Forget about Losing Weight - Heaven Part 1

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So come together, sons and
daughters, bought with blood and

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washed in water, Sing the
praises of the Spirit Son in

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Father our God.
We'll finish what he started.

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We believe our God.
We'll finish what he started.

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Oh, this is my testimony from
death to light because Grace

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Tree wrote my story and I'll
testify by Jesus Christ the

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righteous, I'm justified.
This is my testimony.

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This is my testimony.
If I'm not dead, then you're not

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done.
This greater things are still to

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come.
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead,

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then you're not done.
This greater things are still to

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come.
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead,

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then you're not done.
There's greater things are still

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to come.
Oh, I believe if I'm not dead,

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then you're not dead, There's
greater things are still to

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come.
Oh, I believe my best days are

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up ahead of me.
This is my testimony from them

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to life.
This grace will rule my story

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and I'll testify.
By Jesus Christ the righteous,

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I'm justified.
This is my testimony.

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Now I'm alive.
This is my testimony from death

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to life.
Because grace rewrote my story

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and I'll testify by Jesus Christ
the righteous, I'm justified.

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This is my testimony.
This is my testimony.

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Because I've got a reason to
sing reason to.

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Sing, Come on.
Give him some praise this

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morning.
Let him know you love him so

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good.
Father, we love you.

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God, we praise you and Father,
in this moment, nothing else

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matters but worship to you this
morning.

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God, would you break down walls
or anything that hinders us from

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being in your presence this
morning?

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That all we want is you.
We seek you this morning.

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Father, how would you be with
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We know you are Father, and
we're making room for you today.

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That as we sing, as we worship
you, Father, it's only for you.

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Amen.
This is my surrender, this is my

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surrender, and here is where I
lead on every light and every

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day.
This is my surrender.

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I will make your own for you to
do whatever you want to, to do

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whatever you want to.
And I want me here for you, for

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you, Jesus, to do whatever you
want to, to do whatever you want

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to.
This is my surrender.

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Here is where I lay in town.
Every light and every town this

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is.
My surrender, hope and I will

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make you to do whatever you want
to to do.

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Whatever you want.
Want to I will make a room for

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you to do whatever you want to
To do whatever you want to.

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I will make A room for you, yes,
to do whatever you want to, to

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do whatever you want to.
Oh, and I will meet around for

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you to do whatever you want to
to do whatever you want to.

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Oh yes.
Making a world.

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For you to move and do whatever
you want to, yes, making a world

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for you to move.
Jesus, shake up the crown.

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Shake up the crown of all my
tradition.

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Breakdown the walls of all my
religion.

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Your ways better.
Your ways better.

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Shake up the crown of all my
tradition.

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Breakdown the walls for my
religion.

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Your ways better.
Shake up the crown of all my

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tradition.
Breakdown the walls for my

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religion.
Your ways better.

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Your.
Ways better.

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Shake up the crown of all my
tradition, break down the walls

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all my religion.
Your way is better.

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It always better.
I want me to do whatever you

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want to, do whatever you want
to.

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And I will make a rule for you,
for you Jesus, to do whatever

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you want to.
Come do whatever you want to.

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And here is where I lay down.
You are all I'm chasing now.

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This is my surrender.
And here is where I lay down.

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So you are all I'm chasing now.
This is my surrender.

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Amen.
What a powerful word.

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Yeah, you can give him some.
Plus, it's a powerful word to

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start our year.
God to say this is all of me and

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I surrender it to you.
It's a beautiful, beautiful

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picture.
Some calling on the God of

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Jacob, whose love endures
through generations.

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I know that you will keep your
covenant.

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I'm calling on the God of hoses,
the one who opened up the ocean,

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and I need you now to do the
same thing for, oh, for me.

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Lift him up.
Oh God, my God, I need you.

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Oh God, my God, I need you now
how I need you now.

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Oh rock, oh rock, girl pages.
I'm standing on your

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faithfulness, on your
faithfulness because I'm calling

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on the God of Mary, whose favor
rest upon the Lord will be.

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I know with you all things are
possible.

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And I'm calling on the God of
David who made a shepherd boy

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courageous.
I may not face good life, but

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I've got my own giants.
Oh God, my God.

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I mean.
Welcome, ages.

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I'm standing on your
faithfulness.

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On your faithfulness.
Oh God, my God, I need you.

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Oh God, my God, I need you now.
How I need you now.

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Oh rock.
Oh Rock of Ages.

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I'm standing on your a
faithfulness, on your

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faithfulness.
Oh, you never change, 'cause you

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heard your children then, you
hear your children now.

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You are the same God.
You are the same God.

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You answered prayers back then
and you will answer now.

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You are the same God.
You are the same God.

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You were providing then, you are
providing now.

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You are the same God.
You are the same God.

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You moved in power, then God.
Move in power now.

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You are the same God.
You are the same you believe in

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today.
You are a healer, then you are a

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healer.
Now You are the same God.

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You are the same God.
Oh God, my God, I need to, Oh

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God, my God, I need to now how I
need to now the rock, O rock the

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pages.
I'm standing on your

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faithfulness, On your
faithfulness.

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Oh God, my God, I need you.
Oh God, my God, I need you now.

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How I need you now.
You're the same Horacorac of

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ages.
I'm standing on your

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fatefulness.
On your fatefulness.

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As Jesus, you're the.
Same.

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Yesterday and today and forever,
we're the same guy.

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Home.
And never change.

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You're free the captives, then
you're freeing hard.

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Right now you are the same God.
You are the same God.

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I touch the leopards, then I
feel your touch.

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Right now you are the same God.
You are the same God.

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Lift your praises higher.
Some calling on the Holy Spirit

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Almighty river.
Come and fill me again.

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Amen.
Film me again, won't you film

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me?
Again, Amen.

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Amen.
Man, let's give a shout of

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praise to Jesus.
And isn't it awesome to know

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walking into this new year real
life, that God is the same God

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that we've relied on for the
last however many years you've

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been following Jesus.
But more importantly, he's the

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same God that's been faithful
throughout the Scriptures, and

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he will continue to be faithful
in 2026.

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So let's give it up for God one
more time, can we?

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Amen.
Amen.

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Happy New Year, real life.
Are you guys ready for 2026?

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I don't know if you pastor, I
don't know if they're ready or

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not.
Come one more time, 2026, real

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life, give it up.
Here we go.

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We're ready, man.
I can't wait to see what guys

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just going to be so awesome in
2026, man.

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He's so faithful in 2025, man.
Welcome to real life.

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Welcome to this first gathering
of 2026, man.

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We've been praying for you.
We're so excited that you're

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here with us today.
We have a lot of new people with

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us again today in person and a
line.

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Can we show those guys some
love?

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Give them a round of applause.
Thank you guys so much for being

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here.
Hey, what you guys take 30 2nd

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to greet somebody around you?
All right, Yeah, you guys can go

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ahead and be seated.
Hey, as you guys are sitting

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down, man, as always, we have
that awesome connection card

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that you're getting ready to sit
down on.

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And man, we love it when you
guys fill this out.

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If you come real life home, fill
that out.

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Let us know what's going on in
your life, whether it's a

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prayer, maybe it's a praise,
man, we'd love to hear what's

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going on.
Our leaders look forward to

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reading over and praying over
these cards week in, week out.

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Hey, if you're new with this,
this is our invitation to you.

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We're not going to ask anything
else from you today, but we

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would love for you to give us an
introduction.

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You can do that the easiest way
by filling out the top half of

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that connection card at some
point during the gathering.

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And when you do that, we're not
going to show up your house or

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do anything weird, but we would
love to send you out some more

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information about real life.
We'll let you guys know it a

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little bit later on the
gathering what you guys can do

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with those.
Everything that we do.

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Here at Real Life is really with
a purpose.

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It's because we are a church on
a mission, right guys?

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And that mission is to see
people far from God discovered

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their real life and their
purpose in Jesus.

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And man, it was so cool to see
in 2025, as you guys experienced

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at our last gathering, just some
of those victories and baptism

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and people giving their lives to
Christ.

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That's why we exist.
That's why we do what we do.

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So we love being on mission and
we are so thankful that you guys

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are on mission with us as well.
Man, we're kicking off a new

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series.
Man, I'm so excited.

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I don't know, how about maybe
some of you guys, maybe you guys

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with a glass FMT a little bit
like me.

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I want to be more half full like
Pastor Sean.

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But sometimes we think our best
days are behind us, right?

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But the reality is, is that if,
if we're leaning into God, our

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best days are in front of us.
And as we walk into 2026, a lot

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of us have done resolutions, we
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We're looking forward to a
vision of what God's called us

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to in this moment here and now.
But sometimes we get focused

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again just on what's right in
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And maybe really God is asking
us to focus on something

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different, something more
eternal.

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And so we're kicking off a next
part series about heaven and

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heaven's one of those things our
culture really can feed us a lot

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of lies, whether it's through
through movies or books.

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And sometimes we think about
like, what are we going to do?

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We're just going to sit on a
cloud, right?

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Are we going to play harps for
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Sounds boring, but man, God has
got a big vision for what our

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lives are going to be.
And it starts here now but

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extends into the future.
So we're going to answer some

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really cool questions in this is
this series about what heaven's

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like, are we going to know each
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What are we going to do?
You know what is?

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What is heaven really?
What's its purpose?

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So once you guys put your hands
together for Pastor Sean as we

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kick off for a new series called
Heaven Happy New.

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Year Come on man, I feel like
it's been like a year since I've

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seen you.
Is it too early for dad jokes?

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Never too early.
You know, I'm 40s, I'm unashamed

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now I can just do a dad joke
every single week.

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It's going to happen.
So I appreciate you guys being

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in the house today.
Can you give everybody's new one

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more time?
Let them know you love them.

