SALT OF LIFE
Generally we need a passport when travelling.
Without a passport you are not allowed to enter a foreign country.
Your passport should be up to date. And your picture -
on your passport should be recognizable as your picture.
Once or twice I have been in a situation in a bank -
when the clerk has started to laugh at my old picture on my I.D.
Story tells that a Finnish evangelist Paavo Ruotsalainen -
used to ask people if their passports were up to date.
He made that question every time he met people.
What he ment with his question was:-
Are you prepared for the last journey?
John writes about Jesus and about His coming to the Earth:
"He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.-
"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,-
he gave the right to become children of God" John 1:11-12 (NIV)
We have a right to enter Heaven, if our passports are up to date.
Only if we believe in Jesus. There is no other passport.
Being a good person, doing good actions,-
coming from a good family or living a flawless life -
do not give us the right to enter Heaven.
The only way is to have a Jesus stamp on our passports.
Only then our sins are forgiven, and we are free to enter Heaven.
Subtitles: Marika Finne