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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Heaven Is Fun

August 22, 2025 | S25 E202 | 29:0

Ed Young - Heaven Is Fun
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Heaven Is Fun | August 22, 2025
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  • Ed: google "heaven" and you know what you'll see?
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  • Miles and miles of white clouds.
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  • You may see an angel or a cherub with a little halo around.
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  • You may see a harp of some kind but on and on and on and on you
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  • Get the world's picture of heaven and it is a million,
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  • Million miles from being a picture of
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  • The reality of paradise.
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  • If you've been around here, you've already discovered that.
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  • But i can tell you something, there are thousands of books
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  • Written on heaven and i don't believe you'll find a single
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  • One with the title that best describes heaven.
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  • It is heaven is fun.
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  • Have you ever heard of that before?
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  • Does that sound bizarre, way out of the question, ridiculous,
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  • Trivial, hard to believe?
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  • Read the bible and you'll discover if you read ever so
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  • Carefully that heaven is absolutely fun, unlimited
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  • Pleasure, unlimited joy, unlimited celebration, unlimited
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  • Creativity, unlimited spontaneity.
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  • Heaven is unlimited fun.
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  • Look at mr. webster how he defines fun.
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  • The etymology is from on old french word but it's got great
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  • Things in there, pleasure, you know, applause, laughter, all of
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  • Those wonderful things that some of us are involved in, some of
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  • Us have forgotten how to be involved in.
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  • But what i want you to get today is the simple basic fact that
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  • Heaven is fun.
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  • Our god likes to make things.
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  • Have you noticed that?
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  • He really likes to make things.
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  • He is a creator and the thrilling thing about it, he
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  • Allows all of us to participate in his creation.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • We need never to forget the magnificent thing that all of us
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  • Were created in the image of god, every person here.
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  • How did we get in this world?
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  • How did we have life breathed into us?
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  • It came when a father and a mother came together with god
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  • And we as parents become co-creators with the almighty.
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  • Do you think god needed a male and a female
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  • To bring life into being?
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  • Absolutely not, but he used us as a part of his building, as a
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  • Part of his creative process and that's what we're gonna
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  • Have in heaven.
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  • Everything is not complete.
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  • Everything is incomplete and our father in heaven, god of this
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  • Universe, god who presides over heaven, our heavenly father,
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  • Our abba father, he loves to build things.
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  • And he uses sometimes millions of years to bring things
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  • Into existence.
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  • Sometimes he speaks and he uses human beings.
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  • Do you think in the afterlife of our life you think in all of
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  • Eternity god's gonna stop his wonderful desire to build
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  • Things, to create things?
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  • Absolutely not.
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  • You think he's going, to when we leave this world, say,
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  • "all right, i'll let you create life there.
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  • You had that capacity but look, you no longer will be a part of
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  • The creative process."
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  • I don't think so.
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  • And remember our operative verse that we've looked at.
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  • 1 corinthians 3:9, repeat it after me, follow me.
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  • "eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered
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  • Into the heart of man what god has prepared
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  • For those who love him."
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  • He has prepared heaven for us and heaven is gonna be
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  • More fun than you can imagine.
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  • You say, "well, i know about this earth."
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  • You know what this earth, living on this earth is like?
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  • Have you ever been to an amusement park in fact
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  • Wintertime when everything's shut down?
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  • You know, there's a slide, the water slide, no water.
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  • There's the merry-go-round.
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  • There's all of these machines, these apparatus.
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  • Nothing is there, nobody's there, it's shut down and
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  • It's just a dismal place.
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  • When you were there, boy, in the summer when it was alive and
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  • Moving, people were shouting, and eating, and crying, and so
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  • Many things going on but, boy, in the winter we're gonna look
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  • Back on this life, this little bitty life,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Oh, i'll give you a hundred years.
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  • That's nothing.
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  • That's like a twinkle of your eye compared to where those
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  • Who are in christ will spend heaven and heaven
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  • Is not gonna be floating and on some little cloud.
