I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello, and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship,
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I'm Shelley Quinn. I'm JD Quinn.
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And we're just so glad
that you're joining us.
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You know, we, when
the Sabbath rolls around,
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my first feeling is
just kind of like...
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Yes.
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And all that stress comes
rolling off from the weekend.
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This has been
rather stressful week,
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and we hope that if you're
joining us for this thing,
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you'll find the
same sweet relief
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that we do as we
get together to worship
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and to pray to our Lord.
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Let me introduce our guests,
I'm going to begin on my right
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and we have the
lovely Jill Morikone.
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Jill is such a talented
person, you're a pianist,
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you're wonderful
writer, you're gifted teacher,
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you are an incredible
assistant to the president.
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You're just a
busy lady, aren't you?
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Well, I don't know
if I claim any of those,
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the title I like to claim
is just daughter of Jesus.
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Amen.
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You know, we're just
daughters of the king
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and it's a blessing
or the sons of the king.
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Pastor C.A said, wait a minute.
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It's a blessing to be
part of the team, you know,
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at 3ABN and to be
involved in ministry.
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Praise God, and it's a blessing
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to share family
worship together.
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Only way to know how many
and I agree with you, Shelley,
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we did know how
multi-talented she was,
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she was just a
local piano teacher
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for such a
while, for a long while
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and then as her gifts
began to bloom and blossom,
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she could do this and
oh, she does that too.
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Oh, she does that well
too. Oh, she does that good too.
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So now she is an integral part
of everything that's happening
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and she does everything
well, she really does.
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Amen.
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Really happy you're here
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in the family
circle this evening
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and we also have
Pastor C.A Murray
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and his wife Irma.
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Irma, you're in our
Latino, 3ABN Latino,
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what is your exact role?
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Well, right now
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I'm having to help in a
lot of different things.
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Praise the Lord
then I'm able to help,
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but I do mostly
producing, broadcast a producer,
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and work with the
marketing department.
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Wonderful.
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I'm like the de
liaison, liaison between 3ABN
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and our cable companies.
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In English
that's liaison. Liaison.
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And that's not liaison.
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And Pastor C.A you...
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And he's not afraid of lying.
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You are our GM general manager
for the Proclaim channel.
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Yes.
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And also gifted
speaker and we, host,
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producer of the
3ABN today program,
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we all wear multiple hats.
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Indeed we do.
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But...
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I think that that's one thing
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I've learned about
self supporting ministries.
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That's true.
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Is that you have
to wear a lot of hats.
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But God equips you. Amen.
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So I mean it's a
big thank you, Jesus.
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Well, tonight we're
going to be talking about hope,
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but not just any hope,
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we're going to be
discussing the blessed hope.
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Amen.
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That hope of everlasting life
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in the presence of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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But before we begin,
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why don't we just start
this Sabbath with a prayer,
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and we're just,
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why don't we just go
around in a prayer of praise.
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Let's just pray whatever
praise is in your heart,
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well, just take
turns and pop around.
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J.D you want to start?
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Yes.
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Father we come to
You in the name of Jesus,
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and we just want to thank You
for Your many blessings Lord.
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And Father, yes,
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there are different
issues in life it comes up,
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but Father we don't worry
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because You are the
one that's in charge.
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And so Father, I know for myself
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I just consent, I
just surrender to you
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and I thank you Jesus
that I'm able to do that.
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And you're the
one that empowers me
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to be able to
continue to go forward.
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Amen. So Father, thank you.
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Loving Father,
we just praise You
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and we are thankful
for giving us this day
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where we can trust in You.
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And we can put all our work,
and all our trials of the week
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and to be able to
relax and rejoice,
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even though we know that
Sunday coming all the problems,
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and all the
stresses will come again.
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We can just look at that,
and still be able to relax
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and to enjoy being with
you, with Your presence.
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Thank you Father
and bless us tonight
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and bless all of our friends
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that will be
watching this program
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in the precious name of Jesus.
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Amen.
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Gracious
Father, we do praise You
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and thank You, for being
such a good and loving God,
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for giving us the temple
and time called the Sabbath,
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a chance to turn off as it
were the cares of the world
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and repose in heavenly
places even for that a while,
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to see again and
knew the faith of Jesus
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to recommit our lives to Him.
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And we thank You Father,
that we can draw closer to You,
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and have this
special meeting time with You
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during these sacred hours.
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Fill us with Your spirit
during this time, dear Father.
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May our words, may the
things that we discuss,
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draw us somehow
that much closer to You
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as each day brings
us closer to thee day,
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and we will see You face to face
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and we praise you
Father for Christ,
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we praise You Father
for the family of God.
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Amen.
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We praise you Father
for brothers and sisters
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in the Lord,
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who truly
sometimes are even closer
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than our natural siblings
who walk the road we walk,
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talk the talk we talk,
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and live a lives are those
who are saved by Christ Jesus,
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so bless us dear Father,
we praise You and we love You,
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and we thank You, in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Oh, Father, we just thank
You right now for your Son Jesus
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for the gift of salvation,
You've freely extended to us.
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We thank You that
You are our provider
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and our
protector, and our defender,
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and our sustainer,
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and right now we
just give you praise
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for who You are and
for what You have done
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in our doing in our lives.
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Father, we're just are so
ever grateful to You for grace.
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We're so thankful as
Jill has said for Jesus
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and the gift of salvation,
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we're so thankful
for Your Holy Spirit.
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And Lord, we're
very grateful to You
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for the gift of
your holy scriptures
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that we may come to know You.
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And thank You Lord that
the Sabbath is a memorial
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that You are our creator
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and the one who
recreates us in Christ Jesus.
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That's right. Amen.
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And thank You, Father,
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that You have
told us in Your word
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that the Sabbath is a sign,
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it's a sign of
covenant keeping God,
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it's a sign You
said Lord that reminds us
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You are the one
who sanctifies us,
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who sets us apart from evil.
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And Lord, we come tonight
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asking to be
forgiven of our sins,
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we come tonight
asking on behalf of ourselves
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and our brothers and
sisters who are watching,
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Lord, that you would by
the power of Your spirit
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in Your word, and Your
love set us apart from evil,
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Lord, set us apart to yourself,
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and Lord thank You so
much for all that You do,
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in Jesus' holy
name we pray, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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God, you know, the
prayer part just reminds you
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as we're
praying for these things
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you just think
about how gracious God is.
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Amen.
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Prayer, I think praise really,
I think the reason He said,
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enter my gates with thanksgiving
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and into your
courts with praise,
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as it draws us
into His presence.
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That's right. I love that.
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Well, we always
like to start with a song
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and you now the Bible says
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make a joyful
noise unto the Lord.
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Now you know, as you get
older something you'll notice
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if you're one of
our younger viewers,
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you will find out
that as you get older,
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your voice lowers.
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I used to be an
alto, now I'm a tenor,
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and finding we
didn't get a chance
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to practice in
finding right key,
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so we're in a key
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that we're just going
to make a joyful noise,
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'cause we don't all
sing in the same key, do we?
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But it's hymn number
214, we have this hope
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and the words would be
on the screen so join us.
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We have this hope
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That burns within our hearts
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Hope in the coming
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Of the Lord
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We have this faith
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That Christ alone imparts
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Faith in the promise
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Of His Word
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We believe the time is here
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When the nations far and near
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Shall awake, and shout and sing
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Hallelujah!
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Christ is King!
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We have this hope
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That burns within our hearts
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Hope in the coming
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Of the Lord.
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Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Thank you Jill
for running over there
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to play the piano for us.
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You know, in the
Greek the word hope,
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if I use the word hope with you,
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sometimes we'll say,
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are you going to go
on vacation this year?
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Oh, I hope so.
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It's kind of like,
well, it may be, you know,
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if we get a chance,
may be it will be possible
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but in the Greek the word
hope meant eager expectation.
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Amen.
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So when it talks about hope
it's saying we eagerly expect
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what the word of God,
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what He has
promised us in His word,
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that it is going to come true,
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and we do have this hope
of the coming of our Lord
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because it is
promised in the word of God.
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Okay, well, let's
look at our scriptures,
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we really didn't have time
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to think about
this much, didn't we?
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But, what I'm going to do,
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I'll start off just by
reading an affirmation.
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And affirmation is when
you just take the word of God
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and pray it back
to him basically.
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And we're looking at
two different scriptures
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that this
affirmation was built from.
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It's just that you're
agreeing with the Lord,
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so let me just read
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what the affirmation
from Revelation 21:1-7,
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and 1 Thessalonians
4:13-17, here is what it says,
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"When the new Jerusalem
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comes down to the
new recreated earth,
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God will dwell with us
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as He originally
planned a creation.
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He will make all things new,
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never again will we
suffer the pain of death,
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sorrow, or crying,
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He will satisfy our thirsty soul
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with a fountain of
the water of eternal life,
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we will be His forever."
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Amen.
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"Joy upon joy God will
reunite us with our loved ones
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who have fallen asleep in Christ
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and we will have eternity
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to spend with those for
whom our heartaches now.
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If we're alive at His coming
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we shall not precede
into His presence without them
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for at His coming at
the coming of the Lord
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he will shout his command,
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and the dead in
Christ will arise first.
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Then we shall all
be caught up together
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to meet the Lord in the air,
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and thus shall we
always be with our Lord.
