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“HEAVEN’s GLORY” by Christopher Love
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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Lake City, Florida and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth listening via live streaming on iron sharpens iron Radio .com this is Chris Arns and your host of iron sharpens iron radio wishing you a happy Wednesday on this 14th day of June 2017 and I just came back from a delightful lunch With a member of Grace Baptist Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where I am a member brother who is an usher they're very soft-spoken quiet individual who I just recently found out is one of the greatest minds in the United States involving the Soviet Union and Russia he is a thoroughly knowledgeable expert on the theme of Russian military history and Slavic military history is the author of numerous books.
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Today we are going to be addressing one of the books that he has brought back into print through Puritan publications Heaven's glory by Christopher love and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio.
Dr. C Matthew McMahon Brother glad to be here and happy to talk about amen. Amen. I could use some comforting subjects in the midst of a lot of What's the word I'm looking for there's a lot of turmoil going on in the Christian apologetic world involving people that I know and love and respect and it's sometimes can be quite disturbing to see Bitterness well up amongst the brethren and strife and so on but so this will be a good Temporary vacation from all that and For our listeners who are discovering you for the first time tell us about a Puritan's mind.
More people need to read these jewels collecting dust and just a few scholars here and there reading them typical information, so I started taking little excerpts here and there and began postings mind various pieces out of Ames's marrow of theology and various pieces out of Turreton's Institute.
For love he's about as fast you can get for the short time that he lived in turn. They they began to be a blessing to others because at that time there was over the years. Turned into dozens and dozens and dozens of various Puritan and books and such.
2005 I started a Puritan publication and I was putting out most extra year preached from the pulpit and We need to be reading some more of this and so I decided well Not only am I going to start publishing a few updated language that they're easy to understand no doubt Thomas Manson Thomas Goodwin all sorts of big set you could you could sit and read them for days on end.
Sometimes though people have a difficult time kind of a wading through some of the old English. And so I thought you know these are not only are these really helpful I need to enjoy after about a year of starting.
Let's do them an updated like that is a people who would regularly not go I think that reformed writing from that era and from the air even in you know grabbing something like Kaplan's Institutes off the shelf and People have to wade through as much as we were in there sometimes a little longer.
But we want to make it easier to understand and more accessible that way and so Appearance of mine has grown and then some of the more niche important than putting out in Puritan publication. Generally come from the era published about 6062 of the assembly members themselves things that you know have never been published before.
Thomas Valentine a little while ago calling them up putting them in a volume. I think one of the to come is by Michael Harrison. There's nothing else available from him anywhere on the planet. Cliff note.
You read that we tend to live in a sea Involuted finding things that are going to be light and those who are able to people you're in them today. Amen.
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Residence if you live outside of the USA. And some of my listeners may recall the name Christopher Love because they may have heard me from time to time. Explain the origin of the order or reveal the origin of the quote that I conclude every single iron sharpens iron radio broadcast with and that is Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner, which is a paraphrase of a quote from Christopher Love.
Tell us about this great Puritan. Something about his own personal background and why we should value what he wrote so long ago today.
Well, but by a fellow Puritan Oliver Cromwell, I like the idea. I'm in the dungeon. He was creature and theologian in the sense that he was not super. He was arrested thrown in dungeon thrown in the dungeon in May.
I believe he was. No, he was beheaded. He wound up having from May to August writing letters writing some different treatises and such in the account moving Because of what he does and writing letters to his wife speaking with his wife and such While living the lifetime and these were people Jeremiah Whitaker William Taylor Alan gear.
They published a number of grace calling an election Christians duty and safety and evil time between the flesh and the spirit By Jonathan Edwards. Side the Bible on that project because these being the important just could not not put them into print.
You've got to get them so that people can read some of these wonderful work.
Do you know if anybody has published any of the letters? And perhaps compiled together in the single volume that he wrote to his wife while in prison.
Yes, that is in our book the vindication of Christopher Love. We've done that. All of his letters are in there. Like I said, it's extremely moving. His letters are deep. He written to his wife Instructive his vindication that was one of the things that was actually published when he was alive.
