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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Heaven Is Real

March 31, 2025 | S25:E77

Ed Young - Heaven Is Real
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Heaven Is Real | March 31, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: every three seconds, someone dies.
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  • Every second, three people die.
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  • Every minute, 180 people die.
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  • Every hour, 11,000 people die.
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  • Every day, 250,000 people leave this earth.
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  • The mortality rate is a hundred percent,
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  • A hundred percent.
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  • And therefore when we cease to function as a living person
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  • In this world, the atheist, the agnostics says, "i don't know."
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  • Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we go back to dust and nothingness.
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  • We cease to exist.
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  • We who believe in the lord jesus christ in that book knows that
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  • When life leaves this body, we go to heaven or we go to hell.
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  • Understanding that god never sends anybody to hell,
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  • It is a choice we make on this earth that decides our destiny.
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  • So, we're going to be looking at for weeks to come heaven,
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  • Heaven.
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  • And every time i say, "heaven is..."
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  • You'll answer, "real."
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  • Let's try it; heaven is...
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  • Congregation: real.
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  • Dr. young: how many of you have ever got on the internet
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  • And looked at real estate on the internet?
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  • Would you lift your hand, you just looked at real estate.
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  • A lot of people, good, good, good.
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  • It's called real estate.
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  • They are real but sometimes we can be confused about
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  • What we see and what we don't see.
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  • Like the two blonds were on the coast and they look out over
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  • There and they look at the moon and one blond says to the other,
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  • "are we closer to the moon or to florida?"
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  • And the other blond says, "can you see florida?"
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  • So, we can be confused about what is real and what is not
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  • Real but we know one thing in our study,
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  • We will see that heaven is?
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  • Audience: real.
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  • Dr. young: now, people have trouble believing that
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  • Because it is out of this world but it's real.
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  • Heaven exists. let me show you how real it is.
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  • Will everybody clap your hands?
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  • Then that chair, just feel that chair,
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  • Will you feel a little bit?
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  • All right, take a deep breath.
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  • Oh, that's real, isn't it?
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  • You know, the chair, the noise, the clap.
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  • Heaven is just that real and we'll talk about realty.
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  • In a sense, most of us think realty has to do with material.
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  • If it's real, it has to be material but we know
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  • After we think about it, that's not true.
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  • Real is material and heaven will be material
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  • But also real is spiritual.
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  • Can you see love?
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  • Can you see friendship?
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  • Love, friendship, these are intangible so in heaven
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  • We discover there will be that which is material and that
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  • Which is immaterial, that which we can measure objectively
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  • And that which we cannot measure subjectively.
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  • We will have a resurrected body that will be real
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  • Spiritually and physically in another dimension.
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  • And we'll look at that next time we gather.
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  • But now we're talking about heaven
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  • And when i think about heaven, you know the verse
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  • That comes to my mind and the chapter is john 14.
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  • Most of us are familiar with john 14,
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  • Chapter number 14, verse 1 says,
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  • "do not let your heart be troubled."
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  • Now, let's get the context of jesus speaking these words.
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  • He's in the upper room.
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  • It's only hours before his arrest and his crucifixion.
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  • This is the victory address in which he's instructing those
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  • Eleven apostles one last time and he's trying to teach them
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  • And let them understand that he's about to leave.
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  • Now, a lot of people take this passage and they say,
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  • "let not your heart be troubled," and they say,
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  • "but if you're a christian, you should never have any troubles."
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  • You can cut on television, hear that 24/7.
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  • "well, if you're christian and you're serving the lord and you
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  • Have enough faith, you're not really have any trouble.
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  • You'll just wash away troubles.
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  • You'll be healthy, and wealthy, and wise,
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  • And free from any concern."
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  • And they take this verse
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  • And use it as one of the texts that they'll use.
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  • Or romans 8:20 thing, "all things work together for good
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  • To those who love god.
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  • Therefore let not your heart be troubled."
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  • We as christians should not have trouble
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  • But we know from personal experience that is a lie.
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  • It is simply phony.
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  • It is not true, why?
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  • One reason there is evil in the world.
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  • Anybody want to debate about that a while?
