Jonathan Edwards on the Access We Will Have to Our King

If nothing else, read what I put on bold . . .

While most Americans think of Jonathan Edwards as the one who preached, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards was as high on Heaven as he was low on Hell.  Notice in this excerpt from a sermon, that Edwards encouraged believers will have freer access to Christ on the New Earth than the Disciples did during the Lord’s first advent:

Christ will give himself to you, with all those various excellencies that meet in him, to your full and everlasting enjoyment.  He will ever after treat you as his dear friend; and you shall ere long be where he is, and shall behold his glory, and dwell with him, in most free and intimate communion and enjoyment . . . the saints’ conversation in with Christ in heaven shall not only be as intimate and their access to him as free, as of the disciples on earth, but in many respects much more so . . . When the saints shall see Christ’s glory and exaltation in heaven, it will indeed possess their hearts with the greater admiration and adoring respect, but it will not awe them into any separation, but will serve only to heighten their surprise and joy . . . So that if we choose Christ for our friend . . . we shall hereafter be so received to him, that there shall be nothing to hinder the fullest enjoyment of him, to the satisfying the utmost cravings of our souls.  We may take our full swing at gratifying our spiritual appetite after these holy pleasures. . . There shall never be any end of this happiness, or any thing to interrupt our enjoyment of it, or in the least to molest us in it.

In Edwards’ sermon, The Excellency of Christ.