How can you know for sure that you are going to heaven?

·         You must realize first that everyone is less perfect than a holy God.  We are all sinners and unable to save ourselves.

·         For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23

·         God says that even our good deeds are unclean in His sight.  Our good deeds can never pay the price for our sin.

·         But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.  Isaiah 64:6

 
The result and penalty of sin is death, which means separation from God forever.

·         For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord.  Romans 6:23

·         Because we have sinned, we all deserve to be separated from God forever.  God hates sin but He still loves the sinner.

·         Heaven is a perfect place; therefore no sin can enter there.  Man must be perfect to gain entrance to heaven.

·         And there shall no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  Revelation 21:27

Nothing man can do could help obtain the perfection God requires for heaven.

·         For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9

·         Salvation is only by God’s grace.  Grace means unmerited favor or undeserved mercy.  A gift is not earned or paid for or it would not be a gift.

·         But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.  Romans 4:5

Christ made a complete payment for all sin and offers his righteousness to us.

·         For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.  2 Corinthians 5:21

·         God offers to us the gift of eternal life.  He requires only our belief or trust in that payment.

The Bible says that if I put my complete trust in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, believing that His death, burial, and resurrection pays the complete penalty for my sin, then God gives me eternal life.

·         For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 3:16

·         Promising God that you’ll do good works can’t save you.  Joining a church can’t save you.  No denomination can save you.  Baptism can’t save you.  Turning from your sin can’t save you.  The Bible says to believe, trust in, rely upon the finished work of Christ to save you.

·         Will you place your trust in Jesus Christ to save your soul right now?

If you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you can know you have eternal life.

·         These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John 5:13

·         In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began, Titus 1:2