David Jeremiah - Won't Heaven Be Boring?

October 25, 2025 | 58:20

Often people, even Christians, assume that heaven is going to be some boring place where nothing ever happens for all of eternity. But the Bible makes it clear that heaven will be anything but boring.

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - Won't Heaven Be Boring? | October 25, 2025

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Our resurrected heavenly bodies,
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We're going to be able to experience everything at the
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Highest experience value all the time without ever being tired
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Of being happy.
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And now, here is dr. jeremiah with his message,
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"won't heaven be boring?"
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Dr. jeremiah: today i want to talk with you
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About the subject of heaven and why it won't be boring.
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And i want to begin with a little epitaph, an old poem
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About a tired housewife that's been shared for years
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In books and cards.
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I don't know who wrote it, but it goes like this:
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"here lies a poor woman who was always tired.
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She lived in a house where help wasn't hired.
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Her last words on earth were, 'dear friends, i am going,
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Where there's no cooking or washing or sewing.
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For everything there is exact to my wishes.
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For where they don't eat, there's no washing of dishes.
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I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
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But having no voice, i'll be spared of the singing.
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Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never.
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I'm going to do nothing forever and ever."
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And you know, that's what a lot of people think
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Heaven is all about, isn't it?
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They think heaven is just going someplace and floating around
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On a cloud for eternity.
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And when you say that's not the way it is,
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"well, isn't heaven boring?" they say.
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And that's the ultimate put-down in today's society.
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If it's boring, it can't be good.
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I remember reading michael crichton,
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One of the most brilliant writers
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And producers in our time.
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He wrote a bestseller called "timeline," and he had something
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Interesting to say about the subject of boredom.
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One of his characters, robert doniger, is the ceo
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Of a powerful and highly secretive technology company.
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And near the end of the book,
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Doniger stands up before his audience
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In his company's auditorium, and he says this:
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"in other centuries, human beings
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Wanted to be saved or improved or freed or educated.
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But in our century, they want to be entertained.
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The great fear is not the fear of disease or death,
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But of boredom.
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A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do,
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A sense that we are not amused.
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Where will this mania of entertainment end?"
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And, of course, the iphone has had a lot to do with that.
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We have to have something going on every minute of every day.
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And with that as the backdrop, the thought of going to heaven
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And there not being anything to do is frightening
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To most people.
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With this fear of boredom on our hearts,
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It's no wonder we're concerned about heaven.
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I mean, if we think we're bored down here,
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What in the world will it be like when we get up there?
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One of my friends is a guy named john eldredge,
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And he wrote a book called, "the journey of desire,"
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And in that book he said,
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"nearly every christian i've spoken with has some idea
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That eternity is an unending church service.
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We have settled on the image of the never-ending singalong
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In the sky, one great hymn after another forever and ever, amen.
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And our heart sinks.
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Forever and ever?
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That's it?
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That's the good news?
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And we sigh and we feel guilty that we're not more spiritual.
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And we lose heart, and we turn again to the more present to
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Find out what life can be like."
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Unfortunately, there are just many christians
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Who believe that heaven will be boring.
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All we'll be doing forever is strumming harps,
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Floating on clouds,
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And polishing the streets of gold.
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But i want to give you five reasons today
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Why heaven will not be boring.
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Reason number one: heaven will not be boring
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Because god is not boring.
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[audience applauds]
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Dr. jeremiah: you've probably heard this verse before,
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But never in this context.
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Psalm 16:11: "god, you will show me the path of life;
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In your presence is fullness of joy;
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At your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
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What exists in god's presence?
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Fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.
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When we're with god, we're on the scene of endless explosions
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Of absolute pleasure and joy, and that's what heaven
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Will always be like.
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Our god is the most exciting, adventuresome, creative person
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You can ever imagine, multiplied a billion times over.
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And the new heavens and the new earth
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And the city of new jerusalem will reflect his exuberance.
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We can't begin to comprehend the excitement that belongs
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To the triune god with whom we're gonna spend eternity.
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He spoke the universe into existence.
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Think of that.
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He made the elephant, the eagle, the earthworm.
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He created a donkey that could speak.
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He created a fish that could swallow a man,
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And a flock of ravens that could feed a prophet.
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He sweeps his hand across the sky,
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Turning it into a crimson blaze of glory.
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He's the one who can ignite volcanoes and send meteors
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Hurling through space and zap the blackened skies
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With lightning bolts and thunder claps.
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God turned the nile into blood and well water into wine.
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He flung fire from heaven in response to elijah's prayers.
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He answered job out of the whirlwind.
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He delivered daniel from the lion's den,
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And he caused the sun and moon to stand still for joshua.
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Randy alcorn, who's written a book on heaven, a great book,
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He said, "our belief that heaven will be boring betrays a heresy
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That god is boring.
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There is no greater nonsense.
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Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come greatly
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And directly from god's hand.
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He made our taste buds.
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He made adrenaline.
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He made our sex drives and the nerve endings
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That convey pleasure to our brains.
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Likewise, our imaginations and our capacity for joy
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And exhilaration were made by the very god
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We accuse of being boring.
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Are we so arrogant that we imagine that human beings
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Came up with the idea of having fun?"
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No, heaven will not be boring because the god we love
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And serve is not boring.
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Here's second reason: heaven will not be boring
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Not only because god is not boring,
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But because jesus is not boring.
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Heaven will not be boring because we'll be physically
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And visually close to christ.
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Think of what an exciting life the apostles experienced.
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When you read the gospels and every day they woke up,
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They didn't know what was gonna happen.
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They were walking with the son of god.
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They heard the sermon on the mount with their own ears.
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They watched their nets strain with fish
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At the bidding of christ.
