Participants: Lawrence Dorsey
Series Code: UR
Program Code: UR000004
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00:57 Hello, and good evening.
00:58 When I was a youngster, I recall my mother received a pamphlet 01:03 in the mail about a series of studies on the 01:05 book of Revelation. 01:06 It contained seven headed beasts, and dragons, and just 01:11 horrible pictures, and back in the day we would say, 01:15 it scared her half to death. 01:17 I guess today we'd say it freaked her out. 01:20 My mother just said, I'm not going to have anything to do 01:24 with a book in the bible that has all of this horrible stuff 01:27 in it, and so it retarded her study of the book of Revelation 01:31 for many, many years. 01:32 But one of the things we've been finding out in this meeting 01:35 is that the book of Revelation is not a horrible book. 01:37 Not at all! It is a message of love, 01:40 and a revelation of Jesus Christ. 01:42 Can you say Amen? Amen! 01:44 So we have been having a wonderful time, 01:47 a truly wonderful time with our friend, pastor, evangelist, 01:50 Lawrence Dorsey, as we have been looking through the eyes 01:54 of John at the messages that come to us from 01:59 the book of Revelation. 02:00 We are so glad to be in the Ambassador Seventh-day Adventist 02:03 Church, and our host is Pastor Henoc Paulicin. 02:07 I'd like to say good evening to all of the church 02:10 family at Ambassador. 02:11 And good evening to all of our friends that are watching 02:15 throughout the world. 02:16 It is so exciting to see the truth of the Bible as being 02:21 expounded through the book of Revelation. 02:24 It affirms my faith that the God that we serve is not only a true 02:29 God, but His Word is true. Amen! 02:32 And so we look forward to see what the man of God, 02:36 Pastor Lawrence Dorsey, has to say to us. 02:38 And if you're ever in the Fort Lauderdale area, please come out 02:43 and visit us at the Ambassador Seventh-day Adventist Church 02:46 in Lauderdale Lakes where, I believe, we're the friendliest 02:48 church in the area. 02:50 What do you say about that? Amen, Amen! 02:52 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. 02:53 I don't know if you would mind praying for us pastor. 02:55 Certainly! Father God, again tonight as we stand, 02:59 and, as it were, before the throne of God, we pray that 03:04 Your Spirit would infuse this place, that You would speak 03:09 with the evangelist. 03:11 That You would touch his mind, his heart, his lips, and may we 03:15 receive, through him, from You, words of life and encouragement 03:21 that will help us as together we seek to walk the road 03:25 that leads to glory. 03:26 Make the Word plain to us, dear God, this night, 03:30 and give us strength to be not just hearers of the Word, 03:34 but doers thereof. 03:37 We love You, we praise You, and we thank You for Your 03:40 promise to answer the prayer of faith, in Jesus' name, Amen. 04:00 I dreamed of that city called Glory, so bright and so fair. 04:22 When I entered the gate I cried Holy! 04:32 The angels all welcomed me there. 04:43 They led me from mansion to mansion, 04:54 and Oh the sights I saw! 05:03 But I said, I want to see Jesus, for He's the 05:17 One who died for all. 05:26 And I bowed on my knees and cried Holy, Holy, Glory. 05:48 I clapped my hands and sang, Glory, Glory to the Son of God. 06:10 I thought as I entered that city all my loved ones, 06:23 you all knew, you all knew me well. 06:32 They showed me all around big heaven. 06:42 The scenes were too numerous to tell. 06:53 Oh I saw Abraham, Jacob, and Isaiah, 07:05 spoke with Mark and Timothy. 07:14 But I said, I want to see Jesus, 07:26 for He's the One who died for me. 07:38 And I bowed on my knees and cried Holy, Holy, Glory. 08:01 I clapped my hands and sang Glory, Glory to the Son of God. 08:22 I sang Glory to the Son of God. Amen! 08:44 Glory to the Son of God. 08:45 I think when we see His face, we're going go shout glory. 08:51 I think when we see His face, we're going 08:54 to be filled with joy. 08:55 I know when we see His face, ladies and gentlemen, 09:00 our hearts are going to skip a beat. 09:02 And in that skipping of a beat, we will be translated, 09:06 in the twinkling of an eye, and forever be with our Lord 09:10 and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen! 09:12 Are you doing well tonight? 09:14 Those of you at home, are you doing well? 09:17 Well, if you're not doing well, you're going to be well, 09:21 because I have good news for you today. 09:24 Good news for us with the message entitled, 09:28 Glimpses of Glory: Heaven Is A Real Place. 09:33 Shall we pray? Loving Father, again we are so thankful that 09:37 You love us, and that You died on the cross 09:40 of Calvary to give us life. 09:42 And even now, tonight, Lord, as we open Thy Holy Word, 09:46 we ask that Your sweet Spirit will come into our hearts, 09:49 into our minds, come into this congregation, to every home 09:53 and place where individuals are viewing these messages. 