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Welcome everyone. 
This morning, we're glad that 

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you're here. 
It's good to see, maybe some 

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that haven't been able to be 
with us, and we're just glad 

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that everyone was able to make 
it today and Hebrews the 9th 

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chapter and verse 27, The writer
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for men to die once. 
But after this the Judgment so 

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Christ was offered once to Bear 
the sins of many to those who 

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eagerly wait for him, he will 
appear a second time apart from 

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sin for salvation. 
You know most of us are really 

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kind of uncomfortable with the 
thought of death. 

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It's a realm which we have not 
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Really anything about other than
what has supposedly been put out

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there. 
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from Death or the edge of death 
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of the tunnel or whatever. 
But we don't know really much 

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about it. 
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our life here on this Earth. 
And so we become somewhat afraid

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of death and we'd become 
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of death. 
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should not be something. 
We are afraid of It shouldn't 

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bring fear to our hearts into 
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But the fact is that one day, we
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We can live in fear of the 
unknown or we can take a moment 

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to consider what the Bible has 
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And this may be one of the most 
important thought process has 

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that we go through in life, is 
to think about our Eternal home 

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in heaven. 
Our eternity, that final 

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destination for us after this 
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But we have to ask ourselves 
this, very simple question if I 

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were to die today. 
Where would I spend eternity? 

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Most people would you when you 
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something like that? 
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pretty good life. 
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But they're not really sure 
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According to what goes on in the
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process of the world is just 
everybody goes to heaven because

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someone dies and they say well 
he's or she is in a better place

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now and regardless of how an 
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mean and and vile and sinful, 
they were, everyone says, well, 

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they're in a better place now. 
But a lot of people are just 

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really unsure about their 
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that we put more thought into it
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And and we're willing to not 
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what we would say would be 
wishful thinking that we can 

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know. 
That we are going to be able to 

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go to heaven, what the Bible has
to say about that. 

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Romans, 3, and verse 23, the 
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are all settled are all sinners.
And because of that, man, in his

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natural state is unfit for the 
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In other words were born into 
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We're not born a sinful 
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point in life where we able to 
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And what is wrong, what is God's
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And we start making decisions 
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what is right? 
And that is what we call the age

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of accountability. 
We become accountable for those 

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things that we do in life. 
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And so we all sinned and come 
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So we need something that will 
help us something that will 

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change us from that sinful 
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And we noticed, when we notice 
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don't know, although When Jesus 
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Matthew, 25, and verse 13. 
Jesus speaking here, says, 

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watch, therefore for, you know, 
neither the day, nor the hour in

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which the son of man is coming 
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come, we know that we will all 
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Our Lifetime. 
We understand all that, but we 

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don't know when that is going to
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We don't have any idea. 
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even the angels know. 
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unknown. 
We in this may be part of our 

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fear process that we don't know.
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In other words, we need to all 
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We need to be ready. 
So are you ready for eternity? 

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How can we get ready for 
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How can we prepare ourselves for
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Well, there are many things that
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life. 
Our jobs, our vacations, our 

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children's future retirement. 
Why is it that in many are not 

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preparing for it. 
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You know, many are preparing 
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This is the thing that is out 
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our minds and our thoughts 
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Is this coronavirus, it's right 
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We've all experienced it. 
When we brought walked in this 

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morning, there is hand sanitizer
on the back table that wasn't 

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there last service. 
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thought process. 
We've we've all been been 

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thinking about this in preparing
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Many are with Vicki. 
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groceries, Thursday night, it 
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The lines were to the back of 
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was to the back of the building.
Everyone was preparing for this 

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virus. 
Well, how many are preparing for

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eternity because that's really 
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life There are so many things we
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Many are not preparing for 
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Eternity, but to only know the 
will of God is not sufficient to

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know about God or know his will 
is not going to make it not 

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Jesus said in Matthew 7:21 
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Not everyone, that saith unto 
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Lord shall enter into the 
kingdom of heaven, but he that 

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doeth, the will of My Father, 
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Many will say, to me in that 
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prophesied in thy name, and in 
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and in thy name, done many 
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And then will I profess unto 
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I never knew you depart from me 
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Therefore whosoever heareth 
these sayings of mine and doeth 

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them. 
I will liken him unto a wise man

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which built his His house upon a
rock and the rain descended, and

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the floods came and the winds 
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And it fell not for, it was 
founded upon a rock and everyone

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that heareth these sayings of 
mine and doeth them not shall be

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likened unto a foolish man, 
which built his house upon the 

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sand and the rain descended and 
the floods came and the winds 

