Some Easy Questions
December 31, 2020
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- ROBERT MORRIS: Revelation 6,and you could put a marker
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- at Revelation 21.
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- It'd just be a few pagesto the right.
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- This week's title is,"Some Easy Questions."
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- All right?
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- We did a tough question,now we're gonna do some
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- easy questions about heaven,and I'm actually gonna answer
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- some easy questions aboutheaven, and a bonus question.
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- All right?
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- And I'm gonna go aheadand answer
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- the bonus question now,because I get asked this a lot.
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- People will say, "Pastor,will my pets be in heaven?"
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- My answer is, yours will,but mine won't.
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- All of minewill go to hell, so.
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- From hell they came,to hell they shall return.
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- That's personally my...well, I take that back.
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- Actually, I had one thatwill probably get to heaven,
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- because although it lived to be12 years old on this earth,
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- it never reached the ageof accountability.
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- It never knew the differencebetween right and wrong,
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- where to poopand where not to.
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- So anyway, that one'llprobably make it.
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- The Bible does say though,just to help some of you,
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- because I know this isactually an important question
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- for some of you,that animals will be in heaven.
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- "The lion and the lamb shalllie down together", and so,
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- there are referencesto animals in heaven,
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- so hopefully that's comforting.
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- Although again, those of youthat had some from hell,
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- they will not be there,so don't worry about that.
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- All right!
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- Revelation 6, only three verseswe're going to read,
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- and there's so much truthin these three verses,
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- it's just gonna be incredible.
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- We'll put other verses in,but let's begin
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- with these three.
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- Revelation 6:9, "When He openedthe fifth seal,
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- I saw under the altar the soulsof those who had been slain
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- for the word of Godand for their testimony
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- which they held.
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- And they cried with a loudvoice, saying, "How long,
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- O Lord, holy and true,until You judge and avenge
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- our blood on thosewho dwell on the earth?"
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- Then a white robe was givento each of them, and it was
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- said to them that they shouldrest a little while longer,
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- until both the numberof their fellow servants
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- and their brethren,who would be killed
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- as they were, was completed."
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- All right, here's the firstquestion we're gonna answer.
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- Will we have bodiesin heaven?
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- Will we have bodiesin heaven?
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- You know, people havemisconceptions
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- that we're gonna float aroundon clouds,
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- we're gonna play harps,we're gonna eat grapes.
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- But some people think, well,we're not gonna have bodies.
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- We're gonna be like air,we're gonna be like a wisp
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- of smoke or something.
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- But, let me just ask youa very simple question,
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- and then I'll give youa Scripture to show you
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- exactly that wewill have bodies.
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- But a very simple questionis, why did He give robes
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- to them if theydidn't have bodies?
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- And by the way,it said there was given
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- "to each of them" a robe.
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- I think it's acustom-made robe.
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- I don't think that it isa one size doesn't fit all,
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- X-rated hospital gown thatdoesn't close in the back.
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- I think it's a good,custom robe.
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- 1 Corinthians 15:47-49 say,"The first man was
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- of the earth", this is speakingof Adam, "made of dust.
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- The second man", Jesus,"is the Lord from heaven.
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- As was the man of dust,so also are those who are made
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- of dust."
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- In other words,Adam had an earthly body,
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- we have an earthly body.
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- "And as is the heavenly Man,so also are those
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- who are heavenly.
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- And as we have bornethe image of the man of dust,
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- we shall also bear the imageof the heavenly Man."
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- In other words,Jesus is our example.
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- He had an earthly body.
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- He got tired, He got hungry,and that body actually suffered
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- and died a physical death,but He was resurrected
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- with a heavenly body,and that heavenly body
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- walked on the earth,that heavenly body ate meals,
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- so we are gonna be able to eatin heaven and never gain weight.
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- That's my theory!
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- And by the way, the first mealin heaven obviously,
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- Jesus' first meal,was fish and chips.
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- So, we will have fish and chipsin heaven.
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- That body was walking alonga road one day,
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- talking to some disciples,and then disappeared.
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- That body walked through a wall,through a locked door.
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- So, it is a resurrected body,but our bodies and our spirits
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- reunite at the second coming.
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- Many people don't know this.
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- Remember, Jesus said,"Touch Me."
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- Look, touch.
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- And He also said,"Touch the scars in My hand."
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- So, there is something ofthe physical body becoming
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- a heavenly body.
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- 1 Corinthians 15 would bea great chapter to read.
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- The whole thing talks aboutthe terrestrial
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- and the celestial body and thedifferences between them,
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- if you want to do somefurther study on that.
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- All right, here's number two.
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- Will we go toheaven immediately?
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- Many that's popular areteaching soul sleep,
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- that those who have died areactually in some sort of
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- suspended state until thesecond coming of Jesus Christ.
