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16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
God so loved, he gave His Son, SO that we would have eternal life.
what is Eternity?
The dictionary defines it as
Eternity - Infinite or unending time.
Forever.. endlessness and also beginninglessness..
God is Eternal
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
His eternal power and divine nature.. is clearly seen
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Notice in the beginning God created. Not in the beginning God was created.
NASB951 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The writer here separated God existence from the time beginning to make the point that God himself was not created but ratter was the source of creation.
This 10-word verse is back with so much truth and power concerning God. Notice in the beginning God created. Not in the beginning God was created. The writer here separated God existence from the time beginning to make the point that God himself was not created but ratter was the source of creation. In the beginning there was God. Meaning that before time was created God was already God. And that he was not created in time but he is outside, not limited to and greater than time. Time does not begin with God because but time begins with God’s creation of it and here we find that times starts when God creates the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning there was God.
Meaning that before time was created God was already God.
And that he was not created in time but he is outside, not limited to and greater than time.
Time does not begin with God because but time begins with God’s creation of it and here we find that times starts when God creates the heavens and the earth.
Notice our text
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
The Eternal God, so loved the world that He gave something eternal that man would be eternal.
So if the gift is eternal and the gift was to express the love.
then His love for us is, you guessed it is eternal and limitless
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
God love gives man who was created in mortality, the possibility if Eternity!
For God so loved, that He gave, so that you would not perish.
Whats that mean?
It means.. it is God desire what we be with Him.
24 “Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
john 17:
Eternal life does not begin when you die.
It begins when one becomes born again.
Man then receives eternal life.
man is a eternal spirit and therefore will live forever.
you might say
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
heb 9:
Thats a scary thing if you are perishing..
The fact that NO ONE will get out of this place alive.
This is a hopeless reality if you are perishing
It can make life seem purposeless and meaningless.
unfair, unjust, and even evil.
causing one to be critical and cynical.
And for someone who might experience increased or an abnormal amount of suffering they could become....
hateful, vengful, and resentful.
cursing creation, nihilistic, and devaluing life.
But for those who have eternal life we understand that death was not the climax or conclusion but rather a vehicle.
That death was not the climax or conclusion but rather a vehicle.
8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Home with my Lord....
That death was not the climax or conclusion but rather a vehicle.
Something haas change for those who has encountered the strong love of Christ.
We don’t fear perishing…
We know death is not the end
Therefore death has lost its sting...
(STORY ABOUT THE BOY AND THE BEE)
55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 cor 15:55-57
When we receive eternal life and death loses its sting..
God desire is to bring us into an eternal family Now.
We have been chosen to be recipients of God’s love
And when we repent of our sins and turn to God and become born again we are adopted members of his family with rights and an inherent reserved for us in heaven.
and when we are born again we are adopted members this family with rights and an inherent reserved for us in heaven.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
Because of this inheritance, because He Loves us, Because he has set us free from perishing, and given us eternal life.
WE don’t decay with the decaying of the world.
our eyes are fix on him though our vision dims
our hear and know his voice, those our ears struggle.
we know
17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
2 cor
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
ill close with this...
phil 1:21
1 phil 1:21
21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
To those who do not believe in God – Life on earth is the best there is.
To those who do not believe in God – Life on earth is the best there is.
For the non Christian, it is only natural to strive for the world’s values. Money – Popularity – Power – Prestige.
A father was standing outside his burning home, shouting up to his 5 year old son, who was trapped in a 2nd story window. “Jump son! I’ll catch you.”
The boy yelled back coking on the smoke, “but, Daddy, I cant see you.”
“I know,” his father said, “but I can see you.” Then the boy jumped into his Daddy arms. He did this not because he saw but because he trusted. Faith is Trust.
For the Christian it is different. – “To die is gain”
What do we gain?
1. We Gain a better body – a glorified, immortalized, resurrected body.
In this present body of clay we are subject to all the sorrows and tears that life is heir to. Age, sickness, and finally death are the inevitable end of this house made of the dust of the earth. But in death and the resurrection we gain a better body, one that can never grow old, know disease, suffer pain, and can never die. We gain a better body.
2. We Gain a better fellowship.
However the beauty and the embellishments of any house we may possess in this world, it is nothing compared with our mansion in the beautiful city of God. Look at the promise of our Lord in
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1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
The longing of the Apostle Paul for his home in heaven is expressed in
“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:”
3. We Gain a better inheritance.
Our final reward is not here – it is in Heaven.
4. We Gain a better fellowship.
All of us live in this world of a dissolving family circle. Mother is gone – Father is gone, or a child is gone, or our beloved grandparents are gone, or a close friend is gone. But the circle is unbroken in Heaven forever and ever. There is no death there, no sorrow or crying or pain, for these former things are passed away.
Jesus is there.
5. If “for me to live is Christ,” then to die is gain.
If for me to live is money – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is self – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is ambition – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is sin – then to die sis loss.
But if for me to live is Christ – to die is gain.
2. We Gain a better fellowship.
All of us live in this world of a dissolving family circle. Mother is gone – Father is gone, or a child is gone, or our beloved grandparents are gone, or a close friend is gone. But the circle is unbroken in Heaven forever and ever. There is no death there, no sorrow or crying or pain, for these former things are passed away.
Jesus is there.
But if for me to live is Christ – to die is gain.
All of us live in this world of a dissolving family circle. Mother is gone – Father is gone, or a child is gone, or our beloved grandparents are gone, or a close friend is gone. But the circle is unbroken in Heaven forever and ever. There is no death there, no sorrow or crying or pain, for these former things are passed away.
Jesus is there.
5. If “for me to live is Christ,” then to die is gain.
If for me to live is money – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is self – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is ambition – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is sin – then to die sis loss.
But if for me to live is Christ – to die is gain.
3. We Gain a better home.
However the beauty and the embellishments of any house we may possess in this world, it is nothing compared with our mansion in the beautiful city of God. Look at the promise of our Lord in
Because it was always God desire to reign with man on the earth .
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
The garden of eden was not in heaven but on earth.
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1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
The longing of the Apostle Paul for his home in heaven is expressed in
“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:”
The longing of the Apostle Paul for his home in heaven is expressed in
23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;
“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:”
“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:”
The cross was not in heaven but on earth .
And instead of taken us all up to heaven Jesus is going to return to the earth.
4. We Gain a better inheritance.
we will talk about this one next sunday
Our final reward is not here – it is in Heaven.
He 1000 year reign is not in heaven but on earth and after that he will make a new heaven and new earth
If “for me to live is Christ,” then to die is gain.
It seem to me more than God wants to take people up to heaven His desire is to bring heaven to earth.
If for me to live is money – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is self – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is ambition – then to die is loss.
If for me to live is sin – then to die sis loss.