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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Will We Know People In Heaven?

June 2, 2025 | S25:E132

Ed Young - Will We Know People In Heaven?
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 - Will We Know People In Heaven? | June 2, 2025
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  • Dr. 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
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  • In the book of revelation.
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  • Male announcer: get a new and exciting perspective
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  • Of heaven 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: perhaps you noticed in the news
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  • That 007, roger moore, died this past tuesday.
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  • He was 89 years old.
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  • He made, what, seven or eight different movies,
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  • All of them very popular?
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  • He was a man with a gun.
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  • He was a man who was a spy for great britain but pretended
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  • To be a spy but actually conquered all the spies.
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  • He had a license to kill.
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  • Do you remember?
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  • The ian fleming novels that were put on the screen,
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  • 007 james bond died.
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  • Before he died back in 2002, somebody asked roger moore,
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  • That's who he was, "roger, what is your concept
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  • Of life after death?"
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  • Let me paraphrase his answer.
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  • He said, "i believe we'll go into a room and there
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  • We'll have a door and the key to that door will be
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  • The fact that we have died.
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  • And we'll take the key of death and open that door and go inside
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  • To some sort of existence that we don't know a whole lot about
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  • And we can only imagine or dream of."
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  • That's his concept of life after life.
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  • He's not far off from what you can read or hear from a lot of
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  • Philosophies, a lot of religions.
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  • If you're a hindu, you'll have the idea that you'll be
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  • Reincarnated, you'll come back at something else, or something
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  • Other, or something more, or something less.
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  • You'll be going up the scale or down the scale, all of those
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  • Subjective evaluations that have no basis of reality or evidence.
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  • Eastern religion say primarily we go back to some kind of mist
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  • And we absorb into the holy other up there,
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  • Out there, over there.
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  • So, there's all kinds of concepts of life after life.
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  • So, i thought we'd just sit down and discover what
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  • We know about heaven.
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  • Now, first of all, let me drop back and ask you a question,
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  • When you die do you think immediately if you're
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  • A christian that you will know everything?
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  • Some people think that.
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  • You will not, i will not.
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  • Some have equated heaven with divinity.
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  • You see, we are not omniscient now, are we?
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  • Do we know everything now?
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  • No, no, no, and we'll not be omniscient when we die.
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  • We'll not be omnipresent, everywhere when we die.
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  • We'll not be omnipotent, have all power.
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  • These are assets that the divine and the divine god has.
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  • We will not have it when we die so therefore when we die,
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  • We'll not know everything and i say thank god for that.
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  • Man, that's beyond our pay scale.
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  • We'll not have the capacity.
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  • We don't want the responsibility.
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  • God alone has that responsibility of being
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  • Omniscient all knowing.
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  • You'll not know everything when you die.
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  • Some people go to 1 corinthians 13, we see through a glass
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  • Darkly then we'll see face to face then we will know
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  • As we have been known but that doesn't mean our knowing
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  • Will be omniscient.
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  • You'll not know everything when you die.
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  • There may be a revelation of this through eternity,
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  • I don't know.
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  • There's verses that point to that fact.
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  • When you die, you won't know everything but let me tell you
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  • What you will know, and we've talked about this already.
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  • One thing when you and i die in christ and have been resurrected
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  • With him into heaven, one thing we know that we will see god,
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  • That's the beatific vision you've heard about or maybe read
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  • About in some old theologians.
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  • And there's been a question that's been asked,
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  • Very interesting question, i'll ask it to you.
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  • When you die, if you had the choice of having everything
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  • Forever you've ever imagined--did you get that?
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  • You die, here's a choice, you can have everything you've ever
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  • Imagined forever and forever and forever and just stack it up,
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  • Enjoy it, live with it forever.
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  • You get it all when you die, that's one choice, but you never
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  • Get to see god.
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  • You get it all but you never see god.
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  • You better think about that one for a while.
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  • I thought about it many, many times.
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  • I come back to the same conclusion listen, heaven
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  • Will not be heaven unless we get to see god.
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  • Hold, hold up, confectionaries, all the other things that we can
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  • Imagine, and do, and accomplish won't amount to anything after
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  • The first 2 or 4 billion years.
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  • The ultimate is to see god.
