Last 5 Minutes... what will you do?

Someone just died! This is not to scare you because it may also happen to me now. This is to give you courage and hope beyond this life.

I want you for the next five minutes to live as if it were your last five minutes to live; as if it were your last five minutes alive. After all, someone in your city will die in the next five minutes. It could very well be you. Why not?

In five minutes, when you’re dead, someone will place a sheet or maybe a blanket over your head. An ambulance will come to take you to the hospital for an autopsy. The undertaker will be called, and arrangements will be made to place you in a grave. At the funeral home people will come and shed tears over your lifeless body. They will look at and touch your cold and blank face.

At the funeral, folks will weep and mourn, but you will be gone. They will drive slowly to a cemetery with your body in a casket inside a hearse. At the cemetery they will carry your body to a hole in the ground and lower it down. People will cry. The men will throw dirt over the casket, in which your body was placed, and then they will set a tombstone on top of that ground. Your name will be on the stone, the date of your birth will be below that, and today’s date will be under that. It will say, “DIED…”

The people will leave and soon recover and someday forget that your body is there.

Your five minutes is almost up, so I’d better get to the point. When this time is up and you have died, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? We already decided where your body is going, but what about you? Will you be in heaven or hell? Oh, yes, you’ll be at one place or the other, so in these remaining minutes I’ll tell you what to do to get to the place of your choice.

TO GO TO HELL

Do nothing! You’ve already done enough! “For the wages of sin is death;” (Romans 6:23a).

TO GET TO HEAVEN

1. Believe you are a sinner. “ For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

2. Believe you deserve to go to hell. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:12).

3. Believe Jesus died to pay for your sins. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

4. Trust Jesus as your Savior. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13).

Time is almost gone so decide quickly.

If you want to go to heaven, I’ll tell you what you need to do in your last few seconds. Get on your knees! Hurry! Now confess to God that you are a sinner! Come on! Don’t waste time! Tell Him you know that you deserve to go to hell. Now tell Him that you know His Son died for you on the cross. You’d better hurry! Now tell Him you’re sorry for your sins, and ask Him to come into your heart and save you now! Did you trust Him? Did you receive Him as your personal Lord and Savior? If you did, you’re ready to go to heaven.