Before he was beheaded because he wanted to let people know, you know. Just like with a lot of the political stuff that's going on today. Just because the media might say something doesn't necessarily.
Rumors were flying around about him and all of these different ways making him out to be a bad enough to be thrown in the dungeon and be beheaded. He had a vindication about and by the way if our listeners want to investigate a.
Puritan's mind after the program if you want to find out more about what they offer and of course Puritan publications go to a Puritan's mind comm. That's a Puritan's mind comm obviously no apostrophe in that and You can find out much more about this wonderful ministry.
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Before I go into or have you go into the main contents of the book about heaven. We've already got Several listeners that have written in within the last five minutes or so. And I think their questions will help set the stage for you know giving our listeners a little bit more of the background of love so they know the source of what you're talking about.
We have Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Who says how can we? separate the brilliance and the Valuable truths that the Puritans have left to us as their legacy from some of the horrible and perhaps even horrific things that they were involved in including the aforementioned execution of love by a fellow Puritan.
How can we convey to our Friends and family and loved ones and brothers in Christ who have so far not delved into the Puritans That these are worthy sources of great truth in spite of anything negative That has tarnished their reputation in history.
You get a dichotomy there that you have to deal with and that one.
Viewed from the viewed by the world we've used companies would make Commercial Puritans have no fun, you know driving our car. Because it's fun and they weren't why would they is an equal ultimacy so to speak between those two positions well when you think about what it is that they've done in terms of taking scripture and making scripture Plainly understood in terms of the ministers preaching sermons that they gave.
I mean, this is some of the best literature that you'll ever read in the history of the church and so. Certainly on the worldly side the devil wants to screw and as hard as it mean that the Puritans were perfect or that You know certain things that are said about them didn't occur like.
Yet there are there's more than simply the idea of in fellowship occurring in The time that Christopher love in particular live and what Oliver Cromwell did Basically England Ireland and Scotland so to speak with the army behead the king and become Lord protect.
You start getting into some of those historical aspects. You begin to see why certain things happened like that. Yes. Men are still men men still sin. Things are not going to be perfect until we get to heaven.
But in looking at some of the difficulties that surrounded historically the Puritans you don't necessarily need to Divulge every single jot and tittle of everything that happened to all of the Puritans.
Historically before you read a work and if you're sharing some of the information. And read through heaven and go through that and have some of those things set in their mind and in their heart they're gonna have Colossians that in their mind when Christ then We also appear with him in glory.
You're gonna have that implanted in. Embedded in the way that they work. So, oh, well, we're prepared to explain what can deal with that when Christians begin to get the flavor of how powerful deep and Important these works are they take a love getting his head chopped off one of his work.
Of course, he was he was the victim in that case. Yeah, I mean, you know, I.
I'm not thinking about the historical Aspects of that. I'm thinking about I've read all of thinking about boy. I cannot wait because I know I've read these other point I know he's going to take me on a really song and that that even if you were to take all Of the quote-unquote call of that out any problems.
Listen to purify the church their understanding because of that even some of the short books that some of the amen and.
Men are men of their times and they have inherited things that Surround them from in infancy. People were far more readily executed for things like heresy and oh, yeah Bygone era and even you know, not only do we have the reformers and their own problems we have Martin Luther a great hero of the faith who had problems with Remarks and writings that could be very easily deemed as anti-semitic and you have Even in more reason much more recent history in the 19th century some of the great reformed heroes of the United States were slaveholders And defended slavery and so, you know, you have all kinds of things that you would have to weed through because all Christians are Sinners until we enter glory.
So it's one of those things that you're not going to have perfect people presenting us with These truths from the scriptures that they glean. But thank you Ronald from Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
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I am going to Email you I'm going to forward you the email for a our next listener question because she actually asks three very good questions and We're gonna go to a break and have you answer the questions when we come back this way you have time to mull over what she has written and When we come back from the break you can answer them.
