Free Will

 

2 Peter 3:9-11   2Pe 3:9 ¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  11 ¶ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

 

 

Hear  Isiah 55:3   Isa 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.   Rom  10:14  Joh 5:28-29  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,  29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

 

Believe   Heb. 11:6  John 8:24   You will rich man and Lazarus

 

Repent   2 Peter 3:9  Luke 13:3  weeping and nashing of teeth.

 

Confess Rom. 10:10   Mat. 10:32  you will confess Every tounge shall confess Rom. 14:11

 

Baptized  Mark 16:16  1 Peter 3:21  Acts 22:16  you will be baptized with fire.

 

Newness of life  2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Rom. 12:1-2   Ro 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

You will be a new creature

  1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

 

You may not want to do these things and you do not have to.  But one day you will wish that you had.

 

 Mt 18:8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.  9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into  everlasting fire.

 

You may not think it matters. about the church

Mat. 18:16 about the assembly  Heb. 10:25   Heb. 2:12

singing 1 Cor 14:15 Praying

 about Communion 1 Cor. 11:23 

 

how we worship him.  of if we attend the services of the lord.  

Re 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:  17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

 

At the sound of his voice.

 

 1 Thes 4:16--18

 

You may not want to obey Christ. 

Heb. 5:8-9 Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;  9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 

 

  Ac 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

You will one day   Ro 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

 

 2Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.  11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;

2Thes 1:7-9

 

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