09:57 And enlighten us with Your Word, and draw us unto Yourself. 10:01 Please hide me behind the cross of Calvary, that You might be 10:05 lifted up, and bless our hearts, dear Lord, with a Word from You 10:09 about heaven, our future home, is our prayer. 10:13 In Jesus' name, Amen. 10:16 Glimpses of Glory; Is Heaven a Real Place? 10:21 I stand before you tonight. 10:24 I stand before you tonight to declare that 10:30 heaven is a real place. Amen! 10:32 It is not a myth. It is not a fairytale. 10:36 It is not the figment of someone's imagination. 10:40 It is not, as some people call, pie in the sky. 10:46 Heaven is real. I know it's real because my God is real. Amen! 10:54 For heaven and God go together. 10:57 When we see my sweet Jesus instructing His disciples 11:03 on now to pray. And if you would turn with me to this 11:07 scripture in the book of Matthew. 11:09 And those of you who are at home, please follow along 11:11 with your Bibles. And if you don't have your Bible there, 11:14 just jot these texts down, and then later when you have a more 11:18 convenient time go over these passages of scripture. 11:23 Matthew chapter 6, beginning with verse 5, Jesus instructing 11:30 His disciples on how to pray. He says: 12:28 And here's the key, ladies and gentlemen, to let us know 12:32 that heaven is as real as the Father. It says: 13:03 And folks, I want you to know that the angels delight to 13:06 do the will of our loving Father in heaven. 13:10 And when we pray to Him, and you know, I like to just think 13:16 about this sometimes, when we pray to Him, our prayers ascend 13:22 past the building that we're praying in, or the open field, 13:26 and they go up past the sun, the moon, and the stars. 13:30 It crosses with the speed, or even faster than the speed of 13:36 light, through the heavens, and it finds it's way through the 13:40 very gates of glory, and comes before the very throne, 13:45 and heart, and ears of God. 13:48 Oh my goodness, what a wonderful thing power of prayer is. 13:54 And our Father, which is in heaven, 13:57 listens to those prayers. 14:00 If I became technical about this subject on heaven, and we have 14:06 looked at some things to help us to be technical, 14:09 for we see in our Bibles in 2 Timothy 3:15, 2 Timothy 3:15, 14:17 and we've used this text before, and you're getting used to them. 14:21 It tells us that all scripture is what? 14:27 It came from who? God! 14:33 All scripture that is given to us, ladies and gentlemen, 14:36 it comes from God, and it is profitable for, 14:41 the first thing it says, it's profitable for doctrine. 14:44 In other words, when we look at the subject, or the doctrine 14:49 about heaven, we can go to this book and find out what this book 14:54 says about heaven. 14:55 It's there for us. 14:58 It's the Word of God. 15:01 Jesus Himself said it's firmer than the ground 15:05 we're standing on. 15:06 If we get technical, and we pull out the Bible and we look and 15:14 discover, and study this subject about heaven, we will find that 15:19 the Bible speaks about three heavens. 15:23 Now how many knew that? 15:24 Let me see the hands of those of you that are here. 15:26 I can't see the hands at home. Hello! 15:28 The Bible speaks of three heavens. 15:33 Let's look at this. 15:34 The first one is mentioned in the first book of the Bible. 15:37 The first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, Genesis 1:8. 15:43 It says, And God called the firmament Heaven. 15:50 In the great creation where God spake, and what He spake 15:55 came into existence, ladies and gentlemen, by His power. 15:59 His thoughts became audible, and reticulated into reality. 16:05 I love even the thought of that, that what God thought about 16:12 doing, He didn't really have to say it, but He said it. 16:16 Come on now! And He spake our world into existence. Amen! 16:24 That takes faith to believe. 16:26 You know, I don't have anything against scientists, 16:29 and scientists, I love you, too, and so does Jesus, 16:31 but when individuals who talk about this thing coming about 16:35 through evolution, I could just take you to one scene 16:39 and show you how our theories as human beings, and that's the 16:42 only hour on this that we can agree on, how it could work. 16:47 If you were placed in the garden of Eden on the very first 16:52 seventh day when Adam and Eve were there with the Creator, 16:56 and you were asked to take all of your tools and tell us how 17:01 old everything is, your numbers wouldn't come out right. 17:04 When you looked at Adam, with all of his height, 17:08 and in his beauty, and his majestic body that God gave him, 17:12 straight from the hand of the Creator, you would not say, 17:16 he looked, if he was in the prime of his life, we could just 17:19 use what we can relate to, you wouldn't say he was 21. 17:23 You would probably say he's 21, or 25. 17:26 He's at the peak of his youth. 