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- That is not true.
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- The Bible does notteach that.
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- The Bible teaches thatimmediately, when we die,
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- we go to heaven.
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- I want you to noticethat these martyrs
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- in Revelation 6 have died.
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- They are in heaven, talkingto God, in the presence of God,
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- but it's beforethe second coming.
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- The second coming is notuntil Revelation 19.
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- And so, they are in thepresence of God immediately.
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- Jesus said to the thief onthe cross, "Today you will
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- be with me in paradise."
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- 2 Corinthians 5:8 says,"We are confident, yes,
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- well pleased rather to be absentfrom the body and to be present
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- with the Lord."
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- In other words, immediatelywhen you're absent
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- from the body, you're presentwith the Lord.
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- Any person that you've lost,that's saved, is in the presence
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- of the Lord.
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- Here's number three.
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- Will we be ableto communicate?
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- You know, again we just kindof think that we're floatin'
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- on clouds, some people think,and you're just kind of
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- sittin' there playin'your harp, you know?
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- And another cloud floats by,and you know, you just kind of,
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- you don't recognizethe person.
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- It could have beenyour mother, you know?
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- You're just playin' your harpand eatin' your grapes and all.
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- That's not what heavenis about.
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- It's not what heavenis like at all.
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- Matter of fact, we'll getinto this a little bit more
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- later in the series,but I want you to notice that
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- the martyrs talked,and they talked to God.
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- And, by the way,they talked loudly.
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- It says, "They criedwith a loud voice."
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- Heaven is not going to belike some of the church services
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- we grew up in.
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- You know?
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- Shhh.
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- Shhh.
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- Shhh.
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- We don't want to wakeGod up, He's very old.
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- Here's number four,will we have emotions?
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- Will we have emotions?
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- I want you to notice thatthey cared deeply about what
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- was going on on the earth.
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- And remember, we're createdin the image of God.
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- We're not going to get toheaven, your emotions
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- are part of your soul.
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- Your soul's goingto go to heaven.
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- You're going to have a mind,you're going to have a will,
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- you're going tohave emotions.
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- Now, you say, well, couldI choose then not to serve God?
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- No, you've made your choice.
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- You only have one lifetimeto make your eternal choice.
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- It is appointed untoman once to die.
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- After that, the judgment.
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- Please understand,there is no second chance.
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- That is completely falsehood,and I'll cover a little bit
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- of that next weekin the message next week.
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- It is completely false thatthere is a second chance.
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- There's nothing in Scripturethat teaches that.
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- But, we will have emotions.
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- As a matter of fact,there is joy in heaven when one
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- sinner repents, and thatjoy will be unspeakable,
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- unimaginable joy.
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- The joy that we have on thisearth cannot even compare to
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- the joy, the peace,the presence of God,
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- that we will experiencewhile we're in heaven.
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- Number five, willwe know everything?
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- Will we know everything?
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- It is a very, verycommon misconception,
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- and the reason is that peoplebelieve this is because they
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- put two Scriptures together,and the Scriptures don't say
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- what they think they say.
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- They think it says thatwe will know everything,
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- or we will know as He knows.
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- It does not say we will knowas He knows, it says,
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- "We will see Him as He is",and it says, "We will know
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- as we are known."
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- Let me actually read youthose two Scriptures.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:12 says,"For now we see in a mirror,
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- dimly, but thenface to face.
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- Now I know in part",now watch this,
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- "but then I shall knowjust as I also am known."
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- In other words, I will knowothers and they will know me.
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- But it's not sayingI'll know everything.
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- 1 John 3:2 says, "Beloved,now we are children of God,
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- and it has not been revealedwhat we shall be,
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- but we know that whenHe is revealed,
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- we shall be like Him, for weshall see Him as He is."
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- In other words, we are goingto have an eternal
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- heavenly perspective, and whenit says we're gonna be like God,
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- remember Adam and Evewere like God.
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- We're created inthe image of God.
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- But please understand,we will not be omniscient.
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- We will never, ever knoweverything, but actually,
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- this is a great thingabout heaven.
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- If you got thereand you knew everything,
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- you wouldn't have anythingto learn,
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- or anything to explore,or anything to discover.
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- We are actually going to bediscovering things
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- for the rest of our lives.
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- I believe in heaven we'regonna be able to travel
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- at the speed of thoughtand visit a star
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- that the Hubble telescope hasnever even seen,
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- and we're gonna continually beable to see the creation of God,
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- and learn things about Godand about the kingdom of God,
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- and it's going to be awonderful, wonderful place.
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- It's gonna be much better thanthe Discovery channel, even.
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- Here's number six.
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- Will we know what's happeningon earth?
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- This is a common questionpeople have.
