Summary: 250,000 people go to Heaven or Hell everyday, yet most people put little or no thought into the next life Colossians 3:1-2 ISV 1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep focusing on the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. "The Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next." C.S. Lewis Revelation 13:5-6 ISV 5 The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God and to blaspheme His name and His residence - those who are living in Heaven. Isaiah 14:12-15 NLT 12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. 13 For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. 14 I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’ 15 Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths. Matthew 21:14-16 ISV 14 Blind and lame people came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the high priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he had done and the children shouting in the Temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became furious 16 and asked him, “Do you hear what these people are saying?” Jesus told them, “Yes! Haven’t you ever read, ‘From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise’?” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ISV 9 But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love Him. 10 But God has revealed those things to us by His Spirit. For the spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God." 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 ISV 2 I know a man who belongs to the Messiah. Fourteen years ago—whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows—that man was snatched away to the third heaven. 3 I know that this man—whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows— 4 was snatched away to Paradise and heard things that cannot be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention. Revelation 1:10-11 ISV 10 I came to be in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord, when I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet, 11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see..." Colossians 3:1 ISV Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep focusing on the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Most commands assume a resistance to obeying them Most of us find it very difficult to want "Heaven" at all- except in so far as "Heaven" means meeting again our friends who have died 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV ... casting down imaginations... If a God-given function can be used in the negative, it can be trained to function in the positive Genesis 11:6 KJV And the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." Your imagination is the key to your behavior!
