Thursdays Child John 3:18-21 Heaven or Hell It's Our Choice

This passage is pretty deep. Almost makes you want to skip over it and go back to changing water into wine. But I guess if we're going to go straight through we can't pick and choose, so we better suck it up and get started. Verse 18 says "There is no judgment for those who trust Him (Jesus). But those who do not trust Him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God. This is a good argument for those who want to debate whether a loving God would actually send people to hell. It says if we don't believe we are already judged. I think they are using the word judged to mean condemned. If you have kids I don't know how you can't believe in God. When each of my six kids were little and I held them to feed them or sat and watched them sleep I knew there was a God. The human body is too detailed and intricate. It has to have been designed. Something so precise couldn't have just evolved from a fish that walked up onto shore millions of years ago. I remember specifically looking at their ears-I don't know why the ear- but I remember noticing the circular shape and how each one is essentially the same. Some may be bigger, smaller or different in some way but all have the same basic design. Then if you think about how our body's organs function to keep us alive, we have to have been created. So if we admit there is a God, then we either have to accept or deny Jesus. Whichever one we choose decides where we spend the rest of forever. You know, I hate salvation scare tactics, but this is one of the passages that teach it. Plain and simple if you don't believe Jesus is the Son of God you are condemned to hell. The way I have always looked at it is, God created the universe including us, why wouldn't we worship Him? Verses 19-21 talks about Jesus being the light, and those who don't believe, love the darkness more than the light. When we sin we want to sin in darkness, because the light will expose our sin and we will be punished. One thing we have to remember is that we weren't born Christians. We were born without Jesus, so it is our nature to sin. We have to decide. That's why God gave us the freedom to choose, or free will. So ultimately heaven or hell it is our choice. We're all searching for something to worship. Money, power, status, why not worship the one who created you, it's a lot more fulfilling. Keep checking back and we'll search together. Thanks for searching with me, Paul