Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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Father God, we come before your throne tonight because you are
Lord of Lords and your King of Kings, and we bow our hearts
before you, Lord, and you see every need that's represented in
this place. Lord, we ask that you move in a
miraculous way. Let us represented here tonight.
Let them start seeing miracles happen.
Let them start seeing your hand moving in those situations they
thought would never, never come to pass.
Lord, let them start seeing Your glory moving through.
Father, we ask that you touch us tonight and let us receive Your
word. Father, reveal to us the things
that You want us to see tonight, Lord, and we want to bless you
and praise You and magnify You in Jesus name, Amen.
I'm going to talk about something tonight that most
people don't talk about or not very often anyway.
I like doing that. I like talking about the things
that most people don't talk about.
We're going to talk about heaven.
I mean, we talk around heaven, we talk around that, but we
don't talk about heaven itself. And I had a friend ask me a
question yesterday, as a matter of fact, and I've known her long
enough, known Bob, and that's a long time.
And she made this statement. She's a wonderful Christian
woman and Saint of God and prayer warrior.
And she says, you know, what will it be like when we get to
heaven? She said, what are we going to
really know anybody there? Are we going to just, you know,
be nothingness type thing? And I said, no, what makes you
think that? So anyway, that's where I'm
going with all of this tonight. And I won't hopefully won't keep
you too terribly long, but I just want you to listen to this.
And some people you, I've talked to a few people and they ask
these kinds of questions about heaven.
Has anybody asked y'all ever ask y'all a question about heaven,
Heaven and not how to get there, but heaven in general.
And, you know, usually they ask, well, is heaven a real place?
And then they ask, is it, what's it going to be like?
And then they usually go on, you know, about what are we going to
be like? And these are some of the
questions I want to address. And the final question I hope I
get to is, will there be animals in heaven?
So the Lord has shown us a lot of stuff in his word.
And I've got a lot of scripture. First one I'm going to start out
with is First Corinthians 2 and 9.
I'll give a second, get it up on the the board.
And then we're going to go to Deuteronomy 29 and 29.
Just a heads up, it says, but it is written.
I has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the
heart of man. The things which God has
prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto
us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all
things, yay, the deep things of God.
So God has revealed this to us, and maybe it's in little Nuggets
and little bits and pieces, but we can put it together and we
can actually see heaven. Deuteronomy 29 and 29 says the
secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things
which are revealed belonging to us are children forever, that we
may do all the words of the law. So God reveals a lot of stuff to
you. And you know, my favorite word
is he doesn't want us to be ignorant and he doesn't want us
to be ignorant about heaven either.
So the things that we could not even know about heaven, God said
He has revealed them to us. What heaven's going to be like
through His Spirit. Sometimes we ignore that.
Sometimes we just move it on to another subject because we
think, hey, I have and I got that.
Let's move on to another subject.
But I want us to take a deep dive into heaven tonight.
Think about it. I want us to think about it.
Get your thinking caps on. He wants us to understand and
anticipate what is waiting for us.
That's exciting stuff. We're going to go to a real
place, a real heaven. Hebrews 8 chapter 5.
I mean Hebrews 8 verse 5, give you a second.
Now this is talking about the priest.
It's given instructions and and Paul is talking about what the
priest did back in the ancient days and he said who is the
priest served the copy and shadow of the heavenly things as
Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the
Tabernacle for he God right there said, see that you make
all things according to the pattern shown you on the
mountain. Can you imagine that scene,
Moses on the mountain and here he is, he's talking to God face
to face to God. And he, God's given him
instructions of building a place of worship so God can meet with
his people. And he says, I'm going to show
you this and I'm going to give you explicit instructions, a
pattern of what's in heaven. What?
That's a model. He says you're going to make a
model of what's in heaven, basically, is what he's saying
there. You know, heaven is a physical,
tangible place. God made sure Moses built what
was needed to be built for the Tabernacle, and he gave him, he
even gave the people who helped build the Tabernacle.
They were brick layers. They made bricks for the
Egyptians. Remember that?
And then all of a sudden now they're out in the wilderness
and God gives men and women special instructions on how to
how to make tapestries and how to work gold and how to inlay
precious jewels, all of that stuff.
God gave that to Moses and he says Moses, I want you to do it
exactly as the pattern I have shown you the type and shadow
type thing, if you will. You know we think heaven
sometimes. Most people, I'm not saying
about you, I don't know what most people think.
