There are times in life when there is room for doubt.
Eternity just is not one of them.
There is no room for doubt in eternity.
He has also set eternity in their heart,
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Each of us wonders about eternity. I don’t care who you are or where you live, it doesn’t matter your sex, age, race, religion, or region… at some point in time you have asked yourself what happens when this thing we call life is over…
Every human being on this planet has considered death.
Every religion or anti-religion has a plan for death… they have a plan because it has been an issue of great consideration in their minds. The sad thing is that in those plans there remains doubt. There is no certainty as to what becomes of them after this life.
There is only ONE who removes this doubt.
There is only ONE who has given us certainty… if we choose to believe Him.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:24
Jesus said to them, “ I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
John 6:35
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
John 7:38
Jesus said to her, “ I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?
John 11:25-26
Jesus leaves us no room for doubt. He never speaks with mights, or maybes, or my opinions, or me thinks. He always speaks with authority and certainty.
He has given us no room for doubt.
Jesus + Belief = Eternal Life
Then to make sure that we would have no room for doubt in our belief upon Him… He seals us with His Spirit… and the clear evidence of that Spirit appears in our changed and changing life. He doesn’t stop there… He also gives us His Word of promise.
These things I have written
to you who believe in the name of the Son of God,
so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:13
He has given us an entire Book of promises, in 1 John alone, we have 5 chapters of assurance… if we doubt we turn here and we discover that there is no room for doubt…
Our world is full of doubt-givers and false hope-offerers… Jesus is not one of them.
You are either for Him or against Him.
When you hear Him, read Him, learn of Him, and examine your own life in light of Him you have to make a choice. If you are not who He claims you should be if you do in fact know Him… then you know Him not… and you have a choice at that very moment.
Call on Him…
Or walk away from Him.
Next week my church will be presenting our annual fall drama, The Judgment Seat. In this drama we present the truth that Hell is a reality. Our desire is that no one walks out the doors with doubt as to whether or not they know where they will spend eternity. And it is our desire that no true Believer will walk out our doors with a flippant attitude about the eternal lives of the people in their areas of influence.
When was the last time you were truly concerned if the person you just said “Hi” to knew Jesus Christ?
Our desire is not to offer the false hope of the world, “well maybe if I am good enough I will make it“, “well maybe at the very end we all get another chance to accept Christ if He’s really the way“, “well maybe their heart is okay even if their actions don’t look like it“, “well who am I to judge their heart or question their actions“, “well I don’t want to offend them“, “it’s really not my place to push my religion on them“
We intentionally write characters who display the spectrum of believer and non-believer according to the descriptions given us in Scripture. We intentionally want to lead people to realize that they must get off the fence… the fence is imaginary anyway… there is no fence in reality. If you are not all in Christ, then you are indeed all out.
If you have no assurance that you are IN HIM, then you are left with assurance that you are out of Him.
Jesus leaves us no room for doubt.
And I don’t know about you… but when it comes to eternity, when it comes to breathing my last breath on this earth… I don’t want to have any doubts.
If you have doubts then open up the Book. Find your knees. Seek Him. He will let you know one way or the other…