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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Will I Go To Heaven?

July 31, 2025 | S25 E182 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Will I Go To Heaven?
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Will I Go To Heaven? | July 31, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: we think heaven is for good people,
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  • Hell is for bad people.
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  • Wrong. heaven is for forgiven people.
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  • In fact, hell was not created for bad people; hell was created
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  • For the devil and his angels or demons according to jesus, and
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  • God doesn't want any person to spend eternity separated from
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  • Him in this place called hell.
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: so i heard a story about a man who went down
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  • To florida because it was so cold in chicago, and his wife
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  • Was going to join him a little bit later.
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  • And after he landed he wanted to shoot his wife a quick text and
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  • Let her know that he arrived safely, but she had just changed
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  • Her phone number.
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  • And he committed it to memory, but as it turns out he got one
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  • Digit wrong.
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  • So he sends this message to his wife.
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  • Well, actually it didn't go to his wife at all, it went to an
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  • Elderly woman whose husband had just died and he happened to be
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  • A pastor.
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  • And so the family was gathered there in the home and suddenly
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  • They hear the elderly woman shriek, and they run in and
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  • They grab her phone and read this message on it:
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  • "dearest wife, just checked in.
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  • Everything is prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
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  • P.s., it sure is hot down here."
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  • Yes, that's one of those preacher jokes.
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  • Preacher jokes are a lot like dad jokes, aren't they?
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  • Kind of lame, mildly amusing.
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  • But sooner or later we're all going to enter in
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  • To the afterlife.
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  • Death is no respecter of persons.
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  • The rich and the poor, the famous, the unknown,
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  • Death is the great equalizer.
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  • This is something that we have to think about.
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  • I know it's not the most pleasant of subjects, but i
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  • Believe as a christian we can face it head-on without fear and
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  • Know that we have hope in the afterlife.
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  • We need to think biblically, not emotionally.
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  • That's what this series is about, is we're getting you
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  • Grounded theologically so you know what is true.
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  • Most americans believe in an afterlife, 84%; 82% of americans
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  • Believe in heaven, 70% believe in hell.
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  • That always makes me laugh, that less people believe in hell than
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  • Believe in heaven; but both are found in the bible.
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  • One thing is clear.
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  • We'll all die and enter the afterlife because ecclesiastes 3
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  • Says, "there's a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to
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  • Be born and a time to die."
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  • Hebrews 9:27 says, "it's appointed unto a man once to die
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  • And then comes the judgment."
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  • Statisticians tell us that 3 people die every second,
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  • 180 every minute, 11,000 every hour.
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  • That means that every day 250,000 people
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  • Enter in to the afterlife.
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  • This is why the psalmist reminds us in psalm 139, "lord, teach us
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  • To number our days and realize how few they are, and help us to
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  • Spend them as we should."
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  • The story is told from history that philip of macedon, who was
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  • The father of alexander the great, had someone follow him
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  • Everywhere he went, and this was his job.
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  • He was to tell philip every day, "philip, you will die."
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  • Wow, what a job.
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  • But it was just something that kept philip grounded, reminding
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  • Him that eternity was waiting.
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  • So let's read now the words of jesus about the afterlife here
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  • In john chapter 5.
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  • I'm going to read verses 25 to 29.
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  • Jesus says, "i assure you the time is coming.
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  • Indeed it is here now, when the dead will hear my voice,
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  • The voice of the son of god.
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  • And those who listen will live.
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  • The father has life in himself, and he has granted that same
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  • Life-giving power to his son and has given him authority to judge
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  • Everyone because he is the son of man.
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  • Don't be surprised.
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  • Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves
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  • Will hear the voice of god's son, and they'll rise again.
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  • Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life,
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  • And those who have continued in evil will rise
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  • To experience judgment."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Three big truths pop out of these verses.
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  • Number one, there is a final judgment; number two, there are
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  • Two destinations beyond the grave; and number three,
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  • The destination we enter into depends
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  • On our relationship with god.
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  • Let's start with point number one.
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  • There is a final judgment.
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  • In acts 17:30 peter says, "in these times of ignorance god has
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  • Overlooked, but now he commands men everywhere to repent because
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  • He's appointed a day in which he will judge the world
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  • In righteousness."