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Hallelujah."
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Amen.
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So why don't we just see,
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why don't you
tackle Revelation 21:1-7,
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if you'll just read that
then we will just discuss it.
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The Bible says,
"Now I saw a new heaven
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and a new earth,
for the first heaven
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and the first
earth had passed away.
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Then I, John,
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saw the holy
city, New Jerusalem,
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coming down out
of heaven from God,
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And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
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"Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people.
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God Himself will be
with them and be their God."
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This is written in
very affirmative language
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by the way.
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"And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
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there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying.
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There shall be no more pain,
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for the former
things have passed away."
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Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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"Behold, I make all things new."
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And He said to me,
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"Write, for these
words are true and faithful."
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And He said to me, I
will forgive, I'm sorry,
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"I will give of the fountain
of the water of life freely
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to him who thirsts.
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He who overcomes
shall inherit all things,
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and I will be his God
and he shall be My son."
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Hallelujah, one of my
favorite passages in the Bible,
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so give us your
thoughts on this passage.
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Well, you know, I have a
sermon where I ask people,
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close your eyes
and think about heaven.
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And then I said open your
eyes. I remember that sermon.
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And I say you're not really
asked to do the impossible
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because we have
nothing to compare it to.
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We are much more comfortable
of thinking about the things
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that won't be there
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because we don't know
precisely what will be there,
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so we think about the
negative things the pain,
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the doctors, the
eyeglasses, the canes,
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the crutches, the
cancer, ecchymosis,
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those kinds of
things and so when he says,
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I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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my mind
immediately goes to the stuff
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that I hate that
will not be there.
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Amen.
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You know, the stuff
that bothers me that will...
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I've had half dozen
eye operations you know,
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been blind and come
back, and then blind again
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and come back, and
blind again and come back,
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that kind of thing.
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All that stuff will be gone.
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I'm not a person
who likes doctors,
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Irma, you say, you
know, you never get a checkup,
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you never get a
checkup, well, I don't.
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If I could, if I
got to avoid checkups,
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you know, no
doctors there, no sickness,
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no pain, no side, and
I'll quick end with this.
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When we were younger,
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I used to watch my
father get out of bed
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and sit on a
side of bed for five,
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sometimes 10
minutes and we were like,
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"Daddy, why are you doing that?"
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Come on, let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go, you know,
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now I get up and you know,
you sit on the side of the bed
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to just make sure
everything is still
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where you kind of
left it a night before,
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you know, that won't be anymore.
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We'll get up and roll, run
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and not be worry
or walk and not faint.
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So I'm very comfortable
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thinking about the
things that will not be there.
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And that is heaven
enough for me, you know,
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I don't know what will be there
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but I sure know
what won't be there
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and that's why I've hope,
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because all of these bad
stuff simply won't be there,
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new heaven, new earth.
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Amen. Jill?
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Praise God for what He
wants to do in our lives.
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You know, I
remember as a teenager
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sitting in the
Sabbath school class
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and I remember this
precious older woman,
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and now I think she is young,
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but as a teenager you
think most people are older.
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She was probably in her 50s
and to me 50s is young, right?
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50s is young.
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And now it is to
me but at the time
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I thought she was older
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and she had gone
prematurely gray,
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she had beautiful white hair
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and I remember her sitting
there in class and her saying,
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if there was no hope of
heaven, would you want to go?
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And I thought, no.
Would you want to go?
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Would you, I mean would
you want to follow Jesus?
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Think. Okay.
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If there was no hope of heaven,
would you want to follow Jesus?
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We're talking
about the blessed hope.
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Thank you, Shelley,
for that correction.
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And I thought, no,
because the religious state,
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I was in as a
teenager was the only reason
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I'm trying to get to church,
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I'm trying to do
what I'm supposed to,
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was a thought that this
world is not all there is,
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and that there is
an eternity here after.
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And now as I've grown,
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I realize there
is a lot of truth
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in what she said
too, because yes,
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the blessed hope is
beautiful as a Christian,
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we have to look
forward to spending eternity
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with those who have
already passed away,
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with loved ones,
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with not been separated by
thousands of miles you know,
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from family or
friends being together,
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the most
important being with Jesus,
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not having the
pain and the sorrow
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and all of that stuff,
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but the beautiful
thing she was bringing out
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was that here
today on this earth
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I can have such an
intimate walk with God,
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that peace, that joy,
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that I can begin to
have the blessed hope
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the heaven here on
earth in my heart right now.
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So what you're saying then
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is you've come
to the conclusion,
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even if heaven were not to be,
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it's worth walking
with Jesus right now,
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because of peace
and everything you feel.
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The heaven is just kind of
a cherry on the sun, you know.
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That's it. Yes. That's it. Yeah.
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You know, I was
thinking of the same things,
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Jill was
thinking in terms of age.
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I still remember,
yes, being a teenager
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and when somebody
says I'm 25, I'm 30,
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I thought I will ever
get there that it was just,
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was just that those
numbers were so far away,
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but the most beautiful thing
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is like I got
baptized about 12 years old.
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And so when my
mother came into the faith
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and we all started,
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one of the things
that always kept me
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was that idea
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that we have that
privilege some day
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to go to heaven and
to see that nothing,
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nothing will be
like in this world,
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everything will be so perfect,
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and I would
used to love to think
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I will sit and
look at the stars,
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and imagine that
how far they look,
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you know, they're so
bright, yet they are,
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you can see the
depth that you can
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and when he talk
about days and years
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to be able to go that far.
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It always keeps me
and I remember something
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that is always in my mind,
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very often is when Sister White
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had the vision
of being in heaven
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and she never
wanted to come back.
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Yes. Yeah.
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She didn't want to come back,
because it was so incredible,
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and she couldn't
even put it in words,
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but just the fact
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that she just
hated to come back,
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says, it's got to
be we cannot imagine it
00:20:37.13\00:20:40.64
but it has to be
something of, you know,
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kind of we don't
have words for it.
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A blessed hope, is it not? Yes.
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Now you've heard... Amen.
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You know, neither has
entered into the heart of man.
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Well, God has
prepared for those who love.
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I know I have a brother,
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I have my father
who have passed away,
00:20:58.29\00:21:01.16
my grandparents,
my two grandmothers
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I didn't know my grandfathers
but I knew them so well
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that I'm longing
to see them again.
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Honey?
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Whenever I read
Revelation 21:1-7
00:21:16.24\00:21:21.81
my mind goes to the creator.
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It seems like we go
through the phases in life
00:21:24.85\00:21:29.12
and I have remember
and don't discount this
00:21:29.15\00:21:32.85
because as Danny
Shelton used to say
00:21:32.89\00:21:36.22
my best friend
is the Holy Spirit,
00:21:36.26\00:21:38.03
so I want to make
that perfectly clear.
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But it seems like in this
last three to four months,
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boy, creator,
creator, creator, God, God,
00:21:43.23\00:21:46.60
in just about
everything that I look at,
00:21:46.63\00:21:49.40
the creator comes into my mind.
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And as we read this
here once again new heaven,
00:21:51.67\00:21:55.61
new earth,
creator from God creator,
00:21:55.64\00:21:59.61
God Himself, creator,
God will wipe away, creator.
00:21:59.65\00:22:04.49
Behold, I make all
things new, creator.
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.96
You know, I will
00:22:07.99\00:22:10.66
freely to gave him
who thirst, creator.
00:22:10.69\00:22:13.80
And when inherit all
things, and I will be his God,
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and he shall be my son, creator.
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Amen.
00:22:21.80\00:22:23.14
So I just... That's great.
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As everyday goes by,
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.27
it's kind of like who
are you going to quote today,
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and there is no second, creator.
00:22:30.11\00:22:35.32
And so it's just interesting
00:22:35.35\00:22:37.32
that as here we
start reading here
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what jumps off the page,
creator, thank you Jesus.
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Amen. That's powerful.
00:22:43.99\00:22:46.29
You know, for me when
I think about this now,
00:22:46.33\00:22:50.27
most of you grow
up Adventist, right?
00:22:50.30\00:22:52.17
All of you did I
guess. I came at 11.
00:22:52.20\00:22:54.07
At 11.
00:22:54.10\00:22:55.47
Well, you know,
00:22:55.50\00:22:56.91
first of all my vision
of heaven in growing up
00:22:56.94\00:23:00.84
was that it was kind of
00:23:00.88\00:23:02.54
like we were going to
float around on clouds
00:23:02.58\00:23:05.68
and play harps
00:23:05.71\00:23:07.88
and it didn't
sound that enticing.
00:23:07.92\00:23:13.46
It sounded better
than going to hell.
00:23:13.49\00:23:16.19
And you know... Glory to God.
00:23:16.22\00:23:17.63
And the first couple times I
was baptized it was to avoid,
00:23:17.66\00:23:22.23
it was like fire insurance,
but when I look at this,
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.47
you know, I didn't really,
00:23:25.50\00:23:27.74
then there are so
many Christians out there
00:23:27.77\00:23:29.54
who don't realize
that the only time
00:23:29.57\00:23:31.34
that we're actually in heaven
is during the thousand years
00:23:31.37\00:23:34.11
and then the new Jerusalem
00:23:34.14\00:23:35.91
comes down to a recreated earth.