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- Will we know what's happeningon earth?
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- Yes, we will.
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- Again, we'll have a heavenlyperspective, but the martyrs
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- said, when are you gonnaavenge our blood?
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- They knew it had not been,their blood had not
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- been avenged.
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- In other words, they said, hey,those guys are still
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- walkin' around.
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- We see those guys walkin' aroundon earth that killed us.
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- When are You gonnaavenge our blood?
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- We are going to understandwhat's going on on earth,
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- but again, with aheavenly perspective.
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- Hebrews 12:1 says,"Therefore we also,
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- since we are surrounded by sogreat a cloud of witnesses,
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- let us lay aside every weight,and the sin which so easily
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- ensnares us, and let us runwith endurance the race
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- that is set before us."
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- This is Hebrews 12:1, rightafter the whole chapter of
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- Hebrews 11, which is the"Hall of Faith", we call it -
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- all those Old Testamentsaints that have gone to be
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- with the Lord.
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- And then he says they arewitnessing what's going on
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- right now.
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- They are cheering you on.
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- Listen.
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- You have people in heaven,family and friends that have
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- gone on before you, that arecheering you on right now.
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- We have a cloudof witnesses.
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- Luke 15:7, I referencedthis a moment ago.
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- "I say to you that likewisethere will be more joy in heaven
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- over one sinner who repentsthan over ninety-nine
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- just personswho need no repentance."
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- Listen to me.
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- This has to be beforethe coming of Christ,
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- because after the comingof Christ,
- 00:11:50.492 --> 00:11:51.659
- no sinner's going to repent.
- 00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:53.995
- He's saying, I'm tellin' youwhen a person gets saved,
- 00:11:54.095 --> 00:11:56.564
- and I personally believethat mainly it's your family
- 00:11:56.664 --> 00:11:59.567
- and friends that arethrowin' the party,
- 00:11:59.667 --> 00:12:01.569
- and some of your family aresaying, thank God,
- 00:12:01.669 --> 00:12:03.905
- I never thought he'd get saved.
- 00:12:04.005 --> 00:12:05.473
- He was the most hard-headedperson I ever knew.
- 00:12:05.573 --> 00:12:07.876
- Thank you, Lord.
- 00:12:07.976 --> 00:12:10.378
- And they are going to throwa party when people get saved.
- 00:12:10.478 --> 00:12:13.448
- Number seven, will we rememberour lives on earth?
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- Will we rememberour lives on earth?
- 00:12:17.418 --> 00:12:20.054
- Well, that's very simple.
- 00:12:20.155 --> 00:12:21.322
- Again, from this very simplepassage, Revelation 6:9-11,
- 00:12:21.422 --> 00:12:23.358
- they rememberedthey were murdered.
- 00:12:23.458 --> 00:12:26.594
- They had not forgotten that.
- 00:12:26.694 --> 00:12:30.031
- Well, how'd you die?
- 00:12:30.131 --> 00:12:31.132
- That dude right there.
- 00:12:31.232 --> 00:12:32.267
- That guy killed me.
- 00:12:32.367 --> 00:12:34.402
- That's how I was murdered.
- 00:12:34.502 --> 00:12:35.336
- That's how I got here.
- 00:12:35.436 --> 00:12:36.671
- And he's not mad at him, 'causehe's livin' in heaven now.
- 00:12:36.771 --> 00:12:39.107
- He's excited about it.
- 00:12:39.207 --> 00:12:40.441
- But, they rememberedtheir lives, and listen.
- 00:12:40.542 --> 00:12:43.578
- Abraham said to the rich man,which is the passage
- 00:12:43.678 --> 00:12:45.947
- we're gonna cover nextweek...Abraham said, "Son,
- 00:12:46.047 --> 00:12:48.416
- remember in your lifetime."
- 00:12:48.516 --> 00:12:51.019
- Remember in your lifetimeyou received good things,
- 00:12:51.119 --> 00:12:54.255
- and this manreceived evil things.
- 00:12:54.355 --> 00:12:56.457
- Remember, this is what mosttheologians believe,
- 00:12:56.558 --> 00:12:59.060
- and I believe this as well.
- 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:00.728
- In heaven, our memorieswill make us grateful.
- 00:13:00.829 --> 00:13:05.700
- If you don't have anythingto compare heaven to,
- 00:13:05.800 --> 00:13:08.303
- why would you evenappreciate it?
- 00:13:08.403 --> 00:13:10.505
- But, we're going to havesomething to compare it to.
- 00:13:10.605 --> 00:13:11.873
- But now, listen.
- 00:13:11.973 --> 00:13:12.874
- In heaven, our memoriesmake us grateful.
