WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.360 So that's exciting. 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:02.879 It really is. 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.320 And uh so it works, folks. 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:07.599 It works. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:14.000 But today I want us to continue our series on heaven. 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:17.839 And you know what I love about heaven? 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:26.559 Is first of all, the question is always asked, Will heaven be boring? 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.000 In fact, I hope everyone has an outline. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:31.039 Do you have an outline? 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:32.320 Do you have your little sheet? 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:33.200 Everybody does. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:33.679 Okay. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:34.640 All right, guys. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:35.119 Amen. 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:36.640 Look at my teenagers over there. 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:37.439 They're ready. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:38.159 I love it. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.200 I love it. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:55.200 But anyway, I as I was thinking about uh this series, I thought about, I think, probably the one of the best books ever written on heaven. 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:56.960 And I've read several. 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:01.600 And this book has sold over a million copies. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.319 So it is unbelievable. 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.560 And you say, man, that's a thick book. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:10.239 You know, when I was a teenager, I didn't like thick books. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.239 I like thin books. 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:19.920 But the exciting thing about this thick book is the chapters in the book are very short. 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:24.319 They're not uh, should I say, long chapters. 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.719 Uh, but are you looking forward to heaven? 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.879 Is heaven beyond our imagination? 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.480 Is heaven our default destination, or is hell? 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.400 I mean, it answers for all you. 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.000 I love this one. 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.120 Will there be animals in heaven? 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:43.920 So you want to read it. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:44.719 You want to read it. 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:46.319 I'm not gonna tell you, you gotta read it. 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:51.359 And uh, but uh how could heaven be heaven without animals? 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.879 That's all I gotta say. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:53.599 Amen. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:55.040 That's all I gotta say. 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:00.799 So, you need to get that book. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.120 You need to get the book. 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.960 Today, I've got another appetite for you. 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:12.240 You know, we've been having, I had you one last week. 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:18.319 And you know, last week we started, and I kind of a home base would be 1 John 14. 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:25.680 And you remember we talked about let not your heart be troubled, neither be afraid. 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.520 You believed in God, Jesus said, also believe in me. 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:32.319 For in my father's house are many mansions. 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.159 If it were not told, if it were not so, I would have told you so. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.360 That I go to prepare a place for you. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:47.759 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. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:53.120 And we said we didn't have to let our hearts be troubled because we had a place. 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:56.000 We had a place. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.759 Folks, this life is not all there is. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.840 In fact, it's really the beginning after this life for an eternity. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:12.800 So you gotta get that thought fixed in your mind. 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:18.400 This is not the end, as millions of people think it is. 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:21.039 They think we just go back to dust. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:22.960 But that's not true. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.960 So there's the place, and then there's the person that we're gonna be with. 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:30.240 Jesus. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:37.759 But the question today in the title of the message will heaven be boring? 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.879 But here's the appetite I want to leave with you today. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.719 Here lies a poor woman who always was tired. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.800 Any ladies feel that way? 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:50.080 A few. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:51.919 The young couples, especially. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:53.840 I know you're running for both ends. 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:54.400 Yeah. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.919 Here lies a poor woman who always was tired. 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.240 For she lived in a place where help wasn't hired. 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:07.199 Her last words on earth were, dear friends, I am going. 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:12.319 Where washing's not done, nor sweeping nor sowing. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:20.639 And everything there is exact to my wishes, for where they don't eat, there's no washing of dishes. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.160 Don't weep for me now, don't weep for me ever. 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.519 I'm going to do nothing forever and ever. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.639 Now, that's how a lot of people think about heaven. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.319 That it's going to be a place where we do nothing. 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:45.839 Now, I don't know about you, but if all I did was in heaven was just sit there by the stream and do nothing, that would be boring to me. 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:51.120 I mean, I'm a guy that's, I've got two speeds, I'm either wide open or dead. 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.240 But but that's not what heaven's going to be like. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.480 In other words, a place that's so boring, but that's not true. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:09.759 And so today I want us to look at five reasons why heaven is not going to be boring. 