Seven Steps To Heaven

A poor woman lay dying, and her troubled soul trembled as she stood on the border-land of eternity with her lifetime of sins to be answered for before a holy and righteous God.
The clergyman was called in, and instead of ministering words of comfort to her troubled soul, he filled her with the greatest dismay by telling her that there were seven steps to heaven.
Seven steps to heaven! For had there been a law which could have given life then righteousness would have come by the law. But that holy law can only bear to the sinner the truth of his hopeless condemnation, since its righteous demands have not been fulfilled or maintained. “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” Romans 3:19
Guilty, condemned! is the sentence passed upon all mankind. And the only means whereby the sinner can escape the terrible judgment which his sins deserve, is by fleeing to the One who once bore the judgment in the sinner’s stead. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is that alone which can place the condemned sinner beyond the reach of judgment. So that there is but

One step to heaven.

And that is out of condemnation into no condemnation. Out of your sins into salvation, Out of self into Christ! “he that believeth on him is not condemned! But he that believeth not is condemned already.”
I you have not taken the step of simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, do so this moment; and hear Him declare that, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:24
No doing of yours can ever save your soul, but the work which the Lord Jesus did on Calvary’s cross, if trusted in, will place you in safety beyond the reach of judgment for ever.
Excerpt from Gospel Stories for the Young (1896)