If You Died Today?

We live in a world of many paths and decisions today. From an early age we are given so many options in life as to what we want to be when we grow up. As we leave high school and reach young adulthood we are faced with the different paths of career choices... Will I go to work or will I go to College... What college will I go to? We have the opportunity to choose what kind of people we will hang out with, and many other things.

One thing that is becoming more and more frequent in this world is that people are saying that we have more than one path to choose to go to Heaven. We have people like Oprah trying to say that you can make your own path to Heaven and people like Joel Osteen who claims to be a preacher but he will, on Larry King Live, tell you that he is not sure how to get to Heaven but that he is sure that there is more than one way to get there.

Friends, I am here to tell you that though there are many decisions in life that have a lot of grey area, Salvation is not one of them. Salvation is PLAIN AND SIMPLE, BLACK AND WHITE. With that statement I pose this question to you... If you died today, do you know for sure that you will go to Heaven???

If your answer is no to this question, I want to give you some good news. The bible tells us that we CAN know. I John 5:13 "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

There is only one one way to Heaven. Jesus said I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life. The word THE here means that there is know other way. The bible tells us in Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." There is nothing that we can do to get ourselves into Heaven. For by Grace are ye saved through faith. It is only by God's amazing grace that we can find our self one day walking on the streets of gold and resting at the feet of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

I. Realize that you are a sinner.
    Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." The word all here is a very complicated word... It means EVERYONE. The only person to ever walk this earth and live His entire life without every committing a sin was Jesus Christ. Everyone else is a sinner. You say "but I'm a good person." Lets test that theory. The bible says we are not to bear false wittiness. Have you ever lied...that makes you a liar. The bible says thou shalt not steal. Have you ever stolen anything, even a piece of candy...that makes you a thief. The bible also says that to look upon a woman to lust after her is committing adultery...Have you every lusted after another woman...That makes you an adulterer. These three things alone make you a lying, thieving, adulterer. Still think that you are good enough to get into Heaven?

II. Realize the price for sin.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death;" There is a price for sin, and that price is blood. There must be blood shed. You if you wish, have the ability to pay for your own sin debt by not accepting Christ as your Saviour. If you make this choice then you are promised to spend the rest of eternity burning in a literal fire in Hell.

III. Realize the Payment by the Savior
Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
The wages for all of the sin, for every man and woman on this earth were all paid at one time. When Jesus died on the cross and raised from the dead, He ascended up to God and laid his perfect and undefiled blood before Him for a payment of all sin. He gave His life so that we would never have to fear the Fires of Hell

IV. Realize the Path you must Select
Romans 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, Shall be Saved." This is where the simplicity of salvation comes in. All you have to do to be saved is ask Christ to come in your heart and forgive you of your sins. Admit to him your knowledge that you are a sinner and ask Him to save you. That's it. Not by baptism, not by speaking in tongues, and not by going through any salvation classes. JUST CALL OUT TO CHRIST TO SAVE YOU.


If you are ready to make this decision for Christ. If you want him to be your personal Saviour say the following prayer from your heart.
     Dear God, I admit to You that I'm a sinner headed for Hell. I know I cannot save myself. I believe with all my heart that Jesus died on the cross and arose from the dead to pay my sin debt. I do right now place my trust in Him to be my Saviour. Forgive me my sin , save me and reserve for me a home in Heaven. In Jesus name. Amen!

If you have made a decision for Christ, please comment and let me know so that I may rejoice with you.

Prayer Request

Prayer is such a powerful thing. "Call unto me, and I will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3. If you have any prayer requests please put them as a comment on this post so that I and anyone that reads them can carry them to the feet of our wonderful Savior.

The Purpose of my Blog

Hello and welcome to my Blog, Open Your Bible. I'm Brother Murry Kimball. Seeing as how this is my first blog I want to simply explain the reason for starting this blog. I want to be able to reach out to people to help them any any way that I can. My prayer is that through this blog that God will allow me to see souls saved and that Lives will be encouraged.

My plans with this blog are to first and foremost give the Gospel as commanded by Our Savior Jesus Christ. I will be posting mini-sermons and other helps as the Lord leads and hope to in the future be able to do a Video Bible study on here as well.

I pray that this Website is help to you and do ask for your patience as I am very new to blogging

Brother Murry