And welcome back this week.
Man, it feels like we haven't been here in 2 weeks.
Oh wait.
How does we have it?
Well, it is really good to be back.
I'm glad we we all got to make it back this week and
getting revved up for Revelation 21, which
is, whoo, this one's exciting.
I love it.
But how's your week going?
So far, so good so far, so good.
I finally got something settled today, man.
Somehow, someway, last week, somebody
ordered an Apple Watch from the Apple Store on
my account, charged my credit card and it
showed up today at my house.
Wow.
I have not figured out what kind of scam this was.
Or even if it was one, and
I sent it back today.
It went straight back to Apple today for, you know,
I don't need an Apple Watch with GPS and cell phone and all this other stuff.
It's $555
what it ended up being with tax.
I was like, good gracious.
And so I, the best I can tell is that my
old phone number was still associated with my account and somebody might
have got my new phone number and tried to order one and
it linked to mine somehow.
Something got sideways, but they got it back.
They getting it back.
Yeah.
I'm an old analog guy, you know?
Yeah, I, I, uh,
shed the, the Apple Watch
and things like that about, uh, 6 months,
2 year ago, and it's kind of nice when I put
my phone down, I'm actually not able to be
contacted if I turn my phone off and set it down across the room.
And I can still know what time it is by looking at my wrist.
It's really crazy.
It's weird.
Is it just big hand and this little hand?
right there.
And hey, the watch I've got right here,
it even tells me the time, like, I can do a time zone offset on it.
Whoa.
Yeah, it's just, I don't have to have anything special.
out of my league, man.
Oh, how
are you doing tonight, brother Brian?
Doing good.
Yeah, I've been a rainy day.
I've been in Gadsden area today and it's come a pretty good little storm there.
Lightning, wind blowing.
Yeah.
Yeah, we were watching it.
We were watching the radar at work and watching it come down from,
it was blowing in from Nashville up that way and we
were just like, we don't like the storms that come from there.
That's when bad things happen.
We don't like it, but thankfully that dissipated.
We missed some stuff last night because they had said that we
had some hail coming in from Huntsville last night.
Nicole had got a thing on her phone, said
damaging wins and hail and,
uh, but it just rained, you know, it got pretty good rain.
Well, that's good.
That's good.
And we, you know, we needed to rain.
So far, we've had a really light tornado season, haven't we?
Yeah, we have.
I pray that we can just...
Thank you, Jesus.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I think tonight we are ready
to dive in with Revelation 21.
So we finished up, uh, 20, uh, 2 weeks ago,
um, where we, uh, end
with, um, uh,
death in Hades being thrown into the lake of fire.
this, you know, that is the 2nd death.
Um, and that if any anyone's name was not found
written in the book of life.
That person was thrown into the lake of fire, and we were given kind of,
that's a high level overview of something we will see a little later on.
Is that, I can't remember that.
The these last few chapters start running together in my head every
time I get into them.
Um, because it's all, it's all happening.
just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, it's all stuff right there at the end where time
just kind of stops mattering at this point.
And so it gets really hard for me to remember
the exact order, but we start seeing some more details of that process.
as we move forward.
But tonight.
Um, I love, love,
love how uh, 21 kicks off.
That is that is just one of my absolute favorite verses in the book Revelation.
So I'm excited to get into that and we start talking about what's new.
Amen.
Yeah, we're getting getting past all
the all the pain and destruction
and heartache and here we are.
Here we are.
is the end.
This is where everything in the Bible has been leading it.
That's right.
Amen.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Kick it off, Dennis.
All right, you got it.
211.
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth for
the 1st heaven and the 1st earth had passed away.
Also, there was no more C.
Now, this is uh, this is new.
This is not remodeled.
That's right.
This is not redone, like millennium is restored.
This is the Owen had fled away at the Great White Throne.
It's gone.
There's no more.
Yeah.
And yeah, there's several verses that we,
Matthew 24, you know, tells us in verse 35,
heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
2nd Peter 3, 7 through
11, but the heavens and earth, which are now, by
the name, by the same word, are kept in
store, reserved into the fire against the day of judgment, perdition
among godly men.
But beloved, be not ignorant, ignorant
of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord a 1000 years
and 1000 years one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as of
some men count slackness, but is long suffering to us towards not
willing that any should perish, but also come to repentance,
but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,
and that which of the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the element shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also, and the works that are therein,
shall be burned up, seeing then that all things
shall be dissolved.
What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy
conversation and godliness.
That's some pretty tough stuff right there, you know,
like, hey, hey, look, if you're working towards
anything besides, uh, besides uh,
spiritual uh, things that that
we're that we're storing up in heaven, um, everything
else is going to burn up, right?
I mean, you can get rich here.
Money's gonna burn up.
Your house is going to burn up.
Your cars are going to burn up.
It's all going to go away.
Yeah, store up yourselves treasures in heaven.
Amen.
Where moth and rust cannot get to it, right?
Isaiah 6517 for
behold, I created New Heaven and New Earth,
and a former thing shall not be remembered nor come to mind.
Daniel 244,
and then the, and in these days, these things shall,
the God of the heaven set up a kingdom, which shall
never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not
be left to other people, but it shall break into pieces and consume
all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Amen.
And you know, a lot of people think they talk about the end of the world.
You know, and we got at least a
thousand, 7 more years later.
Yeah exactly.
From right now.
From right now, 1007 years.
7 years of tribulation, a 1000 years, the millennium.
Then we don't know how much time's in between, you know, the Great White
Throne judgment next.
But this, this in 21 is the end of the world.
Yes, it is
This is the end.
And when you when you take those other descriptions of it, it
to me, it is abundantly clear.
The old heaven, the old earth, this current universe gets thrown in the lake of fire.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just cast in there.
And it, according to this, ceases to exist.
So everybody talks about the temporal things and how, oh, it's just going to see.
No, the thing that ceases is the universe as it is now.
That actually does cease.
It doesn't, it doesn't go in there and then the people that are in there get to live in it.
No, the universe is gone.
It gets destroyed, but the souls that are put in there are a different story.
They are left suffering.
Again, just the nature of how that works.
I think there's probably going to be something rather fundamental
that God will reveal to us once we get there.
There's a reason for it.
I don't think it's a mistake and I don't think it's him being petty
or doing it purely for
I'm just doing this to drive home the point.
I think there's a fundamental reason in just the nature of the universe and
and yeah, I think it has to do with the fact that the universe is gone.
No more.
It's it's finished.
It's done.
The building blocks have just, it's burned down to nothing.
There's a new one.
and then and then the new one.
And that's the amazing part is that God destroys what he made.
And there's a new one.
He just makes a new one.
And it's not like, it's not like this one.
It's not like nothing at all.
There's no more C.
We're going to say.
