1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,160 It has indeed been a joy to be with you and of course to be with the calls and sharing 2 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,160 this happy event with them. 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:23,220 And I rejoice that the weather cooperated so that we were able to get here and not be 4 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:25,400 snowed in somewhere. 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:35,400 However, we still have to get home. 6 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,400 Thank you. 7 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:44,080 I wondered what it was you did around here. 8 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:45,920 I enjoy hearing you sing. 9 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,880 There's some churches today that don't know how to sing. 10 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,760 They've lost the fervor of it or the joy of it. 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,880 And I kind of enjoy singing off the wall. 12 00:00:53,880 --> 00:01:02,560 We do that at home in the church that we attend when we're home. 13 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,560 And it's very biblical. 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:11,120 Daniel started it, of course, with the handwriting on the wall. 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:17,200 I think many of the praise choruses express our hearts. 16 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,920 And I'm glad that you have a balance of the praise choruses as well as the great hymns. 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,440 And thank you for singing to us about heaven. 18 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,720 I appreciated that so very much. 19 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:35,640 I want to read you a quotation from C.S. Lewis. 20 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,360 And I don't know if you agree with it or not. 21 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:43,980 I'm not going to start a new denomination over it or divide this church. 22 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:47,600 But here's what C.S. Lewis had to say. 23 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:55,280 If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present 24 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:01,960 world were precisely those who thought most of the next. 25 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,680 It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have 26 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:13,120 become so ineffective in this world. 27 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,400 I agree with it. 28 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,960 See, the problem with us as Christians is we think of heaven as a destination. 29 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,920 Now, it is a destination. 30 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:26,960 If you're not a Christian, that's not your destination. 31 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:33,360 If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you can be sure that the road leads home. 32 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,520 But heaven is much more than a destination. 33 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:43,500 If heaven in your life is only a destination, then you talk about it only when there is 34 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:49,120 a death or a tragedy. 35 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:55,600 Very few Christians ever sit down at Sunday dinner or morning coffee break and talk about 36 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,140 heaven. 37 00:02:58,140 --> 00:03:04,560 We talk about heaven when Aunt Gertrude is dying or when someone's been killed in an 38 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,560 auto accident. 39 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,160 Then we say, wasn't it wonderful that they were saved and they went to heaven? 40 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:17,760 But don't talk to a full, red-blooded, healthy, young Christian boy about heaven because heaven 41 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,560 is the place he's going to go after. 42 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,640 He has all the fun he can have down here. 43 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:29,280 But our Lord didn't have that attitude at all. 44 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,640 Now, here's the whole point of my message in one sentence. 45 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:43,520 To Jesus, heaven was not simply a destination, it was a motivation. 46 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:49,640 And Jesus wants heaven to be a motivation in my life. 47 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:58,320 I'm either motivated by the present world in which I'm living, in which case I'm worldly. 48 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:06,040 Or I'm motivated by the world to which I'm going, in which case my life will be a life 49 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,280 of heaven on earth. 50 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,220 D.L. Moody used to complain about Christians who were so heavenly-minded, they were no 51 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:15,780 earthly good. 52 00:04:15,780 --> 00:04:17,920 And there's some truth to that. 53 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:27,060 You can have such a faraway, ethereal, mystical experience of heaven that you don't do anything 54 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:28,060 down here. 55 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:30,640 That's what we're talking about. 56 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:38,240 Did you know that four times in the Gospel of John, Jesus uses the same three words? 57 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,920 Where I am. 58 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,680 He's talking about heaven. 59 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:51,280 And in each of these instances, heaven is a motivation for something. 60 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:59,960 In other words, if I really know I'm going to heaven, it's got to show up in my life. 61 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:01,560 We witness to unsafe people. 62 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:09,400 We say, look, if you were to die tonight, what reason could you give to God for letting 63 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,640 you into His heaven? 64 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:19,180 And suppose that unsafe person turned to me and said, hold on there, friend, hold on. 65 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:20,720 You say you're going to heaven? 66 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,720 Well, yeah. 67 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,760 Do you live like it? 68 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:29,680 Oh, I never thought of that. 69 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:37,120 And so let's turn to the Gospel of John and find out what kind of people we will be if 70 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,560 we really know we're going to heaven and live like it. 71 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,520 Let's start with John chapter 7. 