HOW DO I GET TO HEAVEN? (3 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Matthew 7:21
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How Do I Get To Heaven? (3 of 4)
Series: When We All Get To Heaven
Jeff Strite
Matthew 7:21
OPEN: A Sunday School teacher had spent the time teaching her young class that you couldn't work your way into heaven. Then she asked the kids in her Sunday School class, ''If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would I get into Heaven?'' ''NO''! the children all answered. ''If I cleaned the church building every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would I get into Heaven''? Again, the answer was ''NO''! ''Well then, how can I get to Heaven?'' In the back of the room, a young boy timidly raised his hand and said: ''You gotta be dead!'' (Tina Miller)
This morning's sermon asks the question ''How do I get to heaven?''
Now, ''being dead'' is a reasonable answer - but it is not entirely true. For example, not everybody who's going to heaven will be dead. I Thessalonians 4:16-17 tells us ''The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.''
If we live long enough to see Jesus come again we will NOT die. We'll rise up from this earth and meet Him in the air.
ILLUS: I used to tell people I believed Jesus would come by the time I was 50 (long pause)... I missed it by that much.
So 1st, you don't have to die to go to heaven.
If you and I live until Jesus comes again we will meet Him in air.
BUT not everybody who dies is going to heaven.
Jesus said: ''Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.'' Matthew 7:21
So, how do I get into heaven? Well (according to Jesus) I need to do His will.
We'll get to that i ...
Series: When We All Get To Heaven
Jeff Strite
Matthew 7:21
OPEN: A Sunday School teacher had spent the time teaching her young class that you couldn't work your way into heaven. Then she asked the kids in her Sunday School class, ''If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would I get into Heaven?'' ''NO''! the children all answered. ''If I cleaned the church building every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would I get into Heaven''? Again, the answer was ''NO''! ''Well then, how can I get to Heaven?'' In the back of the room, a young boy timidly raised his hand and said: ''You gotta be dead!'' (Tina Miller)
This morning's sermon asks the question ''How do I get to heaven?''
Now, ''being dead'' is a reasonable answer - but it is not entirely true. For example, not everybody who's going to heaven will be dead. I Thessalonians 4:16-17 tells us ''The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.''
If we live long enough to see Jesus come again we will NOT die. We'll rise up from this earth and meet Him in the air.
ILLUS: I used to tell people I believed Jesus would come by the time I was 50 (long pause)... I missed it by that much.
So 1st, you don't have to die to go to heaven.
If you and I live until Jesus comes again we will meet Him in air.
BUT not everybody who dies is going to heaven.
Jesus said: ''Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.'' Matthew 7:21
So, how do I get into heaven? Well (according to Jesus) I need to do His will.
We'll get to that i ...
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