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  • So the fact that there is a future judgment reminds us that
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  • God is fair because life is filled with injustices,
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  • Isn't it?
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  • You just read a news feed and the horrible things that happen
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  • Every single day and it breaks your heart.
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  • People seem to get away with the worst crimes imaginable,
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  • And we think, "how can that happen?"
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  • Well, they're not going to get away with it.
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  • They may escape the long arm of the law, but they will not
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  • Escape the long arm of the lord.
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  • God is in control, and he keeps very accurate records.
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  • Colossians 3:25 says, "the wrongdoer will be paid back for
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  • The wrong he has done, and there's no partiality."
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  • Listen to this.
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  • Every wrong in the universe will ultimately be paid for.
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  • It will either be paid for by jesus christ when he died on the
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  • Cross and the offender repents and puts their faith in him,
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  • Or it will be paid for by the offender at the final judgment
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  • For those who do not put their faith in jesus for salvation.
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  • Point number two, there are two destinations beyond the grave:
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  • Heaven and hell.
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  • There's no purgatory.
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  • There's no stopovers.
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  • Aren't you glad of that?
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  • When i fly, i hate stopovers 'cause things happen.
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  • You get delayed.
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  • However, i did stop over in chicago on the way back
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  • From d.c. and i was very excited because
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  • I wanted to get a chicago dog.
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  • You know what i'm talking about?
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  • The hot dog.
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  • They have a very unusual way of doing hot dogs in chicago.
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  • So that was the one highlight.
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  • I have a stopover, but i'm going to get a chicago hot dog.
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  • But generally i don't like stopovers.
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  • I like to just get to where i'm going.
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  • Well, when we die as christians, there's no stopovers.
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  • Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
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  • Monopoly reference.
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  • You go straight into the presence of the lord.
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  • Isn't that good to know?
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  • Right into god's presence.
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  • The moment you close your eyes on earth,
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  • You open them in heaven.
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  • When you take your last breath on earth, you take your first
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  • Breath in heaven.
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  • It's so fast you could hardly even measure it.
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  • Paul writes in philippians 1:23, "i'm hard-pressed
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  • Between the two.
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  • I have a desire to depart and be with christ, which is far
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  • Better; but it's important for me to stay here with you."
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  • Why is heaven better than earth?
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  • Heaven is better than earth because all of my questions
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  • Will be answered.
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  • We all have questions in life.
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  • I do.
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  • I'll admit.
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  • Things that have happened to me in life that didn't
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  • Really make sense.
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  • Some of those things have been sorted out as i've gotten older.
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  • I'll look back and say, "oh, now i understand maybe why god
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  • Allowed that because this came out of it and this other thing
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  • Came out of it."
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  • But then there are other things that have happened to me that
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  • Make no sense to me at all, and we all have those questions.
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  • It reminds me of a mother who invited a bunch of people over
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  • To her house for a dinner party.
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  • And so it was a lot of work, more than she expected.
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  • And so it was time to have the food and she turned to her
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  • Little daughter and said, "honey, why don't you give
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  • Thanks for the meal?"
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  • And the little girl says, "well, mommy, i don't know what
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  • To say."
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  • And the mom said, "well, just pray what you hear mommy say."
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  • And the little girl said, "okay.
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  • 'dear god, why on earth did i invite all of these people over
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  • To my house for dinner,'" you know.
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  • So--but we have serious questions we want to ask god,
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  • And we'll know.
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  • One day we'll know.
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  • 1 corinthians 13:12 says, "now we see things imperfectly,
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  • Like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see
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  • Everything with perfect clarity.
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  • All that i know now is partial and incomplete, but then i will
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  • Know everything completely, just as god knows me completely."
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  • But the greatest thing of all, the reason that heaven is better
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  • Than earth is not just because i'm upgrading my dwelling place,
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  • Not just because my questions will be answered,
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  • But i'll be with christ.
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  • I'll be with christ. that's it.
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  • Again, as paul says, "i want to desire and be with christ,
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  • Which is far better."
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  • So what is heaven like?
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  • Short answer, amazing, awesome, better than anything
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  • You ever imagined.
