Death is a reality that we hear almost every night on the news. How many have died since the Pandemic started? There was a time the news channels had a chart with the running totals of deaths.
No one, no matter the condition of a person, ever welcomes death because those cold hands of death take away our loved one and our earthly lives will forever be without their presence and love.
Dr. Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, died in 2007 at the age of 87. In his book “Nearing Home” he says, “She is better off, but we are not.” How true.
But as followers of the Resurrected Lord Jesus, how are we to face death and more importantly, what is life on the other side like? Heaven…what do we know about it? What does the Bible say?
We will not talk to those who died and “saw Heaven” and have written about it. I don’t need their stories and for the most part, I don’t believe their stories. We have a “more sure word of prophecy (II Peter 1:19)” that will tell us all we need to know about Heaven.
As I recently shared, there are so many in our church family that have lost loved ones in the past 15 months that my heart just breaks. I feel compelled to do a short series of sermons on the subject of “Heaven: Our Eternal Home.” In this series we will deal with:
Death: Friend or Foe?
Where are the Dead in Christ Now?
What About the Resurrection?
“Heaven Our Home”
“Heaven: The City”
I heard Joseph Garlington say many years ago, “We are not human beings having a temporary spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.” What will it be like when we are no longer having a “human experience.”
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