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:18.480 And the first thing I want to bring to our attention is again, I I've been reading a lot about heaven for the last month. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:34.160 And in his book, The Journey of Desire, by John Eldridge, he writes this nearly every Christian I have spoken with has some idea that eternity is an unending church service. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:47.439 We have settled on the image of the never-ending sing-along in the sky, one great hymn after another, and then forever and forever we're just going to be having a camp meeting. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.079 Now, that's good news. 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.519 But if we had that all the time, I don't know if we could stand it. 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:04.240 Because we get up, we get down, we get up, and there's going to be praise and worship all the time of praising and worshiping God. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:08.879 But folks, heaven's more than just one big church service. 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.560 And then we're sitting there and you're saying, I already know what you're thinking. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.480 Oh no, you mean that's all we're going to be doing? 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.879 And then all of a sudden you say, Oh, oh, I got to repent. 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:17.920 I'm sorry, Lord. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.720 I must not be spiritual enough. 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:28.079 So there's all these kind of imaginations about what heaven's going to be like. 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:39.600 Some think that we're going to be up in the sky in heaven on a on a moon-shaped heart, uh moon-shaped thing, playing harps all day. 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.160 Somebody told me, said, Well, you know what we're going to be doing? 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.040 We're going to be buffing the streets of gold. 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:47.519 Playing pickleball. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:50.560 That'd be great. 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.199 But but so what is heaven? 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:55.920 Why? 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:04.879 I mean, all those things, and you you don't want to say anything, and you don't say anything, because you don't want everyone to think that you're not spiritual. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.839 I mean, I mean, I have a good time here on earth, don't you? 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.519 Now, if you're not having a good time, that's your fault. 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:14.639 Amen. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.600 I love living. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.439 I love life. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.519 I married this woman almost 40 years ago, and I promised her one thing. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.000 I said, honey, I'm not the best-looking guy. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.759 Honey, I'm not rich, but I can promise you this with me, life will not be boring. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:35.199 Has it been boring, honey? 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.360 I'm going to make something happen. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.279 It's fun. 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:44.160 It's exciting. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:53.759 Well, all the desires and the excitement and the fun that you have on this earth cannot be compared to heaven. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.560 So I'm going to give you a little insight to really what I think. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.120 I think heaven's really going to be. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:06.879 Number one. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.480 Heaven will not be boring because number one, God's not boring. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.920 In Psalm 16, 11, and I think we'll throw that up there for you. 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.399 I just got an email from people watching. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.040 You are a Cliff Note pro. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.399 Yep, I do read the Cliff notes of the books. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:38.000 I'm not going to take all day to read 10 books when I can read the Cliff Notes. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:44.080 But Susan can read the book though quicker, and I can read the Cliff Notes, though. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:45.840 But now, here we go. 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:46.879 Watch this. 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:51.919 In Psalm 1611, it says, and what a powerful verse. 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:53.600 It's talking about God. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.240 He says, You will show me the path of life. 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:02.159 Then he goes on to Psalm 1611 and says, In your presence is the fullness of joy. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.279 You know what the word fullness means there in the Hebrew? 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:11.679 It means literally so fulfilling that you can't even comprehend it. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.559 You're so fulfilled, you just, ah. 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:17.840 I mean, think about that. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:19.519 Think about that. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:27.840 Every, there's nothing you could be fulfilled on this earth compares to the fulfillment of the joy of the Lord. 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:28.960 Nothing. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:30.879 That's what it means. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:38.080 And then he says, I love this, at the right hand are pleasures evermore. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:42.240 Pleasures forevermore. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:53.120 I can't imagine anyone thinking that dwelling with God at his right hand, the position of favor, would be boring. 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:55.200 Think about that. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:10:00.639 Where did the idea come that God in heaven is boring? 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.519 Now, Randy Alcorn's book, listen to what he said. 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.679 And I really think this is awesome. 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:17.840 He said, our belief that heaven will be boring is literally saying that we're believing. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.559 Now, watch this, that God is boring. 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.120 Anyone really believe God's boring? 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.039 No, not if you've got any sense. 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.240 How could God be boring? 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.919 Now think a minute. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:33.200 Now think a minute. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.200 He goes on to say this. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.159 He says, first of all, there's no greater nonsense. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:39.279 That's the way he put it. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:48.639 But he said, now watch, our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy comes directly from God's hand. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.039 He made our test taste buds. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.480 He made our adrenaline. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:11:08.159 He made all our desires, the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains, likewise our imaginations and our capacity for joy and exhilaration were made by the very God we accused of being boring. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.720 So think about that. 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:21.279 Everything that you desire right now, the pleasures, the hobbies, all the things you desire and you crave. 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.000 Krispy Kreme hot nail, donuts. 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:33.200 All those things that you crave, guess where they came from? 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:33.919 God. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.480 God gave you those desires. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:43.279 God gave you that will, the very qualities. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:56.559 In fact, I got to thinking, are we so arrogant human beings to believe that we created fun? 00:11:58.720 --> 00:11:59.039 No. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:02.480 God created fun. 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.399 And I'm telling you, God has more fun than any of us. 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:12.879 How would you like to be God and just say, okay, I think I'm going to create the earth today? 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:15.039 Hello? 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.440 I think I'm going to create all these animals. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.639 And he creates them, every one. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:30.559 There comes the giraffe, there comes the hippo, there comes the dogs, there comes the snakes. 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:36.080 But uh he's just making all these animals. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:40.639 And then he gets to the end and he thinks about this, and he's made Adam. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:48.879 And you know Adam's standing there, and the animals are coming by, and he turns around and he looks at God and he says, Is that all? 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:51.200 He said, No, no. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.639 I got something special for you, boy. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:04.799 So he puts him to sleep, takes out a rib, and you know what he did with that rib? 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.080 He created woman. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.679 Woo! Yeah, thank God. 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.200 Now you're getting down to business, Lord. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.320 I mean, tell me, how can that be boring? 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:23.440 Think a minute. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:25.440 Think about it. 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:26.799 No way. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:28.000 No way. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:36.320 Yes, the very qualities that you and I admire in other people, every one of them, are true of God. 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:37.519 Think about that. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.759 He's the source of everything that you and I find fascinating. 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:51.679 Whatever you find fascinating in your life, He created it, or He provided that thought process for you. 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.639 My goodness, that's unbelievable. 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.320 I got to thinking about for you musicians. 00:13:58.559 --> 00:13:59.440 We love music. 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.000 We all are musically inclined. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.519 That's part of our makeup. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:05.679 Well, who do you think created Bach? 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:08.080 Who made Beethoven? 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:09.600 Who made Mozart? 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:11.120 Who gave them their gifts? 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.279 Who created music itself and the ability to perform it? 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:22.000 All that is admirable and fascinating in human beings come from the creator. 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:23.600 Can I get an amen? 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:35.519 He says in Psalms 139, verse 14, that you and I are fearfully, that God made us and that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.480 Marvelous are his works. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:41.679 Oh my goodness. 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.679 You know what I've come to the conclusion? 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:50.879 It's not God that's born. 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:51.519 We are. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:52.639 It's us. 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:54.960 We're boring. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.960 Have you ever thought about how many of you like humor and laughter? 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:02.159 I love it. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:05.279 And some people are just naturally at it. 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:07.440 Guess who created that? 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:08.080 God. 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.120 Can you imagine what heaven's gonna be like? 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.240 Oh, there'll be so much humor and laughter going on. 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:18.559 I meant, hey, and what and most of the time they're laughing at me. 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.000 My granddaddy taught me early in my life, he said, son, when you mess up, you might as well laugh at yourself. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.000 Everyone else is laughing at you. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:30.240 Amen. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.559 And I do all my life. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.480 I just laugh at myself. 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.200 So God is the creator of everything. 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.519 So the real question is this. 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.159 How could God, are you ready for this? 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.279 How could God not be bored with us? 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.879 Now that's the real question. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:54.639 Amen. 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.080 Oh me. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:02.399 Heaven will not be boring because God is not boring, number two. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:08.879 Heaven will not be boring because you will not be boring. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.360 You say, what do you mean by that? 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.600 You just said that we are born. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:14.960 Well, but now wait a minute. 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:24.320 We can imagine that God is not born, but we kind of have to put a lot of faith to imagine that we ourselves will not be boring for eternity. 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.159 But here's the reason we won't be. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:26.799 Are you ready? 