Good Intentions Don’t Count

Revelation 20:12 records the dead were judged according to the things written in The Books, each according to the deeds he had done.image

We’ve all been the victims of someone’s good intentions. Likewise we have all been the perpetrators of failure but with good intentions.

Believing in God without obeying God is like living in a perpetual state of good intentions.

God however will measure us not by our intentions but by our actions.

The Christian message is that no person is capable of doing enough to earn their way into heaven.

God’s standard is perfection and none of us, no matter how hard we try, accomplish that. Only one person ever lived perfectly and He was sacrificed as the punishment/payment for all of us who failed to do so. While His payment is appropriated to all those who believe in Him making them now acceptable to God, the Savior’s command for those who believe is to follow Him.

His beloved disciple said we must walk as Jesus did. Jesus came to serve and not be served placing the will of the Father above His own epitomized on the night of His arrest when He pleaded for mercy yet gave Himself fully to the will of God the Father.

God is recording the deeds of people just as He recorded in the Bible His own deeds for people.

Each person will be rewarded for those deeds whether heaven with God or hell with all those who rejected God.

Those with good deeds are those who trusted Jesus as their Savior then followed Him by making the will of God and the work of God their highest priority.

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