Lesson 50, RCCG Sunday School Manual of 2016/2017

THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD

Sunday School Student’s Manual.

2016 / 2017 Edition.

Lesson 50.
Sunday, 13th August 2017.

Topic:
WHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE?

Memory Verse: “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in heavens.” II Corithians 5:1.

BIBLE PASSAGE: Revelations 21:1-8

INTRODUCTION: God crested the heaven and the earth in the beginning (Genesis 1:1). According to the Jewish notion, there are three heavens (II Corithians 12:2). The first heaven is the air or atmosphere, where clouds gather and birds fly (Genesis 2:19; Lamentation 4:19). The second is the formative, in which the sun, moon and stars are fixed (Jeremiah 8:2; Matthew 24:29). The third Heaven is the “The Heaven of heavens” (Deuteronomy 10:14): the home or throne of God and His angels, the invisible realm of holiness and happiness; the home of the children of God.  Heaven is eternal (II Corinthians 5:1) and it is a prepared place for a prepared people (John 14:2).

LESSON OUTLINES

1. What Is Heaven Like?
2. Who Are The Inhabitants Of Heaven?

WHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE?

Heaven is a building of God and not man-made (II Corithians 5:1). It is also called the Kingdom of God and of Christ (Ephesians 5:5). Surely, it is the Father’s House (John 14:2). It is a place of rest (Hebrews 4:9). Heaven cannot be measured (Jeremiah 31:37). Heaven is a high place (Isaiah 57:15), a holy place (Psalms 20:6), a happy place (Revelations 7:17), a place without death, tears, sorrow, crying or pain (Revelations 21:4). Heaven is a place with our night or darkness (Revelations 22:3-5), a place without hunger, thirst or excessive heat or cold (Revelations 7:16). Heaven is a place of perfect satisfaction (Revelations 22:1-2). It is also a place of perfect righteousness (Revelations 22:3), a place of perfect government, rules by God, the just One and the Lamb. It is a place of perfect communion (Revelations 22:4), where we shall behold His face and His Name shall be on our foreheads.  Heaven is a place of perfect glory (Revelations 22:5).

WHO ARE THE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN?

Let us start by listing those who can NEVER be there.

1. The devil and the fallen angels will never enter there (Revelations 20:10; Jude 6).

2. The unrighteous (I Corinthians 6:9-10), thieves (Luke 12:33), liars, whore-mongers and the fearful will not enter (Revelations 21:8) and anyone in whose life is found the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21).

3. Careless Christians and everyone whose name is not found in the book of life (Matthew 25:24-30; Revelations 20:15).

The following are already there:
1. God the Father (Matthew 6:9), Jesus Christ our Lord (Acts 3:20-21) and Holy Angels (Matthew 18:10).

2. Enoch, Elijah, Moses and Abraham (Genesis 5:24; Matthew 17:3; Luke 16:23).

3. The Saints of old, all those who have died trusting in Jesus (I Thessalonians 4:14).

CONCLUSION
Heaven is the holy abode of Holy God. Only holy people will get there (Hebrews 12:14). Do you want to go to Heaven? Live holy.

QUESTIONS
→ What type of place is Heaven?

→ Who will not get there?