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MAILBOX BIBLE COURSE
GLENWOOD R.R. # 1
NOVA SCOTIA
CANADA
B0W 1W0
WELCOME PAGE
Welcome to our Mailbox Bible Study Course. We are glad to
be able to serve the Lord and you in this
way. Many are being saved and helped through these
simple
Bible lessons.
We suggest that you try to do one
each week. This will keep your interest in them active. This
particular Course has twelve with a beautiful certificate when
completed.
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Harold Smith
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Contents of Lessons
1. Heaven
2. God is Light
3 What is God like?
4 God the Son
5 The work of Christ
6. More about God
7. The Angels of Heaven
8. Men in Heaven
9. How to get to Heaven
10. On the Way to Heaven
11. The Bride of Christ
12. When will we get to Heaven?
You see that this Course is divided into twelve
lessons.
We will also divide each lesson into sections
with numbers. This is to help you find what is said about any
subject
in another part of the book. Lesson 1
section 1 will be called 1/1. Lesson 2 section 10 will be called
2/10. You will easily understand this
system and be able to find any paragraph you wish. For example,
see the reference in Lesson 1. paragraph
9; and another in Lesson 2, paragraph 22.
HEAVEN:
THE PERSONS WHO LIVE THERE
An Introduction to Christian Doctrine
If you are going to Heaven you might like to know more about the
important people who live there,
and especially about the One who owns Heaven, and His Son.
If you are not planning to be in Heaven this book will tell you
what you are missing. You might
want to change direction. There is still time; you still have the
opportunity to find the Way.
Heaven is a home. You can come to know the One who owns Heaven and
His Son. If you know the
Son you will be most welcome in Heaven. If you are hoping but not
sure, this book will help you to know.
LESSON 1 HEAVEN
Where is Heaven? Some people say that Heaven is not a place so we
cannot know where it is. The Bible
does not tell us where Heaven is but it tells us how to get there.
This is more important than knowing where
it is.
In fact the Bible does not say very much about Heaven but it tells
us a great deal about the people who
are there. There are millions of people in Heaven and some of them
are very important. The first half of this
book will tell you about the most important Person in Heaven:
His name is God. In the second half you will learn about those who
live in Heaven and how they got there.
WHERE IS HEAVEN?
1. We can say right away that Heaven is where God is. The
Bible
calls Him the God of Heaven, Genesis 24.7;
Nehemiah 2.4; Psalm 1 36. 26; Jonah 1.9; Revelation 11.13; 16.11.
God lives in Heaven so we can
say that Heaven is God s home.
The Bible uses the word Heaven in two other ways also. Read I
Chronicles
27.23 and Daniel 7.13. What
does Heaven mean in these two verses? You have read about the clouds
of heaven and the stars of heaven. So
you see that the word heaven means also the air or atmosphere where
the clouds are; and outer space where
the stars are.
WHO CREATED EVERYTHING?
2. Who created the air and the stars? Read Psalm 121.3 and 124.8.
God created both the heavens and the earth
and in these verses He is called the LORD or Jehovah. Also
read these verses: Job 38.4-13; 40:15; Isaiah
40.26; 42.5; 45.12; Amos 4.13; Revelation 4.11.
3. In Revelation 10.6 and 14.7 we see that God created
heaven
and earth. Here the word heaven means where
the clouds are and where the stars are.
4. But what about Heaven, the place where God lives? Who
created
Heaven meaning God s dwelling place?
God is eternal, He has always lived in Heaven, so Heaven has always
existed. Heaven meaning where God
is was never created, it is eternal. In this way Heaven is like
God Himself.
GOD IS REAL
5. We can see the clouds and the stars but we cannot see
the
air or outer space. We cannot see heaven
where God lives, and we cannot see God. John 1:18. This is
another way we can say God is like heaven:
we cannot see either.
6. Some men do not believe that Heaven is real because they
cannot see it. Think of these three things: air,
love. God. These men cannot see the air, they can feel love but
they cannot see it, and no one can see God.
