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Ed Young - A Super Body

April 23, 2025 | S25:E97

Ed Young - A Super Body
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 - A Super Body | April 23, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: what kind of bodies will we have in heaven?
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  • What will heaven be like?
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  • What will you look like?
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  • What will i look like?
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  • And we'll immediately go to the prototype of the kind of bodies
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  • We'll have and that's a resurrected body
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  • Of jesus christ.
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  • We see that supernatural body that he had
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  • But yet the physical body that he had.
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  • We know he would eat, he prepared a fire.
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  • He could be touched.
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  • We know he communicated with people,
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  • And we see the reality there of the resurrected lord.
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  • Now, you look at the 11 appearances of jesus in the 40
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  • Days of his resurrected life on this earth and three of them,
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  • He was not immediately recognized.
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  • The open tomb there mary magdalene,
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  • She didn't recognize jesus until he said, "mary."
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  • Then he looked up, and she looked up,
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  • And there was recognition.
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  • Why didn't she recognize him at first?
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  • The first simple reason is a cultured godly woman would never
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  • Look in the face of a strange man in a public place
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  • But when he said, "mary," there was recognition.
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  • On the road to emmaus, he was walking along there with these
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  • Two men who were discouraged, saying the messiah they thought
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  • Really was the messiah and jesus opened the scriptures
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  • And began to exegete prophecy old testament
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  • With these two individuals.
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  • By the way, if there's one time i would love to been present,
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  • It'd been right there.
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  • Man, just think about walking in the resurrected lord.
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  • He's opening in the old testament showing you
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  • What this is about, who's it about, the prophecy.
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  • What a magnificent moment, but they didn't recognize him.
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  • The end of the day perhaps, they invite him going to their home
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  • And they recognize him when he did something.
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  • He broke the bread and they said,
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  • "it is the lord," and then he was gone.
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  • So, first of all, he was recognized by a voice,
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  • Mary magdalene, and then recognized by what he did,
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  • The breaking of bread.
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  • It is the lord.
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  • And then on the sea of galilee, the apostles were fishing.
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  • Jesus on the bank, he prepared a charcoal fire,
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  • He was cooking some fish.
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  • He went on edge he said, "guys, have you caught anything?"
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  • They said, "no."
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  • He said, "well, throw out on this side of the boat,"
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  • And they did and they had a large, large harvest of fish.
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  • By the way, the bible tells us the exact number
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  • Of fish that they caught.
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  • And then one of the apostles said, "it is the lord."
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  • He was recognized because they followed
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  • The advice that he gave.
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  • You see, jesus comes and gives recognition to us
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  • Through many ways as he did there in his first appearances
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  • In his resurrected body.
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  • His body was human but yet it was spiritual.
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  • He could appear, he could disappear,
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  • He could go through walls but yet when you look at the body
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  • And see that is the prototype, the type of body that you will
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  • Have and i will have when we graduate from this earth
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  • And go to heaven.
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  • Now, is there any hint, is there any shadow in your life and in
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  • My life that, you know, we may already have tasted something of
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  • The heavenly atmosphere already in this life prior to our death?
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  • Let me tell you something, your face and my face,
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  • It's a window to our soul.
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  • We see young people in this church,
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  • Keith and i talk about this fairly regularly,
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  • And we ask about that young person's
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  • Who was brought up in our church.
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  • We say, "well, how is bill doing?"
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  • They say, "you know, we haven't seen bill lately."
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  • "what's happened?"
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  • "well, bill is running around with a new crowd
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  • Or bill is this."
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  • And we say, "well, what about bill?"
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  • And they say, "the light has gone off in his eyes."
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  • The eyes are a dead give away, it's a window to our heart and
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  • Our lifestyles and when you see that dullness begin to appear,
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  • That deadness begin to appear, that coldness begin to appear
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  • But by the same token when you see a young person who falls in
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  • Love, boy, a light comes on.
