66-DAY JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 62 - 1 John (Can You Know for Sure if You are Going to Heaven?)
“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.” (1 John 5:11-13)
Whenever I ask someone if he knows for sure if he is going to heaven I usually get a no as an answer. Then they usually add a statement that no one can know for sure that they are going to heaven. My response to them is “yes, we can know for sure that we are going to heaven” and then I ask their persmission if I could read our text above.
I continue to explain how they can know for sure sort of like this: “The Bible says that he who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. Suppose you were to ask Christ to forgive you of your sins right now and invite Him to come into your life to give your eternal life, what would Christ do?” They would usually answer that Christ would do what they would ask and come into their life and forgive their sins. Then, I would ask, “If the Son were in you, what do you have according to 1 John 5:12?” They would have to answer the obvious, that they have life eternal. Finally, I would ask them, “Would you like to receive the Son right now so that you can have eternal life and know it for sure?”
If you are reading this and have never been sure that you will go to heaven if you died right now, what are you waiting for? Ask Christ to forgive you of your sins and invite the Son into your life to give you eternal life. You will have the assurance of heaven if you do.
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