1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,240 Got it just good. He's so, so good. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,280 Amen. You know, hopefully this week 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,040 you guys had a chance to reflect on heaven a little bit. 4 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:07,160 How many guys are here last week, by the way? 5 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,320 I don't know about you, but my week, man, it was it it went 6 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,320 like real raw, real quick. A lot of conversations with 7 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,480 people that are hurting. You know, you start the year out 8 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,760 and it's like got these amazing goals, but goals are always 9 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,080 built on pain. You talk about visions always 10 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,840 built on on loss, right. As you look into the year, I 11 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:24,960 mean, there's so many people I've talked to. 12 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,840 I kind of tend conversation I had this week where it was a 13 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,400 difficult conversation. So we walked through a difficult 14 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,680 season. I went from funerals to family 15 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,360 to finance to all these things. As a pastor, I just want to tell 16 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,440 you, I'm encouraged that we have a church where people can 17 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,680 connect with each other and give them the hope of the gospel and 18 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:46,800 the hope of eternity. Amen. 19 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,280 It's not just coming on Sunday. It's you guys doing life 20 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,320 together. I get the honor and privilege of 21 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,760 being in the position I'm in. I get a lot of conversations, 22 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,400 but you guys get those conversations as well. 23 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,360 I would encourage you don't assume just because somebody 24 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,120 sitting next to you on Sunday that that they're doing good. 25 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,040 Amen. Because we bring in, we're 26 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,160 broken. We're all broken, right? 27 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,880 And I would encourage you guys, We have an amazing church. 28 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,320 It's more than a show up on Sunday. 29 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,880 It's a family. It's us encouraging each other 30 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,480 towards Christ and holding each other up And it's there's it's 31 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,080 not, Oh, there's this crazy thing by the scenes, but just 32 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,160 every just like a grind of a week. 33 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,360 You know, everyone of those weeks was like I had I was going 34 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,240 to go right, but I went left 15 times, you know, 3 less, 3 less 35 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:25,720 make a right, by the way, just let you know. 36 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,560 So, but man, I just wanted to just start out today. 37 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,160 Just thank you, Jesus, God, thank you, Jesus. 38 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,800 We sang these songs all focused on eternity. 39 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,680 I'll focus on life and you God, and we just give you praise and 40 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,360 glory. God, you're in charge and I pray 41 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,600 today, God, just a special blessing. 42 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,400 Those that came in maybe this for the first time and looked 43 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,120 for answers. Maybe they've been here then 44 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,120 know you, God, I pray you just rolled close to them. 45 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,480 Remind them about heaven. Remind them of who you are. 46 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,400 God, your spirit would just fall in this place. 47 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,200 God comfort us, direct us, empower us, embolden us as we 48 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,720 just get a taste of heaven this morning. 49 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,880 We praise in Jesus name, Amen. Couple things to celebrate one 50 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,440 last week was really cool. You guys remember it was it was 51 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,560 Christmas last week here still guys remember like the thousands 52 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,759 things of Christmas. You know, it's a trailer loop. 53 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,240 We had a team that stayed after a part of a dream team. 54 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,080 Some people made-up. I don't know how many were 55 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,440 there, maybe 3540 or so. They literally tore down the 56 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,920 Christmas stuff in one hour. That's impressive. 57 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:23,440 Amen. One hour. 58 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:25,520 I was like, oh Lord, like, OK, we're moving. 59 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,560 You know, we got it done. It wasn't just thrown away. 60 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,120 It was like packed well and everything. 61 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,480 Great team. We had some Casey's pizza. 62 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,840 Amen had too many slices. I don't know, you know, twos 63 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,600 enough 5 maybe gluttonous, but it happened six. 64 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,080 OK, Mike. And it was crazy is I mean, that 65 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:43,960 shouldn't even talk because it's not about speed, but it's just 66 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,320 so amazed. We tore down the Sunday morning 67 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,280 like the normal stuff in 45 minutes. 68 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,640 This is like everything you see in 45 minutes. 69 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,240 So we left here. We don't leave 1:30. 70 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,360 We left at 2:30. Come on, somebody that's 71 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,960 amazing, that's amazing. Like unless you just don't, 72 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,240 maybe you're blind, you don't know what's going on, but like, 73 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,960 there's so much stuff. So anyway, I was just really 74 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,840 impressed. So give it up for our team that 75 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,280 did that last week because that was impressive, man very 76 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,760 impressive. It was done well. 77 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,240 It wasn't like just throw it in the trailer. 78 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,480 Anyway, last week two people came to Christ, two people got 79 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Jesus, two people got heaven. Amen. 80 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,160 You know, we're all made for a person and a place. 81 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,520 We're made for Jesus and we're made for heaven. 82 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,280 And what's really cool about Jesus in heaven, You cannot have 83 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,160 heaven without Jesus, and you not have Jesus without heaven. 84 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:31,280 They code together. It's a package deal. 85 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Amen. If we're so much like worried 86 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,520 about eternity where it looks like it just look at Jesus and 87 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,360 today some of you guys, I believe are going to put your 88 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,360 faith in Jesus first time and some of you guys are going to 89 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 see heaven differently in in in this season. 90 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,960 And my prayer is that you'd be so moved by heaven during this 91 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,360 series. It will change how you live on 92 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,200 earth. Like we set these goals every 93 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,760 year 2026 and I'm thinking like, what about 2,000,026, two 94 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,720 trillion 26 like what it would it really focus on this earth? 95 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,040 Like we can set the financial goals which we should have and 96 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,720 all these different things. But what's it really, really 97 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,800 look like to live for Christ now? 98 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,560 Like to actually believe to live is Christ and to die is gain. 99 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,720 And so I'm just going to like do more like teaching style a day, 100 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,720 but I'm going to lay out heaven and I believe there are going to 101 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,000 be things. I just know there's things 102 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,960 you're going to go, Oh my, I've never heard that. 103 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,720 I've never seen that. And I've been moved by heaven in 104 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,279 so many ways. And this is the way Paul was and 105 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,240 this is his experience. But in Second Corinthians 12/1 106 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,720 through 4:00, he, he actually saw heaven. 107 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,600 So it says this I being Paul must go on boasting. 108 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,720 So he's boasting about God, Amen. 109 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,160 It it's OK to say Jesus changed my life, All glory to God, Amen. 110 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,000 He's not boasting his power, He's a boasting God's power. 111 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,640 He says although there's nothing to be gained, I go on to visions 112 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,720 and revelations from Lord. He's going to talk about what he 113 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,400 knows about God just as if we were talking about Scripture or 114 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,640 experience with God. He says, I know a man in Christ. 115 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,040 This is really interesting because he's actually talking 116 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,720 about himself. He's referring to himself in 117 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,280 third person. Why? 118 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,400 Because he's showing humility. He's like, I know this guy, but 119 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,400 it's really just me who 14 years ago was caught up into the what, 120 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,600 the 3rd heaven? Now this may seem a little 121 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,320 confusing at first because you're like oh wow. 122 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,000 So like we go to 1st heaven and 2nd. 123 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,400 Like we get promoted through these things. 124 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,000 So in the Jewish culture, they believe there was like 3 things 125 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,480 they said. There's sky, there's universe, 126 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,080 and then there's the throne of God. 127 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:21,440 And so in the Jewish culture, he's just saying like, I'm not 128 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,480 talking about like I'm in the clouds or I'm in the universe. 129 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,320 Like I actually went to the throne of God. 130 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,280 So when you die, you don't go to like 1st heaven and then you, 131 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,960 you know, spend some time like purgatory or something and go to 132 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,480 the 2nd heaven and get promoted. That's not what he's saying at 133 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:34,040 all. Amen. 134 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,080 You got to understand that this is just in the presence of God 135 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,560 in the throne of God. He's relating to the Jewish 136 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,560 culture. He says whether it was in the 137 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,320 body or out of the body, I don't really know. 138 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,200 He was so infatuated and so focused on things that happened. 