1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:03,100 It's wonderful to be here with you today. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,100 We appreciate everyone for being with us and it is an honor, 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:09,400 every time that we have an occasion to worship God in 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,400 spirit and in truth on his day. So we appreciate that 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,300 opportunity. Very much as always is the case, 6 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,800 it is an honor to speak concerning the word of God and I 7 00:00:18,808 --> 00:00:21,300 would hope that what we have to consider for a little while. 8 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:26,000 This morning will be both edifying and encouraging to you. 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,800 I invite your attention as I have on the screen there. 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,200 Revelation chapter 21 and I want to begin reading in verse 1. 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,700 Revelation chapter 21 beginning in verse 1. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,200 Now, I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven, 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,400 and the first Earth had passed away, and there was no more sea. 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,800 Then I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,300 of Heaven, from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:00,900 and I heard a loud voice from Heaven. 17 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:05,600 Saying, behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,300 dwell with them and they shall be his people, God himself will 19 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:14,600 be with them and be their God and God will wipe away every 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,000 tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death nor 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,700 Sorrow, nor crying, there shall be no more pain for the, former 22 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,700 things have passed away. For a little while. 23 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:31,700 I want to talk to you about what Will Heaven be like, you know, 24 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:36,300 we spend our entire life trying to live our life, obedient to 25 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:39,600 the call of Christ, obedient to the word of God, serving him, 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,700 with every fiber of our being. So that we one day can make 27 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:46,300 heaven. Well if we're going to work that 28 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:49,000 hard to get somewhere maybe we ought to know a little bit more 29 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,300 about that. Great place. 30 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:53,700 People have all kinds of Concepts about heaven. 31 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,400 What does the Bible say? What will it be like? 32 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:59,300 We'll talk about these things in Greater detail in just a few 33 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:02,400 minutes. But this time let's pray the 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,500 word heaven. Comes from a word or a nose from 35 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:10,500 the original and it means to cover or Encompass. 36 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:15,700 A general definition is the vaulted expanse of the sky with 37 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:19,400 all things visible in it. That the Bible says in Hebrews 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,900 chapter 1 and verse 10, you Lord, in the beginning, laid, 39 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:26,000 the foundation of the earth and the heavens. 40 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,100 Plural are the work of your hands. 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,700 Another passage that we find to is in 2nd. 42 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,700 Peter chapter 3 and verse 5 Peter says for this, they 43 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:40,700 willingly forget that by the word of God, the heavens were of 44 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:43,900 old and the Earth standing out of the water. 45 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:48,800 And in the water, one more passage along this line in 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,400 second, Peter chapter 3, and verse 7, but the heavens and the 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,700 Earth which are now preserved by the same word are reserved for 48 00:02:56,700 --> 00:03:01,600 fire until the day of judgment and Perdition of ungodly men. 49 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,700 Now the question is, what is the Bible talking about when it says 50 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:09,500 Heavens? Plural are going to be destroyed 51 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:12,700 and it's going to be burned up and it's going to be destroyed. 52 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:17,300 As the Bible says by fire. What is it talking about? 53 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:19,500 Well, it's talking about to Heavens. 54 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,600 The first one is called the aerial Heavens or the sky. 55 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,700 It is defined like this, it's the region, the region, where 56 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,500 the clouds and the Tempest gather and where thunder and 57 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:33,600 lightning. Are produced. 58 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,200 If I were to talk about the aerial Heavens, really? 59 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,100 You can look up into the sky and what you see immediately there 60 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:44,900 with the clouds right there, that is the aerial Heavens or 61 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,300 aerial Sky, that's one of the heavens. 62 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,900 It's going to be destroyed when Jesus comes back to judge the 63 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:56,300 world. James chapter 5 and verse 18 and 64 00:03:56,300 --> 00:04:01,000 he prayed again and Heaven gave up rain and the Earth produced 65 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,100 its fruit now. Do you remember in Acts chapter 66 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:08,400 22? Paul was giving he was now the 67 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:14,200 Apostle Paul and he was giving a recount of the idea of when he 68 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,200 was converted and he was on the road to Damascus, Acts chapter 9 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,100 that happened but in Acts 22 and verse 6. 70 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:25,300 The Bible says that of Paul. He says, I Paul as I journeyed 71 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:28,700 along and came near Damascus about noon. 72 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,700 He said suddenly, there was a great light that shine shine, 73 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:36,800 drowned about me. Me from Heaven, that's the 74 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,600 aerial Heavens or Scott. Then there's the severe, real 75 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,600 Heavens or Starry heavens and Hebrews chapter 11, and verse 76 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,100 12. Therefore, from one man, and him 77 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:54,600 as good as dead were born, as many as the stars of the sky in 78 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,400 multitude innumerable as the sand, which is by the seashore. 