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00:01 What does the future hold?
00:02 Where can we find certainty in a world of uncertainty? 00:05 The Book of Revelation provides hopeful answers for today, 00:09 tomorrow and forever. 00:11 Join Mark Finley, 00:12 author and world renowned speaker 00:14 on a journey into the future 00:16 with Revelation's Ancient Discoveries. 00:24 Welcome to Revelation's Ancient Discoveries. 00:27 When you begin reading the Bible 00:29 in the Book of Genesis, 00:31 in Genesis 1 and 2 we've got a perfect world, 00:34 but then there is the sad drama of sin, 00:37 the fall of Adam and Eve. 00:39 And throughout the Bible men and women 00:41 who go along for a new world, and when the Bible ends 00:44 in Revelation 21 and 22, God reveals that new world, 00:49 that new world blossoms forth 00:51 in all its beauty and magnificence 00:54 and the reign of sin is over. 00:56 In this presentation, 00:58 we're going to look at Revelation 01:00 and the final conflict between good and evil, 01:04 and its climax with the triumph of Christ 01:07 in the glories of heaven. 01:08 Let's pray. 01:09 Father in heaven, we thank You so much 01:12 that You're in charge of this world, 01:13 sometime we only see the ugliness, 01:16 we see the dark side, 01:18 but we know the light is bursting forth, 01:20 soon Christ will come. 01:22 And one day soon time will fade into eternity, 01:26 so grant to us a vision of hope 01:30 as we study Your new world in Christ's name, 01:33 amen. 01:35 Our topic in this presentation 01:37 is Revelation's World of Tomorrow. 01:41 You know a survey was taken not long ago 01:44 on people's attitudes toward heaven. 01:47 And one man said this. 01:49 He said, "Heaven-man, that's pie in the sky. 01:53 Out there somewhere, it's unreal, 01:56 I just can't fathom it." 01:58 Somebody else put it this way. 02:00 Heaven is a state of mind, it's an inner peace, 02:04 it's a state of calm. 02:06 Somebody else said, "Heaven, it's my house. 02:09 It's worth three million. 02:11 My chariot that's my Jaguar and the angels, 02:15 they are my kids." 02:16 Now I don't know about if you'd say 02:18 your angels are your kids or not, you know, 02:20 but I don't know if your house is worth three million either. 02:23 But you see people have this distorted idea about heaven. 02:28 One young millennial said this, "Heaven is... 02:32 Are you so out of touch 02:35 that you still believe in those fairy tales?" 02:38 A couple who had gotten older said, 02:41 "We hope heaven is a real place. 02:43 You see the older we get the more we long for it. 02:47 We just hope 02:49 that what we're taught in our childhood is true." 02:53 You know when you look at the subject of heaven, 02:57 there is so many different ideas, 02:59 so many different ways that people understand heaven, 03:03 but yet the Bible is very clear. 03:06 What is heaven? Is heaven a real place? 03:09 Will we have real bodies? 03:11 Will we know one another in heaven? 03:14 What'll we do through the ceaseless ages of eternity? 03:17 Will we sit on a cloud, and play a harp, 03:21 and simply float through the cosmic atmosphere? 03:28 What really is heaven all about? 03:31 What really is heaven like? 03:33 Now this as among other subjects, 03:36 truth is stranger than fiction. 03:39 Heaven is more magnificent, it's more glorious, 03:42 it's more exciting, more thrilling, more real 03:46 than we could ever imagine. 03:49 Heaven is a real place. 03:50 Now the key to understanding heaven 03:53 is to understand Revelation 21. 03:55 And Revelation 21:1 says, 03:58 "Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, 04:02 for the first heaven and the first earth 04:05 are passed away." 04:06 Here is the key to understanding heaven 04:10 that God created the world once in its Edenic splendor. 04:14 And that one day God is going to recreate again 04:18 this Edenic splendor on earth. 04:20 In fact, you remember what Jesus said in Matthew 5, 04:24 He said, "The meek shall inherit the earth." 04:27 And so, if you understand 04:29 that heaven is not some fantasy world, 04:32 heaven is not some make believe world, 04:34 heaven is not some world of dreams, 04:38 but heaven is a real place. 04:40 It is a recreated earth that you and I will live on. 04:45 Now each of the prophets from Genesis to Revelation 04:49 pointed men and women forward 04:52 to the new heavens and the new earth. 04:54 When God created the world, He created it beautiful, 04:58 the Garden of Eden. 05:00 What is heaven? 05:01 It's heaven, it's Eden restored, 05:04 it's the world recreated in Edenic splendor. 05:08 Once again clear crystal water will flow, 05:12 once again the birds will sing, 05:15 babbling brooks will dance through the landscape. 05:19 Once again the sky will be blue and the sun will shine, 05:22 and there will be green verge on the hillside. 05:27 As you look at this world, we see pollution, 05:30 but in that world of Eden the fruit was pure, 05:34 uncontaminated, no pesticides, no GMOs, 05:40 you know, it was a natural diet 05:42 that God gave to us in the beginning, 05:45 and the trees were so amazingly loaded with fruit 05:49 that they were bowed over, 05:51 and Adam and Eve lived off the products of the land. 05:55 Animals didn't have any fear of human beings in that land, 06:00 the elephant and the horse, the zebra and the lion, 06:05 all the animals together were joyous and happy. 06:09 And Adam and Eve experience that joy 06:13 as Jesus taught them about the garden. 06:16 There was love, and joy, and companionship. 06:19 It's difficult for us to imagine really, isn't it 06:22 what heaven will be like? 06:24 And it's difficult for us to imagine what Eden was like? 06:27 When you think about it, 06:28 living in a land where there is no fear, 06:31 living in a land where there's no worry, 06:33 living in a land where there's no anxiety, 06:36 living in a land where there's no pain, 06:38 where there's no suffering, 06:40 where there's no death, no flower dies, 06:43 no fruit rots, no babies are born dead, 06:47 no bombs drop, 06:49 no children with their legs blown off 06:51 because they've stepped on a landmine. 06:53 You know, you just try to grasp that, 06:55 you just try to think about that. 06:57 And what must it have been like for Adam and Eve 07:01 to walk through Eden with the perfumed air, 07:05 no air pollution, and breathing the flowers, 07:07 just so energetic and eating the fruit 07:10 so health giving and never in argument disappointment. 07:15 But then the Bible says, 07:17 "That an intruder suggested to Eve 07:19 that sin would bring greater happiness than obedience." 07:22 And she bought into that lie and when she did, 07:26 and gave the fruit to Adam, and he ate, 07:29 the sad drama of sin began. 07:34 And as it began, heartache and suffering, disappointment, 07:39 and tears and pain entered in to the human family, 07:44 in the human race. 07:45 Adam and Eve were expelled from that garden. 