world is knowing that you have eternal life okay and this is a very much an important message for
you to hear so i hope you give me a couple minutes of your time while i explain to you how you can
know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're going to go to heaven when you die the bible says in
first john chapter 5 these things have i written unto you that believe on the name of the son of
god that you may know that you have eternal life okay and that you may believe on the name of the
son of god so god says you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're going to heaven
when you die you don't have to wonder about it you don't have to doubt you don't have to think
man i hope so the bible says you can know for sure one hundred percent and i'm going to give
you a couple things uh in order to understand there's actually only one thing you have to do
to be saved a lot of people teach you no you got to keep god's commandments you got to get
baptized you got to do good works you got to repent of all your sins but that's actually not
true you won't find that in the bible there's only one thing you have to do and it's actually quite
simple but before we get into that let me share with you some foundational uh truths before we get
into that number one is this is that we're all sinners okay the bible says in romas 3 23 for
all have sinned and come short of the glory of god sin according to the bible is the transgression
of the law and you think of what where the bible says you know in uh in god's law tells us that we
shouldn't lie we shouldn't steal you know if you've done any one of those things according
to the bible you've sinned against god you say well i've never murdered anybody i've never
committed adultery where the bible says in james 2 10 whosoever keepeth the whole law yet offend
in one point he's guilty of all so the bible is uh emphasizing uh very strongly that all of us
are sinners okay no one's perfect the bible says there's none that do with good no not one as it
is written there's none righteous no not one there's not one single soul in this world who
does right all the time we're all sinners and because we're sinners the bible tells us that
there's a penalty for that sin romans 6 23 says for the wages of sin is death and what it's
referring to is the fact that the price we pay because we've broken god's commandments we've
broken god's law we've sinned against god is that we deserve death now obviously we understand that
we're all physically going to die one day but when the bible talks about death it's actually
also referring to a spiritual death in a place called hell and the bible even gives us a list
of people who are going to go there in revelation 21 and verse number eight it tells us this it
says but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and
sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone which is the second death now you and i know that god is not a man that he should lie
and if he says that even liars go to hell that would mean that i deserve to go to hell that
would mean that you deserve to go to hell you know that would mean that the whole world deserves to
go to hell because even though maybe you've never committed sorcery you've never committed murder
everyone at least has told the lie okay and so the bible tells us that the penalty for breaking
god's commandments is hell that means if you were to die at this moment the bible tells us that
your soul would descend into a place called hell for all of eternity and you would never
escape that you would be there forever to pay for your crimes against god it's it's a sobering truth
but but it's reality okay now here's the good news the good news is that god loves you uh the lord
loves you and he doesn't want you to go to hell the bible says that he's not willing that any
should perish he doesn't want anyone to go to hell and it's for that reason that two thousand years
ago he sent his son jesus christ to this earth he was born of a virgin and he lived a perfect life
and the bible tells us that he died on the cross the bible says in romans 5a but god
commended his love toward us and that while we were we were yet sinners christ died for us we
know that jesus christ was god in the flesh that he lived a perfect life and that he preached the
word of god which ultimately got him arrested and nailed to the cross and the bible says that when
he was nailed to the cross they put a crown of thorns upon his head they nailed his hands and
his feet to the cross to be put to death the bible says that he himself bore our own sins on his own
body on the tree every single sin that you've ever committed in the past every single sin that
you will do in the future he put those upon his own body and he suffered the consequences of your
actions and mine the actions of the whole world the bible says that he is the propitiation for
our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world the bible tells us that
when he hung on the cross that he died he gave up the ghost he was buried and on the third day he
resurrected the bible says in romans chapter 4 that he was delivered for our offenses and raised
again for our justification now obviously we understand that uh jesus christ died on the cross
for all of our sins i'm sure we've heard you've heard that many times that he resurrected on the
third day but here's the thing is that you know the bible tells us that in order to be saved we
have to believe in that exclusively for salvation okay we have to believe that that jesus paid for
all of our sins and that he resurrected from the grave in order for us to be saved now obviously
jesus died for the whole world he died for everyone but we obviously understand that not
everyone's going to heaven and the difference is this is that in order to get to heaven you
don't need to repent of all your sins because it's impossible to repent of all your sins
you don't have to do good works because the bible says that there's none that do with good
no not one you don't have to keep god's commandments because the bible says
therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law
the commandments can't save anybody the commandments were never meant to save anyone
you say well how do i get saved the bible