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Do You Want to Go to Heaven?

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Do you want to go to Heaven? This seems like one of the most obvious questions you will ever answer. When considering the alternative, almost everyone would answer with an emphatic “Yes”. We know Jesus is the only way to Heaven, that we have all sinned and can only find salvation through the blood Jesus shed on our behalf (John 14:6; Romans 3:23-25).

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Unless we repent of our sins and acknowledge Him as Lord, we will not see Heaven (Luke 13:3; Romans 10:9). But what about the time we live between now and when we meet our King face to face? How do we live a life that results in Him welcoming us into His rest (Matthew 25:21)?

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Show Mercy

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Jesus said, “The merciful are blessed, because they will be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7). While not a direct command, the implication is clear: we should all show mercy. Our response to wrongs against us must not be like that of the world. Revenge should be a motivation foreign to every follower of Jesus. Each of us will suffer their fair share of injustice in this world.

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As my mother told me from an early age, “Life is not fair”. Thank God for that! Imagine if it were. As my friend Aaron Pelsue sings in his song, “Mercy,” “I deserve all the worst, yet you offer mercy.” Jesus does not exact the punishment we deserve from us, so we should not seek to right the far more trivial wrongs committed against us (Romans 12:19).

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Be Humble

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It’s not easy to be humble. I don’t mean the humility that refrains from boasting about one’s accomplishments, but the humility that comes from recognizing how helpless and utterly dependent we are on God. In Western culture, it is a virtue to be self-reliant. We men especially do not like to ask for help, although I see an increasing number of women afflicted with the same malady. We like to think we can handle whatever comes our way and can figure out how to solve our problems.

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But that’s not humility; it’s a manifestation of pride. What’s true is we can do nothing without Christ (John 15:5). We can’t breathe, think, talk or act except for the abilities He provides. While we like to think of ourselves as self-sufficient, without God, we are nothing but deficient (Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 3:5).

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Unstained

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There are many parallels we can draw between the Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-29) and our modern culture. The people in those cities were unrepentant in their engagement in sexual sins. That characteristic is prevalent across the globe today. People not only consider sexual sins normal, but they celebrate them, much like they did in those wicked cities of old.

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It would be easy to spend this entire article digging into this point alone, but there is much written about that, and I am certain you’ve heard it all before. What I want to focus on is the lifestyle of Lot. Day after day he lived among the worst kinds of debauchery and perversion, yet kept himself unstained by it (2 Peter 2:4-10). The people of those cities recognized Lot was different, and they despised him for it (Genesis 19:9). He set a great example for us to follow.

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Who is Your Master?

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No matter how independent we might like to think we are, each of us serves one master or another in this life. The only question is, who is your master? Peter teaches we are all slaves to whatever defeats us (2 Peter 2:19). We all have our vices and are subject to them at different points in our lives. Perhaps it would be better to ask, “What is your master?”

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But we can always trace the “what” back to a “who”. We know that all good things come from Christ (James 1:17) and that every lie finds its source in Satan (John 8:44). If we are slaves to certain lusts, desires, and passions, then our master is the devil (1 John 3:8). But if we keep ourselves pure and hold true to the gospel of Jesus, then He is indeed our Lord and Master (John 14:21; Romans 6:22).

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