In John 14:1-4 the Lord Jesus declared, “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. And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
We live in the natural world which was created supernaturally [spoke into existence] by the eternal Supreme Being, God in Heaven. We are created by God in a material world, but Romans 1:19-20 tells us, “what may be known of God is manifest in them [those who suppress the truth in unrighteousness about His existence and His Creation], for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” The irreducible complexity of the Cosmos, Light, the Bionetwork and Life show the fingerprints of His intelligent design and sovereign power. You cannot explain away the reality of God’s created visible reality without surpassing the truth. I suggest you don’t because Romans 1:18 proclaims, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
God in Heaven [a real place outside of our dimension of time, space and matter] is in control, active and involved intimately with every part of his Creation. The word Heaven is mentioned almost seven hundred times in the Bible. The 1828 Webster’s dictionary defines “Heaven” as the place: in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. The Hebrews [God’s holy people] acknowledged three heavens; (1) the air or aerial heavens; (2) the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and (3) the heaven of heavens, or third heaven, the residence of Jehovah, the Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven, Creator God. The Christian church may be called a “house of God’, but Heaven is God the Father’s House. The kingdom of Heaven.
Revelation 21:4-5 announces that in Heaven, “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” It is a world that is spiritually clean from the pollution of sin, where evil and wickedness do not exist. Heaven is paradise! But, since all have fallen in sin {because in our sin nature of the flesh, nobody is perfect], the ticket into Heaven is an “if/then” offer from Almighty God by His grace. John 1:12 affirms that all born-again Believer who receive Jesus Christ by faith as Savior and Lord, to those who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God and citizen of Heaven. That’s the Gospel truth!
Jesus explains in John 3:5-7, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’” That is why John 3:16-17 asserts, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” And in John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” In John 11:25-26 Jesus confirms, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Yes, Jesus Christ is the Ticket to Heaven. Got your ticket?
And as Believers in Jesus, we are not citizens of earth who are going to Heaven. We are citizens of Heaven who are traveling through earth. Let that reality change the way you live each day! 1 Peter 1:3-4 affirms, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.”
Deuteronomy 26:15 “Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people.” In Christ, Brian
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