- Ron BoatwrightWould You go to Heaven?
If you were to die today do you know for certain, without a doubt,
that you would go to heaven and be with the Lord forever? Jesus says,
"But seek first the
Our Lord tells us in Matthew 7:13-14 that few people will go to Heaven, but the
vast majority will be eternally lost in the burning fires of Hell. This
is not a pleasant thought. But all of us will make the choice as to where
we will spend eternity. The only way, to even grasp how long eternity
will be, is to think that after we have been in Heaven or Hell a billion years,
eternity will have just begun.
Our soul is the most precious thing we possess. "For what profit is
it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what
will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26). Our soul
is worth more than the whole world put together. If we lose our soul in
Hell, we lose it all.
Jesus wants us to pay attention to what He is trying to tell us. He says
in Matthew 13:41-43, "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they
will gather out of His kingdom (the church, that’s us) all things that offend,
and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of
fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous
will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Our Lord
is trying to warn us if we will only listen. He has already paid the
awful price for our salvation and He doesn’t want to see it wasted.
For a child of God, sin in our life will keep us out of Heaven. Because
of unrepented sins, our name will be taken out of
God’s Book of Life. Revelation
If you are not a Christian, how do you get your name into God’s Book of Life,
so you can be saved and go to Heaven? Our Lord says in Luke 13:3,
"Except you repent you will all likewise perish." Jesus also says,
"Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will
confess before My Father who is in Heaven" (Matthew - Ron Boatwright