79 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,000 Now, that's the region above the Guy that we look up and see 80 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 above the clouds. That's where the stars are. 81 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,700 In fact, interestingly, in Mark, chapter 13 and verse 26, it's 82 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:16,300 referring to the time when Jesus would come back on the day of 83 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:21,800 the judgment and the Bible says, he will come back in the clouds. 84 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,000 That's the aerial Heavens. But in this verse Mark, 13 and 85 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:32,000 25, it says he will utterly destroy the stars of Heaven. 86 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:36,300 Talking about both. Will be destroyed. 87 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,600 When the Lord comes back. Now I'll tell you I really don't 88 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,000 care. About the aerial heavens. 89 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:49,100 And I really don't care about the cereal or Starry heavens. 90 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,000 I don't care about the makeup of them and I have never in my 91 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 life, nothing wrong with that but I've never in my life had a 92 00:05:56,008 --> 00:05:59,900 desire to study about the Stars I really don't care. 93 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:05,100 What I'm concerned about is the area or the region that is above 94 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:07,600 the area, land above the scenario. 95 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:12,300 And that's the third heaven That's the only one that really 96 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:16,400 matters in our life. Will we have an opportunity to 97 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,700 go to that place? The third heaven, it's beyond 98 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,500 the stars. It is defined like this. 99 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,100 It's the region above the severe aerial. 100 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,600 It's the seat of Order of Things. 101 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,300 Eternal and consummately, perfect, and get this. 102 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,400 You know why I want to go there, because it's the place where God 103 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,200 dwells and it's the place where other Heavenly beings are. 104 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:45,200 That's where I want to go. That's the most important place 105 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,500 we could ever talk about in our life is going there. 106 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,100 That is the third heaven. Now in second Corinthians, 107 00:06:55,100 --> 00:07:00,300 chapter 12, and verse 2, You know, interestingly Jesus was 108 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:05,200 our the Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road and the Bible says 109 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,300 that a light Shone round about them. 110 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:08,500 We know the story goes into Damascus, he prays for three 111 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:12,600 days and a nyhus, ananias comes up to him and says, why you're 112 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,100 waiting, what are you waiting for arise and be baptized and 113 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:16,100 wash away? Your sins? 114 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,500 Calling on the name of the Lord, he obeyed the gospel. 115 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:21,600 All right, he was a Christian for 10 years. 116 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,200 And then this happened in second Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 117 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,200 two. He said I knew a man in Christ. 118 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:34,300 Speaking about himself, 14 years ago, he said, whether in the 119 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:39,300 body, I do not know whether out of the body, I do not know, God 120 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:44,800 knows such a one was caught up into the third heaven. 121 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,500 I'm going to talk about the place where it is later on in 122 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:50,200 our study. But right now, he talks about 123 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,500 the third heaven. That's the place where God 124 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,100 dwells. In Ephesians chapter 4, verse 125 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:03,600 10. Speaking of Jesus, he who 126 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,900 descended is also the one who ascended far above all the 127 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:12,400 heavens that he might fill all things. 128 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,700 Now, the question is this, what's the new Heaven? 129 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:21,500 And the new Earth? I had a fellow come to my house 130 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:24,400 the other day. Knocked on the door. 131 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,300 Very well-dressed gentleman older gentleman. 132 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:29,900 In one hand, he had a Bible on the other hand, he had a 133 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:33,100 magazine and he wanted to discuss what the new heavens and 134 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:37,200 the new Earth were. Well, the question is, what is 135 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,000 the new heavens and the new Earth? 136 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:43,200 First of all in Revelation, chapter 21 and verse 1, it says, 137 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,300 and I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven, what 138 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:50,300 is that? That is the aerial and the 139 00:08:50,308 --> 00:08:54,900 severe Ariel, the sky and the ours, and the first Earth, 140 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:00,100 that's this Earth had passed away and there was no more sea. 141 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,200 That's what John saw. You know, all we got to do 142 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:10,300 really is look to a word study from this past it dry here and 143 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,100 take some of the words, the keywords that are in second 144 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,900 Peter chapter 3. And we could prove beyond a 145 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,500 shadow of a doubt that the position that this Earth is 146 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:24,200 going to be restored and refurbished for all eternity is 147 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:30,000 false Second Peter chapter 3 beginning in verse 10, but the 148 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,500 day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which 149 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:38,200 the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements 150 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,800 will melt with fervent heat both the earth and the works that are 151 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,300 in. It will be burned up. 152 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Therefore since all these things will be dissolved, what manner 153 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,200 of persons ought you to be in, holy conduct and godliness, 154 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,000 looking for, and hastening the coming of the day of God, 155 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,700 because of which Which the heavens will be dissolved being 156 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:02,400 on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat. 157 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:06,200 Nevertheless, we according to his promise, look for new 158 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:11,100 heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness dwells. 