The Glory That Awaits Us

Thank you, Jeanette. Well done. Now, good and faithful servant. First, Peter, go there. Let's look again at a few of these verses that we did not get to dwell on very much. The glory that shall follow. Let's read verses seven through 11 again with me. Speaking to God's elect, those redeemed by Christ, kept by His power, The trial of your faith, verse six, verse six. You greatly rejoice in this salvation, though now for a season, if need be, you're in heaviness through manifold or many temptations or trials, that the trial of your faith, being more precious than of gold it perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found under praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen, ye love, in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your soul, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what matter of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it or he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. Glory, glory, glory. Hallelujah. Glory is both a person, a place, and thing, or things of God. He's called the Lord of glory. He's called the King of glory, Psalm 24. Heaven is called glory.

It says in Colossians 3, let me read that to you real quickly, it's so good. Colossians 3. Verse four says this. It said, Christ is our life.

When he shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory. In glory, in heaven, a new earth. It's a place. He's able, Jude said, to present you faultless before the presence or in the presence of his glory. Glory is a thing or things, God's creation.

The heavens declare his glory. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day utter his speech, God's glory. Salvation is his greatest glory, his redemptive glory. The gospel is called the glorious gospel. The things of God are Glory, glorious things, his glorious kingdom. His church is glorious. Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of God. So glory is both a person, a place, and thing, okay? And these three are found in one, in Christ, all right? Glory. We're gonna talk tonight about eternal glory. Eternal glory.

Who will be there? Briefly, who will not be there? What will not be there? It's wonderful to think of what will be there or who will be there as much as it is what will not be there. That's gonna give you some comfort. What will it be like? What will it be like? What will we be doing?

Okay, now we see through a glass dimly. Look at 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2. We see through a glass dimly. This scripture is called a glass, isn't it? A mirror, a glass, a magnifying glass as it were. And the only way we can see anything is in the light of God's word in it. We see through a glass dimly. We know in part, Paul said, 1 Corinthians 13. We preach in part. But someday we're gonna know as we've been known. But until then, we just have a little glimpse of glory, a little bit of knowledge of glory.

And What we're going to see tonight and look at is not speculation. I'm not going to speculate. One time I used the term sanctified imagination. I'm not going to do that, but it's not going to be sentiment or superstition, but God's word. We'll see what God's word says. about eternal glory, okay? 1 Corinthians 2, verse nine. As it is written, and this is Isaiah 64, I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God had prepared for who?

Them that love him. Why do they love him? because he first loved them, okay? But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. Isn't that what it says? He's talking to his people, he's writing to his church that God hath revealed them unto us. The spirit searches all things, the deep thing, and he's revealed these things unto us by his spirit.

Verse 13, which things we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but the Holy Ghost teaches. Spiritual things compared with spiritual things. The natural man doesn't receive these things. These things are foolishness. So we know some things from Scripture. I'm gonna try to speak on eternal glory, and I've never been there. I haven't seen it. I've seen very dimly. All I see is what's in the Scripture. But as said, I'm not gonna speculate at all.

All right, who will be in glory? Well, the Lord of glory will be there. That's what makes it. Glory. We just sang that song. Did you sing that with the understanding? That will be glory for me. When by his grace I shall look on his face. That will be glory. Be glory for me.

Some of you had wonderful husbands. Some of you still do, don't you? Well, and you lost your husband. You look forward to seeing him again, don't you? If he knows Christ, you will. But some of you maybe never had a husband. All of us are the bride of Christ. If Christ is in you, you're in Christ. You're the bride of Christ. You look forward to seeing Joe again, don't you Nancy? Sure you do. Sure you do. Thy maker is your husband. That's Isaiah 54. Oh my. That will be glory. That'll be glory. The Lord of glory will be there. And I had so many scriptures. Let me just... People, that little outline I sent you, it took a long time, but there's too many scriptures. Sent it too late. You didn't have time to look them up. Let me just read some for you, okay?