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Come on, it's pretty cool.
We have so much to celebrate and

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I think, you know, starting at
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Amen.
And there's so much to

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celebrate.
We did a huge celebration last

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Sunday and man, the end of year
social was so amazing to see 12

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people baptized, Amen.
Was that cool?

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Give it up for those who got
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It's amazing.
The stories are unreal of what

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people have gone through and the
things that they've struggled

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through and their their story of
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It's just so powerful and just
the reminder like This is why we

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exist, to see souls changed and
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And it's such a so encouraging.
And I think we end up 39

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baptisms.
We were like, man, 50.

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I was like, but they're going to
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I know soon.
So it's exciting.

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But man, we're just always going
to look out for what God is

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doing.
This last Sunday was pretty

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cool.
It is our largest Sunday that

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we've ever had outside of a
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And it was like unexpected for
us to have like 340 people show

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up to the IT was if you were
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You know what I'm talking about
you, you felt it because the AC

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did not like ever turn on.
I was up here like, man, I need

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to get a sweat rag, you know,
and I was like, am I sick?

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Is it just, is it just me?
And I'm looking around like, no,

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it's not just me.
The thermostats are set to 65.

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Did they work?
No, they didn't work.

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That's called being portable.
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The old adage is, who needs JC
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Oh, who needs AC?
We have JC.

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That's right.
That's right.

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I need JC and AC.
Come on, somebody.

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So I'm glad we're in a, you
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We're like looking for a space
and raising funds and all that

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stuff.
But I know it all works out.

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But what a great Sunday and the
stories and commissioning people

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out with 18 people, just like
we're going to help people grow

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spiritually.
And I love the idea that it's

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called the way.
It's not like let's go to a

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Bible study and get smarter.
Let's actually transform our

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lives.
So let's practice the way.

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Let's actually live out the
habits and the ways of Jesus,

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whether it's Sabbath or
Scripture or prayer or fasting

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and all these practices that
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And that's what's going to kind
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2026.
Like us growing spiritually,

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Amen.
I mean, we will all love having

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coaches, right?
Like we want to be challenged

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and grow, especially for
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But like spiritually, like these
people are coming into our lives

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and helping us grow closer to
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So I'm really, really excited
for what guy's going to seize

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him.
Huge win.

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And we'll move on to the message
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But this is amazing.
So New Year's Eve night, we had

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a crew of 37 that went to main
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So real life youth went out to
main event, had a great time.

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Logan, he preached late.
If you ever preached to

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teenagers after 11 or bound
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difficult, Amen.
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he, he kind of set the stage
early and said, Hey, are you for

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sure, you're for sure, you know,
Jesus And I just want you to

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think about that tonight and
just talked about what 26 would

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look like.
He challenged them right before

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midnight, gave the gospel, which
by the way, is a very hard

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context to preach in because the
kids are like this, you know,

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but it's really cool.
We had a young lady, one young

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lady come put her faith in trust
in Jesus right after midnight at

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the beginning of the new year.
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It was pretty cool.
So he gave the invitation and

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he's like, all right, guys, this
time it blew up confetti cannons

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and then they went back to this
room and this ladies work with a

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young lady and the I don't know,
they call them zoos.

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I don't know what's it called
where you blow the the noise

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noisemaker.
It's just pretty simple thing,

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right?
Should have known that all these

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things are going on and this
just trying to like talk about

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Jesus and it's like, I can't
hear you because they're making

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all this noise right now, but
it's pretty cool.

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That's the first salvation at
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God's up to it again.
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Pretty cool, pretty cool.
So it's just it's just fun, you

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know, and maybe we're going to
celebrate big what you guys

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doing?
Salvation is this year we got

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all sorts of stuff planned, but
New year, right?

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We always set, well, hopefully
we set some goals, right?

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It's usually that season like I
do the same thing.

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I sat down with my goals and I
was really proud of myself.

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I had a lot of goals last year.
I did all my goals, but I got

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close.
So the majority of my goals are

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like, man, that's, that's,
that's pretty good.

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But we set these goals, right?
A lot of health goals, like, you

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know, health and wealth, right?
Like I'm going to get fit or

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some of you guys are going to
get buffed.

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Some of you guys are going to
try to lose some weight.

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That's like most of us.
Come on, Hallelujah, praise God,

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Amen.
Like round is a shape.

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It's not the one we want, you
know what I mean?

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And just getting back to the gym
or eating healthy, like all

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these different goals.
How many guys set goals, by the

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way?
So, like, nobody set goals.

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That's cool.
All right.

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So we're going to skip this part
of the message.

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Yeah.
I would encourage you.

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And I last year actually read
all my goals.

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And I was a, you know, I don't
know, maybe I'll do it this

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year.
But I read all my goals and I

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talked about all the different
things.

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And I have personal goals,
professional goals, relational

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goals, and I, I just walk
through these and I, I really

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think when you got one season in
life, like you got to take after

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it, man, You got to go for it.
And, and don't be the guy that's

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just like, I'm starting like be
passionate about what God is

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doing.
And I was encourage you guys, we

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talked these goals and, and I
set all these goals on, you

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know, finance or health and all
these things.

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And they're all great goals,
right?

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Like get out of debt or like
savings or kind of retire early.

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That's a weird thought.
Amen.

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But like I'm going to, I'm going
to track these things and try to

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make some more income and all
and just start dreaming, which

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we should be dreaming, right?
But I do think some of our goals

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just come up a little short.
Like we have goals for for, for

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this vision of this earth.
But do we have goals and vision

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like higher than this earth?
Like beyond, just the temporary,

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like beyond, like the 80 years
you may get like, do you have

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vision for heaven?
And so on the New Year's Eve

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that night, and really, you
know, I'm watching the reels

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that let me see burka leaf blow
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That was insane.
The burka leaf, the building,

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they, they, they counted down
and you know, it just lit up and

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it just, it had to be like 10s
of millions of dollars of

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fireworks that blew off this
building, the tallest build in

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the world, right?
And I was watching this and as

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the building was counting down
and it just like dropped this

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light and it just bloated.
It was crazy.

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I started thinking, man, what is
Bill Hardy up to right now?

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Now Bill Hardy is was a man in
our church passionate about

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Jesus is a dad to so many of us,
including myself, just

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passionate about he wasn't
perfect Amen.

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If you know Bill, he'd let you
know that immediately.

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But that boy walked with Jesus
and I just looking at this

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explosions.
I'm thinking, hey, what's Bill

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up to?
And this series is extremely

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personal because how many of us
have friends and family in

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heaven show hands, right?
Like we all do.

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And we should be dreaming about
like, what in the world?

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What are they doing?
And sometimes you think heaven's

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going to be boring or it's this
vague thing, but no, it's very

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real.
I know God has something very

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special in store for us and
something that is, it's not just

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beyond imagination.
We can dream in it like we can

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have scriptural imagination.
And I think sometimes in the,

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the world of church, like we, we
kind of downgrade heaven and we

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don't really talk about a lot.
Like I went to Bible college, I

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had zero classes or lectures
really over heaven.

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Like it's not talked about.
And today I just want to launch

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a series six weeks of like
answering the hard questions.

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And for some of us, we have
friends and family in heaven,

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even this last week that entered
heaven in conversations.

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And as a pastor, I have a lot of
conversations with people that

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are going through a very tragic
season.

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At least it feels that way from
our side of people that are are

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not here.
And it include last week with

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some different families in our
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And so I would encourage you
guys, this series is very

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personal, but we can trust that
God has prepared something

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better for us than we can even
comprehend.

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And the Philippians one if you
get your Bible, we're going to

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be there.
This is Paul, this is what he

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says.
He says for me to live is what

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is Christ like my life on earth
is Christ like everything I do

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is Christ.
What do you have me to do?

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Where are you going to go?
How do you want to live?

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How do you want to spend my
money?

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What direction do you want me to
to go in my life?

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But he said this and to die is
what it's the game.

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Do we truly believe that death
is a game like it?

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It's far better like it's an
upgrade.

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Like oftentimes as Christians
and as as non believers were

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like, wow, I mean, I'm going to
go to hell and part with my

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friends.
That's what people say all the

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time.
They think heaven's some boring,

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irrelevant, just existential,
just whatever.

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And they don't really have a
vision of heaven.

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But for Paul.
And by the way, you know, you'll

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learn through this series.
Actually, Paul was had spent

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time in heaven, which is pretty
crazy to think about.

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And 2nd Corinthians, you'll see
this.

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But it says if I'm going to go
and live my body, this will mean

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fruitful labor for me.
Yet what shall I choose?

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I do not know.
I am what?

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Yeah.
I'm torn between the two like I

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I, I, I desire to be have a
better life in heaven, but I'm

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torn because I know I should
stay here, He says.

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A desire to part, to depart,
which is to die to be with what?

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With who?
With Christ, like the

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centerpiece of heaven, the
resurrected Christ, which is

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what what you say it's better by
noted by far.

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I don't know if you guys ever
had like I don't know.

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We had grew up a season tickets,
you know, and my season tickets

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were behind with my parents.
We're on the 14 yard or the 14

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row behind an end zone.
Those aren't great tickets.

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Amen.
Some of y'all got some good

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tickets.
You know what I'm talking about.

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But if we upgraded, which we
never did, right, but imagine we

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got 50 yard line tickets in the
suite, like we we would be like,

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Oh yeah, I remember we sat over
there, but we never go.

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I can't wait to go back over
there.

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We'd never we'd never miss our
fourteen row behind an end zone.

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We'd be like, it was cool, but
guess what?

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Now we're in a better spot.
It's an upgrade.

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Amen.
Like you never go back and go,

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man, I wish I was back in the
Nosebleed when you get upgrade

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tickets.
And it's the same thing for

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heaven.
Like we we look at attorney and

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think, man, that's going to be a
little boring.

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And I'm not so sure.
And sometimes we think that

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eternity is going to be a
forever like church gathering or

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church service.
And as a pastor, like, I want to

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tell you straight up, that would
be terrible.

