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 live on forever and ever
throughout all eternity. Jesus
says concerning the lost, “And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:46).
Everlasting punishment in Hell and eternal life in Heaven will both be
forever and ever, without end. We
cannot afford to lose our soul and be eternally punished in Hell.
If you were to die today do you know for certain, without a doubt, that
you would go to Heaven?
We will not accidentally 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 know the true answer to this question, “For we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ” (Romans 14:10).
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). 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”. We will not have a
second chance on the Day of Judgment to make things right.
We have to get it right in this life.
We are told in Amos 4:12, “Prepare to meet your God”.
On Judgment Day we will be either prepared or unprepared.
Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
We cannot hope or wish our way into Heaven.
The Lord doesn’t want anyone to be lost.
God “desires all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the
truth” (2 Timothy 2:4). If one
is lost in Hell, he will only have himself to blame, but the majority of
people will be eternally lost. Jesus
warns us in Matthew 7:13-14 to, “Enter
by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to
destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to
life, and there are few who find it.”
This gets my attention. Jesus
says the vast majority of people will end up being eternally lost in Hell and
only few saved. Sadly the majority
of people are walking the wide road into eternal damnation and don’t realize
it. We must take this warning from
God very seriously.
This earthly life is so short, but eternity is forever and ever without
end. God’s word says, “Whereas
you do not know what will happen tomorrow.
For what is your life? It
is even as a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away"
(James 4:14).