Hope & Comfort
Time’s thread is shorter by one inch than it was.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
My friends, the question of eternity, and where we are going to spend it, forces itself upon everyone of us. We are staying here for a little day.
The mansions in God’s house above are everlasting mansions.
When we have obtained the haven, we have done sailing.
She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which going out of our sight doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Your mansion or place of abode in this world, however convenient or commodious it may be, is but as a tent that shall soon be taken down.
They are not reserved in some abode distinct from the highest heaven; but they go directly to heaven itself.
Never would such and so great things be by God wrought for us, if with the death of the body the life of the soul came to an end.
Life! life! eternal life!
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
The hope of heaven is the most potent force for the product of virtue; it is a fountain of joyous effort.
Eternity shall not discover the shadow of a spot in our Beloved, but rather, as ages revolve, his hidden glories shall shine forth with yet more inconceivable splendour.
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