I turn to Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians
chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. I know as a pastor it is my responsibility to stand here and glorify the
name of Christ. It's not an entertainment service.
It's a worship service. We're here to worship Him, and
it's my responsibility, as well as privilege, to brag on Him,
to set Him forth, to instruct you out of the Word of God. And it's also my responsibility to
prepare, I think, you today to meet the Lord. Because one by
one, we will go. One by one, you know, it would
be rare for it to all go at once, but it's usually one by one,
we'll go out of this world to meet God. And dying and death
to the believer is a day of glorification. I spoke a little bit about this
not too long ago. It is a day that I don't have words for. To meet the Lord. To see face
to face Jesus Christ. We sing a song, what a day that
will be. When we look into the face of our Master. When faith
gives way to reality. When we see Him. I just can't
imagine. when we actually look upon Him. We gather here each
week. We hear of Him. We read of Him.
We pray to Him. We worship Him. And then one
day, you see, it's all real. It's all real. What we have read
about is real. What we worship is real. And
we can touch Him. Old Thomas, reach out here and
touch me. The Spirit has not flesh and bone. You reach over
here and you touch me. And one day, one day we'll actually
be able to reach over and touch Him. And He'll touch us. Like that woman with the issue
of blood. She touched the hem of His garment. One day we'll
be able to just reach over and touch Him. By what of day, that'll
be. But in order to do that, In order
for that to happen, in order for us to have a new body, one
that's not wrinkled up, one that's not in pain, one that doesn't
have liver spots anymore. I look at my hands now when I'm
driving and I see these brown spots and I thought, man, it's
starting to show up. Age is starting to creep up on me. Those things will be gone. Gone. Can you imagine being eternally
youthful without sin? These things are real. These
are not fairy tales. These things are real. They're
real. But to do this, to experience
this, we have to go through this process of what we know as dying. But you notice when I read to
you, it never speaks of the believer as dying, but as sleep. The one
that says died is the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a curse in his death,
but ours is a sleep, and it's like going to sleep and waking
up in glory. And this sleep that we have in Christ when he speaks
here of them sleeping in the Lord is rest. They are at perpetual
rest in the Lord right now. I'm going to read to you out
of Genesis before we get over into this, but in Genesis chapter
2, in verse 16, and the Lord God
commanded the man, Adam, verse 16, Genesis 2, and the Lord God
commanded the man, Adam, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat. You may freely eat, you may freely
eat all you want. Eat till you're full. No, listen,
absolutely no restrictions whatsoever, except for one. But of the tree
of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For
in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Then we come over to chapter
3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
tree of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in
the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of
it. Neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent
said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. For God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant
to the eyes, and the tree to be desired to make one wise,
She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to
her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them
both were opened, and the first thing they recognized, and the
first thing they were ashamed of, was their own bodies. They saw they were naked. There
was no sin, no shame in that, in any way, shape, or form, until
Adam ate of that tree of knowledge of good and evil, sin entered
into the world and they became ashamed. They knew they were
naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
aprons. And then they heard the voice
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day
and Adam and his wife hid themselves in the presence of the Lord God
among the trees of the garden. Up to this time they had fellowship
with him. They were not afraid of God.
The word afraid was not in their vocabulary. But after sin entered
into the world, and death by sin, they became afraid of holiness. They became afraid of righteousness.
They became afraid of God. They died. They spiritually died. They physically died later. Adam
died about 900 years later. Jason and I were talking yesterday,
and I don't know what we were talking about. I think you sent
me a video or something on 104 years. It's showing streetcars
in San Francisco. It was 104 years ago, and they
still had horse buggies and all this drawing. And I told Jason,
I said, all those people right there are gone. I said, look
Adam, it's all lively and they're gone. I said, but what a tale
they could tell. You know, you sit down and talk
to someone. I used to like to sit down and talk to my grandfather.
He could tell me, because he was born in like 1901 or something
like that, 1902. And he would tell me about horse
and buggies and that lifestyle and then where, you know, where
we are now. And we were talking about that.
