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Ed Young - What Will Heaven Look Like?

August 20, 2025 | S25 E200 | 29:0

Ed Young - What Will Heaven Look Like?
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 - What Will Heaven Look Like? | August 20, 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? 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.
  • 00:14:02.087 --> 00:14:06.692
  • Man, it's fabulous descriptions but the main thing about it,
  • 00:14:06.692 --> 00:14:11.297
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • By the way, it's plenty big for everybody
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  • If you want to get very literal here.
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  • You can look at this as a metaphor.
  • 00:14:52.705 --> 00:14:54.940
  • You can look at it in a literal way.
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  • I think you'd come out at about the same place.
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  • And so, you have a new jerusalem coming down from god and that is
  • 00:15:00.079 --> 00:15:06.118
  • 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.
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  • And then we see we have a new calendar.
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  • Now, you got to think here.
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  • I apologize for this.
  • 00:15:27.272 --> 00:15:30.075
  • Come to church, having to think, what a terrible thing
  • 00:15:30.075 --> 00:15:32.544
  • To do to somebody.
  • 00:15:32.544 --> 00:15:35.481
  • 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."
  • 00:15:41.253 --> 00:15:43.655
  • In other words, the whole thing was a temple,
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  • 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,
  • 00:16:04.810 --> 00:16:08.047
  • 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.
  • 00:16:16.188 --> 00:16:22.394
  • 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.
  • 00:16:33.305 --> 00:16:35.074
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • In human time, we have past, that which has happened,
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  • And we have future, right?
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  • We got that, don't we?
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  • 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.
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  • It's an amazing, amazing story as to how this takes place
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  • And that is the miracle of heaven.
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  • That's the supernatural aspects of heaven.
  • 00:17:39.838 --> 00:17:43.308
  • For example, in human time, chronos time,
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  • 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?
  • 00:17:53.819 --> 00:17:55.521
  • It's what's gonna happen, it's fear of the future.
  • 00:17:55.521 --> 00:17:57.589
  • And then in human time, we have regret,
  • 00:17:57.589 --> 00:17:59.525
  • What is our regret?
  • 00:17:59.525 --> 00:18:00.959
  • It's fear of the past, which has already taken place,
  • 00:18:00.959 --> 00:18:03.395
  • What we did, what we shouldn't have done.
  • 00:18:03.395 --> 00:18:05.297
  • But you take human time, fear of the future and fear of the past
  • 00:18:05.297 --> 00:18:09.968
  • And you, when it gets to heaven, human time is absorbed into
  • 00:18:09.968 --> 00:18:15.040
  • Eternity, into kairos time, into god's time and there's only now.
  • 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:19.645
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:18:19.645 --> 00:18:21.613
  • That means we have no fear of the future
  • 00:18:21.613 --> 00:18:25.284
  • Because now we're in god's time.
  • 00:18:25.284 --> 00:18:27.819
  • 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,
  • 00:18:31.023 --> 00:18:35.060
  • 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.
  • 00:18:42.534 --> 00:18:45.971
  • You say, "well, that's crazy."
  • 00:18:45.971 --> 00:18:47.372
  • In other words, in god's sight, all the bad garbage stuff
  • 00:18:47.372 --> 00:18:52.311
  • You and i have done as we confessed it to jesus christ,
  • 00:18:52.311 --> 00:18:56.548
  • Not only has been forgiven and covered by the blood of jesus
  • 00:18:56.548 --> 00:19:00.519
  • Christ, god has forgotten it and in god's eyes,
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  • It never took place.
  • 00:19:04.489 --> 00:19:06.892
  • That is kairos time.
  • 00:19:06.892 --> 00:19:10.162
  • Now, you say, "well, i don't know about that."
  • 00:19:10.162 --> 00:19:14.132
  • 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,
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  • 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,
  • 00:19:28.814 --> 00:19:32.684
  • He buries all that stuff in the bottom of the ocean.
  • 00:19:32.684 --> 00:19:35.487
  • He says, "no fishing allowed."
  • 00:19:35.487 --> 00:19:37.289
  • And the truth is, all of that has been totally obliterated
  • 00:19:37.289 --> 00:19:41.727
  • And in god's eye, it never took place.
  • 00:19:41.727 --> 00:19:44.863
  • That is the grace, and the love, and the forgiveness
  • 00:19:44.863 --> 00:19:48.200
  • Of heaven in eternity.
  • 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:55.941
  • But in all of this, there's one thing that stands out.
  • 00:19:55.941 --> 00:20:01.413
  • You say, "well, what will heaven be like?"
  • 00:20:01.413 --> 00:20:04.016
  • There's one thing about heaven that all of us
  • 00:20:04.016 --> 00:20:05.817
  • Will like more than anything else.