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  • Remember we discovered that heaven, according the bible, is
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  • Going to be where we will fulfill our dreams or we'll
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  • Have time if you want to become an astronomer.
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  • Wouldn't it be great to know all about--if you have time,
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  • You want to develop so many talents that we have.
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  • So, we go to heaven and we realize that in heaven,
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  • Everything we have, all the senses that we have, we know
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  • At least five of them will be expanded and exploded in ways
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  • We can't even comprehend.
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  • See, we can't imagine.
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  • In heaven, what will we hear?
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  • What kind of ears will we have in heaven?
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  • You know, what will we hear?
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  • Well, we hear now a lot of things.
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  • We love to hear the little cooing of a baby.
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  • I dedicated a baby in early service, little cooing, boy,
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  • That's great music, isn't it?
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  • That's--and to hear birds out singing in the morning, man,
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  • I love that hear that.
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  • And to be at the beach and to walk the beach early and, boy,
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  • Those waves are crashing down.
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  • Boy, i love that.
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  • Or be in the mountains and hear the wind blowing through the
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  • Trees or go in the backyard and just look up in a summer night
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  • When everything is clear.
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  • Man, you hear, you hear the music of heaven.
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  • And what about music?
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  • We will there be music in heaven?
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  • Absolutely, all kinds of music and it'll make our music here
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  • Seem sort of, trying to find the right word, puny.
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  • Oh yeah, earthly music is great, it's fabulous as we've already
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  • Experienced that with our choir and orchestra.
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  • That'll just be sort of puny in heaven when the mass choirs of
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  • The universe get together and the mass orchestra of
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  • The universe get together.
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  • And we will hear music that is beyond our understanding.
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  • And now, for example, i don't know much about classical music.
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  • I know i'm the loser there, i would like to.
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  • In heaven, i'll be able to learn and develop.
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  • I don't know anything about opera, very little about grand
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  • Opera, light opera.
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  • I'd love to pursue all that.
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  • And see, all of this had been disturbed, and twisted, and
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  • Polluted in this life, it will all be cleaned up.
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  • Rock 'n' roll music will be baptized in heaven.
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  • It may be okay.
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  • What about jazz?
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  • What about gospel?
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  • I love the singing of the spirituals and then we got
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  • The great, great music of the church.
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  • "a mighty fortress is our god," martin luther.
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  • Isaac watts, "alas and did my savior bleed."
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  • Handel's "messiah."
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  • And you look at charles wesley, fanny crosby.
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  • I mean, look at that, such great hymns that we have.
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  • Some musicals we had of yesterday that our kids would
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  • Sing for us.
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  • Music comes from all form, high, and low, and in the middle and
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  • All of this will be enhanced and developed because that'll be
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  • A part of the celebration of heaven and all of us will be
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  • Able to sing.
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  • Something, wouldn't it?
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  • So, the hearing of music, the hearing of sound, will be
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  • Greatly enhanced and developed in heaven and that's part of the
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  • Excitement, and the fun, and the anticipation of it.
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  • We'll participate in it, we'll listen to it, we'll grow.
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  • And i'm gonna tell you a secret.
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  • I've always wanted to play the violin and i may spend a while
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  • Just learning how to play the violin.
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  • Wouldn't that be--wouldn't you like to do that?
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  • Goodness gracious.
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  • See, that is the explosiveness and the expansiveness of heaven
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  • That we can pursue unto god's grace and god's giftedness to
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  • All of us and it's going to be fun.
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  • Some people forgot and have fun on this earth.
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  • Boy, you take death away, take pain away, clean up our
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  • Personalities, get our minds and hearts thinking right, give us
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  • That new resurrected body and my goodness, heaven is gonna be
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  • Just more fun than we can imagine.
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  • Just the hearing part of heaven.
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  • What about seeing?
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  • Man, the colors that we'll see.
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  • There are just full of primary colors.
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  • There's red, white, blue, yellow, isn't that the four?
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  • You take those four colors, jo beth would put it on a palette,
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  • She'd mix those together and get all the other colors.