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  • It's beyond your wildest dreams.
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  • But let's start with this.
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  • We need to be reminded that heaven is an actual place.
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  • Jesus said in john 14, "i've gone to prepare
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  • A place for you."
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  • Here's the problem with heaven.
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  • Well, let me restate that.
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  • Here's our problem with our understanding of heaven.
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  • There's no problem with heaven, but we have concepts of heaven
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  • That are really not based on scripture.
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  • They're based on tradition or they're based on things we've
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  • Seen in films or the way it's been depicted in religious art
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  • Where heaven is sort of this mystical place and there's
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  • Clouds and more clouds and people sitting around plucking
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  • Harps and little fat baby angels.
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  • I don't know where these came from.
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  • They're almost like cupids, you know, hovering above us,
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  • And we're thinking, "i don't know that i really want to go to
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  • That place."
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  • That's probably why science fiction writer isaac asimov
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  • Wrote these words, and i quote: "i don't believe in an 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, i think the boredom
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  • Of heaven would be even worse."
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  • End quote.
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  • Now, he was an atheist.
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  • I think he probably sees things a little differently now because
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  • He's died since he made that statement.
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  • But heaven is not boring.
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  • It's a real place for real people.
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  • So just think about places you've been to before.
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  • You're in a place right now.
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  • You're going to go to another place later.
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  • The bible uses different words or pictures to describe heaven.
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  • It's described as a paradise.
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  • You remember when jesus was hanging on the cross, it was the
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  • Thief crucified next to him who said to jesus,
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  • "lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
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  • And jesus said, "truly, truly, i say to you today
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  • You will be with me in," what?
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  • Paradise.
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  • Yeah. paradise.
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  • So he was reminding that man of the glory ahead.
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  • Paul writes of his own experience where he died and
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  • Went to heaven in 2 corinthians 12, and he says, "i know a man
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  • 14 years ago was seized by christ and swept into ecstasy
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  • To the heights of heaven.
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  • I know that this man was hijacked into paradise,
  • 00:12:15.611 --> 00:12:19.315
  • And he heard the unspeakable spoken but was forbidden
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  • To tell what he heard."
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  • So it's paradise.
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  • But then the bible describes heaven as a city.
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  • It doesn't say it's like a city, it says it is a city.
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  • Hebrews 13:14 says, "we're looking for a city
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  • That is to come."
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  • Hebrews 11:10 tells us that the city has god as both the
  • 00:12:38.033 --> 00:12:41.837
  • Architect and the builder.
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  • So i want you to think for a moment of cities you've been to.
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  • And what do you have in a city?
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  • Well, you have things to do.
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  • You have restaurants to go to.
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  • You have maybe a show to go see or you have other things
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  • That you plan on doing while you're there.
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  • Maybe you'll visit a museum or some other thing.
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  • So instead of thinking about a weird city of clouds with fat
  • 00:13:04.093 --> 00:13:08.597
  • Babies and wings, just think about cities you've been to.
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  • Certain cities have unique qualities to them.
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  • There's jerusalem.
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  • There's paris.
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  • There's norco.
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  • But in this city that we're going to go to there's no
  • 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.681
  • Crying, no one's going to mug you on the street, you don't
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  • Have to dodge cars, you don't have to look at urban decay.
  • 00:13:30.986 --> 00:13:35.791
  • It'll be like a perfect city.
  • 00:13:35.791 --> 00:13:39.295
  • So when you go to a city, maybe you love to go to this
  • 00:13:39.295 --> 00:13:42.464
  • Restaurant or you love this coffee place.
  • 00:13:42.464 --> 00:13:45.334
  • One of the first things i do when i go into a city is
  • 00:13:45.334 --> 00:13:47.503
  • I google for good coffee 'cause i want to have a
  • 00:13:47.503 --> 00:13:49.972
  • Proper cup of coffee.
  • 00:13:49.972 --> 00:13:52.074
  • So i'll find the good coffee, maybe talk to someone who's been
  • 00:13:52.074 --> 00:13:54.710
  • There before.
