I'm just wondering about what are the parameters to get into heaven just simp Perfection Perfection yes so is there anybody in heaven right now yes and they were perfect no okay I'm just answering your questions okay so the parameters to get into heaven are Perfection correct there are people in heaven yes ma'am but nobody's been perfect correct how's that possible Grace okay all right here's how it works this is this is the gospel in a nutshell we are not good nobody does good nobody's perfect we all fall short of God's standard okay we all justly
deserve his temporal and eternal punishment we live under the wrath of God because he's holy righteous and just and when we see somebody who's a violent mass murderer and we think that they should get what what they got coming to them that's exactly how God feels but a whole lot more because he doesn't like lying or stealing or cheating or dishonoring parents taking his name in vain God is going to settle the score and he's going to give everybody what they have earned for themselves we've broken his laws all we have earned is punishment okay
so okay um well let me let me let me just indulge me just for 30 more seconds all right but God is rich in Mercy and he desires to save Sinners but he can't just forgive it and pretend those things didn't exist because then he would be unjust and he's not so his plan from eternity p was to send his son in human flesh to be a representative for you to take the punishment you deserve to take all of the righteous Deeds that he did his entire life credit them to your account if you will
repent and put your trust in his son he will forgive you because he makes you perfect in Christ so my whole thing is that many people in the world in history before Jesus Christ and presently will never meet a Christian and they will never know about this religion so there are wonderful people who are Muslim who are Buddhist who live in tribes all around the world they will not know Christianity in the sense that you've in Your Privilege been able to know Christianity in this way so are I need to know if accepting Jesus Christ
as your lord and savior is the parameter to have a afterlife a good afterlife what do you as a Christian believe happens to all the souls that never knew Jesus I you know what it's a great question and it's one of the harder questions okay okay because I can't really be with a religion that's exclusive in that way that not everybody gets a chance sure I I'll explain that but I just want to ask you a question did I resolve that tension for you about only perfect people go to heaven but there are people in
heaven because they've been made perfect by Christ did that at least make sense to you well even in a perfect system that still wouldn't be perfect because people don't get the chance to know Christ in that way let let me address that but was that satisfactory you kind see how I work it together I understand your argument there but there have been people for thous hundreds of thousands of years that have existed or before Christ anybody before Christ I just think that it's a little bit silly then in a modern perspective to expect people to
do these things that if there was a chance for those people prior to go to heaven if you tell me no none of those people went to heaven all of their souls were lost because they didn't know Jesus then you I mean I don't know it just you got two questions going now so I'll answer the how did people get saved before Christ by believing in the Christ to come Abraham what if they never knew about that what if they were 10 okay I'll get to that one I'll get to that one in a second
but people were saved in the Old Testament for instance before The Cross by believing in the promise they maybe didn't have as robust an understanding as we get to have today but they believed in a messiah that must suffer for Sinners so early by believing in Christ they were saved by Christ early human beings had to somehow have forn knowledge that there would be a Christ to come a God to come and they would have to have gra through that that's a great great question I'll just tell you biblically what you do with it totally
up to you God had a chosen group of people the Jewish people he made a covenant with a man named Abraham from ER he gave them a he promised him a land a nation and a seed the land is Israel the nation is the Jews and the seed singular was yet to be revealed the New Testament tells us the seed was Christ so God gave a promise to a man named Abraham Jewish people lived in this this nation they were to be a nation that was a light to lighten the Gentiles they were in the
Mosaic Covenant this was God's evangelism program if these people obeyed God would bless them to the Max and every nation would want to know who is their God so God was Evangelistic long before Jesus in proclaiming there is a messiah to come there were prophets they traveled they proclaimed but to get to your big question what about people who ever he here's what the Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God day after day they speak without saying a word in other words creation preaches God exists and most people reject it everybody is without
excuse because everybody knows God exists the most basic intuitive fact on the planet is recognizing there is a God you would never believe this microphone happened by itself you shouldn't believe that you happened by yourself you shouldn't believe the universe happened by itself God right now is preaching to everybody here look up I exist I made the place it is it is the most basic understanding we can have and most people suppress it because they don't want to submit to God so the people who are on Boingo Boingo they don't listen to the sermon he's
preaching through creation let alone what a missionary says but okay well okay I don't really think we're getting anywhere with well it's a hard question yeah and I and i' and I'd love to satisfy it for you but there aren't good people in these other places and God is reaching out to them preaching through creation and I believe if they will respond like okay there's a Creator I'm not right with him because my conscience tells me so I believe that God will get them a preacher to tell them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ all
right I know that didn't satisfy no it it's just such a limited view of human history but thank you Bill Gates went to a shopping mall in Seattle and he gave 10 people a million dollar each and America responded by saying hey you should give a million dollars to everybody at that mall and every other Mall in the country not why because Bill Gates doesn't have to give anything to anybody nor does God have to provide salvation for anyone anytime God Saves anybody it is a magnificent gift of kindness
