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Hebrews Steve Estes Hebrews Steve Estes

“The Christian’s Eternal Rest” — Adapted from Richard Baxter (1640)

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Hebrews 4:9
January 5, 2025

Hebrews 4:9: There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.

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1. Introduction

  • Baxter’s life/illnesses

  • Old Testament saints in the desert were promised rest

  • Christians have hard lives, but God has promised eternal rest

2. Our eternal rest

  • Our eternal rest means the end of tiring effort

  • Our eternal rest means we will experience perfect love

  • Our eternal rest means we’ll have the capacity for all heaven’s delights

3. How our souls will respond to all this in heaven

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2 Corinthians Steve Estes 2 Corinthians Steve Estes

“Saints, When Absent from the Body, Are Present with the Lord” — A Sermon by Jonathan Edwards (1747)

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:8
August 18, 2024

2 Corinthians 5:8: We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Sermon Outline

1. Departed saints live in the same wonderful place as Christ

  • Christ in Heaven still has a human nature

  • Heaven is a place

  • Angels are in heaven

  • Departed saints are in heaven

  • We who are saved will be in heaven

2. The souls of saints in Heaven have an unhindered sight of Jesus Christ

  • When absent from friends, we can only think about them

  • “But then we shall see him face to face”

  • Those in Heaven see him “as he is”

3. Departed saints become perfectly like him by seeing him

4. Departed saints enjoy a glorious and immediate closeness with him

  • Departed saints are present with the Lord

  • But His glorious state won’t intimidate them

  • Reasons with his majesty won’t intimidate them

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