GOD’S WAY TO HEAVEN

GOD LOVES YOU! …and He wants you to experience peace and life – abundant and eternal. The bible says… “We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1) In John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus also says, “…My purpose is to give life to its fullness.” (John 10:10) But most people aren’t experiencing a meaningful life and aren’t sure that they have eternal life BECAUSE ….

R. I. P. MAN HAS A SIN PROBLEM! IN HELL GOD …which separates us from God. Everyone has sinned. “yes, all have sinned; fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) The penalty for sin is death: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). The bible talks about two kinds of death. The first death is physical. The second death is spiritual or eternal separation from God. “But the cowards who turn back from following Me and those who are unfaithful to Me and corrupt and the murderers, and immoral, and those conversing with demons; and idol worshippers and all liars – their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the Second Death” (Revelation 21:8) R. I. P. IN HELL SIN

MAN CAN’T PAY FOR HIS SINS! TEN COMMANDMENTS …nor earn eternal life through doing good works or keeping the Ten Commandments (The Law). “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.” (James 2:10) 1. -- -- -- ------ ---- 2. -- -- -- ------ ---- 3. -- -- -- ------ ---- 4. -- -- -- ------ ---- 5. -- -- -- ------ ---- 7. -- -- -- ------ ---- 8. -- -- -- ------ ---- 9. -- -- -- ------ ---- 10. -- -- -- ------ ---- Romans 3:28 says, “So it is that we are saved by faith in Christ and not by the good things that we do.” Obeying the law and doing good does not remove the penalty of our sins. So what is the solution?

JESUS CHRIST IS GOD’S WAY TO HEAVEN. He is THE only way. In John 14:6 “Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can get to the Father except by means of Me…” Jesus completely paid the penalty of your sin by dying on the cross for you. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

WE MUST PLACE OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST ALELUYA !!! WE MUST PLACE OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST and trust in Him alone to save us. “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT OF GOD; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9) If you think that you must have faith in Jesus Christ plus do good works in order to receive eternal life then you are not trusting Jesus Christ alone to save you, but you are also trusting yourself. Once you have placed your trust in Jesus Christ, He will give you the power to live a life of good deeds and holiness

OUR RESPONSE: RECEIVE CHRIST We must Trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and receive Him by personal invitation. “The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life and this life has its source in His Son. Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1John 5:11,12). In Revelation 3:20 Jesus makes a promise: “Look, I have been standing at the door and I am constantly knocking, if anyone hears Me calling him and opens the door, I will come in and fellowship with him and he with Me.”   Are you willing to repent of your sins, ask Jesus to come into your life to forgive your sins, to give you eternal life and to take control of your life? You can express your faith in Jesus through the following prayer:  PRAYER: Lord Jesus, I need you, I confess that I am a sinner, I believe that you died on the cross to pay for all my sins. With your help, I will turn away from my sins. Please come into my life and be my Savior and my Master. I accept your gift of eternal life. Make me the kind of new person you want me to be. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me eternal life. Amen.

If you have said the prayer and accepted Jesus with your whole heart and you placed all your trust and faith in Him, these things have already happened to you: you have ETERNAL LIFE “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11-12) all of your sins were forgiven “For He has rescued us from the domination of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Colossians 1:13-14) You are given the right to be a child of God “Yet all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to be called the children of God…” (John 1:12,13)