How are you? I'm Jeff Bahamundi of Verity Baptist Church here in Sacramento, California.
I want to share something with you so that we will know that we are in heaven.
But there are things that we need to understand and remember.
The first thing is that we are all guilty.
According to Romans 3.10, "No one is perfect, nor is there any one."
According to the Bible, no one always does what is right or perfect.
According to Romans 3.23, "For all are guilty, and cannot reach the mercy of God."
The sin is to disobey the law of God, and we are all guilty.
And because of this, we cannot reach the mercy or heaven.
The second thing is that sin has a price.
According to Romans 6.23, "For the price of sin is death."
According to Revelation 20.14, "Death and hellfire are divided into two."
This is the second death.
Our physical body will die, but the second death is spiritual death.
It is divided into hellfire or hellfire.
And according to Revelation 21.8, "For those who are afraid and those who do not believe,
and those who grumble, and those who kill people, and those who despise,
and those who slander, and those who worship gods,
we can say that these people should go to hell."
But we need to know this.
"For all are guilty, and cannot reach the mercy of God."
This is the second death.
We do not need to die to go to hell,
but we are all guilty.
And according to Revelation 20.10,
"The punishment for hellfire is day and night, forever and ever."
I do not want to go to hell.
I am sure you do not want to go to hell.
And God does not want us to go to hell.
That is why God showed His love.
Do you believe that God loves you?
Yes, we love God.
According to Romans 5a,
"God shows His love to us.
And while we are guilty, Christ died for us."
The third thing we need to know is
that we need to believe that Christ paid our sins.
Christ is God.
He came to the earth.
He was born of the Virgin Mary.
And He lived here without sin.
He did miracles.
He took away the dead.
He healed the sick.
But He was punished by people.
He was tortured.
He was taken to the cross.
While He was on the cross,
our sins and the sins of the world went to Him.
He took away all sins.
He died on the cross.
His body was buried on the ground.
But His soul went to hell.
According to Acts 2.31,
"He who saw it first spoke of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell,
nor was his flesh seen of evil."
Christ paid our sins in hell.
But after three days and three nights,
He came back to life.
So we have life.
In English, we call it Easter.
I have a question for you.
If Christ died for all of us,
do you think all people will go to heaven?
According to the Bible, not all people will go to heaven.
What is the reason for a person to go to heaven?
According to Acts 16.30,
one of the guards asked Paul,
"And they said, 'Lord, what should I do to be saved?'"
Isn't this a good question?
"And they said, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and you will be saved, and your house.'"
It is clear what Paul said,
and it is clear in the Bible that he believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul did not say,
"You will worship for a week and you will be saved."
He did not say,
"You will be baptized and you will be saved."
He did not say,
"Repent of your sins and you will be saved."
It is clear in the Bible that he believed in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and you will be saved.
According to John, or John 3.16,
"For now God loves the Son of Man,
whom He has put into the womb,
that whosoever believes in Him may not be saved,
but will have no life."
Going to heaven is only believing in Jesus Christ.
According to John, or John 3.18,
"He who believes in Him is not cursed,
but he who does not believe is cursed,
because he does not believe in the name of the Son of God."
Christ is going to heaven.
Believing in Him is only Christ.
The fourth thing we need to remember,
"Who has no life is a gift."
According to Romans, or Romans 6.23,
"For the payment of sin is death."
We already know this.
The second thing is,
"For the kingdom of God has no life
through the Lord Jesus Christ."
The kingdom of God, or the gift of God, has no life.
It is also said that only through Jesus Christ can we have no life.
For example,
I will give you this Bible as a gift,
but I will ask you for five pesos,
is that a gift?
No.
Or I will give you this Bible as a gift,
but you will clean our house,
is that a gift?
No, because you are working.
The gift is received without payment.
According to Ephesians 2.8 and 9,
"For the payment of sin is death
through the Lord Jesus Christ,
and that is not for you,
it is the will of God.
It is not for the works of man,
that anyone may be a sinner."
It is clear that it is not for the works of man.
This is a gift.
The salvation is a gift.
For example, if I am going to heaven,
because I am worshiping for a week,
that is a sin.
Or if I am going to heaven,
because I am a member of the Church,
that is a sin.
It is clear that salvation is a gift.
It is not for the works of man.
And according to Romans 4.14,
"For if they, from the law, become rulers,
the faith will be of no avail,
and the promise will be of no gain."
We must not add to the faith.
We must not add to anything or do anything.
The faith alone should be with Jesus Christ.
The fifth thing we need to understand is
that salvation has no end.
It cannot be cut off.
This means that it is eternal or everlasting.
The everlasting cannot be cut off.
This is continuous.
I have an example for you.
It is said in the Bible that the faith is only with Jesus Christ.
For example, now I have faith in Jesus Christ.
And because of this, He will give me an eternal life.
An everlasting life.
But after a year, I have died.
Do you think I will still go to heaven?
Yes, because the gift of God is an everlasting life.
It cannot be cut off.
But we are not given the right to do whatever we want.
Because God will punish us here on earth if we commit sins.
If I die, God will ensure that I will be saved.
But His gift of eternal life is continuous.
If I die, I will still be able to go to heaven.
According to Titus 1 and 2,
"In the hope of an eternal life,
God, who cannot be cut off,
promised, before the day began."
It is said here that His promise is eternal life.
It cannot be cut off.
It is continuous.
Because God never fails.
And according to John 1 and 12,
"Like many who obey Him,
He gave them the power to be sons of God,
so that they may have faith in His name."
The man who believes in Jesus Christ is a member of the family of God.
And as a family or a son of God,
He will never cut us off,
but He will punish us if we commit sins here on earth.
But if we are a member of His family,
He will never cut us off.
That is the family of God.
That is the gift of eternal life.
The last thing I will share with you is Romans 10.13.
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
According to Romans 10.9,
"If you shall proclaim the name of Jesus in your heart,
and believe in the heart that God has given to you from the dead,
you shall be saved."
So it says here that we must call upon the name of the Lord.
What is the name of the Lord? Jesus Christ.
And we must proclaim our faith in Him.
And we will call upon Him through prayer.
So I will just remind you that we all sin.
The second is that sin has a price.
And the third is that the life without an end is a gift.
And the fifth is that salvation has no end or is eternal.
It cannot be cut off or stopped.
So if all of this is clear to you and you understand,
I will help you call upon the Lord through prayer.
At the same time,
Lord Jesus,
I have sinned against you.
And I believe that I have the right to go to hell.
I believe that you are dead, dead and alive again.
And I believe that you are the only one who will bring me to heaven.
Forgive me my sins.
Give me the gift of a life without an end. Amen.
If your sin is serious and your sin is in the heart,
it means that you have faith in Jesus Christ.
And that means that according to the Bible, you are saved.
Thank you very much for listening to me.
Congratulations.