72 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:54,080 Now one of the key verses for John chapter 7 is verse 43, so there arose a division in 73 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,360 the multitude because of Him. 74 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,600 Remember Jesus said, I am the door and a door is a divider. 75 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,760 And our Lord has always been the cause of division. 76 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,960 He's the cause of division in this world. 77 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,920 There are those who accept Him and those who reject Him. 78 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,280 He's the cause of division in the home. 79 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:17,120 A man's foes shall be those of his own household. 80 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,000 He's even the cause of division in the church. 81 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,320 There are those who are in the church who want to live for Him and there are those who 82 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,960 don't want to live for Him. 83 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:27,960 There was a division. 84 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:28,960 Now what were they saying? 85 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:33,840 Well, verse 7, Jesus said the world cannot hate you, but it hates me. 86 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:37,440 So there are those who hated Jesus. 87 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:43,120 Verse 12, some said He's a good man. 88 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,440 Those who were saying no, on the contrary, He leads the multitude astray. 89 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:47,880 So here's a division. 90 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Today we have this. 91 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:49,880 He's a deceiver. 92 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,480 No, no, He's a good man. 93 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,080 Verse 20, you have a demon. 94 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,440 There are those who believe that about Jesus. 95 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:04,200 Verse 26, the rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they? 96 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,240 There are those who believe that Jesus is the Christ. 97 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:14,000 Verse 31, when the Christ shall come, He will not perform more signs than those which this 98 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,340 man has, will He? 99 00:07:17,340 --> 00:07:21,440 Verse 40, this certainly is the prophet. 100 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,480 Verse 41, this is the Christ. 101 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:28,880 Now, you know what you have here? 102 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,200 A pluralistic society. 103 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,920 Same thing we have today. 104 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:41,040 People say to me, now look, it's fine for you to write books and preach and do all these 105 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,600 things, but you know, my neighbor belongs to a different religion and they are the best 106 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:52,560 people and surely God wouldn't keep them out of heaven. 107 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:59,720 Notice what Jesus says now in verse 33. 108 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:06,600 For a little while longer I am with you and then I go to Him who sent me. 109 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:17,560 You shall seek me and shall not find me and where I am, you cannot come. 110 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,200 You religious people who said, well, He's a good man. 111 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:27,880 There are religions that will say Jesus is a good man, a prophet. 112 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,360 You religious people who say He has a demon. 113 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,840 You people who say He's a deceiver. 114 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,600 I want you to know something. 115 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:44,580 I'm going to heaven, but you're not going with me for the simple reason that you haven't 116 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:45,760 believed in me. 117 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:51,060 Now this continues over to chapter 8, verse 21. 118 00:08:51,060 --> 00:08:57,640 I go away and you shall seek me and shall die in your sin. 119 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Where I am going, you cannot come. 120 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,800 Verse 24. 121 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:09,240 I said therefore to you that you shall die in your sins, for unless you believe that 122 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:15,200 I am He, you shall die in your sin. 123 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,440 What kind of people will we be if we know we're going to heaven? 124 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,400 We'll be a witnessing people. 125 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:25,400 That's what Jesus was. 126 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,480 He said, I'm going to heaven, but you're not going with me. 127 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,080 And you're not going with me for the simple reason you haven't believed in me. 128 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,280 And because you haven't believed in me, you'll die in your sins. 129 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,040 Now you friends should know this. 130 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,040 Your pastors told you, your Sunday school teachers have told you, but you should know 131 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,040 this. 132 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:51,720 There is a movement in the evangelical church in America today that says, we do not think 133 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,800 that Acts 412 is really true. 134 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:03,280 There is none other name given among men under heaven whereby we must be saved. 135 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,960 There are other ways to get to heaven. 136 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,480 You say, now wait a minute, evangelicals wouldn't say that. 137 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,720 Well they'd tell you they were evangelicals. 138 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,360 I have two books in my library, one of which I've read, the other one I'm trying to work 139 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:24,640 up the courage to read, that says it is possible, these are written by Christian theologians, 140 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:32,060 it is possible that God will accept those who have not trusted Jesus if they did the 141 00:10:32,060 --> 00:10:36,160 best they could. 142 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,240 Now hear me. 143 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:47,960 Let's suppose that by some marvelous, marvelous work of providence, some laboratory came up 144 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:54,160 with a cure for AIDS. 145 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,560 The only cure for AIDS. 146 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:03,240 And kept it to themselves. 147 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,320 Didn't announce it, didn't manufacture it, didn't distribute it, didn't give it to anybody, 148 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:09,560 they just, they've got it. 149 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:12,280 They say, we've got the only cure to AIDS. 150 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,480 But you can't have it. 151 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,160 You'd say, well that would be absolute murder. 152 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,280 We do it. 153 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:28,480 Jesus says, unless you believe that I am He, you're going to die in your sins. 154 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:37,760 And it's far worse than dying from AIDS because you'll be dead forever in a lake of fire. 155 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,040 Eternal death, it's terrible. 156 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,520 And so we keep it to ourselves. 157 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,120 Oh, we're going to heaven. 158 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,320 Hallelujah, we're going to go to heaven. 159 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,320 Good. 160 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:56,080 But what about that one, and that one, and that one, and that one that's not going to 161 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:57,080 heaven? 162 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:02,560 Jesus said, where I am, you cannot come. 163 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:07,620 Therefore I'm telling you, you better believe in me. 164 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:13,680 If you really believe you're going to heaven, if we really believe we're going to heaven, 165 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:18,920 we will be a witnessing people. 166 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:20,760 I am writing my autobiography. 167 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:26,080 I'm asking my friends how much they'll pay me not to be in it. 168 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:32,080 I think I'm going to make more money not writing it than writing it. 169 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,080 Somebody asked me one day, do you have any regrets? 170 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,960 I do. 171 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,640 Not many, but I have a few. 172 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:45,360 One of them is I have missed many opportunities to share Jesus. 173 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,920 I'm sorry. 174 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,680 Sometimes in my private prayer time I just have to be quiet before God because I can't 175 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,280 argue, I can't excuse myself. 176 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,840 All I can say is I'm sorry because I could have shared the Lord. 177 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,320 I didn't do it. 178 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,960 But I'm going to heaven. 179 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,960 And I really don't care whether you go with me or not. 180 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,880 Oh no, no. 181 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,960 We'll be a witnessing people. 182 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,560 Now turn to John chapter 12. 183 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,980 Heaven is a motivation, not just a destination. 184 00:13:18,980 --> 00:13:21,640 Verse 20. 185 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,760 Now there were certain Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast. 186 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:32,880 Now here are Gentiles who were adopting Jewish religion because they were fed up with the 187 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,360 Gentile religion. 188 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:40,960 If you've ever studied Greek religion you'll understand they were wise. 189 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:47,040 There was a God, there were more gods than there were people in Athens. 190 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,780 You read those Greek myths, they're foolish. 191 00:13:50,780 --> 00:13:54,560 So here were a group of Greek people who said, look, this is a bunch of garbage. 192 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,600 We're going to go over to Jerusalem and we're going to see what those folks are doing. 193 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,160 So now we have to have an ecumenical thing going on. 194 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:08,840 These therefore came to Philip who was from the state of Galilee and they began to ask 195 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,080 him saying, sir, we wish to see Jesus. 196 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,320 I like that. 197 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:18,400 Here are Gentiles fed up with the Gentile religion so they come to the Jewish religion 198 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:25,960 and the Jewish religion leads them to Jesus. 199 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,760 Philip came and told Andrew. 200 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,160 Andrew and Philip came and they told Jesus. 201 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:39,160 And Jesus answered them saying, the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 202 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:46,160 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it 203 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,560 remains by itself alone. 204 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,320 But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 205 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,360 He who loves his life loses it. 206 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:01,120 And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. 207 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:11,920 If anyone serves me, let him follow me and where I am, there shall my servant also be. 208 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,560 If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. 209 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,840 Now my soul has become troubled. 