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for man’s salvation. John 14:6. So whether someone is Black or White, great or small, intellectual or illiterate, handsome or ugly, belonging to a religious group or not, it does not matter. The unique thing to do if one wants to be saved is to accept JESUS CHRIST as his LORD and PERSONAL SAVIOUR. Belonging to a Church is not the most important part of it, because no Church can save. Being a member of a priest’s family, of a pastor’s family or of any other of God’s servant’s family is not important when it comes to knowing your position in front of the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) in the last days. For only Jesus Christ can save us, no one else can save us, no human relationship can save us. Let us be aware that none of the greater or lesser titles we carry in actual society will have any use in front of God’s Judgement. The honourable level of education we have will have no use on the day of Judgement. Jesus Christ is, and remains the Unique door to the paradise of God. Jean 10:9. WHY JESUS CHRIST AND NOT SOMEONE ELSE? Because only Jesus Christ gave Himself in sacrifice for mankind’s sins. No other man, died for our sins. “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who

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gave Himself as a ransom for all men.” 1Timothy 2:5&6.

REVELATION

Accepting Jesus Christ should be done approximately in these terms: Lord Jesus Christ, I know that you died on the cross to save me. I recognize that I am a sinner. I am asking now for forgiveness. Cleanse me with your precious blood. I am inviting you now to live in me and make me a child of God. I want to live for you from now on. Amen!

It is now clear that the choice between everlasting life and hell is to be made by every single man for his own account. For CHRIST the Redeemer (Saviour), by dying on the vile cross, signed a “free and open cheque” to mankind, on which everyone should write his name for an eternal life of refreshment. We are sure of the fact that we shall die. And whether we like it or not we will find ourselves one day before the Great Judgement of God; “Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement”. Hebrew 9:27. May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!

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JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK NEWS OF THE END TIMES

YOU SHOULD KNOW YOURSELF MANKIND The history of humanity seems to be so long and so confused in man’s memory that many people question themselves whether it is useful to know our origin and then to know ourselves. As we commonly say, a nation without history is a nation without future, we can also say that a person without past is a person without future. It is therefore important to find out our origin if we want to know our destiny. As it is said no one is wicked by his own free will, it may also be said that human beings sin because of lack of knowledge. PRIDE Because we live in pride of being free, responsible, self-governing, intelligent, rich, and influential and having power and authority over some of our fellow creatures, we hardly accept that we should live according to the will of some Faraway Power, which may be at the origin of this mysterious world. Let us remember that “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4: 6&10.

UNGRATEFULNESS AND IGNORANCE The attitude of rebellion and rejection of God’s Spirit for some people, of spiritual sleepiness, inattention and laxness for other people, reveals and attests at the same time the ungratefulness and the ignorance of human beings: Ungratefulness because we disobey our Creator, like children who refuse to lend to their donor the same objet that this person has offered to them gracefully. (Revelation 14:7) Ignorance because while we think we are being very intelligent and powerful, living according to our desires and pleasures, we have never been able to answer some existential questions to which our entire raison d’être (reason for living) seems to be attached. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:27. EXISTENTIAL QUESTION Where are we from? Where are we going? Why are we alive? These

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questions make the distinction between men and animals. The incapacity to answer these fundamental questions creates in the human head the doubt to be almighty. The reactions to this doubt are various, depending on our (positive or negative) use of human intelligence; in other terms, it is a matter of being wise or foolish, a believer or a pagan, intelligent or unintelligent before God. For in fact, “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” 1 Corinthians 1:20. Thinking positively on this question a world scholar asserted: “The boundless cosmos makes me scared, and I can’t believe such a big clock (the world) could exist without any existing clockmaker (its creator).” The feeling that this scholar is expressing here is the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 9:10.

Every reasonable person who has good sense should know that he lives in a space that did exist before him and which does not belong to him, but which is the property of the Great Creator called God, the Merciful. This God gave us limited but sufficient knowledge to follow Him through His commandments. We can notice from this hat our reason for living on the earth is to do God’s will, the God who was pleased to transfer us to this earth to which we are so attached. Each person who turns away from this mission will be subject to disciplinary transfer (to the hell). Revelation 20: 14&15.

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HUMAN KNOWLEDGE How many people believe they are so intelligent, and socially respected that it will be dishonorable for them to follow the way of our Creator, which imposes “a large number of prohibitions, constraints and submissions”? Some people among us like to push higher the analytic mind in order to define God, although we have not yet finished discovering the little things God put in this world to sharpen our curiosity, and which we abusively call inventions. “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way noone knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:11. It is thus impossible to discover God if we are not yet in God’s will. “For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe”. 1 Corinthians 1:21. Before the Lord salvation is not in education, social class, beauty or physical elegance of mankind. But salvation is in the fear of God and in the respect of His word. “For God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise” (1Corinthians 1:27), and also has He said: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 1 Corinthians 1:19. Humanely thinking, a philosopher concluded: “You believe in God, you do well. For if he does exist, all the gain will be yours. If he does not exist, you

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will not lose anything. You do not believe in God. If he does exist, you will lose everything. In fact, you should believe in God (by wisdom)”. For God is mercy, He tolerates that the human being comes to Him even by sufficiently utilitarian and motivated calculations, like Pascal’s above. Since the will of God has always been to save the greatest number of human beings. GOD’S ANGER

HUMAN SALVATION The Word of the Lord : ”I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. John 3:3. Man will be saved only after his new birth. Therefore the term “Christian” really makes sense only when it follows the qualifier term “born again”. What does it mean: “to be born again”

Although it is known that our God is Love, that He is abounding in grace and slow in anger (Exodus 34:6), it will be very unfortunate to pull upon us God’s anger which is a curse. The most unforgettable anger of God against mankind remains in the best of our knowledge, the condemnation to death, from original sin. This mistake that corrupted our flesh and made our souls impure, put upon us a multi-secular curse which keeps us captives (subjects to manipulations) to the powers of darkness that govern this world. So, as we notice, the happiness of the mankind is not in this world. For no one, whether administrator or citizen, rich or poor, has complete happiness on this earth where everything is vanity. Ecclesiastics 8: 8,15&17.

God created Man for him to live forever. But Man sinned and was separated from the sight of God. Because of this sin the curse of God fell on man’s head. And from there death entered into the world, “for the wages of the sin is death...” Romans 6:23. As long as man sins, he will be seen as dead in God’s eye. But Jesus Christ died on the cross to restore the relationship between man and his Creator. Being born again is first of all to ACCEPT Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour, and then agree to live from now on according to the word of God that is the Bible, and then to get BAPTISED by IMMERSION: That is what they call to repent, or more commonly, “to give your life to Jesus Christ”.

But God in His mercy so loved the world that he sent as sacrifice His one and only son, Jesus CHRIST so that through Him we will be saved by recovering the everlasting life we missed under Adam’s sin. John 3:16.

From the above analysis, it is clear that being saved is not a matter of being a Catholic or a Protestant, a Muslim or a Buddhist, nor is it a simple matter of calling yourself Christian. God in His righteousness prepared one unique path

CONCLUSION

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