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You know, it's amazing. 
These last few weeks we've been 

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talking about heaven, and every 
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seems like people come to Jesus.
It's pretty amazing actually. 

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And we talked about you're made 
for a person and you're made for

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a place, and the person is Jesus
and the place is heaven, Amen. 

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You can't have heaven without 
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And some of you guys said yes to
Jesus last week, which means you

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also have heaven. 
And so we had four people come 

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to Christ last Sunday. 
Amen. 

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Can you guys go for those guys? 
Come on, it's amazing. 

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You know, you don't hear a lot 
of messages on heaven, a lot of 

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thoughts on heaven. 
If you do, it's just kind of in 

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passing and we kind of make our 
own theology up and not about 

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you. 
These last few weeks, have you 

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guys been more excited about 
heaven than ever after hearing 

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some of the scriptures? 
Amen you know we're either 

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heaven found or heaven bound, 
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If you know Jesus, right, We 
have friends and family and 

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people in heaven. 
I think about these messages and

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what we learned about this. 
It should be very exciting, very

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appealing. 
It should just put our faith so 

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strong. 
We song sung today like man, 

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even I have a firm foundation of
Christ. 

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No matter what happens, man, I I
know where I'm going. 

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Amen. 
I know what it's going to be 

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like and the goal of this series
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heaven, but by the end of the 
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exactly it's like as best I can 
and it is so, so good. 

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I would encourage you guys. 
We're doing something very 

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special this week and this next 
10 days we're doing something 

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called 10 days of heavenly 
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We're taking heaven outside of 
our four walls, taking heaven 

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online and helping you guys 
really dive into some different 

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aspects of putting heaven 1st 
and different areas. 

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So having first in your 
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marriage and just do a little 
video clip of just sharing what 

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happens life from scripture 
encourage you guys and there's a

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Instagram, all the places. 
But it's going to be really 

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encouraging if you read through 
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what how does heaven change my 
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about marriage specifically, we 
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fulfilled their marriage, but 
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Christ in the church in heaven, 
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It's a picture of what God did 
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And so if we think our life's 
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earth, we might have the wrong 
vision of our marriage because 

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actually pictures grace, 
forgiveness, mercy, and your 

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marriage is actually a picture 
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for people who don't know Jesus,
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So it's a totally different way 
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So I want to encourage you guys,
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you, if you're comfortable and 
love you guys, like, share and 

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comment, Amen. 
Like, share and comment because 

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this can be amazing. 
I just know as people hear about

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heaven, they're going to find 
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They're searching people who are
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They have no idea what this is 
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And so today we're going to dive
in to a really, I mean, it's 

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going to go, but we're answer 
some questions you guys asked 

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last week and then we're talking
about what do we know about 

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heaven, about our lives now? 
It's to be very, very practical.

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So I just want to dive in. 
I'm going to answer a question I

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had four people asked me this 
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week, what happens to our bodies
if they're not still in a casket

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and buried there? 
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taught First Thessalonians 
chapter 4, and how we're raised 

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in Christ. 
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facing east and our feet facing 
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that we raise up and we see 
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grave. 
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is like, what happens if we 
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tomb? 
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this question? 
You're actually not the first 

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people to ask this question. 
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It's found in First Corinthians 
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It says this and this is between
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It's all together, it says, but 
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dead raised? 
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That's pretty amazing. 
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I get some reassurance knowing 
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question that people are asking 
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somebody asked this question, 
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Amen. 
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What you sow does not come to 
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The seed, in order seed to bear 
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Listen to this. 
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the body that will be, but just 
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your body being buried, 
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seed being planted. 
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Amen. 
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hold an urn, this is the best 
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this is not the end. 
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raised to life, look what it 
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So it'll be with the 
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says Jesus resurrected will 
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It says the body that is sown is
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and it says it is raised. 
How imperishable, dude, this is 

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exciting. 
It raised, it raised eternal. 

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It is so natural body is raised 
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I'm so thankful we don't 
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We don't resurrect the diabetes 
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You don't you don't resurrect 
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You know, you're coming back to 
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actually made you to be, Amen. 
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you're thinking, well, what 
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It's like what happens if you 
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Like are you coming back the way
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No, you're coming back 
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Immaterial all together, 
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What Paul's really saying is 
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reassembled corpse of yourself. 
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some modulated, upgraded 
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You're coming back to a brand 
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transformed and glorified by 
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You know, some people get really
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what these bodies are going to 
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Oh, man. 
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exactly, but we do know. 
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Like he had a body. 
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They saw Elijah, they saw Moses 
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So we know what a body likes. 
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Amen. 
You've had one your entire life,

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And so the Bible doesn't go to 
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assume like, yes, we're going to
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does dust really limit God? 
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dust. 
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from dust to dust, we return 
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No matter how you get to dust, 
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We eagerly await a Savior who by
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bring everything in his control,
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bodies? 
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being a human or what are lowly 
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up, it can't show up, you know, 
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Like the body is just broken, 
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So there will be like who? 
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Jesus body, Amen. 
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He's needs no repair. 
He's not recycled, He's 

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transformed. 
You might ask the question, what

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happens if your body's 
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So in John 219 says this Jesus 
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This is Jesus talking. 
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He was talking by himself. 
He destroyed my body and I'll 

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raise it up again in three days.
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was his. 
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No matter what they did 
physically to Jesus, he was 

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going to resurrect perfectly. 
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And his death was brutal, 
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Well, there's nothing left. 
You know, if you want those like

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found destination people like 
you sicko freaks that watch that

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stuff. 
OK, somebody said it's good, 

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there's nothing left. 
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vaporized, right? 
And you see this, you've seen it

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all throughout history, 
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Like this is what it says. 
Revelation 2013, The sea gave up

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the dead that were in it. 
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Like if you put a bite in the 
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left, man. 
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you're destroyed, you're gone. 
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It's just nothing there. 
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out of the sea. 
Is that good news? 

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Amen. 
I mean, no matter what, like 

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scattered ashes are not a 
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God. 
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that people have been killed in 
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There's a guy named Polycarp. 
He's one of the like premier, 

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like just the one of the biggest
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disciple that Jesus loved made 
his Polycarp and he wouldn't 

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recount his faith and they burn 
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It's an incredible story. 
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They're trying to burn him. 
He won't burn and history 

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records him just crying out in 
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It's like 4 paragraphs of 
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He's just crying out in prayer 
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and actually Pierce him to kill 
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And then they burn his body. 
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And to think that his body is 
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kind of crazy to me. 
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You think of like William 
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translated English so he could 
have it. 

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And the religious people are so 
offended that the common person 

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could have the Bible that they 
burned when he turned out the 

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stake. 
To think he's not going to be in

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heaven with the glorified body 
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Amen. 
So bodies, even though we're not

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recovered or cremated, it, it 
doesn't matter. 

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They're not a problem for God. 
It's location, condition or all 

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irrelevant in the resurrection 
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Amen. 
So this is a little bit of good 

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news. 
So that was that was a freebie 

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that just you just motivated me 
with that one because like I 

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just got to the Bible doesn't 
want to be ignorant, Amen. 

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Because you got this fear like, 
oh man, what holding on to if 

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you know what happens, like you 
are no longer going to hold on 

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to Earth. 
Amen. 

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You're like, I'm just passing 
through. 

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I'm going to make my difference.
But I know where my eternity is 

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set. 
And you're going to see it 

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today. 
We're going through some 

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scriptures. 
What is heaven actually like for

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us? 
When you take your last breath, 

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what exactly happens And what 
what state am I in? 

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All these questions? 
We're going to learn through two

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places. 1 is going to be the 
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We'll be in Luke 16 and we're 
going to read through this 

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story. 
So it's verse 19 through 31. 

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And this is about ourselves to 
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Check this out. 
It says this. 

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Verse 19, Luke 1619, you've 
fallen. 

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It says there's a rich man who 
is dressed in purple and fine 

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linen and lived in luxury every 
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Sounds like the American dream. 
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This is what I want, luxury. 
Purple's expensive, fine linen 

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expensive, and this man was very
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Verse 20, at his gate was laid a
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First thing you got to notice is
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rich man's house and said, man, 
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care of him. 
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what longing to eat, what fell? 
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longest time I thought he 
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table. 
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from the plate. 
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me, I'd be so happy. 
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table. 
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licked his sores. 
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He's destitute, he's sick, he's 
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He's in proximity, but doesn't 
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He he has the ability to care, 
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actually has a name named 
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The time came when the beggar, 
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carried him to Abraham's side. 
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the rich man dies and he's 
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buried. 
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right outside the rich man's 
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This is where he dies, and it's 
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contrast to your stories. 
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bodied and buried. 
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It's pretty cool. 
It's pretty cool. 

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times, but this might be the 
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what actually happens to your 
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last breath as if you know 
Jesus, angels come and they take

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your soul and spirit directly to
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Is that good? 
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It's pretty good to think about.
Like the rich man, he, he didn't

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have this happen at all. 
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Abraham's side. 
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don't know what it says in KJV, 
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Now this is a little confusing 
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world is Abraham's side? 
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there's not like an exhaustive 
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Like it's not as clear as New 
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Now they, they, you're going to 
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about the place of comfort and 
then you're going to see later 

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we'll talk about Hades, which we
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It's an Old Testament. 
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to eternity. 
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details, but you see it here. 
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torment, a place of agony, a 
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of the righteous dead. 
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and the righteous dead. 
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in Abraham's bosom or Abraham's 
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actually goes into captivity, 
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and the grave. 
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and then goes into Abraham's 
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leads captivity captive and 
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heaven. 
Do I blow your mind right now? 

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OK, there's debate on that. 
It doesn't really matter either 

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way. 
They're in the present heaven 

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now. 
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So whether everybody besides the
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issued in by Jesus in the 
present heaven, now that's where

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they are. 
And so this is the context of 

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the story. 
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Was what buried? 
No, no mention of angels. 

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It says in Hades, which is no 
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You see, the Hades Shoal and 
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the Bible for hell. 
Where he was what in torment. 

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He looked up and he saw Abraham 
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side. 
So Lazarus has company and this 

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man probably doesn't have 
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Verse 24 So he called to him 
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father Ham, he knew him father. 
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least recognize who he is. 
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sorry, have pity on me, have 
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dip the tip of his finger in 
water and cool my tongue because

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I'm in agony in this fire. 
This is like the greatest wake 

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up call verse in all scripture. 
Like this is one of those verses

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that should never settle well 
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It's just not you go there and 
you're like, oh, Lord, help me 

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to tell as many people that came
about Jesus, thank you for life.

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Thank you for what you've done. 
Got to understand there's sin, 

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there's punishment of sin, but 
Lord, I want to see people come 

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to Christ, Amen. 
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Wow. 
And you might question God's 

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goodness, but if you know God's 
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holiness, it's righteousness, 
Amen. 

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And love falls under that. 
And so it's amazing how God has 

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these eternal places, but this 
Scripture, it just it gets you 

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motivated. 
Verse 25 says, but Abraham 

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replied son, so he's probably 
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Remember that in your lifetime 
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Lazarus received bad things, but
now he is comforted here and you

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are in agony. 
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First I'll be last, last I'll be
first. 

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The things are like your faith 
actually should have some works,

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Amen? 
Like if the rich man truly knew 

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God, he should have fed the poor
person, not because you're 

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trying to earn God, because he 
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He should have had some works 
and some change in his life, but

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he didn't. 
And besides, all this between us

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is a great chasm has been set in
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from here cannot or anyone can 
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It's pretty amazing to me that 
like what happens on this earth 

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and our physical life now 
actually effects all of 

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eternity. 
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Like you get this time to make a
decision of what you believe 

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about faith and whether you 
spend eternity in heaven or 

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hell. 
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you father, if I can't go send 
Lazarus to my family 55 brothers

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and let him warn them so they 
will not also come to this place

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to torment. 
Verse 29 Abraham replied they 

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have Moses and the prophets time
of the Bible so, so let them let

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them listen to them. 
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ahem. 
He said, but if someone from the

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dead goes to them, they will 
repent. 

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And he said to him, if they do 
not listen to Moses and the 

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prophets, they will not be 
convinced even of someone what 

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rises from the dead. 
Kind of a nod to Jesus, Amen. 

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If they're not going to listen 
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not even going to listen to 
Jesus. 

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If you're not going to look at 
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God, you might not even follow 
Jesus. 

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No one from the dead can go back
and be more convincing than the 

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Bible itself. 
Amen. 

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This is a way he's saying they 
have a witness in the witnesses 

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Scripture. 
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Some people are going to argue 
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figure of language. 
Some some people preach that. 

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Some people maybe even believe 
that. 

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Now to me, I look at this, 
there's way too much detail. 

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It's so concise and so precise 
of what heaven and hell it looks

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like. 
That would make no sense that 

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this is a totally made-up figure
of speech. 

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One of the things you see in 
this parable that's really 

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interesting, of all the parables
you just give over 40 parables 

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is the only time he actually 
uses someone's name. 

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He uses the name Lazarus. 
Why would Jesus use the name 

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Lazarus? 
It actually wouldn't make very 

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much sense because it's actually
kind of confusing because 

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already Lazarus in the Bible is 
a good friend of Jesus. 

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He's the one already raised from
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So very confusing. 
And so you look at this story. 

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I don't think it's 100% 
figurative language. 

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I don't think it's a made-up 
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I think it's a real man with a 
real name, with a real heaven 

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and a real hell and a real 
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Amen. 
So we see in the scripture. 

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So let's go look through some of
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When Lazarus died, the angels 
carried him to paradise. 

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Rich man went to torment. 
Lazarus is with Abraham. 

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And you see that right there in 
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We read that earlier. 
But the rich man, you don't see 

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anybody mentioned with him a 
place of loneliness, of 

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isolation. 
Both the rich man and Abraham 

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look at us. 
They reasoned and communicated. 

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They had their full faculties, 
didn't slip into some like 

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disembodied member and we all 
became 1 like, you know, power, 

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force and whatever people think,
right? 

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They maintained the distinct 
identities from Earth. 

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That's good news, Amen. 
Like when we die, it's just a 

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continuation of our life on 
earth, our personality, our 

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heart, we're all, we are the 
same person. 

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Amen. 
Like we slip into eternity is 

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like I went in and I'm just 
recreated, reformed, 

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reincarnated to something else. 
Like we kept our the continuity 

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was direct from earth to heaven 
and our after lives even into 

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hell. 
So some insights. 

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You see them in physical forms. 
That's pretty interesting. 

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There's a tongue, the finger 
there, There was water. 

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Some apparently there's water at
least. 

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There's a tempter trying to find
water in heaven. 

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There's a finger on him. 
There's a tongue on the rich 

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man. 
The the rich man remembers and 

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possibly sees his brothers. 
That's pretty interesting to 

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think about it, isn't it? 
Like like like in hell according

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to scripture. 
There's this pain of regret and 

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sorrow for what is and what it 
should be. 

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And you remember these things be
haunted by that would be 

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impossible to imagine. 
They possibly see his brothers. 

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The thing about you actually 
have deep concern for the 

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welfare of those on earth is 
actually amazing to think about.

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You still care about what is 
happening in this world. 

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That's pretty interesting, isn't
it? 

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It's a new thought for many 
people. 

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The bottom line this whole 
parable is this is that Jesus 

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truly intended us to believe 
there is a real heaven and a 

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real hell with a real earth that
we're on today with real bodies 

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that actually end up in real 
places. 

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Amen. 
Sometimes you're like, oh, it's 

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just all good. 
It's a big part like we don't 

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fully grasp. 
So this is kind of the backdrop.

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So we have this story, but 
there's even the better story we

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find in Revelation chapter 6 and
we're going to dive through this

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Revelation chapter 6, verse 9. 
It says when he opened the what?

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The 5th seal. 
This is interesting. 

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These seals are actually 
judgments. 

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OK, so if you read part, you 
read through the scripture of 

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the seals. 
It's it's kind of fun. 

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I mean, tell Jackson, what's 
this seal like all you're going 

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to see it, God's going to move 
his power and presence. 

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He's going to let humanity kind 
of be on their own. 

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He's going to just let humanity 
be at their worst, which is 

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terrible. 
There's a thing in the Bible 

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called common grace. 
The Holy Spirit's the restrainer

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is the name of the Holy Spirit 
and he restrains sin. 

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But as he seals are open. 
So think of like a. 

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A signet ring and you go back to
three Musketeers, you know, and 

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only Jesus can open the seals, 
right? 

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And so Jesus opened the seals 
and each seals a different, the 

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first four are different horses,
OK? 

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Feels like a White Horse, a red 
horse, a Black Horse and a pale 

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horse. 
And they're all different 

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judgments that are happening on 
the earth. 

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Most of it is God just letting 
humans become humans. 

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And he's taking away his 
presence. 

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And this 5th seal happens and 
this is what it says. 

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He says the salt under the 
altar, the souls of those had 

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been slain. 
So these are the martyrs we 

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talked about last week, because 
the word of God and the 

454
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,360
testimony they had maintained 
says they called out in a loud 

455
00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:53,480
voice. 
This is a quote, How long 

456
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,680
sovereign Lord, holy and true. 
So you solve the attributes 

457
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,960
until you judge the inhabitants 
of the earth and avenge our 

458
00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,520
blood. 
Then each of them was given a 

459
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,960
white robe and they were told to
wait a little longer until the 

460
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,640
full number of their fellow 
servants, their brothers and 

461
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,800
sisters, are killed just as they
had. 

462
00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:20,360
Now this is amazing scripture. 
There is 3 verses, and we're 

463
00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:21,560
going to dive through these 3 
verses. 

464
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,200
I just want to see how much you 
can learn about heaven in just 

465
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,400
these 3 verses. 
Now, I've been reading a book by

466
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,280
Randy Alcorn called Heaven. 
So I'm going to take his 

467
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,760
thoughts from this because 
there's no reason to add to 

468
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,400
something already great. 
Amen. 

469
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,880
And I'm just going to read 
through this and I want you to 

470
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,880
see how exciting it is of heaven
for us today. 

471
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,240
So look at this. 
So #1 when these people died on 

472
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,680
earth, they were relocated to 
heaven. 

473
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,760
Good news, Amen. 
A lot of the world tell you 

474
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,200
like, we don't know where we go.
We, we just float around. 

475
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,240
We cease to exist. 
We go into oblivion. 

476
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,160
Like there's no idea. 
You'll never know. 

477
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,000
We slip back into the primordial
sludge. 

478
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,520
We, we just all these things. 
But here you see exactly these 

479
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,800
martyrs that were killed. 
We talked about last week. 

480
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,520
We talked about Abel being 
killed and being moved straight 

481
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,840
to heaven. 
Maybe the angels picked them up 

482
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,040
like Lazarus and brought them 
straight to heaven. 

483
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,440
Verse 2 it says the OR verse 2 
second point, verse 2. 

484
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,840
I'm sorry, I'm the pastor. 
Come on, somebody. 

485
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,480
It's always a verse. 
These people in heaven were the 

486
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,200
same ones killed for Christ on 
earth. 

487
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,640
So here's amazing. 
It demonstrates direct 

488
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,320
continuity between our identity 
and earth and our identity in 

489
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,440
heaven. 
You don't cease to exist. 

490
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,320
Amen. 
It's like you are Sean and now 

491
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,560
you're Sean and I had the same. 
I had to say memories. 

492
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,720
It's actually, I would argue a 
perfect memory because you 

493
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,560
actually have to go to a 
judgement in front of it's 

494
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,200
called the judgement of works. 
It's not getting into heaven, 

495
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,440
but based on your works, you 
get, you basically get blessings

496
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,720
of God, you get crowns, you get 
jewels, you get inheritance of 

497
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,520
God based on your works. 
Well, you have to be able to 

498
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,040
judge your works. 
You have to have perfect memory 

499
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,640
of the works you had, Amen. 
Like you had dementia in your 

500
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,280
last part of your life. 
How would you know, right? 

501
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,720
How do you hold account? 
You have to be able to judge 

502
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,240
your works. 
And so you have perfect memory 

503
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,440
of your life. 
You remember back to your 

504
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,000
family, friends, the things that
happened. 

505
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,280
These martyrs had personal 
history that extends directly 

506
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,120
back to lives on earth. 
How long will you wait to cast 

507
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,920
judgement on the sins and the 
brokenness of humanity, those 

508
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,840
that had taken their lives? 
So those in present heaven are 

509
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,560
not different people. 
They're the same people just 

510
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,320
relocated. 
The Bible says in Hebrews 12/23 

511
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,960
righteous men made perfect. 
I love the fact that we're just 

512
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,800
relocated. 
Amen. 

513
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,600
I love they're not recreated or 
re transformed and we kind of 

514
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,000
slip into some people think 
you'd get your Angel wings. 

515
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,800
You see those videos, you get 
your Angel wings. 

516
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,960
You had no Angel wings. 
I hate to disappoint. 

517
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,320
Amen. 
You ain't even flowing around. 

518
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,080
You're getting your Angel wings.
You know, why would you want to 

519
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:50,640
do that anyway? 
That'd be weird, wouldn't it? 

520
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,640
Like I was human, but now I'm an
Angel. 

521
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,800
This is dumb. 
Just gonna say it. 

522
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,440
This makes no sense. 
Like just make it whatever you 

523
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,280
want up to feel good, OK? 
People in heaven will be 

524
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,720
remembered for lives on earth. 
So, so think about this. 

525
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,040
Other people knew them by their 
reputation and testimony of what

526
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,560
they live like on earth. 
Makes you wonder what people are

527
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,280
going to think of us, right? 
Look as they were known and 

528
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,760
identified as the one slain 
because the testimony they had 

529
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,440
maintained. 
So like, what? 

530
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,640
What in the world are they going
to know you by in heaven? 

531
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,720
Oh, you're the one, you're that 
guy. 

532
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,800
You brought heaven to earth, 
which is the prayer by way, 

533
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,080
right? 
For your will be done as in 

534
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,560
heaven on heaven as on heaven on
earth as in heaven, Amen. 

535
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,600
And so like you're known by your
walk with God now at least you 

536
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,280
can be, which is absolutely 
amazing. 

537
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,720
It just reminds you we should be
really bold, Amen. 

538
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,000
Like Christians like this. 
I love Jesus. 

539
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,920
Does that. 
Does that bother people? 

540
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,840
I don't, I don't know. 
Maybe it does, maybe it should. 

541
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,480
I don't know. 
But the bottom line is we have 

542
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,280
the greatest news ever given, 
Amen. 

543
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,840
And we know our eternity and 
what we do now matters more than

544
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,560
really ever because it sets the 
pace for eternity. 

545
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,880
There's no thought. 
They called out, which is pretty

546
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,640
amazing, which means they have 
the ability to express 

547
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,680
themselves audibly. 
They have vocal cords, Amen. 

548
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,320
They can speak. 
That's good news. 

549
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,200
Some of you thought to go to 
heaven. 

550
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,720
He was like, we just, we're just
like a little drone. 

551
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,800
No, you can actually say things 
and have opinions. 

552
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,960
Isn't that amazing to think 
about? 

553
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,560
I'm not going to say you keep 
fighting with your spouse, but 

554
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,760
there won't be a spouse there. 
Just Jesus, come on, they will 

555
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,200
be in heaven. 
You won't be married. 

556
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,680
Let me qualify that a little 
bit. 

557
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,120
They won't be there. 
That was a little strong. 

558
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,280
That was a little strong. 
Julian Dobry's like I told you 

559
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,320
so I did. 
I made that up. 

560
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,400
I'm sorry, but they express 
themselves oddly. 