17:28 But he's not even a week old! 17:31 He's not even a day old. 17:33 If you cut down one of those trees in the garden of Eden. 17:38 If you could find a tool that can cut those trees down, 17:42 and you counted the rings on the tree, and all of those rings 17:45 as we know today with our own findings, 17:48 that each ring is a year. 17:51 Isn't that true? That's what we say. 17:53 You wouldn't say it's a few days old. 17:57 We wouldn't say that. 17:58 We would be thrown off. 17:59 We have to understand that God moves, and does things in a 18:04 realm that is far beyond our thought, and our comprehension. 18:10 But when we come back now, and just getting back to the point, 18:13 we see that this first heaven that is talked about in 18:18 Genesis 1:8, it's the atmospheric heaven 18:22 where the birds fly. 18:23 It's the atmospheric heaven that you and I fly in. 18:29 When I came from California, I had a nice smooth ride 18:34 from California to Florida, and it was nice. 18:41 I was flying in the heaven. 18:43 I hate to say this, but that's as far as some folks are going 18:46 to get when it talks about heaven. 18:48 The second heaven, ladies and gentlemen, it's found in 18:53 Psalms 33. I'd like for you to turn there and see. 18:57 And this the Bible talks about is the second heaven. 19:01 This is the heaven that God, in His majesty and His power, 19:05 His thoughts, again, becoming audible, and then matriculating 19:11 into reality. Psalms 33:6. It says: 19:23 In other words, not only the atmospheric heaven did He make, 19:29 but He made what is the second heaven, ladies and gentlemen, 19:32 where the sun, and the moon, and the stars have their place. 19:37 And in perfect harmony these planets, and stars, and heavenly 19:43 bodies move seamlessly by the very hand of the Living God. 19:49 And guess what? Some human beings have had the opportunity 19:55 to live there, and, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how 19:58 or where you are, but we've had people living on the 20:01 international space station for the last ten years in space. 20:07 And guess what? I read today that in the year 2013, 20:14 they will be able to have trips up to the international space 20:19 station, and into outer space, if you please, for a small fee 20:24 of one plus million dollars. 20:26 I think I'll wait to go with Jesus. Amen! 20:32 So here we see the first heaven, the atmospheric heaven. 20:36 The second heaven, those of you at home, 20:38 it's the starry heavens. 20:40 But then when you look at the prayer of Jesus in Matthew 6, 20:44 and he's talking about our Father, which is in heaven, 20:47 he's not in this atmospheric heaven. 20:50 His home is not in the starry heaven, it's beyond that. 20:55 How do I know? Well, I can't use my own interpretation, 21:01 because it tells us in 2 Peter 1, starting with verse 19, 21:08 and it goes on to verse 20. 21:09 It says scripture is not left to anyone's own interpretation. 21:15 Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 21:19 so I have to come back to the book, the book that tells us 21:23 about the doctrine of heaven. 21:26 So I turn now, let's turn with this scripture found in 21:32 2 Corinthians. Turn with me to 2 Corinthians 12, looking at 21:39 verse 2. It tells us, and it is spelled out plain and simple 21:45 for us to see and understand. 21:47 It tells us about the third heaven. 21:51 Okay? You ready? 2 Corinthians 12:3. 22:13 Not the atmospheric heaven, not the starry heavens, 22:16 the third heaven. He says, And I knew such a man,... 22:38 In other words, the Apostle Paul was caught up into the third 22:43 heaven, where God is, and he heard the very Majesty and the 22:47 words of God himself. 22:50 He was there in paradise. 22:54 Now folks, I looked up the word paradise, and it has this 23:00 in its definition. 23:01 It says paradise is heaven as the final abode 23:06 of the righteous. It says a place of extreme beauty, 23:12 delight, or happiness. 23:14 And that sounds pretty good to me. 23:16 Doesn't that sound good to you? 23:17 Now watch this; in the original language in the Greek, 23:20 it says, and it's used in the Septuagint translation, 23:24 it says, that paradise is the same word that is translated 23:30 for the Garden of Eden. 23:32 So paradise, and we know as paradise lost. 23:39 Are you listening? 23:40 When we lost the Garden of Eden. 23:42 But when we have it restored, paradise restored, we will see 23:47 tonight, through the scriptures of the Living God, 23:49 that that tree of eternal life that was in the Garden of Eden, 23:55 will be restored to us in heaven. Amen! 24:00 Now the word paradise, it's only used three times 24:04 in the New Testament. 24:06 The first time it is used it is not in what we just read, 24:10 2 Corinthians 12:4, but it is found in Luke 23:43, 24:18 and you all know the scene as soon as I tell you. 24:20 Jesus is dying on the cross. 24:22 He's dying for your sins, and my sins, as we have looked at 24:26 last night with the message entitled, The Lamb of God. 24:29 Because of Jesus being the Lamb, we can face tomorrow. 24:33 He's the Lamb that was slain from the 24:36 foundation of the world. 24:37 Because of His death we have life. 24:39 He said He came that we might have life, 24:42 and have life more abundantly. 