Heaven is a non physical place. It's like we just kind of
floating around, no real anything.
Just kind of like almost like a ghost, if you will, spiritual
floating around and everything. But let's see what Scripture
tells us about heaven. So Hebrews 9:00 and 11:00 says,
But Christ came as a high priest of the good things to come with
the greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands
that is not of creation or my parentheses, not of this world.
So Jesus Christ, our great high Priest, came to show us what a
high priest should be doing, and he's going to go into a
Tabernacle made without hands. It's going to be not what you
make, but something that's made in heaven.
Hebrews 9 and 23 goes on to say, therefore it was necessary that
the copies of the things in heaven talking about the
Tabernacle and the things that's in the Tabernacle should be
purified, with these talking about the blood sacrifices being
purified. All this instruments had to be
purified with blood. They had to do all the
sacrifices and everything for the blood.
So but the heavenly things. Now he's talking about the
earthly things first, the copies of the pattern of the model of
the the things in heaven. He's talking about that he said,
but the heavenly things themselves with a better
sacrifice than these. We know what that better
sacrifice was. That was the blood of Jesus
Christ. He's the Lamb of God.
Verse 24 goes on to say, for Christ has not entered into the
holy place made with hands, which are copies of the true or
patterns of the true or types of the true, a model, if you will,
but into heaven itself. Now to appear in the presence of
God for us. So if there's something that
Tabernacle that Moses built in the wilderness and they came
there to worship because that's where God wanted to meet with
his people, and God keeps saying that's a a copy of what's in
heaven. Do you get that?
That means there's a tangible real thing up in heaven,
something that you'll be able to see as you're floating around in
your non body. Just joking, we know we are
created in the image of God right?
God says I create you in the image of God.
Doesn't necessarily mean that God looks like us, but what it
does mean is we are spiritual beings.
God is a spiritual being. However, Jesus was also a
spiritual being is now also, but so with that said, earth is
created in the image of heaven. It's a copy or a pattern of the
true, the real thing. We're spiritual beings clothed
in flesh right now. One day we're just going to be
spirit just like Jesus. When we see him, we will be like
him. So we're going to think about
what he was like here in a minute.
But a pattern or model on earth of what is in heaven is the
Scriptures is what he's telling us.
That's what we what we saw back then.
And he said this is a model of what was in heaven.
The garden was created with trees and flowers and water and
animals. The original pattern or the
original model came from heaven. Let's dig a little deeper.
Revelation 7 and 9 And these things I looked and beheld a
great multitude which no one could number of all nations,
tribes, peoples, and tongues standing before the throne and
before the Lamb, clothed with white linens, with palm branches
in their hands. And verse 10 says, and crying
out with a loud voice, saying, Salvation belongs to our God who
sits on the throne and to the Lamb. 11 says all the angels
stood around the throne and the elders sorry and all the four
living creatures fell on their face before the throne and
worshipped God. There's going to be a lot of
people in heaven. There's already a lot of people
in heaven. It says he saw them and they
were all trying. We, we studied that when we
studied the trumpets, remember in the, the, the seals and the
trumpets in the bowls, we discussed that about all the
people, all the nations that are going to be there.
And we just that lot of folks are going to be there.
A lot of people from every nation, every language around
the world is in heaven. They have faces, it says they
have faces. They bowed on their faces.
They have legs to stand on. They stood up in heaven.
They wear clothes in heaven. What?
That's what it says. He saw them, John saw them.
Revelation was written after the ascension, resurrection and
ascension of Jesus and he saw them and they were saying
salvation belongs to our God. So they were speaking.
Can you imagine? I don't know, maybe I'm just I
see a lot of y'all staring at me.
I just I just want you to put your heads on.
Think of what's going to happen when we get there.
Revelation. We talked about that a lot too
when we studied this the trumpets.
There's trumpets in heaven. Remember God created Lucifer to
lead worship and he gave him a voice and he gave him musical
instruments. There's musical instruments in
heaven. I think that's awesome.
So when we're, we get down here and we're going to have all the,
we have all this music and this singing, guess what?
When we get to heaven, we're going to have music and there's
going to be instruments and they're going to be played
perfectly and everything's going to be wonderful.
But we're going to see it in heaven.
This, let me just give you a description of Lucifer.
If you doubt what I say about Lucifer, Ezekiel 28 and 13, he's
saying you were in Eden, the Garden of God.
Every precious stone was your covering.