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  • You see a child that in a moment ecstasy that light--in other
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  • Words, your face and my face is a dead give away so many times
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  • As to where we are with god and where we are
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  • With christ in this world.
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  • It's almost a pre-resurrection scene and picture, your face.
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  • Everybody here, you're responsible for your face,
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  • Your eyes, a window to our heart and our soul and where we are.
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  • Our resurrection bodies will be the only prototype
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  • We have is a resurrected body of jesus christ.
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  • But then we've gotta ask some questions about this body.
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  • How old will you be in heaven?
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  • Will it be the age which you died?
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  • Will the baby be a baby and a senior citizen
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  • Be a senior citizen?
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  • How old will you be?
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  • Well, saint augustine said we'd all be 30 years old.
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  • Thomas aquinas said we'd all be 33
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  • Because that was the age in which jesus died.
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  • I don't think either one of them knew
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  • What they were talking about.
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  • Let me tell ya how old you'll be in heaven.
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  • Somebody asked me, "how old are you?"
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  • I say, "i'm 41."
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  • Somebody asks how old i tell them, "you know, i'm 73."
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  • I'll tell others, "you know, i'm 12."
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  • Why do you have to give the top number,
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  • Would somebody tell me that?
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  • We're all of these ages and in heaven,
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  • They'll be a child within us.
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  • Thank god. there'll be maturity within us.
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  • There'll be all of those ages within you and within me.
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  • In heaven we'll be ageless and that's part of the thrilling
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  • Aspect of heaven.
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  • In heaven, we'll always be older and our children and our parents
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  • Will always be older than us, but age becomes a nonexistence
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  • Reality because we will be living in timelessness.
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  • And we'll talk about that later in our study of heaven,
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  • Of eternity and what it means to be beyond time.
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  • But we understand in heaven you'll be the exact right age
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  • You'll need to be to accomplish that supernatural task that god
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  • Will have for every one of his children in heaven,
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  • Many, many, tasks that we will have.
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  • How old will we be in heaven? one question people ask.
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  • Another question, what will we look like in heaven?
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  • Will be all of us be ken and barbie?
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  • Will we all be--have sculptured bodies
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  • And look like ms. universe?
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  • How boring that will be.
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  • Let me tell you what we're gonna look like in heaven.
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  • You're gonna look like the best self that you can imagine.
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  • You'll be complete, and full, and whole,
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  • And god is gonna take care of that.
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  • And some of us are gonna look so good we're not gonna recognize
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  • Each other until there's other moments of recognition.
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  • It is a--not a universality in heaven,
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  • But there's a great variety in heaven and all of us will come
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  • To the maximum fullness where our appearance will be obvious
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  • To god and obvious to others.
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  • In fact, there will be a glow to you and me in heaven that is
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  • Hard to explain and we can't even articulate it in this life.
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  • Then somebody asked, "well, will i have five senses in heaven?"
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  • And the answer is yes, we'll have all five senses
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  • But we'll have more senses than just five.
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  • And the five senses we have, what about the sense of hearing?
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  • My goodness, we hear something beautiful like the soloists
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  • And the choir today.
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  • Just think if our hearing was just,
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  • Maximized what we hear.
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  • We'd hear the chorus of angels.
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  • We would hear beyond our capacity.
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  • It would go on and on.
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  • Imagine to see, we see something beautiful.
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  • Imagine the sense of sight is intensified in density,
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  • And in scope, and understanding, and in beauty.
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  • Imagine to smell, we could smell wonderful fragrances
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  • That we never smelled before.
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  • To taste, you think pecan pie and ice cream is good in heaven,
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  • Our taste will just explode.
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  • You see, we take everything here is just a beginning,
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  • A sample of what we're gonna realize in fullness to heaven.
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  • And we'll have more than five senses.
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  • Everybody here has more than five senses right now,
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  • We don't realize it.
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  • We have a sense of balance to various degrees, all of us do.
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  • You don't think about that.
