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Bible Questions Answered:
“If a
person thinks they are going down the right road, by living a good
life and doing good deeds to help others, are you saying, they will
be condemned?...”
Arthur/
Inkster, Michigan U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
It's not what man says that counts, it is what The Word
Of God says, that counts!
Here is a text, that comes from The Lord, Himself.
Mark 10:17-23 NLT (The Rich Man)
17
As Jesus was starting out on His way to Jerusalem, a man came running
up to Him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what
must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly
good.
19
But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must
not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You
must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your
father and mother.’”
20
“Teacher,” the man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these
commandments since I was young.”
21
Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is
still one thing you haven’t done,” He told him. “Go and sell
all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will
have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
22
At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many
possessions.
23
Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for
the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!”
Here came running to Jesus, a clean cut young man, who
was successful in life, respected, and a leader among his peers.
He reverenced The Lord Jesus, kneeling down before Him,
calling Him, “Good Teacher.”
Jeremiah
17:9 KJV
The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?
Proverbs
14:12 KJV
There
is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
18
“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly
good.
Jesus knew that this, the young man, himself also
believed that, and yet He also knew that the young man was not
convinced that He was God.
Jesus, as God, knew only too well, which of the ten
commandments, the young man held to, and to which of them, he did
not!
The young man had boasted he was someone who ...
Honored his mother and father
Commandment
5
Exodus
20:12 KJV
Honor
thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Was Not A Murder
Commandment
6
Exodus
20:13 KJV
Thou
shalt not kill.
Was Not An Adulterer
Commandment
7
Exodus
20:14 KJV
Thou
shalt not commit adultery.
Was Not A Thief
Commandment
8
Exodus
20:15 KJV
Thou
shalt not steal.
Was Not A False Witness, Cheating someone
Commandment
9
Exodus
20:16 KJV
Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
The Commandments, Jesus did not ask the young man
about.
Commandment
1
Exodus
20:3 KJV
Thou
shalt have no other gods before Me.
Commandment
2
Exodus
20:4-6 KJV
4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth.
5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The
Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate Me;
6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My
commandments.
Commandment
3
Exodus
20:7 KJV
Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord
will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Commandment
4
Exodus
20:8-11 KJV
8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of The Lord thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:
11
For in six days The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The Lord blessed
the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Commandment
10
Exodus
20:17 KJV
Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
17
As Jesus was starting out on His way to Jerusalem, a man came running
up to Him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?”
21
Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is
still one thing you haven’t done,” He told him. “Go and sell
all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will
have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
22
At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many
possessions.
23
Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for
the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!”
The rich young ruler, walked away from The Good Teacher,
but not away from God, for if he had believed that Jesus was God, he
would have to have had to obey Him.
Jesus, in His opinion, was a teacher, and he thought “I
will never do that!”
23
Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for
the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!”
What was the young man's sin, it was the sin of
idolatry, money was his first and foremost love interest.
Commandment
1
Exodus
20:3 KJV
Thou
shalt have no other gods before Me.
The
Word:
I Kings 8:46 KJV
"...for there is no man
that sinneth not..."
Isaiah 53:6 KJV
All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and The Lord
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 64:6 KJV
But we are all as
an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as
a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Matthew 19:17 KJV (Jesus said)
"And He said unto him...there
is none good but one, that is, God..."
Titus 3:4,5 NLT
4 But—When God our Savior revealed
His kindness and love,
5 He saved us, not because of the
righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed
away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through The Holy
Spirit.
I John 1:8 KJV
If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Since Adam, and Eve, mankind has come
under the curse of sin.
Romans 3:10,23 KJV
10 As it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one:
23 For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
This is God's universe.
Isaiah 45:5 KJV
"I am the Lord, and there is
none else, there is no God beside Me..."
He is the Creator.
Colossians 1:16,17 KJV
16 For by Him (Christ)
were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are
in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
Him, and for Him:
17And He is before all things, and
by Him all things consist.
Revelation 4:11 KJV
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for
thy pleasure they are and were created.
Because this is God's universe, He has
the right to tell us what to do to be able to come to Him.
John 14:6 KJV
Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way,
the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
Me.
John 10:9 KJV
"I am the door: by Me
if any man enter in, he shall be saved..."
John 8:20-24 KJV
20 These words spake Jesus in the
treasury, as He taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on Him;
for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them,
I go My way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your
sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will He kill
Himself? because He saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
23 And He said unto them, Ye are
from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this
world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that
ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am
He, ye shall die in your sins.
Acts 4:12 KJV
Neither is there salvation
in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
Man's morality, or goodness, saves no
one!
Man, at his best is only somewhat good,
and certainly not holy!
Romans 3:23 KJV
For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Our living God, hates sin, anything
sinful, cannot approach Him.
Habakkuk 1:13 KJV
"Thou art of purer eyes than to
behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity..."
Habakkuk 1:13 NLT
"But you are pure and cannot
stand the sight of evil..."
Man's only Salvation is by The Blood Of
His Precious Son The Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 1:18 KJV
Come now, and let us reason
together, saith The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.
Revelation 7:13,14 KJV
13And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and
whence came they?
14And I said unto him, Sir, thou
knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in
The Blood Of The Lamb.
If someone rejects, God's way of
salvation, they are lost.
To be lost is to be in a place of
rejecting God, and His Love Gift.
To be lost, means to exist eternally in
a place prepared for the devil and his angels, a place of torment,
and eternal separation from God.
Mark 9:43-48 KJV (Jesus
is speaking metaphorically)
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut
it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having
two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be
quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut
it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having
two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be
quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God
with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched.
Luke 12:4,5 KJV
4 And I say unto you my friends, Be
not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more
that they can do.
5 But I will forewarn you whom ye
shall fear: fear Him, which after He hath killed hath power to cast
into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear Him.
Luke 13:27,28 KJV
27 But He shall say, I tell you, I
know you not whence ye are; depart from Me, all ye workers of
iniquity.
28 There shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth..."
There is salvation, by one means only,
the precious Blood Of Christ.
Romans 3:19,20 NLT
19 Obviously, the law applies to
those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from
having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before
God.
20 For no one can ever be made right
with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how
sinful we are.
Ephesians 2:8,9 KJV
8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is The Gift Of God:
9 Not of works,
lest any man should boast. (And this includes all man's pious
works!)
Galatians 2:16,21 KJV
16 Knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus
Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
and not by the works of the law: for
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of
God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in
vain.
And may we add, Communion, church
membership, baptism, confirmation, dedication, etc. etc. etc.
If
salvation came by these....then Christ is dead in
vain.
Galatians 3:11 KJV
But that no man is justified by the
law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by
faith.
Will good people go to hell?
People, who reject the Savior, are
not good, but evil, regardless of the deeds they have done or are
doing on earth.
II Corinthians 6:2 KJV
(For He saith, I have heard thee in
a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee:
behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation.)
Salvation
Prayer
Jesus, be merciful to me a sinner. I
confess and forsake my sins, and ask you to forgive me, and make me a
child of God, for you have said, “...whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Acts 2:21) Thank you
for dying for me, taking my place in judgment, that I might be
pardoned. I take you as the Savior, and Lord (Master) of my life.
Help me to read your word, confess you, and live for you.
Amen
John 1:12 KJV “But as many
as received Him, to them gave He power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:
“
John 3:16,17 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 6:37 KJV “...him that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”
Acts
2:21 KJV “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 4:12 KJV “Neither is
there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Romans
6:23 KJV “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 10:9l, 10 KJV
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
