
June 25, 2023
QUESTION #1
WILL I ENJOY HEAVEN?
Romans 11:33,36 (ESV) Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways! - For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
Psalm 19:1-2 (ESV) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Psalm 16:11 (ESV)You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
The eternal joy of heaven will be more glorious than anything we enjoy here on earth!
RESPONSE: Live a therefore life
QUESTION #2
WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE?
Genesis 2:15-17 (ESV) The Lord God took man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Genesis 2:24-25 (ESV) Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Heaven will be similar yet radically more beautiful and enjoyable than the Garden of Eden.
RESPONSE: Hope in God, not the Garden
QUESTION #3
WHAT WILL I BE LIKE?
Revelation 7:9 (ESV) After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation from all the tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
1 Corinthians 15:49 (ESV) Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
In heaven, I will have a recognizable yet unique identity, just like my unique identity here on earth, but only far better.
RESPONSE: Live out your purpose on earth
BETTER QUESTIONS
Am I Sure I Will Be in Heaven? (1 John 5:11-12)
Am I Ready to Go to Heaven? (1 John 2:28)
Where Do I Find My Joy Today? (John 15:11)
1 John 2:28 (ESV) And now little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
John 15:11 (ESV) These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Assurance of heaven is available to whoever believes in Christ alone as the Son of God, the Savior of the world.
RESPONSE: Get ready and prepared for heaven