I'm just gonna start off by reading you on the air the first question. This is Jenny and Ben Salem, Pennsylvania. She says is it true that Christopher love? Rejected the view of a new heaven and earth and favored in traditional puritan thought that there was a three-tier System in which the Saints and the Holy Angels occupied the highest strata with Christ.
Can you elaborate a little on this three-tiered? System and as I said, I'm gonna be emailing you this question and the two other questions that that Jenny from Ben Salem, Pennsylvania has written and we will Have you respond when we return from the break if anybody else would like to join us on the air and we still have a Couple of other listeners with their questions.
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This is Chris Arns, and if you just tuned in to iron sharpens iron radio today, our guest today is dr Matthew McMahon of a Puritan's mind. We're discussing heaven's glory by Christopher Love and yes I know Christopher Love was my DJ name in the 70s, but that's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about a great Puritan of history who has left a legacy for us that we should not ignore and. If you'd like to join us on the air, our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com.
And please give us your first name. City and state and country of residence if you live outside of the good old USA. As you know, dr McMahon the first of three questions that Jenny from Ben Salem, Pennsylvania has written to us is Is it true that Christopher Love rejected the view of a new heaven and earth and favored in?
Traditional Puritan thought that there was a three-tier system in which the Saints and the Holy Angels occupied the highest strata with Christ.
Well, I've read all of Christopher Lowe's I don't find any Three-tiered system in that particular manner. All of the Puritans thought that when scripture I mean, this is just rightly utilizing scripture to context that there are three uses of the heaven Float where the heaven and then there's the same.
So anything in love's works that caused him to have some kind of odd idea. What he does do. And he takes a couple of his works to go militant. The millennial view. Like the pre-millennial view Christ's coming raining on the earth for a thousand years and that being some kind of temporary Heavenly state or or something like that.
But in terms of the three-tiered system something of that nature, I don't find that Orthodox and the idea of heaven.
Now I know that many of the Puritans were post-millennial. Where did he fit in the eschatological scheme.
Tension. And second coming from acting about I mean even above and and really He says that Christ complete and total mess and misunderstanding. A bit of time doing.
And in the beginning of our in the beginning of our program you already addressed a lot of what Jenny asked about in her second Question, but do you have anything to add about how loves religious conviction played out against the political?
Upheavals in his time to come out in his pre-kid ministry he was. And her last question is why do you think.
Christopher love has been forgotten by most Christians. And what was it about Christopher love that drove you to write books about him? And obviously you've also partially answered that last part of her question in the beginning of the program.
But if you could comment any further.
Yeah, I mean in terms of what old me and write about him. I mean, I love John Owen. Yes. Books are dense with her. Love does not whether you're reading a work on the level of the people. I'm glad he pointed that out.
Yeah, in fact, I had Michael Hagen on recently and he was talking about that. It would not be uncommon to find a sentence 25 lines long from the writings of John Owen. But but thank you Jenny for your insightful questions.
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But since there seems to be so much interest in among our listeners. I don't want to block them out and Might might as well. Let them have their questions as many of their questions asked and answered before we have you.
Delve into the book Brandon. And in Fullerton, California Says it seems like many evangelical churches over the past 60 years have largely forgotten about the pure ends Puritans and Church in general and church history in general.
Why do you feel that it that is. And have you noticed a large? Returning of Christians to the Puritans over the past handful of years. We've already Answered in large part the first half of what he asks, but the second part is interesting.
Have you noticed a large returning of Christians to the Puritans over the past handful of years. I.
Want to say yes and no in the sense that 1980 until Seemed to be gaining a lot of speed and some of the book publishers that were putting out a lot of pure some Went into certain financial difficulties and such and so less and less and less Started being published or republished with the myriad and so I think in terms of the way when I can buy an e-book change in Internet and what's going on with ebooks and what's going on with what you can get online in touch.
I think that surgeon is starting to raise the bar for Gaining that momentum back. But I think it was it was going well. It got lost a little bit and then the whole idea of the electronic can have my entire library Practically on my phone, which is an amazing thing.
