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Sermon Outline

2 Corinthians 5:6-9

Where do your thoughts go when you think of Heaven?

What should we know when we hear the words Heaven and Hell?

Where is Heaven? What will Heaven and Hell be like?

Genesis 5:24

2 Kings 2:9-12

Acts 1:9-11

Heaven is a physical place, but where is it?

Two theories:

  1. Heaven is a distant unseen
  2. Heaven is in another dimension.

The Bible refers to four heavens.

  1. The first heaven is the earth’s atmosphere.
  2. The second heaven we refer to as “outer space.”
  3. The third heaven is where God is manifest in His presence.
    • This is sometimes referred to as Paradise
    • 2 Corinthians 12:2-3
    • The pre-fall experience in the Garden of Eden gives us some insight into heaven.
    • The present heaven is where our friends and loved ones are today. It is not the final place of mankind.
    • Hades is the place for those who rejected Christ.

That is not the end of the story. There will be a New Heaven and a New Earth. This New Heaven is the fourth heaven mentioned in the Bible.

There is a timeline to life. 

Hebrews 9:27-28

Two timelines:

  1. Man is appointed to die.
  2. Christ appears a second time.

What determines our future destination?

Ephesians 2:1-9

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