"ETERNITY IN HEAVEN OR HELL"
 
 

        Here are just a very few excerpts from FIRST JOHN.
        1 Jn. really should be read in it’s entirety often; but I know that some of the very ones needing to, would perhaps not devote that short time necessary to read it.  Maybe this brief reading will convince them of the importance of His Word. It is either ETERNITY IN HEAVEN OR HELL.  First John is brief, but it is a good start.

        There is not much time remaining!

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    F I R S T   J O H N

    Someone may say, "I am a Christian; I am on my way to heaven;
    I belong to Christ." But if he doesn't do what Christ tells him to, he is a liar.

    But those who do what Christ tells them to will learn to love God more and more.
    That is the way to know whether or not you are a Christian.

    Anyone who says he is a Christian should live as Christ did.

    Dear brothers, I am not writing out a new rule for you to obey, for it is an old one
    you have always had, right from the start. You have heard it all before.

    Yet it is always new, and works for you just as it did for Christ; and as we obey
    this commandment, to love one another, the darkness in our lives disappears and
    the new light of life in Christ shines in.

    Anyone who says he is walking in the light of Christ but dislikes his fellow man
    is still in darkness.

    But whoever loves his fellow man is "walking in the light" and can see his way
    without stumbling around in darkness and sin.

    For he who dislikes his brother is wandering in spiritual darkness and doesn't
    know where he is going, for the darkness has made him blind so that he cannot
    see the way.
          - - - TLB 2:4-11
 

    Stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you, for when you love these
    things you show that you do not really love God;

    for all these worldly things, these evil desires--the craze for sex, the ambition to
    buy everything that appeals to you, and the pride that comes from wealth and
    importance these are not from God. They are from this evil world itself.

    And this world is fading away, and these evil, forbidden things will go with it, but
    whoever keeps doing the will of God will live forever.
          - - -TLB 2:15-17
 

     And who is the greatest liar? The one who says that Jesus is not Christ. Such a
    person is antichrist, for he does not believe in God the Father and in his Son.

    For a person who doesn't believe in Christ, God's Son, can't have God the Father
    either. But he who has Christ, God's Son, has God the Father also.

    So keep on believing what you have been taught from the beginning.

    If you do, you will always be in close fellowship with both God the
    Father and his Son.

    And He Himself has promised us this: eternal life.
          - - - TLB 2:22-25

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.