24:44 You see, you might think you're living if you have money, 24:47 and if you have prestige, and you have people all around you, 24:50 and people doing your bidding, but you don't have happiness, 24:54 or the peace that comes from having a relationship 24:56 with Jesus Christ. 24:57 Once you have that then you have life more abundantly. 25:01 It doesn't matter where you are, 25:03 if you're high, or if you're low. 25:05 If you have Jesus you know you have everything, 25:07 and if you can just hold on and wait, and endure to the end, 25:11 you will have riches beyond your imagination. Amen! 25:14 The record tells us here that Jesus was dying on the cross 25:19 in chapter 23 of the book of Luke, and He was between two 25:22 thieves. You know the story. 25:24 And it says that at first they were jeering Him, 25:26 and making fun of Him also. 25:28 But then they began to hear the words of the people saying, 25:31 What did Jesus do? 25:33 All He did was heal! 25:34 What did Jesus do? 25:35 He fed the 5,000. What did Jesus do? 25:38 He raised the dead. 25:39 What did Jesus do? 25:40 He made the Bible live. 25:42 What did Jesus do that He deserved this? 25:45 And they were crying, and they were weeping, and they said 25:48 He was a good man. 25:49 What did Jesus do? 25:50 He healed so many! 25:51 What did Jesus do? 25:52 And the other thief was listening to what was happening, 25:56 and it just amplifies scripture. 25:58 Scripture says, faith cometh by hearing. Amen! 26:02 And he started hearing the things that were being said 26:08 about the man in the middle, the man next to him. 26:11 Ladies and gentlemen, he looked at Him and when his eyes met, 26:15 he saw in Jesus not another dying man, but he saw in Jesus 26:21 his Savior, and he cried out, ladies and gentlemen. 26:24 And that's all Jesus asks us to do, to cry out and say, 26:28 Lord, remember me! Amen! 26:31 Oh my brothers and my sisters wherever you are, if you don't 26:35 hear anything else about this message, just know if you 26:38 just raise your hand from your heart, and say, Lord Jesus 26:42 remember me! He cannot forget you. 26:45 You have been engraved on the palms of His hands. 26:49 He loves you with a love that will not let you go. 26:54 He's done everything He can to make sure that we will have 26:57 salvation. He walked the walk. 27:00 He talked the talk. 27:01 And when He couldn't do anything more for us, He died the death 27:04 that we deserve, that we might have the life that He deserves. 27:08 Amen! And then Jesus said, Today I say unto you, 27:18 Today I say unto you... 27:26 Paradise, divine, as heaven the final abode of the righteous. 27:31 Heaven defined as the place of extreme beauty, 27:35 and delight, or happiness. 27:37 Heaven defined as the Garden of Eden restored. 27:41 Oh my friends, heaven's real! 27:45 Don't let people tell you it's not real. 27:48 Don't let people say that religion is just there to cause 27:52 you to be tranquil, and just accept things the way they are. 27:55 Heaven's a real place because God's a real person. Amen! 28:01 The third place the word paradise, 28:05 and you're going to like this. 28:06 The third place the word paradise is used and found 28:10 in the New Testament, is in our book that John saw. 28:16 Revelation chapter 2, Revelation 2:7. 28:23 Folks you know, the more I study the book of Revelation 28:25 I just get so excited because people say it's a book that you 28:29 can't understand. And isn't this thing clear? 28:33 Revelation 2, Revelation 2:7. 28:38 Now listen, it says: 28:55 Now remember, in the Septuagint translation the word Eden is the 28:59 same word used for paradise. 29:01 It says here, To him that overcometh will I give to eat 29:13 When you turn back, ladies and gentlemen, to the book of 29:18 Genesis, back to chapter 2, and look at what it says there, 29:23 in the very beginning, chapter 2, verse 8, it says: 29:39 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree 29:43 that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. 29:47 The tree of life also is in the midst of the garden, 29:51 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 29:55 So we see a tale of two trees in Genesis. 29:59 But, thank God, when we get to the end of the story, 30:02 in the book of Revelation, and we said all the books 30:05 of the Bible end and meet in Revelation, for there are 505 30:09 direct, or indirect, quotations from 39 of the other 65 books 30:14 of the Bible in the book of Revelation. 30:16 When we get to the end of the story, ladies and gentlemen, 30:19 we don't have to go to the testing time anymore, 30:22 we have been passing our probation, and the only tree 30:26 that we see specified in the very Eden of God 30:30 will be the tree of life! Amen! 30:33 In other words, there'll be nobody there to 30:36 mess us up this time. 30:37 Come on now, somebody ought to say Amen. Amen! 30:41 I come back to this, and I'm getting excited now because 30:46 the loving God that we have has told us something 30:50 for us to understand. 