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They stood in awe as dead people returned to life.
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They participated in inexplicable miracles
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Like the taming of vicious storms.
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They experienced the greatest surprise of their lives when
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Jesus suddenly appeared to them on the day of his resurrection.
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And he's gonna be in heaven,
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And you think heaven's gonna be boring?
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Are you kidding me?
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All of us who have sought to walk with christ through the
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Years know that the christian life is one of joy and comfort,
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Excitement, and sometimes uncertainty as we wait to see
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What the lord is gonna do next.
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But he's with us in every pattern of weather
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As our lives change.
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He gives daily strength for daily needs.
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He provides promises and answers prayer.
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Listen to me, the christian life is a great adventure
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If you walk with the lord.
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But let me put this all in perspective for you.
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Peter said, "whom having not seen you love.
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Though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice
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With joy inexpressible and full of glory."
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Everything i've described to you so far is for us to view through
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Our reading and through our minds; we haven't seen it.
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But one day we're gonna see him, and the bible says
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We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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If he's as wonderful as he is having not seen him,
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Wait till we see him.
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And when we see him, he's gonna be overwhelming.
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So, heaven won't be boring because god is not boring,
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And jesus is not boring,
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And you're gonna have to really trust me with this one.
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Heaven will not be boring because you will not be boring.
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"where in the world do you find that in the bible,
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Dr. jeremiah?"
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Well, let me tell you what paul wrote.
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He said, "behold, i tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep,
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But we shall all be changed-- in a moment,
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In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet."
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Paul said we're all going to be, what?
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Changed.
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Not changed for the worst, changed for the better.
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In philippians, he put it another way:
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"for our citizenship is in heaven,
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From which we also eagerly wait for the savior,
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The lord jesus christ," now watch this,
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"who will transform our lowly body
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That it may be conformed to his glorious body."
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What paul is telling us in these two passages of scripture
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Is that when we go to heaven, on our way up,
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We're gonna be transformed, and we're gonna get bodies
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Just like the resurrection body of the lord jesus christ.
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They won't age, they won't get tired, they won't malfunction
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Or grow sick or weak, and we'll have all the energy
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And drive and ambition imaginable,
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And our bodies will never weaken
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Or suffer fatigue.
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We can be at the full height of joy every day, 24 hours a day,
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Without ever wearing out.
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Can you imagine that?
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[audience applauds]
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Dr. jeremiah: as you know, i have been,
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I guess you could call it sick.
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I've had this condition that i got on labor day in '23,
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Where i lost the use of the lower part of my body,
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And i've been trying to get it back,
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Little by little, and it's coming back.
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But what i've discovered during this time was i've had to
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Have sort of an edited version of the old david jeremiah.
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The old david jeremiah would say yes to anything anybody asked
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Him to do and do it with all his heart and tired at night,
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But do it again the next day.
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But i can't do that anymore.
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You have to put your situation into the setting
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That you can do.
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As you get older, things get different, and you can't do
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Everything you used to do.
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I know that doesn't sound like good news.
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It's just true.
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The bible says our resurrected and heavenly bodies, we're gonna
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Be able to experience everything at the highest experience value
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All the time without ever being tired of being happy.
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Can you imagine that?
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So heaven won't be boring
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Because god the father's not gonna be boring
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And he'll be there.
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Jesus christ who will be there in his human body,
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He won't be boring.
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We know what he's like.
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We've studied him in the gospels.
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You'll be there and you won't be boring
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Because you're gonna have a makeover on the way up.
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And then the bible teaches also that heaven
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Will not be boring because your friendships won't be boring.
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Some people say, "well, when i get to heaven,
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I won't know anybody."
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Well, friendship doesn't end at heaven's gate.
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It will flourish like never before.
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The scripture hints that our relationships won't be erased,
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But they'll be redeemed.
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They'll be deepened.
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They'll be made eternal.
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Jesus spoke of sitting down with abraham, isaac, and jacob
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In the kingdom,
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And paul encouraged believers with the hope
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That we'll be reunited together forever with our families
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And our loved ones.
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In luke 16:9, jesus spoke of eternal dwellings
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Where friends welcome each other.
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One of the most insightful theologians of early america,
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If you've studied any of the history of the church,
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Was a man by the name of jonathan edwards.
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I don't like to read long quotes.
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This is a little longer than i would normally read,
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But it's worth listening.
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This is what he said: "no inhabitants of that blessed
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World will ever be grieved with the thought
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That they are slighted by those
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That they love or that their love is not fully
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And fondly returned.
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There shall be no such thing as flattery or insincerity
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In heaven, but there perfect sincerity
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Shall reign through all in all.
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Everyone will be just what he seems to be and will really have
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All the love that he seems to have.
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It will not be as in this world where comparatively few things
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Are what they seem to be and where professions are often made
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Lightly and without meaning.
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But there, every expression of love will come from the bottom
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Of the heart, and all that is professed shall be really
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And truly felt."
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Can you imagine that?
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That brings heaven down to what we're dealing with right now,
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Doesn't it?
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I mean, if i could know the absolute truth,
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I'd always know what to do.
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Unfortunately, when you're dealing with issues
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Between people, you don't know the truth
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Because you don't know if she's telling you the truth
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Or he's telling you the truth or if either one of them
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Are telling you the truth.
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So you don't know what to do.
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But in heaven, there will be no such thing as dishonesty.
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And truth will permeate every single relationship,
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So you will never walk away from a relationship and say, "i wonder what he meant by that."
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You will always be aware of the fact that you're dealing
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With life on the human level of perfection.
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Imagine strolling through the golden streets
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Of the new jerusalem with a friend,
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Marveling at the breathtaking beauty of god's creation.
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Walking together by the crystal clear river of life,
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Watching the trees bear fruit in every season,
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And join the multitudes in worshiping
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The lamb who was slain.
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Every moment will be filled with pure joy, deep love, and wonder.
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No jealousy, no insecurity, no weariness,
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Just the love of christ.
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[audience applauds]
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Dr. jeremiah: and then this one might surprise you,
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But it doesn't surprise me
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Because i understand this one completely.
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Heaven will not be boring because your work
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Will not be boring.
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Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.
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Somebody said, "if you do something you like to do,
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You'll never work a day in your life."
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That's kind of the way i feel.
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You know, i don't work.
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This is what i do.
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This is who i am.
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Well, heaven is not a place of idleness.
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It's a place of joyful activity and meaningful service.
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One of the most consistent themes running through the book
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Of revelation is that of serving god.
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When we're in heaven, we're gonna serve god.
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From beginning to end, heaven is described
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As a realm where god's people serve him.
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I could give you many, many scriptures.
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Here's a few: revelation 7:15: "therefore they are before the
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Throne of god, and they serve him
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Day and night in his temple."
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Revelation 19:5: "then a voice from the throne, saying,
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'praise our god, all you his servants
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And those who fear him, both great and small!'"
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Revelation 22:3: "and there shall be no more curse,
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But the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it,
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And his servants shall serve him."
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And when you get to heaven and you walk in the door
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As a believer, listen to the welcoming speech you're gonna
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Get from god: "well done, good and faithful servant;
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You have been faithful over a few things,
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I will make you ruler over many things."
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You had a little job here, but i'm giving you
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A big job up here.
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"enter into the joy of your lord."
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And that verse doesn't sound to me like we're gonna be sitting
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Around doing nothing forever and ever in heaven.
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Doesn't sound like retirement but a promotion.
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In other words, eternal life is not a break from work.
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It is a breakthrough to better work.
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It is purpose without pressure.
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It's service without fatigue, and it's joy without end.
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So there you have it, five reasons
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Why heaven won't be boring.
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Don't forget them.
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God won't be boring.
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Jesus won't be boring.
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You won't be boring.
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Your work won't be boring.
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The bible teaches us there's a lot of good reasons
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To get excited about heaven.
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Heaven is everything you've ever enjoyed on earth,
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Multiplied a million times over, if it's good and godly.
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Romans 8:22-23 says: "for we know that the whole creation
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Groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
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Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits
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Of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
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Waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body."
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Paul wrote to the romans and he said,
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We christians, we groan because we were made for more
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Than what we can ever experience in this world.
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We were not created to have ultimate joy in this world.
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We were created to have ultimate joy in heaven
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When we get with god.
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So heaven won't be boring because it's the fulfillment
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Of every desire in your heart.
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The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that
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The pleasure which we find in the things of this life,
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However good that pleasure may be in itself,
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It's always taken away from us.
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The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as
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Satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases
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In which they do, sooner or later, they are snatched away.
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Here's a surprise.
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One writer put it this way: god made us this way.
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He made us to yearn, to always be hungry for something
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We can't get, to always be missing
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Something we can't find,
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To always be disappointed with what we receive,
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To always have an insatiable emptiness
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That no thing can fill and an untamable restlessness
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That no discovery can still.
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Yearning itself is healthy, a kind of compass
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Inside of us pointing us true north.
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We long for heaven and we long for god,
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And when we finally get to heaven,
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That longing will be met, and it will be the most fulfilling
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And satisfying emotion we have ever known.
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It will be the exact opposite of boring.
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I can hear us all saying, "aha, finally, now it's all together.
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This is what i've been looking for all of my life."
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[audience applauds]
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Dr. jeremiah: king david had that hunger,
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And it came out in many of his psalms,
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Especially in this one: psalm 27:4:
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"one thing i have desired of the lord, that i will seek:
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That i may dwell in the house of the lord
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All the days of my life, to behold the beauty
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Of the lord, and to inquire in his temple."
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David didn't want more of this world.
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He wanted more of the presence of god.
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And that is where our deepest satisfaction
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Will always be found.
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Only in heaven will we finally feel the completeness
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That we were created to enjoy.
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I know i'm in new york city where broadway reigns
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And where plays are pretty prominent,
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And so you'll bear with me if i just use
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This closing illustration carefully.
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There are a few songs that capture our desire for heaven
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Like "somewhere over the rainbow."
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It swept the world like a tornado when judy garland,
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Playing dorothy, sang it in the 1939 film, "the wizard of oz."
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In an early scene, dorothy wonders out loud,
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"do you suppose there is such a place, behind the moon,
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Behind the rain?"
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Then she begins to sing, "somewhere over the rainbow,
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Way up high."
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The songwriters yip harburg and harold arlen
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Were both sons of jewish immigrants.
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They wrote this song in 1939 as war loomed over europe and,
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Though safe in america, they felt the ache
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For something more: peace, safety, a place to belong.
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I think something like what we feel at this very time
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In our own lives.
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So they gave the world a lyric that still pulls at our heart:
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"somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
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There's a land that i heard of once in a lullaby.
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Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams
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That you dare to dream really do come true."
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It's in our dna to long for a better place,
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To ache for a place way up high
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Where dreams really do come true.
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There's only one place like that, friends,
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And it's called heaven.
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[audience applauds]
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Dr. jeremiah: let me say it again,
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Heaven will not be boring, not even close,
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Because god isn't boring, you aren't boring, your friends
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Aren't boring, your work isn't boring, and most of all,
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Heaven is the place your soul has been searching for,
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For your entire life.
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So don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
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Heaven will be the most thrilling, joy-filled,
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Adventure-packed reality you have ever known,
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Multiplied beyond anything you can imagine.