And I don't think we've ever been anywhere and they hit anything even remotely like that I mean you at your fingertips. You can have all of the works of and it's just an amazing thing to be able to do research that way so I think now I think we're getting some speed back up again, and I think the availability of Those works is making that more and more accessible to people and people are excited who a year ago if Which I remember the conversation and he'll remember that I had this conversation with him.
He's like, I'm there's no possible way that you'll ever get me to read an e-book. I want a book in my hand. I want to take my Highlighter and highlight it right in that book and now and this is only in the last couple of weeks.
He's like, you know, I can have all these books on my phone. Yeah. Yeah, he's like 180 degrees in the opposite he's like he's ready to get his library and and move that over and just get his iPad or his Android or his computer or his tablet and put his books on that and have Them wherever he's at love that idea.
I think it's a good Compromise to have a little bit of both the eight nine thousand books. Myself that was my library and a thousand and kept only the things that are most important to me. Other things that you know, you can get easily or retrieve easily.
Those I from the internet you can read Calvin's Institute. You can read Calvin's commentaries all of them. They're all on the internet, you know so the internet has really exploded the ability of having things right at your finger because a lot of them don't like having to wade through the difficulty of.
And sometimes in a scanned well. Sometimes they're difficult to read sometimes whole pages are blotted out or pages are missing or things of that nature. Some of the ebooks and print books that we're doing but I think that electronic revolution has really changed things for people.
The thousand books that I have I have a Head of the skin lays on the desk at the pages and put it into my computer your phone. I think that's really thing is with that. There's also the danger of Not.
There's some hand and you're working through that and do that with ebooks. But people want to slow down and not just have their mind so that well Brandon in Fullerton, California.
Thank you so much for your question and please give us your full mailing address because you have just won a free copy of heaven's glory by Christopher love with chapters by dr. C Matthew McMahon compliments of Puritan public publishers publications, I'm sorry and Compliments of Cumberland Valley Bible book service cvbbs .com.
So give us your full mailing address and that should Get to you. God willing in a week or so Compliments of cvbbs .com who do not charge you or I or me I should say for the shipping cost. I'm gonna ask one more question for now, which will enable you to dovetail into the contents of the book.
And then if we have time later, we'll take some of the other listener questions we have. John in West Peoria, Illinois, who's with Samaritan Ministries International? John asks does Christopher loves treatise on heaven distinguish itself from other Puritan works on heaven in any notable ways.
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On that and when you deal with that doctrine heaven as heaven you're often going to be like and What would be like he begins and how he dives into in Christ now, we also in glory and so in this wonderful work taking the con and and For and that we then will be in glory with him one day if we explain What is meant when Christ is said to be our life?
He explained that Christ who is our life. What is meant that with him in glory? So those are his three main ideas and explaining to you Heaven's glory because once you get into the immediate context Surrounding Colossians 1 to 4 having your mind then you were raised with many treatises, but he is particularly taking the idea that Christ is our life and Applying that to the idea of Goliath's what really several many of which are out there.
Well, John and PR. West Peoria, Illinois. We thank you for your question and you have also won a copy of heaven's glory by Christopher love with chapters by dr. C Matthew McMahon and please give us your mailing address so we can have Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service CV bbs .com ship that out to you and We are going to now delve into the book itself after our station break.
This is our elongated station break because we have to give Grace life radio 90 .1 FM in Lake City, Florida our program in 254 minute segments. So we have an elongated break in the middle. So be patient with us, but we will be back as soon as possible and when we return we will have our Guest dr. C. Matthew McMahon actually begin to explore in more depth specifically the contents of Heaven's glory by Christopher love and if we have time later We'll take more listener questions.
If you have any questions, our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com and those of you who are or wait already waiting for your questions to be asked and answered We will try to get to you towards the latter part of the program.
