Will I Go To Heaven?
A. IMPORTANT QUESTION – ONLY ONE OTHER PLACE (Matt. 7:13-14).
B. PERSONAL MATTER – WILL I GO?
C. ONLY THE BIBLE CAN TELL US.
D. LET’S LOOK AT OUR TEXT.
A. SOME BELIEVE IN UNIVERSAL SALVATION.
1. Matt. 7:13-14. The Broadway.
2. Justice will be served (2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rom. 2:5-11).
B. FUNERALS ARE A GOOD PLACE FOR THIS.
C. BUT GOD CANNOT LIE! (Titus 1:2; 2 Tim. 2:11-13).
A. THE ONES JESUS SPOKE OF (vs. 22).
B. PHARISEES (Matt. 23:23-24, 27-28, 29-30).
C. SAUL OF TARSUS (Gal. 1:13-14).
D. THE ATHENIANS (Acts 17:22).
A. SOME SAY AND DO NOT (Matt. 23:1-3).
B. SOME DON’T BELIEVE THERE’S ANYTHING ELSE TO IT (Jas. 2:14, 24).
1. Can we say that we love Jesus? (John 14:15).
2. How is our love for God perfected? (1 John 5:3; 2:3-4).
C. NOT OBEYING IS NOT BELIEVING (Heb. 3:18-19; Jas. 1:22).
D. PEOPLE LIKE TO REFER TO “THE GOOD LORD.” (Luke 6:46).
A. Matt. 7:22-23. DO WHAT GOD SAYS. HE HAS A WILL FOR US (vs. 21).
B. WHERE IS GOD’S WILL EXPRESSED (Matt. 7:24-27).
C. JESUS IS GOD’S SPOKESMAN NOW (Heb. 1:1-2).
1. Came to do God’s work (John 4:34).
2. Speaks not his own words, but the father’s (John 7:16-17).
D. HIS WORD CONSTITUTES LAW (John 12:48-49).
E. WHERE DO WE FIND THAT WILL?
1. NT Scriptures (2 Pet. 3:15-16).
2. Writings are authoritative (1 Cor. 14:37; 4:17).
3. 1 Cor. 2:10-13; Eph. 3:3-5.
F. A COMPLETE REVELATION.
1. Nothing left out (2 Pet. 1:3; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).
2. No latter day revelations (Jude 3).
3. Cannot be altered (Gal. 1:6-9; 2 John 9; Rev. 22:18-19).
A. LET’S GET BACK TO THE BOOK.
B. WHAT DOES IT TELL US?
C. ARE WE DOING IT?
