David Jeremiah - Questions About Heaven

June 11, 2026 | 27:29

Sheila asks many of the popular questions about heaven as Dr. Jeremiah shares his views on the future and eternity.

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| David Jeremiah - Questions About Heaven | June 11, 2026

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Announcer: next on "life today," join sheila walsh and
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Dr. david jeremiah as they pull back the curtain, revealing the
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Mysteries of heaven by answering some of the most popular
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Questions people have.
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Dr. david jeremiah: and here's what i heard.
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I had a little girl write me a letter.
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She says, "i don't know why you keep asking, 'are animals
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In heaven?'"
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She said, "when jesus comes back at the end, he's riding on a
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White horse.
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And if horses are in heaven, dogs must be in heaven."
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Sheila walsh: amen.
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Dr. jeremiah: i'm not sure about cats, but i'm pretty sure
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About dogs.
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Sheila: hi, welcome to "life today," i'm sheila walsh.
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And you know, i've been sitting and reflecting on just the
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Goodness of god to allow me to be part of a ministry like this.
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And to be able to have walked side by side with them for so
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Long has been such a gift.
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But also being able to interview so many incredible people.
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And, you know, inevitably, we always end up with like one or
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Two people that are just like, oh gosh, our favorites.
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And for me, that's always gonna be dr. david jeremiah.
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I've learned so much from him.
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His study bible is one of my absolute favorites.
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But i had him on the show not so long ago, and his book was,
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"revealing the mysteries of heaven."
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And what i love about it is that there's some questions that you
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Think, "i wonder if this happens in heaven, or i wonder if that
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Happens in heaven."
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But you never know quite who to ask.
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Well, i've found the person and i've found the book.
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It was wonderful having him here in studio, and i thought you
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Might enjoy watching again.
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And if you have a dog, you wanna stay tuned.
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Watch this.
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Sheila: so, i just wanna say welcome to the show, i'm
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So glad.
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This is an incredible, incredible book.
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Dr. jeremiah: thank you.
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Sheila: what made you write down everything about heaven?
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Dr. jeremiah: you know, i've been doing this pastor thing for
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A long time.
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And you get some questions about heaven.
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You begun to realize that people don't really know very much
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About heaven.
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I've said, you know, people spend more time planning a
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Two-week vacation than they do getting ready to where they're
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Gonna spend eternity.
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And so, all these questions started accumulating.
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And they were questions i had never seen in a book where
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People had--so, i thought i'd write a book on all the
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Questions nobody else is asking about heaven, and that's what
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We did.
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Sheila: but it's fantastic.
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I mean, i even put a little thing out on facebook asking
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People, "if you could ask dr. jeremiah anything about heaven,
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You know, what would it be?"
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And one of them is actually in your first chapter, like, is
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Heaven a real physical place?
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Dr. jeremiah: yes, on the authority of the lord jesus
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Christ himself, he said, "in my father's house are many
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Mansions, and i go to prepare a place for you."
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Not a dream, or a figment of your imagination, or whatever.
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Heaven is a place.
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Sheila: how many heavens are there?
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I always thought there was two, but i stand corrected.
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Dr. jeremiah: no, there's three heavens according to the bible.
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In fact, when paul was caught up to heaven, he said he was caught
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Up to the third heaven.
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So, we have to figure out what the other two are.
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And i--the first heaven is the atmosphere where, you know, we
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Fly our planes in the atmosphere.
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Then there's a celestial heaven, and that's where the stars and
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The moon and the sun are.
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And then the third heaven is above that and that's where
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God is.
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Sheila: any time people talk about heaven, they point upward.
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Do we know that heaven's north?
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Dr. jeremiah: well, that's a big deal.
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I remember when i was working on that somebody said, "well, yeah,
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But north is different depending on what part of the world
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You're in."
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But what i know from the bible, ephesians says that he ascended
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To us.
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And over and over in the gospels we read that jesus came down.
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So, heaven is up, we know that.
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Sheila: what--for someone who dies before the rapture, where
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Are they at the moment?
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Dr. jeremiah: well, you know, that's a really
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Important question.
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That's one that's most often asked, sheila, because
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Especially when people lose somebody they love, it's very
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Confusing to them because they hear that they've gone to
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Heaven, but then they go to a funeral and they see the body
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And they go put the body in the grave and they don't understand.
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But the scriptures are very clear.
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Here's the best way to say that.
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The bible says, "absent from the body, present with the lord."
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In other words, when we die, our body goes in the grave, and our
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Soul and our spirit go to be with god.
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In the resurrection, those two commodities are going to be
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Joined together again.
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But when we die, our body goes in the grave.
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So, it is true, when you lose a loved one, if you're a christian
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And you go to the funeral, your brother, sister, mom, or dad,
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They're not there.
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Just the house they lived in while they were here.
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Sheila: in regards to the rapture, what happens to those
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Of us who are here on earth at that point and what happens to
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Those who've already died in christ?
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Dr. jeremiah: all right, one of the things that's really
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Misunderstood about that is that only the people who died first
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Get a makeover.
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You know, everybody gets a makeover.
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The bible says that we will be changed to be like the lord and
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Those who die first before christ comes back they're in the
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Grave, they actually take precedence over everybody else.
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Paul wrote to the thessalonians, he says, "i don't want you to be
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Ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, for we
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Shall not precede them."
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In other words, they're gonna go up first.
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And on--the bible tells us on the way up, they're gonna be
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Changed like unto the lord jesus christ and his
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Resurrection body.
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Over in philippians, we're told that those of us who are alive
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And remain, we're gonna get that change too on the way.
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So, i think the chapter in my book was the extreme makeover.
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Everybody's always spending so much money.
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One day it's all gonna be done and done right, and we won't
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Even need the makeup artist that can help us get ready for
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This show.
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They'll be out of business.
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Sheila: i'm pretty sure they do know.
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Dr. jeremiah: yes, we do.
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Sheila: so, with my mom and dad who have both passed, will they
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Go ahead of me to heaven?
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Dr. jeremiah: you know, here's the beauty of that.
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I don't think they will see the ultimate heaven in any
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Precedence over us.
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In other words, the bible says that those of us who are alive
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And remain shall be caught up together with them.
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Who are them?
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The ones who've already died.
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And then we will be ushered into ultimate heaven together.
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My mom and dad are in heaven, but they won't see heaven as we
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Will until we all see it together.
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Sheila: but that's, i mean, that's marvelous.
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It's just marvelous.
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One of the questions i got on facebook, and i totally
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Understood it because i used to think this myself.
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This girl said, "i'm glad i'm going to heaven because it's
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Better than the alternative.
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But what are we gonna do for all those millions of years?
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Will we be bored?"
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Dr. jeremiah: oh, everybody, you know, that's the ancient reason
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Why people, you know, you hear guys, i've witnessed to so many
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Guys who say, "i'm gonna go and i'm--i'd rather be with my
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Drinking buddies and all that, you know?
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I'm going where my friends are."
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And that's such an ignorant thing to say.
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But heaven is not gonna be boring, and i'm gonna tell
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You why.
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First of all, god isn't boring.
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God would never create a place for those he loves that would be
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Boring for eternity.
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And believe it or not, you and i are not gonna be boring because
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Before we get there we're gonna be changed.
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And when we get there, heaven will be a place where we serve.
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The bible tells us his servants will serve him.
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It's a place where incredible worship is gonna take place.
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We're going to have assignments to rule and reign just like in
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The millennium.
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And heaven will be a time where we can serve as long as we want
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And we'll never be tired.
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Sheila: gosh, isn't that amazing?
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Dr. jeremiah: isn't that something?
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Sheila: that's beautiful.
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Will we recognize one another?
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Dr. jeremiah: absolutely.
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We know that, for instance, on the mount of transfiguration,
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When those three guys showed up from a different world they were
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Known, everybody knew who they were.
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When jesus came out of the grave, he was in his
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Resurrection body and mary knew him after a few moments, she
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Knew him by his voice more than anything else, so.
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Yeah, there's--you know, if we can't remember, we aren't who
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We--we aren't a person.
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When we get to heaven, we'll remember the people, we'll know
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Them, we'll be known by them, and we'll know them as we have
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Never known them before.
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Sheila: somebody asked me a question that was
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Very heart-stirring.