- 00:13:12.974 --> 00:13:15.510
- In hell, memories tormentpeople, because they know
- 00:13:15.610 --> 00:13:19.247
- that they had a chanceand they refused God's love
- 00:13:19.347 --> 00:13:22.717
- and God's goodness.
- 00:13:22.817 --> 00:13:24.419
- So, yes, we will have memoriesof our lives on earth.
- 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.422
- Here's number eight.
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- Will we know people?
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- Will we know people?
- 00:13:30.191 --> 00:13:31.125
- I said a moment ago,people sometimes think
- 00:13:31.226 --> 00:13:32.927
- that we're gonna be up thereand not going to know anybody.
- 00:13:33.027 --> 00:13:36.231
- Remember 1 Corinthians 13?
- 00:13:36.331 --> 00:13:37.732
- We read it a moment ago.
- 00:13:37.832 --> 00:13:38.833
- "We will know aswe are known."
- 00:13:38.933 --> 00:13:40.735
- And, can I just giveyou my answer to this?
- 00:13:40.835 --> 00:13:42.971
- We will finally know people.
- 00:13:43.071 --> 00:13:44.973
- We don't know peopleon this earth.
- 00:13:45.073 --> 00:13:46.774
- We really don't.
- 00:13:46.875 --> 00:13:48.209
- We think we do, but on earth...let me say it another way.
- 00:13:48.309 --> 00:13:51.646
- We're finally gonnaunderstand people.
- 00:13:51.746 --> 00:13:53.448
- You're gonna see someone[indiscernible].
- 00:13:53.548 --> 00:13:55.516
- I finally understand you.
- 00:13:55.617 --> 00:13:56.951
- You're probably gonnasay that to your wife.
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- Finally.
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- You are a great,intelligent person.
- 00:14:00.989 --> 00:14:03.625
- I just couldn't figureit out on earth.
- 00:14:03.725 --> 00:14:05.760
- I never could figure outwhat you were talkin' about.
- 00:14:05.860 --> 00:14:07.729
- Finally, we'regoing to know people.
- 00:14:07.829 --> 00:14:12.533
- By the way, I think also,I think we're gonna be surprised
- 00:14:12.634 --> 00:14:17.205
- at some people that are therethat we didn't think
- 00:14:17.305 --> 00:14:19.040
- were gonna be there.
- 00:14:19.140 --> 00:14:21.175
- We're gonna [indiscernible].
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- You...you made it?
- 00:14:22.677 --> 00:14:24.679
- Of course, you know whatthey're gonna say, don't you?
- 00:14:24.779 --> 00:14:26.281
- You made it?
- 00:14:26.381 --> 00:14:28.149
- Yeah, back at you.
- 00:14:28.249 --> 00:14:29.083
- Okay, so.
- 00:14:29.183 --> 00:14:30.618
- All right, let me showyou a Scripture here.
- 00:14:30.718 --> 00:14:32.587
- This is a great Scriptureabout are we gonna know
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- people in heaven.
- 00:14:34.956 --> 00:14:35.924
- Matthew 8:11, thisis Jesus speaking.
- 00:14:36.024 --> 00:14:38.660
- "And I say to you thatmany", many, "will come from
- 00:14:38.760 --> 00:14:42.430
- east and west, and sit downwith Abraham, Isaac,
- 00:14:42.530 --> 00:14:46.935
- and Jacob in thekingdom of heaven."
- 00:14:47.035 --> 00:14:50.238
- Do you realizewhat you just read?
- 00:14:50.338 --> 00:14:51.739
- You're gonna be able tosit down with Abraham.
- 00:14:51.839 --> 00:14:53.574
- You're gonna be able to askAbraham, what was going
- 00:14:53.675 --> 00:14:56.711
- through your mind when youwere walking Isaac up that
- 00:14:56.811 --> 00:14:59.280
- hill to sacrifice him?
- 00:14:59.380 --> 00:15:01.249
- You're gonna be able to sitdown with Moses, and David,
- 00:15:01.349 --> 00:15:03.618
- and Deborah, and Ruth, andSamuel, and Ezekiel, and Isaiah.
- 00:15:03.718 --> 00:15:08.957
- You're gonna be able to sitdown with these
- 00:15:09.057 --> 00:15:11.159
- wonderful people.
- 00:15:11.259 --> 00:15:12.260
- Now, I've got to tell you,I thought about this
- 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:13.761
- and all of a sudden I had thiskind of doom come over me,
- 00:15:13.861 --> 00:15:17.832
- because I got to thinkin'about, I have preached on
- 00:15:17.932 --> 00:15:20.902
- just about everybody inthe Bible, and I have aired
- 00:15:21.002 --> 00:15:24.172
- their dirty laundryon television.
