Gospel

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Yes, it's true. People who feel confident that they are worthy of heaven, that they deserve to be in heaven, will surely not go there. You ask: "Why?"

Answer:

Because salvation and eternal life are not given to those who deserve it. All are sinners and therefore deserve to be condemned. People who feel that they are worthy of heaven, that they deserve it, are trusting in their own worth.

They are trusting and relying on themselves. They are not trusting and relying on the Savior and what He did on the cross.

Ac 16:30 And he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
31 So they said, "Believe (trust or rely) on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved...

Salvation is by trusting and relying on the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for our salvation. It is not by trusting and relying on ourselves. It is not by being confident of our worth before God. Salvation is given as an undeserved favor (grace). It is offered to those who do not deserve it in the first place.

One of the first steps to salvation is to acknowledge that you don't deserve it at all to begin with.

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