07:49 But down through the ages, men and women, 07:52 the prophets of God were part of the royal line of faith. 07:56 They looked forward to the day 08:00 that there'd be a new heavens and a new earth. 08:02 They look forward to the day that Eden would be restored. 08:06 And God has put that desire in every one of our hearts. 08:09 Watching this telecast today, 08:11 you know, that we're made for something better than this. 08:16 You read the headlines and you see 08:17 a terrorist break into a church, 08:20 and begin going pew by pew shooting people, 08:24 and you see a seven-month-old baby 08:27 with bullets in its head killed in the arms of a mother, 08:32 you see a pregnant woman shot, 08:34 you see young people shot and retiree shot. 08:37 Or you turn on the news and you hear 08:39 about terrible conflict in the Middle East, 08:42 and a child steps on a landmine, 08:44 and blows off its legs, and lies bleeding to death. 08:49 And you read in the newspaper about a drunk man 08:52 that comes home and beats his wife, 08:54 and her nose is broken, and blood drips down, 08:57 and she wipes it with her tongue. 08:59 And you read about India or Africa 09:03 and children starving to death and what happens? 09:06 Deep within your heart you know that's not right. 09:09 Deep within your heart you know 09:11 we were made for a better world than this. 09:14 We were made for something better than poverty, 09:17 made for something better than suffering, 09:20 made for something better than heartache, 09:22 made for something better than pain, 09:25 made for something better than death. 09:27 And the royal line of faith down through the centuries, 09:31 generation after generation 09:33 look forward to that better world. 09:35 Abraham looked forward to it. 09:37 The Bible says in Hebrews 11:12, 09:40 "For he, Abraham, waited for the city 09:43 which has foundations, 09:44 whose builder and maker is God." 09:47 As he journeyed through this world, 09:49 Abraham cried out for a new world. 09:53 Moses brought up a child of Egypt 09:57 and the Bible says, 09:58 Hebrews 11:24-26, "By faith Moses, 10:02 when he became of age, 10:04 refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 10:08 choosing rather to suffer affliction 10:10 with the people of God 10:11 than to enjoy the pleasures of sin, 10:14 for a season, 10:16 esteeming the reproach of Christ 10:18 greater than the treasures of Egypt..." 10:20 What did he do? "He looked to the reward." 10:23 Why is it that Moses could step out 10:26 of the Egyptian luxury and pleasure? 10:28 Because he looked for the reward, 10:30 he was looking toward heaven. 10:32 In the Bible ends, Hebrews 11:13 and 14 10:37 with these words, 10:38 "These all died in faith, 10:41 not having received the promises," what promises? 10:45 The promise of eternal life, the promise of heaven. 10:48 "But having seen them afar off were assured of them, 10:53 they embraced them and confessed them 10:56 that they were strangers 10:57 and pilgrims on the earth." 11:00 You and I are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 11:03 You're walking, you're going shopping one day 11:06 at one of the great grocery stores, 11:07 you get out of your car and you see a friend, 11:09 and they say, "Where you going?" 11:11 And you say, "Well, I'm on my way to heaven, 11:12 I'm just a pilgrim, a stranger stopping off 11:14 to get a little food here." 11:16 Now you better not say 11:17 that someone could think you're crazy, right? 11:19 But it's really true, isn't it? We are what? 11:21 We are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. 11:25 This is not our home. 11:27 This is not our permanent dwelling place. 11:31 We are here for a short momentarily minute of time. 11:35 Hebrews 11:13 and 14, "For those who say such things 11:39 declare plainly that they seek a homeland." 11:43 Whoever you are watching this telecast, 11:46 I know that you're seeking a homeland. 11:48 You're seeking something better than we have. 11:52 You're seeking a place where love reigns. 11:54 You're seeking a place where joy reigns. 11:56 You're seeking a place in eternity 11:59 where we'll never fear death again, 12:01 a place where every talent can be expanded 12:04 and every capacity can be developed, 12:06 a place where we can travel from star to star 12:09 and to world to world 12:11 and explore the vast technologies of civilizations 12:15 that have never fallen by sin. 12:17 In Hebrews 11:16, it says, "But now they desire a better, 12:21 that is, a heavenly country." 12:23 There is something better than this, what do you say? 12:25 Something better than aging, something better than death, 12:28 something better than sorrow, something better than tears. 12:31 The Bible says, "They desire something better, 12:34 something better, a heavenly country." 12:37 Hebrews 11:6, "Therefore God is not ashamed 12:40 to be called their God, 12:41 for He has prepared a city for them." 12:45 Whatever struggle you go through in life, 12:48 whatever sorrow you go through in life, 12:50 whatever pain you go through in life, 12:52 here is what keeps us going. 12:55 God has prepared for us something better. 12:59 God has prepared something beyond our wildest dreams, 13:02 something beyond our fondest imagination, 13:05 something beyond what is. 13:08 He takes us beyond time to eternity, 13:10 beyond the sin of this world to the glory of the next world. 13:15 1 Corinthians 2:9 puts it this way, 13:18 "But as it is written: Eye has not seen, 13:22 nor ear heard, 13:23 nor have entered into the heart of man 13:26 the things that God has prepared 13:28 for those who love Him." 13:30 Whatever scene you've ever seen, 13:32 the most magnificent sunset, 13:34 God's artistry is far better, 13:37 the most fantastic field or garden 13:39 with all these multi colored flowers in it, 13:42 reds, and purples, and greens, and yellows. 13:44 God has something more fantastic 13:47 more that eyes have ever seen, more than ear has ever heard. 13:51 Have you ever been to a concert, 13:53 maybe a classical concert of Mozart or Beethoven, 13:57 you sit back just amazed. 13:59 Maybe you go on to the Hallelujah Chorus 14:02 and you sit there 14:04 "King of kings and Lord of lords" 14:06 and you sit there at Handel's Messiah, 14:10 and you just are thrilled. 14:12 But the Bible says, 14:13 "Eye has not seen or ear have heard the things 14:17 that God has prepared for those who love Him." 14:19 You think you've seen music down here, 14:20 wait till you hear heavenly music, 14:22 the heavenly choirs, the heavenly orchestras, 14:23 just fantastic. 14:25 You think you have seen the beauty 14:27 of artistry down here. 14:29 Wait till you see what God has prepared. 