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THE VICTORIOUS KING. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE?. A BIBLICAL ANTICIPATION OF HEAVEN. SCRIPTURES. Revelation 21:1-7 Hebrews 9:27 II Corinthians 5:17 Matthew 5:3-12; 19:28 II Peter 3:10-13. BIG IDEA.
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THE VICTORIOUS KING THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST
WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE? A BIBLICAL ANTICIPATION OF HEAVEN
SCRIPTURES Revelation 21:1-7 Hebrews 9:27 II Corinthians 5:17 Matthew 5:3-12; 19:28 II Peter 3:10-13
BIG IDEA Heaven is the long foretold, greatly dreamed of fulfillment of God’s wonderful plan for our lives.
PROPHETS ENVISIONED IT Isaiah 43:18-19; 60:11-22 Ezekiel 48:31-35
CITIZENS OF THE NEW CITY • God’s People (1-5) • Satisfied People (6) • Overcoming People (7-8)
“Here in this world and amidst the things of time our realization and experience of the presence of God is a spasmodic, a fleeting, a transitory thing, which come and goes, at the mercy of our own changes and of the chances and changes of life…cont.
…But life in heaven will be nothing other than life permanently in the presence of God.” Wm. Barclay
THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN HEART SEEN IN HOPE OF HEAVEN. • The unquenchable immortal longings of the human soul. • Our inherent sense of sin and the need to be changed—the inadequacy of life as it is. • Humanity’s default setting of faith in God. There is a certainty that God would not leave us as we are.
“For all men God is the source of being in which they begin and the final goal to which inevitably they go.” Wm. Barclay