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David Jeremiah: A Glimpse of Heaven | Praise

March 30, 2026 | 57:4

David Jeremiah: A Glimpse of Heaven | Praise
Join Dr. David Jeremiah for A Glimpse of Heaven, a breathtaking production of music, storytelling, and artistry that captures the wonder of heaven. Experience God’s love, the promise of eternity, and the joy of Jesus’ sacrifice, ending with Worthy is the Lamb and Hallelujah Chorus.
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Praise | David Jeremiah: A Glimpse of Heaven | Praise | March 30, 2026
  • (beeping sound)
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  • - [narrator] coming up tonight on praise.
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  • ♪ some glad morning when this life is over ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ to that home on god's celestial shore ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • - heaven you see, is the ultimate goal.
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  • It's why jesus came,
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  • So that we could someday spend eternity with him.
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  • He wants us to be with him.
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  • Can you imagine that?
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  • And he paid the ultimate price to make it possible
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  • By giving up his own son and having him come here
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  • And suffer as he did,
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  • And pay the penalty that you and i deserve.
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  • And here's the beauty of it.
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  • He offers to us the benefit of that,
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  • And all we have to do is say yes.
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  • - [narrator] tonight on "praise" from los angeles,
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  • Bestselling author and senior pastor, dr. david jeremiah.
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  • And now your host, matt and laurie crouch.
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  • - dr. jeremiah, if i start by saying, he has risen.
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  • - he is risen indeed.
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  • - okay, you got the memo.
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  • All right, he is risen indeed.
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  • Help make the connection with us
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  • To our viewing audience between
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  • The disney concert hall,
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  • The resurrection of jesus christ,
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  • And the hope of heaven one day,
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  • Help make sense of those three things.
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  • - well, we did this big concert,
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  • As you know, at the concert hall in la.
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  • The whole menu was heaven, every song was heaven.
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  • Every speech was heaven.
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  • We wanted to focus on this place
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  • That bible tells us we're gonna spend eternity
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  • With the lord if we know jesus christ.
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  • So the bible says he came, as we know, born in bethlehem.
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  • He did not begin at bethlehem,
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  • But he entered into humanity in bethlehem.
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  • One of the good reasons to remember that
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  • Is every time we take communion,
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  • We remind ourselves of christmas and easter.
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  • We take the bread, which reminds us
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  • That jesus became a human.
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  • We take the cup because that reminds us
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  • That he died on the cross and shed his blood,
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  • Which is what we celebrated at the easter time.
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  • So he came to this earth to die.
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  • He was resurrected, proving that his death was legitimate
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  • 'cause he came outta the grave under his own power,
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  • And put his foot on the neck of death
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  • And said, death, you're dead.
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  • You don't have power over my people.
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  • When we put our trust in christ, he makes us alive,
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  • And then we spend eternity with him in heaven.
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  • So there you go.
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  • From heaven down here to rescue us, back to heaven.
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  • And then ultimately, we are called up together
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  • To be with him in the air
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  • And so shall we ever be with the lord.
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  • - wow, well that's basically the story
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  • Of everything in about a minute.
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  • - [david] yes, it is.
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  • - so good job on that. - thank you.
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  • - when we talk about heaven though, what do we miss?
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  • - what do we miss?
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  • - what do we miss when we're talking about heaven?
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  • - what are the big misconception about it?
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  • - yeah.
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  • - i think probably the most often heard misconception
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  • About it from people is that it's boring.
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  • I hear people say all the time, i don't know if i want
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  • To go to heaven and sing in the choir every day for.
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  • - ours are float around on a cloud with a harp.
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  • There's nothing i love to attack better than that thought
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  • Because here are the reasons why heaven won't be boring.
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  • First of all, god is not boring.
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  • The bible says in his presence is joy for evermore.
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  • Number two, jesus is not boring.
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  • Have you studied his life and saw how he lived
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  • And what he did and the miracles he performed,
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  • He walked on water and cast demons out of people, boring?
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  • Here's the one that surprises most people,
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  • You won't be boring.
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  • Because on your way to heaven,
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  • You're gonna be changed.
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  • And to be like jesus in your body,
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  • When you get to heaven, if you're boring down here,
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  • You're gonna be a most exciting person you ever met.
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  • Your friends won't be boring,
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  • And your work won't be boring.
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  • There's the last thing in the world
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  • You should ever say about heaven, is it's gonna be boring.
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  • It is gonna be excitement at the highest level,
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  • And your ability as a person to handle it all
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  • And keep enshrined.
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  • - well, i just want to apologize because we didn't help you.
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  • We have clouds and we're kind of floating around
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  • In the clouds here.
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  • So we didn't help the imagery.
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  • We should have thought of something
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  • A little non-stereotypical. - i think clouds
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  • Are all right. - clouds are okay.
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  • Here we are floating around in heaven.
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  • But we're talking about the fact that
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  • We wouldn't have a hope of heaven
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  • If we didn't have a death, burial and resurrection.
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  • So in this time of the easter season
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  • And inside the easter week and holy week as we say,
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  • Help connect the dots for people
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  • That need to understand the connection
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  • Of the season we're in now, holy week,
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  • And the hope of heaven.
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  • - i remember matt doing a sermon so many years ago,
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  • Why do we have to have christmas?
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  • That's the kind of the question we're asking.
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  • Why do we have to have easter?
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  • Here's the issue, we're lost.
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  • If we don't have a solution to the problem we have,
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  • We're sinners by nature and by birth.
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  • And the bible says that god does not condone sin
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  • And you can't go to heaven with your sin.
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  • Sin separates us, it's a barrier.
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  • And the only thing that can happen
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  • Is if there's an intervention of some sort
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  • And that intervention of course was the coming of christ.
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  • And he came as the god man,
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  • He was 100% god, 100% man,
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  • As the only one who could ever solve the problem.
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  • He put one foot on man's side, one foot on god's side,
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  • And brought us together at the cross.
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  • I like to tell people, the cross is a picture of that.
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  • This shows us god, this shows us his reach to all of us.
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  • So when we celebrate easter,
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  • We're celebrating the ultimate proof
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  • That jesus christ is the savior of the world.
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  • The resurrection is even more important
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  • Than the crucifixion,
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  • Because if the crucifixion is all we have,
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  • We have a number of people who could qualify.
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  • But there's nobody who ever came back from dead on his own
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  • And put his foot on the neck of death
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  • And walked out victorious and says,
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  • "if you believe in me, you too shall live.
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  • "you shall live as i do.
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  • "you should be resurrected as i was."
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  • He solved the problem and the whole story
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  • Of easter and christmas is the celebration of that truth.
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  • - dr. j, do you sing?
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  • Can you sing?
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  • - oh, i sing all the time.
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  • - you do? - yeah.
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  • - can you actually sing?
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  • I mean, like, could you actually carry a tune correctly
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  • And all that? - i want you to know,
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  • I'm not gonna do it today. - yeah, okay,
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  • But i won't make you, but you can?
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  • You can do that? - i sang in a quartet
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  • When i was in college. - you did?
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  • - and i lead music often in my church,
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  • And at the end of services, i'll start a song by singing it.
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  • I love to sing.
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  • - okay, do you play instruments?
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  • - well, i did for a while.
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  • I played the baritone horn when i was in college.
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  • Well, i haven't played it since, so.
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  • - okay, so you have a little bit of a musical gene.
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  • You have a little bit of creative expression
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  • Through music.
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  • You have a creative expression through your preaching
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  • And the oratory of crafting a message.
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  • But you sometimes jump out of the box big time
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  • And make a movie.
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  • You've done a few things like that.
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  • And, you know, i tune on to tbn every once in a while
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  • And there you are in times square,
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  • Or there you are in, you know, the,
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  • What's the big park up, central park,
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  • And you're overlooking central park.
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  • And i flipped on the tv,
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  • And you were at the disney concert hall,
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  • And there's a little bit of a showman in you, inside of you.
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  • You go out of the way to bring attention
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  • To some very important matters in a very creative way.
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  • Where does all that come from?
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  • - well, you know, i don't have a show background
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  • Or anything, but i started at.