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  • We've looked a little bit about what heaven is gonna be like.
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  • Remember the description there in revelation 21 and 22?
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  • Remember how that we'd have a holy city, new jerusalem, a new
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  • Country, a new constitution, and it's a magnificent thing.
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  • And then we talked about in the main street of heaven, that
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  • Would be the river of life that would go all the way up to the
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  • Throne, the lamb of god would be on that throne, and the river
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  • Is a symbol of the holy spirit in the main.
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  • It's a clear, deep river.
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  • It's a symbol of pleasure and prosperity right in the main
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  • Street of heaven and on either side of the river will be
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  • The tree of life.
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  • Remember the garden of eden, there was a tree of life and
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  • There was prohibited from eating of the fruit of that tree?
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  • Now, we can eat of the fruit of that tree and the leaves of that
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  • Tree bring us healing.
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  • So, this is a beautiful figure of something of the glory, and
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  • The majesty, and the health, and the presence of that river
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  • Flowing right down through the main street of heaven.
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  • And then the bible tells us about the city.
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  • Remember what the foundation was?
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  • The foundation of heaven, the foundation of the holy city, the
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  • Foundation of the new jerusalem, it is based on the apostles,
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  • The 12 apostles.
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  • The 12 gates around the city are based and named after the 12
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  • Prophets, the 12 forefathers there in the old testament,
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  • Abraham, isaac, jacob, all of that crew, the family of jacob.
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  • And so, we see the old testament and new testament is brought
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  • Together on the base of the foundation and the 12 gates.
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  • And now we go in the city and there is the lamb that is on the
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  • Throne and then at the bottom line you read in the 4th verse
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  • Of chapter number 22 of revelation it says, "we will see
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  • God and the name of god will be written on their foreheads."
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  • Let me deal with the name of god.
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  • It disturbs me today when we do not take the name of god and
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  • Keep it sacred and keep it holy.
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  • When you say, "oh god, well, i don't mean anything by that,"
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  • Is a form of profanity.
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  • When we say, "we're gonna have a come to jesus meeting,"
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  • That is irreverence, irreverence.
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  • We have to be so careful how we use humor
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  • When we bring god in our humor.
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  • So, we lose something when we take god and make him sort of
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  • A pedestrian thing, as a product of humor, as a product of our
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  • Conversation, as a product of our expletives that we say.
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  • Man people are, "jesus christ.
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  • "i didn't mean anything but that."
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  • Oh, yes you are bringing down the wholeness,
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  • And the majesty, and the awesomeness of the almighty.
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  • So, we need to be very, very careful with our lives,
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  • The lives of our children, and our grandchildren
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  • But it's pretty to say, "oh god, oh god."
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  • Listen, thou shall not take the name of the lord
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  • Thy god in vain.
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  • We have to be careful.
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  • In our generation, it is almost a part of our culture.
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  • Then it says we will see god.
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  • Who can see god?
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  • We've talked about that.
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  • Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god.
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  • Anybody who's pure in heart today, would you stand up?
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  • I want to recognize you.
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  • No, we're not pure in heart, are we?
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  • My heart is not pure, your heart is not pure,
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  • So how will we ever see god?
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  • We begin to see him in this life.
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  • This is where it begins.
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  • The purity of christ must come into you and must come into me.
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  • This helps our motivation.
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  • It helps understand, helps us to see god in life, in our life,
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  • In the lives of others, in this life.
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  • How does purity come to us?
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  • It goes right back to the cross, doesn't it?
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  • Right back to the cross.
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  • Max lucado said the verse in the bible that he hates and despises
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  • More than any other verse and it says when jesus on the cross
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  • And he says, "my god, my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • I thought about that, that is a devastating verse, isn't it?
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  • "my god, my god, why?"
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  • Here is jesus asking a question.
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  • That doesn't sound like jesus, does it?
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  • "i and my father are one.
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  • My meat is to do the will of the father.
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  • If you know me, you know the father.
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  • You know the father, you know me."
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  • How he walked 24/7 with his heavenly father in that
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  • Wonderful, wonderful relationship now in the moment
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  • Of great extremity, jesus divinity wrapped up
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  • In human flesh, shamed, embarrassed, nailed, crucified.