- 00:15:24.272 --> 00:15:29.143
- And I'm just wonderin', whenI meet someone, they'll say,
- 00:15:29.243 --> 00:15:33.481
- "Why did you say thatabout me in that sermon?"
- 00:15:33.581 --> 00:15:36.150
- You know?
- 00:15:36.250 --> 00:15:37.085
- I mean, because youknow, like Peter.
- 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:39.320
- I make fun of Peter a lot.
- 00:15:39.420 --> 00:15:41.456
- I don't mean anydisrespect, Peter.
- 00:15:41.556 --> 00:15:43.925
- But I liken myself a lotto Peter, because it seems
- 00:15:44.025 --> 00:15:48.663
- to me that Peter was alwayssaying the wrong thing
- 00:15:48.763 --> 00:15:51.632
- at the wrong time.
- 00:15:51.733 --> 00:15:52.633
- You know what I'm saying?
- 00:15:52.734 --> 00:15:53.835
- He was just always blurtingthings out that he wished
- 00:15:53.935 --> 00:15:55.803
- he could take back.
- 00:15:55.903 --> 00:15:57.205
- Like when Jesus came walkingon the water, Jesus said,
- 00:15:57.305 --> 00:16:00.041
- "Don't be afraid, it's Me."
- 00:16:00.141 --> 00:16:02.010
- Peter said, "Lord,if it's You."
- 00:16:02.110 --> 00:16:08.282
- And Jesus is thinkin',I just said...yeah,
- 00:16:08.383 --> 00:16:12.086
- I said it was Me, didn't I?
- 00:16:12.186 --> 00:16:14.022
- And of course, youknow how Peter was.
- 00:16:14.122 --> 00:16:15.056
- "Lord, if it's You,tell me to come."
- 00:16:15.156 --> 00:16:17.225
- Come.
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- Excuse Me?
- 00:16:17.992 --> 00:16:19.160
- You know, he wished he couldhave taken that back, right?
- 00:16:19.260 --> 00:16:20.995
- And then at the Mountof Transfiguration,
- 00:16:21.095 --> 00:16:23.931
- Moses and Elijah show up.
- 00:16:24.032 --> 00:16:27.969
- Moses, been dead forthousands of years,
- 00:16:28.069 --> 00:16:30.204
- and Elijah, two of the greatestOld Testament prophets
- 00:16:30.304 --> 00:16:33.374
- that are either in Revelation,the two witnesses,
- 00:16:33.474 --> 00:16:36.477
- or like that, okay?
- 00:16:36.577 --> 00:16:38.413
- Because it talks aboutthese two witnesses,
- 00:16:38.513 --> 00:16:40.081
- and it describes Mosesand Elijah.
- 00:16:40.181 --> 00:16:42.016
- But, they show up and Jesus...now, this is what's amazing,
- 00:16:42.116 --> 00:16:45.386
- is transfigured before them.
- 00:16:45.486 --> 00:16:48.456
- I mean, He takes off His fleshand the glory of God
- 00:16:48.556 --> 00:16:50.725
- is standing right there.
- 00:16:50.825 --> 00:16:52.927
- So, Jesus, Moses, and Elijahare talking, and Peter says,
- 00:16:53.027 --> 00:16:57.465
- it's a good thing I'm here.
- 00:16:57.565 --> 00:16:59.200
- It didn't matterthat Peter was there.
- 00:16:59.300 --> 00:17:03.504
- He just blurts it out.
- 00:17:03.604 --> 00:17:05.039
- As a matter of fact, whenyou read your Bible it says,
- 00:17:05.139 --> 00:17:06.841
- "Then Peter answered."
- 00:17:06.941 --> 00:17:08.276
- No one asked him anything.
- 00:17:08.376 --> 00:17:11.746
- And then, Jesus said...now, this is something
- 00:17:11.846 --> 00:17:14.048
- that people, we see this asa good thing
- 00:17:14.148 --> 00:17:15.716
- Peter said and it is,but Jesus' response
- 00:17:15.817 --> 00:17:18.286
- just blows me away.
- 00:17:18.386 --> 00:17:19.353
- Jesus said, "Who do mensay that I am?"
- 00:17:19.454 --> 00:17:21.889
- And the disciples said,"Well, some say Elijah,
- 00:17:21.989 --> 00:17:23.424
- some say John the Baptistor one of the prophets."
- 00:17:23.524 --> 00:17:25.526
- Jesus said, "Who doyou say that I am?"
- 00:17:25.626 --> 00:17:27.528
- Peter said,"You're the Christ,
- 00:17:27.628 --> 00:17:28.896
- the Son of the Living God."
- 00:17:28.996 --> 00:17:30.398
- Jesus said, "Flesh and blooddoes not reveal this to you,
- 00:17:30.498 --> 00:17:32.366
- Peter, but MyFather in heaven."