14:31 Probably though, 14:33 the most significant thing that we're going to experience 14:35 in heaven is the depth of love. 14:37 You know, every human being has been created for love. 14:41 And a couple has a baby and as they have that baby, 14:45 they hold their first child in their hand 14:49 and they just express such love for that child. 14:53 But that love is just a miniature of the love 14:58 that we would experience in the new heavens 15:01 and the new earth. 15:02 Or think of the love, or the bondedness, 15:04 the fellowship that friends have. 15:06 When you and I fellowship in heaven, 15:09 we will have love beyond human capacity. 15:13 There will be a capacity to love 15:16 that we do not experience now. 15:18 You think you love your children now, 15:20 you think you love your husband or wife now, 15:23 when we are living in that new earth 15:25 without these bodies of selfishness... 15:28 You know Jeremiah 79 says, 15:30 "The heart is deceitful above all things 15:33 and desperately wicked." 15:35 So sin narrows our capacity to love, 15:38 sin shrinks our capacity to love, 15:41 sin dumps down that capacity to love. 15:45 So whatever capacity that we have to love now 15:47 is very, very small. 15:49 But in heaven, 15:50 we're going to have this huge capacity to love 15:52 that is going to be incredibly amazing. 15:55 And we will love in ways that we never know 15:58 and experience love in ways that we never know. 16:01 Heaven, fellowship is indeed 16:05 the closer than any fellowship on earth. 16:08 And think of the fellowship 16:09 we're going to have with angels, 16:11 and think of the joy we're going to have with Jesus, 16:13 and think of the love and the peace 16:16 we're going to experience. 16:18 There will be no feeling like the feeling 16:21 and no emotion like the emotion, 16:24 no sentiment like the sentiment 16:26 of being embraced by God, 16:28 of being loved by Jesus, about having Jesus 16:32 put His arm around us and say, 16:33 "My child, I am so happy that you're here in eternity. 16:38 My death on the cross was for you. 16:41 Heaven's fellowship is going to be closer 16:44 than anything we can imagine." 16:46 Let's go to the Book of Revelation 21:2 16:51 and see just how these last day events 16:56 at the end of the 1,000 year millennial period will resume, 17:02 "Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, 17:06 coming down from God out of heaven, 17:08 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." 17:13 John says I looked up and as I looked up, 17:16 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, 17:20 coming down from God out of heaven. 17:23 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 17:26 "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men 17:29 and He will be with them and they shall be His people 17:33 and He shall be their God." 17:35 Here is a cosmic announcement. 17:37 You know I love the way it's put 17:39 in Revelation 21, 17:43 and here in the last book of the Bible, 17:46 Revelation 21 puts it this way. 17:50 Revelation 21, it says, 17:55 "Behold, I saw a new heavens and a new earth 17:59 and a great voice out of heaven saying, 18:02 'The holy city descends from heaven.'" 18:05 Now notice, hears a great voice out of heaven. 18:07 Here is a solemn announcement. 18:10 Here is an announcement that goes 18:13 and echoes through the whole universe 18:15 of the great voice out of heaven says, 18:18 "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men." 18:21 What's the tabernacle of God? 18:23 In the ancient tabernacle, 18:25 this is where the dwelling place of God was, 18:28 this is where the Shekinah glory of God was. 18:31 Now the tabernacle of God, 18:33 the cosmic control center of all the universe, 18:36 the tabernacle of God descends from heaven to earth. 18:41 And there is an announcement that goes out 18:42 before the whole universe, God is moving. 18:45 You see, now, our solar system goes in circular 18:51 and it is revolving around other solar systems. 18:55 And you know in the Milky Way Galaxy, 18:57 there're about a 100 billion 19:00 rather 100 million other galaxies, 19:02 billions and billions of stars. 19:05 And when you look at the universe, 19:08 it's all revolving and it's all revolving 19:11 around some cosmic center, 19:13 one galaxy, the next galaxy, the next galaxy 19:17 all in motion thousands 19:19 and tens of thousands of miles an hour 19:22 in vast limitless space. 19:26 But yet they revolve around a cosmic control center 19:31 and that cosmic control center is the throne of God. 19:34 And what's going to happen, the holy city? 19:36 God's going to move, 19:38 the whole center of the universe 19:39 is going to move 19:40 and God's going to take this sin-pocked world, 19:43 this polluted world, this planet rebellion. 19:46 He's going to make it over again 19:48 and He's going to bring His holy city down here, 19:50 and the whole geographical center 19:53 of the universe is going to change, 19:55 and this remade earth 19:56 is going to be the new center of the universe 19:59 with the tabernacle of God, 20:01 and you and I are going to be princes and princesses. 20:04 We've got royal blood in our veins, 20:06 and we're going to travel from star to star 20:08 and from planet to planet, 20:10 telling the story of His goodness and His love. 20:13 God has something amazing plan for you, my friend, 20:16 that holy city will descend, 20:18 God is going to move, 20:20 and this earth will be the center 20:22 of a new cosmic universe, 20:25 and you and I will be 20:26 part of the honor convoy of heaven. 20:29 The Bible tells about that holy city, 20:31 Revelation 21:14, 20:33 "Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, 20:37 and on them where the names 20:38 of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." 20:40 Wait a minute, hold it here. 20:43 Did God make a mistake? 20:45 Whose names are on there? 20:46 The 12 apostles, 20:48 the 12 apostles on the 12 foundations. 20:52 I mean, one of those apostles was Peter and he denied Jesus. 20:56 And one of those apostles was James and John, 20:59 and they had these evil tempers. 21:01 And one was Matthew who was so exacting, 21:04 and one was Philip and Andrea, 21:06 you didn't know what they were thinking, 21:07 they didn't say much. 21:09 I mean who were those people whose names were on the gates? 21:14 They were sinners, 21:16 redeemed by the grace of Christ. 21:18 They were men just and people just like you and just like me. 21:24 Why does God put their names on the foundation? 21:28 Why does God put above the gates 21:30 the names of the children of Israel, 21:33 like Issachar and Manasseh? 21:35 And do you look at those names 21:37 of the children of Israel, Reuben, 21:39 they could have been tried in a court of law 21:43 for robbery, thievery, adultery, murder, 21:47 but yet their names are on the gates, why? 21:49 Why the apostles, the names on the foundations? 21:52 Because God is saying to you and me, 21:54 if they can make it so can you. 21:56 What God is really saying 21:57 is that these followers of Christ 21:58 were people with their faults, but their names 22:01 are on the foundations of the holy city, 22:03 the apostles, the names of the nations Israel 22:06 and the names above the gates, why? 22:08 Because God is saying to you, don't give up. 22:11 God is saying to you, hang on. 22:13 God is saying to you, 22:15 if their names can be on those gates, 22:17 if they were redeemed by the grace of Christ, 22:19 justified by the blood of Christ, 22:22 forgiven by the blood of Christ, 22:24 delivered from condemnation by the blood of Christ, 22:27 if they were sanctified by the blood of Christ, 22:29 if they were transformed by the blood of Christ, 22:31 the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, 22:35 "If any man or woman is in Christ, 22:37 they are a new creation. 22:39 Old things are passed away 22:41 and all things have become new." 22:44 Jesus was saying, if they were there, 22:46 you can be there too. 22:48 God is saying to us, if they can make it, 22:51 you can make it too. 22:52 Hold on, brother, hold on, sister, 22:55 this is no time for giving up, 22:57 this is no time for dropping out. 22:59 Somebody, somebody is watching this telecast, 23:03 and you are thinking, 23:04 "The journey is long, the mountain's high, 23:08 the road's rough. 23:09 I'm going to give up, 23:11 I'm going to throw in the towel, 23:12 Christianity is not worth it." 23:13 And Jesus is saying to you, "Hang on." 23:15 Jesus is saying to you, "You can make it." 23:18 Jesus is saying to you, "I'm going to be by your side, 23:20 I'm going to support you. 23:22 You can live in this holy city. 23:24 You can be with me travel from star to star 23:26 and planet to planet. 23:28 You can give your witness of my redeeming grace." 23:31 Now the Bible tells about the city, 23:33 Revelation 21:16, 23:34 "The city is laid out as a square, 23:37 its length is as great as its breath." 23:40 The Bible goes on, 23:41 you see Heaven's goal 23:43 as the Bible as it describes the city. 23:45 You see, heaven's goal is to get as many people 23:48 in this city as possible. 23:50 Now there is something unusual about this city 23:54 that we just read about that has a square. 23:57 When you excavate as an archaeologist, 24:00 when you excavate ancient cities in Israel, 24:04 most of those cities have very few gates, 24:08 maybe two gates, 24:10 maybe three gates, very few gates. 24:14 Why do you think 24:16 that the ancient cities had so few gates? 24:19 Do you have any idea why? 24:21 Because gates would allow the enemy access to that city. 24:27 So you have very few gates 24:29 because if you have a lot of gates, 24:30 you got to guard a lot of gates with your armies. 24:33 So the ancient cities would have few gates. 24:36 But you know what? 24:37 God's city has more than a few gates. 24:42 The holy city has not one gate, not two gates, not three gates, 24:47 how many gates does the holy city have everybody? 24:50 Twelve. Why twelve? 24:51 Because God wants to get people in, 24:52 He doesn't want to get people out. 24:54 Now more, it says the city is like a what? 24:57 What do we read in the text? 24:58 The city is like a square, so four sides, 25:03 three gates on the North, three gates on the East, 25:05 three gates on the South, three gates on the West. 25:08 Three in the Bible is a symbol of the trinity, 25:12 the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 25:14 Four in the Bible is a symbol of universality. 25:17 So what does God say? 25:19 Three gates on the East, everybody in the east 25:21 or you from Asia, or you from China, 25:23 there's room for you, come in. 25:25 Three gates on the South, 25:26 all you from the southern hemisphere, 25:27 the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit saying, 25:29 "Come on in, there's room for you." 25:31 Three gates on the West, 25:32 "Are you from the West, you come on in." 25:34 Three gates on the North, 25:35 "Oh, you from the northern hemisphere, 25:37 North America, Canada, you all come in." 25:40 What is God saying 25:41 in the architecture of the holy city? 25:44 He is saying there is a gate for you, it's open for you, 25:48 you come in to that city. 25:50 The 12 gates were 12 pearls, 25:53 each individual gate was a pearl. 25:55 Jesus Christ is the pearl of great price. 25:57 And Jesus is saying 25:58 through the very architecture of the gates, 26:01 My perfect life as a translucent pearl 26:05 invites you to receive 26:07 My grace and My love and My righteousness, 26:09 the gates of heaven are open for you. 26:11 Here's an incredible good news, my friend, 26:13 The gates of heaven are not shut. 26:16 The gates of heaven are not shut. 26:18 The gates of heaven are open for you. 26:20 Eternity is open for you. 26:22 God has prepared something for you 26:25 beyond what you could ever imagine. 26:28 The Bible describes the city, Revelation 21:21, 26:31 "God's not poor, 26:33 the street of the city was pure gold 26:35 like transparent glass." 26:37 Somebody says, wait a minute, 26:39 that's a waste to make streets of gold. 26:41 It's not a waste 26:42 because you're that important to God. 26:44 It's not a waste because He has everything. 26:46 It's not a waste because He owns the world. 26:49 You see God Himself 26:52 says, there is nothing too little to give you. 26:56 He loves you so much that He paved streets with gold 27:00 just to show you how much He cares and you're worth. 27:03 Whoever you are, 27:05 you can make it through one of those gates. 27:07 Whoever you are, you can walk through those gates. 27:10 Whoever you are, 27:12 you can live in heaven with Him 27:14 through all eternity. 27:15 Now He measures the city and He measures with the reed, 27:18 and it's 12,000 furlongs. 27:20 Now that's a little difficult 27:22 for our modern minds to comprehend, 27:25 we don't measure things in furlongs. 27:28 A furlong was about an 8th of a mile, 27:31 12,000 furlongs is about 1500 miles. 27:35 So the city is about 375 miles on a side. 27:39 Now somebody says, "Wait a minute, 27:41 "You gonna be able to fit everybody in that city." 27:44 Well, if you got to see 375 miles on a side 27:47 and that you know if you just build 27:49 on the horizontal you can fill, 27:51 put millions, and millions, and millions 27:53 of people in the city. 27:54 I mean you take for example New York City 27:56 is just 20 miles across not even in a square. 28:00 And you've got, you know, 15 to 20 million people there. 28:03 So you get a city 375 miles on one side. 28:05 Don't worry about it, 28:07 you've got millions and millions of people. 28:08 But look, God can build multiple stories. 28:11 God can built in the sky if He needs to. 28:14 And not only will we have city homes 28:16 but we got the whole new earth, 28:18 we'll have country homes, don't worry about it. 28:20 There's enough room for you, my brother, 28:22 there's enough room for you, my sister. 28:24 God is something incredibly prepared, 28:26 its length, and breadth, and height are equal. 28:28 Now there's another one that's interesting, 28:30 its length and breadth, you know, 375 miles on a side, 28:32 but its height is equal. 28:34 In other words, the city is so amazing, 28:36 it goes 375 miles up in the sky. 28:39 You say I can't figure that out. 28:40 I can't either, but don't worry about it, 28:42 it's still true because God set it, right? 28:44 So this city is going to be so incredible, 28:46 it's going to be so amazing, far beyond. 28:50 What was our text that we read, 28:51 eye has not seen nor ear heard anything 28:55 that God has prepared for those that love you 28:57 far beyond our wildest imaginations. 29:00 No artist can paint a picture of it. 29:02 No musician can describe it in music, 29:06 beyond what you can even think or imagine, 29:09 it's beyond your wildest dreams, 29:11 the beauty, the joy of this new heavens 29:15 and new earth, the beauty of Eden made over again. 29:20 Isaiah 35 puts it this way, 29:23 "The wilderness and the wasteland 29:25 shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice 29:30 and blossom as a rose." 29:32 Just think of the beautiful flowers, 29:35 the perfumed air, 29:37 the beauty of Eden will be restored, 29:40 everything that brings joy, 29:43 everything that brings gladness walking down those paths, 29:47 smelling the magnificence of the flowers, 29:50 looking at their reds, and the pinks, and the yellows 29:54 and the oranges, and the greens, 29:57 nothing that we could possibly see 30:00 or imagine here on earth, 30:02 the most beautiful garden would ever hold a candle, 30:06 ever be a small reflection of the beauties of heaven. 30:10 What do our physical condition be on this new earth? 30:14 Will I kind of float by on a cloud 30:17 and be some kind of ethereal fantasy being 30:22 and will I go beep, beep 30:24 and my wife flow by another cloud 30:26 and she'll go beep, beep and I'll say, 30:28 "Is that you, Darling, 30:29 over there in that kind of cloudy figure?" 30:32 Will we know one another in heaven? 30:35 What will heaven be like? 30:36 The Bible helps us, Philippians 3:20 and 21, 30:40 "For our citizenship," that's where we really belong, 30:43 "is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait 30:47 for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 30:49 who will transform our lowly body." 30:52 So our bodies are corrupt with sin, 30:55 they are mortal bodies, they are lowly bodies, 30:58 subject to disease and death 31:00 that it may be conformed to His glorious body. 31:04 When Jesus lived on earth, did He have a real body? 31:09 Was Jesus hungry at times? 31:12 Did Jesus get tired at times? 31:15 When the nails were driven through Jesus' hands, 31:18 where those real hands? 31:20 Did His hands really experienced pain? 31:22 When they put the crown of thorns 31:23 on His head, was it real? 31:25 So Jesus had a real body. 31:27 When He came out of the grave in the resurrected body, 31:31 was that body different? 31:33 It was a glorified body 31:34 that could not experience aging, 31:36 it could not experience hunger or pain. 31:40 So Jesus had a glorious body, what does the Bible say? 31:43 It says that Christ will transform our lowly body 31:48 that it may be conformed to His glorious body. 31:51 So Christ has this glorious resurrected immortal body. 31:57 When He walked with the disciples 32:00 on the road to Emmaus and as He walked with them, 32:06 He had a real body. 32:07 He talked with them, He fellowshipped with them. 32:10 The Bible says, "That their eyes were hold in 32:13 that they didn't recognize Him." 32:15 But when they came that evening to sit down 32:19 and Jesus broke the bread 32:21 that they would all share together. 32:24 Now evidently, Jesus in His immortal body 32:28 still enjoy the eating of food, 32:30 we will too in our immortal bodies. 32:32 So, but when Jesus broke that bread, 32:36 He had unique mannerisms. 32:38 Nobody broke the bread like Jesus. 32:41 And as He broke that bread, they recognized Christ 32:44 at that moment by His unique mannerisms. 32:47 Do you remember also that in the garden 32:51 after Christ's resurrection, Mary comes to Jesus, 32:55 and at first through the mist she does not recognize Him, 32:58 she thinks He's the gardener, and Jesus says, "Mary, Mary, 33:04 and as He calls her name 33:06 nobody could speak her name like that." 33:08 Jesus knew her name. 33:12 She recognized His voice. 33:14 So Jesus was recognized in His glorious body 33:17 by His unique mannerisms, 33:19 He was recognized in His glorious body 33:21 by His voice. 33:22 And you remember, He descended into the room 33:25 where the disciples were met as they were praying, 33:28 they were afraid of the Jews the Bible says, 33:30 and they recognized His physical form. 33:34 So Jesus was recognized 33:35 by these three things in heaven. 33:38 Will we recognize one another? Sure. 33:41 Jesus doesn't want to redeem or save some spirit being, 33:46 He wants you, He created you 33:48 with the uniqueness of your personality. 33:50 And although sin will be gone, you'll still remain 33:53 that is the special one that Christ created. 33:58 Your personality will remain, 34:00 the uniqueness or your mannerisms will remain, 34:03 you will have this amazing body that is immortal 34:06 will recognize one another by our unique mannerisms, 34:10 by our voice intonations, 34:11 by our individual personalities, 34:14 it will be incredible 34:16 as you and I see one another as we were meant to be. 34:19 You know husband, 34:21 you may think your wife is beautiful now, 34:23 but wait till you see her like she would have been 34:27 if she never were defiled by sin at all. 34:30 You know, some people say to me, 34:32 "Well, look I'm going to buy this magic formula, 34:35 I'm going to put this wrinkle cream on my face 34:38 and I'll never get a wrinkle." 34:39 Well, my dear sister, 34:41 you can put as much on as you want 34:43 if it makes you feel better, 34:44 but you're going to a place where you're going to be remade 34:47 and you will not have one wrinkle. 34:49 And you know some guys that are getting little older 34:51 like me and they bend over say, "Oh, my back." 34:53 You know, here's what the definition of aging is. 34:55 You bend over to tie your shoe 34:57 and you say what else can I do when I'm down here. 34:59 You see, that's the definition of aging, you see. 35:03 And, you know, but when God recreates you, 35:07 no wrinkle cream you're going to need. 35:09 You're not going to need any back adjustments 35:12 crack, crack, crack. 35:13 You know, they adjust your back. 35:15 You're not going to need to worry when you bend over 35:17 and no more arthritis or rheumatism, 35:20 but we are going to grow into the beauty 35:23 of what we were meant to be when we were created by God 35:26 in the Garden of Eden. 35:27 You think your husband is muscular now man. 35:30 Wait till you see him in the glorious 35:32 of the new heaven and the new earth. 