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Revelation chapter 21. Let us pray.
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We thank you, Father, for your eternal words.
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We thank you God for this Holy scripture that we hold in our
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hands. Father, we know that it is alive
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and active and sharper than any 2 edged sword.
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God, we thank you for the power that you have given us.
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God, we pray in the mighty name of Jesus today for a fresh wind
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and fresh fire. God to blow through this camp.
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God, purify us and pull out all the dross, all the impurities,
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all the wrong thinking about you, Lord, and about theology
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and doctrine. God, I pray for a sound mind.
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God, I pray against chaos. Lord, I pray in the mighty name
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of Jesus that you will calm the storm.
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Lord, let us get out of the boat and walk on the water where you
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are. Lord, I pray that you will open
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up doors that no man can shut, Lord, and shut the mouths of
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lions. Father.
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I pray that we'll be able to walk over the hot coals and not
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be burned. Lord, I pray that we'll go
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through the waters and not be overwhelmed.
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Father, I pray for a supernatural protection, Lord,
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to envelope us, God, and everywhere that we go today will
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be holy ground. Lord, we are more than
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conquerors in Christ Jesus. Lord, we are the peacemakers.
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Lord, we are the ministers of reconciliation.
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God, I pray that you'll empower us from on high and do us,
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Father, with your presence. God, I pray for the Shekinah
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glory to come and radiate all around us.
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God, God, light up the world. Father, I pray that you'll use
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the church, the ecclesia, the called out ones, Father, to do
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the things that you have called us to.
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Father, I pray that we will not shrink back.
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I pray that we will not grow cowardly, Father.
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I pray that we'll be bold, Father.
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I pray that we will have a zeal for your house that has consumed
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us, Lord, I pray that we'll drive out the merchandisers.
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Lord, I pray that we will not be complacent and complicit, God,
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in all of the sin that you have outlined and marked clearly in
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the revealed will that we hold in our hands.
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We thank you God, for the promise of eternity.
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We thank you, God, for down payment of the Holy Spirit.
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We thank you, God, for all of the many promises that you've
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given us in the prophecies, Lord, that are going to come to
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fulfillment. We thank you, Lord, that we can
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be your hands and feet. We thank you for the mind of
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Christ. Lord, we thank you for saving us
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to the utmost. We thank you, God, for snatching
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us out of the fire. We thank you, Lord, that we can
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be called by your name. Lord, we are Christian and so
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God, you are supreme. You are our everything.
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We lock eyes with you. We do not live in fear today.
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We are not abandoned, God, we are adopted and we call you
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ABBA. We cry out, Maranatha Lord, we
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say come Lord, come. Lord, open our eyes up to the
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wonderful world all around us. The wonderful words that we hold
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in our hands. Open our eyes up to the
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spiritual realm. Help us to peek and to peer into
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all that is going on all around us.
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Lord, let us not be confounded and dumbfounded.
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God, let us not be ignorant of the schemes.
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The enemy. God, bind him in the mighty name
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of Jesus, cast him into the lake of fire.
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God cast him into the judgment and chains of utter darkness and
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gloom. Lord, in the mighty name of
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Jesus. God, we are yours, and we are
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marked by your goodness and your grace and your mercy and your
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love. And so, Father, help us to love
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our neighbor as our self. Help us not to hide in
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obscurity. Father, help us not to be an
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silent unto ourselves, but help us, Lord, to be out in the
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harvest, to be out in the firefight, God actually doing
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the work of an evangelist, Father, but protect us as we go.
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Protect us, Lord, as we do your will and as we do your work.
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And we are willing, Father, to lay down our lives for our
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brothers and sisters in Christ. Thank you Lord Jesus, it's all
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about you King Jesus, hide me and hide my words, hide my
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thoughts. And I decrease as you increase
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King Jesus. And it's in your holy and
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precious and powerful and awesome name that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the 1st heaven and the
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first earth were passed away and there was no more sea.
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So we get to see what John was seeing, and he said that heaven,
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Jesus Christ himself, said heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but not one of his words. And so we see the fulfillment of
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Jesus's words where heaven and earth has passed away.
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And we see a new heaven and a new earth, friends, and this is
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the renewing. We know that the second
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destruction is by fire, which Peter told us about in his
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epistle. And so we see that everything
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has been made new, and Jesus told us that it would be so.
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And this no more sea. So there's no more boundaries.
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This is close proximity to God Almighty.
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We do not even miss the sea because the sea to the Jewish
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mind was chaos and confusion. So He removes all of it and He
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brings about the peace and he brings about the calmness and
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the stillness of His presence. Verse 2 And I John saw the holy
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city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
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as a bride adorned for her husband.
