Oakwood Church

How Jesus Sees His Bride:

“By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.”
Hebrews 10:14

How Jesus Sees His Bride:

“Those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.”
Romans 8:31

God’s People Perfected:

1. Remaining sin finally Removed

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
Revelation 21:1

God’s People Perfected:

1. Remaining sin finally Removed

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more…for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4

“I’m looking forward to a new heart; a heart free from manipulating others... a heart free from fudging the truth; a heart free from hogging the spotlight…a heart free from caving into fear or anxiety about the future. I can’t wait to have a heart free from sin.”
~ Joni Eareckson Tada

God’s People Perfected:

1. Remaining sin finally Removed

“And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem…prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
Revelation 21:2

God’s People Perfected:

1. Remaining sin finally Removed

“The holy city Jerusalem… having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.”
Revelation 21:11

1. Remaining sin finally Removed

● Along with all evil, suffering, sadness, and death

“Death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4

God’s People Perfected:

2. Righteousness forever realized

“And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’”
Revelation 21:5

2. Righteousness forever realized

● Glory

“The holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.”
Revelation 21:10-11

2. Righteousness forever realized

● Glory

“He measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.”
Revelation 21:16

2. Righteousness forever realized

● Glory

“Having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.”
Revelation 21:11

2. Righteousness forever realized

● Unity

“On the gates the names of the twelve tribes… and the wall of the city had twelve foundations and on them were the names of the twelve apostles.”
Revelation 21:12,14

God’s People Perfected:

3. Relationship with God fully Restored

“The dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people.”
Revelation 21:3

3. Relationship with God fully Restored

● Overflowing Joy

“To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life.”
Revelation 21:6

3. Relationship with God fully Restored

● Unending Love

“I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.”
Revelation 21:22

3. Relationship with God fully Restored

● Unending Love

“And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.”
Revelation 21:23

“So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.”
1 Corinthians 15:42-43

“Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven… We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”
1 Corinthians 15:49,51

“For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.”
1 Corinthians 15:52-53

“Then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ ‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.”
1 Corinthians 15:54-56

“But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:56