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  • We have a sense of presence around us,
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  • Even though we do not see a sense of presence.
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  • We have an understanding of where our arms
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  • And our bodies are without even thinking about it.
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  • We have a sense of time.
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  • We don't put that in the equation.
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  • We have a sense of pain.
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  • And imagine there are hundred or two hundred more senses
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  • That we'll have in heaven as we're exploded in the reality
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  • In our resurrected body.
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  • Just imagine that.
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  • You say, "well, explain some of those."
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  • How would you explain to somebody who's never heard
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  • What it means to hear?
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  • Try that. they've never heard anything.
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  • You try to explain to him, you know, that--try to explain
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  • To somebody who's never seen what it means to see.
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  • We see these studies with helen keller and other personalities,
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  • It's hard--how can we understand today the other senses we'll
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  • Have available to us in our supernatural resurrected bodies?
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  • So, the prototype is jesus.
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  • We think and there we are, we move.
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  • We're supernatural bodies,
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  • That's what we have to picture in heaven.
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  • We'll say, "where do you get all of this stuff?"
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  • Listen, listen, look in 1 corinthians 15,
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  • Just a few verses.
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  • It says it clearly.
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  • "it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body,
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  • Supernatural body.
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  • If there's a natural body, there's also a spiritual body.
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  • The first man is from earth, earthy,
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  • The second man is from heaven.
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  • As the earthy, so also are those who are earthy," that's us,
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  • "and as in heavenly, so also those who are heavenly
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  • Just as we have borne the image of earthy,
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  • We'll also bear the image of heavenly."
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  • We have our earth bodies, we have our supernatural,
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  • Heavenly bodies.
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  • Those who are in christ.
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  • What a day of rejoicing that will be.
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  • Now, let me say this in a memorable way,
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  • Does anybody in here think 19--well,
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  • Let's just pick a year, 1939 and the name billy batson.
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  • Does anybody know how that name came into a degree
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  • Of prominence in 1939?
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  • Captain marvel, all he had to say was
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  • Billy batson said, "shazam."
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  • You thought that was only gomer pyle, didn't you?
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  • Shazam and all of a sudden, he's captain marvel
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  • And he has wisdom, he has speed, he can fly.
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  • He's got supernatural speed.
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  • Let me say very reverently to you,
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  • Very reverently in another realm exactly when we're in christ and
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  • Breath leaves our body and we receive a supernatural body
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  • With power, eternity with existence,
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  • It's almost like shazam, shazam, the bible teaches.
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  • Now, now we got a problem.
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  • Here we are, breath has left this body,
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  • Shazam, we have a supernatural body,
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  • The lack of which is a resurrected body of jesus christ
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  • And we see there's identity, there's recognition,
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  • Et cetera, et cetera, and an exposition,
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  • An explosion of our gifts and now,
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  • Where are we going to live?
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  • Man, i've got this supernatural body,
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  • Where will that body live throughout all eternity?
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  • This is the wonderful thing, it will live in a new heaven
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  • And a new earth.
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  • It'll live right here in this domain except the earth
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  • Will go back to a pristine kind of existence.
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  • Now, let's get some absolutes built down,
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  • Some biblical absolutes that you need to know.
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  • Look on your screen, look at them,
  • 00:13:53.422 --> 00:13:56.358
  • "god made adam and eve to be spiritual and physical and they
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  • Were not human until they were both," record that.
  • 00:14:00.896 --> 00:14:06.201
  • "god often took on human form in the old testament times.
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  • He was likely in human form as he walked in eden.
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  • God took on a human body becoming a man in christ,
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  • Not just temporarily but forever."
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  • Listen to that, god took on a human form in jesus christ,
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  • Second person of trinity.
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  • He became a human, a man, not just temporarily,
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  • But get this, forever.
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  • Remember we said he'll be with us in christ?
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  • Isn't that something?
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  • "god raised christ in human body with physical properties,
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  • A body that walked, talked, ate, could be touched.
