Am I going to heaven?
Audio Message:
Check below what you think is necessary
to get you to heaven.?
1. Obeying the Ten Commandments?
2. Doing your best?
3. Living a good life?
4. Good works?
5. Trying to obey the Golden Rule?
6. Tithing, or giving money to the church?
7. Church membership or attendance?
8. Prayers?
9. Water baptism?
10. Holy communion?
11. Born of Christian parents?
12. Confirmation?
13. PenanceNow see below how you scored on the test.Explanation:
If
you
check one or more of the above
items, you failed the test. Don't feel badly
though, most people do
fail.
Most are to some degree "religious", but
religions
are nothing more than man-made attempts
to reach
God.
The real
answer to how to get to Heaven
is not found in some
religious system or by man's
self-righteousness.
God has declared that "there is none
righteous, no, not one"
(Romans 3:10). "For all
have sinned
and
come
short of the
glory of
God" (Romans 3:23). Further, God's Word teaches
that sin is a very
serious matter.
II
Thessalonians 1:9 tells of "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord". Anyone who is not
found written in the book of life
will be cast into the lake
of fire. (Revelation
20:15)
What can you do about your sin problem?
Can you clean up your life,
do good works and
hope that in
the
end your good works will
outweigh your
bad works? NO! Salvation does not
come
to those who work for it,
but to those
who cease from their own works,
placing their
trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 4:5 makes
that point
abundantly clear. "To him that worketh not, but
believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his
faith
is
counted for
righteousness." In
Ephesians 2:8 & 9, it is declared, "For by
grace are
ye save through faith;
and that not
of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not
of works lest any man should boast."
The issue is not what you can do for God,
but what He has done for
you. "But God commandeth
His
love
toward us in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for
us" (Romans 5:8). "He
hath made Him
(Jesus) to
be sin for us, Who
knew no
sin; that we might be made
the righteousness of
God in
Him" (II Corinthians 5:21)
You have no righteousness of
your own. To
have eternal life you must have the
righteousness of Christ (see
Romans 3:26).
What then is your responsibility? God has
given you a free will to
either accept or reject
what He has
done
for
you. To have
God's
righteousness, you must believe that "Christ died
for our sins according
to the
Scriptures;
and
that He
was buried; and that He rose
again the
third day
according to the Scriptures" (I
Corinthians 15:3,4).
Your response to the gospel should be as
we read of the Ephesians:
"In Whom (the Lord
Jesus Christ) ye
also
trusted, after that ye
heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in Whom
also after that ye
believed,
ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit
of promise" (Ephesians 1:13). This seal is a
guarantee that your salvation
is eternal--you
can never lose it
(see Ephesians 1:14, 4:30, II
Corinthians 1:22)
At this very moment you have the
responsibility of making a
decision. If you are
convinced by
God's Word,
you can be saved
right now:
Simply make the decision in your heart
to
trust completely and exclusively in the
blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ as the total
payment to God for your sins. The
moment you do,
God will
forgive
you all your
sins and save you from spending eternity in the
Lake of Fire.
The choice is now up to you. . . . . What
did you decide? If you
trusted Christ today, or
if you have
any
questions
please
contact us.
We are eager to share more with you from God's
Word.
Elder Scott Ray
P.O.
Box 1000
Pikeville NC 27863
GracePreacher1611@gmx.com