Notes of Faith October 3, 2025

A Grand Entrance

Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:11

Each year, the Cannes Film Festival brings the world’s greatest movie stars to the French Riviera where they walk down the famous red carpet. But what happens to the carpet after the festival is over? It’s cut up and made into handbags, hats, and slippers. For a cost, you can have a hat made of material walked on by the world’s celebrities.

You may never walk with the stars on a red carpet, but you will walk with the angels down golden streets. Various translations render 2 Peter 1:11 in different ways, using phrases like lavish reception, glorious welcome, triumphant admission, and grand entrance.

Heaven is a place of ultimate rejoicing, a wonderful home where we will know all our brothers and sisters in the Lord. It will feel like home, and its love will fill the air. The fact that God wants us all to live in heaven with Him shows us how much He loves and cares for us. Thank Him today that you can feel calm and safe in the knowledge that He has provided an eternal, perfect future for us.

Now, my fellow sinner, you are as welcome to Heaven as Jesus was. Your sins would have forever kept you out; but on the accursed tree He took those sins away.

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As each day passes and God fulfills His promise to make me more like Christ, I fervently desire the day when I will be with Him forever! The eternal forgiveness of my sin and the blessings of intimacy with God are beyond my understanding, yet the sure hope that He gives me through the gift of faith burns within my heart to draw closer to Him every day. May we all strive to please the God who gives us life and loves us with everlasting love!

Pastor Dale