What three simple steps will guarentee you salvation? Is it possible to be victorious over sin even here in this life and if so, how? Don’t miss this critically important, very practical lecture!

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Amazing Facts

Prophecies of Hope

Lowell Hargreaves

26. Modern, Magic, Miracles, and the Occult

27. Revelation’s “Time No Longer!”

28. The Unpardonable Sin

29. God’s Washing Machine

30. What Will Heaven Be Like?

31. Revelation’s Last Plagues

Michael Hargreaves

1. Mysteries of Bible Prophecy

2. Dinosaurs Prove the Bible True

3. Revelation’s Mother of All Battles

4. Revelation’s Omega, The Secret to Personal Power!

5. UFOs, the Occult, and Christ’s Coming

6. The AntiChrist Coverup!

7. Revelation’s Two Martyrs

8. The Topic that Satan Hates

9. $10,000 Offer for Missing Bible Verse!

10. The Bible’s Longest, Most Amazing Prophecy!

11. The Mysteries of the Mummies

12. The Devil’s Door!

13. Revelation’s Lake of Fire!

14. The Three Steps to Heaven

15. Revelation’s Millennium, when the Devil Goes on Vacation!

16. Survival Keys for Revelation’s End-Time!

17. Revelation’s Gateway to a New Life

18. Revelation Exposes the AntiChrist and 666!

19. The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast

20. Revelation’s Woman on the Moon!

22. Modern Prophets Visions and Dreams

25. Haunted House! Satan’s Deadly Trojan Horses!

23. Mystery Babylon, Revelation’s Scarlet Harlot!

21. The Secret to Financial Prosperity

32. Questions and Answers from Prophecies of Hope

Our topic for this morning is 3 steps to heaven.

If I told you you could jump from here to the moon, you'd think I was crazy.

It takes an awful lot of power to get a man or a few men off of planet Earth into space.

And yet we know far beyond the sun, the moon, the stars, is God's home in the universe called heaven.

And there's no spacecraft that will ever be designed that can fly there, and yet, you and I, we can get there by taking just 3 steps, 3 steps to heaven.

Before we look at the 3 steps to heaven, let's ask ourselves what God will not allow to enter heaven.

And we're going to read it from Revelation 21, 27.

Revelation 21, 27, our first text this morning.

And there shall a no wise enter into it, that's heaven, Anything that defiles, neither whatever works abomination or makes a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 22, 14 says, blessed are they that what?

Do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city.

And the Bible told us In Revelation 21, 27, there shall a no wise enter into it anything that defiles.

Now if we could sum up what defiles the world, defiles our lives in a 3 letter word, what would that word be?

And the Bible says in Isaiah 59 verse 2, you're taking notes, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.

Separated from God, separated from life, we die.

So to live in the presence of a holy God, we must have the separation created by sin removed.

Number 1, step number 1 to heaven, we must have our sins forgiven.

Now many people want to know how can they have their sins forgiven.

Well, we want to see there are 3 ways to have our sins forgiven.

This is actually not a complicated process.

This is simple enough even a child could understand.

There are 3 conditions to having your sins forgiven.

Would you like to have your sins forgiven?

Those are the 3 conditions to having your sins forgiven.

And let's look at these, each 1 individually.

Well, the Bible tells us that sin, 1 John 3, verse 4, sin is the breaking, the transgression of the law.

Bible tells us Romans 3, 23, all have sinned.

The penalty for sin, Romans 6, 23, for the wages of sin is death.

We've all broken God's law, and the penalty for breaking God's law is what?

But instead of giving us what we deserve, the penalty, the wages of sin, which is death, God offers us a gift.

Salvation is a free gift, cannot be purchased.

Mark it down, Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace are you saved through faith And that not of yourselves, it is what?

It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

But instead of giving us what we deserve, God offers us the gift of eternal life.

If we earn something, that's what we earn.

But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

How can he offer us life when we deserve death?

When we see God's goodness in offering us life when we really deserve death, God's goodness, God's mercy, God's love toward us leads us to want to repent.

That's the first condition to having your sins forgiven, repentance.

And it is God's goodness that leads us to want to repent.

The Bible says, Romans 2 verse 4, or despise thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance." So it is God's goodness that leads us to want to repent.

But not only did Jesus pay our penalty and take our place by dying our death, the Bible actually reveals to us that our sins killed Him.

Here the apostle Peter is preaching his Pentecost sermon and he says to the multitude, him, that's Jesus, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

So Peter says to the multitude, you crucified the Lord.

Now when they began to realize that, well, reading on, first of all, He continues to say, therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made that same Jesus whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

And when they began to realize back then when Peter said, you killed Jesus, when they began to realize the enormity of their guilt, they said, Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, they were convicted, and they said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

First words out of his mouth, then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized, every 1 of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Repentance is the first condition to having our sins forgiven.

It involves, number 1, sorrow for sin, and number 2, turning away from sin or forsaking sin.

There are many today who are sorry, not that they sin, they're sorry they got caught.

That's like when I was driving, in America 1 time, I was driving too fast, and I got stopped by the police for speeding.

And after the policeman had given me my ticket, my fine, he let me go, and I was driving down the highway slower now and I was feeling sorry.

And the Holy Spirit began to talk to me, Loel, why do you feel sorry?

Are you feeling sorry for breaking the speed limit?

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