Hello and welcome to
"Help in Daily Living."
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Today we're gonna be looking at
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Communion with God in heaven.
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Jesus wants us to be in heaven.
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He wants to have
communion with us.
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In Revelation
Chapter 3, verse 20,
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He says "Behold, I
stand at the door and knock.
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"If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door
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I will come in and sup
with him and he with me."
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Jesus wants us to
have communion with Him.
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But He leaves it up
to us to open the door
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and let Him come in.
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Let's begin our time
together with a word of prayer.
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Dear God, I just
want to thank you so much
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that we're able to
have a personal friendship
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and relationship with You
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and that we'll able to
experience that relationship
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throughout
eternity in heaven with you,
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in Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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I love beautiful things.
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It is so much fun to
walk outside everyday
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and find more of the
blessings God has made for me.
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Sometimes I think
that something is beautiful
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that most people
wouldn't even notice.
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I also think that
something is beautiful
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even after seeing it many times.
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For example, the
mountain right outside my door.
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Every morning as I walk outside,
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I say, "Wow!
That is so beautiful."
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And all the girls
around me just roll their eyes
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and give me a funny
look, because I've been yelling
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that it is so beautiful
for the past two years.
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Jesus thinks that remnant
things are beautiful too.
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He thinks that
dirty feet are beautiful.
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He gets so excited every
time He finds another pair.
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The feet that He likes
have a reason for being dirty.
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They've been
spreading the gospel.
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They've been traveling through
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countries and
cultures spreading His love.
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They've been walking with Jesus.
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God thinks that
you are beautiful.
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God loves you and
thinks that you're beautiful,
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not because of the number
of people you've converted,
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nor because of how many
sermons you've preached.
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He thinks that you're beautiful,
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because of your heart.
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Jesus wants to walk with you
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and Jesus wants
to walk with me too.
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But the only way,
He can truly connect
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with you and me
is if we allow Him
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to peel the harsh
rough stone of our hearts
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and reveal the soft
beautiful flesh inside.
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Once I allow Him
to shape my heart,
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I can truly walk with Him.
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I want Jesus to walk with me.
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Will you chose to let
Him walk with you too.
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I want Jesus to walk with
me I want Jesus to walk with me
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All along this pilgrim journey
I want Jesus to walk with me
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In my trials Lord, walk with me
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In my trials Lord, walk with me
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When the shades
of life are falling
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I want Jesus to walk with me
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In my sorrow Lord, walk with me
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In my sorrows Lord, walk with me
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When my heart is aching I
want Jesus to walk with me
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I know Jesus will walk with me
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Walk with me walk with me
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Walk with me
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So what do you looking forward
to about having the most?
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No more pain.
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You know, I was sort of
thinking along those lines.
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So, what is heaven and communion
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have to do with each other.
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Well, you know, heaven I think
it's actually the same thing.
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Heaven wouldn't be
heaven without God there.
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And what makes
heaven what it is,
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is spending time with
Him and communion with Him.
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Communion with Him
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Yeah, it's like at Fountainview,
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those buildings,
and it's the farmers,
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it's not really down
viewing other people there.
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Yeah, the thing I'm looking
forward to most about heaven
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is because this
world is just so messed up
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like everyone has all this
dysfunctional relationships.
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I'm looking forward to
being at peace with everyone
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and being with
people I love for eternity.
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To me it doesn't
really matter where I'm,
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if I'm with people
I love that's heaven.
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At the beginning
of the school year,
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I skip throughout the halls
trying to have a good time.
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I really love to
make people laugh,
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but more and
more I found my jokes
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were at the expense of others.
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I always had a quick
come back or a snappier look.
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Making people laugh
became my primary focus.
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I'll never forget the day
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a friend pulled
me aside to talk.
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What I received was a
much needed wake up call.
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He opened my
eyes to the influence
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that I had on those around me.
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And he
challenged me to think about
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how I was influencing
others with my humor.
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The more I thought about that
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the more the image
of my influence changed.
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I considered my
jokes innocent fun,
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but they had a much deeper
impact then I ever imagined.
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Instead of spreading
the joy I had intended,
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I had been sowing seeds
of sarcasm and disrespect.
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I didn't realize the influence
my actions had on others.
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In order to spread the
gospel to those around me,
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I must first let it
work in my own life.
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My character in life
must show Christ to others.
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It is that in only then
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that I could make a
positive impact for God
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in the lives of those around me.
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Live out Thy life within
me O Jesus, King of kings
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Be Thou Thyself the
answer to all my questionings
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Live out Thy life within
me in all things have Thy way
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I, the transparent
medium Thy glory to display
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I need thy
presence every passing hour
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What but thy grace can
foil the tempter's power
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Who, like thyself,
my guide and stay can be
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Help of the
helpless O abide with me
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I need Thee every
hour stay Thou nearby
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Temptations lose their
power When Thou art nigh
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I need thee, oh, I need
thee every hour I need Thee
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Oh, bless me now my
Savior, I come to Thee
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I need thee, oh, I need
thee every hour I need Thee
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Oh, bless me now my
Savior, I come to Thee
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What I'm looking forward
to the most of our heaven,
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is just being in
the presence of God.
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I could look at His
hands and like see His scars,
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and the scars in His feet.
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And so like He reminded well,
like He really went through,
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you know, like
I'm a visual person
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and I'm just looking
forward to seeing that
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and in looking back in my life
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and recognizing on my sacrifices
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like they were so small
in comparison to Christ.