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blew and beat upon that house 
and it fell And great was the 

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fall of it. 
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will of God not just know about 
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But do what God's will is obey 
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eternity. 
These two, these two individuals

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that built this house upon the 
sand and built to house upon the

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rock. 
One Was preparing for the storm,

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the other wasn't So when the 
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are things that we can do to 
better prepare ourselves for 

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judgment in eternity. 
No to Second Peter 1 and verses 

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3 through 11, according as his 
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all things that pertain to life 
and godliness through the 

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knowledge of him that hath 
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whereby are given unto us 
exceeding and great pressure and

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precious promises that by these 
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You might be partakers of the 
divine nature, having escaped 

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the corruption. 
Option that is in the world, 

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through lust and beside this 
giving all diligence add to your

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faith virtue, and to Virtue 
knowledge, and to knowledge 

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Temperance, and to Temperance, 
patience, and to patience 

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godliness. 
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kindness. 
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Kindness charity for if these 
things be in you and abound they

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make you that ye shall neither 
be Barren nor unfruitful in the 

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knowledge of our Lord Jesus 
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But he that lacketh. 
These things is blind and cannot

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Not see afar off and have 
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from his old sins. 
Therefore the rather Brethren 

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give diligence to make your 
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Sure. 
For, if you do these things you 

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shall never fall. 
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So, an entrance shall be 
ministered unto you abundantly 

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into the Everlasting Kingdom of 
our Lord and Savior, Jesus 

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Christ. 
So, it takes some work, it takes

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some work on our part to prepare
for eternity. 

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Just like we prepare to go on a 
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We have to pack, we have to plan
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What we're going to be whether 
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like. 
And so what we, what kind of 

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clothing that we need to take 
and make it need to take enough 

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clothing and all these kinds of 
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So we prepare to go on the 
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So it is with our Christian 
lives that we prepare for the 

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Final Destination. 
So let's talk a little bit about

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eternity. 
Eternity is defined as Timeless 

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existence? 
In other words, there is no end.

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We are just Time Travelers while
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We're traveling toward the 
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second. 
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There it goes. 
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There it goes. 
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It's gone. 
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moment. 
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through time. 
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Where time does not exist. 
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And there's nothing we can do to
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traveling. 
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at the end of our journey 
through time, as the destination

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that we can hardly, even imagine
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tried to describe it. 
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describe what heaven is and what
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But our minds are limited. about
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like every scripture everything 
points towards eternity in God's

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plan and God's designed us to 
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world here, but in heaven, his 
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this life. 
Christianity is far more than 

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that fairy tale. 
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something that we can. 
Just imagine, it's a very real 

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It's not a fairy tale. 

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And it's being prepared for us 
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Interning turn the T has much 
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God has prepared. 
Something that is Really, as we 

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said, very hard for us to 
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incomprehensible to us, it's 
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Something so beautiful and vast 
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God could create and plan and 
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The Apostle, Paul tells us about
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Corinthians 4 and verses 16 
through 18 and gives us a 

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description of Eternity which 
gives us confidence and courage 

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as we Face, the things of this 
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4 and 16 for which cause we 
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man, perish, yet the inward man 
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For our light Affliction, which 
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us a far more exceeding and 
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While we look not at the things 
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things which are not seen for 
the things which are seen are 

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temporal, but the things which 
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Paul says that this life this 
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and the troubles in all these 
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this life. 
That eternity, you know, even 

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the pressures of all the things 
that we deal with and some some 

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are dealing with many many 
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But the weight of Eternity and 
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So we need to fix our eyes on. 
What is not seen, instead of 

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what we see because this thing, 
the things that we see the life 

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that we live today, the things 
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today, are just temporary. 
Paul states that we're going 

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through something out, what 
we're going through now is only 

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preparing us for something so 
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So wonderful. 
And so different, from what we 

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know is all beyond all 
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You know, and I think as we've 
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older, you know, the hope of 
Heaven and the thought of Heaven

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becomes different than when we 
were younger. there are certain 

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things that in this life we long
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and we sometimes can't wait to 
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We can't wait to see our family.
Our children or grandchildren. 