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.919 Look at 1 Corinthians 15, 51 and 52. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.799 And it literally says that we're going to be changed. 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:38.480 1 Corinthians 15, 51 and 52 says twice that we shall be changed. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:47.679 In Philippians 3, 20 and 21, Paul says that our lowly body will be conformed to his glorious body. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:49.919 We're going to be changed. 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.519 I meant in the twinkling of an eye. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.639 So that makes it easier to understand. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.399 We get down on ourselves in this life. 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:07.359 I know a lot of people that do, thinking that we're not the most interesting person in this world. 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.319 And some of you are self-conscious. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.839 I'm self-conscious sometimes of how God has made us. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.440 And I'm too shy. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.119 I'm too boisterous. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.880 I'm getting to me. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.079 Talk too much. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:24.000 Don't listen. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:26.880 Thank you, honey. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:28.480 Yeah, keep preaching. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:29.440 Bring it. 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:39.359 I mean, you know, and sometimes we even wonder, even wonder why. 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.559 God made us that way. 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.480 But you gotta realize you're fearfully and wonderfully made, and God makes no mistakes. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.920 Can I get an amen? 00:17:50.640 --> 00:18:00.880 Listen to what Joseph Bailey wrote a book, and I love this title of it because it really gets your attention. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:10.160 He wrote a book about death called The View from a Hearse, in which he said, that'll get your attention, okay? 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.720 It got my attention. 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:22.559 It must also be remembered, he said, that before believers live in heaven, they will experience a radical change. 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:30.559 A fetus, he goes on to say in the womb, is not ready for the earth until he goes through a radical change called birth. 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.400 Makes good sense of it. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:39.039 And so until that change takes place, he cannot enjoy life in this new world, that is the fetus. 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:42.319 Then he says, so the believer will be changed. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:44.000 God has promised it. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:53.680 And let us not, therefore, he says, prejudge, I like that, or question God about things that we do not fully understand. 00:18:55.119 --> 00:19:02.960 Romans chapter 8, verse 29 literally says, but we will be different people in heaven, having what? 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.200 Been conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.599 I like what he says in 1 John 3, 2. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:23.279 Beloved, now we're the children of God, and it does not seem or to know what we will be, but we do know that when he comes and is revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:28.240 So you may be boring now, but I got good news for you. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.559 You won't be born in heaven. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.079 Because there's nothing boring about God. 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:37.200 Amen. 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.920 Nothing, nothing boring about God. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:50.079 Number three, heaven will not be born because God's not boring, heaven will not be born because you're not boring. 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.400 And that's good. 00:19:53.920 --> 00:20:00.319 So, number three, heaven will not be born because your friends will not be born. 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:15.519 In Hebrews 12, verses 22 and 23, it says, But ye are coming to the Mount of Sin and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.279 He's talking about us, what? 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:23.440 Entering into the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:37.519 In verse 23, he says, To the general assembly in the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:39.200 Unbelievable. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:46.240 The book of Hebrews right here tells us we're on the way to, hey, to the heavenly Jerusalem in the location. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:50.400 The location there is the spirits of just men made perfect. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.119 In other words, you and I made perfect. 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:54.000 Yes. 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.440 Now, who is being referred to with that statement? 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:04.400 Here, it's none other than the Old Testament saints, but in fact, positionally speaking, we are already there. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:12.000 He says in Ephesians 2, 6, he hath raised us up and made us to sit together with God in heavenly places. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.920 So positionally we're there. 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.880 Practically, we won't be there until we die or we're raptured out. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:22.480 So we see this, and this is what he's talking about. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:33.920 I really believe Hebrews 12 also says that look, not only are we joined with the Old Testament saints, but he says a numerable company of angels, and then look at what he says in verse 23. 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:38.960 And the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven. 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:55.519 Remember, last week we talked about it's kind of like when we get to heaven, we sign in, we go to the counter and we register in and it's like a huge hotel, and all our friends there are gathered and they see us and they're welcoming us and we're checking in. 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:58.720 So we see. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:12.480 Going to spend eternity in the company, look of angels, the Old Testament saints, and the population of the entire entire church, which means everyone that's ever been born again asked Jesus Christ to come into the hearts and lives. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:13.680 What's going to be in heaven? 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:15.599 And we're going to be there with them. 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:26.079 Now, I want you, what I'm about to, I can't, I can't even grasp what I wrote down to me, but this gets, you know why I get so excited about that? 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:35.680 First of all, your friends and people that we know and loved ones and family members that's gone on above uh before us, that they've already been changed. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:37.680 And by the way, you remember that body thing? 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:38.720 What do you think is? 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:41.279 Next week, you don't want to miss it. 