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David Jeremiah: The Coming of Our Savior | Praise

December 10, 2025 | 55:57

Dr. David Jeremiah leads a heartfelt exploration of the intertwined themes of Christmas and Heaven. The show features stunning musical performances and deep discussions about the significance of the Christ Child's birth and the hope of Heaven. With revelations about the connection between the humble beginnings of Christmas and the grandeur of Heaven, viewers are invited on a spiritual journey of faith, redemption, and the ultimate goal of reaching Heaven. The episode culminates in a moving concert that showcases the beauty of heavenly music and the transformative power of embracing Jesus in one's heart.

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Praise | David Jeremiah: The Coming of Our Savior | Praise | December 10, 2025

Coming up tonight on praise...
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One of my major goals is to go to heaven and take as many
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People with me as i can.
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So if heaven is the ultimate goal of the christian life, why
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Should we not look at that with hope in our hearts?
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We wanted to collect some of the best songs on heaven and
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Encourage people with that music, because some of it is
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Just overwhelmingly beautiful.
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You've got the christmas season, you've got the christ
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Child, you've got the beginning of the redemption of man.
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And we're talking and singing about this place called heaven.
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Heaven is a wonderful thing.
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And that concert was one of the most beautiful things i have
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Ever had anything to do with in my life.
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That's beautiful.
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Give us a little heaven on earth, i think.
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I'd like to do stuff nobody's ever done before.
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Okay. that they say you can't do,
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And i say, okay, if we can't do it, god can do it.
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If we trust him, let's do this thing.
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Come on. ♪♪
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First of all,
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Doctor jeremiah, merry christmas.
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And thank you for having me here at this season.
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What an amazing season.
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Uh, the hope of all of us is in jesus christ and his birth.
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But it is also, oddly, heaven. yes, it is.
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There is the beginning and there's kind of an end story.
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We're going to kind, of kind of weave that together.
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Can you help us do that in this season?
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Well, you know, the bible tells us in philippians two that he
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Humbled himself and came, came to this earth.
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And then the bible ends that passage by saying, and one day
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He will be exalted, and every knee will bow, and every tongue
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Will confess that he is.
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So jesus made a round trip,
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And it started on christmas in bethlehem.
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And then he went back to heaven after his time on this earth.
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So it is truly a wonderful message.
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There's a blessed hope.
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Um, your, uh, best selling book, the promise of heaven,
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Um, this is in high demand as we're taping this right now.
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And 31 reasons to get excited about your eternal home.
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But i'm kind of excited about
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The home i'm living in right now.
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Yes.
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And it is all because of the christmas season.
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That god, emmanuel, god with us.
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Um, you know, we, we sometimes think about heaven as the
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Future, and then you think about people that are
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Amillennialists or dispensationalists.
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You think of all these ists. you know, everyone has an ist.
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Laurie and i have adopted emmanuel-ist.
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God is with us.
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Amen.
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And that defines a lot of what we think.
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We think that god has us here for a purpose.
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It's very specific.
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We need to take the gospel of jesus around the world.
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My dad was very, very adamant about seizing every opportunity
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To spread the name and the love of jesus around the world.
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And at the same time, we know
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That our ultimate hope is heaven.
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That's right.
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So make sense of a baby in a manger, in bethlehem,
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In israel, and heaven.
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Kind of tell us that story.
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Well, you know, first of all, matt, i'm sure you guys have
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Noticed there's something
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Special about christmas this year.
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Lights are going up earlier.
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Yes, people are talking about it more, and i think charlie
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Kirk had something to do with that.
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Yes, i think that we're getting a good picture.
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I told somebody the other day, why is this book on heaven
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Going so well?
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Because earth is so bad. wow.
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There's so many bad things going on.
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And you look around and you try to find hope on earth.
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Hope is in heaven.
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And when you get the hope of heaven, it comes into your
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Heart and becomes your possession now.
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And when jesus came, he came to bring hope and peace,
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Uh, and the announcement of his birth in bethlehem was all of
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That, that everything we missed sometimes as we look at earth
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Was in that promise of the christ coming to this earth
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To be our savior.
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I get overwhelmed sometimes when i think of all the people
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That have ever been born
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In the history of being born, only one was born to die,
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And that was the baby who was born in bethlehem.
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He did not exist when he came there.
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He had always existed.
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I tell people that there was not a time when jesus was not, and
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There never would be a time when he ceases to be.
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But in bethlehem, he chose to be one of us.
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The bible says he tasted flesh.
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He loved us so much he was willing to come and be one of
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Us so he could be our redeemer.
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And christmas is so special because it's the beginning of
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The redemption story. yes.
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Redemption means hope.
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The redemption means that we were, in one way, through
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Jesus, kind of reconciled back to god, the creator.
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And so that is, that is, you know, the miracle
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Of christmas is that he can be born within us, right?
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Okay. so that's the miracle of christmas.
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But there's a-- let me get a little bit ethereal on you
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Since there's a giant word behind you that i see, right
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Behind your head that says
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Heaven, and it's gold and it's sparkling.
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And i see that in my view to you.
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So there is,
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If you don't mind just stepping on a few little controversial,
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You know, kicking a few controversial--
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I don't think your're going to give me the choice.
