This life is short; a shadow of eternity, and in the infinite that is to come time will not matter anymore. Without Jesus we will spend eternity in torment; separated forever from God. With Jesus, we will spend the infinite future in the ecstasy of God’s presence. We are saved by what Jesus has done for us. That salvation is revealed by the good things it produces in our lives.
For we also
once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts
and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one
another. But when the kindness of God
our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis
of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by
the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us
richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life. This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you
to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to
engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men.
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