HO HO HO! Where will you go?

Posted by Rod Hamilton on Dec 16, 2008

“He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice...he’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice! If Santa used the Ten Commandments for his standards, how would you do? Let’s find out,

Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen anything? (no matter the value.) Ever used God’s name in vain? Ever hated anybody? The Bible says “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer.”

If you are guilty of these things, it shows that in your heart, you are a lying, blasphemous, murderer-at-heart. Many people don’t know that God will use the Ten Commandments to judge the world. Forget about Santa and “naughty” and “nice.” How will you do on Judgment Day? If you are found guilty you will be sentenced to an eternity in Hell.

2,000 years ago, God sent Jesus to the earth to pay for your sins. When Jesus died on the cross, He took the punishment that you deserve for breaking His Law, the Ten Commandments. God’s wrath came down on Jesus instead of you. The Bible says “God commands all men everywhere to repent, because God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness.”

Remember: if you try to get to Heaven on your own, you must keep every commandment in thought, word and deed! Jesus paid the penalty for your sins on the cross. Then He defeated the power of sin and death when He rose from the dead. Repent (turn away) from your sins. Place your faith in Jesus Christ alone to save you. God will grant you eternal life. Read your bible daily and obey what you read.”

This is a tract from Ray Comfort @ The Way of the Master. Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron offer some excellent training on how to effectively witness to the lost in the one way that convicts, the Law.

Many attributes of the life of a believer - deliverance, joy, peace - may seem to be reasons for another to accept Jesus Christ, but the ultimate purpose of Jesus’ death on the cross was to save our mortal souls from the eternal death we deserved, not to make us comfortable. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control are the fruit of the Spirit of a person truly transformed. These things ought to attract the unbeliever to the believer, but are not reasons to accept Christ on their own. The fruit of the Spirit, a Spirit filled life, a life transformed; these are all bi-products of a redeemed soul, once bound for Hell but now set apart for God, to do His work and to live out His will and to retire from this place to eternity in Heaven with the Almighty. If our abiding thanks to God is not first for what He has done for our eternal souls, our worship is out of line.

The Law shows even the unbeliever that he is sinful and worthy of eternal death. In Romans 7:7 the Apostle Paul said “...I would not have known what sin was except through the Law.” In Galatians 3:24 (KJV), Paul refers to the Law as “our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.”

Jesus is our Redeemer, our King and our Lord. This Christmas the best thing we can offer the unbelieving world is the true message of salvation through Jesus Christ. It starts with the Law and ends with His grace.