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by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Would you like to have the knowledge, the assurance and the joy of sins forgiven? Would you like to be sure of heaven?
Well,
the first step to heaven is to realize that you cannot get there by
trying. You can’t walk there. You can’t climb there. You can’t fly
there. Only God can take you there. Many try to earn heaven. They try to
climb there on a ladder of good works. They talk about “adding another
rung.” But look out for that good works ladder! It’s not anchored at the
top and the higher you climb the farther you will fall.
God’s
Word says that salvation is “the gift of God, not of works, lest any
man should boast” (Eph. 2:8,9). He is not going to have boasters in
heaven — there are enough of them on earth and nobody likes them.
All
of us should realize that even the best of us are not good enough for
heaven, for “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom.
3:23), but in this same statement the Apostle Paul declares that
believers in Christ, who died for our sins, are “justified freely by His
[God’s] grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom.
3:24).
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1).
So,
friend, it is not by trying, or crying, or praying, or paying, or doing
anything that you will reach heaven: it is only by believing. God says
He loves sinners, and that Christ died for our sins. Will you believe
this and trust Christ as your Savior? The terms are stated very plainly
in John 3:35,36:
“The
Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
i Kow Whom I Have Believed
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