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  • - church, when i was a young pastor with seven families,
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  • God has always given me the opportunity
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  • To be in places to do stuff.
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  • Most of the things that god has blessed in my life
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  • Are things that don't make any sense humanly.
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  • It's almost to the point,
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  • If it makes sense, it's probably not god, you know?
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  • - right.
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  • - starting a radio ministry from scratch
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  • And a television ministry
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  • And building a church from scratch.
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  • I was involved in a college.
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  • All of these things god has put in my life,
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  • And all of them have proven to me over and over again
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  • That god want,
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  • I was talking in the break
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  • As we were dealing with these subjects,
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  • The bible teaches us a lesson
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  • That god loves us to,
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  • To try great things for him.
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  • There's an old adage that says,
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  • "attempt great things for god,
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  • Expect great things from god."
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  • Sometimes we stop short of taking the step
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  • Because of fear.
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  • And if it's us doing it, we should be afraid.
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  • But if we serve a great god
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  • Who is able to do above and beyond
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  • All that we can ask or think,
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  • There should never be anything.
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  • I understand there's a fine line
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  • Between fear and foolishness,
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  • Faith and foolishness.
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  • But i know god wants us to do a lot more than we often do
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  • Because we're afraid.
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  • And it's been a joy to watch him do things
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  • That i never dreamed could ever happen.
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  • - my dad used to always say,
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  • You know, even at the end of his time here on earth,
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  • Before he transitioned to heaven,
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  • My dad was,
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  • I asked him one time, late in life,
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  • I'll ask you the same thing.
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  • But the question was,
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  • You've done a lot.
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  • People that would do research on paul crouch
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  • Would've realized that in one generation,
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  • He put a satellite signal
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  • Everywhere you can put one on earth.
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  • And largely that was the assignment that
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  • God had given him.
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  • And you know, i know that baptists
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  • Don't like to talk about things like this very much,
  • 00:10:34.957 --> 00:10:37.393
  • But my dad looked up one day in the den of our home
  • 00:10:37.393 --> 00:10:42.364
  • And saw what he said he described later
  • 00:10:43.199 --> 00:10:46.168
  • Like an at&t commercial on the ceiling
  • 00:10:46.168 --> 00:10:48.404
  • Of our home in newport beach.
  • 00:10:48.404 --> 00:10:51.073
  • There was a picture of the earth
  • 00:10:51.707 --> 00:10:53.275
  • And lights lighting up on north america
  • 00:10:53.275 --> 00:10:56.645
  • And a beam shooting down.
  • 00:10:56.645 --> 00:10:58.114
  • And he said, "lord, what am i seeing?"
  • 00:10:58.114 --> 00:11:00.349
  • And he said, "satellite."
  • 00:11:00.349 --> 00:11:02.251
  • And the lord said, "soon."
  • 00:11:02.251 --> 00:11:04.587
  • Well, my dad got a call from a salesman out of new york city
  • 00:11:04.587 --> 00:11:08.791
  • About 60 days later,
  • 00:11:09.258 --> 00:11:11.026
  • Said, "you're a tv station owner in los angeles,
  • 00:11:11.026 --> 00:11:13.629
  • Would you like to be on satellite?"
  • 00:11:13.629 --> 00:11:15.765
  • Well, the budget of tv inn at the time was 30,000 a month.
  • 00:11:15.765 --> 00:11:20.436
  • It's a little more than that today.
  • 00:11:20.436 --> 00:11:22.638
  • And the satellite bill was 30,000 a month.
  • 00:11:22.638 --> 00:11:27.042
  • So my dad was a businessman.
  • 00:11:27.042 --> 00:11:28.577
  • He would've never doubled the budget.
  • 00:11:28.577 --> 00:11:31.814
  • That would've been foolishness in his mind.
  • 00:11:31.814 --> 00:11:33.949
  • Except- - reckless.
  • 00:11:33.949 --> 00:11:35.417
  • For reckless, it would've been reckless in his mind.
  • 00:11:35.417 --> 00:11:38.854
  • Except for the fact that
  • 00:11:39.355 --> 00:11:40.656
  • Lord had to show him something supernatural
  • 00:11:40.656 --> 00:11:44.794
  • Much like moses had to see a burning bush
  • 00:11:44.794 --> 00:11:47.863
  • To go and do the amazing things he accomplished.
  • 00:11:47.863 --> 00:11:50.966
  • Take us back to some of these things,
  • 00:11:50.966 --> 00:11:53.202
  • You just talked about never really feeling qualified,
  • 00:11:53.202 --> 00:11:57.373
  • But always wanting to get outside the box
  • 00:11:57.373 --> 00:11:59.675
  • And do something bigger,
  • 00:11:59.675 --> 00:12:00.843
  • Building a radio ministry from nothing,
  • 00:12:00.843 --> 00:12:03.512
  • A tv ministry, a church from nothing, a college.
  • 00:12:03.512 --> 00:12:07.049
  • You do these big productions.
  • 00:12:07.049 --> 00:12:09.852
  • Tell us something that happened along the way
  • 00:12:09.852 --> 00:12:12.521
  • Where god had to show you something
  • 00:12:12.521 --> 00:12:14.790
  • Or give you a heads up that this is me and not you
  • 00:12:14.790 --> 00:12:19.061
  • So you would step out and do something amazing.
  • 00:12:19.061 --> 00:12:22.464
  • - well, if you go back to the beginning of what we did
  • 00:12:22.464 --> 00:12:25.234
  • With television and radio,
  • 00:12:25.234 --> 00:12:28.871
  • I came up here one day on the train
  • 00:12:29.605 --> 00:12:31.507
  • To visit with some people to talk about doing something big.
  • 00:12:31.507 --> 00:12:36.245
  • And the message i got was,
  • 00:12:36.245 --> 00:12:37.880
  • David, you do not have a viable national ministry.
  • 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:41.050
  • - mm, there you go.
  • 00:12:41.050 --> 00:12:43.085
  • - i was broken.
  • 00:12:43.085 --> 00:12:44.353
  • I rode back on the train and i kept saying, god,
  • 00:12:44.353 --> 00:12:47.189
  • You put this in my heart, how could this be?
  • 00:12:48.123 --> 00:12:50.359
  • When i got home and told donna, you know what she said?
  • 00:12:51.427 --> 00:12:54.063
  • She said, "last time i remember, david,
  • 00:12:54.063 --> 00:12:55.898
  • God was in charge of viable ministries."
  • 00:12:55.898 --> 00:12:57.933
  • - that's right.
  • 00:12:57.933 --> 00:12:59.068
  • - and all of a sudden i realized,
  • 00:12:59.068 --> 00:13:00.069
  • She's absolutely right.
  • 00:13:00.069 --> 00:13:02.204
  • They don't have the right to tell me
  • 00:13:02.204 --> 00:13:03.505
  • What god can do in my life.
  • 00:13:03.505 --> 00:13:04.974
  • - come on.
  • 00:13:04.974 --> 00:13:06.442
  • - and so i took new heart and new hope, and i began,
  • 00:13:06.442 --> 00:13:09.879
  • And people ask me over the years,
  • 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.314
  • Would you have wanted all of this at the beginning?
  • 00:13:13.382 --> 00:13:16.318
  • And i wouldn't
  • 00:13:16.318 --> 00:13:17.720
  • Because i would've missed all of the experiences
  • 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.421
  • Of god being there for me in certain situations
  • 00:13:19.421 --> 00:13:22.691
  • To help me work through problems
  • 00:13:22.691 --> 00:13:24.593
  • And go through things that we,
  • 00:13:24.593 --> 00:13:26.528
  • In fact, when we were getting ready to start on tbn.
  • 00:13:26.528 --> 00:13:30.532
  • - i knew that it was gonna be more than we had.
  • 00:13:31.500 --> 00:13:34.003
  • We didn't have enough money.
  • 00:13:34.003 --> 00:13:35.905
  • There was a man who called me one day,
  • 00:13:35.905 --> 00:13:39.275
  • And he said, "i wanna come down and see you."