00:23:35.94\00:23:38.51
This earth that
has been destroyed,
00:23:38.55\00:23:40.52
it has become a lake
of fire and then God,
00:23:40.55\00:23:44.75
it's cleansed
and He recreates it
00:23:44.79\00:23:46.76
but to me what
this speaks I mean, yes,
00:23:46.79\00:23:50.36
am I excited to
think about my loved ones
00:23:50.39\00:23:54.40
that I'll get to
spend eternity with, yes.
00:23:54.43\00:23:56.83
And I don't know
00:23:56.87\00:23:58.73
how anyone goes
through the death of a child
00:23:58.77\00:24:01.64
or even the
death of your spouse.
00:24:01.67\00:24:03.14
Yes. Yes.
00:24:03.17\00:24:04.51
And not have that blessed hope,
if you didn't have that hope,
00:24:04.54\00:24:07.11
it would make it a
million times worse.
00:24:07.14\00:24:09.91
But what I see here
and what jumps out at me
00:24:09.94\00:24:13.62
is when it says I heard a
loud voice from heaven sang,
00:24:13.65\00:24:16.65
this is after the
holy city has come down.
00:24:16.69\00:24:19.85
God's going to
make that His home.
00:24:19.89\00:24:22.72
And then He says,
behold the tabernacle of God
00:24:22.76\00:24:26.73
is with men,
00:24:26.76\00:24:28.76
he will dwell with them
and they shall be his people.
00:24:28.80\00:24:32.47
Yeah. That is covenant language.
00:24:32.50\00:24:36.27
He is a covenant
making covenant keeping God
00:24:36.30\00:24:40.51
and it is always
been, I will be your God,
00:24:40.54\00:24:43.24
you will be my people.
00:24:43.28\00:24:44.68
And we just always seems
like we fall short of that,
00:24:44.71\00:24:47.52
but God has,
00:24:47.55\00:24:51.75
is finally the
purpose of His covenant,
00:24:51.79\00:24:55.59
is finally being achieved
here is because now, you know,
00:24:55.62\00:25:01.76
we've been through it all,
00:25:01.80\00:25:03.26
sin He says is never
going to arise again,
00:25:03.30\00:25:05.87
that's why He could
wipe away all the tears.
00:25:05.90\00:25:07.60
Amen.
00:25:07.64\00:25:08.97
But now we get to
see Him face to face.
00:25:09.00\00:25:13.38
Yes.
00:25:13.41\00:25:14.74
You know, we're also
excited to see our mothers
00:25:14.78\00:25:17.61
or brothers,
whether sisters whatever
00:25:17.65\00:25:19.98
but I imagine
00:25:20.02\00:25:21.35
when we first
raise from the grave,
00:25:21.38\00:25:25.29
what's going to be
the most exciting thing?
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.39
Jesus. It's Jesus.
00:25:27.42\00:25:28.76
Exactly. Absolutely.
00:25:28.79\00:25:30.13
Your know. Yeah.
00:25:30.16\00:25:31.49
You know, every November
since we go down to Panama
00:25:31.53\00:25:34.50
every December for
Christmas, Irma's mom is 97.
00:25:34.53\00:25:38.87
Wow.
00:25:38.90\00:25:40.24
And of course
you've been down there,
00:25:40.27\00:25:41.60
we kind of flip about
mid, right after Thanksgiving,
00:25:41.64\00:25:44.94
we kind of flip
into Panama mode,
00:25:44.97\00:25:46.54
you know, your brain
starts to think from that mode.
00:25:46.57\00:25:48.54
And you've been
down there, you've been,
00:25:48.58\00:25:50.01
so you know, that kind of thing.
00:25:50.05\00:25:52.91
You feel that way
about heaven, you know,
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.72
it's like I want to
get there, you know.
00:25:54.75\00:25:57.19
Everybody has a text
that means something to them.
00:25:57.22\00:26:00.22
I want to just refer to one,
00:26:00.26\00:26:02.36
they call Hebrews
11 a faith chapter,
00:26:02.39\00:26:04.56
by faith, by
faith, by faith, by faith.
00:26:04.59\00:26:07.36
And wonderful exploits
of faith in that chapter
00:26:07.40\00:26:12.03
and it wasn't until
fairly recently though
00:26:12.07\00:26:14.10
that my mind locked down
00:26:14.14\00:26:15.47
on the last two
verses 39 and 40.
00:26:15.50\00:26:18.31
Because you can
get so wrapped up
00:26:18.34\00:26:19.87
in these great exploits
of faith and they should be
00:26:19.91\00:26:21.84
because they are fabulous,
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.21
but then the Bible
says something else.
00:26:23.24\00:26:25.25
And 39, "All
these, having obtained
00:26:25.28\00:26:27.95
a good testimony
through faith..."
00:26:27.98\00:26:29.45
So their record is solid
through exploits of faith.
00:26:29.48\00:26:32.89
"Did not receive the promise..."
00:26:32.92\00:26:34.52
You know they
didn't get heaven just yet,
00:26:34.56\00:26:35.92
they didn't get finalize.
00:26:35.96\00:26:38.03
"God having provided
something better for us,
00:26:38.06\00:26:43.16
that they should not be
made perfect apart from us."
00:26:43.20\00:26:47.10
And that just excites me,
00:26:47.14\00:26:49.10
when you look at
Moses and Abraham
00:26:49.14\00:26:51.31
and all these
wonderful people of great faith,
00:26:51.34\00:26:55.01
God said, they didn't get
it and they will not get it
00:26:55.04\00:26:57.98
one second before you get yours.
00:26:58.01\00:27:00.15
That excites me when
that heaven has occur,
00:27:00.18\00:27:02.48
we all going together.
00:27:02.52\00:27:04.35
Moses made it
there before we did.
00:27:04.39\00:27:05.82
Yeah, well,
he's emerald, he's...
00:27:05.85\00:27:07.99
Yeah, he is in blesses ark
00:27:08.02\00:27:10.66
'cause when it talk about Moses
getting into the Promised Land,
00:27:10.69\00:27:13.23
don't cherry cheers for Moses
00:27:13.26\00:27:14.66
because he is
where we want to be.
00:27:14.70\00:27:16.16
But they, they...
00:27:16.20\00:27:18.20
God has said that they
didn't get the promise.
00:27:18.23\00:27:20.80
They're going to get
at the same time we get
00:27:20.84\00:27:22.77
as we all get it together.
00:27:22.80\00:27:24.44
And that's going
to be so wonderful
00:27:24.47\00:27:25.81
that we'll be
able among other things
00:27:25.84\00:27:27.48
to dialog with and fellowship
00:27:27.51\00:27:30.78
with these great people of faith
00:27:30.81\00:27:33.68
down through the
centuries, many whose names,
00:27:33.72\00:27:35.85
most of those names are
not even mentioned here.
00:27:35.88\00:27:37.85
We get to
inhabit heaven with them.
00:27:37.89\00:27:40.62
What a wonderful place,
Shelley, it's going to be.
00:27:40.66\00:27:43.19
You know, you talk
about hope, expectation,
00:27:43.22\00:27:45.86
because it's hope is
such an ethereal word,
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.76
you know, it's too
light a word for what we have.
00:27:48.80\00:27:51.67
Eager expectation
is much, much better
00:27:51.70\00:27:54.17
because it's something
that it's real hope can be,
00:27:54.20\00:27:56.77
well, I hope
I'll see you tomorrow,
00:27:56.81\00:27:58.14
I hope you know,
he's more than hope.
00:27:58.17\00:28:00.31
We've watered it down.
We have watered it down.
00:28:00.34\00:28:02.04
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:02.08\00:28:04.28
I was reading some
place where we're saying hope
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.25
is the
indispensable quality of life.
00:28:06.28\00:28:10.45
That's true, without hope.
00:28:10.49\00:28:11.92
Without hope. Yes, truth.
00:28:11.95\00:28:13.29
You know, boy, what a statement
00:28:13.32\00:28:14.99
because I used to read
lot of psychology articles
00:28:15.02\00:28:20.90
and they say that most
people who try to commit suicide
00:28:20.93\00:28:25.13
the reason that they do
is because they are hopeless,
00:28:25.17\00:28:28.44
and quite often if you
can reach them at that moment
00:28:28.47\00:28:31.51
and reel them in,
show them something,
00:28:31.54\00:28:33.84
give them hope, they'll...
00:28:33.88\00:28:35.21
I mean sometimes, you know,
00:28:35.24\00:28:36.58
like people
who've been brought in
00:28:36.61\00:28:39.15
off the Golden Gate
Bridge that somebody intervenes
00:28:39.18\00:28:43.28
and intercepts
and they bring them
00:28:43.32\00:28:45.55
and within 24 hours
they're non suicidal
00:28:45.59\00:28:49.72
because somehow it
was just that they reach
00:28:49.76\00:28:52.23
that moment of feeling hopeless,
00:28:52.26\00:28:54.73
and so yes, hope
is indispensable,
00:28:54.76\00:28:57.83
but what you just read in verse,
00:28:57.87\00:29:01.47
oh, I'll turn the
page, oh, here it is.
00:29:01.50\00:29:03.71
It's 39 and 40.
That was Hebrews, go on.
