The Real Heaven - What's Heaven Like?, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Imagine all the best things of life here on earth. Now, if possible, expand that by 1 million times. Better than anything you’ve experienced so far. Now, imagine living in that kind of environment forever. No struggle. No disease. No pain. No death. No injustice. No evil. Just the best of the best of the best - on spiritual steroids. That’s heaven. Chip gives us a glimpse of the life that awaits us there.
Main Points
- As mankind was, so was the earth.
- As mankind went, so went the earth.
- As mankind will be, so will be the earth.
Broadcast Resource
Additional Resource Mentions
- Book - Heaven by Randy Alcorn
- Book - The Glory of Heaven by John MacArthur
About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine all the best things of life here on earth, the deepest relationships, the greatest |
| 0:08.9 | joy, the most spectacular experiences. |
| 0:12.1 | Now are you ready? |
| 0:12.8 | If possible, expand that by one million times. |
| 0:16.4 | I mean better than anything you've ever experienced so far in your life. |
| 0:21.2 | And now imagine living in that kind of environment forever. That's heaven. And today we're |
| 0:27.9 | going to get a glimpse of what it's really like. Stay with Chip Ingram. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:39.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:45.0 | We're in the middle of our series, The Real Heaven, What the Bible Actually Says. |
| 0:49.0 | Today Chip gives us a glimpse of eternity by examining what Jesus and the Apostles said about |
| 0:54.8 | heaven throughout the New Testament. |
| 0:56.8 | Well there's a lot to get to so grab your Bible and go to Revelation Chapter 21 as we |
| 1:01.7 | join Chip with his talk, what's heaven like? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, we're in a series called heaven and men have been fascinated. |
| 1:08.0 | Mankind fascinated with heaven, meaning for centuries. |
| 1:12.0 | Artists, whether it's the top of the Sistine Chapel or whether it's in a cave or you can go to any culture and people have a very vivid idea of what they think the afterlife is and especially the part of going to heaven. |
| 1:25.8 | You know, poets rhyme about it. |
| 1:27.7 | You know, Milton wrote this Paradise Lost. |
| 1:31.0 | And in fact now, if you want to know about heaven heaven it's become a hot topic and if there's ever a time to write a book on heaven it's now |
| 1:37.3 | If you go through the bookstores that this is Amazon |
| 1:40.0 | 36 books right now about heaven alone. |
| 1:43.3 | And I just sort of scanned him and there's, |
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