The Keys to the Father's House | John 14:1-6

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Coming up and playing. That's awesome. It's really, really good. So you title it for the Lord. If you would turn to uh John chapter 14, the title of this message, The Keys to the Father's House. The keys to the Father's House. So if you would turn to John chapter 14, we're going to read verses 1 through 6. Jesus, throughout his ministry, on this time on this earth, he was wanting people to understand who he was, that he was the Father's Son, came to give us all that was going to die so that we'd have eternal life. We could be joint heirs with him, and we would all have the same heavenly Father. So as we look in John chapter 14, he says in verse 1, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. It says, In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. Then Thomas says in verse 5, then Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not whether thou goest, and how can we know the way? Then verse 6, Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto who? The Father, but by me. Let's go, Lord, in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we just humbly bow before you. Again, Lord, just rejoicing. Uh all of us that know you, that uh you are our eternal Heavenly Father, and that we are in relationship with you. And we just we just praise you for the sacrifice of Christ that uh that gave us eternal life, the opportunity uh to be saved, uh to be born again unto you. And we just praise you and thank you for your Holy Spirit that indwells every believer here today and all around this world. Lord, and I just pray that we would live a life to glorify you above all things. And I do ask you this morning, Lord, for your preaching grace. You just have me behind the cross. And Lord, as I just uh we just read your word and hear your word, Lord, we just know that you're speaking to each and every heart individually and collectively as a church, that we would just, again, seek your will. And Father, we pray for the lost that doesn't know you today, that today would uh they would repent of their sins and call upon you and be saved and belong to you, and that you would be their heavenly father, and they'd leave here changed, again, having a place in heaven, eternal. And I pray for any of the decision, any other decision that needs to be made, Father, it may be made today, all in accordance to your will. Again, we just love and we praise you. We thank you for your word and again, your Holy Spirit. Again, we just ask forgiveness of sins and we ask it's all in Jesus' name. Amen. So is again this Father's Day, and I pray that all here know and have a relationship with the God above, with the Father above, that He that you have that relationship, that you have repented of your sins, you call upon the name of Christ, you've you've you've trusted in his blood that was shed on Calvary's cross, and and uh you've asked him to save you, and he saved you, and you belong to our heavenly fathers, you belong that we are all that belong to God, that we're again brothers and sisters in Christ, and and that we we understand that and we live a life to glorify him. Um you think about you know your earthly earthly dads, uh, you think about what you called your earthly dads. I'm not sure what you called your grossly dad. I called mine, I'm still blessed to have mine here. Uh call him dad. And uh, but there's several people might say daddy, uh, some might say father, or I've heard daddy over and just joking around, say, hey, daddy over or whatever it might be, just different words people saying. I've heard my uh my dad said he called his pops. There's other other, you know, people just call the ghostly dads by different names. And then, you know, the same for God. Uh the Bible's written in Hebrew and Greek, even Aramaic, and the Hebrew name for God, the Father, would be Jehovah. Uh, the Greek would be Theos, God the Father. And Aramaic is Abba. I don't know if you got your bulletin, but it says that Tana shared a little story in the in the Bible about even Jesus. Jesus would call our heavenly father, you call him Abba, Abba Father. And it's uh in the earth-ordy church would say that. And it says this: so it signifies an intimate relational and family connection with God. You call someone Abba Father, it would be that that it's that's who he is. It's a father of figures. He's more than a figure. He is your heavenly father. And we're born, that's what Jesus says in Nicodemus, you must be born again, unto whom? Unto the Father above. We belong to him. So today we've got four points. When we think about our heavenly father's house, the four things we're going to have is number one, how do we find it? How do we find the Father's house? Number two is who is the door? Number three is who has the keys today? Who has the keys today to the house that's in heaven? Where the Father rules and reigns. And how long, and here's the last one, a question for all of us, how long will you be staying in the Father's house? How long will you be staying in the Father's house? So, first, how do we find the Father's house? Well, look in verse 6. Jesus plainly tells us, Thomas says, Well, I don't know the way, I don't know where you're going. Then Jesus says in verse 6, he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh where unto the Father but by me. If I had to pick one verse in the Bible that the devil hates the worst, this would be probably pretty top of the list. Because the devil wants everybody believers, there's other ways. You can do all these different things. You know, uh, you can be good, you can be religious, there's other ways. You can believe in this, that, or the other, as long as your heart's sincere, as long as you really love and you're a good person, there's other ways to get to God. There's not. There's only one way, and that is through the blood of Jesus Christ. Realize and understand that his death on the cross paid our sinned. It is the only way, the only way to be saved. And Jesus plainly tells us, he says, I am. Again, signifying what? That he is God. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father. Talking about who? Coming to God, but by me. Jesus plainly tells us and everyone that reads this verse, no one gets to the Father's house and gets to stay unless they go through Christ. By faith in him. Then he goes on to explain that relationship with him and the Father, and the Father and Him and us. And he goes on to explain it. Verse 7, he said, if ye had known me, you should have known my Father also. And he said, I love what he says, because so many people get so enamored, wanting to see God or visions of God, and this, that, and the other. God is a spirit, and we cannot contain God in some kind of vision. Because God, how can we explain God who created the vastness of the universe? But he is, he came and dwelt among us in human flesh. When we see Christ, guess who we see? We see God. To see God is to see Christ, to see Christ is to see God. And it's what Jesus says. He says, and from henceforth you know him and have what? Seen him. He's saying, plainly telling Thomas and all the disciples there, and all of us today that read this verse, to see Christ is to see God. There's no other way. When you see Jesus, you see God. That's what he explains. He said, Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father. And it sufficient us, suffices us. And see, Jesus just said, if you see me, you see the Father. But he still didn't. Jesus said to them, Have I been so long time with you? And yet not hast thou known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father. And how sayest thou then, show us the Father?

