Lesson 7

Heaven Part 2

November 20, 2024
Heaven

Suppose your best friend gives you a really expensive gift, like a new bike or video game system. Should you reach into your pocket for some money to help pay for it? Or should you offer to work for it? Maybe you can do some of your friend’s chores. What an insult that would be! If you pay for it or work for it, it’s not a gift anymore. In the same way, we can’t pay for or work our way to heaven. God offers heaven - eternal life - to you and me as a gift!

Heaven Part 2

Heaven Part 2

Heaven is a FREE GIFT!

It can’t be EARNED

It isn’t DESERVED

It is FREE

Ephesians 2:8-9

“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.”

“For by grace you have been saved …"

Grace is when you get something good that you haven’t done anything to deserve. God saved us or provided a way for us to get to heaven, by His grace. He is giving us an incredible gift, and we haven’t done anything to earn or deserve it.

“… through faith …”

The way we receive the gift God is giving us is by having faith in Him and believing that Jesus paid the penalty for our sin when He died on the cross. That is the one and only way to receive this amazing gift.

“...it is the gift of God, not of works…”

Our salvation, eternity in heaven, is a gift from God; we don’t do works to get it. There is no amount of ‘good works’ that we can do to earn our way into heaven. We simply need to accept it as a gift from God to us.

“...lest anyone should boast.”

When we get to heaven, we won’t see a bunch of people running around bragging about how great they were and how many things they did to get themselves there. Nope. Everyone who goes to heaven will be there only because of what God did for them, not because of anything great that they did themselves. No one will be able to brag about getting themselves there. God did all the work for us.

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Worship Songs

"Way Maker"

Memory Verse

“God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. ”
– Ephesians 2:8-9
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