Follow along, this is a very
good hymn. I sing the mighty power of God,
that made the mountains rise, that spread the flowing seas
abroad, and built the lofty skies. I sing the wisdom of my own name,
for a son to rule the land. I see. and filled the earth with joy. He formed the creatures with
his word and then pronounced them good. For now thy wonders are displayed
where I turn If I survey the ground I tread, Or gaze upon
the sky, There's not a plant more cloudy than That makes my
glory glow. ♪ And clouds all rise and tempests
blow ♪ ♪ By order from thy throne ♪ ♪ I'll know that for us life
comes in ♪ ♪ Is ever in thy care ♪ ♪ Tell everywhere that man
may be ♪ ♪ Thou Father present ♪ Okay, back to the first Corinthians. Are you hungry? If you'll just listen a little
bit, you've got to get something out of this. This is going to
be enjoyable as well as comforting, I believe. Many promises of comfort
concerning this eternal life of rest that believers are going
to have. This is for believers. This is
for those who are in Christ. all of those who of God are in
Christ who of God is made unto them wisdom righteousness sanctification
and redemption. You know what that means. If you do then this is for you.
All of this is for you. Image of the heavenly. All right
look down at verse thirty five. Now He's answering here. Someone at Carr who was. Some
unbeliever some false brother. Prepped and who were. Causing
problems saying that there is no resurrection you remember
we've been reading about. So he's answering that's what
he calls for some man somebody in the congregation will say.
concerning the resurrection. Well then, how are the dead raised
up? Verse thirty-five. How are the
dead raised up? With what body do they come? And he calls this skeptic, this
fellow, he calls him a fool. And he says, fool, that which
thou sowest is not quickened or made alive except it die,
must die in order to be changed. And then he gives a very simple
illustration of sowing grain in the ground, how that everything
that is sown dies miraculously. And what a good illustration
this is to us. It's something so simple, something
so basic as a seed that doesn't give any appearance whatsoever
of having any life in it at all. If that can miraculously, in
a matter of days, just come out and then start growing and spread
and bear all manner of fruit, now that's a little seed. That's a minor miracle. It's a great miracle. Only God
can do that. But if something like that, then
you know something as complex as the human soul doesn't just
stay there. Now what a comfort this is, if
something so simple as a seed falling to the ground, wears
forth into something you wouldn't recognize. Look at it, he gives
this simple illustration. This is the way our Lord preached,
wasn't it? Verse thirty-seven and thirty-eight,
that which thou soweth, thou sowest not that body that shall
be. In other words, what it ends up being, that's not what you
put in there, but you put in just a little bare grain. It
may chance of wheat or some other grain. Whatever it may be, whatever
it is, you put it in there and God gives it a body. It produces. It comes forth as it had pleased
him and to every seed, his own body. Remember that, every seed,
his own body. Now, he says there are different
kinds of flesh thirty nine. All flesh is not the same. There's
one kind of flesh of man, another flesh of beast, another of fish,
another of birds, and all of this does away with evolution. What? God in the beginning says he
made everything after its kind. And it's remained that way today.
The reason everything is after its kind. Amazing. Amazing. Well, all places not saying verse
forty and they're also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial. Terrestrial you get the word.
Earth from that. Planet is a terrestrial ball
a celestial is something that's self luminous stars. something
burning as a difference between the terrestrial and the celestial. And the glory, verse forty, of
the celestial is one, it has its own glory, and the glory
of the terrestrial is another. Verse forty-one, there is one
glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another
glory of the star. And it's a one-star difference
from another star in glory. Now, truly, the heavens declare
the glory of God. Psalm 19, 1 says, the heavens
declare the glory of God. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Only a complete and utter fool
would say there's no God. That person must never have looked
up. Must be like a dumb ox, always looking down, never having looked
up. If you want proof that God is, and all we believe is true, you
don't have to look any further than skyward. Just look heavenward. Just go out some night, and look
on a clear night, and just look up. Glorious. It's glorious. Brother
Gabe and Brother Lee. Meyer was telling me about these
night vision goggles that Lee wears when he's flying a helicopter,
and they both warned him. And they tell me, and I can't
wait to try them. I wish he'd bring them with him. He keeps telling me about it.