In Revelation 4, it says, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven. The voice I heard was a trumpet talking with me, come up hither, I'll show you things which must be hereafter. So I was in the spirit, behold, a throne was set in heaven and somebody sat on that throne. And he that sat on the throne to look upon And he goes on to describe him that sat on the throne. And he goes on and on in the revelation. He says, I looked and behold a lamb.

As it had been slain from the throne and on and on to go, who will be there? The Lord of glory will be there. Who will be there in our text. First Peter one, the elect will be there. First Peter 1 verse 2 elects according to the four knowledge of God. That's who he's writing to. And he says, you're going to receive the end of your faith, the salvation of your soul, eternal glory, the glory that shall follow. The elect will be there. God's chosen, listen to Revelation 17 verse 14.

It says, the Lord of lords and king of kings is there and they that are with him are called chosen and faithful. They wouldn't be there if he hadn't chosen them. If he hadn't elected them, they wouldn't be there. They sure wouldn't choose him, but God chose him. They're called by the gospel. and they're faithful, they're full of faith, and they remain faithful to the end. Who will be there?

The redeemed. Look at verse three in our text. Verse four. To an inheritant, verse two. It's verse two. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of spirit and obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

Who is there? Those whom God has chosen, Brethren, you know these things, but it's glory. You're chosen, you're elect, you're redeemed by blood. Verse 19, you know, verse 18, you're not redeemed with corruptible things, by anything you do or anything you, no, no, no. But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish. And he's the one we're first going to see, a lamb as it had been his lamb.

And we're going to be singing unto him. The redeemed will be there. You gotta be bought with a price. You gotta be atoned for. Those born of God, look in our text, verse four. That's who's gonna be there. Verse three, man, I wrote this down wrong. Verse three, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us, born of God. That's John 1, 12 and 13 in it. Not a silly decision man makes. And we gave that illustration of being born the first time.

You didn't have anything to do with that. How much more? See, it's all God's glory. It's all God's work. That's what heaven's about. It's His glory. And all of those that are there know that. They know they're there because of Him and Him alone. He gets all the glory. He's not going to share it.

Those born of God, of his own will, James 1.18 says, hath he begotten us, that we might be a sort of a first creature, born creature. Born of God, called by the gospel.

I read to you Revelation 17.14. Those are called, chosen, and faithful. Listen to 2 Thessalonians 2. Listen to this. You know these scriptures, most of you.

We're bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved Lord. No true preacher thanks people for coming to the house of God. We thank people for doing this and doing that and serving well and all that. We do that, but we don't thank people. For coming to God's house, we thank God for bringing us, for calling us, for choosing us.

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee, or we wouldn't come. It's his glory. The fact that you're sitting here and doing this, nodding your head, and not mad as a hornet, that's the grace of God. That's the election of God. Second, we're bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto or by which he called you by our gospel. That's how he calls people in his kingdom. And it's not an invite. It's not an offer. It's a divine command.

Come, and you come. Believe, and you believe. See, and you see. Hear, and you hear. Live, and you live. It's His power, and it's His glory. Now the last line of that says this, John. He called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. You think this, some of you obviously think this is already glorious. You know, I've always read this verse wrong. Look at our text, 1 Peter 1. Look at it. Look at verse 8. I've read this wrong, applied this wrong.

Whom having not seen ye love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet believe him, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. I've always applied that to future tense. that there's gonna be joy unspeakable and full of glory then. Well, it will be. But that's talking about now. Isn't it? You read it with me, didn't you? Now. Doesn't the gospel, not always, but sometimes, if the Lord really blesses you, it's so glorious, you can't even speak about it.

You don't know what to say. Brother Mac, when the Lord blessed him, he'd come back. That's what he'd do every time. He was a man of few words. Boy, do we need more men like that. But anyway, he'd come back to the back, and he'd be so blessed. He'd just, he'd just, he'd just, that's all he'd do. That's all he'd do. And he'd walk out. Boy, that blessed me. You remember that? Unspeakable, full of glory, joy unspeakable. And I can't rightly tell you how glorious and what joy we're gonna have then if you enjoy this now.

