Crossroads of Life

Standing at the crossroads

Every person’s life is like traveling down a road from the cradle to the grave. Somewhere along the road of life we all come to a crossroad and a decision has to be made which crossroad that we decide to take. There is the road which we are traveling on which we can decide to continue on and take our chances what the end of the road will bring. Then there is a road going to our right and to our left which gives us even other choices to make. Do we take the road to the right, or do we take the road to the left? The road to the right gives us a choice to use the Holy Bible as our guide and the road to the left is guided by some preacher that tries to convince us is the right road to take. Which road is the safest for us to take?

The Gospel

It is the desire and hope of every believer in God to obtain eternal life and spend eternity in Heaven with Him instead of perishing in hell which was created by God for those who do not believe. God has said that it is His will that all would be saved, but there is a condition that must be met if salvation is in every person’s future. That condition is a must for all people to believe the Gospel of Christ. Simply stated, the Gospel is that God has sent His only begotten Son into the World to atone for the sin of all people and only those who will believe in Him will be saved.

The bible tells us that God visited a virgin girl whose name was Mary and caused her to bring forth a man child who was to be named Jesus and that child would become the only begotten Son of God. At God’s set time, this man called Jesus came to be baptized by one John the Baptist and when He rose out of the water received the fullness of the Holy Spirit and was anointed by God His Father to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and fulfill God’s will to shed His blood on the cross for the atonement for the sin of the World.

After dying on the cross and being buried, God the Father raised Him from the dead and carried Him into Heaven to be seated at His right hand on God’s throne.

Jesus preached that all who would believe the Gospel and were baptized would be saved, but those who would not believe would be damned. In His own words Jesus said: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent and believe the gospel.” ( Now this is not my opinion or my interpretation. The Greek word “metanoeo”, which was translated to “repent” in the English, in the context as Jesus used it is defined as meaning to think differently or reconsider about the truth of the Gospel and does not mean to repent of any sins that you may have committed. It means to turn your previous thoughts from not believing to believing. Jesus said repent and believe the gospel, He didn’t say repent of your sins and believe the gospel, but this is exactly what so many preachers teach incorrectly in their churches.)

Mark 16:15-16 And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. They that believe and are baptized shall be saved; but they that believe not shall be damned. ( Again, if a person believes the gospel, they have repented of their unbelief.)

 

John 3: 16-18 Jesus said: “Because God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in him would not perish, but have everlasting life.” “God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. They that believe on him are not condemned: but they that believe not are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ( The name of the only begotten Son of God is the man Jesus.)

 

Following are some very important things that Paul the Apostle said and need to be taken to heart and believed.

Gal 1:1-9  Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)  And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.

 

It is important to understand the truths that Paul is speaking of here. Jesus is not God or He would have raised Himself from the dead, it was God the Father that did it. To start off with, if Jesus was God, He could not have died. It was God’s Son Jesus that died and God raised Him. No matter how differently anyone explains it, it must remain just as the scripture states it.

In addition, Paul speaks of another gospel that is being preached by some during his day and warning his people not to believe anything that is contradictory to the gospel that he preached to them. That same thing is happening in our day where the Gospel of Christ with Jesus being the Son of God and not the Father God in the flesh, taking the scriptures out of context with man’s wrongful interpretation being used to pervert the true Gospel.

Remember that Jesus said that would happen when He told us that false christs, prophets and false teachers, even using great signs and wonders would arise and mislead those who are easily deceived and move them away from the true Gospel.

It is God’s desire that all of His people would be saved, but there is a condition that everyone must meet in order to be saved. That condition is that everyone must believe the gospel as stated in bible scriptures, delivered by Jesus the Son of God.

Do you want to be saved, inherit eternal life and make Heaven your home for eternity? If so, then it is required of you to believe the true gospel as stated in bible scripture and not man’s interpretation of what the gospel is because of some private revelation claimed to have been received.

Paul the Apostle made it very clear by saying: “it is good and acceptable in the sight of God; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

 

Have you come to the knowledge of the truth? Jesus said that only God’s Word is truth, not man’s word.