That's right.
That's that's pretty wild.
So so you're going to have continuous land
and, you know, and we don't even know if it's going to be round.
We don't do.
We have no idea.
And we got to think too.
That the laws that govern us now, like physics.
Yeah, yeah.
They may not apply.
And we're going maybe a whole set of new set of laws.
And we're going to get here in just a little bit.
We're going to get some shapes and sizes of what we're going to be in.
our permanent dwellings.
The church, the bride of Christ, right?
Have you guys ever read The Last
Battle by C.S. Lewis?
Chronicles of Narnie?
The last book in the Chronicles of Narnie.
And it is, it is the purpose of it was to mirror the Book of Revelation.
That's what it was.
It was, it's showing the last battle, it's showing everyone getting
to go to heaven permanently, and I love his description of it as
they're all going in there, and Aslon's, you know, the lions out
in front of them leading them all in, and he just says, we're just going to keep going in.
And they keep going in thinking, well, this is going to start.
going to start getting close to the middle and it just keeps getting bigger.
And they're like, wait, what's going on here?
And they're seeing it.
We've been running for hours and we don't even feel tired.
It's no big deal.
And it's, and there's more, and there's more, and there's,
and it just gets bigger and bigger, and I love that description because that's,
I mean, for all we know, that's what it's going to be like, because if
it's eternal, and we're eternal, and everything seems, it doesn't have an end.
So I don't know that you're ever going to find the middle of it or the edge of it or the...
Yeah absolutely.
Yeah, you know, see, see kind of represents, in a spiritual sense, separation, too.
We could look at it in that sense.
No more separation from us.
us from God.
Amen.
Verse two.
Yeah.
And and I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband.
So, um,
I really believe that this, this will be, this
new Jerusalem, this holy city, this
will be the permanent dwelling of the church, I think.
This is not Jerusalem here on Earth.
This is connected to heaven.
This is part of it.
I believe it's connected to it.
It's the place that he went to prepare for us.
And if we go by what we've talked about before, about
the Jewish tradition of the
husband going back and adding on
to the father's house, making it bigger, making
something new out of his house, yes, we're
still going to be connected to the father's house, we were connected to heaven,
but this is our room.
This is our dwelling place.
There's a new head too, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
It's connected to the new heaven.
And it's a place he went to prepare for us, I think, in John 14.
It's a place where we will live with Christ forever.
Um, we we look at this picture of the bride and groom.
It's important uh, for us to to follow
this in our own marriage, in our own marriage relationships, right?
And he tells us in Ephesians chapter 5.
Um, I know we've
read this before, but uh, but Ephesians chapter 5, verse
22, why submit yourselves unto your own husbands and the Lord for
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is head of
the church and savior of the body.
Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, let the wise
be to their own husbands and everything.
Husbands love your wives as Christ, also love the church
and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of the water of the word, that
he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spotted wrinkle or any such thing, but that should be holy and without blemish.
So all men to love their wives as their own bodies, he that
loveth his wife, loveeth himself.
For no man either hated his own flesh, but nourisheth
and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the church,
for we are members of his body, of
his flesh and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and
shall be joined unto his wife, and they too shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery.
I speak concerning Christ in the church.
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular, so
love his wife as himself, and the wife say that she reverence her husband.
I mean, Jesus just keeps
laying out this picture of that, right?
And he and preparing a place for us and building
a place for us and bringing us to a place.
And so it's just a wonderful, it's just
a wonderful, beautiful picture here.
He loves this, don't he?
He loves us.
Wow, and that's nobody can answer the question.
No.
Absolutely not.
You know, it's just who he is.
Yeah, it's who he is.
I absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's
a beautiful scene prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
All right.
First three?
Yeah, let's hit.
3 and four?
All right.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will
dwell with them, and they shall be his people.
God himself will be with them and be their God,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
There shall be no more death, nor sorrow nor crying.
There shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away.
love this.
Amen.
This is good.
This this is this is it.
This is it.
Yeah.
This is what we're looking for, right?
This is where we see the results
of the Great White Throne.
There's tears going on
here before verse four.
And this is why I've talked about this a little bit before.
We've witnessed as
a church, the terrible fate of not
only people that we don't know spending
eternity in the lake of fire, but we also
have seen loved ones and friends and
coworkers and even church family,
who were not truly saved, will find
that their eternal fate is going to be the lake of fire that we talked about in chapter 20.
In indirect result of that.
I believe we'll see the savior consoling
his bride here in verse
four, wiping away her tears.
The former things have passed away.
Everything's going to become new.
No sorrow, no pain.
Like it wouldn't be heaven if we remembered all that, right?
But we've come out of that.
And again, we don't know the space of time between 20 and
21, but we know that we've just seen something horrific.
I mean, it's, it's, we're, Jesus is
the judge and he is the one who, who is,
who is judge and jury casting these people into Lake of Fire.
And and we're sitting in there.
Again, I look at it like a courtroom, you know, uh, we're,
we're in the seats back here watching this whole thing and
we're seeing these people come up one by one or however it
may be and and they're casting the
lake of fire because they didn't have Jesus because they didn't know Jesus and
we're going to know these people, some of these people, and it's
going to be like, 0 my gosh, you know, why didn't I say anything?
Why didn't I?
Why didn't I witness to him one more time?
Make one more phone call, make one more visit, you know, all those things.
And, and we're going to take this into
this, this chapter 21
And I think there there is.
There's going to be tears in heaven, right?
There is going to be tears up until this and
he says, I'm going to wipe away your tears and he
said, everything else.
Our minds are gonna be wiped clean.
Like erased.
We're going to be changed.
Yeah, because I mean, you got to think about this.
Anything, anything bad that happened before that point.
We can't take it into
heaven with us because that little bit of sadness is going to be there.
So God's like, okay, here's what we're going to do.
Lord's like, I'm you're going to forget all these things.
You're going to know who's here.
You're going to know who they are.
You may know even your relationship with them in heaven,
but anything bad that happened is all new now.
And those former things, you don't have to worry about those things.
They passed away.
We're going to start from here and we're going to go forward into eternity.
What a beautiful thing.
And two, two, if those things didn't pass away,
I mean, I'm pretty bad at tempting myself.
to blame Satan for everything.
Don't be gone.
Those those those tendencies, those habits, all whatever it is.
Right. stuff's gone.
Well, I was going to say, the temptations are gone, the
knowledge, the
knowledge of sin that we have now must,
just by definition, be gone.
Now, will we still understand what happened?
I don't know.
All I can say for certain is that
we are going to be changed and we
know that we will be like Christ.
I mean, the Bible tells us that.
We don't know exactly what we will be.
We don't know the specifics, but we do know one thing that we're going to be like him.
Now.
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
There will be a certain amount of certain things will have to be completely removed.
