How many times did Jesus need to die on the cross for you? Exactly - one! That would mean a tremendous saving power would be needed to save every sin of every person who comes to God! And that’s exactly what happened..
"...he said "You don't have to explain it again, I know what I have to do. I'm nearly there. I will do this before I go to sleep tonight"
It sounded like he could have done drugs, so maybe that was what he was not willing to give up. I gave him Bible, church, and social links. He promised to read the Bible, so I pray that he does, and it changes his life!
When the chat opened, the main kid opened with a string of colourful language that he should never have know at his age. But he was a smart kid, and Zack did brilliantly leading him through the law and Gospel.
I took him through the law, and it revealed how bad he really was. After this, he didn’t think he could ever make it to heaven. Using Easter, I managed to show him how Christ took his hell punishment for him. He came to understand that he had to accept this as a gift in order to go to heaven.
I asked him if his feelings defied logic and science, which one would he go for? He said feelings, every time. I asked him if he had lied, stolen, used foul language. He said yes, so I asked him how the creator of the universe would feel about that. He said he wouldn't have to give account, just make up for the bad things and hopefully what goes around comes around. I shook his hand, and said I hoped that worked out for him on Judgement Day (a line I stole from one of the online evangelism team).
He told me he would go to hell because he was a bad dude. He said he had shot someone, and they were in hospital. He waved a couple of guns around to prove his point.
The Mother Theresa’s of this world can’t make it because they aren’t totally perfect. The Adolf Hitler’s of this world can’t make it, in fact they don’t even try to be perfect. And we can’t make it either, because as hard as we try, we fail to be perfect as well.
I asked him how much of his hell punishment did Jesus take? He said 100%. So how sure can you be that you will go to heaven? He said "It should be 100%, but ...I don't know. I want to go to heaven, but..."
I asked when was that going to happen? He said when he was on his deathbed. I used his accident as an example – if he had another one from which he didn’t wake up from, where would he go? He said hell. Then said that right now would be the best time to transfer his trust from himself to Christ.