Sunday Sermon: What We Will Not Find In Heaven

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What We Will Not Find In Heaven

“On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,”
— Revelation 1:10 (NIV)

1. No More Sea

“Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.”
— Revelation 21:1 (NIV)

2. No More Sanctuary

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”

“I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”
— Revelation 21:3,22 (NIV)

3. No More Sadness & Sorrow

“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[a] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

”He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
— Revelation 21:4-5 (NIV)

4. No More Sin

“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
— Revelation 21:8, 22:15 (NIV)

5. No More Sickness

“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.”
— Revelation 22:1-3 (NIV)

6. No More Sun

“There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.”
— Revelation 22:5 (NIV)

7. No More Satan

“On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. he glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
— Revelation 21:25-27 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Seven Things For A New Year

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Seven Things For A New Year

1. New Vision
A. Pr. 29:18
B. Ha. 2:2-3

2. New Dependence
A. Ps. 118:8-9
B. Jer. 17:7-8

3. New Delight
A. Ps. 37:3-5
B. Phil. 4:4
C. Acts 16:34

4. New Desire
A. Ps. 27:4

5. New Direction
A. Ps. 32:8
B. Rom. 6:4

6. New Song
A. Ps. 40:3

7. New Decision
A. Ps. 34:1
B. Ps. 101:1-7
C. Jo. 24:15
D. Ru. 1:6

Sunday Sermon: Wise Men Opened Their Treasures

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Wise Men Opened Their Treasures

“When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”
— Matthew 2:10-12

"They followed the Star"

Numbers 2:2 "The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”

Numbers 24:17 "I see him, but not now, I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the people of Sheth."

"They believed the scriptures"

Matthew 2:6 "But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”

"When the star came to stable, they looked down for Jesus"

Matthew 2:9 "After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was."

"They were exceedingly rejoiced by seeing the star"

Mathew 2:10 "When they saw the star, they were overjoyed."

"They worshiped Jesus"

Matthew 2:11 "On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh."

Gold - Open Faith: 1 Peter 1:7 "These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."

Myrrh - Open Holiness: Hebrews 12:14 "Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord."

Frankincense - Open Worship: Psalm 96:1-10