My friends, do you believe that every place has its own rules? If you don't agree with me, just try to go to your neighbour's house and do as if you are in your own house, go to his bedroom, open his refrigerator, etc. I would be surprise if your neighbour still can tolerate you.
Yes, every place has its own rules. The same thing applied in heaven and hell. (If you don't believe that Heaven and Hell exist click here). What rules do you need to obey to go to heaven? Everybody wants to go to heaven, right? Nobody wants to be condemned in hell. But as we learn from our society, heaven and hell have also its own rules. Since there is only heaven and hell, we just need to see the rules from one of them to know where we will be afterlife. If we are not in heaven, we must be in hell, and vice versa.
So, my friends, where should we start, heaven or hell? I would like to talk about heaven's rules because everybody wants to go to heaven, including you, so you need to know the rules of heaven, right? Let's talk about it now. But I can tell that many of you will stop reading in between and will say, 'This is the hard teaching, who can accept it? (John 6:60).
What is heaven's rules, Alvin? What behaviour should not be in me to enter heaven?
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions, envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.
Let me make a list from those verses about things that are not allowed to enter the kingdom of God.
- impurity, murder: wicked people, slanderers, thieves, robbers
- sexual immorality, promiscuity, homosexuals, orgies: adulterers, male prostitutes
- idolatry, witchcraft: idolaters
- hatred, envy, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger: greedy people
- quarrels, conflicts, factions, drunks
Do you have one of them there? I believe you have at least one, right? You have tried your best not to do these kinds of sins, but your works bring no good, you are helpless. You know that these rules (law) captive you, no matter how you tried, you will still at least one of them and if you have at least one, please read this verse well
James 2:10
Let me tell you in common words: those who do freesex with their girlfriend or boyfriend, those who do masturbation, orgies, addicted to drugs, those who like to drink beer or wine till got drunk, those who want to be rich by unjust gain, cheating, doing wickedness, etc, those who homosex, prostitutes, those who hate, have greediness to others. You will never be in heaven. Those who envy, jealous to others. No matter your culture tries to justify it, sex before married is sin, homosexual is sin, there is no white lies, abortion is sin, euthanasia is sin.
Whoah, so...how can people go to heaven? Nobody is perfect, we are not saints, only Jesus who without sin. We are sinners, Alvin. How about you yourself? I believe that you are also do those things, Alvin.
My friends, I just quotes it from Bible, none of those things are my own thought. That's God's rules. It applied to me as well. If we want to go to heaven, we must obey its rules. Here, I want to destroy your imaginary heaven, heaven that never exist, like I destroyed mine more than 1 year ago with my Bible. I tell you the truth, if you keep doing these things, you will end up in hell, no argument. God is Love but He is also Just.
Alvin, you must be kidding me, right? It is impossible to do those things, we are human being, we are sinners, we are even 'kings of sinners'. How can I go to heaven if the rules are like this. Nobody can go to heaven. Ok, if these rules really stand, I know that my destiny is fixed. I will be condemned in Hell for eternity. Nobody can save me. I am hopeless. God, have mercy on me.
As I tell you in the beginning, many of you will leave and say, 'This is the hard teaching, who can accept it?' Yes, my friends, this is really a hard teaching, going to heaven never been easy, was Jesus lying when He said, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able (Luke 13:24).
Do you know what strive means? Let me use an example from daily life, imagine if you are in the highest level of the building with 1000 of people around you, and suddenly the fire alarm rings, the only way to go out is through elevator and ladder. What will you do? You will strive to enter that elevator or run as much as you can to go out from that building through that ladder, right? That 'strive' really means. Or do you think Peter was lying when he said,
1 Peter 4:18
If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?”
My friends, it never been easy for us to go to heaven, even for the born-again Christian, including me. We always need grace of God. We can't make it by ourselves. We can backslide anytime. Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). Once you open a way for him, you will be devoured by him.
Open a way? I am not that stupid, Alvin. I will never do wicked things, all that come from devil are bring no good, I will never fall into temptation.
If you never fall into temptation, you are great person, in other word, you are a good liar, my friends. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives (1 John 1:10). Maybe you are unaware with how the devil works, that's why you unconciously said that you didn't do sins, even it is clear that you are bowing down before the statues, before men, etc. Satan is the father of lies and when he lies, he speaks his native language, he speaks with something that you can understand. He has his own children. They twist the Word of God to support more of their lies, so that you can't hear what God says any longer, because you don't belong to God.
