from here to eternity
introduction
seeing is believing
so what does that mean for us?
what can i see?
how do i see?
how can i be sure?
there's only 1 way
there's more than 1 way
put those nets down
not by might....
......quenching the Spirit
unity
prophecy
sin
lifted up in worship
see new perspective
act differently
God makes a move
heaven and earth united in a city
dwelling place of God with redeemed mankind
river flowing out
attractional
missional
if we get this right.....
2-fold impact
one Spirit, many outworkings:
  God works in different ways, but
it is the same God who does the work in all
sacred pathways
what do you see in the future for this church?
how is it going to happen?
why am I preaching yet again on
'the City of God'?
Scriptures:
on receiving the vision.....
Ezekiel especially ch. 1-3, 37, 47
Revelation especially ch. 1, 21-22
on promoting and quenching the Spirit.....
Psalm 133; Eph 4:30; 1Thess 5:19
on the river of God......
Psalm 46:4; Isaiah 66:12; Ez 47; Rev 22
Joshua 12:22
Gaza, Gath and Ashdod
Samson, Goliath and Dagon
the resurrection
the first Easter
we have a job to do
a new creation
Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven.  That remains one of the most powerful and revolutionary sentences
that we can ever say. As I see it, the prayer was powerfully answered at the first Easter, and will finally be answered fully
when heaven and earth are joined in the new Jerusalem.  Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by
coming forward from the future into the present
our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first (Easter) and a foretaste of the second.