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.07
That was Hebrews 11:39 and 40,
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.38
what you've just read that,
00:29:07.41\00:29:08.74
God having provided
something better for us,
00:29:08.78\00:29:10.65
that they should not be
made perfect apart from us.
00:29:10.68\00:29:13.42
Jill, why don't you read
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-17,
00:29:13.45\00:29:17.32
because that's
perfectly ties in...
00:29:17.35\00:29:21.16
It does. It really does.
With what the Bible says here.
00:29:21.19\00:29:26.66
This, I think this is one
of my favorite scriptures.
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.80
I like this.
00:29:28.83\00:29:30.17
"But I do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren,
00:29:30.20\00:29:32.97
concerning those
who have fallen asleep,
00:29:33.00\00:29:35.37
lest you sorrow as
others who have no hope.
00:29:35.40\00:29:38.67
For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again,
00:29:38.71\00:29:42.31
even so God will bring with
Him those who sleep in Jesus.
00:29:42.34\00:29:47.62
For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord,
00:29:47.65\00:29:50.05
that we who are alive
00:29:50.09\00:29:51.59
and remain until the coming
of the Lord will by no means
00:29:51.62\00:29:55.09
precede those who are asleep.
00:29:55.12\00:29:57.49
For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven
00:29:57.53\00:29:59.89
with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel,
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.53
and with the trumpet of God.
00:30:02.56\00:30:04.43
And the dead in
Christ will rise first.
00:30:04.47\00:30:07.54
Then we who are alive
00:30:07.57\00:30:08.90
and remain shall be
caught up together with them
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.91
in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air.
00:30:10.94\00:30:13.78
And thus we shall
always be with the Lord."
00:30:13.81\00:30:17.35
Hallelujah. There it is. Always.
00:30:17.38\00:30:21.92
So when you read that what
just jumps out of you, Jill?
00:30:21.95\00:30:27.72
You know, this scripture
means a lot to me personally,
00:30:27.76\00:30:32.59
my cousin died when she was 36.
00:30:32.63\00:30:39.57
She left behind a three
and a five year old boy.
00:30:39.60\00:30:45.24
Young mother, whole
life ahead, little kids.
00:30:45.27\00:30:50.11
And I think, we're
gonna see her again.
00:30:50.15\00:30:53.58
Yes.
00:30:53.62\00:30:54.95
Not only us but
those little boys,
00:30:54.98\00:30:57.52
as they grow up
remain faithful to Jesus
00:30:57.55\00:31:00.86
are going to see
their mother again.
00:31:00.89\00:31:05.03
And to me this
verse is all about hope.
00:31:05.06\00:31:07.76
Not even in the
sense of eager expectation
00:31:07.80\00:31:10.63
although it is
eager expectation,
00:31:10.67\00:31:12.47
but to me this
verse is abiding hope.
00:31:12.50\00:31:16.20
Is there such a
thing as abiding hope
00:31:16.24\00:31:18.34
like a constant, steadfast,
settled feeling in the heart
00:31:18.37\00:31:24.05
that I know
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:24.08\00:31:26.21
I know we have the
promise of everlasting life
00:31:26.25\00:31:29.85
of spending eternity
with those that you love.
00:31:29.88\00:31:33.86
You know, I think of Greg
and I when we first got married,
00:31:33.89\00:31:36.79
you have that super
twitterpated like...
00:31:36.83\00:31:41.00
That's a good word twitterpated.
00:31:41.03\00:31:42.36
I really love you,
I'm so over the top,
00:31:42.40\00:31:45.40
but as the longer you're married
00:31:45.43\00:31:47.30
and we've only
been married 14 years,
00:31:47.34\00:31:48.87
but the longer you're
married, the more it settles in
00:31:48.90\00:31:52.67
and there's
still tremendous love,
00:31:52.71\00:31:55.54
but it's like a
deep settled security,
00:31:55.58\00:31:59.71
commitment,
contentment, peace, joy.
00:31:59.75\00:32:04.02
And to me the
blessed hope is that.
00:32:04.05\00:32:06.39
Like this contentment,
00:32:06.42\00:32:07.76
the security knowing that
my dad is coming back for me.
00:32:07.79\00:32:12.29
Jesus is coming back
00:32:12.33\00:32:13.66
and we have the hope of
eternity forever together.
00:32:13.70\00:32:17.30
So that's what
the blessed hope is,
00:32:17.33\00:32:19.10
is that your expectation
that joyful assurance
00:32:19.13\00:32:23.10
that Jesus is coming again
00:32:23.14\00:32:25.61
and then if he comes
again what will He do?
00:32:25.64\00:32:29.14
Or is it John 14:3 or...?
00:32:29.18\00:32:31.55
Yeah.
00:32:31.58\00:32:32.91
"Let not your
heart be troubled..."
00:32:32.95\00:32:34.28
Yeah, "If I go to
prepare a place for you,
00:32:34.32\00:32:36.18
I will come again..."
00:32:36.22\00:32:37.55
Yes.
00:32:37.59\00:32:38.92
So, you know that
just all fits in there,
00:32:38.95\00:32:40.29
that we're all,
it's right there.
00:32:40.32\00:32:43.29
And if you are mature in Christ,
00:32:43.32\00:32:46.39
if you have a mature
relationship that's healthy.
00:32:46.43\00:32:49.16
So if you're
healthy in Jesus, you know,
00:32:49.20\00:32:52.63
then you have
that joyful assurance.
00:32:52.67\00:32:54.54
Amen.
00:32:54.57\00:32:55.90
Yes, I'm thinking of
that, Jill, that you say
00:32:55.94\00:32:57.77
that even though
we think about heaven
00:32:57.81\00:33:03.24
and that glorious day
when we will go to heaven
00:33:03.28\00:33:06.35
and when everything will change
to perfection and all that,
00:33:06.38\00:33:11.05
that we still can
have that hope in here
00:33:11.09\00:33:13.96
for everything
that happens to us.
00:33:13.99\00:33:16.29
When I think and you know
00:33:16.32\00:33:17.66
just recently with
Angie losing her mother,
00:33:17.69\00:33:20.43
and then when I lost my father,
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.50
it was very painful but,
but every time the pain came,
00:33:22.53\00:33:29.34
the hope that to see him again
00:33:29.37\00:33:31.47
and the joy that he had
given his life to the Lord
00:33:31.51\00:33:34.91
and now no
longer we were worried
00:33:34.94\00:33:38.15
about his salvation.
00:33:38.18\00:33:39.91
We didn't have
that anymore, so that,
00:33:39.95\00:33:42.25
that to me it's like
having heaven with us.
00:33:42.28\00:33:47.16
Christ with us will
give you that assurance
00:33:47.19\00:33:50.29
and that, that
hope, that excitement
00:33:50.33\00:33:53.96
but also that peaceful
state of mind of spirit
00:33:54.00\00:34:00.04
to know that we are going to,
00:34:00.07\00:34:03.81
all these things
is going to pass,
00:34:03.84\00:34:05.87
so therefore, all the
pains, all the problems,
00:34:05.91\00:34:10.48
they're caught in
probably we might have,
00:34:10.51\00:34:14.68
might feel the tenth of it,
00:34:14.72\00:34:17.42
the rest are taken
away by you know that hope
00:34:17.45\00:34:20.06
that present with us.
00:34:20.09\00:34:22.62
You know, this is something,
00:34:22.66\00:34:23.99
the reason when we were
asked last night to do this,
00:34:24.03\00:34:28.03
the reason that this top...
00:34:28.06\00:34:30.60
I think this topic
just jumped into my mind
00:34:30.63\00:34:32.53
because it seems
00:34:32.57\00:34:33.90
that there's so many of
you who have been calling
00:34:33.94\00:34:35.64
there's so much pain
in the world right now.
00:34:35.67\00:34:38.71
We know so many of our
brothers and sisters are hurting
00:34:38.74\00:34:42.18
because they've lost a mother,
00:34:42.21\00:34:44.35
they've lost a
daughter, they've lost a spouse.
00:34:44.38\00:34:48.38
And I don't know how
anyone goes through it,
00:34:48.42\00:34:51.75
without the hope of being,
00:34:51.79\00:34:54.62
without the hope
of the resurrection
00:34:54.66\00:34:56.12
of being
reunited, but you know on...
00:34:56.16\00:35:00.63
Well, I'll take my turn.
00:35:00.66\00:35:02.00
Let me get back to you
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.00
and I'll reserve a
comment for a minute
00:35:04.03\00:35:06.00
but you expound on this
for us please preacher man
00:35:06.03\00:35:09.94
1 Thessalonians 4.
00:35:09.97\00:35:11.44
What comes to my mind
and I want to get on it,
00:35:11.47\00:35:15.28
I'll jump on this.
00:35:15.31\00:35:17.55
The truth is
00:35:17.58\00:35:19.25
sometimes even for
Christians this life stinks.
00:35:19.28\00:35:22.92
Yep. Absolutely.
00:35:22.95\00:35:24.29
You know and there's no
way to dress it up or spin it,
00:35:24.32\00:35:26.02
it's just stinky stuff happens.
00:35:26.05\00:35:29.59
I remember Elder Batch,
first elder of the church,
00:35:29.62\00:35:34.80
the Advent Hope
87th Street, Manhattan.
00:35:34.83\00:35:36.87
The first day on the job,
first elder of the church,
00:35:36.90\00:35:40.50
December, September 11th, 2001.
