Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, December 19th.

If you're a Christian, do you know what your eternal home will be like?

Join us as we bring our series to a close and learn about the God who cares enough to prepare heaven for us.

When you really care about someone, you're going to express that caring in every way possible.

And the more you care about them, the more ways you're going to be creative in expressing your caring, love, or concern for them.

You and I serve a loving God who cares for us and who expresses that loving care in more ways than you and I could ever count.

Well, this is the last message in our series entitled, The God Who Cares, and the title of this

message, The God Who Cares Enough to Prepare Heaven for Us.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to John chapter 14 and these first six verses of the

Gospel of John. Give us a little idea about what

Jesus had in mind when he was assuring his disciples of his loving care for them.

The 14th chapter of John is one of the most comforting of all chapters in the Bible. And to give you a little idea of what's

happening, you'll recall that he's in the upper room with his disciples, and he's going to be crucified

the next day. And so he says to them, let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

In my father's house are many dwelling places. If you were not so I would have told you,

for I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and

receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I'm going.

Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you're going.

How do we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man coming to the

father, but through me. Jesus made a very specific promise about heaven. He said because he cares

for us, having revealed himself to us and

saved us and working in our life moment by moment day by day, conforming us to his likeness,

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