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PERISHABLE

Text : John 3:18 ISV 

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s unique Son.

On a norm, no one trashes anything just to punish that thing, things are trashed because they are spoilt or because they are no longer useful.

In the same vein, people won't go to hell because God wants to punish them for their misdeeds,  people will end in hell because they have perished.

Anyone who refused to believe in Jesus Christ is a perishable element, John 3:15. But if he is still alive, he can be rescued from perishing. 

The decision to go to heaven or hell is not made in heaven, after the death of a man. The decision is actually made here on earth before man dies.

At the end of it all, God is not the one to determine whether you go to heaven or hell, that decision rests with the individual while he is here on earth. You decide where you will spend your eternity by your daily conduct and choices.

John 3:17 says that God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Now, this shows that God has made adequate provision for man's salvation, but it is with a clause that man should believe. 

Your lifespan is given to you to believe in God through His son Jesus Christ and to walk in this belief all through your life. Anything short of this is an indication that you have chosen the other path, which is the path of condemnation. 

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Joh 3:18.

Man became a perishable element ever since the fall of man. He can only be redeemed and preserved through and by Jesus Christ.

This is how Jude put it...Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Jude  1:1  

THE BIG QUESTION IS, HAVE YOU BEEN REDEEMED, AND ARE YOU BEEN PRESERVED?


Bible Reading: John 3:1-21.


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