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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Heaven Is Real

June 1, 2025 | S25:E131

Ed Young - Heaven Is Real
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 Real | June 1, 2025
  • Pastor ed young: there are few things in life that are
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  • Surrounded by as much mystery and excitement as heaven.
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  • In this booklet, "heaven: a place prepared for you!," we'll
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  • Look at the incredible vision god gave us in the book
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  • Of revelation.
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  • Male announcer: get a new and exciting perspective of heaven
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  • And life today.
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  • Call the number on your screen, or go online at winningwalk.org
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  • To get your copy of "heaven: a place prepared for you!"
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Dr. ed young: every three seconds, someone dies.
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  • Every second, three people die.
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  • Every minute, 180 people die.
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  • Every hour, 11,000 people die.
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  • Every day, 250,000 people leave this earth.
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  • The mortality rate is a hundred percent,
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  • A hundred percent.
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  • And therefore when we cease to function as a living person
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  • In this world, the atheist, the agnostics says, "i don't know."
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  • Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we go back to dust and nothingness.
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  • We cease to exist.
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  • We who believe in the lord jesus christ in that book knows that
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  • When life leaves this body, we go to heaven or we go to hell.
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  • Understanding that god never sends anybody to hell,
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  • It is a choice we make on this earth that decides our destiny.
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  • So, we're going to be looking at for weeks to come heaven,
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  • Heaven.
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  • And every time i say, "heaven is..."
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  • You'll answer, "real."
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  • Let's try it; heaven is...
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  • Congregation: real.
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  • Dr. young: how many of you have ever got on the internet
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  • And looked at real estate on the internet?
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  • Would you lift your hand, you just looked at real estate.
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  • A lot of people, good, good, good.
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  • It's called real estate.
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  • They are real but sometimes we can be confused about
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  • What we see and what we don't see.
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  • Like the two blonds were on the coast and they look out over
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  • There and they look at the moon and one blond says to the other,
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  • "are we closer to the moon or to florida?"
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  • And the other blond says, "can you see florida?"
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  • So, we can be confused about what is real and what is not
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  • Real but we know one thing in our study,
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  • We will see that heaven is?
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  • Audience: real.
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  • Dr. young: now, people have trouble believing that
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  • Because it is out of this world but it's real.
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  • Heaven exists. let me show you how real it is.
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  • Will everybody clap your hands?
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  • Then that chair, just feel that chair,
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  • Will you feel a little bit?
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  • All right, take a deep breath.
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  • Oh, that's real, isn't it?
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  • You know, the chair, the noise, the clap.
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  • Heaven is just that real and we'll talk about realty.
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  • In a sense, most of us think realty has to do with material.
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  • If it's real, it has to be material but we know
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  • After we think about it, that's not true.
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  • Real is material and heaven will be material
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  • But also real is spiritual.
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  • Can you see love?
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  • Can you see friendship?
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  • Love, friendship, these are intangible so in heaven
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  • We discover there will be that which is material and that
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  • Which is immaterial, that which we can measure objectively
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  • And that which we cannot measure subjectively.
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  • We will have a resurrected body that will be real
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  • Spiritually and physically in another dimension.
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  • And we'll look at that next time we gather.
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  • But now we're talking about heaven
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  • And when i think about heaven, you know the verse
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  • That comes to my mind and the chapter is john 14.
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  • Most of us are familiar with john 14,
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  • Chapter number 14, verse 1 says,
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  • "do not let your heart be troubled."
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  • Now, let's get the context of jesus speaking these words.
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  • He's in the upper room.
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  • It's only hours before his arrest and his crucifixion.
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  • This is the victory address in which he's instructing those
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  • Eleven apostles one last time and he's trying to teach them
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  • And let them understand that he's about to leave.
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  • Now, a lot of people take this passage and they say,
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  • "let not your heart be troubled," and they say,
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  • "but if you're a christian, you should never have any troubles."
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  • You can cut on television, hear that 24/7.
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  • "well, if you're christian and you're serving the lord and you
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  • Have enough faith, you're not really have any trouble.
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  • You'll just wash away troubles.
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  • You'll be healthy, and wealthy, and wise,
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  • And free from any concern."
