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HEAVEN

D. C. Brown

Luke 24: 50, 51; 15: 21, 7; 10: 20 (last clause)

I would like to speak tonight about heaven. These scriptures

all make reference to heaven, and three of them to what is in

heaven. If you ask me, ‘Where is heaven?’ I do not know if I

could say very much about that, but the important thing is that

heaven is a place that contains—there is what is in heaven,

and the most important thing of all is that there is a Man in

heaven. We find in the

first scripture that there was a Man carried up into heaven.

There had never been a man in heaven before. Now one thing

that is established in the fact that there is one Man in heaven

is that if one Man can go there, the way has been made clear

for others to go there. So we can tell you that there is one Man

and He has established a place in heaven that others will be

able to go into.

The other thing about this Man in heaven is, What is He doing

in heaven? I am very fond of this scripture at the end of Luke

because it tells us the last thing that the Lord Jesus was seen

to do. He did many things in His life here. One thing

characterised all He did, and that same thing was what He

was doing on the last occasion that anyone saw Him on earth.

It says,

“And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted up

his hands, he blessed them. And it came to pass as he was

blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried

up into heaven”. Well, I can assure you that from that time to

this the Lord Jesus has never given up that glorious activity of

blessing. His hands were lifted in blessing the last time that

anyone saw Him. He is still doing it. It even tells us in the Acts

of the Apostles that in the manner in which He has been seen