Sure you want to go to heaven?

My friends, if you don't mind, I want to ask you a direct question. Are you sure you want to go to kingdom of heaven? Please for some time forget about the place where there is no tear, no more death or mourning or crying or pain; the place where the walls are decorated with every kind of precious stone for I believe that everybody will like it. I want you to think about who will you meet there, what will you do there, etc. Let's talk about it and see whether you still insist to be there or not.

Well, of course in heaven you will see Almighty God, the One and Only True Living God whose footstool is the earth and His throne is heaven, whose Presence fill the universe and can't be contained by little goldy, woody, stony idols. You will live together with Almighty God, who by His Word the universe was created. The earth trembles, mountains smoke, sea roughs, lightning strike at the sound of His name. God is becoming your friends, not your enemies.

Only atheists who will not be happy when they see God since their condemnation is fixed: Lake of Fire. But every religious person would be very happy to see Almighty God because it is the reason why we have lot of religions. We just simply can't deny that God is exist and we try our best to know Him.

So my friends, if right now you are always get irritated when somebody talking to you about God and you have no time for God, etc; please don't suffer yourself by asking God to let you enter His kingdom for you will irritate more since there you will see God for eternity. You better choose to go to hell for that's the only place you can avoid God.

Some of us do a lot of sacrament, tradition, and all kind of teaching of men in hope that we can get closer to Him and know more about Him.

• Some of us do good deeds, help the poor, the needy for rewards
• Some of us fast once a week or the whole month for rewards
• Some of us go to temple, mosque, church, holy land for obligation
• Some of us pray continuously, even 5 times a day begging for mercy
• Some of us offer food or animal sacrifices to plead with God for salvation
• Some of us are circumcised in the flesh for tradition of forefather
• Some of us worship God in humility and submission, abstain from some specific food, honor men (prophets, saints) for fulfilment of Holy Book

Rewards, mercy, salvation are our driving force in hope that God will generous enough when He sees our works and allow us to enter His Holy place. For that, we set for ourselves tradition, sacraments, rules and teaching of men written in our holy book as obligation to be fulfilled and we call it as religion, the way of men to reach out to God.

If you see these pictures, I believe that many of them are sincere, many of them are really good people who want to know God more and try their best to satisfy Him in hope He will show us mercy. They do what they believe. They have faith. They obey every commandment demanded by their religion. Some people said, "Religions are just the matter of favor. You like strawberry, I like grapes, others like oranges."

They are absolutely right, no matter how the form looks like, no matter what flavour are added, religions are just the same, meaningless. Religion has no value. God is Holy, Holy, Holy and none of us, the unholy things, is able to reach Him. There is no possibility for us, full of sins, to know God unless He humble Himself and choose to come down from His heavenly throne to this wicked and fallen world, made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, and being found in appearance as a man (Philippians 2:6-8) and tell us about Himself, about the Truth, the Way and the Life.

My friends, do you believe in God or in religion? Let your life answer that question. Many of us do sacrament, tradition, etc not because we love God, not because He is worthy to be honored and glorified for He is our Creator but because we don't want to go to hell and since there is only heaven or hell, we choose to go to heaven. What will we do in heaven? We just don't care, the important thing is we have escaped our condemnation in hell.

The reason we don't commit sin is not because it is in our nature to hate sins and love God's commandment, but because we are afraid the penalty of our sins. Worshipping God seems so burdensome and forceful, it feels like obligation rather than joy. Is that what you feel, my friends?

If you still thinking like that, you should not ask God to allow you to enter His kingdom. If right now even to pray for just about 5 minutes already make you sleep, to read His Word more than one chapter already make you tired, to sing 2-3 songs already make your voice disappeared, to listen to preaching already make your ears itched. You better change your destination, my friends. Don't go to heaven because there you will always praise and worship Him, you will sing and make music for Him all days long for eternity, you will not grow tired in worshipping Him, in making Him exalted, in glorifying His name, and you will listen and talk with God all days long for eternity. Why you suffer yourself? If going to fellowship for about 2 hours a week already burdensome, why you burden yourself for eternity? Hell is better for you, is it not? There is no rules in hell, you can do anything you want to do.