The Sardis, the Topaz, the diamond, the barrel, the Onyx,
the Jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, emerald with gold,
the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes.
That's his voice. We're prepared for you on the
day you were created. So God created an an Angel to
lead worship and then all of a sudden he got the big head and
said, I'm going to be just like God.
And God says my version is you're not.
And we know the rest of that story, not only musical
instruments, there's precious gems in heaven.
You just read he had all of this covering on Lucifer.
He had the Onyx and the diamonds and and Topaz and turquoise.
There's precious gems in heaven. We also know that when God tells
us about the the the 12 stories in the new Tabernacle that's
going to come down to heaven. He talks about the gates of
Pearl. So there's precious gems,
there's beauty in heaven. And you say, well, I knew that,
but did you really know that? Do you really think about it,
how beautiful heaven must be? Break out into the song.
My next question that somebody's asked me, are we really going to
eat anything in heaven? Let me give you these examples.
Revelations 2 and seven said, Who has an ear?
Let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches, to him who
overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is
in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 22 and 1 And he showed me a pure river of water
of life, clear as crystal, he says, proceeding from the throne
of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its streets.
It's got streets. And on either side of the river
was the Tree of life, which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding
its fruit every month. The leaves on the tree were for
healing of the nation, and the fruit on the tree was for
nourishment. It's also described like that in
Ezekiel 47, but I'm not going to go there and take you there.
But it talks about the tree of life and it talks about the
trees and they're going to bear fruit.
The same trees going to be 12 different fruits all year long.
The fruit is not just to be admired, but it's for
nourishment. Can you imagine going down The
Walking down the street to go, oh, I think I'd like that.
Hey, how you doing, Jerry? How you doing?
Praise God. The river of life and the tree
of life appeared to be a source of eternal life in the garden.
Adam and Eve remember them. They ate the fruit that was
provided by God. They ate that fruit.
That was their. That's what they ate.
All the animals ate fruit. They didn't eat meat until after
the ark. That's when, if you read it,
that's when animals and people started eating meat before the
ark. They ate fruit.
Even the animals ate fruit. So Adam and Eve ate the fruit
that God had provided for them. They were designed to live
forever, but they never ate of the tree of life.
Genesis 3 and 22. I want you to take a look at
that. It says, then the Lord God said,
behold, the man has become like us to know good and evil, and
now lest you put on his hand and taken to the tree of life and
eat and live forever. So he's saying we need to get
him out of the Garden of Eden. And you remember the story about
how that he, they got kicked out of the garden and God put an
Angel with a sword in the front of the garden so they could
never get back in there again because that's where the tree of
life was. Now I'm not going to go there.
I think to myself a lot. But now the book of Ezekiel and
Revelation say the fruit will serve for food and their leaves.
Healing of the nations three times.
If you notice, the inhabitants of the new earth are referred to
as nations. Nations are not going to be
eliminated. They're going to be healed with
the fruit from God, with the leaves of the trees of God.
More references to food. Luke 22 and 15 then he.
This is talking about Jesus said to them with fervent desire, I
have desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
For I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is
fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. In the Kingdom of God.
Luke 22 and 30 says that you may eat and drink at my table in my
Kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the tribes of Israel.
He's talking to his disciples. He said one day you're going to
eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom refers to food.
Revelation 19 and 9 Then he said to me, right, blessed are those
who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he said to me, these are true sayings, Wow, we're going
to have supper in heaven says we're going to have a big
banquet, a marriage. Usually when you have a wedding,
there's a big banquet afterwards.
You call it a reception. And so we're going to have a eat
supper in heaven, food in heaven.
Remember, Jesus was always eating when he was here on earth
and he always was talking about eating.
He even ate with the disciples after the resurrection.
People don't always think about that.
They don't. Most people don't get past.
Well, he's resurrected now let's move on to something else.
You know, what will we be like when we're in heaven?
That's the next question. What will we be like when we're
in heaven? A late 1800s evangelist, pastor,
teacher, author. His name is RA Torre, He writes
We will not be disembodied spirits in some space, but
redeemed spirits in resurrected bodies living in a redeemed
world. So we're going to have
resurrected bodies. We're not just going to be
floating around on a cloud and nothing to do.
First John three and two tells us this, Beloved, now are we the
sons of God? And it does not appear what we
shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we will be like
him, for we shall see him as He is.
So when we see Jesus as He is in his glorified body, we're going
to be like Him. Luke 24 and 39.
