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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Will We Know One Another In Heaven? | February 20, 2026
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- Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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- Again to "pathway to victory."
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- Some of life's greatest joys are the relationships we cultivate
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- Throughout our lifetime, whether it's with a sibling,
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- A spouse, a parent, or a friend, the people around us give us a
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- Sense of wholeness and well-being,
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- Which is why many christians wonder if we'll still know one
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- Another when we get to heaven, or if those memories will have
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- Been erased from our minds.
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- Well, stay with us because we're answering the question
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- "will we know one another in heaven?"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- Announcer: when loss leaves you searching for hope, turn your
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- Eyes toward heaven.
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- In "encouragement from a place called heaven," dr. robert
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- Jeffress offers comfort drawn from god's promises about
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- Eternity, not the myths and misconceptions tv and movies
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- Tell us, but what scripture truly reveals.
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- Whether you're grieving a loved one, facing illness, or walking
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- Alongside someone in pain, this beautiful hardcover book
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- Provides the encouragement you need.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Jeffress: growing old is not for the faint of heart.
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- With age come aches, ailments, and sometimes
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- A few extra pounds.
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- The late humorist erma bombeck once wrote,
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- "i'm not telling you what i weigh,
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- But when i measure my girth and then step on the scales,
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- I ought to be a 90-foot redwood."
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- Unfortunately, most people don't age gracefully.
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- Along with a few extra pounds come hearing loss,
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- Fading eyesight, aches, creaking joints.
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- You know, getting older reminds me a lot of what jesus said to
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- Peter in john 21 verse 18, he said,
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- "i tell you the truth, when you were young,
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- You were able to do as you liked.
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- You dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted to go.
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- But when you were old, you will stretch out your hands and
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- Others will dress you and take you where you don't want to go."
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- Anybody identify with that already?
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- You know, part of growing older also means not always
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- Recognizing people.
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- Have you ever had the experience of going to a high school
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- Or a college reunion?
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- You look at people, you don't recognize them.
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- If it wasn't for their name tag, you wouldn't know who they are.
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- Even worse, they don't recognize you.
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- And perhaps worse of all, have you ever stood in the mirror and
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- Looked at yourself and wondered who is that person?
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- Which all brings up an interesting question,
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- And that is when we get to heaven,
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- What will our bodies be like?
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- Will we know one another?
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- Will other people know us?
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- Well, that's what we're going to talk about today.
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- In our series "a place called heaven," we're answering ten
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- Of the most frequently asked questions in heaven.
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- And today we're going to answer the question:
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- Will we know one another in heaven?
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- Now to answer that question, we first of all need to understand
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- Something about jesus's promise of a resurrection body.
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- In heaven, the bible is very clear,
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- We're not just going to be some spirit floating around,
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- We are going to have a physical body.
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- Now that shouldn't be a surprise when you look at god's original
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- Plan for us.
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- God's original design for us was both a spirit and a body.
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- Look at genesis 2:7 about god's original creation: "then the
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- Lord god formed man from the dust from the ground,
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- And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
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- And man became a living being."
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- We were made from dust, something real.
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- God breathed life into us, and we became a living being.
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- Without a physical body, adam and eve never would have been a
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- Being, and without the spirit, the breath of god,
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- They never would have become living beings.
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- God created us originally body and spirit and that's why it
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- Shouldn't it be no surprise that in eternity we will always exist
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- In a body, as well as be spirit.
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- God's future plan for us includes
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- A physical resurrection.
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- Whenever we look at the bible, we find that there are actually
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- Two resurrections that will occur.
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- Did you know, it's not only christians who will receive
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- A new body?
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- Unbelievers will also receive a new body for eternity.
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- A believer's body is necessary so that we can experience god's
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- Unending blessing.
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- Unbeliever's must receive a body so that they can experience
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- God's everlasting judgment.
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- But everybody is going to be raised from the dead.
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- Everyone is going to have a resurrected body.
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- The bible talks about two resurrections.
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- The resurrection for believers for christians
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- Is called the first resurrection.
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- In revelation 20 verse 6, john says,
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- "blessed and holy is the one who has part
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- In the first resurrection.
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- Over these, the second death has no power,
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- But they will be priests of god and of christ and will reign
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- With him for a thousand years."
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- What is the first resurrection?
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- The first resurrection, now get this,
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- Doesn't refer to a point in time.
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- Instead, the first resurrection refers to that group of people,
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- Believers, who will receive a new body to experience
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- God's blessing.
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- Not every believer will receive his new body at the same point
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- In history, paul makes that clear in 1 corinthians 15:22
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- And 23: "for as in adam all die, so also in christ all will be
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- Made alive, but each in his own order."
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- Some people, some of us, will receive our resurrection body at
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- The rapture.
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- At the rapture, remember the lord himself will descend from
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- Heaven, and the dead in christ, that is,
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- Those believers who have already died since the time of
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- Pentecost, they will be raised, and then we who are alive and
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- Remain shall be caught up together to meet the lord in the
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- Air, 1 corinthians 15:52 and 53 say at that time we will be
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- Changed and receive our new bodies.
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- But then there will be other people who will receive their
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- New bodies at the second coming of jesus,
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- Seven years later, after the tribulation.
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- And then there's another group of believers who are saved
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- During the millennium, who will receive their new bodies at the
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- End of the thousand-year reign of christ.
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- But all of those people are part of the first resurrection,
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- The resurrection of the righteous.
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- In daniel 12:2 daniel says, "many of those who sleep in the
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- Dust of the ground will awake, believers to everlasting life,
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- But others, the unbelievers,
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- To disgrace and everlasting contempt."
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- The first resurrection is the resurrection of the saved.
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- But there is a second resurrection and that is the
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- Resurrection of all the unsaved.
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- Right now, when an unbeliever dies,
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- He goes to hades, the temporary place of the unsaved.
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- But one day they're going to be raised and unlike the first
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- Resurrection, that occurs in stages over a period of time,
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- The second resurrection, the resurrection of unbelievers.
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- All occurs at one point in history,
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- Immediately before the great white throne judgment.
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- We find it described in revelation 20 verses 13 and 14
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- The resurrection of the unsaved: "and the sea gave up the dead
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- Which were in it and death and hades gave up the dead,
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- Which were in them, and they were judged everyone according
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- To their deeds."
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- Verse 14 says, "and death and hades were thrown into the lake
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- Of fire, gehenna.
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- This is the second death, the lake of fire."
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- The two resurrections, everyone, believers and unbelievers,
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- Will receive a new body for all eternity.
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- Now that raises an interesting question.
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- How is it possible that people whose bodies have died could
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- Have bodies that ever come to life again?
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- How can something that has died ever come to life again?
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- And actually, the corinthian christians had
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- That very same question.
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- "paul, we believe in a spiritual resurrection,
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- But a literal physical resurrection,
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- How can that be?"
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- In 1 corinthians 15:35, paul anticipated that question,
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- He said, "but someone will say, 'how are the dead raised and
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- What kind of body do they come?'"
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- What kind of body do they have?
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- Have you ever thought about that?
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- How is it that the dead are raised?
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- How is a resurrection at all possible?
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- Well, paul answers that question by using an analogy,
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- And that is of planting and harvesting.
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- Look at 1 corinthians 15 verses 36 to 38,
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- Where paul explains how a resurrection happens.
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- "that which you sow does not come to life unless it dies,
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- And that which you sow, you do not sow the body,
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- Which is to be, but a bare grain,
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- Perhaps of wheat or something else.
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- But god gives it a body just as he wished,
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- And to each of the seeds, a body of its own."
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- Think of planting and harvesting,
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- What's involved in that?
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- Well, first of all, when you plant a seed,
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- That means the seed actually dies.
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- If you plant a watermelon seed in the ground,
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- That seed dies before it ever comes to life.
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- And so it is with the resurrection.
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- When we die, that death is necessary for there to be a
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- Future harvest.
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- If you don't plant a seed and the seed dies,
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- Never will a harvest come months later.
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- It's the same way with us, paul says.
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- Death is not only inevitable, it is necessary,
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- It has to happen for us to ever inherit god's kingdom.
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- 1 corinthians 15:36: "that which you sow does not come to life
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- Unless it dies."
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- And he explains why in verse 50, "for flesh and blood cannot
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- Inherit the kingdom of god, nor does the perishable inherit that
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- Which is imperishable."
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- And that leads to the second part of the process,
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- The reaping of the harvest.
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- Notice something about the relationship between the
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- Planting and the harvest.
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- First of all, the harvest is superior to the seed.
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- What is harvested is always superior to the seed.
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- For example, let's just imagine it's a hot day here in dallas,
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- Texas, in august, 110 degrees in the shade.
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- You've been out working in the yard.
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- You come in and you need some refreshment
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- And you've got a choice.
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- You can either have a cold slice of watermelon,
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- Or you can eat a watermelon seed.
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- Now which would you choose?
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- The watermelon or the watermelon seed?
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- I think everybody would choose the slice of watermelon because
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- The harvest is always superior to the seed.
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- It's the same way with the resurrection.
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- What is harvested at the resurrection,
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- Our new body, is vastly superior to that which is planted.
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- You know it's important to understand that at the
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- Resurrection it's not our old bodies that we are going
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- To carry into heaven.
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- And aren't you grateful for that?
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- Aren't you grateful god doesn't just resurrect your old body and
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- You know, put some duct tape around it and some glue and try
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- To hope it holds together for all eternity?
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- No, it's not our old bodies, our old bodies are raised but then
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- They are completely renovated in a moment,
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- In the twinkling of an eye, and what we receive is much superior
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- To what was planted.
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- But secondly, the harvest is also similar to the seed.
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- It's superior to the seed, but it's similar to the seed.
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- I mean, you don't plant a watermelon seed and harvest
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- A kumquat, okay?
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- If you plant a watermelon seed, guess what?
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- You get a watermelon and it's the same way with us.
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- When our bodies die, it's not someone else who is resurrected.
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- We don't get a body that is totally dissimilar
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- To what we were.
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- Our new bodies are going to resemble our old bodies.
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- We'll talk about that more in just a moment.
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- But if you want a good idea of what your resurrection body is
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- Going to be like for eternity, the best place to look is to
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- Look at jesus himself.
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- Jesus is the prototype of our resurrection body.
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- In 1 john 3:2 the apostle writes,
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- "beloved, now we are children of god,
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- And it has not appeared as yet what we will be.
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- But we know that when he, jesus, appears,
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- We shall be like him, because we will see him just as he is."
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- The best answer to what we're going to be like in our new
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- Bodies is to look at the resurrection body of jesus.
- 00:13:54.390 --> 00:13:57.259
- Remember, after jesus was raised from the dead,
- 00:13:57.259 --> 00:13:59.461
- He spent 40 days on the earth ministering to people.
- 00:13:59.461 --> 00:14:02.598
- So, let's ask the question, first of all,
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- Was jesus's resurrection spiritual or physical?
- 00:14:05.167 --> 00:14:09.305
- There were some in the corinthian church who said,
- 00:14:09.305 --> 00:14:11.440
- "oh, we believe jesus was raised from the dead,
- 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.776
- But we believe it was a spiritual resurrection.
- 00:14:13.776 --> 00:14:17.246
- We can't believe that he was literally,
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- Physically, raised from the dead."
- 00:14:19.548 --> 00:14:21.650
- And so in verses 3 and 4, 1 corinthians 15,
- 00:14:21.650 --> 00:14:24.219
- Paul makes it clear that the physical resurrection of jesus
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- Is the very essence of the gospel message.
- 00:14:28.157 --> 00:14:30.759
- Paul wrote, "for i delivered to you as of first importance what
- 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.797
- I also received, that christ died for our sins according to
- 00:14:34.797 --> 00:14:39.268
- The scriptures, and that he was buried,
- 00:14:39.268 --> 00:14:41.570
- And that he was raised on the third day according
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- To the scriptures."
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- It was a physical resurrection. how do i know that?
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- Well, just look at what happened to jesus over those 40 days he
- 00:14:49.945 --> 00:14:53.882
- Was on the earth in his resurrection body.
- 00:14:53.882 --> 00:14:56.185
- Seventeen different times he conversed with his disciples.
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- On three occasions he ate with his disciples.
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- On two different occasions, he allowed his disciples
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- To touch him.
- 00:15:07.696 --> 00:15:10.099
- What was jesus's resurrection body like?
- 00:15:10.099 --> 00:15:13.802
- First of all, it was superior to his earthly body.
- 00:15:13.802 --> 00:15:18.073
- Now jesus was without sin in his earthly body,
- 00:15:18.073 --> 00:15:21.443
- But he had limitations just like you and i have
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- In our earthly bodies.
- 00:15:23.712 --> 00:15:25.047
- But in his resurrection body, he was vastly superior.
- 00:15:25.047 --> 00:15:27.883
- For example, on several occasions jesus was able to
- 00:15:27.883 --> 00:15:30.853
- Materialize at a place at will.
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- He was able to come through a door that was locked.
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- He had abilities in his new body that he didn't have in his
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- Original body.
- 00:15:40.229 --> 00:15:42.064
- But secondly, jesus's body was also similar
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- To his earthly body.
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- If you look at the accounts of those 40 days jesus spent on
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- Earth, you will discover that those who knew him best
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- Eventually recognized him.
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- What is it that caused them to recognize jesus?
- 00:15:59.648 --> 00:16:04.820
- There were some similarities between jesus's earthly body
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- And his new body.
- 00:16:08.657 --> 00:16:10.292
- Perhaps it was his stature.
- 00:16:10.292 --> 00:16:12.694
- Perhaps it was the color of his eyes or his hair.
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- But something about jesus was recognizable.
- 00:16:16.131 --> 00:16:19.868
- Well, that leads to the question what will our bodies
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- Be like in heaven?
- 00:16:23.539 --> 00:16:25.207
- Remember john said we shall be like him.
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- Colossians 1:18 says that jesus was the first born
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- From the dead.
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- That word first born is the greek word prototokos,
- 00:16:35.684 --> 00:16:40.089
- Prototokos.
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- And you know what that word means: he is the prototokos,
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- The prototype of those, all of us who will be raised
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- From the dead.
- 00:16:49.498 --> 00:16:51.066
- So, knowing that that is true, we can gather several important
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- Facts about our new bodies in heaven.
- 00:16:53.936 --> 00:16:56.505
- First of all, our bodies will be physical.
- 00:16:56.505 --> 00:17:00.175
- Just as jesus had a physical body, so will we.
- 00:17:00.175 --> 00:17:04.713
- Now, our new bodies will be vastly different
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- Than our original bodies.
- 00:17:08.750 --> 00:17:10.486
- Make no mistake about it, in verses 39 to 41
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- Of 1 corinthians 15, paul said, "all flesh is not the same
- 00:17:13.088 --> 00:17:17.392
- Flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of
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- Beasts, and another flesh of birds,
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- And another flesh of fish.
- 00:17:24.266 --> 00:17:26.435
- There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies,
- 00:17:26.435 --> 00:17:28.937
- But the glory of the heavenly is one,
- 00:17:28.937 --> 00:17:31.240
- And the glory of the earthly is another.
- 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.342
- There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon,
- 00:17:33.342 --> 00:17:35.878
- Another glory of the stars,
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- For stars differ from star in their glory.
- 00:17:37.613 --> 00:17:39.948
- So also is the resurrection of the dead.
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- It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body,
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- It is sown in dishonor, but it is raised in glory,
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- It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
- 00:17:50.225 --> 00:17:53.095
- It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
- 00:17:53.095 --> 00:17:57.199
- If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body."
- 00:17:57.199 --> 00:18:01.703
- Now notice the word body, soma, in greek,
- 00:18:01.703 --> 00:18:04.339
- Is repeated over and over again.
- 00:18:04.339 --> 00:18:06.308
- That refers to a physical body.
- 00:18:06.308 --> 00:18:08.343
- It's paul's way of saying, "don't miss this,
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- We are a body, but on earth in our current state
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- We are a natural body.
- 00:18:14.983 --> 00:18:16.785
- But in the new heaven and new earth,
- 00:18:16.785 --> 00:18:18.754
- We will be spiritual, but we will still be a body."
- 00:18:18.754 --> 00:18:22.558
- Let me summarize for you, if i can,
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- The differences between our earthly body and our
- 00:18:24.393 --> 00:18:27.963
- Heavenly body for the new heaven and new earth.
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- First of all, our earthly bodies decay,
- 00:18:30.532 --> 00:18:34.336
- Our heavenly bodies will endure.
- 00:18:34.336 --> 00:18:38.740
- Secondly, our earthly bodies are infected with sin.
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- Our heavenly bodies will be free of sin.
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- Thirdly, our earthly bodies are weak.
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- Our heavenly bodies will be powerful.
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- And finally, our earthly bodies are for the old earth.
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- Our heavenly bodies are for the new earth.
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- Secondly, our bodies will not only be physical,
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- They will also be perfect.
- 00:19:05.033 --> 00:19:07.302
- They will be perfect.
- 00:19:07.302 --> 00:19:09.137
- No more cancer, no more heart attacks.
- 00:19:09.137 --> 00:19:11.940
- No more strokes, no more high blood pressure.
- 00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:15.477
- Revelation 21 verse 4 says,
- 00:19:15.477 --> 00:19:17.579
- "the first things will have passed away."
- 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:19.848
- Revelation 22, verse 3,
- 00:19:19.848 --> 00:19:21.783
- "and there shall no longer be any curse."
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- Many of you know joni eareckson, my friend,
- 00:19:26.688 --> 00:19:29.958
- A great woman of god, at age 17 through a diving accident,
- 00:19:29.958 --> 00:19:34.263
- Became a quadriplegic.
- 00:19:34.263 --> 00:19:36.665
- Listen to what joni has to say about the promise of a new body.
