093. What must one do to get to heaven?

What must one do to get to heaven?

There is just one thing that any one needs to do to get to heaven, that is, to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, surrender to Him as His Lord and Master, and openly confess Him as such before the world. Jesus Christ says: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me” (John 14:6). Again He says: “I am the door. By Me if any man enter in he shall be saved” (John 10:9). Any one who receives Jesus becomes at once a child of God, an heir of God, a joint-heir with Jesus Christ (John 1:12; Romans 8:16-17).

Any one can know whether he is already on the way to heaven or not by simply asking himself the questions:

“Have I received Jesus Christ? Have I taken Him as my Sin-bearer, the One who bore my sins in His own body on the cross? (Isaiah 53:6; 1 Peter 2:24; Galatians 3:13). Am I trusting God to forgive my sins because Jesus Christ bore them for me? Have I taken Jesus Christ as my Lord and Master? Have I surrendered my thought to Him to teach and my life to Him to guide in everything? Am I confessing Him as my Savior and my Lord before the world as I have opportunity?”

If any one can answer yes to these simple questions, he may know he is on the way to heaven. Of course, if one has really received Jesus as his Lord and Master, he will prove it by studying His Word day by day to know His will, and by doing His will as he finds it revealed in the Bible.