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Ed Young - What Will Heaven Look Like?

April 24, 2025 | S25:E98

Ed Young - What Will Heaven Look Like?
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - What Will Heaven Look Like? | April 24, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: revelation, i was in seminary,
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  • I took a class on revelation for an entire year.
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  • The first day of class, our professor dr. mcdowell
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  • Said, "if anyone puts on s on revelation,
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  • You're gonna flunk the course."
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  • It's revelation, the last book of the bible.
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  • The apostle john, the last apostle among the 12 to be
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  • Alive, an elderly man in a cave on the island of patmos praying,
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  • Seeking god, and in that amazing moment,
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  • The lord opened up the heavens for john and gave him a view
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  • Of paradise that no one had experienced before or since.
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  • And you read the book of revelation it says,
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  • "i saw, i heard, i saw, i heard."
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  • And john was trying to write it all down and he was trying
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  • To describe that which was indescribable,
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  • The glory, the majesty, the beauty,
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  • The magnificence of heaven.
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  • It's interesting as you study the book of revelation,
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  • There is a rhythm there.
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  • I call it the rhythm of revelation.
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  • Chapter 1, you have a view from heaven.
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  • Chapter 2 and 3, you have a view of earth.
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  • Chapter 3 and 4, you go back to heaven.
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  • Chapter 5 and 6, you come down to the earth.
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  • And there is heaven, earth, heaven,
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  • Earth, heaven, earth, all the way through
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  • The book of revelation, not necessarily marked
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  • By the chapters themselves.
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  • What's that all about?
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  • Here from heaven, here from earth,
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  • Here from earth, here from heaven, here from earth.
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  • I thought about it a long time.
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  • I think it's an answer to the lord's prayer,
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  • The model prayer.
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  • "thy kingdom come, thy there be done on earth
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  • As it is in heaven."
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  • So here at the climax of the bible,
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  • We see heaven and earth, heaven and earth,
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  • And we see how the lord's prayer is beginning
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  • To come together in paradise.
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  • What a book is the book of revelation?
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  • It opens for us heaven.
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  • By the way, for a long time maybe you were like me that i
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  • Thought, you know, we don't know a great deal about heaven.
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  • I wish god would tell us more about heaven.
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  • But when you open your bible and look at your concordance
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  • And begin to study words that are used for heaven,
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  • And paradise, and eternity, you realize the book
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  • From the old testament to the new testament,
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  • You could make a case it's all about heaven in one sense.
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  • Over 500 times in some translation,
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  • The word "heaven" is mentioned.
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  • So, we read and understand when the kingdom of god
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  • And the kingdom of heaven are usually synonymous
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  • In the understanding of the bible.
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  • You see, heaven is opened up in a way that most of us
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  • Have never understood or have never realized.
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  • Presence with god and it is a new thing.
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  • Here's the question, we get to heaven,
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  • Will it be familiar to us?
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  • Will it be strange and unfamiliar to us?
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  • We like the word "new."
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  • We like new things.
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  • We like new shoes when we get them broken in.
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  • We like new clothes. we like new cars.
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  • We like new houses. we like new friends.
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  • We like new relationships. we like new trips.
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  • We like new foods. we're into new, make things new.
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  • And here we see that in heaven, all things will be new
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  • But yet they'll be familiar.
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  • And g.k. chesterton, talking about being homesick
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  • While you're still at home.
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  • There's a parable about a sea lion that lived in a desert
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  • And a whole family of sea lions lived in desert,
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  • The desert, generation after generation,
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  • After generation until finally they had just little memory
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  • Of the sea.
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  • They didn't know how they got in the desert.
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  • They'd been there for generations and they looked
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  • Around and looked and said, "you know,
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  • I've got some equipment here that isn't really useful in the
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  • Desert but you asked a sea lion, "where is your home?"
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  • It's the desert.
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  • But you take those sea lions and put them in the ocean,
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  • Ooh boy they'd say, "you know, i thought i was on there
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  • But man i'm really equipped living in the ocean."
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, that's the way it is in heaven.
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  • We think, "boy, i'm at home here on this earth.
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  • I'd sure like to live forever on this earth."
