THE SOLE PROPRIETOR OF ETERNITY (5 OF 6)
Scripture: Isaiah 9.6
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The Sole Proprietor of Eternity (5 of 6)
Series: Christmas - Isaiah 9:6
Robert Dawson
Isaiah 9.6
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I think all of us can relate!! At some point the craziness that has become Christmas overwhelms us - whether it is the hectic schedules or just the sheer lunacy of entering the maze of holiday shopping in search of just the right present.
Christmas is not about shopping, Santa, snowmen, parties decorations or even presents. It is really a celebration of Christ and the greatest gift ever purchased and given, the gift of eternal. That is a gift that everyone hopes to have waiting for them at the end of a very busy, hectic and maddening life. People hope to find the reward of eternal life waiting on them when this life is over.
Randy Alcorn in his book Heaven said…
- The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history.
- Australian aborigines pictured heaven as a distant island far beyond the western horizon.
- Mexicans, Peruvians and Polynesians believed that they went to the sun or the moon after death.
- Native Americans believed that, in the afterlife, their spirits would hunt the spirits of buffalo.
- In ancient literature you have a Babylonians legend called the Gilgamesh Epic refers to a resting place of heroes and hints at a tree of life.
- In Egypt the embalmed bodies had maps buried with them as guides to the future world.
- The Romans believed that the righteous would picnic in the Elysian Fields, while their horses grazed nearby. One of their philosophers once said, ''The day you fear as the last is the birthday of eternity.
- While their belief as to what waited for them after this life may have differed one thing we know for certain is that in the heart of man, throughout history and cultures, is the belief in life after death.
- Studies in anthropology, social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings, suggests that every culture has a God-given, ...
Series: Christmas - Isaiah 9:6
Robert Dawson
Isaiah 9.6
Video
I think all of us can relate!! At some point the craziness that has become Christmas overwhelms us - whether it is the hectic schedules or just the sheer lunacy of entering the maze of holiday shopping in search of just the right present.
Christmas is not about shopping, Santa, snowmen, parties decorations or even presents. It is really a celebration of Christ and the greatest gift ever purchased and given, the gift of eternal. That is a gift that everyone hopes to have waiting for them at the end of a very busy, hectic and maddening life. People hope to find the reward of eternal life waiting on them when this life is over.
Randy Alcorn in his book Heaven said…
- The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history.
- Australian aborigines pictured heaven as a distant island far beyond the western horizon.
- Mexicans, Peruvians and Polynesians believed that they went to the sun or the moon after death.
- Native Americans believed that, in the afterlife, their spirits would hunt the spirits of buffalo.
- In ancient literature you have a Babylonians legend called the Gilgamesh Epic refers to a resting place of heroes and hints at a tree of life.
- In Egypt the embalmed bodies had maps buried with them as guides to the future world.
- The Romans believed that the righteous would picnic in the Elysian Fields, while their horses grazed nearby. One of their philosophers once said, ''The day you fear as the last is the birthday of eternity.
- While their belief as to what waited for them after this life may have differed one thing we know for certain is that in the heart of man, throughout history and cultures, is the belief in life after death.
- Studies in anthropology, social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings, suggests that every culture has a God-given, ...
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