Am I going to Heaven?

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<td valign="top" height=380 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Am I going to Heaven?</B></I></div> <bR> <div> “AND THOUGH MY FATHER IS NOW DEAD, YET, I AM CONSOLED BY THE THOUGHT THAT HE IS NOW WITH THE LORD.”                                                                                         </div> <bR> <div>       What a comforting assurance we often hear from those who are left behind after the departure of a loved one.</div> <div> And by whose authority have we believed that we shall go to heaven when we are saved? Whoever said that when a man dies, having done good in his lifetime he will go straight to heaven? That, if one had not really been that good or bad either he will momentarily be purged in purgatory with lots of candles to be burned by those who are left behind?  Or if one have done evil nothing awaits but an ever-burning hellfire of endless torment forever? Is there truth on this most revered assertion?</div> <div>      It would certainly be shocking to the many to realize later on that the word of God speaks nothing about going to heaven if one is saved. On the other hand, Our Savior Himself said in John 3:13, “No man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” And notwithstanding of this clear and direct declaration from Christ still millions entertained the fabled idea of going to heaven when they die. Even in John 13:33 Christ further stressed that: “….whither I go, ye cannot come.” He is now in heaven abiding a priest forever and according to Him no one can go there. </div> <div>      Consider, if there is a just man who deserves to be with the Lord – if heaven is really the destination of those who are saved after death, then the patriarch David should have long been there. After all he was a man after God’s own heart. On the contrary, the Holy Scripture divinely revealed that “David is both dead and buried and his sepulcher is with us unto this day” (Acts 2:29). The king of Israel even said, “As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Your likeness”(Psa.17:15). David understood that the resurrection was an awakening – a coming back to life.</div> <div>        Like the future King of Israel, David, Job also looked forward to the resurrection of life. “O that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. You shall call and I will answer you” (Job 14:13-15). Notice the question he asked: “If a man die, shall he live again? If Job was going to be still alive at death and is now with the Lord in heaven, what manner of logic would there be for him to ask “…shall he live again?” Clearly, Job understood that he was waiting for an appointed time when he will be resurrected from the grave.</div> <div>      People today have no conception whatsoever of what is really in store for them once they are saved. They don’t have the slightest idea of the awesome potential waiting for them once they are saved. “….Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him” (1 Cor.2:9).</div> <div>      Let us then open the sacred word of God and discover for ourselves what really is the reward or inheritance of the saved. Let’s begin with the first book of Moses, chapter 13 verses 14 and 15. “And the Eternal said unto Abram….lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever.” The Promised Land was Canaan, the land now covering the area called Palestine. That is why the whole world commonly calls it “The Promised Land.” And for how long was it committed to His chosen people? Our Creator answers back, forever! And forever means a time that spans for all time. No wonder, Christ taught His disciples in Matthew 5:5 as part of the Sermon on the Mount that “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Even Solomon, the wisest man to ever walk this planet was also inspired to write in Proverbs 10:30, that “The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.” </div> <div>      In Genesis  we find that the same promise was also made to Isaac. “And the Eternal appeared unto him (Isaac) and said, Go not thou into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and I will bless thee: for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seeds all these countries; and in thy seeds shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because that Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws” (Gen. 26:2-5).</div> <div>      A little further, in Genesis 35:12, we can read again that the same promises were likewise reconfirmed to Jacob (Israel): “And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.”</div> <div>      In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul in his message to the Galatians affirmed that the same promise is still in effect among Christians “if ye be in Christ, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29). Even to the gentile Ephesians like us the Apostle Paul also said: “Wherefore, remember that ye being in time past gentiles …. that at the time ye are without Christ, being aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise but now in Christ ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, now therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God” (Ephesians 2: 11-13,19).</div> <div>      A truly converted Christian is not yet a possessor of his reward.  He remains an heir. And what he shall inherit if saved, are the promises made to the three patriarchs of the Old Testament, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel) nothing more, nothing less. </div> <div>      Paul wrote in Hebrews: “By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heir with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God ……These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off…..” (Heb 11: 8-10, 13).</div> <div>      Seriously consider the import of the statement above. “These all died in faith, not having received the promises….”