WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:19.839 What will be the most outstanding aspect of the new heaven in New Earth is the tabernacling of the Lord. 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.879 It's presence wherever we go. 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.160 We'll physically be able to hug him. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.760 He can physically embrace us. 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.439 You will see your loved ones. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.520 It's gone before you. 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.119 Together forever with them. 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.600 Today, Pastor Steve continues his series on the book of Revelation. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.439 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.920 For more information on the road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:01.200 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.319 All right, Revelation 21. 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:10.239 As you remember, when we were in chapter 20 a few weeks ago, I've been gone a while. 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:14.640 We saw that the earth and heaven were fading away. 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:16.959 Chapter 20 talks about it fading away. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.159 And remember, there were no chapter titles when he wrote the book. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.719 And so this is contiguous. 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:28.480 Chapter 20 is not a chapter 20, and then he took a breath of air and then had another vision. 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:33.840 This is all this continuous apocalypse, this continuous revelation given to John. 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:45.120 So we start at verse 1, and it says, Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away. 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.519 And there is no more sea. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:54.799 Men and women, it's not that there's a heaven and an earth that we aren't a part of yet. 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:59.200 It's that there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:00.799 God's going to recreate. 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.120 This is what Peter says. 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:13.840 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:18.319 Both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:30.159 And then Isaiah writes this for behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered or even come to mine. 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:38.800 So it appears, and it's hard for us to understand, but it appears that we're not even going to, I mean, it's just going to be a vague memory of our time on earth. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:46.639 It's going to be a new heaven and a new earth, and it's not clouds, and it's not harps and halos. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.560 Now, some people who do harps will be digging harps, and those who do electric guitars are doing electric guitars. 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.199 I mean, and those who like to fly fish or fly fish. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.479 But I know this, it's not what we think it is. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:05.360 It's a new heaven and a new earth, and the hydro system's gonna be totally different. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:07.759 The carbon system's gonna be totally different. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.400 We're not gonna be blood driven anymore. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.560 We're gonna be spirit driven. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:13.759 Does that make sense? 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:20.479 So when Jesus rose from the grave, he could pass through walls. 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:22.000 That's pretty cool. 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:26.879 So all of you that like the superhero movies, I mean, that's really popular right now. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:28.159 You're gonna kind of have that. 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:34.719 I mean, you're gonna have this superhero body, you're gonna be able to pass through walls and yet hug. 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.840 I mean, Thomas and Mary touched Jesus. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:45.360 He was not in a blood system anymore, it appears, almost like a spirit system. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:52.080 We're gonna be empowered through and through by the Holy Spirit. 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.319 So remind yourself of that. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:03.199 When it's a really bad day, when you've when you're trying to do your push-ups, or you're trying to just take a walk, or you're I don't know, everybody's different. 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:05.120 I'm trying to get to the fridge. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.240 There's a day coming. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.960 You'll get to the fridge and you won't even have to catch your breath. 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:12.400 You'll be able to do push-ups. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:13.680 Ad nauseum. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:18.399 You'll be in the Guinness book of heavenly records, if you want to be. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.639 Because you're gonna be empowered by the spirit. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:24.240 Isn't that cool? 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.360 A spirit system, a new heaven, and a new earth. 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.800 Then I, John, saw the holy city. 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.839 Now, if I ever read a hoxymoron, that's it. 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.399 A holy city. 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.800 There's gonna be an inner city that's gonna be holy. 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:44.560 Believe it or not. 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:55.439 New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:01.199 I've done a lot of weddings, and I've never had a bride in curlers. 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:03.120 Can you imagine? 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.839 You're the groom and you're coming down, and there she is. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.120 Come on, baby. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:11.279 And she's got some curlers, and she's still putting on the makeup. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:13.279 No, this, where is he? 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:14.399 Where is the groom? 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:14.800 You know? 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.040 Oh, he went out there, he's gone, he's out of here. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.920 You know, but this is a beautiful bride, and it's a new Jerusalem. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.439 It's a holy city. 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.240 You know, that's in God's heart as a holy city. 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.879 God wants Colorado Springs as much as we can here on earth to make it a holy city. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.120 He wants Chicago to be a holy city. 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:37.120 He wants New York to be a holy city, and he's planting churches all over the place. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.839 Tim Keller's church and others like that in New York. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:41.839 It's amazing what God's doing. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.319 Our vision is to plant churches out of the road because we want a holy city. 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.720 There'll never be a holy city, but we're going after there's going to be a holy city. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:58.000 We're called to take the gospel and the good news of Christ with our Springs Initiative right now. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:58.720 That's what we're doing. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:03.839 Over a hundred of you guys came out several weeks ago and we painted houses. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:07.279 And we did, we do four houses, bro. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.800 We did four houses in about four hours. 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.360 Maybe a little more than four hours. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.720 And then in August, the last week of August, we're doing it again. 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:18.000 You should join us. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:23.600 Because we're here to make an impact with the goodness and the love of Christ as best we can. 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.560 And there is a new Jerusalem coming down upon the earth. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:36.480 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, and this is the last time this shout, this loud voice is heard in the Bible. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:38.720 This is the last time it's ever mentioned in the Bible. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:51.920 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. 00:06:52.399 --> 00:07:01.680 God himself will be with them and will be their God, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:10.800 There shall be no more death, no more sorrow, no more crying. 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:16.480 There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.120 So the presence of God. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.040 The tabernacle of God as we command. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:34.560 So what will be the most outstanding aspect of the new heaven and new earth is the tabernacling of the Lord, his presence wherever we go. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.439 We will physically be able to hug him. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.199 He can physically embrace us. 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:47.600 You will see your loved ones that have gone before you. 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:58.160 Look at verse 4. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.160 This is this is what John says is the hallmark of heaven. 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:07.680 He will wipe away every tear. 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:10.560 Wow. 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:19.040 Scriptures say that our tears are held, that he that he has our tears. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.600 It breaks God's heart when you are broken. 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:31.519 That's why Jesus said, My mission, my calling on this earth is the first thing he says is to heal the brokenhearted. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.120 He's gonna heal the brokenhearted church. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.000 And some of you have been really broken in this life. 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:49.279 By boyfriends, by girlfriends, by husbands and wives, by your mom and dad, through a boss. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.519 Every one of us carry scars of pain. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:09:00.000 And some of us have wept and wept until there was no more tears left. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.399 And he says, Of heaven, I'm gonna wipe away all the tears. 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:08.000 I've got a record of your tears. 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:11.360 I'm gonna wipe away your tears because I love you. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.519 I'm gonna heal you through and through. 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:24.240 No more crying, no more death, and no more sorrow. 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:34.559 John is writing this apocalypse on the island of Patmos. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:50.480 But before that, in his epistle to the churches, he wrote in John chapter 1, verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt, that's the word tabernacle, and dwelt among us. 00:09:50.639 --> 00:10:00.559 And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:02.639 You know what this is? 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:17.519 This is, how many of you have ever said to yourself, oh, if I had just been there when Christ was on the earth, if I could have just touched him, if I could have just walked with him, if I could have seen him, you will. 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:30.399 He will dwell among us for eternity, forever. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:38.960 And all that his time on earth was was a foretaste of what we will get to experience every day, all the time. 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.720 And I don't even I even hesitate to say every day, because there's not going to be a sun and a moon. 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:48.080 So I don't even know how days, it's just like it is continuing in the presence of God. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:11:00.639 In his presence is fullness forever, and that fullness will be that glory that we, again, we long for at times, especially when we're crying. 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.840 Man, don't you wish life was a whole lot easier? 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.919 Has anybody figured out that making money is not easy? 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:15.120 Has anybody figured out that that getting a good education is not easy? 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:21.679 That that the hard work of staying maybe in shape is not easy. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.080 Here's what's not easy: people. 