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Well, you know, you are here now, so--
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Okay.
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Doctor david jeremiah, 2025.
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I just want to get this out.
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Um. heaven.
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Sometimes we hear preachers--
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You're a preacher, right?
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Yes, sir.
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Okay. and we think of heaven as this place.
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And we, we always look up, you know, and we think it's
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Out there somewhere.
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And then there are some people that are declaring that heaven
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Will be earth kind of rebirthed.
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Help us--
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Jesus came here, lived here, died here, resurrected here.
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And where is heaven?
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Where? where is this place of
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Eternal hope that we're talking about?
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Well, matt, there's a chapter in this book called the three
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Heavens, and the bible tells us there is an atmospheric heaven.
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That's where planes fly.
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There's a celestial heaven.
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That's where the stars are.
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And there's the third heaven.
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Paul said he was caught up into the third heaven.
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That's where paradise is right now.
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So when people die, their soul
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Goes to be with god in third heaven.
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Paradise is heaven.
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When the thief died on the cross, jesus said to him, today
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You will be with me in paradise.
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He was going to go to the third heaven to be with the lord.
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But when jesus comes back,
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There's going to be a major change.
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If i understand the bible correctly, one of the key
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Elements about that is when the holy city is developed,
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The bible says the holy city comes down out of heaven and it
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Is taking place on earth.
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So the bible tells us that at the end of time, the earth
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Is going to be renovated.
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All of the evil things will be burned away, the
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Earth will be rebuilt, and heaven will actually take place
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On the rebuilt earth.
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So in in the future, as you think about heaven,
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Yes, for today, heaven is up,
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But then heaven will be here on the earth and the holy city,
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Which is a magnificent thing.
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I can't imagine seeing that holy city come down out of
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Heaven and take its place.
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But that's what the bible says.
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So it's a little of both.
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Yes, that's true.
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There is a place.
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There is a another dimension or another place currently, but
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That at the end of time, let's say after the lord returns,
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Okay, and let's not get into eschatology here, but after
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The lord is back and it is going to be a renovated, much
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Like your kitchen, right?
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Okay. so and all things will be made new.
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Is that does that make sense of jesus' prayer,
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Let those things in heaven be manifest on earth? am i--
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That's true.
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The lord's prayer says that things would be on earth as
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They are in heaven. okay.
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And it's even more profound than that because
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Heaven begins before that. remember,
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Uh, before the death of christ, when people died, they went to
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A place, uh, it was part of sheol.
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They had a heaven.
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Heaven bound people were here and people
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Who were unsaved here.
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And in that story about abraham
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And lazarus, you couldn't connect.
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But they were there.
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And when jesus died, the bible says, he came and he took
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Captivity captive, and he took the people from paradise in the
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Earth and took them to heaven.
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So they're in heaven now.
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The other people are waiting until the judgment.
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And the bible says, hades will be cast into hell.
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And all the people in that part of the intermediate place.
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So there's the earthly first, then there's back to heaven.
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Then there's the third heaven, and then after the end of time
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Here on this renovated earth.
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There has to be a way-- i, i enjoy having seniored
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Preachers because i get to ask really hard questions.
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So you've been dealing with this all your life.
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Help explain the that sometimes there can be a disconnect of
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Living today in that hope and hoping for something
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We don't have yet.
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So if the answer to life is heaven eventually, then it
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Feels like we're shortchanging
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This present time and tomorrow morning when we both wake up.
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Well, you know, i think that's best answered when you
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Understand the kingdom.
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The bible says the kingdom of
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Heaven is the kingdom of heaven.
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But there's also a kingdom on this earth.
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And the bible says, the kingdom is in our heart.
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When we become christians, we become part of the kingdom.
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We are bound for heaven, and ultimately we'll be there and
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The lord jesus christ will be king and everyone will bow
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Before him and will serve him
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Both in the millennium and in heaven.
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But now we're on the journey there, and the bible tells us
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Many places that we're to live on this earth, like we were
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Going to heaven, so that when
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We get to heaven, we won't be embarrassed.
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That though we got our ticket punched down here, we didn't
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Live very well on our way to heaven.
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We're to live in light of heaven.
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And at the end of this book, there's a chapter called, uh,
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Something like, be serious about heaven.
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Because when you know about heaven, it changes the way--
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If you really think about it seriously, it changes the way
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You live on this earth.
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When jesus said, the kingdom of
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God is at hand and it's here now--
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Within you. and it's within us.
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And then when god's will is being done in and through
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Our lives as god in rulership already
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Concerning everything about us, right?
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So i believe that we're living in the kingdom of god now.
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I do. i believe there's a sense of that.
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And i believe that when his will is being taken place on
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Earth, i think that's a little piece of heaven.
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You know, laurie, i have a little thing in my bible that i
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Created when i was teaching the lord's prayer, and it reminds
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Me that one of the things we should pray for now is,
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Lord, let things on earth happen as they would in heaven.
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Lord, today in my life, help me to do the things that i would
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Be proud of if i were in heaven,
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That you're proud of.
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We should live a heavenly life now.
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That should be our goal.
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We should take--
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We should ask god to help us take the whole concept of
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Heaven and make it alive in our hearts today.
