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So come together, sons and 
daughters, bought with blood and

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washed in water, Sing the 
praises of the Spirit Son in 

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Father our God. 
We'll finish what he started. 

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We believe our God. 
We'll finish what he started. 

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Oh, this is my testimony from 
death to light because Grace 

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Tree wrote my story and I'll 
testify by Jesus Christ the 

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righteous, I'm justified. 
This is my testimony. 

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This is my testimony. 
If I'm not dead, then you're not

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done. 
This greater things are still to

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come. 
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead, 

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then you're not done. 
This greater things are still to

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come. 
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead, 

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then you're not done. 
There's greater things are still

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to come. 
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead, 

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then you're not dead, There's 
greater things are still to 

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come. 
Oh, I believe my best days are 

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up ahead of me. 
This is my testimony from them 

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to life. 
This grace will rule my story 

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and I'll testify. 
By Jesus Christ the righteous, 

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I'm justified. 
This is my testimony. 

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Now I'm alive. 
This is my testimony from death 

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to life. 
Because grace rewrote my story 

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and I'll testify by Jesus Christ
the righteous, I'm justified. 

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This is my testimony. 
This is my testimony. 

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Because I've got a reason to 
sing reason to. 

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Sing, Come on. 
Give him some praise this 

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morning. 
Let him know you love him so 

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good. 
Father, we love you. 

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God, we praise you and Father, 
in this moment, nothing else 

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matters but worship to you this 
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God, would you break down walls 
or anything that hinders us from

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being in your presence this 
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That all we want is you. 
We seek you this morning. 

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Father, how would you be with 
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We know you are Father, and 
we're making room for you today.

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That as we sing, as we worship 
you, Father, it's only for you. 

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Amen. 
This is my surrender, this is my

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surrender, and here is where I 
lead on every light and every 

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day. 
This is my surrender. 

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I will make your own for you to 
do whatever you want to, to do 

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whatever you want to. 
And I want me here for you, for 

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you, Jesus, to do whatever you 
want to, to do whatever you want

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to. 
This is my surrender. 

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Here is where I lay in town. 
Every light and every town this 

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is. 
My surrender, hope and I will 

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make you to do whatever you want
to to do. 

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Whatever you want. 
Want to I will make a room for 

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you to do whatever you want to 
To do whatever you want to. 

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I will make A room for you, yes,
to do whatever you want to, to 

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do whatever you want to. 
Oh, and I will meet around for 

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you to do whatever you want to 
to do whatever you want to. 

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Oh yes. 
Making a world. 

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For you to move and do whatever 
you want to, yes, making a world

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for you to move. 
Jesus, shake up the crown. 

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Shake up the crown of all my 
tradition. 

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Breakdown the walls of all my 
religion. 

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Your ways better. 
Your ways better. 

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Shake up the crown of all my 
tradition. 

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Breakdown the walls for my 
religion. 

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Your ways better. 
Shake up the crown of all my 

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tradition. 
Breakdown the walls for my 

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religion. 
Your ways better. 

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Your. 
Ways better. 

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Shake up the crown of all my 
tradition, break down the walls 

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all my religion. 
Your way is better. 

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It always better. 
I want me to do whatever you 

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want to, do whatever you want 
to. 

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And I will make a rule for you, 
for you Jesus, to do whatever 

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you want to. 
Come do whatever you want to. 

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And here is where I lay down. 
You are all I'm chasing now. 

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This is my surrender. 
And here is where I lay down. 

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So you are all I'm chasing now. 
This is my surrender. 

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Amen. 
What a powerful word. 

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Yeah, you can give him some. 
Plus, it's a powerful word to 

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start our year. 
God to say this is all of me and

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I surrender it to you. 
It's a beautiful, beautiful 

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picture. 
Some calling on the God of 

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Jacob, whose love endures 
through generations. 

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I know that you will keep your 
covenant. 

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I'm calling on the God of hoses,
the one who opened up the ocean,

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and I need you now to do the 
same thing for, oh, for me. 

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Lift him up. 
Oh God, my God, I need you. 

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Oh God, my God, I need you now 
how I need you now. 

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Oh rock, oh rock, girl pages. 
I'm standing on your 

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faithfulness, on your 
faithfulness because I'm calling

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on the God of Mary, whose favor 
rest upon the Lord will be. 

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I know with you all things are 
possible. 

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And I'm calling on the God of 
David who made a shepherd boy 

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courageous. 
I may not face good life, but 

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I've got my own giants. 
Oh God, my God. 

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I mean. 
Welcome, ages. 

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I'm standing on your 
faithfulness. 

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On your faithfulness. 
Oh God, my God, I need you. 

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Oh God, my God, I need you now. 
How I need you now. 

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Oh rock. 
Oh Rock of Ages. 

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I'm standing on your a 
faithfulness, on your 

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faithfulness. 
Oh, you never change, 'cause you

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heard your children then, you 
hear your children now. 

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You are the same God. 
You are the same God. 

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You answered prayers back then 
and you will answer now. 

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You are the same God. 
You are the same God. 

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You were providing then, you are
providing now. 

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You are the same God. 
You are the same God. 

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You moved in power, then God. 
Move in power now. 

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You are the same God. 
You are the same you believe in 

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today. 
You are a healer, then you are a

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healer. 
Now You are the same God. 

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You are the same God. 
Oh God, my God, I need to, Oh 

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God, my God, I need to now how I
need to now the rock, O rock the

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pages. 
I'm standing on your 

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faithfulness, On your 
faithfulness. 

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Oh God, my God, I need you. 
Oh God, my God, I need you now. 

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How I need you now. 
You're the same Horacorac of 

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ages. 
I'm standing on your 

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fatefulness. 
On your fatefulness. 

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As Jesus, you're the. 
Same. 

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Yesterday and today and forever,
we're the same guy. 

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Home. 
And never change. 

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You're free the captives, then 
you're freeing hard. 

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Right now you are the same God. 
You are the same God. 

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I touch the leopards, then I 
feel your touch. 

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Right now you are the same God. 
You are the same God. 

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Lift your praises higher. 
Some calling on the Holy Spirit 

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Almighty river. 
Come and fill me again. 

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Amen. 
Film me again, won't you film 

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me? 
Again, Amen. 

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Amen. 
Man, let's give a shout of 

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praise to Jesus. 
And isn't it awesome to know 

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walking into this new year real 
life, that God is the same God 

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that we've relied on for the 
last however many years you've 

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been following Jesus. 
But more importantly, he's the 

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same God that's been faithful 
throughout the Scriptures, and 

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he will continue to be faithful 
in 2026. 

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So let's give it up for God one 
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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Happy New Year, real life. 
Are you guys ready for 2026? 

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I don't know if you pastor, I 
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not. 
Come one more time, 2026, real 

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life, give it up. 
Here we go. 

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We're ready, man. 
I can't wait to see what guys 

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just going to be so awesome in 
2026, man. 

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He's so faithful in 2025, man. 
Welcome to real life. 

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Welcome to this first gathering 
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We've been praying for you. 
We're so excited that you're 

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here with us today. 
We have a lot of new people with

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us again today in person and a 
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Can we show those guys some 
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Give them a round of applause. 
Thank you guys so much for being

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here. 
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to greet somebody around you? 
All right, Yeah, you guys can go

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ahead and be seated. 
Hey, as you guys are sitting 

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down, man, as always, we have 
that awesome connection card 

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that you're getting ready to sit
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And man, we love it when you 
guys fill this out. 

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If you come real life home, fill
that out. 

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Let us know what's going on in 
your life, whether it's a 

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prayer, maybe it's a praise, 
man, we'd love to hear what's 

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going on. 
Our leaders look forward to 

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reading over and praying over 
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Hey, if you're new with this, 
this is our invitation to you. 

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We're not going to ask anything 
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would love for you to give us an
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You can do that the easiest way 
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that connection card at some 
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And when you do that, we're not 
going to show up your house or 

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do anything weird, but we would 
love to send you out some more 

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information about real life. 
We'll let you guys know it a 

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little bit later on the 
gathering what you guys can do 

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with those. 
Everything that we do. 

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Here at Real Life is really with
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It's because we are a church on 
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And that mission is to see 
people far from God discovered 

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their real life and their 
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And man, it was so cool to see 
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That's why we exist. 
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So we love being on mission and 
we are so thankful that you guys

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are on mission with us as well. 
Man, we're kicking off a new 

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I don't know, how about maybe 
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with a glass FMT a little bit 
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I want to be more half full like
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But sometimes we think our best 
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But the reality is, is that if, 
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best days are in front of us. 
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We're looking forward to a 
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to in this moment here and now. 
But sometimes we get focused 

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again just on what's right in 
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different, something more 
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And so we're kicking off a next 
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heaven's one of those things our
culture really can feed us a lot

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of lies, whether it's through 
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And sometimes we think about 
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We're just going to sit on a 
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Are we going to play harps for 
attorney? 

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Sounds boring, but man, God has 
got a big vision for what our 

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lives are going to be. 
And it starts here now but 

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extends into the future. 
So we're going to answer some 

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really cool questions in this is
this series about what heaven's 

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like, are we going to know each 
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What are we going to do? 
You know what is? 

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What is heaven really? 
What's its purpose? 

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So once you guys put your hands 
together for Pastor Sean as we 

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kick off for a new series called
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Year Come on man, I feel like 
it's been like a year since I've

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seen you. 
Is it too early for dad jokes? 

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Never too early. 
You know, I'm 40s, I'm unashamed

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now I can just do a dad joke 
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It's going to happen. 
So I appreciate you guys being 

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in the house today. 
Can you give everybody's new one

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more time? 
Let them know you love them. 

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Come on, it's pretty cool. 
We have so much to celebrate and

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I think, you know, starting at 
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Amen. 
And there's so much to 

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celebrate. 
We did a huge celebration last 

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Sunday and man, the end of year 
social was so amazing to see 12 

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people baptized, Amen. 
Was that cool? 

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Give it up for those who got 
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It's amazing. 
The stories are unreal of what 

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people have gone through and the
things that they've struggled 

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through and their their story of
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It's just so powerful and just 
the reminder like This is why we

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exist, to see souls changed and 
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And it's such a so encouraging. 
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baptisms. 
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I was like, but they're going to
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I know soon. 
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But man, we're just always going
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doing. 
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cool. 
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we've ever had outside of a 
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up to the IT was if you were 
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You know what I'm talking about 
you, you felt it because the AC 

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did not like ever turn on. 
I was up here like, man, I need 

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to get a sweat rag, you know, 
and I was like, am I sick? 

