To understand our final calling and equipping is for the purpose of heaven.

1. Calledand
Equipped
The Final Calling

2. “As Christians, if in this life only
we have hope, we are of all men
most pitiable.”
1 Corinthians 15:191 Corinthians 15:19”

3. “I do not want you to be
ignorant of heaven, my brethren.
With all of the death, sorrow
and discouragement that we all
feel, I don’t want you to lose…

4. sight of a better place to come…
Comfort one another with the
words of heaven.”
1 Thes. 4:13-18 (Paraphrase)

5. “For I consider the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory
which will be revealed in us.”
Romans 8:18

6. Florence Chadwick
1952
“If I would have
seen the shore, I
could have made
it.”

7. Florence Chadwick
1952
Shores of Catalina

8. Matthew 19:28: “Regeneration”; or
“Genesis again”
references to heaven…
Colossians 1:20: “The reconciliation
of all things” or “The reconstruction all
things back to their original state.”

9. Romans 8:21: “The glorious liberty” of
all creation
references to heaven…

10. “The whole earth groans and labors
as with birth pain to this day.”
Romans 8:22
“There is no element or part of this
world untouched by present misery
that does not intensely hope for the
Resurrection.”
John Calvin

11. Romans 8:21: “The glorious liberty” of
all creation
references to heaven…
Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:41
“Paradise” or “walled garden”

12. familiar, yet unfamiliar…
animals
rivers
great mountains
grass
trees
water
assortment of
fruits
foods- eating
cities and streets
gold, pearl
precious stone
m
usic
laughter

13. familiar, yet unfamiliar…
“[GOD], You have set us over the
work of Your hands. You have put
all thing in subjection under our
feet… But now we do not yet see
all things put under us.”
Hebrews 2:7-8

14. “All your life an unattainable ecstasy has
hovered just beyond your
consciousness. But the day is coming
when you will wake up to find, beyond
all hope, that you have attained it, or
else, that you have lost it forever.”
Heaven
hell
C.S. Lewis writes:

15. accountability

16. “Watch out that no one deceives you.
There are countless groups, religious
and secular, that will assure you heaven
is your automatic destination or that it
can be attained by hard work or
abstinence of certain sin. This is false-
there is no salvation except by Jesus
Christ and His redemptive work.”
Randy Alcorn

17. “It is appointment for men once
to die and then the judgment.”
Hebrews 9:27

18. Calledand
Equipped
How God calls and equips common people