If you are counting on getting in because you are a good person and you do many good things for people, you won't be allowed into heaven. Someone will say why not, I've been a good person my whole life. Saving faith comes only through Jesus Christ. Sure, we are to be good to people and help others, but Jesus said that He is the way. Our good works are not going to get us in.
Matthew; 7:21-23
("Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!')
Our works without genuine faith in Jesus Christ means nothing.
Isaiah; 64:6
(But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.)
If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, then you are an unbeliever, and you must believe to be saved.
John;3:18
("He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.)
Ephesians; 2:8-9
(For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.)
Although men are required to believe for salvation, even that part of belief is a gift of God. We are all sinners and in need of a Savior, and our Savior is Jesus Christ.
Romans; 3:23-24
(for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,)
As a believer in Jesus Christ, good works will follow, but the good works is not what saved us. If you have works and no faith, your not going to make it into heaven.
Galatians; 2:16
(knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.)
A sinful heart is what will keep us out of heaven and if we don't accept Jesus for our Savior, we will die in our sins. His sacrifice on the cross for our sins will wash them away, but salvation is in Him and Him only. Don't wait, put your faith and belief in Jesus Christ and be assured of your salvation.
1John; 5:11-13
(And this is the testimony: that 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 does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.)
God Bless You!
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