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Life isn’t a ‘probation period’ whereby we must ‘prove to God that ‘we’re trying’ to be the best we can be’. we CAN know for sure that we are goign to heaven, but we must come to the feet of Christ and throw ourselves on His mercy and ask His forgiveness for our sins- once we do, ALL our sins, past present and future, are forgiven (note, this does NOT give us free liscence to sin as we please- we will still be judged for our sins, but we will NOT lose our salvation if we do sin).

God offers an unconditional pardon- a compelte pardon for sins- BUT we MUST be willing to accept it- We can’t earn it because hte bible tels us that there are NONE that are righteous- not one! e are compeltely seperated from the righteousness of God because of sin- and hte only way to break through that barrier is to accept the complete pardon offered through hte righteousness of Christ’s pardon. There are many ‘religious’ folks who are goign to completely miss the mark because they have never accepted Salvation throiugh Jesus Christ- instead, they rely on their ‘good works’ and hteir infant baptism to garner God’s favor with htem- in other words, they are attempting to work their way to heaven- God’s word clearly states that salvation is a gift from God- NOT an earned payment!

Salvation isn’t a ‘journey toward perfection’, it is an act of surrender, a once for all act, where we throw ourselves at the feet of Christ and admit that nothign we do will ever be righteous enough to gain our entrance into heaven- nothing- except acceptign Christ as Lord and Savior.

God offers you and I HIS rightousness so that we can be righteous as He is righteous. Sin and righteousness can NOT coexist in heaven, and God has provided a way for us to become compeltely righteous. We tend to downplay our sinfulness, thinking it’s no big deal, but hte fact is that God’s Holiness demands that we be made completely righteous through the blood sacrifice of Christ- We can’t ‘earn’ this righteousness through ‘being good’, because once again, the bible tells us there are none that are righteous before salvation- not even one person- EVEN those who are the ‘goodest of the good’- the ibble tells us that even these folsk are not righteous.

“Nevertheless, God, and only God, has solved the enigma He Himself has disclosed. God has sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to live a perfect sinless life, to qualify as a perfect sacrifice, to obtain a perfect redemption so that God reconciles Himself to man. This reconciliation is wrought through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on behalf of ungodly sinners; and the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus Christ to them through faith. This great exchange of Jesus Christ doing for sinners what God demands of sinners is called the Substitutionary Atonement.

The Gospel is the Good News that the righteousness of God has now been revealed. It is a righteousness of God that satisfies His own righteousness in order to receive sinners into His presence. God has solved His own eternal deterrent. In doing so, God has exhibited the sinfulness of Sin, the Perfection of His Nature, the Solemnity of His Justice and the Mercy of His Love. In a way inconceivable to man, God has demonstrated His Glory to a universe of spectators and satisfied a host of heavenly demands of which mankind knows very little.

All those who take the righteousness of Christ as their own, through faith in His finished work at Calvary, shall be reconciled to God and there shall be no condemnation for them. Any attempt to possess heaven under any other terms is strictly forbidden and accursed. God’s righteousness alone, to be had by faith alone, in the perfect sacrifice of Christ alone, is matchless. It is the singular Gospel given to men by which they must be saved! O sinner, flee to Christ. Take His righteousness as your covering for eternity, lest you perish. [R.M. Zins]

http://www.cwrc-rz.org/salvation.php