In other words, according to the Bible, saying that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven is the same thing as saying that God is the only way to heaven. “I am the first and I am the last besides me there is no god.” So according to the Bible, all people who believe in God believe in Jesus Christ, even if they do not call God Jesus Christ. The message of the Bible is clear: There is one God, and Jesus Christ is that God. (John 14:9)Īnd in John 10:30, he said plainly, “I and the Father are one.” Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. When Philip said to Jesus, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied,” Jesus replied: The context makes it clear that the one who says in Revelation, “I am the first and the last” is none other than the risen and glorified Jesus Christ. If you guessed Jesus Christ, you get a gold star! Guess who the New Testament says is the first and the last? Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first and I am the last besides me there is no god. There’s nothing in the Bible about him being the second Person of a Trinity. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is God. What a glorious future God has prepared for us!ĭon’t let the burdens and hardships of this life distract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promised at the end of our journey: heaven itself.Yes. Is heaven your goal? Are you looking forward to going there? I know I am, and I pray you are too. If you are ever going to live for Christ, it should be now. Peter wrote, “Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming” (2 Peter 3:11-12). Live each day as if it were your last-for some day it will be. Life is short none of us knows how long we have. This leads to a final difference heaven should make: Because heaven is real, we should live every moment for Christ. Heaven doesn’t make this life less important it makes it more important. Every day is a gift from Him and is another opportunity to love Him and serve Him. But when we know Christ, we know life isn’t meaningless, because God has a reason for keeping us here. Before he turned to God, the writer of Ecclesiastes concluded, “Everything is meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). In addition, because heaven is real, our lives have meaning and purpose right now. But our hope isn’t only for this life! In the midst of life’s storms, our hope in God’s promise of heaven is “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (Hebrews 6:19). Paul wrote, “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men” (1 Corinthians 15:19). No matter what happens to us now, we know it won’t last forever, and ahead of us is the joy of heaven. Heaven is real-but what difference does it make right now? Is the old quip true, that Christians are so heavenly minded they aren’t any earthly good? Definitely not-and in face the opposite should be the case.įirst, because heaven is real, we have hope: hope for the future, and hope for our lives right now.
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