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When we do that,
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We live a different kind of life.
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We do.
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I heard a preacher say that heaven is where the will of god
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Is being manifest at the time. yeah.
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And that's a, that's a, that's a would need to be
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Unpacked because he did, he preached you know
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Quite a while on it.
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But the sound bite made me think that jesus' prayer--
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Every time we are
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Accomplishing something god has put in our heart to do--
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You're you're a preacher.
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You prepare a sermon every sunday.
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Uh, you get to preach in one of the most beautiful locations on
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Earth, by the way, southern california.
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And you also have a little bit of, um, kind of the
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Producer spirit in you.
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You like to do big events, you like to--
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Do amazing things.
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You like to do things.
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You give us a little heaven on earth, i think.
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I like to do stuff nobody's ever done before.
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Okay. that they say you can't do,
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And i say, okay, if we can't do it, god can do it.
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If we trust him, let's do this thing.
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Come on.
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You make movies on the birth of jesus.
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You're making a movie on the resurrection.
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You're doing all sorts of stuff.
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And recently you went to los angeles and, uh, the-- we call
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It the big disney.
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What do they call it?
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It's disney concert hall.
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Concert hall.
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So the disney concert hall, if you've never seen it,
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Is an amazing place.
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But on the inside of it, all of a sudden, uh, you turned it
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Into church and there is a lot of that production that's going
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To get embedded into this show.
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♪ swing low ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ i looked over the jordan ♪
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♪ and what did i see? ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ a band ♪
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♪ of angels ♪
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♪ coming after me ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low, sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low, ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ i'm sometimes up and sometimes down ♪
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♪ sometimes i feel alone ♪
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♪ but i know my soul is heavenly bound ♪
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♪ jesus gonna carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low, ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low, ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ well, if you get there before i do ♪
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♪ just make your self at home ♪
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♪ tell all my friends i'm coming too ♪
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♪ and tell them that i won't be long ♪
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♪ swing low, ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for to carry me home ♪
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♪ swing low, ♪
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♪ sweet chariot ♪
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♪ coming for ♪
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♪ to carry me home ♪
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♪ oh, and coming for to carry me home ♪
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♪ coming for, to carry me home ♪
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♪ some land born in ♪
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♪ when this life is over ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ to a home on god's celestial shore ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ oh, glory ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ when i die ♪
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♪ hallelujah, by and by ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ when the shadows of this life have grown ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ like a bird ♪
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♪ from prison ♪
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♪ bars have flown ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ oh, glory ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ when i die ♪
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♪ hallelujah, by and by ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ well, just a few more weary days ♪
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♪ and then i'll fly away ♪
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♪ to a land where joy will never end ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ i'll fly away to glory ♪
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♪ oh, yes i will ♪
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♪ when i die, ♪
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♪ hallelujah, by and by ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ come on ♪
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♪ oh, yes i will ♪
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♪ i will fly away ♪
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♪ oh yeah, i will fly away ♪
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♪ come on when i, when i die ♪
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♪ i'll fly away ♪
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♪ i'm gonna fly away ♪
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I feel like when you hit one of your big subjects,
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When you take on a big subject like heaven, it feels like you
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Then kind of expand it.
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We're expanding it even beyond that
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Today on this broadcast. we're talking about how heaven and
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The christ child kind of.
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So for somebody that just tuned in, make the connection between
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This humble beginning and this splendorous kind of dynamic of
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What-- heaven, it started very humble.
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It's going to end in a very different way
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It feels like.
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Well, the bible says that when jesus came, he came to seek and
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To save those that were lost and to take them to heaven.
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I tell people all the time, one of my major goals is to go to
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Heaven and take as many people with me as i can.
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So if heaven is the ultimate goal of the christian life, why
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Should we not,
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Why should we not look at that with hope in our hearts?
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The bible says all things are beautiful, but god has put
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Heaven in our hearts and eternity is in our hearts.
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And it's almost like, okay, here's a piece of eternity
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In my heart.
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Here's where eternity is becoming real.
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What is that like?
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The bible tells us a lot about heaven, and throughout the
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Scriptures there is this hope, the blessed hope and glorious
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Return of our lord and savior jesus christ.
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And when jesus was ready to go back to heaven, his disciples
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Were so discouraged.
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Jesus said, don't let your heart be troubled.
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You believe in god.
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Believe also in me
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Because in my father's house are many mansions,
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And if it were not so, i would have told you.
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I'm going to go and prepare a place for you.
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And if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come again and
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Receive you unto myself,
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That where i am, there you may be also.
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Jesus wants us to be with him.
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And that's what this whole christmas story is about.
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The coming of our savior who wants to redeem us so that we
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Can be prepared to go and live in his heaven.
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And to put the little controversial exclamation point,
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That's right here on earth one day.
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One day, heaven.
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Explain that to our audience, because we always think heaven
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Is kind of somewhere out there.
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Well, the bible just tells us that when the holy city is
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Built, it will descend out of heaven to this earth, and it
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Will be the holy city of heaven, and heaven will be on
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This rejuvenated earth that god creates for us.
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And does the bible declare
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It comes to the middle east, to to israel?