  • 00:13:54.710 --> 00:13:56.111
  • However, i do know people who if they recommend food or coffee
  • 00:13:56.111 --> 00:14:00.382
  • It's always great and i know other people who if
  • 00:14:00.382 --> 00:14:04.053
  • They recommend it it's literally the worst i've ever had,
  • 00:14:04.053 --> 00:14:07.189
  • And it takes a while to figure that out.
  • 00:14:07.189 --> 00:14:09.825
  • Because i'll say, "where should i eat?"
  • 00:14:09.825 --> 00:14:11.861
  • "eat here."
  • 00:14:11.861 --> 00:14:13.195
  • And i'll go eat there and i say, "that was a horrible meal.
  • 00:14:13.195 --> 00:14:15.164
  • What else?"
  • 00:14:15.164 --> 00:14:16.498
  • "well, go to this other place." and that's horrible, too.
  • 00:14:16.498 --> 00:14:18.033
  • So i know avoid the places they tell me to go to.
  • 00:14:18.033 --> 00:14:20.936
  • But then there's other people that'll give me a recommendation
  • 00:14:20.936 --> 00:14:23.439
  • And it's legit and it's always good.
  • 00:14:23.439 --> 00:14:27.476
  • So we're going to be enjoying ourselves in heaven.
  • 00:14:27.476 --> 00:14:30.946
  • Is that so hard to understand?
  • 00:14:30.946 --> 00:14:33.249
  • "will we go to concerts in heaven?"
  • 00:14:33.249 --> 00:14:35.084
  • Well, there's a lot of godly men and women that did concerts
  • 00:14:35.084 --> 00:14:39.521
  • On earth that maybe will do them in heaven.
  • 00:14:39.521 --> 00:14:41.390
  • Maybe you'll be out with some friends and someone says,
  • 00:14:41.390 --> 00:14:44.793
  • "we're going to go see 'handel's messiah' tonight.
  • 00:14:44.793 --> 00:14:47.029
  • In fact, handel will be there directing it."
  • 00:14:47.029 --> 00:14:49.431
  • "we're not going to go to that." "why?"
  • 00:14:49.431 --> 00:14:50.766
  • "we're going to go see johnny cash."
  • 00:14:50.766 --> 00:14:52.735
  • "really?" "oh yeah, he's doing a concert."
  • 00:14:52.735 --> 00:14:54.069
  • "the man in black?"
  • 00:14:54.069 --> 00:14:55.404
  • "well, he's the man in white now, but still.
  • 00:14:55.404 --> 00:14:58.140
  • He's still good, right. it's going to be awesome."
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  • Think of it as a real place with real people
  • 00:15:01.176 --> 00:15:04.713
  • Where you do real things.
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  • It's a happy place.
  • 00:15:07.283 --> 00:15:09.151
  • I think that's hard for some people to understand, but heaven
  • 00:15:09.151 --> 00:15:12.688
  • Is a happy place.
  • 00:15:12.688 --> 00:15:14.690
  • The bible says, "in his presence there is fullness of joy, and on
  • 00:15:14.690 --> 00:15:18.093
  • His right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
  • 00:15:18.093 --> 00:15:21.830
  • The bible says there's joy in heaven over one sinner
  • 00:15:21.830 --> 00:15:25.501
  • That repents.
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  • That's heaven--quick glimpse of heaven.
  • 00:15:27.436 --> 00:15:31.240
  • Greg: hey, everybody. greg laurie here.
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  • You know, i just got a direct message from a young man who
  • 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:40.416
  • Contacted me on instagram and said, "i've accepted christ into
  • 00:15:40.416 --> 00:15:43.986
  • My life, but i'm doubting if he's really come into my life."
  • 00:15:43.986 --> 00:15:47.289
  • Okay, so let's just talk about that for a moment.
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  • When you become a christian, and by that i mean when you ask god
  • 00:15:50.893 --> 00:15:54.363
  • To forgive you of your sins and you invite jesus christ to be
  • 00:15:54.363 --> 00:15:57.800
  • Your savior and lord, christ comes and takes residence
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  • In your heart.
  • 00:16:01.704 --> 00:16:03.038
  • The bible says, "these things we write to you that believe
  • 00:16:03.038 --> 00:16:05.607
  • On the name of the son of god that you may know
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  • That you have eternal life."
