1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,040 Father God, we come before your throne tonight because you are 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,240 Lord of Lords and your King of Kings, and we bow our hearts 7 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:25,520 before you, Lord, and you see every need that's represented in 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,320 this place. Lord, we ask that you move in a 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,800 miraculous way. Let us represented here tonight. 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,800 Let them start seeing miracles happen. 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,400 Let them start seeing your hand moving in those situations they 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,760 thought would never, never come to pass. 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,560 Lord, let them start seeing Your glory moving through. 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,280 Father, we ask that you touch us tonight and let us receive Your 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,240 word. Father, reveal to us the things 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,880 that You want us to see tonight, Lord, and we want to bless you 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,480 and praise You and magnify You in Jesus name, Amen. 18 00:01:06,810 --> 00:01:10,570 I'm going to talk about something tonight that most 19 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:14,210 people don't talk about or not very often anyway. 20 00:01:14,410 --> 00:01:17,450 I like doing that. I like talking about the things 21 00:01:17,450 --> 00:01:18,970 that most people don't talk about. 22 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,000 We're going to talk about heaven. 23 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,280 I mean, we talk around heaven, we talk around that, but we 24 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,200 don't talk about heaven itself. And I had a friend ask me a 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,200 question yesterday, as a matter of fact, and I've known her long 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,600 enough, known Bob, and that's a long time. 27 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,640 And she made this statement. She's a wonderful Christian 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,400 woman and Saint of God and prayer warrior. 29 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,280 And she says, you know, what will it be like when we get to 30 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,880 heaven? She said, what are we going to 31 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,480 really know anybody there? Are we going to just, you know, 32 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,400 be nothingness type thing? And I said, no, what makes you 33 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,240 think that? So anyway, that's where I'm 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,600 going with all of this tonight. And I won't hopefully won't keep 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,479 you too terribly long, but I just want you to listen to this. 36 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,120 And some people you, I've talked to a few people and they ask 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,120 these kinds of questions about heaven. 38 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,440 Has anybody asked y'all ever ask y'all a question about heaven, 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,760 Heaven and not how to get there, but heaven in general. 40 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,360 And, you know, usually they ask, well, is heaven a real place? 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,200 And then they ask, is it, what's it going to be like? 42 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,640 And then they usually go on, you know, about what are we going to 43 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,160 be like? And these are some of the 44 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,200 questions I want to address. And the final question I hope I 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,080 get to is, will there be animals in heaven? 46 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,480 So the Lord has shown us a lot of stuff in his word. 47 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,360 And I've got a lot of scripture. First one I'm going to start out 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,560 with is First Corinthians 2 and 9. 49 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,120 I'll give a second, get it up on the the board. 50 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:01,680 And then we're going to go to Deuteronomy 29 and 29. 51 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,240 Just a heads up, it says, but it is written. 52 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,640 I has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the 53 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,840 heart of man. The things which God has 54 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,640 prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto 55 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,720 us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all 56 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,520 things, yay, the deep things of God. 57 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,840 So God has revealed this to us, and maybe it's in little Nuggets 58 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,920 and little bits and pieces, but we can put it together and we 59 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:40,000 can actually see heaven. Deuteronomy 29 and 29 says the 60 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,200 secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things 61 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:52,040 which are revealed belonging to us are children forever, that we 62 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,760 may do all the words of the law. So God reveals a lot of stuff to 63 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,200 you. And you know, my favorite word 64 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,840 is he doesn't want us to be ignorant and he doesn't want us 65 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,200 to be ignorant about heaven either. 66 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:09,160 So the things that we could not even know about heaven, God said 67 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,360 He has revealed them to us. What heaven's going to be like 68 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,519 through His Spirit. Sometimes we ignore that. 69 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,800 Sometimes we just move it on to another subject because we 70 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:21,920 think, hey, I have and I got that. 71 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,560 Let's move on to another subject. 72 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,200 But I want us to take a deep dive into heaven tonight. 73 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:29,800 Think about it. I want us to think about it. 74 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,200 Get your thinking caps on. He wants us to understand and 75 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,960 anticipate what is waiting for us. 76 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,800 That's exciting stuff. We're going to go to a real 77 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,880 place, a real heaven. Hebrews 8 chapter 5. 78 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,480 I mean Hebrews 8 verse 5, give you a second. 79 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,760 Now this is talking about the priest. 