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Or is the--
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The bible--
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I haven't been able to really draw that line that straight.
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It just comes to this earth and and obviously jesus christ will
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Be king of kings and sit upon the throne of david.
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So there's pretty good evidence that that will be the
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Central place of it.
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I can't tell you that for sure, but that's what i understand.
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Hmm. all right.
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You answer so many fun questions, though, about our
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Our animals and our--
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You know what? that is a great--
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Go ahead.
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Laurie, we have two little puppies.
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Yes.
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And one of them got really sick yesterday.
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Aww.
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And, i mean, we didn't know if he--
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We took him to the vet, and the vet told us what was wrong, and
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He's going to be okay.
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And i told him when i called him, i said, you have no idea
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How much a grown man can love a little puppy.
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We had that last week.
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I was so upset all day i could think about nothing else.
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But here's the story. people want to know are animals going
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To be in heaven?
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But what they really want to know is, are my animals.
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Going to be in heaven?
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And i don't care about yours. [laughter]
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I can answer the first question positively.
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I had a little girl one time tell me after i talked about
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This in church, she said, doctor jeremiah, i don't know
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Why you understand that heaven is going to have animals.
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And i know for sure.
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And i said, well, honey, how do you know that?
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She said, because when jesus comes back, he's riding
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On a white horse.
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There it is. there it is.
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And i said, well, out of the mouths of children.
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So it's pretty evident that
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There will be animals in heaven.
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But i can't promise anybody that their animals will be.
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The lion will lay down with the lamb.
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That's in the millennium,
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But that's the precursor to heaven.
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And i wrote a whole chapter about that because one of my
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Best friends is a veterinarian, and he and his wife, um, we
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Talk about this a lot,
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And the ministry they have to people and and through their
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Animals, how they get into their hearts like they did
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In mine yesterday.
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So, yeah, there will be animals in heaven.
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Yeah.
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And by the way, uh, we've we've-- uh, there's information
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On the screen right now, but for the full view of the
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Glimpse of heaven, the entire special, just go to all the
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Information that's on the screen right now and wait till
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This broadcast is over.
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But once this is over, you want to see the whole production?
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Uh, all that information is on the screen of how you get to
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Watch the entire a glimpse of heaven concert.
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♪ when all the clouds darken up the skyway, there's a rainbow ♪
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♪ he was to be found ♪
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♪ leading from your window pane ♪
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♪ to a place behind the sun ♪
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♪ just a step beyond the ray ♪
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♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪
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♪ way up high ♪
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♪ there's a land ♪
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♪ that i've heard of once in a lullaby ♪
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♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪
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♪ skies are blue ♪
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♪ and the dreams ♪
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♪ that you dare to dream ♪
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♪ they really do come true ♪
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♪ so one day i'll wish upon a star ♪
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♪ and wake up ♪
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♪ where the clouds are far behind me ♪
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♪ oh, where troubles melt like ♪
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♪ lemon drops away above the chimney tops ♪
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♪ that's where you'll find me ♪
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♪ somewhere over the rainbow ♪
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♪ bluebirds fly ♪
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♪ birds fly ♪
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♪ over the rainbow ♪
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♪ why then, oh, why can't i? ♪
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♪ if happy little bluebirds fly ♪
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♪ beyond the rainbow, ♪
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♪ why, oh why can't i? ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ for the lord god almighty reigns ♪
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♪♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ for the lord god almighty ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ for the lord god almighty reigns ♪
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♪ alleluia ♪
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♪ holy, holy ♪
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♪ are you lord god almighty ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ you are holy ♪
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♪ holy ♪
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♪ holy are you ♪
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♪ lord god almighty ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ amen ♪
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♪ holy are you, lord god almighty ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ worth is the lamb ♪
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♪ are you lord god almighty ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb ♪
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♪ worthy is the lamb, amen ♪ ♪♪
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♪ you are holy ♪
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I love the fact that you have this big grand attitude.
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You have an attitude that when you write a book, you're going
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To do a big production.
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You're going to the disney philharmonic place and the
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Concert hall, and you're going to put on these big
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Productions, and we get to sit down and talk with you
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About all that.
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We get to put all that together.
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But you realize on tbn we do the same thing that we've
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Always done for 53 years.
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We invite people to know jesus and what a, what an amazing kind
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Of setup that you've got the christmas season.
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You've got the christ child.
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You've got the beginning of the redemption of man.
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And we're talking and singing about this place called heaven.
00:33:56.157 --> 00:34:01.529
But if you don't know the christ child, you're not
00:34:01.529 --> 00:34:05.133
Going to heaven.
00:34:05.133 --> 00:34:06.367
Heaven's a fearful thing for people who don't know jesus
00:34:06.367 --> 00:34:08.736
Because they know they're not going to be there.
00:34:08.736 --> 00:34:11.539
So just talk to our audience just for a moment and do what
00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:15.176
We've been doing for 53 years in inviting people to know
00:34:15.176 --> 00:34:18.379
Jesus that we're talking about, especially during this season.
