Welcome To Heaven

Signs can be very interesting, such as:

• In a Non-smoking area a sign said: "If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."

• On Maternity Room door: "Push, Push, Push."

• At an Optometrist's Office: "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

• At a Car Dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet is to miss a car payment."

• Outside a Muffler Shop: "No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming."

• In a Dry Cleaner's Emporium: "Drop your pants here."

• In a Veterinarian's waiting room: "Be back in five minutes. Sit! Stay!"

• At the Electric Company: "We would be delighted if you send in your payment, however, if you don't you will be (de-lighted)."

• In the front yard of a Funeral Home: "Drive carefully, we'll wait."

Signs are always interesting to read wherever we find them.

But it is the small redneck towns that have the most interesting signs to read:

• Our City jail is called amoeba, because it only has one cell

• Our McDonalds only has one Golden Arch

• Our ZIP code is a fraction

• Our Second Street is in the next town over

• Our New Year`s baby was born in October

The promise of Scripture is that when a child of God passes from this world below, they are welcomed into the world above.

Heaven is the greatest place a person could ever live.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN?

One of the great things about living today is that we have all the advantages that our forefathers never had.

DID YOU KNOW . . .

Many of our forefathers never went any further than 50 to 100 miles from where they lived.

Think of a town that is a hundred miles from here. If you wanted to go there you had to ride a horse or a mule and a buggy. Now I can not imagine under those conditions that I would ever want to go to a place that I would have to travel in a buggy a hundred miles to get there and a hundred miles to get back.

Our forefathers never had the privileges we have today:

• We have cars, buses, airplanes, boat and trains so we can travel anywhere in the comfort of air conditioning in the summer or heat in the winter.

• We can get on an airplane today and travel anywhere in the world we want to in a relatively short period of time.

But we are at the same disadvantage as our forefathers when it comes to the Kingdom of Heaven.

That is:

• We have never been able to catch a plane and travel to the Kingdom of heaven

• We have never been able to talk with someone and say, “I went there and let me tell you what it is like living there!”

The Bible does tell us some things about the Kingdom of Heaven. For example-

I. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A LANDOWNER

Look at Matt. 20:1, we read, “For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.”

We all know what a landowner is and the Bible says the Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner.

Let me say up front in this sermon; everything here on earth and in heaven belongs to God. EVERYTHING!

In Psalm 50:9-12, God said, “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof."

God wants us to know He is the Landowner.

Illus: If you go to the court house you will find every acre of land in this county is listed under someone’s name. But you can do a title search on any piece of property you will find it all goes back to God.

There is only one landowner and it all belongs to God.

Illus: Speaking of being land owners reminds me of a man that is out hunting and shoots a beautiful trophy deer, but the deer jumps a fence into private property before dying. The man looks around to make sure nobody is watching and then climbs the fence to retrieve his kill. As the hunter reaches the deer, he is confronted by the land owner who informs the hunter that he can't take the deer. The hunter replies "The deer is clearly mine because I was the one who shot him right before he jumped the fence and died."