Wait till you hear a real preacher. This is for the call. This is those who are going to be there called those who are going to be there believing they believe. Peter writes about faith. You're kept verse five by the power of God through faith. Where'd you get this faith? By grace or you say through faith, not yourself. Where'd it come from? It's a gift of God. According to the working of his mighty power. Look at it down in verse 21, who by him do believe in God. You see that? It is not man's. I'm not just trying to bad mouth preachers and all that.

We preach two different gods, two different salvations. One saves, it's salvation of the Lord, he does it all. And the other one is damnation. Because if your salvation is based on something you decided and something you did and you accepting him and you were letting him in your heart and making him your Lord, you're still lost. But that's not what this book teaches. Salvation's of the Lord.

Brother, that's Jonah 2.9, isn't it? Isn't it, Mary? You memorized that verse. You know what's after that?

That sentence, salvation of the Lord, Jonah 2.9, you know what's after that?

A period. All right. Those that believe. Second Peter one, one says to those who have obtained like precious faiths, precious gifts, not act of the human will. It's the act of the will of God, act of the spirit of God for the glory of God. Yes, it is. I believe I really do. And there was a time I did not. Oh, I believe these things in my head. But then I went my way and I've had enough of that. Thank God he didn't have enough of me.

Like away from. Well, it's for believing. It's for the tried and those going through tribulation. That's who's going to be there. Look at verse six. You greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be. You're in heaviness, heavy trials, different trials, all sorts of trials. And as we have noted before, if it be, whatever it be, if it be, it need be or it wouldn't be. Right? Who decided it need be? The Lord did. He sent it because faith will be tried. Why?

Look at verse seven, that the trial of your faith, more precious than gold, though it be tried with fire is going to be found under praise and honor and glory. John asked the angel in Revelation, I don't think I wrote this down. Oh, Revelation 7, John asked the angel, saw these people, nations, kindreds, tongues, stood before the throne, before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and palms in their hands, crying with a loud voice, you know what they first said?

Salvation to our God. When John asked, sir, who are these? And he said, these are they which came out of great tribulation. Trials. God sends trials to try faith. Faith is, you don't need faith when everything's going well, do you? Uh-uh. Faith is to believe God in in the midst of troubles and difficulties and heartaches and sufferings, death, destruction, calamities, disasters.

And that's when, like Job, you say, the Lord did this. The world says, oh, God didn't have anything to do with that. God didn't want that to happen. Then get you another God. But God's people glorify him, good or bad, good or evil. They say, the Lord did this. And we don't have to understand it. We bow to it and believe it and bless his name and praise him for it. And when it's all over, he's going to show us, this is why I did that. Like brother Scott said, if you knew what God knows, you'd order your life exactly like he did it. You wouldn't change a thing. All right. The triad, those going through tribulation.

Those who will be there are those who love the Lord. For whom he did all things work together for good to them that love God, who the call according to his purpose. We already said they only love him. We only love him because he first loved us. And it says in verse eight, whom having not seen you love. You know, most of you, I believe, love the Lord Jesus Christ. You keep coming here. All we do here is preach Christ, and you keep coming. There's no entertainment. There's nothing for the flesh. There's nothing to appeal to the flesh, is there? I sure don't.

But so we preach Christ. And whoever loves Christ, they'll come. Whoever is the bride of Christ, they want to come hear about their husband. They love him. They rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Isn't the gospel glorious? Isn't our Lord glorious? You know, once you ever see God's glory and Christ's glory, the glorious gospel, you won't see any glory in anything in man or anything else or anyone else. You won't admire, you won't, I can't think of one leader on the face of this earth that I have any respect for. Can you? I can't. of our King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Isn't he glorious? Isn't he wonderful? Who's gonna be there?

Those who are kept by the power of God. Verse five, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed. I can't wait. Well, I'm gonna have to. Ready to be revealed. Scriptures talks about the, that's Romans 8, the glorious manifestation of the children of God. All creation groans and God's people do too, waiting. Job said, all my days I'll wait till my change comes. I can't wait. I'm gonna have to. Those are kept and those are keep keeping, or that is keep coming, keep calling, keep looking, keep walking. Keep worshiping, keep on. If you keep on, it's because you kept you.

