Heaven

Tonight I get to preach briefly on Heaven from Revelation 21:1-4.

Here'a few quotes about heaven that I really like:


"If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, 'I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it.' But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness." - C.H. Spurgeon

"Every soul there [in heaven], is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonises with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever." - Jonathan Edwards

"Oh, to think of heaven without Christ! It is the same thing as thinking of hell. Heaven without Christ! It is day without the sun, existing without life, feasting without food, seeing without light. It involves a contradiction in terms. Heaven without Christ! Absurd. It is the sea without water, the earth without its fields, the heavens without their stars. There cannot be a heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss, the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ." - C.H. Spurgeon