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gave us the concept or reincarnation hated the cycle of rebirths.  The whole goal of the Hindu’s life was to attain a state where they left the wheel or reincarnation-- to have the golden thread holding their five senses together untied–losing all personality and joining the eternal without any consciousness and awareness.

 

Unlike the Hindu’s Nirvana, in heaven our awareness is not destroyed, but

heightened!  I close this sermon on heaven with my personal and favorite illustration of what it will be like for the Saint in heaven.

 

Imagine that heaven is a place where each person sings a solo--a song so personal and unique that it sums up all the meaning and joy which that saint is experiencing.  God knows the individual and is pleased with that saint’s uniqueness and his song.

 

And yet, heaven is not a place of thousands upon thousands of singing soloists, for God in His beauty and power weaves each solo–thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them–into a perfect harmony.

 

The singing saint then hears the harmony created within all the singing saints as it joins with this individual saint’s solo.  The saint is carried into deepening ecstasy in the harmony that is heard, and inspired to weave it into the ongoing solo, which is again woven by God into the greater harmony, which lifts the saint higher into

ecstasies greater still.

 

And breaking out in each solo will be the love note of the Lord Jesus--stormy from Calvary--dazzling bright from the Easter tomb–shining with glory from the throne of heaven. 

 

And crowns will be thrown at the feet of the lamb, like cymbals shaking to the beat of the heavenly song, as angels and archangels fan their wings of glory brightly threading each cord with golden light.  And their will be joy... and their will be greater joy... and their will be joy greater still, and it will never end. 

 

All to the glory of Him who was slain that we might wear the robe of righteousness in heaven.  To Him--the Lord Jesus Christ, whom angels praise and adore--be glory now and forever.  Amen.

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