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:42.880 I'm bringing the message. 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.799 Uh, and the title of the message is gonna be Extreme Makeover. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.960 I couldn't get rid of that thinking about the new body. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:04.000 So next week we're gonna, I'm gonna show you every scripture and show you four different things that happen to our to our body. 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:05.759 That extreme makeover. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:08.240 Some of us need an extreme makeover. 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:09.680 I do. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:10.720 Amen. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:14.559 Hey, and it'll be a body that'll know no pain and aches. 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:17.920 Woo! I can play pickleball all day and never get hurt. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.759 You say, well, how do you know pickleball's up there? 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:24.720 I don't. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:28.000 How do you know it's not? 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:30.480 You don't. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.240 So let's just, you think what you think, and I think what I think. 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.039 On things that we don't know for sure. 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:38.720 You gotta have a little imagination. 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:39.920 You know why some of us are born? 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.759 We don't have any imagination. 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:50.400 In heaven, you're not gonna be born because you're gonna have an imagination, but here's some thinking oh, oh, but think about it. 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:53.599 You the imagination won't be just thinking about it. 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:54.720 You're in it. 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:57.519 You're living it. 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:01.119 I think I'm going over there. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.039 Man, heaven's big. 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:04.640 You you you you got a job? 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.359 No, I don't. 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.319 I I'm there. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.920 I'm there. 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:10.240 Mm-hmm. 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.960 Oh, hey, you might be a superhero in heaven. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:17.279 You don't know. 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.400 It's gonna be so wonderful, so imaginable. 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:21.920 I can't imagine. 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:25.039 Somebody wrote a song about that, didn't he? 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:27.359 Just a thought. 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:29.839 But look at it, look at it. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:41.039 Have you ever thought about there'll be no hatred, there'll be no gossiping, there'll be no backbiting, there'll be no lying, there'll be no cheating, there'll be no stealing, there'll be no killing, there'll be no dying. 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.279 Can I get an amen? 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:50.880 If somebody wants to say hallelujah, wow! And here's something else. 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:56.880 So we you we get so caught up in worrying about what people think down here. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:03.920 You don't have to worry about what they're thinking, you don't have to worry about the motives they they have because they're all pure. 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.960 Think of those things that are lovely in mind, it's and pure and lovely. 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:11.119 Philippians 4, 8. 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:14.160 That that's life every day. 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:19.680 Now that I can't imagine. 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:21.359 Oh yeah. 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.319 You and your wife will never have arguments. 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.599 You say, well, that's easy because you were not married up there. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.319 I thought that was good. 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:34.559 I only got a few laughs. 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:39.680 No, but what we're talking about, there'll be no enemies, there'll be no fighting, fussing. 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:41.920 We'll be enjoying each other. 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:42.559 Why? 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:44.640 Because we're like Jesus. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.079 Man, that gets to be exciting. 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.359 I can't wait. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:50.480 I really can't. 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:52.720 It's gonna be unbelievable. 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.079 No interior motives at all. 00:25:57.839 --> 00:25:58.480 People. 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:02.160 Now here's what I wrote to me. 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:03.440 Think about this. 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:11.839 People we might have been friends with a thousand years ago, but couldn't because we lived in a different time. 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:25.519 We'll be, hey, they will become our friends and think about getting to know people like Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, Peter, Stephen, the Apostle Paul. 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:26.480 Can you imagine? 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:32.319 How in the world can you get born when you get to heaven and say, Moses, Moses, come here? 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.480 I need to take you for a cup of coffee. 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.240 I got a lot of questions. 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:43.519 Moses. 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:45.440 How was it? 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:49.920 Oh, the coffee up there is gonna be better than Columbia coffee, I promise. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:56.400 That's good. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:58.880 So you see, yeah, it's a high mountain up there. 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:00.720 That's good. 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:02.240 Hey, but think about it. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:03.680 Moses, can I talk to you? 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.279 How did it feel when you went before Pharaoh? 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:10.640 I said, let my people go. 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:13.200 Moses. 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:20.960 How did it feel when you dropped your rod and it turned into a snake? 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:24.559 Moses, I would have been exit stage left. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.160 I'd have been gone. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.839 I would have not done what he did, reached down and picked it back up again. 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:32.880