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord . . . “ (2 Timothy 1:8)

“Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32)

*Used Scriptures, adapted from this tract: God’s Simple Plan of Salvation: A Matter of Life and Death, Lifegate, Inc.

So High A Price sung by Amber Foster and Ben Everson

Lord of Glory reigning in His Majesty,

ruling long before the earth was formed.

Yet when darkness claimed His own,

He stepped from Heaven’s throne.

To bear a cross, and wear a crown of thorns.

So high the price He paid, the nails the cross, the grave.

Such pardon he bestowed, such grace he showed.

No greater sacrifice,

He gave His very life.

So deep His love, so high the Price.

Son of God so willingly He took our place,

clothed in robes of frail humanity.

Fragile flesh and blood, priceless crimson blood.

Offered up for sin at Calvary.

Buried, like a beggar in a borrowed tomb,

everything for nothing, so it seemed.

But death could never stand against the nail-scarred hands,

and Pow’r of Heaven’s resurrected King!

So High the price He paid,

the nails, the cross, the grave, such pardon He bestowed,

such grace He showed.

No greater sacrifice,

He gave His very life.

So deep the love, so high the price.

Written by: Deborah Bailey and Marty Funderburk

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