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Living For Heaven

By Revd 'Remi Tejumola

Shalom!
You can't go to heaven behaving like hell. This phrase did not originate from me even though I rephrased it. It came from a Gospel album with this title, 'You can't get to heaven looking like hell'. I have forgotten who the Singer was, but the message is clear.

The kind of life you're leading now, is it portraying a life of one on the way to heaven? You need to know that there are criteria by which a person will be able to enter into heaven.

Number 1, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). You must surrender your life to Jesus for this to happen to you. You must be born again - experience a transformation of life.

Since people don't get born-again and immediately get translated to heaven, number 2 is, "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart" (Psalm 15:1-2). While you are here on earth, you need to walk uprightly, work righteousness, and be a truthful person. You give your life to Jesus first and then live the kind of life that's expected of you as a child of God - a holy life. It's not your righteous life that saved you, it's Jesus. But you need to lead a good life, a morally upright life - a life that's pleasing to God here on earth. When you do that, you will be able to get to heaven. God bless.

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