Do you know 100% for sure that you will go to Heaven?
Please take a minute for this.
it is very important.
Get out a pen or pencil and paper and mark the following numbers you think a person would have to do to go to Heaven, or things that would help him to get to Heaven. Then scroll down to the numbers that you marked to see the answers.
__ 1.) Obeying the 10 commandments.
__ 2.) Living a good life
__ 3.) Going to church
__ 4.) Helping others
__ 5.) Doing your best
__ 6.) Fasting
__ 7.) Helping the poor
__ 8.) Saying our daily prayers
__ 9.) Getting baptized
__ 10.) Taking communion
__ 11.) Born in a Christian home
__ 12.) Getting confirmed
__ 13.) Penances
__ 14.) Extreme unction
It really doesn't matter what I think, or what anyone else thinks about going to Heaven. It only matters what God thinks. Let's look first at what God says about these things.
#1 - No one other than Jesus has ever kept all the ten commandments Romans 3:28, "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified (made just as if I'd never sinned) by faith without the deeds of the law."
#2 - This is impossible, because no one is good. Matthew 19:17, "...there is none good but one, that is, God..."
#3,4,5,6 - All these things are works, and works cannot save me, or have a part in saving me.
-Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us..."
-Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved throughfaith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
#7,8 - Going to Heaven is totally not of works.
If we add one work to grace, then it becomes works.
-Romans 11:6 "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."
#9,10 - These are things a person is suppossed to do after they are saved, but they have nothing to do with salvation.
-Romans 4:5 "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the un-godly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
#11 - It is not being born physically that gets us to Heaven, it is being born into God's family that gets us there.
-John 3:3 "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
#12, 13, 14 - These are all man made ordinances, and are not in the Bible. Therefore, they could have nothing to do with going to Heaven.
-Matthew 15:9 "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
Since none of these ways can take us to Heaven, or even help as to get there, there has to be another way, It is not in something good we do; it has to do with a person named Jesus Christ.
Read the next section to know what the Bible says about how you can go to Heaven.