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  • Once we get to heaven, we're like the sea lion
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  • Who thought desert was their home when really,
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  • Their home was in the depths, and the coolness,
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  • And the beauty of the ocean.
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  • That's the way it's going to be.
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  • That's exactly how it's going to be.
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  • I read a theologian, he did a beautiful thing
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  • And i'm gonna share it with you.
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  • He said, this is what he sort of think heaven is
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  • And this is what the bible says about heaven.
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  • Look on your screen.
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  • What we assume about heaven it's a non-earth.
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  • What the bible says about heaven, it's a new earth.
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  • We assume that it's unfamiliar and other worldly.
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  • The truth is heaven is familiar and earthy.
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  • By the way, we were created out of what?
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  • Dirt.
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  • We are earthy people, therefore we are connected to this earth
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  • And we'll always be connected to this earth.
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  • We think it's foreign, home and all the comforts,
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  • Home with all the innovations of an infinity,
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  • Infinitely created god.
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  • You know, assume that heaven is leaving
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  • Favorite things behind, right?
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  • Not true.
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  • It's retaining the good, finding the best ahead.
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  • We have the idea there's no time and space in heaven.
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  • We're going to see there's time in heaven
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  • But that's in a little while.
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  • We understand there's time in space.
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  • We think heaven is static, it is dynamic.
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  • All right, look at what we assume about heaven.
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  • Neither the old is like eden or the new and earthy,
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  • Just what's strange and unknown.
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  • What's the truth?
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  • It's both old and new.
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  • We'll see there's nothing to do in heaven.
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  • What's that old song, "i just roll around heaven--"
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  • Oh, no, no, no, we think we float on clouds.
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  • No, look what it is.
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  • A god to worship and serve, a universe to rule,
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  • Purposeful work to accomplish, friends to enjoy.
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  • We think there's no learning or discovery.
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  • We think we die, we have instant complete knowledge.
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  • No, you won't.
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  • The bible says we'll have an eternity
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  • Of learning and discovery.
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  • We think it's boring. no, it's not.
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  • It is fascinating, the bible tells us.
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  • We think there's a loss of desire.
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  • No, it's continuous fulfillment of desire.
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  • We think it's the absence of the terrible,
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  • But the presence of little we desire.
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  • The truth is it's the presence of the wonderful everything
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  • We desire and nothing we don't.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, let me summarize all this very simply,
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  • Nobody here is gonna live long enough to fulfill
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  • All your desires, your dreams,
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  • Your capacities, your hopes.
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  • You're not gonna be able to see everything,
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  • Go everywhere, understand everything,
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  • Pursue everything, celebrate everything,
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  • Enjoy everything, that's not gonna happen in this life but in
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  • Heaven, all of that is going to be fulfilled over and over again
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  • It into infinity, understand that.
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  • Eye have not seen, right, ear has not heard.
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  • It has into the heart of a human being what god has prepared
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  • For those who love him and those who graduate to be
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  • With him in heaven, heaven.
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  • So, we're sea lions out in the desert on this earth,
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  • But in heaven, i'll tell you we will soar in a way
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  • We can't even imagine.
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  • Look what the bible tells us clearly about the new heaven
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  • And the new earth.
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  • Open your bibles with me, if you would,
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  • Verse number 2, "and i saw the holy city,
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  • New jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god,
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  • Made ready as a bride adorned for her husband."
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  • And here we have a new creation, in that new creation,
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  • We have a new capital.
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  • We're talking about heaven, a new capital.
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  • And it is a new city and i love that phrase,
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  • "it's like a bride coming down the aisle adorned
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  • For her husband."
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  • Let me tell ya, there's nothing more beautiful,
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  • More radiant than a bride.
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  • I told someone, i'd never seen a bride that wasn't beautiful,
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  • And a couple of them barely made it but i mean there's something
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  • Radiant about a bride coming down the aisle
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  • And this is what you see.
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  • You have the bride coming down the aisle.
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  • It is the new jerusalem.
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  • It is the new city.
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  • What is a city?
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  • "well, it's buildings--" no, it's not. it's people.
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  • We could have hurricane wipeout come here
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  • And just flatten everything around here.
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  • We'd still have katy, texas, i want you to know that,
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  • Because it's made up of people.
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  • It's not building, and stuffs, and roads,
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  • And schools, no, no, it's people.
