“Jesus Loves you.’
A Glorious Truth.
And a dangerous Truth.
Because if that's all a person sees written inside a heart, might they not have reason to say on Judgement Day, ‘If you love me, why are you sending me to hell?’
If the full ‘Jesus Loves You’ tract is read, that's fine and good. It's likely people have been saved through this tract.
But MANY passers by look at this tract being offered without actually taking the tract or fully reading it. ALL they see is 'Jesus Loves You’.
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We have a serious responsibility in sharing The Gospel. And the last thing we want to be doing however well intentioned is to lead people up a garden path to hell without the necessary Conviction of sin which alone can lead to true repentance.
For example the scriptures say:
“‘I Will Send The Holy Spirit to you. And when He Has Come, He Will Convict the world of sin, and of Righteousness, and of Judgment.’”
Jn 16:7f
“I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not hidden.
I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh.’
And You Forgave the iniquity of my sin.”
Ps 32:5
“‘Repent, and let every one of you be Immersed in The Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive The Gift of The Holy Spirit.
For The Promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as The Lord our God will Call.’”
Acts 2:38-39
“‘God now Commands all people everywhere to repent, for He Has Appointed a Day on which He Will Judge the world in Righteousness By The Man Whom He Has Appointed. He Has Given assurance of this to all by Raising Him from the dead.’”
Ac 17:30f
“‘MANY will say to Me on that Day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name, and done many wonders in Your Name?”
And then I Will Declare to them, “I never Knew you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity!”’”
Mt 7:22ff