00:35:40.54\00:35:44.04
9/11, first day on the
job never found his body,
00:35:44.07\00:35:47.61
never found his body.
00:35:47.64\00:35:49.24
And I remember when
they had the memorial service
00:35:49.28\00:35:52.01
because there was
nothing to have a funeral there
00:35:52.05\00:35:54.15
and the pastor
even said, he said,
00:35:54.18\00:35:55.52
"Sometimes stuff happens
it just doesn't make sense."
00:35:55.55\00:35:57.79
Yeah. Right.
00:35:57.82\00:35:59.15
You know doesn't,
it just doesn't add up
00:35:59.19\00:36:00.52
first day on a job
00:36:00.56\00:36:02.86
and they never
found his body, wife,
00:36:02.89\00:36:04.29
two kids left, you
know, kind of thing.
00:36:04.33\00:36:07.43
And so, 1
Corinthians 15:17 comes to mind,
00:36:07.46\00:36:10.73
if in this world
only, if this is his,
00:36:10.77\00:36:13.37
we are in trouble.
00:36:13.40\00:36:14.97
You know, it got to
be something more than,
00:36:15.00\00:36:17.84
than this so
if, if in this world
00:36:17.87\00:36:20.41
only we have hope,
00:36:20.44\00:36:22.81
we are of all people
most pitiable, most miserable.
00:36:22.84\00:36:25.85
There's got to be something
more to keep you going.
00:36:25.88\00:36:27.85
So how does his wife
get up the next morning
00:36:27.88\00:36:31.15
and take care of those kids
00:36:31.19\00:36:32.72
and put one foot
in front of the other
00:36:32.75\00:36:35.02
and get ready and
get ready for the service
00:36:35.06\00:36:37.23
and then a couple
of week go back to work
00:36:37.26\00:36:38.89
because she's got a
family, because she's got,
00:36:38.93\00:36:40.86
she's got a blessed hope,
she's got an eternal hope.
00:36:40.90\00:36:43.57
She's got to believe that
there's more than just this.
00:36:43.60\00:36:47.70
And that's that,
that's how you do it, Shelley,
00:36:47.74\00:36:49.70
because you, you
latch on to something else.
00:36:49.74\00:36:52.47
There's
something better than this.
00:36:52.51\00:36:53.84
There's a brighter day,
weeping may endure for a night,
00:36:53.88\00:36:56.41
but joy is going to
come in the morning.
00:36:56.44\00:36:58.71
That's what you hold on to,
00:36:58.75\00:37:00.35
so the Lord himself ascended
to heaven with a shout."
00:37:00.38\00:37:04.09
Voice of the
archangel and trumpet of God,
00:37:04.12\00:37:05.92
dead in Christ rise first,
00:37:05.95\00:37:07.49
then we which
are alive and remain,
00:37:07.52\00:37:10.63
again that togetherness
shall be caught up together
00:37:10.66\00:37:12.96
to meet them in the clouds,
00:37:12.99\00:37:15.33
and so shall we
ever be with the Lord."
00:37:15.36\00:37:16.80
It's a fabulous,
fabulous promise.
00:37:16.83\00:37:20.90
It is the promise
of a grand reunion
00:37:20.94\00:37:24.07
that will go on for ever
and ever and ever and ever.
00:37:24.11\00:37:27.94
You know getting
old is getting old.
00:37:27.98\00:37:31.15
You know getting...
00:37:31.18\00:37:33.95
that's really, you got
aches, you got pains, the idea,
00:37:33.98\00:37:37.39
I think just of the idea of that
00:37:37.42\00:37:39.69
you'll never get old,
00:37:39.72\00:37:41.36
that's about
enough for me, you know,
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.12
you're not going to get old.
00:37:43.16\00:37:44.49
You're not going to get tired.
00:37:44.53\00:37:45.86
You know you
move slower and slower
00:37:45.89\00:37:47.23
and slower and slower,
00:37:47.26\00:37:48.60
and some days you
don't feel like moving at all
00:37:48.63\00:37:50.40
but you get up and move,
00:37:50.43\00:37:52.10
and one day you're
going to get a brand new body.
00:37:52.13\00:37:55.07
And I don't know if
we're really gonna fly.
00:37:55.10\00:37:57.14
I think we are
because I want to, you know.
00:37:57.17\00:37:59.87
I want to be able to just fly.
00:37:59.91\00:38:02.74
I remember we were at the...
00:38:02.78\00:38:04.11
Star Trek kind
of beaming, right.
00:38:04.15\00:38:05.65
Yeah, yeah the last time
we went to Israel together,
00:38:05.68\00:38:07.85
we were in some place,
00:38:07.88\00:38:09.85
I think we went to Beit Shemesh
up on that high mountain.
00:38:09.88\00:38:12.05
And you got up there
so fast before everybody,
00:38:12.09\00:38:14.02
I said, "Where did
Shelly get that energy."
00:38:14.06\00:38:15.89
Anyway standing up
on top, you know I wish
00:38:15.92\00:38:18.89
if I just
jumped off I could fly.
00:38:18.93\00:38:22.06
You had that thought?
00:38:22.10\00:38:23.43
I had that thought many times...
00:38:23.47\00:38:24.80
We're glad you
didn't try it. Yeah.
00:38:24.83\00:38:26.17
I'm glad I didn't
try, yeah. I resist.
00:38:26.20\00:38:27.94
That's great.
00:38:27.97\00:38:29.30
But I think that will be
the most fun thing for me,
00:38:29.34\00:38:31.31
flying.
00:38:31.34\00:38:32.67
You know just leap off
and just take off like a bird.
00:38:32.71\00:38:35.38
That is such an
exciting thought.
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.18
That thought that God says
00:38:37.21\00:38:39.45
that there are many other worlds
00:38:39.48\00:38:41.22
that we have not seen yet
00:38:41.25\00:38:43.05
and to me the idea of
going to visit those worlds
00:38:43.08\00:38:47.26
and to see people that,
00:38:47.29\00:38:50.53
you know, otherwise
you would never have seen
00:38:50.56\00:38:53.63
unless we are in
heaven with Jesus.
00:38:53.66\00:38:58.07
To me it's grand.
00:38:58.10\00:38:59.60
It seems to me like, you know,
there's, a lot of questions.
00:38:59.63\00:39:02.67
The complexity of
what you just ask him,
00:39:02.70\00:39:05.31
even to the point is
our pet gonna be in heaven.
00:39:05.34\00:39:08.44
Now these are questions
00:39:08.48\00:39:09.81
that we just
don't have answers to.
00:39:09.84\00:39:11.88
But he does say, you know,
00:39:11.91\00:39:13.62
that it will be
better than anything
00:39:13.65\00:39:15.08
that we could ever imagine.
00:39:15.12\00:39:16.89
And so I think that is
what you're saying C.A.,
00:39:16.92\00:39:19.52
I think that you will fly.
00:39:19.55\00:39:21.99
You know because
it's better than anything
00:39:22.02\00:39:23.59
you could think of,
00:39:23.63\00:39:25.09
so, but I mean
there's not a thus saith Lord
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.66
so we're just kind of
thank you Jesus that perhaps...
00:39:27.70\00:39:33.67
You know for me personally this,
00:39:33.70\00:39:36.07
this is the passage once again
00:39:36.10\00:39:40.41
and I'm looking
at this through...
00:39:40.44\00:39:42.64
look at this passage through
different lens than you all
00:39:42.68\00:39:45.95
because you grew
up in additional truth
00:39:45.98\00:39:48.45
that I didn't have at the time,
but this passage was the one
00:39:48.48\00:39:53.49
that completely
hung me up all the time.
00:39:53.52\00:39:57.13
I was taught, first of all
00:39:57.16\00:39:58.86
that when you die
you went to heaven,
00:39:58.89\00:40:01.53
you know, it
wasn't that you slept
00:40:01.56\00:40:04.37
or rested in the
grave for the return.
00:40:04.40\00:40:07.97
I was taught
that it was something
00:40:08.00\00:40:13.61
that there was a
secret coming of the Lord
00:40:13.64\00:40:17.01
and so, you know,
you'd get off on that...
00:40:17.05\00:40:19.21
then I'd come to 1 Thessalonians
00:40:19.25\00:40:20.92
and I read it and I get there
and I think what do you mean
00:40:20.95\00:40:24.72
you don't want us to be ignorant
00:40:24.75\00:40:26.09
about those who
have fallen asleep,
00:40:26.12\00:40:27.59
what you mean fallen asleep.
00:40:27.62\00:40:29.92
"Lest you sorrow as
others have no hope."
00:40:29.96\00:40:32.49
And then I would read
the part where it says that,
00:40:32.53\00:40:35.96
"We who are alive and
remain at the coming of the Lord
00:40:36.00\00:40:39.23
will by no means
precede those who are asleep."
00:40:39.27\00:40:44.24
Okay, I've got to understand
what asleep means, you know.
00:40:44.27\00:40:48.61
Compared to...
00:40:48.64\00:40:50.71
wait you mean I don't know...
00:40:50.75\00:40:54.12
if I don't preceded them
00:40:54.15\00:40:55.85
that means they're
not up there either.
00:40:55.88\00:40:58.72
Precisely, right, right.