210 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,360 And what shall I say? 211 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,760 Father save me from this hour. 212 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,080 But for this purpose I came to this hour. 213 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,400 Father, glorify thy name. 214 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,640 There came therefore a voice out of heaven. 215 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:42,240 I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. 216 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,680 If we really believe we're going to heaven, we'll be a witnessing people. 217 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,920 And Jesus said we'll be a sacrificing people. 218 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,840 He's comparing us to seeds. 219 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,900 Now get this. 220 00:15:55,900 --> 00:16:00,800 Why would Jesus compare his people to seeds? 221 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,520 He compares us to many things in the Bible. 222 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:13,280 Peas of a vine, sheep, soldiers, children in the family, stones in the temple. 223 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,880 Now he compares us to seed. 224 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,080 Why are we like seed? 225 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,440 Just look at a Christian near you. 226 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,440 Why is that person like a seed? 227 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:31,500 Well a seed is something very small and very insignificant, but it has enough power in 228 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,920 it to wreck your driveway. 229 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:41,440 A lot of power in a seed. 230 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:48,120 We've made I think 15 or 16 trips to Great Britain and I have yet to see the one place 231 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,400 I'd like to see someday. 232 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,240 It doesn't rankle me, but I'd like to see it. 233 00:16:53,240 --> 00:17:03,680 Here in Great Britain there is a tomb where the person interred in that tomb asked him 234 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:13,400 to put a very heavy slab of stone so that he or she would not be taken in the resurrection. 235 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,560 That's crazy isn't it? 236 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:21,460 There is no such stone made that God cannot whoop. 237 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:26,560 But interestingly enough while they were interring this person a seed got in and a tree began 238 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,920 to grow. 239 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:33,480 And out from this tomb cracking the rock came this tree. 240 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:39,400 God didn't even wait for the resurrection to open the tomb. 241 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,800 Now a seed is insignificant, but it's full of life and power. 242 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,240 Christians are insignificant. 243 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,240 We're a minority. 244 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,520 We're a remnant. 245 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:55,840 The world looks at us like we're a bunch of kooks. 246 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,640 Here we are like seeds. 247 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:06,440 Some seeds you plant them, you water them, the roots go down, the shoots come up and 248 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,440 then the fruit. 249 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:08,440 We're like that. 250 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,440 Jesus says I want you to be like a seed. 251 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,120 Now let's suppose we interview a seed. 252 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:17,680 We're doing 60 minutes or 20-20 or something and tonight we have a seed we're going to 253 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,400 talk to. 254 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,400 Good evening. 255 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,400 Hello. 256 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:29,840 How do you feel about being a seed? 257 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,960 Well it's no fun when they plant you. 258 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:42,360 I mean you go down in that deep dark damp earth and you die. 259 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:43,360 Well how do you feel about that? 260 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:44,360 Oh it doesn't bother me. 261 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:47,360 I live for the future. 262 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:56,400 You plant me and you put me down there and I die, but out from my death comes life and 263 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,520 beauty and fruitfulness. 264 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,520 I live for the future. 265 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,040 Oh. 266 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,800 Jesus says if we really believe we're going to heaven, if we're living for the future, 267 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:14,680 we'll be like the seed and we'll die. 268 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,800 Now our Lord says I've got to make a choice. 269 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,080 Either save my life or give my life. 270 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:28,880 We live in a crazy world. 271 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:29,880 We really do. 272 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:35,840 You know one of the biggest problems today counselors face with people, psychiatrists 273 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:41,320 and counselors and psychologists, you know what it is? 274 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,320 Loneliness. 275 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:49,160 There's a million people in the world and folks are lonely. 276 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:54,320 Because loneliness is not a matter of geography, it's a matter of the heart. 277 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,480 Jesus says you want to be alone? 278 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,480 Protect yourself. 279 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,840 Guard yourself. 280 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,840 Don't let them plant you. 281 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,760 No farmer keeps the seed just to look at it. 282 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,280 The seed is only good if planted. 283 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,200 The seed lives for the future. 284 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,400 You and I are seed. 285 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,160 You want to be lonely? 286 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,160 Protect yourself. 287 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,960 Guard yourself. 288 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,320 Live for yourself. 