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Daily devotions (Our final authority)

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Our Final Authority

  "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."
 

 

Although we don't know a lot about heaven, I think heaven knows more about Earth. In other words, although I don't really know what my loved ones are doing in heaven right now, I think they may be more aware of what I am doing here.

We have to be very careful in this area, however, because if someone we love has gone on before us to heaven, we tend to wonder what it is like. We want to know more. Maybe this is why there are books on the bestseller lists written by people who say they have gone to heaven and have returned to tell the story.

Maybe you have read some of these books. I was looking at one the other day and was concerned to find (only a few pages in) some discrepancies. I found things that did not line up with Scripture. What concerns me is that I have met Christians who have formed their views about heaven based on what they have read in books like these.

Perhaps the authors did go to heaven and returned to tell us the story. On the other hand, maybe the authors never went to heaven at all. I don't know. All I know is that I have only one source to measure these things by, and that is Scripture. God has given us one Book to tell us about heaven, and that is the Bible.

Do you think God was waiting around for someone to have a return-from-death experience so they could come back and suddenly enlighten the rest of us? I don't think so. Everything we need to know about heaven is in God's Word. Remember, if it is new, it is not true. If it is true, it is not new. So proceed with caution.

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Profound Simplicity

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. -Romans 1:16

My granddaughter Rylie heard a story in Sunday School about the boy that ran away from home. So I said, "Well, tell me the story."

So she told me the entire story of the prodigal son: "This boy ran away from his dad, and he did bad things. And then he realized what he did was wrong, and he came home to his dad."

"What did his dad do?" I asked. "Did his dad spank him?"

"No. No. His dad threw his arms around him and loved him and kissed him."

"That's right. So what do you think that story means? Who is the dad?"

"Well, the dad is like God."

She got it. Jesus told truths so profound that the greatest minds can spend hours, even years, discussing them, but so simple that a child can understand them.

A philosophical argument has its place. However, there is power in the message of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And I have found that if I will just stand up and proclaim this message, that God will do amazing things—not because I am a great preacher, but because I have a great message and have confidence in it. I also believe that when I proclaim it, people will respond. And they do, because it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes.

We all can proclaim this simple message—so simple that a child can understand it—because that is where the power is. That is what moves people.

The apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2: 2).

An effective evangelistic message will make a beeline to the cross.
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  • Mickey Hatfield
    Mickey Hatfield Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    I'm sorry brother, but I would have to disagree about our love ones knowing what we are doing down here. For you see when you are in heaven, there will be no more pain, no more sorrow and more tears. If you they could look to earth and see what is going on, they would be sad, because of the sinful nature going on on earth. I purpose in heaven to be with Jesus.

  • Al Ram
    Al Ram Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    mickey, why do you think that you would know less in heaven than you know here? the bible tells us that the angels Rejoice over every sinner that repents. this tells us that in heaven they know what is happening on earth. its important that we study scripture to know more about God and how heaven and hell is like rather than by going by what others describe it or what we think it would be like.

    Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. - Proverbs 3:5

    "If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep. In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away! -Luke 15:4

    In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents. - Luke 15:10

  • Robert Barr
    Robert Barr Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    I must agree with Mickey.

  • Lisa Schultz
    Lisa Schultz Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    Either side of the arguement is idle speculation. We will be in a dimension that flesh cannot comprehend. Whatever we will know or not know, it is because God has given us all that is good and right. Praise His holy name!

  • Al Ram
    Al Ram Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    mickey, why do you think that you would know less in heaven than you know here? the bible tells us that the angels Rejoice over every sinner that repents. this tells us that in heaven they know what is happening on earth. its important that we study scripture to know more about God and how heaven and hell is like rather than by going by what others describe it or what we think it would be like.

    Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. - Proverbs 3:5

    "If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep. In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away! -Luke 15:4

    In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents. - Luke 15:10

  • Mickey Hatfield
    Mickey Hatfield Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    I didn't say we will know less, I won't worry about what is going on o n earth. We also don't become angels.

  • Lisa Schultz
    Lisa Schultz Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    You got that right, Mickey!

  • Al Ram
    Al Ram Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    You were implying earlier on your first comment that we would know less in heaven when you said

    "but I would have to disagree about our love ones knowing what we are doing down here."

    and the verse i posted from (Luke 15:10) i didn't post to say that we would be angels rather that in heaven there is knowledge about what is happening on earth.

    yes we will know what is happening here and with our loved ones, but our main concern should be about doing The lords work.

  • Mickey Hatfield
    Mickey Hatfield Wednesday, 18 July 2012

    When we leave this earth, the things of this earth won't matter anymore. We as Christians have reached our goal when we get to heaven. To be in heaven with Jesus, and praise and worship him there. It' says in the Bible, when we get to heaven, there will be no more sorrow, no more pain, more tears. There will be complete joy. How can we have complete joy if we continue to look on this sinful earth? Yes the Angels can look down on us, but us as Christians when we get to heaven no. Our focus will be on the Heavenly Father. Even God can't look upon this earth because of the sin. Thats why we have Jesus. Jesus can look upon this earth. His Angels can look about this earth.

    I don't worry about what heaven will be like, because I know it will complete joy and thats I need to know. Plus I believe once we get to heaven all the things we've been wanting to know won't matter anymore. I don't think people go to heaven asking God all kinds of questions. I think we worry about things that is not in our control box. God controls it all.

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