What are God’s requirements to enter heaven?

Hello everyone. I want to address an important issue with respect to believers targeting specific sins of people who are not born again believers in Jesus Christ.

These kinds of discussions are absolutely pointless. I don't mean that in a condescending way however we must fully understand God's requirements to enter heaven for both OT and NT believers.

Here is God's standard:

1. Perfection (equal with God's perfection) - Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Mat. 5:48

Will you please answer this question? Are you as perfect as God is, from conception or from the time you were born again, every second of everyday in all ways? If not, then even if you are a born again believer you still need a Savior or for sinner you too need a Savior however with respect to the believer, our perfection is imputed to us.

Hebrews 10:14

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Col. 1:28

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

2. Holiness (equal with God's holiness) but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15-16

Ephesians 4:20-24

But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man WHICH WAS CREATED according to God, IN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS.

Colossians 1:21-22

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He (God) has reconciled (how Lord?) in the body of His flesh (Christ's) through death, (why Lord?) TO PRESENT YOU HOLY, AND BLAMELESS AND ABOVE REPROACH IN HIS SIGHT.

The believer inherits Christ's holiness through the new birth by the death (blood payment for SIN inherited through conception), burial (separation as payment for acts of SINS via omission, commission, intent, thoughts, and influence), resurrection (life given to the sinner who was lifelessly, hopelessly, and eternally DEAD in trespasses and sins).

3. Glory (equal with God's glory) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23

For those of you who do not know what the glory of God looks like, I will let the scriptures describe it for you. After you read how God describes His own glory, then tell me if your glory is equal to God's.

Exodus 19:16-20

Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Exodus 24:16-17

Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 1:26-28

And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

For the believer, in Christ we have God’s glory imputed to us. He is our only hope of ever obtaining God’s glory.

Col. 1:27

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY.

For the sinner this is unobtainable therefore the sinner will never possess God's glory and will be forever separated from God's glory.

2 Thes. 1:3-10

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. THESE SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND FROM THE GLORY OF HIS POWER, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

4. Righteousness (equal to God’s righteousness) Isaiah 64:6-7 But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Matthew 5:20

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

The righteousness of God is imputed to the believer who is in Christ through faith.

Romans 4:5-8

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin.”

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. BUR OF HIM (GOD) YOU ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO BECAME FOR US WISDOM FROM GOD, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION, THAT, AS IT IS WRITTEN, “HE WHO GLORIES (BOAST) LET HIM GLORY (BOAST) IN THE LORD.”

My prayer is that the LORD God will open hearts and minds so that people will hear and believe the true gospel of Christ and not these false gospels of human effort, wills, and desires. For none of those things will ever take away sin, while at the same time giving the dead sinner the life of God, the perfection of God, the holiness of God, the glory of God, and the righteousness of God.

Why not listen to Jesus - Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matt. 11:28-30

Yet most will do turn to religion and do this:

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40

What does the sinner who is dead – in trespasses and sins need? No tattoos? Attend some religious service? Join some religious organization? Continue in his all-out rebellion against God? Say some sinner’s prayer? Confess sins? Repent? Stop sinning?

What good would any of that do for someone WHO IS DEAD!!!!!! The sinner is DEAD THEREFORE CANNOT pray, confess, believe, repent, attend religious services! Don't you understand that the sinner cannot stop sinning, THAT IT IS HIS NATURE AND NATURAL TO THE SINNER. IT IS ALL THE SINNER CAN EVER DO! Dead means dead!

Will you not listen to the scriptures?

Ephesians 2:1-5

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and WERE BY NATURE children of wrath, just as the others.

Then what does the sinner need? The sinner who is dead in trespasses and sins needs only one thing, LIFE!!!

John 1:4

IN HIM (Christ) WAS LIFE, and the life was the light of men.

John 3:36

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

John 6:47-48

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life.

John 10:10

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 17:1-3

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Friend the sinner needs life. Once the sinner receives life then God will instruct the newly born child of God how to live through His Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God.

Ephesians 2:1

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:5-10

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 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 we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:17-24

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

You and I, along with every other person who has lived, who is currently alive in their bodies, and who will ever live in the future, we are all sinners before a holy God. We all need a Savior. God in His great mercy, love, and grace provided One, HIMSELF in the person of Jesus Christ. God Himself is the only Savior.

I beg you friend, please cry out to Christ for salvation.