{"id":6801,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/sermon-is-heaven-wide-open\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:41","slug":"sermon-is-heaven-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/sermon-is-heaven-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon: Is Heaven Wide Open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on the requirements to get to heaven.               Luke 13:23-30<\/p>\n<p>                           IS HEAVEN WIDE OPEN?<br \/>\n                           ====================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Heaven is great!  But who gets there?<br \/>\n         A. Glenn Gunderson&#8217;s heaven series for our revival weekend.<br \/>\n         B. Most Americans are confident of their destination.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Jesus was not as gracious as most Americans.<br \/>\n         A. He is questioned by someone who must have been a Baptist.<br \/>\n         B. How can people get into heaven?<br \/>\n             1) Roman Catholics emphasize personal good deeds for salvation.<br \/>\n             2) Evangelicals (at least most of them) still emphasize faith.<br \/>\n         C. A genuine relationship with Jesus is the ticket to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>   III. What is necessary for salvation.<br \/>\n         A. Believe.<br \/>\n         B. Repent.<br \/>\n         C. Live with confidence in your Savior.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Heaven may be closer than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on the requirements to get to heaven. Luke 13:23-30 IS HEAVEN WIDE OPEN? ==================== I. Heaven is great! But who gets there? A. Glenn Gunderson&#8217;s heaven series for our revival weekend. B. Most Americans are confident of their destination. II. Jesus was not as gracious as most Americans. A. He is questioned by someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581,1481,2396,86,2397,724,387,176,893,430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}