"Heaven Is Real" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue Radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God we thank you for winning the war for giving us instructions to stand and having done all to stand

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And we praise you and thank you that your kingdom come your will be done on earth in and through us

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We are your kingdom and as you use us to advance the kingdom of God the purposes of God the gospel of Jesus Christ

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I pray that you'd equip and strengthen and refresh your servants father. I also thank you Jesus that you died on the cross and we

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Commemorate

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remember what you did for us in substituting your life for ours and

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purchasing our salvation through your own blood and

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Forgiving us power over all the power of the enemy power to

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Bind and loose and forgive to heal the sick and cleanse the lepers and raise the dead and cast out demons and preach the gospel

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Thank you father for giving us that authority

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Father, thank you. Also for using us to bring forth your kingdom and your will I bind the powers of darkness

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That have come against you

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which are many and that you have defeated them already and those who are foolish and those who are bound in these lies and

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Fantasies and enchantments would be released now into the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ

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Which is eternal life and they will no longer be bound held captive by the silliness of the world or the foolishness of

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their own

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Imaginations. I thank you Jesus. We also bind the powers of darkness that have held us captive

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I forbid the enemy the spirits of witchcraft and destruction who send curses and wage war against us in the spirit that they are

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Defeated and our our people our plans our relationships our communications

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Our thoughts are protected by the blood of Jesus now guide us in Jesus name. Amen

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Amen, I'm excited today. We're talking about heaven. Heaven is a good subject

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Yeah, heaven is a good subject and there's a lot of wrong ideas about yeah

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And a lot of mystery about a mystery about it too because well, let's look at John chapter 14

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he says

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Jesus said in

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Verse one, but not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions

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man

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if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and

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Prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also

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Okay, and where I go, you know, and the way, you know, and then Thomas said to him Lord

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We do not know where you're going. How can we know the way?

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Jesus said to him I am the way the truth in life. No one comes to the father

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Except through me. So we have this idea in my father's house are many mansions

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we think of a mansion is like something, you know, a huge ornate Victorian house or a

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Mar-a-lago or something like our castle or

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many

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Dwelling places right now. It's interesting too. There is there's a picture here that a lot of times we don't see that when

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Someone was marrying

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The wedding ceremony in those days there was a betrothal a man would make him a betrothal to a lady and

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Then he would go away

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Mm-hmm and prepare a

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Extra room or a place in his father's house for this bride come at an unexpected time

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He would come to receive the bride the bride had to always be ready and he would bring her to his

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Father's house and she would abide there. And so this is what they would stay

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yeah, this is kind of the they would come and pick her up and lift her up and take her with and so this is

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kind of a analogy to the Galilean weddings

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Process, you know the with the engagement and the and the actual marriage but Jesus here

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He's comforting his disciples because they have been he's been telling them over and over. I'm leaving I'm leaving I'm leaving and this actually this

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Dissertation is in the middle of the Last Supper

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They had just finished washing the feet of the he had just finished washing the feet of the disciples

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And so this is kind of sorrowful zombies. They're gonna portray them. This is their Last Supper

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He's been alluding to going to the cross and now they are seriously getting it. I think they're they're concerned

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They don't know where he's going. What's gonna happen to them?

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So this is kind of where we are a lot of the times in our lives. What's gonna happen in?

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Unfortunately, the devil has so minimized the concept of heaven and eternal life that most people are really

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focused on just

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Surviving down here. They don't have much

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You know stored up for having their treasures in heaven. Well, they don't have much stored up there

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They didn't know if they're gonna get there how to get there

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So we're gonna look at heaven for a few minutes here in Luke chapter 16. We have a interesting

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It's not actually a parable that Jesus told it. It's a story. He told of a certain rich man

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So that means there was he's probably referring to a certain person

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This rich man was clothed in purple and fine linen linen and fared sumptuously every day

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in other words

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he had plenty to eat beautiful food and they're laid at his day at his gate a

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Beggar a certain beggar named Lazarus full of sores who was laid at his feet now here the interesting thing about this this whole

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Story, which Jesus tells only in the book of Luke the gospel of Luke that they were this poor man

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was just

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Wanting to just have the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table and the rich man was so cold-hearted

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He didn't even notice it or he didn't care or he didn't do anything to her help that poor man have food

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Even the dogs were more compassionate because they licked his sores

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But then when the beggar died, he was carried away listen to this by the angels into Abrams boozin's boozin

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So many times people will at a deathbed. They'll see what there was an angel or I saw

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Lord, there's some kind of spiritual

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Him, I don't know what you call it a spiritual out of this world encounter with with an angel or with a being

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That transports their loved one from that deathbed to into the the bosom of Abraham or into heaven

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So the rich man also died and was buried

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It says he wasn't carried by any angels and being in torments in Hades

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He lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom

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So let's look about and Hades for a minute. What is Hades?