  • 00:13:39.275 --> 00:13:41.977
  • He came down and he said,
  • 00:13:41.977 --> 00:13:43.212
  • "you know, i run a bunch of companies,
  • 00:13:43.212 --> 00:13:44.680
  • And we've been having some problems,
  • 00:13:44.680 --> 00:13:46.415
  • And somebody gave me a copy
  • 00:13:46.415 --> 00:13:47.683
  • Of a book you wrote on ecclesiastes."
  • 00:13:47.683 --> 00:13:49.952
  • He said, "we had a retreat.
  • 00:13:49.952 --> 00:13:51.387
  • We read your book in the morning
  • 00:13:51.387 --> 00:13:52.755
  • And did business in the afternoon."
  • 00:13:52.755 --> 00:13:54.256
  • And he said, "i don't know how to explain this to you,
  • 00:13:54.256 --> 00:13:56.191
  • But things got straightened out,
  • 00:13:56.191 --> 00:13:57.459
  • And i wanted to come down and thank you."
  • 00:13:57.459 --> 00:14:00.262
  • And i remember saying to him, "i know you came here
  • 00:14:00.262 --> 00:14:03.532
  • To tell me what i've done for you,
  • 00:14:03.532 --> 00:14:06.001
  • But i wanna tell you what you can do for me."
  • 00:14:06.001 --> 00:14:08.504
  • And he said, "what do you mean?"
  • 00:14:08.504 --> 00:14:09.905
  • I said, "we just got the opportunity to go on tbn,
  • 00:14:09.905 --> 00:14:12.841
  • And we don't have enough money."
  • 00:14:12.841 --> 00:14:15.077
  • He said, "well, what's the short?"
  • 00:14:15.077 --> 00:14:16.412
  • I said, "well, if we have to deal with this
  • 00:14:16.412 --> 00:14:18.347
  • For the whole year, we're about a quarter
  • 00:14:18.347 --> 00:14:19.481
  • Of a million dollars short."
  • 00:14:19.481 --> 00:14:21.250
  • Three days later, he wired me a quarter
  • 00:14:21.250 --> 00:14:23.285
  • Of a million dollars.
  • 00:14:23.285 --> 00:14:24.486
  • - wow. - and that was the beginning
  • 00:14:24.486 --> 00:14:26.121
  • Where god said, "okay, go ahead.
  • 00:14:26.121 --> 00:14:27.656
  • Do this."
  • 00:14:27.656 --> 00:14:28.857
  • - wow. - we have been your partners
  • 00:14:28.857 --> 00:14:30.426
  • In this for all these years because of that little miracle
  • 00:14:30.426 --> 00:14:33.595
  • That he did on our behalf.
  • 00:14:33.595 --> 00:14:35.564
  • - it feels like when you think of what we base our lives on,
  • 00:14:35.564 --> 00:14:41.170
  • Which is the resurrection of jesus christ,
  • 00:14:42.037 --> 00:14:44.740
  • We're celebrating him and this season that we're in today,
  • 00:14:44.740 --> 00:14:48.811
  • But all of what he resurrected, he wants to do that in us
  • 00:14:49.945 --> 00:14:54.817
  • So that we will accomplish great things for him.
  • 00:14:55.818 --> 00:14:58.187
  • He's really looking for people who will by faith go and do,
  • 00:14:58.187 --> 00:15:03.225
  • You know, these things.
  • 00:15:03.726 --> 00:15:05.894
  • Your life, you just said,
  • 00:15:06.462 --> 00:15:09.365
  • I'll use different vernacular, but you just said
  • 00:15:09.365 --> 00:15:12.935
  • I actually can look at the grind
  • 00:15:12.935 --> 00:15:17.373
  • Of what it took to be ministering over what everything
  • 00:15:17.373 --> 00:15:21.677
  • That you're doing now, i appreciate the grind.
  • 00:15:21.677 --> 00:15:24.747
  • And a lot of people don't wanna grind.
  • 00:15:24.747 --> 00:15:27.149
  • - no. - they don't.
  • 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:28.083
  • They kinda want some talk
  • 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:29.585
  • To that. - they want the product
  • 00:15:29.585 --> 00:15:30.519
  • Without the process.
  • 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:31.687
  • - there it is. - and that doesn't work.
  • 00:15:31.687 --> 00:15:33.122
  • - right. - the process is the way god
  • 00:15:33.122 --> 00:15:35.057
  • Prepares us inwardly.
  • 00:15:35.057 --> 00:15:36.759
  • He teaches us.
  • 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:38.360
  • You know, as somebody gets the whole thing at the beginning,
  • 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:39.862
  • They would overwhelm with pride.
  • 00:15:39.862 --> 00:15:41.864
  • Pride is the beginning of the fall,
  • 00:15:41.864 --> 00:15:43.499
  • As you know from all of the experiences we've watched
  • 00:15:43.499 --> 00:15:45.934
  • Over the years.
  • 00:15:45.934 --> 00:15:47.369
  • The humbling part of this is to realize
  • 00:15:47.369 --> 00:15:50.706
  • I can be only what god will let me be.
  • 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.776
  • But if i am gonna be god's person,
  • 00:15:53.776 --> 00:15:55.878
  • I've gotta trust him for great things.
  • 00:15:55.878 --> 00:15:58.013
  • - yeah. - and expect him
  • 00:15:58.013 --> 00:16:00.149
  • To meet those.
  • 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:01.617
  • And he always does.
  • 00:16:01.617 --> 00:16:02.484
  • I can honestly tell you,
  • 00:16:02.484 --> 00:16:04.353
  • God has never disappointed me.
  • 00:16:04.353 --> 00:16:06.622
  • - yeah. - never.
  • 00:16:06.622 --> 00:16:07.923
  • - i think what's so powerful is to realize
  • 00:16:07.923 --> 00:16:10.592
  • That there is no shortcut.
  • 00:16:10.592 --> 00:16:12.961
  • God will not give us a shortcut
  • 00:16:13.595 --> 00:16:16.198
  • - no. - to what he has for us.
  • 00:16:16.198 --> 00:16:17.766
  • - [david] no.
  • 00:16:17.766 --> 00:16:19.168
  • - what you go through
  • 00:16:19.168 --> 00:16:20.836
  • Makes it viable and sustainable.
  • 00:16:20.836 --> 00:16:23.705
  • - and that's what the whole resurrection story's about.
  • 00:16:23.705 --> 00:16:26.708
  • - yes. - he didn't take a shortcut,
  • 00:16:26.708 --> 00:16:27.709
  • Did he? - right. no,
  • 00:16:27.709 --> 00:16:28.744
  • He did not. - he came here,
  • 00:16:28.744 --> 00:16:29.645
  • - yeah. - and he walked
  • 00:16:29.645 --> 00:16:30.446
  • Through the whole thing.
  • 00:16:30.446 --> 00:16:31.613
  • - yeah. - i mean, you watch the movie
  • 00:16:31.613 --> 00:16:32.614
  • That was created on his death,
  • 00:16:32.614 --> 00:16:34.516
  • And you realize the suffering he went through.
  • 00:16:34.516 --> 00:16:36.819
  • I think we often minimize that.
  • 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:38.420
  • - yeah. - what he experienced
  • 00:16:38.420 --> 00:16:39.855
  • Before the cross was overwhelmingly terrible, awful.
  • 00:16:39.855 --> 00:16:44.526
  • And he did all of that for us.
  • 00:16:44.526 --> 00:16:47.329
  • He have redeemed us by saying the word.
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:49.531
  • He probably could, but he came and he paid the price
  • 00:16:49.531 --> 00:16:51.667
  • For our sin with his own death.
  • 00:16:51.667 --> 00:16:53.936
  • And, like, you know this,
  • 00:16:53.936 --> 00:16:56.705
  • You've heard this before, matt.
  • 00:16:56.705 --> 00:16:57.940
  • People want easter without good friday.
  • 00:16:57.940 --> 00:16:59.942
  • - wow. - yeah.
  • 00:16:59.942 --> 00:17:01.009
  • - and it doesn't work that way.
  • 00:17:01.009 --> 00:17:02.678
  • - right. - there's a price to be paid.
