If You Want To Go to Heave do this
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And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
WILL YOU GO TO HEAVEN? DO THESE THINGS
INTRODUCTION:
All want to go to heaven. An awful thing to die in sin and go to the devil’s hell. Something must be done. Seeing that something must be done, the paramount question is:
“What must I do to go to heaven?” Man cannot go as he is!
MAN:
I. MUST HAVE A CHANGED NATURE
A. Man must be changed from nature to grace, and only God can give this change to man.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
B. How to become a new creature?
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
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. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Heaven would be hell to a man without a changed nature. Man must have a nature to befit him for heaven—its holy place.
II. MUST HAVE HIS NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE
A. Luke 10:20
Rev. 20:15—“And whosoever was not found written in book of life was cast into lake of fire.”
B. When is our name written in Lamb’s book of life? When we are born again—child BornI
Peter 1:2
III. MUST BE MADE A SON OF GOD
A. Only sons of God are going to heaven, and only God in new birth can make you son of God. God is not the Father of all men—only of those who have repented of their sins been born again.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
B. When are we made sons of God? When we are born of God.
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:
IV. MUST BE MADE LIKE JESUS
Jesus must be “first born among many brethren ...” We are family: Rom. 8:29
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
When and how are we made like Jesus? Through sanctification:
A. Positional sanctification. When born again. I Cor. 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
B. Progressive sanctification. As you yield to God. Rom. 15:16
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
C. Complete sanctification. Awaits the coming of Lord. Eph. 5:25.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
V. MUST HAVE GOD’S SPIRIT
A. Rom. 8:9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
It would be impossible for a man to be in heaven without God’s Spirit.
VI. MUST BE MADE AN HEIR OF GOD AND JOINT HEIRS OF JESUS
A. Rom.8:16
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: