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Robert Jeffress - What Will We Do In Heaven?

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Will We Do In Heaven? | February 22, 2026

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From the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffress."
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Hi, robert jeffress, and welcome again
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To "pathway to victory."
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The bible teaches that heaven will be a place
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Of eternal happiness,
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A paradise where all believers will live forever
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In the presence of god.
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Yet many christians are almost dreading
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Their future in heaven
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Because they're worried that heaven will be boring.
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Well, today i want to put those fears to rest
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By showing you the truth about our eternal home
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As defined in the bible.
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We're answering the question,
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What will we do in heaven
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On today's edition of pathway to victory?
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When loss leaves you searching for hope,
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In "encouragement from a place called heaven."
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Not the myths and misconceptions tv and movies tell us,
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At the dinner party, guests were discussing
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The subject of heaven and hell,
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But sam remained unusually quiet.
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The dinner hostess, not wanting him to feel left out,
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Said, "sam, do you have any thoughts about heaven and hell?"
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Sam said, "i tried to offer no opinion
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When it comes to heaven or hell
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Because i have friends in both places."
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Sam was samuel clemens whom we know as mark twain.
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Mark twain had many things
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And observations about the subject of heaven and hell.
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In fact, in one speech, twain joke,
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And in a comment that seems very appropriate today,
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Twain said, "this election makes me think
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Of a story of a man who was dying.
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He had only two minutes to live,
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So he sent for a clergyman and asked him,
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Where is the best place to go, heaven or hell?
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So the ministers told him
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That each place had its advantages,
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Heaven for the climate, hell for the company."
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(congregation laughing)
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Such a tongue in cheek comment
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Is built upon a lie
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That many people have embraced about heaven.
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Many people, even christians, have fallen for the myth
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That heaven is going to be a place of perpetual boredom
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Populated by boring people,
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And nothing could be further from the truth.
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Today as we continue our series,
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"a place called heaven,"
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We're going to attempt to answer the question,
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What will we do in heaven?
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Have you ever wondered about that?
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That's what we're going to talk about today.
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Science fiction, writer and atheist, isaac asimov, said,
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"i don't believe in the afterlife
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So i don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell
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Or fearing heaven even more.
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For whatever the tortures of hell,
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I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
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Think about those great moments of worship
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In the past you've experienced
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And multiply it by a million.
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That's what heaven is going to be like,
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The worship we engage in,
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Because, in heaven, we'll actually see jesus
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Face to face.
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No experience will match that.
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If you want to get an idea
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Of what that experience is going to be like,
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Look at revelation 5:11-12,
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Where john describes the worship
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We will experience in heaven.
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He said, "then i looked and heard the voice
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Of many angels around the throne
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And the living creatures and the elders."
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These are the representatives.
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This is the church.
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This is you and i, the elders, the church.
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And the number of them was myriads of myriads.
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Thousands of thousands,
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Literally 10 thousands upon 10 thousands,
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Millions of people surrounding the throne.
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And notice verse 12, saying with a loud voice.
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Underline that word, loud.
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And what will they say?
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Worthy is the lamb that was slain
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To receive the power, and the riches,
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And the wisdom, and might, and honor,
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And glory, and blessing.
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They praised with a loud voice.
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Just a few years ago,
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The fans of the seattle seahawks football team
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Set a world record as the loudest fans in nfl history.
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On december 2nd, 2013,
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During a third down defensive stand
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Against the new orleans saints,
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The seahawk fans produced an ear splitting 137.6 decibels.
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Now to let you know how loud that is,
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That would be exactly the same
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As standing 100 feet away from a roaring jet engine.
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In fact, the sound of those fans was so loud
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That it triggered a minor earthquake beneath the stadium.
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Now that's the kind of worship we're going to have in heaven.
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In isaiah 6:4, isaiah said,
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"and the foundations of the temple trembled.
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The foundations of the temple trembled
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At the voice of the angels
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Of him who called out in worship to god."
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We're going to have loud, exuberant worship.
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Now, occasionally, i have people say to me,
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"pastor, why does everything have to be
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So loud in our worship services?
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Why can't we have quiet moments of reflection?
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I'd like us to build some quiet moments of reflection
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In our worship services."
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You know why we don't do that?
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Look, quiet moments of reflection are great
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For your personal worship with god.
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But in the bible, when god's people get together,
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They are never quiet.
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Show me one time in the book of revelation
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Where they have quiet, reflective worship.
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No, it is a time of celebration and praise,
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And that's what it's going to be like in heaven.
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It's going to be a time of large worship, people, myriads.
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Tens of millions of people are going to be worshiping.
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A loud crowd and a loud voice
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Is going to be what heaven is like.
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Yes, we're going to participate in indescribable worship,
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But is that all we're going to do?
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Is heaven going to be a time of unending worship?
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Well, the answer to that question is yes and no.
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It all depends on how you define worship.
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If you define worship as a formal time
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Of god's people getting together to praise god,
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Then no, that's not all we're going to do in heaven.
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But in the bible, worship is more than just formal times
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When we assemble together.
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In 1 corinthians 10:31, paul said,
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"whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
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Do all to the glory of god."
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There is a way of going through the day,
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Conducting our work,
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Getting stuck in traffic on central expressway,
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Sitting down for a meal, relaxing.
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There's a way of living where god is always
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A part of your existence,
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And that's really what worship in the broadest sense is.
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I didn't put it on your outline,
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But i want you to jot down this definition of worship.
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Worship is the continual awareness of
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Gratitude toward
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And submission to god
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In everything we do.
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Let me say it again.
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Worship is a continual awareness of
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Gratitude toward and submission to god in everything we do.
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And in that sense, yes,
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We will worship god continually in heaven
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Just as we should be doing here on earth.
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Heaven will be a time of indescribable worship,
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But there's a second thing we're going to
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Experience in heaven.
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Heaven will also be a place of enjoyable work.
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"no, pastor, please tell me it's not so.
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We're going to be working in heaven?
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I'm looking forward to floating around on that cloud,
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Plucking the harp.
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You're telling me we're really going to work in heaven?"
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Now, before you rebel at that idea,
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Follow with me on a couple of things,
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And i think you're going to feel a lot better about this
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When we're finished.
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First of all, remember god is a worker.
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God didn't just create the universe in six days
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And then go into retirement.
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He took a day off, but that's all he took off.
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In john 5:17, jesus said this about god.
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"my father is working until now and i myself am working."
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God's a worker.
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And not only that, secondly, god created man to be a worker.
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You and i were created in the image of god
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And therefore we too were created to be workers.
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In genesis 2:15, god gave this assignment to adam.
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Then the lord god took the man
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And put him into the garden to cultivate it and to keep it.
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Many people believe that work is a curse from god,
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That it was a punishment for man's sin against god.
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That's not true.
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Genesis 2:15 takes place before the fall in genesis 3.
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In his original form, man was created to work.
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I have a friend who says that when he was growing up,
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Occasionally, on saturdays, he might sit down on the sofa
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And watch television for a few minutes.
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And if his father came through,
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He'd look at his son and say,
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"get off that couch.
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What do you think you are, an international playboy?"
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And my friend said, "i grew up always afraid
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To sit down on the couch on saturdays or watch tv,
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Because my father was a worker,
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And he wanted me to be a worker as well."
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Well, that's true for all us.
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Our father is a worker,
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And he didn't create us to sit around doing nothing.
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He created us to work as well.
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What is it that we 'll be doing?
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What will our work entail?
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Two words i want you to write down.
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First of all, our work of cultivating.
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That is taking what god has created
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And making it even better.
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For example, cherries are good.
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Cherry pie is very good.
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We all like avocados,
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But we really like guacamole salad, don't we?
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I mean that's part of cultivating,
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Taking what god is giving and improving upon it.
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But there'll also be a work of creating.
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That is, as human beings, god has given us the ability
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To create something out of nothing.
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For example, god said to adam in the garden,
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"i've made these animals.
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I want you to come up with the names for them.
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I want you to think of imaginative names for these animals."
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And so adam used his creativity to name the animals.
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Today we see man's god-given creativity at work,
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The invention of the automobile, the jet airplane,
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The iphone are all testimonies to a god-given creativity.
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Why do we think in heaven
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That won't be present as well in our lives?
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We'll use the gifts god has given us.
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Yes, we'll be worshiping god.
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We'll be working, but there's one other aspect
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That some people will be doing in heaven,
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And that is ruling and reigning with god.
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Some people are created to rule
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Over the new heaven and the new earth.
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That was god's plan for adam and eve.
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Remember in genesis 1:26, he said,
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"let us make man in our own likeness
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And let them rule over the fish of the sea,
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The birds of the sky,
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And over the cattle, and all of the earth,
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And every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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Adam and eve were created to be co-regents with god
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On planet earth.
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Now, because of sin, they had to abdicate their rule.
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But in the new heaven and new earth,
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You and i will be co-rulers with god.
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Revelation 22:5 says,
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"we will reign with him forever and ever."
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What does ruling and reigning involve?
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What does it mean we're going to rule with christ?
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There are two aspects of that.
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First of all, judging.
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Part of ruling and reigning with christ involves judging.
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In 1 corinthians 6,
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Remember the corinthians were fussing and fighting
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With one another.
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They couldn't come to an agreement,
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And paul says it shouldn't be this way.
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He says in verse two, "do you not know
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That the saints will judge the world?
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One day, christians will judge the world."
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That word judge, krino, means to render a verdict.
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And while there's no evidence
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That you and i will be judging other people
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In the new heaven and new earth,
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The bible is clear we're going to be judging angels.
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Verse three says,
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"do you not know that we shall judge the angels?"
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Right now, psalm 8 says,
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"god has created man lower than the angels,"
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But in the new heaven and earth, that will be reversed,
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And we'll be judging angels.
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A second aspect of ruling and reigning is governing.
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Governing, that is there'll be parts of god's creation
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That some of us will govern.
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In 2 timothy 2:12, paul says,
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"if we endure with him,
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We shall also reign with him."
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In the old testament,
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We have examples of god's people
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Reigning over certain territory.
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Joseph was prime minister over egypt,
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Daniel over babylon,
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Mordecai over persia.
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We're going to be ruling.
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Some people will be ruling over parts of god's creation.
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And while the new heaven and new earth
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Will be the central part of god's creation,
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Ruling and reigning probably won't be limited to there.
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There'll still be galaxies
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Far flung throughout the universe
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Over which god's people will rule.
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Yes, in heaven, we'll have work to do,
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But it's not going to be work all the time.
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There's also going to be some fun in heaven.
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And let me just suggest to you
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What i call three perks of heaven,
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Three permanent perks of heaven.
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We'll be worshiping, we'll be working,
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But we're going to be having the time of our lives as well.
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The bible suggests at least three benefits
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Of being in heaven.
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First of all, it'll be a time of enjoying other believers,
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Enjoying other believers.
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Do you realize god made us
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Where we need other people to be truly fulfilled?
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Remember god said to adam,
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"it's not good for you to be alone."
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I've always thought that was interesting.
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Adam wasn't alone.
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He had a perfect relationship with god
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That hadn't been tainted by sin.
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But god said, "as good as our relationship is,
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It's not enough.
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You need somebody else."
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That's why he made eve.
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God made us in such a way
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That we need fellowship with other human beings.
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And in heaven, we're going to enjoy that
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In a way we've never experienced on earth.