  • 00:16:09.478 --> 00:16:10.980
  • It doesn't say that you may think that you have eternal life
  • 00:16:10.980 --> 00:16:14.783
  • Or that you may hope if god's in a really good mood
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  • You have eternal life.
  • 00:16:17.953 --> 00:16:19.288
  • No, you can know it because it's based not on what you did but
  • 00:16:19.288 --> 00:16:22.992
  • On what he did for you on the cross 2,000 years ago,
  • 00:16:22.992 --> 00:16:28.030
  • Paying for all of your sins and rising again from the dead.
  • 00:16:28.030 --> 00:16:31.867
  • Listen, the christian life is not a walk of feeling,
  • 00:16:31.867 --> 00:16:35.337
  • It's a walk of faith.
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  • The bible says the just shall live by faith.
  • 00:16:37.072 --> 00:16:40.509
  • One person defined the christian life as long obedience in
  • 00:16:40.509 --> 00:16:44.179
  • The same direction.
  • 00:16:44.179 --> 00:16:45.681
  • So don't base your belief that you're saved on your fluctuating
  • 00:16:45.681 --> 00:16:50.986
  • Emotions, base it on the word of god where god has made a promise
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  • To you.
  • 00:16:55.958 --> 00:16:57.292
  • Remember john 3:16 jesus said, "for god so loved the world he
  • 00:16:57.292 --> 00:17:01.030
  • Gave his only begotten son, and whosoever believes in him should
  • 00:17:01.030 --> 00:17:04.933
  • Not perish but have everlasting life."
  • 00:17:04.933 --> 00:17:07.603
  • Do you believe in jesus? let me define that.
  • 00:17:07.603 --> 00:17:10.105
  • The word believe can be translated trust in,
  • 00:17:10.105 --> 00:17:13.208
  • Cling to, rely on.
  • 00:17:13.208 --> 00:17:14.910
  • So it's not jesus plus good works, jesus plus religion,
  • 00:17:14.910 --> 00:17:19.348
  • Jesus plus anything.
  • 00:17:19.348 --> 00:17:20.849
  • It's jesus and jesus alone.
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  • If you trust in him and rely on him, you're good.
  • 00:17:22.951 --> 00:17:27.056
  • "whosoever believes in me," jesus says, "shall not perish
  • 00:17:27.056 --> 00:17:31.193
  • But have life everlasting."
  • 00:17:31.193 --> 00:17:33.562
  • Listen, you have god's word on it, and there's one thing god
  • 00:17:33.562 --> 00:17:36.965
  • Cannot do and that is lie.
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  • When god makes a promise, you can take it to the bank.
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  • So rejoice.
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  • If you've put your faith in christ, you're saved
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  • And you're safe.
  • 00:17:47.176 --> 00:17:48.544
  • Greg: what's the other destination?
  • 00:17:51.346 --> 00:17:52.915
  • That would be hell.
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  • Here's what jesus says.
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  • John 5:28, "the time is coming when the dead in their graves
  • 00:17:56.585 --> 00:18:00.289
  • Will hear the voice of god's son.
  • 00:18:00.289 --> 00:18:01.890
  • They'll rise again.
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  • Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life.
  • 00:18:03.325 --> 00:18:06.328
  • Those who have continued evil--in evil will rise
  • 00:18:06.328 --> 00:18:09.465
  • To experience judgment."
  • 00:18:09.465 --> 00:18:11.767
  • Now, just as there is a distorted view of heaven,
  • 00:18:11.767 --> 00:18:15.637
  • There is also a distorted view of hell starting with the devil.
  • 00:18:15.637 --> 00:18:20.576
  • We think the devil rules from hell.
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  • He sits on a throne.
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  • He has red skin, pointed ears, a pointed tail,
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  • A pitchfork, and a goatee.
  • 00:18:29.852 --> 00:18:31.820
  • He always has a goatee. right?
  • 00:18:31.820 --> 00:18:33.155
  • He has hooves, too.
  • 00:18:33.155 --> 00:18:34.656
  • Kind of a weird-looking guy.
  • 00:18:34.656 --> 00:18:36.258
  • Well, there's no biblical basis for any of that.