That's what Peter, you know, a lot of people quit walking with Christ. A lot of disciples back then. Nobody spoke like he did. Nobody spoke with more love and compassion, more authority, more power, no wisdom or glory than the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet people hated him. And well, they heard him for a while and they said, this is hard, I can't take it anymore.

The Lord of Jesus Christ. So that comforts me when people leave me and leave this church. I think, well, they left Christ and I'm far inferior to him, man oh man. But the Lord said to his other, his disciples said, will you also go away? And Simon Peter answered on behalf of all of them. Like, that's unthinkable. He said, to whom? To whom shall we go?

You've got words of life. And our Lord said this, have not I chosen you? That's why you won't go away. That's why you keep coming. You know what? He's going to get the glory for keeping you, for keeping you coming. Because like the good shepherd he is, even if you wander off, he'll come get you. He'll call you by his gospel. Isn't he good? It's glorious. Okay. Briefly, and we're having a good time and I don't want to mess it up, but who will not be there? Look at Revelation 20 with me. Revelation 20. Who will not be there? What will not be there? Revelation 20, verse seven, or verse 12, I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.

The books were open. Another book was open, the book of life. The dead were judged out of those things which are written in the books of life. Down in verse, 15 whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. When was this book written? Before the foundation of the world It's called the lamb the book of the lamb slain before the foundation of the lambs book of life That's what it said written before the foundation of the world three or four times. Is that right? Those not written in the book. Look at chapter 21.

It says in verse one, I saw heaven, new heaven, new earth, first heaven, first earth were passed away, no more sea. Not gonna be any sea there. What's not gonna be there? No sea. Down in verse eight, the fearful and unbelieving. We're not gonna be there.

The fearful, who's that? You know that people fear everything but God. They do. David even said that, put them in fear, oh Lord. And another scripture says, then were they in fear who knew no fear. If you fear the Lord, you are so blessed. Because most people don't. There's no fear of God for them. So this is, those are not gonna be there are those who fear everything but God.

Unbelieving, abominable, idolaters, murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters, all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire which burneth, which burneth fire and brimstone. That's the second death. That's who's not gonna be there. What's not gonna be there?

Look at verse, verse, Three, I heard a great voice out of heaven say, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell with them. They shall be his people. God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There are no tears there. Read on. There shall be no more death, no more death.

Betty called me this evening, tell me about Richard. And every time she calls, I thought, oh no. Every time. He's been a sickly man for years. And others, we've got people in their 80s. I'm waiting on calls. And it's going to start happening. Got to. Huh? Stephen's going to call me. Mama's gone. It's got to happen unless the Lord comes. I don't like it. For myself and for her. We'll rejoice for her, but it'll make us sad, won't it?

I don't like getting those calls. I'm tired of burying people. Aren't you? No more death. No more death. No more funerals. One big marriage supper of the Lamb. No crying. Verse 4. No crying. No sorrow. Neither shall there be no more pain. Different kinds of pain. Mental pain. Physical pain. Emotional pain. No more pain. No pain.

What else? Why is that? Why is there not going to be any of those things? Because there'll be no more sin. Now try to think of that. Peter said, the place wherein dwelleth righteousness. We're going to deal with that in a minute. No more sin, no more hate, no more anger, no more wrath, no more lust, no more temptation, no more malice, no more envy, no more jealousy, no more bitterness, no more envy.

Aren't you tired of it? Tired of it without and tired of it within, aren't you? Oh, wretched man that I am. I got this body of death, don't you? It's full of sin. I'd be so glad to be done with this. No more sin. That's something to look forward to. No sin. All right. What will glory be like? I told Mindy, I said, this is not only going to be edifying, glorifying to God, but it's going to be interesting. What would it be like? Well, in Isaiah 65, he says this. We'll go there. Isaiah 65. Isaiah 65. And he quotes this again in the Revelation. Isaiah 65, verse 17. I create new heavens and a new earth.

