So who goes to Heaven?written 11.07

It's kind of ironic (not that God is an ironic kind of God),

I posed the question the other day "if everyone is going to Heaven, then who goes to Hell?".

This morning, I was reading a lesson from 'Our Daily Bread' and in the opening sentence reads
"everybody talkin' bout heaven ain't goin' there'. Wow! In deed.
I'm reminded of the story of Nicodemus when he speaks with Jesus concerning His teachings. Christ tells Nicodemus that "except [a man] be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God".

To be born of the water simply refers to baptism in Jesus' name. This act, burial in water [IN JESUS' NAME] signifies our death to our old man/our old ways of doing things. Once we rise from the water, we rise in the "newness of life" wherein we must now walk. How do we walk in the "newness of life"? We put off sin, we put off the works of the flesh. Those old things that once controlled us and had us bound. Through burial in Jesus, we die to sin as He was dead to sin, therefore are no longer slaves thereof. WE MUST NOW WALK IN HOLINESS, the ways of Jesus.

And to be born again (from above), of the Spirit of Jesus means that we are filled with His Spirit. His Spirit -which we know as the HOLYGHOST- now leads us and guides us in all truth and righteousness. No longer are we bound to sin, but freed from the law of sin. But know! that the word of God says that we shall not continue in sin just because we are freed from it. Romans 6:16 tells us that "we are servants to whom [we] obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness". Therefore, as verse one of the same chapter tells us, WE SHALL NOT CONTINUE IN SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND. We do not tempt God to wrath, but we do in fact, walk in the newness of life. The word of God says they that walk after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit. So it must be known that the things of the Spirit (of CHRIST JESUS) are HOLY. He said "be ye holy, for I am holy".
Nuff said. In doing so, believing in Him and keeping His commandments, we shall inherit the promise which was given to us. And that is who shall enter into Heaven. :o)