Don't think that Satan is blind about Bible, he tempted Jesus with Word of God, but Jesus rebuke him with the Truth. Devil always try to twist the word of God to mislead the simple, he even infilterate the churches, those preachers who always talk about money, blessing, freedom from financial problems, etc, (they even sell bestseller books and every time they preach, they advertise their books to people) but never talk about God's rules, God's judgment, etc. They are in high probability already acquinted by demons to satisfy your itching ears, many of them don't care about your salvation, they just think about their own stomach, your tithe, your offering, that's the only business they think about. And you, the simple, are the easiest target since you are lazy to read Bible, just want to hear from your priests once a week, your ignorancy can bring eternal judgment to them. The word of God will make the blind people more blind and will make those who see, see even more.
Satan works so smoothly, it always started from temptation. Bible says that each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death (James 1:14-15). Sin usurp into our life slowly but sure.
Temptation --> desire --> sin --> death. This is always the way devil work, he never change his methods from the beginning. In the same way, he tempted Eve, but still people fall away, because he uses the desire of flesh, the pleasure, the worldly things to deceive us. That's why Bible warns us not to love the world. Be careful of temptation and your own desire, my friends.
I am talking to those who are children of God and to sinners who are willing to be freed from their slavery of sins. What devil's business to those people who are already under his captive, his prison. Even he didn't do anything, those people are willing to be his slaves. Doing free-sex, go to parties, being rich from unjust gain, easy money bring so much pleasure to our flesh. Who can reject it?
I did masturbation everyday while watching porn movies before I was born again. I know the esctasy of it, it pleased my flesh. I stole my parents' money when I was 10 year old. I want something but I can't get it, so I steal others' belonging. I didn't think that it was sin, what I cared is that I got what I want. That's my past life. I will never be ashamed of that, even more, I would boast about my weakness, because in my weakness, God is there, helping me, raising me up. He changed me completely.
So, now...if I see many Christians/Catholics flock into the church, more than 2 billion people in the world 'believe' in Jesus. Would all of them go to heaven, go through that narrow gate? My answer is NO. I have been in that position, I know many of us also a good liar, you are still wearing mask to the church, you are like whitewashed tomb, look beautiful on outside, but inside full of dead men's bones. You can claim anything you like, you can proclaim yourself as believer, as 'genuine' born again Christian. You can say that you have faith in Jesus, but let me ask you something: Can you show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do (James 2:18). If you 'believe' in Jesus but your deeds testified otherwise but still, you believe that you can enter heaven, that gate will never be narrow, won't it? I tell you the truth, right now, you are in your imaginary heaven, heaven that never exist. Just try to be honest to yourself, my friends.
Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who keeps saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name, drove out demons in your name, and performed many miracles in your name, didn't we? Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you evildoers!
Who can go to heaven now then, Alvin? Answer is simple. Only those whose names are written in the Book of Life, the elects. Those who keep doing the Father's will.
Ooo my God, that means I am not elected? I am Christian, Alvin, but I am still doing sins. I can't help it. I still continue sinning. I can't stop sinning. How can I? I am human being.
For if we choose to go on sinning after we have received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
My friends, if you think like that, good, I rejoice in my heart, since now, you know how helpless you are. Maybe before you read this article, you think that you are in heaven when you died. You think that you are something, which in fact you are nothing. You were deceiving yourself (Galatians 6:3). But now you know that you will be in hell because of your free sex, drugs addict, cheating, lying attitude, etc.
So, my friends, please stop justifying yourself. Don't say that I judge you. This is not me, but the Bible speaks by itself. You are going to hell if you keep doing your sinful nature even though you are 'believing' in Jesus, because you are a liar and the liar will be in hell.
This is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness—none at all! If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in the darkness, we are lying and the truth is not in us.
I was also Christian since I was born, I have been baptized at 17 years old, I have been 'born-again' more than 3 times. But still, I kept on sinning, I still my old self. If you right now experience the same thing like I was before. and felt helpless right now, but you are sincere to be saved, to make sure that your heaven is real. I have solution for that, but would you do that with all of your heart, with no argument to God?
If you are willing to be the genuine Christian, please read How to make sure your heaven.
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