The Bible is clear about salvation. It is not about how good we are.
Many people will say that we are good and they will go to heaven because we are good.
But the Bible says that we are always guilty and we ignore the glory of God.
The Bible says, as it is written, that you do not have the right to sin.
I am not right, neither are you.
And if it were our goodness that would take us to heaven, no one would go.
Admit that you are a sinner. The Bible says in Revelation,
"You are a disloyal, a deceitful, a pervert, a thief and a prostitute,
a drug addict, and a liar, and a liar in his place,
and an infidel, and an atheist in his second death."
I have lied in the past. Everyone has done it.
We have all sinned and we have done much worse than we lie.
Let's accept it. It is worth going to hell.
Understand the shame of sin.
The Bible says, "The consciousness of what it is to love or to mark God,
that because of the sins of all people, Jesus Christ died."
Jesus Christ came to earth because he loves us.
The Bible says, "God appeared in the flesh."
God took the form of man, he lived life without sins, he did not sin.
He was beaten, he was hanged and he was crucified.
The Bible says that when he was in the cross,
he himself cursed our sins on his body on the cross.
Every sin you have done or I have done, was like Jesus did.
He was punished for our sins.
Of course, they took his body when he died.
They buried him and his soul was in hell for three days and nights.
Three days later, he was resurrected from the dead.
He showed his disciples the holes in his hands.
The Bible is clear that Jesus died for all.
It says that he did not die only for our sins, but also for all people.
But there is something missing that we have to do to be saved.
The Bible has the question of the Acts of the Apostles.
"What do we have to do to be saved?"
They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved, you and your family."
That's it.
He did not say, "Go to church and you will be saved."
"Be baptized, live a good life and you will be saved."
"Repent for your sins and you will be saved."
No, he said, "Believe, believe that Jesus died, he was baptized and resurrected for you."
Even the most famous verse from the whole Bible, which you can see everywhere, is not as well known as this one in John.
"Nor did God love the world, so that his children may be born again,
or that they may go to believe in him, a citizen who has eternal life."
"Eternal" means eternal, it means forever.
"Jesus said, "I will give eternal life to them, and they will not be satisfied with eternal life, nor will they be touched by my hand."
The Bible says in John, "Amen, amen, I say amen, whoever believes in me has eternal life."
If you believe in Jesus Christ, the Bible says you will have eternal life.
You will live forever, you will not lose your salvation.
It is eternal and eternal.
As soon as you are saved, as soon as you believe in him, you will be saved forever.
Whatever happens, you will not lose your salvation.
Even if I did a terrible sin, God will punish me here on earth.
If I kill someone today, God will take care of punishing me.
I will go to prison, or I will receive death penalty, or whatever else the earth has to punish me.
God will take care of punishing me even more, but I will not go to hell.
I could not do anything to go, because I have been saved.
And if I go to hell, God is lying, because it is assumed that whoever believes in him will have eternal life.
"And go to hell, and believe in me, or die forever."
Do you believe in this?
That is why in the Bible there are examples of people who did bad things and went to heaven.
How? Because they were good?
No, because they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Their sins were forgiven.
Others who seemed to have a good life, or maybe they really had a good life,
but they do not believe in Christ, they will go to hell to be punished for their sins.
Believe in Christ, as your only savior.
I will close with a thought that I would like to mention tonight.
A student asked a question to Jesus.
The question was, "Will few be saved?"
Good question, right?
Will many be saved, or will few be saved?
Who believes that more will go to heaven?
The answer was given to the disciples.
He came through the narrow gate, that the gate is wide and the road is wide, the dead end is in the abyss.
And many pious people came through this narrow gate and narrow road, the dead end is in life,
and few pious people are in it.
Then he continued, saying,
"Wherever I go, I say, Lord, Lord, go to the kingdom of heaven."
"But the will of my Father in heaven is very pious on that day."
"Lord, Lord, we have not prophesied so many names,
and so many names of demons we have exiled, and so many names of forces we have oppressed."
"And then I confess to them, that they never leave us alone, except for those who work in the law."
First of all, the majority of the world does not claim to believe in Jesus.
Fortunately, the majority of those who are in heaven believe in Jesus.
But the majority of the world does not believe in Jesus.
But God predicted that those who say they believe in Jesus, even those who call him Lord,
many will say to him, "We did good deeds, why won't we be saved?"
He will say, "None of us ever leaves us alone, because salvation is not done with work."
If you believe in your works to be saved,
if you think you will go to heaven because you have been baptized,
or if you believe that you must have a good life,
or to keep the commandments, or to go to church,
or not to have sins, or to believe in your work, Jesus will say to you,
"None of us ever leaves us alone, you must have faith in what he did."
"You must have faith in what Jesus did on the cross.
When he died, he was baptized and resurrected for you.
It is your ticket to heaven.
If you say you will go, since you are good Christians and you do good deeds, he will say,
"Leave us alone."
Be careful, he said, "None of us ever leaves us alone."
He is not talking about the past.
Because when he meets you, he will be eternal, forever.
When he meets you, he will be saved forever.
But he will say, "None of us ever leaves us alone."
If you go to hell, it is because he never knew you.
As soon as he meets you, he is finished.
Like my children, who will always be my children.
When you are born again, when you will be his own art, you will be forever.
You may be the black sheep of the family.
You may have been punished severely by God here on earth.
You may be buried here, but not up there.
You have now been saved.
This was the main topic I wanted to tell you about the past.
We have a little time for questions about salvation or the past.
Dear Jesus, I know that I have sinned.
I know that I must go to hell.
But I believe that You died on the cross and resurrected for me.
Save me, please, and give me eternal life.
I believe only in You, Jesus. Amen.