No HEAVEN Without SALVATION

 

What’s all this talk about SALVATION?

And all this musing about redemption

What’s all this deliberation about HEAVEN?

And this fuss about the need to be forgiven?

Is there for a fact only one single way?

Aren’t all religions just as effective today?

What is all this talk about being a sinner?

And that from my birth I was in sin a beginner?

Couldn’t I receive this SALVATION if I behave?

Can’t I keep the Ten Commandments to be saved?

And what about Lucifer who is now the Knave?

And in Adam and Eve we all became depraved?

This is more than a mouthful for me to swallow,

My way of reasoning won’t allow me to follow,

Such a bogus story so nonsensical and shallow

That I refuse in such hocus-pocus to wallow.

If this is your stance then a sorry mess you’re in,

There is nothing hocus-pocus about your sin,

The Bible says it’s a fact and we had better believe

That it is only in Jesus that we can be relieved.

I pray today that this is beginning to sink in

How from Adam and Eve we are all born in sin

And it doesn’t matter where we live on this earth

To receive SALVATION there must be a spiritual rebirth.

Don’t dismiss all this yet, certainly not right now

For in the next few stanzas I will show you how

Such SALVATION can be yours and with it HEAVEN

And you can be truly and eternally be forgiven.

All have sinned according to Romans 3 verse 23

And the soul that sins is worthy of death eternally,

That is the sinner’s just recompense, both you and I

So declared the Almighty God and in Him is no lie.

Yet God in His justice also demonstrated His mercy

When Jesus died on the cross for both you and me,

From that day all believing sinners would be forgiven

Everlasting life would be theirs and at last HEAVEN.

  

A believing sinner, is that what I just heard?

Yes you heard correctly and it’s found in God’s Word

That he who comes to Him must believe He exists

For God rewards everyone who Him no longer resists.

So acknowledge that you are a sinner; do it today!

Acknowledge your need of the Saviour; no longer delay, 

Confess your sins to the Father; this is the Bible’s way

Any contrary instruction and you’d still be astray.

Repent of your sins for this is your godly sorrow,

Trust the crucified Saviour and as Lord you must follow,

For with the heart a man believeth unto SALVATION

And the witness of that change is unashamed confession.

You see this SALVATION is not really about a plan

Instead this SALVATION is really about a man,

It is the man Christ Jesus whom his own denounced

But Saviour of the world whom the angels announced.

That is why there is SALVATION in no other name

Read Acts 4:12 and you’ll see it there proclaimed,

Jesus God’s Son bore the cross, the anguish and pain

So that each poor lost sinner could be reclaimed.

A critical point before I bring this poem to an end

Is the serious nature of our sin debt, my friend,

It’s not to be taken lightly as so many do today

As they try to by pass it and come in another way.

There is no change when some claim conversion

Because regarding their sin there was no confession,

Regarding the good news sin is the bad news part

That must be dealt with before the good news start.

There can be no SALVATION unless your sin you confess

Then turning away from such sin is critical I stress,

And accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord

Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in the light of the Word.

Then and only then can you be a candidate for HEAVEN

Being born again you become enlisted in the kingdom,

SALVATION is then yours; there is surely no doubt

SALVATION now and HEAVEN to come; Hallelujah let’s shout!

Stewart Russell © 2016