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She said, "i have miscarried two children.
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Will they be in heaven?
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Will i know they're my children?"
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Dr. jeremiah: well, let's just stop and think about that for a
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Moment, sheila.
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If you believe, as we do, that a child becomes a person at the
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Moment of conception, then that person is as viable a person as
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Anybody else.
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And if that child dies before it is actually born into the world,
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It is still a living person, and that child, because it obviously
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Didn't have a chance to understand the gospel, will be
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Covered under the blood of christ and it will be in heaven.
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We--most people don't know this about us.
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We have four children, but we have five because we had a
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Miscarriage right at the beginning.
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It was very, very--people don't think that's a big deal.
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I can tell you that's a big deal, especially if you haven't
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Got any other children.
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And we had wanted children for quite a few years before we
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Had them.
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Then all of a sudden we got them all at once.
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But this baby was miscarried.
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I'll never forget it because it--we miscarried that baby on
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The day that my grandfather died and i had to make the decision
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As to whether to go to the funeral of my grandfather or
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Take donna to the hospital.
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And that baby is there.
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We've never met that baby.
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We don't know that baby, but someday we will.
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Sheila: when christian was 2-years-old, i miscarried, and i
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Can't wait to think that one day that i'll get to meet that
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Little one.
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What's the difference between the great white throne and the
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Judgment seat of christ?
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Dr. jeremiah: well, the difference is a lot of years,
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For one thing.
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The great white throne judgment doesn't happen until the end of
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The thousand-year reign of christ, the millennium.
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The judgment seat of christ happens immediately after the
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Rapture, and it's for christians only.
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Here's the best way to remember that.
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The judgment seat of christ is a place where no unsaved people
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Will ever be.
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When you stand before the judge at the judgment seat of christ,
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It's not to be judged for your sin, but be--to be judged for
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The works you've done in your flesh as a believer.
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And it's not even a judgment for good and bad as much as it is
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The rewards are given and it's how have we served the lord?
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Have we served him with all of our hearts?
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The great white throne judgment takes place clear at the end of
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The millennium, at the end of the thousand-year reign.
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And that's a place where no christians will ever be.
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Only unbelievers will be there, and that will be a very sober
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Time in the history of the world.
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Sheila: what are some of the rewards that--because i often
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Think there's so many people out there who get very little
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Recognition on this earth, but have faithfully served christ
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All their lives.
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Dr. jeremiah: and do you know what's really
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Interesting, sheila?
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A lot of christians i meet think that rewards shouldn't happen,
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That you should just serve jesus and not really care about
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A reward.
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But the problem with that is rewards are everywhere in
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The scripture.
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And so, god knows a lot more about us than we think he does,
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That we are motivated by rewards.
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There's a soul winner's reward.
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There's a reward for those who love the appearing of the lord
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Jesus christ.
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There's five rewards that i know of and i've written about them
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In the book that we're candidates for, most of us.
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And if we serve the lord with a pure heart and a desire to honor
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Him, one day we're gonna get these rewards and the beauty of
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It is we won't keep them long.
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The bible says we'll take them and throw them--and cast them
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At the feet of jesus as our way of worshiping him.
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Here's something that i taught a couple weeks ago that
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Shocked everybody.
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I've been doing a little series called "what you may not know
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About jesus."
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And here's what you may not know.
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When in heaven, jesus is in his body.
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He went up in his resurrection body and the angel said, "this
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Same jesus who was taken up from you will come in like manner."
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And so, that means he is in heaven right now in
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His humanity.
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And i remember reading, "god loves humanity so much that he
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Allows his own son to live in humanity at the right hand of
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The father."
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So, when i pray today, and i ask god to help me through jesus
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Christ, i'm actually talking to jesus, who is still in his
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Humanity, even though he is in heaven.
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Isn't that amazing? isn't that amazing?
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Now, that's something most people don't know about jesus.
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Sheila: no, and will he still be marked with the marks
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Of crucifixion?
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Dr. jeremiah: absolutely, that's what's so beautiful about that.
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When you see him, you'll be able to see the scars in his hands,
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And in his feet, and the marks of your redemption will always
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Be available for you to know what he did so that you could
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Be there.