I know I'm tossing a lot of this, but to me, and I've always
said this for many, many years now, as long as I've been
teaching just about that the Bible is like a, a picture
puzzle, a jigsaw puzzle. And you dump it out and you're
trying to find something and you take pieces and pieces and
pieces and you start putting it together until you see the whole
picture. And that's what I'm trying to
do. That's why when I'm talking to
you guys is I use so much scripture because I want you to
put these pieces of the puzzle together so you can get the
whole picture. Luke 2439 It says, Behold my
hands and my feet, that is, that it is I myself handle me and
see. For a spirit does not have flesh
and bone, as you see I have. When He had said this, He showed
himself his hands and his feet, but while they still did not
believe for joy and marvel, He said to them, Have you any food
He liked to eat? Jesus ate while He was here on
this earth, even after the resurrection.
The empty tomb is the ultimate proof that Jesus resurrected
body was the same body that went into the tomb.
They saw him. They recognized him when they
saw him. Not right at first, but if
resurrection meant the creation of a new body, then his old body
would have stayed in the tomb, right?
Does that make sense? I mean, but he, he was out of
the tomb. His body was gone and he was
walking around and he was talking to the people, eating,
even eating. Jesus told his disciples, it is
me, it's myself. He was emphasizing that he was
the same person. That's what he was telling
everybody. I'm in spirit and I'm in body.
And the disciples saw the marks of his crucifixion confirming
that it was the same body. And that's what he showed him
here, look at this, touch me, touch me, handle me.
He says handle me. Jesus walked the earth in his
resurrected body for 40 days. A lot of people skipped that 40
days time. A lot of people said, well, he's
resurrected and then he went ascended.
No, he stayed on this earth for 40 days.
He walked around, visited all his friends, and he still spoke
to the people. When Jesus walked with the men
on the road to Emmaus, remember this road to Emmaus, The people,
they didn't see anything different about him to tip them
off that it was Jesus from the tomb, the resurrected Christ,
until their eyes were open, until he broke the bread.
And when he broke the bread, there was something there that
go, you're him and you know what?
Jesus disappeared. I love that story.
Jesus disappeared. Now they walked from Jerusalem
to Emmaus and they were just like man, I can't believe this
happened. I thought he was the one.
I just knew it was him. Didn't you think it was him?
And Jesus walks up beside him and he says hey guys what y'all
doing? He was from Texas.
He says how's it going? Haven't you heard?
He says, heard what? And so they told him and he said
he started telling them about himself starting at the
beginning of the Bible until the end, and they still didn't get
it until they let him in. They said, man, what you're
saying just burns inside of us. He said.
They said, come on in and eat with us.
So he went into their house and they still didn't get it.
And they brought him bread. And when he broke the bread,
they recognized him as the resurrected Christ.
And again they walked. But when they recognized him,
what they do, y'all know what they did?
They ran all the way back to Jerusalem to tell somebody.
I got to tell somebody. They said I got to tell
somebody. So they walked slowly to home, 7
miles, 7 miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus.
And they walked. And then they just, you know,
sad. But when they saw him, boy, they
ran all the way back. I love that, that difference
there. Once you see him, you can't help
but hurry up and tell somebody. You want to tell somebody who he
is. When Mary saw him in the garden,
she said, Sir, because she didn't really recognize him.
He, he, he looked like a man, you know, And they weren't
really believing that he was going to be resurrected.
They didn't believe it. How do I know that?
It's because the women got up early in the morning to get
spices to wrap his dead body with.
They thought, we're going to go wrap his dead body.
No, he told them, I'm not going to be there.
He told them I'm rising up, I'm not going to be there.
I'm the risen Christ. He told them and told them and
told them and told them. But on that day they went back.
They had their spices and they went in.
Nobody was in the tomb. They saw an Angel.
Angel says he's not here, my version.
And then Mary runs back and tells the disciples he's alive,
he's alive. And they go, Mary, you got heat
stroke. Can you believe it?
And you can you look at them, but you also need to look at
yourself because it's a lot that we don't believe.
Just like that's why I'm going over heaven.
There's a lot that we don't believe, lot that we don't even
think about when we talk about heaven.
And they didn't even understand it until he said her name on the
shore when the disciples, they all depressed.
We're going fishing again. He was standing on the shore.
He had a fire going. He was cooking fish, and he
said, hey, guys, come on out. And then they recognized him.
He ate breakfast with them in his resurrected body.