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You want to know what boring is?
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Imagine being locked in solitary confinement forever,
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Cut off from every relationship, stuck with nothing but regret.
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That's how the bible describes hell.
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Thessalonians 1:9 says: "these shall be punished
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With everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord
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And from the glory of his power."
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In hell, there will be no friendships,
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No laughter, no hope, just endless separation.
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When i was in seminary at dallas, texas,
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I worked in the trucking industry during the afternoons
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To pay my tuition.
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The guys there were not christian guys.
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They were pretty rough characters.
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And they used to pick on me.
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They called me preacher boy and preacher joe.
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And they would always come into my truck,
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And i'd be working in there,
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And they'd get me going, and they'd start saying stuff like,
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"i'm going to hell and party with my buddies."
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But i realized they had it backwards.
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Hell isn't the party.
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It's the absence of everything good.
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Heaven is the party.
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Heaven is where the joy is.
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And here's the best part.
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You can know today that heaven is in your future.
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For jesus said, "i go to prepare a place for you that where i am,
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There you may be also."
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And he made it so simple.
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He said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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And no one comes to the father except through me."
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What a wonderful promise that is.
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He didn't just say, "go that way."
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No, he said, "i am the way.
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I will take you to heaven."
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If you want to go to heaven, you have to let jesus take you there
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By accepting what he did on the cross for your sin
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And asking for forgiveness.
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Heaven is real, it's awesome,
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It's offered freely to anyone
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Who will put their trust in jesus
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And if you haven't done that, i hope you will do it today.
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And when you pray that prayer, you will invite jesus christ
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Into your life and you will become a christian.
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Dr. jeremiah: the promise of heaven is a great comfort to us
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As we go through this life.
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But the fact is, there is only one way to gain entrance.
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We can't get to heaven by being nice people.
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We can't get there by doing more good than bad.
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We can't get there by rites or rituals.
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You see, the only way to heaven is through jesus christ
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And accepting him as lord and savior of your life.
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If you have made the decision to follow jesus christ today
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Dr. jeremiah: we could never function in the new heaven
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And the new earth.
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We couldn't function in a multi-level heaven
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Called the city of jerusalem.
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But god's gonna give us new bodies that will be like
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The ones we have now,
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But completely made over, transformed,
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And capable of living in both the seen and the unseen realms.
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Announcer: stay tuned for another message
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From dr. jeremiah's series, "the promise of heaven,"
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Coming up right now here on "turning point."
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Announcer: there's a home that calls to every human heart,
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A promise of something better waiting on the other side
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Of this life.
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Some call it a great light, others the great beyond.
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But for god's children, it's heaven and our forever home.
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A place to put down eternal roots, where you'll find life
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That never fades, and your every need fulfilled.
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Where every tear is wiped away, no more sorrow, no more pain,
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No more goodbyes.
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In their place, peace that flows like the river of life,
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And joy running deeper than any earthly current.
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All things will be renewed, including your body and strength
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And every one of your steps taking you further into eternity
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To the throne of the one who knows you completely
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And who welcomes you home.
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In his presence, you'll be reminded,
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This is where you belong.
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This is "the promise of heaven."
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Announcer: and now, here is dr. jeremiah with his message,
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"a body for heaven."
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Dr. jeremiah: there aren't many normal days on the site
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Of camp 3 near the summit of mount everest.
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The camp is usually set up at an elevation of around 24,500 feet,
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Which is within the death zone caused by frigid temperatures
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And significantly reduced oxygen.
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So every person there is literally
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Taking their life in their hands.
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On a particular day, back in 2007,
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Everyone stood in slack-jawed amazement
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As a singular climber entered the camp.
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That climber's name was wim hof, and in many ways, he was similar
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To the other adventure seekers looking to summit
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The world's highest mountain, bold, courageous,
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Open to the risks others preferred to avoid.
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But there was one key difference about wim: his clothing.
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While every other climber and every other member of the sports
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Staff was decked out in the latest cold weather gear,
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Including performance jackets, gloves, and latest boots,
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And many other layers,
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Mr. hof wore a pair of shorts, open-toed sandals,
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Had no shirt, no hat, no socks,
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Nothing to stand between his body and the merciless cold.
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Known throughout the world as the iceman,
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Hof has become a legend
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For his ability to thrive in severe cold.
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Scientists are baffled by his ability
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To endure extremes that would mean certain death
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For any other person.
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The iceman attributes his extraordinary feats
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To what he calls the wim hof method,
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Which seems to be a combination of breathing techniques,
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Exposure, meditation, and chutzpah.
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I have no idea whether mr. hof is a once-in-a-lifetime
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Physical specimen.
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He may be just a motivational genius, a charlatan,
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Or something completely different.
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But i do know that his ideas remind me of a truth
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I have been pondering for a long time.
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Human beings are destined for more than we
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Currently experience.
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The limitations on our body are temporary limitations
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If we're christians.
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I'm talking about the physical transformation of all followers
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Of jesus, and we're going to experience that moment
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At the resurrection, at the time of the rapture.
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The resurrection is more than resuscitation, friends.
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It's transformation.
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We're gonna be changed.
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Three people rose from the dead in the old testament,
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And jesus raised three people from death during his ministry:
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A boy in the town of nain, a girl in capernaum,
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And his friend lazarus.
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Both peter and paul brought back some people from death,
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But each of those examples were temporary resurrections.
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And i always felt bad for lazarus.
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He had to die twice.
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They became sick or suffered, had an accident,
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Once again they passed away.
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Christ arose in a different way.
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The essence of his physical body was changed.
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It was glorified.