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Sheila: why do you think he chose to rise with those marks?
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I mean, he could have left those behind in the tomb.
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Why do you think he kept the only scars in heaven will be the
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Scars of christ?
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Dr. jeremiah: that's right.
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And, you know, he understands how desperate we need to be
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Reminded of this.
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In fact, isn't that what communion is about, "this do in
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Remembrance of me."
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And so, those scars will always be there as a motivation for
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Worship, i think.
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When we see his scars, we will worship him as never before.
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Sheila: i got a question, actually it was just last
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Weekend, where i was out.
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When a young guy, probably, i don't know, 14 or 15, said,
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"when i gave my life to christ, my mom told me that my name was
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Written in the lamb's book of life.
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Can anything ever erase that?"
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Dr. jeremiah: christians cannot be erased from the lamb's book
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Of life.
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It's impossible for that to happen, i mean, somebody
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Probably wanna argue with me about that, but i believe that
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When you commit your life to jesus christ, he says, "and i
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Give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish."
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Now when--the lamb's book of life is an interesting little
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Story because it's different than most people think.
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In the roman and greek cities, bible days, they had a register
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Of the people who lived in the city.
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They were in the city's registry.
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If they were convicted of a horrible crime, or if they
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Committed murder, their names would be taken out of the list.
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So, the book of life in the new testament, the book of
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Revelation, basically it's a book in which every name is
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Written of everybody who was ever born, and if they get to
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The end of their life and they haven't received jesus christ,
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Their name is removed from the book of life.
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That's different than most people think, but that's what
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The scripture teaches.
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Sheila: in revelation 21, there's always been something
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I've never quite understood.
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It says that, "the sea will also be gone."
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Will there be no sea?
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Dr. jeremiah: you know what? you and my wife.
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Donna loves the ocean, and one day when i preached on that, she
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Said, "you know what?
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I was all excited about heaven until you told me there wasn't
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Gonna be any ocean."
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Well, i don't pretend to know all what was in god's mind
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For that.
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But we need to remember there will be water in heaven.
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The bible says, "there's a river that flows from the throne of
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God all the way to--and it's bordered by the 12 trees of the
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Fruit trees, and it's a beautiful scene when you read
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About it.
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But, you know, 75% of our world is ocean water, salt water.
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And salt is a preservative.
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When you get to heaven, you don't need that anymore.
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When you get to heaven, you don't need the preservative in
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The ecological system.
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God's ecological system will be perfect.
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And there will be water, and i'm sure you and donna will be able
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To find a place on the shore.
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Sheila: to paddle.
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Dr. jeremiah: yeah, right.
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Sheila: okay, here's the question i really want the
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Answer to: are my dogs going to heaven?
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Dr. jeremiah: are your dogs going to heaven?
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Well, you know, i gotta tell you something.
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We put that on the internet at turning point.
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It got more hits than anything we have ever done.
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Do animals go to heaven?
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And here's what i heard.
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I had a little girl write me a letter.
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She says, "i don't know why you keep asking, 'are animals
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In heaven?'"
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She said, "when jesus comes back at the end, he's riding on a
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White horse.
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And if horses are in heaven, dogs must be in heaven."
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I'm not sure about cats, but i'm pretty sure about dogs.
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Sheila: well, apologies to all you cat lovers.
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No, i know he didn't mean that.
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If my dogs are gonna be there, i'm pretty sure your cats will
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Be there too.
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I mean, god created everything.
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In the beginning when you think about it, when god and in the
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Garden of eden, everything was there and it was all perfect.
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And if that's what god intended then, i know that's gonna be
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Part of our new life.
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But it's such a wonderful privilege to work with someone
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Like dr. jeremiah, who's spent his life teaching the word
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Of god.
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Sometimes when i've been working with him, i've asked to look at
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His sermon notes and he literally writes out word by
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Word, every message.
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And i have just personally learned so much.
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So, i'm gonna tell you how you can get hold of his book,
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"revealing the mysteries of heaven."
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But first of all, i want to ask you if you will help us
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With something.
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We all look forward to that day when we're finally home, when we
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Finally see jesus face to face.
