Bible
Study - Are You Really Sure Of Your Eternal Salvation?
Lesson 9
Doing God’s Will
The Bible must be our
only authority in religion if we want to please God and go
to heaven. People must give up all the various false
doctrines that propagate the many different kinds of denominations
and go back to only the New Testament. There were no
denominations in the New Testament times and there would be
none today if only the Bible was taught and practiced.
There would be only the Lord's one true church, the church
of Christ.
How then do we make sure that
we are among the few who are saved and not among the many
who are lost? Jesus says in Matthew 7:21-23,
"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, and cast out demons
in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then
will I declare to them, I never knew you, depart from
Me, you who practice lawlessness". If you believe
and call Jesus, "Lord, Lord", you are still lost
if you do not do what God says. If we ever hope to go
to heaven, we must do the will of the Father. This
is the only way. Not the will of men, but God’s will. Not
our own will, but God’s will. Just because we call Jesus our
Lord, this will not save us.
Jesus says in the above scripture, that on
the day of judgment, that many will be pleading with
him, calling him Lord, Lord, and reminding him of the many
wonderful works that they had done in His name, but He will
say unto them, "I never knew you, depart from
Me you who practice lawlessness". Why? Why? Because they
had not done the will of the Father in heaven. Oh,
they thought they had, but they hadn’t. They had done their
own will or the will of some other man. This will be the worst
thing that will ever be said to an individual, when the Lord
on judgment day says to the majority of people, "Depart,
I never knew you". There will be no appeal to
this decision. There will be no second chance. We have to
get it right the first time.
These people in the above scripture seemed
to be honest, but they were honestly mistaken as many people
are today. Apparently they were good people, because they
had "done many wonderful works". But they had not
done the will of the Father which is in heaven. Man generally
wants to do things his way and he doesn't really care what
God thinks. We cannot obey God without doing what God
says to do, when God says to do it, how God says to do it,
and for the reason God says to do it. Nothing is more
important than pleasing God by doing His will.
We learn from the above scripture, that we
don't go to heaven by doing the will of men, or by doing what
we think is right. The only way we can go to heaven
is by doing the will of the Father, and that will is found
right in our Bibles. Do we really know what the will of the
Father is so that we can be sure of going to heaven? This
is too important a matter to assume that we do or to take
someone else’s word for it. Do we really know what the Bible
says that God wants us to do in order to be saved?
What must I do to be saved? This is a very
important question. Many people would answer this question
in many different ways. The many different denominations give
many different answers. Only God's way is correct.
The Bible is the only reliable source we can go to for our
answer, since it is our soul that will be lost if we follow
man's advise. Our obedience to Christ is a very serious decision
and must not be taken lightly. It must be on the Lord's
terms as laid out in the scriptures and not on our terms.
We have already seen in Matthew 7:13-14,
21, only few will be saved, and many will be lost, and only
those who do the will of the Father can go to heaven. We read
in 1 John 2:4, "He who says, I
know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him." "A liar"
is pretty strong language. A person is lying to himself
and everyone else who says he knows and loves God, but does
not keep God's commandments. We know that a liar cannot
go to Heaven. We must do all of God's will, so that
we can go to Heaven. There is no other way. No single condition,
that God imposes, can be ignored. God has no non-essential
commands. When we don't obey a command of God, we
have just broken it. What then is God's will, so that
we can go to Heaven and not have to endure eternal punishment
forever and ever? We will find the answer in the Bible in
the following lessons.
Questions Lesson 9
Doing God's Will
(click on the button of the
answer of your choice)
1) (Matthew 7:21) How do we go to
heaven?
By doing our will.
By doing man's will.
By doing God's will.
2)
All who call Jesus their Lord will be saved.
3) (Matthew 7:21) Those who call Jesus, Lord, Lord
Will all go to heaven.
Many of which will not go to heaven.
Will all be pleasing to the Lord.
4)
On Judgment Day many will be vainly pleading with Jesus to
be saved.
5) (Matthew 7:23) What is the worse thing one can hear
on Judgment Day?
Welcome to heaven.
That heaven has no more room.
Depart, I never knew you.
6)
We will not go to heaven even if we have done many good works
but haven't done the will of God.
7) (1 John 2:4) If I say I know and love God, but I
do not keep His commandments,
I am telling the truth.
I am a liar.
God will overlook it.
8)
One is a liar if he says he knows God and does not keep His
commandments.