Are you right with God?

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I recently read an article that said thirteen Christians a day are killed because of their faith. 309 million Christians now live in places with high or extreme levels of persecution. Those figures are up from 260 million this time last year. Also, every day twelve churches are attacked, twelve Christians are arrested or imprisoned or abducted.

One of the countries that are mentioned is North Korea. Christians are seen as hostile elements that are to be eradicated. Christians are not allowed to exist in Afghanistan. In Somalia, Christians are high value targets. In Libya, they face deadly abuse and violence. Christians are attacked constantly in Pakistan. In Sudan, Christians are targets of persecution. In Eritrea, Christians are imprisoned and left to die in shipping containers. In Yemen, Christians live not only in a civil war and famine but they face the fear of attacks. It is illegal in Iran to convert or to preach the word of God. There is unprecedented violence against Christians in India. Our fellow Christians around the world face persecution every single day. These are just a taste of some of the horrible things Christians have to endure every single day. We have been blessed, but persecution is also on its way here. We see it in the United States, and in some stories

I have read, here as well. But as time goes on, the persecution will get worse all around the world, until the Rapture comes for us. So my question to all of you is, 'Are you ready? Are you right with God?'

This is the time to do that self-check. So many people think they are Christians, but unfortunately just because people call themselves Christians, it doesn't mean they are. So many people are going around with unforgivingness in their hearts and holding on to grudges, not to mention other things that we are commanded to let go of. I even notice these days that alot of people are wearing cross necklaces, yet alot of them are not even Christians. I guess it just means that it's a piece of jewelry now, which I find sad. The point is that anyone nowa-days can say they're Christian, but are they really?

The truth is, there are no guarantees in life. James 4:13-15 says, "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;" whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."

To be right with God, we need to figure out what is wrong with us, and the answer to that is sin. There is no one that does good, no not even one. Psalm 14:3 says, "They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one." We have all turned against God's commands, one time or another. Isaiah 53:6 says, "All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way: And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."

Unfortunately, the thing with committing sin is that the end result is death. Death was brought into the world when Eve and Adam sinned in the garden of Eden. If they had not sinned, they would have never died, but after the fall of man, death became part of life. But the good news, which means Gospel, is that our loving God found us to bring us salvation, in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus told us that His soul purpose was to seek out and save them that were lost, as in