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Amen.
Come on, somebody like.

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I'm just telling you.
Like, you remember the song?

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I could sing your love forever.
You remember that song?

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I could sing up your love.
I Can't Sing forever.

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You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah.

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There you go.
Come on.

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Dang, get here with me.
Right.

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And you say I can sing your love
forever.

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And it just goes on forever.
You guys remember that song.

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And by the time the song ends,
you're like, Lord, I hope I

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never hear this song again in my
life.

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It's one of those songs you're
like praying out of heaven.

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Like, Lord, help me, This song
is not in heaven for all of

451
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,280
eternity because this song is
just like man.

452
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,600
And and that's sometimes your
minds like this is what's going

453
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,760
to be.
We'll be like cherubim.

454
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,800
We'll float around.
It was sing forever and think,

455
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,400
man, that's just not as exciting
as I think it should be.

456
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,680
But for Paul, like he actually
had a glimpse in heaven and was

457
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,760
there and he said, no, I want to
go back.

458
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,400
Like it's far better for me to
be in heaven, but it's necessary

459
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,880
for you that remain in my body.
It's really interesting.

460
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,880
Like Paul was not afraid of
death because it's an upgrade

461
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,240
baby and he's going to be in the
presence of God.

462
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,280
It's going to be a whole world.
We have jobs and you know,

463
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,000
people and all these things.
He saw this, but he's not

464
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,600
afraid.
He wants to go there, but he's

465
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,400
like, the only reason I'm
staying is because I'm on a

466
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,160
mission is because I have a
purpose, because there's people.

467
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,480
It's actually better for you to
die and go to heaven right now.

468
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,840
It is far better for you, but
it's not better for your family.

469
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,360
It's not better for your
friends.

470
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,800
It's not better for our
community.

471
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,960
It's not better for our culture.
It's not better for the world if

472
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,520
we don't tell the world about
Jesus.

473
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,000
Amen.
Because that's where our home

474
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,280
is.
That's what we're destined to.

475
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,720
We should dream about, we should
desire.

476
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,720
And we look at 26 and it's, it's
so interesting because we don't

477
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,200
really dream about heaven.
Like, when's the last time you

478
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,000
thought like Paul?
Like heaven is real, it's

479
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,840
conscious, it's better, and it's
desirable for our lives.

480
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,040
Often times we look back, right?
You think about our culture.

481
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,440
You get to the end of the year
and we sing a song #1 Nobody

482
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,000
knows the words to Auld Lang
Syne.

483
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,960
Come on, somebody.
How many guys know the words

484
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,200
Auld Lang Syne, but we all I get
in there and it's a Scottish,

485
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,560
you know, whatever it was just
cool.

486
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,960
God bless the heritage, right?
And you see all things like but

487
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,120
we no idea.
It's like old times past is what

488
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,360
it's saying these these old
acquaintances and we we look

489
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,120
back at time and I found myself
looking back at time, man.

490
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,080
I was thinking about Bill and I
think about people who are here

491
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,240
and these relationships and what
25 was all about.

492
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,280
But wouldn't it be cool as
Christians if we had the kind of

493
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,680
faith and belief every year
We're like, man, I'm not just

494
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,640
looking back, but I have one
year closer to heaven.

495
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,280
Wouldn't it be pretty cool that
our mindset was like, you know

496
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,360
what, there's a lot of stuff
that happened and there's some

497
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,320
relationships that are broken.
There's some really stuff I

498
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,120
loved and some stuff that hurt.
But guess what?

499
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,680
I'm one year closer to being in
the presence and the glory of

500
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520
God.
That's pretty cool.

501
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,400
Amen.
Like that's the kind of faith

502
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,440
that we should have like every
day.

503
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,840
And this is what the Scripture
even says about it.

504
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,560
But but you think you think
about just our culture and how

505
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,520
we see heaven.
It's it's very distant and very

506
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,360
dark and there's a good
illustration of somebody.

507
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,760
It's a true story of a man named
Levi Lesko.

508
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,640
Anybody heard of Levi Lesko If
you guys, if you follow him,

509
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,920
Levi Lesko been great preacher,
great leader calls of Christ.

510
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,320
He has a church called Fresh
Life Church up in Billings, Mt

511
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,120
has different campuses did like
ATV ministry all sorts of stuff.

512
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,800
Matter of fact, the chosen
series that we did this last

513
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,400
time.
You guys remember that he he

514
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
produced that that was that was
like his vision.

515
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,280
It was pretty amazing, but it's
a it's a crazy story if there's

516
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,600
a book he wrote called Through
the Eyes of a Lion, and it's a

517
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,520
must read, especially if you
went through any kind of loss.

518
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,199
And the story is a story of his
daughter Lena that passed away.

519
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,880
And I don't know the year, but
it's probably about 10 years ago

520
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,520
and she was five years old.
She has asthma attack and

521
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:38,120
they've done everything.
They're trying to help her.

522
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,320
They're given all the different
things and there's nothing's

523
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,080
working.
They get to the hospital and she

524
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,880
doesn't make it.
And I saw him speak in person a

525
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,400
few times.
I read his book.

526
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,280
He's just one of those guys and
I know this is a a battle for

527
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,000
like human nature to do what
God's asked him to do.

528
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
When he says a statement, this
is unnatural statement, but this

529
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,760
was his conclusion and this is
his heartbeat.

530
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,920
This way he fights for every
day.

531
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,000
He says every day.
I don't countdown the days.

532
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,960
I don't count out the days that
I haven't seen her and I miss

533
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,920
her.
I countdown the days until I see

534
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,920
her again.
That's pretty good.

535
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,760
Amen.
Like he's counting down the days

536
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,080
to heaven.
I know about you, but we get a

537
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,360
little more homesick for heaven
when people close to us are in

538
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,000
heaven, Amen.
Like, it's one thing to be

539
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,640
young, like invincible and blah,
blah, blah.

540
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,680
When you get older, you're like,
man, I got I, you get to the

541
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,280
point you got more people in
heaven than you got on earth

542
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,640
that you're friends with, Amen.
You start looking forward, like

543
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,640
what is the next life?
And the reality is we're going

544
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,640
to spend 80, you know, maybe you
get 100 years.

545
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,440
Come on, somebody right, maybe
like Dick Van Dyke kind of thing

546
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,320
going on there, right?
Like maybe most of us are not

547
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,440
going to get the 100 years, you
know?

548
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,920
And then we spend all of
eternity in a place that we

549
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,800
haven't even thought about, like
we don't desire.

550
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,320
Like if we really knew what
heaven was like, we would live

551
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,720
differently on earth, Amen?
Like it would change our habits.

552
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,240
And we set these goals in 26.
And I see all these things.

553
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,200
I'm like, it's great.
I mean, I hope you make

554
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,040
$1,000,000 this year, Amen?
Like, I hope all your dreams

555
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,280
come true.
I hope all just works out.

556
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,560
But the end of the day, it's
wood, hay and stubble, right?

557
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,080
Like there's a vision higher
than the things of earth, a

558
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,800
vision of the next earth, the
new earth, the things that are

559
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,120
coming.
The thing about Levi Lesko's

560
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,680
story is so amazing is that
suffering will not have the

561
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,600
final word, Amen.
Like suffering is not the end of

562
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,680
the equation.
Loss is real, but so is reunion.

563
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,800
Amen.
Like you will see again.

564
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,680
I feel like I'm preaching at a
funeral right now.

565
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,720
You should be way more excited.
There's not a casket.

566
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,160
Come on, somebody, right?
Yeah.

567
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,280
On the words of DL Moody, Don't,
don't, don't say I'm dead.

568
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:43,800
When because he knew he was
going to die.

569
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,800
He published in the newspaper.
He said don't, don't cry for me

570
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,960
and say I'm dead.
But when you when you look into

571
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,760
my casket, no, I'm more alive
than ever.

572
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,400
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good.

573
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,880
These final words were the the
veil of heaven is opened up and

574
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,640
DL Moody passed away.
But the reality is this death is

575
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,880
painful, but it's not permanent.
In the days for those who are in

576
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,160
Christ are not behind us.
They are ahead of us.

577
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,960
The best is yet to come.
Amen.

578
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,760
And it's not necessarily found
on earth.

579
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920
We try to make it on earth.
Like we try to be comfortable.

580
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
We try to have our retirement.
We try to put the pieces

581
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,280
together so we have a certain
life.

582
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,600
But the reality is we are
foreigners.

583
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,640
We are sojourners in this world.
Who has those old T-shirts?

584
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,040
Come on, somebody is not our
home.

585
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:25,360
I think you have some of these
not of this world.

586
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,720
Come on, somebody got the belt
buckle, got the shirt, got the

587
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:30,280
CD, got the hat, Right.
And then we, we, we kind of

588
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,480
forget so easily.
Like we, our vision, our goals

589
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,200
extend to this earth.
They're very small and very just

590
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,280
narrow minded.
And so why is it, why do we have

591
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,840
such a small vision of heaven?
Like how do we get to this

592
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,360
place?
Like why in the world do we

593
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,800
dream about just this kind of
world?

594
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,440
And and you think about all the
different things like we think

595
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,600
about maybe we become, I've
heard, I haven't heard this

596
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,320
since we, we become angels and
we die.

597
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,440
I've, I've heard that which
we'll, we'll talk.

598
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,080
Come on, somebody, right?
Vision clouds and harps and

599
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,040
boredom and floating and and
endless church service, right.

600
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,960
And it's almost like we just
copy and pasted our theology of

601
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,880
heaven from like all the
culture.

602
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,600
Like in my generation, there was
this awesome song called drops

603
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,400
of Jupiter.
Come on, somebody right from

604
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,440
train in a ride on the Milky
Way.

605
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,240
Forget the exact line and it
says the lights are faded.

606
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,920
Remember that?
Are they really faded?

607
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,120
No.
And heaven is what is what?