159 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:13,400 All right, let's take a look at some of these words. 160 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,700 First of all, the word knew the word new comes from the Greek 161 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:21,700 word kano's. Look at the definition of this 162 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:27,800 word, In this passage as respects to form, it is recently 163 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,900 made. It is fresh. 164 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:37,400 It is recent, it is unused. And it's unworn Now, can't, we 165 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,200 look at that. And logically think that there's 166 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,300 no way in the world that it comes from something that 167 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:46,300 already exists. It is something that is unused, 168 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,500 and it's going to be unworn, mr. Thayer further says it is that 169 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:56,900 which is made recently, is superior to what it succeeds now 170 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:01,700 that's found in second Peter 3 and 13 and Revelation, 21, and 171 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,700 verse number 1, let's look at some more words. 172 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:09,600 The Bible says that the heavens that now are will pass away, 173 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:13,200 that is Perico met and that means to perish. 174 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,800 Or pass away to vart to vanish or disappear out of sight. 175 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:24,800 What else? Then Peter says, and the 176 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:30,200 elements will melt with fervent heat, you know the word melt 177 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,400 there, in this past that little four-letter, English word comes 178 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,200 from two. Small Greek words. 179 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,900 One is luo, and luo means to dissolve something coherent into 180 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:44,500 Parks or destroy according to mr. 181 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,900 Thayer. It's the same word or part of a 182 00:11:46,908 --> 00:11:49,900 word that is translated dissolved in. 183 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,200 Second Peter 3, 11 and 12, and it smelt. 184 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,800 It, second Peter 3 and verse 10. What else? 185 00:11:56,900 --> 00:12:02,000 Not just luo, but Tico and Tico means to make liquid or become 186 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,200 liquid to perish or be destroyed by melting. 187 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:08,800 That look what's going to happen. 188 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,500 We're going to get something new and that's great, you know, why? 189 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:16,000 Because everything that we know is going to pass away, it is 190 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,500 going to melt, it is going to be utterly destroyed. 191 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:28,600 But there's more. but by the Bible further says, when it 192 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,100 says, the elements will melt with fervent heat, you know what 193 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:35,100 elements mean? So not only the Earth will be 194 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:38,000 destroyed, but even the elements. 195 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:41,800 You know what the word elements here means, it is the elements 196 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,200 from, which all things have come, it is the material causes 197 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,900 of the universe. Let me ask you this, does that 198 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:52,100 sound to you like God is going to do something with this Earth 199 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:55,500 and refurbish or do a remodel on it. 200 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,300 Spruce it up, it's going to be utterly destroyed. 201 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:02,600 Not only that, even the elements that made up the universe will 202 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,800 be destroyed. And what's going to happen to 203 00:13:04,808 --> 00:13:07,200 the Earth? The Bible says, and the earth, 204 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,400 and the works there of will be burned. 205 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:15,300 Which means to consumed by fire. According to mr. 206 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:18,300 Thayer. I'm going to tell you something 207 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:22,400 my whole life. I have in school maybe it's the 208 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,400 same way. I don't know. 209 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,700 But in school, everybody wanted to talk about how man is going 210 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:35,600 to destroy the Earth. My whole life as a kid in 211 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:40,600 school. Nuclear war, destroy the Earth. 212 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,700 We're not very good environmentalist, so we're going 213 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:48,900 to destroy the Earth. You can rest assured and be 214 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:54,200 confident that it is impossible for a man to destroy the Earth. 215 00:13:54,700 --> 00:14:00,600 When God said he is going to do it, it's going to exist until 216 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,800 the Lord comes back and then all of those things are going to 217 00:14:03,808 --> 00:14:06,800 pass away. Watch the heavens will pass 218 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,900 away. The elements will melt with 219 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:10,900 fervent Heat and the earth, and the works. 220 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,900 There in will be burned up and guess what? 221 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,500 We're getting something new that is superior. 222 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,300 Rior to what it succeeds in that great. 223 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,000 Had a discussion with this felon. 224 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:29,200 He was telling me that he said well, well Heaven is is all 225 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:34,000 filled up. And I want to, I want to go and 226 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,400 be here on the Earth. and I said, I have no desire to be on 227 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,800 this Earth any longer than I have to The place that I want to 228 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,700 go up, go to I said, is the place that's new a place that 229 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:54,300 did not exist for our benefit yet, that is so more Superior 230 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:57,600 and farther Superior than anything we have ever known. 231 00:14:57,700 --> 00:14:59,800 That's where I want to go. And, you know, he said, can't 232 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,500 even imagine saying it. I don't want to go to heaven. 233 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,600 I can't even fathom. So, what are we talking about? 