But he says, when you put these night vision goggles on, when
we are outside on a clear night and look at the stars, they're
innumerable to a star. Especially if you're in a place
where it's dark, no street light, and you look up, it's totally
amazing how many stars there are. It's just glorious. Well,
they say that if you put these night vision goggles on, it's
scary to look through. You don't even see the half of
it. When you put these on, you just
see it. I want to see them passing around. Everybody wants to say it now.
The heavens declare his glory. Well, he says here there is the
glory of the sun, the glory of the moon, the glory of the stars.
And we could spend the rest of our evening talking about these
things. But the glory of the sun, let me just give you Webster's
definition of the sun. Listen to this. And you tell me why God called
his son, the son of righteousness. Webster defines a son as that
star in our solar system around which the earth and other planets
revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, from which they
receive all light and heat. What a type of Christ that is.
Scripture even says of him, through him, and to him are all things. He's called the son of righteousness
that has arisen with healing in his wing. We could, as I said,
I went and looked up several things on the sun, our sun, in
our solar system. The sun, it's glorious. There's a glory of the sun that's
It's simply amazing that it has a temperature. Well, this is
what they said. How does anybody know what the
temperature is? They guesstimated 6 million degrees. Now, we are 93 million miles
away from the sun. I'll tell you how hot it is. We are 93 million miles away
from the sun. If you stay out too long in August,
it'll fry you to a crisp. Ninety-three million miles away. It's hotter than six minutes. They're just guessing. They're just guessing. It is
333,000 times the size of the Earth. The Earth is not that big in
comparison. 333,000 times the size of the
earth. Incomprehensible is what it is.
We can't get near it. I'll tell you what the sun is.
The sun is an unapproachable thing. It's unapproachable. That's
why I say they don't know how hot it is. They can't get near
enough. The sun is a consuming fire. Is it? Is it any wonder our Lord refers
to himself by this title. There's a glory of the sun. There's
a glory of the moon. The moon is glorious. The moon
is a terrestrial body. It does not burn like the sun. The sun is a vast burning ball
of fire. It has been burning for thousands
of years. It's amazing. Why doesn't it burn out? We know. But the moon now does not burn. It's a terrestrial ball like
this planet. Yet, on any night when the moon is
at its fullest, it shines like a bright light, doesn't it? There
have been nights when I've woken up in the middle of the night,
and you can see that it's almost like daylight outside. That's
just reflected from the sun. The moon. It controls the tides
of the ocean. That ball up there in the sky. It's going around this planet.
And the planets going around this one. They're all going around
the sun. And the tides come in. This far. Never? Very far. Day of death, day of death, high
tide, low tide, high tide. It's the moon. That's what the
scriptures say. That's what the scriptures say. It controls the seasons. Psalm
104, 19 says that. That the moon controls the seasons.
It has a glory of its own. The glory of the stars. We've
already thought about it. How many are there? Why don't they run into each
other all the time? Why don't they just hire the Lord and put them in
their course? You tell us the stars. He knows them by name. He put them out there. They really,
the glory is that which our God gave them, the glory of the stars.
So also, he says, like I said, we could go on and on. But verse
42, the resurrection of the dead, that is that great That great
coming day of the Lord, when the dead in Christ arise, some
of you were gazing. But that day when the Lord come
and the dead in Christ rise and the people of God come down from
the sky, all that's going to happen, a pale comparison to
that. That great day. Scripture over
and over again talks about that great and dreadful day. to those out of Christ, glorious
to those in Christ. That great day, that glorious
day, there's a glory of the resurrection of the dead. Now, look at, wait
a minute, verse forty-two, it is sown in corruption. It is
raised in incorruption. It is shown in corruption decaying
flesh everyone who dies that as soon as we die well before
we die we start decaying. We start decaying these bodies
grow up to a certain point and then they start. What age is
that. Thirty five. Maybe forty at the
most starts decaying. Skeletons are collapsed. There
are falling out whatever you can start fact that this body
of literally rotting decay. That's what it's. Rotting matter
but it'll be raised in incorruptible incorruptible eternal. Where's forty three it is found
in dishonor. Diseases and deformities that
are the ravages of sin which mutilate these bodies. Diseases,
deformities, all the ravages of sin in this world mutilate
these bodies until finally they, I'm sure everyone in here has
gone into a nursing home. And it's a horrible sight, isn't
it? What a man has become. You can go down there and look
at that beautiful child in that nursery. Just, there's nothing
more beautiful. Nothing. A newborn baby. The dew of youth on his brow. Glorious, isn't it? It's glorious. Well, what does it become? You go into a nursing home, you'll
see. It's a horrible fact. The horrible fact. It is shown in dishonor until
finally it's so bad and then in fact it put it out of sight
this came play. Because you couldn't stand around.