80 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,680 It's given instructions and and Paul is talking about what the 81 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,720 priest did back in the ancient days and he said who is the 82 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:11,800 priest served the copy and shadow of the heavenly things as 83 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,840 Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the 84 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:21,280 Tabernacle for he God right there said, see that you make 85 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:25,920 all things according to the pattern shown you on the 86 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,040 mountain. Can you imagine that scene, 87 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,640 Moses on the mountain and here he is, he's talking to God face 88 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,640 to face to God. And he, God's given him 89 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:41,400 instructions of building a place of worship so God can meet with 90 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,880 his people. And he says, I'm going to show 91 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,440 you this and I'm going to give you explicit instructions, a 92 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,280 pattern of what's in heaven. What? 93 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,680 That's a model. He says you're going to make a 94 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,440 model of what's in heaven, basically, is what he's saying 95 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,840 there. You know, heaven is a physical, 96 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,200 tangible place. God made sure Moses built what 97 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,960 was needed to be built for the Tabernacle, and he gave him, he 98 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,920 even gave the people who helped build the Tabernacle. 99 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,000 They were brick layers. They made bricks for the 100 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,440 Egyptians. Remember that? 101 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,000 And then all of a sudden now they're out in the wilderness 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,240 and God gives men and women special instructions on how to 103 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,800 how to make tapestries and how to work gold and how to inlay 104 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,520 precious jewels, all of that stuff. 105 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,000 God gave that to Moses and he says Moses, I want you to do it 106 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,360 exactly as the pattern I have shown you the type and shadow 107 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,880 type thing, if you will. You know we think heaven 108 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,520 sometimes. Most people, I'm not saying 109 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,920 about you, I don't know what most people think. 110 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,200 Heaven is a non physical place. It's like we just kind of 111 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,240 floating around, no real anything. 112 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,960 Just kind of like almost like a ghost, if you will, spiritual 113 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,400 floating around and everything. But let's see what Scripture 114 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:14,440 tells us about heaven. So Hebrews 9:00 and 11:00 says, 115 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:21,120 But Christ came as a high priest of the good things to come with 116 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,920 the greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands 117 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:32,160 that is not of creation or my parentheses, not of this world. 118 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:38,200 So Jesus Christ, our great high Priest, came to show us what a 119 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,600 high priest should be doing, and he's going to go into a 120 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:48,080 Tabernacle made without hands. It's going to be not what you 121 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,680 make, but something that's made in heaven. 122 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,520 Hebrews 9 and 23 goes on to say, therefore it was necessary that 123 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,200 the copies of the things in heaven talking about the 124 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,560 Tabernacle and the things that's in the Tabernacle should be 125 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:09,480 purified, with these talking about the blood sacrifices being 126 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,440 purified. All this instruments had to be 127 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,160 purified with blood. They had to do all the 128 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,560 sacrifices and everything for the blood. 129 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,640 So but the heavenly things. Now he's talking about the 130 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,480 earthly things first, the copies of the pattern of the model of 131 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,400 the the things in heaven. He's talking about that he said, 132 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,280 but the heavenly things themselves with a better 133 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,039 sacrifice than these. We know what that better 134 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:38,360 sacrifice was. That was the blood of Jesus 135 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,480 Christ. He's the Lamb of God. 136 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,400 Verse 24 goes on to say, for Christ has not entered into the 137 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,520 holy place made with hands, which are copies of the true or 138 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,760 patterns of the true or types of the true, a model, if you will, 139 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,840 but into heaven itself. Now to appear in the presence of 140 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:06,400 God for us. So if there's something that 141 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,920 Tabernacle that Moses built in the wilderness and they came 142 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,560 there to worship because that's where God wanted to meet with 143 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:18,800 his people, and God keeps saying that's a a copy of what's in 144 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,080 heaven. Do you get that? 145 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,160 That means there's a tangible real thing up in heaven, 146 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,480 something that you'll be able to see as you're floating around in 147 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,920 your non body. Just joking, we know we are 148 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,280 created in the image of God right? 149 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,400 God says I create you in the image of God. 150 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:42,600 Doesn't necessarily mean that God looks like us, but what it 151 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,560 does mean is we are spiritual beings. 152 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:48,400 God is a spiritual being. However, Jesus was also a 153 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:55,840 spiritual being is now also, but so with that said, earth is 154 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:03,080 created in the image of heaven. It's a copy or a pattern of the 155 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,160 true, the real thing. We're spiritual beings clothed 156 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,760 in flesh right now. One day we're just going to be 157 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,680 spirit just like Jesus. When we see him, we will be like 158 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,240 him. So we're going to think about 159 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,880 what he was like here in a minute. 160 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:25,720 But a pattern or model on earth of what is in heaven is the 161 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,320 Scriptures is what he's telling us. 162 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,520 That's what we what we saw back then. 163 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,280 And he said this is a model of what was in heaven. 