If you were to ask your friends how to get to Heaven, you would probably receive as many answers as the number of friends you have.
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He said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10: 10).
Jesus Christ came to bring us this new life.
We must be Born into a new life--we must be Born again.
We need to be restored to fellowship with God.
We need new lives, cleansed from sin and its penalty.
Separated from God, dead in our trespasses and sins, we cannot hope to enter Heaven.
Just as a body without physical life is declared physically dead, so any person separated from the life of God is described in the Bible as spiritually dead.
We, by nature, are described as being "dead in trespasses and sins;" "alienated from the life of God;" as "having not life" (Ephesians 2: 1; 4: 18).
Our personal experience also teaches us that we all have broken God\'s laws and have not even "done the best we can do." The biblical diagnosis for our condition is clear.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3: 10, 23).
The Bible reveals our true condition: "There are none righteous, no, not one....
It teaches that no one can gain entrance into Heaven by good works or even religious practices.
God\'s Word, in the first place, is very realistic.
What does it mean? To explain this, let\'s look at what the Bible has to say. "Born again?" That may sound strange to you.
Ye must be Born again" (John 3: 3, 7).
You need the truth When we look into the Bible we read, "Jesus said, Except a man be Born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God....
Someone would probably suggest that you should keep the Golden Rule; someone else might say that you need to live up to the Ten Commandments; others might advise that you should pray, or give to the church and the poor, or that you should "just do the best you can." But when you are dealing with something as important as eternal life and Heaven, you need more than just the opinions of friends.
If you were to ask your friends how to get to Heaven, you would probably receive as many answers as the number of friends you have
