Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Aha-ah...

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1 Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... You...

2 You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You...

3 Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people NO / NO HELL Living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... You... NO COUNTRIES /NO RELIGION

4 You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one UNITY WITH NO Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You... NO PRIVATE OWNER- SHIP

5 What Do Jesus- Followers Believe about INTRODUCTION 1. By Jesus-Follower we are referring to those who are committed to Jesus & His Word. 2. You are encouraged to bring a friend who is still on the way to faith.

6 What Do Jesus- Followers Believe about INTRODUCTION 3. Special invitation cards are available; opportunities to ask questions and discuss issues after the service...

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9 What Do Jesus- Our sermon notes as well as a schedule of Followers topics is Believe on the Crossroads Fellowship about Church and website! Why? TOPICS 4 JOY TRUTH EVIL 9 DEATH BELIEF 6 TRAGEDY 12 GOLF! 13 RESURRECTION 14 SECURITY! 15

10 My friend Bill... (Father was a pastor) What do you think about heaven? I don t know what to say I hope I see my family there.

11 Preliminary Considerations: 1. There are many foolish ideas about heaven!

12 and you spent 6.35 years of your life deleting spam from your .

13 Preliminary Considerations: 1. There are many foolish ideas about heaven! that we will be spirit creatures like angels that we will live on the clouds that heaven will be boring!

14 Believe about I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." Isaac Asimov

15 Preliminary Considerations: 1. There are many foolish ideas about heaven! 2. The immortality of the soul or resurrection? It s both! (2 Cor. 5:8)

16 Preliminary Considerations: 3. Eternity in heaven or in the New Heavens and the New Earth?

17 Preliminary Considerations: 3. Eternity in heaven or in the New Heavens and the New Earth?

18 Preliminary Considerations: 4. We will join Jesus in heaven during the Intermediate State. (2 Cor. 5) 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

19 Preliminary Considerations: 5. We will live forever in the New Heavens & Earth! Isaiah Rev Pe. 3

20 Preliminary Considerations: 6. The primary feature of heaven will not be its furniture, but the Lord Jesus!

21 The critical question for our generation and for every generation is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

22 Preliminary Considerations: 6. The primary feature of heaven will not be its furniture, but the Lord Jesus!

23 One Key Passage on Heaven: Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 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? 3 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. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going. (John 14)

24 One Key Passage on Heaven: Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 1 Stop letting your hearts be troubled! abandonment! betrayal!

25 One Key Passage on Heaven: Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 Belief in Jesus Full Divinity!

26 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 Belief in Jesus Full Divinity! There are two moods in Greek that are important here: The INDICATIVE MOOD A statement The IMPERATIVE MOOD A command A brief Greek lesson!

27 Do not let your hearts be 2 troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. You believe in God Belief in Jesus Full Divinity! Indicative Believe also in me Imperative Believe in God Believe also in me Imperative Imperative A brief Greek lesson! Believe in God You also believe in me You believe in God You also believe in me Imperative Indicative Indicative Indicative

28 One Key Passage on Heaven: Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 Belief in Jesus Full Divinity!

29 One Key Passage on Heaven: 2 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? 3 Jesus knows and tells the truth about heaven!

30 Heaven is a beautiful place up in the sky, where no one is sick, where no one is mean or unhappy. It s a place beyond the moon, the stars, and the clouds..... Heaven isn t a place you can see.... It s somewhere you believe in.

31 One Key Passage on Heaven: 2 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? 3 Jesus knows and tells the truth about heaven!

32 One Key Passage on Heaven: 2... I am going there to prepare a place for you... 3 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. 4 Jesus is preparing places for us! The Bible is unashamedly physical!

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34 One Key Passage on Heaven: 3 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. 5 Jesus has promised to come back for His followers!

35 One Key Passage on Heaven: 3 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. 6 Jesus wants us to be with Him! Cynthia Heald: God does not have a secret society of intimate friends. We are as intimate with God as we choose to be. It is our desire, our abiding, our purity that will determine the depth of our intimacy with Him.

36 A Brief Summary: 1. A person must be born again to see or enter the kingdom of God, heaven. 2. The reality of heaven its sights and sounds is far greater than the many wrong ideas about heaven. Its greatest attraction will be the Lord Jesus!

37 A Brief Summary: 3. A believer who dies goes immediately to be with Jesus in heaven, awaiting the resurrection of his/her body. 4. Believers will live with the Lord forever in the New Heavens and New Earth, serving the Lord ( at whose right hand are pleasures forever more ) with joy.