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  • And we could show evil in some religious groups.
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  • We could show evil in some people who are just mentally
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  • Confused, some people who are addicted.
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  • There is evil in the world so there is trouble in the world.
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  • But we don't have to look at a global perspective,
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  • We can look at our lives.
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  • And there's trouble in individual lives.
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  • There's trouble in relationships.
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  • There's trouble in families,
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  • There's trouble in our vocations,
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  • There's trouble with our health.
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  • All around us, we see they're troubled but this scripture
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  • Says, "let not your heart be troubled,"
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  • But we are surrounded by troubles.
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  • We have troubles.
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  • Every walks this earth has troubles.
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  • Jesus did.
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  • In the preceding chapter, john 13,
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  • It says jesus was troubled.
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  • Well, how in the world can jesus be troubled?
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  • You read in the context there it's because one of his close
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  • Associates, he followed with, he loved,
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  • He believed in, he discipled, he had trained.
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  • This associate was selling him out.
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  • By the way, nobody can really hurt you,
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  • Really hurt you deeply unless you love them,
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  • Been with them, shared your life with them,
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  • They shared your life.
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  • That's somebody who can really hurt you.
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  • Other people can scar you but you can back away
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  • But somebody that's really walked inside of life with you,
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  • That's the people who can hurt you.
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  • This is what judas did.
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  • Jesus was troubled because of judas.
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  • Jesus was troubled because of the braggadocious idea of peter.
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  • Jesus said in the 13th chapter of john,
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  • "i'm going away. i'm not gonna be with you."
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  • And peter says, "where you going?"
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  • And jesus says, "you can't go with me."
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  • And peter says, "i'll go with you.
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  • I'll lay down my life for you."
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  • Big talk, isn't it?
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  • Jesus looked at the bombastic pete and said,
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  • "let me tell ya something, before the rooster crows
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  • In the morning, you'll deny you even know me."
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  • Jesus was troubled.
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  • He was troubled because he was facing the shame of the cross.
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  • He was troubled because he knew the father
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  • Would turn his back on him.
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  • He was troubled because he knew he would take upon himself
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  • All the trash of your life, and my life,
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  • And the trash of the world.
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  • Jesus was troubled but in the midst of the trouble,
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  • He was concerned about his apostles,
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • He was preparing them.
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  • He said, "let not your heart be troubled."
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  • And then he gave them three reasons
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  • Why they should not let trouble take over their lives.
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  • Not that they would not have problems,
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  • And challenges, and pain, and suffering,
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  • And difficulties, but he gave three reasons how you handle it,
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  • How you find victory in it.
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  • And look what he says, "let not your heart be troubled,"
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  • Number one, "believe in god, believe also in me."
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  • When trouble comes to you, when trouble comes to me,
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  • The first thing we have to do is to trust god
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  • And trust jesus christ.
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  • It's trust.
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  • Can god be trusted?
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  • He created this world.
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  • Can jesus be trusted as you look at his life and his words?
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  • He not only taught these principles,
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  • He lived them out.
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  • So, jesus is saying, trouble comes,
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  • Don't let trouble get over you,
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  • And control you, and ruin your life.
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  • He said, "put your trust in me as you put your trust
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  • In almighty god."
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  • That's where we begin when troubles come.
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  • We trust, we believe, put our full weight down upon him.
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  • And what's the next thing jesus says when trouble comes?
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  • He said, "in my father's house are many dwelling places;
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you."
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  • He's saying, "look, when trouble comes,
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  • The worst thing that can happen is your life
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  • Can be taken from you.
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  • You can leave this earth."
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  • But he said, "that shouldn't be an overwhelming trouble
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  • Because," he said, "i have gone ahead of you.
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  • I have paved the way for you.
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  • And i have prepared a place just for you."
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  • And that will be our home.
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  • Anybody thinks they're at home on this earth,
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  • You are fooling yourself.
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  • It's just like here a fish in an aquarium and they're swimming
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  • Around and they look contented.
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  • I don't know, none of them have ever seemed like
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  • They were upset at me.
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  • But don't you know instinctively those fish say,
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  • "surely, there's something more than
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  • This little rectangle bowl of water here."
