Salvation: Do You Know Where You Will Spend Eternity?

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IF YOU KEEP ON LIVING, YOU ARE GOING TO LEAVE HERE!!! WHERE WILL YOU GO? 

When  we hear about natural disasters in the news, many don’t believe it can  happen to them. Tsunami’s, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes,  tornadoes, fire, droughts, and floods. We all must realize that we can  leave this world at any time. We don’t know if it’s going to be old age,  disease, accident, or any number of other not-fun-to-talk-about  options. One thing we must remember and that is death can come in many ways and at any time. There is no guarantee that we will live to be eighty or one hundred years old. There is no guarantee we will be here the next second, minute, hour, or tomorrow. So, the question is If You  Died Today, Where Will You Spend Eternity?

MY FRIENDS THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS (WE ARE TALKING ETERNITY)

Do You Know Where You Will Spend Eternity If You Died Today? Today Is The Day Of Salvation!!! 

This  is a question about which we cannot afford to be wrong, because  eternity is very permanent. Everyone of us have two appointments that  have already been made for us and that we will definitely keep. They  are, "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the  judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). “For we must all appear before the judgment  seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body,  according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (II Cor.  5:10). "For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ"  (Romans 14:10). There will also be the judgment of the lost: Rev.  20:11-15. It is called the "Great White Throne Judgment”. These two  appointments: death and judgment cannot be canceled; we will keep them.  The Bible says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death" (Proverbs 14:12). Our feelings are not a safe  guide, but only the Bible is. We must not make an error concerning our  eternal salvation in following what "seems right" to us, or that we  "feel in our hearts we are saved”. The Lord doesn’t want anyone to be  lost. God "desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the  truth" (1 Timothy 2:4). If one is lost in Hell, he will only have  himself to blame. This earthly life is so short, but eternity is forever  and ever without end. My friends, most people believe they are going to  heaven because they believe in God, they attend a local building every  Sunday, or they try to live a good life. Sad to say, many of these  people are hoping they will make it to heaven, they do not know. The  Bible teaches that you can know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13  “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the  Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may  believe on the name of the Son of God.”

Accountability (Judgments To come) 
The  Bible tells us of two judgments:  The judgment of the lost: Rev.  20:11-15. It is called the "Great White Throne Judgment".  The judgment  of the saved: I Cor. 3:10-23, II Cor. 5:10-11. It is called the BEMA  judgment, which is the Greek word for "Judgment Seat." The bible teaches  us of two Judgment events in our future. Of which every person stands  before only one. We either stand before the judgment seat of Christ (for  the Christians), or we stand before the Great White throne Judgment  (for the non Christians). In each case, our lives our examined and we  are held accountable for every word and action. The difference in the first is that the Christians are judged according to how they lived for  God, and receive rewards accordingly, and then are granted eternal life  of peace and beauty forever in the presence of God. In the latter  judgment (not attended by Christians) many will be judged for having  rejected our creator in deeds, body and spirit. And being a Good, Holy,  honest and just judge, the only sentence from Him - is guilty.

There Is A Penalty For Sin (Sin Will Not Go Unpunished)
My  friends the bible says that Christ will be revealed from heaven with  his angels: 2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 In flaming fire taking vengeance on  them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus  Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the  presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; we all know that wages are something we earn. By our sin, we have earned death. 

LETS LOOK AT ROMANS 6:23 (VERY IMPORTANT)
Romans  6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life  through Jesus Christ our Lord. This verse says that eternal life is a  gift. You see, eternal life cannot be earned, it must be accepted as a  free gift. Ephesians 2:8,9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and  that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any  man should boast. Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have  done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of  regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his  faith is counted for righteousness. Faith is simply believing what God  has said. God, being a loving Father, wants to have a relationship with  you. Since you are separated from Him by your unrighteousness, he will  count your faith for righteousness so that you can have a personal  relationship with Him! Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having  mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through  the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 
 VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
But  how did God provide for this free gift of eternal life? How do I  receive this free gift of eternal life? If God will count my faith for  righteousness, what do I need to have faith in? Romans 5:8 But God  commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,  Christ died for us. When the Bible says that “Christ died for us,” it  means that Jesus Christ died in our place. We saw earlier how the  payment for sin is death. Christ has already paid that payment for you.2  Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no  sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Jesus Christ  “knew no sin.” Since he was God, he never sinned. Since he was not a  sinner, he did not owe the payment for sin, death. But he chose to die  to pay your debt so that you could be “justified”, or declared  righteous, by God.