  • 00:18:36.258 --> 00:18:38.393
  • That's a caricature of satan that is not found in the pages
  • 00:18:38.393 --> 00:18:42.264
  • Of scripture.
  • 00:18:42.264 --> 00:18:44.266
  • "oh, hell's going to be a big party.
  • 00:18:44.266 --> 00:18:45.968
  • We'll be there and we'll party with all of our friends."
  • 00:18:45.968 --> 00:18:47.803
  • No.
  • 00:18:47.803 --> 00:18:49.304
  • Hell is not going to be a big party unless you'd like to have
  • 00:18:49.304 --> 00:18:51.507
  • Parties in a blast furnace.
  • 00:18:51.507 --> 00:18:54.610
  • Hell is a real place, and the bible speaks of it using
  • 00:18:54.610 --> 00:18:59.181
  • Different pictures of outer darkness and flames and this is
  • 00:18:59.181 --> 00:19:03.585
  • Something that--it's a horrible thing to consider.
  • 00:19:03.585 --> 00:19:07.623
  • And it is worth noting that jesus spoke of hell more than
  • 00:19:07.623 --> 00:19:11.827
  • All the other preachers of the bible put together.
  • 00:19:11.827 --> 00:19:15.964
  • We might say, "wow.
  • 00:19:15.964 --> 00:19:17.633
  • Well, why would he do that?
  • 00:19:17.633 --> 00:19:19.067
  • I thought jesus was loving."
  • 00:19:19.067 --> 00:19:20.602
  • Well, yeah, that--he speaks about it because he's loving.
  • 00:19:20.602 --> 00:19:23.872
  • He alone has seen it. he knows what hell looks like.
  • 00:19:23.872 --> 00:19:27.276
  • And the last thing he wants is any man
  • 00:19:27.276 --> 00:19:29.411
  • Or any woman created in his
  • 00:19:29.411 --> 00:19:31.213
  • Image to end up for all eternity in this place called hell.
  • 00:19:31.213 --> 00:19:35.317
  • We think heaven is for good people, hell is for bad people.
  • 00:19:35.317 --> 00:19:39.254
  • Wrong. heaven is for forgiven people.
  • 00:19:39.254 --> 00:19:43.125
  • In fact, hell was not created for bad people; hell was created
  • 00:19:43.125 --> 00:19:47.229
  • For the devil and his angels or demons according to jesus, and
  • 00:19:47.229 --> 00:19:52.734
  • God doesn't want any person to spend eternity separated from
  • 00:19:52.734 --> 00:19:56.705
  • Him in this place called hell.
  • 00:19:56.705 --> 00:19:59.408
  • Just as surely as heaven is a real place for real people,
  • 00:19:59.408 --> 00:20:02.477
  • Hell too is a real place for real people.
  • 00:20:02.477 --> 00:20:06.982
  • In luke 16 jesus gives us a behind-the-scenes look at hell.
  • 00:20:06.982 --> 00:20:12.621
  • He tells the story of two men who died the same day.
  • 00:20:12.621 --> 00:20:16.225
  • One was named lazarus, and he was a beggar and he was
  • 00:20:16.225 --> 00:20:19.561
  • Impoverished and he was starving to death and he spent his time
  • 00:20:19.561 --> 00:20:24.132
  • Outside of the palatial estate of a very wealthy man who
  • 00:20:24.132 --> 00:20:27.703
  • Flaunted his wealth.
  • 00:20:27.703 --> 00:20:29.771
  • And one day they both died and according to jesus lazarus went
  • 00:20:29.771 --> 00:20:34.009
  • Into abraham's bosom.
  • 00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:35.577
  • He went into this place of comfort, and the rich man went
  • 00:20:35.577 --> 00:20:40.148
  • Into a place of fire and judgment.
  • 00:20:40.148 --> 00:20:42.618
  • Now, understand the rich man didn't go to hell
  • 00:20:42.618 --> 00:20:45.387
  • Because he was a rich man.
  • 00:20:45.387 --> 00:20:46.788
  • He went there because he had no place for god in his life.
  • 00:20:46.788 --> 00:20:50.592
  • He worshiped his possessions instead of the lord, and there
  • 00:20:50.592 --> 00:20:54.696
  • He was suffering and he was conscious.
