Are you really sure of your eternal salvation? This is a very
important question, and one that will have lasting eternal consequences.
If you were to die today, do you know for certain that you would go to
heaven? This is a question about which we cannot afford to be wrong,
because eternity is very permanent. One day each of us will face the true
answer to this question, "For we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ",
Romans 14:10.
Every one of us have two appointments that have already been made for us
and that we will definitely keep, whether we want to or not. They are,
"And as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment", Hebrews 9:27. These two
appointments, death and the judgment, cannot be cancelled.
We must
not make an error concerning our salvation in following what "seems right"
to us, or that we "feel in our heart that we are saved". The Bible says in
Proverbs 14:12, "There is a way that
seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death". Our feelings are not a safe guide, but only the Bible
is.
What prior assumptions have we already made about our
salvation? Many of these assumptions, that people make, contradict what
God says in his word to us. All we have to do is to look around at all of
the many differing doctrines that are being taught, and then compare them
to what God says in the Bible, and we can see a great difference. Our Lord
says in Mark 7:7, "And in vain they
worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men". Our worship is vain if it comes from the doctrines of men
and not from God. Can we say that all these many differing doctrines have
come from God? I think not. I Corinthians
14:33 says that, "God is not the author of confusion." Or are they from men? Where else could they have come
from, if they did not come from God? This becomes a very serious question.
Our worship becomes vain and useless, if our doctrines come from men when
they meet in conventions and conferences to decide what we are to believe
and do.
As the apostle Peter told the Jewish council in
Acts 5:29,
"We ought to obey God rather than
men". Do not believe anything that I tell you,
because we are not going to be judged by what I say. Do not believe
anything any other person tells you, because we are not going to be judged
by what some other person says. In fact, we are not going to be judged by
what we personally believe. On the Day of Judgment we are going to be
judged only by what the Lord says in the Bible. That is going to be the
only standard for judgment, for our Lord says in John 12:48, "The word that I have spoken will judge him in the
last day". So, if I or any other person cannot
point to it in the Word of God, then please do not believe it, because
there is too much at stake ñ your soul!
Our soul is worth more than
the whole world and everything in it. Jesus says in Matthew 16:26, "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole
world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his
soul?"
Our soul is the part of us that is
going to continue to live on forever throughout all eternity. We cannot
afford to lose it into eternal punishment.
Questions Lesson
1 Our Eternal
Salvation (click on the button
of the answer of your choice)
1) (Romans 14:10) Who will appear before the judgment seat of
Christ?
Only the lost.
Only the saved.
All people.
2) We cannot afford to be wrong about our
salvation.
3) (Proverbs 14:12) The way that seems right unto man leads
to
Eternal life.
Spiritual death.
Success.
4) Our feelings are a safe guide when it comes to our eternal
salvation.
5) (Mark 7:7) If we follow the doctrines of
men
It is vain.
It doesn't matter.
God is still well
pleased.
6)
It is pleasing to God if we follow the doctrines of men in our
worship.
7) (John 12:48) What will be the standard of judgment on judgment
day?
What we think.
The words of Christ.
What my preacher
says.
8) Just because we feel in our heart we are saved does not mean we are
saved.
9) (Hebrews 9:27) What appointments have already been made for
us?
Doctor.
Dental.
Death and
Judgment
10)
We can cancel our appointments with death and judgment.