this might shock you but you will one day die and the soul of a man the soul of a woman goes on and on and on for all of eternity in either heaven or hell so i'm going to give you today three sure signs that you can know a hundred percent you're going to heaven but before i give you the first sign you need to know this one of these signs is more vital than all of them put together and if you have this sign in your life you can be sure that you are a
citizen of heaven number one you have growing pains the bible says for the desires of the flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh for these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do hey now do you want to know if you're going to heaven will you need god's stamp of approval what's god's stamp of approval it's the holy spirit the bible says we are sealed with the holy spirit until the day of redemption just like a king would seal a
letter with his signet ring to say yes you're sealed you're stamped you're under my rule so when a man or woman puts their faith in jesus christ they get this wonderful deposit of the holy spirit that lives within them so how do you know if you've got the holy spirit living inside of you well i'll tell you how you know you'll know because there will be a battle that is going on you see the holy spirit hates sin he is pure he is holy he is lovely but you and i also have a flesh that
loves sin and so every single day the holy spirit is trying to make you grow more like jesus christ but the flesh is trying to drag you down into the ways of sin and to the ways of the devil and every single day the flesh and the spirit will lock antlers they'll be at loggerheads with one another fighting against one another just like when an athlete or a bodybuilder wants to build some muscle they have to tear their muscles as a pain there's a growing pain so when a man or woman is saved they will
feel the growing pains as they grow more like their savior the lord jesus christ they will feel this pain as the flesh fights back you see the unbeliever doesn't care when they sin they don't feel defiled when they see something unclean before their eyes they don't feel grieved when they hear someone say omg the unbeliever doesn't care when someone gossips they don't feel guilty about a lie no they love it because they are a slave to sin but the believer is under new marching orders and they have a new master and they want to obey
him the king of kings and the lord of lords so over to you do you think number one is the most crucial sign that a person is going to heaven we're gonna find out a little bit later on number two you are growing in grace psalm 84 verse 7 says this they go from strength to strength till each appears before god in zion now maybe you'll disagree with me on this but i think kamoto for us as christian should go something like this i'm not what i should be but praise god i'm not what i
once was and the problem with you and i is we can be so impatient with our own sanctification don't expect a perfect kind of repentance instantly you know when we first become christians we're not like those sorts of instant lattes where you put a bit of powder in a cup you pour boiling water and there you are you have a latte in front of you no it's a long process where we become more like jesus christ but the main thing is this are we growing when i was at school i had one pretty big goal
in life and it was this i wanted to be able to dunk a basketball in the hoop but i had a big problem i was one of the shortest boys in my class so what did i decide to do well i got a pencil and one day i stood against the wall inside my bedroom and i marked a line and put the date next to it and then every day i would measure myself against this line and what do you think started to happen eventually that line got higher and higher and higher but i never
ever was able to dunk a basketball even to this date now but the important thing was this not that i could dunk but that i was actually growing and my dear friends the important thing is not that you are perfect right now but you're growing every single day so be encouraged if you can look back and see this is what i was like before i knew jesus christ and this is what i'm like now you should rejoice that god is doing a work of sanctification in you and that is a sign that you're going to
heaven so hey now do you think number two is the most important sign that a person can be sure they're going to heaven we're gonna find out in just a moment's time number three you are grounded in christ for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life you know i was thinking the other day is there anyone in world history who i could really build my life upon so i thought okay michael jackson literally hundreds of thousands maybe even millions
of people worship michael jackson but you hear the stories that have happened behind the scenes in michael jackson's life and you have to ask the question is he someone i could follow cristiano ronaldo today millions of young men absolutely adore cristiano ronaldo they look up to him and then again you hear the stories the scandals the things cristiano ronaldo's done in his past and you think is he a man worth following and then we look at oprah winfrey a woman who many love to listen to who would see her as a woman who has many
wise things to say but when i listen to oprah winfrey i hear her say things that would give me the impression that she is just as clueless as the rest of us no my dear friends when i look around at the millions and billions of people who've walked on this earth there is not one man not one woman who i could build my life upon except for the god-man jesus christ look here's how it works in the old testament we read about the old covenant the old ways where in the temple there was this great
big veil which behind the veil was the holy of holies where the very presence of god was and there was only one person who was allowed to go behind that veil and that was the high priest and he couldn't just go in every day no there was only one day a year he could go behind the veil and that was on the day of atonement and he couldn't just enter as he was no he had to take a sacrifice of blood he had to take a blood offering for the atonement of the sins of the
people and only then only then once he had the blood could he then enter into the presence of god and let's just stop there for one minute because i need to tell you something you don't realize and i don't realize just how ugly our sins really are before the sight of god they are repulsive before him the bible says that no unclean thing can enter into the presence of god and we are so dirty we are so sinful and when god looks at us he sees all of this horrid horrid unrighteousness and to be honest
with you it disgusts him he loves the sinner but he hates the sin and our sin have separated us from god that's what the veil was all about it separated us it separated man and god from one another if you and i entered behind the veil as we are we would be totally consumed because our sin is so unworthy before the holiness of this holy holy god but do you want to hear something beautiful we also have a high priest and that high priest didn't enter into the holy of holies with an animal sacrifice of
blood he came before god with his own blood whom i talking about jesus the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world when jesus christ was nailed to that cross when he shed his blood he came before the presence of god as a sacrifice for our sins and god on the cross poured out all of his wrath he tormented jesus christ not because christ had done anything wrong because as i said earlier our sins are so ugly and here's the wonderful news when jesus christ breathed his last breath do you know what
happened in the temple of jerusalem the veil at the top of the temple was torn in two what was that a statement of the way is open this great high priest the lord jesus christ has been the mediator between god and man this big separating gap between us and god which is our sin has been removed the price has been paid it's been punished it's been taken away it's been dealt with and now we can enter into the presence of god because we have the blood of jesus christ washing away our sins and my question
to you is this have you been washed in the blood of the lamb has jesus christ paid for your sins and are you now able to enter into the presence of god if the answer is no and you haven't yet trusted in jesus christ as your lord and savior i urge you today don't put it off and come to him today find forgiveness of sins and eternal life so i haven't yet told you which of these three signs is the most important well of course it's number three jesus christ is the bridge between man and
god between earth and heaven just like jacob's ladder how he had that dream and he could see this great big ladder and it was leading up to heaven well that's christ jesus and once you're on that ladder you are going to heaven once you have put your faith in the lord jesus christ he will ensure that you get to the shores of heaven safely but i do wonder now if anyone's thinking well why would i want to go to heaven what is heaven like well if you want to know the answer to that click this
video and if you haven't yet subscribed please do we'd love your friendship here off the curb ministries
