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3 SONG 1: WAYFARING STRANGER I m just a poor wayfaring stranger, traveling through this world of woe, But there s no sickness, no toil, no danger in that bright world to which I go. I m just a poor wayfaring stranger, rescued from the depths of hell. My chains fell off with pure surrender, and now I live by grace to tell: I m going there to see my Father. I m going there no more to roam. I m just a-going over Jordan, I m just a-going over home. I m just a poor wayfaring stranger, once blinded by my guilt and pride, But now I go to meet my Maker, and He ll turn my faith to sight. I m going there to see my Father. I m going there no more to roam. I m just a-going over Jordan. I m just a-going over home. I m just a poor wayfaring stranger, brought here before men of earth. They have promised me certain danger, to pronounce my Father s work, To pronounce my Father s work. Public Domain INTRODUCTION Chris Newkirk SCRIPTURE READINGS Read by Kory Millard, McKenzie Gudgel & Wendy Fuller Heaven Our Inheritance 1 Peter 1:3 4 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you... 1

4 Matthew 6: Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Heaven Our Home Colossians 3:1 4 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Philippians 3: But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Heaven Our Hope and Glory Colossians 1:3 5 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel... 2 Corinthians 4: For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. PASTORAL PRAYER T. R. Lewis 2

5 LECTURE: The Doctrine of Heaven Dennis Newkirk, Lead Pastor I. Introduction II. Words for Heaven 1 Kings 18:45; Gen. 1:14; 2 Cor. 12:2 III. Where Is Heaven/Paradise? Gen. 28:12; 2 Kings 2:11; Isa. 6:1; Ezek. 1:1; Dan. 7:13; Acts 7:55; Acts 10:10 11; 2 Cor. 12:2; Rev. 4:1; John 1:51; Matt. 3:16; Luke 3:22 IV. Who Goes to Heaven? John 3:16, 14:1 3 3

6 V. What s Happening in Heaven Now? Matt. 6:9; Ps. 2:4; Isa. 6:1; Rev. 4:2, 8; 1 Pet. 3:22; Rom. 8:34 VI. Death: the Transition to Heaven Gen. 35:18; Eccl. 12:7; Matt. 10:28; 1 Cor. 15:53; Luke 23:43; Acts 7:59; 2 Cor. 5:8; 2 Cor. 5:1 4; Rev. 6:9 11; Luke 9:28 36; Luke 15:10; God prevented Adam and Eve from eternal sinfulness by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life and arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man s greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only death can give us the gift of eternity. Death [escorts us] into the presence of God. Death might temporarily take our friends from us, but only to introduce us to that land in which there are no good-byes. Erwin Lutzer 4

7 The promise of being welcomed into God s gracious presence immediately upon death is joyful news. And yet it is only the intermediate state. Going to heaven when we die is the way station, not the final hope announced in the gospel. Michael Horton 5

8 VII. Judgment after Death Acts 17:30; 2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:10 12; 1 Thess. 4:13 18; Rev. 20:11 15 VIII. New Heaven and New Earth 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21, 22 IX. What Will We Be Like in the Final Heaven? 1 Cor. 15:51 52; 1 Cor. 15:43; Phil. 3:21; Matt. 28:9; Luke 24:42 43; John 20:19, 20:26; Rev. 7:9; John 20:16-17, 20:27, 21:1-14; John 20:18; Matt. 28:9; John 20:20; 1 Cor 15:43; Rev. 22:4; 1 Cor. 13:12; Rev 21:23, 22:5; Ezek. 39:21; Isa. 60:1-3; Rev. 22:1 2; 22:14; Zech. 14:8; Gen. 2:10; Isa. 35:6-7, 41:18, 35:1; Rom. 8:19 22; Hos. 14:6 7; Joel 2:23 24, 3:18; Rom. 8:20 22; Isa. 51:3, 30:23; Ezek. 34:27; Ps. 72:16; Isa. 30:23 24, 61:5, 32:20, 11:6 9, 65:25 6

9 The Beatific Vision is the blessed vision that Moses sought, God forbade, Jesus promised, and John described seeing God face-to-face. Norman Geisler X. Life in Heaven Matt. 25:21, 23; Rev. 5:13 14; Rev. 8:7 13; Isa. 65:17; Rev. 21:4; 2 Tim. 1:10; Rev. 14:13; 1 Cor. 13:12; Rom. 5:17; Rev. 22:5; Hosea 2:22; Amos 9:13; John 15:11; Isa. 25:6; Matt. 22:2, 8:11; Luke 6:21; Isa. 25:6; Rev. 19:9; Joel 2:26; Matt. 22:4; Rev. 22:2; John 21:12 13; Isa. 30:23; Joel 3:18; Isa. 32:20 7

