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‘heaven’ if you know God, and have developed a relationship

with him in this earthly life. But there are many people who do

not think having a personal relationship with God is very impor-

tant at all.

Some folks think everyone goes to heaven. But if you don’t like

God, you wouldn’t want to go to heaven to be with him. We

wrongly think of heaven as just being a PLACE, but it’s much

more about a PERSON (God). This is a problem I have with most

of the ‘after death experiences people claim to have. The men-

tion everything under the sun — including their puppy dog when

they were 5 years old — but they most often don’t even mention

God.

If you reject God and his people here, you wouldn’t

want to spend eternity with God or his people.

Jesus says, “No one comes to the Father

except by me.” But he also says NO one
who comes to him will be turned away.

One reason he came was to save people.

We must live life to the max now, meet-
ing our needs in life. But then life becomes

about more spiritual things: (1) growing
more ourselves and (2) helping others.

Jesus calls this living ‘his abundant life.’ “You have freely

received, so freely give.” It’s the way of God’s Kingdom.

Life is progressive realism. Days are not lived in a vacuum.

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