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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
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THE MAJORITY OF Americans seem to believe that all a person has to do in order to go to heaven is be a “good person…”
Sure, rapists, drug pushers, and child molesters will be lost; Hitler and Osama bin Laden will go to hell for sure; but if you try to be a “good person,” you’ll surely be in heaven.
While it is commendable to be good, of course, our goodness alone is insufficient. Cornelius is an example. He was a “devout man…feared God with all his household…gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always” ( Acts 10:2; cf. v. 22). A very good man! Yet, he needed to hear words by which he and his household would be saved ( Acts 11:13, 14; cf. Matt. 19:17-23).
We cannot get to heaven by our goodness alone.
(Wade Webster)
“So He said to him,
‘Why do you call Me good?
No one is good but One,
that is, God…'”
~Matt. 19:17~
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