Heaven …a great homecoming awaits.

HeavenThis world is not my home I'm just a-

passin' throughMy treasures are laid up somewhere

beyond the blueThe angels beckon me from heaven's open

doorAnd I can't feel at home in this world

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Home

“Home is where your heart is.”

Home“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

(Matthew 6.21; ESV)

The Prize

“Do you not know that in a race all the runner compete, but only one receives the prize?”

(1 Corinthians 9.24; ESV)

The Prize

“So run, that you may obtain it.”

(1 Corinthians 9.24; ESV)

The Prize

“…let us lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

(Hebrews 12.1; ESV)

What Slows You Down?

Alcoh

ol

FriendsLustGuilt

Material Things

Anger

Racism

Not Loving

Apathy

Guilt

Always Being Right

Ego

Pride

SportsMoney

Wickedness

Self

The Prize

“Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”

(1 Corinthians 9.25; ESV)

Heaven…it’s the place

…of joy (Luke 15.7,10)…of rest (Revelation 14.13)…of peace (Luke 16.19-25)

Heaven…it’s the place

…of righteousness (2 Peter 3.13)…of glory (Romans 8.18)…of God (Revelation 21.3-4)

Heaven“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.”

(C. S. Lewis)

Morgan, R. J. (2000). Nelsons complete book of stories, illustrations, and quotes (electronic ed.) (415). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

HeavenWish me “Bon Voyage!”

As you do a friendWhose joyous visit finds its happy end.

And bid me both “a Dieu!”And “au revoir!”

Since, though I come no more,I shall be waiting there to greet you,

At His door.

(John Oxenham)

Heaven …we hope to see you there.