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  • And so what you have, you have the new jerusalem coming
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  • As a bride, and who is the bride of christ?
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  • It's those of us who are in christ.
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  • It's those who are in christ.
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  • And we see that clearly in our study.
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  • Right before in the chapter before this chapter,
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  • You have a picture of the great white throne judgment.
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  • And we have there it says all the books are there,
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  • And one book is there it has everybody's biography in it,
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  • Birth, life, death, signed, sealed, delivered.
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  • This is me, this is you, this is everybody is there.
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  • And he said, by that large book, there's another book there
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  • Called the book of life and in this book,
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  • That's where the lamb jesus christ has written the names
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  • Down and that--in that book, are the names of those
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  • Who will be in heaven.
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  • And so, we want to make sure our name is in that book of life
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  • And that is our entree, that is our ticket,
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  • That is our passage into heaven.
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  • So, we see here we have the new capital coming down
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  • Out of heaven, a new jerusalem.
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  • And then also in the next passage,
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  • Not only have a new capital, but we have a whole new country
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  • And that is verse 2 through verse 4.
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  • It says what this country's like,
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  • No tears, no sorrow, no shame, that's a whole new world.
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  • That's a new country, isn't it?
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  • Then you have a new constitution that's come to verse 5
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  • All the way to verse 8.
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  • It tells us how heaven will operate.
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  • Want to see how heaven operates, look at matthew 5:6 and 7
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  • And how heaven operates, who will ascend in this holy place?
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  • That's heaven.
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  • Gotta have clean hands and a pure heart.
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  • I'm not gonna make it, are you?
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  • You got clean hands, pure heart.
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  • It is christ who cleans our hands.
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  • It is jesus christ who purifies our hearts and our motives,
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  • That's how we have the entree to heaven.
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  • So, here it is telling us in heaven we have a new capital
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  • And we know in this particular period of time,
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  • The religious capital was jerusalem.
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  • The political capital was rome.
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  • And we look, the economic capital was babylon
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  • But now we have a new capital, a new spiritual capital,
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  • And this is what he's talking about.
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  • And you have a new country, this is something he tells us about.
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  • And then you have a new constitution as to how you live
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  • This country and then he elaborates
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  • On that new jerusalem.
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  • Look at it, it begins down in verse 10.
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  • "and he carried me away by the spirit
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  • To a great high mountain."
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  • And then verse 12, "it had a great high wall with twelve
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  • Gates," and it goes on describes a new jerusalem.
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  • I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how i could go
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  • Through all the dimensions of the new jerusalem without boring
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  • Half of us to death and without amazing the other half.
  • 00:13:41.443 --> 00:13:46.048
  • Man, it's fabulous descriptions but the main thing about it,
  • 00:13:46.048 --> 00:13:50.686
  • It has a wall, a great wall, and we've been hearing
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  • A lot about walls lately.
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  • And it encompasses the holy city and in that wall,
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  • You have twelve gates, three, three,
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  • Three, three and it is the twelve tribes of israel.
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  • In the foundation, it talks about the stones there,
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  • The beautiful, precious stones.
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  • You have a representation with the 12 apostles.
  • 00:14:13.475 --> 00:14:16.111
  • So, you have the old testament surrounding the new testament
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  • Under the bottom, that is the foundation,
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  • And then you have this holy city,
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  • Which is the new jerusalem.
  • 00:14:24.486 --> 00:14:26.555
  • By the way, it's plenty big for everybody
  • 00:14:26.555 --> 00:14:30.092
  • If you want to get very literal here.
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  • You can look at this as a metaphor.
  • 00:14:32.127 --> 00:14:34.363
  • You can look at it in a literal way.
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  • I think you'd come out at about the same place.
  • 00:14:36.398 --> 00:14:39.501
  • And so, you have a new jerusalem coming down from god and that is
  • 00:14:39.501 --> 00:14:45.574
  • People, the bride of christ, that's all of us who are written
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  • In the book of life, coming down from heaven to abide there
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  • Forever and forever and forever and then one day after that.
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  • It's called eternity.
  • 00:14:58.721 --> 00:15:02.257
  • And then we see we have a new calendar.