00:34:18.379 --> 00:34:22.350
So during the season of christmas,
00:34:22.350 --> 00:34:24.252
Obviously christ is very much a part of our discussion,
00:34:25.386 --> 00:34:28.689
Especially as christians, and it's a great opportunity for us
00:34:28.689 --> 00:34:32.493
To say to people, if you want a difference in your life, if you
00:34:32.493 --> 00:34:35.930
Want to change, you are not going to get it anywhere else
00:34:35.930 --> 00:34:39.800
Except through jesus christ.
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:41.402
Just as he was born in bethlehem,
00:34:41.402 --> 00:34:43.538
He needs to be born in your heart.
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And the only way that happens, he's knocking at the door just
00:34:45.573 --> 00:34:49.143
Like he did on the inn.
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And he wants to come and live in your heart.
00:34:50.645 --> 00:34:52.280
But you have to invite him.
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:53.681
He doesn't force himself upon anyone.
00:34:53.681 --> 00:34:56.117
He will come into your life and
00:34:56.117 --> 00:34:57.518
Into your heart on one condition,
00:34:57.518 --> 00:34:59.487
If you simply say, lord jesus, i know i need you in my life.
00:34:59.487 --> 00:35:03.691
I'm a sinner.
00:35:04.058 --> 00:35:05.159
I know that i can't get to heaven on my own merit.
00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:07.995
So i want to accept you because you've promised that if i trust
00:35:07.995 --> 00:35:11.265
You, you will give me the gift of eternal life through jesus
00:35:11.265 --> 00:35:14.268
Christ the lord.
00:35:14.268 --> 00:35:15.736
So today i want to trust you, lord.
00:35:15.736 --> 00:35:18.439
I want to invite you into my heart.
00:35:18.439 --> 00:35:19.874
You say, pastor jeremiah, how do i do that?
00:35:19.874 --> 00:35:22.276
You do it through faith, by prayer.
00:35:22.276 --> 00:35:24.745
You simply pray a prayer like this.
00:35:24.745 --> 00:35:26.514
Dear god, i want to be a christian.
00:35:26.514 --> 00:35:29.650
I want to go to heaven someday.
00:35:29.650 --> 00:35:31.752
You've put a desire in my heart for something better than what
00:35:31.752 --> 00:35:34.522
I have right now.
00:35:34.522 --> 00:35:36.257
So i am praying today that jesus christ will hear me and
00:35:36.257 --> 00:35:40.027
That he will come and live within my heart.
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And i, i thank you so much that i know that he will, because in
00:35:41.495 --> 00:35:45.199
The bible it says he's not willing that any should perish.
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:48.302
So no matter what you've done or where you've been, however
00:35:48.302 --> 00:35:51.138
You've responded to life, right now can be
00:35:51.138 --> 00:35:53.674
A difference maker for you
00:35:53.674 --> 00:35:55.776
By putting the christ of christmas in your heart and
00:35:55.776 --> 00:35:59.947
Accepting him as your savior and the forgiveness of your sin.
00:35:59.947 --> 00:36:03.150
I hope you will do that, because when you do that,
00:36:03.150 --> 00:36:06.454
Everything is different
00:36:06.454 --> 00:36:07.488
From that moment on.
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The bible says all things start to pass away and all things
00:36:08.756 --> 00:36:12.693
Start to become new.
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And that is the hope of heaven.
00:36:15.363 --> 00:36:18.232
Amen.
00:36:18.232 --> 00:36:19.533
And, you know, you think about-- well, i think about when people
00:36:19.533 --> 00:36:22.703
Come to christ.
00:36:22.703 --> 00:36:23.371
I think how many people?
00:36:23.371 --> 00:36:24.605
Because it says that there's a great cloud of witnesses,
00:36:24.605 --> 00:36:27.108
Right, watching, watching us.
00:36:27.108 --> 00:36:29.076
Right. what do you think about that?
00:36:29.076 --> 00:36:30.778
Well, i do believe that the great cloud of witnesses in
00:36:30.778 --> 00:36:33.914
Hebrews 11 is, i believe, really the people who are who
00:36:33.914 --> 00:36:37.918
Are cited there as the heroes, that they're the ones
00:36:37.918 --> 00:36:40.521
Who spur us on.
00:36:40.521 --> 00:36:41.656
In chapter 12 it says, therefore, let us go forward
00:36:41.656 --> 00:36:44.759
Because we have all these people who tell us we can go
00:36:44.759 --> 00:36:47.028
Forward, but there is a great crowd in heaven.
00:36:47.028 --> 00:36:49.497
In fact, one of the things about heaven i get asked all
00:36:49.497 --> 00:36:52.733
The time is will it be big enough?
00:36:52.733 --> 00:36:55.002
And people who say that obviously have a greater
00:36:55.002 --> 00:36:58.773
Appreciation for heaven, perhaps, than they should,
00:36:58.773 --> 00:37:00.775
Because a lot of people who think they're going, they're
00:37:00.775 --> 00:37:02.677
Not going there.
00:37:02.677 --> 00:37:03.711
But, um, but heaven is a big place.
00:37:03.711 --> 00:37:06.247
It's foursquare.
00:37:06.247 --> 00:37:07.948
And the bible in revelation at the end of the book tells us
00:37:07.948 --> 00:37:11.085
About the size of it.
00:37:11.085 --> 00:37:12.787
So that means it's it's a leveled.