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  • I have been told that the human eye has a capacity to see
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  • 10 million different colors and shades but that's nothing
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  • Compared to heaven.
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  • You think god's gonna be limited to four colors?
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  • The beauty of the magnificent, the creativity, my, my, the
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  • Artists that will be there, the sculptors that will be there.
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  • I'd like to sculpt something.
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  • You know, maybe michelangelo will have time to teach some of
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  • Us a little bit about painting and about sculpture.
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  • Bach might sit down and say, "you want me to tell you about
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  • The piano, boys, this is a--" and we'd learn to create and do
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  • Things not only in music that we hear, in artistic endeavors that
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  • We'll engage in.
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  • Heaven is going to be a lot of fun.
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  • The doubts, the dead end streets,
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  • The things we didn't complete.
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  • There's no incompletes in heaven.
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  • That is the fun of it.
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  • And what about in heaven, what about the odors?
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  • What about the building, the smell?
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  • Say, "that's no big deal."
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  • It is to me.
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  • The building to smell has a memory.
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  • I can stand right here, ladies and gentlemen, and close my eyes
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  • And i can, i can smell my mother's fruitcake.
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  • Three weeks before christmas every year walk in our little
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  • Kitchen, there on that the linoleum and, boy,
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  • She'd bake fruitcake.
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  • I can smell it.
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  • But we'll smell in heaven.
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  • I can remember being in jerusalem and walking the
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  • Streets in the old city and they'd have fresh-baked bread
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  • Out there selling.
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  • I can smell that bread right now, or in my little hometown
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  • Across from my little church.
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  • When smith's bakery was baking bread, we'd go down there and
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  • Put our money together and buy a whole loaf of
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  • Hot, fresh-made bread.
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  • I can smell that today.
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  • Oh yeah, and about taste?
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  • That's big.
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  • You know who the v.i.p.s are of hawaii?
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  • You'd be surprised unless you know the islands.
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  • I mean all the famous of the world go to hawaii.
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  • You name stars, writers, billionaires they'll all there.
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  • You know who the real bigshot in the islands of hawaii is?
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  • It's the chefs.
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  • Oh yeah, i'm not kidding.
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  • A chef goes along like king kong.
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  • I mean a chef in hawaii that's known that the whole place bows
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  • Down before them 'cause they can cook.
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  • Do you know what genre of books sells more than any other
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  • Genre of book?
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  • Cookbooks, more cookbooks sell than many other categories of
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  • Books put together.
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  • Look at tv, i mean some of you ladies, that's all you watch.
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  • I mean, look at all the cooking shows.
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  • They got little kids.
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  • I saw them, they were competing in cooking.
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  • It's amazing.
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  • They got teenagers.
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  • They got people from all over the world cooking, bringing all
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  • These things together and that's a wonderful thing because
  • 00:13:36.295 --> 00:13:39.665
  • It appeals to our palate, our taste.
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  • And we have just a limited amount of taste here but our
  • 00:13:42.635 --> 00:13:45.971
  • Tastes change.
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  • When i was a boy, my mother would make me eat spinach, and
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  • Turnip greens, and cornbread.
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  • Man, i love that stuff today.
  • 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:59.585
  • It takes a while to adapt ourself to taste.
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  • And look at all the taste of heaven that will be expand, man,
  • 00:14:02.454 --> 00:14:07.159
  • It will be something to sit down at the marriage feast of
  • 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.863
  • The lamb, that'll be a fun thing when we arrive at the wedding
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  • Feast that will be there between the lord jesus christ and all of
  • 00:14:15.034 --> 00:14:19.305
  • Us who in christ are called in that symbol of reality the bride
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  • Of our lord.
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  • That is fun, a feast, a banquet, a party, a celebration.
  • 00:14:26.278 --> 00:14:32.251
  • Man, what we'll hear, what we'll see, what we'll smell, what
  • 00:14:32.251 --> 00:14:36.121
  • We'll taste, what about what we feel?
