How Good is Good Enough? (ESV)

How much time do you spend thinking about eternity? I would guess the average person spends very little time thinking about what happens when they die. The Bible teaches there are only two destinations—heaven or hell. A holding place to pay for wrongs committed is not an option. Roaming the earth as a ghost is not an option. Becoming an angel is also not an option. It is either an eternal bliss spent with the Lord in heaven or an eternal hell as punishment for sins committed. So if these are the only two destinations, how can we know who will go where? Perhaps more importantly, how can you know where you will spend eternity? Most people associate heaven with a standard of good and hell with a failure to meet that standard. So, good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. If this is true, we’ve got to understand the standard of good we need to be measuring ourselves against. James 4:12 says that there is only one lawgiver and Judge, He who is able to save and to destroy. God is t