00:40:58.75\00:41:00.09
So, so it's like wow,
and then when it says,
00:41:00.12\00:41:03.89
"He's gonna come with
the voice of an archangel
00:41:03.93\00:41:07.03
with a shout, with the trumpet."
00:41:07.06\00:41:09.10
How can you get a
secret coming out of that, so,
00:41:09.13\00:41:11.83
you know, yeah
that's loud coming,
00:41:11.87\00:41:14.04
"The dead in
Christ will rise first,
00:41:14.07\00:41:15.94
then we who are alive and remain
00:41:15.97\00:41:17.81
will be caught up
in the air with him."
00:41:17.84\00:41:20.08
So I remember that as I began
really studying this passage,
00:41:20.11\00:41:24.65
then I had to do
the study on the sleep.
00:41:24.68\00:41:26.85
That's when before I
ever even watched 3ABN
00:41:26.88\00:41:30.15
how God taught me the truth
00:41:30.19\00:41:31.82
about what happen
when you die, you know,
00:41:31.85\00:41:34.02
I mean and then like
John 5:28, 29 were Jesus said,
00:41:34.06\00:41:39.19
"You know don't marvel at
this, there's gonna come a day,
00:41:39.23\00:41:42.00
if you've never heard
the voice of the Lord,
00:41:42.03\00:41:43.80
you will one
day let me tell you,
00:41:43.83\00:41:45.17
because all who
are in their graves
00:41:45.20\00:41:47.60
will hear his voice all.
00:41:47.64\00:41:49.40
Some will come
forth to the John 5:28,
00:41:49.44\00:41:52.77
to the resurrection
of righteousness others
00:41:52.81\00:41:55.54
and we know a
thousand years later,
00:41:55.58\00:41:57.01
when you look into Revelation
00:41:57.05\00:41:58.41
to the
resurrection of condemnation.
00:41:58.45\00:42:00.52
But the whole point is
you could take this passage...
00:42:00.55\00:42:05.65
You got it, this is
about a thorough exegesis
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.26
on the state of the
dead as you can get.
00:42:07.29\00:42:09.49
Absolutely. You can
get it all right here.
00:42:09.52\00:42:11.19
Absolutely. Yes, yes.
00:42:11.23\00:42:12.66
But now here's,
here's something else
00:42:12.69\00:42:14.46
that I just want
to throw in here,
00:42:14.50\00:42:15.96
because once I have
studied all of this, you know,
00:42:16.00\00:42:19.60
we're all sitting here saying,
00:42:19.63\00:42:20.97
"Oh, I'm so glad
00:42:21.00\00:42:22.34
I'll get to see my
momma who is a Christian.
00:42:22.37\00:42:24.01
My daddy gave his
heart to the Lord."
00:42:24.04\00:42:26.37
What about
relatives who never did.
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.31
Yes.
00:42:28.34\00:42:29.68
You know I know that
my father was baptized.
00:42:29.71\00:42:31.68
My father was killed
when he was only 30 years old.
00:42:31.71\00:42:35.92
And I know he was baptized.
00:42:35.95\00:42:39.69
But on, I was reading
his obituary the other day
00:42:39.72\00:42:42.16
and it still,
00:42:42.19\00:42:43.53
he had been divorced from
my mother for several years
00:42:43.56\00:42:46.53
and he was still
listed as a church,
00:42:46.56\00:42:49.06
as a member of her church.
00:42:49.10\00:42:50.87
So he had obviously
not joined another church
00:42:50.90\00:42:53.47
and the thought
has occurred to me,
00:42:53.50\00:42:56.14
you know what if he's not there
and see this is what I think
00:42:56.17\00:43:00.18
is that
understanding the blessed hope,
00:43:00.21\00:43:02.91
if you put these
two scriptures together
00:43:02.94\00:43:05.31
to know that in
that second resurrection
00:43:05.35\00:43:08.28
when people come up
00:43:08.32\00:43:10.45
to the
resurrection of condemnation,
00:43:10.49\00:43:13.12
this earth when God destroys sin
00:43:13.15\00:43:15.99
which means he'll
have to destroy sinners...
00:43:16.02\00:43:17.99
Yes.
00:43:18.03\00:43:19.36
To destroy sin
00:43:19.39\00:43:20.73
and it's just the
brightness of His coming
00:43:20.76\00:43:22.33
because His
divine love destroys sin.
00:43:22.36\00:43:26.23
I mean it's when He says...
00:43:26.27\00:43:28.17
Can't stand in His presence.
00:43:28.20\00:43:29.54
Yeah, he says,
"We can't stand..."
00:43:29.57\00:43:30.91
because our God
is a consuming fire
00:43:30.94\00:43:33.81
and divine love if you stay...
00:43:33.84\00:43:35.78
you know if this
is us and this is God,
00:43:35.81\00:43:38.11
you get in front
of His divine love
00:43:38.15\00:43:39.78
and phew, is sin is destroyed
and it's just sucked up
00:43:39.81\00:43:44.45
but it makes me
feel so calm to know
00:43:44.49\00:43:49.52
that if my father
did not accept Jesus
00:43:49.56\00:43:54.40
he will be eternally destroyed.
00:43:54.43\00:43:57.17
We have either...
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.00
we either have eternal life.
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.30
You know, "For God
so loved the world,
00:44:01.34\00:44:02.90
He gave His only begotten Son
00:44:02.94\00:44:04.67
that He who
should believe in Him
00:44:04.71\00:44:06.11
would have eternal
life who should not perish."
00:44:06.14\00:44:09.71
So they're
either going to perish
00:44:09.74\00:44:11.08
or have eternal life.
00:44:11.11\00:44:12.45
It gives me such comfort
00:44:12.48\00:44:13.95
to know that he
would merely perish
00:44:13.98\00:44:17.35
and not, not be tormented.
00:44:17.39\00:44:20.36
That's why we can
be happy in heaven.
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.59
That's why
there's no more tears,
00:44:22.62\00:44:24.06
no more sorrow, you know...
00:44:24.09\00:44:26.53
And if there's the tear,
that tear would be wiped away.
00:44:26.56\00:44:29.50
And that's why
he can end this with
00:44:29.53\00:44:31.23
wherefore comfort one
another with these words.
00:44:31.27\00:44:33.17
It is comforting
to know, to think
00:44:33.20\00:44:35.04
that your loved one
or someone you even knew
00:44:35.07\00:44:38.37
is writhing eternally in pain,
00:44:38.41\00:44:40.91
how in world
can heaven be heaven
00:44:40.94\00:44:42.54
with that thought washing
in the back of your mind.
00:44:42.58\00:44:45.81
And you know I have to
say this because I know
00:44:45.85\00:44:47.18
that there's somebody
that's watching tonight
00:44:47.22\00:44:48.78
and you're saying,
what do you mean that,
00:44:48.82\00:44:50.15
you know, God had a,
00:44:50.19\00:44:51.52
I mean God's
reputation has been attacked.
00:44:51.55\00:44:53.56
This whole idea of
an eternal burning fire,
00:44:53.59\00:44:57.33
this idea was
brought into the church
00:44:57.36\00:44:59.86
by a Tunisian who had,
00:44:59.89\00:45:03.57
he had been a pagan, philosopher
00:45:03.60\00:45:05.67
and then he converted
to Christianity in 196 A.D.
00:45:05.70\00:45:08.57
His name was Tertullian.
00:45:08.60\00:45:10.11
He was a follower of Pluto
who was a follower of Socrates
00:45:10.14\00:45:14.08
and they both
taught Greek mythology
00:45:14.11\00:45:17.18
that this idea of
an eternal burning fire
00:45:17.21\00:45:20.88
and so, so Tertullian
00:45:20.92\00:45:23.75
who became an
ecclesiastical writer,
00:45:23.79\00:45:26.22
he takes the works of Plato
00:45:26.25\00:45:28.26
and introduces
them into the church,
00:45:28.29\00:45:30.43
because for the first century
00:45:30.46\00:45:33.03
in three quarters
of the second century,
00:45:33.06\00:45:35.40
all of the apostolic fathers,
00:45:35.43\00:45:37.07
all of the fathers of the church
00:45:37.10\00:45:38.57
taught that you either
there was the way of life
00:45:38.60\00:45:42.44
and the way of death.
00:45:42.47\00:45:44.04
There was no eternal, I
mean it was either eternal life
00:45:44.07\00:45:47.01
or eternal death.
00:45:47.04\00:45:48.41
So this whole idea
that's been brought in
00:45:48.44\00:45:52.11
is unscriptural,
and I challenge you,
00:45:52.15\00:45:54.22
if you don't agree with us
00:45:54.25\00:45:55.58
and you think
those people are crazy.
00:45:55.62\00:45:57.89
I want you to do me a favor,
00:45:57.92\00:45:59.72
you just go and
check it out in the Bible.
00:45:59.75\00:46:03.63
Oh, go ahead
00:46:03.66\00:46:04.99
If I can just jump back
to something that you said,
00:46:05.03\00:46:07.06
because that, that
thought has troubled me
00:46:07.10\00:46:09.20
sometimes just being honest
00:46:09.23\00:46:11.30
is what about the
people who don't know
00:46:11.33\00:46:14.84
and love God who
haven't made a decision,
00:46:14.87\00:46:17.34
who haven't made a commitment,
what about family members
00:46:17.37\00:46:20.71
who right now are
not walking with God,
00:46:20.74\00:46:24.91
and maybe they've had
a choice to follow God
00:46:24.95\00:46:28.08
and they've chosen to walk away
00:46:28.12\00:46:30.49
and we know that
it is never too late
00:46:30.52\00:46:32.85
to turn around and to come back.
