ARE YOU HEAVEN BOUND?   By David J. Riggs

It matters not what else you do in life, if you miss heaven you have been a complete failure. You might gather about you great riches and fame and leave thousands of friends to mourn your departing, but if you are not ready for heaven you have been a miserable failure. On the other hand, you may die in a charity home for the poor and be buried in a potter's field without a single friend to mourn, but if you receive heaven, your life has been a marvelous success.

You can't afford to miss heaven for if you miss it, you miss all. It is the place of eternal rest ) where pain, sickness, and death will not be known.

Heb 4:9-11 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. 11 ¶ Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

(Rev. 21:4). "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away

It is an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,

(1 Pet. 1:4). to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

It is that city built by the living God (Heb. 11:10).

You don't have to miss heaven. Humbly submit yourself to the will of God

(Matt. 7:21). ¶ "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Let His Word guide you (2 Tim. 3:15) and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

and let no one beguile you or your reward (Col. 2:18) Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

. Overcome temptations (James 1:12) Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

and suffer for His cause with rejoicing (Matt. 5:11-12). "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 "Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

If you do these things, heaven will be yours someday for the God of heaven who cannot lie has promised it.

I quote a few words from some of our songs: "I am going to a city where the streets with gold are laid, where the tree of life is blooming, and the roses never fade. Here they bloom but for a season, soon their beauty is decayed; I am going to a city where the roses never fade."

"I am bound for the promised land, O who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land."

"When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun; we've now less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun."

Jesus said in mat 11;28-30 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

Jesus is saying that the bond I place upon you in following me is easy.. it is not a yoke that hard, [ it actually can be a pleasure .] it's easy to be a christian;.And then he said, and my burden light. The load you have to carry in being a christian is light. it's not hard to carry

Bill Conway says

With all the young people getting killed lately, it should wake us all up to the fact that none of us have A lease on life. especially our young people If we are not ready to meet our maker we need to be getting ready.

For an erring child of God that would be acknowledging your err. Confessing that sin in the appropriate manner, and praying to God for forgiveness of that sin.  acts 8;22

If you have never obeyed the gospel, you need to

believe Jn 8:24

repent.. turn from a life away from God to one of obeying Acts 17:30

confess Rom 10:9

be baptized Acts 2:38 and 1Pet 3:21

remain faithful Rev 2:10