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Is it just, is it just me? 
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it's not just me. 
The thermostats are set to 65. 

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Did they work? 
No, they didn't work. 

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That's called being portable. 
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The old adage is, who needs JC 
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Oh, who needs AC? 
We have JC. 

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That's right. 
That's right. 

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I need JC and AC. 
Come on, somebody. 

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So I'm glad we're in a, you 
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We're like looking for a space 
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stuff. 
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stories and commissioning people

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out with 18 people, just like 
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spiritually. 
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called the way. 
It's not like let's go to a 

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Bible study and get smarter. 
Let's actually transform our 

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lives. 
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Let's actually live out the 
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whether it's Sabbath or 
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and all these practices that 
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2026. 
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Amen. 
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coaches, right? 
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and grow, especially for 
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and helping us grow closer to 
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him. 
Huge win. 

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And we'll move on to the message
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But this is amazing. 
So New Year's Eve night, we had 

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a crew of 37 that went to main 
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So real life youth went out to 
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Logan, he preached late. 
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teenagers after 11 or bound 
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difficult, Amen. 
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he, he kind of set the stage 
early and said, Hey, are you for

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sure, you're for sure, you know,
Jesus And I just want you to 

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think about that tonight and 
just talked about what 26 would 

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look like. 
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midnight, gave the gospel, which
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context to preach in because the
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but it's really cool. 
We had a young lady, one young 

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lady come put her faith in trust
in Jesus right after midnight at

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the beginning of the new year. 
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It was pretty cool. 
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he's like, all right, guys, this
time it blew up confetti cannons

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and then they went back to this 
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young lady and the I don't know,
they call them zoos. 

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I don't know what's it called 
where you blow the the noise 

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noisemaker. 
It's just pretty simple thing, 

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right? 
Should have known that all these

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things are going on and this 
just trying to like talk about 

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Jesus and it's like, I can't 
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all this noise right now, but 
it's pretty cool. 

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That's the first salvation at 
real life in 2026. 

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God's up to it again. 
Amen. 

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Pretty cool, pretty cool. 
So it's just it's just fun, you 

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know, and maybe we're going to 
celebrate big what you guys 

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doing? 
Salvation is this year we got 

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all sorts of stuff planned, but 
New year, right? 

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We always set, well, hopefully 
we set some goals, right? 

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It's usually that season like I 
do the same thing. 

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I sat down with my goals and I 
was really proud of myself. 

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I had a lot of goals last year. 
I did all my goals, but I got 

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close. 
So the majority of my goals are 

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like, man, that's, that's, 
that's pretty good. 

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But we set these goals, right? 
A lot of health goals, like, you

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know, health and wealth, right? 
Like I'm going to get fit or 

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some of you guys are going to 
get buffed. 

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Some of you guys are going to 
try to lose some weight. 

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That's like most of us. 
Come on, Hallelujah, praise God,

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Amen. 
Like round is a shape. 

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It's not the one we want, you 
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And just getting back to the gym
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these different goals. 
How many guys set goals, by the 

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way? 
So, like, nobody set goals. 

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That's cool. 
All right. 

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So we're going to skip this part
of the message. 

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Yeah. 
I would encourage you. 

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And I last year actually read 
all my goals. 

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And I was a, you know, I don't 
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year. 
But I read all my goals and I 

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talked about all the different 
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professional goals, relational 

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goals, and I, I just walk 
through these and I, I really 

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think when you got one season in
life, like you got to take after

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it, man, You got to go for it. 
And, and don't be the guy that's

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just like, I'm starting like be 
passionate about what God is 

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doing. 
And I was encourage you guys, we

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talked these goals and, and I 
set all these goals on, you 

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know, finance or health and all 
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Like get out of debt or like 
savings or kind of retire early.

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That's a weird thought. 
Amen. 

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But like I'm going to, I'm going
to track these things and try to

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make some more income and all 
and just start dreaming, which 

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we should be dreaming, right? 
But I do think some of our goals

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just come up a little short. 
Like we have goals for for, for 

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this vision of this earth. 
But do we have goals and vision 

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like higher than this earth? 
Like beyond, just the temporary,

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like beyond, like the 80 years 
you may get like, do you have 

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vision for heaven? 
And so on the New Year's Eve 

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that night, and really, you 
know, I'm watching the reels 

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that let me see burka leaf blow 
up. 

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That was insane. 
The burka leaf, the building, 

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they, they, they counted down 
and you know, it just lit up and

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it just, it had to be like 10s 
of millions of dollars of 

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fireworks that blew off this 
building, the tallest build in 

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the world, right? 
And I was watching this and as 

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the building was counting down 
and it just like dropped this 

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light and it just bloated. 
It was crazy. 

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I started thinking, man, what is
Bill Hardy up to right now? 

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Now Bill Hardy is was a man in 
our church passionate about 

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Jesus is a dad to so many of us,
including myself, just 

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passionate about he wasn't 
perfect Amen. 

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If you know Bill, he'd let you 
know that immediately. 

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But that boy walked with Jesus 
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explosions. 
I'm thinking, hey, what's Bill 

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up to? 
And this series is extremely 

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personal because how many of us 
have friends and family in 

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heaven show hands, right? 
Like we all do. 

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And we should be dreaming about 
like, what in the world? 

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What are they doing? 
And sometimes you think heaven's

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going to be boring or it's this 
vague thing, but no, it's very 

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real. 
I know God has something very 

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special in store for us and 
something that is, it's not just

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beyond imagination. 
We can dream in it like we can 

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have scriptural imagination. 
And I think sometimes in the, 

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the world of church, like we, we
kind of downgrade heaven and we 

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don't really talk about a lot. 
Like I went to Bible college, I 

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had zero classes or lectures 
really over heaven. 

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Like it's not talked about. 
And today I just want to launch 

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a series six weeks of like 
answering the hard questions. 

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And for some of us, we have 
friends and family in heaven, 

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even this last week that entered
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And as a pastor, I have a lot of
conversations with people that 

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are going through a very tragic 
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At least it feels that way from 
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not here. 
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some different families in our 
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And so I would encourage you 
guys, this series is very 

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personal, but we can trust that 
God has prepared something 

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better for us than we can even 
comprehend. 

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And the Philippians one if you 
get your Bible, we're going to 

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be there. 
This is Paul, this is what he 

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says. 
He says for me to live is what 

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is Christ like my life on earth 
is Christ like everything I do 

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is Christ. 
What do you have me to do? 

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Where are you going to go? 
How do you want to live? 

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How do you want to spend my 
money? 

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What direction do you want me to
to go in my life? 

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But he said this and to die is 
what it's the game. 

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Do we truly believe that death 
is a game like it? 

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It's far better like it's an 
upgrade. 

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Like oftentimes as Christians 
and as as non believers were 

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like, wow, I mean, I'm going to 
go to hell and part with my 

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friends. 
That's what people say all the 

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time. 
They think heaven's some boring,

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irrelevant, just existential, 
just whatever. 

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And they don't really have a 
vision of heaven. 

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But for Paul. 
And by the way, you know, you'll

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learn through this series. 
Actually, Paul was had spent 

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time in heaven, which is pretty 
crazy to think about. 

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And 2nd Corinthians, you'll see 
this. 

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But it says if I'm going to go 
and live my body, this will mean

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fruitful labor for me. 
Yet what shall I choose? 

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I do not know. 
I am what? 

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Yeah. 
I'm torn between the two like I 

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I, I, I desire to be have a 
better life in heaven, but I'm 

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torn because I know I should 
stay here, He says. 

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A desire to part, to depart, 
which is to die to be with what?

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With who? 
With Christ, like the 

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centerpiece of heaven, the 
resurrected Christ, which is 

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what what you say it's better by
noted by far. 

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I don't know if you guys ever 
had like I don't know. 

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We had grew up a season tickets,
you know, and my season tickets 

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were behind with my parents. 
We're on the 14 yard or the 14 

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row behind an end zone. 
Those aren't great tickets. 

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Amen. 
Some of y'all got some good 

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tickets. 
You know what I'm talking about.

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But if we upgraded, which we 
never did, right, but imagine we

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got 50 yard line tickets in the 
suite, like we we would be like,

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Oh yeah, I remember we sat over 
there, but we never go. 

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I can't wait to go back over 
there. 

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We'd never we'd never miss our 
fourteen row behind an end zone.

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We'd be like, it was cool, but 
guess what? 

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Now we're in a better spot. 
It's an upgrade. 

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Amen. 
Like you never go back and go, 

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man, I wish I was back in the 
Nosebleed when you get upgrade 

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tickets. 
And it's the same thing for 

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heaven. 
Like we we look at attorney and 

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think, man, that's going to be a
little boring. 

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And I'm not so sure. 
And sometimes we think that 

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eternity is going to be a 
forever like church gathering or

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church service. 
And as a pastor, like, I want to

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tell you straight up, that would
be terrible. 

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Amen. 
Come on, somebody like. 

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I'm just telling you. 
Like, you remember the song? 

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I could sing your love forever. 
You remember that song? 

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I could sing up your love. 
I Can't Sing forever. 

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You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah. 

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There you go. 
Come on. 

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Dang, get here with me. 
Right. 

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And you say I can sing your love
forever. 

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And it just goes on forever. 
You guys remember that song. 

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And by the time the song ends, 
you're like, Lord, I hope I 

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never hear this song again in my
life. 

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It's one of those songs you're 
like praying out of heaven. 

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Like, Lord, help me, This song 
is not in heaven for all of 

451
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,280
eternity because this song is 
just like man. 

452
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,600
And and that's sometimes your 
minds like this is what's going 

453
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,760
to be. 
We'll be like cherubim. 

454
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,800
We'll float around. 
It was sing forever and think, 

455
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,400
man, that's just not as exciting
as I think it should be. 

456
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,680
But for Paul, like he actually 
had a glimpse in heaven and was 

457
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,760
there and he said, no, I want to
go back. 

458
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,400
Like it's far better for me to 
be in heaven, but it's necessary

459
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,880
for you that remain in my body. 
It's really interesting. 

460
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,880
Like Paul was not afraid of 
death because it's an upgrade 

461
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,240
baby and he's going to be in the
presence of God. 

462
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,280
It's going to be a whole world. 
We have jobs and you know, 

463
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,000
people and all these things. 
He saw this, but he's not 

464
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,600
afraid. 
He wants to go there, but he's 

465
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,400
like, the only reason I'm 
staying is because I'm on a 

466
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,160
mission is because I have a 
purpose, because there's people.

467
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,480
It's actually better for you to 
die and go to heaven right now. 

468
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,840
It is far better for you, but 
it's not better for your family.

469
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,360
It's not better for your 
friends. 

470
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,800
It's not better for our 
community. 

471
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,960
It's not better for our culture.
It's not better for the world if

472
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,520
we don't tell the world about 
Jesus. 

473
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,000
Amen. 
Because that's where our home 

474
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,280
is. 
That's what we're destined to. 

475
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,720
We should dream about, we should
desire. 

476
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,720
And we look at 26 and it's, it's
so interesting because we don't 

477
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,200
really dream about heaven. 
Like, when's the last time you 

478
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,000
thought like Paul? 
Like heaven is real, it's 

479
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,840
conscious, it's better, and it's
desirable for our lives. 

480
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,040
Often times we look back, right?
You think about our culture. 

481
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,440
You get to the end of the year 
and we sing a song #1 Nobody 

482
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,000
knows the words to Auld Lang 
Syne. 

483
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,960
Come on, somebody. 
How many guys know the words 

484
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,200
Auld Lang Syne, but we all I get
in there and it's a Scottish, 

485
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,560
you know, whatever it was just 
cool. 

486
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,960
God bless the heritage, right? 
And you see all things like but 

487
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,120
we no idea. 
It's like old times past is what

488
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,360
it's saying these these old 
acquaintances and we we look 

489
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,120
back at time and I found myself 
looking back at time, man. 

490
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,080
I was thinking about Bill and I 
think about people who are here 

491
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,240
and these relationships and what
25 was all about. 

492
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,280
But wouldn't it be cool as 
Christians if we had the kind of

493
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,680
faith and belief every year 
We're like, man, I'm not just 

494
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,640
looking back, but I have one 
year closer to heaven. 

495
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,280
Wouldn't it be pretty cool that 
our mindset was like, you know 

496
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,360
what, there's a lot of stuff 
that happened and there's some 

497
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,320
relationships that are broken. 
There's some really stuff I 

498
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,120
loved and some stuff that hurt. 
But guess what? 

499
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,680
I'm one year closer to being in 
the presence and the glory of 

500
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520
God. 
That's pretty cool. 

501
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,400
Amen. 
Like that's the kind of faith 

502
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,440
that we should have like every 
day. 

503
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,840
And this is what the Scripture 
even says about it. 

504
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,560
But but you think you think 
about just our culture and how 

505
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,520
we see heaven. 
It's it's very distant and very 

506
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,360
dark and there's a good 
illustration of somebody. 

507
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,760
It's a true story of a man named
Levi Lesko. 

508
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,640
Anybody heard of Levi Lesko If 
you guys, if you follow him, 

509
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,920
Levi Lesko been great preacher, 
great leader calls of Christ. 

510
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,320
He has a church called Fresh 
Life Church up in Billings, Mt 

511
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,120
has different campuses did like 
ATV ministry all sorts of stuff.

512
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,800
Matter of fact, the chosen 
series that we did this last 

513
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,400
time. 
You guys remember that he he 

514
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
produced that that was that was 
like his vision. 

515
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,280
It was pretty amazing, but it's 
a it's a crazy story if there's 

516
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,600
a book he wrote called Through 
the Eyes of a Lion, and it's a 

517
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,520
must read, especially if you 
went through any kind of loss. 

518
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,199
And the story is a story of his 
daughter Lena that passed away. 

519
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,880
And I don't know the year, but 
it's probably about 10 years ago

520
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,520
and she was five years old. 
She has asthma attack and 

521
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,120
they've done everything. 
They're trying to help her. 

522
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,320
They're given all the different 
things and there's nothing's 

523
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,080
working. 
They get to the hospital and she

524
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,880
doesn't make it. 
And I saw him speak in person a 

525
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,400
few times. 
I read his book. 

526
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,280
He's just one of those guys and 
I know this is a a battle for 

527
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,000
like human nature to do what 
God's asked him to do. 

528
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
When he says a statement, this 
is unnatural statement, but this

529
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,760
was his conclusion and this is 
his heartbeat. 

530
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,920
This way he fights for every 
day. 

531
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,000
He says every day. 
I don't countdown the days. 

532
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,960
I don't count out the days that 
I haven't seen her and I miss 

533
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,920
her. 
I countdown the days until I see

534
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,920
her again. 
That's pretty good. 

535
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,760
Amen. 
Like he's counting down the days

536
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,080
to heaven. 
I know about you, but we get a 

537
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,360
little more homesick for heaven 
when people close to us are in 

538
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,000
heaven, Amen. 
Like, it's one thing to be 

539
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,640
young, like invincible and blah,
blah, blah. 

540
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,680
When you get older, you're like,
man, I got I, you get to the 

541
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,280
point you got more people in 
heaven than you got on earth 

542
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,640
that you're friends with, Amen. 
You start looking forward, like 

543
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,640
what is the next life? 
And the reality is we're going 

544
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,640
to spend 80, you know, maybe you
get 100 years. 

545
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,440
Come on, somebody right, maybe 
like Dick Van Dyke kind of thing

546
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,320
going on there, right? 
Like maybe most of us are not 

547
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,440
going to get the 100 years, you 
know? 

548
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,920
And then we spend all of 
eternity in a place that we 

549
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,800
haven't even thought about, like
we don't desire. 

550
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,320
Like if we really knew what 
heaven was like, we would live 

551
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,720
differently on earth, Amen? 
Like it would change our habits.

552
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,240
And we set these goals in 26. 
And I see all these things. 

553
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,200
I'm like, it's great. 
I mean, I hope you make 

554
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,040
$1,000,000 this year, Amen? 
Like, I hope all your dreams 

555
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,280
come true. 
I hope all just works out. 

556
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,560
But the end of the day, it's 
wood, hay and stubble, right? 

557
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,080
Like there's a vision higher 
than the things of earth, a 

558
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,800
vision of the next earth, the 
new earth, the things that are 

559
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,120
coming. 
The thing about Levi Lesko's 

560
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,680
story is so amazing is that 
suffering will not have the 

561
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,600
final word, Amen. 
Like suffering is not the end of

562
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,680
the equation. 
Loss is real, but so is reunion.

563
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,800
Amen. 
Like you will see again. 

564
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,680
I feel like I'm preaching at a 
funeral right now. 

565
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,720
You should be way more excited. 
There's not a casket. 

566
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,160
Come on, somebody, right? 
Yeah. 

567
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,280
On the words of DL Moody, Don't,
don't, don't say I'm dead. 

568
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:43,800
When because he knew he was 
going to die. 

569
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,800
He published in the newspaper. 
He said don't, don't cry for me 

570
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,960
and say I'm dead. 
But when you when you look into 

571
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,760
my casket, no, I'm more alive 
than ever. 

572
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,400
It's pretty good. 
It's pretty good. 

573
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,880
These final words were the the 
veil of heaven is opened up and 

574
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,640
DL Moody passed away. 
But the reality is this death is

575
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,880
painful, but it's not permanent.
In the days for those who are in

576
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,160
Christ are not behind us. 
They are ahead of us. 

577
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,960
The best is yet to come. 
Amen. 

578
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,760
And it's not necessarily found 
on earth. 

579
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920
We try to make it on earth. 
Like we try to be comfortable. 

580
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
We try to have our retirement. 
We try to put the pieces 

581
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,280
together so we have a certain 
life. 

582
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,600
But the reality is we are 
foreigners. 

583
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,640
We are sojourners in this world.
Who has those old T-shirts? 

584
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,040
Come on, somebody is not our 
home. 

585
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:25,360
I think you have some of these 
not of this world. 

586
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,720
Come on, somebody got the belt 
buckle, got the shirt, got the 

587
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,280
CD, got the hat, Right. 
And then we, we, we kind of 

588
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,480
forget so easily. 
Like we, our vision, our goals 

589
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,200
extend to this earth. 
They're very small and very just

590
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,280
narrow minded. 
And so why is it, why do we have

591
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,840
such a small vision of heaven? 
Like how do we get to this 

592
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,360
place? 
Like why in the world do we 

593
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,800
dream about just this kind of 
world? 

594
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,440
And and you think about all the 
different things like we think 

595
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,600
about maybe we become, I've 
heard, I haven't heard this 

596
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,320
since we, we become angels and 
we die. 

597
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,440
I've, I've heard that which 
we'll, we'll talk. 

598
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,080
Come on, somebody, right? 
Vision clouds and harps and 

599
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,040
boredom and floating and and 
endless church service, right. 

600
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,960
And it's almost like we just 
copy and pasted our theology of 

601
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,880
heaven from like all the 
culture. 

602
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,600
Like in my generation, there was
this awesome song called drops 

603
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,400
of Jupiter. 
Come on, somebody right from 

604
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,440
train in a ride on the Milky 
Way. 

605
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,240
Forget the exact line and it 
says the lights are faded. 

606
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,920
Remember that? 
Are they really faded? 

607
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,120
No. 
And heaven is what is what? 

608
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,640
Yeah, overrated. 
Like I drew, I grew up in a 

609
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,440
generation where it was like, 
dude, and we all did right. 

610
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,720
Like why go to heaven? 
That's so overrated. 

611
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,160
That's just dumb. 
It's just just for the weak 

612
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,040
minded or, you know, it's it's 
not all it's set out to be like 

613
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,680
we, we, we we're thinking it's 
overrated. 

614
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,040
But no, heaven is underrated. 
Amen. 

615
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,480
But these songs that we just 
hear, these songs like, well, 

616
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,640
maybe it's not as good. 
Maybe it is a little boring. 

617
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,160
You know who watched The 
Simpsons? 

618
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,160
Come on, somebody you can put 
your hand up, dude. 

619
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,160
Y'all sinners. 
That's OK, right? 

620
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,400
I grew up in The Simpsons. 
It was awesome, you know what I 

621
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,440
mean? 
Like I saw in the movie when it 

622
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,320
came out, whatever. 
And Homer dies, he goes up on a 

623
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,840
cloud and he's sitting there and
he just eats Donuts for 

624
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,840
eternity. 
That was their picture, right? 

625
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,360
And then whoever who made 
peanuts should know his name. 

626
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,360
Yeah, he there you go. 
You all know you're all smart at

627
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,800
me. 
And he he it was in the 

628
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,160
newspaper and he put out there's
this, you know, person dies. 

629
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,840
They got their wings. 
They're set in heaven. 

630
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,360
And the caption or the the 
thought was in the bubble. 

631
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,480
I wish I'd brought a magazine, 
right. 

632
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,160
Like this is just what the world
teaches is like. 

633
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,480
It's just not. 
They don't know, right. 

634
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,360
And and and maybe to our fault 
as Christians and maybe even 

635
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,000
pastors or churches, we just 
don't talk about heaven enough. 

636
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,160
We we just don't you know, you 
know, a 120 people to one 

637
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,880
believe they're going to heaven 
in the United States based on 

638
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,680
Barnes survey. 
So if you're just like, hey, you

639
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,880
going to heaven? 
Yeah, I mean, most people think 

640
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,160
they're going to heaven. 
Isn't that crazy? 

641
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,080
So if you just talk about 
heaven, you're only going to 

642
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,760
offend less than 1% of people 
you talk to. 

643
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,560
Amen. 
That's a good strategy. 

644
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,000
Matter of fact, when Paul, this 
is pretty cool when he actually 

645
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,360
was, his strategy to reach the 
Gentiles of non Jewish people 

646
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,440
was to tell them, according to 
Ephesians chapter 3, to tell 

647
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,800
them of the riches, the riches 
of Christ. 

648
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,720
Did it pretty cool. 
You know what? 

649
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,880
You know what the richest of 
Christ is? 

650
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,720
Heaven, Amen. 
People need to know about this. 

651
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,160
So many people are afraid of 
heaven. 

652
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,320
If you think you're going to 
know nobody in heaven and nobody

653
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,320
talks and you're sitting down on
like a like playing a harp all 

654
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,840
day, like you might be afraid to
go to heaven. 

655
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,840
That sounds really boring. 
If you don't know anybody, you 

656
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,040
might be afraid to even die. 
Amen. 

657
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,160
Like we have to change our view.
Like what does heaven really 

658
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,600
look like? 
What should it be? 

659
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,440
You know, I think about this 
song and the culture. 

660
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,440
This might be the most iconic 
song and most heartfelt heart 

661
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,760
wrenching song in the culture. 
We actually somebody kind of 

662
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,640
joke about it earlier, but Eric 
Clapton, right, Tears in heaven 

663
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,400
and about his five year old son 
Connor, who died, ran through an

664
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,800
open window that thought was 
glass and fell out of a 

665
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,600
building. 
And he wrote this song. 

666
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,440
And the song is like, you got to
listen to it and it's heart 

667
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,560
wrench and it is so human. 
It is the most human song you 

668
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,800
could put together. 
And we all feel the same way. 

669
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,400
I mean, it's one of the songs if
you you can't listen to without 

670
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,600
putting a tear in your eye 
because we all felt that gut 

671
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,480
wrenching loss. 
We've all seen that kind of 

672
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,240
pain. 
Not even to his level probably. 

673
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,920
And he asked these questions. 
You guys heard the song of the 

674
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,320
questions, right? 
Like like, would you know my 

675
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,800
name if you saw me in heaven, 
man? 

676
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,040
What a question. 
Like what is the answer to that 

677
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,160
question? 
Would you really recognize me? 

678
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,920
Like, would you picking me up if
I'm I'm falling down and 

679
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,280
weeping? 
Like would you hold my hand? 

680
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,480
Like that's the world is asking 
the question, Amen. 

681
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,920
I mean, you got musicians crying
out in pain, asking the 

682
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,320
questions that as a church we 
have the answers to, Amen. 

683
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,800
We have the answers to these 
questions, but the it's just the

684
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,200
culture, right? 
Like so then we think, well, 

685
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,360
maybe we can't know anybody. 
Like maybe we don't recognize 

686
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,680
like maybe we're separate, you 
know, maybe we don't exist. 

687
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,760
Like, maybe it's not what it 
should be. 

688
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,560
Like, we just don't know. 
No one's no one's even told. 

689
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,040
As a trained, like pastor, like 
I don't was never trained to 

690
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,320
answer these questions. 
Like, would you recognize people

691
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,240
in heaven? 
Will relationships continue in 

692
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:19,920
heaven? 
Will pain and separation be 

693
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,120
healed? 
Is heaven going to be familiar 

694
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,320
or distant? 
That's that's really what Eric 

695
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,520
Clapton is asking. 
And we have the answer. 

696
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,120
You're going to know over the 
next six weeks, you're going to 

697
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,680
be like out of here, like, dude,
I'm so glad because most people 

698
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,080
go, we'll never know what will 
heaven be like? 

699
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,880
I guess we'll never know. 
And you can say I do Amen. 

700
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,360
I know exactly what heaven's 
like. 

701
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,360
Now someone we're going to talk 
about is, is it's going to be a 

702
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,880
little bit of speculation, but 
it's based on scripture. 

703
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,680
Amen. 
Like I'm not going to dream 

704
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,160
outside of scripture. 
Like the footing is scripture. 

705
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,600
So I'm have a little like I, you
could challenge it and say, 

706
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,280
well, they could be this. 
It could be. 

707
00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,880
But guess what? 
I think we should be dreaming 

708
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,240
about heaven. 
I think if God didn't want to 

709
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,080
hear about heaven, he wouldn't 
even put it in the Bible for us 

710
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,240
to know about. 
He wouldn't have written so much

711
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,600
about the topic. 
And for most of us, we just 

712
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,640
don't know enough. 
Our culture teaches all sorts of

713
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,480
stuff and some of it's just very
sad. 

714
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,600
But like everyone goes to 
heaven. 

715
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,040
That's a pretty popular 
teaching, isn't it? 

716
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,200
Like we're all getting there, 
we're all touching the same 

717
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,320
elephant. 
We're all going to the same 

718
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,720
place, like everybody's good. 
And the Bible says complete 

719
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:28,440
opposite it all says that narrow
is the road to, to, to life and 

720
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,080
and wide is the road to 
destruction. 

721
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,920
Like the reality is quite the 
opposite is that most people go 

722
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,640
to hell. 
Most people do not go to heaven.

723
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,680
That's just based upon 
scripture. 

724
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,320
And I, I mean, personally as a 
pastor, like I, I don't, I did 

725
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,960
not write the story. 
I wish I could change that, but 

726
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,840
I also trust Jesus. 
It is a plan and a purpose. 

727
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Beyond that, I can even see and 
imagine I didn't write the book.

728
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,160
Amen. 
But we trust what's what's in 

729
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,520
the book and there's a reason 
for it. 

730
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,640
We also think heaven is boring 
or heaven is just a place of 

731
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,720
rest. 
You know, there's not real life 

732
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:01,840
or anything. 
You just you're at peace or 

733
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,720
become angels. 
When we die, we get our Halos, 

734
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:06,280
we're graduating and get our 
wings like we've watched It's a 

735
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,480
wonderful life. 
Too many times, you know, or 

736
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,280
heaven is vague or unknowable or
there it's just reward for good 

737
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,480
people. 
Like you get to heaven because 

738
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,120
you're a good person and that's 
the majority of people of my my 

739
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:16,920
good outways. 
My bad. 

740
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,080
Then I go to heaven, which isn't
true or heaven is the same for 

741
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,680
everyone. 
It's not So many people think 

742
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:23,520
we're all going to get to 
heaven. 

743
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,240
That's going to be identical. 
We have jobs in heaven. 

744
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,080
We have roles in heaven. 
There's authority given to you 

745
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,760
in heaven based upon what 
happens on this earth, like your

746
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,840
faithfulness. 
Like the Bible talks about, like

747
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,240
the lead, the first will be last
and last will be first. 

748
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,600
Like sometimes we think this is 
it. 

749
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,960
And then we're all going to 
like, we're all going to get 

750
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:41,880
there. 
It's like, well, yeah, you got, 

751
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,000
you got there. 
That's the first thing. 

752
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,120
But then there's different 
roles, right? 

753
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,960
Or is heaven just spiritual? 
Like we're floating, 

754
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,320
disembodied, like, you know, 
just spiritual beings, right? 

755
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,240
Or heaven is just too far away. 
It's too relevant. 

756
00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:57,480
It shouldn't matter. 
Like you just it's too far to 

757
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,040
know about. 
Like we could never really know 

758
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,040
anything. 
Or how about this one? 

759
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,920
I see this a lot. 
Heaven is restrictive and 

760
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,440
joyless. 
That's the original sin, right? 

761
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:11,800
Like we can do better than God. 
Like God is holding back from 

762
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,480
you. 
He doesn't want you to see what 

763
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,600
he sees. 
Like just do it your way, have 

764
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,280
fun. 
And it's ultimately see this 

765
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,640
with people time. 
Like I'd really park with my 

766
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,320
friends and hell, you see it, 
you hear it all the time. 

767
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,000
Like do you have a, do you have 
a clue what you're talking 

768
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,320
about? 
Like do you know what you're 

769
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,880
saying? 
Or heaven's just metaphorical, 

770
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,000
which is just so sad. 
You know, like I've had people 

771
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,280
in my family that were they're 
atheist to the core and it truly

772
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,520
believed, hey, when you die, you
don't get, you don't like have 

773
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,720
an afterlife and they're 
annihilated, which isn't true 

774
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:44,120
anyway, but you just go into 
oblivion. 

775
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,280
You just cease to exist. 
It's not true. 

776
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,440
And it's so sad that this is the
end result of like secular 

777
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,520
humanism of so-called science 
without reason or science with 

778
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,800
reason or naturalism, like the 
way we teach things in the 

779
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,560
States and there's just no room 
for faith. 

780
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,400
It's like this came from a 
cesspool DNA and then we just 

781
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,720
cease to be DNA and it's just 
whatever that's the that's the 

782
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:11,680
end result of of evolution, 
right? 

783
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,160
Like there's a chance to happen.
The chance doesn't happen. 

784
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,720
It's just sad to see. 
It's just metaphorical. 

785
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:18,680
It's not really there. 
And I think for heaven, most 

786
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,880
people don't reject like the 
real heaven. 

787
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,600
I think they reject a bad 
version of heaven. 

788
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,200
Like I don't think they know. 
I honestly don't think if we 

789
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:31,080
even know for most people, it's 
just crazy that like what is the

790
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,400
scripture says about heaven and 
what we embrace in this world. 

791
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,520
Like if we sat down in 26 said 
what is your goal in 26? 

792
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,480
It doesn't involve heaven in a 
in a vision for the afterlife of

793
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,200
eternity with God and the things
that he has for you. 

794
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,200
I think we're missing it. 
Amen. 

795
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,400
I think we have so much to lean 
into. 

796
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,400
And so my goal for you day of my
prayer is that we get a bigger 

797
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:51,160
view of Heaven. 
Amen. 

798
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,120
We get a way bigger if you have,
you know, we talk, we talk about

799
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,240
salvation as a church. 
We talk about all the time. 

800
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,320
We talk, we talk like sin, we 
talk about church. 

801
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,280
But you know what, this season 
we're going to talk about 

802
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:00,840
heaven. 
Amen. 

803
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,520
I said, maybe we'll leave in 
26th. 

804
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,560
We're going to we're just going 
to lead into heaven because 

805
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,000
ultimately, like we're like, you
know, where are we going? 

806
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,600
What's this going to be about? 
It's going to be about heaven. 

807
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,440
It's going about Jesus. 
It's going about something way 

808
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,560
bigger. 
It's going to change our lives, 

809
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,680
but we rarely talk about it. 
It's like a footnote. 

810
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,000
It's like heaven's reserved for 
a funeral message. 

811
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,120
Like you hear about it and you 
go to the funeral. 

812
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,480
And even then, oftentimes it's 
done so poorly. 

813
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,840
And nothing bothers me more than
the pastor when I show up to a 

814
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,480
funeral, they don't talk about 
heaven and they don't talk about

815
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,680
salvation. 
It's terrible. 

816
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,480
Like what hope have you given 
anybody? 

817
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,640
And I don't care if it's a 
person who didn't know Jesus and

818
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,760
you're preaching a funeral, you 
will get to Jesus in heaven 

819
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,200
somehow. 
Amen. 

820
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,720
Like and as AI mean, I hate to 
say it, as a pastor, I far 

821
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:42,000
rather do a funeral than a 
wedding. 

822
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,000
It's just the truth because 
there's a spiritual receptivity,

823
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,320
there's an openness of the 
reality of the eternal. 

824
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,760
Like last year we talked about 
numbering your days with this, 

825
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,440
this series, this last year not 
called heaven, but the same, you

826
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,640
know, New Year's series. 
We talk about numbering your 

827
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,280
days and I've been still been 
numbering my days. 

828
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,560
You know, we talked about the, 
you know, teach us Lord number 

829
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,840
of days that every day has its 
own pain and sorrow thereof. 

830
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:09,920
And there's different place in 
the Bible numerous times. 

831
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,000
And so I I've been on my mirror,
my over the vanity, right, like 

832
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:17,040
here it is every day. 
I I race the last number or two,

833
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,560
depending or three times if you 
know, a couple times, but I race

834
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,200
it and I I just work my way 
down, right. 

835
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:29,320
And so today 12,623 that that's 
my number. 

836
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,880
If I live to the average age of 
a male today. 

837
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,880
It we talk about that, right, 
like, but it puts eternity in 

838
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,560
mind. 
It's like, God help me if I 

839
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,120
forget that this life, if I 
think this life is all there is,

840
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,160
Amen. 
And we have to start thinking 

841
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,560
like, well, what's beyond this? 
What, what's, what's the vision?

842
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,720
What does God have for my life? 
And it's not a footnote. 

843
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,080
You think about you guys follow 
Elon Musk at all. 

844
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,600
You know, Starlink, everything 
in Starlink actually is used to 

845
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,000
fund going to Mars. 
You guys know that or not the, 

846
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,560
the, the logo for Starlink is 
actually Earth and Mars like 

847
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,800
every kind of intersect. 
Every couple intersect, but they

848
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,360
close every couple years and so 
he's like, OK, every couple 

849
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,760
years we're going to send off 
rockets. 

850
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,680
We're going to put £10,000,000 
of whatever resources we need so

851
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:18,800
we can colonize Mars. 
OK, You know, whatever band, you

852
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,680
know, cool for you, but they're 
going to send all this stuff to 

853
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:23,680
Mars. 
You're going to see every couple

854
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,640
years they're going to send all 
these rockets and try to just 

855
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,840
put all this stuff on Mars so 
they can somehow send the human 

856
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,280
there. 
We can colonize in case Earth 

857
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,040
falls apart. 
Like like God does know what 

858
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,800
he's doing. 
I hate to tell you the time 

859
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,080
that's like, that's a waste of 
time. 

860
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,520
Amen. 
This is a new Earth that's 

861
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,800
coming and we don't need to 
worry about all these things, 

862
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,680
but whatever. 
But could you imagine you send 

863
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,800
all the stuff there and then 
somebody looks at it and says, 

864
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,520
Hey, what's Mars like? 
And they never thought about it.

865
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,040
You know what I'm saying? 
They, they, they had the mission

866
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,440
plan. 
They, they sent all the 

867
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,360
different units. 
They got oxygen, they got all 

868
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,160
these things and they've been 
planning, planning, planning in 

869
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,680
for decades. 
They've been sending stuff and 

870
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,920
then says, what's Mars like? 
Like, Oh, I really never 

871
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,560
consider it all. 
That's kind of like it is for us

872
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:02,320
in heaven. 
Amen. 

873
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,760
Like we're living on mission 
right now. 

874
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,520
We're telling people about 
Christ, we're living in Christ, 

875
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:07,360
we're praying, we're going to 
church. 

876
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,520
But we're like our vision for 
heaven is is so small. 

877
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,840
And that whole goal of this 
series is just to make it 

878
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,920
really, really big. 
Just to see what it's like just 

879
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,800
to pull back the curd. 
And there's some things we can 

880
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,480
know and there's some things we 
can speculate. 

881
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:24,920
But I do think you can use your 
imagination upon truth, not just

882
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,840
make up truth like most books of
heaven are the people's stories 

883
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,280
that are like not built on 
Scripture, which I'm not going 

884
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,080
to argue with people, but I'm 
just going to go back to the 

885
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,520
Bible. 
Amen. 

886
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,440
And like I'm going to build it 
on Scripture. 

887
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,560
What does the Scripture say 
about heaven? 

888
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,480
And here's some things that 
you're going to see in Scripture

889
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:43,600
of why we should be desperately 
homestead kind of vision for 

890
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,000
heaven. 
But Hebrews 11/13 says this. 

891
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,440
This is like the Hall of Fame of
faith because all these people 

892
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,640
were still living by faith when 
they died, which is that means 

893
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,960
they finished the race strong 
and did not receive the things 

894
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,600
promised because it's the Old 
Testament. 

895
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,560
They they only saw them in the 
distance and they welcomed them 

896
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:05,000
from a distance, admitting that 
they were what foreigners and 

897
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,920
strange on earth. 
That's what's got to start. 

898
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,320
Amen. 
But like our deepest desire is 

899
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,480
not to put a permanent address 
on earth. 

900
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,040
And these guys knew this because
they saw what God was doing and 

901
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,000
they said, no, no, no, no. 
This is just temporary. 

902
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,680
Like I'm just passing the 
through. 

903
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,080
I'm on, I'm on a walk. 
It says people who say such 

904
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,320
things show that they're looking
for a country of their own. 

905
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,880
If they had been thinking of the
country they had left, they'd 

906
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,480
had the opportunity to return. 
You know, if you, if you look 

907
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,680
back at the past and you look 
back at this world and you build

908
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,400
your life on this world, your 
feet always follow your 

909
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,840
thoughts. 
You always put down the roots. 

910
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,320
Like where your mind sits 
becomes your mindset. 

911
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,720
And if this world is all you 
got, I don't know how much joy 

912
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,080
you can really muster in your 
soul. 

913
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Amen. 
Like, I don't know how much 

914
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,280
passion you can really have if 
you look at all the pain and 

915
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:55,400
suffering and all the things 
around you. 

916
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,640
Like, this is it. 
We got some oil from Venezuela. 

917
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,800
Great job. 
What are you thinking? 

918
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:05,120
I mean, it just whatever, we're 
not going there. 

919
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,440
But I did. 
But you. 

920
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,280
But you look, but you look at 
this and it's like, is this it? 

921
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,280
Is it? 
Is this all that it is come to 

922
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,520
be? 
If you're looking for a country 

923
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:14,880
that you already have, you're 
going to find it. 

924
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,000
But if you long for heaven, you 
will find that country. 

925
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,560
It says instead they're longing 
for a better country, a heavenly

926
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,320
one. 
Therefore God is not ashamed to 

927
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,040
be called their God, for as he 
has prepared a city for them. 

928
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:25,640
Like there's a city coming, 
Amen. 

929
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,440
There's a new heaven on earth, 
there's a place, there's a house

930
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,360
that Jesus building and we're 
longing for that, that that's 

931
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,040
our home, Amen. 
Like don't get, don't get too 

932
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,480
freaked out if you don't fit in.
You're not supposed to fit in 

933
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,640
first Peter 2 says this. 
Dear friends, I urge you as 

934
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,320
foreigners in exiles. 
Now they're actually real 

935
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,760
foreigners in exiles. 
They've left Jerusalem, have 

936
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,960
been kicked out. 
Now they're living in Rome and 

937
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:50,760
they're being persecuted to the 
NTH degree. 

938
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,400
He says he tells them to abstain
from sinful desires which wage 

939
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,400
against your soul. 
He's just telling them like 

940
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,320
you're exiles and foreigners 
even in this earthly world, and 

941
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,160
that you should cut out the 
things of the world like we, we 

942
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:04,720
need to cut out the things that 
are around us. 

943
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,960
Don't look like Jesus, even 
though this isn't our home, it's

944
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:09,360
not our home, it's not going to 
be our home. 

945
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,240
He said don't even worry about 
it because this is just the 

946
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,440
world. 
This is this is Peter. 

947
00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,000
Just put it down for these guys 
that are struggling to even 

948
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,720
survive. 
Psalm 3912 says hear my prayer 

949
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:22,120
Lord, listen to my cry for help.
Do not be deaf to my weeping. 

950
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:28,080
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors 

951
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,520
were like we have to recognize 
that Jesus, yes, he's here on 

952
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,760
this earth with us and us, but 
the reality is he lives in a 

953
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,960
permanent reality. 
We live in a temporary reality, 

954
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Amen. 
Like we're, we're in different, 

955
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,440
we're playing different games. 
Like we can't see all the things

956
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:45,480
that God sees. 
We don't know all the things 

957
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,840
that go and we are a foreigner 
and a stranger to really what 

958
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,240
heaven is like and where God 
resides. 

959
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,920
You know, most of the Scripture,
if you see Jesus in the in New 

960
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,760
Testament, most of what he says,
if not all of what he said has 

961
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,600
actually come from conversations
of the throne of God in heaven. 

962
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,280
He's talk talking about 
conversations he's had with the 

963
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,400
Father and he's telling us 
that's pretty good. 

964
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,400
Amen. 
So when you read the Bible, it's

965
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,960
just yes and Amen. 
Like those words are spoken at a

966
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,120
throne of crystal with the power
of God, with the grace riches of

967
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,040
all eternity. 
And they're speaking and they 

968
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,840
come to us and we hear them 
because God wanted to make known

969
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,920
through his word. 
And we hear those words and we 

970
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,840
say, I follow that whatever you 
say, Lord, I trust you. 

971
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,320
Because those words are built in
eternity. 

972
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,000
They're they're not built by 
man, they're built by God. 

973
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,160
That's how we search the 
Scripture. 

974
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,440
Amen. 
There's just a different world 

975
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,320
that they come from. 
Philippians 3 says, But our 

976
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:43,840
citizenship is where is where, 
Yeah, in heaven. 

977
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:48,560
I know we would like to be like 
proud American citizens, but we 

978
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:53,560
should be proud Christian heaven
citizens, Amen. 

979
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,040
Like we, we should know what 
that citizenship entails and 

980
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,640
what it looks like and what 
rights you truly have and who 

981
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,960
you truly are in Christ. 
And this is what Paul says, he 

982
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,480
says. 
And we eagerly await with great 

983
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:11,640
expectation, with 100% focus, 
like we walk into this year and 

984
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,880
we like eagerly waiting. 
God, when are you coming back 

985
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,520
and what are you doing? 
And I trust you because of who 

986
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,440
you are, because I'm not a 
citizen of this earth. 

987
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,720
Like I don't have to worry about
who gets elected and how things 

988
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:24,920
go crazy because my residency 
and my permanency isn't heaven. 

989
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,520
He says he waits for a savior 
from there, the Lord Jesus 

990
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,200
Christ, who by the power that 
enables him to bring everything 

991
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,640
under control, will transform. 
I love this, our lowly bodies. 

992
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:38,720
Can I give an Amen? 
OK, if you're over 25, you got 

993
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:43,560
to say Amen, right? 
Our lowly bodies so that we will

994
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,840
be like his glorious body. 
This is the real Planet Fitness.

995
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,200
Amen. 
No lunk alarms in heaven. 

996
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,440
You know what I'm saying? 
But the point of this is we live

997
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,600
here, but we belong there like 
we reside right now here. 

998
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:06,640
But our true home is in heaven, 
like our bodies are a temporary 

999
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,360
address like this is just 
fleeting. 

1000
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,120
Second Corinthians 51 says, for 
we know that if the earthly 

1001
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:16,280
tint, the stomach of your body 
we live in is destroyed. 

1002
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,080
So let's just call that 
cremation because some people 

1003
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,600
have a lot of conscious 
questions on this one. 

1004
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,280
We have a building from God, an 
eternal house in heaven, not 

1005
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,480
built by human hands. 
Amen. 

1006
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:28,840
Like sometimes you're like, oh, 
what happens? 

1007
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,560
Like if your bodies are stored, 
there's Bible resurrection. 

1008
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,640
It's like, brother, God made the
first time, he can make it the 

1009
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,600
second. 
Like there there's an upgrade 

1010
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,760
that you're going to have. 
Like I talked about, no one's 

1011
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:40,040
like, put me back on the 
Nosebleed. 

1012
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:42,920
I want that high cholesterol, 
diabetic body. 

1013
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,600
Come on, Jesus, bring it back to
me, right? 

1014
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,440
Amen. 
Like no medication in heaven, 

1015
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,560
brother, no cancer in heaven. 
Like everything is perfect. 

1016
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,920
Like if you went to heaven where
it looks like it's, it's just go

1017
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,960
back before the fall. 
Like without sin, without curse,

1018
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,440
without compromise, without 
brokenness, without suffering, 

1019
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,440
without corruption, when he 
walked hand in hand with God. 

1020
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,040
And you start looking at the 
animals and start looking at the

1021
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,280
your life, start looking at your
body, start looking at how long 

1022
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,760
you're supposed to live. 
Like why, why is death? 

1023
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:19,640
Why is death here? 
Like why does that happen? 

1024
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,520
Why are you craved like this? 
And you start looking at that 

1025
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,360
and you start, that's a glimpse 
of heaven, Amen. 

1026
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Like it's way beyond. 
Like if it's a new earth, that's

1027
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:27,960
going to be even similar to this
earth. 

1028
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:32,240
But Colossians 31 says this. 
Since then we have been raised 

1029
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,800
with Christ. 
Set your what? 

1030
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,200
Set your hearts on things above.
Set your set your heart on 

1031
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:46,480
heaven where Christ is. 
See at the right hand of God. 

1032
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,120
Then he says this. 
Not only set your hearts, but 

1033
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:52,680
says set your what? 
Set your minds on things above, 

1034
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,040
not on earthly things. 
The Bible calls the earthly 

1035
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,680
things wood, hay, and stubble. 
This is why he says it for you 

1036
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,120
have died. 
It's a spiritual death. 

1037
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,120
This is first death that we have
spiritually. 

1038
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:09,320
We die to the old man and your 
life is now what hidden with 

1039
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,320
Christ in God. 
That's good news, Amen. 

1040
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,800
Like we died to the sin nature 
and we're alive to God and his 

1041
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,280
power hidden in Christ and with 
Christ who is your life appears 

1042
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,800
then you will also appear with 
him in glory, which is heaven, 

1043
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:26,960
the centerpiece of heaven. 
It says set your minds on 

1044
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,360
heaven, set your hearts on 
heaven. 

1045
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,520
Christ is in heaven. 
It's like the central theme of 

1046
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,880
why do we long for heaven is 
because Christ is there, The 

1047
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,080
resurrected Christ is there. 
Can you imagine the moment 

1048
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,880
you're going to see Jesus the 
first time face to face? 

1049
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,280
Can you imagine the moment that 
you're going to look to his left

1050
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,160
or his right? 
I guess look to his right 

1051
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,800
because the right hand, the 
Father, and you see the Father's

1052
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,640
face, face to face the first 
time. 

1053
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:56,920
That's a good day. 
Amen. 

1054
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,200
It's a day you long for. 
This is day of utter perfection.

1055
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,440
And he says set your minds and 
set your heart that that word 

1056
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:08,320
for set is really interesting. 
It's almost it's the same word 

1057
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,240
for seek. 
Remember the verse in the Bible 

1058
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,880
says Jesus says I come to seek 
and save that which is lost. 

1059
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,960
That same word for seek is the 
same word for set, the passion 

1060
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,240
of which Jesus came here to seek
and save the lost. 

1061
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:26,680
His one mindedness, his 
direction, his desire for lost 

1062
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,800
people is the same desire that 
we should have for heaven. 

1063
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,160
That's pretty good. 
It's actually the same word used

1064
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,160
when it when they leave the 99 
sheep and go to the one, when 

1065
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,920
the woman flips over the couch, 
looks for the coin, the parable,

1066
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,760
lost Pearl. 
It's all the same. 

1067
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,560
It's all the same word. 
It's 1 minus. 

1068
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,160
You think about as a church like
what is our mindset in 2026? 

1069
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,000
Is it just these goals and these
earthly goals and this is what 

1070
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,960
they sure looks like and this 
will make me happy and that 

1071
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,680
would be great, which I hope you
have those things, Amen. 

1072
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,560
I'm not saying don't have 
earthly goals, but I'm just 

1073
00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:00,440
saying there is a higher vision 
for our life, the set on heaven.

1074
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,120
Our mindset is 1 pursuit, 2nd 
Corinthians 416. 

1075
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:09,360
It says therefore do not what 
lose heart. 

1076
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,560
I don't know about you, but 
2025, I think there's a lot of 

1077
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,240
people who have lost some heart 
in 2025. 

1078
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,760
Amen. 
It's, it's, it's so easy to get 

1079
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:21,440
distracted when, when you, when 
you see tragedy or death or job 

1080
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,800
loss, your uncertainty and 
brokenness and suffering in 

1081
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,800
elections and all, everything 
around you just pulling your 

1082
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,600
attention back to earth and 
plant your feet on the ground. 

1083
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,160
And we lose heart because our 
mindset is taken off the heaven 

1084
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,520
and putting right back on earth.
You will lose heart very easily 

1085
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,520
if your hope is found just on 
this earth. 

1086
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,040
It's so easy. 
There has to be more. 

1087
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,160
It says, therefore hourly we are
wasting away. 

1088
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,040
That's our bodies. 
That's a good way of saying it, 

1089
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,720
by the way, Amen. 
It's very difficult. 

1090
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,960
You know, I'm in the season of 
my life for like, you know, 

1091
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,280
parents and uncles, their their 
health is not what it used to 

1092
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:05,200
be, right And even siblings. 
I, I lost a sibling this last 

1093
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:09,200
year and it just so interesting 
you get that season where it's 

1094
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:13,640
like, hey, brevity is here, 
bodies fail, cancer hits. 

1095
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,240
It just not going to end without
suffering. 

1096
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,600
But there's better than it's 
more than suffering because 

1097
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:22,680
there's an eternity that God's 
calls to. 

1098
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:23,920
So I fixed the line to heaven. 
Amen. 

1099
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,480
I get excited to share heaven 
with people. 

1100
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:28,280
It is the best news you can 
share. 

1101
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,920
If you're at a funeral and you 
get to tell somebody about 

1102
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,400
heaven and people's eyes light 
up and there's hope in their 

1103
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:39,120
soul and the tears move from 
just sorrow to to to actual 

1104
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,440
hope. 
That's good, Amen. 

1105
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,520
That's good. 
And we get the choice now to 

1106
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,160
share him with people so they 
can change their destination. 

1107
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,920
They can actually go to heaven. 
He says we're alley wasting 

1108
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,600
away, yet inwardly being renewed
day by day. 

1109
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,160
That's pretty good news. 
They even know the outside's 

1110
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,720
falling apart. 
The inside, Oh, it's strong. 

1111
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:01,440
You know, that's what I love 
about Bill. 

1112
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,840
You know, somebody is, I don't 
know, he's 7270 somewhere in 

1113
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,640
there. 
I can't remember his exact age, 

1114
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,640
but he was so passionate, I mean
so passionate you. 

1115
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,520
I'd call him on the phone and 
he'd tell me, hey man, God was 

1116
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:15,800
showing me. 
It wasn't like 2 years ago and 

1117
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:17,600
it wasn't somebody else's 
message. 

1118
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,760
It wasn't even my message. 
I was reading the Bible. 

1119
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,520
I mean, God just showed me, man.
I just spent some time with 

1120
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,960
Jesus and he was just walked 
every day. 

1121
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,640
His heart was being renewed 
every day. 

1122
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,320
Amen. 
If you knew him, you'd just know

1123
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,320
that like he had so much joy and
he'd say tongue in cheek, like I

1124
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,280
don't think he necessarily 
wanted to die, right, But he 

1125
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,760
would say tongue in cheek, hard 
situation, difficult moment. 

1126
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:43,680
He would say just threaten me 
with heaven, Just threaten me 

1127
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,560
with heaven. 
Like this, the worst happens to 

1128
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,640
me. 
Bring it on, man, Bring it on 

1129
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:48,880
because he's so passionate about
God. 

1130
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,560
He was a perfect picture of 
being annually renewed day by 

1131
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,760
day. 
It says this for our light 

1132
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,280
momentary troubles. 
That's pretty interesting way of

1133
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:01,040
calling this earth our life 
light and momentary. 

1134
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,000
I don't think most people will 
say that about themselves. 

1135
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,000
That's light and momentary. 
Most people think their 

1136
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,960
tragedies are forever and they 
they're just drowning in sorrow 

1137
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,240
and anxiety and fear and, and 
medications and all these things

1138
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,480
around them and not thinking 
this is as hard as it gets. 

1139
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:20,920
Like as a Christian, this is the
closest we'll ever be to hell. 

1140
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,480
Isn't that incredible to think 
about? 

1141
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:29,680
Isn't that, isn't that sobering?
Like all the crap we put up with

1142
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,920
this as hard as it gets, that's 
good news. 

1143
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,360
Amen. 
That's real good news because we

1144
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,360
we walk through this and God is 
with us and we sing this song 

1145
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,320
like the God of, you know, Jacob
and all this. 

1146
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:46,920
And I'm like God met Jacob in 
the season of fear and worry and

1147
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,760
abandonment and his head is 
sleeping on a pillow. 

1148
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,320
That's a rock. 
And he said, I'll never leave 

1149
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,800
you or forsake you. 
That's a promise of God. 

1150
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:59,320
Amen, that God always meets us 
in this temporary pain, this 

1151
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,120
light momentary affliction and 
this is it. 

1152
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:06,040
This is a close to hell as we 
get, but what's crazy to think 

1153
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,720
about is that light and 
momentary affliction. 

1154
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,600
It is light and momentary for 
people who don't know Jesus too.

1155
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,320
It's not as heavy as it's going 
to be as hard as it's going to 

1156
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:20,360
be in a sad reality is so, so 
difficult as this is the closest

1157
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,160
to heaven that they ever get 
Isn't that crazy? 

1158
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,600
But the thing to honestly think 
like this, as good as it gets, 

1159
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:32,880
that is so depressing because 
there's so much more. 

1160
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,360
And like, what if this year was 
the year we said, you know, I'm 

1161
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,440
going to be serious about God. 
Like my heart is set and I'm 

1162
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,560
going to take as many people 
have those with me as possible. 

1163
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,480
Like I'm going to make God big. 
But you, you, it comes because 

1164
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,120
you change your heart and you 
see heaven different. 

1165
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,000
If heaven is small, life is 
confusing. 

1166
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,960
If heaven is big, life is clear.
And that's just a simplicity of 

1167
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:56,360
it because it makes perfect 
sense. 

1168
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,480
Like I know where I'm going. 
I don't get too wound up, I'm 

1169
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,560
not too emotional, I'm not just 
freaking out everything. 

1170
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,920
I'm not being a big baby or big 
bully, all that stuff. 

1171
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,840
It's because, dude, I know I'm 
going like I'm the influence of 

1172
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,640
this world for Christ. 
Because this is the one shot I 

1173
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:10,880
got. 
Because it gets way better when 

1174
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,720
this flipped the page. 
It gets way better. 

1175
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:19,280
A bigger view of heaven. 
So next six weeks, what's heaven

1176
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,600
action be like? 
We'll recognize each other. 

1177
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:23,520
What are we actually going to do
there? 

1178
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,160
Is it really physical? 
Does it really matter? 

1179
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,680
Final thought for the day class 
Final thought. 

1180
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,800
Why is our view of heaven so 
small? 

1181
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,280
Why do we struggle to see it? 
Why do we have the Bible but we 

1182
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:44,920
don't put all together and it? 
Could it just be that your enemy

1183
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,560
once resided in heaven? 
Could it be that Satan himself 

1184
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:51,640
actually knows what heaven's 
like? 

1185
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,280
Could be that Satan itself used 
to leave worship in heaven, used

1186
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,680
to give glory to God, know God's
power, He knows God's provision,

1187
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,360
He knows we'll know each other, 
He know he knows there's no sin 

1188
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,200
and there's perfection. 
But Satan's so desperately 

1189
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,560
desires our worship because 
Satan was once evicted from the 

1190
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:11,120
very place that we struggle to 
dream about. 

1191
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,160
Could it be that the Father of 
lies has delusioned us and 

1192
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:20,480
sabotaged us To dream so small 
as a thing of 2026 and not 

1193
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:24,000
2,000,026. 
Not to think about the rest of 

1194
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,440
eternity? 
That the rope of time actually 

1195
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:30,000
never ends and what we do in 
this world directly affects the 

1196
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,560
next World? 
That God forbid that maybe Satan

1197
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:37,000
is trying to keep your eyes so 
small and your heart so focused 

1198
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,800
on this world and your mind so 
narrow to build your own life 

1199
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,640
and set your own goals. 
That you by all the power of 

1200
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,560
hell, never bring anybody with 
you to heaven. 

1201
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,520
Final thought, because that's 
the reality. 

1202
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:58,120
He wants to keep your mind vague
and your heart deceived that 

1203
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:03,440
this is all you get. 
So Father, come before you God, 

1204
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:08,560
I pray you just drive us a 
passion God, for eternity, a 

1205
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,280
passion for souls. 
That we'd be a soul winning 

1206
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,800
church. 
That our church would have such 

1207
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,400
our minds and hearts out in 
heaven that we'd be a dangerous 

1208
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:25,360
church in 2026, that people 
would come to Christ because we 

1209
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,760
know where we're going. 
We're not ashamed to tell the 

1210
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,440
world that their answers are 
just not complete. 

1211
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,920
They're asking the right 
questions, but they don't have 

1212
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,680
the right answers. 
And so, God, help us to be 

1213
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:39,360
passionate about the gospel. 
Help us to know our eternity. 

1214
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,040
Help us to as we're here to 
remind us, we're a mission. 

1215
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,160
We're here to change the lives 
of our family, our friends, our 

1216
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,760
community, our neighbors. 
For the gospel sake, it's 

1217
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:53,000
necessary we stay and two calls 
home and so if those who Jesus 

1218
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,720
fall in the house, those who 
just raise your hand say no, I 

1219
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,480
need to get a bigger view of 
heaven during this series. 

1220
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:01,680
I need to spend my life in 26 
getting a grandiose vision of 

1221
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:02,760
heaven. 
That's you just raise your hand 

1222
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:04,040
high. 
So that's me God just speaking 

1223
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:05,840
to me. 
You have way bigger vision of 

1224
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,560
heaven and for eternity and for 
the things of God and will 

1225
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:13,360
reside for the the the eternity 
with Jesus and knows it'll be 

1226
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,600
there and what it'll be like. 
It is the dream just have 

1227
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,960
imagination on imagination of 
scripture and live like 

1228
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,359
childlike faith what God's going
to do and for some being in the 

1229
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:27,120
house today you recognize today 
you need heaven that you've been

1230
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,720
thinking, Oh, it's just a game. 
It's not a big deal. 

1231
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:32,600
There's Jesus thing is, you know
whatever and today you recognize

1232
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,120
that heaven is real. 
There's a real eternity with a 

1233
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:40,240
real God who paid for our sins. 
And today you might have related

1234
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:41,840
to some of those things to talk 
about what heaven's not. 

1235
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,800
You might think you're a good 
person or that heaven, you're 

1236
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:46,680
all going to get there. 
You know, we all end up in 

1237
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,680
heaven and say you're 
recognizing like this is not the

1238
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:50,760
case. 
And for those of you recognize 

1239
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:52,520
that you need to get to heaven, 
the Bible's very clear. 

1240
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:58,240
There is only one name under 
heaven whereby men are saved, 

1241
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,840
and it's the name of Jesus. 
And why is the name of Jesus? 

1242
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,359
Because Jesus came as the Son of
God and wrapped himself in our 

1243
01:09:06,359 --> 01:09:13,960
humanity to take upon our sin 
and literally pay our hell so 

1244
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:19,479
that we can spend eternity with 
Him in heaven. 

1245
01:09:20,359 --> 01:09:24,640
That's how much God loves you is
that He would take every one of 

1246
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,720
our punishments, our wrongs, and
he would pay for on the cross 

1247
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,720
and give us his gift of 
salvation. 

1248
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,600
And so today if you want to go 
to heaven, you have to say yes 

1249
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,000
to Jesus. 
The Bible says He's the way, the

1250
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,640
truth and life and no man come 
to Father but through him. 

1251
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,640
And so today if you need heaven,
it comes through Jesus. 

1252
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:42,479
And so you say yes to Jesus 
today, if that's you, you need 

1253
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,160
forgiveness, you need New Hope, 
you need to make heaven 

1254
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,120
permanent your home. 
You just settle the doubt, just 

1255
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:49,520
like Logan talked about last 
week. 

1256
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:53,760
Are you for sure? 
Not 99%, not 90.9%, but 100% 

1257
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,080
sure you know you're going to 
have a new relationship with 

1258
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:57,960
Jesus. 
If that's you, then you want to 

1259
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,960
start a relationship with Jesus.
I'm gonna call it make it weird.

1260
01:10:00,440 --> 01:10:01,880
I will I will offer you through 
a prayer. 

1261
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:03,680
I will help you know Jesus, but 
that's you just raise your 

1262
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,200
highest place. 
I want to start a relationship 

1263
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:09,080
with Jesus like I want heaven. 
I can want here and now like 

1264
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,760
your eternity starts already and
I want my turn to be with Jesus.

1265
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,720
So that's you. 
I want to help you lead through 

1266
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,440
a prayer so you can walk with 
Jesus to say Father God, thanks 

1267
01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:21,160
so much for love me enough to 
make a way for me to go to 

1268
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,720
heaven. 
God, my mind has been set on 

1269
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,640
things to earth. 
I've thought all these wrong 

1270
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:29,320
thoughts, but today I trust you.
Your promises are true that you 

1271
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,400
came and down across to me 2000 
years ago I would have new life 

1272
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,640
and New Hope and I want to 
secure my place in heaven with 

1273
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,720
you, not because my ability 
because of what you do on the 

1274
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,000
cross. 
You said it is finished, it is 

1275
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,160
done and I trust what you did 
for me God. 

1276
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,080
And so I'm a Sinner as Savior 
and I love you and I surrender 

1277
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,960
my life to you and I pray in 
Jesus name, Amen. 

1278
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:55,520
Come on, give it up for 2026, 
for heaven, for what God's 

1279
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:59,120
doing. 
And what just a, gosh, just a 

1280
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:03,400
powerful reminder of what heaven
truly is like, what it looks 

1281
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,280
like just to spend eternity with
Jesus. 

1282
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,720
And some of you today for the 
first time, recognize your need 

1283
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,600
for Jesus and you accepted him 
today. 

1284
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:15,840
You said yes to heaven as well. 
If that is you, we are so 

1285
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,720
excited for you as you are 
taking these next steps with 

1286
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,440
Jesus. 
And we would love to walk 

1287
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:22,800
alongside you and help you on 
this journey. 

1288
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,960
If you would grab that 
connection card that's on your 

1289
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,040
seat, you can fill out your 
information there. 

1290
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,200
That's on the top path, but make
sure and check that box that 

1291
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,720
says I committed my life to 
Jesus. 

1292
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,440
And you can just drop that in 
the giving buckets as they pass 

1293
01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:37,400
here in just a few minutes. 
But we'd love to get you a free 

1294
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:40,880
book in the mail this week. 
It's a short read, but it really

1295
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,200
is packed with some powerful 
things for you that we know will

1296
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,800
just be a blessing to you on 
this journey. 

1297
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,600
Also, as you exit the worship 
center, there's a red bag there 

1298
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:49,960
on the table. 
Please grab that as well. 

1299
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,200
If you don't have a Bible, 
there's a free Bible in there 

1300
01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:55,560
along with a list of some other 
resources and some encouragement

1301
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,440
as you are walking this out with
Jesus this week. 

1302
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,200
And for those of you who are 
newer in the house with us 

1303
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,880
today, thank you so much for 
coming and just spending your 

1304
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,160
morning here with us. 
Man, I hope you heard from God 

1305
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,240
at this morning and we would 
love to see you back. 

1306
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,520
Goodness, excuse me, we'd love 
to see you back here with us 

1307
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,960
next week as well. 
And hey, if you would grab that 

1308
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,280
same connection card and fill 
out your information on that. 

1309
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:19,640
Just check first time here. 
You can drop that in the gaming 

1310
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,440
buckets as they pass as well. 
We would love for you just to 

1311
01:12:22,440 --> 01:12:25,440
introduce yourself to us. 
This gathering truly is our gift

1312
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:27,080
to you. 
We don't want anything from you 

1313
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,360
except for that. 
Just introduce yourself to us 

1314
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,440
and you can do that simply by 
doing that connection card. 

1315
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:34,000
You can also instead of dropping
in the gaming buckets, you could

1316
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,640
take it out to the new hair 
booth as well. 

1317
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,360
As you exit the worship center, 
just hang a right there's a new 

1318
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:40,920
hair booth and somebody would be
there love just to get that card

1319
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,600
for you, give you a free gift. 
Just our way of saying thank you

1320
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,520
and we'd love to see you back 
here with us next week as well. 

1321
01:12:47,440 --> 01:12:51,240
Man, as a church, we are just so
excited and expected for all 

1322
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,440
that God is going to do in 2026 
and what he has in store for us.

1323
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:58,400
A man 2025 was such a cool year 
for our church as well and God 

1324
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,720
did just some amazing things 
that I want to celebrate and 

1325
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,920
kind of reflect on as we look 
forward to 2026. 

1326
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,800
But man, in the end of 2025, 
towards the end, we launched our

1327
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,680
Difference Maker initiative to 
raise funds for our first 

1328
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,920
permanent space in our 
community. 

1329
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,480
And a lot of you in this room 
pledge to be difference makers 

1330
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:17,840
for that. 
And I am just so excited to say 

1331
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:22,880
that as we close out 2025, man, 
towards that goal, $1,000,000 of

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that is going to go straight 
towards our first permanent 

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home. 
And at the end of 2025, man, 

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we've collected over $220,000 
already for our first permanent 

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home, which is so awesome. 
Yeah, hey, go God. 

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So, so awesome. 
And so I just want to say thank 

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you to those of you who give 
here at Real Life Church to see 

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more soul saved and to see lives
transformed, not just for here 

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01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,680
and now, but but for eternity 
and for generations to come. 

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So thank you so much. 
Also thank you to those of you 

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who gave last week. 
We had four people set up 

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recurring donations, which is 
huge. 

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01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:57,000
That's a big commitment to say 
I'm going to automate this and 

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say yes to giving to God first. 
We also have three first time 

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donors as well. 
So if that was you who gave last

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week, thank you so much for 
doing that as well. 

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Hey, thank you to those of you 
who got baptized last week, who 

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shared your stories. 
Man, last week was such an 

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amazing week. 
Did you guys enjoy that? 

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Yes, so good, so good. 
Man. 

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Last week, really the theme 
truly was transformation. 

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If you think about all that 
happened last week, man, we had 

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stories of of transformation for
those who got baptized, just 

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story after story have a how God
redeemed their lives and their 

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situations and change them for 
eternity. 

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Transform their lives, man. 
We had stories from people like 

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Brett who really went from just 
attending and sitting in the 

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pews to serving and to leading 
for the cause of Christ. 

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And I think about Lisa Holmes 
story truly of just clinging to 

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faith that God will protect for 
her and provide for her really 

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even in the toughest season. 
And so that's why we give here 

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is to see more soul saved and 
lives transformed for God. 

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And so I invite you just to help
us move the mission forward in 

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2026 through giving. 
If you call real life church 

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home, there are a lot of ways 
that you can take part in that. 

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You can scan that QR. 
You can give online, and there's

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also a giving box in the back. 
You can drop cash or check in. 

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You can do the same in the 
giving buckets as they pass here

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in just a few minutes as well. 
And if you are in need this 

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morning, if you find yourself in
a place of need, whether it's 

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food or clothing or shelter, 
whatever that looks like for you

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as these buckets pass, please 
reach in and grab any loose cash

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that is there really to be a 
blessing to you and your family 

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this week. 
Let's pray. 

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God, thank you so much, Father, 
for who you are. 

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You're such a good, good father 
to us God, and I just pray that 

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Father, you would I just remind 
us even this week as we're 

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walking out, just a glimpse of 
heaven and what it looks like to

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truly walk with you for eternity
of God, that we would keep our 

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eyes focused on the things 
above. 

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God and Father, I pray just a 
blessing over what's given 

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today, God, that you, we know 
you'll use it just to multiply 

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the Kingdom and not just for 
now, but for future generations 

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as well. 
So God, we give you all the 

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praise, all the glory today in 
Jesus name, Amen. 

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Amen. 
What a blessed day. 

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,880
Amen. 
Really interesting. 

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Let's leave here with our minds 
on heaven like we've been 

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talking about all day. 
The 19th century theologian 

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said. 
JC Rowles said, I pity the man 

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who never thinks about heaven. 
But we can also say it as we 

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pity the man that never thinks 
about heaven correctly, right? 

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Because when we don't think 
about heaven correctly, we think

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about it too small or we think 
about it not often enough. 

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But John in Revelation says he 
saw a new heaven and a new earth

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01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,680
for the 1st heaven and the first
earth had passed away and there 

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was no longer any sea. 
He saw the holy city, the new 

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01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:39,440
Jerusalem, coming out of heaven 
from God, prepared as the bride,

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beautifully dressed for her 
husband. 

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And he heard a loud voice from 
the throne saying, Look, God's 

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dwelling place is now among the 
people, and he will dwell with 

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them. 
They will be his people, and God

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01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:50,920
himself will be with him and be 
their God. 

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He will wipe every tear from 
their eyes. 

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01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:56,720
There will be no more death or 
mourning or crying or pain, for 

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the old order of things has 
passed away. 

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He who is seated on the throne 
said, I am making everything 

1408
01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,080
new. 
Then he said this, write this 

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01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:05,960
down for these words are 
trustworthy and true. 

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01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,880
He said to me, it is done. 
I'm the alpha and the Omega, the

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01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:10,440
beginning of the end to the 
thirsty. 

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I will give water without cost 
from the spring of the water of 

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life. 
Those who are victorious will 

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01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,520
inherit all this and I will be 
their God and they will be my 

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children. 
That's exciting, right? 

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01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:22,280
That's that's good news to get 
excited for. 

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01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,400
We need to make heaven big for 
ourselves and this year, but we 

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01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:27,400
also need to make heaven big for
those around us. 

1419
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:29,400
We need to tell people about 
this good news. 

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01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,120
If you need prayer, you need 
somebody to talk to. 

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01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,080
We'll have a pastor, we'll have 
somebody down here to talk to to

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01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,360
you. 
Thank you all so much for coming

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01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:37,360
out to the listening to this 
great sermon. 

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01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:42,000
If this is really strong, I will
see you all next Sunday at 9:00 

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01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,520
or 10:45. 
Whoever finds Jesus discovers 

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,000
real life and purpose. 
You see you next week.