Yet the air is real, aircraft can fly in the air. Love is real even
though we cannot see it with our eyes. God
is certainly real, He created everything. Heaven also is real even
though we cannot see it at present.
7. Some real things cannot be seen. Which came first, what
can be seen or what cannot be seen? In
Hebrews 11.3 you will learn that what is seen was made from what
cannot be seen. Therefore what cannot
be seen must have existed first.
Again unseen things are eternal, 2 Corinthians 4.18, they will last
forever. So what is unseen existed
before the creation which we can see, and unseen things will last
longer, forever.
8. Many things are real even though you cannot see them:
faith,
hope, joy, air, outer space, the love of
God, the power of God, Heaven and God Himself.. .all are very real
but cannot be seen with our eyes.
QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD
9. Some people say:
God is not real; or
There is no God; or
You cannot prove that God is real.
How can we prove that there is a real God? The Bible does not argue
or try to prove that God exists,
so why should we try? The Bible simply starts out with these
wonderful
words:
In the beginning GOD
The word God is found over 3,600 times in the Bible. The writers
of the Bible were not talking
about someone who does not exist. They really believed in God, and
they were right.
Perhaps you have some friends who go to a school where they are
taught that there is no God. You
could ask them this question:
How can you prove that there is no God?
Of course they cannot prove it.
Ask them:
They might answer:
You say it came from God, but where did
God come from?
The Bible does not say where God came from, it says He is eternal.
He has no beginning or end.
The Bible does tell us where the world came from, God made it.
10. Another question to ask your young friend:
Who planned the world? There is a wonderful order in the world,
from the mighty stars above to
the smallest animal. The world is not just a terrible mixture of
many odd things. Someone must have
planned it all out. This Person must be very wise. If His Name is
not God, what is it?
Again you could ask:
Who keeps it all going?
The answer to this question is found in Colossians 1.17 and
Hebrews
1.3: the same One who started
it in the beginning.
11. So you might ask your young friend three
questions:
1. Where did the world come from?
2. Who made everything fit together so well?
3. Who keeps it all going?
Be sure you have the answers yourself: Only God has the power and
wisdom to create this
wonderful universe out of nothing and to keep it going on course.
No scientist has ever claimed to create the smallest piece of matter
out of nothing. Men can change
the form and nature of matter but only God could create it.
12. If there is no God, there is no Heaven, because
Heaven
is where God is. In a special sense we can say
that God is here on earth but He lives in Heaven. Heaven must be
better than earth, but some people
would be afraid because God is there.
In this book
you will learn more about God and other persons in Heaven. First we
will
find out what
God is like, also Christ and God s Spirit. Then you will learn about
Angels and the people who are in
Heaven and how they got there. You will see how YOU could get to
Heaven. We will study a little about
the men of God still here on earth before they get to Heaven, and
what will happen to them next. In the
last lesson we will see what God plans to do in Heaven and on earth
in the future.
LOOK BACK OVER THIS LESSON
1. Heaven is where God is,
paragraph
I.
2. Someone must have
created
the world out of nothing. His name is God, /2-4.
1. God is real even if
we cannot see Him, /5-8.
4. God is eternal, no
one created God, /9.
5. Someone must have
planned
the world. His name is God, and He keeps it going, /10.
6. No creature can create
something out of nothing, /11.
7. This book is about
Heaven, all who live there, and how to get there, /12.
You will
soon know much more about Heaven. Go right on to Lesson 2.
TEST 1 HEAVEN
Place a T (True) or F (False) for your answer at the beginning
or end of the question;
1. Heaven is not a real place.
2. The Bible calls God, "the God of
Heaven."
3 Some places the word
"heaven" means where the birds fly.
4. A thing is only real if we
can see it with out eyes.
5. The title God is only found 1000
times in the Bible.
Fill in the blank spaces with the correct word/s
6. The Bible says that God is
____________, and does not say where He came from.
7. There is a _____________order in
the world.
8. What verse tells us the things
were made from things unseen __________
9. There are other________in heaven
10. No scientist have ever ____ to have created
anything.
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