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  • He explicitly stated he wasn't a ghost.
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  • God made mankind in his image because humans
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  • Are physical beings, though god is spirit.
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  • There must be something about our human bodies
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  • That reflects god's identity.
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  • Certainly there's nothing about our bodies that repulses god
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  • Who created humanity as a crowning achievement.
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  • God's holy spirit indwells human bodies
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  • And calls them his holy temples.
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  • God will raise people with eternal,"
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  • Listen to this, "physical, spiritual, bodies that come
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  • Down to inhabit the new earth with them."
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  • Look, heaven is not out there in another cosmos,
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  • Another galaxy, or up there over there.
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  • Heaven will be here, a new heaven and a new earth.
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  • Now, we're not gonna deal with, don't ask me after the service,
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  • The little interim period that some talk about between death,
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  • And eternity, and our supernatural bodies in a
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  • Supernatural new heaven and the earth because that will come
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  • When jesus comes and brings down the curtain of history
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  • And some would talk about purgatory.
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  • But we're gonna wait for that sequencing.
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  • Okay, would you do that?
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  • But in the meantime, on this earth there's a lot
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  • Of groaning going on.
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  • Did you know this earth groans? it really does.
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  • Do you know there's groaning in you and me?
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  • What is that groaning?
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  • The earth and human beings, humanity fell
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  • In the garden of eden, that is the great sin.
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  • That is in chapter 3.
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  • All of sudden, adam and eve who had open hands and bent knees
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  • Before god, now they chose their hands and they straighten out
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  • Their knees because they said, "i want to be a god.
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  • I want to run my own life."
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  • That is the ultimate basic sin that all of us are caught up
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  • In and that's the basic sin of adam and eve.
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  • Closed hands, unbent knee.
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  • I'm gonna make my choices of what i eat, where i go,
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  • How i live, and determine the destiny of my life.
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  • That is a fallenness and when man fell,
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  • Closed his hands, unbent knees, the whole creation fell.
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  • We live in a world that is under the curse of god
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  • And we live in a human life under the curse of god.
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  • And we see what happens to this curse,
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  • How is it removed and that comes
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  • To what jesus christ did on the cross.
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  • And you see evidence of the removal of that curse, where?
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  • In the scars of jesus.
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  • Here you have the apostles and they look at jesus,
  • 00:17:44.853 --> 00:17:48.157
  • They thought they won a presidential campaign
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  • And jesus was gonna be elected president,
  • 00:17:51.026 --> 00:17:54.696
  • But once he was captured and once they saw those nails
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  • Nailed in his hand, they said, "look, it's not gonna happen."
  • 00:17:57.966 --> 00:18:01.537
  • But little did they know, those nails that left the scars
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  • Did not mean the end, but it meant the beginning
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  • Of the eternal salvation, the eternal salvation.
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  • And so, here we go the groaning.
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  • I want you to read, not in the new american standard,
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  • The king james, i want you to read peterson's translation
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  • Of this passage in romans chapter 8, tremendous.
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  • "this resurrection life you received from god
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  • Is not a timid, grave-tending life.
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  • It's adventurously expectant, greeting god with a childlike
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  • 'what's next, papa?' god's spirit touches our spirits
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  • And confirms who we really are.
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  • We know who he is, we know what we are: father and children.
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  • And we know we are going to get what's coming to us,"
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  • Listen, "an unbelievable inheritance!"
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  • Look at the rest of it.
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  • And that's why i don't think there's any comparison
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  • Between the present hard times and the coming good times.
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  • The creative world itself can hardly wait
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  • For what's coming next, that's the groaning.
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  • Everything in creation is being more or less held back.
  • 00:19:14.710 --> 00:19:18.113
  • "god reins it in until both creation and all the creatures
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  • Are ready and can be released at the same moment
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  • Into the glorious times ahead.
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  • Meantime, the joyful anticipation deepens,"
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  • The anticipation of the supernatural body
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  • In a supernatural world.
