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Your Personal Freedom To Choose
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Let's continue our discussion the topic of Your Personal Freedom To Choose what you believe about JESUS with you in this Article.  Since you have continued to read everything up to this point, the concept of you having the right to make a personal choice about what you believe in regard to JESUS CHRIST is now more real to you then ever before.

 

Is it possible for a person to remain neutral, or refuse to make a decision regarding what they believe about the good news of JESUS?  

NO!  

Once you have heard the gospel, you have to make up your mind as to what you believe or don't believe.  In other words, you must accept or reject JESUS as your SAVIOR.  The stark reality is; 'Refusing to believe in JESUS brings about a desperate, frightening, eternal condemnation.'

John 3:17-18


"For GOD did not send HIS SON into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through
HIM.  Whoever believers in HIM is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already because he has not believed in the Name of
GOD'S One and Only SON."

 

   

If you are thinking that GOD may be too harsh, think again.  HE gave mankind the life of HIS SON. The FATHER watched JESUS die on a cross for those who did not love HIM, and yet, in HIS love, HE continues to offer eternal life for A-L-L who put their trust in the Name of JESUS.  This is not harsh!  It is the highest form of love ever known by man!

JESUS' response to those who refuse to accept HIM as their SAVIOR clearly explains their eternal future.

John 3:17-18


"I don't know you or where you come from.  Away
from ME all you evildoers!'  "There will be weeping
there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom
of GOD, but you yourselves thrown out."

 

   

Because GOD loves man, HE has given man the right to make his own choices.

In certain terms:  Because GOD loves you, HE has given you the right to choose, to make your own choices.  HE desires more than anything that you choose to believe in HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, but HE has given you the personal power to do as you please.  That is ultimate love!

Choose eternal life - 

Eternity with GOD through faith in JESUS.


- OR - 

Refuse to choose eternal life - 

Eternity without GOD by refusing to accept JESUS.

No matter the choice a person makes, a choice has to be made.  Joshua understood this to be a fact when he clearly declared; "

Joshua 24:15


"But if serving the LORD seem undesirable to you
then choose for yourselves this day, whom you will
serve, whether the gods your forefathers served
beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you were living.  But as for me and my
household, we will serve the LORD."

 

   

 

 

 

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