Question 7
The Correct Answer Is: FALSE
Matthew 7:21-23: "21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"
Matthew 22:34-40: "34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.""
Luke 13:3: "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."
Part of the reason that more people aren't becoming followers of Jesus is because they don't know that they need Jesus to begin with. These people might consider themselves to be 'good' people. They might be charitable. They might love their family. They might be active in helping those in their community that need extra help. And then of course, they're not a thief or a murderer, so certainly God must accept them into Heaven, right? The problem is, we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And there's no amount of good deeds that we can perform that will be able to pay for even one sin that we commit. We need a Savior: Jesus. And we need to be obedient to what he told us to do. If Jesus told us to circumnavigate the globe two times in order to be saved, then we'd need to do that. But he didn't do that. He told us to believe in His message, repent of our sins, and be baptized for the remission of our sins, something we'll look more closely at in Lesson 5. What about those other good works? They will be done by those who profess to be Christians as part of obeying God, but unless I obey all of what God says, and become a Christian to begin with, I cannot be saved by those works, because works alone don't save: faith and repentance is required too.