And he said, the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. Now this earth, when God made it, he said it's good. And whatever God says is good, it's real good. In fact, it can't be better. Or can it? This earth still retains. The earth is full of his glory. The scripture said that. The whole earth is full of his glory, still is, Isaiah 6. Creation still redounds to the glory of God, doesn't it? When that sun comes up, oh, sun, moon, stars, the mountains, trees, skies, water, the water of life, the rain comes down.

It's all a picture of him. It's still glorious, isn't it? But the new heaven and the new earth is going to be so glorious, the former will not even be remembered to come to mind. I can't rightly comment any more on that. A new earth, a new earth. I had several scriptures I was gonna read to you. The first earth burned up and a new one. A new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, righteousness, peace, and joy, unspeakable, full of glory, unbridled joy, unbroken fellowship, unending happiness.

We'll never quit smiling. Never quit laughing, never quit rejoicing. We can't even enter into that, can we? That's what it said. We'll be new creatures. 1 Corinthians 15, quickly. 1 Corinthians 15. New creatures, it says in here, verse 44, It's sown a natural body, we bury a natural body in the ground, it's gonna be raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, that's what you're in right now, but there is a spiritual body.

And this natural body lives on blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. Our Lord shed his blood on Calvary's tree, didn't he? He was a man, flesh and blood. And he shed all his blood on Calvary's tree. Well, how'd he live without blood? How'd he rise again? That's not the life of the spirit. That's not the life of the new body.

It's spiritual life. And it'll never die. This blood, we got an issue and our blood is killing us. It's called sin and we won't have any blood. Okay, it's gonna be a spiritual body. And I'm not just speculating on that, that's so in it. A spiritual body, new creatures, all like Christ. First of all, no sin. No sin, no corruption. Holy, we're going to be holy, harmless, and this new man already is, but holy, harmless, undefiled. I can't even fathom that. Being like Christ in every way. Love, only love. No hate. Grace pour out of our lips. Our thoughts pure, perfect, never an evil thought, never.

A new body, no male or female. In Christ, there's no male or female, right? Man's head of the woman. Up there, we're all gonna be the same, right? There's not gonna be head. There's not gonna be any relationships, husband and wife, son, father, son. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's what the scripture said. They're not married and given in marriage. They're gonna be like the angels. You know what the scripture said? No male and female. What was the purpose of male and female on this earth? To have seed. Multiply and replace. That's the only purpose for my own female. Right? As a picture of Christ, the husband and the bride. I show you a mystery, Paul said, Ephesians 5. Christ and his church. Christ is the husband. We're all going to be the bride of Christ.

You say, I don't understand. I don't either. But if so, we're going to be equal. And there's not going to be that difference between the sexes. There's a big difference right now, isn't there? Women are just really strange. They just are. And women are saying, well, men are just animals. Well, thank God this is all going to be over, isn't it? We're all going to be like Jesus Christ. There's not going to be any difference, no male or female. No need. Will we know each other? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Simon, Peter and James and John knew Moses and Elijah when they were there with Christ on the Mount. The rich man in hell knew Abraham. Darius looked in the lion's den. He said, Oh, it looked, looked in the fiery furnace. He said, I see the son of God in there.

We're going to know. as we've been known, that's 1 Corinthians 13, nine through 12. We'll know, we'll be, we'll know, we'll have perfect understanding. We'll be perfect like Christ, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ in everyone. Perfect knowledge, perfect understanding. We'll know each other. We'll know his purpose. We know it now a little bit, don't we? We know his eternal purpose. We know his essential, eternal saving purpose.

We know essentially the purpose for everything that God created and did in this world and does. It's all to the praise of the glory of his grace. And it's all concerning the kingdom of God. And it's all concerning the salvation that Jesus Christ accomplished on the tree. That's the purpose of everything. That's why God created it all. Look, read Psalm 19. So we know that purpose, but we're going to see the purpose of every little thing that God did.