  • 00:14:36.121 --> 00:14:40.125
  • Man, this to touch a baby's skin, how does that feel?
  • 00:14:40.125 --> 00:14:43.696
  • How does that feel?
  • 00:14:43.696 --> 00:14:45.230
  • I went in the store recently a guy came out said,
  • 00:14:45.230 --> 00:14:47.466
  • "feel these sheets."
  • 00:14:47.466 --> 00:14:48.801
  • "oh, all right."
  • 00:14:48.801 --> 00:14:51.036
  • He said, "now feel regular kind of cotton sheets."
  • 00:14:51.036 --> 00:14:52.972
  • "all right."
  • 00:14:52.972 --> 00:14:54.340
  • "d you see any difference?"
  • 00:14:54.340 --> 00:14:55.808
  • "absolutely, i want a pair."
  • 00:14:55.808 --> 00:14:58.077
  • It didn't take long.
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  • What about feeling?
  • 00:15:00.579 --> 00:15:02.381
  • We were taught in school there are only
  • 00:15:02.381 --> 00:15:03.949
  • Four elements in nature.
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  • What were they?
  • 00:15:05.951 --> 00:15:07.286
  • They were fire, and water, a air, and earth.
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  • Does that cover everything?
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  • Can you think of anything else?
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  • That covers it, doesn't it?
  • 00:15:15.260 --> 00:15:16.595
  • And that's about all we can feel, but you think god's
  • 00:15:16.595 --> 00:15:19.098
  • Gonna be limited?
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  • Man, there's gonna be so many things to feel and
  • 00:15:21.633 --> 00:15:25.037
  • Our motions will explode and our sensitivities will explode.
  • 00:15:25.037 --> 00:15:29.108
  • This is gonna be the fun of heaven.
  • 00:15:29.108 --> 00:15:31.610
  • Now understand something, god in the economy's life never
  • 00:15:31.610 --> 00:15:38.417
  • Loses anything.
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  • God loves to build things, creative, we'll be on that,
  • 00:15:40.452 --> 00:15:44.223
  • And god never loses anything.
  • 00:15:44.223 --> 00:15:45.624
  • You know, the only thing we'll lose when we go to heaven is
  • 00:15:45.624 --> 00:15:48.994
  • Death and with it sin because sin led us to death and that's
  • 00:15:48.994 --> 00:15:53.966
  • The only thing that won't be there.
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  • That factor will be totally eliminated.
  • 00:15:56.568 --> 00:16:00.005
  • We'll lose that but, my goodness, god will take
  • 00:16:00.005 --> 00:16:04.143
  • Everything that is sort of crippled, and incomplete, and
  • 00:16:04.143 --> 00:16:07.513
  • Broken, and not fully understood in this world and make
  • 00:16:07.513 --> 00:16:11.583
  • The paths right and clean.
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  • By the way, go to cemetery, you see on the tombstone,
  • 00:16:13.719 --> 00:16:17.189
  • "rest in peace."
  • 00:16:17.189 --> 00:16:19.525
  • That is slanderous.
  • 00:16:19.525 --> 00:16:23.128
  • Rest in peace, this does not explain anything about heaven
  • 00:16:23.128 --> 00:16:29.768
  • For those who are in christ jesus.
  • 00:16:29.768 --> 00:16:31.870
  • There's not gonna be rest.
  • 00:16:31.870 --> 00:16:33.772
  • There'll be peace but it'll be a different kind of peace but now,
  • 00:16:33.772 --> 00:16:37.109
  • Now we'll be marshaled up and able really to fulfill the
  • 00:16:37.109 --> 00:16:41.380
  • Deepest longing and passions of our life and that is gonna be
  • 00:16:41.380 --> 00:16:44.883
  • The fun of heaven.
  • 00:16:44.883 --> 00:16:46.218
  • There's not going to be rest in peace there.
  • 00:16:46.218 --> 00:16:49.655
  • If that's what you're looking for, you're going in
  • 00:16:49.655 --> 00:16:51.824
  • The wrong direction.