608
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,640
Yeah, overrated.
Like I drew, I grew up in a

609
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,440
generation where it was like,
dude, and we all did right.

610
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,720
Like why go to heaven?
That's so overrated.

611
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,160
That's just dumb.
It's just just for the weak

612
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:42,040
minded or, you know, it's it's
not all it's set out to be like

613
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,680
we, we, we we're thinking it's
overrated.

614
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,040
But no, heaven is underrated.
Amen.

615
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,480
But these songs that we just
hear, these songs like, well,

616
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,640
maybe it's not as good.
Maybe it is a little boring.

617
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,160
You know who watched The
Simpsons?

618
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,160
Come on, somebody you can put
your hand up, dude.

619
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,160
Y'all sinners.
That's OK, right?

620
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,400
I grew up in The Simpsons.
It was awesome, you know what I

621
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,440
mean?
Like I saw in the movie when it

622
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,320
came out, whatever.
And Homer dies, he goes up on a

623
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,840
cloud and he's sitting there and
he just eats Donuts for

624
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,840
eternity.
That was their picture, right?

625
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,360
And then whoever who made
peanuts should know his name.

626
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,360
Yeah, he there you go.
You all know you're all smart at

627
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,800
me.
And he he it was in the

628
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,160
newspaper and he put out there's
this, you know, person dies.

629
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,840
They got their wings.
They're set in heaven.

630
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,360
And the caption or the the
thought was in the bubble.

631
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,480
I wish I'd brought a magazine,
right.

632
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,160
Like this is just what the world
teaches is like.

633
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,480
It's just not.
They don't know, right.

634
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,360
And and and maybe to our fault
as Christians and maybe even

635
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,000
pastors or churches, we just
don't talk about heaven enough.

636
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,160
We we just don't you know, you
know, a 120 people to one

637
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,880
believe they're going to heaven
in the United States based on

638
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,680
Barnes survey.
So if you're just like, hey, you

639
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,880
going to heaven?
Yeah, I mean, most people think

640
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,160
they're going to heaven.
Isn't that crazy?

641
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,080
So if you just talk about
heaven, you're only going to

642
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,760
offend less than 1% of people
you talk to.

643
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,560
Amen.
That's a good strategy.

644
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,000
Matter of fact, when Paul, this
is pretty cool when he actually

645
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,360
was, his strategy to reach the
Gentiles of non Jewish people

646
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,440
was to tell them, according to
Ephesians chapter 3, to tell

647
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,800
them of the riches, the riches
of Christ.

648
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:13,720
Did it pretty cool.
You know what?

649
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,880
You know what the richest of
Christ is?

650
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,720
Heaven, Amen.
People need to know about this.

651
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,160
So many people are afraid of
heaven.

652
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,320
If you think you're going to
know nobody in heaven and nobody

653
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,320
talks and you're sitting down on
like a like playing a harp all

654
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,840
day, like you might be afraid to
go to heaven.

655
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,840
That sounds really boring.
If you don't know anybody, you

656
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,040
might be afraid to even die.
Amen.

657
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,160
Like we have to change our view.
Like what does heaven really

658
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,600
look like?
What should it be?

659
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,440
You know, I think about this
song and the culture.

660
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,440
This might be the most iconic
song and most heartfelt heart

661
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,760
wrenching song in the culture.
We actually somebody kind of

662
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,640
joke about it earlier, but Eric
Clapton, right, Tears in heaven

663
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,400
and about his five year old son
Connor, who died, ran through an

664
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,800
open window that thought was
glass and fell out of a

665
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,600
building.
And he wrote this song.

666
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,440
And the song is like, you got to
listen to it and it's heart

667
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,560
wrench and it is so human.
It is the most human song you

668
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,800
could put together.
And we all feel the same way.

669
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,400
I mean, it's one of the songs if
you you can't listen to without

670
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,600
putting a tear in your eye
because we all felt that gut

671
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,480
wrenching loss.
We've all seen that kind of

672
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,240
pain.
Not even to his level probably.

673
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,920
And he asked these questions.
You guys heard the song of the

674
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,320
questions, right?
Like like, would you know my

675
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,800
name if you saw me in heaven,
man?

676
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,040
What a question.
Like what is the answer to that

677
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,160
question?
Would you really recognize me?

678
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,920
Like, would you picking me up if
I'm I'm falling down and

679
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,280
weeping?
Like would you hold my hand?

680
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,480
Like that's the world is asking
the question, Amen.

681
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,920
I mean, you got musicians crying
out in pain, asking the

682
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,320
questions that as a church we
have the answers to, Amen.

683
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,800
We have the answers to these
questions, but the it's just the

684
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,200
culture, right?
Like so then we think, well,

685
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,360
maybe we can't know anybody.
Like maybe we don't recognize

686
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,680
like maybe we're separate, you
know, maybe we don't exist.

687
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,760
Like, maybe it's not what it
should be.

688
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,560
Like, we just don't know.
No one's no one's even told.

689
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,040
As a trained, like pastor, like
I don't was never trained to

690
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,320
answer these questions.
Like, would you recognize people

691
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,240
in heaven?
Will relationships continue in

692
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:19,920
heaven?
Will pain and separation be

693
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,120
healed?
Is heaven going to be familiar

694
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,320
or distant?
That's that's really what Eric

695
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,520
Clapton is asking.
And we have the answer.

696
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,120
You're going to know over the
next six weeks, you're going to

697
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,680
be like out of here, like, dude,
I'm so glad because most people

698
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,080
go, we'll never know what will
heaven be like?

699
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,880
I guess we'll never know.
And you can say I do Amen.

700
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,360
I know exactly what heaven's
like.

701
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,360
Now someone we're going to talk
about is, is it's going to be a

702
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,880
little bit of speculation, but
it's based on scripture.

703
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,680
Amen.
Like I'm not going to dream

704
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,160
outside of scripture.
Like the footing is scripture.

705
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,600
So I'm have a little like I, you
could challenge it and say,

706
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,280
well, they could be this.
It could be.

707
00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,880
But guess what?
I think we should be dreaming

708
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,240
about heaven.
I think if God didn't want to

709
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:02,080
hear about heaven, he wouldn't
even put it in the Bible for us

710
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,240
to know about.
He wouldn't have written so much

711
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,600
about the topic.
And for most of us, we just

712
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,640
don't know enough.
Our culture teaches all sorts of

713
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,480
stuff and some of it's just very
sad.

714
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,600
But like everyone goes to
heaven.

715
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,040
That's a pretty popular
teaching, isn't it?

716
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,200
Like we're all getting there,
we're all touching the same

717
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,320
elephant.
We're all going to the same

718
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,720
place, like everybody's good.
And the Bible says complete

719
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:28,440
opposite it all says that narrow
is the road to, to, to life and

720
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,080
and wide is the road to
destruction.

721
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,920
Like the reality is quite the
opposite is that most people go

722
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,640
to hell.
Most people do not go to heaven.

723
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,680
That's just based upon
scripture.

724
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,320
And I, I mean, personally as a
pastor, like I, I don't, I did

725
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,960
not write the story.
I wish I could change that, but

726
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,840
I also trust Jesus.
It is a plan and a purpose.

727
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Beyond that, I can even see and
imagine I didn't write the book.

728
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,160
Amen.
But we trust what's what's in

729
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,520
the book and there's a reason
for it.

730
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,640
We also think heaven is boring
or heaven is just a place of

731
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,720
rest.
You know, there's not real life

732
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:01,840
or anything.
You just you're at peace or

733
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,720
become angels.
When we die, we get our Halos,

734
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:06,280
we're graduating and get our
wings like we've watched It's a

735
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,480
wonderful life.
Too many times, you know, or

736
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,280
heaven is vague or unknowable or
there it's just reward for good

737
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,480
people.
Like you get to heaven because

738
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,120
you're a good person and that's
the majority of people of my my

739
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:16,920
good outways.
My bad.

740
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,080
Then I go to heaven, which isn't
true or heaven is the same for

741
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,680
everyone.
It's not So many people think

742
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:23,520
we're all going to get to
heaven.

743
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,240
That's going to be identical.
We have jobs in heaven.

744
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,080
We have roles in heaven.
There's authority given to you

745
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,760
in heaven based upon what
happens on this earth, like your

746
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,840
faithfulness.
Like the Bible talks about, like

747
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,240
the lead, the first will be last
and last will be first.

748
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,600
Like sometimes we think this is
it.

749
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,960
And then we're all going to
like, we're all going to get

750
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:41,880
there.
It's like, well, yeah, you got,

751
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,000
you got there.
That's the first thing.

752
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,120
But then there's different
roles, right?

753
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,960
Or is heaven just spiritual?
Like we're floating,

754
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,320
disembodied, like, you know,
just spiritual beings, right?

755
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,240
Or heaven is just too far away.
It's too relevant.

756
00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:57,480
It shouldn't matter.
Like you just it's too far to

757
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,040
know about.
Like we could never really know

758
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,040
anything.
Or how about this one?

759
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,920
I see this a lot.
Heaven is restrictive and

760
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,440
joyless.
That's the original sin, right?

761
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:11,800
Like we can do better than God.
Like God is holding back from

762
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,480
you.
He doesn't want you to see what

763
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,600
he sees.
Like just do it your way, have

764
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,280
fun.
And it's ultimately see this

765
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,640
with people time.
Like I'd really park with my

766
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,320
friends and hell, you see it,
you hear it all the time.

767
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,000
Like do you have a, do you have
a clue what you're talking

768
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,320
about?
Like do you know what you're

769
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,880
saying?
Or heaven's just metaphorical,

770
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,000
which is just so sad.
You know, like I've had people

771
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,280
in my family that were they're
atheist to the core and it truly

772
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,520
believed, hey, when you die, you
don't get, you don't like have

773
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,720
an afterlife and they're
annihilated, which isn't true

774
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:44,120
anyway, but you just go into
oblivion.

