Preparation for Heaven Part 3 of 5: Is Heaven for You?

Part 3 addresses whether heaven will really be a place for us...

"Can we really say that our [family, spouse, children, friends, church, co-workers] are being prepared for heaven where Christ himself, not his gifts, will be the supreme pleasure? And if our [family, spouse, children, friends, church, co-workers] are unfit for that, will they even go there? Is not the faith that takes us to heaven the foretaste of the feast of Christ? J.C. Ryle once preached a sermon called 'Christ is All' based on Colossians 3:11. In it he said:

'But alas, how little fit for heaven are many who talk of 'going to heaven' when they die, while they manifestly have no saving faith, and no real acquaintance with Christ. You give Christ no honor here. You have no communion with Him. You do not love Him. Alas! what could you do in heaven? It would be no place for you. Its joys would be no joys for you. Its happiness would be a happiness into which you could not enter. Its employments would be a weariness and burden to your heart. Oh, repent and change before it be too late!'"

--J. Piper, God is the Gospel pg. 11