Pilgrim's Progress Part 12 (Spiritual life in the millennium)

INTRO: I wonder, do you at times get tired of this sin sick world? I am sure you do. Sorrow and sin and sickness abound on every hand. Trials and difficulties and pressures face us for much of our journey. I want us to turn to a hopeful passage this morning (read Romans 8:18-23). Oh, there is good news. Out of the four great sections of the believer's journey, only the first has so many unpleasant places. From there on, for the Church age believer it is glory.

Some glad morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away;
To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away.

When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away;
Like a bird from prison bars has flown, I'll fly away.

Just a few more weary days and then, I'll fly away;
To a land where joys will never end, I'll fly away.

I'll fly away O glory, I'll fly away;
When I die, halelujah, by and by, I'll fly away.

Oh what a wonder is the life of the believer, a life filled with such a lively hope! Oh that this dark world would turn to the living God, then they should soon find hope for their empty, grasping and groping souls. I think it is fair to say that we hear heaven and hell mentioned many times in our churches in this community. But there is one thing we almost never hear, and that is what it will be like when we fly away and we are on yonder blissful shore. From phase two through four in this series, we have a description of what it will be like.