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Jerry you kind of look that up. Well Hades. There's a lot of things. We know a lot of things

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We don't know about the yeah afterlife. Yeah

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Hades it's kind of a Greek term for the for the realm of the dead

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Okay, temporary abode, right temporary boat

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You know Hades is really when we look at it in the from the biblical perspective

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it's the place of the wicked dead the spirits of the wicked dead or as a temporary place and we'll

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learn more when we

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Read about Lazarus here. So Hades them just to add more one more thing

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Hades is the Greek word for the Hebrew word Sheol

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So Hades and Sheol are the same word only one's Greek and one's Hebrew

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And so I'm that with this that's why we the New Testament is written in Greek. So the Old Testament in Hebrew

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so that's what we have two different words for the same place, which is again a temporary abode for

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the wicked and

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Abraham's bosom obviously is a temporary abode for what we would call paradise because he said he was he saw

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Abraham Abraham afar off and a and Lazarus in his bosom. So this is a

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Let's see, let's see. Where's that word? Well, it's a it's a it's a in paradise

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It's really Abraham's bosom and paradise in G and the thief on the cross that died that that believed

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Jesus said today you shall be with me in paradise

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so it's it's basically paradise is also a

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temporary temporary abode apparently a temporary abode of the right departed right righteous right people good and and

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So and but then in in

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Verse 23 of Luke

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16 he said in being in torments in Hades

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this this rich man lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and

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Lazarus and Lazarus in his bosom

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And he cried and said father Abraham have mercy on me and sent Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his

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Finger in water to cool my tongue

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So in other words

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In this flame, so it's it's like a foretaste of what we think of as hell hell and

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Hades are kind of used interchangeably interchangeably in our thinking a lot of times but actually

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Hades is a place. It's kind of like a forerunner of hell

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It's kind of like a prelude to what we think of as hell

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Which is the lake of fire?

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So revelations, you know, yeah, you Hannah is the word for hell and

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It's it's kind of like there was a dump outside of Jerusalem

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That were the fire would burn all the time people just there was a flame and there people were just burning trash burning trash

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burning trash and

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That's really a picture Jesus gave of what it's going to be like

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For those who reject the gospel who are going to be eternally in the lake of fire

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it's also referred to as the

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Second death. Yeah, and it says there's a physical death and then there's the eternal death the internal spiritual death

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in this place of torment

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No permanent lake of fire. There's no getting out of that like a fire and it says that that

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there was torment when when

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The rich man was tormented in this place

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And as we said that that torment caused him to plead with Abraham who he saw there was a great

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gulf fixed between the paradise

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You know the rich the rich man was in hell or in Hades Hades and he saw

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Lazarus he saw him, you know, whatever that

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Happened to me and so he asked Abraham to send Lazarus to dip his finger in a drop of water to cool

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the rich man's tongue and then there was a

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Then and then he cried out and said father Abraham have mercy on me and said Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his

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Finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame

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But Abraham said son remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and likewise Lazarus evil things

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But now he is comforted and you are tormented and besides this he says there's that between us and you there's that great gulf fixed

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so that

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That those who want to pass from here to you cannot come nor can those from their past to us

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So they couldn't get past this this chasm this barrier

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It's a final separation

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But then he then the second begging that the rich man said well

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Please then send send him or send someone to my for my five brothers who are still alive

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They may all may not come to this place of torment

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so now finally the rich man is having some compassion even on others if it wouldn't help him and

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Then Abraham made a shocking statement. He said

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They had Moses and the prophets let them listen to them and he said no father Abraham

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But if that one goes to them from the dead, they will repent now

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Remember, this is Jesus talking this and he says and Jesus is but he said to him if they do not hear Moses and the prophets

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Neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead and Jesus was about to do that about four days later three days

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Later rise from the dead as he was speaking this parable. So he's saying you know what you have had enough information

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to make the right choice and you have they have

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Rejected it now as you're still on the earth. You still have a chance to make the right decision

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So and I want to add something here that the Lord showed us a while back in

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First second first Peter we people have asked this question

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What about the people who died before the before in the Old Testament died in the flood died before the cross?

