What is true faith? Many people go to great lengths to demonstrate their religious piety through various religious activities. It may incur great cost to them in terms of time and cost. The view is that there is no cost too great to fulfill their religious duties. Their devotion is seen through the sacrifices that they make. Unfortunately, it comes to nothing if it does not help them through to eternity.
Most are unclear about their future after death. Most hope that their good works and acts of piety will allow them to live life with success and die peacefully. Jesus is the only one that gives clarity on this matter. No religious leader or founder of a faith or religion has this clarity for life, death and life after death.
And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
Jesus came to save us. Even in the early days of the church, people were going back to religious piety and practices to "help" them being saved from their sins. But they can never be sure of the outcome. That is not God purposed when He came in the person of Jesus Christ.
Jesus came for the sole purpose of saving all of mankind through His life, death and resurrection. Only God could do it and He is God. And guess what? We will experience the same. Jesus demonstrated exactly what we will experience when we are restored in our relationship with God.
Want to be sure of eternal destiny? Choose well. Choose to follow Jesus.
Father, I followed you from 1976 and have never looked back. Thank you.
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