And I said to Jason, I said, can you imagine being Adams grandchildren,
he was able to tell them what it was like when the world was
perfect. I said he was able to sit down with his great-grandchildren
and great-grandchildren and able to tell them exactly what that
garden was like, the perfection of it. He was able to tell them
of a world where there was no sin. And knowing that because
of him, all this sorrow and all this suffering I said, now that
was something to have to live with. That's something to have
to live with. But ever since that day, ever
since that day, we have to die. You go read the genealogies in
Genesis. They lived 900 years and then
they died. He lived 600 years and then he died. 700 years and
then he died. It has to happen. But for the believer, for those
who know Christ, for those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, what a day that's going to be. What a day. Now, Paul says here
in verse 13, but I would not have you to be
ignorant Because God revealed some things to Paul. He taught
him some things about this matter of death and what's going to
happen. I'm not having you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep. They're not dead. They are at
rest in the Lord Jesus Christ. At rest. They're not bothered
by sin. They are not molested by sin
and sadness and sorrow. I can imagine that. They are
not bothered by Satan and temptation. They are at rest in the Lord.
And he says, Brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. Now, he's not condemning
sorrow. I mean, if you have all the family
members, it moves away. You know, that causes you grief. That causes you grief. You know,
when you miss a loved one, when you miss a loved one, there's
nothing wrong with some sorrow and that. There's nothing wrong
with that at all in any way, shape or form. But what he's
saying here is that we do not sorrow excessively, not excessively,
as those who have no hope. Can you imagine now that you
believe the gospel? You understand something of the
gospel. You understand something of eternal
life. You understand something of these spiritual things. I
look at those who don't believe. I look at those who have no hope
in Christ and how they handle this. I see how they can sorrow
excessively. I see how they can do it. But
you who have hope and those who die in hope Paul says here, we
don't sorrow like those who have no hope excessively and just
wailing and just, no, we rejoice. Now, there's sorrow in it, but
there's a rejoicing that they're with the Lord. It's tempered. Put it this way. Sorrow is tempered
with this knowledge, this understanding that that one is with the Lord
Jesus Christ at rest, at peace. We know by the word of God that
we all must die. It says over in Hebrews 9, it's
important none of the men must die. And after this, the judgment.
That's what it says. And we know we all must die.
Men and women of every rank in life must die. I don't care how
rich a person is, how intelligent, educated a person is, how poor
a person is, we all have to die. It has to happen. Rich or poor,
young or old, learned or unlearned, we must die. And the believer
must die, as we know it, as the world knows it. We must die.
No one escapes his call. But the believer does not die
like those who have no hope. He dies with hope. As Paul says
here, them which are asleep. You see, that's what it is to
us, it's asleep. Lazarus, he said, is asleep. They said, well, if he's asleep,
then he doth well. You better believe he doth well. He was doing real well. The Lord
brought him back into this place. Then he had to die again. But
those who are asleep in Christ, they do well. They do well. But he said, Lazarus is asleep.
And they said, well, if he's asleep, he's doing well. The
Lord knew they did not understand what he was talking about. He said plainly, Lazarus is dead. As far as you're concerned, he's
dead. You're not going to see him again. But I'm telling you,
he's just asleep. He's resting. He's resting. Ours is not a death. It's a sleep. I know that there are many things
that we don't know about what happens when we die. Nevertheless,
we're not completely ignorant of it. We've been given some
understanding by the Word of God. That's what Paul says here.
He says here, the Lord has revealed to him, given to him what's going
to happen, and he's given it to us. Now, I want to talk about
just a few things about what happens when we die. What happens? fall asleep, and
we fall asleep in the Lord. Well, first of all, we know that
death breaks that union between the body and the soul. The body
goes back to dust, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
However, death does not break, it does not break even for a
second, that union between the soul and Christ. That is never
broken. That is never severed. There's
never a second of separation. Not even a second of separation
between the soul and Christ. There is between my soul and
this body. There's going to be a separation. And I'm glad that
it's so. I want to drag this thing around.
I keep getting older and I keep getting more pain, more arthritis. You want to drag that around
with you You want to get rid of it. There comes a time to
get rid of this body because it just gets too old. It gets
too painful. But that union between Christ
and the soul can never be broken. Listen to this scripture. Romans
8, 38, 39. For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, death and whatever it brings, However painful it
is getting there, I'm lying in a bed in such pain. Neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord. That union cannot be broken. It's eternal. It can't be broken. We also know by the word of God
that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
There's no holding cell. It's to be present with Him.
It's to leave this life now and to immediately be in His presence. No purgatory. No holding cell. It's to be with Him. 2 Corinthians
5.8, we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent
from the body and to be present with the Lord. The Lord said to that thief on
the cross, this day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Today you'll be with me in paradise. We have a building, the scripture
says, of God eternal in the heavens, 2 Corinthians 5.1. For we know,
we know this by the word of God. We know it. God has revealed
it. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle, speaking
of this body, that's what this body is. It is a tabernacle.
