Are you going to Heaven or Hell?
Take
“The God Challenge” to see. Ask
yourself the following questions and be completely honest...
Q. Do you believe in God?
Q. Do you believe He is all-good?
Q. Do you believe He will punish evil?
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Okay then, lets
change gear for minute….
Q. Do you consider yourself to be basically a good person?
“Yes” you might say
Q. Can I ask you a few questions -to see if it is true?
“Sure” you might say
Okay then…
Q. Have
you ever told a lie?
What does that make you?
Q. Have
you ever stolen something (even something small)?
What does that make you?
Q. Have you ever used God’s name (the “G”
or the “J” word) in
vain?
Okay that’s called blasphemy…so instead
of using a four letter filth word to show disgust you have taken the name of
the God who gave you life and used His name as a curse word
Q. Jesus Christ said that whoever looks
at another person with lust in their hearts has committed adultery with them in
their heart –Have you ever looked at another person with lust?
That makes you an adulterer…
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Okay by your
own admission, you are a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart and
you’ve got to face God on judgement day…
Q. If God judges you by the 10 commandments on the day of judgement,
would you be innocent or guilty?
“Guilty, I guess” you might reply
Q.
Would you go to heaven or hell?
“Hell, I guess” you might reply
Q. Does
that concern you?
“I don’t believe in Hell” you might reply
Q. But if I stepped off a 6 story building and
said to you I don’t believe in gravity do you think it is going to change
reality?
“ah. But that’s real!”, you might say
Q. But
how do you know –you cant see it?
“Because we can test it”, you might say
Q. Well you can test the screams of the
damned too –Communist scientists recorded their screams at the centre of the
earth whilst drilling 14 km down in
Siberia and were so frightened they quit (CLICK HERE). The BBC thought it too controversial
to carry the story. Does that concern you?
“Nahhh, I don’t buy it”, you might say
Q. Okay what if as a child we were disrespectful to our parents - we
might get rightfully grounded, right? And if in later years we committed crimes
against society, we could be rightfully fined, imprisoned or even executed
depending on the seriousness of our crime, right? Well, what if we sinned
against the All-Holy God, the Creator of the universe? Could we not rightfully
face a punishment worse than death? What if by sinning against the Infinite
Majesty of God, we could deserve an infinite punishment like Hell… Does that
concern you?
“Well everybody lies, steals, blasphemes and lusts so that
must mean we must all be going to hell!” you might say
Q. God is not going to judge you by man’s standard which is very low
but His standard which is very high, by holiness, justice, truth and
righteousness. If you die in your sins, the bible says you have to face a Holy
creator, who gave you a conscience to know right from wrong and He is going to
judge you by the secret sins you have committed in darkness which nobody has
seen because He is a God of justice. Does that concern you?
“God is all good and would never condemn
anyone to Hell” you might say
Q. Do you
think that God should allow liars, adulterers, thieves and blasphemers into
heaven? No of course not. Then you are in big trouble right? Really you are heading
for hell aren’t you? Does that concern you?
“Nahhh, God is all forgiving and will not condemn me” you
might reply
Q. Okay well imagine you are standing in
a court of law guilty of a serious crime and the judge says “What have you to
say for yourself before I pass sentence” and you say “I would just like to say
judge that you are a good man and therefore you will let me go”. Is the judge
going to let you go free if he is a good judge? Of course not. If he is a good
judge he will uphold the law and make sure justice is served and you are
punished for your crimes. How much more is this true for God who is a perfect
judge? The bible says
that “God will punish sin wherever it is found”. He will punish murderers and
rapists, but He wont stop there, God is so good He will also punish
liars, thieves, adulterers, blasphemers and all those who violate the inner
light of their conscience that God has given to every man. Does that concern you?
“Well I guess I’m going to Hell then” you might say
Q. Would you sell one of your eyes for a million pounds? No, of
course not. Because your eyes are precious to you aren’t they? They are the
windows to your soul. But Jesus said you are to despise the value of your eye
compared with your soul because if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and
cast it from you, for it is better to enter heaven without an eye than go to
hell with both your eyes. Does that
concern you?