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But there's a lot of people right now on this earth who are
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Struggling, who are hurting, who are in pain.
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And for those of us who know the lord, who've been blessed by his
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Gift of life and a future, we have the privilege of making a
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Difference in their lives right now.
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This is something that's so important to us here at life,
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That we hear the high--the cries of the hungry, and we
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Respond in jesus's name.
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There's nothing worse than
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Hearing the stories of some of these mums and the last things
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That their children have said to them.
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I remember one of the first women that i met and her--she
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Knew that her son was sick and she tried to take him to
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A clinic.
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And, but by the time they got there, her son had
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Already passed.
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Another woman was carrying her son back home, and he asked her
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To put him down.
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And she put her son down and he was gone.
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And the thing that is fascinating to me is that
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There's situations in the world right now, we hear about it on
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The news every day, that are, that there's things that we
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Think, "there's nothing i can do about that."
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There's wars, and rumors of wars, and things going on, on so
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Many levels, and we think, "i can't impact that in any way."
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This is a war that you and i can win.
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This war on poverty.
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Poverty is not god's will.
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It is not god's will that any child should have to say to
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Their mum, "mama, i'm going," when a child recognizes in
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Themselves that they don't have the strength to breathe one
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Last breath.
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But this is something that you and i can do something about.
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We can change this right now, if we all determine together to
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Do something.
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Erwin lutzer: hi, this is pastor lutzer.
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Perhaps as you look at the religions of the world, you ask
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Yourself, why is it that jesus is the only way to the father?
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After all, there are lots of religious options
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To choose from.
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Well, the answer is simply this, that other religions have gurus
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And prophets, they have teachers, but what they don't
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Have is a savior who can actually forgive our sins, clean
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Us off, so to speak, and present us to god the father as perfect.
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Jesus is the only one who has those qualifications.
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He was born sinless.
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All the other teachers have sin and they admit to their
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Sinfulness and their failures.
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Jesus was absolutely perfect.
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And the good news is when we are falling into sin, so to speak,
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We need someone who's not a part of our predicament, and jesus is
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Not a part of our predicament.
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He became one of us in the flesh, but absolutely sinless to
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Take us to the father.
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I want you to think about the claims of jesus that we hear so
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Much about and we forget how significant they are.
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Lenin believed that if communism were to overtake russia, there
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Would be bread on every table.
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But he never had the nerve to say, "i am the bread of life.
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He who comes to me shall never hunger.
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He who believes in me shall never thirst."
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You know, freud actually believed that psychotherapy
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Would help people with all of their ailments.
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We can debate whether or not that came to pass, but freud
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Would have never had the nerve to say, "peace i leave with you.
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My peace i give unto you.
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Not as the world gives, give i unto you.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
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Imagine that, "my peace i give to you."
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One other example, krishna believed, of course, in
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Reincarnation, but he never had the nerve to say what jesus
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Said.
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"i am the resurrection and the life.
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He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
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And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
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You say, "well, pastor lutzer, i have some doubts about the
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Christian faith.
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I even have some doubts about jesus."
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Would you come to him as you are with your doubts?
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I can assure you he can handle them.
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There is a song that i like, and one of the stanzas
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Says these words.
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"just as i am, though tossed about, with many a conflict,
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Many a doubt.
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Fightings within and fears without.
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Oh, lamb of god, i come, i come."
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No wonder jesus said, "no man comes to the father but by me."
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Come to the savior as you are and you'll discover that he's as
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Good as his word.
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God bless you. you have a good day all day.
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And deed.
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We are forever grateful to everyone who has joined us in
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Our mission of providing water to the history, food to the
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Hungry, shelter to the orphan, and meeting the various needs of
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Those who are struggling.
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Our ministry to the lost and hurting is only made possible
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Because of the prayers and generous gifts of our friends
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And partners who provide consistent, faithful support.
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Best of all, you'll be blessed to know that your ongoing gift
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Is helping make possible the outreaches of life.
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Your monthly support will help us continue to bring god's love,
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Hope, and healing to a world in need, one life at a time.
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Learn to eat and live god's way.
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Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use
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Unless explicitly stipulated by the donor.
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David Jeremiah - Questions About Heaven

June 11, 2026 | 27:29

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