Happy Thanksgiving Celebration!

Thank You, God. We have so much to thank you for. Thank You for Your Holy Word, the Bible which tells us of our origin, our nature, and our future in Christ Jesus Our Lord and Savior.

Thank You for loving us so much that You gave Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life and Heaven. Thank You from the bottom of our hearts.

Thank You that when we are born again in Christ Jesus, we are so blessed and favored. We truly live the eternal abundant life as You promised in Your Holy Word.

Thank You for forgiving us all our sins. Thank You for cleansing us and giving us a new heart of love, joy, peace, patience, humility, holiness, meekness, purity, gentleness, and wisdom.

Thank You for filling us with the knowledge of You, Your Holy Word, and Your World, Your whole creation. Thank You for endowing us with intelligence, skills and talents to serve and bless.

Thank You for all Your provisions, Your protection and sweet Presence with us, Your children, at all times.

Thank You for good health and fitness. Thank You for all the healthy pleasures of life.

Thank You for all the beauty of Your whole creation and all Your creatures. Thank You Almighty Creator God.

O, What a Mighty God we love and serve! He Is Yahweh, the God of the Holy Bible, the Holy Trinity, the Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is no other God but Yahweh/Shangdi, the  Great I AM. He is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. He is Sovereign and All Powerful. Praise Him. Hallelujah! Amen.

Born Once, Die Twice; Born Twice, Die Once

Everyone of us was once born into this world, some earlier, others later. Through this physical birth, we got into our blood family.

The Bible declares that we are all born sinners (Romans 3:23). We all inherited the sinful nature through the Fall of our very first parents Adam and Eve (Genesis 3). Living our lives through this sinful nature of ours results in death and Hell as our eternal destiny (Romans 6:23).

So, how can we be saved from death and Hell unto eternal abundant Life and Heaven? How?

The Bible, in John 3:3 and 7 tell us how. Jesus Christ said that we must be born again to see the Kingdom of God, to be saved, to inherit eternal life and Heaven. Now, what is "born again"? How can one be born again?

First of all, this second birth is not a physical birth, but a spiritual one. This spiritual birth will make one get into God's Family just like the physical birth gets us into our physical blood family. We become a member of our physical blood family through our physical birth and we get into Our God's Family through our spiritual birth. Now, how does this spiritual birth, this born again experience occur in a person's life?

The answer is given in the most popular verse of the Bible, John 3:16:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Therefore, we have to believe in the Son of God Jesus Christ to be born again and be part of God's Family. This is the way, the only way for us to be saved from death and Hell unto eternal life and Heaven. If we do not believe in Jesus Christ, if we reject the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we will perish instead of having everlasting life.

John 3:36 declares

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.

Hebrews 12:29 says:

Our God is a consuming fire. In the Good News version, it says, Our God is a destroying fire.

So, we got to be very careful not to neglect God's call. We must obey His call to repent from our sins and decide to follow Him.

Revelation 20:11-15 say (NIV)

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. ¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

The verse 14 talks about the lake of fire or Hell as the second death. This second death, verse 15 declares, is for anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. None of us wants that, neither for our own selves nor for our children, parents, brothers and sisters and loved ones... Then, we must believe in Jesus Christ and obey Him and follow Him without any delay, for the rest of our lives. By the way, our lives are not ours. They are our Creator God's who created all of us through our respective parents.

Revelation 21: 8 declares:

⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

In conclusion, we can see that if we are born only once (physically), and never got born again (spiritually), we will die first the physical death and then the second death-cast into the lake of fire or burning Hell. Born once, die twice. But, if we are born twice, that is physically and then spiritually, we will not have to die the second death in the lake of fire, in Hell. We will die just once, the physical death only. This physical death is our entrance into Heaven. So, born twice, die once.

Which one do you choose, now?

One birth or two births? I cannot choose my first birth, the physical birth. My parents brought me into this world without my choosing. In fact, God brought me into this world through my parents; the same for each one of you. However, I cried out to God to save me. I called upon Jesus after I had heard the Gospel of Salvation. When I heard that Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The Life, I decided to believe in Christ Jesus as My Lord and My Savior and He saved me. I was born again. Are you? If you are, Praise God! If you are not, cry out to Him now and He will save you from death and Hell to eternal abundant life and Heaven. Yes, Heaven will be your eternal destiny. Do you want it? Call upon the Name of the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved, you and your family (Acts 16:31).

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)