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  • And they take this verse
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  • And use it as one of the texts that they'll use.
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  • Or romans 8:20 thing, "all things work together for good
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  • To those who love god.
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  • Therefore let not your heart be troubled."
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  • We as christians should not have trouble
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  • But we know from personal experience that is a lie.
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  • It is simply phony.
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  • It is not true, why?
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  • One reason there is evil in the world.
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  • Anybody want to debate about that a while?
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  • And we could show evil in some religious groups.
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  • We could show evil in some people who are just mentally
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  • Confused, some people who are addicted.
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  • There is evil in the world so there is trouble in the world.
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  • But we don't have to look at a global perspective,
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  • We can look at our lives.
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  • And there's trouble in individual lives.
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  • There's trouble in relationships.
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  • There's trouble in families,
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  • There's trouble in our vocations,
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  • There's trouble with our health.
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  • All around us, we see they're troubled but this scripture
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  • Says, "let not your heart be troubled,"
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  • But we are surrounded by troubles.
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  • We have troubles.
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  • Every walks this earth has troubles.
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  • Jesus did.
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  • In the preceding chapter, john 13,
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  • It says jesus was troubled.
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  • Well, how in the world can jesus be troubled?
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  • You read in the context there it's because one of his close
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  • Associates, he followed with, he loved,
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  • He believed in, he discipled, he had trained.
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  • This associate was selling him out.
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  • By the way, nobody can really hurt you,
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  • Really hurt you deeply unless you love them,
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  • Been with them, shared your life with them,
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  • They shared your life.
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  • That's somebody who can really hurt you.
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  • Other people can scar you but you can back away
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  • But somebody that's really walked inside of life with you,
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  • That's the people who can hurt you.
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  • This is what judas did.
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  • Jesus was troubled because of judas.
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  • Jesus was troubled because of the braggadocious idea of peter.
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  • Jesus said in the 13th chapter of john,
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  • "i'm going away. i'm not gonna be with you."
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  • And peter says, "where you going?"
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  • And jesus says, "you can't go with me."
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  • And peter says, "i'll go with you.
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  • I'll lay down my life for you."
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  • Big talk, isn't it?
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  • Jesus looked at the bombastic pete and said,
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  • "let me tell ya something, before the rooster crows
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  • In the morning, you'll deny you even know me."
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  • Jesus was troubled.
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  • He was troubled because he was facing the shame of the cross.
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  • He was troubled because he knew the father
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  • Would turn his back on him.
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  • He was troubled because he knew he would take upon himself
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  • All the trash of your life, and my life,
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  • And the trash of the world.
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  • Jesus was troubled but in the midst of the trouble,
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  • He was concerned about his apostles,
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • He was preparing them.
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  • He said, "let not your heart be troubled."
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  • And then he gave them three reasons
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  • Why they should not let trouble take over their lives.
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  • Not that they would not have problems,
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  • And challenges, and pain, and suffering,
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  • And difficulties, but he gave three reasons how you handle it,
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  • How you find victory in it.
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  • And look what he says, "let not your heart be troubled,"
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  • Number one, "believe in god, believe also in me."
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  • When trouble comes to you, when trouble comes to me,
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  • The first thing we have to do is to trust god
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  • And trust jesus christ.
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  • It's trust.
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  • Can god be trusted?
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  • He created this world.
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  • Can jesus be trusted as you look at his life and his words?
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  • He not only taught these principles,
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  • He lived them out.
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  • So, jesus is saying, trouble comes,
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  • Don't let trouble get over you,
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  • And control you, and ruin your life.
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  • He said, "put your trust in me as you put your trust
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  • In almighty god."
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  • That's where we begin when troubles come.
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  • We trust, we believe, put our full weight down upon him.
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  • And what's the next thing jesus says when trouble comes?
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  • He said, "in my father's house are many dwelling places;
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you."
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  • He's saying, "look, when trouble comes,
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  • The worst thing that can happen is your life
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  • Can be taken from you.
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  • You can leave this earth."
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  • But he said, "that shouldn't be an overwhelming trouble
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  • Because," he said, "i have gone ahead of you.
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  • I have paved the way for you.
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  • And i have prepared a place just for you."
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  • And that will be our home.
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  • Anybody thinks they're at home on this earth,
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  • You are fooling yourself.
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  • It's just like here a fish in an aquarium and they're swimming
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  • Around and they look contented.
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  • I don't know, none of them have ever seemed like
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  • They were upset at me.
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  • But don't you know instinctively those fish say,
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  • "surely, there's something more than
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  • This little rectangle bowl of water here."
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  • See, they were meant to be in the ocean.
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  • We're like that, folks.
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  • You see, we're made in the image of god,
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  • Therefore, all of us breathe something in the air
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  • Of the garden of eden.
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  • I mean, this world isn't big enough to contain us.
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  • We'll never be totally fulfilled,
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  • Totally satisfied, totally on top of things,
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  • Totally happy in this world.
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  • It's not gonna happen because we're made for something more
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  • And bigger than this world.
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  • And jesus says, "i've gone ahead of you.
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  • Whatever happens in this life, you go to the next life,
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  • I have prepared a place for you."
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  • We're pilgrims. we're passing through.
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  • We'll never be totally at home here,
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  • But when we all get to heaven, we'll be completely at home
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  • There in a way that we can't even imagine in this life.
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  • The bible says, "eye has not seen,
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  • Ear has not heard, neither has he entered the heart of man."
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  • What god has, what's the word?
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  • Prepared for those of us who love him,
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  • Those of us in relation with him.
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  • So, don't let trouble overwhelm you.
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  • Don't let trouble overwhelm me because we trust god,
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  • We trust christ, and we know jesus has gone ahead of us
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  • And prepared a place for us and when we get there,
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  • Your initials will be there and for the first time
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  • You'll be totally at home.
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  • The best day of my life will be the last day i live on this
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  • Earth but the last day i live on this earth will not,
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  • By a long shot, be the best day of my life.
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  • That's true of you, that's true of me.
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  • This is something of a little vision we're going to get
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  • Of heaven in our study in these weeks.
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  • Also he says something else, the next thing he says,
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  • He said, "i not only will go and prepare a place for you."
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  • He said, "i will go and prepare a place for you," verse 3,
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  • "and i will come again and receive you to myself
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  • That where i am, there you may be also
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  • And you know the way where i'm going."
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  • He said, "not only do you have to put your trust in me,
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  • Not only have i prepared a place uniquely for you," but he says,
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  • "i am going to come and get you when life leaves this body
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  • Or the curtain of history comes down,
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  • I'm gonna come and get you.
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  • I'm gonna take you to that place uniquely prepared for you
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  • And more that, i'm gonna stay with you and be there with you."
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  • Man, what kind of beautiful comfort and promise
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  • That should be.
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  • By the way, luke, i mean john chapter 14
  • 00:14:09.972 --> 00:14:13.776
  • Is a whole chapter of comfort.
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  • Martin luther said it's the best chapter of comfort in the bible.
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  • You read john 14, it's just comfort stacked on comfort,
  • 00:14:18.447 --> 00:14:21.917
  • Stacked on comfort, stacked on comfort.
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  • It is a comforting word and this is the very heart
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  • Of that comforting word.
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  • He will come and get us.
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  • Breath leaves this body, he will take us to the place that has
  • 00:14:33.362 --> 00:14:36.732
  • Been prepared where we'll first time in ever feel totally
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  • At home and he will abide there with us.
  • 00:14:40.269 --> 00:14:43.872
  • What a deal. that is the beginning of heaven.
  • 00:14:43.872 --> 00:14:48.243
  • And then we read jesus says, "i am--"
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  • And look what happens, amazing thing.
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  • Thomas speaks up.
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  • Now listen, jesus says, "and you know the way where i am going."
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  • Thomas speaks up, listen what he says,
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  • "lord, we did not know where you're going.
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  • How do we know the way?"
  • 00:15:10.866 --> 00:15:15.104
  • Jesus says, "you know the way."
  • 00:15:15.104 --> 00:15:16.672
  • Thomas says, "we don't know where you're going.
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  • I know the way."
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  • That happens all the time in the world to me.