775
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,280
You just cease to exist.
It's not true.

776
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,440
And it's so sad that this is the
end result of like secular

777
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,520
humanism of so-called science
without reason or science with

778
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,800
reason or naturalism, like the
way we teach things in the

779
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,560
States and there's just no room
for faith.

780
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,400
It's like this came from a
cesspool DNA and then we just

781
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,720
cease to be DNA and it's just
whatever that's the that's the

782
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:11,680
end result of of evolution,
right?

783
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,160
Like there's a chance to happen.
The chance doesn't happen.

784
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,720
It's just sad to see.
It's just metaphorical.

785
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:18,680
It's not really there.
And I think for heaven, most

786
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,880
people don't reject like the
real heaven.

787
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,600
I think they reject a bad
version of heaven.

788
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,200
Like I don't think they know.
I honestly don't think if we

789
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:31,080
even know for most people, it's
just crazy that like what is the

790
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,400
scripture says about heaven and
what we embrace in this world.

791
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,520
Like if we sat down in 26 said
what is your goal in 26?

792
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,480
It doesn't involve heaven in a
in a vision for the afterlife of

793
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,200
eternity with God and the things
that he has for you.

794
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,200
I think we're missing it.
Amen.

795
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,400
I think we have so much to lean
into.

796
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,400
And so my goal for you day of my
prayer is that we get a bigger

797
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:51,160
view of Heaven.
Amen.

798
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,120
We get a way bigger if you have,
you know, we talk, we talk about

799
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,240
salvation as a church.
We talk about all the time.

800
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,320
We talk, we talk like sin, we
talk about church.

801
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,280
But you know what, this season
we're going to talk about

802
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:00,840
heaven.
Amen.

803
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,520
I said, maybe we'll leave in
26th.

804
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,560
We're going to we're just going
to lead into heaven because

805
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,000
ultimately, like we're like, you
know, where are we going?

806
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,600
What's this going to be about?
It's going to be about heaven.

807
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,440
It's going about Jesus.
It's going about something way

808
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,560
bigger.
It's going to change our lives,

809
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,680
but we rarely talk about it.
It's like a footnote.

810
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,000
It's like heaven's reserved for
a funeral message.

811
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,120
Like you hear about it and you
go to the funeral.

812
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,480
And even then, oftentimes it's
done so poorly.

813
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,840
And nothing bothers me more than
the pastor when I show up to a

814
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,480
funeral, they don't talk about
heaven and they don't talk about

815
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,680
salvation.
It's terrible.

816
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,480
Like what hope have you given
anybody?

817
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,640
And I don't care if it's a
person who didn't know Jesus and

818
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,760
you're preaching a funeral, you
will get to Jesus in heaven

819
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,200
somehow.
Amen.

820
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,720
Like and as AI mean, I hate to
say it, as a pastor, I far

821
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:42,000
rather do a funeral than a
wedding.

822
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,000
It's just the truth because
there's a spiritual receptivity,

823
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,320
there's an openness of the
reality of the eternal.

824
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,760
Like last year we talked about
numbering your days with this,

825
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,440
this series, this last year not
called heaven, but the same, you

826
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,640
know, New Year's series.
We talk about numbering your

827
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,280
days and I've been still been
numbering my days.

828
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,560
You know, we talked about the,
you know, teach us Lord number

829
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,840
of days that every day has its
own pain and sorrow thereof.

830
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:09,920
And there's different place in
the Bible numerous times.

831
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,000
And so I I've been on my mirror,
my over the vanity, right, like

832
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:17,040
here it is every day.
I I race the last number or two,

833
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,560
depending or three times if you
know, a couple times, but I race

834
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,200
it and I I just work my way
down, right.

835
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:29,320
And so today 12,623 that that's
my number.

836
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,880
If I live to the average age of
a male today.

837
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,880
It we talk about that, right,
like, but it puts eternity in

838
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,560
mind.
It's like, God help me if I

839
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,120
forget that this life, if I
think this life is all there is,

840
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,160
Amen.
And we have to start thinking

841
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,560
like, well, what's beyond this?
What, what's, what's the vision?

842
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,720
What does God have for my life?
And it's not a footnote.

843
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,080
You think about you guys follow
Elon Musk at all.

844
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,600
You know, Starlink, everything
in Starlink actually is used to

845
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,000
fund going to Mars.
You guys know that or not the,

846
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,560
the, the logo for Starlink is
actually Earth and Mars like

847
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,800
every kind of intersect.
Every couple intersect, but they

848
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,360
close every couple years and so
he's like, OK, every couple

849
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,760
years we're going to send off
rockets.

850
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,680
We're going to put £10,000,000
of whatever resources we need so

851
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:18,800
we can colonize Mars.
OK, You know, whatever band, you

852
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,680
know, cool for you, but they're
going to send all this stuff to

853
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:23,680
Mars.
You're going to see every couple

854
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,640
years they're going to send all
these rockets and try to just

855
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,840
put all this stuff on Mars so
they can somehow send the human

856
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,280
there.
We can colonize in case Earth

857
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,040
falls apart.
Like like God does know what

858
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,800
he's doing.
I hate to tell you the time

859
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,080
that's like, that's a waste of
time.

860
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,520
Amen.
This is a new Earth that's

861
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,800
coming and we don't need to
worry about all these things,

862
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,680
but whatever.
But could you imagine you send

863
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,800
all the stuff there and then
somebody looks at it and says,

864
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,520
Hey, what's Mars like?
And they never thought about it.

865
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,040
You know what I'm saying?
They, they, they had the mission

866
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,440
plan.
They, they sent all the

867
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,360
different units.
They got oxygen, they got all

868
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,160
these things and they've been
planning, planning, planning in

869
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,680
for decades.
They've been sending stuff and

870
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,920
then says, what's Mars like?
Like, Oh, I really never

871
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,560
consider it all.
That's kind of like it is for us

872
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:02,320
in heaven.
Amen.

873
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,760
Like we're living on mission
right now.

874
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,520
We're telling people about
Christ, we're living in Christ,

875
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:07,360
we're praying, we're going to
church.

876
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,520
But we're like our vision for
heaven is is so small.

877
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,840
And that whole goal of this
series is just to make it

878
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,920
really, really big.
Just to see what it's like just

879
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,800
to pull back the curd.
And there's some things we can

880
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,480
know and there's some things we
can speculate.

881
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:24,920
But I do think you can use your
imagination upon truth, not just

882
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,840
make up truth like most books of
heaven are the people's stories

883
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,280
that are like not built on
Scripture, which I'm not going

884
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,080
to argue with people, but I'm
just going to go back to the

885
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,520
Bible.
Amen.

886
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,440
And like I'm going to build it
on Scripture.

887
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,560
What does the Scripture say
about heaven?

888
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,480
And here's some things that
you're going to see in Scripture

889
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:43,600
of why we should be desperately
homestead kind of vision for

890
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,000
heaven.
But Hebrews 11/13 says this.

891
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,440
This is like the Hall of Fame of
faith because all these people

892
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,640
were still living by faith when
they died, which is that means

893
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,960
they finished the race strong
and did not receive the things

894
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,600
promised because it's the Old
Testament.

895
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,560
They they only saw them in the
distance and they welcomed them

896
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:05,000
from a distance, admitting that
they were what foreigners and

897
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,920
strange on earth.
That's what's got to start.

898
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,320
Amen.
But like our deepest desire is

899
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,480
not to put a permanent address
on earth.

900
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,040
And these guys knew this because
they saw what God was doing and

901
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,000
they said, no, no, no, no.
This is just temporary.

902
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,680
Like I'm just passing the
through.

903
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,080
I'm on, I'm on a walk.
It says people who say such

904
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,320
things show that they're looking
for a country of their own.

905
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,880
If they had been thinking of the
country they had left, they'd

906
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,480
had the opportunity to return.
You know, if you, if you look

907
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,680
back at the past and you look
back at this world and you build

908
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,400
your life on this world, your
feet always follow your

909
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,840
thoughts.
You always put down the roots.

910
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,320
Like where your mind sits
becomes your mindset.

911
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,720
And if this world is all you
got, I don't know how much joy

912
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,080
you can really muster in your
soul.

913
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Amen.
Like, I don't know how much

914
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,280
passion you can really have if
you look at all the pain and

915
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:55,400
suffering and all the things
around you.

916
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,640
Like, this is it.
We got some oil from Venezuela.

917
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,800
Great job.
What are you thinking?

918
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:05,120
I mean, it just whatever, we're
not going there.

919
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,440
But I did.
But you.

920
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,280
But you look, but you look at
this and it's like, is this it?

921
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,280
Is it?
Is this all that it is come to

922
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,520
be?
If you're looking for a country

923
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:14,880
that you already have, you're
going to find it.

924
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,000
But if you long for heaven, you
will find that country.

925
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,560
It says instead they're longing
for a better country, a heavenly

926
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,320
one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to

927
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,040
be called their God, for as he
has prepared a city for them.

928
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:25,640
Like there's a city coming,
Amen.

929
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,440
There's a new heaven on earth,
there's a place, there's a house

930
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,360
that Jesus building and we're
longing for that, that that's

931
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,040
our home, Amen.
Like don't get, don't get too

932
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,480
freaked out if you don't fit in.
You're not supposed to fit in

933
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,640
first Peter 2 says this.
Dear friends, I urge you as

934
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,320
foreigners in exiles.
Now they're actually real

935
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,760
foreigners in exiles.
They've left Jerusalem, have

936
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,960
been kicked out.
Now they're living in Rome and

937
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:50,760
they're being persecuted to the
NTH degree.

938
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,400
He says he tells them to abstain
from sinful desires which wage

939
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,400
against your soul.
He's just telling them like

940
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,320
you're exiles and foreigners
even in this earthly world, and

941
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,160
that you should cut out the
things of the world like we, we

942
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:04,720
need to cut out the things that
are around us.