164 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,960 The garden was created with trees and flowers and water and 165 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,760 animals. The original pattern or the 166 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:46,440 original model came from heaven. Let's dig a little deeper. 167 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:53,840 Revelation 7 and 9 And these things I looked and beheld a 168 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:58,000 great multitude which no one could number of all nations, 169 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,160 tribes, peoples, and tongues standing before the throne and 170 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:06,480 before the Lamb, clothed with white linens, with palm branches 171 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,400 in their hands. And verse 10 says, and crying 172 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,720 out with a loud voice, saying, Salvation belongs to our God who 173 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,240 sits on the throne and to the Lamb. 11 says all the angels 174 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:25,880 stood around the throne and the elders sorry and all the four 175 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,720 living creatures fell on their face before the throne and 176 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,880 worshipped God. There's going to be a lot of 177 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,160 people in heaven. There's already a lot of people 178 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,200 in heaven. It says he saw them and they 179 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,240 were all trying. We, we studied that when we 180 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,760 studied the trumpets, remember in the, the, the seals and the 181 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,880 trumpets in the bowls, we discussed that about all the 182 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,560 people, all the nations that are going to be there. 183 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:51,480 And we just that lot of folks are going to be there. 184 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,400 A lot of people from every nation, every language around 185 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,360 the world is in heaven. They have faces, it says they 186 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,320 have faces. They bowed on their faces. 187 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,080 They have legs to stand on. They stood up in heaven. 188 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,960 They wear clothes in heaven. What? 189 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,840 That's what it says. He saw them, John saw them. 190 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,800 Revelation was written after the ascension, resurrection and 191 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,200 ascension of Jesus and he saw them and they were saying 192 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,760 salvation belongs to our God. So they were speaking. 193 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,520 Can you imagine? I don't know, maybe I'm just I 194 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,240 see a lot of y'all staring at me. 195 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,680 I just I just want you to put your heads on. 196 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,320 Think of what's going to happen when we get there. 197 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,920 Revelation. We talked about that a lot too 198 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,720 when we studied this the trumpets. 199 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,840 There's trumpets in heaven. Remember God created Lucifer to 200 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,600 lead worship and he gave him a voice and he gave him musical 201 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,080 instruments. There's musical instruments in 202 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,280 heaven. I think that's awesome. 203 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,800 So when we're, we get down here and we're going to have all the, 204 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,720 we have all this music and this singing, guess what? 205 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,760 When we get to heaven, we're going to have music and there's 206 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,880 going to be instruments and they're going to be played 207 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,000 perfectly and everything's going to be wonderful. 208 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,840 But we're going to see it in heaven. 209 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,880 This, let me just give you a description of Lucifer. 210 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:28,700 If you doubt what I say about Lucifer, Ezekiel 28 and 13, he's 211 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:32,380 saying you were in Eden, the Garden of God. 212 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,080 Every precious stone was your covering. 213 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,200 The Sardis, the Topaz, the diamond, the barrel, the Onyx, 214 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,640 the Jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, emerald with gold, 215 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,080 the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes. 216 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,200 That's his voice. We're prepared for you on the 217 00:13:53,200 --> 00:14:01,160 day you were created. So God created an an Angel to 218 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,080 lead worship and then all of a sudden he got the big head and 219 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:06,680 said, I'm going to be just like God. 220 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,760 And God says my version is you're not. 221 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,240 And we know the rest of that story, not only musical 222 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,400 instruments, there's precious gems in heaven. 223 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,680 You just read he had all of this covering on Lucifer. 224 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:24,160 He had the Onyx and the diamonds and and Topaz and turquoise. 225 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:29,160 There's precious gems in heaven. We also know that when God tells 226 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:36,040 us about the the the 12 stories in the new Tabernacle that's 227 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,760 going to come down to heaven. He talks about the gates of 228 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,240 Pearl. So there's precious gems, 229 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,880 there's beauty in heaven. And you say, well, I knew that, 230 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,160 but did you really know that? Do you really think about it, 231 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,800 how beautiful heaven must be? Break out into the song. 232 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,080 My next question that somebody's asked me, are we really going to 233 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,120 eat anything in heaven? Let me give you these examples. 234 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:08,200 Revelations 2 and seven said, Who has an ear? 235 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,240 Let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches, to him who 236 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,760 overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is 237 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,840 in the midst of the paradise of God. 238 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:26,160 Revelation 22 and 1 And he showed me a pure river of water 239 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,960 of life, clear as crystal, he says, proceeding from the throne 240 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,040 of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its streets. 