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.320 Life would be a whole lot easier if there were no people. 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.559 You know what I mean? 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:34.960 But we're communal. 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:51.440 You see, when you read Genesis 1, 2, and 3, it's us, us, us creating the heavens and earth because it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, because fellowship and community started with God. 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.120 So we need each other. 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.639 You are unfulfilled. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:06.960 You are unfulfilled if you do not have growing, vital, dynamic, personal relationships with people. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:14.159 And I don't care how much we've been hurt, how much we've been betrayed, how much we've been ripped off. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.440 And if you haven't been betrayed and ripped off yet, it's coming. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:18.960 I promise you. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.639 But as we forgive, I mean, that's the Sermon on the Mount. 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.720 Matthew 5, 6, and 7 is all about relationships. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.840 The whole Sermon on the Mount is how you handle relationships. 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:40.960 And so, and so coming into that relationship with each other is only a foretaste of all these saints that we're gonna be hanging out with. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:48.480 And if you like sushi, I believe from the latest count, Japanese are coming to know the Lord too. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.399 There's gonna be sushi up there. 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:59.679 If you like tacos, if you like enchiladas, if you like Costa Rican food, if you like African food, it's all gonna be there and it doesn't cost you a dime. 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.159 Because God loves the nations. 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:18.240 Philippians Paul writes, God will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself. 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.320 So we're gonna have that same glorious body that Jesus had. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.960 So what body? 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:28.399 Which one? 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.960 I think it's I'll just give you my personal opinion. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.039 Can't support it with scripture. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.600 30 years old. 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.320 You're gonna have a 30-year-old body. 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:39.919 Okay? 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:41.200 That's what I think. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.159 The priest could not become a priest in the Old Testament until they were 30. 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:52.240 Jesus didn't start his public ministry and went public with his body until he was 30. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.600 David became king at 30. 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.720 And I think Adam and Eve were created at 30. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:13:59.840 That's what I think. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.840 I know that's weird, and it's okay. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.240 But you're gonna have a 30-year-old body. 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.799 Because here's what it says. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:12.960 See, I can support it with scripture. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:19.759 He says, God will transform our lowly body that may be conformed to his glorious body. 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:21.519 So it might be 33. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:26.000 Verse 5. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.440 Then he who sat on the throne said, Behold, I will make all things new. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.960 That's such good news. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.559 And he said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:42.080 It's interesting that God wants John to get this down. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:49.759 Remember, men and women, this is probably during the time of one of the great persecutions in Rome under Nero. 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:58.320 Nero probably has given orders that have sent John out to the island of Patmos, where he's exiled right now when he has the vision. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:04.000 And God wants the church to know look, this is where we're going with this thing. 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:05.840 Encourage yourself. 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.440 I want this letter to go out to the seven churches. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:16.639 All things are gonna be made new because the people who are reading this were having their homes pillaged. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:24.799 The leaders of the church who were reading this were gonna probably line up and go into the Colosseum and be devoured by lions. 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:35.840 Say, look, this life is hard, it's difficult, it's full of persecution, it's full of heartache, it's full of tears. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:43.440 There's a day coming, there's a place being designed for you that is going to make all things new. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.639 And he said to me, It is done. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.840 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:58.799 I will give of the fountain of the river of life freely to him who thirst, to him who thirst, to him who thirst. 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:09.200 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son, or he shall be my daughter. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:18.960 Church, he's reminding us that the river of life is for those who thirst, that there's a river even in heaven for the thirsty. 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:21.600 Are you thirsty these days? 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.080 Are you thirsty for Christ? 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.600 You can have as much of Jesus as you want. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.600 You can have as much of Jesus as you want. 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:38.399 He's there, he's a fountain, he's a spring of living water. 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:52.799 My granddaddy's old ranch in South Carolina, he had springs that were all over the ranch, and he would build ponds and catch that water, and then he would have a dam, and then he would have that overflow from that pond going to the next pond. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:57.519 And he had all these contiguous ponds, just boom, boom, boom, boom, because of one spring. 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.840 One spring would feed them all. 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:06.400 And they were flourishing with fish and flourishing with animals and wildlife because of that spring. 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:18.240 And so, men and women, when we drink from the spring, it opens up our minds, it opens up our hearts, it opens up our emotions, it opens up our spirit. 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:28.079 And what happens in our Christian life is we get dull, we get bored because we're not drinking from the river anymore. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:43.920 And if my little 40-minute message out of 168 hours a week is the only time you're in the Word and the only time you're worshiping, I guarantee you that your Christian life is boring and dull. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:54.640 But men and women, he says here, drink, you drink, we can drink every day, we can drink as often as we desire, to passionately go after God through his word and through his spirit. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:02.319 And it enlightens our heart and enlightens our vision. 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:04.880 Because this is what we were created for. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.119 It's the fire in the belly. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.240 It's the fire in the stove. 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:13.599 Well, I don't feel very fired up these days, Pastor Steve. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.000 I can't help you. 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.519 It's really up to you to go after the fire. 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.400 To open the word, get up in the morning and read God's word. 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:24.240 Say, God, light a fire. 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.960 I want to love you with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:28.559 I can't do it. 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.920 That's the first, that's the first great revelation of the Christian life. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:32.720 You can't do it. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:33.680 I can't do it. 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:36.160 But Lord, fill me with your spirit. 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:38.559 I'm gonna drink from you. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.759 I'm gonna put on I'm gonna put on the worship music. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.519 By the way, my library, my worship library really stinks. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.440 Because I can't keep up. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.880 I can't keep up with the worship music that's coming out. 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:56.960 It is out of Bethel, out of IHOP, out of Australia, I mean Chris Tomlin, all those guys. 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:58.160 So I just YouTube it. 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:59.119 And it's free. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.880 And I'm a cheapskate. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:07.359 And so and so I YouTube it, I put in YouTube, I put in a particular guy, I'll put in whatever, it's different every day. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.359 And then put on the earphones, wherever I'm at, it can be on your phone or whatever. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.279 You can YouTube anything as long as you got connection, which is interesting in Black Forest. 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:21.759 But you know, you didn't I'm sitting there worshiping and then I look down, it's going, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.759 But you can worship as much as you desire. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:29.759 No limitations. 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.799 Back in the early days when I was in college, I had a hymnal. 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:34.319 Because everything was hymns back then. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.079 There was really, I mean, there was Calvary Chapel. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.119 There was a little bit coming out of California, but there really wasn't much really happening. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:46.880 But now it's just amazing what's out there to engage in worship. 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:52.319 And then to open the word and to read, say, oh God, make this true in my life. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.759 Make it a dialogue with the Holy Spirit. 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.079 That's what fellowship or communion with the Holy Spirit is. 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.920 Communion of the Holy Spirit, New American Standard, fellowship with the Holy Spirit, New King James. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.440 But to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit is up to us. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.519 And we're being reminded of what it'll be like. 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.000 It's river. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.400 That's how you become an overcomer. 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.319 Put verses six and seven together. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:22.640 As we are thirsting and drinking from the fountain of the water of life, we overcome. 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:23.680 Well, I can't overcome. 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:24.240 I don't know. 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:26.079 I don't know what to do about this thing at work. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:31.039 Are you drinking from the river of life so you can become an overcomer? 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:37.440 Are you gonna let the boss at your job dictate the happiness of your life? 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:39.680 Please give me a break. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:42.000 Who is he or who is she? 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:46.319 You drink from the river of life and you'll become an overcomer. 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:49.519 Finances aren't good. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:51.200 Well, what are you gonna do? 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:56.960 Take out another loan, go in debt, call for bankruptcy, or you're gonna become an overcomer. 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:04.720 We drink from the river of life, and that's in God's word, that's seeking God, that's going after him. 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:09.920 You become an overcomer because the Spirit starts to do it through you. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:11.519 I don't understand how to do that. 