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My friend david jeremiah says,
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Because we will be god's people made over,
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We will be perfectly compatible with one another
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And able for the first time ever
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To enjoy the intimate fellowship
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That we all long for in our hearts.
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In heaven, gone will be the impure motives, the suspicions,
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The sins that taint and ruin relationships today.
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And just think about, in heaven,
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How fascinating it's going to be,
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Not just to talk with the friends we have right now,
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But to sit down and talk to your grandparents,
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Your great grandparents who are in heaven
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And learn more about your family,
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Or just think what it's going to be like
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To sit down and listen to the saints of old
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And be riveted by their stories.
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That's what we're going to be doing in heaven,
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And join fellowship, perfect fellowship with one another.
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Secondly, heaven will be a time of learning more about god.
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Yes, it's true, the prophet habakkuk
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Promised that the earth will be filled
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With the knowledge of god.
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I think about the first time i met amy.
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We 12 years old.
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She was sitting in front of me at ms. denny's math class,
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And i only knew one thing about amy.
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She was the prettiest girl i had ever seen.
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That's all i knew about her.
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But believe me, i wanted to know more.
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And so we started passing notes back and forth in class.
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Got in lots of trouble for passing these notes,
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But through those notes, we learn more about each other.
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I've spent 50 years getting to know amy, and guess what.
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I don't know everything about her,
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But there's a lot more to discover.
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And the whole process has been an exhilarating one.
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It's going to be the same way in our relationship with god.
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I think we're going to have all eternity to get to know god.
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We'll get to know him better and better and better.
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Thirdly, in heaven will be a time of experiencing real rest.
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We've already seen, in heaven,
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We're not floating on a cloud somewhere.
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God will have us engaged in meaningful work,
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But that doesn't mean that's all we're going to do.
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With the israelites, god set aside a day of rest
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And then he set aside certain weeks and certain months,
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And sometimes there is a year of rest as well.
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I think we'll experience the same thing in heaven.
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In revelation 14:13,
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John was commanded to write these words.
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Look at them.
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"and i, john, heard a voice from heaven saying,
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Write this down, blessed,
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Literally happy are the dead who die in the lord from now on
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That they may rest from their labors
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For their deeds follow with them."
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The rest we're going to experience in heaven
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Is that occasional respite we even experience here on earth
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When we finished a big job,
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Have you ever had a big project to finish?
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And once you're finished you say,
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"whew, it's over.
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It's over.
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I finished.
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But what i've done is not just good,
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It's very good.
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To be satisfied with what god
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Has allowed you to accomplish."
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I think that's what it's going to be like in heaven.
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There'll be those times that we rest from our labors,
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Those times that we're able to have
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True satisfaction in a job well done.
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And it's that rest that reminds us that,
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As important as our work is here and we'll be in heaven,
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There's more to life than working.
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Heaven will be a time of enjoying
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Perfect fellowship with one another.
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And that perfect relationship with god,
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We've always longed
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That's what we will be doing in that place called heaven.
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Aren't you ready to go? i am
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Let's just load up right now.
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What do you say?
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Not quite yet, but soon.
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God has a great indescribable future planned
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For those who love him.
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♪ music ♪
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As a result of this series, "a place called heaven,"
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We're gaining a much better picture of our eternal home.
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Now, i want to close today's program
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By sharing a note i received from clay.
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Ought to be a motivation for us
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Has given you a renewed sense of excitement
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For the magnificent place
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That god is preparing for his children.
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Another important question,
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Perhaps the most important question
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You could ever ask about heaven, and that is,
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Who will be in heaven?
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"a place called heaven."
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People say to me sometimes,
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"pastor, only god can declare who's going to be in heaven,
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Only god gets to make that decision."
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And i say, that is absolutely true.
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Only god can decide who is going to be into heaven.
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And he's made his decision public.
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Robert Jeffress - What Will We Do In Heaven?

February 22, 2026 | 27:29

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