To be saved you have to believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, confess he is your lord with your mouth, stop practicing sin, be baptized, and remain faithful your first time doing what God wants. Sin for me is doing what god doesn't want or not doing what God wants. You have to give up sin completely and fight sin in your mind. You must control your thoughts.
You have said Jesus Christ is your lord, so listen to him so you can enter heaven, which is his father's kingdom. The only way to the father is through the son. Now, once you do those first four first steps, you start to get transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. You have now become a child of God, and he is nurturing you up into his image. When this happens, the love for the sins you once committed now changes, and you start to hate sin. You are born again after you do the first four steps, and happens after your baptism.
Once you have become a child of God, you can not stop being one. If you go back to sinning, God will not take you back. Not if you go back into a non-Christian-appropriate life. So remember, heaven is not for cowards. Get you bible study on, and figure out all wrongs and all things we are suppose to do. You can't practice sin. If we are faithful but sin God will punish, remember that.
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you,
no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.
And Peter said to them, Repent, and be Baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
11 So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2 peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment)
For as the body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead
Never Stop Your Works Or Salvation Is Gone!
Someone has to do something to all this evil...