Heaven and Hell: Week 2
The Hope of Heaven
Pastor Chris Pratt
Part of Heaven and Hell
May 26, 2025



Heaven and Hell: Week 2 • The Hope of Heaven • May 25, 2025

: the literal place where , where born again believers go when they die or when Jesus returns, whichever comes first.

Two Lies about Heaven

Lie: Heaven can and you have .

Lie: Most people are to and all lead there.

We may want to go to heaven , but our hearts don’t drift toward heaven .

Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many are on it. But narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Heaven is not our . Because of sin, is our .

: the grave; the place of the dead.

Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’

Your on to follow or reject Jesus determines your !

Heaven isn’t filled with people. Heaven is filled with people.

Ephesians 4:8-10 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

in will be far better than on .

What will heaven be like?

In Heaven, we will one another, we will and be .

Heaven will be the most place you will EVER see.

In Heaven, you will have and .

Heaven is the presence of everything , and .

In Heaven, you will see God’s and see face to face.

Philippians 1:21-24 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.

God has given on to with .



May 2025 Memory Verse

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7








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