Too Many Want a Jesus Who Saves Them but Doesn’t Change Them

“Whoever says, ‘I know him,’ but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person” (1 John 2:4).

I know very few people who don’t want to go to heaven. Everyone wants to go to heaven.

And the tragic thing is some versions of modern Christianity have given people exactly what they want. The only problem is that what is offered is not true. It simply is not true that all people go to heaven. If that were the case Jesus would have never taken up the cross.

This cheap version of Christianity asks little and demands little. It offers a God who saves and who never asks sinners to change.

THE GOSPEL DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.

Salvation changes our destiny and our identity. Our behavior has to reflect that. And that happens through obedience – when we obey Christ and his commands rather than doing what we want, doing what we think is right, doing what feels good.

It is true that Jesus wants everyone to go to heaven. So Jesus made a way by dying on the cross and offers us eternal life as we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior and commit to submitting to his will and his commands.