Ok guys, if you read the other note then you know that there's loads more that i could say about this topic although, again, i dont know what im going to end up saying or what im going to end up talking about. This whole let your light shine thing has been on my mind for the past week and somehow im not sure its going to go away any time soon so anyway here goes... :)
Towards the end of the other note i started saying about like we dont want our friends and/or family getting to judgement day and them thinking 'oh why didnt (name) tell me about this?' or something similiar. The bottom line is whether we like it or not there is a heaven and a hell. Pastor Helena said last night that we dont want to get to heaven and other god nothing. We are alive on this earth for GOD. We have to live for him whilst we are on this earth. We do not want to get to heaven and not other him nothing do we? If that makes sense. Trying to bring friends and family to christ is not always easy but its what we are called to do. There was this guy i think, i cant remember exactly but like he was saying that a man can change the world. A man can change his family, the family change the community, the community changes other towns etc. If everyone kept to that then all of the sudden you would have a great bunch of people who would have heard about christ. And maybe even saved. The thing on the back of my newday top says 'a generation is emerging'. That is so true and also that generation which is us can then change our friends and family etc. We have the power to do that thanks to god. He is the light of our lives and alongs as we let him continue to be our light we can then be a light to our friends and other people, just as i said in the other note i think. Someone said to me a while ago, that once you go into the darkness its harder to get back into the light. We have to be a light amongst all the darkness. I know i keep saying that but it is so true and im not apoligising for it. I just want to say briefly about the whole heaven and hell thing. That is another thing that has been on my mind lately and it kinda links in with the 'let your light shine' thing as well. At newday i re-commited myself as i wasnt sure if i was going to heaven or hell but now i am certain that i am going to heaven as it is jesus blood and him dying on the cross that saved me. And to be honest, for that i will be forever grateful to him. The bottom line is, if your a christian you go to heaven, if your not a christian you go to hell. Im not trying to scare anyone im just saying the facts. You need to be saved to go live with the father when we die. It says in John 14:6 'Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' That is the only way to him. Thats the good news that jesus saved us and that we spend the rest of our lives with him if we're christians. Here's the not-so-good news. In Revelation 20:11-15 it says: '11Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.' That is the reality of it. Thats basically what the bible says about judgement day. In the passage it says about the 'dead'. The dead being those people who have died and are now waiting to be judged. We all get judged at judgement day. Even christians get judged at judgement day as we are all accountable to god at the end of our earthly lives. Its very hard sometimes to understand the book of revelation as different people have different interpretations of it. I've said this phrase before and im going to say it again. The lake of fire is refering in my understanding to something in hell that people get thrown in to. In case you don't know, hell is a very horrible place and those people who at the moment say they want to go there? I'm quite sure they will change their mind when they get to judgement. God records everything that we do. It says in Psalm 139:1-4: '1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.' He knows everything that we are going to do, everything that we are going to say and to be honest, completely everything! He records everything. No-one on earth knows exactly whats going to happen when we die although the bible gives us clear guidance and tells us what its going to be like. 1 John:5-7 says 'This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.' We really need to live for God and live by what he teaches us in the bible. It really is so important. As we keep hearing what seems all like all the time, the end times are coming if they're not allready here. We never know when jesus is going to come back or when we're going to called home.I know this is really long so I think i'm done for now :)
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