Just because God loves you does not mean he will save you. He loves everyone but does not save everyone.
Salvation is in Christ.
Life is not about getting to heaven it’s about doing God’s will. If you are doing God’s will, by the Spirit, you are in heaven already-in Christ.
You must choose to be in Christ by abandoning your whole self into his care, walking and listening to the Holy Spirit, doing God’s will for you.
To choose you must admit you are a helpless sinner needing the grace of God to live his way. His way is not the world’s way.
In the beginning…
Adam and Eve and later Mary were full of grace.
All three had a choice to sin.
Adam and Eve did choose to sin.
Mary did not.
Christ came to renew grace filled living. When baptized you get the Holy Spirit. But like Adam, Eve, and Mary it’s still a choice.
To not sin you must be like Mary and say “let it be done to me according to your word.”
If you do sin you can plead for mercy, repentance, and forgiveness. This can renew your state of grace.
Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.
Matthew 7:21-23
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Jude 1:17-19
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
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