It's a tent. It's a tent. That's what it is. We're dissolved when it's dissolved. We have a building of God and
house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. When my soul leaves this body,
I don't know what that's like right now in the Lord's presence,
to die right now. I don't know what kind of body
it'll be, but there'll be a body. There'll be a body that I'll
inhabit. Because he says here we have
a building of God in the house not made with hands eternal in
the heavens. We have it. We have it by the promise of
God and by the work of God. And then here's something else
we know about this matter of dying. It's gain. It is gain. The world does not see this gain
when the world looks at death, looks at dying, it sees an absolute
total loss when the world looks at it. But Paul said this in
Philippians 121, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Now, if you know anything about
business, you know what gain means. It means profit. It means advantage. It is an
advantage for me to die. It is a gain. It is a profit
for me to die. Oh, I tell you, it is a gain. That's what it is. Let me give
you some of the gains. Let me give you some of the gains.
The believer is fully delivered from sin. In this life, sin is
a continual source of humiliation. It is a continual source of sorrow. All the sorrow that I have, whether
it be a heartache or a headache, comes from sin. Sin is the root
of it. You take sin out of this world
and you have no more heartache. You don't even have a problem
if you take sin out of it. Sin is the root of all my humiliation. It is the root of all my sorrow.
It's the root of all my pain. Take it away. And you don't have
any more of that. You don't have any more. In this
life, it's a source of humiliation and sorrow, but when we leave
this life, when a believer now, I'm talking to believers this
morning, Because those who believe not, you're in a lot of trouble.
A lot of trouble. But those who believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, when this day happens, we're free! For the first time, truly, truly
free in every sense of that word. Every sense of it. We know that
sin does not have dominion over us, but when we enter into His
presence, We don't even have the presence of sin anymore,
not even a trace, not even a trace of it at all. And then the believer is delivered
from ever doubting his standing before God. John Newton said
this, "'Tis a point I long to know, oft it gives me anxious
thought, Do I love the Lord or no? Am I His or am I not? Well, standing in His presence,
that will never happen again. You'll never doubt that again.
You'll never doubt your standing. That will never happen anymore.
When faith gives way to reality, to sight, you will doubt no more. No more. And then the believer
is delivered from temptation. We never know when we will be
tempted. You don't know, when you walk
out that door, what temptation is going to hit you and how severe
that temptation is going to be. That him that thinketh he standeth
achieved lest he fall. No one, not one of us, will ever
get to the place where we are beyond falling. When you see someone falling, don't kick him, because you might
be the next one. You might be laying right beside
of him before you know it. All it would take is just a circumstance,
a situation, and the Lord will allow you to do it. God allowed
David to walk out of that balcony and see a beautiful woman down
there. And he let David be David. That's all he's got is let John
be John. And we will follow. We will follow. But we will be delivered from
temptation of sin, the temptation of this world. He won't drive
by and say, Man, I'd like to own that house. Isn't that a
beautiful house? I wish I could drive a Lexus. I wish I could
drive a Mercedes. We'd be delivered from those
temptations. Our conversation, there will be a day when our
conversation will truly be without covetousness. But I guarantee
you, we won't go through this week that our conversation at
one point or another will not be without covetousness. We'll
covet something. We'll like something a little better than what we
have or someone that's got something more than what we have. It's
just not going to happen. But one day. One day it will. One day we won't. Our conversation
will never have a covetous word in it. Not even a covetous thought
at all. We deliver from those temptations. We deliver from Satan. Satan
went to God. over Job. He said, let me have
him. And God let him have him. And
look what happened. But that never happened. Those
who are with the Lord right now, Satan can never go and say, let
me have that one. Nuh uh. No, he had his time here
on this earth. He ran his journey. He ran his
race. You ain't touching him again.
You ain't going to tempt him again. Never, never again. And
then the believer is delivered from all his enemies. That's
why I read to you over in Psalm 17. Deliver me from my enemies. No one will slander him. No one. No one will speak an
unkind word. And he won't speak an unkind
word. He won't even speak an unkind
word. No one will persecute him there. Troubling. Here, we are constantly exposed
to these things, but there, no more. No more. Everyone there is a true friend,
and everyone there genuinely loves each other and seeks the
best of each other. But we're in Corinthians, that
chapter of love, that will actually be fulfilled
in glory. And then every believer, when
he enters into the Lord's presence, is delivered from suffering. His health will not fail him
anymore. When I read this, I was thinking
about Cecil and what he's gone through with his cancer treatments
and pain. No more. No more. That body, that new body, will
never feel not even a prick of a thorn or a needle. Our minds will be brilliant.