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And we earnestly weight and long
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And that's what we should feel 
about waiting and longing to see

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our God that we just can't wait 
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of concept conceived. 
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in this life and we're not 
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the things in this world. 
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we do we fall in love with all 
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we put off doing the things that
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versus 2 verse 21 for to me to 
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gain, Paul felt that way, Paul 
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come to the point where he would
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sometimes where we when we Are 
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know, we just can't wait to get 
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and getting our own Easy chair 
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be comfortable in our home. 
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Heaven is our home. 
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not be able to wait for it. 
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but we have them, we must have 
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to do anything and not let 
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heaven. you know, we There have 
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we've been somewhere. 
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where we say, you know, I need 
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This is not where I need to be. 
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feel safe. 
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neighborhood. 
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into someplace that isn't isn't 
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where we're at. 
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and maybe, you know, some of our
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in foreign countries and and 
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countries. 
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up every morning, say, well I'm 
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get out of this place and maybe 
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comfortable. 
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with Godly things and Colossians
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things above, not on things on 
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around at our possessions and we
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Paul spent the final years of 
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moment of his life waiting to be
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We don't know. 
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That's that's the way it is. 
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We don't know when we're going 
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I remember. 
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out for a walk ons on a morning 
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His was only one Heartbeat Away.
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through 15 not that I have 
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perfected but I press on that. 
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on that for which Christ Jesus 
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brother and I do not count 
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one thing I do forgetting those 
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reaching forward to those 
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I press toward the goal for the 
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Would calling of God in Christ 
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Therefore let us as many as 
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Paul's talking about his 
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life and how he's giving every 
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win the prize. 
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when we were in junior high and 
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classmates, but we wanted to 
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win, and that's what we need to 
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One thing, seems one thing he 
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forgetting those things which 
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distracted by the things that 
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Now it is now it happened as 
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That someone said to him, Lord, 
I will follow you wherever you 

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go. 
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have holes and the birds, and 
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the son of man has nowhere to 
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Then he said to another follow 
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go. 
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Jesus said to him, let the dead 
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and preach the kingdom of God. 
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follow you, but let me go 
memory. 

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Go and bid them farewell were at
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And Jesus said to him, no one 
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and looking bad. 
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of God. 
Sounds kind of harsh, doesn't 

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it? 
But we can't let things of this 

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life. 
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We can't let anything in our 
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for God. 
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focused and not become 
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life. 
So what are we living for in 

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this life? 
Are we spending all of our time 

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preparing for the final moment 
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Preparing for eternity and 
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future. 
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and looking at it and becoming 
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around us. 
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in the past but we can be in 
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future and we're going to either
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on the day that we stand before.
God, what's going to bring what 

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is going to bring reward and 
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When we stand before God are we 
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wasted The Souls of? 
We didn't tell about the Lord, 

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the sick that we didn't visit 
the opportunities to worship 

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that we missed the study of the 
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obedience to the gospel that we 
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What are we going to regret? 
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We can all look back in our 
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that we regret doing. 
We can remember words, we said 

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that we wished we could pulled 
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moment we said them. 
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people's face of hurt, or pain, 
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said or feelings that we've 
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made. 
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day of judgement, what are we 
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Paul says to the Hebrew Brethren
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through 2. 
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surrounded by so great. 
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Let us lay aside every weight 
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ensnares us and let us run with 
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before us looking unto Jesus. 
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faith, continuing on, with the 
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Paul goes on to say Brethren. 
Join join in following my 

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example and note. 
Those who show walk as you have 

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for us for a pattern, for many 
walk of whom I have told you 

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often. 
And now tell you even weeping 

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that they are the enemies of the
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destruction, whose God is their 
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their shame who set their minds 
on Earthly things for our 

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citizenship is in heaven. 
From which we also eagerly wait 

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for the Savior, the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who will transform our 

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lowly body, which is, which that
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glorious body. 
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which he is able even to subdue 
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Paul says, imitate me. 
Walk in my steps and do the 

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things that are being told to 
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don't follow those who are 
thinking about themselves and 

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focusing on the things of this 
world, the Earthly things that 

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distract us 
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man's greatest care should be 
for that place where he lives 

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longest there for eternity. 
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We prepare ourselves for many 
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should not distract us from the 
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Matthew 6, and 19 through 21. 
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lay not up for yourselves, 
Treasures upon Earth, where moth

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and rust doth corrupt and where 
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But lay up for yourselves, 
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neither moth nor rust doth 
corrupt and where thieves do not

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break through, nor steal, for 
where your treasure is, there 

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will your heart be also. 
So what are we hungry for 

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Matthew, 25. 
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who hunger and thirst after 
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So they shall be filled. 
So and we said earlier, about 

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our citizenship being in heaven.
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Philippines three for our 
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And it's often that we forget 
that, that's where our real 

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place is we forget about, we 
think that this is our home. 

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We get distracted, we get 
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We are priorities become 
different and and we need to be 

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careful about that about where 
our priorities are. 