234 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,800 We're talking about the new heavens and the new Earth, where 235 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,900 is that? And what is that? 236 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:22,600 First of all, it's the Eternal place of the redeemed. 237 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:26,300 Peter talks about it as the new heaven. 238 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:31,000 John talks about it as the new Heaven and John also talks about 239 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:37,100 it as the New Jerusalem in First Peter chapter 1 verses 3 and 4. 240 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,200 It says blessed be the God and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ 241 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,500 who according to His, abundant Mercy, has begotten us again to 242 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:48,800 a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ 243 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,400 from the dead to what an inheritance Incorruptible. 244 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,100 And Undefiled and that does not fade away. 245 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:03,500 Where is it? Reserved in heaven for you. 246 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,500 That's the new heaven. That's the new Earth. 247 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,600 It is a place reserved in heaven. 248 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,400 What else? Second Peter 3:13 nevertheless 249 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,500 we according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new 250 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:26,700 Earth in which righteousness dwells I'm going to taste some 251 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,900 people have all kinds of Concepts about heaven. 252 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:34,300 Heaven is not a concept. It is a real place. 253 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:38,300 It's where righteousness. Dwells what else? 254 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,700 Who's going to get in there? Revelation 21:27. 255 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:45,700 Please get this. But there shall, by no means 256 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:49,900 enter into it. Anything that defiles or causes 257 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:56,600 an Abomination or a lie, but only those that are written in 258 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:01,600 the Lamb's Book of Life. You know, I didn't say that. 259 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,700 That did not come from me. That came right out of the Bible 260 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,700 who is going to go to the new heavens and the new Earth. 261 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:13,000 The place that is reserved in heaven for who those that are 262 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,700 found written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 263 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,200 Christians. Members of the body of Christ 264 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:30,400 reserved in heaven. For those that are pigs now. 265 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:35,900 What about musical instruments? Remember when I talked about 266 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,800 when I talk about singing and the worship of Music in the 267 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,000 worship. And I talked about instrument 268 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,800 music and I said, one of the arguments that people have 269 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:48,000 trying to support instrumental music in the worship in the 270 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,200 world today in the denominational world is because 271 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,700 they say, well after all, all you got to do is turn to the 272 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:55,100 Revelation letter and it says that there's instruments. 273 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:57,300 So, if there's musical instruments in heaven, shouldn't 274 00:17:57,300 --> 00:18:00,600 there, be musical, instruments? Right in the church today, I 275 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,100 made that point and I talked about a couple of these 276 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:05,000 passages, this will be very, very quickly. 277 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,300 Watch this, the first thing that's described is trumpets in 278 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:11,100 Revelation, chapter 8, and verse 2. 279 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:15,100 It says, and I saw the seven angels, who stand before God and 280 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,500 to them were given seven trumpets. 281 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,600 Now, Revelation chapter 1 and verse 10 though. 282 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,600 It says, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard 283 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,300 behind me, a loud voice of a trumpet. 284 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,200 Revelation 4 verse 1, after these things, I looked and 285 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,800 behold a door standing, open in heaven. 286 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,100 And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet 287 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:47,500 speaking with me. Now. 288 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:51,300 Trumpets as far as I can understand. 289 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,900 We're never used for its melodious sound, it's never 290 00:18:55,900 --> 00:19:01,400 described by John and Heaven for its musical melodious ability. 291 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,100 It is always referring to what I can understand. 292 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,900 It is referring to a time when a woe is being pronounced or an 293 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:14,400 announcement is given not only that trumpets here while. 294 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,900 And but let me just say, let me just say while it's true that 295 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:21,200 oftentimes Times, you can use the word Voice or voices. 296 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,600 Just to talk about the sound of an instrument. 297 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,700 If you look at other passages of scripture, it appears to me 298 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,900 Beyond a doubt that when we talk about the voices, it's talking 299 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,700 about voices and it just describes the voices as a 300 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:38,300 trumpet. Let's go further. 301 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:40,500 I'll tell you why. We got to go further. 302 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:43,800 You ever seen the little cartoon? 303 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:48,000 Yeah. The cartoon. 