Is this all there is?

Is this all there is?

What happens when I die?

Why do I ache for forever?

MADE FOR FOREVER

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

You are an unceasing spiritual being with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.

- Dallas Willard

What does Jesus teach about heaven?

• Eternal life BEGINS NOW.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 17:3

Heaven is LIFE with GOD.

• Heaven is your TRUE HOME.

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

John 14:1-3

• Heaven is EMBODIED LIFE.

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

Philippians 3:20-21 (1 John 3:2; 1 Corinthians 15) 

• Heaven is a RENEWED EARTH.

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 

Revelation 21:1-2

• Heaven is the HOME your HEART ACHES for.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘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 21:3-4

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

- C.S. Lewis 

• Love can be REJECTED.

He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. 

2 Thessalonians 1:8-10

"The doors of hell are locked on the inside."

- C.S. Lewis

• Jesus is the WAY HOME. 

Memory Verse:

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. 

Do you believe this?”

John 11:25-26

FURTHER RESOURCES: 

Heaven by Randy Alcorn

The Real Heaven by Chip Ingram