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No! Heaven will be so fundamentally different from the world we live in now that we can’t describe it only in positives; it requires the use of negatives, as well. To describe what is totally beyond human understanding also requires pointing out how it differs from present experience.

Every Tear Will Be Wiped Away

The first change from their earthly life believers in heaven will experience is that God will wipe away every tear from their eyes (cf. Revelation 7:17, Isaiah 25:8). That does not mean that people who arrive in heaven will be crying and God will comfort them in their distress. They will not, as some imagine, be weeping as they face the record of their sins. There is no such record, because “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1), since Christ “his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Continue reading →

‘They continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers’ (Acts 2:42).

For the saved person in Christ, the answer to ‘Why should I be involved in a church?’ is in two parts: You need the people of the church, and they need you.

The very first church in Jerusalem was a church that was centrally focused on the things that were to do with God and Jesus Christ, with fellowship and support and prayer. This church, though it didn’t have any popularity in the greater community and had no cunning and worldly plans to appeal to the desires of the fleshly people, still had everything that was necessary to carry out the purposes of God. Any church today will manifest the same characteristics if it embraces a faithful belief in the whole of God’s teachings and instructions in the Bible, if the people within it love each other and God, and if they dwell on his Word and cares for those around them. Continue reading →

‘We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose’ (Romans 8:28).

For Christians, this verse contains a wonderful promise: it encompasses absolutely everything that occurs in a believer’s life.

We know (v. 8:28a)

In the context of the truths that follow in Romans chapter 8, these simple words show that Christians can have absolute certainty of eternal security in the Holy Spirit. Paul is not expressing his personal intuitions or opinions but is setting forth the inerrant truth of God’s Word, which God has preserved through to us, intact, today. It is not Paul the man, not Paul the sinner, not Paul the Pharisee, but Paul the Apostle and channel of God’s revelation who declares the truth he has received from the Holy Spirit. This is the teaching of God. He therefore asserts with God’s own authority that, as believers in Jesus Christ, we know beyond all doubt that every aspect of our lives is in God’s hands and will be divinely used by the Lord not only to manifest His own glory but also to work out our own ultimate blessing. Continue reading →

“When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,  And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!” (John 11:33–36).

This was a scene of intense sorrow and pain. Not only was Mary weeping (a form of the verb klaio; “to wail,” or “to lament loudly”), but the Jews who came with her were also weeping and wailing loudly. According to Jewish custom, even the poorest family was expected to hire at least two flute players and a professional wailing woman. Since Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were a prominent family, they would likely have had even more professional mourners, in addition to the others who came to pay their respects (v. 19). Continue reading →