- 00:17:32.467 --> 00:17:33.601
- This is what he was saying...this is a miracle.
- 00:17:33.701 --> 00:17:36.137
- That you got the right answer,Peter, that's a miracle.
- 00:17:36.237 --> 00:17:41.275
- This is a miracle.
- 00:17:41.375 --> 00:17:42.977
- Okay.
- 00:17:43.077 --> 00:17:45.346
- I'm sorry, I just...it'sjust for fun, you know, so.
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- All right.
- 00:17:49.016 --> 00:17:49.884
- Yes, we will knowpeople in heaven.
- 00:17:49.984 --> 00:17:52.887
- Number nine, will it be boring?
- 00:17:52.987 --> 00:17:58.926
- Okay, let me tell you.
- 00:17:59.026 --> 00:18:00.761
- Do you realize that Satan isthe one who has basically
- 00:18:00.862 --> 00:18:06.367
- put the theme out there,heaven is going to be
- 00:18:06.467 --> 00:18:09.237
- the most boring church serviceyou've ever been in
- 00:18:09.337 --> 00:18:13.474
- for all eternity, and hell isgonna be the fun,
- 00:18:13.574 --> 00:18:17.612
- exciting party place?
- 00:18:17.712 --> 00:18:18.813
- Have you ever had people say,well, I don't want to
- 00:18:18.913 --> 00:18:20.882
- go to heaven, none of my friendsare gonna be there.
- 00:18:20.982 --> 00:18:23.684
- Isn't that foolishness?
- 00:18:23.784 --> 00:18:25.853
- Well, I'm gonna go to hell.
- 00:18:25.953 --> 00:18:27.021
- Hell's gonna bethe fun place.
- 00:18:27.121 --> 00:18:28.122
- It's amazing.
- 00:18:28.222 --> 00:18:29.857
- Heaven is losingthe marketing battle,
- 00:18:29.957 --> 00:18:33.161
- and the reason is,is because those of us
- 00:18:33.261 --> 00:18:35.263
- who are going don't even knowenough about it
- 00:18:35.363 --> 00:18:38.633
- to invite someone to go.
- 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:41.469
- We just tell them, hey,there's this great restaurant
- 00:18:41.569 --> 00:18:42.970
- you gotta go to.
- 00:18:43.070 --> 00:18:43.771
- You just gotta go.
- 00:18:43.871 --> 00:18:45.039
- Well, where is it?
- 00:18:45.139 --> 00:18:45.973
- I don't know.
- 00:18:46.073 --> 00:18:47.608
- Well, what kind of fooddo they serve?
- 00:18:47.708 --> 00:18:49.977
- Don't know.
- 00:18:50.077 --> 00:18:51.812
- Well, have you been there?
- 00:18:51.913 --> 00:18:53.748
- No, but you gotta go.
- 00:18:53.848 --> 00:18:56.384
- You gotta go.
- 00:18:56.484 --> 00:18:57.685
- Don't know anything about it,don't know what the menu is,
- 00:18:57.785 --> 00:18:59.187
- but you gotta go.
- 00:18:59.287 --> 00:19:00.688
- Listen, we need tounderstand this.
- 00:19:00.788 --> 00:19:02.723
- The more we understand heaven,the more motivated
- 00:19:02.823 --> 00:19:05.193
- we are to get ourfriends there.
- 00:19:05.293 --> 00:19:07.929
- And the more we understandhell, which I'll talk about
- 00:19:08.029 --> 00:19:11.165
- next week, the moremotivated we are to get people
- 00:19:11.265 --> 00:19:14.468
- to never go there.
- 00:19:14.569 --> 00:19:16.637
- Heaven is going to bethe most spectacular place
- 00:19:16.737 --> 00:19:19.540
- in the world.
- 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:21.242
- Heaven's gonna be wonderful.
- 00:19:21.342 --> 00:19:22.543
- I've talked about ita little bit, but you know,
- 00:19:22.643 --> 00:19:23.945
- run up a thousand stepsand never get tired.
- 00:19:24.045 --> 00:19:27.215
- Travel at the speed ofthought across the universe.
- 00:19:27.315 --> 00:19:29.884
- Eat banana pudding all day,and never gain a pound.
- 00:19:29.984 --> 00:19:39.126
- Heaven is going to besuch a spectacular place.
- 00:19:39.227 --> 00:19:43.030
- Let me read you from a bookcalled, "90 Minutes in Heaven",
- 00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:49.570
- by Don Piper.
- 00:19:49.670 --> 00:19:51.439
- And there are severalgood books about this,
- 00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:54.308
- and you do have to obviouslybe careful with any book
- 00:19:54.408 --> 00:19:56.611
- of a person's experience,because we can't
- 00:19:56.711 --> 00:19:58.980
- put it on the same level asScripture, but if it agrees
- 00:19:59.080 --> 00:20:01.916
- with Scripture then we can,and this is a wonderful passage.
