Earn Salvation?

When you die do you have to EARN your wings to go to heaven?

No, we immediately see God in His throne room and from there we go to Heaven or Hell for all of eternity.

The Bible makes no literal reference to humans having actual wings to fly with. It only says it in reference to being swift in war or quick to escape danger.

Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Jeremiah 48:9 “Give wings to Moab, That she may flee and get away; For her cities shall be desolate, Without any to dwell in them.

When we die we don’t need flight directions to heaven or wait for our wings; it’s something God will do.

2 Corinthians 5:8  We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27  And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Those that receive the work of Jesus will go to heaven, and those that do not receive Jesus will go to hell. 

To go to heaven:

The Bible teaches us that we are all sinners. To be a sinner means that you have disobeyed God, broken His laws. 

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 

The Bible teaches us that all sinners have to pay for the wrongs we have done. Just like anyone found guilty of a crime has to pay for what they did. So, too, with us when we break God’s law and the price for breaking God’s law is death.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The good news is that God sent Jesus to pay the price for all the laws that we broke.  Someone has to pay for your crimes, you or Jesus.  You can be forgiven of all the wrongs you have done by agreeing with God that you’re a sinner and thanking Jesus for what He did for you, suffering and dying in your place.

Romans 10:9-10  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

John 1:12   But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. 

To go to Hell:

If you deny Jesus (that is if you say, “I  don’t believe in Jesus”), and your attitude is “I don’t want to live for Him, I want to do my own thing and I don’t care about what He did for me”, then you will not be allowed in heaven.

Matthew 10:32-33 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.  33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. 

The Bible teaches us that God doesn’t send any one to Hell.  People are already (because of what they do) on their way to Hell.  But God has given us a chance to be forgiven and go to be with Him in Heaven.

John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.