Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
The World is Lying to Us
Philippians 1:21-23
Joe Pendleton… L.A. Rams QB
“Heaven Can Wait” (1978)
Attitude of Paul…
Philippians 1:21-23 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. .. having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Denials of heaven …
Reincarnation
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment...

Annihilation..cease to exist
Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell..
Modernism denies the supernatural..
Matthew 23:13 "woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in..
Eternal earth..
Jehovah’s Witnesses: "... "When mankind reaches perfection at close of the millennial age they will be admitted into membership in kingdom of God and given entire control of earth as it was first designed, each man a sovereign, each man a king"...
Mormonism..
Celestial marriage for time and eternity… Mormon men will occupy a planet in outer space as planet gods..
700 Club..
“heaven is a floating space station above the earth, the righteous will live on the earth for eternity"
Earth is not eternal..
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Indifference to heaven..
Seldom think of heaven other than at funerals of a loved one…
Our Eternal Home..
Colossians 1:5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel…

Citizenship..
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ
Inheritance…
1 Peter 1:3-4 speaks of how our God has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you
Reward in heaven..
Matthew 5:11-12 when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. where is your reward, He says it's in heaven.. Great is your reward in heaven...

Treasure..
Matthew 6:19-20 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal...
How to get there…
Only Through Jesus…
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me
How to get there…
Faith … Eph 2:8-9
Repentance .. Acts 3:19
Confession … Romans 10:9-10
Baptism .. Mark 16:16
Faithfulness .. Revelation 2:10
Heaven Can Wait
The World is Lying to Us
Philippians 1:21-23