Fasten your seat belts as we start focusing on what really is the only hope that we have in this life.

The only true focus of our life should be where we're going to be spending eternity.

I don't know anybody who buys a house that does not inspect it.

And yet there are so many Christians who do very little thinking

about where they will spend eternity.

And there are some people who accuse Christian believers

that their belief in heaven is an escape mechanism.

Now, I want to respond to that, very simply.

I wouldn't argue with them. They are absolutely right.

I, for one, I want to escape the death and destruction that is coming upon the world.

I, for one, I want to escape the horrors of the tribulation that is coming upon the world.

I, for one, I'm glad that I'm going to escape hell and damnation.

I am glad and I'm delighted that Jesus has provided a way of escape from hell and destruction

for those who love him and love his appearing.

For one, I'm looking forward to the place called heaven where I will be spending eternity.

And there are those who, in the Christian church, who say, you know, heaven is really a state of mind.

Heaven is an abstract idea.

Heaven is really a wishful thinking.

It is some sort of a figure of speech.

Now, to those pessimistic, miserable people, I want to say the following.

Jesus always spoke about heaven in terms of a locality, in terms of a geography, in terms of a place.

And the word he uses in John chapter 14, the Greek word topos, means exactly that. It is a place, a location.

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