I Can Only Imagine

Heaven

Hell is not a punishment for not being good enough, but a place of eternal self-love

Heaven is not a reward for good behavior, but a place of

eternal re-humanization

“No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who

seek find. Those who knock it is opened.” CS Lewis

I Can Only Imagine

Heaven

This morning I want you to Know something,Feel something and Do something about

Heaven

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.

Col 3:1-2

Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Revelation 21:9 - 22:5(NIV)

This morning I want you to Know something,Feel something and Do something about

Heaven

I want you to Know Heaven is for Real.“No eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.”

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

I want you to Know Heaven is for Real.

“If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.”

Thomas Merton

Our minds simply cannot grasp the Beauty and Glory of God’s Kingdom.

I want you to FEELYou were made for Heaven

Heaven is that remote music we are born remembering.

CS Lewis

We were made for

Joy

We were made for

Glory

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

C. S. Lewis

I want you to live less out of HABITand more out of INTENT

There are no ORDINARY PEOPLE

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit

What You Believe, You Become

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Phil 3:14

Impact this World in Light of the NextIn the same way, let your light shine

before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matt 5:16

Impact this World in Light of the Next“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light”John Falconer

Faith opens the Door,Love walks

through.