Are you 100% sure you are going to Heaven if you die today?

Ephesians 2:8-9, which says, 'For by grace (grace meaning undeserved favour 🙂 it means we don’t deserve it, but we get it) you have been saved through faith (believing), and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.' It’s good news! 😃 ❤I am bringing my wonderful friend a gift. But the question how do you “reach out and take it” and “why do I need the gift”? Here is my answer:

In an illustration I can put it like this: I am Emma, and I am standing in front of you with a gift. 💝 😃 I want to give it to you! 😃 will you say, “Okay, thank you, but I will first pay 1 million dollars for it and then I can take it?” I’ll be sad because I am giving you a gift out of love. 😔 Or say I say here is a gift and you say, “Okay, just wait give me a few years and I will do some good things for people then I will take the gift?” Or what if I say, please take the gift, just BELIEVE 😉 reach out your hands and take it, you are special to me. And you say “Sorry, wow, it is such an amazing gift, I will first get baptised and give my testimony and then I will take it, I also want to ask my pastor if he approves of me and the church to accept me, just wait” .. 😢 or what if yous ay I will go to the counselor and then tell him or her my sin and then I will take the gift of salvation. 😦 "For there is one God, and there is one mediator (middle Man) between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time." 1 Timothy 1: 5-6 put anyone else between yourself and God to reach God whether it be mother Mary, an idol, a stone, a chair, or a counselor is idolatory.

Ephesians 2:8-9, which says, 'For by grace (grace meaning undeserved favour 🙂 it means we don’t deserve it, but we get it) you have been saved through faith (believing), and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.'

It is so simple, and I tend to make it so complicated with all my fears. 😒 So here is just to put it into context:

We have broken God’s laws. This is what makes us sinners. Right? Me as Emma has sinned, you have sinned everyone has sinned. Think about the most righteous person you know on the earth…YES s/he has sinned. 😁 😮 Romans 2:23, “For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” And here comes something similar to the law of gravity. It is a law that God has made from the beginning that can’t be changed. Romans 6:23a, “For the wages (consequence, salary) of sin is death…” Remember in the garden Adam and Eve, God said: “If you eat of this fruit, you will surely die.” So, it is a law from the beginning: sin=death. That is why in the Old Testament the priests sacrificed animals and “scapegoats” for the sins of the people to satisfy the “equation” of sin=death. And in the New Testament, Jesus, the Lamb of God died for our sin. See? 😁

Carrying on from the last verse: Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement.”

BUT there is GOOD NEWS: The Lord Jesus Christ paid for our sins. The Bible says: Romans 5:8, “But God commended (showed) his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died FOR us.” See? Satisfying the “equation” of sin=death. Romans 6:23b, “…but the GIFT of God is eternal life though Jesus Christ our Lord.” In Romans 10:13 there is a promise and if God makes a promise, it is NEVER broken: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord SHALL be saved.” What do you think? It’s good news right? 😁💚

And here is the “how to reach out and take the gift”: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever BELIEVES in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3: 16 Simply believe and take 🫴💝the gift.