WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:00.640 Nana. 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:04.959 I want you to turn with me in your Bibles to Revelation 21. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.120 The last two chapters. 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.400 Actually, the last three chapters deals. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:19.120 Chapter 20 deals with the millennium and then 21 and 22, the new Jerusalem, the new city, the heaven. 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.239 And so let me tell you where we're going. 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.000 Today, we're going to get a little glimpse of heaven. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:28.079 It's going to be great. 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.120 In fact, I can only imagine. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:32.880 Benji, you haven't sung that in a while. 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.399 We might have to let you just kind of do that, this at the invitation a little bit of it, maybe. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:44.000 Because when you get through hearing this message, you're going to say, I can only imagine. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.479 Of all that, what the heaven looks like. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:47.840 And we're just going to get a glimpse. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.359 In fact, let me go ahead and help you. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.640 You will not be able to comprehend what you're about to hear. 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:57.920 It is that glorious and that magnificent and that beautiful. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:59.679 It's just unbelievable. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.759 I'll tell you what it will do for you. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.920 It'll make you want to go there. 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:06.799 And that's where we're all going. 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.000 I promise. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.319 So uh it's going to be exciting. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.200 And then next week, you don't want to miss next week. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.040 I'm going to answer your questions. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:28.239 I hear one of the most asked questions about heaven and what happens after life here on earth, especially with children. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:31.599 I'm going to answer that next week. 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:33.840 You don't want to miss it. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.079 I've had a little baby, boy, born dead. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:50.400 So you'll hear a little bit of my mine and Susan's testimony through that situation, but you're going to hear the truths that I saw after that little boy died. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.840 And the questions I've had asked to me all these years, even about abortion. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.799 What happens to the little babies? 00:01:58.959 --> 00:01:59.519 All that. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.519 I'm going to answer it next week. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:02.959 You don't want to miss it. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:04.319 I promise you. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.639 The answer for the children. 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:10.080 It's going to be great. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:10.719 I promise. 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:12.560 We're going to look at all the scriptures. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:14.800 It's going to be a great message. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.319 You don't want to miss it. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.680 And then, Easter's right around the corner. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.039 Can I get an amen? 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.400 You don't want to miss the Easter Sunday here. 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.400 It's going to be unbelievable. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.400 We're going to be starting a new series, Death Defeated. 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:38.400 And it's going to be an awesome month of April as I preach on the cross and the resurrection. 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.919 And so you don't want to miss that either. 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:45.599 But it's, aren't you glad you're in a church that preaches the word? 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:46.639 Amen. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.439 Amen. 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:52.240 The uncompromising word of the living God. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:53.680 And it never returns void. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.439 Isaiah 55, 11. 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:01.759 So, Revelations 21 through the whole chapter. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:06.240 We'll be looking at key verses in that chapter. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:11.360 But let's pick up and let's start in verses 1 through 3. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:23.039 And I saw the beloved John is writing this, and he says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.120 And there was no more sea. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.319 75% of the earth right now is water. 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:29.599 There'll be no more. 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.360 So that means there's going to be a lot more room for a lot more land. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.599 And they're going to need it. 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:46.639 And then we see right here, and I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.439 Oh, in other words, it's going to just be glorious. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:04:05.120 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:24.399 Now, as we look, and I can think of no better way to kind of wrap up our series on heaven, as to get a good glimpse of what heaven is going to look like, our blessed home of the redeemed. 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.639 And let me just say, heaven's going to be far better than anything you've ever seen. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:40.560 Many of you, you've seen the rich and the famous homes, you've seen all kinds of homes when you go on vacations in these castles and these mansions. 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.079 But I got news for you. 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:52.319 None of that here on this earth will be able to compare with what God's got waiting for you and me in heaven. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.800 Nothing can compare with it. 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:59.839 Do you realize that you are going to receive an inheritance? 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.360 You're going to be rich. 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.000 Everybody says, I'd like to be rich. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:10.319 Well, you're going to be rich beyond your human imagination. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:12.079 I promise you. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.480 And we're going to be looking at that. 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:15.600 So let's see. 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.040 The first thing I want you to look at on your outline. 