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Chris Arnson at gmail .com when put Advertising in the subject line. Well, we are now back With our guest dr. C Matthew McMahon to discuss the book Heaven's Glory by Christopher Love and dr. McMahon. It seems that you have compiled a summary of ten sermons By Christopher Love that delve into the subject of heaven's glory.
Is that correct?
That is correct. The immediate con and love talks a little bit about them. If then you if then you are raised things which are above what Christ is and of things above. Not on things on the earth. But you die and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
It appears then you also in glory. Interestingly, you know Christian. Think about really when we say that we want to it's possessed. By Christian. Contagious biting possess. What is heaven not? May be a good starting point.
Because love is going to dispel. Christians might think or just what people in general might think that heaven is about. For example, you know today people think for getting into heaven is simply to die and that is not true.
That heaven is some kind of fantasy realm. Where material ideas are manifested in the best possible way. So if you're a golfer, you're gonna go to golfer's heaven. That's where you're gonna go. It's where the best golfing will ever take place.
It'll be the nicest day for eternity and you'll have the green. Whatever. Man's delight is here.
Is watching golf on. Is watching golf on TV purgatory?
I Modern man rejects heaven even if it's given in some worldly manner like that is because he's prone to the idea that Heaven is where people with heart floating clouds and just strum their hearts all day.
You know and you can you hear the ludicrous ideas of people saying, you know Are then float around so even in terms of what their small mention of some kind of Religiosity is so important to them even that fictional idea.
That's why love deals with the first that he does is that Christ in us? Now if heaven in that particular manner, is it in us now then we're not going to be in heaven. We need to have that now. There's another point that he alludes to throughout the first few sermons and that is the inadequacy of Language not the intention of the biblical writers to create some kind of mythology carried along by the Holy Spirit down God's mind in what we call Accommodated language to describe enough of heaven so that the church may understand that it is.
And that they will see God fully and in thinking about certain amount of skill that needed to deal with predated language. God dumbed down a little for men to grab might be in and the shepherds say the pilgrims the gates of the Celestial City if you know you you have Christians that think for some reason that when they go to heaven They're going to live this New Jerusalem is 1 ,500 miles wide and 1 ,500 miles long and oh, yeah, by the way, it's 1 ,500 miles across and They live inside of this Star-trekkie in kind of org cube.
That's not what is going on. The language dating language. It says at this down in many places concerning heaven accommodated that language to us now. The interesting part about how love deals with that is that he deals with it out of Kalah because he's trying to Guide the Christian who's thinking about heaven even when you deal with the texture mind on things above.
Not on the things on the earth is and then there's like right hand of God heavenly Intercession for them because he are going to come as the indwelling life of her right now when he He's Accomplished those things that we have to Christ.
He doesn't advise or command the setting of the mind the flesh what God has intended and they do that Discussed in the previous chapter that's given holy over to Jesus Christ. You could say can be given to Christ without reservation in any way.
How does that have anything to do what love is showing you? Seeking and setting the mind on Jesus Christ who is our life he Happened now happened then. Yes He's sure what it may be like but his focus is that is what makes?
Heaven. Heavenly thinking about that is the often that he's going to cover in the first two sermons. He's the Christians life is the sense we turn a life the life of glory in the end of himself will share his character in terms of Hebrew idea behind glory means weightiness or the God will but God will never share and of himself His presence and he gives him a fine part of God in that instance because Moses is up on the mountain See in that way, he's up and he wants to see the glory of God Expounded.
Well, God says you don't get to see that I'll give you a little bit of a glimpse of my back parts the Hebrew says. But he doesn't get to see God in that particular way the only way that haven't become heaven is that Christ is our life and that Inc that we see the fullness of God the next we deal with Jesus Christ who is the Christians life shall one day have returned From heaven as the son of man who had come down from heaven and done what he needed to do as the suffering servant then died and he ascended into heaven and goes into the Bring his people to heaven at the consummation 111 says as you see him ascended to heaven from thence also shall you see him he said the Christ is going to come back.