  • 00:15:00.489 --> 00:15:04.893
  • Now, you got to think here.
  • 00:15:04.893 --> 00:15:06.395
  • I apologize for this.
  • 00:15:06.395 --> 00:15:09.198
  • Come to church, having to think, what a terrible thing
  • 00:15:09.198 --> 00:15:11.667
  • To do to somebody.
  • 00:15:11.667 --> 00:15:14.636
  • Look at verse 22 of chapter number 21.
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  • "and i saw no temple in it,
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  • For the lord god almighty and the lamb are the temple."
  • 00:15:20.409 --> 00:15:22.811
  • In other words, the whole thing was a temple,
  • 00:15:22.811 --> 00:15:24.747
  • The whole thing was worship in heaven.
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  • "and the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine,
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  • The glory of god has illumined it,
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  • Its lamp is the lamb.
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  • The nations will walk by light, and the kings of the earth
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  • Will bring glory.
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  • For in the daytime the gates will never be closed."
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  • It goes on and on.
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  • People have read this passage and other passages,
  • 00:15:43.999 --> 00:15:47.202
  • And i fallen victim to this,
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  • Saying there's no time in heaven, t-i-m-e.
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  • I've discovered that there is t-i-m-e in heaven.
  • 00:15:55.377 --> 00:16:01.583
  • You see, we have to understand there are many types of time
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  • But there are two classical types.
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  • There is chronos time and there is kairos time.
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  • Chronos time--stay with me.
  • 00:16:12.528 --> 00:16:14.296
  • I told you you'd have to think, i apologize.
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  • Is human time. it's linear time.
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  • It is a line.
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  • It is a timeline that is human time.
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  • We look at what time it is, that's chronos time.
  • 00:16:26.075 --> 00:16:30.446
  • Also, there is divine kind of time,
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  • That's kairos time and that is god time.
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  • Chronos time, human time, kairos time is god's time.
  • 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:42.157
  • In human time, we have past, that which has happened,
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  • And we have future, right?
  • 00:16:46.728 --> 00:16:48.597
  • We got that, don't we?
  • 00:16:48.597 --> 00:16:50.299
  • All right, but in god's time, there's only now.
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  • There's no past.
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  • There's no future because human time gives itself to eternity to
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  • God's time and human time is totally changed and transformed.
  • 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:10.652
  • It's an amazing, amazing story as to how this takes place
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  • And that is the miracle of heaven.
  • 00:17:15.557 --> 00:17:19.128
  • That's the supernatural aspects of heaven.
  • 00:17:19.128 --> 00:17:22.598
  • For example, in human time, chronos time,
  • 00:17:22.598 --> 00:17:26.101
  • How we tell time, there's fear.
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  • What does fear come from?
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  • Fear comes from fear of the future, right?
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  • Isn't that what fear's all about?
  • 00:17:33.108 --> 00:17:34.810
  • It's what's gonna happen, it's fear of the future.
  • 00:17:34.810 --> 00:17:36.578
  • And then in human time, we have regret,
  • 00:17:36.578 --> 00:17:38.514
  • What is our regret?
  • 00:17:38.514 --> 00:17:39.915
  • It's fear of the past, which has already taken place,
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  • What we did, what we shouldn't have done.
  • 00:17:42.384 --> 00:17:44.286
  • But you take human time, fear of the future and fear of the past
  • 00:17:44.286 --> 00:17:48.957
  • And you, when it gets to heaven, human time is absorbed into
  • 00:17:48.957 --> 00:17:54.029
  • Eternity, into kairos time, into god's time and there's only now.
  • 00:17:54.029 --> 00:17:58.634
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:17:58.634 --> 00:18:00.602
  • That means we have no fear of the future
  • 00:18:00.602 --> 00:18:04.306
  • Because now we're in god's time.
  • 00:18:04.306 --> 00:18:06.808
  • And that means all our mistakes of the past,
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  • All our regrets of the past, all the bad stuff in the past,
  • 00:18:10.012 --> 00:18:14.049
  • All the decisions we made we shouldn't have made,
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  • All the things we did not do, all that is totally taken away
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  • In the forgiveness of eternity.
  • 00:18:21.523 --> 00:18:24.993
  • You say, "well, that's crazy."