289 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,920 Our Lord says only two ways to pray. 290 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,040 Father save me. 291 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,840 Father glorify your name. 292 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:30,840 Only two ways to pray. 293 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,960 I don't know what you're going through tonight. 294 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,520 I don't know what you're facing this week, but you've got these two prayers. 295 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,800 If you want to save your life, you'll say Father save me. 296 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,120 I don't want to be buried. 297 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,240 I don't want to die to myself. 298 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,960 I want to live my life. 299 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,560 And Jesus says wait a minute, wait a minute. 300 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:52,560 You're going to heaven. 301 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,840 A seed lives for the future. 302 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:03,120 If we are a people who know we're going to heaven, we will be a sacrificing people. 303 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:08,720 Oh, I'd love to talk to you about that for about 30 minutes with reference to foreign 304 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,720 missions. 305 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:17,960 When I began my ministry 40 years ago, we'd bring a missionary to our church and the missionary 306 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,800 would share the burden. 307 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:24,080 And within six months, that missionary raised enough support to go to the mission field. 308 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,480 You know what it takes today? 309 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,000 Two years. 310 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:34,700 We have more money. 311 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:37,560 We have more resources. 312 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,920 I'm praying every day for a list of people. 313 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,920 I serve on a mission board. 314 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,800 A list of people who are ready to go. 315 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:53,120 Our board just received visas for Nepal. 316 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:54,800 Now that's a miracle. 317 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,080 We have got visas for Nepal. 318 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:11,080 Now we need doctors and nurses to go over there and help to build a hospital. 319 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,320 We're waiting for somebody to say, Lord, glorify your name. 320 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,240 Plant me. 321 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,920 If you believe you're going to heaven, we will be a witnessing people and a sacrificing 322 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:24,920 people. 323 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:35,640 John 14 is a third characteristic of those who are motivated by heaven. 324 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,520 We are a confident people. 325 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,880 Verse 1, chapter 14. 326 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,400 Let not your heart be troubled. 327 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,520 Now our Lord's talking to his disciples. 328 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,720 Do you mean Christians have troubled hearts? 329 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,140 Sure. 330 00:22:54,140 --> 00:23:00,120 You get next to somebody long enough, you'll find out they're worrying about something. 331 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,120 Everybody's got some burden. 332 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,280 Of course, we Christians don't worry. 333 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:10,800 We're concerned. 334 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,760 Why would the disciples' hearts be troubled? 335 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,480 I can give you three good reasons. 336 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,720 One, Jesus was going to leave them. 337 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,040 That broke their hearts. 338 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,600 Two, Peter was going to fail them. 339 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,960 Peter was the strong leader of the disciple group. 340 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:33,160 Jesus had said to Peter, you're going to deny me. 341 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,880 Has God ever failed you? 342 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,040 They thought Jesus was failing them. 343 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,840 Has another Christian ever failed you? 344 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,520 Peter failed them. 345 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,580 Then he said one of you is a traitor. 346 00:23:45,580 --> 00:23:49,440 How would you respond if one of the pastoral staff, Kate, got into the pulpit next Sunday 347 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,100 morning and said, I want to talk to the church family. 348 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:59,480 There is right now in this room a traitor who's been stealing money from the church 349 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:06,600 and working behind our backs to discredit this church and tear it down. 350 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,560 You look around and say, who is it? 351 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,720 So their hearts were troubled. 352 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,120 The Lord was failing them. 353 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,120 Their leader was failing them. 354 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:20,360 And some hidden traitor was failing them. 355 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,040 No wonder they were troubled. 356 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,040 What do you do when you have a troubled heart? 357 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:33,040 Well, sometimes we dial a friend or push a button, a friend, and say, well, I've got 358 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,040 to talk to you. 359 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,040 Pray with me, would you? 360 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,040 My heart really hurts. 361 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,040 That's good. 362 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,040 Nothing wrong with that. 363 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,360 Or maybe you open your Bible. 364 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,440 Our Lord has remedy for that right here. 365 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,720 In my father's house are many dwelling places. 