Are you going to heaven???

Do you think your going to heaven? To spend eternity with God? Will just believing in God get you there?

If you where to die today and go stand before the judgment seat of Christ and you where asked, why should I allow you into my kingdom? What would you answer?

Are you one the feels your works will grant you entrance? What about your parents, will they get you into heaven because they are great Christians? What about your pastor, maybe a good word on how you lived as best you could, would that get you into heaven? What about asking Jesus into your heart, does the Bible even talk about obtaining salvation that way? What does God's Word say about this?

1 John 5:13
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

John 3:14-18
14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[a]16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[b] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

John 12:25
The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Does your life reflect the change that is talked about in 2 Corinthians 5:17??

What if you don't live as Jesus did? Since you became a Christian do you see good fruit? Do you love your family? Do you honor your dad & mom?

1 John 2:6
Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Can a Christian live in sin and still be saved? Will God give us a way out before we sin? Do we really have a choice in the matter?

Galatians 6:8
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature[a]will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Romans 6:16
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

I'm not talking about falling into sin for we are all sinners.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

So I think you will see that just believing in God will not get-r-done! Even the devil himself believes in one true God (James 2:19).

True saving faith will follow with repentance and also obedience

If you do question if your saved I would recommend a book titled "Saved without a doubt" by John MacArthur. It cost $10.50 and I think that includes shipping.

Church, keep pressing, keep praying, keep your eyes on Jesus!