Hi Shan Missions,
Must live in good moral life?Is believing Jesus alone good enough for eternal life in heaven?Do we need to live the life of true Christian so that we may enter the kingdom of God?
We can't save ourselves thus we turn to Jesus for salvation.We ca't live as His thus we turn to Jesus to enable us.Both are done by faith in our new relationship with God made possible through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Know Him, you would know God.He can lose nothing.John 6: 38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day....44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.But as there are sheeps that do not hear His voice nor follow Him whethor it be by dead works that deny Him religiously or living in sin and reaping corruption, those sheeps are of another fold and after judgment falls on the House of God to correct them, then He will gather them and then they will hear His voice and follow Him as their Shepherd, albeit, they lost out of their first inheritance as Esau did in giving up his brithright of receiving blessings from Isaac for a meal and as the prodigal son gave up his inheritance for wild living. There will be such a loss, that God will have to wipe the tears from their eyes to get them passed it as stated in Revelation.John 10: 14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. It is how we build on tha relationship of faith and trust with the Lord Jesus that decides whethor we trusted Him to save us and help us live as His by the grace of God, or we resorted to our own powers or sinful lifestyles and thus not resting in Hin nor calling on Him to deliever us from our sins so that we should no longer live in them since we have been bought with a price.1 Corinthians 3: 10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.... 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.... 21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's; 22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; 23And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.Thus we see why they were left behind because they did not heed His sayings thus were not following His voice to discern the things of the world that is not of faith so as to be found abiding in Him..Matthew 7: 21Not 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. 22Many 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? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. So the good works we do... is also by faith in Our Enabler to help us do them thus no one shall glory in the works that we do since we are the workmanship of His hands.Psalm 100: 3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Thus those that glory ... shall indeed glory in the Lord. Our hope for salvation and for living as His is on Jesus, not on us, thus it is by the grace of God and by faith in Jesus. Amen.