I would suggest you to read 'Who will be in heaven and who will be in hell' before we can now talk about how to obtain salvation.
I hope my article can convince you that you are a sinner, that you are not genuine born again Christian yet, not elected yet, and have no right to enter Kingdom of God. But, if you are sincere, God will open the way for you to go into His dwelling place.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
My friends, not only you who are a sinner, everybody is sinner, everybody is going to hell, so don't worry, you will have many friends there. That is what many people in this world think. They think that they will meet again with their friends, their family, etc. The more the merrier. Instead being in heaven with saints, Jesus fanatics, hell sound has a lot of fun. Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Madonna, Michael Jackson, even the well-known preachers could also be there. Sound great, huh? Try it then, my friends. I believe that you will regret to ever think like that. In hell, there is deepest darkness, you can't see your friends, what you will experience is gnashing our your and your friends' teeth, crying in agony, begging for mercy, burned in never ending fire for ETERNITY. No chance to go out from there.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept for judgment
But if you don't want to end up in hell. If you want to be saved, please follow these heaven's requirement. You need to make sure your name written in the Book of Life and never been removed again.
My friends, let's reason together. Maybe you are right now live in US, Indonesia, Philippines, EU. Then suddenly you talk to your best friend that you will go to UK in the next 2 days. What will your friend do? He will laugh at you and think that you are crazy. That's normal, right? How can you go to UK, if you don't even have Pass. And even if you have Pass but without Visa, you can't enter UK. You are daydreaming, my friends.
The same thing if you want to go to heaven. You need to fulfill all the requirements first before you can now be accepted there.
First requirement: Pass
Maybe right now, you can boldly say to me that if you died right now, you will be in heaven. My friends, can I see your Pass first? Do you really have that or just daydreaming?
What is Pass to heaven, Alvin?
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Your Pass is this: you must be born again. You need Jesus since no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
You need to invite Jesus personally into your heart and into your life. Allow Him not only be your Saviour but also be your King upon your life. For I tell you, many want to be saved, but a few want to surrender 100% to Jesus. Everybody wants to be freed from slavery of sin, but then many of them choose to live their own life, be a king of himself. It will not work, my friends. Don't you know that you who have been set free from sin, now have become slaves to righteousness? Those who still love their past life, their life, will lose it.
If you are born again, you will be a new creature, your old has passed away, and all things are become new. You attitude change, your ambition change, your sinful nature was dead, you will have a mind like Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Many preachers or pastors or priests are deceiving themselves and their people, since even they themselves haven't experienced genuine born again. So, for them, everybody who goes to the church, who read Bible, who can pray long, who doing good deeds is born again. Is that really true?
If you think like that, you also haven't been born again, because if you are genuinely born again, there will be regeneration in you, you will be different people, people can see it from you. You are so much different with your old-self. You will have testimonies about it because it happened instaneously, at the moment you invite Jesus. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the Son of God doesn't have life. This is practical, not teaching of men, not doctrinal, not theory, you have to strive, to ask God, to humble yourself, to have faith like children, to 100% surrender before the Lord, repent, ask His forgiveness, believing Him that your sins will not be remember any longer, and make commitment to follow and obey Him. Acknowledge Him as your personal Saviour and Lord. Jesus Christ is His name.
You will remember the moment you are born again, since it is the most special moment in your life because you will finally find your peace with God, all your guilts are justified, no more remembered by God. It is personal between you and God. No other man can help you or even make the salvation for you. You have to make your own decision.
Romans 3:24-26
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
Alvin, I have done that, but still I found no peace of God in my heart and I still continue sinning, I can't help it. I still like to watch porn, doing immorality with my girlfriend, etc. You are lying, Alvin. No one can live in holiness. Why you make the way to heaven so difficult?
My friends, if you think like that, go ahead, continue living in sins and with time, we will see, who is right, who is wrong. I just tried to help you. For I tell you, I have been 'born again' for more than 3 times. At that time, I always felt that I need to invite Jesus again and again, because I am still sinning. That's not born again, my friends. That's just a periodical commitment, not last long. It is not finished work of Jesus. Why?
Because Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit hasn't been given to you. You are still children of darkness. You are deceiving yourself, you believe that you are born-again, which in fact, you are not. This is how to experience the genuine born again, my friends.
Please don't just say faith, faith, faith. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It is no use. To go with the plane, bus, train, you also need faith. Faith are everywhere, even the chair you sit right now, you put your faith in it. Have you ever checked whether it can hold you on or not, the food you ate in restaurant, you never check whether it is poisonous or not. You apply faith in many aspect of your life. So, please don't always say about faith. Show your faith without deeds, I will show mine with what I do. What count is in what foundation your faith is grounded, where do you build your house, on the rock or the sand.
But, please don't think that deed is equal with work, e.g: you need to help poor people first, you need to go to some specific place first, you need to help your church first. Those are not the deed I meant. Love of God and love of neighbour (helping people) will become your own nature when Christ in you, you will not struggling for that. We are justified by faith, not by work
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Please don't also always say about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Don't you know there are a lot of people whose name are Jesus, especially those in the Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela. Which Jesus you have faith in? Jesus preached in the Bible or your own Jesus whose death is not enough, so that you need extra work for your salvation?
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have aready said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
My friends, there are many people try to distort the Gospel for their own benefit, or according to their human wisdom, though they have no bad intention, but because they depend on their own wisdom, they spread lies, spread another Gospel, they put their lives in danger of God's Wrath, being condemned forever in Hell. If you are not well established in God's Word, don't ever trying to be a teacher, to be a preacher, because if you misled those who are sincere, it would be better for you to have a large millstone hung around your neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea (Matthew 18:6). Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check (James 3:1-2).
So, I hope your process of being born again is the genuine one, ask Jesus as your Saviour and also your King. Many people don't understand what Bible said, that's why they make their own doctrines and condemned those who understand. These men speak abusively against whatever they do not undestand; and what things they do undestand by instinct, like unreasoning animals -- these are the very things that destroy them.
How to be born again?
Acts 20:21
Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Before you have faith in Him, you need to repent from your sins first and make commitment to stop doing that. This commitment can't be fulfilled by your own might, you are helpless if you still believe in yourself, you need greated power to help you, you need Jesus, my friends. You need to invite Him. If you are really sincere, you will experience that God is real, God is so close to you, you will finally have peace with God, you will have testimony that God has done a marvelous thing in your life, you are now become the Children of God. Please, if you still haven't experienced this, go to your room and pray, ask God to show Himself to you. I believe that if you are sincere, you will receive the genuine born again. Otherwise, you will just deceiving yourself more.
And after you experience that peace, go to the church and testify it to the people. You need to confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved (Romans 10:9-10). Many have been touched by God, but they are ashamed of this Gospel, they never testified about how God changed their lives. Or many also haven't experience the real peace, the genuine born again, but they behave as if they are already born again.
Do you know the word 'born again' means? For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. That's born again. You are no longer yourself, you are in Christ, you are God's child, you have to obey your Father's will and follow His commandments. His yoke is easy, and his burden is light.
And to those who believed that they have been born again, let's learn more about how to make sure our inheritance in heaven (Part 2)
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