Sermon Note #15

Sermon Note: Your salvation isn't determined by the quality of your decisions; your salvation is determined by one decision. 

The criminal that died on the cross next to Jesus didn't have an opportunity to do good works, to show more love, to make better life choices. His future was determined by one decision: trusting in Jesus as his savior. Believing in God is the most important decision we will ever make. "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43)

Our earthly lives are fleeting, but eternity is forever. In yesterday's post, I wrote that I can choose better decisions with long-term thinking. Nothing is more long-term than eternity. As my pastor likes to say, the death rate still hovers around 100%. Even when I can't comprehend or understand it, I trust that God is who He says He is and that the Bible is truth. In the first verse of Revelation, the Lord says, "I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, who was and is and is to come." Everything else in my life is an overflow from the main decision: faith in Christ.