Can We Do Whatever We Want in Heaven
Ten Things Y'all Can't Practise in Heaven
An incomplete listing of what you'll leave behind
A while dorsum in church, I heard someone say,
"There are only ii things that you tin can practice on earth that you can't do in heaven: evangelize and sin. Which one do you recollect God wants you lot to do now?"
Not true. The last time I heard this, I started making a list.
What else can't I do in sky?? It turns out that there's a off-white bit.
one) Deliver
Rev 21:8 — But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will exist in the lake that burns with burn down and brimstone, which is the 2d death.
Yes, it is truthful. You volition non accept the opportunity to share your organized religion in heaven. Information technology is one of the cadre reasons why God left you lot here. There is a time for witnessing to the lost and that time is now. In heaven, your chances are gone.
In sky, you will not regret having not shared your faith more. But you may not accept the same advantage in sky as someone who did obey God in this way.
ii) Insubordinate against God
Rev 21:27 — naught unclean, and no ane who practices abomination and lying, shall e'er come up into it, simply only those whose names are written in the Lamb'south book of life
Do you struggle against sin now? In heaven, in that location will be no sin. I hate the struggle confronting sin that I feel 24-hour interval to twenty-four hour period.
Though no longer enslaved, we are in the fight right now. I cannot wait for the liberty from temptation and influences and snares of sin, though I can barely imagine a life of that sort. In that location will not be i rebel in heaven, though sky will exist filled with forgiven and transformed rebels. All who are in heaven volition be happy to submit to God every bit their Lord.
three) Grieve
Rev 21:4 — and He volition wipe away every tear from their eyes; … there will no longer be mourning, or crying, or pain
There is much to grieve over in this life. Nosotros experience loss — of possessions, of loved ones, of health, even of our ain intellect and sanity. A few weeks agone, I was listening to comedians discuss their craft. The consensus was that comedy is a coping mechanism for the pain of life.
Life is hard. We grieve over the pain that others inflict upon us and that we inflict upon ourselves. As King David would say, "when I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all twenty-four hours long" (Ps 32:3). In heaven, the pain of life is over — the grief we experience will take come up to an stop. There will be a 24-hour interval when tears volition cease to flow and the darkness that cloaks your centre will never render.
4) Get Married
Matt 22:30 — For in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Spousal relationship is a motion picture of Christ and the church, designed by God prior to the Fall and declared very good. Yet, according to Jesus, there volition be no getting married in heaven. What volition happen to our existing marriages? The reply is implied, though not explicit.
Effort to pic the all-time wedlock human relationship you've known — the raw enthusiasm of newlyweds combined with the intimate familiarity of an aged couple celebrating their 50th ceremony. The enthusiastic, sweetness fellowship they share volition be amidst ALL believers in sky. The reason is not but that the effects of the Autumn volition be finished. The reason is that their dear will not exist for 1 some other, only for God. And this mutual shared dearest for the 1 will join them ALL together.
5) Accept kids
Matt 22:thirty — For in the resurrection, they neither ally nor are given in spousal relationship.
Though there'due south little said explicitly in the Bible about this, it suggests that procreation is not a role of heaven. Consider that:
- Having kids was initially commanded in Genesis 1 and then that the globe would be populated with people who know and love God. Though this went tragically amiss later on the Fall, the filling of the earth has been fairly achieved.
- Marriage occurs on earth to provide united states of america a flick of Christ and the Church (Eph 5:31–32). Marriage is instituted by vow and consummation (intimate relations). For now, Christ and the laic accept made vows to 1 some other. In heaven, the consummation of that relationship is completed and we no longer demand a movie of something we now experience firsthand.
- God's revealed Give-and-take encourages sexual union and procreation (having kids) as something for those who are married. As spousal relationship has ceased in heaven (run across higher up #4), so information technology appears that procreation would besides. In fact, the joy of that sexual wedlock appears to be given to us every bit a picture of the fifty-fifty greater joy that will come up at the point when nosotros're united to Christ in heaven.¹
vi) Exist ignorant
1 Cor 13:12 — For now nosotros run into in a mirror dimly, but then face up to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully merely every bit I as well take been fully known.