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It was rendered everlasting, imperishable, and improved
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With various skills and abilities to enjoy forever.
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After his transformational resurrection,
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He would not and could not ever die again.
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The resurrection of jesus christ from the dead provides the proof
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And the pattern for what's ahead for all of his children.
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In philippians 3:21, we're told that christ
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"will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be conformed
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To his glorious body."
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In 1 john 3:2, we read: "it has not yet been revealed
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What we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed,
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We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."
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Now, let's explore what that means.
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People want to know, what is my new body going to be like?
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And there's no passage in the scripture that says,
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Here's what the new body of a christian will look like.
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But we have almost the same thing, because if we're going to
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Have bodies like the lord jesus, if we study the lord jesus
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After his resurrection, we'll discover what kind of bodies
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We're gonna have because we're gonna have bodies
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Just like him.
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First of all, our new bodies will be incarnate,
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And the word "incarnate" means in the flesh,
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A real physical bodily existence.
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We're not gonna have spirit bodies as some people teach.
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I don't even know if there is such a thing.
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I think that's an oxymoron, isn't it, a spirit body?
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That's why we say our new bodies will be incarnate.
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We won't be floating spirits.
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We'll have real physical bodies just like the resurrected lord.
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And if we're gonna have a glorious body, like the body
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Of the resurrected lord, then what does that mean?
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Well, we can't know all that it means.
00:35:36.184 --> 00:35:38.386
We can get some ideas by watching the lord
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As he walked on earth in his resurrection body.
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He was on earth in his resurrection body for 40 days.
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And in those 40 days, he showed us some examples
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Of how our resurrection bodies will function in heaven.
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First of all, jesus said his body was real:
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"behold my hands and my feet,"
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Luke 24:39, "that it is i myself.
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Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh
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And bones as you see that i have."
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Jesus, he hit that one right in the head, didn't he?
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He says, "you know, spirits don't have flesh and bones
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Like i have.
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I'm not a spirit body.
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I'm a real body."
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Jesus wanted his disciples to know
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That this wasn't a dream or a vision.
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He had really and physically risen from the dead,
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And his resurrection wasn't just spiritual,
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It was flesh and bones real.
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Here's something that'll make all of you really happy
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And some of you happier than others.
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Jesus ate on at least two occasions after he came back
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From the dead.
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Luke 24 says: "they gave jesus a piece of broiled fish
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And some honeycomb.
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And he took it and ate it in their presence."
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John 21 says: "jesus said to them, 'come and eat breakfast.'
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And none of the disciples dared ask him, 'who are you?'--
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Knowing that it was the lord.
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And jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them,
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And likewise the fish."
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More than a few people have suggested that in heaven
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We will be able to eat without any of the negative effects.
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Can i get a witness?
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We will eat without gaining weight.
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We will eat and taste food like never before.
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Chocolate will have no greater effect
00:37:33.167 --> 00:37:34.969
On your waistline than vegetables.
00:37:34.969 --> 00:37:37.104
How about that?
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So jesus said his body was real on two occasions.
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He ate, so in our resurrection bodies,
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We can assume that we'll be able to do that as well.
00:37:48.049 --> 00:37:51.252
And then he also told thomas to touch his body.
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Remember that?
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"he said to thomas, 'reach your finger here,
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And look at my hands;
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And reach your hand here, and put it in my side.
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Don't be unbelieving, but believing.'"
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Jesus had real scars on a real body.
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His body was glorified, but it was still recognizable
00:38:08.936 --> 00:38:11.872
And touchable.
00:38:11.872 --> 00:38:13.674
He retained the scars in his resurrection body
00:38:13.674 --> 00:38:16.143
To prove his identity and to remind all of us
00:38:16.143 --> 00:38:19.213
Throughout eternity of the cost of our salvation.
00:38:19.213 --> 00:38:22.216
Did you know that jesus is gonna be in heaven in his body?
00:38:22.216 --> 00:38:26.087
He didn't go back to a spirit being after his incarnation.
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He went back to heaven in his body, and we're going to see him
00:38:30.825 --> 00:38:33.461
In his body with the wounds in his hands, in his side,
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And in his feet throughout all eternity.
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And every time we see that, we're gonna be reminded
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That's how we got there.
00:38:42.503 --> 00:38:44.538
That's why we're there.
00:38:44.538 --> 00:38:47.208
It is possible that jesus might be the only one whose scars
00:38:47.208 --> 00:38:50.411
Remain because they tell a story that no one else can tell.
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And then one other thought about his resurrection body.
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Do you remember when jesus told mary not to hold on to him?
00:38:59.653 --> 00:39:04.058
John 20:17: "jesus said to her, 'do not cling to me,
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For i have not ascended to my father.'"
00:39:07.828 --> 00:39:10.598
This shows us that jesus had a real body you could touch,
00:39:10.598 --> 00:39:13.467
He was getting ready to go back to heaven,
00:39:13.467 --> 00:39:15.369
And one day we'll have new bodies like his,
00:39:15.369 --> 00:39:18.172
And we won't need to cling to him
00:39:18.172 --> 00:39:19.673
Because we'll be with him forever and ever.
00:39:19.673 --> 00:39:23.144
And he won't leave us.
00:39:23.144 --> 00:39:27.148
So the first thing about our new bodies
00:39:27.148 --> 00:39:28.816
Is they will be incarnate, flesh and bones bodies,
00:39:28.816 --> 00:39:32.520
And they will also be identifiable.
00:39:32.520 --> 00:39:35.289
A lot of people worry about that.
00:39:35.289 --> 00:39:37.158
You will still be you, and everyone will recognize you.
00:39:37.158 --> 00:39:40.928
You'll instantly know your loved ones.
