How Can I know God?
How Can I know Life's Meaning?
How Can I know Ultimate Truth?
How Can I know Happiness
How Can I escape Judgment?
All of our many Great Questions in life lead us ultimately to one question...
How Can I be Successful in Life?
has opposite meanings in the Two Worldviews.
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The Biblical Worldview |
The Secular Worldview |
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Only an everlasting life is truly successful. |
All Life ends at death. |
| “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Jn 3:16). |
If self-advancing physical reality is all there is, then success in life must be measured here and now! Success is temporal material gain in power, pleasure, prestige, possessions and promotion of self or our species. |
Here the Designer of Life promises everlasting life if we meet one condition:
Believe in God's Only Begotten Son
Jesus Himself said He was God's Son.
See: Lu.22:69,70; Jn. 8:58; 10:30,37,38; 12:45; 14:7-10; 16:15; 17:5,24
He said:
"I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father
but through me." Jn. 14:6
• When Jesus makes such a bold claim about Himself, it forces us into an inescapable dilemma.
• Jesus is either who He said He is, or He is not credible and therefore not the Son of God.
• We cannot escape the choice: To remain undecided is to NOT BELIEVE HIM.
To reveal to us our current personal choice:
Jesus Christ Asks Us His Ultimate Question
To prepare us He reminds us of the many popular but wrong answers by asking:
Whom Do men say that I AM? (Mt 16:13)
Men say:- The strongest Swear Word, A great man, A good man, A great Teacher, A great Philosopher, One of the Prophets, An Imposter, A Liar, A Lunatic, etc. etc.
Then Jesus confronts each person with His Ultimate Question:
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Whom Do YOU say that I am? |
This question will decide each person's entrance to everlasting life in heaven.
The Best 7 Seven Answers
| My God |
Jesus is God the Son. He said so, His miracles proved it. His claim forces us to decide. |
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Heb 11:6). |
| My Creator | I am a direct descendant of God | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (Jn 1:1-3). |
| My Redeemer | I am a sinner unable to pay my own sin debt! Jesus became a man so He could die to satisfy the demands of a Holy God. | |
| My Lord and Master |
Ownership: We belong to the One who made us and bought us. | |
| My Teacher | His Words are my lifeline | Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. |
| My Savior | Jesus will return to save me Body, Soul and Spirit, from God's sure-coming Wrath and from His judgment throne. | |
| My Joy |
Now What?
His Question is Very Personal
A great danger is knowing facts about Jesus academically and never experience Him personally.
Gaining a successful, everlasting life requires a personal decision!