CAN YOU EARN THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM?

The celestial kingdom will be the residence of those who have been righteous, accepted the teachings of Jesus Christ, and made and lived up to all of the required ordinances and covenants. Individuals may accept and receive these ordinances and covenants either during their mortal lives or in the post-mortal spirit world, where they can accept ordinances performed on their behalf by Latter-day Saints in temples. All children who die before the age of eight automatically inherit the celestial kingdom without the reception of ordinances. The celestial kingdom is the permanent residence of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

(Quotes from Jesus Christ – Summation by the Apostle Paul)

“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48.

➢    Are you more righteous than religious fanatics?
“For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:20.

➢    Have you ever been mad at someone?
“But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.” Matthew 5:22.

➢    Have you looked at someone and wanted that person?
“But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:28.

➢    Have you ever stared at something and wanted it?
“If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” Matthew 5:29.

➢    Have you ever reached for something that wasn’t yours?
“And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” Matthew 5:30.

➢    Have you been through a divorce?
“But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.” Matthew 5:32.

➢    Have you ever tried to impress someone through flattery?
“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37.

➢    Have you ever resisted an evil person?
“But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” Matthew 5:39.

➢    Have you always loved your enemies?
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” Matthew 5:44.

➢    Have you ever donated and let others know about it?
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them.” Matthew 6:1.

➢    Have you ever prayed openly to be seen by others?
“But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6.

➢    Do you always forgive people who have wronged you?
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14.

➢    Are you always happy when you are fasting?
“But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting.” Matthew 6:17-18.

➢    Are you accumulating net wealth here on earth?
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.” Matthew 6:19.

➢    Have you ever worried about food and clothing?
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Matthew 6:25.

➢    Have you ever worried about tomorrow?
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:34.

➢    Have you ever judged someone else?
“Judge not, that you be not judged.” Matthew 7:1

➢    Are you wondering how to be saved despite not being perfect?
When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” Matthew 19:25

➢    Did you know that God has a plan for salvation apart from your good works?
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 6:28-29.

➢    Are you ready to place your sincere faith and trust into Jesus Christ for heaven?
For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:22-26.

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. Romans 4:1-4.

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Galatians 2:15-16.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Ephesians 2:4-9

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 2 Timothy 1:8-11

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-7


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