00:39:40.928 --> 00:39:43.931
On two occasions after his resurrection,
00:39:43.931 --> 00:39:46.200
People were confused about the lord's identity.
00:39:46.200 --> 00:39:49.170
The first was at the tomb when mary magdalene
00:39:49.170 --> 00:39:50.938
Thought jesus was the gardener.
00:39:50.938 --> 00:39:53.073
Remember that?
00:39:53.073 --> 00:39:54.408
But her eyes were filled with tears
00:39:54.408 --> 00:39:55.743
And she quickly recognized him.
00:39:55.743 --> 00:39:58.446
The other was on the emmaus road when two travelers
00:39:58.446 --> 00:40:00.815
Thought he was a stranger,
00:40:00.815 --> 00:40:02.283
But that's because the bible says their eyes were restrained
00:40:02.283 --> 00:40:05.920
So that they would not know him.
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.755
On every other occasion, people identified jesus
00:40:07.755 --> 00:40:11.091
And called him by name.
00:40:11.091 --> 00:40:12.960
And they will call you by name, too.
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.763
The apostle paul said of that day,
00:40:15.763 --> 00:40:17.898
"now i know in part, but then i shall know
00:40:17.898 --> 00:40:21.735
Just as i also am known."
00:40:21.735 --> 00:40:24.872
In describing the moment of our resurrection
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In 1 thessalonians 4,
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Paul told the people not to grieve beyond measure
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Over those who had passed away.
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He said, "for we will see them again and be caught up
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Into the heavens with them,"
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1 thessalonians 4:17,
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"and thus we shall always be with the lord."
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Three men in jesus's story about the afterlife,
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Abraham, the beggar lazarus, and the rich man in hades,
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All recognized each other.
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At the transfiguration of christ in matthew 17,
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Peter, james, and john recognized elijah, moses,
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And the brilliantly illuminated jesus.
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Here we have three men whose earthly lives were separated
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By 1400 years, and yet they all knew each other.
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They were standing there physically,
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Fellowshipping with and talking together.
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Can you imagine having a discussion
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With abraham or isaac or daniel?
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And it's like yesterday talking to your friend downtown.
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Moses and elijah were known by their same names,
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But they were glorified.
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They were energized.
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They were wrapped in light.
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Perhaps the best answer is the one i heard years ago.
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An old lady approached her pastor and said,
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"dr. jones, will i know my daughter when i get to heaven?
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She's there waiting on me."
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Dr. jones said, "my dear, did you recognize her on earth?"
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Yes.
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"well, we aren't gonna be less aware in heaven
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Than we are on earth, are we?
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We'll actually be smarter and our memories will be keener.
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Yes, you will instantly recognize your sweet daughter."
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Missionary amy carmichael wrote these words.
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She said, "shall we know each other in heaven?
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Shall we love and remember?
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I don't think anyone need wonder about this or doubt
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For a single moment.
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For if we think for a moment, we know.
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Would you be yourself if you did not remember?
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We are told that we shall be like our lord jesus,
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And does he not know and love and remember?
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He would not be himself if he did not,
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And we should not be ourselves if we did not.
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We're gonna be like jesus."
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Our new bodies will be incarnate in the flesh.
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You'll be able to identify them, and they will be,
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Here you go, indestructible.
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1 corinthians, paul wrote: "the body is sown in corruption,
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But it is raised in incorruption."
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The word "sown" refers to the argument paul made earlier in
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The chapter about being afraid of death, and he said,
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"foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies."
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And the picture is of a seed being planted in the soil,
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Then germinating and then sprouting into something new,
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And the same path we follow when we die.
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We are sown in corruption, and then we are raised
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In incorruption.
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What is corruption?
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It is what happens to our old bodies that suffer strokes,
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Heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, migraines,
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And all of the rest.
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And the bible says: "our outward man is perishing."
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Anybody here doubt that?
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Well, just wait a couple years and you'll get there.
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From the instant of our resurrection,
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Our new bodies will never wear out or never grow old.
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They will be totally resistant to deterioration or decay.
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Your new body will be designed for eternity.
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It will not be subject to accidents,
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Diseases, aging, or death.
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It will be pain-free and disease-free.
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It will never wear out.
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It will never die.
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And the exclamation point to this truth
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Is found in romans 6:8-9,
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Which describes the resurrection body of jesus:
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"now if we died with christ, we believe
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That we will also live with him.
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For we know that since christ was raised from the dead,
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He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him,"
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And that will be true of all of us too.
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Death has no mastery over us in our resurrection bodies.
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These words about our savior, "he cannot die again."
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His glorified body is imperishable,
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It's indestructible, and this is the model
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For the bodies we're going to have when we go to heaven.
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So our bodies will be incarnate in the flesh.
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They will be identifiable, we'll know each other.
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They'll be indestructible, nothing could ever happen
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To them.
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Here's one that i was surprised to find out when i studied this.
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Our new bodies will be illuminated.
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You know, everybody wants to have that glow about them.
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You're gonna get that glow one of these days.
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1 corinthians 15:43 says our body "is sown in dishonor,
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And it is raised in glory."
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And the word "glory" here is a word which means brilliance.
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And it's not really surprising if you go back and study
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The bible because, remember, something unusual
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Happened to moses when he spent time with the lord.
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Remember that?
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His face was radiant and began to shine.
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Same thing happened to jesus on the mount of transfiguration.
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And in revelation 21, we're told the entire city of new jerusalem
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Will be luminescent, illumined by the light that radiates
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From the resurrected christ.
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There won't be sun or moon or anything.
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All the light will come from christ.
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And we're gonna be reflectors of that light.
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We're gonna have a little shine around us as we move about.
