Philippians 1:1926

1
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
Philippians 119-26
2

• 74 of Americans believe in life after death
• 59 believe in hell
• This world is not my home
• Everybody wants to go to heaven (Kenny
  Chesney)

Hebrews 1113-16
3
The soul that sins, it shall die

• Life affects eternity, Gal 67-10 Rom 25-11
• Jesus warns us to repent, Luke 131-5 1
  Peter 41-6
• Lasciviousness and fornication, Matt 5 27-28 1
  Cor 618 2 Tim 222
• Alcohol / drugs, 1 Pet 43 Prov 201

• Preacher told me last Sunday mornin
• Son, you better start livin right
• You need to quit the women and whiskey
• And carrying on all night

4
For to meto die is gain

• Dont you wanna hear him call your name
• When youre standin at the pearly gates
• I told the preacher, Yes I do
• But I hope they dont call today
• I aint ready

• Called to heaven? Matt 2520-21, 34 (Rev
  2127)
• I hope they dont call today Phil 121-23
• Ready to die? Lk 12 20 (Jas 413-17)
• Unprepared, Psa 525-7
• Prepared, Psa 394-6

5
I go to prepare a place for you

• Jesus promised mansions to the faithful, Jno
  141-3
• Desire ? Hope Rom 824-25, 18-19
• Priorities (Matt 633)
• Heaven later..world now DEATH! 1
  John 215-17
• Deny self, Luke 923 Gal 220

• Everybody wants to go to heaven
• Have a mansion high above the clouds
• Everybody want to go to heaven
• But nobody want to go now

6
Do not do your charityto be seen

• Said preacher maybe you didnt see me
• Throw an extra twenty in the plate
• Theres one for everything I did last night
• And one to get me through today

• See me cf. Matt 61-4
• Giving is not an indulgence that forgives sin!
• Acts 51-11
• 1 Cor 162
• 2 Cor 96-7

7
Redeeming the timedays are evil

• Heres a ten to help you remember
• Next time you got the good Lords ear
• Say Im comin but there aint no hurry
• Im havin fun down here

• Views preachers as hirelings, Jude 11 (1 Tim
  518)
• Aint no hurry cf. Eph 516
• Havin fun cf. Amos 63 99-10
  Matt 2448-51

8
His servants shall serve Him

• Everybody wants to go to heaven
• Get their wings and fly around
• Everybody want to go to heaven
• But nobody want to go now

• Wings and fly around?
• Serve God in the triumphant glory of eternal
  life, Rev 2121-26 221-5

9
His servants shall serve Him

• Someday I want to see those streets of gold in my
  halo
• But I wouldnt mind waitin at least a hundred
  years or so

• Wait 100 years or so?
  2 Cor 416-18 2 Tim 46-8

10
The righteous judgment of God

• Everybody wants to go to heaven
• It beats the other place there aint no doubt
• Everybody want to go to heaven
• But nobody want to go now

• Heaven and hell are real!
• Nobody wants to go to hell
• But, most are living like they do! Rom 25 Matt
  529-30

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Praise the Lord

• Everybody wants to go to heaven
• Hallelujah, let me hear you shout
• Everybody want to go to heaven
• But nobody want to go now
• I think I speak for the crowd

• Hallelujah Praise Jehovah
• Keynote of heavens triumph song, Rev
  191-6
• I think I speak for the crowd, Matt
  713-14, 21-23

12
Do you want to go to heaven now?

• Felix was not ready, Acts 2425
• Paul was ready, 2 Tim 47-8
• Now is the day of your salvation! 2 Cor 62
  Rom 1311-12

Are you ready to go now?