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  • See, they were meant to be in the ocean.
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  • We're like that, folks.
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  • You see, we're made in the image of god,
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  • Therefore, all of us breathe something in the air
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  • Of the garden of eden.
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  • I mean, this world isn't big enough to contain us.
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  • We'll never be totally fulfilled,
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  • Totally satisfied, totally on top of things,
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  • Totally happy in this world.
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  • It's not gonna happen because we're made for something more
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  • And bigger than this world.
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  • And jesus says, "i've gone ahead of you.
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  • Whatever happens in this life, you go to the next life,
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  • I have prepared a place for you."
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  • We're pilgrims. we're passing through.
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  • We'll never be totally at home here,
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  • But when we all get to heaven, we'll be completely at home
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  • There in a way that we can't even imagine in this life.
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  • The bible says, "eye has not seen,
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  • Ear has not heard, neither has he entered the heart of man."
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  • What god has, what's the word?
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  • Prepared for those of us who love him,
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  • Those of us in relation with him.
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  • So, don't let trouble overwhelm you.
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  • Don't let trouble overwhelm me because we trust god,
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  • We trust christ, and we know jesus has gone ahead of us
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  • And prepared a place for us and when we get there,
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  • Your initials will be there and for the first time
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  • You'll be totally at home.
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  • The best day of my life will be the last day i live on this
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  • Earth but the last day i live on this earth will not,
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  • By a long shot, be the best day of my life.
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  • That's true of you, that's true of me.
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  • This is something of a little vision we're going to get
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  • Of heaven in our study in these weeks.
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  • Also he says something else, the next thing he says,
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  • He said, "i not only will go and prepare a place for you."
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  • He said, "i will go and prepare a place for you," verse 3,
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  • "and i will come again and receive you to myself
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  • That where i am, there you may be also
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  • And you know the way where i'm going."
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  • He said, "not only do you have to put your trust in me,
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  • Not only have i prepared a place uniquely for you," but he says,
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  • "i am going to come and get you when life leaves this body
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  • Or the curtain of history comes down,
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  • I'm gonna come and get you.
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  • I'm gonna take you to that place uniquely prepared for you
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  • And more that, i'm gonna stay with you and be there with you."
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  • Man, what kind of beautiful comfort and promise
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  • That should be.
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  • By the way, luke, i mean john chapter 14
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  • Is a whole chapter of comfort.
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  • Martin luther said it's the best chapter of comfort in the bible.
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  • You read john 14, it's just comfort stacked on comfort,
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  • Stacked on comfort, stacked on comfort.
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  • It is a comforting word and this is the very heart
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  • Of that comforting word.
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  • He will come and get us.
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  • Breath leaves this body, he will take us to the place that has
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  • Been prepared where we'll first time in ever feel totally
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  • At home and he will abide there with us.
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  • What a deal. that is the beginning of heaven.
  • 00:14:16.201 --> 00:14:20.572
  • And then we read jesus says, "i am--"
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  • And look what happens, amazing thing.
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  • Thomas speaks up.
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  • Now listen, jesus says, "and you know the way where i am going."
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  • Thomas speaks up, listen what he says,
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  • "lord, we did not know where you're going.
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  • How do we know the way?"
  • 00:14:43.195 --> 00:14:47.433
  • Jesus says, "you know the way."
  • 00:14:47.433 --> 00:14:49.001
  • Thomas says, "we don't know where you're going.
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  • I know the way."
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  • That happens all the time in the world to me.
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  • You go to the bank and they said,
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  • "well, we're having an audit and it's a q2b audit."
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  • We don't know what--every profession
  • 00:15:01.447 --> 00:15:04.083
  • Has all of these initials, and numbers, and names,
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  • And we just sit there like, "oh yes, i know that.
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  • I'm all over that, sure."
  • 00:15:11.256 --> 00:15:14.626
  • And that's what happened here.
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  • All the other apostles jesus says,
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  • "you know, i'm going away and you know the way."
  • 00:15:18.030 --> 00:15:20.532
  • And they said, "oh yes, we know the way."
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  • And thomas, thank god for thomas.