- 00:19:36.665 --> 00:19:41.270
- "can you imagine the hope this gives someone like me with a
- 00:19:41.270 --> 00:19:45.707
- Spinal cord injury, or someone who has cerebral palsy,
- 00:19:45.707 --> 00:19:51.079
- Brain injured, or has multiple sclerosis?
- 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:54.349
- Imagine the hope this gives someone
- 00:19:54.349 --> 00:19:56.818
- Who is a manic depressive.
- 00:19:56.818 --> 00:19:59.388
- No other religion, no other philosophy promises new bodies,
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- Hearts, and minds.
- 00:20:03.925 --> 00:20:05.727
- Only in the gospel of christ do hurting people find such
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- Incredible hope."
- 00:20:10.499 --> 00:20:12.067
- Isn't that great?
- 00:20:12.067 --> 00:20:13.402
- That's the promise we have, our bodies will be perfect.
- 00:20:13.402 --> 00:20:17.306
- They'll be physical, they'll be perfect.
- 00:20:17.306 --> 00:20:19.641
- Thirdly, our bodies will be personal.
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- What i mean by that is, when you are raised from the dead,
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- You don't become somebody else, you are still you.
- 00:20:28.417 --> 00:20:33.221
- Think of it this way.
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- I realize the analogy's lacking, but think of it this way.
- 00:20:34.556 --> 00:20:38.393
- You know, most all of us use a computer, and that computer
- 00:20:38.393 --> 00:20:42.164
- Is run on a certain program, a software package, a program.
- 00:20:42.164 --> 00:20:47.035
- Occasionally we get notices to upgrade that program,
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- And we do so.
- 00:20:50.472 --> 00:20:51.907
- We don't throw away the whole program, we upgrade the program
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- To a better state.
- 00:20:56.044 --> 00:20:57.913
- And in the same way, when we are raised from the dead, it is
- 00:20:57.913 --> 00:21:01.783
- A renovation, it is a recreation,
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- But we still are us at the core.
- 00:21:04.286 --> 00:21:08.390
- How do i know that?
- 00:21:08.390 --> 00:21:09.858
- Well, luke 24:39, when jesus appeared to his disciples,
- 00:21:09.858 --> 00:21:13.462
- Listen to what he said in his new resurrection body.
- 00:21:13.462 --> 00:21:15.864
- "see my hands and my feet that it is i myself."
- 00:21:15.864 --> 00:21:22.704
- It is i, it's not somebody else, it is i.
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- It means in heaven we won't be someone else.
- 00:21:25.841 --> 00:21:30.512
- You will be you.
- 00:21:30.512 --> 00:21:32.547
- And the relationships, by the way, you have here on earth
- 00:21:32.547 --> 00:21:36.084
- With christians will continue in heaven.
- 00:21:36.084 --> 00:21:38.754
- You'll know other people, they will know you and you will enjoy
- 00:21:38.754 --> 00:21:42.557
- Perfect fellowship, untainted by sin of any kind.
- 00:21:42.557 --> 00:21:47.095
- Ron rhodes, theologian, says it this way.
- 00:21:47.095 --> 00:21:50.332
- "our eternal reunion with christian loved ones and friends
- 00:21:50.332 --> 00:21:54.269
- Will be ceaselessly glorious."
- 00:21:54.269 --> 00:21:57.539
- Keep in mind that we will no longer have sin natures.
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- There will be no fights among loved ones.
- 00:22:00.909 --> 00:22:03.545
- There won't be any resentment or envy or jealousy.
- 00:22:03.545 --> 00:22:07.282
- There won't be any one-upmanship or rivalries.
- 00:22:07.282 --> 00:22:11.019
- There won't be any cross words or misunderstandings
- 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:14.523
- Or selfishness.
- 00:22:14.523 --> 00:22:16.391
- Our relationships in heaven will be truly wonderful
- 00:22:16.391 --> 00:22:20.662
- And utterly satisfying."
- 00:22:20.662 --> 00:22:24.633
- Now that's something to look forward to,
- 00:22:24.633 --> 00:22:27.269
- In that place called heaven.
- 00:22:27.269 --> 00:22:30.605
- Jeffress: god is preparing a place in heaven right now for
- 00:22:34.810 --> 00:22:38.246
- Those who trust in christ, and when we get there,
- 00:22:38.246 --> 00:22:41.616
- The joy that will be ours is beyond our wildest imagination.
- 00:22:41.616 --> 00:22:46.655
- Now, as we conclude another half hour of bible study together,
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- Let me share an encouraging note i received from mark in montana.
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- He wrote, "thank you very much for the ministry resources
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