How Good Is Good Enough? How Bad Is Too Bad? (Packet of 100, KJV)

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Many people, while admitting they have sinned, think that they are still good enough to go to Heaven on their own merits. Others think they have sinned so much that they are too bad to go to Heaven.

HOW GOOD IS GOOD ENOUGH?

Just how good does a person have to be to earn eternal life and live forever in Heaven? According to God's standard (the only standard that really counts) a person would have to live an absolutely perfect life to earn eternal life. Not one lie; not one bad thought; not one disrespectful word to their parents, etc. Perfect.

Do you think you have fulfilled and maintained this strict standard? Romans 3:19 says, "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." Wow! The whole world stands guilty before God. No one can argue that they have lived a perfect life. No one ... not you, not me, no one.

We don't like to think about it, but it's true ...we all have sinned (Romans 3:10, 23). But, you may say, "I've never committed any terrible sins. I've been pretty good." Perhaps you are right, but is pretty good, good enough? NO, it's not! In fact, some sins that we consider minor are really major in the Lord's eyes. Have you ever murdered anyone? Consider this: "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15). Could it be that we are greater sinners than we realize? Could it be that we are not all that good after all? We need to keep in mind that, "The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward ...