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“As Christians, if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most pitiable.”

1 Corinthians 15:19 1 Corinthians 15:19”

“I do not want you to be ignorant of heaven, my brethren. With all of the death, sorrow and discouragement that we all feel, I don’t want you to lose…

sight of a better place to come… Comfort one another with the words of heaven.”

1 Thes. 4:13-18 (Paraphrase)

“For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us.”

Romans 8:18

Florence Chadwick 1952

“If I would have seen the shore, I could have made it.”

Florence Chadwick 1952

Shores of Catalina

Matthew 19:28: “Regeneration”; or “Genesis again”

references to heaven…

Colossians 1:20: “The reconciliation of all things” or “The reconstruction all things back to their original state.”

Romans 8:21: “The glorious liberty” of all creation

references to heaven…

“The whole earth groans and labors as with birth pain to this day.”

Romans 8:22

“There is no element or part of this world untouched by present misery that does not intensely hope for the Resurrection.”

John Calvin

Romans 8:21: “The glorious liberty” of all creation

references to heaven…

Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:41 “Paradise” or “walled garden”

familiar, yet unfamiliar…

animalsrivers

great mountainsgrass

treeswater

assortment of

fruits

foods- eatingcities and stre

ets

gold, pearl

precious stonemusic

laughter

familiar, yet unfamiliar…“[GOD], You have set us over the work of Your hands. You have put all thing in subjection under our feet… But now we do not yet see all things put under us.”

Hebrews 2:7-8

“All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond your consciousness. But the day is coming when you will wake up to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that you have lost it forever.”

Heaven

hell

C.S. Lewis writes:

accountability

“Watch out that no one deceives you. There are countless groups, religious and secular, that will assure you heaven is your automatic destination or that it can be attained by hard work or abstinence of certain sin. This is false- there is no salvation except by Jesus Christ and His redemptive work.”

Randy Alcorn

“It is appointment for men once to die and then the judgment.”

Hebrews 9:27

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