Over sixty percent of young people in our churches believe good people go to heaven. Of course, they get this idea not from the Bible, but from pop culture.

You see, Scripture teaches that we’re all sinners and our righteousness is filthy rags. We’re all descended from the first man, Adam, and we’ve all inherited his sin nature. On our own there’s nothing we can do about our sinful state.

But Jesus Christ took our penalty of death upon himself on the cross. He defeated sin and death, and he offers the free gift of eternal life to all who will believe. Good works won’t earn you heaven—salvation is found only in Christ.