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:20.399 Everybody have an outline? 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:24.160 Because you want to keep this and go back and read a lot of these scriptures. 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.120 Because 35, 40 minutes doesn't do it justice. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.000 But here we go. 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.879 Heaven is a, I love it, a genuine place. 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:38.240 It's a real, a under that, it's a real place. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:40.160 I mean, can you imagine? 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:46.879 Do you remember what Paul said in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 2 through 4? 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:54.399 He said, I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago, Paul's writing, whether in the body, I cannot tell. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:01.519 In other words, he he couldn't, he didn't realize, he didn't know if he was either there in the spirit or he was there really physically. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:06.000 I mean, he God had just so raptured him up, he didn't know. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:07.600 He says, I cannot tell. 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.560 Or whether out of the body, I cannot tell. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:17.439 God knoweth, hey, God knoweth, though, such and one caught up to the third heavens. 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:22.160 And I knew such a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell. 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:23.360 God knoweth. 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:32.000 And then he says, and he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to other. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:37.519 In other words, he said that's so magnificent and so unbelievable, I can't even explain it. 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.800 I can't, words will not describe it. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:42.879 Wow. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.560 So we know it's a real place. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:55.680 In fact, if you remember at the very beginning, there are really three heavens, and the first one is the terrestrial heaven. 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.240 That is the atmosphere of the earth and the air above us. 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.279 Then there's the telestal heaven. 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.279 That's where the stars and the planets and the galaxies are. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.519 But then there's the celestial heaven. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:12.959 That's the paradise. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.199 That's where God is. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.399 And that's where he is right now. 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.279 And this is the place that we call home. 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:22.800 And it's a real place. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.240 Paul, hey, was taken there. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.439 John in Revelation chapter 4, we preached that. 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.519 Remember, through chapter 5 of the book of Revelation, verse 14. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:34.480 He was there. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:41.839 It is as real as New York City, Los Angeles, hey, Atlanta, or even Chelsea. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.519 Heaven is real. 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.879 It's real, and God lives there. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:55.439 And we'll be joined one day by those who are, hey, really saved and are already there, and those that are planning on going there. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.040 Heaven is real. 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:58.480 But now look at B. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.600 Not only do we see it's a real place, but it's a resting place. 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:31.519 The Bible tells us that in Hebrews chapter 4, verses 3 through 11, for all who have entered into God's rest have registered, and I love this, that only you remember we talked about the registration, but after they register, then it says that they rest from their labors, just as God did after he had created everything in six days. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.840 So it's a place of rest. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:44.559 And Hebrews, I love this passage of Scripture 11, verses 13 and 60, says that we are just pilgrims and strangers passing through. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:53.440 In fact, in Hebrews 11, which we know is the Hall of Faith chapter, he talks about the Abraham and all these patriarchs are gone ahead. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:09:03.519 And they, hey, they had not seen it all yet, but they were holding to the promise, knowing that this earth, there was more to it than where they had been living. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.240 And God had promised them a better home. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:11.919 God had prepared for them a better home, and they were looking for the city. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.039 Pilgrims and strangers. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:17.840 That's it. 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.600 Just passing through. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:26.320 It's a place of peace and rest, a perfect place where burdens cannot follow and troubles cannot come. 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:27.919 Can I get an amen? 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:29.679 Is that not awesome? 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.240 When we get there, we'll be at home. 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:36.960 It is a place to rest from our labors, our cares, our worries, our trials. 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.360 Everything that hinders us here will not be welcome there. 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:44.960 Look at verse 4 and 5. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.120 Look at verse 4 and 5. 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.639 It tells us in Revelation 21, verse 4 and 5. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:59.679 And notice what he says, and God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. 00:09:59.919 --> 00:10:04.639 For the former things, the way that we live now, are passed away. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:10.399 And then verse 5, and he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:11.440 Can I get an amen? 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.519 All things are gonna be made new, folks. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.120 All things, the heavens, the earth, all of it. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:18.480 He's gonna make it new. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.679 And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:25.840 And then I love verse six. 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.879 For he said unto you, and I, hey, hey, and he said unto me, it is done. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:46.240 I am the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning, the end, the first, the last, and will give unto him that is a thirst, in other words, hungering, can't wait to be in the city of the fountain of the water of life freely. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.320 Whoa! Man, can you imagine what that's gonna be like? 