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  • His moment of extremity, god turned his back on him
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  • And jesus says, "my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • Makes no sense, does it?
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  • When jesus spoke, usually you put a exclamation point
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  • After it, "come forth!
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  • Be healed!
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  • Stretch out!
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  • Come out!"
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  • You see, there's a exclamation point.
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  • Now we have this, "why, why, why, why?"
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  • What's that all about?
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  • We like it better when john the baptist looked at jesus, young,
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  • Beginning his ministry, walking toward the jordan, and he said,
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  • "behold the lamb of god."
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  • Boy, i like that.
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  • Look at the lamb of god, how magnificent.
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  • What's the rest of the verse?
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  • "who takes away the sin of the world,
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  • Takes away the sin of the world."
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  • How do you feel when you're wallowing in sin?
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  • I've been there.
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  • You've been there.
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  • What's it like?
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  • We feel alone, we feel estranged, we feel abandoned.
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  • That's how jesus felt when he took your sin and my sin
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  • Upon himself on that cross.
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  • My god, my god, why have you abandoned me?"
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  • When we have sin in our life, we feel abandoned but the good
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  • News, jesus was abandoned by the father so that you and i might
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  • Be forgiven and we will not be abandoned for our sin because
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  • He has paid the price in total for your sin and for mine.
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  • Behold the lamb of god which came and takes your sin
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  • And mine upon himself.
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  • Oh, we begin to understand what that verse is all about.
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  • The heavenly father cannot look on impurity, he can look only
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  • On purity and we become pure when we receive christ.
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  • His righteousness is poured in us.
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  • That's how purity comes.
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  • And then in this life when we do that, then we have to live
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  • A life of obedience and a life of discipline, not perfection,
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  • But a life of discipline.
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  • Receive christ, purity comes, sanctification.
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  • We begin to walk in discipline and the result is a life that is
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  • Full and meaningful and we begin to know something about purity,
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  • Clean hands, pure heart, motives, thoughts, lifestyle,
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  • Habits so that's where we start.
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  • "blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see god."
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  • A little bit and light in this life and people and
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  • Events but oh, in heaven, we'll see him face to face.
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  • That's the first thing we know, we will see god.
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  • What's something else we know?
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  • This may not interest you but i think it's interesting to me.
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  • We know there'll be animals in heaven.
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  • I'm asked that all the time.
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  • We know there'll be animals in heaven.
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  • "well, how you know that?"
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  • Read the bible.
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  • There are over 120 different species of animals
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  • And birds in the bible.
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  • Man, look what you have.
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  • Look how animals are all the way through the bible.
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  • You start there with the birth of jesus.
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  • Where was he born? in a stable.
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  • Who witnessed that?
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  • Perhaps joseph and mary, of course, but the animals.
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  • The earth was destroyed by water, by the flood.
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  • Noah took what on ark?
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  • Animals.
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  • They're the second earth, they're animals.
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  • And then when jesus was born--and look back to the
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  • Beginning, there's adam created by god and god says, "all that's
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  • A creation, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good,"
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  • Until finally he says, "it's not good for man to be alone."
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  • Remember that verse?
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  • And then you say, "well, god went and jerked a rib out of
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  • Adam's body and made a woman."
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  • No, read it carefully.
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  • "it is not good for man to be alone," and then god by began to
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  • Bring animals into existence.
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  • Animals predate women.
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  • Check it out, animals in the beginning, animals at the birth,
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  • Animals at the ark.
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  • And so, there's gonna be animals in heaven.
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  • For example, jonah would have drowned hadn't it been
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  • For a big fish.
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  • How in the world would mary have gotten from nazareth to
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  • Bethlehem without a donkey?
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  • What about jesus going in on palm sunday?
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  • What about elijah who was fed by the ravens?
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  • What about the symbol, the dove, the symbol of the holy spirit?
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  • You read all the way through the bible there are animals,
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  • Animals, everywhere.
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  • There are camels, there are oxen,
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  • Animals all the way through.
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  • And is it logical we're gonna have flowers and beauty
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  • That in heaven we're going to have animals?
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  • You can book it.
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  • And perhaps we get to heaven, we're hugging all of our family
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  • And friends and having a great reunion there with those who've
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  • Gone before and we'll feel something rubbing on our leg and
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  • There will be the cat, or there will be your dog jumping up on
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  • You and you--animals are gonna be in heaven, folks.
