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I. THE REVELATION CONCERNING HEAVEN.

1. A heavenly place. Habitation of God.

2. A state.

II. IN WHAT RESPECTS IS IT A BETTER COUNTRY THAN THIS?

1. It is a sinless country.

2. It is a healthful country.

3. It is a country inhabited by perfect beings.

4. It is a country of better enjoyments.

III. THE DESIRE WHICH ALL TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE FOR ITS POSSESSION. Others may wish, but the true Christian really desires it. This desire —

1. Is formed in regeneration, Born for and from above. New nature tends upwards.

2. Is cultivated by sanctifying grace. Growing in grace is growing in meetness, &c.

3. Is heightened by spiritual visits to it. He ascends in prayer, in faith, in hope.

4. Is exhibited in holy diligence to obtain it. He labours to enter; he gives all diligence.

Application:

1. This better country is offered to all who will set out on the heavenly pilgrimage.

2. How truly blest are all the children of the heavenly Zion.

3. There is a worse country, the world of woe, of darkness, of despair, of endless death. Flee from it now.

(J. Burns, D. D.)

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KJV: And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

WEB: If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.