Title: All These Things Shall Be Added to You

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Passages in Scripture prepare us for hardship and loss in the short run and joy and abundance in the long run.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Matthew 6:31; 12:28
Genesis 1; 4
Matthew 21:28, 43
Mark 12:28
Luke 17:20-21
John 3:3
Galatians 5:14, 24
Psalms 16:8; 84:10-11
Matthew 25:20, 29
Luke 6:20, 35, 38
Genesis 1:22, 28; 8:17; 9:1; 17:20; 28:3
Ezekiel 36:25, 29, 34-35
Mark 4:30
Revelation 22:12, 14

Heaven" and "heavens" are used many times in the Bible, with a couple of variations of meaning. Sometimes it is relatively literal, including times when the Lord is identified with it (“Our Father, who art in the heavens,” for instance), meaning heaven as the eternal home for people who chose to do what is good in this life and let the Lord lead them to a love of being good. In other references, particularly when it is paired with “earth” or other lesser ideas (“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” for instance), “heaven” or “heavens” means our internal life as opposed to our external life. In a way, these two meanings are really the same. If you think about the importance of your deepest thoughts and feelings, you can see that they are the “real” you, much more so than your body is. The relationship between the spiritual world and the natural world is similar; the spiritual world is the “real” one, and controls the natural world the same way our thoughts and feeling control our actions. So in both cases, “heaven” describes a deeper reality that we will enter fully after we die.