00:37:12.787 --> 00:37:15.423
There are levels of heaven.
00:37:15.423 --> 00:37:17.158
There will be so many people in heaven.
00:37:17.158 --> 00:37:18.959
And in the city of heaven, the capital city is
00:37:18.959 --> 00:37:24.098
Described in such detail that it is,
00:37:24.098 --> 00:37:26.667
It's unbelievable.
00:37:26.667 --> 00:37:28.502
Well, i think about that great cloud of witnesses.
00:37:28.502 --> 00:37:31.272
And how many people in heaven
00:37:31.272 --> 00:37:33.908
Have been praying for you, right?
00:37:33.908 --> 00:37:36.877
How many prayed that you would receive christ?
00:37:36.877 --> 00:37:39.347
Or maybe you're a grandchild. that's your grandmother.
00:37:39.347 --> 00:37:42.183
And you know even better than that,
00:37:42.183 --> 00:37:43.284
If they did that today, there's a party going on.
00:37:43.284 --> 00:37:45.553
That's right. exactly.
00:37:45.553 --> 00:37:47.555
And how excited people are that you've come into the kingdom
00:37:47.555 --> 00:37:51.292
For such a time as this.
00:37:51.292 --> 00:37:52.660
And i just think that's a beautiful.
00:37:52.660 --> 00:37:54.195
That's what the christmas message is all about, is that
00:37:54.195 --> 00:37:56.897
Jesus came down to look us in the eye to redeem us--
00:37:56.897 --> 00:38:00.835
Amen.
00:38:00.835 --> 00:38:01.669
Uh, from all of the sin that ww--
00:38:01.669 --> 00:38:05.306
Past, present and future.
00:38:05.873 --> 00:38:08.209
And to give us this glorious hope of the great,
00:38:08.209 --> 00:38:11.679
I believe, here and now, right here on earth
00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:14.248
You can have victory.
00:38:14.248 --> 00:38:15.549
You can have hope, you can have joy, you can have peace because
00:38:15.549 --> 00:38:18.419
The kingdom of god is at hand.
00:38:18.419 --> 00:38:19.987
The kingdom of god is in us.
00:38:19.987 --> 00:38:22.356
And doctor jeremiah, i love you.
00:38:22.356 --> 00:38:24.525
I'm so glad you're down here right now.
00:38:24.525 --> 00:38:26.694
Thank you.
00:38:26.694 --> 00:38:27.728
We have prayed for you and you look amazing.
00:38:27.728 --> 00:38:29.730
Well, great.
00:38:29.730 --> 00:38:31.198
You look amazing.
00:38:31.632 --> 00:38:33.267
And i'm so happy for you and donna.
00:38:33.267 --> 00:38:35.102
And i'm just--
00:38:35.102 --> 00:38:36.370
I'm blessed that you're still here with us, because i know
00:38:36.370 --> 00:38:38.539
You've gone through some things.
00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:39.774
We've had a couple of really challenging years, and all i
00:38:39.774 --> 00:38:43.010
Can say to you and to everybody who's watching,
00:38:43.010 --> 00:38:45.813
Once again, we've discovered that god is enough.
00:38:45.813 --> 00:38:48.349
Thank you, lord. for every situation.
00:38:48.349 --> 00:38:50.017
He's always there.
00:38:50.017 --> 00:38:51.552
I've had my moments of discouragement, but they
00:38:51.552 --> 00:38:53.921
Don't last very long.
00:38:53.921 --> 00:38:55.656
And, um, he has blessed--
00:38:55.656 --> 00:38:58.426
You know, sometimes when we're broken, we're not 100%,
00:38:58.426 --> 00:39:03.097
The bible says when we are weak, then we are strong.
00:39:03.097 --> 00:39:06.066
God sometimes works through us better in those days.
00:39:06.066 --> 00:39:08.869
I mean, i'm not volunteering for this to be a long time
00:39:08.869 --> 00:39:11.705
Situation, but i'm not angry with god.
00:39:11.705 --> 00:39:14.942
I'm very thankful for all that i've learned during this time
00:39:14.942 --> 00:39:17.511
And for what he's done, how he's cared for my family, and
00:39:17.511 --> 00:39:21.782
Also just the realization of the love of the people of god
00:39:21.782 --> 00:39:24.618
For us during this time.
00:39:24.618 --> 00:39:25.886
It's been amazing, beautiful.
00:39:25.886 --> 00:39:27.154
Like paul said, i boast in my weakness
00:39:27.154 --> 00:39:29.156
Because then he's been strong.
00:39:29.156 --> 00:39:31.258
I love that.
00:39:31.258 --> 00:39:31.725
I love it.