If right now, you have racism of show favoritism, you hate some specific races of people. For example, you are white and you hate the black, you are tall and you mock the short, you are handsome or beautiful and you mock others, you are rich and you don't want to interact with the poors, you are clever and you limit yourself from the "fool", you are christians and you just want to be with your own, you are Chinese and you don't want to interact with non-Chinese, you want to keep your blood pure by marrying your own race, you are moslems and you hate Christians and the Jews, you better not go to heaven because in heaven you will interact with people from around the world, regardless their nationality, their appearance, etc. Why bother yourself to go to heaven if you can't love your brothers? God is love. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God (1 John 4:7).

Do you know that by having racism you insult God who created them to be like that? Do you know that from one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live (Acts 17:26). You are not white or black because of evolution or mutation or whatever, but because God is creative.

If you feel burdensome in worshipping God, still have favoritism, have no time for God, etc; it seems to me that you are idolizing "heaven" more than God. You are idolizing God's creation more than the Creator Himself. Do you know that God is a jealous God? He can't tolerate any idols and will not allow idolaters to inherit His kingdom. I can guarantee you that you will suffer being in heaven, if you want to go to heaven just because you don't want to go to hell. Heaven is the place only for the true worshippers, those who love God with all their heart, their soul, their mind and their strength. When they talk about God, when they praise and worship God, you can see joy, happiness shine in their eyes, tears of joy flow from their eyes. They are so grateful being known by God and having fellowship with Him. They want to go to heaven because they will meet with their Saviour, their Lover, their Bride.

So my friends, if you still don't have that experience, do you realize about the situation of your salvation, your faith? Have you built your faith on the strong foundation or just laid on the doctrines and teaching of men? But I will not force you to know the truth, you have freewill and wisdom, my friends. You can decide by yourself about your eternity. Will you keep looking for the truth until you are satisfied or you will continue following that tradition and sacrament?

But allow me to tell you what God said about the rules: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!" Bible said, "These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an apperance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence (Colossians 2:22-23).

Religions are meaningless

My friends, Bible said that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it received with thanksgiving, because it is concencrated by the word of God and prayer (1 Timothy 4:1-5).

If you want to find the truth, if you want to find God, if you looking for a place to lay down your faith, no more laid on the weak human basic principles, but God's solid foundation, there is only one way: Ask Jesus Christ because He is the Word who became flesh, the Son of God, the image of invisible God. Jesus said, "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him (Luke 10:22)."

I know some of you will immediately get irritated when somebody mention about Jesus Christ. But whether you admit or not, Jesus is Son of God and He is God Himself, He is the owner the Kingdom of God. In heaven, you will see Jesus Christ, sit on the right hand of the Father, Almighty God. So, my friends if you are offended when you hear His name, why do you bother yourself to enter the kingdom of God? You will see Jesus for eternity. He will speak to you, talk to you, and you will humbly praise and worship Him. Don't you think that hell is better than you see Jesus in heaven?

He came to this world 2000 years ago bringing the Gospel. He came here to reconcile us to Almighty God. He came here to help His people, for this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that He might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted (Hebrews 2:17-18).

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in His flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit (Ephesians 2:14-18).

This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us (1 John 4:9-12).

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation (Romans 5:6-11).

Jesus came for you and for me, for us to be saved. For us to escape from those false humility taught by teaching of men, rules of men, sacraments and traditions. He came to show us love of God, He died for us so that through His death, through His precious blood, our sins and guilt have been ransomed. He was forsaken so that we are forgiven, He was condemned so that we are loved by God, we are alive because His Spirit living in us, because He died and rose again, because death has no more power over us. Jesus is our Lord, our God, our Lamb of God. Jesus is Savior of the world. My friends, there is only one way to be saved: Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21)