Resources by Topic: Heaven

Some take Jesus' statement in Matthew 22, that we will be like angels in that we will not marry, to mean that we will in general be like or become angels. Randy Alcorn explains that this is not the case. Jesus is only comparing us to angels regarding the specific issue of marriage in Heaven. Scripture makes it clear that we will not marry, but we will not become angels. People are people. Angels are Angels. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Randy Alcorn shares two quotes that assure us we will be joyously reunited with our loved ones and will enjoy relationship with them. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Randy Alcorn shares his thoughts on the differences between these two falls. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

A person has free will within the confines of who that person is. Randy Alcorn explains there are many things we cannot be or do, simply because they are not within our nature. The new nature in Heaven will be a nature that cannot sin, but this doesn't violate our free will. After all, God cannot sin but no one has greater free will than He. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Randy Alcorn quotes Jonathan Edwards and Frederick Buechner's descriptions of the New Jerusalem which will be the perfect city of which we always dreamed. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Randy Alcorn shares another quote from C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle to describe what life in Heaven, free from sin, will be like. In doing so he draws an important distinction: while Adam and Eve were innocent, they were not eternally infused with Christ's perfect righteousness. The latter is why we will not be able to ever sin again once in Heaven. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

In response to the question, "Will we be able to fall into sin again?" Randy Alcorn emphasizes that in the life to come we will have Christ's righteousness as well as the memory of what life in sin was like. So we will have no desire to ever go back to sin again, and thereby will not be capable of another fall. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Is it possible there could be another fall after the coming of the New Jerusalem? Randy Alcorn discusses several verses that show there can never be another fall because there is absolutely no presence of sin in the New Jerusalem. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Adam and Eve were perfect when they were in the garden, but they sinned. Will we be able to sin again in the coming life? Randy Alcorn answers this question from Romans and Revelation. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

In this clip Randy Alcorn explains several verses that are often misused to try to argue that we will have no need for things such as eating and drinking in Heaven. He finishes with an excerpt from C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle," which describes how the food in Aslan's Country (a representation of Heaven) is far better than anything tasted on this earth. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

Wayne Grudem in his "Systematic Theology" wonders why so many Christians insist on understanding the descriptions of Heaven symbolically. In this clip Randy Alcorn quotes Grudem to make the point that enjoying things like eating and drinking, bike rides, etc. in this life are not wrong. So why would it be wrong to do those things in the life to come? Will we spend every moment in Heaven worshiping God on our knees? Or can we ride bikes in Heaven to the glory of God just as we can here on this earth. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

In other clips, Randy Alcorn points to our aversion to thinking we will really eat and drink in Heaven, but here Randy shows an example of the over-spiritualization of eating and drinking from the NLT translation of Luke 14:15. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

It is easy to think what we do on this earth doesn't matter because Heaven is unearthly. But Randy Alcorn suggests that our whole perspective on the importance of things now changes when we understand the reality of the New Earth. Suddenly, things in this life such as trees, laughter and service matter because this life is the beginning of a life that will continue without end on the New Earth. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

In this clip Randy Alcorn points out that eating and drinking are often thought of as inherently bad because they are part of this physical world. But that is really an idea that comes from Platonism. In Luke, Jesus says that getting to eat at the feast in God's kingdom is a blessing. From this Randy argues that there is no reason to think that we will only eat and drink in a spiritual sense when in Heaven. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.