Third, our glorious resurrected bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. If this is true in this life, how much more in the life to come? The Holy Spirit, who is Christ’s Spirit, makes us able to bear Christ in his majesty. The Holy Spirit enables God’s people in Heaven to receive communications from God through Christ that we on Earth could not bear right now. His goal is Christ’s goal: the eternal satisfaction of Christ and his people viewing one another with delight.

 
In a previous post I asked, How do you know that Christ loves you? Pastors and Christians need to do better than just assume this truth. I gave a trinitarian grounding for why Christ must love his people. But what about the question, Why is Heaven forever? 

God the Father
First, the Scriptures consistently portray redemptive history in terms of a husband seeking his bride. God’s people are united to their husband, Christ, by faith. This indissoluble union begins when we place our faith in the one who is “chief among ten thousand.” A significant implication emerges from this truth: Heaven is eternal because we are married to Christ, and God hates divorce. God would first have to sin by dissolving our union with Christ before Heaven could end. When God sins in this manner then Heaven will end.

God the Son
Second, there shall be no desire from us in heaven to look anywhere else but at Christ. As John Owen says, our vision of the God-man in heaven will be “immediate, direct…and therefore steady, even, and constant.” Christ’s personal glory will always be before us: “As a man sees his neighbour when they stand and converse together face to face, so shall we see the Lord Christ in his glory.”

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