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Non Christians' chance in Heaven; a snowball's chance in hell.

If I knew, for certain, that following doctor's orders would avert the negative outcome of my life-threatening disease, how would I respond?

"Well, doc, that prescription doesn't sync with my current lifestyle. What are my other options?"

Hmm...probably not. Instead, I'm gonna take that horse-sized pill three times a day 'til I die rosy cheeked at the unnatural age of 156.

Well, the bad news is that not one of us is capable of slaying every underlying fear, unacknowledged addiction and accepted/harmful family legacy that keeps us from being the absolute best person we can be. All that "weakness" is called sin and it's a crippling disease that holds us back. And, you have the right to be mad at it! Yeah! Cause it's the worst kind of fatal. The for-sure-you-ain't-getting-no- second-chance-so-you-best-addr ess-it-now kind of fatal. We all share it; whether believer, non-believer or I-don't-know-what-I-am-so-I-ca ll-myself-a-Christian believer.

So, it's a good thing we've been given exclusive access to the top Physician! His credentials? Oh, He raises people from the dead...sans stethoscope and "STATs!" And, if you believe in a heaven where He reigns, why wouldn't you believe His direction in getting there? Or-to get back on metaphorical track-why would you try to guess your way to a happy ending by concocting your own remedy?

And, if you don't have an inkling of hope in the Christian idea of God's grace and a rich heavenly home, then why are you reading this article?

Jesus Christ wasn't shy about the truth, because He knew that, "The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works." John 14:10. Nor was He hesitant to reveal the diagnoses of death for Lazarus, the sin of adultery to the woman at the well (John 11:11-15; John 4:17-18) or the sin of pride of the Pharisees.

Now, was Jesus rubbing their faces in the dirt? Was He giving them spiritual wedgies? He tells us in John 12:47 that that job has not been placed on His shoulders. Judgment is Someone Else's department (down the hall and to the right).

He's just here to give us the helping hand that we desperately need, if we only admit it.

Why didn't Christ shy away from these truths? Because He also held the cure. "I came that you might have life, and might have it abundantly. (John 10:10)" "I Am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me." (John 14:6).

Whether you adhere

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