Some FACTS About Heaven Heaven is a Real Place made for Real People I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. Rev 21:3

Video: Right Now Media Drive-In

Some FACTS About Heaven Heaven is a Real Place made for Real People Heaven is a Prepared Place for Prepared People My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?  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. John 14:2-3

Some FACTS About Heaven Heaven is a Real Place made for Real People Heaven is a Prepared Place for Prepared People Heaven is a Restored Place for a Renewed Earth Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.  I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Rev 21:1-2

Video: Cell Phones in Church

Some FALLACIES About Heaven Heaven is a Reward I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. Rev. 21:22-25 Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End Rev. 22:12-13

Some FALLACIES About Heaven Heaven is a Reward Heaven is our Hope but not our Certainty Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life…Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. 1 John 5:12-13; Acts 4:12

Some FALLACIES About Heaven Heaven is a Reward Heaven is our Hope but not our Certainty Heaven is more Spiritual than Physical The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. Rev. 21:15-17

Some FOCUS-POINTS because of Heaven Heaven is Secured by Jesus not by Me To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. Rev. 1:5-6

Some FOCUS-POINTS because of Heaven Heaven is Secured by Jesus not by Me Heaven is Shaped by My Choices Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21

Video: Earthquakes

Some FOCUS-POINTS because of Heaven Heaven is Secured by Jesus not by Me Heaven is Shaped by My Choices Heaven-Mindedness Soothes my longing Soul  For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.  Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling. 2 Cor. 5:1-2