Prophet's Scroll
   
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Hi! Thanks for stopping by! I am Robert, a son of the Living God through the Lord Jesus Christ, an Junior at Liberty University, and avid fan of the Washington Redskins. Hopefully on this page you will find some interesting things that you didn't know before, learn a little about me and the things hold my interest, and get a touch of Biblical Knowledge as well! Take a look around adn please email me with your comments.! I am still working on this, so there will be more and more added every now and then. Take a look around and thanks again for coming by!
 
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Well, This is the part where you get to learn about the saving grace of God. Do you have a Bible? If so, go get it...we are going to take a brisk walk through Biblical history. First let me ask you a couple questions: 1) Do you know for certain that you have eternal life and will go to Heaven when you die? (simple - yes or no)
2) If you were to die right now (Your computer blew you up) and you stood before God this very second, and He asked you why He should let you into Heaven, what would you tell Him? Do you know? well, let me tell you that God wants you to know. He said so! "these things have I written unto you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life." You see we all have eternal life. the question is, "Where will you spend it?" See, many of us think that by being good our whole lives and doing more good things than bad things, never robbing a bank or killing someone, then we will go to Heaven. Well, I hate to be the one to inform you, you are gravely mistaken, and I am glad that you are here so that we can set the record straight. First, I think it is safe to assume that we all have done wrong in our lives..lied to our parents when we were little, well, let's be honest, when we weren't so little :-) said things to others that we know we shouldn't have said. The Bible makes it very clear (if you have your Bible, now would be the time to start following me on some of these verses) in Romans Chapter 3, verse 23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (NIV) Do you get that? Everyone has messed up! Nobody has NOT sinned...what is sin? Sin is anything that is not pleasing to God. So, Prophet, what does this mean? Well, the Bible goes on to say in Romans 6:23, "That the wages of sin is death..." "So what? we are all going to die anyways right?" Well, yes...but this verse means SPIRITUAL death." What do you mean SPIRITUAL death?" Well, the Bible says that we will be separated from God. "But I thought God is everywhere!" Well, he is, but when Judgement Day comes, those that have sinned go to a place we know as hell. Hell is the most terrible place imaginable raised to the infinite degree. And for all erternity, those who go there stay there. The Bible refers to it as the "burning lake of sulfer". How do you think it would feel to feel the pain of fire burning your flesh for all time? No Cokes to cool you down, no rest from the heat. Pain and agony forever! FOREVER!!!!! "So what? We all sinned, so we all go to hell, right? there is no hope?" Well, NO! there is hope. there is a way to get out of hell. You see God saw us in our sin, adn He knew that there had to be a way to redeem us. God loves us adn wants us to be with HIm for all eternity. The Bible puts it this way : For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him will NOT perish, but have eternal life - John 3:16. God doesn't want you to go to hell...He wants you to be with Him. "So why does He let people go to hell?" Well, God doesn't let them, people choose to. We are all sinners by nature and by choice. remember that verse I gave you earlier? For all have sinned adn fall short of the glory of God. "so, how do we get oursleves into Heaven?" Well, you don;t. God has done the work already. You see, 2,000 years ago, God sent His Son, Jesus, to live here on the earth and become a sacrifice for us. Jesus was soooo cool. He performed miracles like walking on a lake, feeding 5000 people with only 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. He even brought people back from the dead! This was God! You see, Jesus IS God, and He became a man. "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God...and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." jesus lived here for 33 and a half years. But what really made Him different was that unlike us, He never sinned...not once did He back talk His mom, Mary. Not once did He lust after a woman, He never messed up. He was perfect. God, the Father, had to have Jesus perfect, so taht Jesus could die pefectly. "WHAT?! God died?" yes, I am afraid it is true. Jesus, the perfect man, who never did wrong died. Guess who killed Him. do you know? WE DID! Ok, so we weren't alive 2000 years ago, but this is why Jesus died. God took all of our sins, the ones we have, are adn will commit, and put them on Jesus. "he was delivered over to death for our sins..." (Rom 4:25) Jesus, being the God of the universe, allowed Himself, notice I said ALLOWED, to be killed, so that we might be reconciled through Him. You see, God requires a blood sacrifice for forgiveness of sin. Back in the old days, the people had to sacrifice a lamb with out blemish. Well, Jesus was with out blemish. And He died for us. Why? because He loves us so much adn wants so badly for us to be with Him. "Wait a minute. I thought you said Jesus died!" well, He did, but there is more. You see, Jesus died on a friday, what we know as Good Friday. then on the sunday afterward, that would be what we know as Easter Sunday, HE came back from the dead. Jesus rose from the grave!!!!Remeber that verse Rom 4:25 "He was delivered over to death for our sins..."? Well the rest of that says, '...and He was RAISED for our justification." Jesus died, was buried and rose from the dead...all for you and me! He loves us that much! "So OK, let me get this straight...I am a sinner...I have messed up. I am going to hell. But God has a Son, named Jesus, who lived a long time ago, died with the burdens of MY sin on Him, came back from the dead cause He loves me, and He doesn't want me to go to hell. OK, I can sorta see that...but HOW DO I GET TO HEAVEN?" Great! I thought you would never ask. OK...there is a simple three step plan. Well the 1st two are simple, the third takes a life time... 1) Admit to God that you are a sinner. (Rom. 3:23)
2) Place your faith in Jesus as the only way to go to heaven. You see, Jesus siad that, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6). He said that you can't be good enough to go to Heaven, can't buy your way there, nothing that you can do. Another verse in the Bible says "For by grace you are saved through faith, this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast." (Eph. 2:8-9) So the only way to Heaven is Jesus. "Well, how do I place faith in Him?" Well, you have to just trust in the fact that He will save you. Like a chair. You know a chair will hold you up, but you don;t really have faith in it until you actually sit in it. When you do, you have faith that it will not move, or fall apart or let you fall down. That is faith.
3) Surrender to Jesus as Lord. OUCH! What does that mean? Surrender? That is not a word we like to hear nowadays. What Jesus means is that you do things God's way from now on. You have to repent of your sin. Repentance is not being sorry that you did wrong, but also, turning from the sin. Like a U-turn. you see sin coming..then you go the opposite way. And you do that every possible time you are faced with the choice to do right or wrong. You will mess up! But God will be there to lift you back up again.

"OK, so I admit I did wrong, trust Jesus to save me, and then Surrender to Him as Lord of my life? Ok...I want to do that..I am not totally sure about all of this faith stuff, but I know that I need to have a Savior, or I am going to hell...and I am willing to do things God's way. Since He is God, His way has to be better than the way I have been doing it....So now what?"

Well, say a prayer kinda like this..."Dear Jesus, I know I am a sinner. Please forgive me. I trust you, that you are the only way for me to be saved from death and hell. I surrender my life to you, and will follow you for the rest of my life. thank you for saving me. Amen."

OK WOW! If you prayed that prayer and meant it, then you are now a part if the family of God. What will happen now is that you will need to find a local church taht believes in th Bible. they can teach you all about the Bible, a lot better than what is written on this page. If you have any questions and don't know where to go, you can call Ebenezer Baptist Church in Gloucester VA at (804) 693 2895. someone there will be VERY glad to answer any other questions that you may have.

"Well, what if I am not sure? I don;t know, I am just not ready." WEll, that is up to you. You now have seent eh Gospel of Jesus Christ, you now that there is a God who loves you and has a way for you to Heaven. The choice is now yours. I don't want to push you into anything, but the fact that you are still here shows that you have some interest for what I have said. The choice, again, is yours. Think about it...It IS a life and death question with ETERNAL consequences.
 
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