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nHOW CAN WE KNOW WELL GO TO HEAVEN? A recent poll indicated that for every American who believes he or she is going to hell, there are 120 who believe theyre going to heaven. This optimism stands in stark contrast to Jesus Christs words written in the Bible: Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few (Matthew 7:13-14). The truth is that according to the Bible we dont automatically go to heaven. In fact, hell--not heaven--is our default destination. Unless our sin problem is solved once and for all, we cant enter heaven. Thats the bad news. But once thats straight in our minds were ready to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. Jesus took upon himself, on the cross, the hell we deserve so that we could experience for eternity the heaven we dont deserve THE ONLY TWO OPTIONS There are two possible destinations when we die: heaven or hell. Can we really know in advance where well go? John, one of the writers of the Bible, said this: I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:13). We can know for sure that well go to heaven when we die. Do you? To sin means to fall short of Gods holy standards. Sin is what ended paradise in the Garden of Eden. And all of us, like Adam and Eve, are sinners. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Sin separates us from a relationship with God (Isaiah 59:2) and it deceives us and makes us think that wrong is right and right is wrong (Proverbs 14:12). Sin has terrible consequences, but God has provided a solution: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, loved us so much that he left the riches of heaven to become a man and deliver us from our sin. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). He came to identify with us in our humanity and our weakness, but he did so without being tainted by our sin, self-deception, and moral failings (Hebrews 4:15-16). Jesus died on the cross as the only one worthy to pay the penalty for our sins demanded by the holiness of God: For our sake he God] made him Jesus] to be sin who knew no
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