Remember, he hadn't ascended yet.
He didn't have his glorified body yet.
Yet He appeared in a room and then he disappeared from a room.
Jesus picked up with the relationships that he had left
off with before the crucifixion. He knew the people and they knew
him. So what's heaven going to be
like? Are you going to recognize
people? I say yes, because Jesus clearly
shows us. We'll continue on in this.
Philippians 3 and 20. There'll be a New Jerusalem.
It's going to be 1500 by 1500, by 1500 feet.
It's going to be 12 stories tall, and it's going to be built
of jewels. Yes, and then for 1000 years I'm
skip ahead after that thousand years there's going to be
battling Armageddon and then there'll be a new heaven and a
new earth come at that point. So yes, you're right.
But his body was not a new body. His body was now spiritual body,
but it was his body. That's why he said look at me,
look, look at me. OK, so where was I?
Philippians 3 and 20 it says for our citizenship is in heaven,
which from which we are eagerly await for the Savior and the
Lord Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly body.
Thank God that it may be conformed to His glorious body
according to the working by which He is able even to subdue
all things to himself. They're saying where He's going
to take this body, this old and achy breaky body that we have
here, and He's going to give us a glorified body, same body.
It's just going to be glorified. And we can't figure that one out
how He does it, because it says it's going to be according to
His working, which only He's able to do it to subdue things
for himself. He's able to do it.
We shouldn't even try to figure it out.
Remember the amount of transfiguration before the
crucifixion and the resurrection?
That was in Matthew, early part of, well, Matthew 17 and two to
be specific, but the amount of transfiguration He took three of
the disciples, remember, with him, and he went up and he was
transfigured, it says, and He was transfigured before them.
His face shone like the sun, His clothes became as white as the
light. And behold, Moses and Elijah
appeared to them, talking with him on the Mount of
Transfiguration. He was transformed before their
eyes. This was a preview of his
glorified body. Still him, they recognized him.
He was just now shiny and bright.
Now you can say, well, that's all well and good, but even
Elijah and Moses were also. If you read Luke 31 and I'm not
going to read it, but it says they appeared in glorious
splendor. So they were already up there
and when they came down they were in glorious splendor.
And it shows that Jesus was in glorious splendor.
His eyes and hair and feet, everything just shined.
And I want to, I wasn't don't have this, but this is a
freebie. Remember Moses, when Moses went
up on the mountain to spend with God and to talk with God, He was
up on the mountain and he came down with the 10 commandments
and all of this and he has spent time with God.
And excuse me, when he came back, they were looking at him
like because his face shined, shone is what they call it,
shined so bright that he had to cover his face because the
people couldn't stand to look at it.
Because he has spent time with God in the presence of God.
Just a glimpse of a glorified body situation.
And after the resurrection, after the ascension, Paul on the
road to Damascus. Remember his experience on the
road to Damascus. There was a great life from
heaven suddenly shown around him, him being Paul.
And it said Saul, Saul, it was Paul.
And he fell on his feet when he heard the voice calling his
name. And it's the voice says, I am
Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.
Great light shined around him. This was after the ascension.
This was after everything had happened.
And Paul had been converted from Saul to Paul.
And he was when he was still Saul.
At this point he was still Saul and he was going on his road to
Damascus to persecute more Christians.
And he, the bright light shined on him.
And I like to say it knocked him off his high horse.
So he knocked down, he fell down, he was on the ground and
he the light was so bright that God put scales over his eyes and
he went off. You know the story if you don't
go read it. And he sent someone to preach to
him and tell him about Jesus. And then Saul became Paul, one
of the greatest apostles in the Bible.
He was a scoundrel before Paul says in First Corinthians 15 and
49. It says, as we have borne the
image of man, of dust, this is it.
We shall also bear the image of the heavenly man.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed. Yay, we're all going to be
changed. Now I've got a comparison here
of imperial bodies, earthly bodies, and resurrected bodies.
And this is all part of that First Corinthians, it's previous
42 through 50. It goes on if you read the whole
thing. But an earthly body was sown in
perishable, A sown A perishable body.
A resurrected body is raised in perishable.
Earthly body is sown in dishonor.
A resurrected body is sown in glory or raised in glory.
Earthly body sown in weakness. Resurrected body is raised in
power. Earthly body is sown a natural
body. A resurrected body is a
spiritual body. Difference is quite a bit of
difference, right? Flesh and blood cannot inherit
the Kingdom of God, nor does perishable inherit imperishable.
