Hello, my brother Anton asked me to share something with you.
I want to start with the question "Do you know 100% today, if you die, that you have eternal life?"
Some of you may say that no one knows it, only one God.
But the Scripture says that we must know it and we can know it.
And if you don't know it, you don't have eternal life.
I'm going to show you the verse.
1 John 3, verse 13.
"I wrote it to you, believing in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have life."
See, God doesn't want us to just guess.
He says that we can know it.
And I want to show you how you can know it from the Scripture.
Let's start with Romans 3, verse 10.
As it is written, there is no righteous man.
It means that there is no righteous man on earth who always does the right thing.
Romans 3, verse 2-3 says, "For all have sinned, and are deprived of the glory of God."
The Scripture also says that we are all sinners.
It means that you are sinners, I am a sinner, everyone in this room is a sinner.
And sin is when we do what is illegal to God, it means sin.
If God says not to deceive, and we deceive, it means we sin.
Romans 6, verse 23 says, we will see now only the first part of this verse is written,
"And the payment for sin is death."
When the Scripture says that the payment for sin is death,
it means that when we do sin, our salary is death.
And when the Scripture says that death does not mean the death of the flesh,
when we die of a bad blood, but it is a spiritual death,
the Scripture calls it the second death.
In Revelation, chapter 20, verse 14, it says,
"And death and hell was thrown into the lake of fire." This is the second death.
So what is the second death?
This is when you are thrown or someone is thrown into the lake of fire, right?
Verse 15 says, "And all who were not written in the book of life were thrown into the lake of fire."
The Scripture also has a list of people who will be thrown into the lake of fire.
Verse 8, verse 1 says, "But the fearless, and the unbelievers, and the vile, and the murderers, and the traitors, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters."
Look, when we look at this list, all of us can say, of course, these are very bad people.
Well, it's not us, right? We didn't do it so that everything is good for us.
Well, look, the next part. "All the liars will have their part in the lake that is burning with fire and hell."
What is the second death?
So when we look at this list, each of us is on this list, right?
Well, what do you think? Do you think God wants us to go to hell?
Of course not. What do you think God wants?
God wants each of us to go to hell, right?
John 6, verse 40 says, "And it is the will of the one who sent me, that every one who saw his Son and believed in him have eternal life."
God wants all of us to have eternal life.
And it's very easy. In Romans, chapter 6, let's go back to this verse.
I will show you the next part of this verse, it says, "For the payment for the sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
God says that there is a gift that he wants to give us.
And I want to tell you what a gift is, what a gift means.
If I paid about $40 for this Bible, and today I give it to you just for a dollar, is that a gift?
Of course not, right?
But if I say, "I paid for it, I give it to you for free, you don't have to give me any money."
But, for example, you have to come to my house, help me, or be a good friend, or listen to me when I say something.
Is it a gift? Of course not.
And the second chapter, chapter 8, says, "For you are saved by grace."
Grace is what we don't deserve.
The next part is "through faith." And it's not from us.
God's gift is not for anyone to be praised.
The Bible says that it doesn't just depend on us, what we do, how we live.
It doesn't depend on us either. Why?
Because Christ doesn't want anyone to be praised.
Because he paid for everything, and everything is given.
This gift he paid for, he paid for it himself.
And what kind of gift do you think God wants to give us?
John 16, the verse that all of us know, says, "For God loved the world so much that he gave his son to his people, so that every believer in him would not perish, but have eternal life."
Notice what is written here.
The gift that God wants to give us is eternal life.
Well, notice, it says, "Eternal life." What is eternal life?
How long does it last? Look, the 15th verse says, "So that every believer in him would not perish, but would have eternal life."
God repeats it back, because we need to know this.
Eternal life never ends. It can never end and stop.
If a person has a gift that Christ gives him today, he takes this gift today.
This means that the Bible says that he gets eternal life.
And you can ask, "When does this eternal life come?"
The Bible says very clearly, John 3.36, it says, "The one who believes in his Son has eternal life."
Right? "Has" is when we get it right away.
It's never in the future or in some corner.
It means that we get it right away when we ask God for this gift.
So, if an eternal life is given today, and if a person gets this gift,
and in 5 or 10 years he starts to sin or do something that God doesn't like,
even if he does the biggest thing, for example, kill someone or commit suicide,
these are such big sins.