- 00:20:02.016 --> 00:20:05.586
- I just think this isabsolutely amazing.
- 00:20:05.686 --> 00:20:07.888
- This man actually was deadfor 90 minutes.
- 00:20:07.989 --> 00:20:10.057
- Listen to what he said.
- 00:20:10.157 --> 00:20:12.426
- "As I try to explain heaven,my words seem weak
- 00:20:12.526 --> 00:20:15.630
- and hardly adequate, because Ihave to use earthly terms
- 00:20:15.730 --> 00:20:19.166
- to refer to unimaginable joy,excitement, warmth,
- 00:20:19.267 --> 00:20:23.971
- and total happiness.
- 00:20:24.071 --> 00:20:25.806
- Everyone continuallyembraced me, touched me,
- 00:20:25.906 --> 00:20:29.877
- spoke to me, laughed,and praised God.
- 00:20:29.977 --> 00:20:31.646
- This seemed to go onfor a long time,
- 00:20:31.746 --> 00:20:33.414
- but I didn't tire of it.
- 00:20:33.514 --> 00:20:35.082
- My father is oneof 11 children.
- 00:20:35.182 --> 00:20:36.851
- Some of his brothers and sistershad as many as 13 children.
- 00:20:36.951 --> 00:20:40.054
- When I was a kid, our familyreunions were so huge we rented
- 00:20:40.154 --> 00:20:43.557
- an entire city parkin Monticello, Arkansas.
- 00:20:43.658 --> 00:20:47.528
- We Pipers are affectionate,with a lot of hugging
- 00:20:47.628 --> 00:20:49.697
- and kissing wheneverwe come together.
- 00:20:49.797 --> 00:20:51.465
- None of those earthly familyreunions, however, prepared me
- 00:20:51.565 --> 00:20:55.169
- for the sublime gatheringof saints I experienced
- 00:20:55.269 --> 00:20:58.205
- at the gates of heaven.
- 00:20:58.306 --> 00:21:00.241
- Those who were gathered inMonticello were some of
- 00:21:00.341 --> 00:21:02.310
- the same people waiting for meat the gates of heaven.
- 00:21:02.410 --> 00:21:04.979
- Heaven was many things,but without a doubt,
- 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.281
- it was the greatest familyreunion of all.
- 00:21:07.381 --> 00:21:10.284
- Everything I experienced waslike a first class buffet
- 00:21:10.384 --> 00:21:13.854
- for the senses.
- 00:21:13.954 --> 00:21:15.022
- I have never felt suchpowerful embraces,
- 00:21:15.122 --> 00:21:17.758
- or feasted my eyeson such beauty.
- 00:21:17.858 --> 00:21:20.361
- Heaven's light and texturedefy earthly eyes
- 00:21:20.461 --> 00:21:22.997
- or explanation.
- 00:21:23.097 --> 00:21:24.198
- Warm, radiantlight engulfed me.
- 00:21:24.298 --> 00:21:27.001
- As I looked around, I couldhardly grasp the vivid,
- 00:21:27.101 --> 00:21:30.037
- dazzling colors.
- 00:21:30.137 --> 00:21:31.238
- Every hue and tone surpassedanything I had ever seen.
- 00:21:31.339 --> 00:21:34.709
- With all the heightenedawareness of my senses,
- 00:21:34.809 --> 00:21:37.044
- I felt as if I had never seen,heard, or felt anything
- 00:21:37.144 --> 00:21:40.815
- so real before.
- 00:21:40.915 --> 00:21:42.383
- Never in my happiest momentshad I felt so fully alive."
- 00:21:42.483 --> 00:21:47.254
- Doesn't that makeyou want to go?
- 00:21:47.355 --> 00:21:48.856
- Isn't that a great place?
- 00:21:48.956 --> 00:21:50.224
- Now, go to Revelation 21and let me read a little bit
- 00:21:50.324 --> 00:21:55.229
- of a description of heaven.
- 00:21:55.329 --> 00:21:56.630
- By the way, on downin Revelation 21
- 00:21:56.731 --> 00:21:59.900
- it gives a description,a literal description,
- 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:01.736
- of the New Jerusalem.
- 00:22:01.836 --> 00:22:02.970
- And just to let you know,the New Jerusalem, if you want
- 00:22:03.070 --> 00:22:05.740
- a literal description of it,it's 1.380 miles long,
- 00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:11.345
- 1.380 miles wide,and 1.380 miles high.
- 00:22:11.445 --> 00:22:16.684
- It's a perfect cube.
- 00:22:16.784 --> 00:22:18.452
- You can read thatin Revelation 21.
