Earthly Life Insurance only gets us buried. God's Spiritual Plan of Salvation gets us Resurrected to Heaven.
Through God's plan of salvation, accepting Jesus as Savior by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, believers can be forgiven for their sins and have eternal life in Heaven. His salvation plan refers to being rescued from sin and its consequences, including separation from God. God's Word tells us that our choice of whom we worship, determines where we shall spend eternity. God said following man-made philosophies, or even different denominations, will not get us to heaven. Why? Because all those religions and man-made gods, did not die on the cross to save us from the condemnation that sin placed on us. The person of Jesus did. Will we listen to flawed man, over God?
We are all in the same spiritual boat, in the beginning...all in need of a Savior. God gave man a conscience, so he would know right from wrong. The Bible says that one way God speaks to us, is through the Holy Spirit speaking to our conscience. We do know right from wrong, and when we do wrong, that is why our conscience bothers us, because we know we are sinning against God. God would not tell us to do terrible things. Satan does. It's up to us, whom we listen to and follow.
We also get to know God through His Word, the Bible. It teaches us the way in which we should go, if we want to have eternal life. It tells us that our sins keep us separated from our Father in Heaven, and that is why we need to ask Jesus to forgive us of our sins, which he gladly does, and when he does forgive us of our sins, he not only forgives us of them, but He forgets them as well, and remembers them no more, the Bible says. God's forgiveness is a gift freely given, not something earned through human effort.
Simply put, we cannot drag our sins into a holy heaven or it would not be heaven, so we must repent of them...that is, feel genuinely sorry for our sins and ask Jesus to forgive us, and he promises to do so. He keeps his word to us and that's what we depend on. He washes our sins away, just as if we had never sinned before, and makes us ready to enter Heaven. With our sins forgiven by jesus, we are now in right standing before God the Father. This is when we start a brand new life in Christ. And His Holy Spirit comes into us and guides and leads us in life. He helps us fight temptation and we no longer want to live the old sinful life, but turn to Christ and now live for him. When we make the decision to commit our lives to Christ and trust him to save us, he does come into our hearts and lives and the power of the Holy Spirit lives in us and transforms our lives to follow Christ. We don't follow Christ because we have to, but because we want to, out of our great love for Christ, who saved our soul from hell. We have entered into a new relationship with Christ and He lives in us. That is His promise. Then we grow in Christ, by reading our Bible and learning more of him. And of course praying to him and fellowshipping with him.
"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities, will I remember no more." Hebrews 8:12
God forgiving and forgetting our sins, is a powerful message of hope and redemption, emphasizing God's willingness to extend mercy and grace to all who seek forgiveness.
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