Just certain knowledge has to just be gone.
Or else we can't...
I mean, because like you say, how could you how could you not have sorrow if you still had it?
However, I don't know, maybe our emotions don't work the same.
I don't know what this means.
All I have
ever been willing to go on this one personally, and this is just me,
is saying, I just know that he's going to change us.
Well, there's something, and I know that the former things
are passed away.
And now that, to me, is a very important statement, because like
you say, it does mean that at least some things have to go away.
They have to, they have to be removed.
Yeah, and there's there's another thing, correct me if I'm wrong,
but I don't think it's mentioned in Revelation, but the judgment seat of Christ.
And I think that's a cleansing.
Yeah.
In a big way that, that, that once we're,
you know, wood hay and stubbles burned up.
Right, right.
And the good stuff remains.
Right?
Yeah, I think there, yeah, I think you're going to have cleansing.
I think you're going to have, I think you're going to have,
it's going to be a great change there.
a new mindset, you know, right?
for eternity and getting you ready for all.
It's going to be a new understanding like, oh, oh, I see that.
I see that.
I did not see that.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Isn't this stupid awesome though?
And we'll be his people.
That's right.
God himself will be with them.
God.
Be us.
I'm not going to say them, us.
Yeah, right.
We, we just people.
Amen.
Yeah, it's just it's just a beautiful thing.
No more death.
death has died.
He's killed.
Hey, man.
Isn't that cool?
death to death.
Yeah, that's all.
No sorrow, no crying.
I mean, and so many people walk around today, you know, and
you're in this business, brother.
The sorrow, the pain,
the suffering that goes on in his world today.
It's gone.
It's like the 2nd verse and I'll fly away.
It's like a bird from prison bars is flown.
Amen.
Just free.
Amen.
Wonderful.
And verse 5 covers it too, doesn't it?
It continues with this mindset here.
And it says, and he sat up on the throne and
said, behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me, right, for these words are true and faithful.
In other words, you can take this to the bank, right?
Can you imagine?
Now, I know we've already been talking about this, but can you imagine he's
going to make all things new.
How many of you that are listening here
tonight, including us.
wish that you could start over again.
Do it the right way.
Yeah, do things different.
do things better.
I know that I've
made some huge mistakes in my life.
I, I, I have not, I,
all my decisions have not been right.
The things that I've decided to do.
You know, even it's that battle with the flesh.
Sometimes like Paul talks about the things I want to do, I do, and you know,
I don't want to do, I do them.
Um, But I've done so
many things that I wish that I could go back and I could fix them or
I could make a different decision.
Could I do it, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
One day he's going to make everything new.
There's going to be a new beginning.
waiting for those that love Jesus.
There's going to be a new beginning waiting
on the other side, right?
There's a place where
all of our past mistakes are
wiped away.
All our shortcomings are forgiven
and forgotten, and a new knowledge,
and a new outlook on
everything he has created.
I mean, a new mindset, a new
strength, a new ability to love, new taste buds,
new life without troubles, trials, sickness or pain.
I mean, think about it.
think about all the things that are going to be new.
What are some things?
It's just food for thought, but what are
some things that you look forward to being new there?
Man, no regrets.
Yeah.
No regrets.
You know, I have Satan hit me every now and then with
something that happened 30 years ago and just deep regret.
Deep regret.
That'll never happen again.
Amen.
I don't live like that.
It'll just be a new, a new day, every day.
And one day, I guess, is one day for eternity is,
we're going to see that he's our, he's our son and the
moon and everything else we need.
Yeah, absolutely.
Temptations.
They're gone.
no more temptation to overeat.
Praise the Lord.
I don't need to eat.
Praise the Lord.
No, but we'll get...
Yeah, isn't that awesome?
Look at Jesus' new body, man.
He was like, he shows up in a room, said, got anything to eat?
Yeah, yeah.
But you know, he's
like, yeah, but it still tastes good.
Yeah, yeah.
And he's fixing up some fish for breakfast.
And can you imagine how good it's going to taste?
And I mean, like, good gracious,
all the, all the, whatever you can find,
whatever you can think of, how good it is here.
It's going to be.
I think we'll probably even be able to taste colors.
Yeah, something is just so bright and
living alive, you know, it's like, I mean, we're
going to be experiencing things in such a different way.
And when, you know, I always say it.
It's such a difficult thing to put into words.
There's no more time.
Yeah.
So when he says the former things are passed away.
There is no form.
There's no next.
Yeah.
There is no, there's only what is.
And that's one of the things, my honest,
honest thought on this, by the way.
I think John saw all this from his own eyes.
I think he was literally just gone,
here it is, because here's the thing.
It already happened.
If there's no time there.
This has already happened.
We're already exceeded in the heavenly places.
That's, and that, that's what the, I mean, when time
is removed, it's, it's happening right now.
Because Jesus can see us there, right?
It's already there.
It's already happening.
It's already, it's already all this is already done.
And I think all he did was
he just took John and went, here, look at what's going on.
And he just let him see it.
I think he was literally looking out of his own eyes from the
perspective of being there and then he got back to his body and went, oh.
Unless you got to think about this too.
And in verse in chapter 21,
John came to the full realization of
this is about me.
Yes.
I mean, all through here, he's looking, he's seeing these things going on.
There's a battle, you know, there's, there's, there's,
there's people dying, there's people taking the mark of the beast.
There's people who are being martyred, there's people,
you know, I don't see myself down there in any
of this 7 year thing, but there's there's people down there.
And then all of a sudden, you know, he sees
Jesus coming back on a white horse and he's like, wait a minute,
is that me coming back with you?
I mean, is that me?
You know?
Is that that looks like that looks a lot like me?
Is that is that an ancestor of mine?
Is that a guy?
You know, is this a great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild?
And then he gets to this part and it's like, wait a
minute, he's looking around and he's like, this is, I know.
Hey, I know you.
I know there's Matthew.
There's Luke.
There's, there's, there's Moses.
All these people are there and heaven
is just opening up and it's just coming alive and he's
like, wait, wait a minute.
Moses was there, but he's here and I was there and I'm
here and time makes no difference anymore.
Imagine the gear change he sees between 20 and 21.
It's like from down here to straight up, right?
And I was always, I've always wondered too, did he bow down
to himself and chew himself out?
Yeah, at the same time,
I mean, the way he's experiencing all this, it
had to be such a just mind blowing experience.
And here's the thing.
I think it's going to be pretty incredible because I think we're going to see it.
We're going to see the moments when John is looking at it and we're going to be like, huh,
look on his face is kind of different right now from what it was 2 seconds ago.
That's because that's the old John.
That's not the one that's already...
Like, he's looking at it through different eyes.
And I think, and, hey, is he standing there?