  • 00:16:51.824 --> 00:16:54.993
  • My, my, and we're not gonna lose things, we're gonna gain things.
  • 00:16:54.993 --> 00:16:59.998
  • Somebody said, "is there gonna be dancing in heaven?"
  • 00:16:59.998 --> 00:17:02.868
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:17:02.868 --> 00:17:05.871
  • We take dancing today in so many areas and made it scandalous and
  • 00:17:05.871 --> 00:17:10.075
  • Sensual and like we've disturbed so many things that are good.
  • 00:17:10.075 --> 00:17:15.114
  • Dancing is gonna be a part--it's a part of the bible.
  • 00:17:15.114 --> 00:17:17.216
  • Miriam danced, david danced, there's a time of celebration.
  • 00:17:17.216 --> 00:17:20.486
  • There's something about rhythm there which i don't have any of,
  • 00:17:20.486 --> 00:17:23.522
  • But that's what we're gonna--it's a part of the
  • 00:17:23.522 --> 00:17:25.457
  • Celebratory atmosphere of the almighty.
  • 00:17:25.457 --> 00:17:28.227
  • It's a part of the fun we'll have in heaven.
  • 00:17:28.227 --> 00:17:30.362
  • If you're not with it now, you're in trouble.
  • 00:17:30.362 --> 00:17:33.132
  • You see where we're going with heaven?
  • 00:17:33.132 --> 00:17:35.200
  • Heaven is fun.
  • 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.603
  • "is there going to be laughter in heaven if we all want to
  • 00:17:37.603 --> 00:17:40.472
  • Be--" there's gonna be praise.
  • 00:17:40.472 --> 00:17:42.074
  • There's gonna be transcendence. there's gonna be worship.
  • 00:17:42.074 --> 00:17:44.376
  • There's gonna be all of these things that we love, and admire,
  • 00:17:44.376 --> 00:17:48.080
  • And think of and to a degree in heaven with a mass choir but
  • 00:17:48.080 --> 00:17:51.517
  • Also there's gonna be a lot of joy, and laughter, and fun.
  • 00:17:51.517 --> 00:17:54.653
  • Where did laughter come from, ladies and gentlemen?
  • 00:17:54.653 --> 00:17:59.258
  • James says, book of james first chapter, "every good and perfect
  • 00:17:59.258 --> 00:18:04.329
  • Gift from--comes from above, it comes from god."
  • 00:18:04.329 --> 00:18:08.200
  • There's no other source for it.
  • 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.202
  • And we think we've laughed now, wait till you get to heaven.
  • 00:18:10.202 --> 00:18:14.673
  • Let's just say that i died, i went to heaven, the angel was
  • 00:18:14.673 --> 00:18:19.778
  • Taking me in and says, "here's your home throughout eternity,"
  • 00:18:19.778 --> 00:18:24.149
  • And he takes to one of those remodels in waco or laurel,
  • 00:18:24.149 --> 00:18:27.553
  • Mississippi you know?
  • 00:18:27.553 --> 00:18:28.987
  • And i like it, it's nice, this is great.
  • 00:18:28.987 --> 00:18:33.025
  • Then the angel says, "this is gonna be your life companion,"
  • 00:18:33.025 --> 00:18:36.395
  • And he brings in this woman that's 7 feet tall that's good
  • 00:18:36.395 --> 00:18:40.899
  • Slime all over her body.
  • 00:18:40.899 --> 00:18:43.435
  • She has a stench you get in 10 feet of her.
  • 00:18:43.435 --> 00:18:46.505
  • Her hands and feet are claws and when she breathes, her breath
  • 00:18:46.505 --> 00:18:51.076
  • Would melt steel, ah.
  • 00:18:51.076 --> 00:18:52.945
  • And i said, "what is this?"
  • 00:18:52.945 --> 00:18:56.415
  • "that is your companion for eternity."
  • 00:18:56.415 --> 00:18:59.918
  • I said, "i don't understand."