  • 00:18:24.993 --> 00:18:26.395
  • In other words, in god's sight, all the bad garbage stuff
  • 00:18:26.395 --> 00:18:31.333
  • You and i have done as we confessed it to jesus christ,
  • 00:18:31.333 --> 00:18:35.604
  • Not only has been forgiven and covered by the blood of jesus
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  • Christ, god has forgotten it and in god's eyes,
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  • It never took place.
  • 00:18:43.512 --> 00:18:45.948
  • That is kairos time.
  • 00:18:45.948 --> 00:18:49.218
  • Now, you say, "well, i don't know about that."
  • 00:18:49.218 --> 00:18:53.188
  • Well, open your bible, if you would,
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  • To the book of psalms.
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  • There are passages that teach that.
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  • Open to isaiah 43, open to jeremiah 31,
  • 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:01.730
  • Open to hebrews 8 and 10 and you find at least 6 times the bible
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  • Clearly tells us, we come to god in jesus christ,
  • 00:19:07.903 --> 00:19:11.740
  • He buries all that stuff in the bottom of the ocean.
  • 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:14.543
  • He says, "no fishing allowed."
  • 00:19:14.543 --> 00:19:16.378
  • And the truth is, all of that has been totally obliterated
  • 00:19:16.378 --> 00:19:20.816
  • And in god's eye, it never took place.
  • 00:19:20.816 --> 00:19:23.952
  • That is the grace, and the love, and the forgiveness
  • 00:19:23.952 --> 00:19:27.289
  • Of heaven in eternity.
  • 00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:35.063
  • But in all of this, there's one thing that stands out.
  • 00:19:35.063 --> 00:19:40.502
  • You say, "well, what will heaven be like?"
  • 00:19:40.502 --> 00:19:43.105
  • There's one thing about heaven that all of us
  • 00:19:43.105 --> 00:19:44.906
  • Will like more than anything else.
  • 00:19:44.906 --> 00:19:49.344
  • Now, all the majesty, the glory, the fulfillment,
  • 00:19:49.344 --> 00:19:51.980
  • We'll be talking about that.
  • 00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:53.548
  • We're talking about having fun in heaven.
  • 00:19:53.548 --> 00:19:55.217
  • I have a whole study coming up.
  • 00:19:55.217 --> 00:19:57.119
  • We'll talk about how heaven is fun.
  • 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.488
  • "oh, well, i don't know about--" oh, it is.
  • 00:19:59.488 --> 00:20:03.859
  • Who invented laughter?
  • 00:20:03.859 --> 00:20:06.295
  • Who invented fun? who invented celebration?
  • 00:20:06.295 --> 00:20:09.097
  • Who gave to doubt, to sing, to move, to celebrate?
  • 00:20:09.097 --> 00:20:13.068
  • God and we'll discover that heaven's gonna be not only
  • 00:20:13.068 --> 00:20:17.072
  • Out of this world, it's gonna be magnificent.
  • 00:20:17.072 --> 00:20:18.874
  • It's gonna be pleasurable.
  • 00:20:18.874 --> 00:20:20.208
  • It's gonna be fun and everything is gonna be fulfilled
  • 00:20:20.208 --> 00:20:23.178
  • We never even dreamed of being fulfilled.
  • 00:20:23.178 --> 00:20:26.682
  • So, let's understand that right up front.
  • 00:20:26.682 --> 00:20:29.451
  • That's clearly what the bible teaches but there's one thing
  • 00:20:29.451 --> 00:20:33.588
  • That everybody who gets to heaven who has their name
  • 00:20:33.588 --> 00:20:36.658
  • Written in the book will agree on.
  • 00:20:36.658 --> 00:20:38.660
  • We'll like one thing about heaven,
  • 00:20:38.660 --> 00:20:41.763
  • We'll agree on it more than any other single aspect of paradise
  • 00:20:41.763 --> 00:20:51.373
  • Because all of our needs will be met.
  • 00:20:51.373 --> 00:20:53.909
  • You'll say, "maybe that will be what we like about heaven."
  • 00:20:53.909 --> 00:20:56.845
  • And we'll see that illustrated here in chapter 22,
  • 00:20:56.845 --> 00:20:59.981
  • By the way, it talks about in the middle of heaven,
  • 00:20:59.981 --> 00:21:02.584
  • There'll be a river of life.