561
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,120
So it would suggest that 
Vilcourts, we talk about them 

562
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,360
being physical on a physical 
earth. 

563
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,120
We talk about the new heaven, 
new earth, when the new heaven, 

564
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,800
earth created that actually 
heaven comes down to earth, the 

565
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,480
city of Jerusalem and heaven and
earth are actually one that's 

566
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,720
pretty amazing to think about. 
If you put in our time period, 

567
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,840
Heaven and earth are on right 
here together now. 

568
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,280
Like your eternity doesn't start
when you die, your eternity 

569
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,800
start when you're born and you 
just made decisions to follow 

570
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,440
Jesus and the eternity is set 
and you're promised through the 

571
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,080
Holy Spirit that he sealed you. 
The Holy Spirit promise you're 

572
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,120
going to go to heaven, but 
you're already eternal, Amen, 

573
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560
Amen. 
So when you're living your life,

574
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,760
you're not looking at like, oh, 
what's my how much money can I 

575
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,040
make? 
What kind of manshine can I live

576
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,600
in? 
How many fathers going to have, 

577
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,960
you know, all these things We 
try settle all the temporary 

578
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,360
goals that's on earth. 
I'm not saying you shouldn't 

579
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,960
have some goals, Amen, but you 
better not lose them to distract

580
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,000
by where you're really going 
because you're just a sis in the

581
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,680
heaven and you're a sojourned on
earth. 

582
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:47,360
You're just passing through, 
Amen? 

583
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,040
Like we need to be more bold and
step out because we know exactly

584
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,760
where we spend eternity. 
So they raise their voices, 

585
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,720
which indicates they're 
rational. 

586
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,160
The people are commutative, they
have emotion, and based on what 

587
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,360
they said, they even have very 
passionate emotion, Amen. 

588
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,240
Do do you guys like having 
passionate emotion? 

589
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,080
I mean, some of y'all do, right?
Some of y'all watched the Bills 

590
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,320
and the Broncos last night and 
had some passionate emotion. 

591
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,440
That was not the response I was 
thinking. 

592
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,200
I'm still bitter from the 90s. 
So it's all right, right? 

593
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,440
It's all good. 
But passionate, right? 

594
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,800
Passionate beings, just like we 
are on earth. 

595
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,960
I mean, I just love the fact we 
have passion. 

596
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,120
Look at this, we crowd out a 
loud voice, not loud voices, 

597
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:40,520
there was just one voice. 
We're like unified together. 

598
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,040
They're individuals that are 
speaking as one. 

599
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:47,720
So any case, heaven is a place 
of unity and shared perspective.

600
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,800
It's pretty amazing that we 
together are watching the 

601
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,560
injustice of earth. 
These martyrs, at least they're 

602
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,560
seeing what's happening. 
They're crying out how long Lord

603
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:03,000
will we have to wait? 
So the martyrs are conscious, 

604
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,360
rational, aware of each other, 
which is good news. 

605
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,640
And the situation on earth. 
Can Can you imagine your loved 

606
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,120
one in heaven knowing what's 
happening on earth? 

607
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,720
Like we, we think about Jesus 
and like, oh, Jesus knows 

608
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,760
everything. 
But what about the Saints in the

609
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,200
forests? 
Like, what if they actually know

610
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,400
what you're struggling with? 
Will they actually know what 

611
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,680
your habits are? 
Will they actually know the 

612
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,680
conversations and the demons and
the temptations and the road you

613
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,440
choose? 
Will they actually know that 

614
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,080
about your life? 
Would that change how you live? 

615
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,640
My hair stands up. 
I think about it because these 

616
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,600
guys know what's happening on 
earth. 

617
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,920
They ask God to intervene. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

618
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,800
Amen. 
You're going to pray more in 

619
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,880
heaven than you pray on earth. 
I guarantee it. 

620
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,160
And they ask God to intervene on
earth to act on their behalf. 

621
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,920
How long until you judge the 
habits of the earth and avenge 

622
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,120
our blood? 
I love to have full access to 

623
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:00,880
Jesus. 
Amen. 

624
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,480
I love to ask Jesus questions. 
They have an audience with God 

625
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,480
and they also to ask the 
question would mean you have to 

626
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,200
have the ability to learn. 
You know so many people teach 

627
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:20,360
this when you get to heaven. 
He's going to play keys in 

628
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,280
heaven. 
This is way better in horrible 

629
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:29,720
church, but you think about 
heaven that you have the 

630
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,640
abilities to discover the 
ability to learn. 

631
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,720
They suddenly people think you 
get downloaded everything like 

632
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,760
you die. 
We won't know until we get to 

633
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,960
heaven. 
You still might not know when 

634
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,680
you get to heaven right, because
there's still things to 

635
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,720
discover. 
There's things to learn. 

636
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,520
I'm thinking about people go 
ahead of me and they there 

637
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,440
whatever place that are in the 
on the the new earth that would 

638
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,600
be there right or present 
heaven. 

639
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,400
They're going to walk around the
corner and go what's around 

640
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,800
here? 
What's this taste like? 

641
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,600
There's food, there's eating, 
there's trees, there's camels 

642
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,040
that have you solved that in 
Isaiah chapter 60, who now you 

643
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,280
know for sure there's camels in 
heaven. 

644
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,840
I said it Amen. 
We know at least there's camels,

645
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,000
right and we go around. 
We're like man, what's we have 

646
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,520
ability to go. 
I can learn something. 

647
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,240
I have adventure still. 
Amen. 

648
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,880
I started thinking like, 
brother, I'm probably not 

649
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,400
getting a chance. 
I'm much too old to have no lung

650
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,320
capacity. 
My wife would kill me to climb 

651
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,600
Mount Everest. 
But I'm telling you, man, since 

652
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,240
the new Earth is actually our 
earth resurrected, we'll get 

653
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,440
into this next week. 
I'm going to climb Everest in 

654
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,920
heaven. 
Come on, somebody imperishable. 

655
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,560
I'm going to bury my to pull me 
down, but I'm not going to die. 

656
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,240
Hey, man, no deal. 
Bile, oxygen. 

657
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,680
We're going for it, baby. 
Just a different perspective, 

658
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,200
right, of how real heaven is 
now. 

659
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,640
I've lost my place. 
I don't know where I'm at. 

660
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,320
So they desire understanding and
pursue justice and truth. 

661
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,560
They, they, they finally are 
fighting for the right things. 

662
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,320
Sometimes we fight for the wrong
things on earth. 

663
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,040
You know, you get so bitter at 
people, so mad at stuff and you 

664
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,560
get to heaven and like, all 
makes sense. 

665
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,920
You're like, dude, I'm going to 
fight for things of God. 

666
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,520
What was I thinking building my 
life on myself? 

667
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,120
That's the rock. 
Amen. 

668
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,640
And we built our lives sometimes
on same because it's so in front

669
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,080
of us. 
Just makes so much sense. 

670
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,640
People in the present heaven 
know what's happened on earth. 

671
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,360
The martyrs know enough to 
realize that those who killed 

672
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:31,640
them are not yet being judged. 
They know it's not happened yet.

673
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,200
They understand there's time. 
Heaven dwellers have a deep 

674
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,640
concern for justice in 
retribution. 

675
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,600
When you go to heaven, we won't 
adopt A passive disinterest, 

676
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,680
disinterest and what happens on 
earth. 

677
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,080
On the contrary, our concern 
will be more passionate and our 

678
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,720
thirst for justice even greater.
It's pretty amazing. 

679
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,560
Amen. 
Like you thought, you go up 

680
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,040
there and be like, oh, we're 
going to have fun. 

681
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,720
It's going to go great, there's 
a present heaven and your tears 

682
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,040
are not wiped away until the new
heaven, new earth. 

683
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,920
And so the present heaven is 
about God's patience as he's 

684
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,760
patiently waiting for all people
to come to repentance to him. 

