Going to Heaven
‘Going to heaven,’ ‘being in glory’ and ‘making it to heaven’ are some of the expressions used by Christians to describe the eternal state of being with God in heaven.
What does it mean to make it to heaven?
You need to be born again to see the kingdom of God. You need to be born of water and the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. You need to grow in grace to maturity to attain your expected end in heaven. Here are practical steps of how to be born of God.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also….
The ultimate transactional work of the Holy Spirit is to achieve an inseparably seamless joining of the Hypostatic Chip with the inward man in believers. It’s a transformation into Christ-likeness. That was what God had in mind when He said: “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness.”
Man has nothing of his own to offer to God. A born again Christian is a slave of Christ. He owns nothing. Whatever he has was given to him for a purpose. His duty is to obey the revealed will of the Father. An unbeliever is darkness, a child of the devil with nothing to…