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Talk Back 44
If You Were to Die Today, Think About It,
Where Would you Go!

by Shawn Carter

Originally posted on the UCTAA Discussion Board. A discussion on this article has been opened in Debate and Discourse. Please feel free to add your thoughts to the discussion via the contact page.

Many religions teach many different paths of salvation.
The word RELIGION is derived from 2 lattin words
Re-to go back and Ligeo means to bind back. So religion means to bind oneself back to God.Witch is mans attempt to gain salvation through a prosess of works to make himself acceptable to God in an attempt to gain everlasting life.
By means of church attendance ,offerings of money praying a repititious prayer,or baptism are all mans attempt at salvation. Religion teaches that you dont know if youre saved untill you die.witch doesnt make any sense how can God call people to be ambasidors preachers and followers of christ if they themselves dont know if there saved.
However the Bible is very clear on hoe to be saved . Christianity and the Bible are different than religion in that they say man can never make himself perfect before God on his own. And God reached man through Jesus .The bible says exactly what is needed for everlasting life.The truth is that you can know forsure that you are going to heaven as soon as youre saved. Many people feel the bible is open to interpitation of the scriptures to fit what they believe . Tonight I am not going to change any of Gods words only read the instances where a person was saved in Gods own word and how it happened. some of these stories Jesus himself promised salvation to people and if Jesus said that someone was saved there is a valuble lesson to be learned from this example.
Before I start want to make it clear that everyone sins everyone does things wrong and that even one sin no matter how small can keeep us from the Love of God and erlasting life.If we dont realizer we're sinners then we wont realize that we need a savior.Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.

Isah 64:

Sin is like a huge cannyon so wide and long that we cant see acros to the other side and nothing we can do on our own efforts will get us across we are trapped on the one side with sin but we know there has to be heaven on the otherside even though we cannot see it because God has told us of heaven and has sent his son to be the bridge from sin to heaven.

Luke 7

Jesus reads the pharissee's mind and notices the wat he was thinking of sin.
notice how the pharisee said she was a sinner almost like a lower class of people and that he himself was not a sinner. when the truth is tat everyone is a sinner even a christian sins. so jesus begins with a story to the pharisse

46. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 47. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

Many people are just like this lady they have many sins and Jesus said they all could be forgiven .when she comes to jesus she humbles herself by washing jesus feet. In the nexyt verse notice the responce of the pharasee to the story that Jesus was telling.

These are Jesus's own words he makes it very clear what saved her it was her faith not her works or money or baptism.she realized she was a sinner in need of saving and had faith that jesus is the son of God .

1John 1:9

if we confess our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins

ACTS 16:
Paul and Silas were in a very bad situation but they aren't grumbling or complaining, they are praising God. Many times we have little tiny problems and can blame God or get discouraged or mad, but look at the state these guys were in and were still praising God.

Imagine the shock of the jailor and the testimony of these two as their jailed, singing, everyone hearing them praising their God. Then boom everyone's free and the shackles are off. Everyone in that prison knew it wasn't an accident and God was real.

I've heard people who claim this verse is talking abooout saved as in from the prisoners or God killing him. It's very clear that he was talking about salvation og God, the same salvation that the men were known for teaching and singing about. He was ready to kill himself. Why would he have put down the sword to go and get himself killed by prisoners.

The answer to the jailor's question is clear. Frist salvation of the jailor and then house believed and were saved, then baptised. notice that the jailor immedietly takes them to his home to save his famoly also. Jailor would be put to death or imprisoned for letting them out and bringing them to his house.


John 4:
3. He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4. And he must needs go through Samaria.
The Jews didn't like Samaritans and didn't like to even go through their land. Jesus often used Samaritans as the good examples to humble the disciples and Jews.
Now she begins to turn the conversation away from herself and towards him. Trying tochange the subject by asking a question of Jesus.

She's so amazed and shocked by his words of being the messiah that she forgets her waterpot. What saved these men and people of Samaria was her testimony. She wasn't an eloquent speaker. SHe just told her testimony and people believed in Jesus from that. Anyone can do that. All you have to know is how you were saved.

Acts 8:
28. Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
Philip sees Ethipian in chariot reading scripture is actually Isiah53:7 and spirit tells him Go, talk to him, you see him reaading the scriptures don't miss this opportunity.
Now Philip reads to him again in the same spot teaching him this time that the man was Jesus.
What was the eunic asking? Basically here is some water for me to be baptized in what's stopping me from going down there to get baptized. Now, pay close attention to the answer Philip gives.
What stipulation was placed on baptism? First believe unto salvation. Then be baptized. Baptism is not salvation.

Romans 4:

Titus 3: