We need to seek and obey God to have a good chance of being chosen. We need to believe in Jesus to be saved. Believing means sincerely following and doing what God commands, or at least honestly trying and seeking to do it.
Seeking and doing his will should be first priority. It is a life of self denial, where everything you do or receive should be for his purpose, and not for your own. If you are chosen and living for Jesus, the life to come will be Heaven. It will be Hell, a choice of eternal separation from God if you are not. You should not be part of the things that are highly esteemed among men in this world, such as keeping excess money for yourself to use on your pleasures.
There is a glorious future in Heaven but no happy future on Earth. Your focus should be on eternal things and not on earthly things.To be a Christian you must hate sin, not take pleasure in it, and ask for God's help not to do it. We have all sinned. Therefore we must confess and seek forgiveness with a desire to repent, which is turning from sin. Even as a Christian you are tempted by evil, and can fall down. Our priority should be to try to spread God's word to others either indirectly or directly.
Don't look to people who call themselves Christians today as examples, as probably only a very small percentage of them are true Christians.
Seeking and doing his will should be first priority. It is a life of self denial, where everything you do or receive should be for his purpose, and not for your own. If you are chosen and living for Jesus, the life to come will be Heaven. It will be Hell, a choice of eternal separation from God if you are not. You should not be part of the things that are highly esteemed among men in this world, such as keeping excess money for yourself to use on your pleasures.
There is a glorious future in Heaven but no happy future on Earth. Your focus should be on eternal things and not on earthly things.To be a Christian you must hate sin, not take pleasure in it, and ask for God's help not to do it. We have all sinned. Therefore we must confess and seek forgiveness with a desire to repent, which is turning from sin. Even as a Christian you are tempted by evil, and can fall down. Our priority should be to try to spread God's word to others either indirectly or directly.
Don't look to people who call themselves Christians today as examples, as probably only a very small percentage of them are true Christians.
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