  • 00:17:02.678 --> 00:17:04.179
  • It costs something.
  • 00:17:04.179 --> 00:17:05.347
  • - and your life has proved that out.
  • 00:17:05.347 --> 00:17:09.184
  • This amazing production, by the way,
  • 00:17:09.184 --> 00:17:11.854
  • "glimpse of heaven."
  • 00:17:11.854 --> 00:17:13.355
  • And if you want to see the entire "glimpse of heaven,"
  • 00:17:13.355 --> 00:17:17.759
  • All the information about how you can go to it,
  • 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:21.663
  • We would appreciate it if you would let this broadcast
  • 00:17:21.663 --> 00:17:25.234
  • Conclude before you go watch the whole thing
  • 00:17:25.234 --> 00:17:27.503
  • Because we're getting to talk
  • 00:17:27.503 --> 00:17:28.871
  • To david right here, right now.
  • 00:17:28.871 --> 00:17:31.140
  • But the full special is available by simply coordinating
  • 00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:35.644
  • With the information on the screen, "a glimpse of heaven,"
  • 00:17:35.644 --> 00:17:38.280
  • The entire concert there from the disney concert hall.
  • 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:42.751
  • So, thank you for allowing us to interface with all of that.
  • 00:17:42.751 --> 00:17:48.023
  • And what we get to do is we get to sit with you,
  • 00:17:48.957 --> 00:17:51.460
  • And we get to talk to you,
  • 00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:53.061
  • And we get to show some of the special,
  • 00:17:53.061 --> 00:17:55.364
  • And that's what we're doing today.
  • 00:17:55.364 --> 00:17:57.299
  • But you know what tbn is about.
  • 00:17:57.299 --> 00:17:59.635
  • You've been interfacing with us for all these years.
  • 00:17:59.635 --> 00:18:02.704
  • Leading people to jesus inside of this resurrection week,
  • 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.343
  • I would love for you to just explain.
  • 00:18:08.343 --> 00:18:11.513
  • If somebody hears about easter, they hear about,
  • 00:18:11.513 --> 00:18:15.250
  • You know, palm sunday,
  • 00:18:15.250 --> 00:18:16.518
  • And they hear about all of the different aspects
  • 00:18:16.518 --> 00:18:19.855
  • Of what it was, there's really a point to it,
  • 00:18:19.855 --> 00:18:23.091
  • And i'd love for you to explain that point to our audience,
  • 00:18:23.091 --> 00:18:26.395
  • Because we've been doing that for 53 years
  • 00:18:26.395 --> 00:18:28.497
  • And you've done it a million times.
  • 00:18:28.497 --> 00:18:30.332
  • - it's right here.
  • 00:18:30.766 --> 00:18:32.034
  • - well, before i speak to the unbelievers
  • 00:18:32.034 --> 00:18:33.135
  • Who may be watching us,
  • 00:18:33.135 --> 00:18:34.670
  • People who haven't yet put in their covenant for heaven,
  • 00:18:34.670 --> 00:18:37.973
  • I wanna just remind us all that the bible tells us,
  • 00:18:37.973 --> 00:18:40.542
  • When we talk about all these big things,
  • 00:18:40.542 --> 00:18:42.444
  • The bible tells us that as believers,
  • 00:18:42.444 --> 00:18:44.646
  • The same power that brought jesus out of the grave
  • 00:18:44.646 --> 00:18:47.082
  • Is available to us- - thank you lord.
  • 00:18:47.082 --> 00:18:48.650
  • - to live every day.
  • 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:50.085
  • That's overwhelming to me.
  • 00:18:50.085 --> 00:18:51.486
  • And i'm not sure i can yet get my arms around it.
  • 00:18:51.486 --> 00:18:53.722
  • - [laurie] yeah.
  • 00:18:53.722 --> 00:18:55.023
  • - but if you say, "how do you do these things?"
  • 00:18:55.023 --> 00:18:56.391
  • You can only do it through the power of jesus,
  • 00:18:56.391 --> 00:18:58.427
  • Through the resurrection power
  • 00:18:58.427 --> 00:18:59.661
  • That he gives you in your life.
  • 00:18:59.661 --> 00:19:01.430
  • And for those of our watchers who do not know jesus,
  • 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:06.768
  • The one thing i wanna tell you is, he's available.
  • 00:19:07.769 --> 00:19:09.671
  • One of the things i've discovered
  • 00:19:10.405 --> 00:19:11.673
  • In reading the bible recently
  • 00:19:11.673 --> 00:19:13.075
  • Is that god wants us to be with him
  • 00:19:13.075 --> 00:19:15.644
  • Even more than we want to be with him.
  • 00:19:15.644 --> 00:19:17.646
  • The bible is always talking about how he wants us
  • 00:19:17.646 --> 00:19:21.316
  • To be with him.
  • 00:19:21.316 --> 00:19:22.417
  • In his high priestly prayer,
  • 00:19:22.417 --> 00:19:24.119
  • Jesus prayed earnestly that those who he had loved
  • 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.789
  • Would come to be with him.
  • 00:19:27.789 --> 00:19:29.424
  • In the end of the passage in john 14, he said that,
  • 00:19:29.424 --> 00:19:32.661
  • "where i am there you may be also."
  • 00:19:32.661 --> 00:19:35.697
  • So he wants to be with you,
  • 00:19:35.697 --> 00:19:37.899
  • But you have to deal with the issue of your sin.
  • 00:19:37.899 --> 00:19:41.303
  • We all have sinned and come short of the glory of god.
  • 00:19:41.303 --> 00:19:44.006
  • That's the word of god.
  • 00:19:44.006 --> 00:19:45.507
  • And in order for us to get to heaven,
  • 00:19:46.341 --> 00:19:49.244
  • There has to be something that deals with sin.
  • 00:19:49.244 --> 00:19:51.513
  • That's why the resurrection
  • 00:19:51.513 --> 00:19:52.814
  • And the crucifixion are so important.
  • 00:19:52.814 --> 00:19:54.983
  • God, in his almighty wisdom,
  • 00:19:54.983 --> 00:19:57.019
  • Determined to dispatch to this earth
  • 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:59.388
  • The best that heaven had to offer.
  • 00:19:59.388 --> 00:20:01.390
  • He sent his only beloved son
  • 00:20:01.390 --> 00:20:03.692
  • So that whoever believed in him would not perish
  • 00:20:03.692 --> 00:20:06.194
  • But have everlasting life.
  • 00:20:06.194 --> 00:20:08.063
  • So when you ask jesus christ to be your savior,
  • 00:20:08.063 --> 00:20:11.266
  • And you believe in him,
  • 00:20:11.266 --> 00:20:12.734
  • And you confess him with your mouth,
  • 00:20:12.734 --> 00:20:14.369
  • And believe in him with your heart, the bible says,
  • 00:20:14.369 --> 00:20:18.206
  • You will go to heaven to be with him.
  • 00:20:18.206 --> 00:20:20.976
  • You can't work your way to heaven.
  • 00:20:20.976 --> 00:20:23.111
  • You can't do enough good things to be to heaven.
  • 00:20:23.111 --> 00:20:25.914
  • And heaven isn't about just guessing
  • 00:20:25.914 --> 00:20:27.683
  • Whether you're gonna be there,
  • 00:20:27.683 --> 00:20:29.151
  • And you don't find out when you get done with life
  • 00:20:29.151 --> 00:20:31.286
  • If you make it or not.
  • 00:20:31.286 --> 00:20:32.587
  • You have to determine that right now.
  • 00:20:32.587 --> 00:20:34.790
  • You have to determine if i'm gonna go to heaven.
  • 00:20:34.790 --> 00:20:38.226
  • Jesus said it this way,
  • 00:20:38.226 --> 00:20:39.661
  • "i am the way, the truth, and the life:
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  • No man comes to the father except through me."
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  • He's the only way,
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  • And if you put your trust in him today,
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  • He will receive you unto himself.
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  • And one day you will spend eternity with him in this place
  • 00:20:51.206 --> 00:20:54.676
  • We celebrated a few weeks ago
  • 00:20:54.676 --> 00:20:56.845
  • In that great concert.
