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I know what Jesus said about this world and what's going to happen. He said that more people will choose Hell over Heaven, and that many won't believe. He said that "the road that leads to Hell is wide and there are many who travel it, but the road to Heaven as hard and narrow, and there are few who find it." For this reason, most non-believers probably won't even read this entire writing. They'll walk away in "attack" mode. But Jesus also said the following:



"'I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them. There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again. No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do.'

Again there was a division among the people because of these words. Many of them were saying, 'He has a demon! He is crazy! Why do you listen to him?'

But others were saying, 'A man with a demon could not talk like this! How could a demon give sight to blind people?'"

-John 10:14-21



That's the final reason why I am writing this. It's for the very few that just may finally choose to find him. It's for the sheep that are not yet in his pen.

So for those who are already Christians, remember the following:



"But remember, my friends, what you were told in the past by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, 'When the last days come, people will appear who will make fun of you, people who follow their own godless desires.' These are the people who cause divisions, who are controled by their natural desires, who do not have the Spirit. But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith. Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.

Show mercy toward those who have doubts; save others by snatching them out of the fire; and to others show mercy mixed with fear, but hate their very clothes, stained by their sinful lusts."

-Jude 1:17-23



For those who don't believe, God says the following:



"There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. One night he went to Jesus and said to him, 'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.'

Jesus answered, 'I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born again.'

'How can a grown man be born again?' Nicodemus asked. 'He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time!'

'I am telling you the truth,' replied Jesus, 'that no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. A person is born physically of human parents, but he is born spiritually of the Spirit. Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again. The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.'

'How can this be?' asked Nicodemus.

Jesus answered, 'You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this? I am telling you the truth: we speak of what we know and report what we have seen, yet none of you is willing to accept our message. You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then, when I tell you about the things of heaven? And no one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven.'

As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

Whoever believes in the Son is not judged; but whoever does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in God's only son. This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. Anyone who does evil things hates the light and will not come to the light, because he does not want his evil deeds to be shown up. But whoever does what is true comes to the light in order that the light may show that what he did was in obedience to God."

-John 3:1-21




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