And now he's over there and then he was, and then, and he's looking
and he's thinking, yeah, I mean, if he sees himself.
And I know we're I know we're just, you know, we're speculating.
We're just speculating.
But if he sees himself.
he's here and he's questioning everything, right?
He's over here, he's like, wait a minute.
Yeah, like you said, he's got this confused look on his face.
It's like what is that?
What kind of beast is that?
And then over here he is, and clearly he knows what's going on.
He's like, wait a minute, I'm smiling over there.
That looks like me and he knows everything and
I know nothing but just what I'm being revealed here.
I'm just going to put a name.
Ah, shit, I mean, right.
I don't know what none of this means.
I don't know, but goodness, this is good and wait,
here we are.
We're going to get there one day, you know?
And it's all new.
It is. all new.
It is.
I got holy ghost bumps right now, guys.
I'm telling you, I mean, this is the new Garden of E is what this is.
This body's what it could have been back then, except with instead
of 2 people, it's millions.
We're going to be able and I'm going to get ahead of myself because we're
going to be able to experience all of it, right?
I mean, okay.
All right.
Well, and that's the thing.
And the reason I always say it's so hard to talk about it when you get to these.
We don't, we literally do
not have words to
describe this because everything
about our existence is based on time.
Everything.
Yeah.
The speed of light, the movement, where we are from one moment to the next.
All of that is based on time.
We're going to be everywhere and nowhere.
And and and here and there and doing every,
and it's all happening just at the same instant,
and I have absolutely no clue how that works or what it's going to look like.
I just know that I have to be new or I go crazy.
We just know this is this is a book of facts.
This is the promises.
This is this is gonna happen.
Yeah, this will happen.
And it is.
it is true and faithful.
All new.
Yeah.
It's rock and he never changes me.
Exactly. him putting his signature on it in verse
five, and these words are true and faithful.
I'm writing this.
Not, you know, I'm giving this to John.
You can, you might as well say that, that I'm writing this.
It doesn't matter.
John, this is coming straight from me too, John.
Exactly.
And 0 my gosh.
And 0 man, this next verse.
You know, making all things new too, also.
I got hit on that.
He's doing that right now on us.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, every day, every day, every day, every day.
Yeah.
I mean, the new man, the new man that lives inside of us, right?
ignore sometimes.
Right, right.
It's like, it's like, um, I don't know.
I just see this picture of new man, new man, new man.
Oh man, getting pushed down, pushed down, pushed down.
knee man, knee man, old man getting pushed down.
Every now and then we let that old man creep up just a little bit.
New man has to push him down a little bit more, you know?
And I realized it right now.
We're affected by that and it does creep up.
But here, fullness.
I mean, goodness gracious.
You got a slight preview right now.
We got that Roman 7 battle going on.
That's right, you know.
And then he goes to Romans 81.
Yeah, absolutely.
Therefore, down, no condemnation for those who are...
That's right.
Because, you know, free.
In chapter 7, in chapter 7, he there was a question, right?
And I love this too.
You mentioned that.
in chapter 7.
Oh, saved me from this wretched.
Oh, wretched man that I am.
Who showed the deliver me from this body of death?
And then in verse 8, there's there, therefore now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ.
Jesus, who walked not after the flesh.
But after the Spirit of God.
Yes.
In that whole chapter, man, who shall separate us from the love of God.
Nothing.
Nothing, nothing above, nothing around us, nothing below us.
Nothing separates us from the love of God.
Because we're already here.
Because we're here.
We are already seated in heavenly places, right?
Man, we're not trying to over-spiritualize this.
This is the understanding that John God in this.
Like, they, like you said, no time it holds
us back anymore because, man, we are there and we are there forever.
Amen.
Oh my gosh.
Am
Yeah, it's just our brains.
Our brains and these fleshly bodies we've got just haven't caught up to it yet.
And that's the thing.
When you're saved, when you are truly saved.
Key word phrase there, truly saved,
when you make that decision, when you give your heart to God, one
of the reasons you can never be removed, you're already there.
It's already done.
The decision's made.
You are in him.
Exactly.
eternal.
That's right.
And don't take him bad places.
Exactly.
That's right.
Yeah, remember that.
And don't look at bad things with him.
The places that I've drug Jesus to in my life.
Oh, man, the things that I've watched with Jesus right here in my heart.
Yeah, Lord, forgive me.
Goodness.
Yeah, there's therefore now, no God.
Gosh, hip, hip, 6 and seven.
Yeah, 21, 6 and seven.
Section seven.
All right.
Not the 6'7 that the kids are talking about.
Oh no, man.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
And he said to me, it is done.
I'm the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be my son.
Yeah.
Not slave.
No, no son.
Co-heirs.
It'll make your head explode, won't it?
Yeah, to try to eat.
Yeah, and it's done.
what it is done, mean on the cross.
Right.
Paid and full.
It's done.
And that's done.
Well, this is done too.
Yeah, amen.
He wrote this in 95 AD.
It was done back then.
done back then.
Yeah, it was done in the beginning, right?
It was done before anything was ever created.
I mean, I was
done before Adam and Eve ever made the 1st decision to take a bite of that fruit?
There was no plan B.
No.
Plan B.
He identifies the speaker here too, right?
Alpha and Omega.
I mean, that's who it is, just as the 1st chapter of Revelation does.
see it again here.
And here's the thing.
Everyone will be in their spiritual bodies.
So everyone will thirst after God like they've
never thirsted after him before, which is such a contrast from today.
You know, if we look over in,
in, in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 6, in
my, in my blowing this thing up.
Okay, okay.
Matthew, look at me.
Let me switch it over there real quick.
out of me up.
This new Bible thing, man.
I'm used to a certain thing being on a certain side of the page.
I know what you mean, yeah.
But, but,
okay, so, uh, chapter 5 and verse 6 says,
blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness,
for they shall be filled.
We're going to right now, right
now, we don't always hunger and thirst after righteousness, do we?
I mean, we've got this
we've got that old flesh that keeps creeping up and
and and but he tells us that everything and
and I think tonight I feel like tonight as we,
as we go through this and we're so excited right now, everyone
of us sitting here so excited and I can,
we're hungering after it right now.
I mean, when you read about it, you get hungry for it.
It's like, it's like going, it's like here for me.
You know, I go to open up a menu and I say, hmm,
wow, there's, there's a, there's a, there's
a 14 ounce ribeye.
you know, right there.
just reading about it.
makes me hungry, right?
Yeah, well, let's, yeah.
24 whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to...
But you read about it and you start thinking about you.
You talk about it, you start thinking about it.
You know, you start huggering accurate.
I hadn't had anything today, but a
little shake, a little protein shake.
So, you know, I'm kind of getting hungry right now.
But then again, I'm not.