241 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,520 It's got streets. And on either side of the river 242 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:45,160 was the Tree of life, which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding 243 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,880 its fruit every month. The leaves on the tree were for 244 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,760 healing of the nation, and the fruit on the tree was for 245 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,800 nourishment. It's also described like that in 246 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,880 Ezekiel 47, but I'm not going to go there and take you there. 247 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,000 But it talks about the tree of life and it talks about the 248 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,200 trees and they're going to bear fruit. 249 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,960 The same trees going to be 12 different fruits all year long. 250 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,160 The fruit is not just to be admired, but it's for 251 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:19,360 nourishment. Can you imagine going down The 252 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,560 Walking down the street to go, oh, I think I'd like that. 253 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,440 Hey, how you doing, Jerry? How you doing? 254 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:35,200 Praise God. The river of life and the tree 255 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,840 of life appeared to be a source of eternal life in the garden. 256 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,960 Adam and Eve remember them. They ate the fruit that was 257 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:46,960 provided by God. They ate that fruit. 258 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,920 That was their. That's what they ate. 259 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:54,080 All the animals ate fruit. They didn't eat meat until after 260 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,200 the ark. That's when, if you read it, 261 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,720 that's when animals and people started eating meat before the 262 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,760 ark. They ate fruit. 263 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,839 Even the animals ate fruit. So Adam and Eve ate the fruit 264 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:11,079 that God had provided for them. They were designed to live 265 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:14,160 forever, but they never ate of the tree of life. 266 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,200 Genesis 3 and 22. I want you to take a look at 267 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:25,520 that. It says, then the Lord God said, 268 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:31,200 behold, the man has become like us to know good and evil, and 269 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,400 now lest you put on his hand and taken to the tree of life and 270 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,400 eat and live forever. So he's saying we need to get 271 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,400 him out of the Garden of Eden. And you remember the story about 272 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,840 how that he, they got kicked out of the garden and God put an 273 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,600 Angel with a sword in the front of the garden so they could 274 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,960 never get back in there again because that's where the tree of 275 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:57,320 life was. Now I'm not going to go there. 276 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,280 I think to myself a lot. But now the book of Ezekiel and 277 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,640 Revelation say the fruit will serve for food and their leaves. 278 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,520 Healing of the nations three times. 279 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,160 If you notice, the inhabitants of the new earth are referred to 280 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,920 as nations. Nations are not going to be 281 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,440 eliminated. They're going to be healed with 282 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:23,320 the fruit from God, with the leaves of the trees of God. 283 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:33,480 More references to food. Luke 22 and 15 then he. 284 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:38,920 This is talking about Jesus said to them with fervent desire, I 285 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,720 have desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 286 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,560 For I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is 287 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,760 fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. In the Kingdom of God. 288 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:00,480 Luke 22 and 30 says that you may eat and drink at my table in my 289 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,120 Kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the tribes of Israel. 290 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,400 He's talking to his disciples. He said one day you're going to 291 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:13,040 eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom refers to food. 292 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:23,000 Revelation 19 and 9 Then he said to me, right, blessed are those 293 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,880 who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 294 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:36,600 And he said to me, these are true sayings, Wow, we're going 295 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,000 to have supper in heaven says we're going to have a big 296 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,920 banquet, a marriage. Usually when you have a wedding, 297 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:44,640 there's a big banquet afterwards. 298 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,400 You call it a reception. And so we're going to have a eat 299 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,240 supper in heaven, food in heaven. 300 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,640 Remember, Jesus was always eating when he was here on earth 301 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,800 and he always was talking about eating. 302 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,560 He even ate with the disciples after the resurrection. 303 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,640 People don't always think about that. 304 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,800 They don't. Most people don't get past. 305 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,080 Well, he's resurrected now let's move on to something else. 306 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:12,800 You know, what will we be like when we're in heaven? 307 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,200 That's the next question. What will we be like when we're 308 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:23,840 in heaven? A late 1800s evangelist, pastor, 309 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,720 teacher, author. His name is RA Torre, He writes 310 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,440 We will not be disembodied spirits in some space, but 311 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:37,280 redeemed spirits in resurrected bodies living in a redeemed 312 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,040 world. So we're going to have 313 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,160 resurrected bodies. We're not just going to be 314 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,760 floating around on a cloud and nothing to do. 315 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,840 First John three and two tells us this, Beloved, now are we the 316 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,680 sons of God? And it does not appear what we 317 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:59,600 shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we will be like 318 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,920 him, for we shall see him as He is. 319 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:07,600 So when we see Jesus as He is in his glorified body, we're going 320 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:15,280 to be like Him. Luke 24 and 39. 