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  • In the middle of heaven, the tree of life will be on either
  • 00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:05.854
  • Side of the river and there'll be the lamb on the throne.
  • 00:21:05.854 --> 00:21:09.458
  • The river will be coming of life,
  • 00:21:09.458 --> 00:21:11.360
  • The tree of life on either side of that.
  • 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:13.362
  • In the leaves of tree, there will be healing.
  • 00:21:13.362 --> 00:21:16.131
  • Now, we'll like that about heaven.
  • 00:21:16.131 --> 00:21:18.266
  • I mean, that's going to be magnificent,
  • 00:21:18.266 --> 00:21:20.502
  • Falling from the lamb, life-giving,
  • 00:21:20.502 --> 00:21:23.839
  • River right through the city, trees, the tree of life?
  • 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.175
  • We've had the tree of life before.
  • 00:21:27.175 --> 00:21:28.810
  • Does it ring a bell? does it sound like genesis?
  • 00:21:28.810 --> 00:21:31.213
  • "don't eat of this truth but now you'll eat of every fruit of the
  • 00:21:31.213 --> 00:21:35.484
  • Tree of life and there'll be one fruit or every 12 months."
  • 00:21:35.484 --> 00:21:39.521
  • Fruit of the month club right there in heaven.
  • 00:21:39.521 --> 00:21:42.391
  • Read it, read it.
  • 00:21:42.391 --> 00:21:44.459
  • And we have the river, and we have the fruit,
  • 00:21:44.459 --> 00:21:46.461
  • And we have the leaves that are always healing
  • 00:21:46.461 --> 00:21:48.663
  • Because this is the ongoing magnificent, and cleansing,
  • 00:21:48.663 --> 00:21:52.000
  • And perfection of heaven.
  • 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.569
  • And by the way, if i had time,
  • 00:21:54.569 --> 00:21:56.872
  • You familiar with this hierarchy of needs?
  • 00:21:56.872 --> 00:21:59.941
  • Look at it on your--quickly on your--i can take that particular
  • 00:21:59.941 --> 00:22:04.413
  • Section and i will show you how every basic
  • 00:22:04.413 --> 00:22:07.182
  • In maslow's hierarchy of needs, you thought it was secular,
  • 00:22:07.182 --> 00:22:10.252
  • All of those needs are met physiological needs,
  • 00:22:10.252 --> 00:22:14.256
  • Our safety, need for love, esteem,
  • 00:22:14.256 --> 00:22:16.758
  • And self-actualization.
  • 00:22:16.758 --> 00:22:19.161
  • Some of us will never get much of any of those but you see in
  • 00:22:19.161 --> 00:22:23.565
  • Heaven, there is a picture here of all of that being needed.
  • 00:22:23.565 --> 00:22:28.303
  • And we'll like that about heaven,
  • 00:22:28.303 --> 00:22:30.739
  • To be full, and complete, and whole,
  • 00:22:30.739 --> 00:22:33.074
  • And one, and have joy, and all of that replaced in our life.
  • 00:22:33.074 --> 00:22:37.245
  • Boy, what a fabulous thing that will be,
  • 00:22:37.245 --> 00:22:39.080
  • But that isn't the main thing we'll like.
  • 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:45.086
  • A little book written in 1871, the title was
  • 00:22:49.057 --> 00:22:55.664
  • "the happiness of heaven."
  • 00:22:55.664 --> 00:22:58.266
  • It tells a story of a young lad who was born blind
  • 00:22:58.266 --> 00:23:02.904
  • And his family threw him away in the woods,
  • 00:23:02.904 --> 00:23:06.308
  • But the king was hunting and saw the little baby and picked up
  • 00:23:06.308 --> 00:23:09.778
  • The blind child that was thrown away
  • 00:23:09.778 --> 00:23:12.781
  • And brought that child up as his son.
  • 00:23:12.781 --> 00:23:15.617
  • At the right age, that child became a prince.