And you know, scripture says there's going to be silence in heaven, but a space of 30 minutes. Joy unspeakable. You know, we murmur, we complain, we find fault down here, we say, oh, why did this happen? Why did that happen? We cry, we weep, and all that. Up there, we're going to be thanking him for everything. Why did I? No, we're not going to be saying why. No, no, no, no. No guilt. No guilt. No regrets. No, we're going to know. We're going to know. We're going to know. Now I know why that happened. Now I know why this happened. Now I know why this happened.

Isn't God glorious? We're going to look at each other. Vicki, we're going to say, isn't he wonderful? Isn't his works wonderful? Isn't his glorious? We're going to be eating and drinking. Oh yeah, look at Luke 22 with me. Our Lord said so. This is not speculation. Luke 22. eating and drinking, but we're not doing it because we need it. We don't need food, we're not gonna need food to live by. We'll live by the spirit, it's a different body. But we'll do it for enjoyment and fellowship. Luke 22, verse 16.

Our Lord said, this was when they were partaking of the table, Passover, the communion, the Lord's table. He said, I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. Now look down at verse 28. He says, you're they which continued with me in my temptation. And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my father has appointed unto me that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. Isn't that what he said? That's what he said.

I had other places that we won't eat for need, but we'll eat just for joy and for fellowship. Our Lord didn't eat much when he was on this earth. You know that? When he was tempted, he was 40 days and 40 nights, he went without food or water. He didn't need it. Did he? And we're such a sorry bunch. We go without, you know, food for about 12 hours. I don't want to die. Don't we? That's what Esau said, because God was his belly. He said, give me some of those beans. I don't care about this birthright. I don't need God. I need that bowl of beans. Well, then we don't need a bowl of beans. We don't need nothing.

We live on Him. But it's for fellowship, it's for, you know, just fellowship around the table. We're gonna be worshiping. Now who's gonna be there? Well, let me ask you, are you enjoying this right now? Huh? I know you, I've been around you a while. You're not, you're not, you can't fake it. There's times when you're dull of hearing, I know, and I've seen people kind of hide behind the person in front of them. Like, I don't know they're there, but they're tired. And you know, that's this flesh in that we deal with. It's a shame.

But there are times, sister right now is wiping a tear from her eye. This is joyful. This is good. This is so enjoyable. We're worshiping. That's all we're doing. We're just looking at God's Word. We're talking about our Lord. We're talking about eternity, eternal life, the kingdom of God. And if you enjoy this now, you're going to be there then. Why? Because that's about all we're going to be doing. Yes, it is.

And I want you to read it in Revelation 5. Revelation 5, who won't be there? It's those that are not here now, that don't enjoy this now. But Revelation 5, verse 6, said, I behold, and lo, amidst of the throne, and four beasts, amidst of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain.

And down in verse 9, they sang to him, A new song, thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals, for thou was slain. What are they talking about? Christ crucified, the lamb slain. Thou has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people, made us kings and priests. And they all, verse 12, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain.

You know, some of you say amen now, and I wish you'd say it a little louder, I'm hard of hearing. But I hear you sometimes, and it gives me a blessing. Wait till we all start saying it. You don't have to be self-conscious then. You won't be. Don't you look forward to the day you can really worship the Lord? From the bottom of your heart to the top of your lungs?

Riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature in heaven and earth I heard in the sea I heard blessing and honor and glory. What are they doing? They're just praising and honor and glory and worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ, the lamb that was slain. Fell down, verse 14, the four and 20 elders fell down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever. How long? Forever. Amen. Forever and ever. Amen.

If it's glorious to you now, if it's enjoyable to you now, you just wait till then. And I want to close with this one scripture, 1 Peter 5. This, I didn't see this till this morning. I have seen it, but I'm glad I looked at it again. This is a perfect end to this. I know some of you are thinking, will there be animals there? Well, ask me that later.

But 1 Peter 5, look at verse 10. The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect establish, strengthen, settle you. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Let me hear it again. Amen. Okay, you're dismissed.

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