Me, When I Die …forgiven forever in Christ
When I die, I will see the dawning of a brand new existence. I will be free from this body of death and dying (Romans 7:24). Pain and grief will be no more (Hebrews 8:12).
The Bible tells me what it will be like to die and what to expect on the other side. For the believer in Christ, there is nothing to fear in death.
Because I have “made my peace with God”, I know God will accept me into His Kingdom when I die. In fact, He has already declared me free now, “not guilty” now, covered now by the blood of the Lamb, forgiven and made brand new. Right now, I am due to inherit what God has prepared for me in heaven.
I don’t know if Greenbaum was a born again believer, but his song was very popular. I like to sing along, filling-in Scripture with what is missing in the song.
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that’s the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky
Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best.
– ‘Spirit In The Sky’ by Norman Greenbaum
What God shows us in the Bible.
The act of genuinely confessing your sinfulness and acknowledging Christ as Lord… is what God requires. It is a one time act.
God’s legal system will, in that moment in time, declare us “forgiven”, free from His condemnation – never to be condemned ever again. In that act of yielding our life to God, the substitute death of Christ on the cross is declared to be enough for God to wipe away the stain of our sin. His perfect standard is met, for us, through the legally binding law of forgiveness by God.
After our salvation moment, the veracity of our salvation is evidenced by the testimony of our life as we follow Him (Colossians 3:1-4; 1 Peter 1) If we consequently do not follow Christ, it is evidence that we did not truly yield to Him
9 And having been made (Y)perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation”. –Hebrews 5:9
Are you living for Christ? Really?
It is impossible to deceive God. But many seem to deceive themselves, thinking that a simple acquiescence saved them. Many like the sound of the gospel, but then go on to live a contrary life to what a follower of Christ is told in the Bible to live. That type of faith is no faith at all. That “easybelievism” will not stand up in court before an all-knowing God.
Man’s ways are often not His ways. Yet He tells us what is expected of us (Deuteronomy 30:16).
In that Judgement Day,
my right and wrong “as I see it”,
my “it’s okay to be impure” attitude,
my excuses for fornication,
my boyfriend-girlfriend sex,
my “sexual preference”,
my same-sex sex,
my fetus farming science,
my baby killing abortion choice,
my “the ends justify the means” way of life,
… will not stand in the Court of God.
-From: Being Christian
FOR MORE:
Do you know what will stand in the Court of God in His Holy Kingdom? What will not? God shows us in the Bible – what’s what. What we think, well, how can that count for much in His infinite knowledge?
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Me, When I Die…still in my sin not forgiven by Christ
