What's your heaven strategy? One...
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What's your heaven strategy? One friend told me he was confident of going based on his
persuasive powers. A likeable, smooth-talking salesman, he's banking that his golden
tongue will gain him admission. The Lord knows my friend's tactics before he opens his
mouth.
Years ago we sang a song, "Oh, you can't get to heaven on roller-skates." I rarely travel with children these days. The few times I've been around youngsters, they either played computer games or had their ears plugged to iPods. Do the lyrics go "rollerblades" now?
Still, many people have an angle on heaven that's off-course. They build their heaven- confidence on affiliation. They assume admission to heaven because their spouses or parents are good people. Or they attend the right church. They're expecting to ride someone's shirttails.
They'd have a better chance on roller-skates. Why do I say this? In Ezekiel 14:20, the Lord warned the Israelites. "Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness." There's no place to grab shirttails. Job and the others were good people, but they couldn't save anyone else. The book of Romans says, "There is none righteous." Everyone dead or alive (except Jesus) is in the debit column. If you don't believe it, you'd better buy rocket- powered rollerblades.
Years ago we sang a song, "Oh, you can't get to heaven on roller-skates." I rarely travel with children these days. The few times I've been around youngsters, they either played computer games or had their ears plugged to iPods. Do the lyrics go "rollerblades" now?
Still, many people have an angle on heaven that's off-course. They build their heaven- confidence on affiliation. They assume admission to heaven because their spouses or parents are good people. Or they attend the right church. They're expecting to ride someone's shirttails.
They'd have a better chance on roller-skates. Why do I say this? In Ezekiel 14:20, the Lord warned the Israelites. "Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness." There's no place to grab shirttails. Job and the others were good people, but they couldn't save anyone else. The book of Romans says, "There is none righteous." Everyone dead or alive (except Jesus) is in the debit column. If you don't believe it, you'd better buy rocket- powered rollerblades.