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  • They're gonna be in heaven.
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  • And we're gonna know somehow the carnivorous animals
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  • Will be transformed.
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  • They'll be a part of the miracle of that and the lion
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  • Will lie down with the lamb, isaiah tells us.
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  • So relax, your dogs will be in heaven
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  • And a few cats.
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  • There'll be animals in heaven.
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  • Now, the question we're asked all the time and it's almost
  • 00:17:31.963 --> 00:17:34.765
  • Become silly but it is, "will we know people in heaven?"
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  • You're gonna get dumber when you feel--when you receive
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  • Your resurrection body?
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  • Yes, we'll know people.
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  • Now, they'll have resurrection bodies, but it'll be difficult
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  • To recognize, in some sense, that their lives had been
  • 00:17:50.314 --> 00:17:53.718
  • Purified, and magnified, and there's the image of
  • 00:17:53.718 --> 00:17:56.554
  • The resurrection christ in them.
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  • Sure, we will know people in heaven.
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  • It will be a great time of celebration
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  • And a great time of reunion.
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  • And then we come and ask the question,
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  • "will there be marriage in heaven?
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  • I just wouldn't want heaven to be without my wife,
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  • Without my husband."
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  • You know, there's a scripture in the bible when the sadducees
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  • Came to jesus and they were trying to trap him.
  • 00:18:17.808 --> 00:18:21.913
  • The sadducees did not believe the resurrection and they said,
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  • "master, here's a woman who's been married
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  • To seven different husbands.
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  • Who will be her husband in heaven?"
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  • Elizabeth taylor, i guess, of the new testament.
  • 00:18:38.329 --> 00:18:43.167
  • Pretty good challenging heaven, isn't it, if you believe in
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  • Heaven and the resurrection.
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  • Jesus said there won't be marriage
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  • In a human sense in heaven.
  • 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:51.776
  • He talked about some kind of angel existence and that is
  • 00:18:51.776 --> 00:18:56.447
  • Certainly true because jesus said it but there will be
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  • Marriage in heaven and that is the magnificent marriage when
  • 00:18:59.450 --> 00:19:03.521
  • Jesus as the bridegroom will take those of us, who in faith,
  • 00:19:03.521 --> 00:19:07.325
  • As his bride.
  • 00:19:07.325 --> 00:19:09.360
  • And it is that marriage and out of that marriage, who knows how
  • 00:19:09.360 --> 00:19:13.531
  • The rest of the relationships will be expressed in heaven?
  • 00:19:13.531 --> 00:19:18.536
  • And you can be sure you say, "well, what about the intimacy i
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  • Enjoy with my mate?"
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  • That will just be like playing a little half-acre lake and going
  • 00:19:22.840 --> 00:19:28.879
  • Out in the middle of the ocean.
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  • What god has prepared for those who love him, there won't be
  • 00:19:31.515 --> 00:19:34.719
  • Anything lacking in heaven so relax, get over it, wake up.
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  • Heaven is glory.
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  • Heaven is completeness and there won't be anybody shortchanged
  • 00:19:44.228 --> 00:19:47.999
  • In any way, shape, form, or fashion.
  • 00:19:47.999 --> 00:19:50.468
  • We will be complete in our resurrected life and our
  • 00:19:50.468 --> 00:19:53.704
  • Resurrected world.
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  • That's what the bible teaches us.
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  • That's what it said.
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  • Somebody, "well, what about children who have died young, or
  • 00:19:59.710 --> 00:20:03.514
  • They were aborted, or they died in their mother's womb?"
  • 00:20:03.514 --> 00:20:07.485
  • We have plenty of scriptures, i think, that covers that, that
  • 00:20:07.485 --> 00:20:11.022
  • Counteracts someone would say they have to come to this kind
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  • Of position.
  • 00:20:14.458 --> 00:20:15.993
  • We know that jeremiah, before he was born it said
  • 00:20:15.993 --> 00:20:20.197
  • The holy spirit was there.
  • 00:20:20.197 --> 00:20:21.532
  • We know john the baptist in the womb of his mother elizabeth,
  • 00:20:21.532 --> 00:20:24.635
  • The holy spirit was operative there.
