Paradise Regained: The Garden of Heaven
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Bible opens with the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After the first humans disobeyed and chose death, God graciously kept them away from the Tree of Life, lest they live forever in their fallen state. But now, at the end of the Bible, the Tree of Life reemerges in the garden environment of the capital city of heaven. Today, let’s consider our future home.
I. Anterior Design
II. Exterior Design
III. Interior Design
IV. Superior Design
Talk with God: Thank the Lord for His faithful love and gracious plan of redemption as we prepare to celebrate the birth of His Son.
Talk with others: Reach out to a believer who may be hurting this Christmas season and encourage them to seek comfort from the “God [who] will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (21:4).
Talk with kids: Why is Jesus’ return good news for Christians?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning to you, and happy Christmas. |
| 0:09.0 | We're in this season, and we're doing a series called Fall of the Trees. |
| 0:14.0 | Last week we looked at one tree in the Garden of Eden. |
| 0:17.0 | This week we'll look at the tree of life in the new Jerusalem in the future, |
| 0:23.8 | and then Christmas Eve we'll talk about the third tree, and that is the cross. A little |
| 0:29.9 | question or an issue about the book that Nate wrote, Christmas under the tree, there are 50 copies left. That's all that we have presently. |
| 0:41.6 | They're all signed copies. So if you want a great children's book for Christmas to read to your |
| 0:47.8 | kids, it follows this theme. We have 50 left, and you can get a copy over in our bookstore, Sopo. |
| 0:56.0 | Turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Revelation this morning, chapter 21. |
| 1:02.8 | Revelation chapter 21. |
| 1:06.8 | It's good if you have a Bible. |
| 1:08.3 | I hope you brought one. |
| 1:09.4 | If you don't have a real one, maybe you have a fake one on your phone or your tablet. |
| 1:15.0 | So whether you have a real Bible or a fake Bible, take out your Bible, get to Revelation |
| 1:19.5 | Chapter 21, back of the book, and we'll begin in a moment. |
| 1:26.0 | Let's have a word of prayer. |
| 1:27.2 | Father, we want to thank you for the season that we are in. |
| 1:30.1 | It is an opportunity for us as believers to share the meaning behind this season. |
| 1:37.5 | It is lost. |
| 1:38.6 | It is obscured every year by commercialism. |
| 1:41.9 | And yet we have an opportunity to let the light shine in our world. |
| 1:46.2 | And I pray that we as believers will use it. |
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