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  • You go to the bank and they said,
  • 00:15:23.245 --> 00:15:24.980
  • "well, we're having an audit and it's a q2b audit."
  • 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:29.118
  • We don't know what--every profession
  • 00:15:29.118 --> 00:15:31.754
  • Has all of these initials, and numbers, and names,
  • 00:15:31.754 --> 00:15:35.457
  • And we just sit there like, "oh yes, i know that.
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  • I'm all over that, sure."
  • 00:15:38.927 --> 00:15:42.297
  • And that's what happened here.
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  • All the other apostles jesus says,
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  • "you know, i'm going away and you know the way."
  • 00:15:45.701 --> 00:15:48.203
  • And they said, "oh yes, we know the way."
  • 00:15:48.203 --> 00:15:50.873
  • And thomas, thank god for thomas.
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  • He stands up and says "lord, we don't know where you're going.
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  • How in the world can we know the way?"
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  • Doubting thomas.
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  • He professed his ignorance then he asked a question.
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  • We need to learn how to do that, folks.
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  • Don't be so smug, sophisticated, "man, i get that.
  • 00:16:12.561 --> 00:16:16.732
  • I know what that's--" no, no, he professed his ignorance.
  • 00:16:16.732 --> 00:16:20.769
  • He said, "i don't know where you're going, lord."
  • 00:16:20.769 --> 00:16:24.373
  • And if you don't know where you're going,
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  • I don't know the way.
  • 00:16:26.141 --> 00:16:27.810
  • And then jesus uttered the most exclusive,
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  • Narrow statement that you'll ever find.
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  • He said, "i am the way, i am the truth,
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  • And i am the life."
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  • He explained clearly and probably elaborated on this
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  • To the apostles exactly what that was all about.
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  • He said, "i am the way."
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  • How do you get to god, ladies and gentlemen?
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  • How do you get to know god?
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  • How do you have an entree to god?
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  • How do you listen to god? how do you speak to god?
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  • Jesus says, "i'm way you do it and
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  • It comes through reconciliation."
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  • Anybody who is arrogant enough, and i want to say stupid enough,
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  • To think we can just walk up to god and say,
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  • "god, i want to have a little talk with you.
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  • And god, i want to tell you what i think.
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  • And god--" no, no, no, we don't have that entree, folks.
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  • We're unholy, impure, stained, broken,
  • 00:17:31.807 --> 00:17:35.811
  • Lost, confused people.
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  • We have to be reconciled.
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  • We have to have a way to get to god and jesus is the way.
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  • He established the way through reconciliation by dying
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  • On a cross and paid the price for all of your stuff
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  • And all of my stuff, therefore he is the way,
  • 00:17:52.461 --> 00:17:56.398
  • The way, the way.
  • 00:17:56.398 --> 00:17:58.500
  • And it comes because he has reconciled us,
  • 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:01.303
  • You and me, to almighty god so we can go right
  • 00:18:01.303 --> 00:18:04.373
  • Before our heavenly father.
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  • He's the way. he said, "i'm the truth."
  • 00:18:06.375 --> 00:18:10.312
  • And the truth is the embellishment.
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  • It is the enlightenment. it is the facts.
  • 00:18:14.917 --> 00:18:19.321
  • People say, "well, this is true. that is true.
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  • Who can know truth?"
  • 00:18:21.390 --> 00:18:22.858
  • Jesus not only spoke the truth, but he embodied the truth.
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  • He tells us about god.
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  • It's not, "well, this is what i think.
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  • This is what somebody told me. this is what i believe."
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  • No, no, jesus tells us the truth about god.
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  • If you really want to know the truth about god,
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  • There is jesus, make no mistake about it.
  • 00:18:39.641 --> 00:18:43.712
  • He's the way, he is the truth, and truth is enlightenment so we
  • 00:18:43.712 --> 00:18:48.750
  • Understand all we need to know about the almighty.
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  • He's the way and he is the life.
  • 00:18:53.822 --> 00:18:57.593
  • He regenerates us.
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  • We die, we leave this earth, we get that resurrected body
  • 00:19:00.095 --> 00:19:05.667
  • And all of a sudden, we are regenerated.
