Chapter 4

IV. Who Will Go to Heaven?

A. Only those who realize that they are sinners.

1. Romans 3:23 tells us that "all have sinned, and come __________ of the glory of God."

Illustration: Does it matter how close you come to the finish line in a race if you do not actually make it across? No. If you do not actually make it across, then you are considered not to have even finished the race. You are thus technically disqualified for being "short" of the finish line. If a race are crashes just a few feet from the finish line, it is disqualified from the race. If a runner stumbles and falls just a few feet from the finish line and gets hurt, he does not officially finish the race, unless he can get across the finish line. No matter how "good" a person might be, he has still come "short" of God’s glory. What is the standard for God’s glory?

2. According to Matthew 5:48, we are to be ______________, even as our Father in heaven is perfect.

Note: You may know some people you would call "good" people, but you have never met a "perfect" person. If you think that you have, your problem is that you have not yet spent enough time with him/her!

3. Ecclesiastes 7:20 says that "there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth ________, and sinneth not."

B. Only those who repent of their sin.

1. Jesus tells us in Luke 5:32 that He did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to ____________________.

2. He also said in Matthew 9:12 that they who are whole do not need a physician, "but they that are ________."

Note: Repentance means "a change of mind." You will never change your mind about your sin until you see that sin is bad, and that you "personally," have a "sin problem."

Illustration: How many people have you known that drink alcohol or smoke, and say, "I can quit any time I want!"? No one ever quits a bad habit until he realizes that it is bad, and that it is a problem in his life. That takes a "change of mind" on his part. That takes "repentance."

3. The Bible says, "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise ____________." (Luke 13:3)

4. Acts 3:19 tells us to ____________ and be converted that our sins may be blotted out.

C. Only those who are related to God.

1. I Corinthians 6:9,10 tell us twice that the unrighteous shall not "____________ the kingdom of God."

Note: Heaven is not something you can inherit through your parents. In fact, you inherit something from them that keeps you out of heaven - a sin nature!

a. Romans 5:12 tells us, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death ____________ upon all men, for that all have sinned."

b. According to Psalm 51:5, "I was shapen in iniquity, and in ______ did my mother conceive me."

Note: You may inherit some earthly possessions from your parents, but you have to inherit heaven from God Himself! The problem is, "How do you get related to God?"

2. John 4:24 says that, "God is a __________: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

3. I Corinthians 15:50 tells us that "__________ and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God."

Question: How can we get related to God when He is a Spirit, and we are flesh and blood, and spiritually dead on top of that?

Note: A person was needed who was both God, and yet man. How else could you bridge the gulf and get the two related to one another? This was the only possible way that man could ever get in line to "inherit" the kingdom of God.

4. Luke 1:26-38 describes how Jesus fulfilled both of those requirements, because the ____________________ came upon Mary, and the power of the Highest would overshadow her; therefore, she would give birth to the Son of God.

5. According to I Timothy 2:5, Jesus is the ________________ between God and men.

NoteJesus is the "Mediator," the "go between" between God and man. It took a miraculous birth : to produce such a person. He is fully God, and fully man - just exactly what was needed to allow man to get related to God, and thus be able to inherit heaven. So there is now only one problem left. How can you, personally, get related to Jesus Christ so you can inherit the kingdom of God through Him?

6. John 1:12 tells us that "as many as ________________ him (Jesus), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."

7. Speaking of Jesus, II Corinthians 5:21 says that although He knew no sin, He was made sin for us (on the cross when He suffered and died for our sins), "that we might be made the __________________________ of God in him."

Note: We can overcome all the barriers that keep us out of heaven through Jesus Christ. In Him, we are declared perfectly righteous before God. In Him, we are related to God. Only those who receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior will go to heaven.

REVIEW:

1. All people have come __________ of the glory of God.

2. The standard of God’s glory is that we are to be ______________, even as our Father in heaven.

3. Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to ____________________.

4. You will never change your mind about your sin until you see that it is bad, and that you, ____________________, have a "sin problem."

5. Heaven is not something you can inherit through your parents; in fact, you inherit something from them that keeps you out of heaven - a ______ nature.

6. Flesh and blood cannot ______________ the kingdom of God.

7. To get us related to God, someone was needed who was both ______, and yet man.

8. Jesus fulfilled that requirement when He was miraculously born of the virgin ________.

9. Jesus is the ________________ between God and men.

10. Those who ______________ Jesus are given the power to become the sons of God.

11. Jesus never sinned, but He was made sin for us on the cross, that we might be made the __________________________ of God in Him.

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