Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Today we continue our study of what awaits people after this life.

Believers will be encouraged to hear how the Bible describes our eternal home.

I wonder why we don't say much about heaven.

Maybe it's because we don't know much.

Maybe it's because we're not too excited about going there yet. You remember the little quip about the little boy in Sunday school when his teacher asked,

how many of you want to go to heaven?

Everybody raised their hand except one little boy.

And she says, Johnny, what about you?

You don't want to go to heaven?

He said, oh, I thought you were getting up a load to go now, and I'm not quite ready yet. But I want to tell you something, there are a lot of believers I know are not ready. They don't want to go to heaven. In fact, they like it so well here. They're not very interested in heaven. Somebody says, well, I'll think about that one of these days, but not now.

So here's the whole purpose of this message, to show you why you and I ought to be thinking

about heaven, preparing to go there. Somebody says, well, I got saved, I'm prepared. No. No, that's

only part of the preparation. You said, what do I have to do besides get saved?

Well, you don't have to do anything to get in, but that's not all the preparation.

We ought to be sharing our faith, not only with someone about the nature of their sin and God's forgiveness,

but the eternal home that God has provided for them, we ought to know enough to talk

intelligently about what Heaven's all about.

You said, I don't understand the Book of Revelation.

Well, the message I'm going to give you today has, you don't even have to know the book of

Revelation, to know some very important reasons you and I ought to be thinking about heaven,

talking about heaven,

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