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Joy in God is the happiest of all joys.

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Augustine of Hippo; R. C. Sproul; Augustus Hopkins Strong

God’s glory will fill and permeate the entire new Heaven—not just one centralized place. Thus, wherever we go in Heaven, we will be in the immediate presence of the full glory of God.853

Steven J. Lawson, Heaven Help Us!

Dr. Steven J. Lawson

The “new Jerusalem” . . . does not remain in a “heaven” far off in space, but it comes down to the renewed earth; there the redeemed will spend eternity in resurrection bodies. So heaven and earth, now separated, will then be merged: the new earth will also be heaven, since God will dwell there with his people. Glorified believers, in other words, will continue to be in heaven while they are inhabiting the new earth.887

Anthony Hoekema, “Heaven: Not Just an Eternal Day Off”

Anthony A. Hoekema

Basic to New Testament ethics is the belief that Christians should live on earth in the light of heaven, should make decisions in the present with their eye on the future, and should avoid behaving here in a way that would jeopardize their hope of glory hereafter.

J. I. Packer