304 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,800 Somebody dies, and all of a sudden they come up out of their 305 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,300 body. And they got white on now. 306 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,000 And they fly on up. And when they get there they got 307 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,300 Wings sticking out of their back. 308 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,900 Got a Halo on over their head. What do they got? 309 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,500 I got a harp. What about HARP? 310 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:14,500 What about Harps in the Book of Revelation, Revelation, chapter 311 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:17,100 5 in verses 89. Now, when he had taken the 312 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,500 scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four 313 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:24,600 Elders fell down before the lamb each having a harp and the 314 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,600 golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of saints 315 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:34,800 and notice. And they sung a new song, Let's 316 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,600 go further. In Revelation chapter 14 and 317 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:46,100 verse to the King James says, I heard the voices of Harpers 318 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,000 harping with their harps. Now, the new King James says, I 319 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,800 heard the sound of Harpers harping with their Harps. 320 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,700 Let's look to some other translations. 321 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,300 In the American Standard Version. 322 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:06,000 It says this and the voice which I heard was like the voice of 323 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,400 Harpers harping with their harps. 324 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:12,400 The revised Standard Version says, the voice. 325 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:18,400 I heard was like the sound of Harpers harping or playing on 326 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,500 their Harps. Do you see what it says? 327 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:27,500 He said, I heard voices and the voices sounded like Harper's 328 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,700 harping on their harps. Now, I'm going to tell you. 329 00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:35,900 There are things that I do not understand, and I do not know 330 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,100 what's going to be in heaven. In fact, I don't think we can 331 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:45,600 know everything. I do know this though. 332 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,600 When we've exhausted every possible thought of what heaven 333 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,700 could possibly be like, we haven't even scratched the 334 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:54,900 surface to how beautiful and how great is going to be. 335 00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,500 From these passages though. This doesn't support that 336 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:01,800 there's literal instruments of Music in heaven. 337 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,400 It says the voices that said that he heard John heard. 338 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,600 We're like the sound of Harper's playing on their Harps. 339 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,500 The next verse in Revelation, 14 and 3. 340 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:17,400 It says they simply they sang as it were a new song. 341 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:21,000 So the melodious harp is a symbol of Praise one. 342 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,600 Scholar said they are the voices of the redeemed praising God in 343 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:31,900 song and Revelation, 15 and 3. It says they sang the song of 344 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:36,800 Moses, one scholar said therefore it is highly symbolic 345 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:43,400 in this book and trumpets and harps are symbols of voices All 346 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,500 right. Have you ever wondered where it 347 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:51,000 is? I know one thing. 348 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:56,500 I can't pinpoint the place, but I sure know the direction where 349 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,500 is heaven. Where is this great place? 350 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,200 Where's the new Heaven? And the new Earth? 351 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,800 Where is the third heaven? Well, first of all and second 352 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,900 Corinthians chapter 12 and verses two through four, and I 353 00:23:08,908 --> 00:23:11,600 mentioned this that I'm going to get back to this before. 354 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,200 So now, you have the Apostle Paul and it's 10 years as he's a 355 00:23:16,208 --> 00:23:19,500 Christian, and he says, I Know a Man in Christ who fourteen years 356 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:21,200 ago, whether in the body or the body, I do not know. 357 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,400 God knows such was caught up. Into the third heaven. 358 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,000 I got to tell you something. Bob Smith. 359 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:36,200 Example, 13 years ago. The Bible says in second 360 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,700 Corinthians 12, it says that he was given a view up into the 361 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:44,300 third heaven, and Paradise, and Bob taught a sermon. 362 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,700 And he said that paradise was the same as the third heaven, 363 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,400 and I have to service us at Bob. I think you're wrong on that. 364 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,200 I think what it was talking about is the third heaven, is 365 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,500 heaven, and Paradise is the hadean realm. 366 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:00,000 That Jesus says today, you will be with me in Paradise, all 367 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,600 right? You were right, I was wrong. 368 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,800 The third heaven. And Paradise is the same word 369 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,900 and it's the same word that's found in Revelation 21 as the 370 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,500 paradise of God. So what was he saying? 371 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:19,800 He says, I knew man, 14 years ago. 372 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,600 I don't know if it was in the body or out of the body. 373 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,200 God knows, I was taken up into the third heaven and then he 374 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,700 further, says, and Paradise talking about the same place. 375 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:34,000 Good job on that, I missed it. 13 years ago. 376 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,700 In fact, you know, it's beautiful and Revelation Chapter 377 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:44,500 2 and verse 7. it says that the Tree of Life, more on that in a 378 00:24:44,508 --> 00:24:52,000 minute. but the tree of life is in the midst, Of the paradise of 379 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 God. Now, where is it? 380 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,500 It's up. In Acts chapter 9, verses 1, 381 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:04,400 verses 9 through 11. And when he had spoken these 382 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,300 things while they watched, he was taken up and a cloud 383 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:10,700 received him out of their sight. And while they looked 384 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:15,200 steadfastly toward Heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by 385 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,800 them in white apparel who also said men of Galilee, why do you 386 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:26,900 stand gazing up into heaven? Now, I know. 387 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,300 It's up. And it is somewhere past the 388 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:39,100 Ariel. Region, and it's past the 389 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:43,300 Sevierville or the starry region its up. 390 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,000 You know what I said? a few minutes ago, I said, 391 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,800 Heaven is a place, a real place in not a concept. 