A Concise 40-Point-by-Point Study on God as our Greatest Reward and the Real Place of Heaven

Mike Petillo

By grace I am an heir of heaven:
Why doubt this, O my trembling heart?
If what the Scriptures promise clearly
Is true and firm in ev'ry part,
This also must be truth divine:
By grace a crown of life is mine.
By grace alone shall I inherit
That blissful home beyond the skies.
Works count for naught, the Lord incarnate
Hath won for me the heav'nly prize.
Salvation by his death he wrought,
His grace alone my pardon bought.
By grace! These precious words remember
When sorely by thy sins oppressed,
When Satan comes to vex thy spirit,
When troubled conscience sighs for rest;
What reason cannot comprehend,
God doth to thee by grace extend.
By grace! Be this in death my comfort;
Despite my fears, 'tis well with me.
I know my sin in all its greatness,
But also him who sets me free.
My heart to naught but joy gives place
Since I am saved by grace, by grace.  (TH, 584).

1.  Heaven is the place of the Triune God.

2.  Heaven is the place of God the Father.

3.  Heaven is the place of God the Son.

4.  Heaven is the place of God the Holy Spirit.

5.  Heaven is the place of elect, holy and chosen angels.

6.  Heaven is the place of elect men and women made perfect.

7.  Heaven lacks physical and eternal death.

8.  Heaven is an imperishable possession.

9.  Heaven is a place that lacks sorrow.

10.  Heaven is a place that lacks pain.

11.   Heaven is a place that lacks a curse.

12.  Heaven is a place that lacks night.

13.  Heaven is a place that lacks wicked people.

14.  Heaven is the beginning not the end.

15.  The place of heaven is eternal joy.

16.   The place of heaven is eternal rest.

17.  The place of heaven is eternal peace.

18.  The place of heaven is the righteousness of Christ alone.

19.   The place of heaven is a place of service.

20.  The highest priority of heaven is God alone as our ultimate reward.  Do you seek streets of gold or God?  God alone should be your first and highest priority.

21.   The place of heaven is the inheritance of God determined by Christ alone.

22.  The place of heaven is eternal glory.

23.  Only those will the robes of the unified righteousness of Christ alone will enter heaven for the glory of the eternal Son.

24.  The people of heaven are filled with changed people by God's Spirit and Word.

25.  The people of heaven are saved people.

26.  The people of heaven are called people.

27.  The people of heaven overcome.

28.  Those of heaven are those recorded in the Book of Life.

29.  Those of heaven were obedient as a demonstration of their life.

30.  Those of heaven lived a life of holiness.

31.  The foretaste of heaven is Jesus Christ.

32.  Christians desire heaven.

33.  Christians look for heaven.

34.  Heaven is far better than this wicked world.

35.   Christians store up treasure in heaven.

36.  Heaven is a place like the House of our Lord.

37.  The place of  heaven is a heavenly kingdom.

38.  Heaven is the place of Abraham's bosom.

39.  Heaven is a place of a better country.

40.  Heaven is the holy city.  

There is no night in heav'n;
In that blest world above
Work never can bring weariness,
For work itself is love.
There is no grief in heav'n;
For life is one glad day;
And tears are of those former things
Which all have passed away.
There is no sin in heav'n;
Behold that blessed throng—
All holy is their spotless robe,
All holy in their song!
There is no death in heav'n;
For they who gain that shore
Have won their immortality,
And they can die no more.
Lord Jesus, be our Guide;
O lead us safely on,
Till night and grief and sin and death
Are past, and heav'n is won!  (TH, 598).