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5 min readHeaven: God's Eternal Goodness to You – Part 2
Rick Warren opens with a striking claim: the reason most people aren't eager for heaven is that everything they've learned about it is wrong. Movies depict heaven as a white, foggy place where you float around in a robe playing a harp. "That would be hell to me," Warren says bluntly. "If that's what heaven's like, I would say, no, thank you, God. I think I'd rather just stay here with the serpent and the sunset."
The core problem, he argues, is that humans simply cannot imagine what God has prepared. He cites 1 Corinthians 2:9 — "No eye has ever seen, and no ear has ever heard, and no mind has ever even imagined what God has prepared for those who love him" — and takes it literally: whatever you think the most pleasurable, beautiful, or enriching experience in life could be, heaven is better than that.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:02) **Introduction to the Series and the Topic of Heaven** - Rick Warren continues his series on Psalm 23, focusing on how heaven is the ultimate expression of God's eternal goodness.
- 2 (00:35) **Why Heaven is Beyond Human Imagination** - Rick explains that heaven is so different from earth that humans cannot even conceive of it.
- 3 (02:17) **Easier to Describe Heaven by What is Not There** - Since heaven is indescribable, Rick shifts to listing what will be absent, which makes it a desirable place.
- 4 (03:16) **Nine Things Absent from Heaven (Part 1)** - Rick begins listing the specific items from Revelation 21 that will not exist in heaven.
- 5 (05:18) **Nine Things Absent from Heaven (Part 2)** - Rick continues the list from Revelation 21, focusing on emotional and relational absences.
- 6 (07:22) **More Things Missing: Pain, Sorrow, and Death** - Rick uses Revelation 21:4 to add more items that will be gone forever.
- 7 (09:40) **The "A to Z" Gratitude List of Things Not in Heaven** - Rick presents a creative, humorous list of things he is grateful will be absent from heaven.
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Show Notes
God created every person because he wants them to be a part of his family. He invites everyone to heaven, his home, but not everyone chooses to accept God's terms. Pastor Rick shares in this message how you can accept God's invitation to heaven.
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