392 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,300 Have you ever stopped to consider that heaven is 393 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:04,700 populated with real people? Beautiful Immortal. 394 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:09,900 Strong bodies will have Bodies, that will be as visible and 395 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:14,900 recognizable as Moses and Elijah on the Mount of transfiguration. 396 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,800 Furthermore, in first John, chapter 3 and verse 2, it says, 397 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,200 when he shall appear, we shall be like him for. 398 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,200 We shall see him as he is. So what is it? 399 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:33,100 It's number one, it's a place. John 14 verses 2 and 3 in my 400 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:34,700 father's house are many mansions. 401 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,900 If it were not. So I would have told you I go to 402 00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:40,800 prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, 403 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,500 I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am, 404 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,900 there you may be also. So number one, it is a place. 405 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,700 Look number two, it is a city in Hebrews 11 and 16 it says, but 406 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:57,800 now they desire, a better that is Heavenly country. 407 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,000 Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for. 408 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:10,400 He has prepared a city for them. John's description. 409 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:17,400 Watch this. John describes the third heaven. 410 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:22,800 Now, I thought of something, when I thought of this first 411 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,100 point, I thought his sister Morgan, I'm going to tell you 412 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:30,600 why. John said there were foundations 413 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,300 and the foundation's were great. In fact, John said, the 414 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:37,900 foundations of the walls were massive. 415 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,700 There were twelve foundations and on the twelve foundations 416 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:45,700 were what the names of the Apostles of the Lamb. 417 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:49,700 Years ago, she and I were talking. 418 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:53,900 She said, if it's Twelve Apostles of the Lamb, who do you 419 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,900 think the 12th is we both understood? 420 00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:59,400 It couldn't be Judas. There's no way that's Judas. 421 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:02,900 What are the original could it be Mathias? 422 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:05,200 That was added to the 11 in the book of Acts? 423 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,100 Or was it the Apostle Paul? I don't know for certain in the 424 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:11,400 Bible doesn't say, but I think it's got to be pull. 425 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,700 Just my thoughts. He wrote over 2/3 of the New 426 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:18,300 Testament as a chosen vessel of the Lord. 427 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,100 I would imagine, he's the one that's the 12th. 428 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:27,300 The foundations of the Apostles, the names of the Apostles of the 429 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:28,600 Lamb. What else? 430 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:35,600 There were 12, identical Gates. I want a, what I read this week. 431 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,700 One scholar said The Identical part. 432 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:48,000 Is the fact that that is a symbol of the fact that 433 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 everybody must meet the same exact requirements in order to 434 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,100 get in. They're identical. 435 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,500 But I'm going to tell you something folks. 436 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,300 There are people in this world to have all manner of things and 437 00:29:00,308 --> 00:29:02,700 all manner of ways that they think are going to get to 438 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:07,700 heaven. Isabel it said this to my, 439 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,500 excuse me, said this to my dad when I was a kid. 440 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,800 He said, well, Bob, I don't agree with you. 441 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,600 You don't agree with me. You do your thing, I'll do my 442 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,800 thing and we'll all just meat heaven anyway, and it really 443 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,700 doesn't matter. You know what, the identical 444 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:26,300 Gates, represent an identical way that you have to enter in. 445 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,400 There's only one way to enter in. 446 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:34,300 Also, at each gate was an angel and the angel stood like a 447 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:39,700 soldier on guard. One scholar says that symbolized 448 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:42,400 that you can't enter in as you please. 449 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,800 We're also the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. 450 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,500 But then, the gates were made of Peru. 451 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,800 What does that mean? I read some Scholars said 452 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:03,700 something about that. Get this one said, the Pearl was 453 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:08,900 symbolic of those that have overcome trials and tribulations 454 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,900 in order to enter Heaven. And the reason for that is the 455 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:18,100 Pearl produced is produced by the oysters response to 456 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:25,500 suffering. Yeah, you're going to suffer. 457 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,500 Now we don't suffer like the early church kind of embarrasses 458 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:32,200 me. When we talk about persecution 459 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,200 today compared to some of those of old that we read about But 460 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,000 I'll tell you something, we're going to have persecutions in 461 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,200 our life. There are going to come times 462 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,800 when you have to show the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ, when 463 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,200 you stand against something that's wrong, and you don't go 464 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,300 and do things that other people do that are wrong. 