35:34 You see the Bible says the first dominion, 35:36 this is Micah 4:8, 35:37 "The first dominion will be restored, 35:40 and God is going to bring us 35:42 to that new heavens and the new earth." 35:44 Everything we would have been, everything we could have been, 35:47 everything we should have been, 35:49 the physical bodies that we could have had, 35:52 the minds that we could have had. 35:54 You know, 35:56 it is the intelligence of a person 35:58 is determined by the forebrain. 36:01 You know, the brain is about three and a half pounds 36:02 of rubbery grey substance and in the forebrain 36:05 we have our brain cells. 36:06 You know the brain has about a hundred... 36:09 I used to say 14 billion 36:10 until I talk to a neurophysiologist. 36:14 You know, we got billions and billions of brain cells, 36:16 we don't even know how many. 36:18 And when you look at the brain, 36:19 the forebrain determines intelligence or IQ, 36:22 and the brains in our body may be three and half pounds. 36:26 But look, think about Adam, 36:29 what about Adam, when he wasn't defiled with sin. 36:31 How tall could he have been? 36:33 Maybe twice as tall, little more than we are today. 36:36 What kind of brain would he have 36:37 if our brains are three and a half pounds 36:40 and if somebody has an IQ of 120, 115-120 36:44 they say maybe that's average, 130 that's bright, 36:46 140, that's off the chart, 150-160 that's genius. 36:50 Well, they got these three and a half pounds 36:52 of rubbery grey stuff, 36:53 this is a little brain, with the brain cells. 36:55 You know how big Adam's brain probably was, 36:58 if he was twice as tall as men living, 37:00 his brain was probably 25 pounds. 37:03 That means that his IQ 37:05 would have been probably a 1,000 or 1,200... 37:07 I mean the intelligence is so vastly 37:10 greater than ours. 37:12 Now if Adam was twice as tall as men living 37:14 you know we had a scientist and he took 37:17 a little slide really and he computed it. 37:19 Adam's average gait, 37:21 average gait of walking 37:23 if he's twice as tall as men living 37:24 could be about 25 miles an hour, 37:26 that's his average gait of walking. 37:29 I mean, look, we have no comprehension 37:32 of what God has in store for us. 37:36 Isaiah 33:24, "The inhabitant will not say, 37:41 'I am sick,' the people who dwell in it 37:43 will be forgiven their iniquity." 37:46 No more stomachaches, no more headaches, 37:49 no more backaches, no more knee aches, 37:51 the inhabitant will not say, I am what everybody? 37:54 Sick. 37:55 What is it going to be like to live in a world 37:58 where there is no sickness? 38:01 The eyes of the blind will be opened. 38:04 The ears of the deaf will be unstopped. 38:07 The eyes of the blind opened. 38:09 You know, for many years 38:11 my wife and I would visit a hospital 38:15 that was especially for the physically handicapped, 38:18 and would often go there, 38:19 and teach Bible, and there were those who as... 38:22 I remember Doris, 38:23 she was blind and could not see, 38:26 she was paralyzed 38:28 and couldn't use her hands or feet, 38:31 all she could do is hear, 38:32 and we would sing a song to her and say, 38:34 "You can smile when you can't say a word, 38:36 you can smile when you cannot be heard, 38:38 you can smile anytime, anywhere." 38:39 And Doris would smile, you know. 38:41 I remember little Jimmy, 38:43 he came in to our Bible classes on a board with wheels, 38:47 he had no legs and he pulled himself 38:49 along the floor in these wheels. 38:51 And I remember Joanie, 38:52 she was paralyzed from her neck down, 38:55 couldn't use her hands, 38:57 she had polio when 1948 she got Bulbar polio, 39:01 was the longest living person in an iron and lung. 39:04 She would lie in that iron and lung, 39:05 and put her Bible above her head, 39:07 and turn the pages with her tongue, 39:09 and she had memorized large passages of the Bible. 39:13 And I'd visit her, and she'd say, 39:14 "Pastor Mark, I'm studying the Bible with 21 people." 39:18 And I'd have them filling out the lessons, 39:19 they're over there in the third drawer, 39:21 pull out the lessons and read me the questions 39:23 and the answers, and I'll tell you 39:24 if they're right 39:26 because she had memorized everything. 39:27 Just amazing, she refused to be down on herself, 39:31 refused to be sympathetic for herself. 39:34 She was this woman with this indomitable, 39:36 courageous spirit. 39:38 And I remember we would go there and I'd say, 39:40 "What do you want me to teach in Bible class today?" 39:44 They would say, "Pastor, teach us about heaven, 39:47 teach us about the time that the eyes of the blind 39:49 will be open, the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. 39:51 Pastor, teach us about heaven." 39:52 I say, "Well, didn't I teach about that last week? 39:55 Didn't I teach about that..." 39:56 They said, "Pastor, teach us more 39:58 because we forgot." 40:00 So often we forget. 40:02 We forget the glories of heaven. 40:05 We forget the reality of eternity. 40:08 We forget that we're simply pilgrims here 40:11 but that God has something incredibly better for us. 40:14 The Bible says, 40:15 "The lame shall leap like a deer, 40:17 the tongue of the dumb will sing." 40:20 Just think of what it's going to be like, 40:22 the eyes of the blind's open, 40:23 the ears of the deaf unstopped, 40:25 the lame leaping and joyously running 40:27 through the glorious fields and flowers of heaven. 40:31 There is joy and happiness everywhere. 40:34 No crying children, no children crying out for food, 40:39 no children whose parents have died 40:42 and are orphans because all of us there 40:45 will be part of the larger family of heaven. 40:47 All of us there will be in a society 40:50 where love reigns. 40:52 The Bible says, Revelation 21:4, 40:54 "God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, 40:57 there shall be no more death nor sorrow, nor crying." 41:02 God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 41:04 There may be a pain in your heart today, my friend, 41:06 there may be sorrow in your life today, 41:09 but God is going to wipe away every tear from their eyes. 41:15 There will be no more pain, for the former things 41:18 are passed away, even the memory of heartache, 41:22 even the memory of sorrow, 41:25 even the memory of pain will be gone, 41:29 death a thing of the past, 41:31 sorrow a thing of the past, crying a thing of the past, 41:35 pain a thing of the past forever gone, forever gone. 41:39 The Bible says, Revelation 22:1, 41:41 "He showed me a pure river of water of life, 41:43 clear as crystal, 41:45 proceeding from the throne of God 41:47 and from the lamb. 41:48 In the middle of its street 41:50 and on either side of the river, 41:51 was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, 41:54 each tree yielding its fruit every month. 