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  • He stands up and says "lord, we don't know where you're going.
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  • How in the world can we know the way?"
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  • Doubting thomas.
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  • He professed his ignorance then he asked a question.
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  • We need to learn how to do that, folks.
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  • Don't be so smug, sophisticated, "man, i get that.
  • 00:15:44.890 --> 00:15:49.061
  • I know what that's--" no, no, he professed his ignorance.
  • 00:15:49.061 --> 00:15:53.098
  • He said, "i don't know where you're going, lord."
  • 00:15:53.098 --> 00:15:56.702
  • And if you don't know where you're going,
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  • I don't know the way.
  • 00:15:58.470 --> 00:16:00.139
  • And then jesus uttered the most exclusive,
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  • Narrow statement that you'll ever find.
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  • He said, "i am the way, i am the truth,
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  • And i am the life."
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  • He explained clearly and probably elaborated on this
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  • To the apostles exactly what that was all about.
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  • He said, "i am the way."
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  • How do you get to god, ladies and gentlemen?
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  • How do you get to know god?
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  • How do you have an entree to god?
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  • How do you listen to god? how do you speak to god?
  • 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.308
  • Jesus says, "i'm way you do it and
  • 00:16:36.308 --> 00:16:40.012
  • It comes through reconciliation."
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  • Anybody who is arrogant enough, and i want to say stupid enough,
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  • To think we can just walk up to god and say,
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  • "god, i want to have a little talk with you.
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  • And god, i want to tell you what i think.
  • 00:16:55.627 --> 00:16:58.363
  • And god--" no, no, no, we don't have that entree, folks.
  • 00:16:58.363 --> 00:17:04.136
  • We're unholy, impure, stained, broken,
  • 00:17:04.136 --> 00:17:08.140
  • Lost, confused people.
  • 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:10.275
  • We have to be reconciled.
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  • We have to have a way to get to god and jesus is the way.
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  • He established the way through reconciliation by dying
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  • On a cross and paid the price for all of your stuff
  • 00:17:21.687 --> 00:17:24.790
  • And all of my stuff, therefore he is the way,
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  • The way, the way.
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  • And it comes because he has reconciled us,
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  • You and me, to almighty god so we can go right
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  • Before our heavenly father.
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  • He's the way. he said, "i'm the truth."
  • 00:17:38.704 --> 00:17:42.641
  • And the truth is the embellishment.
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  • It is the enlightenment. it is the facts.
  • 00:17:47.246 --> 00:17:51.650
  • People say, "well, this is true. that is true.
  • 00:17:51.650 --> 00:17:53.719
  • Who can know truth?"
  • 00:17:53.719 --> 00:17:55.187
  • Jesus not only spoke the truth, but he embodied the truth.
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  • He tells us about god.
  • 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.661
  • It's not, "well, this is what i think.
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  • This is what somebody told me. this is what i believe."
  • 00:18:04.463 --> 00:18:06.365
  • No, no, jesus tells us the truth about god.
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  • If you really want to know the truth about god,
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  • There is jesus, make no mistake about it.
  • 00:18:11.970 --> 00:18:16.041
  • He's the way, he is the truth, and truth is enlightenment so we
  • 00:18:16.041 --> 00:18:21.079
  • Understand all we need to know about the almighty.
  • 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:26.151
  • He's the way and he is the life.
  • 00:18:26.151 --> 00:18:29.922
  • He regenerates us.
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  • We die, we leave this earth, we get that resurrected body
  • 00:18:32.424 --> 00:18:37.996
  • And all of a sudden, we are regenerated.
  • 00:18:37.996 --> 00:18:40.332
  • We have life forever meant for heaven.
  • 00:18:40.332 --> 00:18:43.335
  • See, jesus said, "the way, the truth, and the life."
  • 00:18:43.335 --> 00:18:46.505
  • Does that sound too narrow, too exclusive?
  • 00:18:46.505 --> 00:18:50.375
  • Truth is always narrow and exclusive by definition.
  • 00:18:50.375 --> 00:18:57.749
  • Something that's true is true.
  • 00:18:57.749 --> 00:19:00.719
  • Jesus said, "i'm the way."
