The Holy Bible says that Christian believers who “TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS” will shine as the brightness of the stars in the universe for ever and ever. The Bible doesn't say anything about professional sports athletes shining. The Bible doesn't say anything about musicians shining. Nor does the Bible say anything about religious leaders shining in eternity. The Bible doesn't say anything about hard-working people with booming businesses shining in eternity. No, rather, only those believers who turn many to the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ will shine. Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

All of the fame, money and success in this temporal world ends at the grave. In this wicked and warped world of sin, sports stars, singing sensations and Hollywood celebrities, losers in Heaven's eyes shine. The wicked world honors them foolishly, but they WON'T shine for five seconds in eternity. Hebrews 11:6 teaches that only by faith can God be pleased. The Communist kooks, adulterous athletes, sensual celebrities, liberal loonies, leftist losers and all the hordes of Hollywood Hell, won't shine for 5-seconds in eternity. When this earthly life is over, all that will matter then is if you died in the Lord (Revelation 14:13) and went to Heaven, or died in your sins (John 8:24) and went to Hell. All Christ-rejecters will spend eternity burning mercilessly in the Lake of Fire, which Revelation 20:6 says burns with fire and brimstone. Revelation 14:11 says, “they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

There is no greater task in the world than witnessing the Gospel to lost sinners. The average person is not saved. In fact, I'd guesstimate worldwide that only .001% (one in every 1,000 people) are born-again!!! There are an estimated 1,600,000,000 (1.6 billion) Muslims in the world who are unsaved Christ-rejecters! There are an estimated 1,000,000,000 unsaved Roman Catholics, who are trusting the sacraments of the Catholic Church to save them. There are another estimated 600,000 Christ-rejecting Buddhists! There's 127,368,088 people living in Japan. Yet, less than 1-in-200 profess Christianity (005%). Most of the world's population are going to Hell, “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). You see, the world is always searching for answers (2nd Timothy 3:7, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”), but Satan has provided many substitutes for the Gospel to blind and deceive people (2nd Corinthians 4:4). Revelation 12:9b, “...that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.” It is our duty as born-again believers to preach to the lost, to show them THE TRUTH of the Gospel which Satan has kept from them.