[Due to to COVID19 restrictions, we are doing things a little differently at Benchley and an audio recording is not available for this lesson. However, the lesson was live-streamed and can be watched below. -MRW]

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

• What do you think your favorite thing will be?

  • Being in the presence of God.

    • Matthew 25:34, 41, 46

    • Matthew 7:23

    • I John 3:1-3 – We will see God as He is!

    • I Thessalonians 4:17-18

  • Being with other saints

    • I Thessalonians 4:15-17

    • Revelation 6:9-11 – This seems to imply that those in the afterlife remembered their lives on earth.

  • No more troubles

    • Luke 16:19-26 – All physical problems will be gone in heaven!

    • Hebrews 4:8-11 – God gave the Israelites rest in the sense of Canaan, but there is a greater rest waiting for God’s people.

    • Matthew 5:11-12

    • Romans 8:18

    • Philippians 3:20-21 – Sin and temptation will be left behind!

• Myths about Heaven

  • It will be boring.

    • James 1:17-18

    • God created everything we enjoy on earth. How much better will Heaven be?

  • It’s not an actual place.

    • Acts 1:9-11; I Thessalonians 4:16 – Heaven is always described as an actual place.

• What all of this means right now.

  • I should be living like a citizen of Heaven!

    • Philippians 3:20-21, 19

    • Colossians 3:2

    • Matthew 6:19

  • Appreciate what Jesus did!

    • Philippians 2:5-11

    • John 17:5