Jonathan Edwards came out with one of those great profound words that comes out of the pages of his writing and grabs you by the throat screaming,'Flee the wrath to come!Flee!Flee!.He said,"Once a Man dies Unconverted after living for himself,ignoring his maker and enjoying the fleeting pleasures of Sin.He will Serve no other purpose for his very existence than to be fuel for the fires of Hell".True!All men hope to go to heaven in the afterlife but only a few really want God to be in Heaven when they got there.if we ask the ordinary man,what he looks forward to in Heaven,He conceives a heaven devoid of pain where He lounges in a Barbeque canteen,drinking ice cream and counting the stars and angels all day long.Certainly Heaven is pleasureable but is eating,drinking and merrying,what Heaven really all about?.I've always asked this question:what good is Heaven to an unholy man if,perphaps he claims,he doesn't deserve Hell? it is a truism that few,it may be feared,really take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there. Heaven is essentially a holy place; its inhabitants are all holy;its occupations are all holy.The saints would take delight in worshiping God day after day,ages without end.To be really happy in heaven,we must be Holy while on earth. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element,and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes,habits,and character. When an eagle is happy in an iron cage, when a sheep is happy in the water,when an owl is happy in the blaze of noonday sun, when a fish is happy on the dry land - then, and not till then, will I admit that the unholy man could be happy in heaven.J C Ryle puts it thus:
Suppose for a moment that you were allowed to enter heaven without holiness. What would you do There?What possible enjoyment could you feel there?what are you looking for there?.To which of all the saints would you join yourself and by whose side would you sit?Their pleasures are not your pleasures,character not your character.How could you possibly be happy in heaven if you had not been holy on earth?
Now perhaps you love the company of the light and careless,the worldly-minded and the covetous,the reveler and the pleasure-seeker, the ungodly and the profane.There will be none such in heaven.
Now perhaps you think the saints of God too strict and particular and serious.You rather avoid them You have no delight in their society.There will be no other company in heaven.
Now perhaps you think praying and Scripture
reading, and hymn singing,dull and melancholy and stupid work,a thing to be tolerated now and then,but not enjoyed.You reckon the Sabbath a burden and a weariness;you could not possibly spend more
than a small part of it in worshipping God.But
remember,heaven is a never-ending Sabbath. The inhabitants there of rest not day and night,saying,
"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty," and singing the praise of the Lamb.How could an unholy man find pleasure in occupation such as this?
Think you that such an one would delight to meet Paul and John, after a life spent in doing the very things they spoke against? Would he take sweet counsel with them and find that he and they had much in common? Think you, above all,that he
would rejoice to meet Jesus,the crucified One, face to face, after cleaving to the sins for which He died, after loving His enemies and despising His friends?
Would he stand before Him with confidence and join in the cry, "This is our God... we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" (Isaiah 25:9)? Think you not rather that the tongue of an unholy man would cleave to the roof of his mouth with shame, and his only desire would be to be cast out? He would feel a stranger in
a land he knew not, a black sheep amid Christ's holy flock.The voice of cherubim and seraphim, the song of angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven, would be a language he could not understand. The very air would seem an air he could not breathe.
I know not what others may think, but to me it does seem clear that heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say, in a vague way, they "hope to go to heaven", but they do not consider what they say... We must be heavenly-minded, and have heavenly
tastes, in the life that now is, or else we shall never find ourselves in heaven, in the life to come.

Hebrew 11:10

What are you looking forward to?

What a beautiful piece. There is no one in heaven who was surprised to find himself there.

John 5:13 " These things I have written to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God, so that you may
know that you have eternal life..

On another note : Jesus is the fulfilment of the sabbath day rest and hence, the weekend resting from our labours as required under the law is no longer binding on believers

Hevrews 4:10-11

" For he that is entered into his rest, he also
hath ceased from his own works, as God did
from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,
lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief."

Colossians 2:16,17

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new
moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the
body is of Christ."

Crieff:
Hebrew 11:10
What are you looking forward to?

Hebrew 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Your point is ?

Crieff:
Hebrew 11:10
What are you looking forward to?

Crieff:
Hebrew 11:10
What are you looking forward to?

My Dear,I'm looking forward to my love--Jesus Christ.I would rather be on earth with Jesus than being in Heaven without Jesus

An2elect2:
What a beautiful piece. There is no one in heaven who was surprised to find himself there.

John 5:13 " These things I have written to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God, so that you may
know that you have eternal life..

On another note : Jesus is the fulfilment of the sabbath day rest and hence, the weekend resting from our labours as required under the law is no longer binding on believers

Hevrews 4:10-11

" For he that is entered into his rest, he also
hath ceased from his own works, as God did
from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,
lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief."

Colossians 2:16,17

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new
moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the
body is of Christ."

Seconded

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