You know, you take now, even with sin in this world, and sin
ravaged these bodies of ours, yet look at the brilliance, look
at the minds that God has given men and the things that have
been produced. Now, think when you had that perfect mind, that
mind of Christ, who created all things out of nothing. Just take how brilliant the mind
will be. We'll use our minds like they
were supposed to be used. Not for thinking about how to
fulfill the lust of the flesh, but in honor and glory to our
Creator, our Lord, our Master. Oh, what that'll be. We will
age no more. We'll never cry again. Makes you want to go there, doesn't
it? Makes you want to go there. And then we're delivered from
death. It's all over. We are looking at it. It's coming. We know it's coming. We don't
know what day, what hour, like a thief in the night. We don't
know what hour. But that will be over with. You ever look at something and
it's coming and you kind of have a dread of it? And then when
it comes, you think, well, that wasn't bad. That wasn't so bad. I believe that's the way when
a believer finally passes through that door, he goes, well, that wasn't bad. That was rather
joyous. We'll never, ever face that again.
O death, where's thy sting? O grave, where's thy victory?
Then the believer is delivered into the presence of God through
the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ
has so thoroughly made the believer righteous by his work for him
and in him that he can stand in the presence of God and rejoice
with those whom he used to rejoice with here. And you know what? He wouldn't
come back to this place. You would not. There's no way.
And really, if we brought him back here, it would be for selfish
purposes, but we wouldn't bring him back here. And they wouldn't
want to come back here. Would a healthy man desire to
return to his sickness? No. No. Neither would a child
of God desire to come back here again. Then he says here in verse
14, and I need to move on. For if we believe, and this is
the key here, if it's faith, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
thou shalt be saved. If we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so them also would sleep in Jesus. Will God bring with him? Paul
gives us comfort in this verse. First he says, those whom we
mourn are but asleep. They're just asleep. They're
at rest. Sleep supposes rest. from daily care and labor. They're
at rest. Secondly, they sleep in Jesus
Christ as members of his body. They sleep in Jesus, not the
grave. They're not asleep in the grave. They're at rest in
the Lord right now. And thirdly, when the Lord comes,
he will bring them with him. He's not going to leave them
behind. He never leaves his children behind. The shepherd never leaves
the sheep. Even when he comes to get the
rest of the sheep, the other sheep are with him. Never parts,
never a separation. He doesn't say, you stay here
in glory and I'm going to get the rest of them. No, he brings
them with him. The head is never separated from
the body. The shepherd is never separated from the sheep. The
father is never separated from the children. They're always
with him. And notice here it says that
Jesus died. He died, but the saints sleep.
He died that we might sleep. He died that we might rest. His
death was not a sleep, it had a curse in it, but ours is a
sweet sleep because the curse has been removed. There's no
curse in the death of a believer. Dying is just a vehicle going
home. Paul says in verse 15, this we
say unto you by the word of the Lord, by the authority of God.
God has revealed this to me. It's not my professional opinion. This is of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall
not prevent or go ahead of them which are asleep, because they're
already with him. They're with him. Paul is saying
this is a revelation from the Lord concerning them which are
asleep. They shall rise first. That is,
their bodies. That immortal body, that new
body. It's going to look like this body, but it's going to
be a new body. Fresh and youthful and holy. Well, let me read the
Word of God to you. 1 Corinthians 15. This is it. 1 Corinthians 15,
look in verse 35. But some man will say, How are
the dead raised up, and with what body do they come? Thou
fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die.
You can't experience what I'm talking about, what the Word
of God is talking about, until you die. The Lord has saved you,
you can't experience this until you die, what we've been talking
about. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body, that
shall be. You take a grain of corn, you
take a, you know, I grew up on a farm, we planted corn, we take
a grain of corn, that wrinkled grain of corn, it was always
just kind of wrinkled up and they had some kind of insecticide
stuff on it to keep bugs from eating it up. You take that little
old grain of corn and you put it in the ground and it comes
up this beautiful stalk that's very fruitful. So when this body is planted
in the grave, it's like that little grain of corn. There's
really not much comparison. It's hard to even make a comparison
between that little old shriveled up grain of corn and that beautiful
stalk. It's hard to compare them. That which thou sowest, thou
sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chanter
it, it'll be weed or corn, whichever one you planted, but God giveth
it a body as it hath pleased him, hence every seed his own
body. All flesh is not the same flesh,
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,
another of fish, and another of birds. There are also celestial
bodies, and bodies terrestrial, but the glory of the celestial
is one, and the glory of the terrestrial There is a glory
to this body, God created it. We're creating the image of God,
even though sin is martyred, we're still creating the image
of God. But I tell you what, the comparison of the glory of
that which shall be can't even be compared to that which is.