You got to put it in the dirt. Cover it up. You couldn't bear
it. There's nothing, you know, there's nothing. Have you ever
been around a decaying corpse? There's nothing. You'll never
forget it again. There's nothing more horrible. Sown in dishonor. Raised in glory. Raised in glory. Now, Adam and
Eve, the first man and woman, were glorious. God made in his
image and he said let us make man speaking of man and woman.
Mankind let us make man let us. Who's that talking to us. God
the father son and Holy Spirit in the beginning was a word and
word with God all things were made by him. Let us make man
in our own image well God is spirit but Christ in him well
as the image of the fullness of the God in my well Adam and
Eve when God made Adam and Eve he said. It's good very good
he made everything When God made the animals, he said it's good.
When God made the stars, he said it's good. When God made the
seasons, he said it's good. When God made the plants and
all, he said it's good. When God made man, he said it's very
good. He saved his best for last, the
image of God, the most glorious of his creation. But now, the
new man is going to exceed that. You take the most beautiful man
or woman that you can think of on this earth. You put them beside
Adam or Eve. You put the most beautiful woman
that you know of. She wouldn't be pretty if she
didn't have all that makeup. If you put her beside Eve, she'd
look like an ugly duckling. Or Adam. Well, that date would
pale compared to the new. The new one's going to far exceed. I say he saved the best for last,
no? Well, yeah, he did. He did. The last man. Well, it
is sown, he says here, in weakness. Look at it, verse 43. It's sown
in dishonor, raised in glory. Sown in weakness. You know, disease
and age. Either one or both. Finally,
ravaged so ravages these bodies until our minds are gone and
all our physical strength is gone. Completely gone, sown in
weakness. But, read on, it is raised in
power, verse forty-three, raised in power. How much power? What
ability? I don't think there'll be any
limitation There was none to Christ with. No barriers. For him when he
came back. Now what to walk on water. So in power or raised in power
verse forty four it is sown a natural body let's read down through
verse forty eight it is sown a natural body. is raised a spiritual body what
is there is a natural body that's what you're wearing now and there
is a spiritual body we're going to say a little more about that
in a moment a spiritual body. So it is written verse forty
five in Genesis two the first man Adam was made a living soul
the last Adam a quickening spirit how be it that was not first
which is spiritual with that which is natural. and afterward,
that which is spiritual. That's why our Lord said, you
must be born of water and of spirit. You've got to be born
the first time to be born again. Freedom. And he says, that which
is, verse 46, how be it that was not first
which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward,
that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth,
earthy. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. As is the earthy, such are they
also that are earthy. We are like our father Adam.
And as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. Earth, heaven. Verse forty-nine. And as we have borne the image
of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. This is what we're going to talk
about a little bit in depth. Okay. All right. He says, let's read on. He says, Now brethren,
I say, flesh and blood, remember that, flesh and blood, the life
of the flesh is in our blood, cannot inherit the kingdom of
God. Neither does corruption inherit incorruption. I'm going
to show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed. The Lord, when he returns, some
of us in this room may be here when the Lord returns. Maybe
all of us might come tonight. But we all, those in Christ,
will be changed in a moment. the twinkling of an eye, this
is why I say there won't be one moment's trepidation, or fear,
or dread, or apprehension, or anxiousness, or anxiety, not
a second. You know how when something unknown,
you hear a noise, or you hear something outside, something,
and your heart speeds, there won't be any of that. Young people,
people that are new in their marriage, and new with children,
and on and on, or hope to be, and all that, don't worry about
it. Just live every day, go on, because
when Christ comes, there won't be one second, oh my baby, or
oh my, no, not one moment. Twinkle even an eye, that quick.
