Key #1: Grace
Heaven is a FREE GIFT.
It can't be earned or deserved.
It can't be earned or deserved.
The reason the church is here is to show the reality of eternal life in and through it's caring people and to communicate to people how they might have life abundantly and eternally. But, I feel that we, as the church throughout history, have done an incredibly poor job of conveying that basic message. The result is that there are millions of people in the world today who go to church regularly - good people - but they do not have eternal life.
I must confess, and this may be true of you also, that I had lived a good many years as a member of a Church but somehow I had never come to the place of knowing for sure that I could have eternal life.
MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION???
QUESTION: Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for certain that if you were to die today you would go to Heaven, or, is that something you're still working on?
The Bible tells us that, "These things have I written...that ye may know that ye have eternal life" (I John 5:13).
MAY I SHARE with you how I came to know for certain I have eternal life, and how you can know it too?
BEFORE I DO, may I ask you a second question?
QUESTION: Suppose you were to die today and stand before God and He were to say to you, "Why should I let you into My Heaven?' What would you say?
This can be seen more clearly when we see what the Bible says about man.
I must confess, and this may be true of you also, that I had lived a good many years as a member of a Church but somehow I had never come to the place of knowing for sure that I could have eternal life.
MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION???
QUESTION: Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for certain that if you were to die today you would go to Heaven, or, is that something you're still working on?
The Bible tells us that, "These things have I written...that ye may know that ye have eternal life" (I John 5:13).
MAY I SHARE with you how I came to know for certain I have eternal life, and how you can know it too?
BEFORE I DO, may I ask you a second question?
QUESTION: Suppose you were to die today and stand before God and He were to say to you, "Why should I let you into My Heaven?' What would you say?
- The Ten Commandments
- The Golden Rule
- Baptism
- Communion
- Just doing the best you can do and hope the scales tip in your favor
This can be seen more clearly when we see what the Bible says about man.