And he's going to come back. This is interesting. He's going to come back Unexpectedly, he's the thief who comes like Jesus's words about his return. But yet at the same time he tells us that that's how he's going to come so there's a grace in being prepared and understanding that the Lord Jesus will return at any time and When he appears he's going to come to judge the world.
And in that judgment, he is going to judge everything all the all judgment has been given to God the Son for God the Father judgeth no man that day but hath given over all 29 and So appear see that's why like right here We need to pause and we need to jump over to Michael Harrison's book on Imputation which will I will be able to talk about that because there's safety and appearing Judgment seat of Jesus Christ imputed righteousness and we need that that's the only safety They all be safe thing.
You're going to be able to love takes a great amount of time this home the idea that Jesus Christ Who is the Christians life shall one day appear in glory to judge the world that should move a number of Considerations in terms of whether or not we are Actually in the faith even at that particular time the Lord Jesus says many will say to me on that day Lord Lord, did we not do all of these things and did we not preach in your name?
Did we not do many miracles? I mean all the big stuff and Jesus does not depart from me. He worked as of iniquity or those who work lawlessness those who take the law and throw that law away and judge and yet Great amount of holeen from judgment the Son of Man comes to judge.
Yet all of the done to you the flesh and the devil and all day of judgment Be vindicated in new road.
I was actually just going to see if before the break I could read you a short question from another listener. Sure. Okay. We have Arnie and Perry County, Pennsylvania. Who asked. I know that Christopher loves sermons on?
Heaven are largely based on the Apostle Paul's writing to the church and Colossae as you've mentioned. Can you tell us something about? the church and Colossae and about Colossae in general in regard to the mix of Jewish and Gentile individuals knowing that Paul Was the Apostle to the Gentiles.
The reason why I asked this is I was wondering how much? Revelation were the Jews hearing for the first time that was absent from the Old Testament or Hebrew scriptures in regard to heaven. And maybe we could have you answer that when we come back.
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Of a Puritan's mind. We are discussing Heaven's glory by Christopher love if you'd like to join us on the air with a question or email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com. Chris Arnzen at gmail .com and I would do so quickly if you intend.
To join us with a question because we're running out of time and dr. McMahon before the break. We had Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania ask about. As far as Paul's writings the Apostle Paul. How much of what he was revealing about heaven was absent from the Hebrew Scriptures.
How much of it was new revelation? Of course the. Both the Jews and the Gentiles of his day had the Septuagint the Old Testament in the Greek language. What was not in there that was brand new revelation unheard of before.
And the the Old Covenant.
The answer to that question. Here's why the idea is that When Paul opened his Bible to explain something that he's writing or explaining He's opening his Bible. It's the same Bible that Jesus care to speak.
It was the Old Testament Scriptures in that particular way. It's like when Jesus speaks to Nicodemus and he says listen Unless the man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God in this life or the life to come.
He has to be born again before he enters the kingdom of God. Nicodemus doesn't understand so forth and so on but Jesus says to him in verse 10 of John 3 He says you're Israel's teacher and you don't understand these things these things.
Being born again our Old Testament idea. These are circumcision of the heart ideas. You're Israel's teacher. You're supposed to be teaching the basics of theology to the people of God. So when Paul gets around to talking about heaven what he does when you're looking at Specifically and thinking about Christ who is our life.
It's really an exposition of Understanding what the Son of Man does He for the Jews and this is where you can think Jews Gentiles and consider a little bit of that. The Son of Man is only mentioned in Daniel.
Ezekiel is only in Daniel that like The Son of Man the only Hebrew construction in all of Scripture and it's Jesus's favorite designation of himself now the Jews all knew who this was and they knew the difference between how Ezekiel as the Son of Man associated with Adam in the fall.
Which is the idea in his book with who this divine? Son of Man coming down from heaven who rides on the glory class that that particular figure was going to come down from heaven and they Roam literally missed what?
Christ what he does is he says listen the anointed comes down from heaven who shall appear in glory. Who is in heaven right now? Glorious. Interceding on behalf of the people. He is your life and So his concepts a son of man in all of his glory.