30:52 It says in 1 Corinthians 2:9 that eye has not seen, nor ear 31:07 In other words, watch this, in other words, you and I on our 31:13 best day, on our best day, can't imagine what God has for us. 31:20 You all don't sound excited about it! 31:23 You and I on our best day, we can't comprehend what God 31:33 the Father has prepared for us who love Him. Amen! 31:39 I mean I've been around the world, and some places not as 31:42 much as some of you. 31:44 But I have been around, and I've seen some beautiful places. 31:46 I've seen places like Nagril, Jamaica. 31:49 And let me tell you about that. 31:50 I thought that was one of the most beautiful 31:53 places I'd ever been. Amen! 31:55 I mean I got so enamored with Nagril, when I went there, 31:59 that I stood up on the falls, and it looked so beautiful 32:02 I even thought I could jump. 32:04 The Lord said, That's not for you Dorsey. 32:12 I've been to my favorite place now, because it's a lot closer 32:16 to me from Jamaica being on the West Coast, 32:19 and that's Hawaii. 32:21 Oh my goodness, you have those mountains, and you have the 32:25 rain forest, and you have the beaches, and it's so pristine. 32:29 Two years ago my wife and I went there for our anniversary, 32:33 and we took one whole day, from 7:30 in the morning, 32:38 7:30 in the morning, until after sunset. 32:42 We didn't move from our cabana except to use the little boys 32:46 and girls room. Ha ha! 32:48 That's all we did! 32:49 It was just so beautiful. 32:50 It was like paradise. 32:51 I just kept looking at her and smile. 32:53 And she'd look over at me and smile. 32:55 And they just make everything so nice, where the folks they 33:00 just come bring your lunch right out there on the cabana. 33:03 You just sit there all day. 33:04 And I was like Ah, this is paradise! 33:08 But it's not paradise! No! 33:11 What God has for us, ladies and gentlemen, 33:14 we can't even comprehend. 33:16 So when you're flying in the air, and you see all of these 33:19 beautiful sunsets, and you see all of this green 33:21 when you travel through Europe, and all of those places. 33:24 And it looks so majestic and all. 33:26 And folks, some of the things that we think look good, 33:28 doesn't even look good to heaven because when we see 33:31 some of these rocks and mountains, 33:32 and the way they are, that's not the way the earth was. 33:35 Those are the things that are the after affects of the flood. 33:38 But we're saying, because we don't know any better, 33:40 we say, Oh, that looks beautiful! 33:43 But when we look at the earth made new, 33:49 and when we see what God has for us, Oh my! 33:55 Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the very 34:05 heart, or mind it was, the things that God has for us. 34:09 Now folks, I want you to know that in the book of Revelation, 34:12 the book that is not sealed, that is not closed, 34:15 that is not mysterious, the book that is often misinterpreted, 34:19 and misrepresented, in this book of Revelation, it gives us 34:23 the clearest view we could get on this side of heaven, 34:26 unless you're lucky enough to see it in vision, 34:29 the best look at heaven that is presented to mankind. 34:37 I go to my Bible again, and that's the only place we can go, 34:40 because the Bible is there for us, ladies and gentlemen, 34:43 that we might understand its sweet treasures. 34:46 I turn to chapter 21, chapter 21 of the book of Revelation, 34:51 and I begin reading with verse 1, and John says: 34:56 Again, again, John saw it. 34:59 He was not just moved with inspiration. 35:02 He did not go to sleep and have a vision. 35:05 Jesus showed up and gave him the vision of all of these 35:13 which must shortly to come to pass for you and I today, 35:16 to give us inspiration, to give us hope, to give us the desire 35:22 to go forward. It says faith cometh by hearing, 35:24 and hearings comes by reading the Word of God. 35:26 And as we read the Word of God we can see it's real. 35:30 He says, I saw as it were, 35:39 Ladies and gentlemen, this is an insight that we need 35:42 to understand. This old world is going to pass away. Amen! 35:45 I don't care where you're living. 35:47 I don't care what you have. 35:50 I don't care what you think you have. 35:53 It cannot compare to heaven! Amen! 35:57 You can have a 40,000 square foot home. 36:01 That is nothing to compare with what God has for us in Glory. 36:06 Amen! Down here folks will break in. 36:09 I don't care how many guards you have. 36:12 I don't care how many bars you have. 36:14 And, folks, what good is having a beautiful home 36:16 if you have to look through bars? 36:18 It becomes your own prison. 36:21 Come on now, isn't that true? 36:25 You could have termites in your million dollar home, 36:28 or eight million dollar home, or your forty million dollar home. 36:32 Or as we see lately on the news, a storm can come through 36:36 and there can be a mudslide, and it can wash away. Amen! 36:40 Or fires can come through and it can burn up. 36:43 Or, folks, you can do what most people do in California, 36:48 and that is we pray that no earthquake comes, 36:51 and even takes your little house. 