Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15)
It's not rocket science; if you don't keep the commandments, you don't love Jesus...and if you don't love Jesus, the love of God isn't in you. If the love of God isn't in you, you are not a child of God...as such, you do not have eternal life. Pretty simple.
You see, while preachers occasionally preach a sermon on "obedience;" they fail to inform you that disobedience is the road to hell. I mean nobody wants to hear they're going to hell, right?
You may not want to hear it; but unless you repent and get reborn Spiritually, that's where you're headed.
Do Not Be Deceived:
Life and blessing doesn't come from belief in God, it's the result of obedience to God. (Deuteronomy 30:15)
Even demons believe in God...and tremble (James 2:19)
Preachers love to preach an easy way to salvation, just say a little prayer and you have eternal life and the assurance of "heaven;" but that's not what the Bible says.
"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:14) Do you really think God wants a bunch of disobedient lawbreakers ruling his kingdom? If so, you don't know God.
Be careful whom you choose to follow; most preachers are spiritually blind because they haven't been reborn Spiritually...they are only passing on what they learned in Seminary. They are, as Jesus said, blind leaders of the blind...and if the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch.
Trust me when I say that there are going to be a lot of disappointed "Christians" when they reach the pearly gates and hear, "Depart from me, I never knew you."
Until you are reborn Spiritually...nothing else matters.
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