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All In with Jordan Easley | Jordan Easley - Revelation: End of the Book (Part 3) | June 1, 2025
- Female announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor jordan
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- Easley has been made possible by the generous support of viewers
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- Like you.
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- Announcer: welcome to "all in" with pastor jordan easley.
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- Today's message is about to begin, and we invite you to
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- Prepare your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
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- God's word.
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- We hope and pray for god to speak to you today as you seek
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- To live your life all in for jesus christ.
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- And now from first baptist church in cleveland, tennessee,
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- Here's pastor jordan easley.
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- Pastor jordan easley: well, today we are wrapping up our
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- Study of the final book of the bible.
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- So i want to encourage you to grab your bible today, turn to
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- The book of revelation.
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- As we go to the end of the book, the lord's going to give us an
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- Incredible view of what is to come.
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- You know, many years ago i heard a preacher tell a story about
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- Two babies, a set of twins that were still in the womb.
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- But they were having a conversation and one baby asked
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- The other baby, they said, "hey, do you believe in life
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- After birth?"
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- And the other baby responded and he said, "of course not.
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- I don't believe in life after birth.
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- This is all we have.
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- We live in the dark.
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- We are fed by these little tubes in our bellies.
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- This is it.
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- This is the world, and this is all there is."
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- Well, the other baby persisted and said, "but what if
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- There's more?
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- What if there's a world out there?
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- What if there's air to breathe and a sight to see, and what if
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- There's a world to experience beyond our imagination?"
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- And when he said that, the other baby looked at him, he said,
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- "man, that's ridiculous.
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- Why would you even think that those things are a possibility?
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- No one has ever come back from life after birth to tell us
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- Anything close to what you're insinuating."
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- He said, "trust me, this world is all there is."
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- Hey, in the same way for a baby there is life after birth, for
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- Us as believers there is life after death.
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- But sometimes in this life we get so consumed with this world
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- That it's pretty hard for us to even imagine what it's going to
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- Be like to have life beyond the grave.
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- Hey, life for many of us is like the life of a caterpillar when
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- You think about it.
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- It spends day after day just crawling around the ground and
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- Eating leaves when it gets hungry and living a limited life
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- With no understanding of what's to come.
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- To a caterpillar, life is all about the here and now.
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- It's about surviving one more moment.
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- It's about existing one more day.
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- A caterpillar lives in order to have its needs met and it can't
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- Imagine anything beyond its current form, but then one day,
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- And we know about this day from science class--one day that
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- Caterpillar what?
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- It--after living this confined life on the ground, it enters
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- A cocoon.
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- Think about the cocoon today.
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- From the outside that has to seem like the end, right?
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- A cocoon is like a coffin.
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- There's confinement.
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- There's darkness.
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- There's no sign of life at all inside of a cocoon.
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- I'm sure--to other caterpillars watching their caterpillar
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- Buddies wrap themselves up in the cocoon, i'm sure it's pretty
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- Sad because you're like, "oh, no.
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- I mean, he's gone."
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- A cocoon is like a coffin, but--on the outside the cocoon
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- It seems like that's it, but we know today that the cocoon isn't
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- The end.
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- The cocoon may seem like a coffin, but it's the confines
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- For a miraculous transformation.
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- You may not know it when it goes into it, but that's what it is.
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- The cocoon isn't a place for a caterpillar to die; it's a place
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- To prepare a butterfly to fly.
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- Hey, the lord's got a message for you today.
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- You know what that message is?
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- The message is death isn't the end.
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- Death isn't the end.
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- And, man, if i say something today that you agree with,
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- I want you to say amen.
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- Today we're talking about some good stuff and i want you to
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- Preach back at me just a little bit.
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- Death is not the end.
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- Can i get an amen, right?
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- Hey, life on earth is compared to the blink of an eye in
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- The bible.
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- Scripture tells us very clearly this is not our home.
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- It feels like home.
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- It ain't your home.
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- In fact, the bible says we're here for just a moment.
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- It says your life is like a vapor.
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- It's here for a second and then it's gone and yet the bible also
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- Says that where we spend all of eternity will be contingent on
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- What we do with jesus in this vapor called life.
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- What you do with jesus will determine what's next for you
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- For all of eternity.
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- Hey, last week we talked about the reality of a place
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- Called hell.
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- The lake of fire is what the bible calls it, an eternal place
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- Of darkness and pain and torment.
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- We saw that hell was designed by god for the devil and his
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- Demons, but we also saw that it'll be occupied by every
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- Single person who denies christ and chooses sin in the world
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- Over surrendering their life to the savior named jesus christ.
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- Hell is a real place.
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- I want to say it again.
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- It's real and many people are going to call hell home for all
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- Of eternity.
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- But you know what else is a real place?
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- Heaven.
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- Heaven is a real place, and today from revelation chapter 21
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- John is going to tell us in great detail a vision that the
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- Lord gave him of this incredible place called heaven.
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- You know, i hope you're taking notes today because the first
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- Thing i want to point out is that in your bible there are
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- Actually three heavens.
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- There are three heavens in your bible.
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- The first heaven is known as the sky and the atmosphere.
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- That comes from genesis chapter 1, verse 20.
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- It uses this word that says the expanse of the sky or the
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- Firmament of heaven.
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- Well, that phrase is a reference to the first heaven, which is
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- Immediately above us.
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- The first heaven is where the birds are flying right now.
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- The bible also talks about a second heaven, and the second
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- Heaven is a reference to outer space and the universe.
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- That word comes from genesis chapter 1, verse 14.
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- It's the same phrase the firmament of heaven, but it's a
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- Different word.
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- This time it's a reference to the second heaven, and that is
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- Where the sun and the moon and the stars live.
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- But also your bible talks about a third heaven, and in the third
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- Heaven that is god's dwelling place.
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- That word comes from 2 corinthians 12, verse 2 where
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- Paul is talking to a saved man who was caught up to the
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- Third heaven.
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- Where was he caught up?
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- To the place where god lives.
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- Someone said it this way.
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- We see the first heaven by day, we see the second heaven by
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- Night, and we see the third heaven by faith.
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- Today in this passage god is going to give us a glimpse of
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- The third heaven, and it's an unbelievable scene.
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- I say it's a glimpse because 1 corinthians 2:9 tells us that
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- The human heart can't even conceive what god has prepared
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- For us in heaven.
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- We can't even conceive it.
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- You understand what that means?
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- That means i can preach this as boldly and as strongly as i can
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- And i can talk about the beauty and the perfection of heaven,
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- But in the end of this message you still can't even conceive
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- How good it's going to be.
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- I can't convey to you how incredible heaven will be, but
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- In this passage, revelation 21 and 22, john is going to show us
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- What god revealed to him, and it's a scene that god also wants
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- You to see as well.
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- So let's read that together, beginning in verse 1. he said,
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- "then i saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven
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- And the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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- I also saw the holy city, the new jerusalem, coming down out
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- Of heaven from god, prepared like a bride adorned for
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- Her husband."
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- Now, real quick for those of you who are taking notes, i want to
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- Point out two things from this passage of scripture that you
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- Need to know.
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- The bible says that heaven is a real place.
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- It's a real place.
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- In these first two verses, john tells us what he saw.
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- I want to point that out.
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- He saw these things.
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- He said, "i saw a new heaven, i saw a new earth, and i saw a
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- New jerusalem."
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- And i want to--i want you to remember he's not dreaming here.
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- He's not using his imagination here.
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- He's not having a hallucination.
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- He's not tripping on acid.
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- I mean, he in this moment is seeing a real place, a literal
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- Place that the lord allowed him to see.
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- Don't forget what jesus said in john 14:3.
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- He said, "i'm going away to prepare a place for you."
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- He's preparing a place, a real place.
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- He's not preparing some eternal nothingness for you that can't
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- Be seen.
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- Heaven is a real place.
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- But not only is it a real place, the bible also says heaven is a
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- New place, a new place.
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- What did john just say in verse 1 and 2?
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- He said there is a new heaven,
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- A new earth, and a new jerusalem.
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- The question is, what does that mean?
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- Well, that word new in your bible, that's a good one to
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- Circle in your bible because that word new in the english is
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- Different than the words you see in the greek.
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- You see, it's all the same word to us.
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- It's the word "new."
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- But the greek words have different meanings, and there
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- Are multiple words that talk about this word "new."
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- For instance, you have the first word which is "neos."
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- "neos" is the word that's used many times in scripture.
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- That word "neos," it means to be new in time.
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- Say that with me.
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- New in time.
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- That's the word neos.
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- This word "kainon" means something different.
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- This word means new in kind.
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- Say that with me.
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- New in kind.
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- So the two words look the same in english, but these two words
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- Mean something completely different.
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- Here's the difference.
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- A few weeks ago, i bought a new shotgun.
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- I was excited about it.
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- I'm still kind of fired up about it honestly.
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- But i bought a new shotgun.
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- Now, let me tell you something about this shotgun.
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- It was made in the 1970s and it was owned by a dude before i
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- Had it.
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- But when i got the shotgun, i texted all of my buddies and i
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- Said, "guess what, boys?
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- I just got a new shotgun."
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- You see it?
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- That's what it means to be new in time.
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- It's new to me, but it's old.
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- It's old, but it's new.
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- It's been re-gifted or redistributed.
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- It's old, but it's new.
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- That's the word "neos."
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- That's to be new in time.
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- I point that out because when john uses the word "new" in the
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- Passage we just read he does not use the word "neos."
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- He's not talking about the heavens and the earth being new
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- In time, and we know that because he uses
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- The word "kainon" when he's describing the new heaven
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- And the new earth and the new jerusalem.
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- In fact, every single time you see the word "new" in the book
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- Of revelation, he uses this word.
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- He uses the word "kainon."
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- And so that tells us the new heaven and the new earth and the
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- New jerusalem aren't going to be the old ones refurbished.
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- He's not saying the old earth is going to get a new coat
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- Of paint.
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- He's saying the new earth and the new heaven and the new
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- Jerusalem will be new in kind, kainon; meaning both the
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- Physical universe and the spiritual realm will be brand
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- New, never been one like it before.
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- You're tracking with me, say, "amen."
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- See, the new jerusalem is going to be a new place.
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- It's not going to be the old jerusalem made new.
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- It's a new city, a holy city that the bible says will come
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- Down from the heaven and come down from god.
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- And by the way, that's not symbolism, all right?
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- This verse is talking about a literal city where god's people,
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- Hopefully all of us, are going to live with god for all
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- Of eternity.
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- In fact, in verse 15 he's going to give us the measurements of
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- This new city.
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- In verse 18, he's going to give us the materials that are going
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- To build and make up this new city.
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- In isaiah 43:19 the lord said, "look, i am about to do
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- Something new."
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- We've read that verse.
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- That verse was written 700 years before christ.
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- He said, "i'm about to do something new."
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- And now you fast-forward to the end of the book and in
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- Revelation 21, verse 5 what is he saying?
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- Jesus said, "look, i am making everything new."
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- He's going--he's making all things new, and when he does
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- These places will be new in kind and unlike anything that's
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- Ever been.
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- Hey, you know why heaven will be so perfect and so beautiful?
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- Three reasons.
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- Number one, because jesus is the lord of heaven.
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- That's why it's going to be so beautiful.
- 00:12:52.387 --> 00:12:54.589
- Verse 5, "then the one seated on the throne said, 'look, i'm
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- Making everything new.'
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- And then he said to me, 'it is done.
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- I am the alpha and the omega and the beginning of the end.'"
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- And when i read that, i'm reminded that jesus is the lord
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- Of this city.
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- The bible says he will rule and reign and be worshiped in this
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- Perfect place for all of eternity and we'll be there
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- With him.
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- He is the lord of heaven.
- 00:13:17.979 --> 00:13:20.315
- But not only that, he's the light of heaven.
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- Check that out.
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- Verse 23 says, "the city does not need the sun or the moon to
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- Shine on it, because the glory of god illuminates it, and its
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- Lamp is the lamb.
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- The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the
- 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:35.964
- Earth will bring their glory into it."
- 00:13:35.964 --> 00:13:39.634
- Not only is jesus the light of this world, jesus is the light
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- Of the world.
- 00:13:43.404 --> 00:13:44.772
- And when the bible speaks about heaven, it says that this will
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- Be a place where there will be no darkness and there will be
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- No night.
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- Why is that?
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- It's 'cause jesus is there, and the glory of god will illuminate
- 00:13:53.448 --> 00:13:57.785
- All of heaven and that's why there will be no darkness for
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- All of eternity.
- 00:14:00.788 --> 00:14:02.390
- Chapter 22, verse 5 says, "night will be no more; people will not
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- Need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the
- 00:14:06.794 --> 00:14:10.565
- Lord god will give them light, and they will reign forever
- 00:14:10.565 --> 00:14:15.336
- And ever."
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- It's hard to imagine a world where we don't even have a need
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- For a sun or a moon or stars any longer.
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- It's hard to imagine an existence where we no longer
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- Have to flip on a light switch when we walk into a room, we no
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- Longer have to go to bed scared of the dark.
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- We don't need a night light because we have the light of
- 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:35.223
- Christ illuminating all of heaven for all of eternity.
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- He is the lord of heaven, and he is the light of heaven.
- 00:14:38.726 --> 00:14:42.764
- But the bible goes on to say that jesus is also the life of
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- Heaven, the life of heaven.
- 00:14:46.234 --> 00:14:48.803
- Chapter 22, verse 1 says, "then he showed me the river of the
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- Water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of god
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- And of the lamb down the middle of the city's main street.
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- The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing
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- Twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month."
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- This is the final vision of the new jerusalem, and in these two
- 00:15:11.292 --> 00:15:15.797
- Verses john is actually telling us a lot about heaven.
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- It says there will be a river of life and there will be a tree of
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- Life, and i want you to notice that right here the river of the
- 00:15:23.338 --> 00:15:28.042
- Water of life it flows from where?
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- What's the mouth of the river?
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- It said it flows directly from the throne of god and from the
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- Lamb of god.
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- When i read this passage, i'm reminded of another passage in
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- John chapter 7. in john chapter 7, jesus is talking and he's
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- Standing up at a festival and he says to the crowd, "if anyone is
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- Thirsty, let him come to me and drink."
- 00:15:49.330 --> 00:15:52.567
- And in this context i want you to understand that jesus when
- 00:15:52.567 --> 00:15:55.670
- He's talking, he's not saying, "if you're physically thirsty,
- 00:15:55.670 --> 00:16:00.408
- Come to me and i'll provide you a temporary solution."
- 00:16:00.408 --> 00:16:04.212
- No, he's saying, "if you are spiritually thirsty, come to me
- 00:16:04.212 --> 00:16:08.716
- And i will give you an eternal solution."
- 00:16:08.716 --> 00:16:12.720
- In fact, that's what we read in that very next verse.
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- In verse 38 he said, "the one who believes in me, as the
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- Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow
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- From deep within him."
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- What's he saying there?
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- He's saying that jesus is the source of living water.
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- Jesus is the source of eternal life, and he is the mouth of the
- 00:16:32.974 --> 00:16:37.178
- River of the water of life in heaven which flows from the
- 00:16:37.178 --> 00:16:41.516
- Throne of god and flows from the lamb of god.
- 00:16:41.516 --> 00:16:45.353
- But i want you to notice that this also says in the new
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- Jerusalem not only will there be a river but there will be
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- A tree.
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- You have a river of life, and now you have a tree of life.
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- In fact, the bible goes on to say that this tree will bear 12
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- Different kinds of fruit, and it will produce every single month.
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- The number 12, by the way, has a meaning in your bible.
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- The number 12 is used to signify completeness and abundance
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- From god.
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- It's also used as the number that signifies god's people.
- 00:17:16.017 --> 00:17:19.987
- There were 12 tribes.
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- That's the completion of god's people.
- 00:17:21.355 --> 00:17:24.158
- So i believe when it talks about the tree of life producing 12
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- Kinds of fruit and it says that this will happen 12 times a
- 00:17:27.195 --> 00:17:30.231
- Year, that's another way of saying that god's provision of
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- Life is sufficient for all god's people.
- 00:17:34.569 --> 00:17:38.439
- He said, "i got all y'all.
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- I am a big enough god to provide for all of my people."
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- In verse 20--2, that verse goes on to say, "the leaves of the
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- Tree are for healing the nations, and there will
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- Be--there will no longer be any curse."
- 00:17:53.054 --> 00:17:56.424
- What does that mean?
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- Well, it tells me that this tree will not only give life.
- 00:17:57.925 --> 00:18:01.963
- You know, it would also provide peace.
- 00:18:01.963 --> 00:18:04.966
- This tree will give life, but it also provide peace.
- 00:18:04.966 --> 00:18:07.602
- That's what it's talking about, healing the nations.
- 00:18:07.602 --> 00:18:10.671
- See, in this new creation for all of eternity god will unite
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- Everything that's been divided, and i want us to remember this
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- About heaven.
- 00:18:20.148 --> 00:18:21.482
- God will unite everything that's been divided and everything
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- That's been broken between nations, everything that's been
- 00:18:26.320 --> 00:18:29.824
- Broken between nationalities or races or people groups or voting
- 00:18:29.824 --> 00:18:35.429
- Blocks, hello, will be healed once and for all and the bible
- 00:18:35.429 --> 00:18:40.968
- Says that all of us will exist in perfect peace.
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- Verse 3 goes on to say, "the throne of god and of the lamb
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- Will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.
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- They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
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- Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a
- 00:18:57.218 --> 00:19:00.855
- Lamp or the light of the sun, because the lord god will give
- 00:19:00.855 --> 00:19:04.358
- Them light, and they will reign forever and ever."
- 00:19:04.358 --> 00:19:09.597
- You know, it's hard to explain to you in a 30-minute sermon the
- 00:19:09.597 --> 00:19:14.602
- Eternal perfection of this place called heaven.
- 00:19:14.602 --> 00:19:18.339
- It's hard to even attempt that.
- 00:19:18.339 --> 00:19:21.809
- I'm reminded of a story that i heard a long time ago about a
- 00:19:21.809 --> 00:19:24.445
- Little boy who was born blind.
- 00:19:24.445 --> 00:19:27.148
- The doctors told this little boy that there was hope to cure
- 00:19:27.148 --> 00:19:30.017
- His blindness.
- 00:19:30.017 --> 00:19:31.686
- In fact, they told him that there was a surgery that they
- 00:19:31.686 --> 00:19:33.888
- Could perform and they believed a 99% chance that at the end of
- 00:19:33.888 --> 00:19:38.626
- This surgery he would be able to see and so they'd decided to
- 00:19:38.626 --> 00:19:42.096
- Perform the surgery.
- 00:19:42.096 --> 00:19:43.598
- They wrapped his head in gauze and at the completion of that
- 00:19:43.598 --> 00:19:48.169
- Moment they were removing that gauze from his eyes.
- 00:19:48.169 --> 00:19:51.439
- And as the final strip was removed from this young man's
- 00:19:51.439 --> 00:19:54.442
- Eyes, the doctor leaned down and whispered in his ear, saying,
- 00:19:54.442 --> 00:19:58.546
- "open your eyes very slowly."
- 00:19:58.546 --> 00:20:01.249
- And as he did, the doctor watched as a smile appeared on
- 00:20:01.249 --> 00:20:05.253
- This little boy's face.
- 00:20:05.253 --> 00:20:07.255
- He looked up at the face of that doctor who's the first person he
- 00:20:07.255 --> 00:20:10.391
- Had ever seen, and then he looked over to the left and he
- 00:20:10.391 --> 00:20:13.794
- Saw the face of that nurse who had been helping him continuing
- 00:20:13.794 --> 00:20:17.598
- To smile, and then he looked at the foot of his bed and for the
- 00:20:17.598 --> 00:20:21.869
- Very first time this little boy saw the face of his own mother
- 00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:25.640
- As she cried happy tears of joy.
- 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:30.144
- At that point, he got up from the bed and he walked over to
- 00:20:30.144 --> 00:20:32.647
- The window and for the very first time he saw things that
- 00:20:32.647 --> 00:20:36.183
- You and i take for granted.
- 00:20:36.183 --> 00:20:38.386
- He looked up and he saw the sky.
- 00:20:38.386 --> 00:20:41.756
- But it wasn't just a sky, it was the most beautiful blue sky any
- 00:20:41.756 --> 00:20:46.794
- Eyes had ever seen.
- 00:20:46.794 --> 00:20:48.796
- He looked over to the left and he saw a man mowing the grass.
- 00:20:48.796 --> 00:20:51.766
- But it wasn't just grass, it was the most beautiful green grass
- 00:20:51.766 --> 00:20:56.270
- That any eyes could even conceive.
- 00:20:56.270 --> 00:21:00.107
- He looked over to the other side and he saw a flower bed filled
- 00:21:00.107 --> 00:21:03.444
- With roses.
- 00:21:03.444 --> 00:21:04.779
- But these weren't just flowers as a part of a routine landscape
- 00:21:04.779 --> 00:21:08.816
- Job, these were the most beautiful flowers he had ever
- 00:21:08.816 --> 00:21:13.220
- Even imagined.
- 00:21:13.220 --> 00:21:15.189
- Finally, he turned and he looked back at his mom and he said with
- 00:21:15.189 --> 00:21:19.226
- Tears in his eyes, "mother, why didn't you tell me how beautiful
- 00:21:19.226 --> 00:21:23.764
- All of these things were?"
- 00:21:23.764 --> 00:21:26.400
- And she said, "son, i've tried to tell you your entire life,
- 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.971
- But in order for you to understand fully how beautiful
- 00:21:30.971 --> 00:21:35.042
- Something really is you have to see it for yourself."
- 00:21:35.042 --> 00:21:40.881
- Listen, i've tried my best over these last 30 minutes to tell
- 00:21:40.881 --> 00:21:44.685
- You how beautiful and how majestic and how perfect heaven
- 00:21:44.685 --> 00:21:47.788
- Will be, but in order for you to really get it you're going to
- 00:21:47.788 --> 00:21:52.560
- Have to see it for yourself.
- 00:21:52.560 --> 00:21:54.895
- But hear me when i say this.
- 00:21:54.895 --> 00:21:57.865
- Not everyone's going to see heaven.
- 00:21:57.865 --> 00:22:00.601
- In fact, the bible says very clearly that there's only a
- 00:22:00.601 --> 00:22:02.737
- Select group of people that will ever see the city that god
- 00:22:02.737 --> 00:22:06.307
- Describes for us in these final chapters.
- 00:22:06.307 --> 00:22:09.176
- In revelation chapter 21, verse 27, it says, "nothing unclean
- 00:22:09.176 --> 00:22:13.047
- Will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or
- 00:22:13.047 --> 00:22:16.617
- False, but only those written in the lamb's book of life."
- 00:22:16.617 --> 00:22:23.424
- Don't miss this part.
- 00:22:23.424 --> 00:22:25.459
- Listen, the only people who have a home reserved in this city,
- 00:22:25.459 --> 00:22:29.463
- The only ones who ha--gain access to this place called
- 00:22:29.463 --> 00:22:32.166
- Heaven are those of us whose names are written in the lamb's
- 00:22:32.166 --> 00:22:38.739
- Book of life, in god's book that says, "you're mine."
- 00:22:38.739 --> 00:22:43.544
- So as we conclude this message and as we wrap up this series,
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- I want to ask you one final question one final time.
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- Can you say with certainty today that your name's in the book?
- 00:22:50.851 --> 00:22:56.991
- Can you remember the moment where the hand of god wrote your
- 00:22:56.991 --> 00:23:00.761
- Name in the book of life that determines eternity?
- 00:23:00.761 --> 00:23:07.535
- And if you can't, may i just plead with you one final time?
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- Don't leave this place, don't put your head on your pillow
- 00:23:10.738 --> 00:23:14.141
- Tonight without knowing that your soul has been saved and
- 00:23:14.141 --> 00:23:18.145
- That your sins have been forgiven and that your security
- 00:23:18.145 --> 00:23:21.549
- Has been sealed in heaven once and for all by the son of god
- 00:23:21.549 --> 00:23:26.821
- Because that's what this book is all about.
- 00:23:26.821 --> 00:23:29.523
- This book is to give you a heads-up and to tell you what's
- 00:23:29.523 --> 00:23:32.726
- Coming, and god doesn't beat around the bush and he doesn't
- 00:23:32.726 --> 00:23:36.163
- Hesitate to tell you the truth and that there is a real heaven
- 00:23:36.163 --> 00:23:38.833
- And there's a real hell and 100% of people that have beating
- 00:23:38.833 --> 00:23:42.169
- Hearts in their chest will one day reside in one of two places.
- 00:23:42.169 --> 00:23:47.007
- So why would we even go another second of another day with a
- 00:23:47.007 --> 00:23:50.044
- Question mark next to our eternal destination when the son
- 00:23:50.044 --> 00:23:53.080
- Of god says, "sir, you can be saved.
- 00:23:53.080 --> 00:23:56.450
- Turn from your sin.
- 00:23:56.450 --> 00:23:57.818
- Turn to a savior that can change everything."
- 00:23:57.818 --> 00:24:01.489
- Hey, jesus gives you that opportunity today.
- 00:24:01.489 --> 00:24:03.891
- You can turn to christ and be saved or you can turn to your
- 00:24:03.891 --> 00:24:07.795
- Car, go home and act like you never heard these words, but day
- 00:24:07.795 --> 00:24:11.298
- Of judgment is coming.
- 00:24:11.298 --> 00:24:13.300
- This earth as we know it will be no more and there will be a new
- 00:24:13.300 --> 00:24:17.771
- Heaven and there will be a new earth and there will be a new
- 00:24:17.771 --> 00:24:19.807
- Jerusalem and those of us who knew--know christ will live
- 00:24:19.807 --> 00:24:22.209
- There for all of eternity.
- 00:24:22.209 --> 00:24:24.211
- Is your name in the book?
- 00:24:24.211 --> 00:24:26.714
- If it's not, i want to invite you to come to christ today.
- 00:24:26.714 --> 00:24:29.850
- Lord, today thank you for your word, thank you for this book.
- 00:24:29.850 --> 00:24:33.053
- I pray your blessings over every single person.
- 00:24:33.053 --> 00:24:35.956
- Lord, as we leave this place, i pray for the person who's
- 00:24:35.956 --> 00:24:38.425
- Wrestling with this decision.
- 00:24:38.425 --> 00:24:39.793
- I pray that you would give them faith to take that next step and
- 00:24:39.793 --> 00:24:44.064
- Do what they don't think they can do but what you're calling
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- Them to.
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- Lord, i thank you for giving us hope for the future.
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- I thank you that we have hope in jesus, and it's in his mighty
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- Name that we pray, amen.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Pastor jordan: the words of psalm 119 serve as a gentle
- 00:25:05.419 --> 00:25:08.722
- Reminder that god's word is like a guiding light illuminating our
- 00:25:08.722 --> 00:25:12.993
- Path and directing our steps.
- 00:25:12.993 --> 00:25:15.696
- It's a daily blessing to immerse ourself in the wisdom and the
- 00:25:15.696 --> 00:25:19.800
- Love and the truth found in god's word.
- 00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:22.436
- When we dive in to god, it's like god dives in to us.
- 00:25:22.436 --> 00:25:26.206
- And when we do that, he allows us to discover his purpose for
- 00:25:26.206 --> 00:25:29.610
- Our lives and really gain strength that we need in order
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- To be maximized.
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- Hello, i'm pastor jordan easley,
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- And i believe that dedicating time to
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- Daily bible-reading will enrich your life, empower you with
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- God's presence, and provide for you lasting strength as you
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- Navigate this part of your journey.
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- You know, i've never had someone accept a bible-reading challenge
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- And then come back saying, "i really regret reading
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- God's word."
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- And so today i want to extend to you that same challenge, but
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- Don't worry.
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- I'm not only challenging you, i want to equip you.
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- In fact, today i want to provide for you a free bible-reading
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- Plan to support your spiritual journey.
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- This is a thoughtful, crafted plan that will guide you through
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- The entire bible in just one year.
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- And if you follow this plan, i will guarantee that you will not
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- Only grow in wisdom but also in your personal walk with jesus.
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- To receive your free bible-reading guide, please
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- Follow the instructions on the screen and rest assured we will
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- Today so that you can benefit from this valuable resource.
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- Pastor jordan: hey, we never want to end our broadcast
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- Without giving you the opportunity to know jesus as
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- Your personal lord and savior.
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- If you'd like to make the decision to trust jesus and want
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- To know more about what it looks like to follow jesus, get in
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- Touch with me right now.
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- Follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen so that we
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- Can pray for you and also put information in your hands
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- Right away.
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- Today we celebrate your decision and look forward to being a part
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- Of your personal journey of going all in with jesus christ.
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- Announcer: this episode of "all in" with pastor jordan easley
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- Has been made possible by the generous support of viewers
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- Like you.
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- We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
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- Live your life fully committed to jesus christ.
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