Cross Community Church
John: Heaven is NOT what You Think (John 14:1-6)
Locations & Times
20739 290th Street Poteau, OK 74953
County Rd, Poteau, OK 74953, USA
Sunday 6:00 AM
John: Heaven is NOT what You Think (John 14:1-6)
4 Promises about Heaven
1. Heaven is a real place. “In my Father’s house are many dwelling places”
o- “Heaven is a beautiful place where you can sit on soft clouds and talk to people who are there. At night you can sit next to the stars. If you’re good throughout your life you go to heaven. Grandma is in heaven. A safe place with the stars. She’s watching us from up there. Heaven, she writes, "is a beautiful place up in the sky, where no one is sick, where no one is mean or unhappy. It's a place beyond the moon, the stars, and the clouds.... Heaven isn't a place you can see.... It's somewhere you believe in." – Maria Shriver, “What’s Heaven”
o - Christoplatonism:The belief that heaven is spiritual and not material.
o - Biblical view of heaven
* The place God has in store for us is a place that we could step into right now and enjoy in every way that we can enjoy this earth, only infinitely more so.
*“The problem is not that the Bible doesn’t tell us much about heaven. It’s that we don’t pay attention to what it tells us.” – Randy Alcorn, Heaven
*“Scripture, in fact, teaches things about the future life that most Christians, and almost all non-Christians, have never heard of.” - N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
o- Principle of Continuity: “The life we now live as the persons we now are will continue in the universe in which we now exist.” – Dallas Willard
2. Jesus is preparing a real place in heaven for you. “I go to prepare a place for you”
3. Jesus will come and take you to that real place. “I will come again and receive you to myself”
4. You will be with Jesus in that real place. “That where I am, there you may also be”
Central Truth: Focus on your future reunion in the midst of your present loss.
4 Promises about Heaven
1. Heaven is a real place. “In my Father’s house are many dwelling places”
o- “Heaven is a beautiful place where you can sit on soft clouds and talk to people who are there. At night you can sit next to the stars. If you’re good throughout your life you go to heaven. Grandma is in heaven. A safe place with the stars. She’s watching us from up there. Heaven, she writes, "is a beautiful place up in the sky, where no one is sick, where no one is mean or unhappy. It's a place beyond the moon, the stars, and the clouds.... Heaven isn't a place you can see.... It's somewhere you believe in." – Maria Shriver, “What’s Heaven”
o - Christoplatonism:The belief that heaven is spiritual and not material.
o - Biblical view of heaven
* The place God has in store for us is a place that we could step into right now and enjoy in every way that we can enjoy this earth, only infinitely more so.
*“The problem is not that the Bible doesn’t tell us much about heaven. It’s that we don’t pay attention to what it tells us.” – Randy Alcorn, Heaven
*“Scripture, in fact, teaches things about the future life that most Christians, and almost all non-Christians, have never heard of.” - N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope
o- Principle of Continuity: “The life we now live as the persons we now are will continue in the universe in which we now exist.” – Dallas Willard
2. Jesus is preparing a real place in heaven for you. “I go to prepare a place for you”
3. Jesus will come and take you to that real place. “I will come again and receive you to myself”
4. You will be with Jesus in that real place. “That where I am, there you may also be”
Central Truth: Focus on your future reunion in the midst of your present loss.