  • 00:20:54.696 --> 00:20:57.599
  • Now, i know the question that comes to our mind immediately
  • 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.068
  • Is, how could a god of love send people to hell?
  • 00:21:00.068 --> 00:21:02.437
  • Is that not an inconsistency on the part of god?
  • 00:21:02.437 --> 00:21:06.575
  • No, not at all.
  • 00:21:06.575 --> 00:21:08.043
  • He--again, as i said earlier, he did not create hell for people,
  • 00:21:08.043 --> 00:21:11.079
  • He created it for satan.
  • 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:13.081
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:21:13.081 --> 00:21:14.850
  • If a person ends up in hell, they're getting
  • 00:21:14.850 --> 00:21:17.386
  • What they actually wanted.
  • 00:21:17.386 --> 00:21:20.489
  • One person put it this way, and i quote: "people only get in the
  • 00:21:20.489 --> 00:21:23.825
  • Afterlife what they most wanted; either to have god as savior
  • 00:21:23.825 --> 00:21:27.863
  • And master, or to be their own saviors and masters.
  • 00:21:27.863 --> 00:21:31.867
  • Hell is simply one's freely-chosen
  • 00:21:31.867 --> 00:21:34.503
  • Path going on forever."
  • 00:21:34.503 --> 00:21:37.639
  • C.s. lewis put it this way, and i quote:
  • 00:21:37.639 --> 00:21:39.608
  • "there are only two kinds of people in the end:
  • 00:21:39.608 --> 00:21:42.744
  • Those who say to god, 'thy will be done,'
  • 00:21:42.744 --> 00:21:45.714
  • And those to whom god says in the end, 'thy will be done.'
  • 00:21:45.714 --> 00:21:50.218
  • All who are in hell choose it.
  • 00:21:50.218 --> 00:21:52.921
  • Without that self-choice, there could be no hell."
  • 00:21:52.921 --> 00:21:56.692
  • So literally if a person ends up in this place called hell, they
  • 00:21:56.692 --> 00:22:01.096
  • Have no one to blame but themselves.
  • 00:22:01.096 --> 00:22:03.799
  • They have to effectively climb over jesus to get there.
  • 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:08.236
  • He's done everything he can to get you into heaven.
  • 00:22:08.236 --> 00:22:12.074
  • He's died on the cross.
  • 00:22:12.074 --> 00:22:14.543
  • He's suffered and died for your--in your place.
  • 00:22:14.543 --> 00:22:16.111
  • He's paid the price for the sins we've committed.
  • 00:22:16.111 --> 00:22:19.548
  • He literally faced hell on earth so we could be with him
  • 00:22:19.548 --> 00:22:24.152
  • In heaven.
  • 00:22:24.152 --> 00:22:25.921
  • He entered the darkness so we could walk in the light.
  • 00:22:25.921 --> 00:22:29.758
  • So it's our choice if we end up there.
  • 00:22:29.758 --> 00:22:33.228
  • So that brings us to an interesting thing i read about
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  • The most commonly-asked questions from people who are in
  • 00:22:36.665 --> 00:22:42.304
  • Hospice care and know they're going to die soon.
  • 00:22:42.304 --> 00:22:44.940
  • They always ask these questions: "what's going to happen to me
  • 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:48.176
  • After i die, is there really a god, and will i be going
  • 00:22:48.176 --> 00:22:52.481
  • To heaven?"
  • 00:22:52.481 --> 00:22:54.116
  • Let me answer those questions.
  • 00:22:54.116 --> 00:22:55.650
  • "what's going to happen to me after i die?"
  • 00:22:55.650 --> 00:22:57.552
  • Your body will go into the ground.
  • 00:22:57.552 --> 00:22:59.388
  • Your soul will enter the afterlife.
  • 00:22:59.388 --> 00:23:02.724
  • One of my granddaughters asked me a while ago,
  • 00:23:02.724 --> 00:23:05.026
  • "papa, why do we have to die?
  • 00:23:05.026 --> 00:23:08.230
  • Why can't we just float up to heaven?"
