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I am a young Christian(As in i'm 26 years old but a new Christian) and I desperately need your help.

I became a Christian through Scientifc Research & Math.  I gave my life to Jesus because I love him!  I can't look past what he did.  He truly is the Son of God. I'm blessed to have been in a country like the US where I could discover him without it being forced.

I worry about my Grandpa, he grew up a Muslim and he had little exposure to Christianity.  He passed away, is he in Hell now?  I've heard that just because you are a good person does not mean you go to Heaven.  He worshipped the Lord without Jesus everyday.  But the problem is he wasn't saved with the Blood of Jesus he just didn't know too much about it.  

Also there are a lot of people who strive to do great things but they are not perfect to be in the presence of God and they didn't accept Jesus as their saviour.  

My Family raised me so well and they have all the fruits and values of Christians. But they grew up in a country where the muslim religion was forced down their throats.  My dad carries great mental scars and refuses any type of religion.  My dad waited for my mom and they both are still married and will never divorce there is so much good they do but I guess it doesn't matter if you don't accept Jesus?  I understand the Science of how imperfection can simply not be in the same presence as perfection.

Please help me understand.

Also can accepting Jesus as your saviour be exploited in your death bed? People keep asking me about that and I have no idea how to answer them.

Will God show those who didn't accept Jesus any mercy? I worry for them because Satan has a strong foothold on the world.  Please give advice.  Is there anything I can do while i'm alive to save my families for the past 2000 years that were blind in Muslim countries?

SeekerofTruth

Very often, people think they will die in some kind of romantic way. But few die like that. Most sink in to an unconscious state and just fade away until God decides to remove the essence of life from them. If they are relying on being aware to the end, then maybe they ought to spend time with the dying and see just how it really is. Then, maybe, they will consider the reality of making a last-minute act of repentance, just in case there really is a God. The most likely scenario is that they will not know they have a few minutes left. They might not know they are heading toward death for hours, days, weeks, or even months!

God says that the time to repent is right now. Immediately. Once He calls them, they should not delay a response. Indeed, when they have truly been called of God, they will find delay impossible, for the Holy Spirit will overwhelm their heart and mind with a sense of their own sin and need. For most people, this is a time of fear and dread, for to realise how sinful they really are is a devastating experience. It causes them to be afraid to die.

You know that once you die, you will have to face Almighty God, Who will place you in hell for eternity if you are not saved.

If their idea is to eat, drink and be merry for their whole life, and then to ‘get religion’ on their death-bed, they will be sorely disappointed. No, that is too mild a word to use – they will be terrified  for all of eternity, crying and wailing night and day, in a place inhabited by Satan and his evil angels...the same Satan and angels who deceived them in to thinking you had all the time in the world to repent!

Even though I am telling you the blunt truth, do not think that a night or two of anxiety is enough to save them from this miserable and horrific end. This message you are reading might indeed cause you a few sleepless nights. It might even start them thinking, and make them call to God. But, even that will not save them.

Salvation is a most peculiar thing. It is what God says you must have to enter heaven. Yet, He makes no provision at all for you to get it for yourself. There is no door you can open to obtain this most precious of states. Roman Catholics claim that if you pay the Roman church enough, you will escape the worst of purgatory and enter heaven quicker, no matter what you were like on this earth. My friend, this is rotten advice! The Roman Catholics have no more idea of what it takes to enter heaven, than a squashed earth worm!

Muslims think all they need to do, is comply with the Koran. They are woefully wrong. Even Jews, the people chosen in the first place by God, have no idea about how to enter heaven. They reject Jesus Christ and continue with their laws and rites, when God Himself said He is sick of their rites!

No man, group, or religion, can help you to be saved, to be ‘born again’. The answers they need are found in God’s word, the Bible. God says, in His word, that His Spirit speaks to a man or woman some time in their own lifetime. This will probably come in the form of a growing sense of one’s own sin. It might mean fear arises in the mind and heart, because of this sense. If it is real, it will lead one to the right source of information, the Bible, a church, an individual...at some point they will hear or read how to be saved. They will come to know and accept that you are a sinner bound for hell simply because you were born. God cannot accept you as you are.

God says that He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross. Jesus died willingly, as a sacrifice to His Father. That is why belief in Jesus Christ as our Saviour is the very core of salvation. They must accept that He died for us, and that He rose again, bodily, and went to heaven.

Resting in the hands, of Jesus.
Bob

Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

DO GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN? by Carl Knott
http://www.nlbchapel.org/goodpeople.htm

"“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us”   Titus 3:5
 

        An evangelist stopped at a gasoline station, and when the attendant finished filling his tank, he paid him and said, as was his custom, “could I ask you for some directions?”  “Of course,” came the reply. “I’d like to know how to get to heaven,” he said, to the attendant’s surprise. After a moment the reply came. “Be good, sincere, try to do the best you can. No one can ask for more than that,” came the confident reply. To the attendant’s surprise, the evangelist looked shocked and nearly angry. His brow furrowed, he stared at the man and in a stern voice said, “Man, I asked you the way to heaven, and you told me the direct way to hell! No one gets to heaven by trying to be good. People who trust in good works or sincerity are not good. On the contrary, they disbelieve and reject what God said. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, ‘By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast’.”

Read the rest of the article here http://www.nlbchapel.org/goodpeople.htm

Pilgrim