  • 00:18:59.918 --> 00:19:02.087
  • He said, "you've gotta pay for your sin."
  • 00:19:02.087 --> 00:19:05.591
  • So, i look out the window and i see there on a beautiful hill
  • 00:19:05.591 --> 00:19:11.396
  • This unbelievable mansion going 65 miles an hour taking
  • 00:19:11.396 --> 00:19:16.568
  • 10 minutes to drive by.
  • 00:19:16.568 --> 00:19:17.903
  • I mean, it was unbelievable.
  • 00:19:17.903 --> 00:19:20.072
  • And one view on the side was the ocean, the other view was a lake
  • 00:19:20.072 --> 00:19:23.909
  • And around it was two or three augusta national golf courses
  • 00:19:23.909 --> 00:19:27.646
  • And i mean, they had everything you can imagine.
  • 00:19:27.646 --> 00:19:30.582
  • I looked up there and i said, "who is that?
  • 00:19:30.582 --> 00:19:32.918
  • Isn't that linda carter up there who was miss usa
  • 00:19:32.918 --> 00:19:38.557
  • And wonder woman?"
  • 00:19:38.557 --> 00:19:39.958
  • And the angel said, "yes."
  • 00:19:39.958 --> 00:19:41.593
  • I said, "oh well.
  • 00:19:41.593 --> 00:19:43.228
  • And who is that with her?"
  • 00:19:43.228 --> 00:19:44.563
  • I said, "is that keith carmichael?"
  • 00:19:44.563 --> 00:19:48.834
  • And the angel said, "yes."
  • 00:19:48.834 --> 00:19:53.605
  • And i said,
  • 00:19:53.605 --> 00:19:54.940
  • "well, i sure do not understand this.
  • 00:19:54.940 --> 00:19:57.009
  • Here i am with this thing and here is keith up there
  • 00:19:57.009 --> 00:19:59.911
  • With wonder woman."
  • 00:19:59.911 --> 00:20:01.346
  • And the angel said, "you do not understand,
  • 00:20:01.346 --> 00:20:04.249
  • Wonder woman has to pay for her sin too."
  • 00:20:04.249 --> 00:20:07.986
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:20:07.986 --> 00:20:17.095
  • Do you not think we're gonna have fun in heaven,
  • 00:20:17.095 --> 00:20:19.998
  • Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think?
  • 00:20:19.998 --> 00:20:26.471
  • I thank those who've already gone before us, my mother,
  • 00:20:26.471 --> 00:20:31.810
  • My dad, my brother, so many friends.
  • 00:20:31.810 --> 00:20:34.379
  • They're saying, "hey, you guys don't get it.
  • 00:20:34.379 --> 00:20:38.216
  • Man, this is fabulous. it's spectacular.
  • 00:20:38.216 --> 00:20:42.120
  • It is just so beyond anything i understood
  • 00:20:42.120 --> 00:20:46.758
  • When i breathed the air of the earth."
  • 00:20:46.758 --> 00:20:50.429
  • Ah, you can sort of smell a little bit of
  • 00:20:50.429 --> 00:20:52.531
  • The garden of eden around, the flowers, and the fruit,
  • 00:20:52.531 --> 00:20:55.400
  • And heaven is gonna be fun.
  • 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:58.303
  • But here's the problem, how do you know you're gonna get there?
  • 00:20:58.303 --> 00:21:05.610
  • Marco polo went and all the way to china and he went along what
  • 00:21:05.610 --> 00:21:12.718
  • They call the silk road and he went all over china.
  • 00:21:12.718 --> 00:21:16.488
  • Kublai khan was the emperor of china, this was in the middle of
  • 00:21:16.488 --> 00:21:19.991
  • The 13th century, and the emperor really liked marco polo
  • 00:21:19.991 --> 00:21:25.864
  • And gave him a golden passport.
  • 00:21:25.864 --> 00:21:30.369
  • It's about a foot long, each thick of gold and on this
  • 00:21:30.369 --> 00:21:34.172
  • Passport, some you've already read it in mandarin, in chinese.