321 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,040 I know I'm tossing a lot of this, but to me, and I've always 322 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,520 said this for many, many years now, as long as I've been 323 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,800 teaching just about that the Bible is like a, a picture 324 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,400 puzzle, a jigsaw puzzle. And you dump it out and you're 325 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,480 trying to find something and you take pieces and pieces and 326 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,520 pieces and you start putting it together until you see the whole 327 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,160 picture. And that's what I'm trying to 328 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,960 do. That's why when I'm talking to 329 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,640 you guys is I use so much scripture because I want you to 330 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,120 put these pieces of the puzzle together so you can get the 331 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:52,600 whole picture. Luke 2439 It says, Behold my 332 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:58,960 hands and my feet, that is, that it is I myself handle me and 333 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,840 see. For a spirit does not have flesh 334 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,880 and bone, as you see I have. When He had said this, He showed 335 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,560 himself his hands and his feet, but while they still did not 336 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,760 believe for joy and marvel, He said to them, Have you any food 337 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,480 He liked to eat? Jesus ate while He was here on 338 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,160 this earth, even after the resurrection. 339 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,880 The empty tomb is the ultimate proof that Jesus resurrected 340 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,520 body was the same body that went into the tomb. 341 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,040 They saw him. They recognized him when they 342 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,280 saw him. Not right at first, but if 343 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,920 resurrection meant the creation of a new body, then his old body 344 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,920 would have stayed in the tomb, right? 345 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,800 Does that make sense? I mean, but he, he was out of 346 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,880 the tomb. His body was gone and he was 347 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,320 walking around and he was talking to the people, eating, 348 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,680 even eating. Jesus told his disciples, it is 349 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,160 me, it's myself. He was emphasizing that he was 350 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,000 the same person. That's what he was telling 351 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,520 everybody. I'm in spirit and I'm in body. 352 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,920 And the disciples saw the marks of his crucifixion confirming 353 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,680 that it was the same body. And that's what he showed him 354 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,840 here, look at this, touch me, touch me, handle me. 355 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,000 He says handle me. Jesus walked the earth in his 356 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:23,520 resurrected body for 40 days. A lot of people skipped that 40 357 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,480 days time. A lot of people said, well, he's 358 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,920 resurrected and then he went ascended. 359 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,000 No, he stayed on this earth for 40 days. 360 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,200 He walked around, visited all his friends, and he still spoke 361 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,880 to the people. When Jesus walked with the men 362 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,920 on the road to Emmaus, remember this road to Emmaus, The people, 363 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,600 they didn't see anything different about him to tip them 364 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:50,040 off that it was Jesus from the tomb, the resurrected Christ, 365 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,040 until their eyes were open, until he broke the bread. 366 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,040 And when he broke the bread, there was something there that 367 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,320 go, you're him and you know what? 368 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,760 Jesus disappeared. I love that story. 369 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,960 Jesus disappeared. Now they walked from Jerusalem 370 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,360 to Emmaus and they were just like man, I can't believe this 371 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,840 happened. I thought he was the one. 372 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,840 I just knew it was him. Didn't you think it was him? 373 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,560 And Jesus walks up beside him and he says hey guys what y'all 374 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,360 doing? He was from Texas. 375 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,560 He says how's it going? Haven't you heard? 376 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,160 He says, heard what? And so they told him and he said 377 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:34,200 he started telling them about himself starting at the 378 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,800 beginning of the Bible until the end, and they still didn't get 379 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,280 it until they let him in. They said, man, what you're 380 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,320 saying just burns inside of us. He said. 381 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,160 They said, come on in and eat with us. 382 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,600 So he went into their house and they still didn't get it. 383 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,400 And they brought him bread. And when he broke the bread, 384 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,720 they recognized him as the resurrected Christ. 385 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:08,080 And again they walked. But when they recognized him, 386 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,560 what they do, y'all know what they did? 387 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:15,400 They ran all the way back to Jerusalem to tell somebody. 388 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,440 I got to tell somebody. They said I got to tell 389 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,720 somebody. So they walked slowly to home, 7 390 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,760 miles, 7 miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus. 391 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,880 And they walked. And then they just, you know, 392 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,160 sad. But when they saw him, boy, they 393 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,600 ran all the way back. I love that, that difference 394 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,960 there. Once you see him, you can't help 395 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,560 but hurry up and tell somebody. You want to tell somebody who he 396 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,880 is. When Mary saw him in the garden, 397 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,280 she said, Sir, because she didn't really recognize him. 398 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,240 He, he, he looked like a man, you know, And they weren't 399 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,480 really believing that he was going to be resurrected. 