  • 00:19:05.667 --> 00:19:08.003
  • We have life forever meant for heaven.
  • 00:19:08.003 --> 00:19:11.006
  • See, jesus said, "the way, the truth, and the life."
  • 00:19:11.006 --> 00:19:14.176
  • Does that sound too narrow, too exclusive?
  • 00:19:14.176 --> 00:19:18.046
  • Truth is always narrow and exclusive by definition.
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  • Something that's true is true.
  • 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:28.390
  • Jesus said, "i'm the way."
  • 00:19:28.390 --> 00:19:30.325
  • Man, this is the way you get to the father.
  • 00:19:30.325 --> 00:19:32.461
  • "i'm the truth."
  • 00:19:32.461 --> 00:19:34.062
  • This is the enlightenment of what's really going on with god
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  • In life and what it's all about, and i am the life."
  • 00:19:36.598 --> 00:19:39.468
  • And he gives us that life so we can walk around heaven all day
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  • And have life that's meaning there.
  • 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.375
  • You see, heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:19:46.375 --> 00:19:49.111
  • Dr. young: heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:19:49.111 --> 00:19:52.114
  • Dr. young: and it really is real.
  • 00:19:52.114 --> 00:20:00.255
  • A young girl was diagnosed with terminal illness
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  • And she realized that when all of her family
  • 00:20:07.296 --> 00:20:09.331
  • And friends were gathered.
  • 00:20:09.331 --> 00:20:11.366
  • And her mother comes and says, "let me show you what death is,"
  • 00:20:11.366 --> 00:20:16.071
  • And took her out of this room
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  • And put her into another room by herself.
  • 00:20:17.906 --> 00:20:21.510
  • The little girl was crying.
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  • The mother went and got another member of the family,
  • 00:20:23.445 --> 00:20:25.447
  • Brought her in the room with the little girl,
  • 00:20:25.447 --> 00:20:27.416
  • And another one, and another one till all of them
  • 00:20:27.416 --> 00:20:28.950
  • Were in the room with the little girl.
  • 00:20:28.950 --> 00:20:31.787
  • And the mother said, "this is the way it is with death.
  • 00:20:31.787 --> 00:20:34.623
  • You just went first."
  • 00:20:34.623 --> 00:20:36.925
  • She said, "all off us with follow with you afterwards."
  • 00:20:36.925 --> 00:20:40.562
  • That's a partial story but the truth was if the mother was
  • 00:20:40.562 --> 00:20:44.066
  • Jesus christ, jesus comes to get us and take us to himself.
  • 00:20:44.066 --> 00:20:48.670
  • And we are the first that's there in our family,
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  • Maybe with the twenty-first in our family but one day we'll all
  • 00:20:51.873 --> 00:20:55.110
  • Be there together those who die in the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:20:55.110 --> 00:20:59.147
  • Understand, he's the way, the truth, and the life.
  • 00:20:59.147 --> 00:21:02.217
  • It's heaven.
  • 00:21:02.217 --> 00:21:03.952
  • It's the joy and the privilege of heaven.
  • 00:21:03.952 --> 00:21:06.922
  • To say it another way, heaven is exciting, it's exciting.
  • 00:21:06.922 --> 00:21:15.130
  • My mother prayed every night of my life.
  • 00:21:15.130 --> 00:21:19.334
  • She'd have family altar and when i was young
  • 00:21:19.334 --> 00:21:23.071
  • And a teenager, i didn't like it.
  • 00:21:23.071 --> 00:21:24.906
  • But she'd always pray these words,
  • 00:21:24.906 --> 00:21:27.275
  • "when thou art through with us on this earth,
  • 00:21:27.275 --> 00:21:30.011
  • Take us to our home which is in heaven."
  • 00:21:30.011 --> 00:21:31.847
  • I didn't like that.
  • 00:21:31.847 --> 00:21:35.450
  • It's about death. i wasn't interested in death.
  • 00:21:35.450 --> 00:21:39.254
  • Don't want to talk about death, don't want to recognize death
  • 00:21:39.254 --> 00:21:41.523
  • When you're young and even for many who are older.