943
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,960
Don't look like Jesus, even
though this isn't our home, it's

944
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:09,360
not our home, it's not going to
be our home.

945
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,240
He said don't even worry about
it because this is just the

946
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,440
world.
This is this is Peter.

947
00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,000
Just put it down for these guys
that are struggling to even

948
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,720
survive.
Psalm 3912 says hear my prayer

949
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:22,120
Lord, listen to my cry for help.
Do not be deaf to my weeping.

950
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:28,080
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors

951
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,520
were like we have to recognize
that Jesus, yes, he's here on

952
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,760
this earth with us and us, but
the reality is he lives in a

953
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,960
permanent reality.
We live in a temporary reality,

954
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Amen.
Like we're, we're in different,

955
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,440
we're playing different games.
Like we can't see all the things

956
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:45,480
that God sees.
We don't know all the things

957
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,840
that go and we are a foreigner
and a stranger to really what

958
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,240
heaven is like and where God
resides.

959
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,920
You know, most of the Scripture,
if you see Jesus in the in New

960
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,760
Testament, most of what he says,
if not all of what he said has

961
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,600
actually come from conversations
of the throne of God in heaven.

962
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,280
He's talk talking about
conversations he's had with the

963
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,400
Father and he's telling us
that's pretty good.

964
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,400
Amen.
So when you read the Bible, it's

965
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,960
just yes and Amen.
Like those words are spoken at a

966
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,120
throne of crystal with the power
of God, with the grace riches of

967
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,040
all eternity.
And they're speaking and they

968
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,840
come to us and we hear them
because God wanted to make known

969
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,920
through his word.
And we hear those words and we

970
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,840
say, I follow that whatever you
say, Lord, I trust you.

971
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,320
Because those words are built in
eternity.

972
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,000
They're they're not built by
man, they're built by God.

973
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,160
That's how we search the
Scripture.

974
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,440
Amen.
There's just a different world

975
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,320
that they come from.
Philippians 3 says, But our

976
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:43,840
citizenship is where is where,
Yeah, in heaven.

977
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:48,560
I know we would like to be like
proud American citizens, but we

978
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:53,560
should be proud Christian heaven
citizens, Amen.

979
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,040
Like we, we should know what
that citizenship entails and

980
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,640
what it looks like and what
rights you truly have and who

981
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:02,960
you truly are in Christ.
And this is what Paul says, he

982
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,480
says.
And we eagerly await with great

983
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:11,640
expectation, with 100% focus,
like we walk into this year and

984
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,880
we like eagerly waiting.
God, when are you coming back

985
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,520
and what are you doing?
And I trust you because of who

986
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,440
you are, because I'm not a
citizen of this earth.

987
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,720
Like I don't have to worry about
who gets elected and how things

988
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:24,920
go crazy because my residency
and my permanency isn't heaven.

989
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,520
He says he waits for a savior
from there, the Lord Jesus

990
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,200
Christ, who by the power that
enables him to bring everything

991
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,640
under control, will transform.
I love this, our lowly bodies.

992
00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:38,720
Can I give an Amen?
OK, if you're over 25, you got

993
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:43,560
to say Amen, right?
Our lowly bodies so that we will

994
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,840
be like his glorious body.
This is the real Planet Fitness.

995
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,200
Amen.
No lunk alarms in heaven.

996
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,440
You know what I'm saying?
But the point of this is we live

997
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,600
here, but we belong there like
we reside right now here.

998
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:06,640
But our true home is in heaven,
like our bodies are a temporary

999
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,360
address like this is just
fleeting.

1000
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,120
Second Corinthians 51 says, for
we know that if the earthly

1001
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:16,280
tint, the stomach of your body
we live in is destroyed.

1002
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,080
So let's just call that
cremation because some people

1003
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:20,600
have a lot of conscious
questions on this one.

1004
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,280
We have a building from God, an
eternal house in heaven, not

1005
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,480
built by human hands.
Amen.

1006
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:28,840
Like sometimes you're like, oh,
what happens?

1007
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:30,560
Like if your bodies are stored,
there's Bible resurrection.

1008
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,640
It's like, brother, God made the
first time, he can make it the

1009
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,600
second.
Like there there's an upgrade

1010
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,760
that you're going to have.
Like I talked about, no one's

1011
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:40,040
like, put me back on the
Nosebleed.

1012
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:42,920
I want that high cholesterol,
diabetic body.

1013
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,600
Come on, Jesus, bring it back to
me, right?

1014
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,440
Amen.
Like no medication in heaven,

1015
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,560
brother, no cancer in heaven.
Like everything is perfect.

1016
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,920
Like if you went to heaven where
it looks like it's, it's just go

1017
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,960
back before the fall.
Like without sin, without curse,

1018
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,440
without compromise, without
brokenness, without suffering,

1019
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,440
without corruption, when he
walked hand in hand with God.

1020
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,040
And you start looking at the
animals and start looking at the

1021
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,280
your life, start looking at your
body, start looking at how long

1022
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,760
you're supposed to live.
Like why, why is death?

1023
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:19,640
Why is death here?
Like why does that happen?

1024
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,520
Why are you craved like this?
And you start looking at that

1025
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,360
and you start, that's a glimpse
of heaven, Amen.

1026
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Like it's way beyond.
Like if it's a new earth, that's

1027
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:27,960
going to be even similar to this
earth.

1028
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:32,240
But Colossians 31 says this.
Since then we have been raised

1029
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,800
with Christ.
Set your what?

1030
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,200
Set your hearts on things above.
Set your set your heart on

1031
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:46,480
heaven where Christ is.
See at the right hand of God.

1032
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,120
Then he says this.
Not only set your hearts, but

1033
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:52,680
says set your what?
Set your minds on things above,

1034
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,040
not on earthly things.
The Bible calls the earthly

1035
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,680
things wood, hay, and stubble.
This is why he says it for you

1036
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,120
have died.
It's a spiritual death.

1037
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,120
This is first death that we have
spiritually.

1038
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:09,320
We die to the old man and your
life is now what hidden with

1039
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,320
Christ in God.
That's good news, Amen.

1040
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,800
Like we died to the sin nature
and we're alive to God and his

1041
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,280
power hidden in Christ and with
Christ who is your life appears

1042
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,800
then you will also appear with
him in glory, which is heaven,

1043
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:26,960
the centerpiece of heaven.
It says set your minds on

1044
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:28,360
heaven, set your hearts on
heaven.

1045
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,520
Christ is in heaven.
It's like the central theme of

1046
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,880
why do we long for heaven is
because Christ is there, The

1047
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,080
resurrected Christ is there.
Can you imagine the moment

1048
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,880
you're going to see Jesus the
first time face to face?

1049
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,280
Can you imagine the moment that
you're going to look to his left

1050
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,160
or his right?
I guess look to his right

1051
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,800
because the right hand, the
Father, and you see the Father's

1052
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,640
face, face to face the first
time.

1053
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:56,920
That's a good day.
Amen.

1054
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,200
It's a day you long for.
This is day of utter perfection.

1055
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,440
And he says set your minds and
set your heart that that word

1056
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:08,320
for set is really interesting.
It's almost it's the same word

1057
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,240
for seek.
Remember the verse in the Bible

1058
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,880
says Jesus says I come to seek
and save that which is lost.

1059
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,960
That same word for seek is the
same word for set, the passion

1060
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,240
of which Jesus came here to seek
and save the lost.

1061
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:26,680
His one mindedness, his
direction, his desire for lost

1062
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,800
people is the same desire that
we should have for heaven.

1063
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,160
That's pretty good.
It's actually the same word used

1064
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,160
when it when they leave the 99
sheep and go to the one, when

1065
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,920
the woman flips over the couch,
looks for the coin, the parable,

1066
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:39,760
lost Pearl.
It's all the same.

1067
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,560
It's all the same word.
It's 1 minus.

1068
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,160
You think about as a church like
what is our mindset in 2026?

1069
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,000
Is it just these goals and these
earthly goals and this is what

1070
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,960
they sure looks like and this
will make me happy and that

1071
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,680
would be great, which I hope you
have those things, Amen.

1072
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,560
I'm not saying don't have
earthly goals, but I'm just

1073
00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:00,440
saying there is a higher vision
for our life, the set on heaven.

1074
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,120
Our mindset is 1 pursuit, 2nd
Corinthians 416.

1075
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:09,360
It says therefore do not what
lose heart.

1076
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,560
I don't know about you, but
2025, I think there's a lot of

1077
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,240
people who have lost some heart
in 2025.

1078
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,760
Amen.
It's, it's, it's so easy to get

1079
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:21,440
distracted when, when you, when
you see tragedy or death or job

1080
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,800
loss, your uncertainty and
brokenness and suffering in

1081
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,800
elections and all, everything
around you just pulling your

1082
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,600
attention back to earth and
plant your feet on the ground.

1083
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,160
And we lose heart because our
mindset is taken off the heaven

1084
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,520
and putting right back on earth.
You will lose heart very easily

1085
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,520
if your hope is found just on
this earth.

1086
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,040
It's so easy.
There has to be more.

1087
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,160
It says, therefore hourly we are
wasting away.

1088
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,040
That's our bodies.
That's a good way of saying it,

1089
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,720
by the way, Amen.
It's very difficult.

1090
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,960
You know, I'm in the season of
my life for like, you know,

1091
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,280
parents and uncles, their their
health is not what it used to

1092
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:05,200
be, right And even siblings.
I, I lost a sibling this last

1093
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:09,200
year and it just so interesting
you get that season where it's

1094
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:13,640
like, hey, brevity is here,
bodies fail, cancer hits.

1095
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,240
It just not going to end without
suffering.

1096
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,600
But there's better than it's
more than suffering because

1097
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:22,680
there's an eternity that God's
calls to.

1098
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:23,920
So I fixed the line to heaven.
Amen.