465 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:57,500 And when you stand out as being different, that's a scar. 466 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,700 That's a mark of the Lord Jesus Christ. 467 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,500 Paul had literal marks, we do not we have symbolic or 468 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,800 figurative marks. What else is there? 469 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,100 It was a city Foursquare. Look at this. 470 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:14,000 That means that the length and the breadth and the height are 471 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,500 equal and John said each measure 12,000 furlongs. 472 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:23,300 Now, The Furlong you never hear about furlongs except at horse 473 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:28,400 racing, I think. But a furlong is 1/8 of a mile. 474 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:32,500 So John said, each measured, twelve thousand furlongs. 475 00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:36,300 It is a city for square. In other words, it's about 1,500 476 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,700 miles. Now, how big is heaven going to 477 00:31:38,708 --> 00:31:39,700 be? Watch this. 478 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,100 It's like, you went from Dallas to New York City. 479 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,000 The New York City to Bismarck, North Dakota from Bismarck North 480 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,500 Dakota to San Francisco San Francisco back to Dallas. 481 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:57,100 But guess what? It's a city Foursquare. 482 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,600 So now you got to go up 1500 miles, straight up and do it 483 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,200 again. You know, big Heavens going to 484 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:11,700 be. 500 quintillion, cubic feet. I don't know if I've ever used 485 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:13,400 the word quintillion in my whole life. 486 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,700 I had to get this from somebody else quintillion, you know what 487 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,200 it is. It's the it's the number 500 488 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:30,200 here with 18 zeros after that. 500 quintillion ft3 think we're 489 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,100 going to have some Elbow Room. That's how big Heaven is. 490 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,600 And, you know, there's a symbol there that heaven is big enough 491 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,200 for anyone, that would come in obedience to the Lord and serve 492 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,700 him all the days of their life and go to that City. 493 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,000 That New Jerusalem that John talked about. 494 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,600 What about the wall? John said he saw a wall there 495 00:32:54,700 --> 00:33:00,600 and the wall was forty, two, forty, four, cubits tall, or 218 496 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,700 feet. Now, interestingly about this, a 497 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:07,600 cubit is 18 to 21 inches, so about two hundred and eighteen 498 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,100 feet. Now, what's interesting, or what 499 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,200 I thought was interesting, is the fact that the wall is never 500 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,800 described by its width ever. John doesn't talk about how wide 501 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,300 the wall is, and do you remember our study and in the Old 502 00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:24,900 Testament, Talked about Nineveh and we talked about ancient 503 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:28,300 cities were fenced or walled cities for what reason. 504 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,300 Keep the enemy out. Are you kind of seeing a picture 505 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:33,900 here? You kind of get in the point it 506 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,900 was to keep the enemy out. In fact Nineveh had walls that 507 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:41,400 were 100 feet tall and so wide that three chariots. 508 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,200 You remember this could drive a breast of it of themself on top 509 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,800 of the wall. That's How wide it was. 510 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,100 You know why? Keep the enemy out and it was 511 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,600 imperative that it was thick enough that it would do just 512 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,100 that. The Bible says, when the Tigris 513 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,200 River overflowed and God did all this. 514 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,800 When God said I'm going to destroy Nineveh the Tigris, 515 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,400 River overflowed. And it broke breaches into the 516 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,500 wall and it opened up at what happened. 517 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,900 The enemy got in and attacked them and destroyed them. 518 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:15,400 So, how come the width is not mentioned in heaven? 519 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:21,500 I kind of think that. It's not going to matter. 520 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,199 Because we'll never have to protect ourselves from the enemy 521 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:31,300 ever again. He had hard times. 522 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,600 You had to stand and be strong and stand for your faith. 523 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,300 What are the enemies of the Cross badmouth? 524 00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:42,900 You put you down, criticize, you take things away. 525 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,500 I don't know what it's going to be, like we talked about this, I 526 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,800 don't know what the country's going to get like, I don't know. 527 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,300 There may be a time when we're really persecuted for our faith 528 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,900 and those that do that are the enemies of the cause of Christ 529 00:34:56,900 --> 00:35:00,400 are the enemies of God's people. Yes yes. 530 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:09,000 What just hang on. just hang on because once we get there, they 531 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,800 can't get in. We need no protection at all. 532 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:20,700 City Foursquare. It's a city of pure gold. 533 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:26,500 John said his, he pictured it. He said it looked like 534 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:31,000 transparent glass. He said there was a wall of 535 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,300 Jasper. There were Gates of Pearl and as 536 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:41,100 we sing in our songs a street. Of gold. 537 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,200 Finally though, let me talk about what things are in heaven. 538 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:49,900 What things are going to be in heaven? 539 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:53,000 Number one, God's going to be there. 540 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,800 And he's going to be honest thrown, do you remember when 541 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,300 Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, he said all power, all authority is 542 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:01,700 given unto me in heaven and in Earth. 