UFO: The Encounter Page #4

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There isn't one human being on this planet that's an accident.

I hand formed you in your mother's womb

and I formed you for a purpose.

I put before you a path of love and worship.

And the degree with which you'll experience love and joy

and the good things of life is the degree to which

you'll bend to my will.

And if we don't seek your will,

you kill us like you did the Canaanites.

Everyone dies, Nick, but not everyone needs to fear death.

If you abide in me, you'll be stepping free from this

fallen world and into glory.

Is that what heaven's like?

Glory?

It's more than glory, Melissa.

It's peace and love and joy.

Can you imagine living in the fullness of the warmth

of God's light?

There are no words in the human vocabulary that can describe it.

It's a place where there is no suffering.

It's a place where every tear is wiped from your eyes.

There's no sadness. There's no pain.

And you know, Melissa, one day you and I will walk

on the streets of gold and we'll talk about this night together.

What about me, Jesus?

Will I walk the streets of gold?

Nick, that's completely up to you.

Melissa made her decision on the 232nd day of her 17th year.

That was her birthday into my kingdom.

Why don't you tell Nick all about it?

Tell him why you sought me.

I'd like to hear it.

So would I.

Well, I was depressed.

The guy that I had been dating broke up with me,

so I..it was all I could do.

So I would come home and just sleep and cry

and sleep and cry and eat.

It got so bad that I was thinking

about taking my own life.

I stole a bottle of pain killers from my mom's house

and was planning on taking them that night and going to bed

and never waking up.

And the phone rang.

For whatever reason, I picked it up.

And it was a friend from work and she was a Christian.

And she would always talk about God and the Bible.

And she said she was going to come pick me up

and take me to a movie.

And I thought, "Why not?"

So half an hour later, I was sitting in a movie theatre

and it was packed.

It turned out it was like a Christian film festival.

And this movie was unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

It was as if the message was directed at me.

And I remember tearing up.

Yeah, I couldn't help myself.

At the and of the movie, a man went up to the front and began

to speak and it felt like he was talking to me.

You know, personally.

He talked about God's forgiveness, eternal life,

and how this place we called planet Earth was only temporary.

And that how our real home was in the kingdom of heaven.

And that I would live there eternally if I would surrender

my life to him.

You know, I can't quite explain it,

but something was happening to me right then,

right there in the theatre.

He then said who ever would like to commit their lives to Christ

to get out of their seats and go to the front.

And the most important decision you ever make

in your whole life stands before you right now.

So I did.

I felt like a whole new person that very second.

Come unto me, all you who are weary and burdened

and I will give you rest.

Did you find that rest?

Yes.

Looking back, I can't believe I was, you know,

going to take my life over some guy that had broken up with me.

Melissa, I have so much more in store for you, too,

if you trust me.

Could be times when I ask you to do things

you may not want to do.

I don't understand.

You can't marry Paul.

But I love him.

Well, I shouldn't say you can't because you can,

but you shouldn't.

It's just not my desire for you, Melissa.

But I love him.

Melissa, you have a very tender heart.

How many guys have you fallen in love with since you were 16?

But he loves me too.

Melissa, it's just not my will for a couple

to be unequally matched.

Paul doesn't believe in me.

What if we got married and I made it my mission to save him?

I could do that.

Melissa, do you love him? Do you really love him?

Yes, I do.

Who do you think loves him more, you or me?

You do, obviously, but..

Melissa, Paul doesn't feel about you the same way

you feel about him.

He hates his assignment up in Winnemucca.

He's lonely.

And right now, he thinks that you're exactly what he needs.

But two years from now, when you're back in L.A.,

he's gonna want something more, something you can't give him.

He's gonna grow to resent you.

And you know what he's going to resent most about you?

Your faith in me.

That will still be the biggest difference

between the two of you.

So instead of being the instrument that draws him to me,

you'll actually cause him to turn the other way.

Aw Melissa, isn't it more important that he loves me

than loves you?

Will he believe in you?

In time, yeah, he will.

Well, then maybe then we could..

Melissa, I promise you by then you won't

even want to entertain the possibility.

Remember, I have many wonderful things in store for you.

This is beginning to sound like "Deal or No Deal."

And if I were you, I'd say no deal.

You know, Nick, your cynicism is beginning to wear

on all of us.

That's awfully presumptuous of you to speak for everyone.

Starting to get on my nerves as well.

I was against you the minute you tried to run me over.

Well, hey, I tried to leave, remember?

It's not my fault the car wouldn't start.

Nick, you're here for one reason.

Because it's not my will that anyone should perish,

but that everyone would turn around and come to me.

The word you remember from your Bible is repent.

I don't have anything to repent of.

As I said, Nick, I'm here honoring the prayers

of your grandmother.

I wish I had known her.

You still have that chance.

But only on your terms.

Sounds like blackmail to me.

It's not blackmail, Nick.

I want you to be where your grandmother is.

It's a place of everlasting love.

And suppose I don't want that.

I'm a gentleman, Nick.

I'll never force myself on you or anyone.

Ha!

That's the worst kind of blackmail.

Do things my way or face fire and brimstone forever.

Nick, you don't want to follow me, do you?

Not particularly.

And you certainly don't want to obey me.

Correct again.

Nick, what would be more unjust and unfair?

For me to steal you at the moment of your death and force

you to live in my presence and in my will for all eternity?

Hell, on the other hand, is a place, Nick,

where you'll be completely free from all of my

"thou shalt nots" forever.

Hell never sounded so appealing to me

You know, everyday I get millions of complains

about this world

all the greed and selfishness

poverty, starvation,

the wars, the murders,

the abuse of children

I hardly recognize this place anymore

It bear so literal resemblance to the garden

that I created for you

But it's not hell, Nick.

Even now, there's sunshine on a spring day

there's starry night and desert sky

there's a gentle breeze on a summer afternoon

and the smell of flowers, the song of birds

Not to mention the horrible storms and floods

There's even people who are willing

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