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You know died before we have this message of salvation and in in Peter addresses that issue actually

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And it's a very good thing. He did because there's a lot of people that think well God's pretty cruel

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He you know that first 4,000 years

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Why did they they didn't have a chance because there wasn't even a salvation across a message to to accept

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But Peter says here if you want to think about this write this down. Can I read this?

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Yeah, first Peter start with verse 19 and I'm first Peter 3 3 19

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Yeah, I'm gonna start with verse 18. I was gonna say that to you Christ

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Also suffered once for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh

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But made alive by the Spirit by whom he went and preached to the spirits in prison

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It says by whom also in my Bible home also

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Yeah by home also, he went and preached to the spirits in prison who formerly were disobedient

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When the when once the divine long-suffering waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared in which a few that

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Is eight souls were saved through water. So what is Noah?

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So what they're referring to is those souls that perished in the flood, you know

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God was waiting in the days of Noah while the ark was being built and a few that is eight souls were saved

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But then okay, so we see all these guys

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He what did he do in verse 19 he says he went and preached to the spirits in prison. Well, where's the prison?

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What's who's in prison? What's going on? And then he tells you who they were. They were the ones who had

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You know perished in the flood and Noah's probably in Sheol

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And then it could be and then if you chapter 4 just sliding down a few verses

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Any verse 6 he says and for this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead

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That they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit

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So what I believe happened is when Jesus, you know was dying on the cross died

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He descended into the belly of hell took back the keys preached pale being Hades and preached to these

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spirits men spirits in prison

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And he preached the gospel to them. They also who they were dead, you know

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But that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit

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So they were the gospel was preached to them. And then what I believed happened is in Ephesians chapter

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What is it chapter 4 it says where Jesus tells us he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men

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So what he did was he?

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Anyone who accepted the gospel who?

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Believed what he said

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It says verse in Ephesians chapter 4

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When he ascended on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men and then verse 9 now this he ascended

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What does it mean but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

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And he who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens

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That he might fill all things

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So what he was completing was I believe he preached the gospel of good news the cross

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I believe he shared with these spirits as souls that have died the

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Cross and those whosoever will wanted to accept it because they hadn't had a chance to accept the cross

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So therefore the cross goes forward and backward and it's not like okay those poor guys

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They live, you know in the wrong time period and they never got a chance to be saved because God is not like that

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Well, he had it really his justice because it wouldn't have been fair either if they wouldn't have had that chance to come

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You know and get the gospel priest to them

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Then invert and then let's go to 2nd Corinthians for a minute in fact in chapter 5

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he's talking about you know, we want to know what this is going to look like if we're gonna have a

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What kind of a body what kind of a deal is happening here?

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So in verse 9, he says I believe I will be saved

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What kind of a body what kind of a deal is happening here

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So in the 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 you want to read that or do you have it? Okay. Yeah, that's

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Chapter 1

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Of chapter 5 verse 1. Yeah, but we know that if our earthly house this tent this would be our bodies

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Physical body is destroyed. We have a building from God a house not made with hands

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For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven

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If indeed having been clothed we shall not be found naked

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We have a body your body is your tent your body's your dwelling place your body is your temple

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Your body is the place from which you conduct business make choices and decisions

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Being burdened and because we want to be unclothed or rather clothed with that mortality might be swallowed up in life

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Body that we're living in is temporary and people but make so much of it

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But but many times people have seen people in heaven and they look very young

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They look like in their prime and whatever that prime is. It's 25 30, you know 18

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That you know, he says now he was prepared for us

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This very thing is God who who also has given us the spirit as a guarantee

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So now, you know, we're guaranteed we're gonna be clothed with not with life eternal life. Our bodies are going to be

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Celestial they're going to be immortal glorified body glorified

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He could have used the door when he was in that room when he met with the Apostles and then they were so scared