  • 00:21:41.523 --> 00:21:44.126
  • But i understand that now.
  • 00:21:44.126 --> 00:21:46.695
  • She was saying to our home which is in heaven and man,
  • 00:21:46.695 --> 00:21:52.934
  • It is exciting, so exciting to understand that.
  • 00:21:52.934 --> 00:21:59.107
  • Let's say that a friend invited you to a party.
  • 00:21:59.107 --> 00:22:04.913
  • You went to the party, there's a few people there,
  • 00:22:04.913 --> 00:22:08.083
  • Hors d'oeuvres, all right.
  • 00:22:08.083 --> 00:22:10.085
  • A little after, talk with one another. it's okay.
  • 00:22:10.085 --> 00:22:13.655
  • You been there an hour or so
  • 00:22:13.655 --> 00:22:15.424
  • And your friend said, "let's leave."
  • 00:22:15.424 --> 00:22:18.059
  • Said, "no, maybe the party will pick up."
  • 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:21.663
  • Said, "no, let's go."
  • 00:22:21.663 --> 00:22:23.298
  • So, your friend takes you and takes you home and you open
  • 00:22:23.298 --> 00:22:26.168
  • The door and all of a sudden, you're home,
  • 00:22:26.168 --> 00:22:29.204
  • Lights come on, there there's laughter, there is food.
  • 00:22:29.204 --> 00:22:32.674
  • There's people you hadn't seen in a long time.
  • 00:22:32.674 --> 00:22:35.010
  • Your family is there. there's celebration there.
  • 00:22:35.010 --> 00:22:37.913
  • There is music there and all of a sudden,
  • 00:22:37.913 --> 00:22:40.148
  • You realize that you have gone to your own graduation party
  • 00:22:40.148 --> 00:22:44.085
  • And it is really terrific.
  • 00:22:44.085 --> 00:22:47.022
  • It is magnificent.
  • 00:22:47.022 --> 00:22:49.324
  • And you said, "my goodness, i was worried about leaving
  • 00:22:49.324 --> 00:22:51.593
  • That little old one-horse party but look at this celebration,
  • 00:22:51.593 --> 00:22:55.030
  • This banquet that i've come to."
  • 00:22:55.030 --> 00:22:57.632
  • You see, we have the idea, "well, i'll leave this world.
  • 00:22:57.632 --> 00:22:59.968
  • I may have missed something and boy,
  • 00:22:59.968 --> 00:23:01.970
  • It needs to go on."
  • 00:23:01.970 --> 00:23:03.572
  • Oh no, we go to a party, a banquet,
  • 00:23:03.572 --> 00:23:06.508
  • A place of excitement we can't even imagine in this life.
  • 00:23:06.508 --> 00:23:11.646
  • It's called heaven, heaven.
  • 00:23:11.646 --> 00:23:14.683
  • And i don't want to get us too excited about heaven today
  • 00:23:14.683 --> 00:23:19.855
  • Because you'll say, "pull up a bus
  • 00:23:19.855 --> 00:23:21.957
  • And let's go there right now."
  • 00:23:21.957 --> 00:23:25.260
  • No, no, no, but god tells us all we need to know about heaven
  • 00:23:25.260 --> 00:23:30.465
  • To know that in heaven we'll have resurrected lives.
  • 00:23:30.465 --> 00:23:34.135
  • In heaven, all of our friends will have resurrected lives.
  • 00:23:34.135 --> 00:23:37.906
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected new heaven
  • 00:23:37.906 --> 00:23:40.308
  • And new earth.
  • 00:23:40.308 --> 00:23:41.910
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected jesus.
  • 00:23:41.910 --> 00:23:43.812
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected culture.
  • 00:23:43.812 --> 00:23:46.147
  • In heaven, there'll be challenges,
  • 00:23:46.147 --> 00:23:47.916
  • And creativity, and joy, and celebration that'll go on and on
  • 00:23:47.916 --> 00:23:52.220
  • That's beyond anything we can picture or imagine
  • 00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:54.990
  • Because we see heaven is real.
  • 00:23:54.990 --> 00:24:00.095
  • It's real.
