Work in the New Heavens and New Earth

Church at Work:Work in the New Heavens and New EarthRev. Shu-Ling LeeScripture: Revelation 22:1-5 NIVIntroduction:1. We will still be SERVING THE LORD (aka “working”) in the New Heavens and New Earth.(Rev 22:1-3, Col 3:23-24)The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it…). They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.—N.T. Wright - Surprised by Hope2. There will be no longer any CURSE OF WORK in the New Heavens and the New Earth.(Rev 22:3, Gen 3:8-21)3. JESUS CHRIST is the Center of the New Heavens and New Earth.(Rev 21:22-26, Rev 22:5)ConclusionQuestion: What is your ONE THING?