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Solid material items any honeycomb and bread and the solid material items did not fall through his body

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We'll be there's a whole new how many dimensions could there be well

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He said therefore being we're confident knowing that while we are at home in the body

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You know just that little verse in itself where we walk by faith not by sight. Most people walk by feelings

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trusting in the Word of God or believing that that's possible because they can't imagine you know, how you could walk through a wall and and

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not be stopped by the material elements of that wall and

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They can't imagine how you can eat food and it not fall out of you in the same in the same body

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He says but we are confident. We are confident

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Yes, well, please rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. So we're excited

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We're looking forward to this translation trans

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Upgrade whatever you want to call it. But but the issue that really strikes us is

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The next verse therefore we make it our aim whether present or absent to be well-pleasing to him

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. This is the critical moment

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That each one may receive the things done in the body

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According to what he has done whether good or bad this does not mean we're getting to heaven by being good or bad

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This the only way you get to heaven is through accepting Jesus Christ and the substitution of his death for yours in the payment

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Of the sin the wages in his death the payment required his death

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the only way we get to heaven is by accepting that the blood of Jesus to his death and as

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In a place of our death he says but then after that there is another judgment

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Judgment, he says to that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he's done whether good or bad

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Whatever that looks like rewards or acknowledgements

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Gratitude that God is is grateful to us for following Jesus and the end

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He who seeks to save his life will lose and he loses it for my sake will keep it

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It's not just about getting to heaven some people, you know, hold out and resist God until they're a hundred years old

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I mean literally a hundred years old

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They're still not accepting Jesus and God's mercy has left him alive for a hundred years

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They give their heart to Jesus and maybe some of them out of fear some of them out of reluctance some of them out of

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Whatever and they get saved but what do they have? What what accomplishment? What what have they?

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Done really to be rewarded for so it's here. It's your job. It's your choice

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It's your life. You can you can invest in in the eternal things of heaven

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You can put heaven and its priorities to be your prayers or you can continue to live your life down

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you're bumping around trying to you know get by and

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Long story short. She died and went to heaven

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she said among other things the beauty of heaven and the flowers and the grass and the vitality and

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It is worth it. And then she said there's nothing you can take to heaven except people

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That's the only thing you can bring with you

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Today in an acceptable time I've heard you and in the day of salvation

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I have helped you behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation

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So we have to recognize there is a moment where you have to turn around

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You can't be going the wrong direction the whole time and get to the right destination

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Repentance means to turn around it may be a brief moment of saying, you know what you're right. I'm wrong

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God forgive me. It doesn't have to be a you know, but it is a repentance

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It is a turning around is a recognizing and it is submitting to the revelation of the truth of Jesus Christ as opposed to what?

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you thought you were, you know following and so for your sake turn around if you haven't already and

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Get get going in the right direction to get to heaven

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There's a hope and the thing is to is those that have are in faith in Jesus Christ genuine faith in Jesus Christ

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There's a whole new dimension right that we have coming. It's not a new revelation in the new earth revelation 21

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This is something that we really long for and so we need to be living for eternity

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Outliving our life, right?

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Living our life and realizing that people there's two destinations

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Okay, because 19 talks about something very special that's going to happen in heaven and that's called the marriage supper of the Lamb

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and so he's talking about in the beginning of 19 the voice the great multitude the destruction of

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Judgment that he's bringing upon the harlot who is by the way

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the harlot that has corrupted the whole earth with their fornication and he has avenged her on the blood of

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His saints shed by her. So the harlot is this world system is Babylon as we would probably call it

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It is the world system that rebels against defies denies hates God

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that has corrupted the earth with her fornication with her interactions with her commerce with her greed with her money with her deals that she

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Makes with people to destroy them again. He's they said hallelujah and her smoke arises up forever and ever

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So this this spirit of destruction that it is really the the king of the world system

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Yeah is going to be destroyed and they and there was rejoicing the voice

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Came from the throne saying praise our God to all you his servants and those who fear him most

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so there is there's a time of reckoning for this wicked system and if you're part of the system and you think that you're gonna

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and then I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty

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Thundering saying hallelujah for the Lord our God

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Omnipotent reigns and then verse 7 of chapter 19. Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage supper

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Marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has

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Made herself ready. This is flashing back to the parable that Jesus would tell him

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so of the marriage the invitations went out the people were too busy one had bought a

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New oxen and one had married a wife they made excuses they did not come

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They and then other there's several parables about the marriage supper and many were invited

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They didn't come so then they went to the highways and hedges and compelled them to come in the last week first the first last

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That would be his wife clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the Saints again

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We're talking about the goodness the kindness the love the acts of love then he said to me, right?

