HEAVEN
IS FOR REAL
BREAD
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God;
trust also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I
would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with
me that you also may be where I am. 4 You
know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 14:1-4 (NIV)
1 The
righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken
away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared
from evil. 2 Those
who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. Isaiah 57:1-2 (NIV)
51 Listen,
I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--
52 in
a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For
the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality. 54 When
the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been
swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where,
O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But
thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore,
my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves
fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is
not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:51-58
(NIV)
13 Brothers,
we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve
like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We
believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with
Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According
to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left
till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen
asleep. 16 For
the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the
voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ
will rise first. 17 After
that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord
forever. 18 Therefore
encourage each other with these words. 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NIV)
2 I
saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And
I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with
men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will
be with them and be their God. 4 He
will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning
or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Revelation 21:2-4 (NIV)
19 “Do
not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy,
and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not
destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
2 “Surely God
is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord,
is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you
will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 12:2-3 (NIV)
BUTTER
“‘Enter ye in at the strait
gate.’ We can only get to heaven through
Jesus Christ and by no other way; we can only get to the Father through Jesus
Christ, and we can only get into the life of a saint in the same way….Heavenly
places in Christ Jesus is where God raises us.
We do not get there by climbing, by aspiring, by struggling, by
consecration, or by vows; God lifts us right straight up out of sin, inability
and weakness, lust and disobedience, wrath and self-seeking – lifts us right up
out of all this, ‘up, up to the whiter than snow shine,’ to the heavenly places
where Jesus Christ lived when He was on earth, and where He lives to this hour
in the fullness of the plenitude of His power.
May God never relieve us from the wonder of it.” Oswald Chambers
“A
little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring
heaven to your soul.” D. L.
Moody
“Taking a stand for Christ is increasingly unpopular in our pagan
and pluralistic society. If you believe that God created the world, that
He is a God of both love and holiness, that Jesus died and rose again for our
sins and is the only way to heaven, and
that we have a responsibility to take that message to a needy world – those beliefs will
vilify you in many segments of our society. Our world is determined to
intimidate, marginalize, and silence Christians. But our goal isn’t
popularity; it’s to know Him and make Him known. We shouldn’t be needlessly offensive, but we shouldn’t be afraid of the
‘offense of the cross’. These are exciting days in which to bear a
witness for our Savior!” Robert J.
Morgan
“Most
of us find it very difficult to want ‘Heaven’ at all – except in so far as
‘Heaven’ means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we
have not been trained: our whole
education tends to fix our minds on this world.
Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us,
we do not recognize it. Most people, if
they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do
want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world
that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.” C.S.
Lewis
“Earth has no
sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” Thomas V. Moore
HEART SAVOR
· Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
· Earth cannot compare to heaven.
· There will be no sorrow in heaven.