400 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,400 They didn't believe it. How do I know that? 401 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,280 It's because the women got up early in the morning to get 402 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,560 spices to wrap his dead body with. 403 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,040 They thought, we're going to go wrap his dead body. 404 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,240 No, he told them, I'm not going to be there. 405 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,960 He told them I'm rising up, I'm not going to be there. 406 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,000 I'm the risen Christ. He told them and told them and 407 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,200 told them and told them. But on that day they went back. 408 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,160 They had their spices and they went in. 409 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,600 Nobody was in the tomb. They saw an Angel. 410 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,800 Angel says he's not here, my version. 411 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,920 And then Mary runs back and tells the disciples he's alive, 412 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:41,800 he's alive. And they go, Mary, you got heat 413 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,880 stroke. Can you believe it? 414 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,800 And you can you look at them, but you also need to look at 415 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,440 yourself because it's a lot that we don't believe. 416 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,960 Just like that's why I'm going over heaven. 417 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,680 There's a lot that we don't believe, lot that we don't even 418 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,640 think about when we talk about heaven. 419 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:06,880 And they didn't even understand it until he said her name on the 420 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,280 shore when the disciples, they all depressed. 421 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,000 We're going fishing again. He was standing on the shore. 422 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,280 He had a fire going. He was cooking fish, and he 423 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,720 said, hey, guys, come on out. And then they recognized him. 424 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,600 He ate breakfast with them in his resurrected body. 425 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,120 Remember, he hadn't ascended yet. 426 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,760 He didn't have his glorified body yet. 427 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,400 Yet He appeared in a room and then he disappeared from a room. 428 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,200 Jesus picked up with the relationships that he had left 429 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:43,200 off with before the crucifixion. He knew the people and they knew 430 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,320 him. So what's heaven going to be 431 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,560 like? Are you going to recognize 432 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:53,280 people? I say yes, because Jesus clearly 433 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,280 shows us. We'll continue on in this. 434 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,200 Philippians 3 and 20. There'll be a New Jerusalem. 435 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,440 It's going to be 1500 by 1500, by 1500 feet. 436 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,920 It's going to be 12 stories tall, and it's going to be built 437 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:12,000 of jewels. Yes, and then for 1000 years I'm 438 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,600 skip ahead after that thousand years there's going to be 439 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,080 battling Armageddon and then there'll be a new heaven and a 440 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,000 new earth come at that point. So yes, you're right. 441 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:28,720 But his body was not a new body. His body was now spiritual body, 442 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,120 but it was his body. That's why he said look at me, 443 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:36,360 look, look at me. OK, so where was I? 444 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,800 Philippians 3 and 20 it says for our citizenship is in heaven, 445 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,680 which from which we are eagerly await for the Savior and the 446 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,800 Lord Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly body. 447 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:56,280 Thank God that it may be conformed to His glorious body 448 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,200 according to the working by which He is able even to subdue 449 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,480 all things to himself. They're saying where He's going 450 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,680 to take this body, this old and achy breaky body that we have 451 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,200 here, and He's going to give us a glorified body, same body. 452 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,960 It's just going to be glorified. And we can't figure that one out 453 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,960 how He does it, because it says it's going to be according to 454 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,880 His working, which only He's able to do it to subdue things 455 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,360 for himself. He's able to do it. 456 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,920 We shouldn't even try to figure it out. 457 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,400 Remember the amount of transfiguration before the 458 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,560 crucifixion and the resurrection? 459 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,480 That was in Matthew, early part of, well, Matthew 17 and two to 460 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,960 be specific, but the amount of transfiguration He took three of 461 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,520 the disciples, remember, with him, and he went up and he was 462 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,680 transfigured, it says, and He was transfigured before them. 463 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,360 His face shone like the sun, His clothes became as white as the 464 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,680 light. And behold, Moses and Elijah 465 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:03,360 appeared to them, talking with him on the Mount of 466 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,560 Transfiguration. He was transformed before their 467 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,680 eyes. This was a preview of his 468 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,080 glorified body. Still him, they recognized him. 469 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,080 He was just now shiny and bright. 470 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,560 Now you can say, well, that's all well and good, but even 471 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,480 Elijah and Moses were also. If you read Luke 31 and I'm not 472 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,360 going to read it, but it says they appeared in glorious 473 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,280 splendor. So they were already up there 474 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,680 and when they came down they were in glorious splendor. 475 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,880 And it shows that Jesus was in glorious splendor. 476 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,680 His eyes and hair and feet, everything just shined. 