THE ONLY CHOICE THAT ALL MANKIND HAS TO MAKE IS NOW EITHER TO CHOOSE GOD’S RESCUE PLAN, THAT HE PROVIDED (JESUS CHRIST) WHICH WILL ALLOW MAN TO EXIST IN FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM, OR REFUSE THE RESCUE PLAN GOD HAS PROVIDED. …….MANKIND WILL STILL EXIST….HE CAN NEVER CEASE TO EXIST, BUT HE WILL EXIST OUTSIDE OF FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. MANKIND MUST EXIST, BECAUSE GOD HAS ALREADY CREATED HIM IN HIS OWN IMAGE. GOD’S IMAGE IS AN ETERNAL IMAGE, BECAUSE HE IS AN ETERNAL GOD!  THEREFORE MANKIND CANNOT CEASE TO EXIST BECAUSE HE WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF AN ETERNAL GOD. But where man exists depends on his choice.

IT’S EITHER EXISTING ETERNALLY WITH HIS CREATOR IN PARADISE, OR EXISTING ETERNALLY apart FROM HIS CREATOR in a place the Bible calls Hell, Hades, the Abyss, the Lake of Fire. BUT HE MUST EXIST SOMEPLACE!

THE BIBLE SAYS: Romans 3 verse 23-24 “ For ALL have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, and are justified freely by HIS GRACE through the redemption that came by JESUS CHRIST”  It did not say some have sinned, it said ALL have sinned.   

John 14 verse 6 Jesus told them “ I am the Way the Truth and the Life, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.

 A question that was asked to Jesus while he was on earth:

A man called Nicodemus who was a Jew and a member of the Jewish council, came to Jesus in the night the bible says, and asked Jesus…” Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with Him…in reply Jesus declared, “ I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God, unless HE IS BORN AGAIN,” To This statement Nicodemus was confused, he replied “ How can a man be BORN AGAIN when he is old? Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born…Look again at John 14 v 6, Jesus told them, “ I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME”…

Look back to John 3 verse 14   “Just as Moses lifted up the snake, so must the SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP SO THAT EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM, MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE!!!”

John 3 verse 16 …"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life," ( ONE MUST BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR SAVOR TO GET EVERLASTING LIFE ) for God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to SAVE the world through Him!

WHAT DOES BEING BORN AGAIN MEAN?

Accepting JESUS CHRIST as LORD AND SAVIOR. An individual must recognize that they were BORN IN SIN and therefore is SEPARATED or have NO FELLOWSHIP with a HOLY GOD, AND  IF THEY DO NOT ACCEPT GOD’S rescue plan( JESUS CHRIST ) As their SAVIOR they will PERISH!

Realizing This, THEY BECOME REPENTANT (other words they are truly SORRY FOR THEIR SINS and ask for forgiveness.)

Luke 13 v 3 "EXCEPT YOU REPENT, YOU SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH."    one accepts Jesus Christ and is saved by FAITH, however FAITH does not save if TRUE REPENTANCE do not take place….

An individual ASK GOD’S FORGIVENESS, accepts Jesus’ death, and His shed blood on the cross as the pardon for their own sins, believe in their heart that God raised Christ from the dead,  ASK JESUS CHRIST TO COME INTO THEIR HEART AND CREATE IN THEM A NEW PERSON, THAT’S WHAT BEING BORN AGAIN MEANS, A NEW PERSON IN CHRIST. John 3 v 5 Jesus is saying a person must be born of the spirit. This REBIRTH IS THEREFORE A SPIRITUAL BIRTH, NOT A PHYSICAL BIRTH.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON IS BORN AGAIN?

A true born again life is evident by a different WAY of life, different from the previous way, a different way of thinking, a hunger for God’s word and a desire to know and fellowship with Him more and more. A DESIRE TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER BELIEVERS, A desire to want to please CHRIST, and an awareness of His presence. A person was not always saved, or always knew God; it’s an EVENT, which happens in an individual’s life by choice. It’s a decision and an INCIDENT, which must take place.  One cannot INHERIT salvation, one MUST CHOOSE salvation.

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