“Don’t you worry about me! I’ll slip into heaven with the crowd someday.” So answered a careless -no, reckless - young man when I urged on him the necessity of being converted before it was too late.
I replied, “Friend, you have mistaken the place; the crowd is on the way to hell! If you slip in with the crowd, you will slip into hell. The Bible says, ‘Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it’ (Matthew 7:1314).”
He had not thought of that. Have you?
Salvation is an individual, personal thing which each soul must receive for itself alone. Before your soul enters the gates of heaven, you must pass through the strait gate of conversion and onto that narrow way which leads to it.
Yes, it must be conversion - not reformation - a real turning to God. Instead of climbing the ladder of self-righteousness, it is far better to come down to the bottom and take the place of a helpless and lost sinner. Jesus only came to save the lost, so if you refuse to take that place, you miss the Saviour.
Faith in Christ alone saves the soul. Do not add your works. “By grace are ye saved through faith . . . not of works” (Ephesians 2:89).
Are you going with the crowd? Beware of the crowd! Single yourself out and take “the gift of God . . . eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)).