543 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,000 Who gave him the authority. The one who is all 544 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,200 authoritative, and that's God. But what does the Bible say is 545 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,400 going to happen on that last and final day God is going to send 546 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,400 Jesus back to this earth. And what's he going to do? 547 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,900 He's going to take the redeemed, he's going to take the church 548 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:24,500 and hand it over to his father and Jesus will step down from 549 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:28,000 his rule or Reign Over the church and God will be on his 550 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000 throne for all eternity in the Bible says that God would be all 551 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,500 in all. So who's going to be there? 552 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,500 God's going to be there on his throne. 553 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 What else, who else? The Bible says in Revelation 554 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,800 chapter 5, if the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ is going to be 555 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,000 there. And by the way, there is no need 556 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,200 for artificial light. We're talking about a spiritual 557 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,400 place. There's no need for artificial 558 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,000 light because the light is the Lamb of God. 559 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:02,100 The light is the Lord. How do I explain all that in our 560 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:03,600 vernacular? No idea. 561 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,400 When we get there, we can see. It just says there's no need for 562 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,200 light. Because the light is the Lord. 563 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,900 It's going to be the multitude of the redeemed there to 564 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:19,300 Revelation 7 and 9. There's going to be the tree of 565 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:22,000 life. You remember, in the garden when 566 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,700 Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden? 567 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,700 The tree of life was removed from them. 568 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:31,700 And they now could die physically. 569 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:37,000 They were no longer Immortal. I like what my father-in-law 570 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,200 said. One time he says, I'll never 571 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,300 forget this. He said we talk about the tree 572 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:42,800 of life. He is. 573 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,600 And you know what? He said we're getting it back. 574 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,600 They lost it in the garden. But we're getting it back. 575 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:55,400 You know, what else is going to be there? 576 00:37:55,700 --> 00:38:00,600 A pure River of water, a pure River of Water of Life. 577 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:04,900 One scholar suggested that the fact that there's the tree of 578 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:09,600 life and a pure River of Water of Life shows that the hunger 579 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,400 and thirst of the redeemed will be satisfied forever. 580 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,000 Isn't that great? Now, you got to come back next 581 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,300 Sunday. because next Sunday, I'm going to talk about this one 582 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:31,900 part right here, our treasure and our inheritance Heaven as 583 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,600 our inheritance. Finally though. 584 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,900 The name of every child of God will be written there. 585 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,800 Luke 10 and 20 says, nevertheless do not rejoice in a 586 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,300 Jesus, is talking to his disciples, who had the power to 587 00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:49,100 cast out demons and he said, nevertheless do not rejoice in 588 00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:51,400 this that the spirits are subject to you, but rather 589 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,900 Rejoice because your names are written in heaven. 590 00:38:57,300 --> 00:38:59,900 That tells me that there's nothing greater than we will 591 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,200 ever be better. Christian. 592 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,700 Now as I close, let me ask you a question. 593 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:17,400 When you look up at this list, you see your hobbies. my whole 594 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,800 life, I've heard people say, We're going to get to do 595 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,500 whatever we loved in this life. We're going to get to do it for 596 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:28,100 eternity over there. If I like playing golf, I'm 597 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:31,600 gonna get to play golf on the greatest golf course in the 598 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,900 world ever saw beautiful perfect. 599 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,300 I don't see anything at all about Hobbies. 600 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,500 I see a spiritual place. And the only thing that matters 601 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,900 is having your names written in heaven. 602 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:50,100 And what did we already say those that are in heaven? 603 00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:51,900 The place that's waiting for the redeemed. 604 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:55,600 Are those that have their names in the Lamb's Book of Life? 605 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,800 So let me ask you is your name written in the Lamb's Book of 606 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,500 Life. Because that's all that matters. 607 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,900 Your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life when you 608 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:15,500 obey the gospel and live faithful unto death, Jesus says 609 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:17,800 that he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. 610 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,400 We must believe in Jesus. We must repent of our sins. 611 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,900 We must make the determination in our mind, we're going to 612 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:29,000 change our life, we must be willing to confess the name of 613 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,900 Jesus Christ. And say those words I believe 614 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:33,700 that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 615 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:37,100 And then upon taking those steps, we are ready for baptism. 616 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:41,200 When we go down into the Waters of baptism contact, the blood of 617 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:46,000 Jesus have our sins washed away becoming the Book of Life and 618 00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:49,000 continue on that path. So our names will be written in 619 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,900 heaven forever. 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