  • 00:23:08.230 --> 00:23:11.166
  • I thought that's a good question, isn't it?
  • 00:23:11.166 --> 00:23:13.502
  • The answer is because our first parents sinned, adam and eve.
  • 00:23:13.502 --> 00:23:17.572
  • Sin entered the world and it infected the whole planet,
  • 00:23:17.572 --> 00:23:22.811
  • But jesus died on the cross for our sin and rose again
  • 00:23:22.811 --> 00:23:27.349
  • From the dead.
  • 00:23:27.349 --> 00:23:29.050
  • And we no longer have to be afraid because he said,
  • 00:23:29.050 --> 00:23:31.153
  • "i'm the resurrection and the life.
  • 00:23:31.153 --> 00:23:33.054
  • He that believes in me though he were dead yet shall he live and
  • 00:23:33.054 --> 00:23:35.690
  • Whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
  • 00:23:35.690 --> 00:23:39.661
  • I reminded her of a time when i was walking down the beach with
  • 00:23:39.661 --> 00:23:42.397
  • Her and some of the other kids and i stepped on a bee and i
  • 00:23:42.397 --> 00:23:46.468
  • Cried like a little girl.
  • 00:23:46.468 --> 00:23:49.104
  • It hurt.
  • 00:23:49.104 --> 00:23:50.906
  • And so i reminded her that when jesus died on the cross he
  • 00:23:50.906 --> 00:23:55.677
  • Effectively took the sting of death away.
  • 00:23:55.677 --> 00:23:59.080
  • He absorbed it in our place.
  • 00:23:59.080 --> 00:24:00.982
  • The bible says, "o death, where is your sting?
  • 00:24:00.982 --> 00:24:03.018
  • O grave, where is your victory?"
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  • Question number two ask the people who are in hospice care
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  • And are facing death, "is there really a god?"
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  • Well, you're going to find out, and you need to answer
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  • That question now.
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  • Heard about a russian cosmonaut who actually went to space.
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  • He was an atheist and he actually said after he came
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  • Back, "when i went into space, i didn't encounter god."
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  • If he would have taken his helmet off in space, he would
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  • Have encountered god.
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  • I'll tell you that.
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  • Well, you don't want to wait until the afterlife
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  • To find out if there's a god.
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  • You can find that out right here right now because obviously
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  • He loves you and he has a plan for your life,
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  • And that is why jesus came.
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  • Now, the big question, "will i go to heaven?"
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  • Well, that's up to you.
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  • "really?" oh, yeah.
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  • The invitations in the bible are clear god wants you in heaven.
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  • "whosoever will, let him come.
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  • Whoever is thirsty, let him come and drink of the water
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  • Of life freely."
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  • Invitation after invitation.
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  • Jesus says, "come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
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  • Laden, and i will give you rest."
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  • Revelation says, "and the spirit and the bride say,
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  • 'come. let him that is thirsty come.'"
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  • "come, come," the lord says to us.
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  • But we don't have to come.
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  • We don't have to go to him.
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  • We can say no and then that will determine where we
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  • Will spend the afterlife.
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  • You need to admit you're a sinner and ask christ to come
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  • Into your life and he will forgive you of your sin and you
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  • Can know you will go to heaven.
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  • Let me close by asking this.
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  • Am i talking to somebody right now that is wondering, "will i
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  • Go to heaven when i die?"
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  • If you don't have the answer to that, if you can't say with
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  • Certainty, "i know i will," don't you think that's the most
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  • Important issue in all of life?
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem.
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  • We're separated from god by our sin because we've all broken
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  • His commandments.
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  • But the good news is, is 2,000 years ago god sent his son
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  • Jesus christ to die on the cross for your sin and then
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  • To rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did god in heaven has heard you,
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  • And i want to send you
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  • A new testament to start reading.
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  • Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises" by greg laurie
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  • Is designed to help you see jesus as the centerpiece,
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  • The star, and the focus of revelation.
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  • With this eminently practical guide,
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  • You can experience the blessing promised to those who read,
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  • Hear, and keep the words of this prophetic book.
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  • After all, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our brains,
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  • But to enlarge our hearts.
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  • Request "revelation" by greg laurie when you give today.
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