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Like they
weren't really anything
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and it was holy worth
just to be with Him in heaven.
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You know in
Zechariah Chapter 13 verse 6
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it says "That there
will be someone in heaven,
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people who will say what
are those scars in your hands
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and your side and your feet,
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and He will say I received
these and also my friends."
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So there will be people there
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who didn't know Jesus
or the story of Jesus,
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but through the grace
of God they will be there
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and Jesus will have
those scars for eternity.
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We will have the
scars of sin removed from us
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and yet He will bear
those scars showing us
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His great love for us
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and the great
sacrifice He made for us.
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What is a home?
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Is it a big posh
mansion with manicured lawns,
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perfect landscaping
and beautiful architecture?
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Every year Fountainview Academy
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does a Christmas
music tour to California.
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Sometimes we get to
build our church members homes,
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which is really special.
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Since we can eat some
delicious home cooking,
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do our laundering, have showers,
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and sleep in a comfortable bed.
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Now every year, all the
girls stay at a certain house.
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These people live in
a gorgeous grand mansion
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with beautiful
garden surrounding it.
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We get a delicious
breakfast, hot showers,
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and some extra
time in the morning
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to stroll around the yard.
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This house is the most picture
perfect house of any I know,
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but this does
make it a home to me.
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No, of course not.
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Even if my family were to live
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in a cardboard
house in a shanty town
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that would be my home,
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because home is
where my family is.
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Home is where the
people I love the most are.
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Sometimes I catch
myself thinking of heaven,
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as just a place
of which is in glory.
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I think of the
manicured rolling hills,
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the perfect
flowerbeds, the golden streets,
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the splendid mansions.
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I even talk of
riding on dolphins back,
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sliding down giraffe's necks
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and swinging through the
jungles with the monkeys.
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But heaven is not just
some glorified theme park.
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It is not just a
personal mansion either.
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Heaven is going home
to the one I loved most,
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all the rest is grade two.
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After all Jesus says,
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"In My Father's house
there are many mansions.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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Jesus also tells
me that the reason
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He is going to
prepare place for me
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is so that we can
be together forever.
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Heaven is being with Jesus.
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I'm going home, I'm going home
I'm going home to die no more
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To die no more, to die no more
I'm going home to die no more
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My heavenly home
is bright and fair
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No pain nor
death can enter there
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Its glittering
towers the sun outshine
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That heavenly
mansion shall be mine
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This world is not my
home I'm just passing through
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My treasures are laid up
somewhere beyond the blue
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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O Lord you know I
have no friend like you
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If Heaven's not my home
then Lord what will I do
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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O Lord you know I
have no friend like you
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If Heaven's not my home
then Lord what will I do
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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My home saith my
heart Jesus all the way
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Learning to way signs everyday
Whenever our heart is never
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I want for my heart over there
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In the land of fadeless
day Lies a city foursquare
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It shall never fade away
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And there is no night there
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God shall rise
wipe away all tears
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There is no
death, no pain, no fears
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And they count not time by years
For there is no night there
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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus
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Sing His mercy and His grace
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In the mansions
bright and blessed
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He'll prepare for us a place
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When we all get to Heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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Onward to the prize before
us Soon His beauty we'll behold
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Soon the pearly gates will open
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We shall tread
the streets of gold
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When we all get to Heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout
the victory, victory.
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What I look forward
to most about heaven is,
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yes there will be no more pain,
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but really it's
being with Jesus,
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because He is our Savior.
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And what that means is
that He took away our sins
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and we kind of
make light of sin,
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like it's not a big deal.
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But if He had to die for it,
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I mean if God had to send
His only son to die for sin,
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it must be a terrible thing
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that would destroy
the peace of heaven
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if it were to enter there.
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So, what I look forward to
is having the guilt removed
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and to be with my
Savior for eternity.
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I know that God can
remove each of our guilt,
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because He has
done in my own life.
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Several years ago I had a friend
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who started having seizures
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and they weren't
seizures where they convulse,
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but they would space out
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and I knew when
they're having them.
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And I began to tease them
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and I like talking about
it a lot and I knew they were
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really
uncomfortable with the subject.
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And years later I felt really
guilty for what I have done
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and I went and asked
them for forgiveness.
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But it just get
plugging my mind what I've done
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and I was ashamed of my past.
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And I came to God and I told Him
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I couldn't deal with
the shame I was feeling
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and He really gave me
the reassurance to move on
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and He gave me
vision for my future
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and that vision He gave me
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did not have
anything to do with my past.
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And He doesn't hold
that against us. No.
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He completely
cleanses us for eternity.
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Zach, you want to close
with a word of prayer for us.
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Let's pray.
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Jubilee Father, I'm
so thankful for the,
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for the lack of
guilt that we have
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when we come to you.
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Lord you take it
off, You take it all away,
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and You give us a clean slate
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of fresh robe of righteousness.
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I'm so excited and I know I
speak for all my friends Lord
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that we can spend
eternity with You.
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Learning about your mercy
and how good You're to us.
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Help us never to
forget that You're there,
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ready to cleanse us,
and to wash our sins away.
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Lord, we're looking
forward to being with you
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and we pray that help
us have heaven on earth,
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help us to maintain our
relationships with others,
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so that we can be happy
and healthy Christians for you.
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Thank you Lord
Jesus, for sending Your son
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in your name, amen. Amen.
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