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So we get to see this cube coming down out of heaven,
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friends. Jesus said, I go to prepare a
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place for you and in my father's house there are many rooms.
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And if it were not so, I would not tell you.
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So he's went to prepare this place for us.
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The Jewish Carpenter, Jesus Christ goes and prepares this
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cube, which is reminiscent of the holiest of holy places.
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It's reminiscent, friends, of a temple.
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And here we see it coming down out of heaven and it's going to
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land on literal geographical planet earth, earth that has
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been made new. And we get to see this city of
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God, new Jerusalem, friends, the city of peace that is Shalom.
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Shalom. This is Jerusalem, friends.
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And it is beautiful. And we're going to get to see a
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little bit more about it. Not much, because God wants a
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lot of it to remain mysterious, because if we really truly saw
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it, for but it really truly is, there would not be a man or
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woman on planet earth that would not give their life over to Him
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which is not in His plans. Friends, He wants us to choose
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Him out of the mystery. He wants us to choose Him by
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faith, not because He makes us, but if we could truly see all of
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the promises of God in actuality, it would bring us to
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our knees and we would fall face down prostate before a holy God
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and say yes to him in all of his precious ways.
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He is so good friends. Verse 3 And I heard a great
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voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is
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with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his
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people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.
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This is tabernacling, friends, He with us, and us with Him
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abiding, and we can actually see God, and we know that God is a
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spirit and God is in heaven and does whatever He pleases.
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And we know that God dwells in unapproachable light and no one
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has seen Him and lived. And so here is one of the
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greatest miracles is that we actually get to look upon God
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with our immortal glorified bodies and glorified eyes.
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We can look and we can see God. Verse 4 And God shall wipe away
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all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death,
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neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall be any more pain,
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for the former things are passed away.
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Somehow God is going to to make every wrong thing right and we
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will have the memory of each other, but we will not hold on
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to the memories of the negative and the bad things.
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He is going to do a work in our minds and a work in our psyche
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and so we will be relational in the sense of knowing each other,
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but we will not have a sense of who is not there with us.
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We will not have a sense of all the pain and the agony that we
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have gone through. God is going to do a mirror in
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our minds, friends. 5 and he that sat upon the throne said,
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behold, I make all things new, and he said to me right, for
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these words are true and faithful.
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Jesus Christ is true and faithful.
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We saw that on him whenever he was riding on his horse.
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He is faithful, he is true, the word of God is faithful and true
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and Jesus Christ is the word of God and he sat upon the throne
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and he says he's making all things new praise God,
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Hallelujah. We await for that time but in
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the meantime and in between time we're called out into the
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harvest. Verse 6 and he said to me it is
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done. I am alpha and Omega, the
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beginning and the end. I will give to him that is
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thirsty of the fountain of water of life freely.
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So we drink freely. Drink it friends, it's all
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available to you. He was talking to the woman at
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the well, the Samaritan woman, and he says that anybody who
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drinks of the living water will never thirst again.
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And that is what is referenced here.
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It's available to you, friend. Are you drinking of it or are
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you parched? Are you going through a dry and
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weary land? Is this world getting the best
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of you? I say to you today, drink
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deeply, drink and be satisfied, for he is sufficient.
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He's the beginning and the end friends, it's done.
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It is finished, paid in full to tell us die Jesus Christ want it
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all, and if we'll trust in him, we'll be covered in his blood.
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And we will be invited to the supper of the marriage of the
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Lamb, friends. And we await that day and we
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can't wait to be there with him. And we can start the journey.
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Now we can get slivers of heaven.
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Now we can start to live in the beauty of heaven.
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Now we do not have to wait for this time.
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He invites us into these spheres of perfection here on this
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earth. But the moment that sin enters
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into it, He departs and he is gone.
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And we're back to paying bills. We're back to going back to
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work. We're go.
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We're back to all of the drudgery of this life.
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But I pray that you could live in the cooperative tension.
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You could live in the middle of the earth and all of the
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brokenness of the earth and heaven and all of the perfection
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of heaven. And we can start the journey
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now. 7 And he that overcomes shall inherit all things, and I
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will be his God, and he shall be my son.
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We must overcome. We cannot be overcome by all the
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cares of the world, by all the tares and the snares and all the
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briars and the thorns and the thistles that come up and want
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to choke out the fruit of the Saint.
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Let's overcome, friends. Do not be dismayed by all the
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evil that's in the world. Do not be dismayed by the
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systems that are being put into the place that the Antichrist
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will use to deceive and have deception over the masses.
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We must overcome by not holding on to our life, by not living in
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fear, by not giving up one iota, not one jot, not one title out
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of the inerrant, infallible Word of God.
