Here are the
requirements for getting to Heaven. WE HAVE TO BE:
- Perfect like God – no mistakes, no
failures, no sins – ever
- Holy like God – completely set apart
and not blemished by sin or any imperfection
- Blameless like God – no one, including and
especially God, can have anything against us
BUT, here is the Good News:
For God in all his
fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God
reconciled
everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on
earth by means of
Christ’s blood on the cross. This
includes you who were once
far away from God.
You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts
and actions. Yet
now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ
in his physical
body. As a result, he has brought you into his own
presence, and you
are holy
and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Colossians 1:19-22 New Living Translation
But God is so rich
in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were
dead because of our
sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is
only by God’s grace
that you have been saved!) For he raised
us from the dead along
with Christ and
seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with
Christ Jesus. So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the
incredible
wealth of
his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are
united
with Christ Jesus. God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you
can’t
take
credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good
things we
have done,
so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has
created us anew in
Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long
ago. Ephesians 2:4-10 New Living Translation
Next time a Summary Analogy.
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