Happy Friday Colonial Park Community Baptist family! I trust you are having a good week! This coming Sunday we will have a very special focus on heaven as we continue in our study of the book of Hebrews!
Join us at 10.30 as we sing “When We All Get to Heaven,” “Graves into Gardens,” and “Change My Heart, O God.” Our text comes from Hebrews 8:1-7, 10c. We learn from this amazing passage of Scripture that heaven is where reality is. Most of us, myself included are so earth bound we forget the time on earth is but a blip in terms of eternity. John Newton wrote that “ten thousand years and we’ve just begun.” Think of that for a moment – if you live for 100 years and more are doing that, 100 years is but a speck compared to 10,000 years and yet where’s most of our focus, on the speck and not the reality! Come ready this Sunday for a course correction.
We will also discover this Sunday that heavenly reality brings about earthly change. Think how much time is spent trying to change things on earth. Trillions of dollars are spent, millions and millions of hours, and truth is we see very little change, frankly even in our own lives! Here’s the truth, if we truly had a vision of what is to come, then heaven would come down and earthly change would take place.
And where does change begin? We learn from Hebrews 8:10c it’s in our hearts. Too much time is wasted here on earth trying to change conditions, political, economic, etc. The only place God promises to change is our hearts. And here’s what’s so cool. When hearts are changed, everything else has the potential to change. The problem here on earth is not social, political, economic, no it is as Jeremiah points out hearts that are desperately wicked and deceitful above all else. If we don’t think this is true, one need only look at a communist country like China to discover that society has not changed despite structural changes. What we need are changed hearts.
As we look forward to Sunday, just a reminder that our 9.30 class on the “end times” continues. You are welcome to attend. Also, continue praying for the people from our church experiencing physical challenges. God is Good! See you Sunday!