Preparing for Eternity

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My dear brothers and sisters, it is time to start preparing for your eternal lives.  With death there are only two paths. The first path is narrow where only a few will find. This path leads to our Lord’s heavenly kingdom. The second path is wide which many follow. This path leads to hell and eventually to the lake of fire.  

Jesus Christ has provided us roadmap to journey down that narrow path. Please join me on that journey.  Just over 2000 years ago, Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins. To find that narrow path we must do the following:

 - Have unfathomable faith in Jesus Christ along with our good works. We are saved by grace through our faith and works. James 2:14-2:18 “14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?  15 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:  16 And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?  17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.  18 But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

- Be baptized. Though God has bound salvation to the sacrament of baptism, He Himself is not bound by His sacraments. Those who are not responsible for their ignorance of this revelation will not be held accountable but still must seek God with a sincere heart. 

- Confess and repent of all our sins each and each time we fall. The concept of “once save, always saved” is false and will lead many to the gates of hell. No one can enter the kingdom of heaven with a grave sin on their soul.