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This is ready to John is being the one told to do this, right?

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Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb and he said to me those who those

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These are the true sayings of God and I fell at his feet and worshiped him

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but he said see that you do not do that for I'm your fellow servant, but so we see that there is a

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Time coming and then I saw he says verse 11

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The heavens open and behold a white horse and now so this marriage supper of the lamb

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Okay, the heaven where God dwells the third heaven, you know, there's the second heaven with the demons

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I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and you sat on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness

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He judges and makes war his eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns

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He had named a name written on that. No one knew except himself and he was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and

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And his name is called the Word of God that blood could be there his blood or the blood of many that were

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Slain for his sake and the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen clip from heaven heaven as an army

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clothed in fine linen white and clean followed him on white horses and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword and

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That with it he should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself

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Tread the winepress of the fierceness the wrath of Almighty God and on his robe

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There was a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So we see there's activity in heaven

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there's a marriage supper the lamb people have been invited Jesus talked about it when he was here and then after that he Jesus and his

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Servants is are coming back to the earth

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Riding on white horses with Jesus leading them in the triumph and the new heaven and the earth is going to be a busy place

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You're not going to just be floating around on a cloud learning how to play your harp. Exactly. Nothing like that

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But let's close with this today, honey

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I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away

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Also, there was no more sea than I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem

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Coming down of out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband

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This is the true church right here

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and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men and

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He will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself will be with them and be their God and God will

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Wipe away every tear from their eyes

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There shall be no more death nor sorrow no crying

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There shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away

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I make all things new and he said to me right for these

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These words are true and faithful and he said to me it is done

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I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning in the end

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I will give of the fountain of water of life freely to him who thirsts

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He who overcomes shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son

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Idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone

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So in other words, you can't really talk about heaven without talking about fire and brimstone and hell

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But the thing is to wiping away the tears wiping and making all things new

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This is what we're looking forward to

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Peter says that all the the elements the very elements are going to be dissolved melt with a fervent heat

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The whole the whole universe as it is as marvelous as it is

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It's been defiled by sin and demonic

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Satanic influence God says I'm just going to replace this

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Something, you know, sometimes you have an item that it really can't be fixed

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It just needs to be thrown out and replaced and that's what God is going to do with the whole universe

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There's going to be a new heavens and a new earth in which righteous and there's a lot of things we don't understand about it

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He said come I will show you the bride the Lamb's wife

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And he carried me away in the spirit to the great mountain showed me the great city the Holy Jerusalem

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Descending out of heaven from God having the glory of God and her light was like the most precious stone like Jasper clear as crystal

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So there's this is heaven

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We're going there. You can come all you have to do is say yes to Jesus Christ

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I believe you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead

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I believe you're coming again, and this is not that hard

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And so then at that point after you've declared that then let the Holy Spirit live the life of God and Christ through you

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By caught by and you follow him by obeying so father

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We ask you for the revelation of Jesus Christ today to not only encourage those who are following you

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definitely deeply

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solidifying their commitment in

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Encouraging them and energizing them anointing them inspiring them to equipping them to go forward with great joy

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Because that is our strength

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But also those who don't know you yet

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Call them in bring them in wake them up so that they will not be lost father God in Jesus name

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Amen. Amen. Well

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We've got a whole bunch of tools available for you

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And one of them is well

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Case for justice. What's about that? We don't have much in just on the earth

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But one day their justice will rule and reign because Jesus will rule

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Well, you know, there's a lot of questions about God and if God is so good then why why why did he do all this

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Stuff or why didn't he do this stuff and and we're judging God

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We're really tempted in this earth in his life to judge God for not being fair for not being good and not

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Understanding the predicaments that we that God is in that we have put him in actually so a case for justice is a very

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deep

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study

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About you know, if you don't put the devil in the equation, you don't have a solution to the problem a correct solution

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So we invite you to join us go to life recovery calm

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