Heaven.. Really. It's for Real, and There's a Way!

There is a good way and he has a name. Jesus. There is a heaven to gain and there is a hell to avoid. 

Did ya know that heaven is mentioned in the Bible over 500 times.. sure it is. In Old Testament the word is shamayim meaning the heights. In the New Testament heaven is ouranos (pronounced oo-ran-os') and it inspired the name of that planet. 

Heaven is far better than primo cuz Jesus and His love for you is. Hell was made for fallen angels, not for you or for other people. But for some strange reason lots of people are stubbornly opting to go there ...by rejecting God's only provision for their sin -- Jesus Christ. Go for Him. 

There is no purgatory. Where do you find that? 

And who needs Karma? Not me. We all just reap what we sow. But we can have the third heaven for free. Yes, there are 3 heavens. You don't earn a higher heaven or any heaven, but read in the Bible how the Apostle Paul was caught up into paradise. Yep, “into the third heaven”. 

You know there’s the blue sky (or atmospheric heaven), there’s the night sky (Gen 1:14-17). And the stellar heaven too (that’s the second heaven), but then there there’s God’s home the Heaven of Heavens. 

There are those that believe that Heaven is nothing more than a state of mind. Others say that Heaven is whatever goodness you can grab hold of in this life. But Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people. Let me give you three simple reasons why heaven is an actual place.

1. Jesus came from Heaven. John 6:38
2. Jesus returned to Heaven. 1 Peter 3:22
3. Jesus is coming again from Heaven. 1 Thessalonians 4:16

Every time the Bible mentions Heaven, it speaks of it as a real place. Paul says that we believers can look forward to Heaven with confidence because it has been promised us. See 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 

-- The Lord Jesus is coming for us. 

-- We are going to be caught up to meet Him in the 2nd heaven. 

-- Then we will be with Him forever.  

– in Heaven. That’s God’s promise. 1 Peter 1:3-5 

There will be a rapture of the Church, and wrath during the Great Tribulation, a judgement seat of Christ and a Great White Throne Judgement and there are places called hell and heaven. Jesus told us about both. And Peter did too -- he even links together the words hope and Heaven for us. And he tells us something more about God’s promise of Heaven. 

--He calls it an inheritance. It comes to us at no cost to ourselves.
-- No down payment, realtor fees or closing costs.
-- No mortgage payments, property taxes, or fear of foreclosure.
-- It’s God’s free gift to the Believer.

Are you enjoying life more abundantly -- life during your life here, or are you just bored out of your gourd? Eternal life is real, it is reserved for us up in Heaven, and we are kept by the power of God for it.

Heaven is promised, and it’s God’s own power that guarantees the promise will be fulfilled.

It’s sorta like how you deal with a hotel. You make your reservations in advance. 

Teacher to her Class: Q. How do we get to heaven?

Boy pupil: A. Ya have to be dead. 

Yup believer. That’s how it goes for you. 

Q. How many people die?

A. Until the time of the Rapture, one out of every one persons will die. Worldwide…

-- 3 people per second die.

-- 180 people per minute die.

-- Nearly 11,000 every hour die.

-- 250,000 people everyday die and go to either heaven or to hell.

A 2003 Harris Poll States That: 82% of Americans believe in a place called heaven, and 63% say they expect to go there.

But it’s really like that ole well-known spiritual song: “Everybody talkin’ ’bout heaven ain’t agoin’ there – O my Lord.”

All have sinned, so what will you do with it? No unforgiven sinner gets in to God’s holy heaven. 

God’s has a book, and in it are recorded the names of everyone who has turned (repented) and trusted (by faith) in Jesus Christ as their Savior. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me.”

