2. Retirement? Financial Security? A Supportive, Growing Family? Grandchildren? The Freedom and the Ability to Pursue Personal Interests, Travel, etc.? Failing Health? Daily Reminders of Aging and Mortality? The Death of Those Closest to You? The Unexpected Pains and Sudden Calamities of the Future?

3. Retirement? Financial Security? A Supportive, Growing Family? Grandchildren? The Freedom and the Ability to Pursue Personal Interests, Travel, etc.? Failing Health? Daily Reminders of Aging and Mortality? The Death of Those Closest to You? The Unexpected Pains and Sudden Calamities of the Future?

5. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. - Revelation 22:3-4 - c.f. John 1:18

6. 1.For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven. - II Corinthians 5:1-2

7. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.“ - Revelation 21:3-4

8. 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.“ - Revelation 4:10-11

9. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5. who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. - I Peter 1:3-5

11. 1"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2. "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3. "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. - John 14:1-3

13. What do you look forward too? 1 _________________ 4 _________________ 2 _________________5 _________________ 3 _________________6 _________________ The Christian looks forward to some things that overshadows all others: 1 ________________________ (Revelation 22:3-4). 2 ______________________ (II Corinthians 5:1-2). 3 ________________________ (Revelation 21:3-4). 4 _______________________ (Revelation 4:10-11). 5 ___________________________ (I Peter 1:3-5). 1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 "And if I go and prepare a place for ____, I will come again and receive ____ to Myself; that where I am, there ____ may be also. (John 14:1-3) What do you look forward too? 1 _________________ 4 _________________ 2 _________________5 _________________ 3 _________________6 _________________ The Christian looks forward to some things that overshadows all others: 1 ________________________ (Revelation 22:3-4). 2 ______________________ (II Corinthians 5:1-2). 3 ________________________ (Revelation 21:3-4). 4 _______________________ (Revelation 4:10-11). 5 ___________________________ (I Peter 1:3-5). 1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 "And if I go and prepare a place for ____, I will come again and receive ____ to Myself; that where I am, there ____ may be also. (John 14:1-3)