It's what Moses Every single time somebody runs in any of them incarnate. He's the work. He's the one with the message. He's the one that comes down and gives that message every single one of them. Same exact Manila when he hears the angel say his why do you ask my name for it is wonderful.
He goes back into his wife and he says we're gonna die mighty God everlasting father prince of peace. This is Christ in Christ's manifestation says this son of man this Christ. This anointed one who rides the glory who died was raised Life so the conception if born again, they have that.
Then the New Testament have never happened in and interpret the things that God has fed which is why you'll hear a lot of people say the New Testament are the answer or the answer and when consummation of the ages and he takes his people to heaven he's going to change them and He's going to make them Place the kingdom of God relation you show Jesus that and it's called the kingdom of God by way of its eminence being far above the kingdoms of the world of Christ's kingdom, there is no end and So be made good comes to heaven of heaven the elect Paradise that Christ speaks to the thief on the cross this day.
You shall be with me in paradise. Having a relation to the place of glory where the elect are. It's also causes interpretation of trying to get people to understand what the Old Testament teaches. It's called Abraham's bosom is not this place where the dead go to await Jesus's, you know.
You know raised from the dead. He goes and preaches to people and there's all of that stuff is silly Mythological fable kind of stuff that's been invented by people who really just don't understand the continuity of what's going on in scripture.
Abraham's bosom is called that because it's the place of love and friend of your dearest friend and love and shelter his elect and in his bosom a lot of people at that time didn't have a mansion and the mansions of God and my father's house are many mansions in the father's house and There are many mansions for you that is a dwelling place in the heaven.
When this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building made by God a house Eternal in the heaven habitation in up might be a little bit glorious. They're all going to be laid in the dust and They shall receive you that is It may be as love into that door such an entrance shall be ministered to you Abundantly and with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that verse should echo in the mind of the Christians.
It's called a city to come to. We look for a city to come whose builder and maker is God. It's called a rich and glorious Inheritance portions one meet to be partakers of the inheritance. So all of these ideas demonstrate final and abundant idea.
Behind what makes heaven heaven is that God is there. That's what makes heaven heaven. Which is why love spend those first couple of sermons saying listen. If you as a Christian are not seeking those things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God now.
You're not going to like heaven because heaven is all about that. It's all about so that is what makes heaven with the enjoyment of Christ. We call that in theology the beatific vision the most beautiful Vision that we can if you just take Paul you and you say where Christ is seated at the right hand of God and you say Well, what is it that he wants us to set our mind on?
Well, there's a city and there's dwelling places. Maybe you want us to set our mind there. No, that's not it. Well, there are angels there in heaven. Maybe he wants us to set our mind on the angels in heaven.
No, that's not it either. Well, the Saints are in heaven but that's not the idea the right hand of God the center point of heaven is the Lord Jesus Christ and the beatific vision of the Almighty Anointed Christ the Ancient of Days is what makes heaven heavenly and We we think about that and we say, you know, it's what makes us the in a part of the unapproachable light that God is Revealed in the person of Jesus Christ in the full and we look upon him in this Vision in heaven and seeing him face to face and and we will be completely and totally in every way.
When Peter James and John were up on the mount and Christ was Transfigured before him as the centerpiece the law and the prophet who appeared within Elijah and Moses. The text says that Peter spoke in a manner in which he didn't even know what he was saying.
That he said it's good to be here. Shall we set up some shall we set up the tabernacle and Make this stay a little bit longer with the trailer converted. Beautific vision. That's what Moses was after.
That's what all of those things were after in the Old Testament. They wanted to see God Purity and the holiness and the light of the Almighty. Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mountain Matthew 18 blessed of the pure in heart for they shall see God.
When he shall appear we shall see him as he is first. John 3 2. Here we see only what God is not going to see him as he is. Job said that I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand upon the earth blessed day and with These eyes I shall see God.
So Paul doesn't Exegete so that we have the end to make it of the soul and glory. There are two things that love says are implied in that idea implies that you have a real enjoyment of the favor and love of God and that in and of itself should cause us to Just hide the offer, you know, the Lord would not show his face to him that does evil.