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  • We know david when he lost that son clear teaching in the old
  • 00:20:26.570 --> 00:20:31.208
  • Testament it was said that he could go and be with his son
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  • In heaven but his son could not come back to be with him.
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  • David was in the land of dying, the son was in the land of
  • 00:20:39.450 --> 00:20:42.787
  • Living, that's true of us.
  • 00:20:42.787 --> 00:20:44.822
  • Certainly jesus said, "suffer the little children
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  • To come unto me.
  • 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:49.694
  • Come sit in my lap." he said, "unless we have the faith,
  • 00:20:49.694 --> 00:20:54.565
  • The simplicity, and the naivety,
  • 00:20:54.565 --> 00:20:58.002
  • The little bit of a child, we'll never see the kingdom god,
  • 00:20:58.002 --> 00:21:01.038
  • We'll never see heaven.
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  • There's that naiveness there with children, it is beautiful.
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  • Jesus honored children.
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  • You can be sure that child of yours will be in heaven.
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  • Heaven wouldn't be heaven without children, would it?
  • 00:21:11.749 --> 00:21:13.951
  • Now, full disclosure, about, i don't know, maybe 13, 14 years
  • 00:21:13.951 --> 00:21:21.759
  • Ago, a member of our church who'd gotten to know roger moore
  • 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:26.330
  • And his wife, 007, invited him and his wife to go and spend
  • 00:21:26.330 --> 00:21:32.536
  • The night with them while they were in houston in their home.
  • 00:21:32.536 --> 00:21:36.240
  • And they called me and asked me to come over, jo beth and i,
  • 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.944
  • Have dinner and to witness to 007, roger moore, and bear
  • 00:21:39.944 --> 00:21:48.986
  • Witness to who jesus christ could do for his life.
  • 00:21:48.986 --> 00:21:52.656
  • I had something that night that was already planned that i could
  • 00:21:52.656 --> 00:21:55.960
  • Not get out of so i thanked them for the invitation and they
  • 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:01.065
  • Said, "well, there'll be another time," but there wasn't.
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  • I never had a chance to witness to roger moore.
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  • And when i saw that he had died, it all came flooding back to me
  • 00:22:11.542 --> 00:22:17.882
  • And i began to say, "lord, did i miss something?
  • 00:22:17.882 --> 00:22:20.618
  • Should i have canceled whatever i had and gone?
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  • Would it made any difference?
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  • I don't know."
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  • By you're here and i don't want to miss anybody here
  • 00:22:27.458 --> 00:22:32.496
  • Because we have to begin with the holy spirit operating
  • 00:22:32.496 --> 00:22:36.200
  • In a life, convincing you, convincing me of our sin and
  • 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:41.372
  • Then when we convinces us of our sin and we see the severity
  • 00:22:41.372 --> 00:22:44.875
  • Of it, then we are to confess that sin.
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  • Anybody need to do that now with your eyes open,
  • 00:22:49.046 --> 00:22:51.415
  • Look at me, any sin?
  • 00:22:51.415 --> 00:22:53.017
  • Just confess it to the father, confess it to the father.
  • 00:22:53.017 --> 00:22:58.322
  • And then if you want to turn away from that sin, that's the
  • 00:22:58.322 --> 00:23:01.625
  • Option, convicted of sin, turn away from sin, and then we do
  • 00:23:01.625 --> 00:23:08.065
  • Something that's really important.
  • 00:23:08.065 --> 00:23:10.868
  • The bible says those who receive him to them he gives the power
  • 00:23:10.868 --> 00:23:14.472
  • To become sons and daughters of god.
  • 00:23:14.472 --> 00:23:16.574
  • And then we have to say, "lord jesus christ,
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  • I'm convicted. i confess.
  • 00:23:18.742 --> 00:23:20.845
  • I turn away from and now i invite you
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  • To come into my life."
  • 00:23:23.113 --> 00:23:24.448
  • That's it.
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  • And he'll come in your life.
  • 00:23:26.116 --> 00:23:28.385
  • And what happens is one way to express it, you give him your
  • 00:23:28.385 --> 00:23:31.455
  • Life and christ gives you his life, what a deal.