685
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,120
Amen. 
That's the only reason we're 

686
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,320
here, and that's the only reason
that's the present heaven, is 

687
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,760
that the present heaven is still
cheering on things of earth for 

688
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,800
people to come to Christ. 
Neither God nor we will be 

689
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,160
satisfied until his enemies are 
judged, our buys are raised, and

690
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,440
sin and Satan are defeated. 
Earth are restored and Christ is

691
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,760
exalted over all. 
This is what you're going to be 

692
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,200
praying for when you die. 
This is going to be on your 

693
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,560
heart when you die. 
Justice for God to do what He's 

694
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,640
called to do. 
The martyrs clearly remember 

695
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,280
their lives on earth. 
They even remember that they 

696
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,640
were murdered. 
That's pretty crazy thing about 

697
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,320
it, isn't it? 
Like you, you die in your faith 

698
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,760
and you, the angels take you to 
eternity and you're like, Lord, 

699
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:02,000
go get them, Amen. 
It's amazing because there's so 

700
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,720
much things on earth that don't 
like the system's broken, right?

701
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,960
There's injustice, there's pain,
there's lost, and we can lose 

702
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,680
faith in all of humanity and 
God. 

703
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,360
But God has a final word, Amen. 
There's murders unsolved, 

704
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,000
there's injustice all the time. 
There's corruption and greed. 

705
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,120
Everything's twisted. 
It's about power and money and 

706
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,840
eternity. 
All gets straightened up by God 

707
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,880
and we remember. 
Think about this, If you didn't 

708
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,280
have memory, how could you give 
true worship? 

709
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,480
Let the redeemed of the Saints 
say so. 

710
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,400
Amen. 
If you don't remember your 

711
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,640
redemption and the pain and the 
cost, how can you give true 

712
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,360
worship to God? 
And so in heaven we see it 

713
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,840
perfectly. 
We understand with God's 

714
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,320
patience and his timing and the 
injustice and the affliction, 

715
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,600
and we're crying out and give 
worship to God for all eternity 

716
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,240
for the for his mercy and grace 
that He's given us. 

717
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,960
This is pretty cool. 
The martyrs in heaven pray for 

718
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,200
judgment on the persecutors who 
are still working hurt on 

719
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,560
others, and they're acting in 
solidarity with and in effect 

720
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,800
interceding for the suffering 
Saints on earth. 

721
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,440
This suggests that the Saints in
heaven are both seeing and 

722
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,800
praying for the Saints on earth.
These martyrs prayed how long 

723
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,719
and they're praying for justice 
on earth to think about this 

724
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,880
that a loved one has passed 
before somebody in Jesus and it 

725
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,280
really all time. 
All the Saints are looking at us

726
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,159
and they're praying for us. 
Does that blow your mind or what

727
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:39,920
to think about Paul and Moses 
and grandma, uncle, friends, 

728
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:45,080
brother, dad, spouse and heaven 
know Jesus and they're looking 

729
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,080
to you and they're saying go get
them boy, God, use them, protect

730
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,280
them, get some justice, bring 
some righteousness. 

731
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,840
Can you can you can you just 
imagine this and we're the ones 

732
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,720
sad at the funeral gun, don't 
you think? 

733
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,280
And you're like, brother, they, 
they are more alive than ever 

734
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,760
and they want something from 
your life. 

735
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,520
They never quit on you. 
They know exactly what's 

736
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,280
happening. 
Will this change every funeral 

737
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:11,480
in history, Amen. 
Got to get aware of what God is 

738
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,800
really doing. 
The Saints are praying for us. 

739
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,560
Amen. 
That's an Amen. 

740
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,200
Amen. 
Amen. 

741
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,000
Because you're because you're 
like one with the Saints. 

742
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,840
It's not you by yourself in your
bedroom or nobody understands 

743
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,480
you. 
Nobody can figure it out. 

744
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,840
Oh, it's so hard. 
Oh, man. 

745
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,400
Tipped over the scale. 
I can't figure out what to do. 

746
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,760
I can't make decisions. 
All these things like, dude, 

747
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,560
heaven has a plan and they're 
praying for you. 

748
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:40,880
You're not alone. 
Amen. 

749
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,320
Those in heaven see God's 
attributes. 

750
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,720
We saw that earlier, right? 
The sovereign Lord, holy and 

751
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,200
true. 
That's pretty cool. 

752
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,120
What we see face to face, the 
actual attributes of God that 

753
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,760
the key thing of heaven is 
actually the presence of Jesus. 

754
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,000
We're in his presence. 
We are distinct individuals. 

755
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,720
We're all given individual robes
by that last week. 

756
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,720
I love there were not one merged
just uniqueness. 

757
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,920
You know, they all slip into 
this energy field at the 

758
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,480
forehead. 
Like, I love that. 

759
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,200
We're unique individuals, Amen. 
We continue on the martyrs wear 

760
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,320
right rubs which suggest a 
physical form. 

761
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,440
We talk about last. 
We've got disembodied spirits. 

762
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:28,600
It does something, put a robe 
on. 

763
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,880
God answers questions. 
That's pretty good right? 

764
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,080
Now we ask questions and we have
to search Scripture and Holy 

765
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,960
Spirit gives confirmation, all 
these things. 

766
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,080
But in heaven, you're like 
Jesus, how long He's like, wait,

767
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,600
OK, that's amazing. 
Amen. 

768
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,720
Like we can have our questions 
answered. 

769
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:47,040
He's like, oh, what what are you
doing right now? 

770
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,240
Hey, we're waiting until the 
last person is martyred for 

771
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,840
their faith. 
Then I'm going back down there. 

772
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,800
OK, We're praying for that. 
That's pretty cool. 

773
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,880
Amen. 
So you just know, like when 

774
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,120
people are killed for faith, 
it's just maybe the last one, 

775
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,040
maybe the last one, because you 
know, we're just going to go out

776
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,720
like a ball of fire, right? 
Because we're going to people 

777
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:11,000
like Polycarp are going to be 
like, Hey, renounce Jesus. 

778
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,760
You're like, I'm not you ever 
read the book? 

779
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,920
She said, yes, the story. 
I called on high school and the 

780
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,800
guy put the gun to her head and 
said, do you believe in Jesus? 

781
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,440
You know, tell people you don't 
he's I believe in Jesus. 

782
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,440
And she said, yes, I do. 
And they shot her back in the 

783
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,840
head could have been the last 
one right like that, that that's

784
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,200
what how it goes. 
So when you get persecuted, like

785
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,160
you might be that last martyr. 
That'd be cool. 

786
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,240
They took Mike home. 
We're going like I'm just 

787
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:38,240
saying, you know, we get so just
disrupted by this world. 

788
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,200
God's promises to fulfill the 
martyr's request. 

789
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,480
He says he actually says I'll 
wait a little longer. 

790
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,960
Those in present have been 
living into anticipation of a 

791
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,600
future filament of God's 
promises. 

792
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,440
Still sometimes you think, oh, 
the work is done though the work

793
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,560
is not done, guys still in 
working redemption. 

794
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,440
And this is amazing because if 
you think about, you wait a 

795
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,320
little longer, think about this,
there's time in the present 

796
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,920
heaven. 
The White Rd. martyrs asked God 

797
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,600
a time dependent question, How 
long Sovereign Lord? 

798
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,800
And the answer was that time is 
passing and they're eager for 

799
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,280
the coming day of the Lord's 
judgement. 

800
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,280
God answers they must wait a 
little longer until certain 

801
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,680
events to inspire on earth and 
waiting requires the passing of 

802
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,920
time. 
How did you guys do? 

803
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,360
There was actually time in 
heaven. 

804
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,120
Y'all thought like we're just 
going to not know anything. 

805
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,480
So this every time you read the 
scripture, you start seeing 

806
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,680
more. 
It's material, it's physical, 

807
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,640
there's time, matter and space 
and Jesus comes into our world 

808
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,200
of his creation and dwells with 
us. 

809
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,400
Amen. 
We're not slipping into some 

810
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,680
other world that we don't we're 
not familiar with at all. 

811
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,640
And I'll argue next week, I'll 
show you that actually we just 

812
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,520
return to the present earth, but
it's resurrected. 

