Gone Fishin’ Field Report 24/11/22 – Schoolies Day 6
"Levi - Proclaimed he was a Christian, yet said he was only 85% sure he would go to heaven. It turned out he was trusting himself, not Christ, which meant he had 0% chance of going to heaven."
"Levi - Proclaimed he was a Christian, yet said he was only 85% sure he would go to heaven. It turned out he was trusting himself, not Christ, which meant he had 0% chance of going to heaven."
I turned the conversation around to her, asking her how sure was she that she was going to heaven when she died. She said pretty sure, which set off alarm bells for me. I asked her if she was going to jump out of a plane and she was pretty sure there were no holes in the parachute, would she still jump?
"On the way back to the car later, I passed Jim. He grabbed my hand and said that ever since our chat, a peace has come over him. I asked him why he should be let into heaven, and he said because Jesus took 100% of his hell punishment for him It was confirmation for me that what I was sharing was hitting home!"
" Hosea did all the talking in his street gangster style. It was hard to get a word in. But when they came to understand that there was a creator, and the creator required he keep a standard, he went quiet. I was able to guide him through the law, and he came to realise the trouble he would be in if he did not make it home alive tonight."
I bumped into Victoria again tonight. After last night's chat, she was still mulling things over. I told her that God may have just let her live another day in order to withhold his justice from her, and not think things over too long! She looked shocked, and said definitely, she would think about it. I asked her if she had any more questions, but she said no, she just had to make a decision.
"She looked pretty tearful, so I gave the beautiful Gospel that gives her hope to get to heaven. She was very thankful for the conversation, and took a good person tract off me, and I showed her how to download a free Bible app.. I walked past a couple of minutes later, and she was still intently reading the tract. She smiled, and gave me the thumbs up, so I pray that she will come to genuine faith in Christ!"
"He believed there was a heaven, and was pretty sure he was going there. But he admitted that was by his own standards. So I asked him if he wanted to test himself by God’s standards. He said OK. It transpired that he was a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart."
"He said it was good to talk about these things, but I said that talking doesn’t solve the problem – he had to believe by faith that Jesus took his sin punishment for him."
I told him that he wasn't saved by giving his heart to Jesus - he was saved by believing by faith that Jesus gave HIS heart and HIS life for HIM.
I told Lea that all the good things she was trying to do in order to make things right were like trying to bribe a judge to look the other way from her crimes.