41:58 And the leaves of the tree 41:59 were for the healing of the nations." 42:01 Now this is little confusing. 42:03 This is Revelation 22, 42:06 why does the Bible say the leaves of the tree 42:10 were for the healing of the nations? 42:13 Because in Revelation 22, 42:16 the nations have been healed, right? 42:20 There is no sickness 42:22 the Bible said that in Revelation 22, 42:24 you see this word healing, 42:26 you know what it means in the original language, 42:28 it's up building or restoration. 42:32 So the leaves of the tree are for the up building, 42:35 the leaves of the tree 42:37 are for the restoration of the nations. 42:40 What does that mean? 42:42 We go and take the tree of life every month. 42:45 Now when you and I come out of the grave, 42:48 I will come out of the grave with a glorious immortal body, 42:52 but about six feet. 42:54 My wife will come out of the grave 42:55 about the size she is, 42:58 but when Adam comes out of the grave 43:01 with his mortal body, 43:03 he will come out may be twice as tall as me, 43:05 maybe 13 feet. 43:07 But you know what? 43:09 As you and I eat of the tree of life, 43:11 we will be fully restored and grow, and grow, and grow 43:14 until our perfect size 43:17 that we would have been in and will continue 43:19 to grow mentally in our capacity 43:23 because when we come to heaven, 43:24 we're not going to know everything 43:25 so as we eat the tree, as we study in heaven, 43:28 we're going to grow mentally, we're going to grow physically. 43:31 So what this is talking about 43:33 is the total restoration of humanity 43:37 certainly there is no sickness, 43:38 certainly there is no suffering, 43:40 but isn't there a lot of growing 43:41 to do in heaven? 43:42 We're all going to grow continually 43:44 to be like we would have been in that Garden of Eden. 43:47 We're going to be loved by God, cherished by God, 43:50 embraced by God, satisfied by God. 43:54 The Bible says that heaven is indeed a real place. 44:00 Isaiah 65:17, 44:02 no make believe world, 44:04 "For behold, I create new heavens 44:05 and a new earth, 44:06 and the former shall not be remembered 44:08 or come to mind." 44:10 What's God going to do? 44:11 Just like it says in Revelation, 44:12 create a new heavens and a new earth. 44:15 What are we going to do 44:17 through the ceaseless ages of eternity? 44:18 Will it be boring? 44:20 Isaiah 65:21 and 22, 44:22 "They shall build houses and inhabit them, 44:25 they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. 44:28 They shall not build another inhabit, 44:31 they shall not plant and another eat, 44:34 for as the days of a tree shall be 44:36 the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy 44:40 the work of their hands." 44:41 You may live in a little apartment now. 44:45 You may live now in a two room apartment. 44:49 You may be struggling to pay your rent. 44:51 You may have a little shabby home now, 44:54 but the Bible says they'll build houses 44:55 and inhabit them. 44:57 Have you had your dream home? 44:58 Your dream home by the side of a lake, 45:01 your dream home overlooking a field 45:03 with beautiful gardens? 45:05 Have you ever longed for that? 45:07 One day you can have that home, you'll have your apartment 45:10 in the city in the New Jerusalem 45:12 and your dream home in the country. 45:13 Somebody says, "Well, Pastor, 45:15 I'm not sure I don't know how to build it." 45:16 Don't worry, the greatest architect 45:17 of the ages will be there. 45:19 Somebody says, "Pastor, I don't have enough money to fund it." 45:20 Don't worry, the Bible says that the cattle 45:23 on 10,000 hills are God's 45:24 and the silver and gold is God's, don't worry, 45:27 you will have all the support you need, 45:29 the greatest architects, the greatest builders, 45:31 the greatest designers. 45:32 Heaven is going to be amazing, isn't it? 45:34 You know what I think. 45:36 Often we make heaven too far away, 45:39 we make heaven too fantasyfull, 45:41 we make it too ethereal, but it's a real place 45:45 with real people, with real bodies. 45:47 It's a real place where the Bible says 45:50 that we'll have real gardens 45:53 and we will eat the fruit of them. 45:56 You think the fruits going to be puny like we see it now? 45:59 You think the apples 46:00 are going to need to be sprayed 10 times. 46:03 In fact some apples are sprayed 10 times with pestilences, 46:07 you think that's going to happen up there? 46:08 Not at all, I can imagine 46:11 maybe apples what size? 46:15 Three times as big. 46:16 Maybe I mean, when you think of it. 46:19 I mean, how many people it's going to take 46:21 to carry a watermelon in heaven, 46:24 I mean, and a banana. 46:27 I mean, wow. 46:28 Banana may be that long. 46:30 I mean think of the fruit sizes in heaven 46:33 and think of the taste. 46:35 You know, one of the fantastic things 46:37 that we can't even imagine is our taste buds 46:41 are defiled by sin, aren't they? 46:43 So we don't have the taste buds that we had in Eden, 46:47 neither does the fruit taste as good as it would in Eden. 46:52 So if you get a strawberry the size of an apple 46:57 and you get taste buds like Adam and Eve had... 47:00 I mean, wow, that's all I can say is, "Wow." 47:04 That's going to be incredibly amazing, isn't it? 47:07 Now what about fellowship and friends? 47:09 Will we spend time 47:11 with one another and friends in heaven? 47:14 Matthew 8:11 says, 47:16 "I say to you many are going to come from the east 47:19 and the west, 47:20 and they're going to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, 47:22 and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven." 47:24 You know often when I'm speaking 47:27 to a large audiences in big auditoriums, 47:30 after the meeting I try to go to the door 47:31 and shake people's hand. 47:33 I shake their hand hello, hello, hello, you know, 47:35 you're trying to shake people's hand, 47:37 they're all over the place. 47:38 And, "Oh, Pastor, can we take a picture?" 47:40 Yes, and I'm smiling, you know, 47:41 but I don't get to know people well. 47:44 You know I see them for a little while, 47:47 but they pass by. 47:49 But what does Scripture say? 47:50 In heaven we'll sit down 47:52 with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. 47:54 Imagine what it's going to be like. 47:56 That one day you're working in your garden, 47:59 one day you're picking a beautiful bouquet of flowers, 48:02 and you look over there, and you say, 48:03 "Hey, I think that is that, could that be Moses." 48:08 And you pick one of those large bananas 48:11 and it's weighted down on your shoulder, 48:14 and you walk over and say, 48:15 "Moses, how would you like to share a banana?" 48:18 Or you pick a strawberry the size of an apple, 48:20 "Moses, you want one of my strawberries? 48:23 Moses, I was admiring your watermelons. 