00:46:32.89\00:46:34.32
So as long as probation lingers,
00:46:34.36\00:46:37.03
there is a chance,
00:46:37.06\00:46:38.39
there is the time
for them to repent
00:46:38.43\00:46:39.86
and to the come back to God,
00:46:39.89\00:46:41.56
but that has
troubled me because I think.
00:46:41.60\00:46:45.17
How do you know but to me
and this is not theological,
00:46:45.20\00:46:48.60
this is just
personal for my own heart,
00:46:48.64\00:46:50.71
so Pastor CA and Shelley,
00:46:50.74\00:46:52.24
and you theologians can correct,
00:46:52.27\00:46:53.94
but from my own heart,
00:46:53.98\00:46:55.31
it gives me comfort to
know God is a righteous judge.
00:46:55.34\00:46:59.01
Amen. Amen.
00:46:59.05\00:47:00.38
He knows the end
from the beginning,
00:47:00.42\00:47:03.25
He knows the inner workings
of each one of our hearts,
00:47:03.28\00:47:06.79
and I believe when we get
to the end and Jesus comes
00:47:06.82\00:47:10.39
and we'll be in heaven.
00:47:10.43\00:47:12.99
We will know at that point,
00:47:13.03\00:47:14.60
we can look at the record books,
00:47:14.63\00:47:16.33
and we will know at that point
00:47:16.36\00:47:18.63
they were given
every opportunity
00:47:18.67\00:47:20.74
to accept Jesus and
they chose to reject Him,
00:47:20.77\00:47:25.04
you know, that
that's brings comfort to me
00:47:25.07\00:47:27.11
in my heart to know that.
00:47:27.14\00:47:28.48
And that they
probably wouldn't be happy
00:47:28.51\00:47:29.84
if they were there.
00:47:29.88\00:47:31.21
And that's not theology,
that's more of chronology
00:47:31.25\00:47:34.02
that's what family does.
00:47:34.05\00:47:35.92
You know God
doeth all things well,
00:47:35.95\00:47:37.69
and ultimately
we have to trust God
00:47:37.72\00:47:39.29
that God is not
trying to keep anybody out,
00:47:39.32\00:47:41.46
He's trying to get everybody in,
00:47:41.49\00:47:42.86
so but He cannot go
against our own will which is...
00:47:42.89\00:47:46.86
You know, was a
time that it troubles me
00:47:46.90\00:47:49.30
also the fact that
God, God is gonna chose,
00:47:49.33\00:47:54.00
you know, the sins
of those who love ones
00:47:54.04\00:47:56.60
that would not be there.
00:47:56.64\00:47:59.04
I said, oh, I don't want
to see those, you know that,
00:47:59.07\00:48:02.21
that's a terrible thing,
00:48:02.24\00:48:04.38
but when you think it
in the character of God,
00:48:04.41\00:48:07.75
it is a hope
because when he chose them.
00:48:07.78\00:48:13.76
We being sinners in the
past and now we are perfect.
00:48:13.79\00:48:19.26
We have no sin.
00:48:19.29\00:48:21.13
We are gonna see
how terrible that is,
00:48:21.16\00:48:24.63
and how terrible that
is, and how important it is,
00:48:24.67\00:48:29.74
and how right and loving
God is that He's showing us,
00:48:29.77\00:48:36.64
because even to that point
He wants us to know who He is.
00:48:36.68\00:48:41.48
He wants us to see
Him as a perfect God
00:48:41.52\00:48:44.39
and a loving God.
00:48:44.42\00:48:46.89
Otherwise, if you
think of the other way,
00:48:46.92\00:48:50.73
if we never knew why,
00:48:50.76\00:48:53.86
those loved ones that perished,
00:48:53.90\00:48:58.17
it would not have been complete,
00:48:58.20\00:49:00.00
the perfection would not
be complete because God can,
00:49:00.04\00:49:06.11
you know, take
away all feelings of,
00:49:06.14\00:49:10.18
human feelings,
human thought but...
00:49:10.21\00:49:12.51
The Bible says, He
opens the books that...
00:49:12.55\00:49:14.38
That will not be complete,
to me then it's not complete.
00:49:14.42\00:49:18.55
So that, that's
the hope like you said
00:49:18.59\00:49:21.52
so that is a hope that
they will not live forever.
00:49:21.56\00:49:25.49
Yes, that's right.
00:49:25.53\00:49:26.86
Because then also they
will be there for evidence
00:49:26.90\00:49:30.30
and hope, there is no more hope,
00:49:30.33\00:49:32.37
but just wishing
00:49:32.40\00:49:34.47
that they would
have been different come,
00:49:34.50\00:49:36.87
that is not love.
00:49:36.91\00:49:38.81
They will in ash the Bible says.
00:49:38.84\00:49:41.28
That's not a perfect. Amen.
00:49:41.31\00:49:42.94
Honey, do you
have another thought?
00:49:42.98\00:49:44.51
No, not really, the one thing
does catch my attention though
00:49:44.55\00:49:47.78
is the last sentence,
00:49:47.82\00:49:49.15
"And the dead in
Christ will rise first,
00:49:49.18\00:49:51.65
then we who are alive
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.69
and remain shall be
caught up together with him
00:49:53.72\00:49:55.92
in the clouds with the Lord."
00:49:55.96\00:49:58.56
And you know there
is a teaching out there
00:49:58.59\00:50:00.10
that the there could
be sightings of Jesus
00:50:00.13\00:50:03.20
in South Africa walking.
00:50:03.23\00:50:05.80
There are sightings over
here that Jesus is walking.
00:50:05.83\00:50:09.44
Well, this makes
it perfectly clear
00:50:09.47\00:50:11.11
in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17,
that whenever Jesus comes,
00:50:11.14\00:50:16.21
He's not going to put
His feet on this ground.
00:50:16.24\00:50:18.41
We're going to
meet Him in the air,
00:50:18.45\00:50:20.65
and I think that's something
00:50:20.68\00:50:22.02
that some somebody
needs to hear because...
00:50:22.05\00:50:24.45
That's right.
00:50:24.49\00:50:25.82
They don't...
00:50:25.85\00:50:27.39
It's easy to get
caught up and it's, you know,
00:50:27.42\00:50:29.59
we're told that it's even
the elite could be deceived.
00:50:29.62\00:50:33.46
You know, when
you know the truth
00:50:33.50\00:50:34.83
about the state of the dead,
00:50:34.86\00:50:36.46
when you know the
truth about the word of God,
00:50:36.50\00:50:38.07
it demystifies
00:50:38.10\00:50:39.43
and demythologizes
all of this craziness.
00:50:39.47\00:50:44.81
Satan has so woven this thing
that he got people in bondages,
00:50:44.84\00:50:48.31
he got people in fear.
00:50:48.34\00:50:49.94
You know something
goes bump in the night.
00:50:49.98\00:50:51.71
I was just telling a bunch
of people in the Philippines,
00:50:51.75\00:50:53.35
I said if you, if you lost
your wallet in the cemetery,
00:50:53.38\00:50:56.42
you went to
funereal and you realize,
00:50:56.45\00:50:58.59
"Oh, I left my
wallet to grave side,
00:50:58.62\00:51:00.29
and it's noon would you go
to the cemetery and get it."
00:51:00.32\00:51:02.16
Of course, "He would" I said,
00:51:02.19\00:51:03.53
"Well, what if you
didn't find that out
00:51:03.56\00:51:04.89
till 12 o'clock in the night,
00:51:04.93\00:51:06.26
how many will go to the cemetery
00:51:06.29\00:51:07.63
to get that wallet?"
00:51:07.66\00:51:09.00
They don't know but they go why.
00:51:09.03\00:51:10.83
Why would you go at 12 o'clock,
00:51:10.87\00:51:12.23
what's the difference
between in 12 o'clock noon
00:51:12.27\00:51:14.07
and 12 o'clock night.
00:51:14.10\00:51:15.44
There's nobody in that cemetery
00:51:15.47\00:51:17.44
in the grave
that's gonna harm me.
00:51:17.47\00:51:19.67
There may be a robber there
but doesn't know what's there,
00:51:19.71\00:51:21.78
but in the back of our minds
00:51:21.81\00:51:23.14
we've bought
into this Satanic lie
00:51:23.18\00:51:24.91
that the dead are not
really dead, you know.
00:51:24.95\00:51:27.68
So why should you be afraid
00:51:27.72\00:51:29.05
when something
goes bump in the night.
00:51:29.08\00:51:31.42
If you know the truth about,
about the state of the dead,
00:51:31.45\00:51:35.02
it is comforting to know
that that when you die you rest
00:51:35.06\00:51:39.39
until Christ
comes back to get you.
00:51:39.43\00:51:41.20
He's not sending somebody,
00:51:41.23\00:51:42.56
he's not sending
a butler or maid,
00:51:42.60\00:51:43.97
He's coming Himself,
that's how much He loves you.
