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ENJOYING FOREVER…!

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

MY LIFE VERSE: PSALM 27:4

A Bible verse speaks to each of us in a different way at different times in our lives. While the verse itself has only one meaning – (that which the Lord meant to say) – each verse speaks to us differently, depending on our circumstances at the time we’re reading it! This is the amazing thing about the Living, Breathing Word of God! There is no other Book like it, at any point in human history.
Some folks have a “Life verse”, that which defines us and our walk with the Lord. The verse is also representative of our thinking and where we are at our sanctification. Our favorite verse could even show if we are being transformed into the image of His Wonderful Son Jesus…or do we think more in the flesh!  So without further ado, I wish to introduce you to my Life verse….what it says; what it means and how Scripture further interprets Scripture. My Life Verse looks forward to eternity and expresses my gratitude and total joy at just being allowed to be in the Presence of the Living God!
Now, my friends, is there any better thing you can think of?! Read on….

WHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE?

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Yesterday we saw in our verse (10) that Abraham was looking CONFIDENTLY forward to the Eternal City of God, whose very Foundations were designed, constructed and appointed by the Lord.  In the verse, the Bible uses the word CONFIDENTLY for a reason. Confidence is derived from two words: con (with) and fide (faith). Therefore, it is WITH FAITH that Abraham anticipated.

When Old Testament (or pre-Calvary) saints died, they went directly to Paradise. Christ called it “Abraham’s bosom” which is a place of Comfort and Rest for those who died in Faith. They obviously did not have a chance to believe in and accept Jesus as Lord of their lives, because He was not crucified on the Cross yet. Jesus’ death on the Cross made atonement for every believer from Adam until the end of time.

Several passages in the Bible describe what Heaven is like. The goal of this message is not to look into every passage on heaven but to give the flavor of the Eternal City. But I must tease with this verse from Isaiah 35:5 NASB “A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it”. 

Wow! This is an important verse because it prophesied over 700 years before Christ, just who is going to be a resident of the eternal city of God. From here on out, the Bible describes the City, which both Abraham and John the Apostle were allowed to see, according to the Word of God.

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