813
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,840
That'll blow your mind. 
Maybe blow my mind. 

814
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,040
I'll be the only person. 
It'll be great. 

815
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:03,080
The people of God in heaven have
a strong familiar or family 

816
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,840
connection with those on earth 
who are called their fellow 

817
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,960
servants and brothers. 
It's pretty cool thing about the

818
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,240
Saints in heaven are calling us 
brothers and sisters in Christ. 

819
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,280
Isn't that amazing? 
Like we're all one even though 

820
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,800
we're not in the same place. 
There's not a wall that 

821
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,440
separates the body of Christ or 
one family with those who've 

822
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,800
gone ahead of us. 
And after we go to heaven, we'll

823
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,520
still be one family with those 
still on earth. 

824
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,280
We don't cease to be connected 
to each other. 

825
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,120
Amen. 
The body of Christ all united. 

826
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,480
Even though we're still in 
heaven and earth right now, 

827
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,040
we're all as one. 
Last thing is, this is pretty 

828
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200
cool. 
God knows down to the last 

829
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,560
detail of all that's happening 
and will happen on earth, 

830
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,640
including every drop of blood 
that is shed and every bit of 

831
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,840
suffering undergone by His 
children. 

832
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,680
There are thousands, perhaps 10s
of thousands who will die for 

833
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,360
Christ every single year. 
And God knows each and every one

834
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,240
of their names and every story 
of each of them is exactly how 

835
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:03,120
many martyrs they will be. 
He's prepared to return and set 

836
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,960
up his Kingdom when the final 
martyr dies. 

837
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,080
It's pretty incredible, Amen. 
Sometimes they God just absent, 

838
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,320
like you spin a top and he just 
let things go and like, hey, 

839
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,960
here's evolution and just 
happened. 

840
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,240
We don't need God anymore, so 
we're just left to ourselves. 

841
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,000
There could not be farther from 
the truth. 

842
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,480
Amen. 
And He knows exactly every 

843
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,080
detail, every injustice, every 
pain. 

844
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,320
And so in your life, if it 
doesn't look the way you think 

845
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,240
it should be and you've been 
mistreated or abused or taken 

846
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:30,800
advantage over or under 
corruption or all these 

847
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,800
different situations you get to 
that bother us, guess what? 

848
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,480
God knows, and God knows the 
whole story. 

849
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,200
And His justice is firm, His 
right on his strong, and He'll 

850
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,560
do exactly what He needs to do 
Amen. 

851
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,440
I think is this time period we 
have this little dash of life 

852
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,080
between the dates like we need 
to get really emboldened for 

853
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,880
Christ, like we need to take the
world by storm, Amen. 

854
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,040
Like we need to lift up our 
banner. 

855
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,320
We need to share Jesus and share
heaven, but don't be worried 

856
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,240
about trying to fit into this 
world. 

857
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,880
Now this is only three verses 
the Bible, Amen, 3 verses, Amen.

858
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,520
Gave you 3 pretty good three. 
Now if you look at this, you can

859
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,840
say, well that's just true. 
The martyrs that are in heaven, 

860
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,720
but it would make no sense. 
This would not be true for every

861
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,480
single person in heaven. 
This is the only argument you 

862
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,160
could ever make. 
I want to say this also on earth

863
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,560
now, we were unaware of the 
things happening in heaven. 

864
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,600
But those people in heaven, the 
Saints before us, they are not 

865
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,560
unaware of what's happening on 
earth. 

866
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,160
They know exactly what's 
happening. 

867
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,320
We question, we doubt, we worry,
We're looking through the Bible.

868
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:33,400
We're trying to figure things 
out. 

869
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,560
We're trying to figure God's 
will. 

870
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,760
And you get to heaven, all of a 
sudden unite as one of these 

871
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,160
Saints of old. 
You're crying out to God. 

872
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,760
How long? 
Lord, we're waiting for this 

873
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,040
justice to happen. 
We know you work in redemption. 

874
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,760
I see that, but we see the 
things happen on earth. 

875
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,120
Can you imagine your family and 
friends and you stand at a 

876
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:50,120
casket? 
You're like, oh, they're 

877
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:55,080
watching me right now. 
Just I know you're watching that

878
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,480
great comfort to know they're 
watching feels pretty good. 

879
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:04,240
I'll tell you what looks like 
last April, Easter, my daughter 

880
00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,720
want to get baptized. 
Emory and I, I see her in the 

881
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:10,200
front and it's, it's kind of 
chaotic as a pastor when you're 

882
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,280
having Sundays in general, but 
just big Sundays. 

883
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,360
And so Dine's on stage, she's 
singing, I'm next to the 

884
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,120
baptistery getting ready. 
Emery's stand next to me. 

885
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:24,640
She's six years old. 
And I'm going to climb in and 

886
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,760
leave her by herself because 
I've got to go in and, and start

887
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,280
yapping. 
Come on, somebody start telling 

888
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,840
everybody about all this stuff. 
And so she's by herself and she 

889
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,120
gets really, really nervous 
because mommy's on stage and 

890
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,080
daddy's in this big pool of 
water and there's nobody with 

891
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,200
her and she gets really nervous 
and she doesn't get baptized. 

892
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,800
I totally sat the way men like 
it was a real deal like this. 

893
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,560
OK, no big deal. 
Like I didn't know she wouldn't 

894
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:48,960
get baptized until she didn't go
in the pool. 

895
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,040
I was like, OK, what happened? 
And she just wanted mom next to 

896
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:52,720
her. 
Amen. 

897
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,160
Like just Jesus where she's at, 
even write it out. 

898
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,800
My mom, mom, mom and Emery 
together in Thailand, right with

899
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,960
some other they're going to go. 
But she said this, she said 

900
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,560
later. 
So Fast forward not much 6-8 

901
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,160
weeks not that far. 
She wanted there's a there's a 

902
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,760
great man of God named Bill that
taught in elementary class and 

903
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,320
she wanted Bill to see her get 
baptized and she was really 

904
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,560
disappointed when he passed away
that she wouldn't that he 

905
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,120
wouldn't get to see her get 
baptized. 

906
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,200
Although Bill going out with the
blazing glory like he is, he 

907
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,440
taught the kids over and over 
again. 

908
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,600
Now he had no idea he was dying,
but he taught the kids all the 

909
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,520
time. 
Don't worry about me because now

910
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,040
I died. 
I'm going to jump into a big 

911
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,200
pool of chocolate pudding and 
I'll be swimming around. 

912
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:40,920
I mean, he he had this vision of
heaven, man. 

913
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,240
And it was like the greatest 
place. 

914
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,720
So he's brought down the kids. 
It's even this amazing place. 

915
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,160
Don't worry about me. 
And so we're like, how we can 

916
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,880
tell the kids Bill passed away. 
So he pulled the kids aside on a

917
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,560
Sunday morning and they said, 
hey, you know, Bill teaches. 

918
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,880
He passed away. 
And the first day of the mouth 

919
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,880
was, oh, man, he's swimming in 
the chocolate pudding pool. 

920
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,400
They were so excited for Bill, 
right? 

921
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:05,440
I mean, only Bill can line up an
applause on the way out the door

922
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,840
for heaven. 
Most people are like, oh, so 

923
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,200
sorry to hear that. 
Bless you, brother. 

924
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,000
Oh, he's swimming in chocolate 
pudding like Bill. 

925
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:14,680
But you know, he's watching, 
right? 

926
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,640
He's up there like this. 
He's got that face, right? 

927
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,800
You know what I'm talking about.
So Emery, she gets gets to the 

928
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,760
end of the year, we baptized, 
but she want to do it in 

929
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,120
September. 
And then she's like, hey, 

930
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,160
because the way it worked out in
the 20, the 28th, it was like a 

931
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,720
social right. 
So like dying could be down and 

932
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,120
out on stage doing all these 
things and mom's in with her. 

933
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:36,760
And so she's like, oh, I'll get 
baptized. 

