The Gospel of Christ and Heaven

Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10). The promise of salvation is to those who ‘obey Him’ (Hebrews 5:8-9).

Let us immediately allow Jesus into our hearts. He stands at the door and ‘knocks’ (Revelation 2:10). What prohibits His salvation and His being allowed to come into our lives?

Love of sin (1 John 2:15-17) is one thing that prohibits Jesus. On our part, the ‘lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life’ varies as to the object of our lusts. Sometimes it is a person; sometimes it is our love for personal power; sometimes it is the lazy spirit we adopt. Regardless, these things take us away from Jesus rather than allow Him to come in.

Failure to love God is another thing that prohibits Jesus. He said that it’s when we love Him we obey Him (John 14:15) and become His friend (John 15:14). Failure to love God will result in very sinful conduct (1 John 4:10ff) and heaven will be denied to those (Revelation 20:12ff).

Let us love Him, and let us shun sin so that neither His knocking nor His love for us is in vain.