At the last trumpet shall sound. It shall. And the dead shall
be raised. That's what he talks about in
1 Thessalonians, that dead in Christ, we won't go before them,
but they'll be raised first. And we shall be changed. This
corruptible must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality. We can't go up there like this.
We've got to shed this like a butterfly, that worm. His flesh and blood cannot inherit. It's got to be changed. It's
got to be made fit to be a partaker with the angel in light. We're going to dwell with him
who dwells in lights which no man can approach, but we're going
to approach him. We're going to be with him who's unapproachable.
We're going to be with him who's a consuming fire, who's countenance
shines as the sun in all its strength. So this flesh can't
get near the sun. It's got to put on flesh like
he had. All right, heavenly creatures
is what we're talking about. We're going to be heavenly creatures,
eternal children of the Most High God. Paul called this in
chapter 8 of Romans, a glorious liberty. Do you remember that
message? A glorious liberty of the children
of God set free. Worms set free, flying in the
face of the sun. This is not A myth. This is not fairy tale. This
is Bible. I'm quoting you Bible here. The
fly in the face of the sun. Fear not thou worm, Jacob. He's
going to mount up on Wednesday. It's called a glorious liberty.
That means set him free. Set him free. No more bounds.
No more bondage. Set free the children of the
Most High God. What will our bodies be like? I don't have your attention,
I'm going to quit. What will our bodies be like? What will we do? What will we
be doing? Will we eat, drink, work, play? Will we know each other? You better be careful how you
answer that. 1 John 3 says this. It does not
yet appear what we shall be. None of us have been there. None
of us have seen. John did. John did. Peter did. James did. They saw
Christ glorified. It does not yet appear. He's
writing to us what we shall be. I have not seen. Here have not
heard. I love what. Paul said when he came back from.
The day. He said, I heard that he didn't
even talk about what he saw John did in the revelation, but Paul
said, I heard that. That I can't even put into words.
It's not lawful. It's not possible to what I heard. John talked about the Lord's
voice as a sound of men. Well I have not seen or hear
heard neither have entered in the hearts of man we can't even
imagine we haven't even begun to imagine what God has prepared
for them. But we're going to try it right
now. I'm going to attempt to describe and describe Call me
a fool. I'm going to attempt to explain
the unexplainable, but not apart from this. I'll tell you what
we see from this book, OK? All right, he does say, it does
not yet appear what we shall be, but he goes on to say, but
we know that when he shall appear, what are we going to be like?
When he shall appear, we shall be like him. There's a key. Like him. Our Lord rose from the grave. And came back. And appeared to
his disciples. That'll tell us what these bodies
are going to be like. Go with me to Luke 24. Luke chapter 24. This will tell
us something, a little bit, of what these bodies will be like.
Will we know each other? Will we know each other? Look
at Luke 24, verses 36 and following, 36 to
39. Now, this is when our Lord appeared
to them. They were meeting together, and
as they thus spake, Jesus himself said, He stood in the midst of them
and said unto them, Peace unto you. And they were horrified,
as you can imagine. This person just appeared right
in the middle of them, and they were terrified. And a private
They were scared to death in our land. They really didn't
know who it was. And look at it. And suppose that
they'd seen a spirit. See that? Remember when he was
walking on the water? They said the same thing. Well,
he said unto them, Why are you troubled? Why do thoughts arise
in your heart? Imaginations. Why are you afraid?
Why are you scared? Behold my hands. He had hands,
two hands, my feet, that it is I myself. The angels, when they, when the
Lord was leaving, they said, this same Jesus, the one you
knew, the same one, albeit glorified, but the same one. He said, it's
I, myself, and you will be yourself. Job said, I shall see him, I
myself, and not another, didn't he? There are a few times in
scripture where the departed saints reappear. There are a few times in scripture
where some of the saints have gone on, made appearances. Samuel, anybody remember that?