36:52 We live in that kind of world. 36:56 If you live in some places you have to watch out because 37:00 your relationship with God has to be ready to go any time. 37:03 Folks we have to be ready to die at any time. 37:06 A tornado could come through in the middle of the night 37:09 and you don't hear the sirens, and we see the devastation 37:13 that is happening more, and more, and more, 37:15 these natural disasters. 37:17 And they are crying out and telling us, 37:19 don't put your faith in these things on Earth, 37:21 but put your faith in Jesus! Amen! 37:25 You've got to understand that. 37:28 You have to know that. 37:29 Time is running out, and these signs are telling us that. 37:33 I look at the scriptures, and it says, And I, John, saw a new... 37:54 And I want you to remember this. 37:55 It's saying that heaven is going to open up, and a heavenly city, 38:01 the new Jerusalem, or should I say the capitol, or new capitol 38:05 will be coming down to planet Earth. 38:08 And it says, in verse 3, And I heard a great voice out of 38:11 heaven saying, Behold... 38:45 We can count on it church! 38:48 Don't let anybody tell you that heaven is pie in the sky. 38:52 Don't let anyone tell you that religion is just there 38:56 to quell your conscience. 38:58 Don't let anyone tell you that it is something that they are 39:02 just giving you to keep you passive, or keep you in line. 39:06 Heaven is a real place! 39:09 The book says it! Amen! 39:11 Look at the key. The key that will make this heaven, 39:18 this new earth, a greater place is because Jesus, and the Father 39:24 are going to move here on planet Earth with us. 39:28 Jesus said, Now pray, in Matthew 6:9, to pray to your Father 39:33 which art in heaven. 39:35 But folks, when you start reading this, and interpreting 39:38 this, it is saying that the Father and the Son are 39:41 going to move in the midst of new Jerusalem, right here on 39:45 planet Earth with us! Amen! 39:48 So that means this planet Earth, third planet from the sun, 39:51 fifth largest in the solar system, the only place that 39:54 allowed Satan to have a foothold. the only place where 39:56 The only place where the rebellion that spread in heaven 39:59 was able to flourish right here on planet Earth. 40:02 Where Jesus came as a baby, and He grew up, 40:04 and He was nurtured. 40:05 And He became this man who was the preacher who preached 40:09 and showed a true revelation of God, who came with the 40:12 salvation of God in His life, and in His blood, 40:15 and who has reconciled us back to God, 40:17 for God was in Christ reconciling us unto Himself. 40:21 And, ladies and gentlemen, on this planet Earth 40:25 where He died, and then was resurrected, He has promised 40:29 in His book, that He's coming back to restore not only us, 40:34 as new creatures, but He's going to make this place the 40:38 center of the Universe. Amen! 40:40 Paradise is where God is. 40:46 I continue to read. 40:49 It says and God, back to verse 4, And God shall wipe away all 40:53 tears from their eyes. 40:54 You can't be sad when Jesus is present. Hello! 40:56 You can't be brokenhearted in His hand. 41:00 He heals broken hearts. 41:01 You can't be despondent or suicidal, No! 41:05 He is life, Ladies and gentlemen. if you are here 41:07 If you are here and your heart is heavy, things are bad, 41:10 and there's financial difficulties... 41:11 And folks, those things eat us up. 41:13 Or someone has hurt you, or someone has left you, 41:16 and you feel alone. 41:17 Someone has betrayed you. 41:18 You're sitting in your house and you're wondering what to do. 41:20 You went through the channels flipping. 41:22 God had you STOP that you might know somebody cares, 41:27 and someone loves you, and someone wants you, 41:29 and someone has died for you, and someone has prepared 41:32 for you, and someone is willing and able to do far more than 41:35 give you lip service. Amen! 41:39 He has heart service! Amen! 41:42 He saw you when you were in your mother's womb. 41:45 It tells me that in Psalms 139: When we were in our mother's 41:48 womb, He knew us there. 41:49 They are marked in His book, in the book of life, 41:52 ladies and gentlemen. 41:54 And He's coming back for us. and He's allowed these times for us 41:57 And He's allowed these times for us to come together, 42:01 and study His Word that we might be ready to meet Him in peace. 42:06 He says there will be no more tears flowing from eyes. 42:10 There will be no more death, and no more sorrow, 42:13 and no more crying, neither shall there be any more pain, 42:16 for the former things are passed away. 42:18 And He said, underlined it, for these things are true 42:21 and faithful. Amen! 42:23 Then it says in verse 6, And He said unto me, It is done,... 42:42 Now folks there's a condition here. 42:44 He says we have to overcome, but He doesn't leave it to us to 42:50 do it in our own strength. 