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Be like somebody you're trying to explain Jesus to. And they say, I want to see Jesus. It's like, well, I hope you've seen him in me. Can you say that? Can we say that? They should be, people should see Christ in us.

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Jesus says, You should be able to see the Father in me. And he says, believe us not, verse 10, believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? He says, The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works. He says, believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake. He's talking about the miracles. All the miracles were there for us to confirm that Jesus is the Christ. What did Nicodemus say? We know the dark man come from God, because nobody can do the miracles that thou doest. And it was just to confirm who he is. And the same thing when after the ascension, before the completed word of God, the gifts and the miracles were for one purpose. What? To show the truth of God's word. And he says in verse 11, believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake. He said, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me the works that I do great shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do. What an amazing statement. Because I go unto my Father. See, Jesus was limited. Just like we're limited while he was on this earth. What are we limited by? Where we're at physically. Sometimes I know you're the same way. You'd like to be in like five or six different places at once. You have this responsibility, that you won't go see this person, that person, this. You got things you want to know. Guess what? We're limited. Our human bodies are limited to being in one place at one time, and Jesus knew that. He says, I can only be here one place and one time. But he's going to send a comforter of what? They can be everywhere. That's what's so amazing about the Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit, as we're here this morning in churches all around our country, and people all around the world are worshiping. Guess what? The same Holy Spirit is indwelling in every believer, pointing to who? Pointing to Jesus and pointing to the Father above. It's amazing. He says, Verily, very I send he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall do greater than these.

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Why?