  • 00:24:00.095 --> 00:24:03.465
  • Older christian man was dying.
  • 00:24:03.465 --> 00:24:06.635
  • He's in the bed.
  • 00:24:06.635 --> 00:24:08.270
  • His son came in, sat on the edge of the bed and said,
  • 00:24:08.270 --> 00:24:11.339
  • "dad, how do you feel?"
  • 00:24:11.339 --> 00:24:16.845
  • And that christian man with a little smile on his face said,
  • 00:24:16.845 --> 00:24:20.348
  • "son, i feel like a young boy on christmas eve."
  • 00:24:20.348 --> 00:24:27.956
  • You see, heaven is exciting. heaven is?
  • 00:24:31.826 --> 00:24:39.534
  • Audience: real.
  • 00:24:39.534 --> 00:24:40.869
  • Dr. young: heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:24:40.869 --> 00:24:43.038
  • Pastor ed young: there are few things in life that are
  • 00:24:43.104 --> 00:24:45.073
  • Surrounded by as much mystery and excitement as heaven.
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  • In this booklet, "heaven: a place prepared for you!," we'll
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  • Look at the incredible vision god gave us in the book
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  • Of revelation.
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  • Dr. young: let me tell you how i begin each day
  • 00:25:12.334 --> 00:25:15.437
  • And end every day.
  • 00:25:15.437 --> 00:25:17.172
  • I've done it for many, many years.
  • 00:25:17.172 --> 00:25:19.341
  • When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do,
  • 00:25:19.341 --> 00:25:21.710
  • I hit my knees, i call it knee-to-knee
  • 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:24.879
  • Or i call it a self prayer.
  • 00:25:24.879 --> 00:25:27.549
  • Because you know my biggest problem?
  • 00:25:27.549 --> 00:25:29.618
  • It's the same problem you have.
  • 00:25:29.618 --> 00:25:31.853
  • It's spelled s-e-l-f.
  • 00:25:31.853 --> 00:25:35.624
  • Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
  • 00:25:35.624 --> 00:25:38.827
  • It's my number one problem, therefore,
  • 00:25:38.827 --> 00:25:40.929
  • When i begin my day, i'm on my knees,
  • 00:25:40.929 --> 00:25:43.732
  • My wife comes and kneels with me.
  • 00:25:43.732 --> 00:25:46.301
  • And i put my hand on the bed and i pray a little prayer
  • 00:25:46.301 --> 00:25:50.672
  • Revolving around self, it's an acrostic.
  • 00:25:50.672 --> 00:25:53.742
  • And i just spell s-e-l-f.
  • 00:25:53.742 --> 00:25:56.311
  • I start off and i say, "lord, i surrender this day to you."
  • 00:25:56.311 --> 00:26:00.548
  • And i talk about surrendering everything in my life to him.
  • 00:26:00.548 --> 00:26:04.819
  • And then i talk about e, e.
  • 00:26:04.819 --> 00:26:07.656
  • I surrender, and then that e comes up,
  • 00:26:07.656 --> 00:26:10.392
  • And i empty myself, whenever i'm full of self
  • 00:26:10.392 --> 00:26:13.595
  • Or selfishness i start off by emptying so i will be fresh.
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  • Then i turn my hands up as on my knees by my bed.
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  • And i say, "oh lord, fill me with your spirit.
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  • I surrender, and i empty, and i love you,
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  • And now fill me with your spirit."
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  • Self, that's where your start, and as we express our love
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  • To him and he fills us with our spirit,
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  • Then i'll have a personal prayer that fits me,
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  • And fits my wife where she prays.
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  • And then we say, "in jesus's name, amen."
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  • I do that every morning and i do it every night.
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  • I pray the self prayer, the knee-to-knee prayer.
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  • First thing in the morning, i hit my knees,
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  • The last thing at night, i am on my knees.
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  • And i don't know how it works for anybody else
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  • But that self prayer, that knee-to-knee prayer
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  • Is a good way to begin every day because
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  • It gets self out of the way, it does.
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  • Surrender, empty, i love you, fill me with your spirit.
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  • Just a little ritual that i think will help your day
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  • To start off with wings and end your day with praise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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