Believe Week 10: The Next Life

Tithe

When you tithe, you’re trusting God with your finances. Tithing is a biblical principle. God calls us to give the first 10% of our income back to Him. We’ve seen God provide abundantly in our church, and we know He will provide abundantly for you and your family when you put Him first in your finances. In fact, it’s the one area in the Bible where God tells you to test Him. "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." Malachi 3:10 NIV

Mar. 26, 2023

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BELIEVE

Week 10 – The Next Life

Colossians 3:1,2 (NLT)                                                      

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand.  Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.  


John 14:1-6 (NIV)

 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”      


•    You are made for a ___________ and a ___________. ___________ is the person. ___________ is the place.


John 11:25,26 (NIV)                 

 “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.”  


•    Our __________ breath on earth will be our _________ breath in heaven.


2 Corinthians 5:8

We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.  


Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, to die is gain. 


1 Corinthians 2:9

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”   


Psalm 84:10

Better is one day in your courts, than a thousand elsewhere. 


Psalms 16:11

You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.    


Revelation 21:1-4

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 


•    There will be a ________ heaven and ________ earth.


Isaiah 65:17 (NLT)

17 “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth…


2 Peter 3:13 (NIV)

13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.


•    There will be no more __________, ____________, and __________.


3 “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 


•    There we will _____________ with God forever.


What we ______________ about the next life 

will _______________ how we live this life.


LIVE with ____________


LOVE with ______________


1 Corinthians 13:13 (NLT) 

“Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” 


LEAD others to ________________


John 14:6

“Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” 


ROMANS 10 

9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”  12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”