Heaven: a real place to be

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Heaven a real place to be

• Intro CS Lewis The great divorce.
• Salvation army
• Luke 11Thy kingdom come (KJV)

• ? to travel hopefully is better than to arrive?
  
• Promoted to glory
• Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
  name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
  heaven, so in earth.

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We shall be like him

• We know only in part
• We knowwe shall see him as he is.

• 1 Corinthians 139-10 
• 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
• 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect
  disappears.
• 1 John 32 
• 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and
  what we will be has not yet been made known. But
  we know that when he appears, we shall be like
  him, for we shall see him as he is.

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Gods incomparable glory revealed

• Incomparable
• Song of Moses and Miriam
• Gods glory revealed throughout the journey to
  the promised land.

• Exodus 1511 
• Who among the gods is like you, O LORD ? Who is
  like you majestic in holiness, awesome in glory,
  working wonders
• Ex 1610 While Aaron was speaking to the whole
  Israelite community, they looked toward the
  desert, and there was the glory of the LORD
  appearing in the cloud.

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Letting in The king of Glory

• David The great king lets in the greatest King.

• Ps 249 -10
• 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates lift them up,
  you ancient doors, that the King of glory may
  come in.
• 10 Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD
  Almighty he is the King of glory.

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Jesus promises his Glory

• Glory - A position in a real place
• Eternal life
• A place to come to through giving up youre his
  life in this world
• How? Through following and serving

• John 1223 Jesus replied, "The hour has come for
  the Son of Man to be glorified
• John 1225 The man who loves his life will lose
  it, while the man who hates his life in this
  world will keep it for eternal life.
• John1226 Whoever serves me must follow me and
  where I am, my servant also will be. My Father
  will honor the one who serves me.

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The kingdom of heaven Mat 22 1-14

• 1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying
• 2"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who
  prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
• 3He sent his servants to those who had been
  invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but
  they refused to come.
•  4"Then he sent some more servants and said,
  'Tell those who have been invited that I have
  prepared my dinner

• My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered,
  and everything is ready. Come to the wedding
  banquet.'
• 5 "But they paid no attention and went offone to
  his field, another to his business.
• 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them
  and killed them.
• 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and
  destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
•  8 "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding
  banquet is ready, but those I invited did not
  deserve to come.

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• 9 Go to the street corners and invite to the
  banquet anyone you find.'
• 10 So the servants went out into the streets and
  gathered all the people they could find, both
  good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled
  with guests.
• 11 "But when the king came in to see the guests,
  he noticed a man there who was not wearing
  wedding clothes.

• 12 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here
  without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
  
•  13 "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him
  hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the
  darkness, where there will be weeping and
  gnashing of teeth.'
•  14 "For many are invited, but few are chosen."

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A wedding banquet for his son

• Selected Invitees refuse
• Second invitation (all is prepared)
• General invitation All you can find
• When the King came inNo wedding dress

• to those who had been invited
• (Israel)
• "But they paid no attention and went offone to
  his field, another to his business. (murder and
  punishment)
• So the servants gathered all the people they
  could find, both good and bad
• The man was speechless.

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Not unclothed but over clothedclothed upon gt
ependuomai

• 2 Cor 5 1-5
• Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in
  is destroyed, we have a building from God, an
  eternal house in heaven, not built by human
  hands.
• 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with
  our heavenly dwelling,
• 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be
  found naked..

• 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are
  burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed
  but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so
  that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
• 5 Now it is God who has made us for this very
  purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit,
  guaranteeing what is to come

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The colour white

• The wedding in Heaven
• Bride The church
• White No stain, no sin (no colour)

• Revelation 197 
•  Let us rejoice and be glad  and give him glory!
   For the wedding of the Lamb has come,  and his
  bride has made herself ready.
• Rev 79 After this I looked and there before me
  was a great multitude that no one could count,
  from every nation, tribe, people and language,
  standing before the throne and in front of the
  Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were
  holding palm branches in their hands.