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Come as you are. Not to me or a religion. Come to God the Father through Jesus the Son. Turn and trust Him. Now is good. The door to Heaven is wide open and welcoming now, but the only way to enter is by putting your faith in Jesus Christ to save you. Jesus is not A way among many ways, but He’s THE way. God took your sin debt and placed them on Jesus. He died in your place. And when you trust Him as your Savior, God no longer looks upon you as a sinner. He writes your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life and the Bible says that He for-gets your sin.

Jesus said, "While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." John 9:4

We enjoy abundant life, eternal life today, but why do we still desire to reflect Christ's light in this dark world? We want others to enjoy a life of forgiveness and love. Why do we pray for Mormons, for JWs or for other cultists and unbelievers who have great value to God. Why do we pray for the not yet spiritually born again ..religious people like Catholics or Jews or Muslims etc? Why do we go tactfully share the Gospel with them with Christ's love? Here's why...

One day soon there will be a prosecutor, but there'll be no defender for the lost; an accuser but no more advocates for em.

The lost will not be allowed to quibble over their good deeds done, or over their guilt or innocence.

There'll be an indictment, but no defense mounted by the accused. The convicting evidence will wisely be presented with no cross-examination. There will be no sympathetic or unsympathetic jury.

There will be no appeal of the final sentence once it's pronounced.

The night is coming when no man can work. The guilty will be punished eternally with no possibility of parole in some prison from which there is no escape, banished for all eternity. The Lost will be without God, without His kind agape love, without any hope at all.

What's religion got to do with it?

Some see religion as a journey and others see it as a destination, but I despise how religion often gets in the way of people. Religion has nothing, zip, null, zero to do with knowing the living God or fishing for souls as Jesus Christ talked about it.. as He did it. Religious people do compass land and sea to proselytize wanting to make a convert to their moldy way of life that lacks the Lord's zoe and abundant life. But then they make them twofold a child of hell with mental, emotional and spiritual bondage like they too have.

Religious people can sound kinda sweet talkin' morality and PMA (positive mental attitude stuff). They say.. "Do good, be good, act moral" but mere religion never gives you the power to be transformed inside or to do what it tells you to be. Dead religion impedes people so they don't trust in Christ n fail to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Religious people do all these little rituals enjoying the aesthetics, the harmless colors of the windows, the expensive vestments, and the smell of incense and they think that by those rituals the Spirit will get them God's  saving grace. But we are saved by any works.

"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats.." — Voltaire

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." — C.S. Lewis

Those killing others as part of radical Islam and Isis are religious. Satan himself is relgious and mean too - a murderer! But today religious leaders will often be very popular, very influential, very rich. Nothing really wrong with all that in and of itself, but they often use it for the wrong purposes. Some money is will go to their charities for pretense n feel good's sake. Religious leaders are often applauded by the devil's crowd. They were in Christ's day as well but had murder in their hearts. Whitewashed tombs, brood of deadly vipers. Jesus rebuke these hell-bound arrogant men trying to help them get it.

"Religion is a fashionable substitute for proper belief." — Oscar Wilde

"When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it." — William Law

We believers are to declare the simple Gospel message and God opens their eyes to grant repentance and saving faith - they turn away from this world system from their sin and from Satan to Christ He saves them on a moment.

I think the practice of religion and trusting in it keeps more people out of heaven than all other sins combined. I hate dead religion because it blinds people to their need for God, but a third of the angels that are now fallen just love it when people get hooked on it. So many are in a religious bondage and they will split hell wide open.

"I gave my confession to the priest in the confessional at church." "Hey, my family has been in the same church for generations and my grandfather was a preacher there. He baptized hundreds of people to get them saved." "And I too was baptized as an infant, I had my first holy communion and confirmation. Must count for something - I was an altar boy." "I prayed my beads and regularly put my dime in the tin so I could light a candle to pray for others."

