Are you going to Heaven?
Are You Going to
Heaven?
GOD’S SIMPLE PLAN
OF SALVATION:
My beloved: I am asking you
the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all
eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you
saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a
church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to
Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born
again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.”
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be
born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can
be saved today. How?
First, my beloved, you must realize you are a
sinner. “For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned
to death. “For the
wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans
6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.
“
. . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But God loved you so much He gave
His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. “ . . . He hath made Him [Jesus, Who
knew no sin] to be sin for
us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians
5:21).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh
is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without shedding of blood is no
remission [pardon]”
(Hebrews 9:22).
“
. . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my
sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our
place. He became our substitute. It is true. God
cannot lie.
My beloved, “God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts
17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with
God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the
Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul
and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs,
what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore
your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God
resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the
believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.
“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
1:12).
“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 10:9).
“For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans
10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall
be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now,
wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh
God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on
the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for
me. I now receive Him as my Savior and Lord. I thank You for the forgiveness of
my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful
grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word and claim
His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No
church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the
saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You
are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your
place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your
crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your
sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes,
that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe on
Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this
tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand it. Your
soul is worth more than all the world.
“For
what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you
miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you
saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change.
Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved,
there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
- Pray -- you
talk to God.
- Read your Bible -- God
talks to you.
- Witness -- you
talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience
to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and
then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8)
“Whosoever
therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I
confess also before My Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).
Copyright: Robert Ford
Porter, 1991; www.drdino.com; Romans 10:9 added and other minor edits
made by WithTruth.com