But when we look at the scriptures, Christ died for all these sins.
And this means that even if we commit these sins, we can't lose eternal life.
Look, Jesus Christ himself says, John 10.28, this is Christ himself, these are his words,
"And I give them eternal life, and they will never die."
What does "never" mean?
"Never" means that it can't come true.
It's written, "And no one can steal from my hands."
If you are in the hands of Christ, when you are in his hands, no one can steal, even you.
Because if it depended on us, this gift, this eternal life,
we would have lost it a long time ago, because we are just ordinary people.
So, eternal life is eternal.
It's a gift that God has paid, right?
And it never ends.
But you can ask, "Okay, then what do we need to do to get this gift of eternal life?"
It's a very easy question.
This question is asked in the scriptures, and we can see what is said.
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 16, verse 30, is written.
"And I brought them out and said, 'Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?'"
Notice what an easy question and what a pure question.
He doesn't say anything, it's a very clear question.
And the next verse is written.
"And they said, 'Believe in Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, and the whole house will be yours.'"
Notice, it's not written here to do some good deeds,
or, for example, to be a good Christian,
or to help some old lady, or to stop making mistakes.
There is nothing like that here.
It's just written, "Believe in Jesus Christ."
Some of you may say, "Well, we need to repent to get this gift."
But notice, it's not written here to repent.
Not only that.
Repentance is all that it means when, for example,
in the Bible, the most people who repent are God himself.
Repentance doesn't mean leaving some sins or repenting in sins.
Repentance is all that it means when you change your mind.
For example, if I wanted to go somewhere today and I repented,
I would just stay at home.
Repentance is all that it means.
I want to show you this inscription, so that you can see it.
In the third chapter, the tenth verse, it says,
"And God saw their deeds, that they turned away from their evil ways,
and the God in the village repented for what he wanted to do with them."
Right?
It's written here that God repented.
God is not a sinner, God cannot sin.
So when he repented, he completely changed his mind.
He completely changed his mind.
And notice what's written here.
"And God saw their deeds."
Okay, what deeds did they do?
Look, that they turned away from their evil ways.
Look, they stopped doing bad deeds.
Right? Some sins.
They call it deeds. Why?
Because they are deeds.
And it means that our salvation is not a deed.
Okay?
Look, I'll show you the last verse.
If you look at the inscription,
it means that salvation is a free gift.
It doesn't depend on us.
We cannot earn it and we cannot lose it.
It's an eternal life.
It's a gift of God, the inscription says.
Not only that, but it's very easy to get it.
Because God didn't want it, it's very difficult to do.
Because God wants all of us to go to heaven.
And if He makes it very difficult,
then we won't be able to go there.
Because of that, it's very easy.
And look, if you believe in what I showed you today,
that you believe that our faith in God,
because everything that the scripture says,
is done purely out of belief,
and that you receive this gift of God,
and that it doesn't depend on your deeds at all,
and that you cannot lose it.
Because if you believe that there are some deeds,
or that you can lose it,
then the scripture says that you are not saved.
Because you don't trust God about your salvation,
you trust yourself.
And salvation doesn't depend on you,
but on Christ, as they say.
If you believe that Christ is God,
that He resurrected and died for our sins,
if you believe it today,
and you want to receive this gift of eternal life,
please close your eyes,
and repeat after me.
Well, look, in Romans 10, chapter 9, it says,
"That if by your lips you will perform the Lord Jesus Christ,
and by faith in the heart,
you will be saved."
Okay, everything we need to do is to believe in the heart,
and to say it with our lips.
If we just say it, it doesn't mean anything.
If we say and believe, then it means,
and then we give the request to Christ,
so that He gives us this gift of eternal life,
and we immediately receive it, the scripture says.
So, if you believe it today,
please close your eyes,
and look, prayer will not save you.
If you speak and believe in the heart,
then you will be saved.
And just say, "Jesus Christ, please give me the gift
that you have paid for, that you haven't done at all.
You have done all this.
Thank you for dying for me. Amen."
And look, how easy it is, as the scripture says.
Christ himself said that it's like drinking a sip of water
or eating a drop of bread.
It's very easy, because God wants us all to go to heaven.
And if you did it today, and you accepted it,
and asked Christ for this gift,
if I will never see you again in my life,
I will see you in heaven.
So, thank you very much.