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another
glory of the stars, but one star differs from another star of
glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is this body, this body of
flesh right here that's been ravaged by sin is going to be
buried just like that little grain of corn. But it's raised
in incorruption. The beauty of it is unspeakable.
Glorious. It's sown in dishonor. If I live long enough, you visit the casket. And you
see my old, old body. If I lived to be old, you'd see
an old, wrinkled body. Sold in dishonor. Boy, it doesn't
even look like that young man of 20. Doesn't even look like
it. But it's going to be raised in
glory. It's not going to be in comparison to that beautiful,
glorious body that I'm going to inhabit, you're going to inhabit,
that you're going to have forever. I mean, the glory can't be compared
to one another. It's sown in weakness. Is there
anything weaker than us? It's raised in power. What a powerful body it'll be.
It's sown a natural body. That's what we are. It's raised
a spiritual body. There's a natural body and there's a spiritual
body. It's always written, the first man Adam was made a living
soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Albeit,
that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural. What
you're looking at is a natural body here. But someday you're
going to see an immortal body. And afterwards, that which is
spiritual. Then you're going to see that
spiritual That new man that is created
in us is going to match that, that outward man is going to
match that new man. That body that we have is going to match
the spiritual. The first man is of the earth
earthy, the second man is the Lord from heaven. And you go
on down, well I'm going to go down and read it, I didn't know
where to stop at. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy.
As is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. That's
what it's going to be like. It's heavenly. And as we have
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly. I shall be satisfied when I wake
with thy likeness. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does
corruption inherit incorruption. But behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we all shall be changed. Oh, this mess is not going with
me. It shall be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump, for the trump shall sound and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible. That body shall be incorruptible
and we shall be changed for this corruptible, this man, this body
that I carry around with me, that I live in now, that my soul
lives in now, must put on immortality. That's what's coming. That's
what's coming. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, the
strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God which gives
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. We shall have it. We shall have it. Now he says in verse 16, I'll
close, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.
He's not going to send a host of angels after us. I used to work for a company
up in Huntington and when the owner of that company wanted
to talk to me, or if he wanted to talk to one of his managers,
he sent a car after me. Here comes the black car. He's
not going to send a black car after us. He's coming. He's coming. We are his trophies. He's not
going to say, go down there and get my trophies. He's coming.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout. with the voice of the archangel. And it's not going
to be a sneaking up thing. It's not going to be slip in,
slip out. No, it's His. He's on the throne. He owns it all. This is the King
of Glory. And when He comes to wind it
up and take His children home, He's coming to do it. He's coming to get His own. And
with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. That is, their dead bodies shall
meet their immortal souls. shall be united to that new body, and so shall we ever be with
the Lord. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the Lord." No separation. No separation. Wherefore, comfort
one another with these words. Speak often to one another with
these words. Don't speak so often about the
economy, about a good president or a bad president, who got elected,
who didn't get elected. Comfort one another with these
words. Boy, when you turn to the Word
of God and you see who's on the throne and you see the end of
this, these things out here don't scare you. They don't scare you. Our Lord is coming to get us.
And we're going to get rid of these old bodies. We're going
to get rid of sin and Satan. And we shall die no more. Turn
over to Revelation chapter 21. I quit. Revelation chapter 21. I found these notes as I was looking for a message
this week. I preached this at Am's funeral. This is the notes
I used preaching at his funeral years ago. And it's just as fresh
now to me as it was then. Just as glorious and joyous to
preach as it was then. Chapter 21, And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth. where the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. And
I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." You
notice the New Jerusalem didn't rise up from where she was in
Palestine. It doesn't say that. It doesn't
say the New Jerusalem came up. It says she came down. The New
Jerusalem came down out of heaven. prepared as a bride adorned for
her groom, for her husband. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. The tabernacle
of God is with men. That's Christ. God was in Christ, reconciling
the world to himself. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write,
for these words are true and faithful." It's going to happen.
It's going to happen. Count on it. God said write it
down. This is the way it's going to
be. comfort one another with these words.