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I'm not accusing us of all 
thinking, wrongly or whatever, 

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but it just happens in our life 
that sometimes we forget about 

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what is really important that is
Eternity and we become 

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distracted by the things of this
world. 

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Well, Heaven is the Christians. 
Hope it's more than just simple 

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looking on to life beyond the 
grave. 

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It should mean everything to us 
and everything we do in this 

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life is directly related to what
is coming. 

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In fact, it's getting it's 
getting us ready for it. 

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Nothing then is more is without 
purpose or is wasted. 

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And this present life if we're 
preparing ourselves for heaven 

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and Eternity, So what do we 
what? 

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What have we done in the last 
week to prepare us for eternity?

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What have we done? 
This last week that will not 

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matter in eternity. 
First Corinthians 3 and verses 

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10 through 13. 
According to the grace of God, 

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which is given unto me as a 
wise. 

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Masterbuilder, I have laid the 
foundation and another buildeth 

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thereon, but let every man, take
heed how he buildeth thereon. 

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For other Foundation can no man.
Lay than that is laid which is 

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Jesus Christ. 
Now if any man build upon this 

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Foundation, gold silver, 
precious stones wood, hay 

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stubble. 
Every Man's work shall be 

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manifest made manifest for the 
day. 

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Shall declare it because it 
shall be revealed by fire and 

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the fire shall try. 
Every man's work of what sort it

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is. 
Notice also second Corinthians 5

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and 10. 
For, we must all appear before 

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the Judgment seat of Christ. 
That every one may receive the 

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things done in his body. 
According to that, he hath done 

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whether it be good or bad. 
So now let me ask you These 

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questions if you died there 
today, where would we spend? 

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Eternity? 
Are you ready to stand before 

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God on the day of judgment? 
Are you ready for judgment? 

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If you're not a child you must 
hear the word of God. 

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Romans 10 verse 17. 
So then Faith cometh by hearing 

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and hearing by the word of God. 
You must have faith in what 

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you've heard. 
Mark 16 verse 16, he that 

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believeth and is baptized shall 
be saved but he that believeth 

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not shall be damned. 
We must repent of the life that 

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we've been living. 
Jesus said in Luke 13 Verse 3. 

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I tell you nay but except ye 
repent, ye shall all. 

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All likewise perish. 
That means that we turn from our

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sins and we turn towards God. 
We must confess the name of 

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Jesus Christ. 
Matthew 10 verse 32 whosoever. 

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Therefore, shall confess me 
before men, him will? 

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I confess also before my Father,
which is in heaven, and then we 

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must be baptized into Christ for
the remission of sins. 

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Jesus said in Acts 2, and verse 
38, then Peter said unto him, 

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them repent and be baptized 
every one of you. 

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In the name of Jesus Christ for 
the remission of sins and you 

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shall receive Receive the gift 
of the, Holy Ghost. 

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Also in First Peter 3 and verse 
21, the like figure, whereunto 

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even baptism doth also. 
Now, save us, not the putting 

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away of the filth of the flesh, 
but the answer of a good 

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conscience toward God, by the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

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And if we've been baptized into 
Christ, but we've been, we've 

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Fallen away, we've done things, 
that we feel requires a public 

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confession of those sins, to 
make them write in James 5, and 

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verse 16. 
It says confess your faults one 

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to another Another and pray one 
for another that you may be 

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healed. 
The effectual fervent prayer of 

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a righteous man, availeth much 
Judgment is coming. 

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Life is short, life is unsure. 
We don't know when eternity will

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come, we don't know when Jesus 
will come. 

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We don't know when we will have 
that final heartbeat in this 

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life. 
Are you ready for eternity? 

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Maybe we are. 
But maybe you aren't, maybe you 

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haven't taken those steps of put
you into Christ, maybe you've 

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taken those step. 
For some reason you've turned 

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away it reminds me of this song,
and I think of of when thinking 

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of how trying to describe what 
heaven is and waiting for, for 

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the Christian, Many remember 
this song it's called just think

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think of stepping on a Shore and
finding its heaven. 

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Of a reaching hand on yours and 
finding its God's head. 

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Think of breathing free and deep
and finding it, celestial. think

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of feeling no more death live, 
the new life in God's land, Can 

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you Vision ever more than 
Beauty? 

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That's awaiting many mansions, 
shining bright streets. 

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Claiming as a pure gold think of
living on and on with Jesus, 

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precious savior, what a picture.
Oh, so Grand. 

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And yet, not have, has been told
think of passing from all sorrow

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to her heart aches. 
Never come think of waking when 

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we know now last home sweet 
home. 

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