1. “The Truth Concerning Heaven!”
(TRUTH MATTERS)
“The Truth Concerning Heaven!”
Revelation 21:1-4; 22:1-5

2. The hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby gave us more than 6,000 songs and hymns. Although blinded by an illness at the age of six weeks, she never became bitter…

3. Though false concepts of what heaven will be like prevail… Heaven will be a wonderful place!

4. to better understand the truth concerning heaven
Purpose:
to better understand the truth concerning heaven

5. I There Will be Matchless Beauty

6. We live in an absolutely gorgeous world!

7. I There Will be Matchless Beauty
A. Revelation 21 & 22 Make This Clear

8. Outside appearance will be unmatched… (An artist’s depiction of what the New Jerusalem will look like with walls of Jasper)

9. Revelation 21:10,11
“And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper.”

10. Ever notice how gems and jewelry stores display their product
Ever notice how gems and jewelry stores display their product? Stones are usually placed under light with dark background…

11. Revelation 21:27
“… nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

12. I There Will be Matchless Beauty
A. Revelation 21 & 22 Make This Clear
B. Our Lord Has Prepared a Place

13. Unlike any place we can imagine, heaven is a prepared place…

14. II There Will be Endless Time

15. Revelation 22:5
“And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.”

16. II There Will be Endless Time
A. We Shall Reign Forever
B. We Shall Have No Time Limits
C. We Shall Have Forever

17. We shall never again sense the pressure of fleeting days, hours and minutes… i.e. time pressure!

18. III There Will be Total Satisfaction
A. Made to Know, Worship and Serve Our God
B. We Long for Perfect Knowledge, Worship and Service

19. Only in eternity, in His presence will we ever really know real satisfaction!

20. Fanny Crosby had a hymn for years that was so personal to her she kept it totally to herself. Kenneth Osbeck, author of several books on hymnology says this hymn’s revelation to the public cam about in the following manner…

21. Conclusion and Summary “And I Shall See Him Face to Face”
Someday the silver cord will break, And I no more as now shall sing; But oh, the joy when I shall wake Within the palace of the King!
And I shall see Him face to face, and tell the story – saved by grace; And I shall see Him face to face, And tell the story – saved by grace.