Happily Ever After?
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Jesus brings happiness through His Presence!(1-4)
Jesus brings happiness through His Presence!(1-4)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Dan
They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
Rev 12:35
Rev 12:35
Revelation 12:35
Ps
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
2 Pt
Christian meditate much on Heaven, it will help you press on… The vale of tears is but the pathway to the better country…After death… What wonder-world will open upon our astonished sight!? CHS
Rev 20:11
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
Oh how happy it is to have our thoughts swallowed up in that World! - David Brainard
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.
Dan
and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Rev
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
God is the source of all true happiness to gaze upon Him is to enter His happiness, if you are His!
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
Rev 19:
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Jn 14:
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Only by Repentance from sin and Faith in Christ have we recieved Christ’s righteous life applied to ours. This is Transformation!
My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezek 37:27
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
I
Jesus brings happiness through His Word!(5-7)
Jesus brings happiness through His Word!(5-7)
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
And 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 from the spring of the water of life without payment.
The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
Jesus brings happiness through His Judgement!(8)
Jesus brings happiness through His Judgement!(8)
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Come, let us be happy and joyful! If we have looked sad for a while, let us now be brightened by thoughts of Christ…
Let us not be satisfied until we have shaken off this lethargy and misery, and have once again come into the proper and healthy state in which a child of God should always be found, namely, a stated of spiritual joy! CHS
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the Gospel. We have not used the Gospel on all of our life or else we would be truly happy.
Now that Jesus Christ has come to restore the ruins of the Fall, He has come to bring back to us the old joy - only it shall be even sweeter and deeper than it could have been if we had never lost it! CHS
A Christian has never fully realized what Christ came to make him until he has grasped the joy of the Lord. Christ wishes His people to be truly happy. CHS
2 cor
1Tim 1:15
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Titus
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred seek happiness in God. Have you?
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