  • 00:20:05.817 --> 00:20:10.222
  • Now, all the majesty, the glory, the fulfillment,
  • 00:20:10.222 --> 00:20:12.858
  • We'll be talking about that.
  • 00:20:12.858 --> 00:20:14.426
  • We're talking about having fun in heaven.
  • 00:20:14.426 --> 00:20:16.094
  • I have a whole study coming up.
  • 00:20:16.094 --> 00:20:17.963
  • We'll talk about how heaven is fun.
  • 00:20:17.963 --> 00:20:20.365
  • "oh, well, i don't know about--" oh, it is.
  • 00:20:20.365 --> 00:20:24.703
  • Who invented laughter?
  • 00:20:24.703 --> 00:20:27.139
  • Who invented fun? who invented celebration?
  • 00:20:27.139 --> 00:20:29.941
  • Who gave to doubt, to sing, to move, to celebrate?
  • 00:20:29.941 --> 00:20:33.912
  • God and we'll discover that heaven's gonna be not only
  • 00:20:33.912 --> 00:20:37.916
  • Out of this world, it's gonna be magnificent.
  • 00:20:37.916 --> 00:20:39.918
  • It's gonna be pleasurable.
  • 00:20:39.918 --> 00:20:41.286
  • It's gonna be fun and everything is gonna be fulfilled
  • 00:20:41.286 --> 00:20:44.356
  • We never even dreamed of being fulfilled.
  • 00:20:44.356 --> 00:20:47.859
  • So, let's understand that right up front.
  • 00:20:47.859 --> 00:20:50.629
  • That's clearly what the bible teaches but there's one thing
  • 00:20:50.629 --> 00:20:54.733
  • That everybody who gets to heaven who has their name
  • 00:20:54.733 --> 00:20:57.803
  • Written in the book will agree on.
  • 00:20:57.803 --> 00:20:59.838
  • We'll like one thing about heaven,
  • 00:20:59.838 --> 00:21:02.908
  • We'll agree on it more than any other single aspect of paradise
  • 00:21:02.908 --> 00:21:12.517
  • Because all of our needs will be met.
  • 00:21:12.517 --> 00:21:15.053
  • You'll say, "maybe that will be what we like about heaven."
  • 00:21:15.053 --> 00:21:17.989
  • And we'll see that illustrated here in chapter 22,
  • 00:21:17.989 --> 00:21:21.126
  • By the way, it talks about in the middle of heaven,
  • 00:21:21.126 --> 00:21:23.695
  • There'll be a river of life.
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  • In the middle of heaven, the tree of life will be on either
  • 00:21:25.030 --> 00:21:26.965
  • Side of the river and there'll be the lamb on the throne.
  • 00:21:26.965 --> 00:21:30.569
  • The river will be coming of life,
  • 00:21:30.569 --> 00:21:32.471
  • The tree of life on either side of that.
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  • In the leaves of tree, there will be healing.
  • 00:21:34.473 --> 00:21:37.242
  • Now, we'll like that about heaven.
  • 00:21:37.242 --> 00:21:39.378
  • I mean, that's going to be magnificent,
  • 00:21:39.378 --> 00:21:41.613
  • Falling from the lamb, life-giving,
  • 00:21:41.613 --> 00:21:44.950
  • River right through the city, trees, the tree of life?
  • 00:21:44.950 --> 00:21:48.286
  • We've had the tree of life before.
  • 00:21:48.286 --> 00:21:49.888
  • Does it ring a bell? does it sound like genesis?
  • 00:21:49.888 --> 00:21:52.324
  • "don't eat of this truth but now you'll eat of every fruit of the
  • 00:21:52.324 --> 00:21:56.561
  • Tree of life and there'll be one fruit or every 12 months."
  • 00:21:56.561 --> 00:22:00.632
  • Fruit of the month club right there in heaven.
  • 00:22:00.632 --> 00:22:03.468
  • Read it, read it.
  • 00:22:03.468 --> 00:22:05.537
  • And we have the river, and we have the fruit,
  • 00:22:05.537 --> 00:22:07.539
  • And we have the leaves that are always healing
  • 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:09.741
  • Because this is the ongoing magnificent, and cleansing,
  • 00:22:09.741 --> 00:22:13.078
  • And perfection of heaven.
  • 00:22:13.078 --> 00:22:15.647
  • And by the way, if i had time,
  • 00:22:15.647 --> 00:22:17.949
  • You familiar with this hierarchy of needs?