00:39:31.725 --> 00:39:48.542
♪ though you are homeless ♪
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♪ though you're alone ♪
00:39:53.747 --> 00:39:57.551
♪ i will be your home ♪
00:39:58.118 --> 00:40:06.026
♪ whatever the matter, ♪
00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:10.631
♪ whatever been done, ♪
00:40:11.198 --> 00:40:15.102
♪ i will be your home ♪
00:40:15.669 --> 00:40:23.811
♪ i will be your home ♪
00:40:24.378 --> 00:40:32.486
I will be your home
00:40:32.953 --> 00:40:40.995
♪ in this fearful ♪
00:40:41.495 --> 00:40:44.832
♪ fallen place ♪
00:40:45.232 --> 00:40:49.503
♪ i will be your home ♪
00:40:50.070 --> 00:41:01.615
♪ when time reaches fullness ♪
00:41:02.283 --> 00:41:05.819
♪ when i move my hand ♪
00:41:06.387 --> 00:41:10.090
♪ i will bring you home, ♪
00:41:10.758 --> 00:41:16.564
♪ home, ♪
00:41:16.897 --> 00:41:18.766
♪ home to your own place ♪
00:41:19.366 --> 00:41:23.137
♪ in a beautiful land♪
00:41:23.137 --> 00:41:27.041
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:41:27.641 --> 00:41:35.549
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:41:36.150 --> 00:41:43.924
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:41:44.525 --> 00:41:51.966
♪ from this fearful fallen place ♪
00:41:52.766 --> 00:42:00.641
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:42:01.241 --> 00:42:24.264
♪♪
00:42:24.498 --> 00:42:46.687
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:42:46.687 --> 00:42:54.561
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:42:55.162 --> 00:43:02.836
♪ from this fearful fallen place ♪
00:43:03.637 --> 00:43:11.845
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:43:12.446 --> 00:43:20.888
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:43:21.488 --> 00:43:29.596
♪ i will bring you home ♪
00:43:30.197 --> 00:44:12.272
♪ how lovely is your dwelling place, ♪
00:44:13.107 --> 00:44:20.047
♪ o lord almighty ♪
00:44:20.547 --> 00:44:24.351
♪ my soul longs indeed evidence for you ♪
00:44:25.285 --> 00:44:36.463
♪ for here ♪
00:44:36.830 --> 00:44:38.365
♪ my heart is satisfied ♪
00:44:38.365 --> 00:44:44.037
♪ within your presence ♪
00:44:44.571 --> 00:44:48.575
♪ i sing beneath ♪
00:44:49.042 --> 00:44:51.512
♪ the shadow of your wings ♪
00:44:52.146 --> 00:44:59.920
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:45:00.721 --> 00:45:03.791
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:45:03.791 --> 00:45:06.727
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:45:06.727 --> 00:45:09.730
♪ than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:45:09.730 --> 00:45:11.932
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:45:12.733 --> 00:45:15.736
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:45:15.736 --> 00:45:18.806
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:45:18.806 --> 00:45:24.111
♪ than thousands elsewhere. ♪
00:45:24.745 --> 00:45:30.217
♪ one thing i ask, and i would see ♪
00:45:31.018 --> 00:45:38.025
♪ to see your beauty ♪
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.162
♪ to find you in the place your glory dwell ♪
00:45:43.130 --> 00:45:53.974
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:45:54.775 --> 00:45:57.778
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:45:57.778 --> 00:46:00.714
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:46:00.714 --> 00:46:03.717
♪ than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:46:03.717 --> 00:46:05.919
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:46:06.720 --> 00:46:09.690
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:46:09.690 --> 00:46:12.726
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:46:12.726 --> 00:46:15.696
♪ than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:46:15.696 --> 00:46:18.632
♪ my heart and flesh cry out to you the living god ♪
00:46:19.733 --> 00:46:25.739
♪ your spirit's water for my soul ♪
00:46:25.739 --> 00:46:31.245
♪ i've tasted and i've seen ♪
00:46:31.879 --> 00:46:34.815
♪ come once again to me ♪
00:46:34.815 --> 00:46:37.818
♪ i will draw near to you ♪
00:46:37.818 --> 00:46:48.028
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:46:48.829 --> 00:46:51.832
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:46:51.832 --> 00:46:54.768
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:46:54.768 --> 00:46:57.838
♪ than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:46:57.838 --> 00:46:59.806
♪ better is one day in your courts ♪
00:47:00.607 --> 00:47:03.610
♪ better is one day in your house ♪
00:47:03.610 --> 00:47:06.680
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:06.680 --> 00:47:08.248
♪ in your courts than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:47:08.248 --> 00:47:12.119
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:12.619 --> 00:47:15.122
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:15.622 --> 00:47:18.358