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Because we have the Holy Spirit. And he says in verse 13, and whatsoever you ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. He said, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Then he says, If you love me, keep my commandments. Well, it's a very blunt and very plain statement, isn't it? You want to prove your love to Christ? Keep his word. Just keep his word. He says, I will pray the Father. In verse 16, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. He says, But you know him, for he dwelleth with you. And look what he says. And shall be in you. When the Holy Spirit indwelleth, the day of Pentecost. From that day forward, guess what? The Holy Spirit indwells every believer. Every believer. He's here today. He's inside of every one of us that believe. He said, I will not leave you comfortless in verse 18. I will come to you. He says, Yet a little while the world seeth me no more. But ye see me because I live, you shall also live. What a great verse. At that day you shall know that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and look what he says, and I in you. How awesome is that! How great is that to have that relationship with Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Father. And he says in verse 21, He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him. And look what Judas says, not Judas Iscariot, but he says, What? Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world? I read all of that to get to this next verse. Because that's a great question. And Jesus answers unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words. How important is it to keep Christ's words? It's very important. Because it shows Jesus how much we love him. And he says, And my father will love him. Talking about the Father above and the Holy Spirit. And he says, and he will come unto him and make our abode with him. See that word abode? It means to stay in a given place, to dwell, to be present. You might heard someone say they come into your house and welcome to our humble abode. Come into your house. Our humble abode. Well, you know what's unique about that word? Well, turn back to John 14, very beginning. Look in verse 2. When Jesus says, In my father's house are many mansions, you know what? That word mansions is not found anywhere else in the Bible. It's the only time the word mansion is found in the Bible. You know what it means? Abode. A place to abode. You might have a say different uh ways of saying it, understand it for our language today. It might say, Jesus might say, My father's house has many rooms or many places to stay. That's all within his house. And it's so important you understand that. Because he says, My father's house and mansions, it'd be like, I look at it like he says, my father's house be like a city, the heavenly city, and the mansions where are inside that city. You're like when you might be going on vacation, say, man, I can't wait to get home. Can't wait to get to Pleasant Plains. Well, somebody says, What do you love? Well, I love in Pleasant Plains. Well, but my house, my physical address, 109 Robertson Drive. That's my house. See, but we we come back to the city, and one day we're all gonna be in the city of God. Because there's 12 gates inside a city. And that's a different topic for different discussion about different days for who's gonna come in and out of the gates. That's a very interesting thing about. But the gates are always gonna be open. So it's very interesting. But I pray you're in that city. And I pray you're in the Father's house. You have a relationship with God because it says he's gonna abide with us and make us abode with us here today. 1 Corinthians 6.19, what it says, that your body is a temple of God. That he lives inside of us today. He is here with us today. But one day we'll all be together in heaven. It's amazing. It really is. And he gives, you know, think about when you go to somebody's house, what's the first thing you do to get in that house? You gotta find what? You've got to find the door. So we're gonna look. Who is the door of the Father's house? Well, Jesus gave a great story about him being the door. Turn to John, turn back a few pages to John chapter 10. One of the greatest stories that Jesus told, in my opinion, talking about him being the good shepherd. He meaning the good shepherd. And they could understand, the people of that day could understand what it meant to be a shepherd. They were living in an agricultural environment. They understood what it meant to farm. Like a lot of people today are cattle people and different things. They understand what it means to take care of their herd, take care of their flocks. So Jesus was telling this story in verse 1 of chapter 10. He says, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door to the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same as a thief or a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. Says to him the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice, and call his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. And he says in verse 5, And the stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. So he tells that story. Then look in verse 6, John 10, 6 says a parable spake Jesus of them, but they understood not what things of which he had spaken unto them. They didn't really understand it. And Jesus knew their heart, he knew their mind. Okay, they could see their faces. And so Jesus says unto them again, Verily, verily I say unto you, look what he says. I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. And he says again, I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. How great is that! How great is it? He's talking about salvation, being saved, belonging to the Father. Salvation, access to the Father's house, have a relationship with Christ and God the Father. Jump all the way down to verse 27. He says, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And look what he says. And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. How great is that. Brother John Yates, during FBI class, when we used to take Faith Bible Institute when we had it here, he gave a great illustration about losing your salvation. Because he talks about right here, I maybe mentioned this verse. We're wrapped by the Holy Spirit. Like right here. We're here. And then God's hands on top of that. He said, No one can pluck you out of the hand of the Father. And the illustration you use is a great illustration. I wish I could do as good as him. He said, Have you ever caught a mosquito buzzing around your head, bugging you like crazy? And you like it and you grab him. And all of a sudden you squeeze your hand like crazy, and you open your hand and he flies off. Like, golly, I wish I'd killed that thing. But he said, Have you ever had one in your hand? And you got him, and all of a sudden, your hand just starts shaking, and that mosquito breaks free. No. It's a really good, I thought it was funny. It really goes straight and he uses. Because it can't happen unless you're just, I shouldn't say, really, really weak, but I won't say that. Even that, even you're stronger than a mosquito, surely. But the point he was making is we can't lose our salvation. God has us. We belong to him. How great is that? How awesome is that? When he belongs to us and we belong to him, it's so very important we understand that. And Jesus is saying it, he says in verse 29, My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all. And no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. And then look what he says in verse 30. I and my Father are one. And that's what God longs for for us: to be one with him, to have a oneness that we would be doing the things he would have us to do. One with the Father. And Jesus is the door to the Father's house. But when we get to the door, what do we got to have? We need a key. We need a key to get in. We need a key to get in. Or a passcode might be today. What we think about today? We got passcode, everything to get in. So who but who has the keys today? Who has the keys today? It's interesting. Who has the keys today to the Father in heaven? Well, turn to Matthew chapter 16.