477 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,440 And I want to, I wasn't don't have this, but this is a 478 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,920 freebie. Remember Moses, when Moses went 479 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,160 up on the mountain to spend with God and to talk with God, He was 480 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,440 up on the mountain and he came down with the 10 commandments 481 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,000 and all of this and he has spent time with God. 482 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:04,800 And excuse me, when he came back, they were looking at him 483 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:10,080 like because his face shined, shone is what they call it, 484 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,920 shined so bright that he had to cover his face because the 485 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,840 people couldn't stand to look at it. 486 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,560 Because he has spent time with God in the presence of God. 487 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,840 Just a glimpse of a glorified body situation. 488 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,200 And after the resurrection, after the ascension, Paul on the 489 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,000 road to Damascus. Remember his experience on the 490 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,840 road to Damascus. There was a great life from 491 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,320 heaven suddenly shown around him, him being Paul. 492 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,920 And it said Saul, Saul, it was Paul. 493 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,800 And he fell on his feet when he heard the voice calling his 494 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,400 name. And it's the voice says, I am 495 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,400 Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting. 496 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,720 Great light shined around him. This was after the ascension. 497 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,920 This was after everything had happened. 498 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,840 And Paul had been converted from Saul to Paul. 499 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,480 And he was when he was still Saul. 500 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,760 At this point he was still Saul and he was going on his road to 501 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,600 Damascus to persecute more Christians. 502 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,680 And he, the bright light shined on him. 503 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,880 And I like to say it knocked him off his high horse. 504 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,400 So he knocked down, he fell down, he was on the ground and 505 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,680 he the light was so bright that God put scales over his eyes and 506 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,400 he went off. You know the story if you don't 507 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,920 go read it. And he sent someone to preach to 508 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:38,760 him and tell him about Jesus. And then Saul became Paul, one 509 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,720 of the greatest apostles in the Bible. 510 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,160 He was a scoundrel before Paul says in First Corinthians 15 and 511 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,640 49. It says, as we have borne the 512 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,280 image of man, of dust, this is it. 513 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,680 We shall also bear the image of the heavenly man. 514 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,480 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit 515 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:10,360 the Kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 516 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:17,400 Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we 517 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,800 shall all be changed. Yay, we're all going to be 518 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,600 changed. Now I've got a comparison here 519 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:31,560 of imperial bodies, earthly bodies, and resurrected bodies. 520 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,160 And this is all part of that First Corinthians, it's previous 521 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,400 42 through 50. It goes on if you read the whole 522 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,120 thing. But an earthly body was sown in 523 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,840 perishable, A sown A perishable body. 524 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,680 A resurrected body is raised in perishable. 525 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,640 Earthly body is sown in dishonor. 526 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,080 A resurrected body is sown in glory or raised in glory. 527 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:05,240 Earthly body sown in weakness. Resurrected body is raised in 528 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,800 power. Earthly body is sown a natural 529 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,120 body. A resurrected body is a 530 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,560 spiritual body. Difference is quite a bit of 531 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,560 difference, right? Flesh and blood cannot inherit 532 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,120 the Kingdom of God, nor does perishable inherit imperishable. 533 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:33,280 We will be made incorruptible. We'll have a new body, praise 534 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,760 the Lord. God's going to decide what our 535 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,639 body's going to look like. Ultimately, he's going to 536 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,320 decide, but he's giving us glimpses. 537 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,760 He's giving us pieces of the puzzle, things that we thought 538 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,360 well, that might not, but it does. 539 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,600 If we put it all together, we have a We're going to have a 540 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,960 sense of well-being and approval, and God's going to be 541 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,080 happy with us. Jesus's resurrected body was 542 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,080 able to appear and apparently walk through locked doors. 543 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,320 Remember the stories? And he disappeared from the men 544 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,600 in Emmaus. He defied gravity because then 545 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:19,600 he was ascended into heaven. We're told in several places 546 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:25,840 that our resurrected bodies will be like Christ when we see him, 547 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,880 we will be like Him. That's what it says very 548 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,480 clearly. We don't know the glorious plans 549 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,320 God has for our bodies, but we knew. 550 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,720 No, He's got a plan. There's also eternal in the 551 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,920 Eternal City. It talks about streets and it 552 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,560 talks about gates, implying that there's going to be normal. 553 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,080 Somebody's going to be walking on those streets when the Saints 554 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:55,040 go March in in when the Saints y'all don't know that one again, 555 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,160 somebody's going to be walking on the streets. 556 00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,960 Somebody's going to be going through those gates. 557 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,680 Otherwise there would just be a lot of clouds and fluff. 