Going to Heaven

I have not found the phrase “go to heaven” in the Bible. In almost every popular hymn written in the last century and a half, the phrase is there, though. Most believers seem to be focused on getting off work and hitting the couch in spiritual terms.

The King of Heaven seems to be focused on having His people draw heaven into the earth. He seems to want us manifesting the culture, the power, the freedom of the Kingdom of heaven in the earth. Instead of waiting for the weekend so that we can be done with the stinking job we have, He wants to align us with the work that He has ordained us to be doing, so that the atmosphere and life of the weekend is the atmosphere and life of the work we do all week.

“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
(Matthew 11:28-30 HCSB ©®)

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.
Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man in His external form,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—even to death on a cross.
For this reason God also highly exalted Him
and gave Him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to will and to act for His good purpose.
(Philippians 2:5-13 HCSB ©®)