  • 00:23:31.455 --> 00:23:37.862
  • That's a purifying process.
  • 00:23:37.862 --> 00:23:39.530
  • That's a saving process.
  • 00:23:39.530 --> 00:23:41.832
  • That's a salvaging process restoring to us the purpose
  • 00:23:41.832 --> 00:23:45.769
  • For which we were made.
  • 00:23:45.769 --> 00:23:48.372
  • And there's some here who may need to do that right now.
  • 00:23:48.372 --> 00:23:50.875
  • Without anybody moving will you bow your heads,
  • 00:23:50.875 --> 00:23:53.310
  • Just bow your heads where you are?
  • 00:23:53.310 --> 00:23:58.148
  • I'm gonna pray a prayer that had i been given the opportunity,
  • 00:23:58.148 --> 00:24:02.753
  • I would have prayed the prayer for roger moore years ago.
  • 00:24:02.753 --> 00:24:06.624
  • I'm gonna pray for anybody who might be here to make sure that
  • 00:24:06.624 --> 00:24:11.929
  • You know exactly what it means to have a new life, to have
  • 00:24:11.929 --> 00:24:16.967
  • A fresh new beginning, and it begins exactly with what i said,
  • 00:24:16.967 --> 00:24:22.540
  • Conviction of sin is the holy spirit of god convicting you of
  • 00:24:22.540 --> 00:24:29.013
  • Trash in your life, confess it right now to him.
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  • Would you do that? be specific.
  • 00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:34.718
  • Don't say, "forgive me of all my sin."
  • 00:24:34.718 --> 00:24:36.654
  • Be specific, confess it.
  • 00:24:36.654 --> 00:24:39.823
  • Now, turn away from that sin, that's repentance.
  • 00:24:39.823 --> 00:24:44.228
  • Confession, conviction, repentance and now this is where
  • 00:24:44.228 --> 00:24:49.199
  • The miracle starts, you can simply pray in your own way
  • 00:24:49.199 --> 00:24:53.571
  • These words, "dear lord jesus christ,"
  • 00:24:53.571 --> 00:24:57.508
  • That's right, pray it right now.
  • 00:24:57.508 --> 00:25:01.979
  • "i invite you to come into my life to forgive me, to salvage
  • 00:25:01.979 --> 00:25:07.318
  • Me, to restore me to the purpose for which i was made.
  • 00:25:07.318 --> 00:25:11.055
  • I give you my life, lord, thank you for giving me your life.
  • 00:25:11.055 --> 00:25:15.626
  • Lord, thank you for this purifying process that begins
  • 00:25:15.626 --> 00:25:19.029
  • Right now that will take me all the way to heaven."
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  • Ed: do you know what our home in heaven will be like?
  • 00:25:25.135 --> 00:25:28.606
  • The truth is, most christians don't really know much about the
  • 00:25:28.606 --> 00:25:31.575
  • Place we'll call home for all eternity.
  • 00:25:31.575 --> 00:25:34.845
  • As a result, they miss out on the joy and encouragement that
  • 00:25:34.845 --> 00:25:38.782
  • An understanding of heaven can give us.
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  • I want to help you know your future home better by sending
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  • You a booklet entitled, "heaven."
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  • In these pages you'll find an empowering new perspective of
  • 00:25:48.826 --> 00:25:52.463
  • The heaven that awaits you and me as children of god.
  • 00:25:52.463 --> 00:25:56.634
  • And my prayer is that this future assurance will give us
  • 00:25:56.634 --> 00:25:59.903
  • Confidence to live boldly in the 21st century.
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  • I'll send you a copy of "heaven" as a thanks for your gift of
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  • Support for this ministry.
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  • When you give to "the winning walk," you become a part of this
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  • Family, and nothing is more exciting to know that those who
  • 00:26:14.051 --> 00:26:17.888
  • Are in christ understand that in heaven we'll feel more at home
  • 00:26:17.888 --> 00:26:23.293
  • There than we do at any time and any place as we live on this
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  • Earth.
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  • So, thank you for standing with us, for making this broadcast
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  • Possible as it goes around the world, telling people how to
  • 00:26:32.236 --> 00:26:36.774
  • Know christ and have confidence of the future which can be
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  • Understood by understanding heaven.
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