  • 00:19:00.719 --> 00:19:02.654
  • Man, this is the way you get to the father.
  • 00:19:02.654 --> 00:19:04.790
  • "i'm the truth."
  • 00:19:04.790 --> 00:19:06.391
  • This is the enlightenment of what's really going on with god
  • 00:19:06.391 --> 00:19:08.927
  • In life and what it's all about, and i am the life."
  • 00:19:08.927 --> 00:19:11.797
  • And he gives us that life so we can walk around heaven all day
  • 00:19:11.797 --> 00:19:16.368
  • And have life that's meaning there.
  • 00:19:16.368 --> 00:19:18.704
  • You see, heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:19:18.704 --> 00:19:21.440
  • Dr. young: heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.443
  • Dr. young: and it really is real.
  • 00:19:24.443 --> 00:19:32.584
  • A young girl was diagnosed with terminal illness
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  • And she realized that when all of her family
  • 00:19:39.625 --> 00:19:41.660
  • And friends were gathered.
  • 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:43.695
  • And her mother comes and says, "let me show you what death is,"
  • 00:19:43.695 --> 00:19:48.400
  • And took her out of this room
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  • And put her into another room by herself.
  • 00:19:50.235 --> 00:19:53.839
  • The little girl was crying.
  • 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:55.774
  • The mother went and got another member of the family,
  • 00:19:55.774 --> 00:19:57.776
  • Brought her in the room with the little girl,
  • 00:19:57.776 --> 00:19:59.745
  • And another one, and another one till all of them
  • 00:19:59.745 --> 00:20:01.280
  • Were in the room with the little girl.
  • 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:04.116
  • And the mother said, "this is the way it is with death.
  • 00:20:04.116 --> 00:20:06.952
  • You just went first."
  • 00:20:06.952 --> 00:20:09.254
  • She said, "all off us with follow with you afterwards."
  • 00:20:09.254 --> 00:20:12.891
  • That's a partial story but the truth was if the mother was
  • 00:20:12.891 --> 00:20:16.395
  • Jesus christ, jesus comes to get us and take us to himself.
  • 00:20:16.395 --> 00:20:20.999
  • And we are the first that's there in our family,
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  • Maybe with the twenty-first in our family but one day we'll all
  • 00:20:24.202 --> 00:20:27.439
  • Be there together those who die in the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:20:27.439 --> 00:20:31.476
  • Understand, he's the way, the truth, and the life.
  • 00:20:31.476 --> 00:20:34.546
  • It's heaven.
  • 00:20:34.546 --> 00:20:36.281
  • It's the joy and the privilege of heaven.
  • 00:20:36.281 --> 00:20:39.251
  • To say it another way, heaven is exciting, it's exciting.
  • 00:20:39.251 --> 00:20:47.459
  • My mother prayed every night of my life.
  • 00:20:47.459 --> 00:20:51.663
  • She'd have family altar and when i was young
  • 00:20:51.663 --> 00:20:55.400
  • And a teenager, i didn't like it.
  • 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.235
  • But she'd always pray these words,
  • 00:20:57.235 --> 00:20:59.604
  • "when thou art through with us on this earth,
  • 00:20:59.604 --> 00:21:02.341
  • Take us to our home which is in heaven."
  • 00:21:02.341 --> 00:21:04.176
  • I didn't like that.
  • 00:21:04.176 --> 00:21:07.779
  • It's about death. i wasn't interested in death.
  • 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:11.583
  • Don't want to talk about death, don't want to recognize death
  • 00:21:11.583 --> 00:21:13.852
  • When you're young and even for many who are older.
  • 00:21:13.852 --> 00:21:16.455
  • But i understand that now.
  • 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:19.024
  • She was saying to our home which is in heaven and man,
  • 00:21:19.024 --> 00:21:25.263
  • It is exciting, so exciting to understand that.
  • 00:21:25.263 --> 00:21:31.436
  • Let's say that a friend invited you to a party.
  • 00:21:31.436 --> 00:21:37.242
  • You went to the party, there's a few people there,
  • 00:21:37.242 --> 00:21:40.412
  • Hors d'oeuvres, all right.
