Gems for the Week
June 11
"I (Jesus) will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
(John 14:3)
In the Father's house above, there is no distinction. People often say to me, "Oh, if I can just get into Heaven and get a seat behind the door, I can be satisfied. I know I don't deserve anything better."
You don't deserve to get there at all. I don't deserve to go there. But I am not going there because I deserve to go, but I am going to Heaven because I have been born again and the Lord Jesus Christ has prepared a place for me, and the Father's house has the same welcome for all the Father's children.
(H.A. Ironside - Gospel of John)
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June 12
"In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." (John 14:2,3)
The description of Heaven - "In my Father's house are many mansions."
The assurance of it - "If it were not so, I would have told you."
The furnishing of it - "I go to prepare a place for you."
The safe conduct to it - "I will come again, and receive you unto Myself."
The glory of it - "That where I am, there ye may be also."
The manna and the springing well
Suffice for every need:
And Eschol's grapes the story tell
Of where our path doth lead."
(From - His Last Words - Henry Durbanville)
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