As long as lots of people believe like I do, then I’ll be safe when I meet God.
After all, God won’t throw millions of people into hell, will He? As long as I’m no worse than most people, I’ll be safe.
Have you ever had these thoughts? Thomas, a welder, recently said this sort of thing to me. He felt that as long as he wasn’t too bad, God would receive him.
“Don’t forget one thing,” I said to Thomas. “In the days of Noah, God saved only Noah and his family - eight people - and all the rest of the whole world perished in the flood.”
No! There’s no safety in numbers! God has even told us in His Word that strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:1414Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14).) It was God’s own Son, the Lord Jesus, who said, Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. (Matthew 7:1313Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (Matthew 7:13).)
There are many who are on the wide road going to hell, but you don’t have to be one of them! There are “few” entering the narrow way of life that leads to heaven, but you can be one of them! Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. (John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6).)
If you have been hoping to get to heaven just because there are many like you who are “not too bad,” then remember that God cannot have even one stain of sin in heaven. Jesus suffered and died on the cross to take away those sins. The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).)
When you stand before God, He will not look to see if there are many like you. He will look to see if your sins are washed away in the blood of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14:1212So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14:12).) You can be saved and be ready to stand all alone before God if you come to Jesus for salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:1313For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13).)
Don’t count on numbers to save you. It’s Jesus who saves! v
There is none other name
under heaven
given among men,
whereby we must be saved.