I mean, I'm thinking about Jesus right now and those
that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.
And when we get here, the things that are holding us back,
those bad thoughts, those, those, uh, those things that,
that, that, that, we're going, those things we've talked about
before, you're going down the road and this thought hits you and you're like, where in the world did that come from?
I have to worry about that.
You know, like I'm going to be, my mind's going to be on Christ.
My body's gonna, my body is, is, is for
him and with him, and it belongs to him, and
nothing in me is going to be impure anymore.
So I'm going to continually forever
for 1000000s
and 1000000s of years and then eternity on top of that, I
am going to focus on and hunger after Jesus.
Amen.
Here's another Romans 8, man.
Romans 829 for whom he foreknew, he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his son, that he
might be the firstborn among me.
Yes, yes.
Just like him.
Amen.
Just exactly like...
Think he thinks.
Yeah, what he would be.
God, but we're going to be with God and we're with hunger after God.
What a wonderful and beautiful pitcher.
I want to say something controversial here too.
But this right here is where hope dies.
Yeah.
don't need it anymore.
Yeah, yeah.
It's fulfilled.
Because hope in the Bible is not something like, man, I
hope my tire don't go flat.
I hope this or hope that we just flip it around.
Hoping the Bible is a sure thing.
It has not happened yet.
It's a promise.
We're waiting to see
It's like the song says it ends in sight, right?
Hope will end in sight.
Because they're, it's like, whoa, okay, everything that he said.
I'm not I'm not down there wishing I was up here.
I'm up here knowing that I'm here forever, forever.
Oh my goodness.
We're not waiting, frustrated.
Oh, man, if God just tell me what to do now.
It's like, well, no.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, amen.
At this point, we will be overcomers
because of our faith and the blood of Jesus Christ,
he is the lamb of God, right?
I mean, for whatsoever is born of God.
The 1st John 54, for whatsoever is born of God, overcometh
the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Our faith has ended inside.
Our hope has ended inside.
We're there now.
We're seated in that heavenly place.
And at this point, we will all be sons
of God for the same reason to
glorify the son.
But as many as receive him.
John 112 for as many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name.
That's us.
Amen.
That's who we are.
who we are now, right?
I mean, that's who we are now.
He has already saved us.
We're sons of God.
And with that, with that comes the privilege of inheritance, right?
In Romans eight, right?
Romans 8, 16 through 8.
Love it, chapter.
Gosh, I mean, that's awesome.
The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us.
That's where all this is coming too, right?
Your sons, then heirs.
Yes, yes.
If we
suffer with him that we may be glorified together with him, right?
Hallelujah.
That's awesome.
I don't know why, man, I love it.
I love it.
I don't even know how good it's going to be,
but I know it's going to be good.
And it's an open invitation, man.
He says, he says, I will give the fountain
of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
Amen.
It says again, come.
Come.
and join in this.
The water, the water of life.
Given without cost.
Without requirement other than just
be thirsty for it.
All you got to do is drink.
Well, that brother Brian, that's work.
Yeah.
No, it ain't.
Believing ain't a work.
Amen.
trusting ain't a work.
And by the way, do you notice what he says there?
He says, I will give unto him.
I will do it.
Not, you will go draw it out yourself.
Not you're gonna go.
you're gonna go have to dig in there and get it.
I'll give it to you.
And this is the reason.
This is why 1st John 3 too.
Beloved, now we are sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be.
We don't know it fully yet, but we know,
we know this now.
We have this knowledge and the word of God right now.
Guys.
Listen, I'm telling you, you don't have to wonder about this.
You can stand on his truth.
He was true and faithful.
We shall, we, we don't know yet what we shall be,
but we shall, when he shall appear, we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Amen.
Praise God.
Woo.
Amen.
Praise God.
Amen.
Man.
Praise the Lord.
I'm not going to be like this forever.
Praise the Lord.
I'm not going to have this this carnal mindset forever.
This, this, this mindset of, of, of,
of, that, oh, my goodness.
I wallow in my sins, right?
Listen, even if I don't sin anymore, Satan
wants to bring me back to those sin, he's not going to be
able to do this anymore because the former things have passed away and
now all things have become new.
There's not going to be them over there nipping at my heel saying, Brian, you remember what you did?
Do you remember what you drank?
You remember what you said?
No, that's not going to happen anymore because I no,
no, I don't remember those things anymore because they've all passed away.
I'm a child of God.
I'm a son of God.
I don't know what it's going to look like, but I know it's going to look better what it looks like now.
Amen.
And all this all this stuff is why sometimes it
bothers me when somebody else said, well, I'm just an old sinner.
No, you're not.
Yeah, yeah.
You're a child of the living God and we got to act like...
That's right.
a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, right?
I mean, that's what he tells us.
Gosh, the scripture just comes alive, right?
I mean, that's who we are.
That's who we are.
Stop, stop.
Stop that mindset now and you'll
be able to enjoy being seated in those heavenly places, right?
I mean, you, you can, you can, you can put,
there's going to be times where he's going to push them up in your face and you can,
you can, you can remind him.
You can remind him who you are.
You can remind him that you're more than conquers through Jesus Christ.
You can remind him that the former things are passed away and all things are going to become new.
You can remind him of these things because they're faithful and true.
Amen.
And Paul, Philippians three.
But one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind and
reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal,
for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Amen.
Set your mind on things above, he said.
Get out of this world.
Amen.
And that's what that, yeah, that's that chapter, you just read that.
I mean, it's about a new mindset.
It's about reset, right?
Let's reset this thing because Satan wants you
stuck in your sin and stuck in who you used to be.
And Jesus said, that's not who you are anymore because you've been
born again, right?
You've already had a 2nd chance.
Your 2nd chance is right now and it's going to last
throughout all of eternity.
You have been born again through the spirit of God,
not through flesh and blood, but through the spirit of God.
You're something.
There's something new inside of you.
And here's the thing.
One day he's going to give us a new flesh, right?
To go with that new spirit.
I got the flesh on me now, but I got the new spirit
inside of me and that spirit is willing, but
the flesh is weak.
So what I've got to do is pay attention to the spirit and
stop paying attention to the flesh.
That's right.
That's what he calls today.
Jesus.
Amen.
We have victory.
Can you imagine what an army would fight like?
No, and they've already won the war.
Still fighting battles?
Yes.
That's right, yeah.
Vicious, man.
To know the tech.
I keep being killed.
Yeah, I know the technique.
I know the move.
I know I know what I need to do right here because it's I've
already I've already seen it, right?
I've already seen it and I'm going to just carry it out and live it out now.
That's what it is, right?
We're living out what God has already ordained in
our lives, right?
This is not about predestination.
This is all those that will come to him that I
don't want anybody to perish, but I want all to be saved.
That's what he's telling us here.