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.480 It's gonna be a resting place. 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:59.519 Your greatest problems will be gone. 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.639 I don't know how that's gonna feel. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.320 I don't know how it's gonna feel, but I can't wait to feel it. 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:09.919 Amen. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:12.879 I mean, folks, just think your worries. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.240 What every one of us right here this morning has worries. 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.159 And we know it's sin to worry. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.320 Let's just say we're guilty. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.840 Or let's let's say it a better way, make you feel better. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.519 We have concerns. 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:28.080 Amen. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:30.639 We have concerns. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.519 And we know what Paul said. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:45.440 Don't worry, be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplications with thanksgiving, make your request be made known unto God, and then the peace of God that passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.120 Philippians 4, 6, and 7. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:48.799 I know those verse very well. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.840 Because every time I get in trouble, I start quoting them. 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:54.480 Because I'm concerned. 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:57.039 A lot of people concern what's going on in America. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.159 I got good news. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.519 You ought to be concerned, but we need to take it to prayer. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:08.000 And just remember that the government of this world is upon his shoulders. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.320 Isaiah 9, 6. 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:16.000 But it's a resting place, but it's also, the third thing, a residing place. 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:17.519 Look at verse 7. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.720 He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:29.679 Woo! Heaven is a place where, hey, yes, there's angels live in heaven. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:31.519 The angelic host is there. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.879 God the Father dwells in heaven. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:39.120 He says, the Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:40.639 Psalms 11:4. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:42.960 We know that in Revelation 4. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.799 The redeemed of all the ages will be there. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.279 Every person you know that you love. 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:55.440 I think of several of our people in our church have lost loved ones. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.759 Most of us in here, all of us, have lost loved ones. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.840 And the older you get, the more you lose. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.440 That's just life. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:22.320 But the good news, if they were Christians and they knew the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as a personal Savior, folks, we're gonna see them again. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.679 Hey, listen, this is not the end. 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.679 This is really the beginning. 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:32.720 So hang in there. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:34.240 And we see it right here. 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.720 The redeemed of the ages will also be in heaven with the Lord God. 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.000 The night before Jesus went to the cross to die. 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:48.399 Notice what he said, for the sins of the world, he gave his disciples a promise. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.879 Now, this is a promise to the disciples. 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:55.279 Just as legit as it was to the disciples, it's legit for us. 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.440 And listen to what he said in John 14, verses 1 through 3. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:04.399 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.480 You believed in God, believe in me. 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.759 For in my father's house are many mansions. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.759 If it were not so, I would have told you. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.120 I go to prepare a place for you. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:29.120 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, ye may be also. 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:32.480 Ladies and gentlemen, that's a promise, and God can't lie. 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:33.840 Can I get an amen? 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:36.799 We're going to heaven. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:38.960 That's where we're going. 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:40.879 He's building my mansion. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.960 The only reason, hey, hey, he hadn't come back for his church yet, he's got a lot of mansions to build. 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:49.600 Amen. 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:55.360 He's building them now, getting them ready for us. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:07.120 I love what hey Hebrews 11:10, Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city whose designer and builder is God. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.240 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't fall. 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:11.679 I'm okay. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.039 I did not fall. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:13.600 Okay. 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.600 I shouldn't have slapped it, I guess. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:17.360 But but think a minute. 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.279 Hey, God's building a city for us. 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.759 You think Chelsea Park looks good. 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.679 You ain't seen anything yet. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.679 Oh, Lord, that gets me so excited. 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.159 In fact, look at verse 7. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.320 We will have a fortune. 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:37.840 You remember I told you we'll fortune? 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.120 You said, Where'd that come from? 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:39.840 Watch. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.440 He that overcometh shall inherit all things. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.399 I got a fortune waiting. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.320 You got a fortune waiting. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.200 And look what else we got according to this verse. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.360 Look at the second part of verse 7. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.120 And I will be his God and he shall be my son. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.720 We've got a family waiting for us, folks. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.080 A fortune and a family waiting. 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:07.919 Man. 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.320 It's going to be an unbelievable place. 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:15.919 It's a genuine place. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.759 Notice the second thing. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.200 Heaven is a glorious place. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.200 Glorious, A, in its beauty. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.399 Never has there been a city described like this city. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:48.879 And for me, or even the beloved John, to attempt to describe its glories is to exhaust all the adjectives and descriptive language known to man. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.200 It doesn't work. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:58.960 I really believe this is what Paul had in mind when he said in 1 Corinthians 2 9, listen to what he said. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:11.279 But as it is written, I have not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God had preferred for them that love him. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.240 In other words, we can't comprehend it, folks. 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.960 We can't, even though we're going to try here and look at a few of these things. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:29.279 There's no way that I can adequately describe the city in all its glory, but I do want to mention three quick things that I saw. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.880 Number one, its creation. 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:34.400 Look at verse five. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:42.240 Note the use of the phrase when John says he's referring to the Lord, I make. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.759 In other words, God says, I make this city. 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.119 This city's built by God Himself. 00:17:51.279 --> 00:18:03.119 It's, hey, He created it, He formed it, He, hey, furnishes it, and it's a city that bears the stamp of His power and His personality. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:04.640 All that He is. 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.799 He built a city that reflects His glory. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:13.519 And it will be more glorious than the mind can comprehend. 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:20.240 I'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:22.799 Folks, can you comprehend that? 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.079 See, some of you, you haven't gotten it yet. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.839 Because you couldn't be sitting there containing yourself. 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.440 So I'm gonna get you a little more excited. 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.599 Not only is creation, look at what else I saw, it's duration. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:48.720 All the cities of the earth crumble, decay, or burn down. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.240 Hey, there'll be no rioting and burning in heaven. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:54.480 I can promise you that. 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:09.119 But we also see here on this earth, every building made by the hand of man must constantly constantly be renovated and repaired, but not heaven. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.480 It is a city of such construction that it has never crumbled or decayed. 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.160 Oh, folks, hey, you'll need no paint up there. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:19.279 Can I get an amen? 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.359 Now, some of you painters said, what am I gonna do? 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:23.279 Praise God. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.359 We'll need no carpet cleaning, Benji, up there. 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.920 We'll need no fire damage up there. 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:32.880 We'll need no water damages up there. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:35.839 There'll be no repair up there. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.759 We'll need no dusting, mopping, vacuuming. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:41.119 Can I get an Amen? 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:46.960 Are you with me? 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:49.200 I told you I was gonna get you excited. 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:52.319 You with me? 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:56.400 Woo! Praise Jesus. 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:59.279 I won't have to vacuum the rug anymore. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:02.880 It will stand forever. 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:08.000 The perfect example of what a perfect God can do by his great power. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:17.680 Oh, this city will be so filled with the glory that even eternity itself will not exhaust all that God has prepared for you and me. 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:31.519 Listen, I found this first and I said, that that's as close as I can say it in Ephesians 2, 7, that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us in Jesus Christ. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:34.559 Folks, you're gonna be rich. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:49.359 Wow. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.759 That's it. 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:57.279 And then the third thing, not only the creation of it, the duration of it, but the examination of it. 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:01.680 Now, here's where I can't comprehend, but I'm gonna try. 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.440 In verses 15 through 17, we see the size of heaven. 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.799 It's 1,500 miles square. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:15.359 It's a cube, possibly a cube. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:24.799 Some said possibly a sphere, but whatever I do know, it says it has a diameter, diameter larger than the moon. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:39.680 And if we were to set along the east coast, set it along the east coast, it would stretch from the Atlantic to the Colorado and from Can hey and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:43.119 That's a big place, folks. 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.920 Somebody said, Will it be enough room? 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.400 Trust me, it'll be enough room. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:55.119 The walls, are you ready for this? 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:59.759 The walls stand approximately 216 feet. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:02.960 Now, watch. 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.519 These walls are not for protection. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:12.240 They're for the beauty of the city. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:14.079 Not for protection. 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:16.960 But for the beauty. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.559 The beauty. 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.279 Oh, rather than protection. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:23.759 It's the basis for the design. 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.359 Notice this: Jasper everywhere. 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:33.599 The glory of God will radiate and be reflected from every surface. 