Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven." One sure way not to go to heaven is by depending on your own goodness. A common misconception is that God has a set of scales and that He is going to weigh up the good and the bad and if you have done more good than bad you will get in. Not true and nowhere to be found in the Holy Bible. Good people don't go to heaven, only people who realize that they are inherently wicked and have been forgiven by God through Jesus' finished work on the cross at Calvary. (See: Why do so many people believe that we can be saved by works?) If you were to die today...Download File
We Are Saved By Faith
[We] know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified. (Galatians 2:16)
"The irony is that most people who believe that you have to work your way to heaven, are not working!" ~ Dr. D. James Kennedy
8 Reasons Why We Can't Work Our Way To Heaven
1. If we can get to heaven by our own good works then why did Jesus have to suffer and die? Why did God the Father, send His only Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to be born, not in a royal palace, but in a lowly manger? Why did the Father send His only Son, knowing beforehand that Jesus would be rejected by men, scorned, beaten, mocked, ridiculed, slandered, slapped, punched, spat upon, have his beard plucked out, and a crown of thorns pressed into his head? Why did the Father allow His only Son to be stripped naked, tortured, crucified, and to have a spear thrust into His side (God could have intervened) if it were possible for us to gain salvation apart from Christ? "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" (Galatians 2:21)
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