Justice is demanded.

God is Holy. We are not.

Who could ever claim to be as holy as God?

There have never been any gods before Him nor there be any after Him. God is the only Supreme Being in all existence, places, and time.

“God is perfectly holy. Holiness is moral perfection. It is being perfect as God is perfect. It is being completely righteous... If we sin once, then we could never regain the status of being perfect again. Once you drop and shatter a vase on the floor it can never be made perfect again, no matter how much glue you use. So God requires that we be perfectly holy.” -Dr. C. Matthew McMahon

What I want to get into right now is something called the good test. And the purpose of this test is to find out if you are a good person or not according to God’s standards. Answer the following questions with a tender conscious to determine if you are good enough to go to heaven.

Have you ever told a lie? According to the bible all liars will have their part in the lake of fire, a.k.a hell (Revelation 21:8). Have you ever stolen anything, regardless of the value or how long a go it was? Well the bile says that no thief shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:10). The next question is have you ever looked at someone and had lustful (sexual) thoughts. Jesus said if you have ever looked at someone with lustful thoughts that makes you an adulterer (Matthew 5:28), and the bible says that no adulterer shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). Have you ever used God, Jesus or Christ as a cursed word? If you have taken God’s name in vain, what you’ve done is taken the name of the God who gave you life, who gives you every good thing and brought it down to the level of a four letter filth word. The bible calls that blaspheme and if you have done it that makes you a blasphemer and the bible says he who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death (Leviticus 24:16).

So how are you doing so far? Did you answer yes to the above questions? If so, then by your own admission you are a liar, a thief, an adulterer, and blasphemer and those are only four of the 10 commandments. Have you made a God to suit yourself and your sins, saying something like, "My god is a loving god and he would never send people to hell"? If so, then your god doesn't exist and you've broken the second of the 10 Commandments. Have you ever dishonored your parents? Have you kept the Sabbath day? Have you ever wanted something that belongs to someone else?

If you are honest, then you will admit that you have committed some, if not all of the above sins. We will all stand before God in judgment. You have broken God's Law many times, and God will find you guilty on the day of judgment. And your punishment for your crimes against God will be eternity in hell!

“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God.” From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards

'It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of all mighty God for even one moment. But you will suffer it for all eternity. There will be no end to this intense and horrible misery. When you look ahead you will see along forever and unlimited length of time before you. This will swallow up all your thoughts, it will amaze your soul and you will be in absolute despair of ever being delivered of ever coming to an end or ever receiving any reduction of torment or any rest at all. You will know for sure that you must wear out long ages, millions and millions of ages, in struggling and fighting against this merciless vengeance. WHEN YOU HAVE STRUGGLED AND FOUGHT THROUGH ALL THESE MANY AGES, YOU WILL REALIZE THAT HARDLY A SECOND HAS GONE BY AND ALL ETERNITY REMAINS. Your punishment will be infinite. Oh, who can express the horrible state of a soul in that condition!' paraphrase from Jonathan Edwards’, Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God.

But God has provided a way for you to be forgiven even when you didn’t want that forgiveness.
He sent Jesus Christ, the righteous one, to suffer and die for your sins. He took the punishment that you deserve and He rose from the dead triumphantly, so that there is no condemnation for those who believe but only everlasting joy.

If you want to receive that forgiveness, repent, that means turn from your sins, and trust in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation. Don’t put it off. If you don’t know what to pray, read Psalm 51 and make that your prayer. But whatever you do don’t wait until tomorrow because there may not be a tomorrow.

If God is holy, really holy, and perfectly righteous and the righteousness he requires of his creatures is perfection, what are we going to do? How can an unholy creature stand for a minute in the presence of a Holy Creator? The only way to be saved is through righteousness. What faith does is plug us into the righteousness we absolutely have to have to stand in the face of God.

If I approach God on my own, I am naked. And the metaphor that the bible uses with respect to Christ righteousness is that God covers me with the robe of the righteousness of Christ. So I either stand before God with my own righteousness which is filthy rags or dressed in the righteousness of Christ which alone is sufficient.

Christ lived a perfectly holy life and on the cross transferred that righteousness to us who believe, to our account. I can either stand before God naked in my own righteousness or clothed with Christ’s.

So if you want to stand before God on the strength of your own perfection go ahead, but it's a fool’s error. You will perish before a Holy God.