DO ONLY SAINTS GO TO HEAVEN?

DO ONLY SAINTS GO TO HEAVEN?

BY DR MERVYN ABREO

          First of all we have to get the correct Biblical perceptive of what a ‘saint’ really is. And we do so by erasing the incorrect picture we may have wrongly developed inadvertently.

         
              Normally people imagine a saint to be someone who had led a holy, sinless life, away from even the clean healthy pleasures of this world, who prays and meditates all the time, enduring his or her days in penance and sacrifice. Saints are normally portrayed with a bright light or halo around the head.

          The Biblical definition of a saint is different! Anyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, that is any ‘born-again’ Christian, is a saint! This excludes everyone else, including those born into a Christian home, until they become true Christians after they reach the age of reason and make a voluntary decision for Christ! Therefore this definitely excludes even those so called holy persons described in the previous chapter. And you definitely do not have to die to become a saint! Not a physical death but when you die to self, and give your life to Jesus, it is then that you become a saint!

          A saint is the common ordinary person you probably brush shoulders with every day, as long as they are true Christians. That is why, when Paul or Peter addresses the ordinary Christian as saints, when addressing them in their letters in the New Testament.

           King David, in the psalms, inspired by God said, “As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all My delight.” (Psalm 16:3).

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