934
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,160
So he gets baptized and I pull 
her side. 

935
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,400
I say, you know what, you're 
really cool in Marine. 

936
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,040
You probably don't know this 
yet. 

937
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:44,960
I'm going to let you know that 
even though you didn't have Bill

938
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,800
physically here to watch you get
baptized, Bill's in heaven and 

939
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,280
today he actually watched you 
get baptized. 

940
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,560
Is that cool? 
That's cool. 

941
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,600
That's the glory of God. 
Amen. 

942
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,320
If you start thinking about 
eternity now in terms of life 

943
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,080
and death, but life and life 
like it starts now and lasts 

944
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,360
forever, and you start living in
heaven now and you have been 

945
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:07,560
bound. 
And one day you're going to 

946
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,520
heaven found and you start 
chaining yourself to the thing 

947
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,480
in the next World and you bring 
it to this world. 

948
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,280
And you stop acting like this 
all matters and start focusing 

949
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,760
on people and souls and stop 
looking down and start looking 

950
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:17,960
up. 
I promise you your world's going

951
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,680
to be totally different and 
you're going to bring people 

952
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:20,280
with you. 
Amen. 

953
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,200
That was the series is all 
about. 

954
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,360
You'd be so moved by heaven that
it changed the way you walk on 

955
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,000
earth. 
The death is an enemy that's 

956
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,160
defeated by God, and we continue
on. 

957
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,000
The same personality, the same 
every the same, the same 

958
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,960
identity, different body. 
Hallelujah. 

959
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,400
Praise God, the same passion for
Jesus, the same promise of God. 

960
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:38,960
It's still all true and all 
there. 

961
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,880
And we have to change our lives 
now for eternity. 

962
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,040
Come on, brother. 
How many guys learned something 

963
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,200
today? 
Show of hands, you guys learn 

964
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,320
someday. 
This is amazing. 

965
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,520
It's all there in the Bible and 
the world needs. 

966
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,760
I would encourage you this week,
10 days heavenly vision, heaven 

967
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,760
first. 
Let's give the world heaven. 

968
00:45:58,520 --> 00:45:59,440
Give them heaven. 
Amen. 

969
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,640
Give them heaven. 
And amazing how you live. 

970
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,560
It may be the greatest picture 
of heaven somebody ever have. 

971
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,400
And we can teach them to show 
them by our attitude and our 

972
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:09,840
faith. 
They wake up. 

973
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,960
We're not like, oh man, there's 
less life ahead of me. 

974
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,560
You know what? 
There's eternity ahead of me, 

975
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,080
brother. 
So the worst you do, you should 

976
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,000
kill me now and I go, but the 
worst you do is I live till 99 

977
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:23,360
or 105, right? 
That's the worst that happens. 

978
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,480
So I'll encourage you guys, be 
bold in your faith and share 

979
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,680
Jesus and don't be afraid of 
what happens in this world. 

980
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:32,520
So Father, come before you. 
God, we thank you so much for 

981
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,840
eternity. 
God, we thank you for the Saints

982
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,560
that are watching oh so 
curiously every Sunday. 

983
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,800
What's happening in the church, 
Bodies are being together. 

984
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,000
God, thank you for those who are
gone before us, God, that 

985
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,280
they're praying for us so we 
have a glimpse into eternal 

986
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,920
premier scripture. 
I pray you embolden our faith. 

987
00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:52,560
You give us knowledge and God 
over all today you just fill our

988
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,720
hearts with eternity. 
You set our mind and our faith. 

989
00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:59,800
God, we would not question or 
worry or be full anxiety or 

990
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,440
fear, but we know exactly where 
we're going. 

991
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,360
Embolden us, God, to share your 
gospel and to tell the world 

992
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,240
that heaven is watching. 
I'll pray for one group of 

993
00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:12,880
people in the house. 
That's those you'd say you know 

994
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,200
what, today I need heaven. 
It'd be a bummer to hear all 

995
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,960
these messages on heaven and 
actually not go there. 

996
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,760
So I would encourage you today 
there's only one way to heaven. 

997
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,680
It's through the name of Jesus. 
Else there's no other name under

998
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,520
heaven which men are saved by 
the name of Jesus. 

999
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,800
He's the way truth and life. 
No man come to the Father but 

1000
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,320
through him that if you're going
to go to the Father comes with 

1001
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,000
the Son. 
The only way to heaven is 

1002
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,920
through Jesus. 
It's what do you believe about 

1003
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,720
Jesus? 
Do you believe that died on the 

1004
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:40,640
cross for your sins and made 
away he took all of your wrongs,

1005
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:45,200
changed all his rights. 
What will you do with Jesus 

1006
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,400
since day if you need Jesus and 
you call to Christ when you have

1007
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,000
Jesus, you also get heaven. 
It's a package deal. 

1008
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:53,960
And so if you need Christ today,
you need to extend your life and

1009
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,520
you've met you're a Sinner 
needed Savior. 

1010
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,680
If that's you, we just raise 
your hand high this place I need

1011
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,640
Jesus today. 
I need heaven today. 

1012
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,760
I must see your hand must leave 
heaven and see your hand see 

1013
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,320
your hand, your hand. 
It's amazing to talk about 

1014
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,280
heaven. 
It's so good. 

1015
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,320
Amen. 
And for those of you who need 

1016
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,240
having the day, this prayer I'm 
gonna lead you through does not 

1017
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:15,240
save you, but just your heart 
towards him. 

1018
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:19,840
Heart of humility, heart of 
servanthood, heart of obedience.

1019
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,120
Just crowd to God to say this. 
Thank you Father, for making a 

1020
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,400
way for me to go to heaven 
through your son, Jesus. 

1021
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,680
God, I'm a Sinner and need of a 
savior. 

1022
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,800
I'm a broken vessel. 
God, I've built my life on sand 

1023
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,960
and it's been shaken before but 
today I build my life on Jesus. 

1024
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:38,880
I'll call to you as my Lord and 
Savior. 

1025
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,480
God changed my life. 
God give me heaven. 

1026
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,280
God give me your spirit. 
God forgive me. 

1027
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,280
I trust you. 
You died for my sins. 

1028
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,960
I prayed in Jesus name and the 
church said Amen and heaven is 

1029
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,560
cheering right now. 
Amen. 

1030
00:48:55,240 --> 00:49:00,600
Come on. 
Man, what a word today. 

1031
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,280
I, I think I say this every 
week, but my mind just blown man

1032
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,520
today, just even thinking about 
what got to me in the message is

1033
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,560
just that how aware heaven is of
what's going on here on earth 

1034
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,280
and that they are actually 
praying for us. 

1035
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,200
Man, that just so good. 
I mean, some of you recognize 

1036
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,360
today that the heaven is real, 
that Jesus is looking for you, 

1037
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,960
that he's searching for you and 
you found him today. 

1038
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,400
He found you. 
You ultimately found heaven this

1039
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,840
morning. 
And if that's you and you raised

1040
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:27,640
your hand and you prayed that 
prayer this morning. 

1041
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,320
I mean, we are so excited for 
you as you are walking out this 

1042
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,200
journey with Jesus and we would 
love to know that decision just 

1043
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:35,480
to help you on your walk with 
him. 

1044
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,280
So if you would grab that 
connection card that's at your 

1045
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,640
seat, you can fill out the 
information there in that top 

1046
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,440
section. 
Just make sure and check that 

1047
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,360
box that says I committed my 
life to Jesus. 

1048
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,040
And you can drop that in the 
giving buckets as they pass here

1049
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,960
in just a few minutes. 
And just by doing that allows us

1050
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,720
to get you some resources this 
week. 

1051
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:53,960
The first one is a free book. 
It's called begin. 

1052
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,560
It's a short little book, but 
man, it is powerful. 

1053
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,480
It truly is packed with a lot of
good things. 

1054
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:01,040
We'll help you know and follow 
Jesus this week. 

1055
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,640
As you're walking that out and 
as you leave the worship center,

1056
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,280
there is a table with some red 
bags. 

