Are you a good person?

Are You a Good Person?

If good people go to heaven when they die, how good do you have to be to be good enough to go to heaven?

God has given ten commandments which reveal His standards.

Ask yourself: have you ever lied about someone, even in ignorance? For example, have you ever said something even slightly untrue about your own parents - putting them down? Then you have broken the ninth commandment, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" and you've also broken the 5th commandment, "Honor your father and mother, that it MAY go well with you." If you've broken these commandments, your own record is already spotted, and you are not qualified on the basis of your goodness to enter heaven.

A good reputation is to be chosen above wealth, according to the Scriptures. So if you have used your tongue to destroy someone's reputation unjustly or falsely, you have done more evil to that person than if you had stolen money from them. How can a righteous God accept your record as being good enough to enter his pure dwelling place?

The seventh commandment says, "You shall not commit adultery". Have you ever had an affair with someone you are not married to? Then you have broken this holy commandment of God. How can a holy God see you as good enough to enter heaven? Perhaps you have never committed physical adultery, but have you ever looked at someone with lust and wanted to have them? Have you ever looked at pornography willingly? Then you've broken God's holy seventh commandment. Jesus said that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28). The world may regard it as a joke, something normal, but God never. He just can't accept this kind of impurity. You will never be able to stand before God based on your own record if you've done this.

Many people not only have looked at pornography on the net, but have actually become in a sense enslaved to it, addicted to it. How can you stand before a Holy God if this is the case with you? You have disqualified yourself from entering God's fellowship based on your record.

The sixth commandmnet says not to murder, but Jesus said that if you are even angry with your brother without a cause you are guilty of this. The spirit of murder has entered you. The apostle John said that he who hates his brother is a murderer, and that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Do you stand as a murderer before God?

You may be religious. The second commandment says not to bow down to and worship any graven image or icon. Your religion may teach you that this kind of thing puts you in touch with the divine, but God regards it as an insult that you could represent divinity by some work of a human craftsman. Likewise worshiping a man or a woman or an animal is a violation of the

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