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Live to 100
“Want to live to 100?”
So asked the question on the front of the health magazine. Yes, there are many cures and preventions that offer to give you a long life, but not one of them says, “Do you want to live forever?” Yet this is the offer that God Himself is making. “The gift of God is eternal life” (Romans 6:23).
It isn’t that God intends that you should live forever in this sad and sinful world. No, He has another world full of love and joy and peace and glory. At the very center of that world is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the One who died on the cross, bearing the sins of all who will come to Him. He, and He alone, makes us fit for that bright world where He is.
But no one can come there who has not had their sins forgiven. If we repent of our sins, God will forgive every one of them because His Son has paid the price. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The Lord Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
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