If you live 70 years you will have lived 36,816,480 minutes. I would suggest you take 5 minutes out of your busy life to read what follows. FIVE minutes to make an eternal difference in how you live out the rest of your life. Or you can choose to leave and continue to spend however many minutes you have left worrying about shopping, clothing, holidays, jobs, money, family, television, food, movies, weddings, birthdays, etc. until the day you die at which time you will no longer care about these things. If you choose to stay here five minutes you will never read a more important message anywhere else on the internet or anywhere else in the world than what follows. You will find no photos, images, or videos on this site. You will find only two links on this website. In fact, you will find only one page on this website, this one. Yet it contains the only message in the world that matters.

I have had this domain since 2003. Iesous Christos is the English transliteration of the name of Jesus Christ in the original Greek New Testament. Until now this website focused on cultural, social, and political issues from a biblical perspective. These issues included abortion, homosexuality, liberalism, Israel, the media, Hollywood, creationism, and other world religions. I had 48 pages and 191 images on this website which discussed and illustrated these subjects. After being a Christian for thirty years, I now fully realize these issues are peripheral to the only issue that really matters.

The world we are living in is getting more dangerous every day. Rebellion, hatred, murder, and terror are increasing. The evil in the world probably rivals the wickedness that was present on the earth in the days of Noah. The apostle Paul wrote, "1 But know this: perilous times will come in the last days. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of religion but denying its power." (II Timothy 3:1-5) The first four verses speak for themselves. However, I believe the modern Church falls under the subject of verse five.

Numerous churches today teach that all a person has to do to be saved is say a "Sinners Prayer" and when they do that person is saved. They can then choose whether they will submit to their newfound Savior Jesus Christ now or whether they will do it sometime in the future. This is called Easy-believism or sloppy grace. However, it is not biblical.

Jesus said that before becoming His follower we are to count the cost of discipleship, 26 "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27 "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 "For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 "Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, 30 saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' 31 "Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 "Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions. 34 "Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned? 35 "It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." (Luke 14:26-35) You cannot be saved and then live your life without submission and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. The cross which Jesus said His followers were to carry meant only one thing in biblical times -- Death! We are to die to our selfish will and submit to His perfect will. The apostle Paul, James the half-brother of Jesus, and the New Testament Christians called themselves slaves of Christ and saw Jesus as their Lord and Master (In Romans 1:1 in the original Greek text of the New Testament Paul calls himself "a doulos of Jesus Christ". Likewise in James 1:1, James refers to himself as a doulos of Jesus Christ. Doulos is the Greek word for slave. The English translators of the New Testament sought to soften this term by translating it as servant but it actually means slave). Thankfully Jesus is a benevolent and loving Master and it is our pleasure to serve Him because His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11:29-30). Christians are also His adopted children who should want to please their Lord and Father, "12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13) In reality, it is not us who choose God but He who chooses us to be His obedient children, 15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 "This I command you, that you love one another." (John 15:15-17) Jesus no longer calls us His slaves but we should see our relationship with Him as one of obedient service in order to bear good fruit by doing good works.

Since we are living in perilous days it is time for the modern Church to forsake easy-believism. We are to tell people that the only way to salvation and eternal life is through Jesus Christ:

6 "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." (John 14:6)

12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)

Since we are living in perilous days it's time for Christianity to stop messing around. Jesus had a rich, young ruler run to Him asking Him about eternal life. What Christian wouldn't want an unbeliever to come to him and ask about the things of God and His Son? We would immediately tell them to say the Sinners Prayer and that's all there is to it. What did Jesus do? He didn't tell the young rich man to say the Sinners Prayer! He told him he needed to obey God and sell all that he had and then he would inherit eternal life. The man was not willing to do this and went away sad and grieving and Jesus, who felt love for him, let him go (Mark 10:17-31). Jesus let him go! The apostle Paul preached salvation to the Greeks on Mars Hill in Athens. After he finished, some of the ones listening mocked him but some others said they would hear Paul again on this subject. What was Paul's response? Did he say, "Wow, some of these said they would hear me further on this matter so I have to stick around and convince them of the truth about Jesus?" No, the Bible says he left them without speaking further (Acts 17:17-34). Tell people the cost before asking them if they want to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord. If they are willing to submit to Him in complete obedience then tell them they need to confess their sins, repent and turn away from their sins, and receive the atoning sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ for their sins, and then in obedience to their Lord bear good fruit by doing good works. This then is life eternal. God's grace will work in their hearts to bring them to a point where they are willing to do all these things, "8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." (Ephesians 2:8-10) When people's hearts are truly changed by God's Holy Spirit then all the cultural, moral, and political issues we face in our everyday lives will be transformed in a Godly manner.

Remember that Jesus said, 13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 13:13-14). Tragically, many people will spend eternity in Hell separated from God and few people will obtain eternal life. He also said, 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’" (Matthew 7:21-23). This may include many members of modern Christianity but only God knows for sure.

I think one of the problems with the Church is that it only focuses on God's love. He is a God of love but He is also a God of righteous judgment. You can see both of these characteristics in the most famous passage in the New Testament, "16 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. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” (John 3:16-21) God loves his human creations so much that He doesn't want to lose even one of us, "3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." (I Timothy 2:3-4) And again, "9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." (II Peter 3:9) Notice in this latter verse that God loves us so much that He doesn't want any of us to perish but His desire is for all to repent. In other words, God loves us but we have to come to Him on His terms which means we have to repent or turn away from our sins. There are many verses which speak of God's love for us and there are many verses which speak of God's righteous judgment. Christians need to speak both to the lost as Jude, the half-brother of Jesus, points out, "22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh." (Jude 22-23)

Now, for the two links I said I would provide. In my thirty years as a Christian (I will be 53 years old in 2011) God has blessed me with three great Bible teachers who love the Lord and faithfully preach His Word: My pastor, David DiYanni, Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, and Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in California. Pastor MacArthur has been preaching for forty-two years and has a national radio broadcast. His teachings are some of the most sound theological sermons I've ever heard. You can listen to more than 3000 of them at: http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons I would suggest listening to his series titled The Gospel according to Jesus first. Also, nothing can compare to reading the Bible for yourself. When you have God's Spirit abiding in you, the Spirit of truth will tell you the truth about God and His Son Jesus Christ and about life itself.

The second link is my email address. If all you want to do is argue theology or call me names then move on. Like Paul, I don't have time to waste on you. However, if you are truly seeking salvation through Jesus Christ you can ask me any questions you may have. I will try to answer them with God's Word or point you to a Godly, Bible teacher who may be able to answer them. My email address is jjkoine@msn.com

I make no apologies to anyone if my website offends you or seems harsh to you. I am a sinner and am no better than anyone else. Thankfully Jesus has forgiven my sins and I began my eternal life with Him thirty years ago. You may say as the Scriptures do that "God is love" and therefore we need to speak in love to the lost. And so we should! Which is more loving? A person who is nice to you, enables you, and tells you everything will be allright? Or is it someone who tells you what God says you need to do in order to make everything allright? The Bible says "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged". Therefore, I have with God's love told you the truth about what He says is true salvation. I do not want you to be one who believes you are saved when you are not. I do not want you to be one of those who say to Jesus, "Lord, Lord" but then He says to you "I never knew you. Depart from Me you workers of iniquity." We are living in perilous times and the world system and its ruler will eat you alive if you are not under the protection of God, "6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert! Your adversary, the Devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." (I Peter 5:6-8) Now is not the time to be a fainthearted person but it is the time to commit yourself to Jesus Christ!