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.279 Well, just start with P B and J, Prayer Bible Journal, every day. 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.920 That's pretty good news. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.319 Can I hear one amen? 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:21.359 All right, good. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:21.759 Okay. 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:22.880 Verse 8. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:30.640 But the cowardly, and I find it interesting, he's gonna talk about all these different sins, but the first one he starts off as being a coward. 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:52.720 Woo! But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominate, abominable murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:54.240 Now I want you to look with me. 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.240 Look at verse 27. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:04.799 But there shall be by no means any Into anything that defiles or causes an abomination or of a lie. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.960 Then go to chapter 22, if you have your Bibles with you. 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:19.279 Chapter 22, verse 15, it says, Outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:32.640 Now I don't know that I've ever talked a ton about this, but it seems like in God's mind that lying is on the same level as sexual immorality. 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.359 That's pretty heavy duty, folks. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:43.759 If you are a liar, you regularly lie, you're on the same level of being sexually immoral. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:45.680 Quit lying. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:47.839 Not a good idea. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.000 If we practice lying, you might not be saved. 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:54.640 If you're practicing immorality, you might not be saved. 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:59.279 I mean, that's between you and God, but I can tell you right now, this is, I don't want to go there. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:01.680 Does anybody want to go there? 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:03.759 I mean, I'm from Georgia. 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:06.240 I'm not very smart, but I figured out a few things. 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:23.039 And it says it's fire and brimstone, which is a second death, and it seems as though because we've been given eternity in our heart, there's an eternal nature to us, that there's something about us that will never die. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:33.920 So we can have perpetual joy, perpetual worship, perpetual tabernacling with the Lord in his presence, or the other. 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:38.240 So if you're here today and this is true of you, then repent. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.160 That means turn around, change. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:42.559 Give yourself to the Lord. 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:43.680 Surrender to Him. 00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:44.720 Live for Him. 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.039 It's a great adventure. 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:51.279 I signed up a long time ago, and I've never regretted it. 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:52.640 I've regretted a lot of things in my life. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.920 It's not one of my regretted. 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:56.880 Is signing up and following Jesus. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:08.000 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and he talked with me and he said, Come, I will show you the bride, the lamb's wife. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:14.400 I think he's probably, I think he digs this assignment a lot better than the last one, which was the seven plagues. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:17.759 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:20.480 Who do we know did that in the Bible? 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:25.839 Who took Jesus to a great and high and lofty place? 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.440 Satan did. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:29.359 Remember what he showed him? 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.119 He said, Look, here's all the powers of the earth. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:35.519 Here's all the here's all the riches of the earth. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:37.759 It can be yours if you'll worship me. 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:40.400 Look what God does. 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:46.400 Look what the angel carries him up to see, to see the comparison and contrast. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:59.200 He carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, verse 10, and he showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:09.839 Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.680 Now here's why I think this is important. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:28.000 If this is the view that the angel wants John to see of what it's like in heaven, I believe that's the view God wants us to have here on earth. 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:38.319 Because we're commanded to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:54.160 That says to me, church, that God wants us to look upon cities and look upon peoples and look upon nations as the potential for the beauty that they could be if Christ was exalted in ruling over that place. 00:25:55.359 --> 00:26:00.799 Nothing less than that kind of a heart for our city of Colorado Springs. 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:04.480 I've been to 30 nations of the world. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:06.799 Been in all the major nations of the world. 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.640 I haven't been to Russia. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:12.640 But it is anything but that. 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:15.279 And our city's changing. 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:17.599 Our city's changing. 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.599 With the legalization of marijuana, drug cartels are coming in. 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.279 They're from Cuba, they're from Puerto Rico, they're from Colombia. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:31.839 Because they've got a good front with a legal opportunity to grow pot. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:35.519 And they're buying up houses and they're buying up properties and they're buying up warehouses. 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:38.640 We're going to see crime spike. 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:44.240 Remember, I told you about that little dialogue I had with that guy early on on our vacation? 