. The fathers to whom the promises were made all died in faith and until to this very day are still dead and buried. The great men of the Bible, people like Enoch, Elijah, David, Daniel and Moses to name a few are still dead and buried.</div> <div> ==========================================</div> <div> Heb 11:1-2</div> <div> “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good report.”</div> <div> ==========================================</div> <div> Their physical bodies have disintegrated and returned to dust and their spirits are back with God unto this very day. Why then have they not inherited God’s unbreakable promises until now?</div> <div>  The answer to that question is made clear by our understanding of the most spectacular breathtaking message brought by Christ from God the Father concerning the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Make no mistake; the Kingdom of God is a literal kingdom where Christ is “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Let’s commit to memory the historic confrontation between Christ and Pilate at the judgment hall inside the palace: Pilate therefore said unto Him, “Art thou a king then”? Jesus answered, “Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world….” (John 18:37). In the same chapter of the gospel of John in verse 36 Christ earlier said. “My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now is My kingdom not from hence.” </div> <div>      The Kingdom of God is a ruling kingdom that will administer the government of God on earth. It has not yet been established. Christ Himself explained to the Pharisee Nicodemus what the Kingdom of God is, He said, “Except a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). “Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 15:50). “That which is born of the flesh is flesh” (Physical birth) “….that which is born of the spirit is spirit” (Spiritual birth) (John 3:6). How? By the resurrection of course!</div> <div>      Our Savior Himself said, “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation” (John 5: 28-29). “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2). </div> <div>      If it is true that the people of God are now in heaven after their death – why then is there a need for the resurrection of the just and the wicked from their graves? Death in the eyes of God is merely a sleep in the night waiting for the coming Day of Judgment, each one in his own order. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive, <B><U>but every man in his own order</U></B><B>: </B>Christ the first fruit, afterward they at Christ coming” (1 Cor.15:22).  In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead (not the living in heaven but the dead – those who are in their graves) shall be raised (not come down from heaven, but raised) incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Cor. 15:52-53).   “And so it is written. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor.15: 45).  How clear and how beautiful is the plan of God.     </div> <div>      Those who have qualified and are saved though dead shall be raised from their graves incorruptible into spirit beings. Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, the prophets of the Old Testament, the Disciples of Christ in the New Testament and a host of others will surely be part of the first resurrection. Those who are alive when Christ returns to earth to claim His throne will be changed from mortal to immortal. “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on which the second death hath no power, but they shall be priest of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years” (Rev. 20:6).  Exactly the reason why Christ is called “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” (Rev.19:16) is because there are many other kings and many other lords under Him. “Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, come ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world”(Matt. 25:34).  “And the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ; and He shall reign forever and ever”(Rev. 11:15).</div> <div>      Meanwhile, the world at large had succumbed to one of the classic lies that the god of this world had used in deceiving the whole world (II Cor.4:4).  Heaven is never the intended destination of those who are in Christ. As a matter of fact, God the Father will be coming to earth with the “new holy city of Jerusalem coming down from heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself well be with them, and be their God” (Rev. 21:2-3).    </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Romeo Samudio</div> <bR> <div> <B>Giving Thanks Again!</B></div> <div> This story comes out of Benjamin Franklin’s childhood.</div> <div> ***********************************************</div> <div> He noticed a daily routine that went on in his household.  His mother would take meat from the barrel where it had been salted and stored, she would then cut off enough for that day, slice it , cook it and serve it to the family.  Every one would gather around the table bow their heads and Ben’s father would offer thanks to the Lord.</div> <bR> <div> Father, the young genius said, I have a suggestion.  Instead of giving thanks for the little portion of the meat, we consume each day, why not give God thanks for the entire barrow of meat at one time. </div> <bR> <div> Isn’t this just like human nature.  Wanting  to cram all ones  thanksgiving for our meals into one day a year, when God would have us to be grateful every day.       </div> <bR> <div> We generally think of giving thanks as a duty to other people who served us or helped us in some way.  Giving thanks should be practiced always for good character building.</div> <div>   </div> <div> Nothing changes a sour attitude or lifts a sagging spirit like beginning to enumerate to the Lord all your blessings and thanking Him for them.  Try it the next time your feeling down.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>