* Your BP has a great deal of information on it: Destination, Gate, Flight Number, Date&Time of Flight, Boarding Time, Seat Number, Seat Zone, Frequent Flyer Number. Ensure your name is correct on your BP prior to leaving the airline ticket counter. The name on your BP and your ID card will need to match when you attempt to access the security ID Checkpoint and your gate.
* Always remember to bring a copy of your flight itinerary with you just in case the airline computers are not working. Allow 60 minutes for check-in with no bags, 90 minutes with bags, and two hours for international flights. Seats next to the wings provide the smoothest ride. Don’t forget your rental agreement in your rental car. To have a safer flight, remember to pray for your pilot and the plane.
* After you check your bag, make certain you stick your ‘checked baggage’ sticker to your BP stub. If your baggage is misplaced, the ‘checked baggage’ sticker will help you when dealing with the airline baggage office. Also, before the airline ticket agent places your luggage on the conveyor belt, make sure your bag has ‘your’ tag on it with the correct destination.
* Always have your BP and your Driver’s license, Military ID, or Gov’t Issued ID readily available for the ID and TSA security checkpoints.
* Once you’re inside the airport gate area, remember to check the flight status monitors to ensure your gate hasn’t changed. When you arrive at your gate, check your BP for boarding time and listen closely for the Seating Zone noted on your BP.
* If another passenger is sitting in your seat by accident, locate a stewardess to help you; your BP is also useful in locating your seat and verifying it.
* After you’re seated, keep your BP stub handy just in case you have to deplane and reboard for some reason (i.e., security concern, maintenance problem, flight cancellation due to weather, etc.) The Bar Code on your BP can also be used to quickly identify you and book another flight if needed. Your BP can be accepted by other airlines if your flight is cancelled for some reason.
* Don’t leave your BP laying around: There is important personal information contained on it that identity thieves can use against you.
Airline boarding passes are critical when traveling, but there is another boarding pass that is more important than any other. One day you will Depart this life and go out into Eternity, an Eternal boarding pass will be required. Only Sinners that see their need and humble themselves can be issued an Eternal boarding pass.
When you fly, your boarding pass is absolutely required to gain access to your flight. Likewise, you absolutely need an ‘Eternal’ boarding pass to gain access to Heaven. You need it because you’re a Sinner. Maybe you don’t see your need for a boarding pass when you die. Let’s see if you need one: Have you ever lied or stolen anything? If so, that makes you a liar and a thief? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? If you have, that makes you a blasphemer.
Have you ever looked on someone with lust? Then that makes you an adulterer in heart. Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.” *Matthew 5:28* The Bible says, that all liars, thieves, blasphemers, and adulterers cannot inherit the kingdom of God and will have their part in the lake of fire. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. ‘Good’ in the Bible means moral perfection in thought, word and deed. Only Jesus was truly Good. In the Bible sense, Sinners are not good. Every time you have sinned, you sinned with knowledge of right and wrong – your conscience warned you repeatedly, but you sinned anyway.
If God judges you by the Ten Commandments, will you be innocent or guilty on Judgment Day? Will you end up in Heaven or Hell? Here’s some Good News: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; He died for the ungodly, and now whosoever believeth in Him hath everlasting life. It’s not God’s will for you to go to Hell. Heaven’s ticket counter is at Calvary’s Cross where the Lord Jesus Christ died for you. You must go to the Cross by faith to pick up your Free boarding pass. JESUS paid for your ticket in Full when He bore your sins in His own body and suffered and died to pay the death penalty due to your sins. The Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless life for you and shed His Precious Blood for your sins, so He could Give you His perfect Righteousness, and save you from the Hell fire you justly deserve.
You cannot earn a boarding pass to Heaven. The best works you can do are all in vain and useless in the sight of God. You’ve sinned in the past, and all your good works can never take away your sins against God. Your good works don’t impress God; only JESUS’ perfect, finished work pleases God. Heaven’s boarding passes are not for sale - they are Absolutely Free to all who will Repent of their sin, admit their need of a Saviour, and place their entire trust (faith) in the bloody death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ to pardon and pay their sin debt. Ye must be born again. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
God is Holy and Just and demands absolute, perfect Righteousness to enter Heaven. Do you have it? If you’re just the like the rest of us poor sinners, You Don't. The Bible says, For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. We have all come ‘way short’ of God’s perfect Righteousness. All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. *Isaiah 64:6* Are you a sinner? Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Do you need a Saviour? If you sense your need, inability, sinfulness, and imminent danger, then call upon JESUS’ name right now and ask God to save you by His blood and grace. Dear God, please be merciful to me a sinner and save my sinful soul for Jesus’ sake.