"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."  — Robert Ingersoll

"The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament." — Soren Kierkegaard

"A cult is a religion with no political power." — Tom Wolfe

"Religion stinks of death." — Gary Amirault

I love religious, prideful, mistaught, perverted, and gay people and they aren't always one and the same, but I want to get through to them.. not with my words or opinions but with God's from the Bible. I love God most and I love carnal, worldly, nominal worldly and even spiritual Christian people. Wanna hangout tight with the later. He who walks with wise people will become wise. 

But listen.. dead religion and religious people make other people weird, mean-spirited, judgmental, power-hungry and money hungry too.. all puffed up with pride instead of humility. Ain't good for ya. It gives their devotees a false assurance, but never a real assurance inside of their salvation. They all tell me I hope I'll go to heaven when I die. They don't know for sure as a born again believer will know. The Apostle John said, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5:13).

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." — Thomas Jefferson

"I would have met Jesus sooner if not for the religious type of Christians who led double lives." — Keith Green

I don't want religion. I'm not interested in it. Religious people are interested in all their denominational history and dead leaders, there's a weird fascination with death. They often traffic with demons, interrupt and sometimes confuse those that I'm trying to witness to with Christ's simple Message. Sadly there have been religious leaders and dead religious people in every church movement n denomination.. and they always hinder what God desires to do in helping people through His Word.. yes, help em on every level especially in the areas of redemption and sanctification. 

Many religions don't adhere to Christian Essentials. Hello, our unity is to be around Christ and these alone! Listen, the anti-Christ person will one day soon have his approved religious leader to unify religions people. I know it's uncomfortable to talk about this. There been too much talk of the enemy these days! Personally, I wanna talk with, talk of, look for and glorify Christ instead. Why uber-focus on the anti-Christ or his demon buds? 

I opt to look for the Rapture instead of for him. Is that how it is with you? Hey, it's normal to not want to be left behind to eye-witness-observe the emergence of that Unholy Trinity: the great Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet. Why should you wanna be there? This world has already seen types of the comming anti-christ, yes, evil forerunners of him. But this trio of wickedness will be bent on lying, deceiving and destroying all those in the world. Yet check it out, the Message of Revelation 13 and the rest of Scripture is: Start and maintain a close relationship with Jesus Christ (Revelation 13:1-18).

Jesus said to religious Nick at night.. You must be born again (See John 3). No one can be a real Christian if they aren't born spiritually again according to God.

“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’" — Jesus, John 3:7 nkjv

“I have loved you with an everlasting love.” — Jeremiah 31:3

People led by dead religious leaders in so many religions are too busy doing their own thing to even notice that God in this earth is doing His. Check history, look around you, pray for an awakening and read the Bible. God really loves you! 

Yes, He loves you with a love that goes way beyond understanding, because there is no human love even comparable to divine love. He wants to forgive you if you are religious or not. He wants to have a relationship with you. And He cares about all relgious people—that pride blocks Him. Can't get His grace past it.

“God is love.” — 1 John 4:16

It doesn’t make any difference the religion where you've run from or hid from God in. And it doesn't matter how far you try to run from God outside of a religion. Either way He loves you. His eye is on you. He sees you. No fig leaves will properly cover your sin like the blood of Jesus can (those leaves represented religion or man's attempt to deal with sin, but there needs to be the shedding of blood. See Genesis 3:21 pointing ahead in tme to the Cross). God loves you, and the Bible says that God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, from heaven to this earth for you. Christ came to this earth to pay for your sins on a cross. God has a plan for your life.

All have sinned, and no religion or mere earthly priest, pastor or pope can wash any of your sins away. God is holy and lets no sinner or unforgiven sinner into His holy heaven. And He's powerful to save anyone—He can change your life even now!

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in.” — Jesus, Revelation 3:20

So what do you have to do? Give your life and heart and future to Jesus. Do you hear God’s voice calling you to Himself today? Respond! Your brand new life can start right now.

