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John 14:1-6 • “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.[a] If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?[b]3 When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” • 5 “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?” • 6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Jesus is Preparing a Place for Us • “In my Father’s house are many mansions..” • Word here is “mone” which translates to rooms. • 2 Cor 5:1 “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.”

Audio Adrenaline • “Come and go with me; To my Father’s House; Come and go with me; To my Father’s House; It’s a big, big house; With lots and lots of room; A big, big table; With lots and lots of food; A big, big yard; Where we can play football; A big, big house; It’s my Father’s House.”

CS Lewis • ““Throughout history, the Christians who did most for this present worldwere those who thought most of the next…Early Christians left their mark on earth precisely because their minds were pre-occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians ceased thinking of the other world that we have become so ineffective in this one. Aim at Heaven and you’ll get the earth thrown in. Aim at the earth and you’ll miss both.” (The Joyful Christian, p. 138)

You Can be Certain about Spending Eternity in Heaven • 1 John 5:13 “I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.” • 23rd Psalm “Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” • Atheists have bought billboards all over the country equating Christianity with fairly tales

JI Packer • “As I get older, I find that I appreciate God and people and good and lovely things more and more intensely; so it is pure delight to think that this enjoyment will continue and increase in some form, literally forever. In fact Christians inherit the destiny which fairy tales envisaged in fancy: we live and live happily, and by God’s endless mercy will live happily ever after.” (Your Father Loves You, p. 68)

There’s a Book in Heaven with Names Written in it • The Lamb’s Book of Life • Moses first mentioned the Book • Psalm 139, King David said “All the days you ordained for me are written in your book.” • Luke 10:20 “Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in Heaven.” • Rev 21:27 “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” • Rev 20:15 “If anyone’s name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.”

The Book of Life • Michael Green “The love of God, with arms extended on a cross, bars the way to hell. But if that love is ignored, rejected, and finally refused, there comes a time when love can only weep while man pushes past into the self-chosen alienation which Christ went to the cross to avert.”

Your Confirmation in Heaven is JN316 • “For God so loved (your name) that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” • The word for ‘believes’ means trust. • Everyone exercises faith, the difference is the object of your faith • Saving faith is trusting God for eternity

JN316 • Can I confirm my reservation by working really hard and earning it? • Can I buy it? • The only choice you have when someone is offering you a gift is to either accept it or reject it

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