My Christian Answers

Five most important questions you will ever ask…

1. In my present condition, am I prepared for heaven?

NO! The Bible says… “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)

It does not matter how good your life has been. At some point in your life you have fallen short of God’s glory. (Probably every day)

2. If I am a sinner, where am I going?

The Bible says…”the wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23) “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15)

So as a sinner your destination is hell. Unless God saves you that awfull place.

3. I have lived a good life. Won’t that save me?

The Bible says…”For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselfs: it is the gift of God: Not of works lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

4. What has God done to provide the way to heaven for me?

The Bible says…”For God so loved the world, that he gave his only beggotten Son,that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

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

5. What must I do to be saved?

“…Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…” (Acts 16:30-31)

“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)

Salvation is a free gift, whosoever will may believe and recieve it. Trust Christ, REST in the knowledge that He is all sufficient and has already paid the price for your sins.

Not quite satisfied please read my posts on the forgiveness of God to find out exactly what God did to take care of your sins.

I have written a few articles about the Forgiveness of God now. If you have not read them you can read them here:

Forgiveness of God

Some people may read these things and still not be convinced that sin was taken care of on Calvary and everyone’s sins were paid for (meaning completely forgiven). This is going to be a short article just asking a couple of questions. I want you to search and find the answers to these in the word of God.

Here are the questions:

1) When do you think your sins were forgiven?

For most people the answer to this question is “when I asked him to forgive me.”

2) Why do you think your sins are forgiven?

Most would say to this question that they are forgiven because they asked him to forgive. I want to know why you think he forgave you when you asked. If I asked you that you should say, “Because Christ died for my sins”. Christ died for you sins before you asked him to forgive you. So this leads me to another question:

3) Why did God not forgive you before you asked?

If the reason God forgave is because Christ died for your sins, then why must God wait on you to ask him? The work of Christ concerning Salvation is finished; it has been for two thousand years. If “the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all” (Isaiah 53: 6), then how would God be just in not forgiving those iniquities laid on Christ. If God were to punish the same iniquities twice, would he be just? “NO”. That would be like giving you two speeding tickets for one violation. God because of his perfect justice cannot punish my sin or yours twice. He judged it in the body of Christ so can he judge it in you? NO he cannot. I have one last question.

4) Will you believe it?

The Bible paints a bloody picture of the payment for sin. God the Father beat his only begotten Son to death. Isaiah 53 says that it pleased God to do it. God hates sin so much that he chose to kill his Son, Jesus Christ, in order to pay for it. John 4:10 says that the Samaritan woman had to know two things to be saved: who Christ is and what the gift of God is. If you think you are saved you must question yourself, after all Paul did tell the Corinthians to examine themselves. What did I know when I made my profession? Did I know who Christ really is? Did I know that the gift of God is forgiveness of sins (for Christ’s sake, not because I asked)? Did I think that I could earn salvation?

Many people say a prayer and tell God that they know there is nothing they can do to be saved. The funny thing is that when the are praying that prayer, they are doing something to be saved. They think they are saved because they prayed. That is a big misunderstanding that is sending people to hell. If you think that what you do (works) gets you into heaven, then you are not truly resting in the finished work of Christ; you are resting in your works. Thinking that a prayer will get you into heaven is no different than thinking that giving to the poor will get you into heaven. Both are good works, but neither merit heaven. “For to him that worketh it is no longer grace…” (Romans 4:4) and “by grace are ye saved through faith, not of works”. If your claim to heaven is in what you said, did, or felt, then it is not by grace and you will find out the hard way unless you change your mind about how you view salvation.

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