  • 00:22:17.949 --> 00:22:20.986
  • Look at it on your--quickly on your--i can take that particular
  • 00:22:20.986 --> 00:22:25.490
  • Section and i will show you how every basic
  • 00:22:25.490 --> 00:22:28.226
  • In maslow's hierarchy of needs, you thought it was secular,
  • 00:22:28.226 --> 00:22:31.296
  • All of those needs are met physiological needs,
  • 00:22:31.296 --> 00:22:35.300
  • Our safety, need for love, esteem,
  • 00:22:35.300 --> 00:22:37.803
  • And self-actualization.
  • 00:22:37.803 --> 00:22:40.205
  • Some of us will never get much of any of those but you see in
  • 00:22:40.205 --> 00:22:44.609
  • Heaven, there is a picture here of all of that being needed.
  • 00:22:44.609 --> 00:22:49.314
  • And we'll like that about heaven,
  • 00:22:49.314 --> 00:22:51.783
  • To be full, and complete, and whole,
  • 00:22:51.783 --> 00:22:54.085
  • And one, and have joy, and all of that replaced in our life.
  • 00:22:54.085 --> 00:22:58.290
  • Boy, what a fabulous thing that will be,
  • 00:22:58.290 --> 00:23:00.091
  • But that isn't the main thing we'll like.
  • 00:23:00.091 --> 00:23:06.097
  • A little book written in 1871, the title was
  • 00:23:10.068 --> 00:23:16.675
  • "the happiness of heaven."
  • 00:23:16.675 --> 00:23:19.277
  • It tells a story of a young lad who was born blind
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  • And his family threw him away in the woods,
  • 00:23:23.915 --> 00:23:27.285
  • But the king was hunting and saw the little baby and picked up
  • 00:23:27.285 --> 00:23:30.755
  • The blind child that was thrown away
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  • And brought that child up as his son.
  • 00:23:33.758 --> 00:23:36.595
  • At the right age, that child became a prince.
  • 00:23:36.595 --> 00:23:39.030
  • At the right age, the child was educated,
  • 00:23:39.030 --> 00:23:41.533
  • And fed, and it was recognized as part of the royal family
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  • Until that young child became 20 years of age and a surgeon
  • 00:23:45.670 --> 00:23:50.342
  • Came in and performed surgery and for the first time,
  • 00:23:50.342 --> 00:23:53.879
  • He was able to see.
  • 00:23:53.879 --> 00:23:56.715
  • And i can't even describe the words that are there.
  • 00:23:56.715 --> 00:23:59.451
  • They're magnificent words but he said for the first time
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  • He saw who he was as a prince.
  • 00:24:02.821 --> 00:24:05.056
  • For the first time, he saw the splendor of the court
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  • Where he'd been brought up.
  • 00:24:07.626 --> 00:24:09.027
  • And for the first time, he saw the thing that he was most
  • 00:24:09.027 --> 00:24:11.630
  • Thrilled to see that was his face of the father
  • 00:24:11.630 --> 00:24:15.300
  • Who had adopted him who was his king.
  • 00:24:15.300 --> 00:24:20.238
  • Maybe you've guessed, the one thing we'll like.
  • 00:24:20.238 --> 00:24:26.011
  • Put in facebook, put down "like, like, like, like."
  • 00:24:26.011 --> 00:24:28.713
  • We'd all put this one thing down in our heavenly facebook.
  • 00:24:28.713 --> 00:24:34.085
  • Look at it, verse 4, revelation 22
  • 00:24:34.085 --> 00:24:43.161
  • And it says, "they will see his face.
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  • They will see his face."
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, we'll like it, if we think about heaven
  • 00:24:57.876 --> 00:25:03.982
  • But compared to that, everyone will say,
  • 00:25:03.982 --> 00:25:09.754
  • "that is what we like more than all the rest,
  • 00:25:09.754 --> 00:25:16.161
  • To see the face of the living god."
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  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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  • 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
  • 00:25:36.748 --> 00:25:40.552
  • Direction of 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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  • Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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  • Ed: i remember a bible study group that consisted of doctors
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  • And attorneys and ceos and
  • 00:26:17.822 --> 00:26:19.691
  • Vice presidents and presidents of corporations,
  • 00:26:19.691 --> 00:26:23.028
  • Entrepreneurial genius' and a street sweeper.
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  • In the initial meeting, the group leader asked
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  • Each to identify himself.
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  • First one said, ‘i'm a physician',
  • 00:26:32.037 --> 00:26:34.172
  • Another, ‘i'm an attorney',
  • 00:26:34.172 --> 00:26:37.008
  • ‘i'm vice president of operations' answered a third.
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  • And finally it was the street sweeper's turn.
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  • I was a little apprehensive about what he'd 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 for which he could boast,
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  • But he knew his core identity.
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  • The others were clouded by their earthly title, position,
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  • But the street sweeper knew he was chosen by the king of kings
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  • To be a son with all the privileges and honors, man,
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  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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