03-25-12 AM - Living for Eternity, pt. 3

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7. Heaven is a place of Reward or Inheritance

He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Eph. 1:13-14 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory.

8. Heaven will be a Restricted Place

9. Heaven is a Place of Riches

Rev. 21:10-11;18-21 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
9. Heaven is a Place of Riches
18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper,

The jasper – will be clear crystal
Sapphire – blue
Chalcedony – greenish blue
Emerald – deep green
Sardonyx – white w/ brown streaks
Sardius – blood red
Chrysolite – yellow quartz
Beryl – green
Topaz – yellowish green
Chrysoprasus – apple green
Jacinth – blue
Amethyst – purple

Blue = deity
White = purity
Purple=royalty

Foundations=represent permanence
Walls=protection
Gates=provision
Streets=praise

10. Heaven is a Place of Refuge

No Sanctuary v. 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

No Shadows v. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

No Secrets v. 24  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.

No sinners v. 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.

“I am the way, the truth, and the life…no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”