And once that happens, once we know him, he said,
now you can live out what my word tells you.
You can live it out.
You can live a Christian life because you have the power to live
a Christian life through the Holy Spirit.
You can turn away from sin because you're not the same person
that you used to be because Jesus lives inside of you and he
is the one who powers everything now, right?
Give control to him.
Give control to the spirit because it is willing to take you away
from the things of this world and seat you in heavenly places.
Amen.
Oh,
man, it just, it just, to seeing the end of this thing,
and that's why some, some, uh, I think it was Alistair Begs that he recommends
people read their bebles backwards.
And I said that the other day, but not word for word backwards, but starting Revelation.
Look at the end.
And then go up to the look at the beginning.
Right, yeah.
They're about to do, isn't it?
Yeah.
That's what we're doing a podcast.
He
says that we are his children if we overcome.
The thing is, we've already overcome.
He's given us he's given us everything we need to overcome
and he's made it available to us and he's already handed
it to us and he's already done it.
What is it?
I think his 1st John says, who is he who overcomes?
But he who believes it.
Jesus is the son of God.
And 0 man, yeah, you tie that directly to the one
he that overcomes shall inherit all things.
Who is he that overcomes?
He that believes in Jesus Christ, that he is the son of God.
And we have other things to overcome, but we do not overcome those
things unless we put our minds and our eyes on Jesus, right?
We're like Peter sinking in the water when he looks away from it.
See it by the renewing of your mind, right?
Right.
That's Romans again.
Yeah, Romans, again, that's what he's telling us.
Transformed.
He's giving us a step by step process, right?
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind.
Right before you said, it'll be a living sacrifice.
That's right.
Yeah, lecture.
Holy and acceptable unto God, right?
Jesus said deny yourself.
You'll find life more abundant.
Yes.
Way, way more punish.
Amen, amen.
He said, I'll give you living water, right?
You can start living not later.
I think that is the mentality of the church today.
The problem with the church today is we have the mentality
that we're going to start living when we die and we're going to start living when we get to heaven.
But he said, I want to give you life and give it to you more abundantly now.
Right now.
Yes, you're going to have things that you're going to face and you're going to have to
kick off and push back.
But he said, I can give you to the ability
to live a life that I've called you to live and
to be a royal priesthood and a chosen generation.
That's right.
What was Jesus' main message, right?
Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.
John the Baptist the same way.
Kingdom is here, but not yet.
that's right.
It's not in us.
It's in us.
Yeah, it's in us.
Amen.
Golly, we just gotta remember this stuff, man.
Yeah, amen.
And we need to remind ourselves every day, and that's why it's so important to pray.
It's so important to stay in your Bible and read.
Yes.
Amen.
And the same the same the same message.
The message has not changed in 2000 years.
In over 2000 years, since the very beginning.
The message is the same.
Yeah.
Amen.
I mean, God showed it to him back then.
Yeah, and the shame of it, man, is that I
don't mean anything against religion in general.
don't go there, but religion obscures a lot of this stuff.
Simple message of the gospel that we are a child of
God, that we need to focus on him and walk with him.
Abide in him, he said in John 15.
We do those simple things.
And don't worry about the rituals.
Don't worry about all this other stuff.
The window dressings of the whole thing is you're
likely to end up a Pharisee.
Yeah.
Yeah, the reason the reason that we get so
caught up in the religion, part of it is
because we don't we don't live out a biblical
definition of religion, right?
Because the biblical definition of religion is pure,
pure and unfiled religion is to help the widows in the orphans, right?
So it's love.
It's like it's reaching out.
It's putting someone before yourself.
And that's what true religion is.
That's what Christianity is.
That's the basis of it.
But we have turned religion into ceremony
and sacramental things.
and yeah, and.
Absolutely.
Oh, well, that was such a beautiful service.
So what?
Well, and you get the reset button hit on your life.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you really come together with God's people?
All of them got the same holy spirit you do.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, what happened?
Were you in one mind and one accord during that service?
Because that's what real, that's a that's a real beautiful service, right?
It is.
And now, and I'm going to say this, and this
is going to be a touch of a controversial statement, considering
what we're about to read in the next verse.
We've turned
religion into magic.
Yeah, yeah.
We have turned Christian, modern
Christianity has been slowly shaped
into being nothing different than
the pagan witchcraft that
the witchcraft that pagans practice.
We say the same things.
Oh, be careful what you say.
It might, it might just happen.
You don't want, don't speak that into, into, into being.
Oh, you got to be careful how you do that.
And, oh, you can't do this.
You can't come church wearing that.
You got to wear the right ceremonial clothes to walk into the, into the temple.
I go back to what Steven said.
You think God is contained to these 4 walls?
He made this whole planet and
you think you're going to hold him inside of a temple.
The problem is, is we think more about a temple made of brick
and mortar than we do.
The temple of our bodies.
Yeah, yeah.
sit and think about meditate on that for a while.
I am your temple, Lord.
I am your temple.
The holy of holies.
He lives right inside, right?
If you think about that for a while, it ought to open your eyes.
He's in us.
He's around us.
He surrounds us.
He moves through us.
He guides us.
He's our guiding light.
He is he is walking with us.
He's holding our hand.
He's shielding us from all of the things that Satan wants to throw
at us forward back.
He is all around us.
And we act like nothing's changed.
And then we get in here and think, well, if I if I say the right words.
If I do the right steps, if I wave my hands just
right, then I'm going to bring God in here and he's
going to do something for me.
Or if I say the right prayer, then this thing's going to happen.
Oh, if I pray to the right saint and hold the right beads, and I hold
the right holy symbol, then this thing's going to happen for me.
All of that, and I am saying this to me very, very serious.
It's all witchcraft.
It's all magic and verse 28 tells us
what happened to what happens to sorcerers and those who practice magic.
It is not good.
It is not nice.
We need to absolutely banish that from
our thoughts as Christians.
What we are called to be is selfless followers
of the son of the living God who died
on the cross for our sins and saved us
from from what from a
destruction.
He saved us from the 2nd death.
We've talked about this.
I know we've talked about this before, but in going along
with what you're saying, I mean, it's like, you
know, if I sing that certain song, because we
had a good service, we connect that song with a
good service, like, right?
We sang whatever number in
the book that week and right after we
sang that, the Holy Spirit broke out and it
was really good, you know, so let's sing it again next week and the
Holy Spirit will show up again.
And that's another thing.
We'll talk about the Holy Spirit showing up.
Showing up.
What do we got here?
I mean, he better be with you.
If he's not in this place.
That's right.
If he didn't show up when you walked in the door, something's wrong.
You'd better check yourself before you wreck yourself, amen.
I mean come on.
I mean, and that's the thing.