We will be made incorruptible. We'll have a new body, praise
the Lord. God's going to decide what our
body's going to look like. Ultimately, he's going to
decide, but he's giving us glimpses.
He's giving us pieces of the puzzle, things that we thought
well, that might not, but it does.
If we put it all together, we have a We're going to have a
sense of well-being and approval, and God's going to be
happy with us. Jesus's resurrected body was
able to appear and apparently walk through locked doors.
Remember the stories? And he disappeared from the men
in Emmaus. He defied gravity because then
he was ascended into heaven. We're told in several places
that our resurrected bodies will be like Christ when we see him,
we will be like Him. That's what it says very
clearly. We don't know the glorious plans
God has for our bodies, but we knew.
No, He's got a plan. There's also eternal in the
Eternal City. It talks about streets and it
talks about gates, implying that there's going to be normal.
Somebody's going to be walking on those streets when the Saints
go March in in when the Saints y'all don't know that one again,
somebody's going to be walking on the streets.
Somebody's going to be going through those gates.
Otherwise there would just be a lot of clouds and fluff.
I'm going to give a few seconds here to this last bit.
Animals in heaven. She better hurry up.
She going to miss it. Isaiah 11/6 through 9 talks
about lions and lambs and wolves and oxen, cows, bears and
cobras. You see it.
Isaiah 6525 describes a future time of peace among all the
animals in the renewed world. Revelation 5 and 13.
I'm throwing them at you fast, darling, it says.
And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and
under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in
them, I heard saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be
to him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and
ever. Animals in heaven, it just said
all, all creatures in heaven and on earth, they're all going to
worship God. In the seas under the earth,
they're going to worship God. Every creature in heaven, it
says, and on earth. Second Kings 2:00 and 11:00.
And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that
behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire.
Now this is talking about Elijah and Elijah.
It's their stories. Chariot of fire and horses of
fire. And parted them both asunder.
And Elijah went up by whirlwind into heaven.
There's horses in heaven. We know that because the Lord
says we're going to be coming back on a White Horse.
We saw the all the descriptions of the horses in heaven.
There's going to be horses in heaven.
There's going to be lions and lambs and wolves because they're
going to lay down beside each other.
They're not going to fight each other.
There's going to be cows, it says, and bears and cobras.
The child will play with the cobra, it says in Isaiah, where
I'm talking about the child's going to play with the cobra.
It describes it as that. And then Revelation says and
every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth
and the sea, they're going to start worshipping God.
So are there, are these just symbolic?
Are these a physical reality? Jesus was not symbolic, was he?
His word is real. His word is truth and he's, he's
telling us all of this stuff and it's in his word.
But sometimes we get, we want to get to the better stuff.
Sometimes this might be a little boring.
I may be putting you on to sleep.
Y'all might go home and just sleep your heads off after
tonight. But this is a real deal.
Heaven is real. It's a physical place we're
going to go to, and we're going to get glorified bodies just
like Jesus had a glorified body. It's going to be me, only I'm
going to be shiny and new, Hallelujah.
I won't have to put sparkles or sprinkles or nothing on my face.
It's just going to be I'm going to be glowing and you're going
to walk around and you go say, hey, Tommy, look at you, Tony,
look at you. Hey, you guys, we're going to
know you. Jesus knew his disciples after
he was resurrected. He knew them.
He's going to know us. He knows us already.
We have no idea what he's got prepared for us, but he's giving
us a glimpse of heaven. It's real and we're waiting on
it. And we should be so excited
about going to heaven because sometimes we go ho hum, yeah,
heaven. Oh, I don't want to go to hell
because it's hot and it's fiery and it's, you know, all of that
bad stuff. But I want to go to heaven
because it's beautiful and the trees give off fruit and we can
eat it, and there's going to be supper there because Jesus likes
to eat. There's going to be separate.
We're going to have all of that. I just pray that y'all get this
inside of you so that your hearts leap when you think about
heaven. It's a real place, and we're
going to go there one of these days and we should be able to
tell people about heaven just as easily as we can tell them about
hell. Yes, Sir.
Father, we thank you for your word.
We thank You for the glimpse of heaven You have given us in Your
Word, Lord. Sometimes we have to dig for
those Nuggets and we have to dig for that information, Lord, but
You laid it out in Your word. Thanks for listening to the
Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true?
Hope, peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus.
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