  • 00:23:15.617 --> 00:23:18.053
  • At the right age, the child was educated,
  • 00:23:18.053 --> 00:23:20.555
  • And fed, and it was recognized as part of the royal family
  • 00:23:20.555 --> 00:23:24.693
  • Until that young child became 20 years of age and a surgeon
  • 00:23:24.693 --> 00:23:29.364
  • Came in and performed surgery and for the first time,
  • 00:23:29.364 --> 00:23:32.934
  • He was able to see.
  • 00:23:32.934 --> 00:23:35.770
  • And i can't even describe the words that are there.
  • 00:23:35.770 --> 00:23:38.507
  • They're magnificent words but he said for the first time
  • 00:23:38.507 --> 00:23:41.877
  • He saw who he was as a prince.
  • 00:23:41.877 --> 00:23:44.112
  • For the first time, he saw the splendor of the court
  • 00:23:44.112 --> 00:23:46.681
  • Where he'd been brought up.
  • 00:23:46.681 --> 00:23:48.083
  • And for the first time, he saw the thing that he was most
  • 00:23:48.083 --> 00:23:50.685
  • Thrilled to see that was his face of the father
  • 00:23:50.685 --> 00:23:54.356
  • Who had adopted him who was his king.
  • 00:23:54.356 --> 00:23:59.327
  • Maybe you've guessed, the one thing we'll like.
  • 00:23:59.327 --> 00:24:05.100
  • Put in facebook, put down "like, like, like, like."
  • 00:24:05.100 --> 00:24:07.802
  • We'd all put this one thing down in our heavenly facebook.
  • 00:24:07.802 --> 00:24:13.174
  • Look at it, verse 4, revelation 22
  • 00:24:13.174 --> 00:24:22.284
  • And it says, "they will see his face.
  • 00:24:22.284 --> 00:24:30.825
  • They will see his face."
  • 00:24:30.825 --> 00:24:36.998
  • Ladies and gentlemen, we'll like it, if we think about heaven
  • 00:24:36.998 --> 00:24:43.104
  • But compared to that, everyone will say,
  • 00:24:43.104 --> 00:24:48.910
  • "that is what we like more than all the rest,
  • 00:24:48.910 --> 00:24:55.317
  • To see the face of the living god."
  • 00:24:55.317 --> 00:25:02.791
  • Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
  • 00:25:02.857 --> 00:25:06.761
  • When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
  • 00:25:06.761 --> 00:25:10.398
  • Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
  • 00:25:10.398 --> 00:25:14.569
  • Finances, our health, and our relationships.
  • 00:25:14.569 --> 00:25:18.440
  • So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
  • 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:21.476
  • Of life into triumphs?
  • 00:25:21.476 --> 00:25:23.912
  • In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
  • 00:25:23.912 --> 00:25:26.815
  • Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul, though beaten,
  • 00:25:26.815 --> 00:25:30.719
  • Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life, a joy that
  • 00:25:30.719 --> 00:25:35.590
  • Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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  • 00:26:03.284 --> 00:26:14.095
  • Dr. young: i remember a bible study group that consisted
  • 00:26:10.291 --> 00:26:16.498
  • Of doctors, and attorneys, and ceos,
  • 00:26:16.498 --> 00:26:18.933
  • And vice presidents, and presidents of corporations,
  • 00:26:18.933 --> 00:26:22.904
  • Entrepreneurial geniuses, and a street sweeper.
  • 00:26:22.904 --> 00:26:27.042
  • In the initial meeting the group leader asked each
  • 00:26:27.042 --> 00:26:29.844
  • To identify himself.
  • 00:26:29.844 --> 00:26:31.746
  • First one said, "i'm a physician."
  • 00:26:31.746 --> 00:26:34.115
  • Another, "i'm an attorney."
  • 00:26:34.115 --> 00:26:36.851
  • "i'm vice president of operations," answered a third.
  • 00:26:36.851 --> 00:26:40.188
  • And finally it was the street sweeper's turn.
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  • There was a little apprehension what he would say.
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  • He said, "i am a son of the king."
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  • He had no identity in the world in which he could boast
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  • But he knew his core identity.
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  • The others were clouted by their earthly,
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  • Titles position, but the street sweeper knew he was chosen
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  • By the king of kings to be a son with all the privileges
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  • And honors, man, of that high position.
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  • Remember, as sons and daughters of god,
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  • Who you are in jesus christ right now today,
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  • There's not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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