And I know that, and the reason I say that's a controversial thing
because I know there are people out there that they get really worked up
thinking about, you know, saying that, oh, well, no, but we got to
do these certain things in order to bring God in.
And I'm like, liturgical stuff.
No, yeah, exactly.
And it's like, either he comes, either he is with you.
He is in you.
And when you step into the room, he's there.
And let me let me throw out another little controversial thing.
He's there before you walk in the room.
You're not calling him in.
You are in him, this whole world,
this whole universe is in him.
Nothing happens.
By the way, including Satan, without him saying,
okay, if he decides that Satan's not going to do something, guess what?
He's not gonna do it.
He is not stronger than God.
If he decides that you're not going to do something.
You're not going to do it.
And he can stop you.
Does he always do that?
No.
Most of the time he gives us the ability to make the
dumb choices for ourselves and suffer the consequences.
And this liturgical thing, you know, I spent a
big chunk of my life in a liturgical church and there
would be people that if we didn't say the
creed the right way, the psalm reading or
the candle went out or it
just wrecked their whole service.
Yeah, yeah.
Come on.
That stuff, that stuff, it has a place.
It can remind us of stuff, but it loses its meaning real quick.
Yeah, absolutely.
It becomes just a mode to try to connect to God to rub that magic lamp.
Yeah, when it becomes your church instead of the presence
of the Lord, presence of the Holy Spirit.
And we do the same thing, right?
I mean, we do the same thing here.
in all of our churches, really.
I mean, you know, like Tyler already said, you got
to try a certain way, you know, keep wear that hat in here.
You know, all these things that we just, man,
we just let those things mess us up, instead of getting
ourselves out of the way, and and and
our, our parasitical mindset,
and and just let Jesus come in here
and fix people and and and make us what
he's called us to be.
What hold each other up?
Yeah, yeah, not tear each other down on them.
We're, we're, it seems like that that we're waiting to pounce.
You know, we're waiting for somebody to do something wrong.
We're waiting for something to somebody to say something wrong.
so that we can correct them so that we can, you know, tear them down.
So we can look like we are better than them.
It is selfishness.
It is the exact opposite of what Christ called us to be.
Yeah.
And, you know, and don't get me wrong.
saying all that, I will also say, yes,
you should have a reverence for the church.
You should treat it, reverently.
If you come in, you should try to, you know, dress nice.
Don't come in wearing, you know, falling
apart shorts and a t-shirt that's falling apart.
But here's the thing.
It's all you got.
I started to say, if that's all you got.
I'll toss you a towel when you come in, brother.
But I mean, here's the thing.
You come in that way, when that's all you've
got, don't look down on somebody for doing that.
But if you are somebody that you have the
stuff and you have the ability and you have things where you don't
have to do that, put a little bit of effort.
Yeah, don't be a distraction, hey, here's a thought.
If you have a little extra.
Give somebody a pair of pants.
I'll offer it to him.
Hey, hey, you know, I got this extra pair that look like they're about your size.
You know what?
That might be the difference between them having a being able to go get that job tomorrow
in addition to coming to church looking a little bit nicer.
I mean, cause but we're called to help these people.
You can't look down on them and you can't treat them and you can't you can't shun them.
And trust me, I know it's hard.
It's really, really hard not to sometimes.
But I mean, that's where it comes to loving people, man.
If we just, I don't know.
I just, I look at things so much, so much different.
And I just, I don't,
I'm not worried about, listen, you know, if you're not,
if you're not seductively coming in here to try to take attention,
bring attention to yourself and away from the service and what's
going on, then, man, whatever, you know, whatever, come in here and worship with me.
I don't care.
Let's, you know, if there's anything that the Holy
Spirit needs to clean up, I'm going to let him clean it up, not me.
You know, look, let's just, let's just worship together.
Let's just love Jesus together.
Let's speak truth together, right?
Let's get sin out and, and, and that'll,
that'll, that'll take care of a lot of the issues and problems that we have, you know.
But let's not sit up here on our high horse judging
everybody and thanking everybody's below us because
they hadn't been in church, all of their lives,
and they don't know, they don't know church talk, words, and
the things that we do.
You ever heard me talk about David Nasser?
I saw him in person years ago and
somewhere I've got a CD of his or maybe a DVD,
where he gave his story.
He moved here during the 70s.
He was, his dad was part of the, um, they lived in Iran and his dad worked for the government.
He was part of the Shaws regime.
And so when they got ousted, they had to leave.
And so they had to they had to lie and say that his mother
had a certain really rare heart condition and they got a doctor.
spent almost every dime they had to pay that doctor
off and get them the tickets.
So that doctor would say, well, they have to go to this place outside the country.
And because there's such a huge chance that she's going to die.
We got to let the whole family go.
And so he talked them into letting them go.
And they come to him America.
He knows nothing about Christianity.
He's raised Muslim.
He's never seen a church a day in his life.
And then they went to church.
He got invited by some kids he went to school with.
I'll
never forget, he said he walked into that church.
And he greeted them exactly the same way he greeted them every day at school.
And those kids would not talk to
him because the greeting was, hey, how the blankety blank, blank, are you?
And he yells it across the room.
Because he thought that's how you talk because
that's what they taught him in school.
Yeah.
Poop in a punch bowl.
Yeah.
I mean, it just it caught everybody off guard.
And and he said the amazing thing was there
was this one kid never talked to him.
Not because he wasn't stuck up.
He just he's shy.
He just didn't talk.
And he was sitting there and none
of his friends would talk to him anymore.
And he's thinking, what do I do?
And that kid looked at him and he goes, hey man, do you have a Bible?
No?
Here, have mine.
Call him and read a little bit.
If you got any questions, give me a call.
So he goes home, he starts reading it.
And he finds out this Jesus guy, he's got some interesting things to say.
And before long, he got saved and then his mom got saved
and his brothers and sisters got saved and his dad was last holed out right up
until his mom actually almost died from the same heart condition that she didn't
have, but suddenly developed, died 3
times in the hospital.
Just heart stopped beating, and they rolled her out the
light one of the last times, and they're thinking, we're probably not going to get her
heart started back, and he said, literally,
his dad just went, Jesus, whatever it takes.
He said, and that's it.
He said from then on, dad was in church every Sunday.
He was in church on Wednesdays.
He said, he's a good Baptist, didn't give like he needed to,
but hey, he went to church.
And I mean, we
we do that.
We go out, we step foot outside
of these doors, and we forget who we are.
And this is supposed to be the opposite where this is, this place
is to equip us to do God's work out there.
Exactly.
It's like soldiers.
It is like soldiers in an army.
You go in, you get equipped, and then you take the equipment out with you.
Yeah, I remember the church I used to go to, had a sign over
the door inside.
As you were leaving, you could see it and said, welcome to the mission field.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh I love it.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Because that is your mission failed, didn't it?
