Will You Go to Heaven When You Die?
The Bible states in 1 TIMOTHY 6:7 “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” When all is said and done, we will be leaving this world with just our soul.
The condition of your soul upon leaving this world will determine where you will go for all eternity.
HEBREWS 9:27 “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement.”
If most people are honest they do not want to go to the Hell that the Bible describes. They desire to go to Heaven. If you are one of these people who desires the Heaven of the Bible, are you willing to go God’s way and not to try and accomplish your own way there?
First, let us see from God’s Word where you personally would stand before a holy, righteous God in the light of His standards and not your own or men’s.
God gave mankind His 10 Commandments (EXODUS 20), which are:
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2.Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
3.Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4.Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5.Honour thy father and thy mother.
6.Thou shalt not kill.
7.Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8.Thou shalt not steal.
9.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10.Thou shalt not covet.
Keeping God’s commandments in mind we see that if you have ever told a lie that makes you a liar. If you have ever taken God’s name in vain, you are a blasphemer. If you have ever slept with someone outside of marriage, that makes you a fornicator. These are just a few examples.
In comparing yourself to God’s standard and not other men’s do you see where you will stand on the day of judgment?
Breaking God’s commandments is called SIN. And SIN is the problem every one of us has. Reflect on your own life. Reflect on what you hear on the news every day. Reflect on what it was that last caused you a tremendous amount of pain. It all comes back to mankind choosing his way over God’s way.
In short, we have all SINNED against God.
ISAIAH 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.”
God tells us in the Bible that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a person to go to Heaven with SIN in their soul. We not only have a sinful nature, but we all personally commit sinful acts.
REVELATION 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Precious person reading this, don’t think your SIN is too small to not condemn you and to not remove you from God’s presence when you die. Do not be fooled! God’s Word states in
JAMES 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
Without Christ, the picture looks very hopeless. We see that we are all “as an unclean thing” before a holy God who will in His righteousness and justice condemn us in our SIN.
But wait, there is GOOD NEWS!
The same God who will have to judge us because of who He is has provided a way for us to get right with Him before we die.
The Bible tells us that God is one God - three persons – the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.
The Bible tells us why Jesus came to our world over 2,000 years ago.
LUKE 4:18 “…to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted; to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
LUKE 19:10 “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which is lost.”
The Bible also tells us why Jesus who had NEVER SINNED died on a cruel cross,
ISAIAH 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions (SIN), He was bruised for our iniquities (SIN): the chastisement of our peace was upon him.”
Through Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection from the grave on the third day, He has made a way for SINNERS to go to Heaven. He took your punishment so you can go FREE.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
God has not left us without HOPE!
God wants you to BELIEVE in Him as your personal SAVIOUR, and in what He DID FOR YOU on the CROSS.
JOHN 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
1 JOHN 1:7b “…and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
God does not want you to trust in yourself or the good works that you have done.
EPHESIANS 2:8-10 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
God wants you to TRUST in HIM ALONE and to not have to go to the lake of fire.
2 PETER 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
God has PROVIDED a way for SINNERS like you and me to go to Heaven and to be FREE from our major problem called SIN.
Precious person, no doubt you know the REALITY of SIN but you can know the REALITY of GOD’S FORGIVENESS and a HOME IN HEAVEN when you die.
If you CHOOSE God and His way, pray to Him and ask Him to save you from your SIN. Believing that He died for you on a cruel cross and rose again the third day.
ROMANS 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
ROMANS 10:13“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
JOHN 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”
JOHN 6:37b “… him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”