42:52 He says He will come in and do what needs to be done, 42:56 if you just surrender your will to Him. Amen! 43:00 Isn't that easy? Amen! 43:03 The record goes on to say, but the fearful, and the unbelieving 43:19 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the 43:22 seven vials full of the seven last plagues, 43:25 and talked with me, saying, Come hither, 43:27 I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 43:31 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high 43:34 mountain, and showed me... 43:59 Wait a minute! Did you see what I read here? 44:03 It said at the gate twelve angels. 44:06 It doesn't say anything about Peter at the gate. 44:08 Uh oh, the Bible clarifies it's good for doctrine, for reproof, 44:16 for correction, and righteousness, that we might 44:20 understand what the Bible really says. 44:22 If I'm reading this correctly, ladies and gentlemen, 44:25 it's saying that there are twelve gates, twelve gates. 44:32 And that the gate has twelve angels, and the names written 44:37 there are the names of the twelve tribes... 44:55 Well, that is where Peter's name is, but it didn't say he was 45:00 taking any tolls or anything there at the gate. 45:02 Now did it say it? No! 45:04 That makes it clearly. 45:06 It says, And he that talked with me, had a golden reed 45:10 to measure the city. And ladies and gentlemen, 45:12 the city, it's in a perfect square: 45:14 15,000 square miles. 45:16 It says that the walls, the jasper walls of the city are 45:20 216 feet high of clear jasper, clear as crystal 45:24 you can see through. 45:26 I continue to read and it tells me in verse 18, And the building 45:32 of the wall of it was of jasper: 45:38 Now folks that's pretty! 45:42 It says, And the foundations of the wall of the city were 45:44 were garnished with all... 45:48 And it goes through here between verses 19 through 20, 45:52 and it tells us all of the different stones that are used. 45:55 And if you would look at them, if you put a color contrast 45:58 of the jewelry, the precious stones that are used for the 46:02 foundation of the city, it will look like the 46:05 colors of the rainbow. 46:06 So no matter where you come from in God's great universe, 46:11 and you see the capitol, new Jerusalem, 46:13 Somebody ought to say I'm going to be there, not Amen. 46:16 I'm going to be there because by faith the Christian sees himself 46:20 in possession of the things he has been promised. 46:24 By faith we come to God, for faith is the substance of things 46:29 hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 46:32 He that cometh to God must believe that He is, 46:35 and He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. 46:39 Hebrews 11:6. We see ourselves there going through the gates. 46:44 I don't know which one, but out of those twelve 46:46 we can figure it out. 46:47 It says, And I saw no temple. 46:52 Verse 22 there, no no, I can't skip. 46:54 I've got to go to 21. It says: 47:02 Pearls are made with affliction. 47:05 Something gets inside of the oyster. 47:07 The oyster can't put it out. 47:08 He has no hands, he has no legs. 47:10 He has to deal with it. 47:11 And when he deals with it, this substance that comes around it, 47:14 that comes around it, and it makes it smooth, 47:16 and then it doesn't irritate him anymore. 47:18 And at the end of that process you have a perfect pearl. 47:22 Ladies and gentlemen, in our lives we're going to have 47:23 tribulations. We're going to have problems. 47:25 Things that are going to be with us that we 47:27 have to deal with. 47:28 Jesus said, In the world you shall have tribulation, 47:31 but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 47:34 And if we can just hold on and be patient, and wait for our 47:37 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, He's going to come, 47:39 and guess what? We will be those precious pearls, 47:42 those jewels that He will redeem for His treasure chest 47:48 through eternity. The record goes on to tell us, 47:52 ladies and gentlemen, that He Himself shall be there 47:54 in the midst of us, and the Father shall be there. 47:56 And in verse 3 of chapter 22 it says, And there shall be 47:59 no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall 48:02 be in it; and His servants shall serve Him:... 48:05 Ladies and Gentlemen, it says, And they shall see His face; 48:08 That's Revelation 22:4. 48:10 And they shall see His face; and His name shall 48:12 be in their foreheads. 48:14 And verse 5: And there shall be no night there; 48:16 and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; 48:19 for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall 48:22 reign for ever and ever... and ever, and ever, and ever, 48:27 and ever. And He said unto me, These sayings are faithful 48:30 and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel 48:33 to show unto his servants the things which 48:36 must shortly be done. 48:38 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth 48:42 the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 48:45 In other words, it's not a sealed book. 48:47 It's open for us to know that Jesus is real, heaven is real, 48:52 our home there is real, and if we can just hold on 48:56 we will really see it. Amen! 49:00 The Father and the Son, the Father and the Son will move 49:08 their throne, ladies and gentlemen, 49:10 right down here on planet Earth. 