1057
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:06,840
Please grab one of those as 
well. 

1058
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,160
There's a free Bible in there 
and a few other resources as 

1059
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,800
well. 
That truly will be just a 

1060
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,520
blessing to you. 
We would love to get to that to 

1061
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,080
you this week. 
And hey, if you are newer in the

1062
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,960
house with us today, if this is 
your first time here, thank you 

1063
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,920
so much for coming. 
We're so glad that you came 

1064
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,920
today. 
I know that you heard something 

1065
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,160
from God this morning. 
And so we're so glad that you're

1066
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,240
here. 
We really don't want anything 

1067
00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:28,640
from you today except just to 
introduce yourself to us. 

1068
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,480
You can do that simply by 
grabbing that same connection 

1069
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:32,920
card. 
Fill out your information there 

1070
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,560
and check first time here on 
that as well. 

1071
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,560
You can drop that in the giving 
buckets too. 

1072
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,360
Or also as you exit the worship 
center, just to your right, 

1073
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:41,920
there is a new here booth as 
well. 

1074
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,800
Somebody would be out there 
would love to take that card 

1075
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,120
from you, introduce them 
themselves to you and get you a 

1076
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,440
free gift as well. 
And we would just love to see 

1077
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,720
you back here with us next week 
as well. 

1078
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,760
Man, talking about this Heaven 
series, it has been so cool just

1079
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,120
to hear all the questions that 
come out of this from all of you

1080
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,080
guys. 
And just to see people leaning 

1081
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,960
in, grabbing their Bible, like, 
man, I got to go home and check 

1082
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:03,440
this out. 
It's been so cool, man. 

1083
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,800
Sean shared that four people 
accepted Jesus last year or last

1084
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:11,480
year, last week, and we've had 
nine people so far in 2026 start

1085
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,920
a relationship with Jesus, which
is so awesome. 

1086
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,800
I mean, when you think about it,
truly the best part of church is

1087
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,120
the people. 
I mean, it's the people who know

1088
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:24,400
you, who support you, who show 
up with you, who walk with you. 

1089
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:25,680
That's truly what it's all 
about. 

1090
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,120
And what's really cool if you 
think about the relationships 

1091
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,400
that you have here on earth, the
relationships with the people 

1092
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,200
you have here in the church, 
those who know Christ, I mean, 

1093
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,080
those aren't just relationships 
for right now, but those truly 

1094
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,000
are heavenly relationships. 
Those are relationships for 

1095
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,640
eternity. 
Man, that fires me up to know 

1096
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,840
that and to get behind that. 
And so man, don't wait to make 

1097
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,320
some heavenly relationships and 
relationships and friendships 

1098
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,560
that last into eternity. 
And we have some ways for you to

1099
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,360
do that. 
And that's through life groups. 

1100
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,920
They really are a place where 
you can intentionally grow and 

1101
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,080
deepen your faith, where you can
make some heavenly 

1102
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,400
relationships. 
And what's cool, this semester 

1103
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:01,960
we're doing something new as 
well. 

1104
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,240
That's the way life groups. 
So if you're intentionally 

1105
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:07,480
looking to grow deeper in your 
faith to, to grow deeper in your

1106
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,320
walk with God, we used to have 
some just amazing leaders who 

1107
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,840
are ready who are excited to 
walk with you to help you grow 

1108
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,200
in your faith. 
So whether you're new, maybe 

1109
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,480
you're just feeling disconnected
in this season, or hey, maybe 

1110
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,920
you're just looking to do 
something more to dive in a 

1111
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,240
little deeper. 
We have a group for you and they

1112
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:27,600
are going to launch in person 
Sunday, February 1st, but they 

1113
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:31,440
are live for signups right now. 
So you can scan that QR code, 

1114
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,080
It'll take you over to our 
website. 

1115
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,680
Also out in the hub, you can 
check out our life groups wall. 

1116
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,520
You'll see all of our life 
groups there as well. 

1117
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:38,880
I mean, this is my 
encouragement. 

1118
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,720
Don't wait, don't wait to make 
some heavenly relationships, 

1119
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:46,040
some friendship to help you know
God even deeper this spring. 

1120
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,080
I'm talking about the people, 
man. 

1121
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,160
Yeah. 
The best part of church has 

1122
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:50,920
always been the people. 
And for those of us who are here

1123
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,880
and who know Jesus, man, that is
exciting. 

1124
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:54,760
That is exciting. 
That pumps me up. 

1125
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,840
But think about the the 
community we're in, the city 

1126
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,000
we're in, the world, the other 
people that need to know Jesus. 

1127
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They need the good news of what 
we have. 

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And so we would love for you 
guys just to partner with us. 

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Together. 
We can see more souls saved and 

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sent out to know Jesus. 
We would love for you to partner

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with us to see more people know 
Jesus. 

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And so if you call real life 
home, there are a lot of ways 

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that you can do that. 
You can scan that QR code that's

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going to be up on the screen 
there. 

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You can also head on over to our
website, 

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reallifechurchkc.com/give. 
The giving buckets are going to 

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pass here as well. 
You can drop cash or check in 

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there. 
Also. 

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There's a giving box in the 
back. 

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You can drop cash or check in 
that as well if that is more 

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convenient for you. 
And as always, as these buckets 

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pass here in just a minute, if 
you or your family find yourself

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in any kind of immediate need 
today, maybe it's food or 

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clothing or shelter as they 
pass, please reach in and grab 

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any loose cash that you see. 
We really do want to bless you 

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and help you this week. 
Let's pray, Father, thank you 

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God, just for how good you are. 
And God, I just pray that you 

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would help us to have eternity 
in my Father, to focus on things

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above, on heavenly 
relationships. 

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Father, I'm bringing more people
in to know you so that they can 

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too know about heaven and that 
you are for them. 

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So God, I just pray you bless 
what's given today. 

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God, would you use it? 
Would you multiply it to see 

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more people come to know you? 
God, we love you, we praise you.

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It's in your holy name that we 
pray. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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What a what a morning, right? 
What a sermon. 

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I have a challenge for you guys.
Now's the part where we actually

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go out and apply everything 
we've been talking about. 

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And now is the part where we 
really think, how can I make 

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this more than just a cool 
message that I heard on Sunday? 

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You could really start to think 
about what you're going to do 

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with this. 
And that's why I'd encourage you

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to follow along with us on the 
social media campaign, the 

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social media campaign, 10 Days 
of Heaven. 

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And through this campaign, we're
going to be looking about how we

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can actually integrate this 
thinking of heaven into our 

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lives. 
You're going to be challenged to

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to look. 
When your marriage doesn't feel 

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as as strong as it should, look 
to heaven. 

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When your kids aren't listening 
to the degree you think they 

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should be listening, look to 
heaven. 

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When your family feels like it's
just falling apart, look to 

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heaven. 
This idea that that heaven is a 

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response to our earthly 
struggles is deeply biblical in 

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my opinion. 
I'm getting ready after church 

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today. 
I'm having a Bible study with 

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some of my friends and one of my
friends chose Ecclesiastes to go

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through. 
And in Ecclesiastes you see this

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mode that one of the most 
vulnerable and honest struggles 

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of somebody just talking and 
working his way through the 

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issues of earth. 
But the only hope in my opinion 

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that we need is found in 
Ecclesiastes 3, where it says 

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that in the hearts of man God 
has placed eternity. 

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And when you understand, you 
understand the gospel. 

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And when you understand the 
gospel, the good news gets a lot

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better. 
So I'd encourage you all to tell

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everyone about this. 
Follow along on the social media

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campaign, follow us on on 
Instagram, Facebook, at Real 

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00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,120
Life Church KC Follow along with
us and tell somebody about 

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heaven and give them the gospel 
to its fullest extent. 

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If you need somebody to talk to,
we're going to have somebody 

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down here with you to pray. 
Otherwise, I'll let you all get 

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here next week at 9:00 or 10:45.
And remember, whoever finds 

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Jesus discovers real life and 
purpose. 

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See you guys next week.