Romans 8:32-33, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.” Romans 8:17-18, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” 1st Corinthians 2:9, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
I went out for dinner this afternoon and bought my favorite meal from my favorite restaurant in Pensacola. It is The Shrimp Basket restaurant, founded in 1993. My favorite meal is The Seafood Basket. It comes with a half dozen pieces of jumbo shrimp, a couple fillets of white fish, a few oysters, one delicious stuffed crab and some French fries. It is all deep fried. The white fish are battered with cornmeal. The stuffed crabs are my absolute favorite! I crave them!!! I thank God while eating each and every bite, enjoying my humble meal. I always buy two extra stuffed crabs, giving me three to eat. I sure thank God for those stuffed crabs. They take a literal small crab, cut a big hole in it and then remove all the insides. They cook it into a wonderful crab filling and then re-stuff it into the crab. Heaven came down!!!
As I was enjoying my wonderful meal today, I was thinking about all the wonderful things that we have to look forward to as God's children. Dear friend, do you have any idea of all the promises of God for Christians? The Lord promises each child of God a home in Heaven (John 14:1-3). I assure you that there won't be any apartment buildings in Heaven. Apartments are for people who cannot afford to purchase a home. God never intended for ANYONE to live in an apartment! Jesus said He went to Heaven to prepare a place for us, and said that there are not just a few, BUT MANY mansions!!! 1st Corinthians 2:15-16 says we have the mind of Christ as believers, “But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” I have been saved for 41 years since age 13.
If I know anything about the mind of Christ, I can guarantee you that there are no apartments in Heaven. Everyone needs to live in their own home, even the worst of Christians. If the Lord puts me in charge of a city during the Millennium, I will tear down all apartment buildings. The reason why millions of people are herding into the cities is because that is where the jobs are at. During the Millennium when the Lord reigns, there won't be the fraudulent Federal Reserve System anymore! The Devil will be bound in chains, confined in The Bottomless Pit for 1,000 wonderful years!!! The righteous Lord will rule with “A ROD OF IRON” the Bible says (Revelation 2:27; 12:5; 19:15). Political corruption will be a crime of the past! Rigged elections will be a crime of the past! The Bible says we will live in peace during the Millennium, such a time of tranquility as the world has never known.
Dear reader, the Bible promises every believer a brand new glorified body in eternity, fashioned like unto the Lord's resurrected immortal body (Philippians 3:21). Amen and amen! I was saddened as I did research for an article years ago, learning about a new science called cryonics! Literally, several companies today offer a service where when you die they decapitate your head (or use your entire body), and freeze your body upside down in liquid nitrogen, hoping that someday in man's future that technology will advance enough to reinsert one's frozen brain into a new cloned body. Folks, that is insanity!!! Why don't those fools simply BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (Acts 16:30-31), and then they will have everlasting life per God's solemn promise (John 3:16).
I would rather have God's promise of everlasting life (John 6:47), than to rely and trust upon mad scientists to perform some Frankenstein type of maneuver in the future! John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” God is so beautiful and wonderful to freely offer eternal life to anyone who wants it, just for the taking. All that God requires is that you come THROUGH FAITH IN HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, JESUS. Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” You CAN live forever dear reader, by simply receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins and believing that CHRIST IS RISEN from the dead!!! Christ died, that's history; Christ died for me, that's salvation!
Our future as saints of God is so bright and precious. And for those who share the Gospel and lead many souls to Christ there is a special promise in Daniel 12:3, “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” Amen! I believe such saints will shine because of all the people in Heaven who will love and admire them for witnessing to them, without which they would have spent eternity burning in the Lake of Fire without hope (Revelation 14:11; 20:11-15; 21:8). The greatest thing you can ever do for another human being is to share the GOOD NEWS of Christ crucified, buried and risen with them!!!
Please don't miss out on all the future and present blessings friend of being a child of God. If you are not saved, you are a creation of God, but you are NOT God's redeemed child. Jesus sternly warned in John 3:3b, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” You MUST be born-again. If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you only die once! Think about that, because it is very true. YE MUST BE BORN-AGAIN! You get born for the second time by trusting in Christ as your personal Savior, ceasing from all human effort (works). That means you DON'T have to turn away from sinful living to be saved. If you choose to live in open sin as a Christian, then God will deal with you. God is not an absent parent. God WILL chastise and scourge His children (Hebrews 12:6-8). Living in sin always brings consequences, but Hell is not one of them for the redeemed child of God. ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED!!!
The ultimate PROOF that a person is saved is their faith alone in Jesus Christ, nothing else! Anything that a lost person can imitate cannot be used as “proof” of salvation. Can a lost person love? Yes. Can a lost person do good works? Yes. Can a lost person live the Christian life? Yes. So none of those things can be used as evidence that someone is saved. 1st John 3:24, “And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.” The Bible says that the indwelling Holy Spirit is the evidence that I am saved, and no one except ME and GOD can see that! There is absolutely no way for you or me to determine if another person is a born-again child of God, apart from a direct testimony from their own mouth concerning Jesus Christ.