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Our bodies will shine with light like moses's face did
00:45:59.540 --> 00:46:03.110
After being with god and like jesus did on the mountain.
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Psalm 34, verse 5 says: "they looked at him
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And they were radiant."
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By the way, shouldn't our faces exhibit a foretaste of that now?
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I mean, shouldn't we have
00:46:15.022 --> 00:46:16.356
A little bit of that glow even now?
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The scripture says: "and we all, who with unveiled faces
00:46:18.125 --> 00:46:21.595
Contemplate the lord's glory, are being transformed
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Into his image with ever-increasing glory,
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Which comes from the lord, who is the spirit."
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Now, i don't know if that gets through to you,
00:46:30.170 --> 00:46:32.105
But what that says is we have a little bit of that glory now,
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But when we go to heaven,
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We're gonna go from glory to glory.
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And i want to tell you, some of us
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:40.013
Are gonna have farther to go than others.
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I know christian people, some older christian people, who just
00:46:44.284 --> 00:46:49.089
Always seem to have a special, i don't know if it was a glow,
00:46:49.089 --> 00:46:52.426
Just a sense about them that was different.
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So, your face will reflect your anticipation for heaven.
00:46:55.629 --> 00:46:59.700
Did you know that?
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When people look at you, do they see the glow of god's goodness
00:47:01.068 --> 00:47:03.737
And mercy and love?
00:47:03.737 --> 00:47:05.672
Somebody said, "how are you doing?"
00:47:05.672 --> 00:47:07.007
"i'm doing fine."
00:47:07.007 --> 00:47:08.375
"you need to tell your face,"
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Because your face is your identification, amen?
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So our resurrection bodies will be indestructible, identifiable,
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Incarnate, illuminated, but they will also be incredible.
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What do i mean by that?
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Well, listen to paul's words once again
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From 1 corinthians 15.
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He says our human body "is sown in weakness,
00:47:30.597 --> 00:47:35.002
But it is raised in power."
00:47:35.002 --> 00:47:38.839
Most of my life, i've made it a point to try to get to the gym.
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I've got a couple of machines in my garage, and i've switched
00:47:41.909 --> 00:47:45.979
The types of exercises i do in a given week.
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But you know what?
00:47:49.650 --> 00:47:50.984
No matter how hard i try at maintaining my physical health,
00:47:50.984 --> 00:47:55.088
I can't deny that my body today is weaker
00:47:55.088 --> 00:47:57.190
Than when i was in my 20s and 30s.
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I'm older, i'm more fragile, i'm a little worn down.
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Do you know what comes to mind when i ponder the reality
00:48:05.499 --> 00:48:08.268
Of my resurrection body?
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Thank god i won't have to drag this current frame
00:48:10.771 --> 00:48:13.006
Into eternity.
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I'm ready for something new, something powerful,
00:48:20.047 --> 00:48:23.050
Something incredible, something that doesn't fall down
00:48:23.050 --> 00:48:25.919
Indiscriminately when you least expect it to.
00:48:25.919 --> 00:48:29.623
Our resurrection bodies will be astonishing.
00:48:29.623 --> 00:48:32.592
They'll be full of energy, bursting with enthusiastic
00:48:32.592 --> 00:48:35.195
Power, and perhaps capable of extraordinary functions.
00:48:35.195 --> 00:48:40.567
If the glorified body of christ could pass through walls
00:48:40.567 --> 00:48:43.971
And travel by impulses of thought,
00:48:43.971 --> 00:48:47.207
Maybe we'll be able to do the same thing.
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Finally, our new bodies will be infinite.
00:48:50.744 --> 00:48:54.214
The bible says: "it is sown a natural body,
00:48:54.214 --> 00:48:57.684
It is raised a spiritual body.
00:48:57.684 --> 00:49:00.087
There is a natural body, and there's a spiritual body.
00:49:00.087 --> 00:49:03.457
And so it is written, 'the first man adam
00:49:03.457 --> 00:49:05.826
Became a living being.'
00:49:05.826 --> 00:49:07.227
The last adam became a life-giving spirit."
00:49:07.227 --> 00:49:10.497
And, you know, you have to ask this question.
00:49:10.497 --> 00:49:12.332
What did paul mean by a spiritual body?
00:49:12.332 --> 00:49:14.368
That almost sounds like a contradiction.
00:49:14.368 --> 00:49:16.770
We've already said our bodies aren't immaterial,
00:49:16.770 --> 00:49:20.307
But the word "spiritual" implies that our bodies
00:49:20.307 --> 00:49:24.011
Will be existing on a higher plane.
00:49:24.011 --> 00:49:27.514
The basic difference between a natural body
00:49:27.514 --> 00:49:29.783
And a spiritual body is that the formal body
00:49:29.783 --> 00:49:32.819
Is suited for life on our current earth,
00:49:32.819 --> 00:49:35.655
But our spiritual bodies will be suited for life
00:49:35.655 --> 00:49:37.991
In heaven for eternity with god.
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Including the new heavens and the new earth
00:49:41.328 --> 00:49:43.563
In our current bodies, we could never function
00:49:43.563 --> 00:49:46.666
In the new heaven and the new earth.
00:49:46.666 --> 00:49:48.168
We couldn't function in a multi-leveled heaven
00:49:48.168 --> 00:49:51.405
Called the city of jerusalem.
00:49:51.405 --> 00:49:53.807
But god's gonna give us new bodies that will be like the
00:49:53.807 --> 00:49:57.244
Ones we have now but completely made over, transformed, and
00:49:57.244 --> 00:50:00.447
Capable of living in both the seen and the unseen realms.
