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Sunday, August 24, 2014

The Best is Yet to Come

August 24, 2014
Pastor Jeff Lasseigne
Revelation 20

Pastor Jeff was telling a joke about a lady and her atheist neighbor.

Speaking about how many different churches participated in the Crusade: It's not about the name above the church door, it's all about the name above all names!

Jeff is talking about the message title and how Sinatra sang a song by the same name.

Jeff is now talking about the back drop of Revelation 20 mad the reign of Jesus on earth.

Revelation 20:10 NKJV
[10] The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

1. The first future blessing is that the devil will be gone forever.

The devil isn't in the first two chapters of the Bible and he is kicked out before the last two chapters.

The devil becomes a conquered enemy, a defeated foe that we will never hear of again.

Many people today don't believe in God or that the devil exist.

D.L. Moody says he knows the devil exist because the bible says so and that he has done business with him,

When the devil brings up your past, you can bring up his future.

Another promise is that there is going to be a new heaven and earth.

Revelation 21:1 NKJV
[1] Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

2. This tells us that there will be significant changes in eternity.

Isaiah 65:17 NKJV
[17] "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

2 Peter 3:10 NKJV
[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.

God is going to make it all new because satan has polluted heaven and earth.

Revelation 12:10 NKJV
[10] Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

Devil means accuser; Satan means slanderer.

Jeff says he reads the newspaper everyday after reading his Bible.

Revelation 21:4 NKJV
[4] And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

3. No more sorrow.

Someone said, we were born crying, we live crying and we die crying.

The day will come when all that ends, no more crying or causes to cry.

Heaven is the land of living and earth is the land of dying.

Revelation 21:5 NKJV
[5] Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful."

Never put a question mark where God puts an exclamation point.

Isaiah 65:17 NKJV
[17] "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

Revelation 21:22-27 NKJV
[22] But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. [23] The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. [24] And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. [25] Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). [26] And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. [27] But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

4. There will be no more sin.

The wages of sin is death, so there is no more death or sorrow.

Revelation 21:8 NKJV
[8] But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

There is not a sin that God can't forgive if the sinner truly repents.

Sorcerers are those who do witch craft and drug users.

Revelation 21:24 NKJV
[24] And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

What language will we speak in Heaven? Currently there are about 6,500 languages on earth. Jeff believes there will be only one language in Heaven.

Jeff is talking about the Tower of Babel.

Genesis 11:9 NKJV
[9] Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV
[9] "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him with one accord.

We don't know what that one language will be.

Revelation 22:3 NKJV
[3] And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

5. There will be no more curse.

That is no curse of sin.

One curse is hard labor.

Thorns were the curse of man and Jesus wore that Crown of thorns on the cross.

We will also be serving God in Heaven.

If people think Heaven will be boring then they probably have a very fragile view of The Lord.

Joy will be the very serious business of Heaven.

There is joy in serving The Lord.

What will we be serving him doing?
Paul says we will be judging angles, we will be taking care of all of Gods creatures.

Revelation 22:4 NKJV
[4] They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.

6. We will see His face

Exodus 33:18-20 NKJV
[18] And he said, "Please, show me Your glory." [19] Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." [20] But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live."

God is in Heaven and we get to see Him and be with Him.

The greatest punishment in eternity is not being with God.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 NKJV
[9] These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

Revelation 22:17-19 NKJV
[17] And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. [18] For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; [19] and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

John 14:6 NKJV
[6] Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Believing that Jesus is the only way to Heaven is not being narrow minded, it is the narrow road we must travel to get there.

What is this world offering to you that is better then traveling that road to get to Heaven?


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