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What name is it please?

why?

Because if your names not down you’re not coming in.

All these and more for our safety and security, so that we can rest easy in our beds knowing our family is safe, our information is safe, our money is safe, our country is safe, so what goes wrong? People still manage to hack into your social accounts,  bank accounts, get into your hotel room, etc. They even manage to get into places where security is tight, like Buckingham Palace!

Incredibly people will even try to get into heaven without first doing what God says to do. But unlike in the natural world, not one person will succeed in doing so. 

You cannot falsify a security pass to get into heaven, or use someone else’s credentials, you can’t buy a place in heaven, you can’t work your way into heaven. Going to church, reading your Bible, praying, being kind and compassionate, are all good things to do, but good things alone won’t get you into heaven. So what will?

Jesus told Nicodemus that you must be born again, Nicodemus was confused, he didn't realise that he was spiritually dead, and that he could only receive a spiritual birth through repenting of his sins and believing in Jesus. Being a Christian literally means, a follower of Christ. So we no longer follow our own selfish desires, we no longer follow the world and it's ideas. The only people who will go to heaven are those who are born again, and who follow Jesus. Everyone when they are born are spiritually dead, dead in sin, in darkness, and it is only Jesus who can make anyone spiritually alive and free from the bondage of sin and darkness.

The nicest, kindest person in the world is spiritually dead and will not go to heaven unless they repent and follow Jesus, the most evil, nasty wicked person in the world who repents and follows Jesus will go to heaven, their sins are forgiven because Jesus took their punishment on the cross, He died that all who repent and believe would be free, and receive eternal life. 

Warning for Christless Souls

Sentimentality doesn't get you into heaven, the cross of Christ does.

BECAUSE GOD HAS MADE NO PROMISE TO CHRISTLESS SOULS TO STAY HIS HAND ONE MOMENT. God has laid Himself under no manner of obligation to you. He has nowhere promised that you shall see tomorrow, or that you shall hear another sermon. There is a day near at hand when you shall not see tomorrow.

V. IT IS A SORE SLAUGHTER.

1. Sore, because it will be on all who are Christless.

2. Sore slaughter, because the sword is the sword of God.

(R. M'Cheyne.)

Untimely mirth
Lightfoot says: "I have heard it more than once and again, from the sheriffs who took all the gunpowder plotters and brought them up to London, that every night when they came to their lodging by the way, they had their music and dancing a good part of the night. One would think it strange that men in their case should be so merry." More marvellous still is it that those between whom and death there is but a step should sport away their time as if they should live on for ages. Though the place of torment is within a short march of all unregenerate men, yet see how they make mirth, grinning and jesting between the jaws of hell!
( C. H. Spurgeon.)

Ezekiel 21

There is only one way by which man can be saved, saved from sin, saved from guilt and shame, saved from judgement, saved from condemnation, saved from God's wrath. And that is to repent of your sins and put your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.