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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Revelation 7:16, 17

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"HEAVEN IS A WONDERFUL PLACE."
Intro: Jesus said to His disciples, "I'm going to prepare a place for you, and if I go, I will come again to receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also."
I. THE CONDITIONS OF HEAVEN.
A. First contrasted with those on earth vs. 16.
1. "Hunger no more."
a. To us living in the U.S. this does not hold the same assurance as to a person living in a third world nation.
b. Leaders in WHO, World Hunger Organization say that 2/3 of the world's population are undernourished.
2. Hunger and thirst are often used in the scriptures in a spiritual sense.
a. "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness..."
b. Jesus talking to woman at the well.
c. Jesus on the Temple Mount.
d. Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life..."
e. Think of what spiritual fulfillment heaven will be.
3. "Neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat."
a. There is a time coming when through atmospheric disturbance or some other phenomena, the sun will be given power to scorch the inhabitants of the earth.
b. The Bible, written in a desert area, valued shade.
1. The Lord is my shade on my right hand.
2. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
3. I will abide beneath the shadow of the Almighty.
c. Here again we see the thought used in a spiritual sense.
1. We say, "The heat's on," in referring to pressured situations. The word pressure itself.
2. I've been on the front burner.
d. Heaven has to be the most worry-free place in the universe.
II. FROM THE POSITIVE SIDE VS. 17.
A. "The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them."
B. "And shall lead them into living fountains of waters."
1. The prophet Isaiah cried, "Ho everyone that thirstest, come ye to the waters, he who has no money come buy and drink. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which cannot satisfy?"
C. "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
1. Rev. 21:4.
III. OUR FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THE GLORY OF HEAVEN CAUSES WRONG CONCEPTS OF DEATH.
A. We sorrow, but not as those who have no hope.
1. Ours is a different sorrow.
a. Not for the one who is gone.
b. For ourselves who remain.
B. Little girl born blind.
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