00:50:00.447 --> 00:50:05.519
Wherever you are on the body cycle, just remember,
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:09.456
God's got something special waiting
00:50:09.456 --> 00:50:12.159
For all of us when we go to heaven.
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:17.097
So, what have we learned today?
00:50:17.097 --> 00:50:19.533
We've seen that the resurrection body of jesus
00:50:19.533 --> 00:50:21.835
Is the pattern for our bodies.
00:50:21.835 --> 00:50:24.337
It was physical and real.
00:50:24.337 --> 00:50:26.673
He could be touched.
00:50:26.673 --> 00:50:28.075
He ate with his disciples.
00:50:28.075 --> 00:50:29.609
He spoke to them.
00:50:29.609 --> 00:50:31.011
But his body was also glorified, no longer subject to pain,
00:50:31.011 --> 00:50:34.714
Weakness, or death.
00:50:34.714 --> 00:50:36.183
He could appear in distant places
00:50:36.183 --> 00:50:38.118
And pass through locked doors.
00:50:38.118 --> 00:50:40.087
His body was transformed, and one day ours will be too.
00:50:40.087 --> 00:50:44.958
But perhaps the most remarkable truth is this.
00:50:44.958 --> 00:50:47.828
Jesus was recognized not only by his face,
00:50:47.828 --> 00:50:52.265
But he was also recognized by his personality.
00:50:52.265 --> 00:50:56.703
And men and women, that will be true for us.
00:50:56.703 --> 00:50:59.706
We won't lose our identity.
00:50:59.706 --> 00:51:01.975
We'll finally be fully ourselves as god designed us to be.
00:51:01.975 --> 00:51:06.146
And that brings us to an important reality.
00:51:06.146 --> 00:51:09.916
The bible teaches that all will be raised,
00:51:09.916 --> 00:51:12.385
Believers to eternal life, unbelievers to judgment.
00:51:12.385 --> 00:51:17.757
Just as heaven is real and physical, so is hell.
00:51:17.757 --> 00:51:23.063
That's why the gospel is so important.
00:51:23.063 --> 00:51:24.831
The question is not whether you will live forever,
00:51:24.831 --> 00:51:27.367
Because everybody in this room is gonna live forever.
00:51:27.367 --> 00:51:30.036
The real question is, where are you gonna live forever?
00:51:30.036 --> 00:51:33.640
Not whether you'll have a body after death,
00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:35.809
But where that body will dwell.
00:51:35.809 --> 00:51:38.044
Will you be with christ in joy or apart from him in judgment?
00:51:38.044 --> 00:51:42.983
Heaven is about putting your trust in jesus christ
00:51:42.983 --> 00:51:46.186
And in him alone.
00:51:46.186 --> 00:51:50.790
When you do that, you don't have to guess about heaven anymore.
00:51:50.790 --> 00:51:54.628
When you put your trust in jesus christ, you can know right now
00:51:54.628 --> 00:51:58.331
That you're gonna spend eternity in heaven with him.
00:51:58.331 --> 00:52:02.302
I told everybody when i started to do this study on heaven,
00:52:02.302 --> 00:52:05.438
"it's not my goal to make everybody smarter about heaven.
00:52:05.438 --> 00:52:09.776
It's my goal to take as many people to heaven as i can."
00:52:09.776 --> 00:52:12.946
I want you to know--i want you to know how wonderful heaven is
00:52:12.946 --> 00:52:18.418
Because i want you to be there and enjoy the blessings
00:52:18.418 --> 00:52:22.489
That god has prepared for those who love him.
00:52:22.489 --> 00:52:25.125
And you know what the bible says?
00:52:25.125 --> 00:52:26.793
The bible says: "eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
00:52:26.793 --> 00:52:30.530
The things which god has prepared."
00:52:30.530 --> 00:52:31.965
So i've just touched the hem of the garment here,
00:52:31.965 --> 00:52:35.168
Just a little bit of some of the cool things
00:52:35.168 --> 00:52:36.870
About going to heaven in your super-body.
00:52:36.870 --> 00:52:40.140
It's gonna be way better than that, way better than i can
00:52:40.140 --> 00:52:42.108
Describe, and i don't even know the nuances to go there
00:52:42.108 --> 00:52:45.478
Except to tell you this is what god's word says.
00:52:45.478 --> 00:52:48.448
And i'm excited one day i'm going to get a new body.
00:52:48.448 --> 00:52:51.051
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Dr. jeremiah: "the promise of heaven" is a great comfort to us
00:53:48.541 --> 00:53:51.878
As we go through this life.
00:53:51.878 --> 00:53:54.347
But the fact is, there is only one way to gain entrance.
00:53:54.347 --> 00:53:58.718
We can't get to heaven by being nice people.
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We can't get there by doing more good than bad.
00:54:01.921 --> 00:54:05.625
We can't get there by rites or rituals.
00:54:05.625 --> 00:54:08.995
You see, the only way to heaven is through jesus christ
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And accepting him as lord and savior of your life.
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Are enveloped within the grace and mercy of the lord.
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Join dr. jeremiah next time for his message,
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"what about the children?"
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Dr. jeremiah: i don't think i've ever spent two hours
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Like this in my life.
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Until then, our hearts should go on singing.
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Until then, with joy, we carry on.
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When god calls us home.
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By jordan smith.
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[vocalizing]
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Announcer: veritas.
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♪ and you'll find somewhere-- ♪♪
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♪ when my eyes behold that city-♪♪
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♪ how i long for the new jerusalem ♪♪
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Experience a moving celebration of our heavenly home
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As david jeremiah and turning point ministries
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Present, "a glimpse of heaven."
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♪♪♪
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David Jeremiah - Won't Heaven Be Boring?

October 25, 2025 | 58:20

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