August 14: John 14:3; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:17–18; Hebrews 10:37; Hebrews 11:16; Hebrews 13:14; James 5:7–8; 1 Peter 1:4; Isaiah 55:8; 1 Corinthians 1:28; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Ephesians 2:1–3; Titus 3:5–6 - a podcast by Crossway

He has prepared for them a city.

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”—An inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.—Here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

“This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”—Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.—“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay.”

We who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

John 14:3 (Listen)

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

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Acts 1:11 (Listen)

11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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1 Thessalonians 4:17–18 (Listen)

17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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Hebrews 10:37 (Listen)

37 For,

  “Yet a little while,
    and the coming one will come and will not delay;

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Hebrews 11:16 (Listen)

16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

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Hebrews 13:14 (Listen)

14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

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James 5:7–8 (Listen)

Patience in Suffering

7 Be patient, therefore, brothers,¹ until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. 8 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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1 Peter 1:4 (Listen)

4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

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God chose what is low and despised in the world.

Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world,… among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind.

He saved us… according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”

Isaiah 55:8 (Listen)

8   For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

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1 Corinthians 1:28 (Listen)

28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

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1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (Listen)

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous¹ will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,² 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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Ephesians 2:1–3 (Listen)

By Grace Through Faith

2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body¹ and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.²

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Titus 3:5–6 (Listen)

5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

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