Because what the world says is a Period… is really just a comma

  

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 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. You know the way to the place where I am going.' Thomas said to him, 'Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?' Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'

-John 14:1-6

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. And 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. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.' He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!'…Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.’

-Revelation 21:1-5, 7

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.

-1 Corinthians 2:9

Misconceptions:

1 - HEAVEN WILL BE BORING.

  

Heaven: It’s the absence of evil and the presence of God!

We will know one another; love and be loved.

Heaven will be a place of unimaginable beauty.

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.

-1 Corinthians 2:9

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

-Revelation 21:2

In heaven, you will see Jesus face to face.

You will have new and perfect bodies.

2. THIS WORLD IS YOUR HOME.

  

Their mind is set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

-Philippians 3:19-20

  

For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

-2 Corinthians 4:18

Don’t sweat the small stuff

  

3. MOST PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HEAVEN ANYWAY.

  

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

-Romans 3:23

For the wages of sin is death.

-Romans 6:23

'Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

-Matthew 7:21-23

Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people do.

     

Corrections:

1. LISTEN/REFLECT/PRAY

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A bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.

-Charles Spurgeon

Our habits will make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

-Sean Covey

  

2. DON'T KEEP HEAVEN TO YOURSELF

  

If you believed that there really was a Heaven and there really was a Hell and that someone could go there. How much would you have to hate someone not to tell them?

-Penn Gillette

The best way to store up treasure in Heaven is to invest in people getting there.

-Rick Warren

What you believe about eternity determines how you live today.

  

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry.

  

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual growth.

-Dallas Willard

Turn this Obstacle into an Opportunity.

  

  

  

  

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