But he will show his face the love and the favor of God to those that love him and God will be very angry and wrathful. With those who do evil seeing the God this vision of God in this way played the enjoyment of Meditation then sweet if we continue to think about the beautiful vision that one day we will have to learn more about him now.
When we get there, we won't need the Bible anymore. We will be seeing him as he is face to face the other thing that love says by a Perfect knowledge of God in his nature and that is the chief importance of this idea of seeing God.
Not as if we should see his defined essence with bodily eyes because God's invisible and in heaven He is still immortal Invisible God only wise but we see it is divine essence in the face of Jesus Christ.
We'll see more of God. Their ideas is that heaven is the place where God Manifests himself most odd with a more perfect knowledge. Then we see right now. We only see him get to see it by it's an amazing idea that that will have real enjoyment in the perfection and fruition of our seeing in Jesus Christ something that both Christopher I in I believe it's sermon 7 and Jonathan Edwards also talks about.
Heaven will be enjoyed as heaven by everyone and You will enjoy God insofar as your nature and Love talks about what that means. I'm going to use Edward says that listen take any one of those to see to the brim.
All of them will become happiness in that way. And so we are going to enjoy God immediately. God face to faceacity that we have for in degrees that we do now and so With many interruptions and many difficulties no interruption in hell and Jesus says about the Pharisees He says you will receive greater Condemnation for prostitutes before the face of God in the same way Paul talks about having a reward in heaven different people will be rewarded in different ways have it will be heaven for everyone and everyone will be able to see the fullness of the Lord in Jesus Christ, but at the same time He uses this we can gather up as much as we possibly can now.
So that we can be as fit as we can be in our sanctification things that I've been Contemplating is okay five years I am going to make you Gentiles and I will send you to the Gentiles and protect you from the Jews and you will proclaim the forgiveness of sins and You will proclaim if we sit under a preacher of as many times as we can in the course of our lifetime.
And I worked this out on the calculator in such if we were to attend every single sermon every single Lord's Day. With every minister top-notch one in a thousand kind of 3 ,750 sermons in the course of our life and You think to yourself?
Well, you know. That's sort of a lot. But those are the things that God uses as a means of grace to prepare us for heaven and that's it under that preaching sanctified the regenerating power every Lord's Day and then we're reading our scriptures daily and we tend to think of like how many times are you gonna read the scriptures?
In the course of your life. So let's say you pick one of these Bible reading 75 times you're gonna have some 750 sermons. Maybe you'll fit under some Sunday school classroom. Maybe you'll have some con puritans.
That will be great. All of that we're thinking. This is the time when we are to seek and set our minds on the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God because if the Son of Man returns He brings us to heaven and we forever then the seeing God face-to-face in the Lord Jesus Christ he in the grace and Knowledge of herbal and were to do that constantly and so in heaven our knowledge will be perfected here.
We know in part we're gonna know God as he is and we're gonna see or not able to behold just in the right way because of our flesh because of our sin because of our fallenness and Yet God is preparing us for that place and we will then see the beauty of the Savior.
Face-to-face forever. Now, let me say cite you to death. I Don't know what in and of itself the heart of what love is trying you wanna keep we need on the mountain with the shepherds and see if they can see the gates of the celestial city if They have the ability to do so that that is what we're working on here and the Lord Lord come back today.
Lord come back tomorrow. Look come back and 50 years 100 years. We don't know we're to be prepared in the kingdom of heaven but for our mind and this is Another one of the ideas that love presses us in our mind.
This should be our all Christ He's our everything he should be our observation. Contemplation on the wonders and excellencies of who Christ is and one day.
Amen. Well, we're gonna have to conclude it right there a perfect place to conclude it. And Joe in Slovenia, we didn't have time to ask your question, but I did forward your question to dr McMahon and perhaps he can answer you via email after the program and I want to make sure that you have dr. McMahon's websites.
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