He appeared to Saul. Saul, Saul Samuel, he knew it
was Samuel. And Samuel talked to him. Moses and Elijah, the apostles
knew How did they know it was Moses and Elijah? They didn't
just see Moses and Elijah. They knew. They knew one was
Moses. They knew the other one was Elijah,
didn't they? They knew this was the Lord Jesus. Three distinct
persons. We shall be like him in the sense
that we will have a glorified body. When he came back, he had
a glorified body. and without sin. If you say he
shall appear without saying he bore our sins away like that
they shall appear without saying. We're going to be like him with
a glorified body and holy character. It's going to be me. It's going
to be John. And we'll know each other. That's
right. We'll bear his image Man was
created in the image of God, was he not? Who was the express
image? Who was God? Christ. We're never going to be Christ,
but we're going to be like him. We're going to bear his image.
But he is the express image of God. We're all going to look
like family members, but we're going to be the same. We will
know each other. We have those examples to tell
us that as proof. We'll know each other. But yet we'll be in a glorified
body. What will we be like? What will this body be like?
Go back to Luke 24 again. Look at verse 40. Verse 39, he
says, Handle me. Touch me. I don't even see. He said a spirit
hath not flesh and bones. He didn't say blood. He poured
all that out, didn't he? The life of the flesh is in the
blood. That's not what's going to sustain these new bodies.
Blood. It would be spirit. Spirit. we reason we won't need things
to sustain our blood to feed it and so forth but he said a
spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have he had flesh
and bones didn't hands and feet and mouth a man a man and when
he had thus spoken he showed them his hands and his feet I
love the story of Thomas Thomas said I'm not going to believe
you until I And I see the nail print and I touch the nail prints
in his hand and thrust my hand into his side and feel that big
scar where they ripped open his side. I'm not going to believe.
And when the Lord appeared to him, he said, Thomas, put your
hand out here. Touch it. Touch it. He showed him his hands and his
feet. I'll never forget a message my dad preached up at Fairmont
years ago. He showed him his hands. And while they yet believe not
read on verse forty one while they yet believe not for joy
and wonder. And you imagine what they were
wondering he said you have any meat. They still couldn't believe.
He said have you here any meat. And they gave him a piece of
a broiled fish and a honeycomb, and he took it before them, in
front of them, and said, watch me. It's you. He's eating. Were we? Yes, sir, buddy. We sure were. Our Lord said, Mary, suffer the
lame. I'll not eat of this until I
eat it again in the, didn't he say that? In the second coming. Eat it again with me, and glory.
We will eat and drink. What are we going to eat? What
does the scripture say? Isaiah 25 says, fat things. Fat things. And wine on the leaves,
well refined. They'll look at it, but we're
not going to be hungry. Look at Revelation 7, Revelation
7. See, hunger is the body needing
something. Right? The body is depleted of
something, and it craves this. See, we're needy. You know what
I mean? Poor and needy, physically and
spiritually. where they're going to be complete.
But these bodies hunger, they start your bellies get emptiness. They're telling you that literally.
First, your body's drying up, you don't get some water, you're
going to dry up and die. It has to have it. We're not
going to need food, it's a stain in the bottle. We're going to
eat, but then you want more. And look at Revelation 7, verse
13 through 16. It says, one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes,
and which came they? And I said unto them, Sir, thou
knowest. He said to me, These are they which came out of great
tribulations, and have washed their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. That's who's there, that's why
they're there. And therefore are they before the throne of
God, and serve him day and night in his temple. Worship. Worship. If someone doesn't enjoy
what we're doing right now, they won't be there. That's just a
fact. But day and night in his temple.
And he that sitteth on the throne, look at this, shall dwell among
them, and they shall hunger no more. Neither thirst anymore
either shall the sun light on them or any heat for the lamb
which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall
lead them under living fountains of water and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes. And it goes on to say in another
place he's the light there don't need a sun the city has no need
of the sun the lamb is the light. But no more hunger and thirst.
Look at Luke 20 with Luke chapter 20. What about male and female?