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Matthew chapter 16. Another great story. Jesus has an interesting question for his disciples. We think about who has the keys to the Father's house today.

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Knowing that Jesus is the door. Matthew chapter 16, verse 13. It says, When Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? It's a great question. He's asking, Who do people say that I am? And they say unto him, Some say that thou art John the Baptist, some say Elijah, or others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Then he says, What? In verse 15, he said to them, But whom say ye that I am? You know what? And I've said this so many times, it doesn't matter what the world says about Jesus. What matters is what the church says about Jesus. So important. So important. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered unto him, Blessed are thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood is not rebuilt unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And he says, I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not rebel against it. Again, Jesus is pointing to Christ, his name being Petro, meaning a rock. Peter is not the foundation of the church. Peter is not the first pope, as people want to teach and all that. He's not. Jesus is saying, I believe he's pointing at himself, saying, I am the rock, and you are going to be built upon me. And that's all of us, as we are members of a New Testament church. We're not the foundation. Jesus is the foundation, and Jesus is the head. We are the pillars to be grown upon. That we that we that God would use us. But he is the foundation. And look what Jesus says in verse 19. He says, I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Wow. I've shared a story before, maybe on Wednesday nights. You know, I I've pastored two churches in 16 years. And when it really hits me the most, when I've accepted the call and the church votes and all that, when everybody's gone, there'll be one person here. Everybody's getting around, one person comes up to me and says, Here's the keys. To the building. To the van and did everything. And I look at it and I think, man, it's real.

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Real responsibility. They've trusted me. They've trusted me. With this place. Not just the buildings, but with the people.

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I'm the under-shepherd. You think about when you give your child a key when there's 16 or 15, whatever it might be, hardship, whatever it might be. And man, what do you do? Man, you pray like crazy and say, okay, I'm gonna give you these keys, and you have free reign, you go out and do whatever. But what? Be responsible. Be responsible. Be responsible. But that's what God tells us. He has given us the keys. What he says, I have given you the keys of what? To the kingdom of heaven. What a responsibility. What a responsibility being given to the church. He says, Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. A responsibility of it. But what are the keys? The keys are this. The key is the gospel message of Jesus Christ. He has given us the gospel message. He says, He tells us that it's the great news that Christ has died for all sinners, that we will place our faith in him, we can be born again. And that he is resurrected and he's alive today. The key we have is given to us to give to a lost and dying world. Looking for a way out. Looking for a way out. Looking for a house in heaven. We give them the key and we show them the door. We show them the door and say, here's the key. Who is it? It's Jesus. It's Jesus. Tell them you have to place your faith in Christ. You have to walk through that door through Him. And if we don't preach Christ and don't tell people the truth, the complete Word of God and make it about us or about religion or what works or whatever it might be, we lead people astray and they cannot ever get into the Father's house. And Jesus taught that. Turn to Matthew 23. Matthew 23, real quick. Jesus taught this to who? A lost person on the street? A sinful lady or a sinful man somewhere out in the back alley? No. He taught this to the religious people of his day. He taught this to his own kindred, his own nation, his own people, the Pharisees. And he says in verse 20, Matthew 23, verse 13, but he says, but woe, Jesus had been, he is fed up to here. He is fed up to here with their hypocrisy and all them, their lying and their deception and their cheating, and how they're they're locking the kingdom of heaven away from the Gentiles and from the lost. And Jesus had had enough. He's had enough. But he says, but woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees. He says, hypocrites. He says, for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. He said, You have locked the door.