366 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,800 If it were not so, I would have told you. 367 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,480 For I go to prepare a place for you. 368 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,760 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself 369 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:07,040 that where I am, there it is, there you may be also. 370 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,840 You see, when you know you're going to heaven, we're not only a witnessing people. 371 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,400 Hey, come along and go with us. 372 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:20,160 And a sacrificing people, Father, glorify your name, plant me where you want me. 373 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,440 But we are a confident people. 374 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,720 Now hear me. 375 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:30,960 If you know you're going to heaven, no matter what may happen along the way, it doesn't 376 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,280 make that much difference because you know where you're going. 377 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,040 Years ago, James M. Gray, who was president of Moody Bible Institute and wrote a number 378 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:48,080 of fine songs that are now forgotten, wrote a beautiful song called The Road Leads Home. 379 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,200 I'm going to compile a book someday of hymns. 380 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:57,360 I'm going to call it, Hymns You Used to Love. 381 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:02,080 Hymns You Hate, number eight. 382 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,360 And I'm going to put in it James M. Gray's song. 383 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:05,840 The chorus goes like this. 384 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,160 The road leads home, sweet, sweet home. 385 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:16,920 Oh, who could mind the journey when the road leads home? 386 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,760 Isn't that great? 387 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,280 So the next time your heart is troubled and you say, oh God, what are you doing? 388 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,400 He failed me. 389 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,760 She failed me. 390 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,920 You're failing me. 391 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,480 I'm failing myself. 392 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:29,480 Oh God. 393 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:35,440 Please, just stop and say, hold it, hold it. 394 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:42,000 Instead of looking within and being depressed and looking around and being distressed, look 395 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,080 ahead and be blessed. 396 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,080 We're going to heaven. 397 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:51,740 Now, for some of you, earth is so heavenly, you're not too anxious to go. 398 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:56,880 If Jesus came back tonight, it would interrupt your plans. 399 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:04,180 And I feel sorry for you because something else may interrupt your plans. 400 00:27:04,180 --> 00:27:05,760 We're going to heaven. 401 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,920 He's making a home for us. 402 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,680 When our Lord was here on earth, He said, I'm the good shepherd. 403 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,080 But He wasn't a shepherd. 404 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,700 He was a carpenter. 405 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,120 His trade was that of a carpenter. 406 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,880 He made things. 407 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,640 I almost flunked wood shop in high school. 408 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:30,480 If it hadn't been for my two brothers who were greatly appreciated by the instructor, 409 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,080 I would never, I'd still be there. 410 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:41,840 At the end of the semester, when everybody had made bookends and bookcases and lovely 411 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,720 little stools, you know what I had to show for all my work? 412 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,720 A pile of sawdust. 413 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,680 Really? 414 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,740 But my Lord is a carpenter. 415 00:27:51,740 --> 00:27:52,740 He can build things. 416 00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:55,780 And He's up in heaven building a home. 417 00:27:55,780 --> 00:28:01,520 And every time He sees me worry and fret and toss and turn, He says, wait a minute, don't 418 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,320 you believe you're going to heaven? 419 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,320 Well, yeah. 420 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,280 Well, look, I'm preparing a home for you. 421 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,280 That's right. 422 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,280 Now, would you stop worrying? 423 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,200 Let not your heart be troubled. 424 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,800 I'm coming. 425 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,840 I'll take you home. 426 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:24,080 If you know you're going to heaven, we're a confident people. 427 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:30,560 I don't think that my worrying glorifies God a whole lot. 428 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,640 Said the robin to the sparrow, I should really like to know why those anxious human beings 429 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,440 rush around and worry so. 430 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,480 Said the sparrow to the robin, I do think that it must be that they have no heavenly 431 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,120 father such as cares for you and me. 432 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,400 What are you worrying about tonight? 433 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,680 When you know you're going to heaven, it makes us a confident people. 434 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:13,520 Now, John 17 verse 24, my Lord is praying God, the son talking to God, the father. 435 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:22,480 And he prays about you and me, Father, I desire that they also whom thou has given me be with 436 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:35,880 me where I am in order that they may behold my glory which thou has given me for thou 437 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,600 didst love me before the foundation of the world. 