The Believer’s Final Rest

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Many details about heaven haven't been revealed to us. But this we know: God's redeemed people will enjoy a rest in His presence that none of us has yet known. Today, R.C. Sproul describes the final destination of the Christian life.

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0:00.0	We hold on so tenaciously to life in this world because we haven't really been
0:05.6	convinced of the glory that the Father has established in heaven for his people.
0:10.1	Our greatest moment will be the moment that we walk through the door and leave this world of tears and of sorrow,
0:19.0	this valley of death and enter into the presence of the land.
0:25.0	We can find ourselves so distracted from what really matters as we live life in a world
0:36.4	that has breaking news every hour and smartphones that beep or vibrate every minute and as a result not spend enough time
0:45.3	considering our future as Christians and the reality of eternity. You're listening
0:51.4	to renewing your mind and I'm glad you're with us.
0:55.0	Even if we do think about heaven, there are so many misunderstandings.
1:00.0	What will it be like? Clouds, white robes, harps? As we come to the final message of
1:06.5	our C-SProll's 60-part overview of systematic theology, we come to a message on the Believer's final rest.
1:14.9	And because this is the final message, it's also the final day to request the complete
1:19.7	DVD set at renewinger mind.org. So what will heaven be like? Will there be
1:25.8	streets of gold? Well to help us set our minds on eternity here's Dr. Sprawl. Today we come to the end of our 60 unit series, our overview of Christian doctrine.
1:39.8	It's only appropriate that when we come to the end of our study of the things of God
1:44.8	that we should be studying what happens to us at the end, at the end of our lives.
1:51.6	And the glorious hope that we as Christians have
1:55.4	is that of entering into our rest in heaven.
2:02.0	Every Sunday we see God's sign of the promise of rest that is before every believer.
2:10.8	As the Sabbath day is God's established sign of his promise that we will enter into
2:17.8	our rest in the future.
2:21.6	But there are those in our day who doubt that there's life after death and who say to
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