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.599 Verse 18 says the wall is clear. 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.000 The wall's clear like jasper. 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:44.240 Verse 18 says it's, hey, the city's pure gold. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:46.559 Pure gold is transparent. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.279 You can see, just almost slap through it. 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:54.799 Verses 19 and 20, we see the foundations. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:23:03.599 I'm not going to try to give you all the names of all the emeralds, but it's going to be jasper's clear, but sapphire's clear blue. 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:23.599 Then you have yellowish green, deep green, white with layers of red, fiery red, golden yellow, sea green, greenish yellow, golden green, violet, purple, all these magnificent stones and beauty of the most prized stones ever made. 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:25.759 Just radiating. 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:28.400 I told you he's gonna be rich. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.039 Wow. 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.319 Verse 21, the gates. 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:37.599 Are you ready? 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.000 Gigantic pearls. 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.039 How many of you ladies like pearls? 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:45.119 All of you like pearls. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.480 Can you imagine? 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.279 Hey, you won't have to worry about poking them in your ear. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:50.960 All you gotta do is just rub them. 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:53.680 Look, look at my pearls. 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.440 Woo! Look at my pearls. 00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:59.200 You want a big pearl? 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:00.400 You gonna have one. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.480 Gates, gigantic pearls. 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:10.799 And then verse 212 says, the street, transparent gold. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:21.839 It is to say that this city is far more glorious than anything the human mind can ever hope to comprehend. 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:32.960 The best thing a man or woman can do is make the necessary preparations so that they can go see it for themselves. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:35.279 Amen. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:37.440 Hey, I'm going. 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.160 My name's been written down. 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:41.039 I'm going. 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:43.200 I got my reservations. 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:53.519 But not only do we see that it's glory in the beauty, letter B, it's glorious in blessings. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:25:13.279 With all the glories of heaven mark in a place of unique existence than anything in the universe, it isn't the physical attributes of this city that make it so special. 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:22.640 There are two great truths right here mentioned in these verses that tell me that heaven is the place I'm looking for. 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:25.519 Look at verse 3. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:42.319 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and he'll be their God. 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:44.319 Oh my goodness. 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.400 Now look at verse 22. 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:55.119 And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:56.960 You won't need a temple. 00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:58.720 Hey, you got God. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.039 And then look at verse 22. 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:06.720 I'm at chapter 22, verse 3 and 4. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:12.160 And there shall be no more curse, no more temptation, no more sin. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:23.359 But the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:25.839 I already know what's going to be in my forehead. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:32.160 Jesus is awesome! I'm gonna ask him to put awesome with it. 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:35.359 Jesus, it's awesome. 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.319 Folks, you're gonna have a mark, but it won't be the mark of the beast. 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.279 It'll be Jesus. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:27:07.839 Just as Jesus had marks on his body showing what he did for you, he had the nail scarred hands, the spear, the crown of thrones, the lacerated, all those scars he what took on himself for me and you. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:13.920 I think it will be an honor for him to put Jesus on you and me, don't you? 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:17.440 Wow. 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:18.799 Wow. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:25.440 Hey, no one will have to wonder whose you are. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.119 See, sometimes it gets foggy down here. 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:37.519 Because we get to the point we feel we have to be politically correct. 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.000 Well, I got news for you. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:48.799 I've been wearing this man and belts that say Jesus, everything Jesus awesome for about 30 years now. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:50.799 And I'm not gonna stop. 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:58.799 I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation to them that believeth to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.319 Romans 1:16. 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.759 Can I get an amen? 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:03.680 Amen and amen. 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:07.680 Wow! The presence of God. 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:10.000 Heaven. 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.319 We're going to see God Himself. 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:16.400 Right now we're separated from Him by this flesh that we wear. 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:18.960 But one day we'll stand in His presence. 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.839 Hey, free from the flesh, and we will see Him in all His glory. 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.920 And let me tell you what Psalm 1611 says. 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:31.039 In thy presence, are you ready? 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:33.279 Is the fullness of joy. 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.960 Then he says, At his right hand, listen, are pleasures forevermore. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:47.680 Pleasures, not regrets, not temptations, not troubles, not worries, pleasures. 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:55.759 The most pleasurable thing you can think about here on this earth cannot be compared with the pleasure in heaven. 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:57.279 Glory to God. 00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:58.640 Wow. 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:00.240 Wow. 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.960