Will there be gender? Will there be relationships?
No. No. Look at Luke 20. No male
and female. No former relationships. We're
all equal. We'll all be the same. Luke chapter
20 verses 31 five and thirty six our Lord. Verse thirty four
the children of the world Mary verse thirty four are given in
marriage but they which shall be counted worthy to obtain that
world and the resurrection from the dead need to marry or given
in marriage neither can they die anymore for they are equal
unto the angel and are the children of God and the children of the
resurrection. Now and first Corinthians thirteen
twelve it says there Well, let me let me turn down
one of this quote. It says this, I like this. Now
we see through a glass darkly. I think we're going to know how
many stars there are, Gabe. We couldn't come close now. Then
face to face. Now I know in part. But then. Listen now. Then. shall I know
even as also I know. There's a key word there. That's
a key verse. Then shall I know even as also I know right now. You see, if there were relationships
in glory, we'd be partial like we are now. We can't be. And
when our Lord was on the earth, he is perfect, right? Has perfect
knowledge. He has wisdom. He didn't prefer
his earthly mother and brethren over anybody else. No, he had
perfect knowledge. He knew that that woman was made
by God as a vessel for him to come out of into this earth,
according to purpose. He loved her, but not more than
Mary Magdalene. Huh? No. He said, who is my mother? I don't have a mother in heaven.
I'm not going to rush to greet my mother. My mother's there. I'll be delighted to see her,
but I won't think of her as my mother. I will know that she
was that woman whom I came from, and I'll glorify God. I'll see
the purpose of God in all things unfold before me. But there won't
be any respecter of the person. I'll know, even as I'm also known. Does that make sense? That's
a key version of Scripture. Will we know each other? Of course
we will. Will I know that that woman was
my wife or my... Yeah, in the purpose of God.
But we're all going to be the same. We're not going to be male
or female. The man is ahead of the woman on earth, right? Ah, not in heaven. Not in heaven,
we're all going to be female. We're all going to be the bride,
Christ the groom, right? That's right. We're all going
to be brethren. Brethren. No male or female,
no married, no given and married. We'll know, we'll see the purpose
of God, we'll see how all things work together, and we're just
going to marvel that we were a part of it all. Just marvel. Go to Isaiah 65 with me. as is
sixty five marvel of God's glorious hand and everything where we
work where we play. As a sixty five when God made
man would be good for the first time he. Told me to be. Part of that guy. Didn't He put him in a garden,
he said he'd tend it, hoe it. Now he didn't sweat, there were
no thorns, no thistles, no skeeters, no flies, no grub worms, no nothing. And he was having a ball. See,
work's not work unless it's work. That make sense? You don't call
something work that you enjoy doing. Look at Isaiah 65. Behold, verse 17, I create new
heavens and a new earth. The former shall not be remembered
nor come to mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem
a rejoicing, her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and
joy in my people. It's like I believe Christ came
down and visited with Adam on this earth. I believe He did.
That's who instructed him, that's who was talking to him. And read
on. And the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying, there shall
be no more. Since infinite days, nor an old
man hath not filled his days, for the child shall die a hundred
years old, the centurion a hundred years old shall be cursed. They
shall build houses and inhabit them, they shall plant vineyards,
eat the fruit of them, they shall not build another inhabit, they
shall not plant another eat, As the days of a tree are the
days of my people, mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hand. They shall not labor in vain,
nor bring forth for trouble their seed of the blessed Lord." Is that all symbolic? Yeah, there's
symbolism here, but is it all symbolic? No, I don't think so. Like I said, Adam did all these
things, and he was sinless, wasn't he? And he enjoyed it. Don't you know he did? and the
most beautiful garden in the world for his dwelling place. And God was with him instructing
him. In the midst of a garden, were
there animals there? Were there animals there? Yeah. Yeah. That's what it said. I
didn't write it down. Oh, here it is. Verse 25. The
wolf and the lamb shall feed together. The lion shall eat
straw like the bullet. No more predators. No prey. The dust shall be the serpents'
meat, they shall not hurt and destroy, and all my holy mountains
shall be filled." Oh, sure, there's plenty of symbolism here concerning
the Church of God, but, I mean, this is the new heaven, the new
earth, which our Lord said, you rejoice in what I'm going to
create. But here's the most amazing thing
of all, and I quit. I thought this would really get
your attention. I'm losing it. Lost you from the beginning.