Heaven is going to be so awesome! I can't wait until the Rapture, when every saint's body will be changed from mortal to immortal in the twinkling of an eye (just a fraction of a second), and we will ascend up into the air to meet Christ in the clouds (1st Corinthians 15:52-58; 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18).
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand,
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be!
Dear friend, this temporary earthly world will be over before we know it. I am ready to meet my Maker, are you? Amos 4:12, “Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.” Friend, you need GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS to be ready to meet your Maker! You see, neither you or I have any righteousness to offer God (Isaiah 64:6). You could spend your entire life doing good deeds, helping old ladies cross the street, tithe all that you own to the church, and perform every form of charity and goodness known to mankind; yet you will still split Hell wide open when you die.
The sincere unsaved religious people in Matthew 7:21-23 learned this horrifying lesson the hard way. They spent their lives preaching in Jesus' name. They spent their lives doing MANY WONDERFUL WORKS in Jesus' name. They cast our devils in Jesus' name. Yet the Lord told them to get out of His sight, disgusted with them. The Savior denied knowing them!!! Those sincere souls were all cast into the fires of Hell. Where did they go wrong? How could such sincere people who spent their lives serving Christ, and faithfully following Him as their “Lord,” still end up burning in Hell for all eternity without end or rest?
They made the common fatal error of living the Christian life without being born-again! Matthew 7:21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The only way to get to Heaven is by RESTING in Jesus Christ. John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Why then do so many corrupt pastors, perverted preachers and ignoramus Bible professors falsely teach that to be saved you must “repent and turn away from your sinful ways”? No such thing is taught in the Word of God. Please make sure you only use the inspired King James Bible, because all of the modern Bible revisions are horribly corrupted by Satan. Nowhere does the Bible say to repent “OF YOUR SINS” to get to Heaven. Corrupt preachers who require you to forsake your sinning to be saved are putting the cart before the horse!
It is Christ's indwelling Holy Spirit Who turns saints away from their sins, and not men turning from their own sins to satisfy the wrath of an angry God to merit salvation! Any preaching that pressures sinners to give up their sinning to be saved, or to prove that they are saved, or to prove that their faith is genuine, is a perversion of God's grace!!! What you do with your sins has absolutely NO PART in God's salvation of your soul. Christ died on the cross to pay for your sins (and mine). JESUS PAID OUR DEBT, SO THERE IS NO DEBT FOR US TO PAY, NOR BURDEN FOR US TO CARRY! Beware of perverse preachers who place the heavy burden of dealing with sin upon your shoulders oh sinner, for it is Jesus Christ Who bore the total weight of our sins!!! Salvation is about totally relying upon Christ and what He did through Calvary's cross to pay our debt of sin. Jesus paid for everyone's sins with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19).
God has so much in store for His redeemed children. I hope you will be there with me! Dear reader, the war has already been won! Jesus Christ has already been declared the victor. Bible prophecy is HISTORY WRITTEN IN ADVANCE!!! We already know who will win at the end of time. The book of Revelation already reveals that Satan will be the ultimate loser (Revelation 12:12). The Devil and his Antichrist and False Prophet will all be cast into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 14:11; 20:6). We are ALREADY on the winning side in Jesus Christ (Romans 8:37).
I am so glad that as a Christian I don't have to worry, fret or pray to be a winner! I AM ALREADY ON THE WINNING SIDE!!! Dear friend, once you become a born-again child of God you are forever on the winning side!!! Satan no longer can claim you as his child. Every unsaved person has the Devil as their spiritual father, whether they realize it and acknowledge him or not (Ephesians 2:1-2; John 8:44). The moment that a person receives Jesus as their Savior, they are now and forever God's child (John 1:12-13; Romans 8:15).
As a frail human being made from the dust of the earth, I sometimes get discouraged here on earth. My body gets weary and sick. My mind gets confused and frustrated. But when I get back into the Holy Bible and read the many wonderful promises of God, my heart burns with joy as I am reminded that I am already on the winning side in my blessed eternal God and Savior!!! And how wonderful it is that anytime I want I can read about it in the blessed book of Revelation. I encourage you to read a helpful book authored by Pastor Max D. Younce titled, 'REVELATION: GOD'S FINAL WORD TO MAN.'
If you are saved friend, you have a brand new immortal body coming. You don't need to pay $140,000 for some cryonics company to freeze your body, hoping that science may one day be able to offer you eternal life? Oh brother! Who would you rather trust, man or God? I'm trusting God. When I was 13 years old I put all my trust in Jesus as my Savior, Who is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God (John 20:31). That is how I KNOW 100% that I am saved and going to Heaven, because I have God's written promise on it!!! I KNOW because God does all the saving, not me. My only part in salvation is to get out of the way and REST entirely in Jesus Christ, because of what He did through Calvary's cross to pay for my sins.