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  • Everybody will become everything that god built into you
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  • And built into me to become.
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  • We'll be able to accomplish in heaven everything that we did
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  • Not accomplish on this earth and so many thing
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  • We didn't have time to accomplish,
  • 00:19:55.684 --> 00:19:57.486
  • We didn't have opportunity to accomplish,
  • 00:19:57.486 --> 00:19:59.187
  • And because of things that happened in our background,
  • 00:19:59.187 --> 00:20:01.757
  • We were unable to accomplish them.
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  • Understand this, only those things that have died in you
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  • And in me will ever be resurrected.
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  • Only there has to be a death that could be resurrection.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • My mother, god-fearing woman, stern, tough,
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  • Disciplinarian, trouble loving openly
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  • And genuinely even myself as her son.
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  • In the process i have looked back and in my study at home,
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  • I have a picture of my mom there.
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  • And i look at her and i say, "mom, boy, now in heaven,
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  • Boy, you have killed those things
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  • That limited you loving, limited you in this life."
  • 00:20:54.810 --> 00:20:59.381
  • See, my mother was a very manipulative person.
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  • You say, "well, why in the world?
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  • Why was she like that?"
  • 00:21:03.118 --> 00:21:04.553
  • Because she was one of--she had four sisters
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  • And four older sisters, she was the baby.
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  • When my grandfather died early on a little farm,
  • 00:21:09.424 --> 00:21:12.928
  • My grandmother took those four daughters,
  • 00:21:12.928 --> 00:21:14.830
  • Moved to laurel, mississippi and those five daughters and four
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  • Of them would go to work doing all kinds of things.
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  • My grandmother sewed.
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  • They lived very, very, very modestly.
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  • My mother was--went to school so as the youngest child,
  • 00:21:26.341 --> 00:21:29.845
  • She had to manipulate her older sisters to get clothes,
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  • To get means so she would have things.
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  • And so she became--got in the business of manipulation
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  • Early in her life and she carried that all the way
  • 00:21:39.688 --> 00:21:42.624
  • Through so there was that lack of genuineness.
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  • And i look at my mother's picture and said,
  • 00:21:45.927 --> 00:21:48.063
  • "mom, in heaven now,
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  • Isn't it grateful that manipulation has died?
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  • It's no--isn't it grateful now in heaven you can love freely.
  • 00:21:53.835 --> 00:21:57.906
  • Isn't it grateful in heaven, you won't be limited with poverty
  • 00:21:57.906 --> 00:22:00.842
  • And things that you did not have and things you could not do?
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  • Now you'll be able to spread your wings."
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  • You look at those who've gone ahead of you,
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  • Brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles,
  • 00:22:09.317 --> 00:22:11.052
  • Friends and you say, "boy, boy, what they could have been,
  • 00:22:11.052 --> 00:22:13.889
  • What they should have been, what might have happened."
  • 00:22:13.889 --> 00:22:17.259
  • In heaven, we will become and achieve all these things because
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  • All of that which limited us will be dead and it will be
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  • Resurrected again along with our bodies as we live in a
  • 00:22:26.668 --> 00:22:29.771
  • Resurrected body in a resurrected world.
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  • That is heaven.
  • 00:22:34.342 --> 00:22:39.514
  • Boy, if we could see all those who graduated before us.
  • 00:22:39.514 --> 00:22:43.552
  • Say, "will there be any children in heaven?"
  • 00:22:43.552 --> 00:22:45.454
  • Absolutely, what would heaven be without kids?
  • 00:22:45.454 --> 00:22:49.090
  • What about the little baby that never really saw life,
  • 00:22:49.090 --> 00:22:51.593
  • Wouldn't it be thrilling to see that baby grow up in a perfect
  • 00:22:51.593 --> 00:22:55.263
  • Earth, in a super environment?
  • 00:22:55.263 --> 00:22:57.165
  • Boy, that would be something to behold, wouldn't it?