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We must overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the words of our
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testimony, and not love our lives so much as is to shrink
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away from death. 8 But the fearful, the unbelieving and the
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abominable, the murderers and whoremongers, the sorcerers,
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idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake
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which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second
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death. Praise God, Hallelujah, we do
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not have to taste the second death.
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We do not have to experience the second death.
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If you are born again and if you will place your faith in the
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Lord Jesus Christ, the second death has no hold on you.
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Friends, we die once. It is appointed unto man to die
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once and then to face the judgment.
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You need to understand that those who refuse a loving,
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graceful and good God, not only will they die a natural death,
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but they will be thrown into the lake of fire forever and ever
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and ever, which is the second death.
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And it'll be death upon death upon death.
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And they'll die a billion deaths and never be able to die,
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friends. And there's no place that
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anybody would ever want to go, or for any of their loved ones,
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or for any human in all of creation to ever have to go
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here. That is why we evangelize.
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That is why we spread the good news.
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That is why we scattered the seeds.
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That is why we go out into the harvest, because this is no
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place that anyone would ever want to go.
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It is not a joke, friends. It is not loose, friends.
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This is serious. And if you truly could wrap your
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mind around the eternal torment, it would cause you to live
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differently. You would go out and you would
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evangelize every single man, woman, and child you come across
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because we're all going to experience eternity somewhere
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and there is only two choices. There's not 1/3 option, friends.
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There's no purgatory and there's no praying people out of hell
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and there's no baptism for the dead to get people out of there.
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It is set upon your last breath that you breathe.
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And He's telling us that verse 8 is a picture of apostasy.
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This is where people choose the things of this world, and they
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choose mammon and they choose this life over the things of
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God. 9 And there came to me one of the seven angels, which had
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the 7 bottles full of the seven last plays, and talked with me,
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saying, Come here and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's
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wife. We are the bride of Christ,
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friends, and praise God, Hallelujah.
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We are special in His sight, we are adorable in His sight, we
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are beautiful in His sight. Even though we are sinful
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creatures. He covers us with His blood and
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He adorns us with His perfection and His righteousness.
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And the church friends will be there with him and Him with us
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and we will fellowship for all of eternity and we'll spend the
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rest of forever and ever and ever 10,000 years we've been
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there and have no less time. Friends, we'll spend all of our
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days getting to know the groom, and I look forward to that, and
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I pray that you do too. 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit
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to a great high mountain and showed me the great city, the
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holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
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So we see here that this New Jerusalem, friends, has been
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prepared and it is going to be posh and luxurious.
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It's going to have all of the makings of God Almighty, His
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fingerprint on every detail, and it'll be unlike anything that
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our natural imagination. There's no computer programming
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that can put together the abundance of resplendence and
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all of the beauty that we will experience in New Jerusalem. 11
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Having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone,
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most precious, even like a Jasper stone, clearest crystal.
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This is the diamond, friends, this is beautiful.
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It is clear and it will be resplendent, and it will be the
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most majestic sight that we have ever seen. 12:00 and had a Great
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Wall and high, and 12 gates, and at the gates 12 angels and the
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names written on it, which are the names of the 12 tribes of
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the children of Israel. So this is half of the 24
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elders. These are the names of all of
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the children of Israel, the tribes of Israel here, friends,
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and these angels setting posts at all of the gates 13 and on
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the east, 3 gates, and on the N 3 gates, and on the South, 3
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gates, and on the West 3 gates. 14 And the wall of the city had
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12 foundations, and in them the names of the 12 apostles of the
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Lamb. There's the other half of the 24
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elders. This is all of the apostles, the
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disciples that Jesus Christ chose to walk with him.
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You see the 12 and you see the 12, and you put them together.
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That's the 24, and this number 12 is a number that you see all
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throughout Scripture and it points to God Almighty and it
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points to the plans that he has. And we see it here at the very
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end and he uses it in the measurements of the city of God.
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What an amazing God we serve. And He cares about all these
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things and nothing that He does is happenstance.
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It is all perfection, and it all points to Him. 15.
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And he talked with me, and he that talked with me had a golden
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Reed to measure the city, and the gates of it, and the wall of
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it, 16. And the city lies 4 square, and
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the length is as large as the breadth, And he measured the
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city with the Reed 12,000 furlongs.
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The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
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This cube. 15 100 square miles, friends.
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It's 1500 miles long and 1500 miles wide and 1500 miles high,
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friends. This is unlike anything that
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this world has ever known. And this is the New Jerusalem,
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the city of God, which comes down prepared by him. 17 Eddie
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measured the wall of it. 140 and four cubits, according to the
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measure of a man, that is, of the angels.