  • 00:21:40.412 --> 00:21:42.414
  • A little after, talk with one another. it's okay.
  • 00:21:42.414 --> 00:21:45.984
  • You been there an hour or so
  • 00:21:45.984 --> 00:21:47.753
  • And your friend said, "let's leave."
  • 00:21:47.753 --> 00:21:50.389
  • Said, "no, maybe the party will pick up."
  • 00:21:50.389 --> 00:21:53.992
  • Said, "no, let's go."
  • 00:21:53.992 --> 00:21:55.627
  • So, your friend takes you and takes you home and you open
  • 00:21:55.627 --> 00:21:58.497
  • The door and all of a sudden, you're home,
  • 00:21:58.497 --> 00:22:01.533
  • Lights come on, there there's laughter, there is food.
  • 00:22:01.533 --> 00:22:05.003
  • There's people you hadn't seen in a long time.
  • 00:22:05.003 --> 00:22:07.339
  • Your family is there. there's celebration there.
  • 00:22:07.339 --> 00:22:10.242
  • There is music there and all of a sudden,
  • 00:22:10.242 --> 00:22:12.477
  • You realize that you have gone to your own graduation party
  • 00:22:12.477 --> 00:22:16.415
  • And it is really terrific.
  • 00:22:16.415 --> 00:22:19.351
  • It is magnificent.
  • 00:22:19.351 --> 00:22:21.653
  • And you said, "my goodness, i was worried about leaving
  • 00:22:21.653 --> 00:22:23.922
  • That little old one-horse party but look at this celebration,
  • 00:22:23.922 --> 00:22:27.359
  • This banquet that i've come to."
  • 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.961
  • You see, we have the idea, "well, i'll leave this world.
  • 00:22:29.961 --> 00:22:32.297
  • I may have missed something and boy,
  • 00:22:32.297 --> 00:22:34.299
  • It needs to go on."
  • 00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:35.901
  • Oh no, we go to a party, a banquet,
  • 00:22:35.901 --> 00:22:38.837
  • A place of excitement we can't even imagine in this life.
  • 00:22:38.837 --> 00:22:43.975
  • It's called heaven, heaven.
  • 00:22:43.975 --> 00:22:47.012
  • And i don't want to get us too excited about heaven today
  • 00:22:47.012 --> 00:22:52.184
  • Because you'll say, "pull up a bus
  • 00:22:52.184 --> 00:22:54.286
  • And let's go there right now."
  • 00:22:54.286 --> 00:22:57.589
  • No, no, no, but god tells us all we need to know about heaven
  • 00:22:57.589 --> 00:23:02.794
  • To know that in heaven we'll have resurrected lives.
  • 00:23:02.794 --> 00:23:06.465
  • In heaven, all of our friends will have resurrected lives.
  • 00:23:06.465 --> 00:23:10.235
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected new heaven
  • 00:23:10.235 --> 00:23:12.637
  • And new earth.
  • 00:23:12.637 --> 00:23:14.239
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected jesus.
  • 00:23:14.239 --> 00:23:16.141
  • In heaven, there'll be a resurrected culture.
  • 00:23:16.141 --> 00:23:18.477
  • In heaven, there'll be challenges,
  • 00:23:18.477 --> 00:23:20.245
  • And creativity, and joy, and celebration that'll go on and on
  • 00:23:20.245 --> 00:23:24.549
  • That's beyond anything we can picture or imagine
  • 00:23:24.549 --> 00:23:27.319
  • Because we see heaven is real.
  • 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:32.424
  • It's real.
  • 00:23:32.424 --> 00:23:35.794
  • Older christian man was dying.
  • 00:23:35.794 --> 00:23:38.964
  • He's in the bed.
  • 00:23:38.964 --> 00:23:40.599
  • His son came in, sat on the edge of the bed and said,
  • 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:43.668
  • "dad, how do you feel?"
  • 00:23:43.668 --> 00:23:49.174
  • And that christian man with a little smile on his face said,
  • 00:23:49.174 --> 00:23:52.677
  • "son, i feel like a young boy on christmas eve."
