Think on These

Things

by Tom McLemore

Question: Mr. McLemore, Does your church believe that you are the only ones going to heaven? Answer: First, permit me to say that what any church, including the one of which I am a member, believes is not the determining factor in who goes to heaven. The determining factor is recognition of persons by God and Christ. Jesus declared, in Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Furthermore, John the apostle wrote, in 1John 2:17, “And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.” God has revealed his will in the holy scriptures, and those who go to heaven will be those who, in God’s judgment, have done his will. Furthermore, there are some who are members of the church of Christ who will not go to heaven, because even though they have been added to the church, they cease being obedient to the will of the Father. More on this next week.

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