  • 00:20:56.845 --> 00:20:58.313
  • - [laurie] beautiful.
  • 00:20:58.313 --> 00:20:59.581
  • - a glimpse of heaven is the production.
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  • Heaven is the place that we will forever be with him.
  • 00:21:03.118 --> 00:21:07.723
  • So where is heaven?
  • 00:21:07.723 --> 00:21:11.626
  • - in the book i wrote on heaven,
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  • There's a chapter on three heavens.
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  • There's the atmospheric heaven and where planes fly,
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  • There's the celestial heaven
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  • Where the moon and the stars are,
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  • And there's the third heaven
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  • That paul speaks about in corinthians,
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  • Where he said he was caught up into the third heaven.
  • 00:21:28.143 --> 00:21:31.446
  • So today god is seated on the throne in the third heaven.
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  • It's also called paradise.
  • 00:21:35.317 --> 00:21:37.552
  • But one day at the end of time,
  • 00:21:37.552 --> 00:21:39.488
  • The earth will be purged and the heaven will be purged,
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  • And heaven will be here on this earth.
  • 00:21:42.257 --> 00:21:44.793
  • And the bible speaks of the great capital city of heaven
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  • Descending out of heaven and taking its place here.
  • 00:21:48.263 --> 00:21:51.967
  • And this whole experience of heaven will be ours forever.
  • 00:21:51.967 --> 00:21:57.305
  • - why do you think what you just said
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  • Sparks controversy?
  • 00:22:01.610 --> 00:22:03.378
  • I guess because we put clouds behind you.
  • 00:22:03.378 --> 00:22:06.515
  • We think heaven is somewhere out there,
  • 00:22:06.515 --> 00:22:10.752
  • And we've always, we look up when we think of heaven.
  • 00:22:10.752 --> 00:22:15.257
  • But ultimately,
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  • Heaven will be here on earth.
  • 00:22:17.325 --> 00:22:19.594
  • Is that correct?
  • 00:22:19.594 --> 00:22:20.462
  • - yes. - okay.
  • 00:22:20.462 --> 00:22:21.630
  • And why is that controversial?
  • 00:22:21.630 --> 00:22:23.298
  • Why do you think?
  • 00:22:23.298 --> 00:22:24.866
  • - well, because everybody speaks about going to heaven,
  • 00:22:24.866 --> 00:22:28.403
  • And going up to heaven, and jesus coming down from heaven.
  • 00:22:28.403 --> 00:22:32.140
  • And all of that was true in that particular time.
  • 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:35.210
  • But there's no way you can buy the fact that the great city,
  • 00:22:35.210 --> 00:22:39.314
  • The capital city of heaven comes down out of heaven
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  • And takes its position over the earth here,
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  • Because that's where all of this will happen.
  • 00:22:46.388 --> 00:22:49.124
  • - so you're saying if you're thinking
  • 00:22:49.124 --> 00:22:51.827
  • That heaven is somewhere else, you're just wrong.
  • 00:22:51.827 --> 00:22:54.362
  • You're taking a pretty strong stand.
  • 00:22:54.362 --> 00:22:57.199
  • - what i'm saying is, this is the way i would say that.
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  • As i understand the bible,
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  • As i have studied the bible,
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  • This is what it clearly seems to teach to me.
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  • And it's not meant to be controversial.
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  • Thankfully, if you're in heaven,
  • 00:23:09.377 --> 00:23:12.147
  • You won't worry about where it is.
  • 00:23:12.147 --> 00:23:13.982
  • (all laughing)
  • 00:23:13.982 --> 00:23:14.816
  • - you're not gonna care.
  • 00:23:14.816 --> 00:23:15.650
  • - right.
  • 00:23:15.650 --> 00:23:16.485
  • - yeah, clearly.
  • 00:23:16.485 --> 00:23:17.752
  • But doesn't it make more sense, jesus prayer,
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  • That let those things in heaven be manifest here on earth?
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  • Doesn't that seem to make sense?
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  • - is a prayer for the millennium
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  • When he's the king of the earth for a thousand years.
  • 00:23:32.834 --> 00:23:35.337
  • But i think it also extends into eternity,
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  • That the things of heaven will be,
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  • As it is in heaven,
  • 00:23:40.342 --> 00:23:41.576
  • So on earth. - yeah.
  • 00:23:41.576 --> 00:23:43.044
  • - which is not only a prayer for the future,
  • 00:23:43.044 --> 00:23:45.380
  • But a good prayer for today too.
  • 00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:47.082
  • - and you're talking about, one day,
  • 00:23:47.082 --> 00:23:50.252
  • The earth being remodeled,
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  • Recreated,
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  • And us being here
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  • On this celestial body
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  • Called earth. - that's true.
  • 00:24:00.896 --> 00:24:03.164
  • - that's awesome, actually.
  • 00:24:03.164 --> 00:24:05.901
  • It makes you
  • 00:24:06.234 --> 00:24:07.602
  • Think more highly
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  • Of where god placed us
  • 00:24:10.105 --> 00:24:12.173
  • And the perfection of what it takes
  • 00:24:12.173 --> 00:24:15.710
  • To sustain life here.
  • 00:24:15.710 --> 00:24:17.646
  • You know, one degree here, one degree there,
  • 00:24:17.646 --> 00:24:20.348
  • One little adjustment
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  • To the distance of the earth to the sun
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  • And we burn up or we freeze to death.
  • 00:24:25.620 --> 00:24:28.056
  • You know, it's just a perfection of a place,
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  • And it's gonna be remade,
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  • And we're gonna dwell with him forever here,
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  • Which is heaven. - amen. amen.
  • 00:24:37.465 --> 00:24:39.668
  • And i write about that in this book.
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  • (lori laughs) - i like it.
  • 00:24:41.570 --> 00:24:42.871
  • Before we let you go, what is
  • 00:24:42.871 --> 00:24:47.108
  • Some of the biggest questions you hear about heaven
  • 00:24:47.108 --> 00:24:52.414
  • And what do you want to set right
  • 00:24:53.148 --> 00:24:55.150
  • As we're sitting here right now?
  • 00:24:55.150 --> 00:24:57.152
  • - i'll tell you
  • 00:24:57.152 --> 00:24:58.019
  • The hardest one- - okay.
  • 00:24:58.019 --> 00:24:58.954
  • - is the one about marriage.
  • 00:24:58.954 --> 00:25:00.956
  • - okay. - because the bible says
  • 00:25:00.956 --> 00:25:02.557
  • That in heaven,
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  • We will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
  • 00:25:03.959 --> 00:25:06.494
  • But we will be like the angels.
  • 00:25:06.494 --> 00:25:08.630
  • And when people hear that,
  • 00:25:09.197 --> 00:25:11.232
  • When they hear that, (hosts laughs)
  • 00:25:11.232 --> 00:25:12.500
  • They say- - you looking forward
  • 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:13.668
  • To that day? - i'm not gonna be-
  • 00:25:13.668 --> 00:25:15.737
  • (hosts laughs) people hear that-
  • 00:25:15.737 --> 00:25:17.305
  • - you knew that was coming,
  • 00:25:17.305 --> 00:25:18.239
  • Didn't you?
  • 00:25:18.239 --> 00:25:19.808
  • - i don't think we will lose any of the joy
  • 00:25:19.808 --> 00:25:22.444
  • And love that we have for each other when we get to heaven.
  • 00:25:22.444 --> 00:25:25.847
  • But what the bible teaches,
  • 00:25:25.847 --> 00:25:27.349
  • And this is the thing that i think we miss,
  • 00:25:27.349 --> 00:25:29.884
  • Is that our relationship with the lord jesus christ
  • 00:25:29.884 --> 00:25:32.821
  • Will be so awesome, so overwhelming in heaven
  • 00:25:32.821 --> 00:25:36.224
  • That even the most intimate,
  • 00:25:36.224 --> 00:25:38.293
  • Joyous thing that we have on earth
  • 00:25:38.293 --> 00:25:40.228
  • Will pale in insignificance,
  • 00:25:40.228 --> 00:25:42.097
  • That our love for him and his love for us
  • 00:25:42.097 --> 00:25:44.599
  • Will just include everything that we know.