48:26 And Moses, I never saw 48:28 a fruit like that before, what's that?" 48:29 He explains you some new exotic heavenly fruit 48:32 and you sit with Moses and say, 48:33 "Moses, tell me what it's like to go up on the Mount Sinai 48:37 and hear the thunders roar and to the thunderings of God 48:41 to receive the Ten Commandments. 48:42 Moses, do you have time." 48:44 And Moses says, "This is eternity, 48:45 I get all the time in the world, sit down." 48:47 And he talks to you about what it's like to go on Sinai. 48:50 One day you're walking down the road of heaven, 48:52 you're admiring the flowers in somebody's garden 48:55 and you say, "By the way, sir, what's your name?" 48:57 "My name's Daniel." 48:59 "What's your name?" "Daniel." 49:01 "Are you the Daniel in the Bible?" 49:02 "Yeah, I am." 49:04 Can we sit and tell me 49:05 where you really scared in that lion's den. 49:06 I mean, tell me about those lions, Daniel. 49:09 And Daniel looks at you and says, 49:10 "Tell me your story. 49:12 You lived in the last hours of earth's history, 49:14 tell me your story my child, tell me what it was like 49:19 to be faithful to Christ down there." 49:22 And then you see Paul and you say, 49:24 "Paul, tell me what it was like to preach 49:26 and to share your love and grace? 49:28 Isn't heaven going to be wonderful? 49:30 I don't want to miss it, do you? 49:32 I don't want to miss it with fellowship." 49:35 And then one day, one day you meet Jesus 49:38 and one day you walk, and talk, and fellowship with Jesus. 49:42 And the Scripture says, "That we walked with Him 49:46 and we see His face 49:47 and the glory of Christ amazes us." 49:52 We see how good, and kind, and compassionate He is, 49:54 and Sabbath comes. 49:55 Isaiah 66:23, "From one Sabbath to another, 50:01 all flesh shall come to worship before Me, 50:03 "says the Lord God. 50:05 They come from the east and the west, 50:07 they come from the north and the south, 50:09 and they come to worship on the Bible Sabbath, 50:12 and all the brothers and sisters, 50:14 all the family of heaven comes, 50:16 and we enter that holy temple, we enter that New Jerusalem, 50:21 and we sing praises to His name, 50:24 and we sing worthy is the lamb 50:26 that was slain to receive riches, 50:28 and honor, and glory forever, and ever, and ever. 50:32 And then on the way out that Sabbath 50:34 Jesus reaches out to us. 50:36 And Jesus says, "My child, 50:39 can I spend some time with you this week?" 50:42 We've only seen Him in a distance, 50:45 we've never been this close to Him before 50:48 and we say Jesus do you have time?" 50:49 And He said, "My child, this is eternity. 50:52 I want to tell you how much I love you. 50:53 I want to tell you how much I care for you." 50:56 And that week you and I take a walk with Jesus. 50:59 We are by our self, 51:00 you have your walk, I have my walk. 51:03 He comes to you on one day and comes to me on another, 51:06 and we walk through a field of flowers more beautiful 51:08 and Jesus say, "You see those flowers, 51:11 I planted them there just for you 51:13 because I knew you'd like them." 51:15 The Bible says and I heard a loud voice 51:17 from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God 51:19 is with men and He will dwell with them. 51:21 Christ dwells with us, they shall be as people, 51:26 God Himself shall be with them and be their God." 51:29 The Bible says in the Book of Revelation, 51:31 "They shall see His face, we shall see Jesus, 51:35 and will walk with Him, we'll talk with Him, 51:37 we'll fellowship with Him." 51:38 He'll say, "You see that field waving grain is just for you." 51:42 Thy I know your taste buds, 51:43 there is no other variety like it, I planted it for you. 51:46 You see those flowers, I knew you'd enjoy them 51:49 and we hear the angel chorus is singing. 51:53 And then Jesus says, 51:54 "Is there anything more that I can do for you. 51:58 Is there anything more that would make you happy? 52:00 And we fall on our knees and we say, 52:03 "Jesus, all this is wonderful, but you are enough. 52:07 You are enough Jesus. 52:08 You're all that I want." 52:11 Heaven is too good to be missed. 52:14 Have you given your all to Jesus? 52:17 Have you given your everything to Jesus? 52:19 Listen as CA sings right now. 52:32 Do you love God more than anything 52:39 Do you love God 52:45 Do you love God more than anything 52:51 Do you love my God 52:59 Love is all that He ask in return 53:06 For all that He has given 53:13 Love will be the endless theme 53:19 Throughout the courts of heaven 53:26 Do you love God more than your car or home 53:33 Do you love God 53:39 And do you love God more than 53:43 All you want to 53:46 Do You love my God 53:52 Do you love God 53:54 more than your family Really, 53:59 really love Him If you do, 54:05 just let the whole world know 54:09 That's all He asked 54:13 Of you 54:19 Do you love God more 54:23 Than that car or home 54:26 Do you love God 54:32 And do you love God more 54:36 Than everything you own 54:39 Do you love my God 54:44 Tell me do you love God more 54:50 Than your family 54:52 Really, really, really love Him 54:56 If you do, 54:58 just let the whole world know 55:03 That you love the Lord 55:05 Come on, let the whole world know 55:08 Let him know that you love the Lord 55:12 Let the whole world know 55:19 Let the whole world know 55:25 Let the whole world know 55:32 That's all 55:36 He ask of you 55:55 Jesus died so that one day 55:59 you could live in heaven with Him. 56:01 Jesus came to this earth for one reason 56:05 because you were too precious to be lost. 56:09 And right now, He's speaking to your heart, 56:12 wherever you are watching this telecast, 56:15 Christ is speaking to you, 56:18 that warmth you feel in your heart, 56:20 that conviction you feel in your mind 56:23 is the conviction of the Holy Spirit. 56:25 Christ wants you in heaven 56:27 more than you can possibly imagine. 56:30 You know in your heart 56:32 whether you've ever accepted Christ before, 56:34 whether you're a Christian or not, 56:36 you know in your heart 56:38 that you long for something better. 56:40 You long for this new world that there is in Christ. 56:43 And right now wherever you are, 56:46 you can make an eternal decision and say, 56:48 "Christ, I'm giving my life to You, 56:52 I want to live with You forever." 56:54 He accepts you right now. 56:57 And will give you that assurance 57:00 that eternal life is yours in Christ. 57:01 Let's pray. 57:03 Father in heaven, right now men and women, 57:06 and boys and girls by the hundreds, 57:07 thousands are coming to You, Your arms are open, 57:11 You accept them. 57:13 Thank You, Jesus, for the hope and the assurance 57:16 that we can live with You in heaven forever 57:18 in Christ's name, amen. 57:20 God bless you, my friend, 57:23 as you continue to walk 57:24 with Jesus now and forever more. 57:29 Amen. |
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