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:48.000 I said to him, because he's big, oh man, legalization of marijuana. 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:49.039 It's so cool you guys are doing that. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:54.799 I said, yeah, it's really cool that we have an 11.2% spike in our crime in our state this year. 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:01.680 And all the experts, political, secular, whatever, all of them say it's because of legalization of marijuana. 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.039 The enemy is on the move. 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.480 That's why I encourage you to vote. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:11.119 Vote righteousness. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:13.279 Vote righteousness. 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.359 And they say, well, no political party's righteous. 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.000 That's true. 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:18.480 But there are some righteous stands. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.960 There are some righteous laws. 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:22.160 Okay. 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:30.160 Now this next part I'm going to read is also covered, just so you might want to jot this down, in Ezekiel 40 through 48. 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:37.759 So Ezekiel 40 through 48 are the exact same measurements, more specific in Ezekiel than here. 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:39.200 But here's what it says. 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:40.240 This is pretty cool. 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.720 This is craziness, these next few verses. 00:27:42.960 --> 00:28:00.480 And she had a, and then she had a great and high wall with 12 gates and 12 angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.799 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:16.480 You guys remember that the scriptures tell us that the church is built, the foundation of the church is built on the foundation of the prophets and the apostles. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:22.000 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.200 The city is laid out as a square, its length is as great as its breath. 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:32.480 He measures the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:36.799 Its length, breadth, and height are all equal. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:44.960 Then he measured the wall 144 cubits according to the measure of a man that is an angel. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.200 So this is 1,500 miles. 00:28:50.079 --> 00:29:09.279 So 1,500 miles per side, and the height and the length, the same, this cube, 1,500 miles, would go from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico from Denver to Atlantic City. 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:13.920 So that's the measurement coming down from heaven. 00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:20.240 300 miles between each gate, 1,500 miles straight up. 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:31.039 That's 2,250,000 square miles per side of diamond walls. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.720 And you can look through it, it's translucent. 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:41.039 3,375,000 cubicle miles. 00:29:41.519 --> 00:30:09.119 Henry Morris says that if we take the entire population of the world since Adam to Noah, from the flood to the modern day, then into the millennium, and say very generously that 80 billion people who have ever lived and add 20 billion more for unborn children and miscarriage, so that all of the history of humankind has produced 100 billion people, and let's say one-fifth are saved. 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:25.680 That means 20 billion people are in the city, with 20 billion people in the city, and we give everyone a mansion, and the flooring of your mansion is 75 acres, and the ceiling is 75 acres. 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.759 I mean, that's a lot bigger than the Beverly Hillbillies mansion. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:46.880 You will have three quarters of the city still left for streams, parks, hunting, biking, rock climbing. 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:52.160 I mean, the capacity is incredible, church. 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:53.839 This is phenomenal. 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.279 That's what we're getting. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:31:01.039 You may not get your mansion or your ranch or your cabin here on earth. 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:03.759 You're gonna get something way better up there. 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:12.559 Can you imagine 75 acres of square footage and 75 acres square footage going up? 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.599 Well, what who cares about what goes up steep? 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:17.680 Remember, we got new bodies? 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.640 Hey, Moses. 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:24.319 Can I zoom that way and not hit anything? 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:25.359 Sure, go. 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:28.960 No jet pack on the back. 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:30.960 It's just your body. 00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:33.680 It's spirit powered. 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:41.519 So when you're watching all those hero DC comic book type movies, you'll be able to do that kind of stuff, man. 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:44.960 You'll be like Spider-Man of heaven. 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:45.920 I don't know. 00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:51.839 The construction of its wall was of jasper, and the city was pure gold like clear glass. 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.559 The foundation, the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:18.799 The first foundation was jasper, the second, sapphire, the third, Chalcedoni, the fourth, Emerald, the fifth, Sardonx, the sixth, sardist, the seventh, chrysalite, the eighth, barrel, the ninth, topaz, the tenth, chrysopras, the eleventh, Jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:24.319 And if I mispronounced any of these jewels and gems, don't email me. 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:25.200 I'm not interested. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:25.759 Okay? 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:28.640 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.680 Each individual gate was one pearl. 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:32.559 Can you imagine? 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:35.440 There's a gate that's a pearl. 00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:39.200 I mean, that is one massive clown. 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:41.279 Let me just tell you that right now. 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:48.720