49:13 It will be a brand new city, and a brand new world. 49:20 When you look at this beautiful city with its golden mansions, 49:24 and it says each one us is going to have our own mansion, 49:28 that's what it says. 49:29 John wrote in John 14, Let not your heart be troubled, verse 1, 49:36 believe in God, believe also in Me. 49:37 In My Father's house are many mansions, and if it were not so, 49:40 I would have told you. 49:41 I go to prepare a place for you, and where I go, 49:46 there ye may be also. 49:48 Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have our own mansions 49:51 in glory. There'll be no mortgage bill, no electricity. 49:58 The Bible says there's no need of lights there. 50:00 No need of lights there because He's going to 50:02 be the light of it. 50:03 There'll be no water bill. 50:05 We don't have to worry about that. 50:07 We see that the throne of God is there. 50:10 The throne of Christ is there. 50:11 The river of life is there, and it runs through the 50:14 midst of the city. 50:15 It says that tree of life will be there, and each month 50:20 it will bear twelve manner of fruit, and it says the leaves 50:24 are for the healing of the nations. 50:26 I don't know, this is just my speculation. 50:28 Maybe we can make some tea out of that. 50:30 I don't know how it works, but it's going to be 50:31 sweet to find out. Amen! 50:35 And that's just in the city. 50:38 When you compare scripture with scripture, 50:41 and line upon line, and precept upon precept, 50:43 ladies and gentlemen, you'll find in the book of Isaiah, 50:46 Isaiah 65, it tells us that we're going to build houses, 50:49 in the country. Oh my goodness, that means I'm going to have 50:52 a mansion in the city, and I'm going to have a 50:54 country house, too. Amen! 50:56 Halleluiah! Amen! 50:59 It's promised to us, ladies and gentlemen. 51:01 He cannot lie, He is all true. 51:03 His Word is something we can count on. 51:06 It's more firm than the ground that we're on. 51:08 He says we'll build houses, and we will inhabit them. 51:11 We will have vineyards, and we'll be able to have 51:13 the fruit thereof. 51:14 We're not going to study war anymore. Amen! 51:18 The lion and the lamb will play together. Amen! 51:23 And when we go through a thousand years we'll keep on 51:28 singing, ladies and gentlemen, Amazing Grace, because each 51:32 day will feel like a new day. 51:34 But in order to be there... 51:37 Folks listen to me. 51:38 You at home listen to me. 51:40 It's not hard. It's not hard, but you have a made up mind, 51:47 a made up mind in Jesus. 51:50 With a made up mind, with a made up mind, 52:00 I'm willing to go the way through. 52:14 If it cost my life, I'll be willing to pay the price. 52:26 You see, I've got heaven in my view. 52:39 If it means that I have to walk alone, 52:49 Oh that my friends, they may leave you. 53:00 I am not going to worry about what others may say or do, 53:12 because I've got heaven in my view. 53:23 With a made up mind, with a made up mind, 53:34 there's no trial that He won't bring me through. 53:44 And if it costs my life, I'll be willing to pay that price. 53:55 You see, I've got heaven in my view. 54:06 With a made up mind, I've got a made up mind. 54:17 Every day I can say, Hallelu hallelu, hallelu, hallelau, 54:28 hallelau, and all of my burdens, they may weigh me down, 54:39 but I've got heaven in my view. 54:50 With the made up mind, I've got a made up mind. 55:00 I'm willing, I'm willing, I'll go, I'll go all the way 55:07 with Christ. And if it costs my life, I'll be willing to pay 55:21 that price. I've got heaven in mind. 55:29 I've got heaven in mind. 55:34 I've got heaven in my view. 55:47 Thank you, Sarah. 55:48 Can you see it church? 55:50 Can you see it, those of you at home? 55:53 Heaven is a real place. 55:57 And we've had a glimpse of glory tonight. 56:01 And friends, the only thing we have to do is make a reservation 56:06 without a credit card. Come on now! 56:09 Because Jesus paid it all on Calvary's cross. 56:14 And if it's your desire to make heaven your home, 56:18 won't you stand and come down for special prayer tonight? 56:21 Men, women, boys, and girls, just stand and come down. 56:25 And those of you who are at home, I pray too that you 56:28 would just close your eyes, and open your heart 56:31 to the King of Glory, that He might come in. 56:35 And when we get to heaven, heaven, that eternal home 56:38 that is there for you and I, the one that Jesus paid for. 56:42 We can meet somewhere on the right side of the throne 56:48 of the Living God. 56:49 If that's your heart's desire, just say Amen where you are, 56:54 for Amen means so be it. Amen! 56:57 Good night, and God bless you. |
Revised 2014-12-17