00:51:44.00\00:51:46.10
That's a comforting thought
and the dead will remain dead
00:51:46.13\00:51:49.60
until the time of
the executive judgment,
00:51:49.64\00:51:54.14
and then God will
deal with sin and sinners
00:51:54.18\00:51:57.31
and then it will be done,
00:51:57.35\00:51:58.68
and then as we
began this though,
00:51:58.71\00:52:00.18
there will be a new
heaven and a new earth
00:52:00.22\00:52:03.02
and no more sin.
00:52:03.05\00:52:04.55
And so, let me read the
affirmation one more time.
00:52:04.59\00:52:06.86
These two passages of scripture
00:52:06.89\00:52:09.79
that is taken
from Revelation 21:1-7
00:52:09.82\00:52:13.19
and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17,
00:52:13.23\00:52:17.30
"When the New
Jerusalem comes down
00:52:17.33\00:52:19.87
to the new recreated
earth, God will dwell with us
00:52:19.90\00:52:23.17
as he originally
planned a creation.
00:52:23.20\00:52:25.17
He will make all
things new and never again
00:52:25.21\00:52:28.24
will we suffer the pain
of death, sorrow or cry.
00:52:28.28\00:52:32.01
He will satisfy
our thirsty souls
00:52:32.05\00:52:34.48
with the fountain of
the water of eternal life
00:52:34.52\00:52:37.09
and we will be His forever.
00:52:37.12\00:52:39.45
Joy upon joy,
00:52:39.49\00:52:40.82
God will reunite
us with our loved ones
00:52:40.86\00:52:43.39
who have fallen
asleep in Christ,
00:52:43.43\00:52:45.43
and we have eternity
00:52:45.46\00:52:47.70
to spend with those for
whom our heartaches now,
00:52:47.73\00:52:51.13
if we're alive it is coming,
00:52:51.17\00:52:52.77
we won't proceed into
His presence without them,
00:52:52.80\00:52:56.20
for the coming of the
Lord, He will shout His command
00:52:56.24\00:52:59.77
and the dead in
Christ will rise first,
00:52:59.81\00:53:01.64
then we will all
be caught up together
00:53:01.68\00:53:04.25
to meet the Lord in the air
00:53:04.28\00:53:06.21
and thus we shall
always be with the Lord."
00:53:06.25\00:53:09.42
Hallelujah. Amen.
00:53:09.45\00:53:10.79
Well, it is indeed blessed hope
00:53:10.82\00:53:13.59
and we hope we
have eager expectation
00:53:13.62\00:53:17.83
that as you hear
the word of the Lord
00:53:17.86\00:53:21.30
and maybe you've never
heard these promises before,
00:53:21.33\00:53:23.53
we want you to look
these up Revelation 21:1-7
00:53:23.57\00:53:28.80
and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17,
study those and you will find
00:53:28.84\00:53:34.08
that as you put
God's word into your mind,
00:53:34.11\00:53:37.51
it will get
implanted into your heart
00:53:37.55\00:53:39.75
and it will bring you that hope.
00:53:39.78\00:53:42.28
Let's, we have a
few minutes left,
00:53:42.32\00:53:44.09
I think that we
should close this time off
00:53:44.12\00:53:46.89
with some prayer.
00:53:46.92\00:53:48.26
Jill, you want to start? Sure.
00:53:48.29\00:53:50.13
Father, we come before
You in the name of Jesus
00:53:50.16\00:53:52.13
and we thank You for the
hope we have of eternal life
00:53:52.16\00:53:57.17
and not just for us ourselves
Father about for our loved ones
00:53:57.20\00:54:01.14
and our neighbors and community.
00:54:01.17\00:54:04.21
Father, we thank You
for the gift of salvation
00:54:04.24\00:54:07.44
and for this blessed hope
00:54:07.48\00:54:09.34
and we look forward to
it with eager expectation.
00:54:09.38\00:54:12.75
I lift up our
brothers and sisters
00:54:12.78\00:54:14.68
who are watching just now
00:54:14.72\00:54:16.72
and I pray for you
to pour in your comfort,
00:54:16.75\00:54:20.36
the oil of your Holy Spirit
00:54:20.39\00:54:21.92
to someone whose
heart is hurting,
00:54:21.96\00:54:24.26
that you would bring hope again
00:54:24.29\00:54:27.40
that you would remind our
precious brothers and sisters
00:54:27.43\00:54:31.07
that weeping
sometimes endures for the night,
00:54:31.10\00:54:35.00
but joy always
comes in the morning.
00:54:35.04\00:54:38.81
We thank you for the
promise of a new heaven
00:54:38.84\00:54:42.24
and a new earth.
00:54:42.28\00:54:44.58
Lord, you are Jehovah
Shalom, the God of peace,
00:54:44.61\00:54:49.62
and we thank You Lord
that Your hope overflows in us
00:54:49.65\00:54:54.82
that you just cause our
hearts to bubble over with
00:54:54.86\00:54:57.76
hope and eager expectation
all that you will do,
00:54:57.79\00:55:01.33
and Lord thank you so much
00:55:01.36\00:55:02.80
that You didn't
leave us as orphans,
00:55:02.83\00:55:04.37
but that you
sent Your Holy Spirit
00:55:04.40\00:55:06.90
to live in our hearts
00:55:06.94\00:55:08.87
and that You gave us
Your word that we might know
00:55:08.90\00:55:14.21
what is going to
happen in Jesus' name.
00:55:14.24\00:55:18.31
And Father, just as we
come together on the Sabbath,
00:55:18.35\00:55:21.28
I just want to
thank you once again Lord,
00:55:21.32\00:55:23.42
that we can call upon Your name.
00:55:23.45\00:55:25.52
And Father, it
may be a sample issue,
00:55:25.55\00:55:27.29
just help me Jesus, and Father,
00:55:27.32\00:55:29.69
we know that You
have ears and eyes to see.
00:55:29.72\00:55:32.06
We know that You
love each one of us.
00:55:32.09\00:55:34.46
And Father,
whether it's a daily walk
00:55:34.50\00:55:36.53
or whether Lord, we
need crutches to get around.
00:55:36.56\00:55:40.90
Father, we know
as we call upon You,
00:55:40.94\00:55:43.61
You're there.
00:55:43.64\00:55:44.97
So Father, we
thank You, we love You
00:55:45.01\00:55:47.81
and of course, Lord, we
give you all praise and glory.
00:55:47.84\00:55:50.88
Amen.
00:55:50.91\00:55:52.41
Heavenly Father,
we so thankful Lord
00:55:52.45\00:55:55.35
that You have told us
00:55:55.38\00:55:57.09
that You don't
want us to be ignorance
00:55:57.12\00:55:59.55
because that
gives us the promise
00:55:59.59\00:56:02.29
and the assurance that
when we search Your word,
00:56:02.32\00:56:06.23
You will teach us
everything that we need to know
00:56:06.26\00:56:09.63
so that we will not be ignorance
00:56:09.66\00:56:11.70
and that we would not
only would learn of you,
00:56:11.73\00:56:15.30
but would also learn to
love You as do the serve
00:56:15.34\00:56:18.84
and we thank you
Father in Jesus' name.
00:56:18.87\00:56:21.18
Amen.
00:56:21.21\00:56:22.78
Father God, we
hear and understand
00:56:22.81\00:56:24.58
that this earth is
waxen old like a garment
00:56:24.61\00:56:27.35
and we too are waxen old,
but we've been given a promise
00:56:27.38\00:56:31.45
that we can be
renewed each day in inner man.
00:56:31.49\00:56:35.06
But the promise is the hope
00:56:35.09\00:56:36.49
is that one day
the outer garment
00:56:36.52\00:56:38.56
will be made new also.
00:56:38.59\00:56:40.36
This mortality will
take on immortality.
00:56:40.40\00:56:42.90
And oh, Father,
00:56:42.93\00:56:44.27
we look forward
with eager expectation
00:56:44.30\00:56:45.83
to that day when we
shall see Jesus face
00:56:45.87\00:56:49.20
to blessed face and
ascend with Him in the clouds
00:56:49.24\00:56:52.54
and then we will
always be with the Lord,
00:56:52.57\00:56:54.81
no more parting,
no more separation,
00:56:54.84\00:56:57.25
no more death and no more dying.
00:56:57.28\00:56:59.38
Oh, Father, may
that hope boil us up,
00:56:59.41\00:57:03.45
may it give us eagle's
wings to soar above sin
00:57:03.49\00:57:07.09
and to know that one
day soon and very soon,
00:57:07.12\00:57:10.46
Jesus will come to
take His children home.
00:57:10.49\00:57:13.33
Oh, Father, please come quickly,
00:57:13.36\00:57:16.06
we await Your coming here
00:57:16.10\00:57:17.47
and thank you dear
Father in Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:17.50\00:57:19.53
Amen. Amen.
00:57:19.57\00:57:22.17
Well, well we're so grateful
that you joined us tonight.
00:57:22.20\00:57:25.47
And our prayer for you is
that the grace of our Lord
00:57:25.51\00:57:28.34
and Savior Jesus
Christ, the love of the Father
00:57:28.38\00:57:31.11
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:31.15\00:57:33.18
will be with you now and always.
00:57:33.21\00:57:35.82
Bye-bye.
00:57:35.85\00:57:37.19