139 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,520 He didn't know if he had his body or not. 140 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,760 He said God knows and I know that this man, he says again, 141 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,160 whether in the body or part of the body, I do not know, but God 142 00:05:54,160 --> 00:06:00,600 knows was what caught up to where paradise Now in the 143 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,680 Scripture, this paradise is actually used another word for 144 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,840 heaven and we're going to talk about the later on today. 145 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,840 But Jesus used the same word at the cross, but he's talking 146 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:13,640 about actually going to heaven. And he heard what inexpressible 147 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,880 things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 148 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,480 It's amazing to think that Paul saw heaven, went to heaven, and 149 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,320 it was too good to put into words. 150 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,360 Amen. I mean, and imagine, like, all 151 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,480 the things I've seen, you know, you see a picture like, I've 152 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,640 been to, like, Machu Picchu. How many guys have been to Machu 153 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,400 Picchu? OK, Like, I'm the only one. 154 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,640 Cool. Great, so I'm going to tell you 155 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,000 about Macho Picchu. I'm going to be like, oh, it's 156 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,400 so amazing this moment, all this, oh, here's my pictures, 157 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,160 all blah, blah. But man, pictures can't really 158 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,640 tell the story. Like just how to be there to see 159 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,520 it. And there's always, we always 160 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,000 say the same thing, like all the pictures, amazing. 161 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,920 But all you had to see just had this for yourself. 162 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,240 And this is like heaven. Like I can't even put into words 163 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,360 how great heaven is. It's amazing that somebody's 164 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,600 been to heaven and comes back and says this is what heaven's 165 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,000 like. I'm so glad I didn't say the 166 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,760 opposite. Come on, somebody. 167 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,080 It was really boring. You don't want to do it. 168 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,640 I don't know what will happen there. 169 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,760 And and this is how most people see heaven, right? 170 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,400 Like, you slip into oblivion, get your wings, you're recreated 171 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,280 and it and you're reincarnated out about you. 172 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,440 But that sounds freaky, weird and scary. 173 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,720 Amen. Like if I just cease to exist 174 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,560 for oblivion, it isn't really possible to imagine yourself 175 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,280 without yourself is really imagine turning without 176 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,960 yourself. And this people have all these 177 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,240 visions of heaven and all these things, but here's the word of 178 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,680 God saying no, there's inexpressible things that's too 179 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,240 good to put into words. It's no wonder Paul was so bold. 180 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,280 Amen. I mean, you look at his story 181 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,440 like, oh, how did I be like Paul? 182 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,320 It's because Paul had a perfect picture of heaven. 183 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,080 And so he's like, oh, put me in prison. 184 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,360 Hey, I'll preach the gospel there. 185 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,080 Hey, no worries. Thread me with heaven. 186 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,800 It's OK if I die. I know what's going on. 187 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,280 He sees it all and he's so excited and passionate about 188 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,440 things of God. Now we have some strange views 189 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,080 of heaven on earth. Have you guys seen those reels 190 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,720 lately where somebody passed away? 191 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,560 They're they're like a famous person or you might have known 192 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,000 him in like TV shows or something. 193 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,160 And it has it has them on the screen like I once was, blah, 194 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,200 blah, age. And then they show them today 195 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,320 and they got their wings and they come on the screen and they 196 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,920 raise their right hand, which have yet to figure out why they 197 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,040 like wave at us. You guys see no time. 198 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,600 You see those, right? I mean, you see there's a ton of 199 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,840 them going around. And of course I want you to 200 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:24,400 looked at one now. I see like a million of these 201 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,800 things. I mean, how it goes. 202 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,680 The algorithm caught me, right. But we do not get our wings in 203 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,240 heaven. We do not become angels in 204 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,480 heaven. Is that weird? 205 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,520 Would that be weird to you? Like, I don't know. 206 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,440 I'm just recreating to an Angel. Does that that freak you out at 207 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,240 all? That freaks me out a little bit. 208 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,160 Like I don't want to be like, what happened to me? 209 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,440 Well, where am I? Like we, we had these visions 210 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,440 like we're, we were so like, I know the word ignorant of 211 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,120 heaven, but Paul does not want this speaker in heaven. 212 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,320 He actually tells us specifically, he wants us to 213 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,040 know about heaven. There's a, you guys know Nicolas 214 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,200 Cage. He was, he was on a, a late 215 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,200 night talk show with Stephen Corbett And they So what 216 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:03,840 happens? You die. 217 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,920 And Nicholas like, oh, I got this energy, like electricity 218 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,000 and it flows through our body and then you die and it kind of 219 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,800 stops. And then maybe like there's 220 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,800 something down the road like sparks us, But whether we're 221 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,280 conscious or no or not, like nobody can know. 222 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,120 And a lot of people believe like we're just like, like sleeping 223 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,920 souls, like their soul rest. There's, there's, there's we 224 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:25,400 cease to exist for some amount of time. 225 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:28,600 And I'm like, I'm doing like, well, no, we do know because the 226 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,480 Bible says Amen. The Bible says we don't just 227 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,200 like cease to exist. And then something happens down 228 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,120 the road. But this is what the world says 229 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,720 about heaven. But this isn't, this isn't the 230 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:38,840 truth of heaven. So I'm going to dive in. 231 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,280 It's going to be a lot more teaching. 232 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,800 If you're taking notes, I mean, tongue in cheek on this comment, 233 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,880 but literally, if you take notes today, you actually may get more 234 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,560 authority and a closer seat in heaven. 235 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,920 I'm just saying because you may be so moved by the scripture and 236 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:56,920 you may be so moved by the heavens, like it actually may 237 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,720 change your life in the next 20 or 10 or 50 years of which you 238 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,480 have on this on earth only. And that will give you extra 239 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,520 rewards and extra authority and extra place in heaven. 240 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,080 So literally, when you're talking about taking notes 241 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,160 today, I'm going to give you a lot of verses, all the concepts. 242 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,160 I promise you, every single one of you will be like, huh, I've 243 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,600 never thought about that or seen that. 244 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,120 It's going to happen two or three times a day. 245 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,960 So I really do encourage you get your phone out and take some 246 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,840 notes. Amen, Amen. 247 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,120 All right, first lesson is 4 you guys ready? 248 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,120 I think Barry said buckle and I'm like, I guess we're doing 249 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:29,520 it. We're doing it. 250 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,480 Oh by the way, was that worship on fire day? 251 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,080 Come on somebody that was good. Amen. 252 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,840 That was good dude. We're the songs you can do. 253 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,160 We'll add them in. It'll be good. 254 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:40,120 There's so many lines. Dude. 255 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,160 First let's first lesson is 4/13. 256 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,640 It says brothers and sisters talking about Christians. 257 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,800 We do not want you to be what uninformed. 258 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,800 If you go to King James, man, we don't be ignorant about this 259 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,840 that those who sleep in death. So it's talking about the sleep 260 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,000 is like a a euphemism. He's like he's every time you 261 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,880 see sleep in the Bible, it's like, oh, they they're dead. 262 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,600 So sleep in death. So you do not grieve like the 263 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,640 rest of mankind who have what? So it's like, Hey, he's like, I 264 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,040 don't want you to be ignorant of what happens when you die. 265 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:14,960 That's a good prayer. Amen. 266 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,560 That's a good teaching. Like what really happens when 267 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:19,120 you die? Like I want you to really know. 268 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,120 I want you to really understand what happens when you die. 269 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,200 For most people, we like, we don't know and we're scared and 270 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,560 we're freaking out and we're worried. 271 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,160 And then like this earth is everything. 272 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,720 So like, hold on to it so tight. But Paul says something for 273 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,040 those in crisis. For we believe that Jesus died 274 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,480 and rose again. So we believe in the 275 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,280 resurrection of Christ from the dead. 276 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,280 So we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have 277 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,840 fallen asleep, those who are dead in him, dead in Christ. 278 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,960 It's pretty good news, Amen, That if Jesus rose from the 279 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,120 dead, that he's going to take us who have died and bring him back 280 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,560 with him. That feels good to me, Amen. 281 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,200 It's not, it's not arbitrary. It's not like what's really 282 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,320 going to happen though. He's going to bring us back with 283 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:58,120 him. He wants us to know what 284 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,120 happens. Verse 15, he says according to 285 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,800 the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive. 286 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,440 So that's us right now at this exact moment. 287 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,720 Come on, somebody, maybe something happens who are left 288 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,800 until the coming of the Lord will certainly not precede those 289 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,960 who've fallen asleep. You said you come to funerals 290 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,040 and you get the casket up front or the urn and we're we feel so 291 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,800 much pity like or what's happened or so much confusion. 292 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,760 And at the end of the day, you're like, man, they're going 293 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,600 to beat me home. Amen. 294 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:30,560 Like you're going to get there ahead of me. 295 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:33,720 You're already there like you, you already have beat me. 296 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,560 And what this is talking about, not just them being in the 297 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,760 presence of God in heaven, but their actual body, you're going 298 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,200 to find out is actually going to beat you to heaven if you're 299 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,480 still alive when Jesus comes back. 300 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,200 It's pretty amazing. Amen. 301 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,600 So we kind of joke in my family, like if if dying goes first or I 302 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,360 go first, we're like, man, you're going to beat me home, 303 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,120 man. I'm kind of getting jealous like 304 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,640 because we know what eternity is like we know what happens. 305 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,440 This is the sequence of things. And so Paul encourages church 306 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,920 verse 16 says for Lord himself, Jesus will come down from 307 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:01,080 heaven. So just like the way you went 308 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,360 up, this is with a loud command, with the voice of the Archangel 309 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,640 and with the trumpet call of God and The Who? 310 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,600 The dead in Christ, There's no Jesus. 311 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,760 Well, what? That's how you know something's 312 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,280 going weird when you're seeing dead bodies come out of graves. 313 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,160 Amen. You, you'll be sitting, you'll 314 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,120 be you'll, you didn't go there. God didn't call you up first. 315 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,240 Those dead bodies come up first. It says after that we are still 316 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,040 alive. OK, well, our left will be 317 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,600 caught up together. And that word caught up. 318 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,480 That's the word for rapture. And it's it's found actually in 319 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,920 Latin, the word is raptoro. So they actually didn't get it 320 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,200 from the the Greek, but we're caught up. 321 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,760 That means we're raptured up with him in the clouds to meet 322 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,280 the Lord and air. And so we will be with the Lord. 323 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,120 How long forever. There's your timeline. 324 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,240 We're going to be with Jesus forever and therefore encourage 325 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,080 one to know with these words, you may want to like what 326 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,800 happens if I die and we're going to dive into like what it looks 327 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,320 like all these pieces, but just know the next prophetic 328 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,760 prophetic event to happen is that Jesus comes to the eastern 329 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,320 sky. He splits it. 330 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,760 There's a Archangel in the high-ranking Angel. 331 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,640 They blow a trumpet, there's a shout, and that the bodies of 332 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,920 those who are dead in Christ raise out of the graves. 333 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,240 Now do you guys know at a Christian cemetery, and they may 334 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,200 not have ever heard this or seen this, but all the caskets, they 335 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,400 face E, the feet faced east and the face faces E. 336 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,200 Because when Jesus comes back and their bodies come out of the 337 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,040 caskets, they are resurrecting out of the grave looking at 338 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,360 Jesus. Do you guys know that? 339 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,280 Mind blown. Some of y'all know that. 340 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,000 Some of y'all work at a funeral. Yes. 341 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,520 Shout out to Mount Moriah. Come on, somebody she knows. 342 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:43,080 Come on. Some. 343 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,440 See, it's one of those things it's it's like a nod of faith 344 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,640 even in your death. It's pretty cool. 345 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,600 And some, some people say pastors will like they should 346 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,960 face West so they can watch their congregation rise. 347 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,400 I'll be watching you guys. I'm facing the east. 348 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:58,960 Forget you folks, man. I'm going with Jesus. 349 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,640 I love you all, but I'm going with Jesus, right? 350 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,240 It's good, man. It's crazy. 351 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,280 Like just think like how practical Christians have 352 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,320 thought of the years about what attorney looks like. 353 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,840 And then we might be just a little ignorant of like what 354 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,440 really is to happen. And So what happens when you 355 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,320 when you die? Like let's talk of your body a 356 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,440 little bit. So you go immediately and this 357 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:20,760 is going to your first aha moment. 358 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,800 Maybe you go immediately to a present. 359 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,160 Heaven may confuse you for a second, but you're going to be 360 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,040 in the presence of Jesus, be full of joy, but you don't have 361 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,760 what if you die now a resurrected body because it, the 362 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,400 rapture had happened yet, right? So if you die before the 363 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,160 rapture, what happens? You go into the present heaven. 364 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,840 How many guys do there's actually more than one heaven. 365 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,360 How many guys do that today? Same to all. 366 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,040 But you're going to know the, you know the verse, you've all 367 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:49,760 heard it mostly if you've been a Christian, right? 368 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,360 Like at the end of the Bible. I mean, you'd like to, if you, 369 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,160 if you please, you can skip to Revelation 21 and 22. 370 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:56,760 You can read the end of the book. 371 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,800 Amen. You can cheat. 372 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,400 It's OK. Read the last two chapters of 373 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,760 the Bible and you're going to see that God creates a new 374 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:09,320 heaven and a new earth. So there's a 1st heaven that we 375 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,040 go to when we die. That how many guys mind just got 376 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,760 blown a little bit. I mean, just to be honest, like, 377 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,760 oh, pastor, like I'm not so sure about this thing. 378 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:18,800 What are you talking about? Right. 379 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,960 And I want to just kind of dive into like, what does this look 380 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,840 like? So Revelation 21, one through 4. 381 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:25,880 It says then I just talking about John. 382 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:30,960 OK, He says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. 383 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,800 Where the what? Yeah, the first heaven, that's 384 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,000 the heaven that we go to right now for the raptures of the 1st 385 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,440 heaven in the first earth. That's what we're on now. 386 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:48,800 It had what it passed away like there's an end to this earth in 387 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,520 this, the heaven that in this time frame, and there was no 388 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,360 longer any sea. I saw a holy city with a new 389 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,640 Jerusalem coming down out of heaven. 390 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,880 We'll talk about that from God prepared as a bride, beautifully 391 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,520 dressed for her husband. Verse 3. 392 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,400 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, God's 393 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:12,000 dwelling place is among the people that'll be us and he will 394 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,480 dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will 395 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,200 be with them and be their God. Who knows? 396 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,839 That's good news, Amen. Like like, well, what happens 397 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:24,200 for eternity? Well, we're in the presence of 398 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,160 God and Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit. 399 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,320 They are the centerpiece of heaven, that this is what we 400 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,160 pursue on earth. It's what we pursue in the 401 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,080 present heaven. It's what we get to pursue in 402 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,920 the new earth and the new heaven. 403 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,600 This is exactly what we aim for, to be like Christ and to be in 404 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,600 the presence of Christ. Verse 4 says he will wipe every 405 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:44,880 tear from their eyes. There'll be no more death or 406 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,880 mourning or crying or pain for the what older order, the old 407 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,520 heaven and new earth of these things has passed away. 408 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,240 Now at this point you're like, you probably got a lot of 409 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,840 questions. Who's got some questions right? 410 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,000 Like what in the world does this mean for me right now? 411 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,520 How does this, what does this look like? 412 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:05,880 And let me, let me encourage you this. 413 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,640 So my, my wife, my mother-in-law, Leanne Emery 414 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:15,120 Levi, they are literally about 22 minutes away ish from landing 415 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:19,400 in Bangkok, Thailand, OK, And they'll be gone for a distance. 416 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:24,800 OK And they left yesterday, I don't know, 7:00 AM ish in the 417 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,080 morning. So they've been traveling for 418 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,200 quite a time. I'm sure they're tired right 419 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,200 now. God bless them with those kids. 420 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,280 Amen. Hope the kids slept a lot and 421 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,800 not going crazy, right? But they actually flew to Dallas 422 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,920 and then they flew to Tokyo and then they flew to Bangkok. 423 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,920 So if I you said where, where, where's she going? 424 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,480 I could technically tell she went to Dallas, say, oh, we're 425 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:47,680 going to Tokyo. That's cool. 426 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,360 The kids were excited. You know Tokyo, right? 427 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,160 But she's really going to Bangkok. 428 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,760 So the way you'd say like what, what does heaven look like? 429 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,440 You could say like, I'm going to the new earth and the new heaven 430 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,240 could be one. You're going to see it later. 431 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,280 So I'm going to the new heaven by the means of the present 432 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,520 heaven, Amen. I'm going to the Bangkok by 433 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,040 means of Dallas, by the means of Tokyo. 434 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,240 Like I'm getting there. And there's different things 435 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,120 that happen in both these areas, but I'm telling you like I'm 436 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,880 just going to dive in today. It's all about the present 437 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,760 heaven, Amen. Like I just want to get you out 438 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,560 of the gate a little bit. What happens? 439 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,240 You die. What's it look like? 440 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,920 So let's just talk about it. Let's let's talk about this, 441 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,680 this heaven itself. And it's pretty amazing that 442 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,880 heaven is actually going to come down to earth one day like that. 443 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,800 We will be not just in the present heaven, but will 444 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,320 actually be present of the future heaven on earth. 445 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,600 It's pretty cool. We read earlier it says that the 446 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,920 New Jerusalem will come down. You guys remember saying that 447 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,320 the New Jerusalem, the city will come down from the heaven. 448 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,640 And where's it going to go? Get down to the new earth. 449 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,400 And on that city, that new Jerusalem, that's where God's 450 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,960 throne is. That's where we will be. 451 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,480 And so in the future, we're actually on earth, in heaven. 452 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,680 So maybe the new earth isn't so different than the old earth, 453 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,920 Amen. Because we often think like, oh, 454 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,040 earth is here and heaven is there. 455 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,920 Like we often separate the two that earth is bad and heaven is 456 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,240 good. Like we want to draw these like 457 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,560 complete opposites, but I, I would encourage you that they're 458 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:26,280 very similar, eerily similar. And we're going to dive into 459 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,200 what that may look like. But godly clearly says that he's 460 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,680 going to change the location of heaven and his presence are 461 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,120 going to be there. And it's interesting. 462 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,560 And this time we like to say, oh, heavens, up there, which I, 463 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,040 I can make an argument that it's actually down here, which we'll 464 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:45,560 talk about, but we know for sure that the future heaven is down 465 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:46,960 here. Amen. 466 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,560 Like we're not like, oh, what's going on? 467 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,160 Like the presence of God. It's amazing that God is coming 468 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,800 to our world to meet with us. You can make an argument for 469 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,080 time, space and matter. I mean, this just talk about 470 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,680 eternity. How how many guys know that 471 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,680 actually hell was relocated? You know, there's two locations 472 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,400 of hell. That's crazy. 473 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,480 Like, so right now, like there's a place called Gehenna Hades 474 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,080 Shoal. It's all the same place. 475 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,880 It's given different names. Gehenna was the Greek name for 476 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,200 the place where they burned the trash outside Jerusalem. 477 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,280 It's a place where the in Jeremiah where they sacrifice 478 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,880 children, the heathen gods is where he came the trash dump in 479 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,480 Jerusalem. And so when Jesus said, hey, 480 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,760 you're going to have national teeth in Gehenna, he's actually 481 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,520 talking about the place where they burned the trash in 482 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,280 Jerusalem and never stopped burning day and night. 483 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,240 That's Gehenna. But it's really crazy. 484 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,240 At the end of the Bible, hell actually moves locations as 485 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,440 found in Revelation 20. It says death and Hades were 486 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:43,040 what they're thrown into the lake of fire. 487 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,200 How many guys do the hell actually move locations? 488 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,960 Is that crazy? I mean, it's like, wow, like 489 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,640 dude, there's so much more to the store than what meets the 490 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,640 eye. Like we'd be pretty miserable if 491 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,240 all we thought was materialism or like material things existed. 492 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,240 There's there's a supernatural world around us. 493 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,080 So the lake of fire is a second death. 494 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,960 We go through the physical death. 495 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,760 Our spirits died in Christ and alive to Christ. 496 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,200 We don't have a second death as Christians. 497 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,080 Verse 15 says anyone whose names are not found in the book of 498 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,640 life, that's the Lamb's book of life was thrown into the lake of 499 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,720 fire. But the point is this is that 500 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,120 heavens are located, Hells are located and there's a present 501 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,520 heaven we go to. So I just wanted to spend the 502 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,440 rest of time today kind of walking through the present 503 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,000 heaven. And one of the questions you get 504 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,440 a lot is are we, are you conscious? 505 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,040 Like do you have the ability to think like, do you know what's 506 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,440 going on? A lot of people think you just 507 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,800 kind of just wait and then something happens and someone 508 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,920 just kind of walk through the Scripture and just show you what 509 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,920 it looks like for us. So Ecclesiastes 12/7 says this, 510 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,320 the dust returns to the ground it came from. 511 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,040 That's talking about our bodies, right? 512 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,560 We had the curse and dust. You came and dust you shall 513 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,280 return. That was the curse of man. 514 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,040 It says this. And the spirit returns to where 515 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,560 God who gave it the the the spirit inside of us, our human 516 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,960 spirit goes back to God who gave us spirit. 517 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,360 We became a living soul when God did what he breathed in the 518 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,960 breath of life into the man's lungs. 519 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,520 He gave us life and that life never ceases. 520 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,320 Amen. Like we're all eternal, whether 521 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,840 you know Jesus or not, we're eternal and we have life with 522 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,400 Jesus, we know Jesus. So the human spirit immediately 523 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,640 either goes to heaven or hell. And we talk about this in Luke 524 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,120 16. You'll, we'll dive into this a 525 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:26,800 lot deeper next week. But Luke 16, it says this is 526 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,080 where Christ, she shows Lazarus and the rich man and they're 527 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,680 both immediately conscious immediately in heaven or hell. 528 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,120 Do you notice they had a conversation in Luke 16? 529 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,320 The rich man talks, right? He's speaking. 530 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,240 Send Lazarus back. Send somebody back to earth to 531 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:45,680 tell somebody about this place I'm in. 532 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,040 They had an immediate consciousness of after death. 533 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,200 That's pretty amazing to think about it, isn't it? 534 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,840 Just to me like I don't cease to exist, like I don't go what 535 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,320 happened? You died. 536 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,800 I'm just not here. It's like no Lord, I actually 537 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,840 continue like heaven is a continuation of the things on 538 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,160 earth. Pretty amazing to think about. 539 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,840 First Luke 2343 says this Jesus name to him truly today truly I 540 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,880 tell you today somebody say today, today just taught a thief 541 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,800 on the cross, you will be with me in paradise. 542 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:24,320 It's not truly one day, it's truly today that's good news. 543 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,400 Amen. The Bible says to be absent the 544 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,960 body is to be present with the the Lord like you, you're you. 545 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,160 You don't cease to exist. You don't die and go to oblivion 546 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,240 like you are here and your spirit goes there and you're the 547 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,360 same person. Amen. 548 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,840 That's good news. That's great news. 549 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:47,840 St. Corinthians 5-6 says this. 550 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,400 Therefore we do not. Therefore, we're always 551 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,960 confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body, 552 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,200 we are away. We're away from Lord, for we 553 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,080 live by faith or by sight. Verse 8, We are confident, I 554 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,040 say, and would prefer to be away from the body. 555 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:07,400 We'd rather not be here on earth in this body and prefer to be at 556 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,240 home with the the Lord. You guys remember the stoning of 557 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,280 Stephen in the first martyr New Testament Acts Chapter 7, I 558 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,640 believe. And he's dying and they're 559 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,840 throwing stones at him and remember what happens. 560 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,960 He looks up to heaven and he quotes Jesus. 561 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:29,440 He says, Father forgive them for the know not what they do. 562 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:35,280 And Lord, I give you my spirit. But it says he looked up and the 563 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,120 skies open. He saw like he saw heaven and he 564 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,920 saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father. 565 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,120 That's pretty good. Amen. 566 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,920 So, So when, so when Stephen died being killed by these 567 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,240 rocks, did he slip into oblivion? 568 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:55,680 Did he cease to exist? Did, did, did he use no 569 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:01,760 consciousness, no awareness, no memory, no connection, no 570 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,960 familiarity, or did he simply just go, Lord, take my spirit. 571 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,920 And he stepped out of this earthly little world and stepped 572 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,560 into the invisible world that's right here, right now with Jesus 573 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:18,160 and the Father. It's the second one, Amen, that 574 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,440 I mean that this is better news than we're saying, but it's good 575 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,360 news, Amen? So the physical part of us 576 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,040 sleeps, but the spiritual part of us, the parts and it's 577 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,840 relocated immediately in the present heaven in a conscious 578 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,600 state. That's really good when you're 579 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,120 staring into into a casket and you're wondering where is this 580 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,680 person that, oh, they're in heaven right now. 581 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,880 They, they know what's going on. They didn't forget their memory. 582 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,960 They're not brainwashed or reprogrammed. 583 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,320 They're not turned into an Angel. 584 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:50,120 They're not rebuilt to something else like we are an extension of 585 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,600 our life today. So it's very clear, like there's 586 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,360 no soul sleep. We're not disembodied members. 587 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,920 This isn't what happens. So what happens first when you 588 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,840 die? So Hebrews 927 says this. 589 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,240 Just as people are destined to die once, so we all have that 590 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,720 appointment with death, right? Like this just part of the 591 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,240 curse, like physically dying once. 592 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,920 It says after that to face what? Judgement. 593 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,240 Now when you see this word judgement, you're like, oh man, 594 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,440 this is not the word I want to hear, right? 595 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,840 It's beautiful, fun and not have any problems and all be 596 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,400 beautiful and we go to this judgment. 597 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,360 I don't encourage you when it's talking about this judgment. 598 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,800 This immediate judgment is called the judgment of faith, 599 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,440 OK? It's not the judgment of works, 600 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,440 but it's a judgment of faith. And there's multiple judgments 601 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,240 you're going to have in heaven. And as a Christian, the first 602 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,080 thing is really anybody who dies goes to the judgment of faith. 603 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,320 And the judgment of faith is simply deciding, do you know 604 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,320 Jesus or do you not know Jesus based on your faith? 605 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,560 It's not of judgment. Are you good or are you bad or 606 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,880 did you good enough stuff or did you go to church or pray, read 607 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,840 your Bible enough? Do you truly believe in Jesus? 608 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600 And if you believe in Jesus, you go to Who said? 609 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,840 Hell, you're. Wrong. 610 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,400 OK. Yeah, go to heaven, right? 611 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,600 And if you don't? Believe in Jesus, you go to 612 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,560 hell. That that that's the immediate 613 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,840 judgment that this is talking about. 614 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,840 There's a further judgment down the road and it where you sit at 615 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,880 the Bema seat of Christ and your works are judged, not you being 616 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,200 judged, but are your works, are they wood, haze, stubble? 617 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,080 And we receive rewards based upon what we did on earth. 618 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,920 And those rewards determine your role and responsibilities in 619 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,480 heaven. And there's a second judgment 620 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,280 that's reserved for somebody who doesn't know Jesus. 621 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,080 So those are cast into hell or they're pulled back out and are 622 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,560 judged against the great white throne. 623 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,320 You'll see in Revelation 21. If they aren't found, the Lamb's 624 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,480 book of life are cast into the lake of fire. 625 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,840 That's. The second death we taught in 626 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,560 the. Bible, This is why we're going 627 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,320 to get busy telling people about heaven, Amen, and tell people 628 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,440 about Jesus because we are sinners and we're broken and 629 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,320 there's a consequence to our sin. 630 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,720 And so when you stand at a funeral, we're not really 631 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,440 preaching a funeral to those people in Christ like this is 632 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,320 the end because that's what so many people think. 633 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,960 But we're actually preaching the beginning of their new life that 634 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,880 they've been reborn into when they accepted Jesus. 635 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,600 Like this is fulfillment of their second birth. 636 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,320 That makes sense, like you're born again and now this is the 637 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,640 time you fulfill. You're not just justified, 638 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,000 you're sanctified, but this is the first day you'll live in 639 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,720 where you're actually fully glorified. 640 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,640 The sin nature is gone. You're in the presence of God 641 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,160 and you're doing the exact role responsibilities that God has 642 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,800 for you in the present heaven. It's pretty amazing to think 643 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,880 about it. We should be excited about this. 644 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,680 We should look at this and go, man, I'm I'm jealous for those 645 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,480 who've gone before me in Christ. I don't feel pity for them 646 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,680 because I know exactly where they are and Lord, I'm going to 647 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,200 be there soon. Like it's just a just a breath 648 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:47,840 away. Amen. 649 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,360 Humanity often concludes the. Spiritual realm is a really good 650 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,320 thing and the physical things are bad. 651 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,600 And so we we have a hard time putting physical things in 652 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,600 heaven like is it can we really believe this? 653 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,600 And I think sometimes is like we asked a question is, is heaven 654 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,960 physical? So think about this in the Old 655 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,600 Testament, like the very beginning, God created the the 656 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,240 heavens and the earth and it was what it was good. 657 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,480 And he create all things in there and he said it was good, 658 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,000 it's good, it's good. And then he said it was very 659 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,120 good. We're going back to that. 660 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,840 And inside of the garden was a tree. 661 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,880 What was the name of the tree? Tree of life, right? 662 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,400 It had it had fruit, and if you ate the fruit, you continue to 663 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,720 live well. Where is the tree of the of life 664 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,480 today? You can't find on Earth. 665 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,880 Remember they kicked out of the garden. 666 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,200 He put this like really buff, strong, crazy Angel that was 667 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,560 swinging the sword of fire so that we couldn't go back into 668 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,480 where the garden. He kicked us out of the garden 669 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,200 so we couldn't continue to live in our sin nature and keep 670 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,280 eating the fruit from this tree and live forever. 671 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,040 Has anybody found this tree on earth? 672 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,560 This tree does not exist on earth. 673 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,120 It's been relocated to heaven where we get to eat from the 674 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,440 tree. So think about this if there's a 675 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:13,080 physical tree on Earth. With Adam and Eve. 676 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:15,400 Would it make? Sense that this tree is. 677 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,240 Still physical in heaven. Did you know that tree is? 678 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,840 Moved from the present heaven, it's relocated into the center 679 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,920 of the city of Jerusalem. Then when we talked about 680 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,600 earlier, it came down to the earth and we eve that tree and 681 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,120 there's rivers around it. When I was talking to Bill, when 682 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,760 his dad passed away, Bill Hardy, his dad had passed away and he 683 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,920 said, son, I'm going to meet you the fountains in heaven. 684 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,800 Now, the Bible doesn't really explicitly. 685 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,760 Say like, here's the fountains. But brother, I'm pretty sure 686 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,480 it's close. To those trees, right? 687 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,600 The tree. And I thought, man, how amazing, 688 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,040 How much faith would you have to have to actually pick a meeting 689 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,960 spot out in heaven? That's pretty. 690 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,600 Cool, isn't it? But that's how much you should 691 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,760 believe in heaven, that you'd pick it out and you long for it 692 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,000 and you want to be there. But I'll encourage you. 693 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,600 It's it's physical. You have a tree that's been 694 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,200 moved and you think, well, material things are bad because 695 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,320 we think all the sins affect all these things, right? 696 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,600 But the original sin is actually not Adam and Eve. 697 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,120 Now you might call it the original sin of man, but the 698 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,040 original sin, like the very first sin you ever seen, like we 699 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,040 know of, and all of eternity actually didn't happen on earth. 700 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,640 It actually happened where in heaven, remember when Satan he, 701 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,080 he, he got this pride, he looked, he saw his reflection 702 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,560 and he's like a full of instruments and worship and he 703 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,360 had this pride and then God cast them out of heaven. 704 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,320 So you can't just say like, well, heaven is good and earth 705 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,880 is bad. No, no, no, that that's not it 706 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,920 at all. Like is they both have some 707 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,080 level of been affected by sin, but God is removed to sin from 708 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,240 heaven completely and cast Satan out like lightning and lives on 709 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,600 earth. Think about this. 710 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,680 Hebrews 85 says they serve at a sanctuary. 711 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,720 This is talking about the the old the Old Testament 712 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,000 Tabernacle. OK, and the priest they serve at 713 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,680 a sanctuary. That is a what? 714 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:11,800 What's it say? A copy and a shadow of what is 715 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,360 in where. Oh. 716 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,280 Man, so you're telling. Me that the Tabernacle, the Old 717 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,240 Testament, that rickety tent we talked about towards difference 718 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,760 maker that you set up in the wilderness. 719 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,440 They moved around and David didn't upgrade all the things 720 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,560 that rickety tent was actually like set up inside, just like 721 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,680 the plans that are in heaven, so. 722 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:33,960 Are you? So you're telling me? 723 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,680 That the things of earth are very similar to the things of 724 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,880 heaven? Are you telling me that? 725 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,880 Is that a little mind blowing for anybody? 726 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,400 And look what it says here. It says that Moses was warned 727 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,920 when he was about to build the Tabernacle. 728 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,840 See to it that you make everything according to the 729 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,800 pattern you shown you on the mountain. 730 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,080 Hey Moses, when you build it, make sure it looks just like I 731 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,000 showed you in heaven. Make it just like I showed you 732 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,360 Moses. So when you think about earth, 733 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,200 we got to think about earth as a derivative of heaven, not as 734 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,199 earth the source and heavens the the next. 735 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,719 No, heaven's the source and and we're the derivative of heaven. 736 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,120 Amen. It's just like as man was made 737 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,000 in God's image, Earth is made in heaven's image. 738 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,639 Is is anybody going like this yet? 739 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,199 What? Are you kidding me? 740 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,120 So like all these fears I've had about death and all the things 741 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,239 I'm wondering about, like it's going to be very similar to to 742 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,679 then as is now eyes is crazy. And so like these pieces that 743 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,679 God's doing or actually just here's the perfect picture and 744 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,480 put it on earth and we're going to continue our life. 745 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,400 Just it's like a transition from like earth to heaven. 746 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,639 And we're going to just keep going. 747 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:51,920 How many guys would live different if you know that it 748 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,120 wasn't just going to be like, we're going to start over again, 749 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,320 like what we do now matters for eternity and we have this little 750 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,920 sliver of time where we could do say things that some people 751 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,600 can't say. Like, dude, I went to the 752 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,440 present heaven. Some of you all get you get to 753 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,320 get maybe, maybe I die and then Jesus comes back, right? 754 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,520 Some of you all like, I skipped death, man, I went to the 755 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,840 clouds, right? Think about Abel. 756 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,160 This is pretty crazy to think about Abel's if you don't know, 757 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,840 he's the first person we know in the Bible to die, right? 758 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,680 And I kept thinking like, man, that'd be freaky, wouldn't it? 759 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:27,080 Like he dies and he shows up. Where's everybody at? 760 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,320 He's the first one there. Amen. 761 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,840 But this is literally a thoughts he would have had also crazy 762 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,080 think about and we'll get this next week a little bit. 763 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,920 But the voice of the martyrs speak in heaven, and they. 764 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,000 Ask a question. How long? 765 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,680 Lord, before you come back, or before you take vengeance on 766 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,240 what happened. So wait. 767 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,280 Well, there's, so there's. Like you talk, you have a 768 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,400 memory. Perfect memory because you're 769 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,280 perfect judgement. You remember what happened. 770 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,400 You want righteousness still you don't have full knowledge 771 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,680 because you don't know when he's coming back. 772 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,360 So it means you can have discovery, which means you can 773 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,200 have imagination, which means you still can find things out. 774 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,320 You have to question you still. You still like that sounds very 775 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,480 human, but you're on in heaven. And the thing about you know, at 776 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:19,760 Abel's blood says the Bible, it what cries out, it speaks. 777 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,320 We say there's a thing. Matt Ribbon has an amazing song 778 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,880 about that. But his blood speaks. 779 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,800 What's it speak? It speaks for righteousness, 780 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,360 right? But you think about why does God 781 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,760 say that his blood speaks? Is it because Abel? 782 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,480 Is in heaven right now, the present heaven, and he's 783 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,480 literally crying out to God for righteous and vengeance. 784 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,840 So his blood speaks on earth, but his voice speaks in heaven. 785 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,920 I don't know, you made that blows my mind a little. 786 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,280 Bit it's amazing. And we're going to dive into a 787 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,880 lot more next week on like what exactly it looks like in the 788 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,840 present heaven. And it, it's, it's, I'm telling 789 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,000 you, it's, it's a whole new level of if you move 5° today of 790 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,400 what you believe about heaven, you're going to move 100° next 791 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,840 week because of stories and stuff we're going to walk 792 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,400 through in Scripture. And so if you think about the 793 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,000 present earth, all realities, our cities, our community, our 794 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,560 ways are actually derived from heaven. 795 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,880 Like it's not going to be much different than heaven. 796 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,040 And so you ask like Jesus said this on the cross we talked 797 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,840 about earlier, Luke 2343. Jesus answered him truly. 798 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,960 I tell you today you'll be with me in where paradise. 799 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,000 This is mind blowing. So the word paradise actually 800 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,960 means a fenced in garden. Fenced in garden in the 801 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,120 Septuagint. The Old Testament was translated 802 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,520 from Aramaic and Hebrew, mostly Hebrew, and it was translated 803 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,880 into Greek a few 100 years before Jesus was on earth. 804 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,320 And the word they used for garden is the same word that 805 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,960 Jesus uses here for the thief of the cross. 806 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,160 So if you've read the Septuagint and you translate like Jesus, 807 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,120 but it translated, it'd say there's not a garden, It'd say 808 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,040 there's paradise. And so Jesus, he's saying, hey, 809 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,720 today, thief on the cross, today you're going to be with me in 810 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:09,640 this fenced end Garden of Eden. Is that crazy to think about 811 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,840 what Jesus was actually saying that that garden and think about 812 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,600 this garden was a garden affected by sin. 813 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,880 It's interesting because we talked about the tree. 814 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,520 The tree has not been affected, but the Angel stood where the 815 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,320 entrance of the garden didn't stand at the edge of the tree. 816 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,440 And that garden was moved from earth into the present heaven 817 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,280 unaffected by sin. And Jesus tells his thief on the 818 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,560 cross today you're going to be with in paradise. 819 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,800 How about you? But I'm looking forward to going 820 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,800 home, being the gardener. I've been talking, I've been 821 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,920 talking to my wife dying about it. 822 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,000 And we were talking about like, man, what do you want me doing 823 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,400 in heaven? And she goes, man, after you're 824 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,960 seeing all that stuff, I just want to go, I want to go have a 825 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,480 garden because I kill everything on earth, right? 826 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,080 And something's going to grow in heaven, right? 827 00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,880 And she's, I mean, at all tongue in cheek. 828 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,240 She was really excited about it, right? 829 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,160 Revelation 27 says this. Whatever has ears, let them hear 830 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,600 what the Spirit says to the churches, to the one that's 831 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,840 victorious, I give the right to eat. 832 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,720 Somebody say eat. OK, this is this is talking 833 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,040 about in heaven. OK, so now we're talking about 834 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,520 we're eating in heaven. I was I. 835 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:21,960 Was looking for an Amen on. That one, right? 836 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,240 But we're eating in heaven. That sounds good. 837 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:28,200 Well, OK, so there's all these arguments for like physical 838 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,400 bodies, right? We eat from the tree of life, 839 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:39,360 which is in the. Pretty cool. 840 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,520 Amen. I mean, it's like this is 841 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,880 something to look forward to. The same tree in the garden is 842 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,600 now the same tree in the present heaven. 843 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,560 It's the same tree they'll be in the new Jerusalem, on the new 844 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,640 earth and currently presides just one breath away. 845 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,760 As soon as we take our last breath, we now eat from the tree 846 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,640 of life. That's good news. 847 00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,880 Amen. And the reality is God's not 848 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,560 done with Eden. He just relocated Eden. 849 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,320 If he can move a tree, why can't he move a garden? 850 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:06,600 And then? It's kind of weird too. 851 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,880 Like what? About our bodies, because you're 852 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,680 like, OK, there's no resurrected body. 853 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,000 Like, do we have bodies like, or we just floating spirits? 854 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,840 How's this work? And I was to encourage you 855 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,040 because there's not a lot of time here, but I probably need 856 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,320 like a year on heaven. You have all the time to figure 857 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,280 this out. But do we have resurrected 858 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,320 bodies? So think about this. 859 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,120 Jesus had a resurrected body. Amen. 860 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,240 So we at least know there's one physical body in heaven. 861 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,440 Then he had this guy. You guys remember Enoch? 862 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,920 Genesis 4 maybe? Four. 863 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,080 I think it's 4. And Enoch is a righteous man and 864 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:43,920 God just says it translates into heaven. 865 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,760 And it wasn't like his body was here on earth and then his soul 866 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,480 went to heaven. He, he went, he was gone like 867 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,480 his whole being went. So now you have two physical 868 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,640 bodies in heaven. OK, Elijah, you guys remember 869 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,880 Elijah, dude, how about you? But I want to go out with 870 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,240 Elijah, man, remember? That chariot of fire. 871 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,640 That's the way to go, you know, forget the hearse, you know, 872 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,000 hook me up to some Chariots of fire. 873 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,480 And he rides that chariot fire in his body to the present 874 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,080 heaven. So we now at least know three 875 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,200 physical bodies are in heaven, unless he just takes their body 876 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,000 and gives it a spirit in which, OK, maybe there's a theory 877 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,960 there, right? And then you got the mountain 878 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,600 transfiguration. You guys remember this mountain 879 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,360 transfiguration? Jesus takes his inner 3 880 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,960 disciples, Peter, James and John up to the mountain 881 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,760 transfiguration. He's trying to like unify them 882 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,320 on the things of Christ because they don't understand what God 883 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,920 is actually doing. Like this is like Peter told 884 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,400 Jesus, no, don't die, don't go to the cross. 885 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,600 It's just after Jesus rebuked Peter and said, get behind me, 886 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,080 say you know what you're doing. So he brings him up to the 887 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,840 mountain transfiguration and he hears a voice from the Father. 888 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,600 This is my son. I'm well pleased and I love him. 889 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,920 I'm well pleased and you should listen to him. 890 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,120 This is the one of the only times you see the voice of 891 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,680 Father speak to humans and up on the mountain transfiguration. 892 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,520 There were some other people there. 893 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,360 You guys remember who's who's up on Mount transfiguration? 894 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:12,800 Jesus, Moses. Oh, there's our oh, our boy 895 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,280 lives back. That's crazy. 896 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,080 So you mean they're actually living and they're talking to 897 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,920 each other, and they have ability to reason and they're in 898 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:28,040 physical bodies and they're recognized by humans? 899 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:30,280 Sounds good to me. Amen. 900 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,360 Sounds real good to me. So this is the mountain 901 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,240 Transfiguration. So do you have a body? 902 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:37,280 Revelation 6, We're going to talk about this one in depth 903 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,640 next week. 6, Revelation 6, verse 9 through 11 says when he 904 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,440 opened the 5th seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who 905 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,920 have been slain. Those have been martyred. 906 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:52,560 This last couple days ago was the 70th anniversary of Jim 907 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,720 Elliott, Nate St. and the five missionaries that were killed in 908 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,240 Ecuador. I don't know if you guys saw 909 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:00,440 that or not Nerd alert. I saw that. 910 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,040 But they're martyr for their faith, trying to try to reach a 911 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,200 tribe of people that did come to Christ. 912 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,840 You haven't seen the end of the Spear or Beyond Against the 913 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,720 Splendor. Gotta watch the movies, but 914 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,200 amazing story. But there this is them as well. 915 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,680 This is Abel. Those are slain because the word 916 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,880 of God. So because the truth of God and 917 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,360 the testimony they maintained, they called out in a loud voice 918 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,160 how long sovereign Lord, holy and true, until the judge that 919 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,040 inhabits the earth avenge our blood. 920 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,840 And then each of them was given a what? 921 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:37,200 A what? A white robe, they're given a 922 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,880 white robe. And they were told to wait a 923 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,640 little longer until the full number of the fellow servants, 924 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,200 the brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been. 925 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,280 God's answer is just wait because there's more Mars 926 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,480 coming. You actually sing the song. 927 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,040 Lord Jesus, come, come. Lord, we want you to come. 928 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,120 And theologically speaking, it would be like, Lord, I trust 929 00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,760 when you come because Lord, I'm not asking you to do something 930 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,200 you don't want to do because you are waiting to do stuff right 931 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,640 now. And if I ask you to come back, 932 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,600 that would be a selfish act I've ever had because you're still 933 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,360 redeeming people. So, Lord, you come when you want 934 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,480 to because surely you're going to come. 935 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,760 And I'm just waiting and suffering and endurance because 936 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,440 I know you're working a plan. There's something way bigger 937 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,600 than I see. So selfishly, Lord, come. 938 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,960 But Lord, I trust in your timing. 939 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,800 But they had white robes. So if you're going to have a 940 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,880 white robe in heaven, wouldn't it think you'd have something to 941 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,000 put the robe on? I mean, just a thought. 942 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,000 That sounds good to me. Amen. 943 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,480 We don't know what these bodies look like. 944 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,000 I kind of joked about having ABS. 945 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,360 You know, don't think Jesus is going to care. 946 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,120 I'm sure we'll be, you know, we don't have to worry about all 947 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,000 these things, but we're going to have this white robe and be 948 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,280 physical and be, be changed and have memory, like perfect 949 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,240 memory. We can solve some real marriage 950 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,640 fights, right? Somebody was joking. 951 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,160 If I slept for 1000 years in heaven and then God woke us up, 952 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,040 I'd still talk to my wife and be like, see, I told you about 953 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,360 that. You know, it's just like, it 954 00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,240 doesn't matter, right? But we're going to have all 955 00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:00,840 this. It's usually so similar to 956 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,440 earth, but yet so perfect in heaven. 957 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:07,840 And I just want you guys to get a foretaste just like peel back. 958 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,640 Like I can't put into words how good heavens going to be like I 959 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,520 can't express all these pieces. And if we could just get past 960 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,960 the fact that death is not the end, that's actually the 961 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,160 beginning of what we've honestly been striving for our whole 962 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,040 lives and that we're just kind of bring as many people with us 963 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,240 to heaven as possible. How many guys learned something 964 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:26,960 today? Show of hands. 965 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,080 That's good news. Amen. 966 00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,560 How many guys just a little more excited about heaven today? 967 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,840 Do we should be? Because we, we, we, we, we can 968 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,800 just look into the grave. And just feel so. 969 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:47,480 Empty and so bleak and so finite and be so depressed and your 970 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,920 eyes so focused on this world. We forget there's so much more 971 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,000 and so much better. And it's so much more exciting 972 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:59,400 than we ever thought it to be. And so is the church. 973 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,440 Like, let's be the church that's no longer ignorant, Amen. 974 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,840 Let's be the church that's like, no, I know. 975 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:11,040 Who's to say Jesus? Who's to say the Bible like I 976 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,880 know exactly the next chapter, I know what's going to happen. 977 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,560 Like my mind sets on heaven, my goals are in heaven, my passions 978 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,120 on heaven. And because I know about heaven, 979 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:22,280 I'm living drastically different on earth. 980 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,720 The way I love, the things I tolerate. 981 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:28,000 We should talk about that a little bit, right? 982 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:34,280 The way I treat people, the the things I die for where I go, the 983 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,360 call of God. These are all elevated because 984 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,280 what here and now is only just little tiny blink, a vapor, a 985 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,840 mist that appears for a time and disappears. 986 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,600 But all of eternity looks like this. 987 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,360 And so I know where I'm going and I'm going to tell as many 988 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,800 people and leaves me people and encourage people and be a model 989 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,600 for things of Christ because of heaven sounds good. 990 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,760 That's the call. So if I ever come before you, 991 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,600 God, we thank you for knowing through Scripture exactly what 992 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,120 happens next. God, we've just barely touched 993 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,040 the surface. Maybe those? 994 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,800 Who are Jesus followers? Who say, you know what I want to 995 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,240 learn about heaven. I want to know more. 996 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,800 I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to put my mind and my heart and my 997 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,480 passion on the present heaven and the future heaven and I'm 998 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,320 going to be so excited. What's going to happen? 999 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:22,320 Lord teach me, Lord, show me that I wouldn't be afraid. 1000 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,560 I wouldn't be blind. I wouldn't make up these things 1001 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,440 that make me have these just real morbid hard thoughts like, 1002 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,560 oh, I've been oblivion and what I become like. 1003 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,680 I would just know for sure what's on the other side of this 1004 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,000 body. So Lord teach me, maybe for some 1005 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,320 days in the House that you'd say, you know what? 1006 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:43,480 It's sure. It'd sure be. 1007 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,440 It'd sure. Be sad to hear all these 1008 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,320 messages on heaven and actually not go there. 1009 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,320 It'd be sad. You're. 1010 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,120 Like man, I need heaven and. We talked about that earlier. 1011 00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,520 You made for a person and you made for a place, and that 1012 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,040 person is Jesus. And the Bible says it's only 1013 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,760 through Jesus you get to heaven. He is the way, the truth and 1014 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,120 life. No man comes to the Father, 1015 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,280 which is in heaven through Jesus. 1016 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,040 He's the only name under heaven which man are saved, saved 1017 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,160 Jesus. The word Jesus, his name alone 1018 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,800 means to save. The Lord saves, saves us from 1019 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,080 what saves us from sin. It's freedom from sin. 1020 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,760 We were up on the stage, Jared was jumping up and down talking 1021 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,440 about freedom from sin. And today if you need freedom 1022 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,640 from sin, it only happens through Jesus and crying out to 1023 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,600 Jesus is that first judgement of faith will be those. 1024 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,080 Do you know Jesus or you don't know Jesus? 1025 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,040 Are you in the Lamb's book of life or not in the book of life, 1026 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,200 It's all determined about your knowledge of belief of Jesus. 1027 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,200 And so you've heard the by faith you've heard about Jesus, but by 1028 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,840 faith you have to accept Jesus. And so today, if you're willing 1029 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,600 to humble yourself and say I'm the Sinner and need of a Savior, 1030 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,240 there is nothing good inside me. God, I've turned from you. 1031 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,080 I've ran my own way, but today, God, I'm turning to you. 1032 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,280 I believe you died on the cross for me You took away. 1033 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,480 My sin. And you restoring me to you. 1034 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,160 God, I want you and heaven today. 1035 00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:15,600 If that's you without anybody looking around, I'm not going to 1036 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:16,280 call you. I'd make it weird. 1037 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,080 But if you need Jesus today to get to heaven, we just raise 1038 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,640 your hand and let me know. So I need Jesus today. 1039 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,040 Come on, see your hand and bills. 1040 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,080 I need Jesus and walk. Out here, knowing him, I saw 1041 00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,200 your. Hand and your hand and your 1042 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:39,160 hand, the Spirit of God, Amen. If you do call on Jesus, thou 1043 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:43,280 says a free gift to anyone. Today's salvation for whosoever 1044 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,840 the economy, Lord, that's you and me shall be saved. 1045 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,720 He wants us in heaven enough to send his Son Jesus down a cross 1046 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,160 and he's going to dwell with us forever. 1047 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,080 So if you call on Jesus today, just cry out to him, stop the 1048 00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,760 prayer, eat your heart and say Father God thank you so much for 1049 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,400 loving me enough to send Jesus. God, I am not perfect, I am 1050 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,840 broken, I've ran my own way, but God I'm desperate for you. 1051 00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:10,000 God, I trust you, I faith that your word is true and God that 1052 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,120 I'm going to heaven based on your word, based on your loving 1053 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,920 me and your ability, your grace coming to my life. 1054 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,240 God. So I call on you God to be the 1055 00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:20,360 Lord and Savior to change me. God, I live for you. 1056 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,320 God today is no longer about myself. 1057 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,320 God, I trust you. I pray this in Jesus name and 1058 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,080 the church said Amen. Come on, give it a big for the 1059 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:28,760 Lord. Amen. 1060 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,960 This is the end of this. Podcast. 1061 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,640 We hope you've enjoyed it. 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