Heaven:

Better Days Are Coming!

Colossians 3:1-4

BIG IDEA:

It does get

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4

BIG IDEA:

It does get better than this!

Life’s troubles

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

II Corinthians 4:16-18

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. Revelation 21:4

Death brings

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot, martyred missionary

“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him…” Philippians 3:7-9a

“Aim at heaven and you’ll get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you’ll get neither.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Our Groom is

“But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” I John 3:2b

BIG IDEA:

It does get better than this!