  • 00:21:34.172 --> 00:21:37.909
  • It says that this person gets anything they want as they
  • 00:21:37.909 --> 00:21:42.447
  • Travel through china, food, clothes, guides, housing, money,
  • 00:21:42.447 --> 00:21:47.719
  • Didn't make any difference.
  • 00:21:47.719 --> 00:21:49.654
  • And so, kublai khan gave this golden passport to marco polo.
  • 00:21:49.654 --> 00:21:54.393
  • He had anything and everything as he walked all over china
  • 00:21:54.393 --> 00:21:57.729
  • For 24 years.
  • 00:21:57.729 --> 00:22:00.599
  • And marco polo took back to italy things they'd never seen
  • 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.435
  • In italy.
  • 00:22:03.435 --> 00:22:04.770
  • They didn't know anything about postal service.
  • 00:22:04.770 --> 00:22:06.805
  • Marco polo told them they had it in china.
  • 00:22:06.805 --> 00:22:08.740
  • They didn't know anything about coal.
  • 00:22:08.740 --> 00:22:10.976
  • Marco polo told them about what they did in china.
  • 00:22:10.976 --> 00:22:14.246
  • They didn't know anything about a whole bunch of things and also
  • 00:22:14.246 --> 00:22:18.750
  • Kublai khan told marco polo, "go and find a hundred wise, godly,
  • 00:22:18.750 --> 00:22:24.222
  • Christian men and bring them back to china to tell
  • 00:22:24.222 --> 00:22:27.426
  • My nation about jesus."
  • 00:22:27.426 --> 00:22:30.095
  • I don't think that was done but it was something.
  • 00:22:30.095 --> 00:22:34.166
  • And the challenge that marco polo had when he went back to
  • 00:22:34.166 --> 00:22:37.502
  • Italy was trying to explain to the italians the lifestyle
  • 00:22:37.502 --> 00:22:41.440
  • In china.
  • 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:43.275
  • Man, it was so different, the food, the culture,
  • 00:22:43.275 --> 00:22:45.677
  • The atmosphere, education, everything was different.
  • 00:22:45.677 --> 00:22:48.380
  • And the problem he had was explaining to the chinese the
  • 00:22:48.380 --> 00:22:51.383
  • Lifestyle of the italians, it was just hard.
  • 00:22:51.383 --> 00:22:53.885
  • And the frame of reference weren't things they
  • 00:22:53.885 --> 00:22:55.821
  • Were familiar with.
  • 00:22:55.821 --> 00:22:57.155
  • You see, our frame of reference, we're familiar with a lake, and
  • 00:22:57.155 --> 00:23:01.526
  • With a sunrise, and with the stars, and we're familiar with
  • 00:23:01.526 --> 00:23:05.697
  • Things on this earth and this is just a souvenir of heaven.
  • 00:23:05.697 --> 00:23:11.970
  • All the beautiful, wonderful, fun, joyous,
  • 00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:15.340
  • Exciting things are a souvenir.
  • 00:23:15.340 --> 00:23:17.342
  • You say, "well, you know, i--the super bowl is something."
  • 00:23:17.342 --> 00:23:20.345
  • I've been to a super bowl.
  • 00:23:20.345 --> 00:23:21.680
  • It's exciting.
  • 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.014
  • It's just a souvenir of the reality of heaven.
  • 00:23:23.014 --> 00:23:26.952
  • World series, i've been there, souvenir.
  • 00:23:26.952 --> 00:23:29.855
  • Final four, i've been there, just a souvenir.
  • 00:23:29.855 --> 00:23:33.258
  • Bowl games, i've been there.
  • 00:23:33.258 --> 00:23:34.759
  • We've been fishing, we've traveled.
  • 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.362
  • We've been--a lot of us been on--but all of this, the best,
  • 00:23:37.362 --> 00:23:40.165
  • The brightest, the most exciting and thrilling is just little
  • 00:23:40.165 --> 00:23:43.568
  • Souvenirs.