“The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, … and you will be changed into a different person.” — 1 Samuel 10:6

Jesus came here, walked here, taught here, died on a Cross here, rose up again here, and went away from here, but He'll soon return here. The Holy Spirit doesn't walk beside you as He did with believers of the Old Testament times, now He lives inside of you, believer. Now, believers, guess what.. the affects, the effects and the impact and reach of your ministry can go further. One Bible Message given out over the radio or on the web can reach around the world and be used of God to save Jews and Gentiles, to save and help reach the religious and irreligious peoples. More people can hear it. Yes, the results of your ministry can be greater now. 

"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son."  — Jesus, (John 14:12)

You can have this whole world. Just give me Jesus instead! In His humanity He (who is 100% God as well as 100% man..) was filled with the Holy Spirit. He prayed and operated perfectly here on earth daily ..through the power of the Holy Spirit. He never sinned like you and me. And the disciples saw Christ multiply fish, turn water into wine, heal, raise the dead etc. but the miracle of regeneration connected to His biblical Gospel Message is the greatest miracle that Jesus did and still does. So, what's the link? Prayer is the link between the Father's good will, you, the Holy Spirit in us believers, and with His holy Son also interceding for people (religious and non-relgious). We can join with Christ in His work. We can understand God's will and His word by praying in His Spirit. Sure, let Jesus speak to you via God's Bible and the Holy Spirit. Hear well, and then go tell (Mark 5:19)!  facebook.com/shareJesus

Atheists have had a lot of fun laughin’ at us believers...

..you know, mocking us with:  Someone somewhere created everything from nothing.

Guess we should respectfully respond to em with:  Nothing nowhere created everything everywhere from nothing nowhere.

You know, them not believing doesn't make the God who created them and everything.. go away. It also sadly doesn't make their sin-habits and the consequence go away. I feel like I can relate to these friends... do understand em some cuz I was once one of em. Yes, the mocker (me) has become the mockee. : )

I'd say that Mr. Lu-Cifer and his gang of fallen-angel-minions must have been fairly clever to go deceive so many people here, and subsequently putting so many counterfeit believers around us (real haters wearing Christ's name, committed to Westboro Baptist "church-going," (yeah, some look all pious on the outside, but are lost as lizards if ya will on the inside - dead inside), you know, and traditional religious church-goers (merely nominal Christians), and Mormons, and Jehovah Witnesses, those who call themselves "spiritual" but twist or reject the Scriptures and the Bible Jesus, etc). 

That kinda makes it hard to distinguish who the real believers with God's real Gospel Message are huh.  Listen, please don't become all anti-God and Bible just cuz some people refuse to stop and look at the facts, or because gobs of poorly taught.. or refuse-to-believe-and-practice what the Bible actually teaches ..kind of mean religious mobs are on the increase out there.  

The study of hermeneutics shows us there is only one way to properly interpret any literature, so biblical hermeneutics in this illiterate culture is what's needed more than ever before. I remember as a kid growin' up in Southern California how I used to receive the many different types of tracts from people in cults, or from those in Islam, and I'd also look around at all the whacko-dead-money-hungry-religious-church-folk too.. the so called Christians as they'd say.. and I'd get kinda confused about Christianity. 

But today there seems to be even more of em out there...cuz where in the last of the last days I think. Ever seen those full-on haters out picketing at the funerals of our fallen vets? Such sin! So wrong! God hurts and weeps with those weeping, but not them. The religious leaders of   

Does genuine love for God and people mark you life personally? Just remember if you come across a counterfeit bill, that only means there's a genuine bill somewhere out there. Recall what Jesus said about recognizing them by their fruit. The Bible says, “..the fruit of the Spirit is L O V E, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” Gal. 5:22-23 nkjv emph mine.

He warned us of fake saints, poser-disciples, and those false teachers saying, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matt. 7:13-23

Choose to be and live real in the Lord 24/7/365. Living confused or deceived while deceiving others - that's just waste of time. It's a waste of your life and a waste of others lives as well. May I ask... are you an Atheist with some honest questions?  Read...