This is the most amazing thing of all, though. If this doesn't
just reach up and grab you and make somebody say amen or shout,
I quit. Most amazing thing of all. Most
enjoyable, glorious thing of all. What's going to make heaven
heaven. Joy unspeakable. Joy which no man has been able
to speak of, which I can't right now begin to speak of. And what
makes true believers think it's going to be so. We're going to
be with the Lord Jesus Christ. We're going to see Him, be with
Him as He is. That's why we're here. That's
where true believers come now, to see Him, to hold His glory. And true believers someday are
going to touch Him, handle Him, see Him, hear His voice, have
Him put His arm around them and put their arm around Him. Walk
with him, talk with him, ask him questions. He is strong. He is glory itself. And we're going to be without
sin. We're going to be without sin. No evil. Everything bad about
this world results in sin. No evil. We're not going to have
any evil in us. No filth in us. Pure. Every thought, pure. No fear. No worry. No sorrow. No pain. No tears. You're not even going to cry
for happiness, Robin. No tears. No sorrow. No loneliness. All of this is
sin. I can't describe it, but we've
never been without it. We don't know what a day, a moment's like
without sin. We can't take a thought without
sin. Someday we're going to be without
sin. This is what believers want to
be. No self. You know, this is what
just destroys us ourselves. We can't love anybody without
selfishness. We can't do anything without
thinking of ourselves. No self. We have selfless love. Love with
a pure heart. Of all our being. We're going
to worship without being self-conscious. We've never sung a song in our
life from the depths of the bottom of our heart. Never! We think
we're going to then. Everybody's going to sing. You don't want to, nobody wants
to say amen, nobody wants to do anything here. Self-conscious,
not dancing. Unbridled joy. You ever had joy
that you just couldn't contain yourself? Don't need to. Unbridled
joy. We don't have a clue about it
really, but this is what it says. Unspeakable. He says joy unspeakable. Have you ever been so enjoying
something, so happy, so taken up with something you couldn't
describe? Joy unspeakable. Full of glory. How long is it going to last? Without end. Days, no night. Days without end. Could you enjoy an eternal sunrise? The most glorious forever? So I don't want this to end.
It won't. It won't. Life without limits. Life more abundant, that's what
the scripture says. Life without limits. Life without sin. Life with Christ. Oh, I didn't
tell, I didn't even come close. I just whetted your appetite. Who's going to be there? Those
that are here. Those that are really interested.
Those who have a desire, a hunger and thirst now. And they'll be
filled. Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness. Who's that? All right. They'll
be filled. I want you to be there with them.
See Him who is. All right, stand with me. Our Lord, forgive our feeble
brains and attention spans and our finite understanding. Lord,
we're glad you know our brain, that we're dust. Our flesh is
so weak and our minds are so feeble. We thank you for what
you have revealed to us, Lord. We can't take it all in, but
we're partially to blame. This world We have too much interest
in it, not enough interest in you. I pray that you might wean
us from it, set our affection on things above where Christ
sits at the right hand, the majesty on high. And knowing that all
these things will pass away, what matter of men and women
we should be, ought to be. Lord, let us ever look forward
to that day. Hasten the day, dear Lord, when
you come and take us to yourself. And yet call out more of your
sheep we pray for your glory we wait and we're waiting. On
you to come. In Christ's name we ask this
time. I don't know. I don't know if you can see it. I don't know if you can see it,
but there's a lot of smoke coming out. So, we're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to go ahead and get
started. We're going to go ahead and get
started. So I'm going to go ahead and
get started. So, we're going to go ahead and
get started. We're going to go ahead and get
started. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm going to show you how to
do it. I'm going to show you how to
do it. Thank you. I don't know. All right. I don't know if you can see it. So we're going to go ahead and
get started. We're going to go ahead and get
started. Thank you.