That is your mission.
job or whatever it is you got going on?
There's so much there's so much more in
this that I that I want to cover, but I really don't want to rush through it.
No, I don't either, man.
I think we're going to break our streak on this one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We can we can do verse eight, right?
And cut off there.
Yeah, that seems good.
This is a really rosy verse anyway, right?
Absolutely.
But the cowardly.
Unbelieving, abominable murderers, sexually
immoral, sexually immoral, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in
the lake, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the 2nd death.
That covers
just about everybody that's not a believer, don't it?
And by the way, you know what I said earlier about churches
doing stuff like it's magic.
You better be careful about that.
Yeah.
And I tell you, in this culture, we're living now,
that sexually immoral thing is just rampant.
It is. rampant.
And he's, he's, it's everywhere.
We like to pick on homosexuals, I guess, for
the most part as Christians, but it's a womanizing man.
It is.
It's a it's a woman that goes after me.
It's it's absolutely.
Absolutely. knows no bounds.
Hey, the King James puts it a little bit more succinctly rather than just
calling it sexually immoral.
whmongers.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
If you're out chasing that all the time.
I'm sorry.
You are absolutely living in in a
manner that is against God's.
If you're out looking if you're looking for it online all the time.
It doesn't matter that you're not actively chasing somebody,
that you're actively trying to do that.
If you're online looking at it.
And this is a world of idolatry too.
We're reminded here that those that are in
the lake of fire will never get out.
Yes.
They will never get out.
They will never return.
They will never be a 3rd resurrection.
There will be no 2nd chances,
and this terrible place will be shut off from heaven.
where there will be no sin.
Right.
I mean, this is there's God is not anywhere
around the Lake of Fire, right?
He's not a part of it.
He's not in it.
Once they're thrown in the lake of fire, that place is
sealed off, it's done, it's gone.
They're going to stay for there for eternity and
never to be never to be thought of again.
And it's really the opposite of verses 3 and four, right?
Yeah.
You're not going to have every tear wiped away.
You're going to have sorrow, crying, regret, death, all
these things for eternity because you're not in presence of God.
And even in this world, with as little as we see of it.
God is the presence of he is the goodness.
Any goodness in this world comes from him.
Any love in this world comes from him.
Peace, joy.
You're separated from that stuff for eternity.
Yeah.
You're not having a six pack with your buddies.
No, no, no.
No, no.
It's it's not.
It's not what, uh, I seen a, I seen a post
the other day, something about, you know,
one of those comments like that, you know, that somebody put on there.
It's like, wasn't even anybody that was wanting you know how those threads pop up.
So it's like, 0 my gosh, you know.
Hey, that is, I'm going to tell you something.
You see stuff pop up from threads, just ignore
it because that entire sight is
just trash.
Yeah. about like Reddit.
Yeah. worse.
Yeah.
I'm not even on threads.
Okay, this is just like stuff that...
Oh, no, you have Facebook.
You have Facebook, therefore you're on threads.
That's how that works.
It's literally baked into meta stuff.
Yeah.
So it'll it'll pop up.
It's ridiculous.
And it's horrible because people just, I mean, they put awful
stuff on there.
But yeah, no, I've seen the exact same post you're talking about where people are like, oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I can't, I can't do this in heaven.
I can't do that now.
Well, can I go to the other place?
Well, you're not going to get to do the stuff you're talking about doing there either.
That's your default location, right?
your default.
Yeah, from birth.
I'm going to tell you.
Oh, hey.
Hey, um, he didn't have it right, did he?
I mean, if heaven ain't a lot like Dixie, and you got the
wrong mindset, brother.
Yes.
Heaven's going to be a lot like Jesus.
And if you don't like that, then, yeah.
you're going to spend eternity somewhere else.
Amen.
But
hey, I hate ending on such a downer note.
We're going to pick back up.
We're going to pick back up next week and we're going to talk about, we're
going to talk about this place that he built for us.
We're going to talk about the dimensions of it and what it's
like and who's going to be living there and who's going to get to enjoy it and all those things.
Absolutely.
It's going to be beautiful.
And so yeah, just, and next week we, I mean, we start out.
We're gonna get to meet the bride, the wife of Christ.
And we get to see the what is built for the bride.
I mean, that's really what it is.
It is the marriage house that is built for his pride.
And we get to we get to see it and we get it described to us and, ooh,
boy, it is it is it is nice.
Yeah, we, those 1st
8 chapters, I love those 1st few, and then you got those,
bring it down a little bit there, John.
When we read this and
we go into this and I don't get ahead of this
tonight, but we really get to see and
have an start to have an understanding of the special place
that we have as the bride of Christ with Jesus.
Like, yes, Israel,
the Jewish people are his chosen people.
I understand that.
They've got a special place with him.
The tribulation saints.
They got a special place with him.
But the church age, the
church age, when that, when that point, that's from,
that's from the point where Christ died until he raptures
us out, everybody that was saved during that
time is the bride of Christ, they're part of the church, and
what a beautiful and special place that we have
with Jesus that no one else has, and no one else will
ever, ever, ever experienced.
Millions.
1000000s of people.
Mm.
So Revelation 21, nine,
next week, and I think, hopefully, nothing's gonna happen.
Barring anything happening.
Revelation 219.
Maybe the Lord will come back between now and eight, man.
I'm ready.
And we'll just say, see?
We told you.
We told you so.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
But yeah,
Revelation 219 next week and, uh, oh
boy, I love the...
I love this stuff.
Love it, love it, love it.
looking at the city and looking at how it's made and how it's built and
how beautiful it's going to be.
hope too, right?
This is what this is what we got hanging our hat on.
That is true.
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And, uh, brother Brian.
pray us out tonight.
Father, we love you,
and we love your word, and, uh, God, how,
Lord, how exciting it is to
read about what is your present in our future.
Lord, it's all set
before you and God, we have it all to look forward to.
And Lord, we thank you for God,
the men that you inspired to write your word, that
we know that your words are true and faithful,
and we can trust in those things.
God, it's not hype.
It's not, uh, it's not something that
we dreamed up or, uh, God, something
that we that we came up with on our own, but the holy
Spirit of God has revealed who Jesus is to
us and we get to be a part of that.
We get to know him, know his
love for us, and we get to be his bride.
And Lord, thank you for that.
We're engrafted in to your family.
Thank you for that.
Thank you for a home in heaven.
Thank you for the love that you showed us
that we didn't deserve.
God, I pray for everyone that's listening and those that are not.
I pray God that you would bless them.
Lord, bless those who are following you, continue to show up.
God in mighty ways in their lives, Lord God.
for those that don't know you, I pray that they might come to know you.
Lord, we love you and we thank you and we ask these things in Christ's name.
Amen.