There are many things that I will not know — virtually the earth, about myself and about my God. At that place is a fourth dimension coming when my ignorance will stop. My partial knowledge of God, and of myself, will end. I will know Him more fully and will understand myself more fully every bit well.
Yet the removal of ignorance is not the same every bit knowing everything. Merely God is omniscient. In heaven, your knowledge of quantum physics and jujitsu may or may not meliorate, but y'all will surely know the one true God more fully. In fact, nosotros shall e'er and forever be learning more nearly our God! Every bit He is space, then in that location are an infinite number of things to learn about Him and His ways.
7) Hunt and Kill Stuff
Gen one:29 — Behold, I accept given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; information technology shall be food for you.
Every bit much every bit I bask hunting and fishing, I see no evidence that those activities go along in sky. Expiry will cease (see #8).
In the Garden of Eden, earlier the Fall, animals were not given as food for man. Decease entered the world through sin and there is no evidence that animals died or were killed before the Fall, nor is there mention of their beingness in heaven. While I'm no vegetarian and I honey me a ribeye, all the evidence points to the end of hunting and other activities that bring death to God'southward creation.
8) Die
Rev 21:iv — and there volition no longer be decease
Death is more than removed from usa today than ever. It happens in hospitals and homes, but the trunk is quickly covered and removed. Rarely is the body left in country for mourners, nor practice nearly people want an open casket service.
We know that death awaits us, but the reminders of its reality do not surround us equally they used to. Hospitals have modify the linguistic communication of expiry to remove its harshness. And we shun the Bible's counsel to spend more time in a house of mourning than a house of feasting (Eccl vii:2). Most people do not requite regular thought to the brevity of life nor its class.
Yet from your twenties, if non before, you have known that there will be a day when you volition pass from this world, if the Lord tarries. Praise God that at that place is simply one death to undergo! When yous arrive in sky, expiry will cease to be. Christ has conquered it. He has removed its sting already and, one 24-hour interval, it will be crushed completely (one Cor 15:54–57).
9) Be distracted in worship
Rev 21:22 — I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Omnipotent and the Lamb are its temple
How many times have y'all sat in a worship, during the preaching or the singing, and your mind is far away — thinking about something that happened before that morning or giving idea to your afternoon plans?
In heaven, you will exist free from lark. Y'all will live in the presence of the Father and the Son. And there is nowhere else that yous will desire to exist. Equally Romans 12:1 describes yielding our lives to God every bit an deed of worship, and so this act will be complete and undistracted in sky. Y'all will not have something you would rather be doing or somebody y'all would rather be talking to. You will be completely and utterly enamored with your Creator.
10) Get Bored
Ps xvi:eleven — In your presence is fullness of joy; in your correct hand there are pleasures forever.
Pop culture has etched into our minds a boring portrait of heaven. Near people picture harps and clouds, tranquillity and monotony. Many Christians know that they are supposed to exist excited nigh heaven, but are more excited to avoid hell than they are eager for heaven. I can promise yous this—heaven will non be boring! You volition NEVER get bored there.
Picture the very best twenty-four hours y'all've ever had with your family. Now think of the sweetest time of prayer yous've ever experienced. And tin you recall a fourth dimension when you read the Bible and information technology was like information technology was speaking right to you lot? Do you remember a twenty-four hours when you loved serving someone else and making them happy? How near a time when you gathered with other believers singing and you were most transported by the powerful and vigorous lyrics and sound?
Wrap all those into one mean solar day, remove all the taints of sin that afflicted those times, and turn it up to 11. That is a shadowy representation of how keen the offset day of heaven will be. And from there, it just gets meliorate!
Astonishing, isn't it! There is so much more to heaven than we oftentimes recollect about. Are yous ready for sky? Heaven will be filled with people who are excited to exist with God, and not one person will be there who lacks this desire.
Rev 22:xx–21 — Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
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¹ Which should make usa all say, WOW!!
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