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Am I Going To Heaven?
INSTRUCTIONS:

Check below what you think is necessary to get you to heaven.

1. Obeying God’s laws and commandments

2. Gifts to charity

3. Doing your best

4. Living a good life

5. Good works

6. Trying to obey the Golden Rule

7. Tithing, or giving money to the church

8. Church membership

9. Regular church attendance

10. Prayers

11. Fasting

12. Water baptism

13. Holy communion

14. Born of Christian parents

15. Confirmation

16. Penances

17. Extreme unction

18. Membership in a lodge or fraternity

Now proceed to the next page and find out if YOU are going to heaven.

EXPLANATION:

No. 1 - It is impossible to get to heaven this way.
The Bible says: (see Romans 3:19-28)

“Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [vindicated] by faith apart from the deeds of the law.” (Romans 3:28)

No. 2, 3, or 4 - These things could never save you. The Bible says:

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us …” (Titus 3:5)

No. 5, 6, or 7 - Good works cannot save anyone. The Bible says:

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

No. 8, 9, 10 or 11 - We cannot be saved by works, regardless of how good or well intended. God saves us by His grace (mercy). The Bible says:

“And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.” (Romans 11:6)

No. 12 or 13 - Water baptism and communion are for those who are already saved. It is not our work that saves us, but faith in Christ. The Bible says:

“But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.” (Romans 4:5)

No. 14 - This cannot save you. The Bible says:

“Those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God …” (Romans 9:8)

“But as many as received Him [Christ], to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13)

“Not of blood” means “not of one’s parentage.” You must be born of God to be saved.

No. 15, 16, 17 or 18 - These are man-made doctrines that are not taught in the Bible. God says:

“And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” (Matthew 15:9)

No, none of these things can save you. You can do nothing to earn eternal life. It is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone that can save you.

“And by Him [Christ] everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.” (Acts 13:39)

The way to have eternal life is not found in what we do ourselves, but by having a perfect righteousness given to us. We receive this when we believe the Lord Jesus Christ took our sins on Himself and paid for them by His death on the cross.

“For He [God] made Him [Christ] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

You do not receive eternal life by working for it or by trying to make yourself behave. You receive eternal life by believing the record God gave of His Son. Remember, if you disagree with these statements you are calling God a liar.

“… He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.” (1 John 5:10-11)

God, in His Sovereignty, permits man’s destiny to depend upon man’s choice.

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18)

AFTER you are saved, obedience to God brings love, joy, peace, and happiness into you life.See Galatians 5:22-23

When we disobey God, He will correct us, but our punishment will never be hell. God deals with us as a father deals with his child. See 1 Corinthians 3:15, 5:5, 11:32

God will never cast us out or lose us.

“… The one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out … all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.” (John 6:37, 39)

Doesn’t it make sense to believe the One who came back from the dead and trust Him for the payment of your sin? Why not do it now and you can be sure of going to heaven when you die. He loves you. Right now, why not accept the payment He has made for your sins and you can KNOW you have eternal life.

“These things I have written 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)

Christ Died ... That’s History.
Christ Died For Me ... That’s Salvation!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever _________________________________

believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Friend, if you can sincerely put your name in the blank space above, on the authority of God’s Word, you can KNOW you have eternal life.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has [possesses now] everlasting life.” (John 6:47)

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