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- As believers, we hold the hope of heaven as an anchor for our souls. The gift of Christ paved the way for eternal life. It is a sure, steadfast, immovable hope that helps us to remember that the struggles of this world will pass away, but heaven lasts forever. We don’t have to let the burdens and hardships of this life distract or discourage us.
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- Because Jesus was raised from the dead. No resurrection means no hope, and therefore no heaven—it’s that simple. If Jesus was contained by death, then we will be too; if he cracked the death barriers, then we will too.
- Because God is a God of promise who is faithful to his promises. If you read very far into your Bible, say thirteen or more chapters, you will discover the Promise of all promises.
- Because the Bible’s view of justice is incomplete without heaven. A third element in the case for heaven is what the Bible means by justice, and here I want to briefly criticize the accommodation tendency of too many Christians today to embrace “justice” as defined by the U.S. Constitution.
- Because the Bible says so. We’ve beaten this drum a few times now, but a few more bangs won’t do us any harm. The case for heaven is made not by trusting in near-death experiences or visions, but by trusting the Bible’s words as trustworthy and true.
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In referring to “heaven,” I’m just using the common shorthand term for everything a Christian experiences after the death of our fallen bodies, from the intermediate state (2 Corinthians 5:8) to the resurrection of our bodies (John 5:28–29) and the new creation (Romans 8:18–21) — everything we anticipate in “the age to come” (Luke 18:29–30). In one...
Lewis calls this core desire “the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work” (152). This “unappeasable want” is a daily experience f...
We hear this desire for God throughout the Psalms, especially ones that express the broken emptiness of earthly cisterns: We hear this in their declarations that “a day in [God’s] courts is better than a thousand elsewhere” (Psalm 84:10) and that God was their “exceeding joy” (Psalm 43:4). We see this desire in the prophet Moses, who “considered th...
Few have seen the Heaven of heavens as clearly from Scripture as Jonathan Edwards: This does not devalue the shadows, the scattered beams, the streams of this world. Every good gift comes from God (James 1:17). The gift of himself, however, is what gives every other gift its inestimable value in the first place. They only devalue when separated fro...
Aug 20, 2024 · Scripture consistently teaches the existence of Heaven. We must not let people get by with saying the Old Testament knew nothing of Heaven. “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord...
Oct 16, 2023 · Our lives today should be characterized by the virtues of heaven. The fruit of the Spirit of the age to come can already be tasted in this present evil age. The love which we experience in fellowship today will be one of the few things that we’ll get to carry into eternity (1 Cor. 13:8-13).
Sep 25, 2018 · Because we believe that heaven is real, our lives have greater meaning and purpose right now. When we know Christ, we also know that life isn’t meaningless, because God has a reason and a purpose for each day.
Feb 15, 2023 · The God who made us created us with a longing for Himself and a satisfaction in nothing less. When we get to Heaven, we will finally be satisfied, but not until then. “I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake” (Psalm 17:15). “I go to prepare a place for you,” said our Lord.
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3 days ago · Q: Why won’t God allow everyone to go to Heaven? A: Jesus was “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19). Because of His death and Resurrection, everyone has a right to repent of their sins and receive His forgiveness and eternal life.