- 00:22:18.552 --> 00:22:20.054
- Revelation 21:1, "Now Isaw a new heaven
- 00:22:20.154 --> 00:22:23.391
- and a new earth, for the firstheaven and the first earth
- 00:22:23.491 --> 00:22:26.460
- had passed away.
- 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:27.628
- Also there was no more sea.
- 00:22:27.728 --> 00:22:29.630
- Then I, John, saw the holy city,New Jerusalem, coming down
- 00:22:29.730 --> 00:22:33.701
- out of heaven from God,prepared as a bride adorned
- 00:22:33.801 --> 00:22:36.504
- for her husband.
- 00:22:36.604 --> 00:22:37.538
- And I heard a loud voicefrom heaven, saying,
- 00:22:37.638 --> 00:22:39.673
- "Behold, the tabernacle ofGod is with men,
- 00:22:39.774 --> 00:22:41.976
- and He will dwell with them, andthey shall be His people.
- 00:22:42.076 --> 00:22:45.012
- God Himself will be with themand be their God.
- 00:22:45.112 --> 00:22:48.582
- And God will wipe awayevery tear from their eyes.
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- There shall be no moredeath, nor sorrow, nor crying.
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- There shall be no more pain,for the former things
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- have passed away."
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- And then He who sat onthe throne said, "Behold,
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- I make all things new."
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- And He said to me, "Write,for these words are true
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- and faithful."
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- Listen, the greatest thingabout heaven is going to be
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- the fellowship of otherbelievers and the fellowship
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- with the Fatherwe're going to have.
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- And here's number ten,the tenth question.
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- It's the most important one.
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- Who will be there?
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- Who will be there?
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- Well, we stopped at Verse 5.
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- If you'll look at Verse 6,"And He said to me, "It is done.
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- I am the Alpha and the Omega",that's the first
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- and last lettersin the Greek alphabet,
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- "the Beginning and the End.
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- I will give of the fountainof the water of life freely
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- to him who thirsts",and I love the word "freely".
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- Revelation 22, just onechapter over, Verse 17.
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- "And the Spiritand the bride say, "Come. "
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- And let him who hears say,"Come. "
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- And let him who thirsts come.
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- Whoever desires", whoeverdesires, "let him take
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- the water of life freely."
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- By the way, the Old KingJames says, "Whosoever will."
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- Whosoever will.
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- Romans 10:9, "If you confesswith your mouth the Lord Jesus
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- and believe in your heartthat God has raised Him
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- from the dead,you will be saved."
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- And Romans 10:13, "For whoevercalls on the name of the Lord
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- shall be saved."
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- Who will be there?
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- Those who believe inthe Lord Jesus Christ,
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- and those who call on His name.
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- Heaven is going tobe wonderful,
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- and I want to encourage you,if you've never given
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- your life to the Lord Jesus,you can give your life
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- to Jesus right now.
- 00:24:35.556 --> 00:24:37.324
- Right now, you can ask the Lordto come into your life
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- and save you, and receivethe free gift of salvation
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- through the LordJesus Christ.
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- I also want to encourage youthat we need to spread
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- the word to everyperson we meet.
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- God created heaven so that wecould spend eternity with Him,
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- and God gives us allthe opportunity to choose Him.
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- Share this.
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- Go out, tell everyone Jesussaid, "Compel people to come in,
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- that My Father's housemay be filled."
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- Hey, thanks so muchfor watching.
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- I want to encourage youto watch next week
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- as I continue this series,"The End."
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- ANNOUNCER: We're so glad thatyou joined us
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- for today's program, and we hopethat you enjoyed
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- this important and timelymessage from Pastor Robert.
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- The afterlife is mysterious, andcan often be scary
- 00:25:27.308 --> 00:25:30.377
- and overwhelming to think about.
- 00:25:30.477 --> 00:25:32.179
- Just the thought of it raisesquestion after question.
- 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:35.082
- What's Heaven like?
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- Is there a literal Hell?
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- Is there a judgement?
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- What about the second coming?
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- How can you know for sure?
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- In this five-part series, "TheEnd: What Happens Next"
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- Pastor Robert reveals theanswers to these questions
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- and so many more so that you canbegin living a life
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- that truly matters.
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- Because, ultimately, what youbelieve about death and eternity
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- will determine how you live.
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- So don't live another daywithout knowing the comforting
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- and motivating truth about whathappens next.
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- ANNOUNCER: Living your best lifeisn't about having a dream home,
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- wonderful kids,or the ideal job.
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- It's about changesin your family, health,
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- and relationships.
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- When God changes your heart,you'll discover
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- that there is so muchmore to life.
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- Pastor Robert presents,
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- "The Secretsof Living Your Best Life."
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