10 As [people in Heaven] increase in the knowledge of God and of the works of God, the more they will see of his excellency; and the more they see of his excellency... the more will they love him; and the more they love God, the more delight and happiness... will they have in him. Jonathan Edwards XI. Our Heaven Mindset Col. 3:1 2 8

11 SONG 2: PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN Praise my soul the King of heaven; to His feet my tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who like me His praise should sing. Alleluia, alleluia! Praise the everlasting King! Praise Him for His grace and favour, to our fathers in distress. Praise Him, still the same forever, slow to chide, and swift to bless. Alleluia, alleluia! Glorious in His faithfulness! Father-like He tends and spares us; well our feeble frame He knows. In His hands, He gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes. Alleluia, alleluia! Widely yet His mercy flows! Angels help us to adore Him; you behold Him face to face. Sun and moon, bow down before Him, dwellers all in time and space. Alleluia, alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace! CCLI Song # Henry Francis Lyte, John Goss, Kevin Hildebrand Words: Public Domain Music: 2006 Birnamwood Pulibcations (Admin. by MorningStar Music Publishers) CCLI License # SONG 3: GLORIOUS DAY One day when heaven was filled with His praises, one day when sin was as black as could be, Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin, He dwelt among men, my example is He. Living He loved me, dying He saved me, buried He carried my sins far away. Rising He justified freely forever, one day He s coming, oh glorious day. One day they led Him up calvary s mountain, one day they nailed Him to die on a tree, suffering anguish, despised and rejected, bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He. 9

12 One day the grave could conceal Him no longer, one day the stone rolled away from the door. Then He arose, o er death He had conquered, now is ascended, my Lord evermore. One day the trumpet will sound for His coming. One day the skies with His glories will shine. Wonderful day, my beloved ones bringing, glorious Savior this Jesus is mine. CCLI Song # John Wilbur Chapman, Mark Hall, Michael Bleeker 2009 Word Music, LLC (a div. of Word Muisc Group, Inc.) My Refuge Music (Admin. by Capitcal CMG Publishing) Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (Admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing) CCLI License # CHURCH HISTORY READINGS Read by Rob Garrett & Vanessa Najera Charles Spurgeon It s a little heaven below, to imagine sweet things. But never think that imagination can picture heaven. When it is most sublime, when it is freest from the dust of earth, when it is carried up by the greatest knowledge, and kept steady by the most extreme caution, imagination cannot picture heaven. It hath not entered the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Imagination is good, but not to picture to us heaven. Your imaginary heaven you will find by-and-by to be all a mistake; though you may have piled up fine castles, you will find them to be castles in the air, and they will vanish like thin clouds before the gale. For imagination cannot make a heaven. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered the heart of man to conceive it. Jonathan Edwards To spend our lives so as to be only a journeying towards heaven, is the way to be free from bondage and to have the prospect and forethought of death comfortable. Does the traveler think of his journey s end with fear and terror? Is it terrible to him to think that he has almost got to his journey s end? Were the children of Israel sorry after forty years travel in the wilderness, when they had almost got to Canaan? 10

13 Labor to be much acquainted with heaven. If you are not acquainted with it, you will not be likely to spend your life as a journey there. You will not be sensible of its worth, nor will you long for it. Unless you are much conversant in your mind with a better good, it will be exceeding difficult to you to have your hearts loose from these things, to use them only in subordination to something else, and be ready to part with them for the sake of that better good. Labor therefore to obtain a realizing sense of a heavenly world, to get a firm belief of its reality, and to be very much conversant with it in your thoughts. SONG 4: ABSENT FROM FLESH Absent from flesh, O blissful thought, what joy this moment brings. Freed from the blame my sin has brought from pain and death and its sting. Absent from flesh, O Glorious day! In one triumphant stroke my reckoning paid, my charges dropped and the bonds round my hands are broke. I go where God and glory shine, to one eternal day. This failing body I now resign, for the angels point my way, for the angels point my way. Absent from flesh! Then rise, my soul, where feet nor wings could climb. Beyond the sky, where planets roll, and beyond all keep of time. CCLI Song # Jamie Barnes 2011 Sojourn Community Church For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights reserved. CCLI License # PANEL DISCUSSION Dennis Newkirk, Chris Newkirk, Allen Rice & Matt Felton Notes: 11

14 Notes: ELDER EXHORTATION Notes: Ramiro Rangel 12

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First Lutheran Community Contemporary Service April 22 nd, :30pm Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.

First Lutheran Community Contemporary Service April 22 nd, 2017-6:30pm Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe. John 20:29 Those who trusted in Jesus were thrilled to hear of His