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And how'd they lock the door? He says, against them. For ye neither go in yourselves. They stand in front of it. They stand in front of it.

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He says, Neither suffer you them that are entering in to go in. They want to come, they want to come. And they're like, No, you can't get in. No, no. You got to be like me. You got to be educated. You got to be sophisticated. You got to do all these different things. You got to complete the law. You got to fulfill the law. You got to have all these different things. And then maybe, maybe, but probably not, because you're not one of us. That's hypocrisy. Because they were hypocrites. They did not believe in Jesus Christ. And Jesus says, You are wrong. You are wrong because you have denied me. And what it does, it just keeps lost people lost. We give them the key and we show them the door, which is Christ. That we all, guess what? That we all, all of us, were sinners, saved by the same grace, saved by the same faith, same by the same Holy Spirit, same by the same blood. That we've all had to remember that we were separated from God, that we didn't belong to Him, but we had to humble ourselves and ask Him to save us. And that we're joint heirs with Christ. We've all had to make that role. We've all had to confess our sin and to be born again. None of us are better than the other. We all say, we all serve the same man, Jesus Christ. And we tell people that.

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But you think about what Christ said. And I believe that all people will go to heaven someday. But will they stay there? Will they stay there? Turn to Revelation chapter 20. Verse 11.

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And he says, John saw this. He said, I saw a great white throne, Revelation 20, 11. And him that sat on it, who is that? It's our Heavenly Father. From whose faith the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And he said, I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. What's that prove to us? It was life after death. It's eternal life. People want to say, Oh, you just die and you just gone. No. The soul and spirit will live forever, to be either in heaven or in hell. And he sees it. And they say, they're standing before God. And the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And what books were opened? It's the 66 books right here. So there's no excuse. The books will be judged out of God's word, the 66 books. And one other book was open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those books, out of those things which are written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead were in them. And they were judged, every man according to their works. And he says, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast to the lake of fire. Man. That's a scary scene if you don't know Jesus Christ and know the Heavenly Father. It's so important that you know Him. But what's more, what's also more important about that is that He knows you. That He knows you. Because it'd be like this. If I think about a little illustration to give about knowing God and then God knowing us, it'd be like me trying to say, I want to go see President Trump. See him all over the place on TV, phone, internet, all different things. You see him all the time. We know what his name is. We know where he lives, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. We know it's a big old giant White House. And we know we could probably find the door.

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And you go up there and you say, I want in.

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Guess what? They're not going to let me in. And you might say, Well, hey, I know him. I'm writing his address. You know, I know this guy. What's it matter? He doesn't know me.

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He doesn't know me. So you know what I'm going to say? It's what? God, the only way God knows us is if we know his son. You have to have a relationship with his son. And then he will let us in.