  • 00:23:43.568 --> 00:23:45.403
  • I had a friend who was in berlin when the berlin wall came back.
  • 00:23:45.403 --> 00:23:48.406
  • He brought me a part of the berlin wall.
  • 00:23:48.406 --> 00:23:50.342
  • I've got a literal part of the berlin wall.
  • 00:23:50.342 --> 00:23:52.878
  • It's a souvenir.
  • 00:23:52.878 --> 00:23:55.413
  • I've got another friend who brought me back some a special
  • 00:23:55.413 --> 00:23:58.984
  • Type of olive oil from italy and brought it in a little bottle.
  • 00:23:58.984 --> 00:24:02.254
  • It's--i didn't go there, it's a souvenir.
  • 00:24:02.254 --> 00:24:04.489
  • All we have on this earth, folks, is a souvenir.
  • 00:24:04.489 --> 00:24:06.791
  • It's a sample of that which you're gonna have in glory.
  • 00:24:06.791 --> 00:24:11.096
  • And the bottom line, is do you have your passport
  • 00:24:11.096 --> 00:24:13.465
  • To get you into heaven?
  • 00:24:13.465 --> 00:24:16.234
  • What is that passport?
  • 00:24:16.234 --> 00:24:18.737
  • It's jesus christ.
  • 00:24:18.737 --> 00:24:21.473
  • It is the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:24:21.473 --> 00:24:23.775
  • If you've got him in your life and you've received him, that is
  • 00:24:23.775 --> 00:24:29.014
  • Your ticket to paradise, to a fulfillment, to joy, to live
  • 00:24:29.014 --> 00:24:37.022
  • A resurrected life and a resurrected world with
  • 00:24:37.022 --> 00:24:40.725
  • Everything in this world resurrected to newness and
  • 00:24:40.725 --> 00:24:44.062
  • Freshness, and that is your ticket to heaven
  • 00:24:44.062 --> 00:24:49.467
  • Is jesus christ.
  • 00:24:49.467 --> 00:24:51.169
  • He is the one passport.
  • 00:24:51.169 --> 00:24:55.273
  • Straight out question, do you have your passport?
  • 00:24:55.273 --> 00:25:01.012
  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
  • 00:25:03.381 --> 00:25:05.784
  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
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  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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  • First," number one.
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  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
  • 00:25:15.827 --> 00:25:18.964
  • Direction and guidance you and i need every day to walk
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  • Through life.
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  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
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  • Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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  • Ed: when i was growing up, almost without exception
  • 00:25:55.300 --> 00:25:58.770
  • Every time i left my home, my mother would say,
  • 00:25:58.770 --> 00:26:02.207
  • "edwin, remember who you are."
  • 00:26:02.207 --> 00:26:05.377
  • And i would turn around and grin,
  • 00:26:05.377 --> 00:26:08.113
  • Or smile, or throw my hands back and keep moving, but i knew
  • 00:26:08.113 --> 00:26:12.550
  • Exactly what she was talking about.
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  • At the party, remember who you are.
  • 00:26:14.719 --> 00:26:17.656
  • As you go out with that date, remember who you are.
  • 00:26:17.656 --> 00:26:21.059
  • As you take that trip and you get away from people that really
  • 00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:24.596
  • Don't know you, remember who you are.
  • 00:26:24.596 --> 00:26:27.499
  • Remember what you have learned, remember what you have been
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  • Taught, what your name means, principles you have seen your
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  • Dad and i live out before you.
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  • That's what my parents were saying,
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  • "edwin, remember who you are."
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  • Till this day, i have not forgotten that reminder
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  • And you shouldn't either.
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  • Sometimes i have remembered the reminder but out in the throws
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  • Of life, i did not remember who i was in christ.
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  • We need to always keep that in the frontal part of our minds.
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  • Remember who you are and more importantly, remember who
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  • You belong to.
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  • As a son or a daughter of god in jesus christ, live through him
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  • And for him and never forget, you are his.
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  • That's who you are and that's who i am.
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