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:18.859 --> 00:47:24.731
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:25.232 --> 00:47:27.768
♪ better is one day ♪
00:47:28.268 --> 00:47:29.770
♪ better is one day than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:47:30.804 --> 00:47:36.009
♪ than thousands elsewhere ♪
00:47:36.643 --> 00:48:15.415
♪ amazing grace ♪
00:48:15.882 --> 00:48:24.891
♪ how sweet the sound ♪
00:48:25.492 --> 00:48:33.367
♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪
00:48:34.101 --> 00:48:48.415
♪ i once was lost, ♪
00:48:48.915 --> 00:48:55.555
♪ but now i'm found ♪
00:48:56.123 --> 00:49:02.462
♪ was blind but now i see ♪
00:49:03.130 --> 00:49:17.677
♪ twas grace that taught ♪
00:49:18.345 --> 00:49:24.985
♪ my heart to fear ♪
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:30.724
♪ and grace my fears relieved ♪
00:49:31.491 --> 00:49:43.336
♪ how precious did that grace ♪
00:49:44.071 --> 00:49:52.646
♪ appear the hour i first believed ♪
00:49:53.447 --> 00:50:07.627
♪ through many ♪
00:50:08.028 --> 00:50:11.832
♪ dangers, ♪
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:13.934
♪ toils and snares i have ♪
00:50:14.568 --> 00:50:22.442
♪ already come ♪
00:50:22.843 --> 00:50:27.180
♪ tis grace this has brought me ♪
00:50:27.914 --> 00:50:33.220
♪ safe thus far ♪
00:50:33.687 --> 00:50:36.590
♪ and grace ♪
00:50:36.957 --> 00:50:39.326
♪ will lead ♪
00:50:39.693 --> 00:50:41.695
♪ me home ♪
00:50:42.028 --> 00:50:46.299
♪ when we've ♪
00:50:46.700 --> 00:50:48.935
♪ been there ♪
00:50:49.336 --> 00:50:52.973
♪ 10,000 years. ♪
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.675
♪ bright shining ♪
00:50:56.143 --> 00:51:00.881
♪ as the sun ♪
00:51:01.281 --> 00:51:05.218
♪ we've no less days ♪
00:51:05.752 --> 00:51:10.390
♪ to sing god's praise ♪
00:51:10.924 --> 00:51:14.427
♪ than when we first begun ♪
00:51:15.128 --> 00:51:23.470
♪ amazing grace ♪
00:51:23.937 --> 00:51:29.543
♪ how sweet the sound ♪
00:51:30.110 --> 00:51:34.281
♪ that saved ♪
00:51:34.681 --> 00:51:36.950
♪ a wretch ♪
00:51:37.317 --> 00:51:39.419
♪ like me ♪
00:51:39.753 --> 00:51:43.790
♪ i once was lost ♪
00:51:44.291 --> 00:51:49.062
♪ but now am found ♪
00:51:49.563 --> 00:51:53.500
♪ i was blind, but now i see ♪
00:51:54.167 --> 00:52:03.243
♪ i once was lost, ♪
00:52:03.743 --> 00:52:08.782
♪ but now i'm found ♪
00:52:09.282 --> 00:52:14.287
♪ was blind ♪
00:52:14.654 --> 00:52:17.791
♪ but now ♪
00:52:18.124 --> 00:52:23.496
♪ i see ♪
00:52:23.830 --> 00:52:30.303
♪ i see ♪
00:52:30.637 --> 00:52:34.975
♪ oh yeah ♪
00:52:35.308 --> 00:52:49.322
The final thought on christmas and heaven.
00:52:50.223 --> 00:52:54.160
And this beautiful, beautiful symphony.
00:52:54.160 --> 00:52:57.163
The music of heaven, i believe,
00:52:57.163 --> 00:52:58.598
Is the best music you'll ever hear.
00:52:58.598 --> 00:53:00.700
When i was growing up in our churches, we used to sing
00:53:00.700 --> 00:53:03.637
About heaven a lot.
00:53:03.637 --> 00:53:05.272
I've noticed over the years that the songs about heaven
00:53:05.272 --> 00:53:08.508
Have kind of been replaced by a lot of worship music that
00:53:08.508 --> 00:53:11.478
Sometimes concentrates on us instead of what god has
00:53:11.478 --> 00:53:15.282
Planned for us.
00:53:15.282 --> 00:53:17.083
Southern gospel music is really good at talking about heaven in
00:53:17.083 --> 00:53:20.553
Their songs, and we wanted to collect some of the best songs
00:53:20.553 --> 00:53:24.524
On heaven and encourage people with that music because
00:53:24.524 --> 00:53:27.494
Some of it is just overwhelmingly beautiful.
00:53:27.494 --> 00:53:30.997
I said at the end of the concert, i have never spent
00:53:30.997 --> 00:53:33.900
Two hours in my life like i spent tonight.
00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:36.903
I was in tears much of it.
00:53:36.903 --> 00:53:38.838
I was supposed to be the narrator.
00:53:38.838 --> 00:53:40.674
Every time i was supposed to speak, i was choking, trying to
00:53:40.674 --> 00:53:43.677
Get my trying to get my equilibrium back.
00:53:43.677 --> 00:53:47.547
Heaven is a wonderful thing.
00:53:47.547 --> 00:53:48.848
And that concert was one of the most beautiful things i have
00:53:48.848 --> 00:53:52.852
Ever had anything to do with in my life.
00:53:52.852 --> 00:53:54.954
Wow. that's beautiful.
00:53:54.954 --> 00:53:56.589
From the humility of the birth
00:53:56.589 --> 00:53:58.925
Of jesus to the splendor of heaven.
00:53:58.925 --> 00:54:01.428
Amen.
00:54:01.428 --> 00:54:02.295
Um, what a journey. what a journey.
00:54:02.295 --> 00:54:03.997
We'll see you next time.
00:54:03.997 --> 00:54:05.432
Thank you, doctor j.
00:54:05.432 --> 00:54:06.499
♪♪
00:54:06.499 --> 00:54:06.499

David Jeremiah: The Coming of Our Savior | Praise

December 10, 2025 | 55:57

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