1099
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,480
I get excited to share heaven
with people.

1100
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:28,280
It is the best news you can
share.

1101
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,920
If you're at a funeral and you
get to tell somebody about

1102
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,400
heaven and people's eyes light
up and there's hope in their

1103
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:39,120
soul and the tears move from
just sorrow to to to actual

1104
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,440
hope.
That's good, Amen.

1105
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,520
That's good.
And we get the choice now to

1106
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,160
share him with people so they
can change their destination.

1107
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,920
They can actually go to heaven.
He says we're alley wasting

1108
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,600
away, yet inwardly being renewed
day by day.

1109
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,160
That's pretty good news.
They even know the outside's

1110
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,720
falling apart.
The inside, Oh, it's strong.

1111
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:01,440
You know, that's what I love
about Bill.

1112
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,840
You know, somebody is, I don't
know, he's 7270 somewhere in

1113
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,640
there.
I can't remember his exact age,

1114
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,640
but he was so passionate, I mean
so passionate you.

1115
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,520
I'd call him on the phone and
he'd tell me, hey man, God was

1116
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:15,800
showing me.
It wasn't like 2 years ago and

1117
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:17,600
it wasn't somebody else's
message.

1118
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,760
It wasn't even my message.
I was reading the Bible.

1119
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,520
I mean, God just showed me, man.
I just spent some time with

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01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,960
Jesus and he was just walked
every day.

1121
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,640
His heart was being renewed
every day.

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01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,320
Amen.
If you knew him, you'd just know

1123
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,320
that like he had so much joy and
he'd say tongue in cheek, like I

1124
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,280
don't think he necessarily
wanted to die, right, But he

1125
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,760
would say tongue in cheek, hard
situation, difficult moment.

1126
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:43,680
He would say just threaten me
with heaven, Just threaten me

1127
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,560
with heaven.
Like this, the worst happens to

1128
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,640
me.
Bring it on, man, Bring it on

1129
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:48,880
because he's so passionate about
God.

1130
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,560
He was a perfect picture of
being annually renewed day by

1131
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,760
day.
It says this for our light

1132
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,280
momentary troubles.
That's pretty interesting way of

1133
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:01,040
calling this earth our life
light and momentary.

1134
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,000
I don't think most people will
say that about themselves.

1135
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,000
That's light and momentary.
Most people think their

1136
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,960
tragedies are forever and they
they're just drowning in sorrow

1137
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,240
and anxiety and fear and, and
medications and all these things

1138
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,480
around them and not thinking
this is as hard as it gets.

1139
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:20,920
Like as a Christian, this is the
closest we'll ever be to hell.

1140
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,480
Isn't that incredible to think
about?

1141
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:29,680
Isn't that, isn't that sobering?
Like all the crap we put up with

1142
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,920
this as hard as it gets, that's
good news.

1143
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,360
Amen.
That's real good news because we

1144
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,360
we walk through this and God is
with us and we sing this song

1145
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,320
like the God of, you know, Jacob
and all this.

1146
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:46,920
And I'm like God met Jacob in
the season of fear and worry and

1147
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,760
abandonment and his head is
sleeping on a pillow.

1148
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,320
That's a rock.
And he said, I'll never leave

1149
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:55,800
you or forsake you.
That's a promise of God.

1150
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:59,320
Amen, that God always meets us
in this temporary pain, this

1151
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,120
light momentary affliction and
this is it.

1152
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:06,040
This is a close to hell as we
get, but what's crazy to think

1153
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,720
about is that light and
momentary affliction.

1154
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,600
It is light and momentary for
people who don't know Jesus too.

1155
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,320
It's not as heavy as it's going
to be as hard as it's going to

1156
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:20,360
be in a sad reality is so, so
difficult as this is the closest

1157
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,160
to heaven that they ever get
Isn't that crazy?

1158
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,600
But the thing to honestly think
like this, as good as it gets,

1159
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:32,880
that is so depressing because
there's so much more.

1160
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,360
And like, what if this year was
the year we said, you know, I'm

1161
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:39,440
going to be serious about God.
Like my heart is set and I'm

1162
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,560
going to take as many people
have those with me as possible.

1163
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,480
Like I'm going to make God big.
But you, you, it comes because

1164
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,120
you change your heart and you
see heaven different.

1165
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,000
If heaven is small, life is
confusing.

1166
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,960
If heaven is big, life is clear.
And that's just a simplicity of

1167
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:56,360
it because it makes perfect
sense.

1168
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,480
Like I know where I'm going.
I don't get too wound up, I'm

1169
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,560
not too emotional, I'm not just
freaking out everything.

1170
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,920
I'm not being a big baby or big
bully, all that stuff.

1171
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,840
It's because, dude, I know I'm
going like I'm the influence of

1172
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,640
this world for Christ.
Because this is the one shot I

1173
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:10,880
got.
Because it gets way better when

1174
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,720
this flipped the page.
It gets way better.

1175
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:19,280
A bigger view of heaven.
So next six weeks, what's heaven

1176
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,600
action be like?
We'll recognize each other.

1177
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:23,520
What are we actually going to do
there?

1178
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,160
Is it really physical?
Does it really matter?

1179
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,680
Final thought for the day class
Final thought.

1180
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,800
Why is our view of heaven so
small?

1181
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,280
Why do we struggle to see it?
Why do we have the Bible but we

1182
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:44,920
don't put all together and it?
Could it just be that your enemy

1183
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,560
once resided in heaven?
Could it be that Satan himself

1184
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:51,640
actually knows what heaven's
like?

1185
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,280
Could be that Satan itself used
to leave worship in heaven, used

1186
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,680
to give glory to God, know God's
power, He knows God's provision,

1187
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:03,360
He knows we'll know each other,
He know he knows there's no sin

1188
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,200
and there's perfection.
But Satan's so desperately

1189
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,560
desires our worship because
Satan was once evicted from the

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01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:11,120
very place that we struggle to
dream about.

1191
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:15,160
Could it be that the Father of
lies has delusioned us and

1192
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:20,480
sabotaged us To dream so small
as a thing of 2026 and not

1193
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:24,000
2,000,026.
Not to think about the rest of

1194
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,440
eternity?
That the rope of time actually

1195
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:30,000
never ends and what we do in
this world directly affects the

1196
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,560
next World?
That God forbid that maybe Satan

1197
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:37,000
is trying to keep your eyes so
small and your heart so focused

1198
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,800
on this world and your mind so
narrow to build your own life

1199
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,640
and set your own goals.
That you by all the power of

1200
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,560
hell, never bring anybody with
you to heaven.

1201
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,520
Final thought, because that's
the reality.

1202
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:58,120
He wants to keep your mind vague
and your heart deceived that

1203
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:03,440
this is all you get.
So Father, come before you God,

1204
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:08,560
I pray you just drive us a
passion God, for eternity, a

1205
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,280
passion for souls.
That we'd be a soul winning

1206
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,800
church.
That our church would have such

1207
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,400
our minds and hearts out in
heaven that we'd be a dangerous

1208
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:25,360
church in 2026, that people
would come to Christ because we

1209
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,760
know where we're going.
We're not ashamed to tell the

1210
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,440
world that their answers are
just not complete.

1211
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,920
They're asking the right
questions, but they don't have

1212
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,680
the right answers.
And so, God, help us to be

1213
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:39,360
passionate about the gospel.
Help us to know our eternity.

1214
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,040
Help us to as we're here to
remind us, we're a mission.

1215
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:46,160
We're here to change the lives
of our family, our friends, our

1216
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,760
community, our neighbors.
For the gospel sake, it's

1217
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:53,000
necessary we stay and two calls
home and so if those who Jesus

1218
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,720
fall in the house, those who
just raise your hand say no, I

1219
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,480
need to get a bigger view of
heaven during this series.

1220
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:01,680
I need to spend my life in 26
getting a grandiose vision of

1221
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:02,760
heaven.
That's you just raise your hand

1222
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:04,040
high.
So that's me God just speaking

1223
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:05,840
to me.
You have way bigger vision of

1224
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,560
heaven and for eternity and for
the things of God and will

1225
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:13,360
reside for the the the eternity
with Jesus and knows it'll be

1226
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,600
there and what it'll be like.
It is the dream just have

1227
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,960
imagination on imagination of
scripture and live like

1228
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,359
childlike faith what God's going
to do and for some being in the

1229
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:27,120
house today you recognize today
you need heaven that you've been

1230
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,720
thinking, Oh, it's just a game.
It's not a big deal.

1231
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:32,600
There's Jesus thing is, you know
whatever and today you recognize

1232
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,120
that heaven is real.
There's a real eternity with a

1233
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:40,240
real God who paid for our sins.
And today you might have related

1234
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:41,840
to some of those things to talk
about what heaven's not.

1235
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,800
You might think you're a good
person or that heaven, you're

1236
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:46,680
all going to get there.
You know, we all end up in

1237
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,680
heaven and say you're
recognizing like this is not the

1238
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:50,760
case.
And for those of you recognize

1239
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:52,520
that you need to get to heaven,
the Bible's very clear.

1240
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:58,240
There is only one name under
heaven whereby men are saved,

1241
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,840
and it's the name of Jesus.
And why is the name of Jesus?

1242
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,359
Because Jesus came as the Son of
God and wrapped himself in our

1243
01:09:06,359 --> 01:09:13,960
humanity to take upon our sin
and literally pay our hell so

1244
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:19,479
that we can spend eternity with
Him in heaven.

1245
01:09:20,359 --> 01:09:24,640
That's how much God loves you is
that He would take every one of

1246
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,720
our punishments, our wrongs, and
he would pay for on the cross

1247
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,720
and give us his gift of
salvation.

1248
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,600
And so today if you want to go
to heaven, you have to say yes

1249
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,000
to Jesus.
The Bible says He's the way, the

1250
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,640
truth and life and no man come
to Father but through him.

