John
14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that
where I am, there you may be also.”
Jesus’
promise of eternity in heaven for the Believer is one of the most precious
elements of faith. Everyone admits that “nobody is perfect” and have sinned
sometime in some way, shape or form. But the gospel message is that by the pure
grace of God, while we were still sinners, He sent Jesus to be the sinless atoning
sacrifice for the sin of the world and all sinners. We all have been saved from
the wrath of God, by God Himself, so that we could be reconciled through the substitution
of our sin for His righteousness. In doing so, those who chose to receive that
free gift of eternal life through faith, change their destiny from never-ending
separation from God in the “Lake of Fire” to a mansion in the “Kingdom of
Heaven”, forever with the Lord.
Know
what you have been “saved from”, so that you may understand the full
implications of where you have been “saved to”. The fall of mankind in sin from
the garden of Eden was tremendously great, but the restoring salvation in Jesus
Christ is infinitely greater. No wonder that love, joy and piece are the
natural fruit of the Spirit that flows out of the Child of God. The Lord Jesus
took our place on that cross for the forgiveness of sin, and now He is
preparing a spectacular dwelling place in heaven for us. Then promises to come
again and receive us to Himself, so that we will be with Him always in paradise.
Let
not your heart be troubled; believe in Jesus.
In
Christ, Brian
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