Have You Been Made Right With God? Are You Good Enough To Get Into Heaven?

1 Kings 8; 2 Chronicles 5; Psalm 99; Romans 3
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Scripture

Romans 3

21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. 22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.

23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.

This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26 for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.

27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. 28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

29 After all, is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is. 30 There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles. 31 Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

Observation

Romans 3:23 is probably one of your memory verses, but I think after reading Roman 3 today that we should also memorize Romans 3:22 to go with Romans 3:23. Romans 3:23 tells us that everyone has sinned, but Romans 3:22 tells us that the only way to be made right with God is by faith in Jesus Christ.

When I ask people about whether they are going to go to Heaven or not (and very few believe that they are not) they almost always say that they think they are going to Heaven because they haven’t been bad enough to go to Hell. Almost everyone I talk to thinks that God is going to somehow weigh out their good deeds and as long as they have done more good things than bad things then they will be able to get into Heaven and maybe that is the way you have believed too.

But the Bible says that we have to be made right with God and we can only be made right with God by faith in Christ. The Bible says in Romans 3:23 that all of us have sinned and by sinning (even if it is only one sin – James 2:10) we deserve death and we deserve to go to Hell.

When we put our faith in what Christ did for us on the cross then we are made right with God. Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty of our sins. He paid our way, but we have to accept His gift of eternal life to be made right with God.
So have you been made right with God through faith in Christ or are you still trying to get to Heaven by being good?

Application

If you would like to know more about how to accept Christ write me and I would be glad to talk to you about it. My email address is eddywilliams@tampabaptistchurch.com

Prayer

Heavenly Father, thank You that I have been made right with You through my Lord Jesus Christ. I pray for anyone that reads this blog today that may not have a personal relationship with You that You open up his or her heart so that they may believe.

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