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 God Wants Us to Be Holy for Our Eternal Happiness ㅡ 

  “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” (Hebrews 12:14)

 Mercy invites us to enter through the gates into the city of God, and justice is satisfied to accord to every obedient soul full privileges as a member of the royal family, a child of the heavenly King. 

  If we were defective in character, we could not pass the gates that mercy has opened to the obedient; for justice stands at the entrance, and demands holiness in all who would see God. 

  Were justice extinct, and were it possible for divine mercy to open the gates to the whole race, irrespective of character, there would be a worse condition of disaffection and rebellion in heaven than before Satan was expelled. 

  The peace, happiness, and harmony of heaven would be broken.

 The change from earth to heaven will not change men’s character; the happiness of the redeemed in heaven results from the character formed in this life after the image of Christ.

  The saints in heaven will first have been saints on earth. 

  (Maranatha 326)