  • 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.769
  • And we will still,
  • 00:25:47.769 --> 00:25:48.870
  • And the bible,
  • 00:25:48.870 --> 00:25:49.871
  • There's not gonna be
  • 00:25:49.871 --> 00:25:50.872
  • Children born in heaven. - right.
  • 00:25:50.872 --> 00:25:52.707
  • - so the sexual part of all of that,
  • 00:25:52.707 --> 00:25:54.709
  • Which people really want to know about
  • 00:25:54.709 --> 00:25:56.277
  • More than anything else- - oh, my gosh.
  • 00:25:56.277 --> 00:25:58.079
  • - is not in the picture- - men.
  • 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:00.615
  • - you know, but-
  • 00:26:00.615 --> 00:26:02.584
  • - we'll talk about that later.
  • 00:26:02.584 --> 00:26:03.885
  • - yes. - okay. okay.
  • 00:26:03.885 --> 00:26:05.120
  • - for another show. - yeah. all right.
  • 00:26:05.120 --> 00:26:06.454
  • The dynamic
  • 00:26:06.454 --> 00:26:08.556
  • Of a earthly marriage relationship
  • 00:26:08.556 --> 00:26:12.661
  • Is going to change there.
  • 00:26:12.661 --> 00:26:15.363
  • Is that kind of- - i think all the questions
  • 00:26:15.363 --> 00:26:17.032
  • Would just go away. - yes.
  • 00:26:17.032 --> 00:26:19.467
  • - yes, probably. - 'cause it'll be so dumb.
  • 00:26:19.467 --> 00:26:20.969
  • All of our questions will be so dumb.
  • 00:26:20.969 --> 00:26:23.638
  • - you know what, lori,
  • 00:26:23.638 --> 00:26:24.939
  • I think what it realizes more than anything else,
  • 00:26:24.939 --> 00:26:26.675
  • And this is a common truth for all of us,
  • 00:26:26.675 --> 00:26:29.310
  • Our inability to comprehend the greatness of heaven
  • 00:26:29.310 --> 00:26:32.681
  • Causes to question the things like that-
  • 00:26:32.681 --> 00:26:35.283
  • - yes. - okay.
  • 00:26:35.283 --> 00:26:36.184
  • - that we don't, you know,
  • 00:26:36.184 --> 00:26:37.552
  • And that's what i came, that's what i came up with
  • 00:26:37.552 --> 00:26:39.120
  • When i wrote that chapter on marriage
  • 00:26:39.120 --> 00:26:40.822
  • Because if we don't understand the greatness of god
  • 00:26:40.822 --> 00:26:43.992
  • And the love of jesus and the perfect conditions of heaven,
  • 00:26:43.992 --> 00:26:48.396
  • We'll never be,
  • 00:26:48.396 --> 00:26:49.931
  • Because the only thing we know that's even close to that
  • 00:26:49.931 --> 00:26:51.499
  • Is the relationship we have
  • 00:26:51.499 --> 00:26:52.767
  • With the people we love here. - right.
  • 00:26:52.767 --> 00:26:54.536
  • - and i'm confident i'm gonna be as close to donna in heaven
  • 00:26:54.536 --> 00:26:58.673
  • As i've ever been.
  • 00:26:58.673 --> 00:27:00.308
  • And the two of us together will be so in love with jesus.
  • 00:27:00.308 --> 00:27:03.144
  • And that's the thing you need to remember.
  • 00:27:03.144 --> 00:27:05.380
  • - exactly. - okay.
  • 00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:06.781
  • Final thoughts, dr. jeremiah,
  • 00:27:06.781 --> 00:27:09.818
  • On this
  • 00:27:09.818 --> 00:27:11.853
  • Unique creation
  • 00:27:11.853 --> 00:27:13.922
  • That you've done, "a glimpse of heaven",
  • 00:27:14.789 --> 00:27:16.758
  • This amazing production,
  • 00:27:16.758 --> 00:27:18.993
  • And how it ultimately connects
  • 00:27:18.993 --> 00:27:22.564
  • Directly to the season of holy week
  • 00:27:22.564 --> 00:27:26.000
  • That we're celebrating right here, right now.
  • 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.770
  • - well, first of all, that production
  • 00:27:28.770 --> 00:27:31.406
  • Was one of the great joys of my life.
  • 00:27:31.406 --> 00:27:34.042
  • I mentioned, at the end of it,
  • 00:27:34.042 --> 00:27:35.610
  • When i stood up to say goodbye to everybody,
  • 00:27:35.610 --> 00:27:37.512
  • I was pretty emotional. - wow.
  • 00:27:37.512 --> 00:27:40.014
  • - and what i said was,
  • 00:27:40.014 --> 00:27:41.549
  • I have never spent two hours like this in my whole life.
  • 00:27:41.549 --> 00:27:45.386
  • I felt the presence of god from the beginning to the end.
  • 00:27:45.386 --> 00:27:48.656
  • I looked out and i saw
  • 00:27:48.656 --> 00:27:49.924
  • Some of my sophisticated friends crying-
  • 00:27:49.924 --> 00:27:53.428
  • - that's beautiful. - almost uncontrollably
  • 00:27:53.428 --> 00:27:55.630
  • As they thought about this beauty.
  • 00:27:55.630 --> 00:27:57.332
  • First of all, the beauty of heaven
  • 00:27:57.332 --> 00:27:58.933
  • And the beauty of the music that portrays it,
  • 00:27:58.933 --> 00:28:01.970
  • And the incredible giftedness of the people who were there
  • 00:28:01.970 --> 00:28:04.572
  • And the production quality
  • 00:28:04.572 --> 00:28:06.174
  • And the setting and the acoustics.
  • 00:28:06.174 --> 00:28:07.976
  • And it was all,
  • 00:28:07.976 --> 00:28:09.811
  • It was all that it should be
  • 00:28:09.811 --> 00:28:11.346
  • If you're talking about heaven in what you're producing.
  • 00:28:11.346 --> 00:28:14.449
  • Because heaven, you see, is the ultimate goal.
  • 00:28:15.383 --> 00:28:18.319
  • It's why jesus came to redeem us
  • 00:28:18.953 --> 00:28:22.557
  • So that we could someday spend eternity with him.
  • 00:28:22.557 --> 00:28:25.126
  • As i mentioned before, he wants us to be with him.
  • 00:28:25.126 --> 00:28:28.596
  • Can you imagine that? - beautiful.
  • 00:28:28.596 --> 00:28:30.331
  • - of heaven,
  • 00:28:30.665 --> 00:28:32.267
  • Wants you and me, if somebody said if he had a refrigerator,
  • 00:28:32.267 --> 00:28:34.369
  • Our picture would be on the front of it 'cause he wants us
  • 00:28:34.369 --> 00:28:37.172
  • To be in heaven with us,
  • 00:28:37.172 --> 00:28:38.706
  • And he paid the ultimate price to make it possible
  • 00:28:38.706 --> 00:28:41.743
  • By giving up his own son and having him come here
  • 00:28:41.743 --> 00:28:44.179
  • And suffer as he did,
  • 00:28:44.179 --> 00:28:45.980
  • And pay the penalty that you and i deserved.
  • 00:28:46.881 --> 00:28:49.851
  • He died where we should have died, where the wages
  • 00:28:49.851 --> 00:28:53.054
  • Of sin is death.
  • 00:28:53.054 --> 00:28:54.856
  • He paid that for us, and here's the beauty of it.
  • 00:28:54.856 --> 00:28:58.459
  • He offers to us the benefit of that,
  • 00:28:58.459 --> 00:29:01.262
  • And all we have to do is say yes.
  • 00:29:01.262 --> 00:29:03.832
  • Yes lord, i will accept your gift of eternal life.
  • 00:29:03.832 --> 00:29:07.268
  • When he does that, it's like he wraps his arms around us
  • 00:29:07.268 --> 00:29:10.471
  • And the bible tells us that when that happens,
  • 00:29:10.471 --> 00:29:12.273
  • The angels in heaven have a little party and they rejoice.
