No More Tears

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

God’s people can take comfort in the Bible’s descriptions of heaven—not only in what heaven contains, but also what will be absent. Today, R.C. Sproul reflects on the end of sorrow, suffering, and sin in the presence of Christ.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	One of the most amazing things about this description of the nature of heaven is the emphasis
0:06.2	again and again in this text of what is not in heaven.
0:11.6	There is no death.
0:13.6	There are no tears.
0:15.2	There's no sickness.
0:16.8	There's no pain.
0:18.3	There's no sin.
0:25.3	Music There's no pain. There's no sin. What will heaven be like? What will be there?
0:28.9	As you just heard from R.C. Sprole,
0:31.1	scripture is quick to tell us what won't be in heaven.
0:34.5	Basically, the description of the end of human suffering.
0:38.6	This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and today we conclude a four-day study of
0:44.2	hell and heaven. Even though we have spent two days on each topic, there are more messages
0:50.3	in each series. So for the final day, you can request lifetime digital access to both,
0:56.0	along with two books from Dr. Sprawl, when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org,
1:01.9	or by calling us at 800-435-4343 before midnight tonight. In Revelation chapter 21 and 22, here's Dr. Sprawl.
1:13.6	As we come to the end of our brief study of what heaven is like, there's a point I'd like
1:22.6	to raise today that's a little bit unusual. So often the expectation among Christians is that heaven
1:31.9	ultimately will be a place that is somewhat ethereal and spiritual in some far away land east of the
1:41.2	sun and west of the moon. And the expectation is that the world in which we live
1:46.8	will be completely destroyed and annihilated, and we will live in some vaporized place in the heavens
1:55.4	or in the sky. But the New Testament does not teach the final, ultimate destruction of this world,
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