Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Top 10 of Revelation Vol 4 s27E99

April 23, 2024 Michael Smith Season 27 Episode 99
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Top 10 of Revelation Vol 4 s27E99
Show Notes Transcript

Ultimately, heaven is where we go to be with God forever. Where HE is, WE is. Fellowship with Himself is what He made OURSELVES for. He made EDEN for MAN and God. He makes HEAVEN for God and Man.

Thank you for walking with me these 99 episodes in Revelation. God has been so very kind, even GENEROUS each day. I am humbled to have shared even one word of it. He promises that the reading of Revelation comes with blessing. I for one, have already experienced some of it.  I pray you do too.  bewithme.us Apple Podcasts. 

 

Top 10 of Revelation Vol 4 s27E99

 

31.                   MORE

Revelation leaves us wanting MORE. There are true things about heaven 

that are not recorded here.*******

         It is not all here, There is enough here: ********* I want more of you. Perfectly normal. ************DESIRE FOR GOD HIMSELF; 

         He has put ETERNITY into mans heart Eccl 3:11 This is the way He built us.

 

32.                 CHURCH

Jesus has ALWAYS loved His church. Jesus will always love His church. 

     Jesus thinks about His churches. Specifically. And individually.

     We do not live here outside of His church and His churches

              Which means my specific Church

              He is thinking about your interaction WITHIN A CHURCH*******

              He is thinking about His interaction WITHIN A CHURCH*******Pray that He gives you a church to love. We are known as a part of His church NOW, and that relationship will not change in heaven. We are to be of His church there too. May you give them an inordinate love for a particular expression of your Big church , here.

 

33.                 REWARDS

Heaven is a place of REWARDS. HE”S A REWARDER****************

Our crowns cannot be understood outside of a relationship to Jesus’ CROWN

     Thorns, suffering, death, blood

     No CHRIST NO CROWN**************If you get a crown. Do what everybody else in heave is doing: CAST IT. Offer it back.

 

34.                 IMPERFECTION

John mis worships twice. Worships an angel. To their credit, the angels do not receive it. Imperfect. Paul Got angry at Barnabas; Peter wouldn’t fellowship right with the Jews. The bible is full of imperfect people trying to get it right.  Starts in first page, ends in last. What does God have for you to correct today? He’s in the refinement business

 

35.                 FACE

We have a new “privilege of citizenship” SEE HIS FACE Similarities: we were meant to live forever with Him in fellowship******* God gives a new ability to NOT DIE and to see His face************ God gives a new ability to see Him, appreciate Him, study Him, get to know Him, enjoy Him*********** This critical aspect of Eden is restored, That is: God is here in this place. Where He will be is where WE will be*********

It is a place He created for you. It is a place He created for HIMSELF. It is a place that He made for the two to be together. God with man. God with Woman. Genesis 3:8 

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Who did God make EDEN for?************

 

36.                 Heaven will be interesting. No churches. Lit by God . The Location of God. Nothing accursed, we won’t tire of it. No more death. No more tears. No more sin. 4 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.” 21.4

         What is heaven going to be like? Your tear problem will besolved******.

He tells us this: TO EXCITE OUR HOPE. Preparation for it includes knowing, thinking, imagaining. Trusting in a future we don’t fully see.

 

37.   THIRST IS 55 “Come, everyone who thirsts, 

come to the waters; 

       and he who has no money, 

come, buy and eat! 

       Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without price. 

Come to the waters everyone who is thirsty

Come BUY and eat everyone who has no money

         Buy without money He who is without price**************

         If I can get He who is without price without money, that then is the cost?

The coming.***************

*******will cost you NOTHING but the coming 

for He already CAME and bore all the COSTS********

 

 

 

 

 

38.                 IMMORTAL Nobody ever dies. Everybody is immortal. Good and the Bad and Angels and Satan. All people are resurrected. God is in the resurredtion businessAll are Judged. Based on YOUR Deeds*********Based on Jesus Deeds********* You don’t die at your first death*********

         You don’t die at the second death CALLED a second death****

All have perfectly appropriate consequences. No one claims in justice is done. Wail. Act accordingly.

 

39.                 EVIL Satan does not have the last word. He’s not on the last page of the Bible. The fight against him was a cakewalk. God defeated Him with the breath of His mouth. What was temporarily allowed by the sovereignty of God is NO longer allowed. He is summoned. He is cast into lake of fire.  Don’t worry, God has got this.

40.                 CHOICE

You are going to live forever it just depends on where

But He’s told us lots. Given us many details. Is 100% reliable in His prophesy

What happens after you die depends on God, He’s boss, He’s sovereign, 

********ONLY He has power in this realm—God Makes choices. 

*********we have some power NOW 

What happens when you die depends in great measure on YOU.

What will you do about your SIN and the penalty it carries?

Best fall on Jesus, lean to Him, so far above our paygrade

Decide today. I’ll follow. I repent. I’m sorry. I believe. I need you. Thank you. Save me. Receive me. I receive you. I’m with you now.  I’m with you then.Leave God OUT, leave God IN