Steps To Get To Heaven - Part 1

Have you ever wondered what heaven is like? Heaven is more beautiful than what we could ever imagine. The city of God is made of pure gold and all kinds of precious stones. Twelve gates lead into the city, and the Bible says each gate is of "one pearl."

In heaven there is no use for the sun or the moo, because the glory of God lights the land. From the throne of God and of the Lord Jesus there flows the river of water of life, clear as crystal. 

In heaven there will be no sickness, no pain, no sin and no death. There will be no sorrow because God Himself will wipe away all tears from our eyes. Our loved ones that are there will know us and we will know them. Best of all, we shall our Savior, the Lord Jesus, who made it possible for us to be in heaven.

In heaven, everyone loves and worships the Lord Jesus. You can walk the streets of heaven for a million years and you will hear never hear anything but but words of praise to Jesus.

Heaven is where Jesus is. Jesus called heaven "My Father's House." Those who love the Lord Jesus will be with Him in this wonderful place called "the Father's house." For those who refuse Jesus there will be no heaven for them. When Jesus talked to His disciples about Heaven, Thomas asked, "How can we know the way?" Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man comes unto my Father, but by Me." John 14:6

Have you ever asked yourself these questions:

• Where did we come from?
• Why are we here?
• Where are we going?

We came from God. The Universe is not an "accident," neither is man. God created the universe and He also created man. We see that the Word of God says in Genesis 2:7 "The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living person." Therefore, man is a created being. He did not come up from lower forms of life. Man was created as a living person. Man is the highest of all God's creatures because he was created in the image of God. Im the bible we find that in Genesis 1:27 "So created man in his own image, in the image of God, created He him; male and female created He them."

In the beginning everything was beautiful because God made it that way. God was pleased with His work just like we are pleased when we do good work. In the Bible it says in Genesis 1:31, "God saw everything that He had made and, behold, it was very good."

Today you really cannot say the same. Everything is not so beautiful and good. There is so much hate, anger, deprivation, war, murder, lying (professional ones too), sickness, sin, and death in the world because they have a severed relationship with God. You want to know what went wrong? See in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had a constant communication with God and they had what many lack of so much today a "RELATIONSHIP" with God. This is our problem today as well. Sin has separated us from God. We do not have that relationship with God. We chose to walk our way, live our way instead of choosing God's way instead. However there is hope because you see even though you have chosen sin over righteousness and you've chose your way instead of God's way - He still LOVES YOU! He never stops loving you. He simply dislikes very much the things you are doing. He wants to bless you. You are God's "special creation" He made you in His image and He cannot bear losing you forever.

You know we were made to worship Him. He made us to talk and fellowship with Him. He enjoys when we talk to Him. We have His DNA and what father does not like talking to His children? Sometime we lose forget the instructions of our parents; the values, the respect, love and teaching of God and their desire is for us to return, but until then there is like a somewhat broken relationship. This is the same with God. Sin has separated us from God. But He has given us the Bible that we may know the way back to Him. In the Bible it says in Proverbs 22:6 it says "Start children off on the way to go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it." Teach your children about God, His love, mercy, kindness, and so many other wonderful things the Lord wants us to know and gives us instructions on how we should live loving one another, helping one another and sharing this knowledge with others. There's so much to learn.

We are heading to eternity! Where you decide to spend eternity depend on the decisions you make in life today. Jesus said in John 14:1-3 "Do not let your hearts be troubled; trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." God wants you to choose Him. He wants you to choose Heaven! Like I said where you live for eternity depends on you. Did you know that hell was not made of the human race? That's right and I will show you this through the Word. In Matthew 25:41 it says "Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." For this reason alone was such a place made. 

So now we are face with TWO ROADS......

Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

How do we get on the narrow road that leads to heaven? Good question! In Acts 17:30b ".....but now he commands all people everywhere to repent."

We have to repent and take the Lord Jesus as our Savior. How many know what it means to repent? In the dictionary it says "regret a past action." However if we are going to look at this spiritually like we should. We not only regret our past action but we must stop realize we are going the wrong way and turn around. Why? Because we've been going our own way instead of God's way. Isaiah 53:6a says "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned our own way;" When we can say with all honesty that we recognize we have been going our own way and that with God's help you are going to turn around, that my friend is repentance. This can happen at any place or at any time - it doesn't necessarily have to be in a church. When you repent and ask Jesus in your heart, at that very moment it brings joy to God's heart. "I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance" - Luke 15:7

Part 2 - coming....