What if?

What if you died today?

What would happen?  If you're not sure, find out.

Feel like your missing something, like there is this void in your  life?  Find out.

The Bible tells it all.  Before you start bashing it, have  you ever read it?  Or are you going off those three times that  you went to church after you left your Mom and Dad?  I know it  is hard to get started and to get through all the "thee's" and  "thou's."   The book is written by the Holy Spirit.   You'll have a hard time understanding it unless you're led by the  spirit.  That is why it is hard to read.  Get a new  translation: the NIV, NLT or New King James(NKJV), which will help.

Ok, let's start at the beginning.

The world, Earth and the universe: was it created or did it  happen by chance, by the big bang?  You: were you designed or  just a lucky roll of the dice?  

This guy, Dr. Hovind, gives a great series on this:  www.drdino.com   I'll give you a copy of disk #1 if  you ask.  

In Genesis 1:2, the Word says "The Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.   And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters."   NKJ version

This whole thing bothered me for a while, until Pastor Benny Hinn  said that the word 'was'.  'Was' translates from  a word in Hebrew that could also mean 'became'.  I'm no expert  of Hebrew, but I do know that everything God does is perfect.   Think about it...God created the Heavens and the Earth, perfect.   Then it became without form, and void.  This explains the   time and age thing.  So what happens to make the Earth become  without form and void?  

This is where our problems began.  Lucifer was an angel  under God.  He had power, full of wisdom and was beautiful.   Pride rose up in him and he led a rebellion in Heaven.  One  third of the angels, including  Lucifer, lost this rebellion  and  were thrown out of Heaven.  Lucifer, now called many  things, is commonly known as Satan.   

Sin is an archery term that means to "fall short of the target".   Shoot an arrow, and a guy down range calls back "sin" if you fell  short of your target, letting you know to adjust your aim.    To sin is to fall short of the Glory of God.  Now God has a  plan for you to get right with him if you did sin.  You must  atone for your sin!  It is not about "Well, I am good person, I  guess I'm going to Heaven."  Nor is it a scale weighing out the  good and bad at the end.  In the Old Testament you placed your  hands on an animal that was appropriate for your sin and transferred  your sin onto that animal.  The animal was killed in a certain  way, and the blood was sprinkled on the alter to atone for your sin.   You were now clean.  

What standards do you hold yourself to and why?  Your  conscience was placed there by God for a reason.  If we  happened by chance,  there would be no need for a conscience.   However, God gave us the Bible as a tool to help us out.  I  love the way the guys at the 'Way of the Master', www.wayofthemaster.com, put it:  Have you ever lied?   Have you ever stolen anything?  Have you ever looked at  something that somebody else owned and really, really wanted it?   Have you ever looked another person with lust?  Then you're  right here with the rest of us.  We are all guilty of sinning  against God.  So God in his ultimate mercy gave his only son,  Jesus, as one 'once and for all' sacrifice for our sins.  

We are in the middle of a battle; the battle for our souls.   Everything is spiritual, and all good things come from God.  We  are not here by chance but by design.  You are not reading this  by chance, but by design.  

1.  Acknowledge God and repent of your shortcomings.   Repent means to "turn away from".   Confess your sins.   God is faithful to forgive you and will remember your sins no more,  and you have to let them go as well.  

2.  Accept Jesus Christ into your heart and ask Him to begin  a work in you.

3.  Do the things that the Holy Spirit is now guiding you to  do.  Forgive others!  This is a tough one.  But God  holds us to the same standards that we hold: how can he forgive us  for our mountain of sin if we won't forgive others?

4.  Read the Bible.  Again, get one that is easy to  understand: NIV, NLT or the New King James (NKJV).  Start in  Luke or John and then Genesis.  One way is to read a chapter a  day as well as a chapter of Proverbs (there are 31 of them, one for  every day).  Then get a King James (KJV), as this is the most  accurate translation, but not for the timid or sleepy.  

5.  Don't look solely  to man or you will be  disappointed.  Look to God and keep your eyes on Him.

Today, we live in a great and awesome time.  There are so  many resources out there:

 www.biblegateway.com 

www.cbn.com

 www.bennyhinn.org

 www.voiceofevangelism.org This guy is deep.

Who am I?  Nobody.

Who is God?  Everything.

Yeah, I'm taking a risk in ticking someone off, but you've read  down this far.  Do you feel God tugging at your heart?  I  once heard, "What God says either means everything or nothing. If we  were created, God's word means everything.  If we happened by  chance, we're all worm food".  Are you willing to take the  risk?

By today's standard, Charles Darwin was a loser; only 6 people  attended his funeral.  Carl Marks, also a loser, wrote in his  thesis:  'to control a country, get them to believe in  evolution', thus taking away the eternal consequences of their  actions and making them easier to control.  It also makes  people look to the State for guidance instead of God.  This is  what Hitler did in the 1930's.  Believing in evolution doesn't  make you smarter, just easier to control.