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So the same measurements the Angel used are the same
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measurements that John has. And you see here this is 216
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feet high, friends. 18 And the building of the wall of it was
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of Jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
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This is clean and clear, Friends, and we see that God
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actually cares, and he puts all of these precious stones in the
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earth for us to find. And we base currency off of the
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ore that's in the earth. We base the currency off of all
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the natural resources that God puts into the earth.
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And look at it here at the very end we see that God uses it, and
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God created it, and God is going to be glorified in this city. 19
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And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with
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all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was Jasper,
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the second sapphire, the third Chausdoni, the 4th Emerald, the
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5th Sardonics, the 6th Sardius, the 7th Chrysalite and the 8th
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Barrel, the Knight Topaz, and the 10th Chrysophras, the 11th
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Jason, and the 12th Amethyst. So we see all these beautiful
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stones that God has placed in the earth for us to discover.
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We see them being used to reflect His beauty.
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As the light emanates from God's throne and from God in the land
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themselves. It is refracted into these
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stones and it is for our enjoyment.
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Francis we look upon all of these things that God has
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created, and it points to his glory and his beauty, and this
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is the God that we serve. 21 And the 12 gates were 12 pearls,
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every several gate was of 1 Pearl.
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And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
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transparent glass. So you can see that the gates
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leading into the city are one singular Pearl.
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What an amazing thought, friends.
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And this points to the irritant that caused the beauty to come
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about. And we see that the heel of
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Jesus was bruised, but the head of the serpent was crushed.
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And this is all pointing towards this beautiful tension that the
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earth has experienced in order to create this masterpiece and
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the beauty that is seen in the city of God and this pure gold,
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as it were, transparent glass, unlike anything that the human
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eye has ever seen. And it will be magnificent and
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glorious and majestic. 22 And I saw no temple there, for the
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Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
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There is no need for us to go to a place to worship while we are
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there. We will go to the feet of Jesus,
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we will go to the throne of God, and they will be in the midst of
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his people. Praise the Lord. 23 And the city
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had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for
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the glory of God did light in it, and the Lamb is the light of
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it. So we know that God dwells in
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unapproachable light. We know that God is Spirit, and
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those who worship Him must worship him in spirit and truth.
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And we see the light of God lighting upon the city and upon
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all of the inhabitants, and there is no more night. 24 And
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the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of
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it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor
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into it. There will be people from all
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tribes and all languages, all tongues, friends, all
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nationalities, bringing all of the diversity into this Kingdom.
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25 in the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there
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shall be no night there, which is a way of saying the gates are
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never shut. What an amazing thought.
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Friends, this is heaven. This is where we are headed and
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it will be relational. We will know each other,
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friends, and it'll be better than anything you can ever
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imagine. And if you need to know all the
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details before you'll make your decision, then you will never be
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satisfied. Your curiosity will never be
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satisfied. In reading these words, we must
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take it by faith that it is far beyond anything that the Word of
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God could have told us, and it was mysterious on purpose.
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But suffice to say, He gave us everything that we need to know
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about it to make our decision. 26 And they shall bring the
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glory and honor of the nations into it, and we'll end on. 27
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And there shall in no ways enter into it anything that defiles,
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neither whatsoever works abomination or makes a lie, but
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they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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That's what Jesus told his disciples when they came back,
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and they were all marveling that the demons were subject to him.
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And he says, do not marvel at that, but marvel that your name
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is written in the Lamb's book of life.
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I pray that yours is. Work out your salvation with
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fear and trembling today. Today is the day of salvation.
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Give your life over to Him today.
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Do not wait for a more proper time to do it.
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Do it today, friends. Not even for anything that we
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are going to be given. We don't even care about the
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city of God in New Jerusalem and the rewards.
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We do not even care about any of what heaven's going to be like
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or who's going to be there. It's all about King Jesus.
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This is secondary, friends. The rewards and the holy
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habitation is secondary to the fellowship that we will have
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with Yeshua. I pray that that is your heart.
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I pray that that is your posture.
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I pray that that is what you are after more than anything else.
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And if you will do that, then your name will be written in His
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book and you will be welcomed in, and you'll do the things
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that he's asking you to do now. And you won't wait.
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And it won't be just for what you can get out of it.
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It'll be all about him and only him.
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And that is how you can know that you belong to him.
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It's because you will have his heart, you will have his
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motives, and it will not be selfish.
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It will not be just an exchange. It'll go well beyond that, which
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in turn will actually prove that you are his.
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I pray that you are blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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Word. I know, I sure have been.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. Stay prayed up, stay hopeful,
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don't be discouraged. Greater is he who's living in
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you than he who's in the world. He has overcome the world,
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friends. He gives you his peace, but not
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as the world gives. I love you.
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See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.