1251
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,640
And so today if you need heaven,
it comes through Jesus.

1252
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:42,479
And so you say yes to Jesus
today, if that's you, you need

1253
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,160
forgiveness, you need New Hope,
you need to make heaven

1254
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,120
permanent your home.
You just settle the doubt, just

1255
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:49,520
like Logan talked about last
week.

1256
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:53,760
Are you for sure?
Not 99%, not 90.9%, but 100%

1257
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,080
sure you know you're going to
have a new relationship with

1258
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:57,960
Jesus.
If that's you, then you want to

1259
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,960
start a relationship with Jesus.
I'm gonna call it make it weird.

1260
01:10:00,440 --> 01:10:01,880
I will I will offer you through
a prayer.

1261
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:03,680
I will help you know Jesus, but
that's you just raise your

1262
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:05,200
highest place.
I want to start a relationship

1263
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:09,080
with Jesus like I want heaven.
I can want here and now like

1264
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,760
your eternity starts already and
I want my turn to be with Jesus.

1265
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,720
So that's you.
I want to help you lead through

1266
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,440
a prayer so you can walk with
Jesus to say Father God, thanks

1267
01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:21,160
so much for love me enough to
make a way for me to go to

1268
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,720
heaven.
God, my mind has been set on

1269
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,640
things to earth.
I've thought all these wrong

1270
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:29,320
thoughts, but today I trust you.
Your promises are true that you

1271
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,400
came and down across to me 2000
years ago I would have new life

1272
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,640
and New Hope and I want to
secure my place in heaven with

1273
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,720
you, not because my ability
because of what you do on the

1274
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,000
cross.
You said it is finished, it is

1275
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,160
done and I trust what you did
for me God.

1276
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,080
And so I'm a Sinner as Savior
and I love you and I surrender

1277
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,960
my life to you and I pray in
Jesus name, Amen.

1278
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:55,520
Come on, give it up for 2026,
for heaven, for what God's

1279
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:59,120
doing.
And what just a, gosh, just a

1280
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:03,400
powerful reminder of what heaven
truly is like, what it looks

1281
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,280
like just to spend eternity with
Jesus.

1282
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:09,720
And some of you today for the
first time, recognize your need

1283
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,600
for Jesus and you accepted him
today.

1284
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:15,840
You said yes to heaven as well.
If that is you, we are so

1285
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,720
excited for you as you are
taking these next steps with

1286
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:20,440
Jesus.
And we would love to walk

1287
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:22,800
alongside you and help you on
this journey.

1288
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,960
If you would grab that
connection card that's on your

1289
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,040
seat, you can fill out your
information there.

1290
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,200
That's on the top path, but make
sure and check that box that

1291
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:31,720
says I committed my life to
Jesus.

1292
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,440
And you can just drop that in
the giving buckets as they pass

1293
01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:37,400
here in just a few minutes.
But we'd love to get you a free

1294
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:40,880
book in the mail this week.
It's a short read, but it really

1295
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,200
is packed with some powerful
things for you that we know will

1296
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,800
just be a blessing to you on
this journey.

1297
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,600
Also, as you exit the worship
center, there's a red bag there

1298
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:49,960
on the table.
Please grab that as well.

1299
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,200
If you don't have a Bible,
there's a free Bible in there

1300
01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:55,560
along with a list of some other
resources and some encouragement

1301
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,440
as you are walking this out with
Jesus this week.

1302
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,200
And for those of you who are
newer in the house with us

1303
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,880
today, thank you so much for
coming and just spending your

1304
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,160
morning here with us.
Man, I hope you heard from God

1305
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,240
at this morning and we would
love to see you back.

1306
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,520
Goodness, excuse me, we'd love
to see you back here with us

1307
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:14,960
next week as well.
And hey, if you would grab that

1308
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,280
same connection card and fill
out your information on that.

1309
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:19,640
Just check first time here.
You can drop that in the gaming

1310
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,440
buckets as they pass as well.
We would love for you just to

1311
01:12:22,440 --> 01:12:25,440
introduce yourself to us.
This gathering truly is our gift

1312
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:27,080
to you.
We don't want anything from you

1313
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,360
except for that.
Just introduce yourself to us

1314
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,440
and you can do that simply by
doing that connection card.

1315
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:34,000
You can also instead of dropping
in the gaming buckets, you could

1316
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,640
take it out to the new hair
booth as well.

1317
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:38,360
As you exit the worship center,
just hang a right there's a new

1318
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:40,920
hair booth and somebody would be
there love just to get that card

1319
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:43,600
for you, give you a free gift.
Just our way of saying thank you

1320
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,520
and we'd love to see you back
here with us next week as well.

1321
01:12:47,440 --> 01:12:51,240
Man, as a church, we are just so
excited and expected for all

1322
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,440
that God is going to do in 2026
and what he has in store for us.

1323
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:58,400
A man 2025 was such a cool year
for our church as well and God

1324
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,720
did just some amazing things
that I want to celebrate and

1325
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,920
kind of reflect on as we look
forward to 2026.

1326
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,800
But man, in the end of 2025,
towards the end, we launched our

1327
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,680
Difference Maker initiative to
raise funds for our first

1328
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,920
permanent space in our
community.

1329
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,480
And a lot of you in this room
pledge to be difference makers

1330
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:17,840
for that.
And I am just so excited to say

1331
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:22,880
that as we close out 2025, man,
towards that goal, $1,000,000 of

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that is going to go straight
towards our first permanent

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home.
And at the end of 2025, man,

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we've collected over $220,000
already for our first permanent

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home, which is so awesome.
Yeah, hey, go God.

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So, so awesome.
And so I just want to say thank

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you to those of you who give
here at Real Life Church to see

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more soul saved and to see lives
transformed, not just for here

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and now, but but for eternity
and for generations to come.

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So thank you so much.
Also thank you to those of you

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who gave last week.
We had four people set up

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recurring donations, which is
huge.

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That's a big commitment to say
I'm going to automate this and

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say yes to giving to God first.
We also have three first time

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donors as well.
So if that was you who gave last

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week, thank you so much for
doing that as well.

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Hey, thank you to those of you
who got baptized last week, who

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shared your stories.
Man, last week was such an

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amazing week.
Did you guys enjoy that?

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Yes, so good, so good.
Man.

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Last week, really the theme
truly was transformation.

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If you think about all that
happened last week, man, we had

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stories of of transformation for
those who got baptized, just

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story after story have a how God
redeemed their lives and their

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situations and change them for
eternity.

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Transform their lives, man.
We had stories from people like

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Brett who really went from just
attending and sitting in the

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pews to serving and to leading
for the cause of Christ.

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And I think about Lisa Holmes
story truly of just clinging to

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faith that God will protect for
her and provide for her really

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even in the toughest season.
And so that's why we give here

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is to see more soul saved and
lives transformed for God.

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And so I invite you just to help
us move the mission forward in

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2026 through giving.
If you call real life church

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home, there are a lot of ways
that you can take part in that.

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You can scan that QR.
You can give online, and there's

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also a giving box in the back.
You can drop cash or check in.

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You can do the same in the
giving buckets as they pass here

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in just a few minutes as well.
And if you are in need this

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morning, if you find yourself in
a place of need, whether it's

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food or clothing or shelter,
whatever that looks like for you

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as these buckets pass, please
reach in and grab any loose cash

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that is there really to be a
blessing to you and your family

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this week.
Let's pray.

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God, thank you so much, Father,
for who you are.

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You're such a good, good father
to us God, and I just pray that

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Father, you would I just remind
us even this week as we're

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walking out, just a glimpse of
heaven and what it looks like to

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truly walk with you for eternity
of God, that we would keep our

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eyes focused on the things
above.

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God and Father, I pray just a
blessing over what's given

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today, God, that you, we know
you'll use it just to multiply

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the Kingdom and not just for
now, but for future generations

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as well.
So God, we give you all the

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praise, all the glory today in
Jesus name, Amen.

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Amen.
What a blessed day.

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Amen.
Really interesting.

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Let's leave here with our minds
on heaven like we've been

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talking about all day.
The 19th century theologian

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said.
JC Rowles said, I pity the man

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who never thinks about heaven.
But we can also say it as we

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pity the man that never thinks
about heaven correctly, right?

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Because when we don't think
about heaven correctly, we think

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about it too small or we think
about it not often enough.

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But John in Revelation says he
saw a new heaven and a new earth

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for the 1st heaven and the first
earth had passed away and there

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was no longer any sea.
He saw the holy city, the new

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01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:39,440
Jerusalem, coming out of heaven
from God, prepared as the bride,

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beautifully dressed for her
husband.

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And he heard a loud voice from
the throne saying, Look, God's

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dwelling place is now among the
people, and he will dwell with

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them.
They will be his people, and God

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01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:50,920
himself will be with him and be
their God.

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He will wipe every tear from
their eyes.

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There will be no more death or
mourning or crying or pain, for

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the old order of things has
passed away.

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He who is seated on the throne
said, I am making everything

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01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,080
new.
Then he said this, write this

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01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:05,960
down for these words are
trustworthy and true.

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He said to me, it is done.
I'm the alpha and the Omega, the

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beginning of the end to the
thirsty.

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I will give water without cost
from the spring of the water of

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life.
Those who are victorious will

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inherit all this and I will be
their God and they will be my

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children.
That's exciting, right?

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01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:22,280
That's that's good news to get
excited for.

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We need to make heaven big for
ourselves and this year, but we

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also need to make heaven big for
those around us.

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We need to tell people about
this good news.

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If you need prayer, you need
somebody to talk to.

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01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,080
We'll have a pastor, we'll have
somebody down here to talk to to

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you.
Thank you all so much for coming

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out to the listening to this
great sermon.

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If this is really strong, I will
see you all next Sunday at 9:00

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or 10:45.
Whoever finds Jesus discovers

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01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,000
real life and purpose.
You see you next week.