The Pilgrim Path---Romans 8: 18

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

HEAVEN / ETERNITY

“Though the pleasures of sin are short and inconsiderable, yet, because they are near at hand, they have more influence than the joys of heaven, which are future and absent. We wonder at the folly of Esau to sell his birthright for a morsel of meat (Hebrews 12: 16). When lust is laid up and eager for fulfillment, all considerations of eternal glory and blessedness are laid aside to give it satisfaction. Many part with the joys of Christianity for the vilest price.” Thomas Manton

“Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, within a yard of hell.” C. T. Studd

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.” William Penn

“We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that today is your life.” Edith Schaeffer

“Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; weep o’er the erring one, lift up the fallen, tell them of Jesus---the mighty to save.” Fanny Crosby

“Heaven gives us hope---hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we’re facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is heaven.” Billy Graham

“One year’s time in heaven shall swallow up all sorrows beyond all comparison. Christ Jesus is the end of the journey; there is no fear, you may look death in the face with joy.” Samuel Rutherford

“Christ’s death for us was so virtuous that, in the space of three days and nights, he reconciled to God in his flesh every one of God’s elect. He presented himself to the justice of the law, standing in the stead, place, and room of all that he undertook for, and gave his life a ransom for many, abolishing death, destroying him that had the power of death, taking possession of heaven for us! This is heaven! Who knows what it is? This glory! Who knows what it is? It is called God’s throne, God’s house, God’s habitation, paradise, the kingdom of God, the high and holy place, Abraham’s bosom, and the place of heavenly pleasures. In this is to be found the face of God forever, immortality, the person of Christ, the prophets, angels, the revelation of all mysteries, the knowledge of all the elect, and ETERNITY. This heaven we possess already…” John Bunyan

“We may be losers for God, but we shall not be losers by him” (Philippians 1: 21--23). Thomas Watson

“The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.” John Owen

“There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.” Alistair Begg

“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.” Jonathan Edwards

“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon

From The Rev. David Clarkson (1628—1680): Clarkson was one of the 2,000 Puritan ministers removed from his position in the Church of England by the 1662 Act of Uniformity. He later pastored two independent congregations. The following is a brief prayer on, “The Kingdom.”

Whoever rules in any realm, the kingdom is yours.

They only rule by commission from you, and as substitutes under you. You are the supreme governor of them all. You are exalted as head above all.

Everything is yours, all that is in the heaven and earth---yours. Amen.

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our Risen LORD, Pastor Jason