A NEW HOME IS WAITING
John 14:1-6
When we are getting ready to move, and are re-locating to a new home, we want to know something about where we’re going to, and we’d like to know what its gonna be like.....We’re gonna need to make some changes......
Like our address and our bank accounts and we got to change savings accounts and our investment info..We gotta let our frienda and family know our new address and our new phone number, and so forth....
Now when we’re still living here on earth
we have to make some pre-arrangements for our New Home....That we’re gonna go to after this life is over...AMEN
We need to get our lives in order here...so when Jesus comes back, we get to go with him.....and we don’t end up in that terrible place called hell......
1st Thess. 1:16 says:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch angel and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
VS: 17 says:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.....
So where’s our new Address....HEAVEN
Or hell?????
Now if we don’t make the proper address change here...then there’s another destination that we’ll end up at...
It’s called hell....
So very simply we have two locations..
That we can end up in....
Heaven, or hell...
Now lets consider which one is preferred...
I personally prefer Heaven over hell...
For a few simple reasons....
In Heaven, there’s gonna be streets of Gold, Walls of Jasper, Gates of Pearl..an ever flowing river of life....a Mansion waiting...
And we get to fellowship with Jesus and God....and all the saints and our family and friends that were good enough to make it..
We’re gonna be in Worship, We’ll be Serving God, Ruling, Eating,
we’ll have a life of rest, and growth...
A life of Service...
But then on the other hand we have a place called hell...this is a literal place... and the Bible calls it a place where we’ll be cast into outer darkness...This means we’ll be there all alone....
where there’s gonna be weeping & gnashing of teeth...
Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched...
This don’t sound like a very nice neighborhood now does it??? Not someplace where
I feel like I’d like to re-locate to, or move my family to...
Everything I study in my Bible about Heaven is all good stuff....But on the other hand, everything I study in God’s word about hell is nothing but all bad stuff.....
Now like we already said we have to make this decision, as to where we want our new address to be..While were here on this earth...AMEN
Now in our reading Jesus said in Vs. 3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.....
See The Lord even wants us to be there with Him in Heaven....
He said I go to prepare a place...
That means it’s a place of residence...
First of all Jesus came down from Heaven, Amen...
Then He went back to the Father in Heaven.....AMEN...
Acts 1:10 & 11 says:
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel.....
Here The Word is telling us that Christ is ascending back to the Father in Heaven....
Vs. 11 says:
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come inn like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven.....
Plainly the word tells us that He’s gone back to Heaven...
He’s preparing this place for the Righteous!!!!!
And He plainly tells us...
That In my Fathers’ house are many mansions...
So this tells us that Heaven is a prepared place, its prepared for those who will accept Jesus into their hearts here on this earth...
And Jesus goes on to tell us that: In my Fathers house are many mansions.....
So we see it’s a prepared place...prepared by Jesus Himself.....Himself.....
And its already big enough for all of us who choose to go....
And he has prepared it beautiful, for all of us who will make this our home...
When we have company coming to visit we’ll go and make our whole house clean and as nice as we can...
In preparation for our visitors.
So you see this is what Jesus is doing for us..
He is in preparation for our arrival to our new home...
Its already prepared comfortable enough for us...
Its in contrast with hell as it said outer darkness of hell..
We’ll be there in the marvelous Light of God!!!
And it further told us that it’s a prepared place, for prepared people...AMEN
So we have to be prepared as well.....
Heaven is gonna be a busy place too.... We are gonna be busy singing, and praising the Lord, and serving God....And there’s not gonna be any room for anybody that’s lazy.....
And Heaven is gonna be for Christian’s who are ready for fellowship with each other....
And Heaven is only gonna be for the folks that are really true Christians....
No fence straddlers....
No hypocrites...
The Bible plainly tells us that we can’t serve the devil and the Lord at the same time...
There ain’t gonna be none of the devil’s deceptive crowd there with us in our new heavenly home,.,, Only the
Pure in Heart will be allowed..
The Bible tells us there’s gonna be a separation of the wheat and the tares....
The Good from the Bad...AMEN!!!!!!!!
Heaven is an eternal Place...and there’s only one way to Heaven and that’s Jesus Christ....
But we have to make Preparation’s here in this life..
We have to prepare now for the home we are gonna have when this life is over....
We are all gonna move one day....and its totally up to us which new address we’re gonna have......
And in closing if you have your Bible’s with you...Turn with us to the Book of Revelation and read with us
What John the Revelator says about The new Heaven....
Chap 21 Vs. 1 - 5
