5 Surprises You will Discover in Heaven: Surprise #3 The Relationships of Heaven
Surprise #3 The Relationships of Heaven
Review:
Surprise #1: The Nature of Heaven: A Renewed, Recreated, Ressurected, Redeemed Earth! Heaven and Earth are One!
Surprise #2: The People of Heaven:
1. We will still be the same person in Heaven...having our own personality!
2. We will still be physical...having bodies...although perfected (free from sickness)
3. We will still be limited...having expanded capacities, but still limited.
4. We will still be made in the Image of God with out the curse! Having Creative Capasity!
5. We will be Freed Forever from Sin and the Curse!
The relationships of Heaven:
1. The relationships of Heaven will be Rich!
Heaven will be a very Relationally Rich environment, Relationships will be a Central Element of Heaven!
A. The Bible points to it: Genesis 2 -- Adam was Perfect, yet it was not good for Adam to be alone? Wait a second...Adam wasn't alone! God was with him! But God said in Genesis 2:18 "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So then God made the animals, but Genesis 2:20 records, "But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him."
So Genesis 2:21-25 says, "So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."
God was there with Adam, yet God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone;" so, God formed the animals, "But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him." So God created Woman from Man! We are relational beings, this relational state was before the curse, it was the original intent of God! We will have relationships...deep and meaningful relationships in Heaven!
See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, Luke 16:1-13 focus on vs 9, and 19-31, Matthew 8, and Luke 13.
Feel free to ask questions about these verses, but focus on the relational aspects and the implications.
B. Logic: We will live on a Renewed Earth with Cities -- Cities imply Relational Centers!
C. Witness of the Church through the Ages:
1. The Biblical Evidence...partially above
2. The Holy Spirit...testifying to our hearts
3. The Born Again Church and the Writings of the Saints: i.e. guys like Jonathan Edwards and Richard Baxter
The Relationships of Heaven will be Pure!
They will be without Sin and the Effects of the Curse!
Think about the best time you have had in your life! I bet you the reason why it was so good was mostly because of the PEOPLE you were with!
Now, think about the worst time you have had in your life! I bet you the reason why it was so bad was mostly because of the PEOPLE you were with!!!!
We can't excape it! We are relational! We need other people! But because of the fall, sin affects our relationships.
James 3 talks about how we cannot tame our tounges and how the curse has affected us.
James 3:9-10 "With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so."
It will not be like this in Heaven...Heaven will be Ephesians 4:29 fullfilled! "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."
Revelation 21:3-4 and 22:3
"And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.'"
and
"No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him."
Can you even imagine it? Everything will be perfect...all of our relationships will be without sin! No selfishness, greed, impatience, hatred, or anger! Can you imagine everything you do and say being 100% fullfilling to all!
Jonathan Edwards put it this way, "No inhabitants of that blessed world will ever be grieved with the thought that they are slighted by those that they love, or that their love is not fully and fondly returned...There shall be no such thing as flattery or insincerity in heaven, but there perfect sincerity shall reign through all in all. Everyone will be just what he seems to be, and will really have all the love that he seems to have. It will not be as in this world, where comparatively few things are what they seem to be, and where professions are often made lightly and without meaning. But there, every expression of love shall come from the bottom of the heart, and all that is professed shall be really and truly felt."
2 Surprises left to go!
I will be posting the final Surprise on Saturday...Just in Time for Easter!!!!
In Christ,
David
Review:
Surprise #1: The Nature of Heaven: A Renewed, Recreated, Ressurected, Redeemed Earth! Heaven and Earth are One!
Surprise #2: The People of Heaven:
1. We will still be the same person in Heaven...having our own personality!
2. We will still be physical...having bodies...although perfected (free from sickness)
3. We will still be limited...having expanded capacities, but still limited.
4. We will still be made in the Image of God with out the curse! Having Creative Capasity!
5. We will be Freed Forever from Sin and the Curse!
The relationships of Heaven:
1. The relationships of Heaven will be Rich!
Heaven will be a very Relationally Rich environment, Relationships will be a Central Element of Heaven!
A. The Bible points to it: Genesis 2 -- Adam was Perfect, yet it was not good for Adam to be alone? Wait a second...Adam wasn't alone! God was with him! But God said in Genesis 2:18 "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So then God made the animals, but Genesis 2:20 records, "But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him."
So Genesis 2:21-25 says, "So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."
God was there with Adam, yet God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone;" so, God formed the animals, "But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him." So God created Woman from Man! We are relational beings, this relational state was before the curse, it was the original intent of God! We will have relationships...deep and meaningful relationships in Heaven!
See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, Luke 16:1-13 focus on vs 9, and 19-31, Matthew 8, and Luke 13.
Feel free to ask questions about these verses, but focus on the relational aspects and the implications.
B. Logic: We will live on a Renewed Earth with Cities -- Cities imply Relational Centers!
C. Witness of the Church through the Ages:
1. The Biblical Evidence...partially above
2. The Holy Spirit...testifying to our hearts
3. The Born Again Church and the Writings of the Saints: i.e. guys like Jonathan Edwards and Richard Baxter
The Relationships of Heaven will be Pure!
They will be without Sin and the Effects of the Curse!
Think about the best time you have had in your life! I bet you the reason why it was so good was mostly because of the PEOPLE you were with!
Now, think about the worst time you have had in your life! I bet you the reason why it was so bad was mostly because of the PEOPLE you were with!!!!
We can't excape it! We are relational! We need other people! But because of the fall, sin affects our relationships.
James 3 talks about how we cannot tame our tounges and how the curse has affected us.
James 3:9-10 "With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so."
It will not be like this in Heaven...Heaven will be Ephesians 4:29 fullfilled! "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."
Revelation 21:3-4 and 22:3
"And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.'"
and
"No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him."
Can you even imagine it? Everything will be perfect...all of our relationships will be without sin! No selfishness, greed, impatience, hatred, or anger! Can you imagine everything you do and say being 100% fullfilling to all!
Jonathan Edwards put it this way, "No inhabitants of that blessed world will ever be grieved with the thought that they are slighted by those that they love, or that their love is not fully and fondly returned...There shall be no such thing as flattery or insincerity in heaven, but there perfect sincerity shall reign through all in all. Everyone will be just what he seems to be, and will really have all the love that he seems to have. It will not be as in this world, where comparatively few things are what they seem to be, and where professions are often made lightly and without meaning. But there, every expression of love shall come from the bottom of the heart, and all that is professed shall be really and truly felt."
2 Surprises left to go!
I will be posting the final Surprise on Saturday...Just in Time for Easter!!!!
In Christ,
David
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