438 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:47,600 Did you know that every time a Christian dies and that Christian goes to heaven, it's an 439 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,040 answer to that prayer. 440 00:29:50,040 --> 00:30:00,720 Now, we must look at this theme of glory, verse 22, and the glory which thou has given 441 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,680 me I have given to them. 442 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:04,680 Pause. 443 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:10,080 Did you know that this preacher standing here already has the glory? 444 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,160 We say you don't look like it. 445 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,200 You should see what I'm looking at. 446 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,440 If you're saved tonight, you've got the glory. 447 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,840 The glory dwelt in the tabernacle and then it departed. 448 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,960 Ichabod, the glory is departed. 449 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,040 The glory dwelt in the temple, it departed. 450 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,320 The glory dwelt in Jesus Christ, he departed, went back to heaven. 451 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:43,760 The glory came down in the person of the Holy Spirit and now the glory dwells in us. 452 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:49,120 And that glory is the down payment, the assurance, the ticket that we're going to be in heaven. 453 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:55,440 Now, why did he give us this glory? 454 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:02,440 And the glory which thou has given me I have given to them that they may be one, just as 455 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:03,840 we are one. 456 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:11,600 Oh, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are one. 457 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:21,120 Spiritual persons yet one, not a mechanical uniformity, not a mechanical oneness, but 458 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,360 a spiritual unity. 459 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,840 Our Lord is not saying here, Father, make them one great big denomination. 460 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,440 No, no. 461 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,720 We're all different. 462 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,640 Some people like to go to a church where it's more sedate, more formal. 463 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:47,320 They like liturgy, well every church has liturgy, either good or bad, but they like ceremony. 464 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,200 That's fine. 465 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:57,640 We attended a service at St. Paul's Cathedral a few Sunday afternoons ago, very stately, 466 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,960 different. 467 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,880 Other people like to hang from the chandeliers. 468 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,080 I mean they're happy in the Lord. 469 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:14,880 I've been in services in churches in Africa where I tell you it was something. 470 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,520 Look nobody has an excuse for staying home from church. 471 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,800 There's one you can fit into. 472 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,400 All our Lord is saying here is look, all of you have the glory and all of you are going 473 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,840 to see the glory. 474 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,020 Now that glory makes you one. 475 00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:33,560 If we believe we're going to heaven we will be a witnessing people and a sacrificing people 476 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:40,360 and a confident people and a united people. 477 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,600 The curse of the church today is division. 478 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,680 Now I don't mean denominational division. 479 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,720 I really think that if we sat down with the leaders of all of the evangelical denominations 480 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,060 we'd find we agree on the essentials. 481 00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:03,920 We disagree on minor things. 482 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:12,600 Wasn't it St. Augustine who said in essentials, unity, in non-essentials, liberty, in all 483 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:13,760 things charity. 484 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,600 I like that. 485 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,120 What our Lord is saying here is this. 486 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,520 Here is a Baptist brother. 487 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:23,520 He's saved. 488 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:24,520 He's going to heaven. 489 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,480 Here is an assembly of God brother. 490 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,160 He's going to heaven. 491 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,720 Here is a Presbyterian brother. 492 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,360 He's going to heaven. 493 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,080 Now if they're all going to be in heaven together and walk the golden streets together and see 494 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,920 the glory together, why can't they get along together? 495 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:52,920 Doesn't mean we have to agree on everything. 496 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:59,520 When you read John 17 you discover that all Christians share the same life. 497 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,240 And this is life eternal says Jesus. 498 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:07,120 That they might know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 499 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,480 You gave me the authority to give them eternal life. 500 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,040 So we share the same life. 501 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,780 He said I've given them your word. 502 00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:15,320 We share the same word. 503 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,040 I've given them your glory. 504 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,720 We share the same glory. 505 00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:20,360 I want you to take them to heaven. 506 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:26,080 We share the same home. 507 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,920 Early in my ministry when I'd meet a Christian from a different group my first reaction was 508 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,600 where do we disagree? 