A Heavenly Home

Maud church of ChristBy Jim BradshawSunday Evening, June 1, 2014

Revelation 21:1-5

A Heavenly HomeJoh 14:1-3 ESV "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. (2) In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? (3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).

A Heavenly HomeRev 21:1-5 ESV Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. (2) And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (3) And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. (4) He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." (5) And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).2. Dwelling place of God.3. God will wipe away every tear.4. No Death5. No Mourning6. No Crying7. No Pain8. All things made new

A Heavenly Home2Pe 3:10-13 ESV But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. (11) Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, (12) waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! (13) But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).2. Dwelling place of God.3. God will wipe away every tear.4. No Death5. No Mourning6. No Crying7. No Pain8. All things made new9. Where righteousness dwells

A Heavenly Home1Th 4:14-18 ESV For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. (15) For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. (16) For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (17) Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (18) Therefore encourage one another with these words.

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).2. Dwelling place of God.3. God will wipe away every tear.4. No Death5. No Mourning6. No Crying7. No Pain8. All things made new9. Where righteousness dwells10. Always be with the Lord

A Heavenly HomeRev 21:22-27 ESV And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. (23) 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. (24) By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, (25) and its gates will never be shut by day--and there will be no night there. (26) They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. (27) 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.

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).2. Dwelling place of God.3. God will wipe away every tear.4. No Death5. No Mourning6. No Crying7. No Pain8. All things made new9. Where righteousness dwells10. Always be with the Lord11. God to light the way12. Nothing unclean13. Only those written in Lamb’s Book of Life

A Heavenly HomeRev 22:1-5 ESV 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 (2) 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. (3) 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. (4) They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. (5) 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.

A Heavenly Home1. Prepared for Disciples (believers; followers).2. Dwelling place of God.3. God will wipe away every tear.4. No Death5. No Mourning6. No Crying7. No Pain8. All things made new9. Where righteousness dwells10. Always be with the Lord11. God to light the way12. Nothing unclean13. Only those written in Lamb’s Book of Life14. Location of tree of life15. No more curse16. Beautiful (Rev. 21)