Blessed Assurance hymn. Forever Reign Hillsong Let Hope Rise. Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) Casting Crowns Until the Whole World Hears

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1 Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song. Victory in Jesus Travis Cottrell Jesus Saves (Live) Blessed Assurance hymn Forever Reign Hillsong Let Hope Rise Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) Casting Crowns Until the Whole World Hears There is a Higher Throne Keith & Kristyn Getty In Christ Alone

2 What Awaits Us Revelation 21:1-22:5

3 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away?

4 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? Luke 23:43 43 Jesus answered him, Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.

5 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? Luke 23:43 43 Jesus answered him, Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise. We will immediately go into the presence of the Lord

6 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? Luke 23:43 43 Jesus answered him, Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise. We will be in the presence of Jesus!

7 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? Luke 23:43 43 Jesus answered him, Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise. It will be paradise!

8 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? John 14:1-3 1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.

9 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? John 14:1-3 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?

10 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? John 14:1-3 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.

11 What happens when we who are Christ-followers pass away? John 14:1-3 Heaven will be more like home than any other place

12 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5:13-18

13 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

14 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

15 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: According to the Lord s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

18 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5: Therefore encourage one another with these words.

19 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Thessalonians 5:13-18 We will all meet Christ in the air

20 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 We will receive new physical, glorified bodies

21 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed

22 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

23 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

24 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory.

25 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

26 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15: But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 We will receive new physical, glorified bodies

28 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 We will receive new physical, glorified bodies 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

29 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 We will receive new physical, glorified bodies 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control,

30 What will happen when Christ returns? 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 We will receive new physical, glorified bodies will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Philippians 3:20-21

31 What will happen when Christ returns? What about people who have had afterdeath experiences, gone to heaven & come back?

32 1,000 year reign

33 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) 1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

34 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

35 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

36 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) 4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed.

37 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God,

38 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

39 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) Satan will be bound Jesus will reign for 1,000 years

40 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:1-4 (ESV) Satan will be bound Jesus will reign for 1,000 years We who are Christ-followers will reign with Him

41 What is Christ s millennial reign? Revelation 20:7-10 (ESV) After 1,000 years, there will be a final battle

42 What is the Great White Throne Judgement? Revelation 20:11-14

43 Final battle & judgement New heaven & new earth 1,000 year reign

44 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5

45 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

46 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

47 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Look! God s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

48 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.

49 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 5 He who was seated on the throne said, I am making everything new! Then he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.

50 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 6 He said to me: It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

51 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.

52 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

53 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

54 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 10 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.

55 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 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.

56 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.

57 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.

58 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

59 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.

60 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

61 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

62 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

63 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 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.

64 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.

65 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 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.

66 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

67 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

68 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

69 What are the new heaven & new earth? Revelation 21:1-22:5 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

70 Conclusion You have everything to look forward to!