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Because Jesus plainly taught that as well. Turn to Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. Because so many people want to say, well, God is love, and a loving God would never send somebody to hell or anything like that. It's not that. God never sends anybody to hell. People, by not choosing God, have chosen to go to hell. And it's sad and it's terrible. But God, because God has given us a chance, He's given us a door, the opportunity to be saved and have eternal life. In Matthew chapter 7, verse 21, he says, Not everyone that saith unto me, Jesus doesn't teach us, Lord, Lord, shall enter to the kingdom of heaven. But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven, very plainly tells us. He says, Many will say unto me, in that day, what day? Well, the day we've just seen in Revelation chapter 20. Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name or preached in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils in thy name done many wonderful works? He says, Then will I, professing them, I never knew you, depart from me, you that work iniquity. That is from the mouth of Christ. That's how important it is to be known of the Father. That you have placed your faith in the Son and you have a relationship with him. Every relationship with him. And I want you to think about the word Lord meaning father.

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Because it does. It does. Jesus and the Father know who his children are.

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And one day he's going to give all his children new names. You know that? That's exciting. When you have children, think about the names, argue about what, this, that, or the other. And it's exciting. You know what Revelation 2.17 tells us. Let's turn it out real quick. We got time to read that real quick. Turn to Revelation chapter 2. I love this verse. He tells us very plainly. Because, you know, we're all born again unto God, but guess what? He hasn't named us yet. He hasn't given us a name. But one day he will. You ever thought about that? What's your name going to be when you get to heaven? If you belong to God, he's going to give you a name. Revelation chapter 2, verse 17 says, He that hath ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna. Look what he says. And I will give him a white stone. You imagine getting into heaven? Single file line. All of a sudden you give you a white stone. What are they going to say? You look at that stone, you turn it over, and what's it going to say? And I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows, same as he that received it. How awesome is that! How awesome is that? And what does a name do? Given to you by your father?

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It's who you represent. It means everything. It means everything. So the last point. How long we get to stay in the Father's house. Turn to Psalm 23. It might surprise you when we turn. Psalm 23. The 23rd Psalm.

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To all of us that belong to the Father above, and we place our faith in Christ, and we're joined heirs with Christ. I want you look at the first verse of Psalm 23. It says, The Lord.

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You ever thought about like that? And it says, The Lord is my shepherd. And he is. But who is the Lord? Our Heavenly Father is my shepherd. Is he your shepherd? Do you have a relationship with him?

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Is does he belong to you and does he know you? And if he does, this psalm is for you. He said, I shall not want. I'm here to tell you. On this earth, I've been very blessed.

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By two amazing parents. I've never wanted for much. Never wanted for much. And they always provided.

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And God knows exactly what we need. He is the perfect, I say this all the time. He is the perfect parent. I look back at my life and I say, man, the mistakes I made raising my kids and my mouth is far from perfect. But God is perfect. He is our shepherd. And he says, And he says, I shall not want. And he says, He maketh me lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He says, He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness. Here it is, for his name's sake. So what do we do? Which I live a life to glorify him. To glorify him. He says, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. How awesome is that? What the Father does. It's what the Father does. He protects us, he guides us, He takes care of us. Then He says, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over.

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I'll tell you, man, my cup runs over. It does. It runs over.

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I gave her away last week, and here she is. I mean, it's amazing. It's amazing. Relationship. Our cup runs over. We're so very, very blessed. Why? Because of our heavenly Father. And I love what he says. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Ain't that great? And we'd have goodness and mercy fall on us because why? We need devil's best friends. As we go through this world, we need goodness and mercy to follow us. And I love what he says at the end. And I will dwell or make our abode in the house of the Lord.

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Forever. Forever. How do we get there? How do we find the Father's house? Go to the door called Christ.

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And who gives us the key? Who told us the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the church? The church. So go and tell somebody how to be born again. And that they will one day belong to the Heavenly Father. They place their faith in Jesus Christ. And I pray you know the Father, and the Father knows you. And you'll have a place in the Father's house forever. If you would, please stand for the map to come forward. Really think about your life. Think about do you have a relationship with God? Is he your heavenly father? If he's not, repent of your sins. Call upon the name of Jesus and be saved. It's a prayer away. And Jesus died so that you could be saved. That you could be a joint heir with him and have a place in heaven for an eternity. Let's see.