  • 00:23:52.677 --> 00:24:00.285
  • You see, heaven is exciting. heaven is?
  • 00:24:04.155 --> 00:24:11.229
  • Audience: real.
  • 00:24:11.229 --> 00:24:12.864
  • Dr. young: heaven is? audience: real.
  • 00:24:12.864 --> 00:24:15.567
  • Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
  • 00:24:15.634 --> 00:24:19.771
  • When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
  • 00:24:19.771 --> 00:24:23.141
  • Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
  • 00:24:23.141 --> 00:24:27.245
  • Finances, our health, and our relationships.
  • 00:24:27.245 --> 00:24:31.082
  • So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
  • 00:24:31.082 --> 00:24:34.052
  • Of life into triumphs?
  • 00:24:34.052 --> 00:24:36.588
  • In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
  • 00:24:36.588 --> 00:24:39.958
  • Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul, though beaten,
  • 00:24:39.958 --> 00:24:43.595
  • Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life; a joy that
  • 00:24:43.595 --> 00:24:48.199
  • Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
  • 00:24:48.199 --> 00:24:53.672
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  • Into triumphs.
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  • Dr. young: let me tell you how i begin each day
  • 00:25:16.094 --> 00:25:18.530
  • And end every day.
  • 00:25:18.530 --> 00:25:20.265
  • I've done it for many, many years.
  • 00:25:20.265 --> 00:25:22.434
  • When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do,
  • 00:25:22.434 --> 00:25:24.803
  • I hit my knees, i call it knee-to-knee
  • 00:25:24.803 --> 00:25:27.973
  • Or i call it a self prayer.
  • 00:25:27.973 --> 00:25:30.642
  • Because you know my biggest problem?
  • 00:25:30.642 --> 00:25:32.711
  • It's the same problem you have.
  • 00:25:32.711 --> 00:25:34.946
  • It's spelled s-e-l-f.
  • 00:25:34.946 --> 00:25:38.717
  • Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
  • 00:25:38.717 --> 00:25:41.920
  • It's my number one problem, therefore,
  • 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:44.022
  • When i begin my day, i'm on my knees,
  • 00:25:44.022 --> 00:25:46.825
  • My wife comes and kneels with me.
  • 00:25:46.825 --> 00:25:49.394
  • And i put my hand on the bed and i pray a little prayer
  • 00:25:49.394 --> 00:25:53.765
  • Revolving around self, it's an acrostic.
  • 00:25:53.765 --> 00:25:56.835
  • And i just spell s-e-l-f.
  • 00:25:56.835 --> 00:25:59.404
  • I start off and i say, "lord, i surrender this day to you."
  • 00:25:59.404 --> 00:26:03.642
  • And i talk about surrendering everything in my life to him.
  • 00:26:03.642 --> 00:26:07.912
  • And then i talk about e, e.
  • 00:26:07.912 --> 00:26:10.749
  • I surrender, and then that e comes up,
  • 00:26:10.749 --> 00:26:13.485
  • And i empty myself, whenever i'm full of self
  • 00:26:13.485 --> 00:26:16.688
  • Or selfishness i start off by emptying so i will be fresh.
  • 00:26:16.688 --> 00:26:21.226
  • Then i turn my hands up as on my knees by my bed.
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  • And i say, "oh lord, fill me with your spirit.
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  • I surrender, and i empty, and i love you,
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  • And now fill me with your spirit."
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  • Self, that's where your start, and as we express our love
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  • To him and he fills us with our spirit,
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  • Then i'll have a personal prayer that fits me,
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  • And fits my wife where she prays.
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  • And then we say, "in jesus's name, amen."
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  • I do that every morning and i do it every night.
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  • I pray the self prayer, the knee-to-knee prayer.
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  • First thing in the morning, i hit my knees,
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  • The last thing at night, i am on my knees.
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  • And i don't know how it works for anybody else
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  • But that self prayer, that knee-to-knee prayer
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  • Is a good way to begin every day because
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  • It gets self out of the way, it does.
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  • Surrender, empty, i love you, fill me with your spirit.
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  • Just a little ritual that i think will help your day
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  • To start off with wings and end your day with praise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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