How To Get To Heaven From Lubbock, Texas
1. Understand you are a sinner and how great your sin is.
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."-Rom. 3:23
"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we say that we have no sin we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." - l John 1:8,10
"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand." - Ps. 130:3
2. Understand the awful consequences of your sin and unbelief.
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." - Gal 3: 10
"He that believeth on the Son, hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. " - John 3: 36
"Ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." - John 8:24
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."-- Rom. 6:23
3. Understand God's great love for every person.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. But God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." - Rom. 5:6,8
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." - l John 4:10
4. Understand how Jesus Christ paid the penalty for your sins.
" All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." - Isa. 53:6
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." - l Peter 2:24
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace." - Colossians 1: 19,20
5. Understand that Jesus is a risen Savior and frees us from sin.
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures..." - 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
"He is not here, but he is risen, as he said. Come see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly now and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him." - Matthew 28:6,7
"Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." - l Peter 1:5
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." - Phil. 4:13
6. Receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and confess Him to others.
"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
"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." - Romans 10:9
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