How To Get On The Plane

 Disclaimer: Obviously I am not an actual angel. However, I feel like God speaks to my heart and I would love to share it with you. Please enjoy.

So, last week I talked about needing to have a belief in God that causes us to get on the plane. After all, sitting in the airport believing the plane you are looking at will take you to England while you are sitting there watching it leave will get you nowhere. We certainly don’t want to be left behind when our spiritual plane leaves for Heaven.

I can’t tell you how many times I have had people tell me they have always been a good person so they will go to Heaven. But, the Bible says we cannot be good enough to get ourselves to Heaven.

That would be because God says we have no goodness in us. All goodness comes from God. Even the word good is a takeoff of the word God. By the save measure, evil is a takeoff of the word devil.

If you think about the unbelievable intelligence it took to create the whole universe and everything in it so that it all works perfectly together, it is mind blowing. Even the most brilliant mind who has ever lived wouldn’t have had a clue where to even start, and they certainly wouldn’t have been able to create anything out of nothing. So that leaves us with God creating it all being the only possible way it happened.

If we could get to Heaven by being a good person, do you really think God would not have been smart enough to realize that. Do you even slightly believe He would have been foolish enough to not realize He didn’t have to leave the glories of Heaven to come down here, be hated by most of the people He had created, and allow them to brutally crucify Him so we could be saved?

If it had been as simple as that He would have just sat on His throne in Heaven and told us to behave, and that would have been that. We would have been on the plane.

So how do we get on the plane?  It is actually very easy when we decide to do it.

We have to understand that sin required a sacrifice of perfect blood. Nothing less could wash away our sin.  The blood of every human being who has ever lived, or will ever live is tainted with sin because Adam and Eve fell to temptation and brought sin into their blood. That dirty blood will continue to pass on from generation to generation unending until Jesus returns and takes us away.

Until Jesus came to earth people had to sacrifice an unblemished lamb. That lamb’s blood symbolized Jesus’ perfect blood that would be shed for our sin. All the lamb’s blood could do was cover our sin until Jesus came to shed His blood to cleanse our sin.

When Jesus died on the cross, He became the perfect sacrifice eliminating the need for lambs being sacrificed from then on. When He rose from the dead He became the ultimate priest, thus eliminating the need for priests. They had been the mediators between people and God to get their sins forgiven. Now Jesus is our only mediator between us and God the Father. After Jesus rose from the dead you never see a priest mentioned in the Bible. From then on people could tell us about our sin and how to be forgiven, but they had no authority to forgive sin. Only Jesus can do that.

The Bible tells us to confess our sin to no man. That does not mean to never admit to any human being that we have committed a sin. It means not to confess our sin to another human thinking they have any authority to forgive that sin. They do not.

The only one we confess our sin to and ask forgiveness is Jesus. He takes those requests to God the Father. God the Father grants every repentance Jesus brings to Him because Jesus sees into our hearts and knows if we are sincere or just trying to bluff our way into Heaven. If a person is not sincere and truly repentant of their sin Jesus will not mediate for them. Therefore, only a true repentance is presented to God and He will always forgive.

True repentance comes from the hearts of people who truly want to turn from their sin and follow Jesus. Anyone who simply wants to escape hell but make no change in their life is only apologizing. The only thing that does is soothe their conscience and give them a false sense of security. They are still on their way to hell. The word repent means to turn around and go the other way. To repent means to apologize for your sin, but then to also turn your life around and follow Jesus.

To become a Christian, or get on the plane, we must understand the salvation Jesus created by dying on the cross and rising again. We must accept that salvation as the only way to forgiveness of our sin. If we are sincere, our sins will be forgiven. However, do not underestimate God. He knows whether or not we are sincere. That repentance must be followed up by us living our life for Him. Will we stumble along the way? Of course. But, it is not about how many times or how hard we fall.

The Bible says if we repent and endure to the end, we will be saved.

So, there you have it. Truly repent and let Jesus take control of you life and guess what. You’re on the plane.

Think about it.

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