by yipperoo
Sin doesn't keep people out of Heaven because the Bible says we're ALL sinners (1 Kings 8:46). No, what keeps people from entering those "pearly gates" is not having their sins paid for. The price we deserve to pay for our sins is an eternity separated from God in Hell (Romans 6:23). But because of God's great love for us, and His desire that no man would eternally perish in Hell (2 Peter 3:9), God Himself, in the Person of Jesus Christ (Colossian 1:15), died a horrible death, shedding His innocent blood on a cross (John 3:16). He paid a debt He didn't owe because we--you and I--owe a debt we could never pay. If God says the only way we have the right to enter Heaven's gates is based on the work of Jesus Christ (John 14:6), what more could we possibly do other than just to accept it? Jesus' sacrifice is God's gift to us (Ephesians 2:8,9) We don't deserve it and we can't earn it by any means- we just receive it! When someone gives you a gift do you ask to pay or work for it? No, you just receive it! God's gift is here. Just take it- it's your's. With this gift comes the keys to an eternity your mind could not ever conceive or imagine (1 Corinthians 2:9): an everlasting life in the presence of the One and only Almighty God (John 10:28).
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