What are the Requirements to Get into Heaven? (TMF:1563)

Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Peace to Live By: What are the Requirements to Get into Heaven? (TMF:1563) - Daniel Litton
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       Let us bring to mind what Jesus has said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (“Matthew 7:21, ESV). What is the Father’s will; what are those requirements? You have to believe you, yourself, are a sinner and that you are in need of a Savior, and Jesus has fulfilled that need by dying on the cross for you and rising from the dead. That’s God’s grace. That’s how he reconciles us to himself. What does Paul say next? He says, “For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification” (ESV). What’s that? “Following many trespasses” he says. That means there’s a lot of sin out there, and that sin, in you, in me, needs forgiven. And when it is forgiven, it what? Well, it brings justification.