  • 00:29:12.273 --> 00:29:16.511
  • - what a perfect way to end our time together
  • 00:29:16.511 --> 00:29:19.814
  • With the song "worthy is the lamb"
  • 00:29:19.814 --> 00:29:22.917
  • And the hallelujah chorus. - oh my goodness.
  • 00:29:22.917 --> 00:29:24.986
  • - thank you, dr. jay, - you're welcome.
  • 00:29:24.986 --> 00:29:26.354
  • For what you've done, "a glimpse of heaven".
  • 00:29:26.354 --> 00:29:28.656
  • We go out celebrating with "a glimpse of heaven".
  • 00:29:28.656 --> 00:29:33.895
  • (inspiring music)
  • 00:29:34.329 --> 00:29:36.331
  • - [narrator] coming to you from the music center's,
  • 00:29:36.331 --> 00:29:38.333
  • Walt disney concert hall in los angeles.
  • 00:29:38.333 --> 00:29:41.603
  • It's "a glimpse of heaven" with david jeremiah,
  • 00:29:41.603 --> 00:29:45.840
  • Featuring sheila walsh, jordan smith,
  • 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:51.379
  • Veritas, charles billingsley,
  • 00:29:52.013 --> 00:29:56.551
  • Taranda greene, jody mcbrayer,
  • 00:29:57.185 --> 00:30:01.656
  • Michael sanchez, xandy jeremiah,
  • 00:30:02.290 --> 00:30:07.061
  • Elijah luzginov, and gregory fletcher
  • 00:30:07.862 --> 00:30:13.401
  • And tobin davis,
  • 00:30:13.768 --> 00:30:15.436
  • Conductor of the glimpse of heaven orchestra and choir.
  • 00:30:15.436 --> 00:30:19.073
  • It's time for masterfully performed music
  • 00:30:19.908 --> 00:30:22.977
  • And the power of god's word
  • 00:30:22.977 --> 00:30:24.946
  • To come together in a moving celebration
  • 00:30:24.946 --> 00:30:28.049
  • Of our heavenly home
  • 00:30:28.049 --> 00:30:29.817
  • In "a glimpse of heaven".
  • 00:30:29.817 --> 00:30:36.291
  • (soft piano music)
  • 00:30:36.724 --> 00:30:41.062
  • ♪ i can only imagine what it will be like ♪
  • 00:30:42.030 --> 00:30:48.169
  • ♪ when i walk by your side
  • 00:30:48.770 --> 00:30:54.309
  • ♪ i can only imagine
  • 00:30:54.809 --> 00:30:58.579
  • ♪ what my eyes will see
  • 00:30:58.579 --> 00:31:01.716
  • ♪ when your face is before me
  • 00:31:01.716 --> 00:31:07.355
  • ♪ i can only imagine
  • 00:31:07.855 --> 00:31:14.896
  • ♪ surrounded by your glory
  • 00:31:15.496 --> 00:31:18.533
  • ♪ what will my heart feel
  • 00:31:18.533 --> 00:31:21.602
  • ♪ will i dance for you jesus
  • 00:31:21.602 --> 00:31:25.006
  • ♪ or in awe of you be still
  • 00:31:25.006 --> 00:31:28.009
  • ♪ will i stand in your presence ♪
  • 00:31:28.009 --> 00:31:31.245
  • ♪ or to my knees will i fall
  • 00:31:31.245 --> 00:31:34.415
  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah
  • 00:31:34.415 --> 00:31:37.852
  • ♪ will i be able to speak it all ♪
  • 00:31:37.852 --> 00:31:41.122
  • ♪ i can only imagine
  • 00:31:41.122 --> 00:31:46.427
  • ♪ i can only imagine
  • 00:31:46.928 --> 00:31:49.397
  • (inspiring music)
  • 00:31:49.397 --> 00:32:00.408
  • ♪ i can only imagine when that day comes ♪
  • 00:32:01.342 --> 00:32:07.348
  • ♪ and i find myself standing in the sun ♪
  • 00:32:08.249 --> 00:32:13.654
  • ♪ i can only imagine
  • 00:32:14.155 --> 00:32:17.959
  • ♪ when all i will do
  • 00:32:17.959 --> 00:32:21.229
  • ♪ is forever, forever worship you ♪
  • 00:32:21.229 --> 00:32:26.934
  • ♪ i can only imagine
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  • ♪ surrounded by your glory, what will my heart feel ♪
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  • ♪ will i dance for you jesus
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  • ♪ or in awe of you be still
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  • ♪ will i stand in your presence ♪
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  • ♪ to my knees will i fall
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  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah
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  • ♪ will i be able to speak at all ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine
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  • ♪ i can only imagine ♪ only imagine
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  • ♪ oh oh oh oh oh
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  • ♪ oh oh oh oh
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  • ♪ oh oh oh oh
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  • (singers vocalizing)
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  • ♪ surrounded by your glory
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  • ♪ what will my heart feel
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  • ♪ will i dance for you jesus
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  • ♪ or in awe of you be still
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  • ♪ will i stand in your presence ♪
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  • ♪ or to my knees, will i fall
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  • ♪ will i sing hallelujah
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  • ♪ will i be able to speak at all ♪
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  • ♪ i can only imagine
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  • ♪ i can only imagine
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  • (audience clapping)
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  • (drums banging)
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - [narrator] ladies and gentlemen,
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  • Please welcome our host, dr david jeremiah.
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  • (audience clapping)
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  • - thank you, and welcome to this very special night.
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  • Donna and i welcome you to the walt disney concert hall,
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  • Where we hope to give you a glimpse of heaven tonight.
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  • We don't have to gaze into the dome
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  • Of a great cathedral to learn about heaven,
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  • Only into the pages of a great book:
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  • The bible.
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  • There we're told of a celestial city
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  • With gates of pearl and streets of gold
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  • And mansions for each resident.
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  • There we catch a glimpse of our eternal home
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  • Where there is no more pain, suffering,
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  • Sorrow, or death,
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  • A world without fear,
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  • War, crime, or hate,
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  • A place where there will be no more sad goodbyes.
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  • Tonight, we will imagine
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  • And articulate glimpses of heaven through song.
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  • I'm thrilled about this celebration
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  • Because it centers on the best news in the world.
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  • Based on the authority of the word of god,
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  • There is a heaven.
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  • It is real, it is a place,
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  • And god has described it
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  • For us in incredible detail in the bible
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  • And the lord jesus himself
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  • Who ascended to heaven at the end of the gospels
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  • Is preparing to come again for us,
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  • Take us there to live with him forever.
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  • Heaven is a precious place
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  • And we should anticipate it to the utmost.
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  • I can't think of a more appropriate way
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  • To turn our thoughts toward heaven than through music.
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  • Our exceptional musical guests and choir
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  • Will lift their voices to god,
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  • All accompanied by this outstanding orchestra.
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  • So i invite you to sit back
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  • And take in the beauty of the music,
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  • The profound meaning of the lyrics,
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  • And imagine, even savor, these glimpses of heaven.
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  • I pray that through this presentation,
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  • God will speak to you,
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  • Comfort you, encourage you,
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  • And even strengthen your resolve
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  • To live more effectively in this world
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  • As you patiently await the day
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  • When you will spend eternity in heaven with him.
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  • This, my friends, is a special night.
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  • So as we begin this musical journey,
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  • Let's remember and be reminded of another glimpse
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  • Of our heavenly home,
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  • This time given to us by jesus.
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  • He said, "let not your hearts be troubled;
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  • "you believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • "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 go to prepare a place for you.
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  • "and if i go to prepare a place for you,
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  • "i will come again and receive you unto myself;
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  • "that where i am,
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  • "there you may be also."
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  • - ladies and gentlemen, a glimpse of heaven.
