Ecclesiastes 12:7

What do you think your favorite thing will be?

Being in the presence of God.

Matthew 25:34, 41, 46

Matthew 7:23

I John 3:1-3 – We will see God as He is!

I Thessalonians 4:17-18

Being with other saints

I Thessalonians 4:15-17

Revelation 6:9-11 – This seems to imply that those in the afterlife remembered their lives on earth.

No more troubles

Luke 16:19-26 – All physical problems will be gone in heaven!

Hebrews 4:8-11 – God gave the Israelites rest in the sense of Canaan, but there is a greater rest waiting for God’s people.

Matthew 5:11-12

Romans 8:18

Philippians 3:20-21 – Sin and temptation will be left behind!

Myths about Heaven

It will be boring.

James 1:17-18

God created everything we enjoy on earth. How much better will Heaven be?

It’s not an actual place.

What all of this means right now.

I should be living like a citizen of Heaven!

Philippians 3:20-21, 19

Colossians 3:2

Matthew 6:19

Appreciate what Jesus did!

Philippians 2:5-11

John 17:5