558 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:09,760 I'm going to give a few seconds here to this last bit. 559 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,320 Animals in heaven. She better hurry up. 560 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:23,240 She going to miss it. Isaiah 11/6 through 9 talks 561 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:29,000 about lions and lambs and wolves and oxen, cows, bears and 562 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,040 cobras. You see it. 563 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:42,320 Isaiah 6525 describes a future time of peace among all the 564 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:48,920 animals in the renewed world. Revelation 5 and 13. 565 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,880 I'm throwing them at you fast, darling, it says. 566 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,560 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and 567 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,960 under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in 568 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:09,440 them, I heard saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be 569 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:15,280 to him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and 570 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:20,120 ever. Animals in heaven, it just said 571 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,640 all, all creatures in heaven and on earth, they're all going to 572 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,080 worship God. In the seas under the earth, 573 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,880 they're going to worship God. Every creature in heaven, it 574 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:37,640 says, and on earth. Second Kings 2:00 and 11:00. 575 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:44,640 And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that 576 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,200 behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire. 577 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,560 Now this is talking about Elijah and Elijah. 578 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:56,480 It's their stories. Chariot of fire and horses of 579 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,240 fire. And parted them both asunder. 580 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:03,160 And Elijah went up by whirlwind into heaven. 581 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,760 There's horses in heaven. We know that because the Lord 582 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,560 says we're going to be coming back on a White Horse. 583 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,000 We saw the all the descriptions of the horses in heaven. 584 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,600 There's going to be horses in heaven. 585 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:17,760 There's going to be lions and lambs and wolves because they're 586 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,280 going to lay down beside each other. 587 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,920 They're not going to fight each other. 588 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,880 There's going to be cows, it says, and bears and cobras. 589 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,080 The child will play with the cobra, it says in Isaiah, where 590 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,200 I'm talking about the child's going to play with the cobra. 591 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:35,040 It describes it as that. And then Revelation says and 592 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:42,000 every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth 593 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,920 and the sea, they're going to start worshipping God. 594 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,960 So are there, are these just symbolic? 595 00:38:54,120 --> 00:39:00,280 Are these a physical reality? Jesus was not symbolic, was he? 596 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,480 His word is real. His word is truth and he's, he's 597 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,200 telling us all of this stuff and it's in his word. 598 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:13,640 But sometimes we get, we want to get to the better stuff. 599 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,480 Sometimes this might be a little boring. 600 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:16,520 I may be putting you on to sleep. 601 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,840 Y'all might go home and just sleep your heads off after 602 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,440 tonight. But this is a real deal. 603 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,680 Heaven is real. It's a physical place we're 604 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,360 going to go to, and we're going to get glorified bodies just 605 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:33,200 like Jesus had a glorified body. It's going to be me, only I'm 606 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,600 going to be shiny and new, Hallelujah. 607 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,280 I won't have to put sparkles or sprinkles or nothing on my face. 608 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,320 It's just going to be I'm going to be glowing and you're going 609 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,640 to walk around and you go say, hey, Tommy, look at you, Tony, 610 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,040 look at you. Hey, you guys, we're going to 611 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,000 know you. Jesus knew his disciples after 612 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,160 he was resurrected. He knew them. 613 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,160 He's going to know us. He knows us already. 614 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,720 We have no idea what he's got prepared for us, but he's giving 615 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:07,720 us a glimpse of heaven. It's real and we're waiting on 616 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:09,920 it. And we should be so excited 617 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,680 about going to heaven because sometimes we go ho hum, yeah, 618 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,720 heaven. Oh, I don't want to go to hell 619 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,320 because it's hot and it's fiery and it's, you know, all of that 620 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,440 bad stuff. But I want to go to heaven 621 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,480 because it's beautiful and the trees give off fruit and we can 622 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,560 eat it, and there's going to be supper there because Jesus likes 623 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,440 to eat. There's going to be separate. 624 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,160 We're going to have all of that. I just pray that y'all get this 625 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,800 inside of you so that your hearts leap when you think about 626 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,840 heaven. It's a real place, and we're 627 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,520 going to go there one of these days and we should be able to 628 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,880 tell people about heaven just as easily as we can tell them about 629 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:47,680 hell. Yes, Sir. 630 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,760 Father, we thank you for your word. 631 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,480 We thank You for the glimpse of heaven You have given us in Your 632 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,960 Word, Lord. Sometimes we have to dig for 633 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,560 those Nuggets and we have to dig for that information, Lord, but 634 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,040 You laid it out in Your word. Thanks for listening to the 635 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,080 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true? 636 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,440 Hope, peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 637 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,640 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 638 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,120 person. You can find service times at 639 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,720 crosspowerchurch.com.