Please don't miss the coming eternal party dear reader!!! Every Christian will someday attend The Marriage Supper Of The Lamb. We will eat and enjoy food and drinks in Heaven, just as the angels do. When the two angels met with Lot, they ate a feast the Bible says. Genesis 19:3, “And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.” I love that! The angels came to warn and rescue Lot before God destroyed Sodom with fire and brimstone, but first they had to enjoy eating a big feast! Those are my kind of angels!!! Yes Sir, we will enjoy eating in Heaven with the angels, and I can't wait. What fun it will be!!!
Jesus also ate and drank with His disciples in His resurrected body. Jesus prepared fish for His disciples while they were coming in from fishing. We will all eat in Heaven in our new immortal bodies!!! I wonder if we will get fat if we eat too much? That is the $64,000 question. I think not, because our resurrected bodies will be perfect and incapable of suffering disease, pain or human weaknesses. To be honest I am not sure how it will all work, but I know our God is more than amazing. If God could speak the universe into existence, with its 200,000,000,000,000,000,000 known stars so far, then I am confident that He knows what He is doing.
Someday in eternity every believer can look forward to having a new perfect body which doesn't get tired, weary or feel pain. We will be young again and in perfect health. Going bald is a form of sickness. I started losing my hair at age 25 and by 35 it was all gone! Needing to wear glasses is a form of sickness. I have needed to wear glasses for the past 10 years, because I am nearsighted (I cannot see details far away). I can see people at a distance, but I do not know who they are. My eyesight is gradually getting worse each year. I just had a new pair of glasses made and the eye doctor said I have 20/40 vision. That means I have to stand at 20 feet away to see what normal people with 20/20 vision can see at 40 feet away. Lately my body feels more tired, at age 54, and my stomach gurgles more with noise. Of course, I have an old neck injury which causes me chronic pain day and night. But God is good!!!
I will be glad when this life is over, and I am completely in God's merciful and loving hands. I feel so vulnerable and weak in this earthly body. 2nd Corinthians 5:8 promises that when this earthly life is over, and we are absent from the body as believers, we will be present with the Lord. What a glorious day that will be, when my Jesus I shall see!!!
Have you ever had someone ruin your day? I sure have, more times than I can remember. John 16:22, “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” In eternity no one will ever rob us of our joy again!!! The Lord will protect our feelings. The world is a jungle down here on earth!!! But in Heaven, the Bible teaches that its inhabitants are like little children. Matthew 19:14, “But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” I read that over the past 50 years that approximately 2,000,000,000 (TWO BILLION) human lives have been murdered in the womb by abortion worldwide!!! How sad and horrific!!! That is Satan folks. But the good thing is that ALL of those precious infants all went to Heaven. I do not understand how this works. Since they didn't accept Jesus as their Savior, those infants must be in a different category than the saints. We know God is just and would never send anyone to Hell unless they chose to go there by wilfully rejecting Christ as Savior. We will find out, won't we?
The Bible says there will be no marriage in Heaven. That actually saddens me. There is nothing as special to me as sharing one's life together with one person. I wish I could be married in Heaven to some special woman. But from my understanding we won't be male or female in Heaven, which to me is confusing and I cannot even grasp it. In these speculative areas we are wise to keep silent where the Scripture is silent. Someone has said that B.I.B.L.E. can be expressed as an acronym meaning, BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BFORE LEAVING EARTH. That is so true! God doesn't tell us more than He wanted us to know, what we need to know for now, to get us through this troublesome life on earth. I often wish that the Bible were twice as thick as it is, but then it would just boggle us down. I am very thankful that God has authored a helpful Book to guide us through this life.
I know one thing, Heaven will be BETTER than earth. I will be glad just to have my neck pain taken away. I will be glad to have my natural hair back. I will be glad to get rid of these annoying glasses. I will be glad to have a perfect body that doesn't require watching the scale all the time to maintain my weight. Sometimes I have difficulty hearing people. I am certain that in the years to come I will need a hearing aid. Getting older is no fun physically! Albeit, every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before!!!
The Bible teaches that in fact, now we cannot understand all things. 1st Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” That encourages me, to read that the Bible acknowledges our limited understanding of things in the present. But we have God's promise that someday we WILL UNDERSTAND all things, just as we are known by God (which means unlimited understanding when we finally arrive in Heaven). God will finally open our eyes to grasp all things.
I am 100% confident that at that time we will fully understand why God seemed to ignore our many prayer requests. If we could see what God sees, we would never question why He responds to our prayers the way that He does. God is omniscient (knows all), but we have a very limited understanding. God can see into the minds and hearts of all estimated 8,000,000,000 human beings alive on the earth, but we can only see into our own soul. Think about that! I cannot even start to fathom God's power and greatness!!! Thankfully we don't have to understand God to please Him, we just need to have faith in Him.
I feel like I have utterly failed in this blog in my attempt to describe how wonderful the future will be for every child of God. There are no words to describe the indescribable!!! But dear reader, the $64,000 question is will you be there? Have you received your ticket? I have mine. That ticket is Jesus! Jesus is the Door into Heaven and that Door is wide open (John 10:1, 9). If your faith is in Jesus alone, believing that He died in your place on the cross, was buried, and resurrected three days later form the dead for your justification, then you have your ticket and are ready to meet your Maker. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
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