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  • (audience clapping)
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ i looked over jordan
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  • ♪ and what did i see
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
  • 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:40.734
  • ♪ a band of angels comin' after me ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ i'm sometimes i'm up and sometimes i'm down ♪
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  • ♪ sometimes i feel alone
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  • ♪ but know my soul is heavenly bound ♪
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  • ♪ jesus gonna carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ well, if you get there before i do ♪
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  • ♪ just make yourself at home
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  • ♪ but tell all my friends i'm comin' too ♪
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  • ♪ and tell 'em that i won't be long ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot
  • 00:42:25.466 --> 00:42:30.638
  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home
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  • ♪ some glad morning 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, oh glory
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ when i die, hallelujah, by and by ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ whe--
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  • ♪ when the shadows of this life are gone ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ like a bird from prison bars has flown ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ i'll fly away, o glory
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ when i die, hallelujah, bye and bye ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • (upbeat gospel music)
  • 00:44:08.736 --> 00:44:16.443
  • ♪ well, just a few more weary days and then ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ to a land where joy shall never end ♪
  • 00:44:27.788 --> 00:44:32.593
  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ oh, i'll fly away
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  • ♪ i'll fly away, o glory
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ oh, yes, i will
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  • ♪ you know i will
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  • ♪ when i die, hallelujah, bye and bye ♪
  • 00:44:47.307 --> 00:44:52.045
  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ come on
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ oh, yes, i will
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ oh, yeah
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ come on
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  • ♪ when i die, hallelujah, bye and bye ♪
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ i'll fly away
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  • ♪ oh
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  • (audience applauding and cheering)
  • 00:45:27.481 --> 00:45:30.717
  • - [voiceover] you are watching "a glimpse of heaven"
  • 00:45:30.717 --> 00:45:32.820
  • With david jeremiah.
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  • (audience applauding)
  • 00:45:34.388 --> 00:45:36.356
  • - [narrator] if you're enjoying today's program,
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  • You may also be interested in "the promise of heaven"
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  • By dr. jeremiah.
  • 00:45:40.327 --> 00:45:41.995
  • In his new book, dr. jeremiah reveals biblical answers
  • 00:45:41.995 --> 00:45:45.065
  • To your biggest questions about eternity,
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  • And 31 reasons to get excited about your eternal home.
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  • These short, powerful chapters
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  • Will change the way you think about heaven
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  • And how you live today.
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  • Dr. jeremiah will send you "the promise of heaven"
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  • In appreciation of your gift of any amount
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  • In support of today's special program.
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  • Contact turning point today.
  • 00:46:03.784 --> 00:46:06.987
  • - [voiceover] we return now
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  • To the music center's walt disney concert hall
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  • In los angeles for "a glimpse of heaven"
  • 00:46:10.958 --> 00:46:13.961
  • With david jeremiah.
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  • (dramatic gospel music)
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  • (dramatic gospel music continues)
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  • (gentle gospel music)
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  • (gentle gospel music continues)
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  • (gentle gospel music continues)
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  • (gentle gospel music continues)
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  • ♪ if words could describe the longing in my heart ♪
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  • ♪ for the place prepared for me ♪
  • 00:47:53.994 --> 00:48:00.901
  • ♪ when i think of heaven's glory ♪
  • 00:48:01.668 --> 00:48:08.208
  • ♪ awaiting the redeemed
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  • ♪ all within me rises up
  • 00:48:15.115 --> 00:48:20.420
  • ♪ at the thought of what will be ♪
  • 00:48:21.188 --> 00:48:30.697
  • ♪ how i long for the new jerusalem ♪
  • 00:48:31.498 --> 00:48:38.271
  • ♪ just to see my savior's face
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  • ♪ all my heart is in jerusalem
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  • ♪ my home, my resting place
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  • (gentle christian music)
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  • ♪ mm
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  • (gentle christian music)
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  • ♪ i've heard that the streets are paved with gold ♪
  • 00:49:09.903 --> 00:49:15.175
  • ♪ and the light there never fades ♪
  • 00:49:15.976 --> 00:49:21.248
  • ♪ i've heard of treasures to behold ♪
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  • ♪ that words could not explain
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  • ♪ and the praise of the saints like an ocean ♪
  • 00:49:34.227 --> 00:49:39.766
  • ♪ worthy is the lamb that was slain ♪
  • 00:49:40.600 --> 00:49:45.906
  • ♪ how i long for the new jerusalem ♪
  • 00:49:46.706 --> 00:49:52.045
  • ♪ just to see my savior's face
  • 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.285
  • ♪ all my heart is in jerusalem
  • 00:49:58.919 --> 00:50:05.325
  • ♪ my home, my resting place
  • 00:50:05.959 --> 00:50:12.766
  • ♪ no more crying, no more pain
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  • ♪ every tear will be wiped away ♪
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  • ♪ all suffering on earth will cease ♪
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  • ♪ forevermore at peace
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  • ♪ jerusalem
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  • ♪ oh, the new jerusalem
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  • ♪ just to see my savior's face
  • 00:50:50.137 --> 00:50:55.442
  • ♪ my heart is in jerusalem
  • 00:50:56.042 --> 00:51:01.982
  • ♪ my home, my resting place
  • 00:51:02.616 --> 00:51:08.755
  • ♪ my home, my resting, my resting place ♪
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  • (gentle christian music)
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  • ♪ oh
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  • ♪ my resting place
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  • (audience applauding and cheering)
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  • (soft music)
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  • ♪ mm
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  • ♪ mm
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  • (gentle music)
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  • ♪ ah, oh
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  • (soft music)
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  • ♪ the timeless theme
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  • ♪ earth and heaven will
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  • ♪ pass away
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  • ♪ it's not a dream, god will make all things new that day ♪
  • 00:52:33.773 --> 00:52:42.315
  • ♪ gone is the curse from which i stumbled, i fell ♪
  • 00:52:43.416 --> 00:52:51.825
  • ♪ evil is banished to eternal hell ♪
  • 00:52:52.659 --> 00:53:00.400
  • ♪ my friends there will be no more night, no more pain ♪
  • 00:53:01.568 --> 00:53:11.177
  • ♪ no more tears, never crying again ♪
  • 00:53:12.012 --> 00:53:20.320
  • ♪ just praises to the "the great i am" ♪
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  • ♪ we will live in the light of the risen lamb ♪
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  • ♪ see all around, all the nations bow down to sing ♪
  • 00:53:49.916 --> 00:53:57.857
  • ♪ and the only sound all the praises to christ the king ♪
  • 00:53:59.059 --> 00:54:06.633
  • ♪ slowly the names from the book they are read ♪
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  • ♪ but i, i know the king so i have no need, no need to dread ♪
  • 00:54:16.409 --> 00:54:26.986
  • ♪ no more night, no more pain
  • 00:54:27.620 --> 00:54:35.195
  • ♪ no more tears, never crying again ♪
  • 00:54:36.029 --> 00:54:43.503
  • ♪ just praises to the "the great i am" ♪
  • 00:54:44.404 --> 00:54:51.978
  • ♪ we will live in the light of the risen lamb ♪
  • 00:54:52.979 --> 00:55:01.020
  • ♪ see over there, there's a mansion ♪
  • 00:55:01.855 --> 00:55:06.126
  • ♪ that's he's prepared just for you, just for me ♪
  • 00:55:06.126 --> 00:55:10.830
  • ♪ where i will live with my savior eternally ♪
  • 00:55:10.830 --> 00:55:20.039
  • ♪ there will be no more night, no more pain ♪
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  • ♪ and no more tears
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  • ♪ no more, no more tears, never crying again ♪
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  • ♪ just praises to the "the great i am" ♪
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  • ♪ we will live in the light of the risen lamb ♪
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  • ♪ oh, more praises
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  • ♪ praises to the "the great i am" ♪
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  • ♪ "the great i am"
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  • ♪ we will live in the light of the risen lamb ♪
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  • ♪ oh, yes, we will live in the light of the risen lamb ♪
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  • ♪ the risen lamb
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  • ♪ oh, yeah, yes we will
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  • ♪ the risen lamb
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • - [narrator] thank you, for watching "a glimpse of heaven".
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  • If you have enjoyed this program
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  • And would like to know more about david jeremiah,
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  • Or turning point ministries, contact us today.
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  • (dramatic music)
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