No answer
Q. Hell is like
a neverending escalating horror movie on a stuck record with you as the star of
the show. There is no escape. Its forever. The panicked screams of the damned
as their bodies crackle in the black
flames can split rocks. Does that concern you?
No answer.
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Don’t
despair friend. I have some great news for you. Put yourself back in a
courtroom, you’re guilty of a serious crime with a million pound fine or life
in prison, you can’t pay your fine, when all at a sudden someone comes into the
courtroom and pays your fine for you. That’s what God did for you and for me
2000 years ago. Jesus Christ the Son of God stepped into the courtroom, so to
speak, and paid your fine when He suffered and died on the cross. As the bible
says “God demonstrated His own love for us and whilst we were yet sinners
Christ died for us” We broke the law and Jesus paid our fine...
If you wish to avoid Hell
On
the Sunday after Easter the Feast of Mercy, you can completely cleanse your
soul of all past sins and avoid Hell by doing all that Jesus asks of you in preparation
for this great gift. The following is what
Jesus demands of you in preparation for this day, if you wish to obtain
the Gift of Divine Mercy which is complete cleansing of your soul.
1.
You say the chaplet of
Divine Mercy for nine consecutive days beginning on Good Friday
2.
That you attend a church
celebrating the Feast of Mercy and listen to the priest speak on Divine Mercy –
that is the mercy which God the father bestows on us through Jesus Christ His
son. (St. Faustina’s Diary II: 39)
3.
You should contemplate,
on this day, the mystery of your Redemption as the greatest revelation of
Divine Mercy towards mankind (Diary I: 130)
4.
You should see the Image
of Divine Mercy as it is being ceremoniously blessed in the church on the day
(Diary 1: 18), (Diary 1: 142)
5.
You should publicly
venerate the Image of Divine Mercy whilst taking part in the celebration. To
achieve this you must go to the image which is left in a position that all can
touch and say “Jesus I trust in You”. This may be carried out during the
celebration like the kissing of the cross on Good Friday, or as people leave
the Church, if large numbers make it difficult during the ceremony. (Diary
1:341)7
6.
You should make a good
confession in preparation for communion on the feast day. Your communion, as
always, should be a worthy one and must be accompanied by complete trust in
Divine Mercy, because it is at this moment your soul is completely cleansed
(Diary II.138), (Diary III.1109)
7.
That an act of Mercy should
take place in our lives, as part of our preparation for the feast. We should be
merciful to others in our deeds, words and prayers.
Merciful word: forgiving and comforting
Merciful deed: Any of the corporal works of mercy
Merciful prayer: Prayers for Mercy for someone in need
Q. Will you turn back to the good Lord Jesus for Pardon?
Right now you are facing capital punishment, you are waiting to die,
and you are on death row, and you do not know the hour or the day when death
will seize upon you. You have sinned
repeatedly and should be trembling with dread and fear at what will happen to
you when you pass through the doorway of death. Do you want to jump through it without a parachute? What are you
going to do?
YOU DECIDE.
The bible says that to be saved we must:
·
Be a member of the
Catholic Church which is the pillar and foundation of the truth (1 Timothy
3:15)
·
Be baptised in the name of
Jesus Christ (Mark 16:15)
·
Confess our sins to His
appointed shepherds (James 5:15 and John 20:22)
·
Repent of these sins and
change our lives (Mark 1:15)
·
Be confirmed by the Holy
Spirit as a soldier of Christ against
Satan’s empire (Ephesians 1:13)
·
Eat Christ’s body and
drink His blood on the altar for strength against temptation (John 6:51, 1
Corinthians 10:16 and 11:23)
·
Honour His virgin mother
as blessed of God (Luke 1:48) and call upon her intercession with her Divine
Son like the wedding couple did at the feast of Cana (John 2:1) for all our
needs….
To find out how to be SAVED read the following short Catholic
Presentations….
1. Does God believe in
atheists?
3.
Finding the true Church of Christ
4. Catholic Presentation on Hell
5. Are you going to Heaven or Hell?
(You are Here)
6. The Bad News and the Good News
If you are interested in
becoming a Catholic contact your nearest parish Church today.
References
This presentation was adapted from the street evangelical techniques
used by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron in
www.wayofthemaster.com