509 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,280 Then I grew up. 510 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,480 Now when I meet somebody my question is where do we agree? 511 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,000 Now we've got to be careful here. 512 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,620 We've got to be careful here. 513 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:45,520 There are deceivers in the world. 514 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,520 I know that. 515 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:47,520 I know that. 516 00:34:47,520 --> 00:35:01,920 But the next time a fellow Christian bothers you, upsets you, you don't quite agree with 517 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,920 the way they do things. 518 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,920 Just remember you're going to be in heaven together. 519 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,920 You're going to be in heaven together. 520 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,800 Oh yes you say but I'll have a new body then and I won't be the cantankerous old critic 521 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,320 I am now. 522 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:22,240 Why wait? 523 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:31,160 You've got the glory and we're heading for glory and Jesus says where I am you're going 524 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,160 to be in heaven. 525 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,760 Oh it's going to be great. 526 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,120 I've been a student of church history for many years. 527 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,240 I've written a number of books on the great preachers and missionaries of the past. 528 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,400 Oh what a bunch of people. 529 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,600 Ever read the life of Amy Carmichael? 530 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,160 Got to read it. 531 00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:01,240 Oh boy she got her way. 532 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:06,320 Spurgeon, Campbell Morgan. 533 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:13,040 Campbell Morgan died on my 16th birthday. 534 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:18,880 And a friend of his told me that he smoked eight cigars a day for 40 years. 535 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,720 You mean he's going to go to heaven? 536 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:22,720 Yeah. 537 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,440 A fellow said to D.L. Moody, if I smoke will I go to hell? 538 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:36,000 Moody said no but you'll smell like you've already been there. 539 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,680 You see Christians in different parts of the world have different practices and different 540 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,680 ways of doing things. 541 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,600 When we get to heaven we're going to meet Campbell Morgan and Charles Spurgeon. 542 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,360 John Wesley is going to be there. 543 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,600 I read John Wesley. 544 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,600 I don't totally agree with him but oh I thank God for his ministry. 545 00:36:54,600 --> 00:37:00,120 He's going to be there. 546 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,560 And when we believe we're really going to heaven we become a united people. 547 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,400 And instead of going around with a revolver in our pockets we just reach out our arms 548 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,880 and say hey brother, sister, God bless you. 549 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,760 I don't totally agree with what you're doing but God bless you. 550 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,920 God blesses people I disagree with. 551 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:25,320 I don't know how he can but he does. 552 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:31,040 So tomorrow morning when I wake up first thing I've got to say to myself is hey where's 553 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,040 me today? 554 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,640 You may go to heaven. 555 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,840 You may go to heaven. 556 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:38,840 Now live like it. 557 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,840 You're going to take anybody with you? 558 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,200 Be a witnessing person. 559 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,880 You're going to be selfish today and have your own way? 560 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,720 No, be a sacrificing person like a seed planted. 561 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:54,880 You're going to worry today? 562 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:55,880 No, no. 563 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,880 You're going to heaven. 564 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:57,880 Be confident. 565 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,920 Hey, you're going to heaven. 566 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,920 Reach out your arms and love all of God's people. 567 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,200 Sometimes you're going to be in heaven with them. 568 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,360 Better just get to know them now. 569 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,560 We're going to go to heaven folks by the grace of God. 570 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,720 We don't deserve it but we're going to glory. 571 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:23,480 Now let's live like it and maybe if we lived like it the world would sit up and take notice 572 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:32,520 and say hey we kind of like to go along with you and we can tell them about Jesus. 573 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,880 So Father help us to be heavenly minded. 574 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:42,200 Help us like Abraham to look for that city whose builder and maker is God. 575 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:49,800 Help us like Jesus who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross. 576 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,240 Help us to be like Paul who loved his appearing. 577 00:38:54,240 --> 00:39:00,240 Help us to be like Stephen who looked up and saw heaven and Jesus and the glory of God. 578 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,720 Oh help us to be focused on heaven Father. 579 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:10,920 May heaven motivate us. 580 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,480 I pray for anybody here who's not going to heaven that right now they'll trust Jesus 581 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:21,040 and be born into the family for Jesus sake. 582 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:34,560 Amen.