  • 00:22:57.165 --> 00:22:59.634
  • So, i'm saying, god in his equalizing,
  • 00:22:59.634 --> 00:23:03.405
  • But god in his infinite wisdom will see that heaven is all
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  • And more than anything we could ever dream.
  • 00:23:07.476 --> 00:23:10.612
  • Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,
  • 00:23:10.612 --> 00:23:12.547
  • Neither is the heart of man what god has prepared for those
  • 00:23:12.547 --> 00:23:16.218
  • Who end up in love with him.
  • 00:23:16.218 --> 00:23:20.522
  • That's heaven.
  • 00:23:20.522 --> 00:23:22.791
  • Who invented pleasure? who invented laughter?
  • 00:23:22.791 --> 00:23:30.165
  • Who invented love? who invented fun?
  • 00:23:30.165 --> 00:23:34.769
  • Who invented friendship? who invented celebration?
  • 00:23:34.769 --> 00:23:40.308
  • Who invented dancing, and shouting, and praising.
  • 00:23:40.308 --> 00:23:43.812
  • And who put all--somebody has the idea that when you talk
  • 00:23:43.812 --> 00:23:48.383
  • About heaven, the pastor has to have a stained-glassed voice.
  • 00:23:48.383 --> 00:23:53.221
  • "i'll tell you--" man, heaven we know as we have been known.
  • 00:23:53.221 --> 00:24:02.731
  • Heaven will be a time of celebration and i'm sure those
  • 00:24:02.731 --> 00:24:06.268
  • Who are in christ who've gone ahead of us they said,
  • 00:24:06.268 --> 00:24:08.603
  • "oh, if they could see me now."
  • 00:24:08.603 --> 00:24:11.706
  • C.s. lewis preached a great sermon on heaven.
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  • He called it the weight of glory and in this sermon,
  • 00:24:14.075 --> 00:24:17.812
  • He said, "if we'd see just ordinary folks in heaven today,
  • 00:24:17.812 --> 00:24:21.750
  • They'd have such a weight of glory,
  • 00:24:21.750 --> 00:24:23.785
  • And a glow on them, and a radiance on them,
  • 00:24:23.785 --> 00:24:26.688
  • We would bow down and worship.
  • 00:24:26.688 --> 00:24:29.224
  • We'd bow down and worship.
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  • Oh listen, all we have to do,
  • 00:24:31.893 --> 00:24:39.234
  • Those tight hands, open them up.
  • 00:24:39.234 --> 00:24:43.638
  • Those unbent knees, just bend them.
  • 00:24:43.638 --> 00:24:48.276
  • And all of a sudden in your life now and forever,
  • 00:24:48.276 --> 00:24:51.112
  • There will be that shazam.
  • 00:24:51.112 --> 00:24:56.451
  • Say it with me, "shazam."
  • 00:24:56.451 --> 00:25:00.889
  • Oh, if we could see ourselves then,
  • 00:25:00.889 --> 00:25:06.127
  • What a day, what a moment, what a celebration.
  • 00:25:06.127 --> 00:25:10.665
  • It is heaven.
  • 00:25:10.665 --> 00:25:13.902
  • Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
  • 00:25:13.969 --> 00:25:18.273
  • When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
  • 00:25:18.273 --> 00:25:21.643
  • Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
  • 00:25:21.643 --> 00:25:25.780
  • Finances, our health, and our relationships.
  • 00:25:25.780 --> 00:25:29.718
  • So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
  • 00:25:29.718 --> 00:25:32.654
  • Of life into triumphs?
  • 00:25:32.654 --> 00:25:35.190
  • In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
  • 00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:38.460
  • Dr. ed young looks at how the apostle paul, though beaten,
  • 00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:41.997
  • Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life, a joy that
  • 00:25:41.997 --> 00:25:46.801
  • Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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  • Into triumphs.
  • 00:26:09.824 --> 00:26:12.193
  • Ed: when my oldest son ed was 4, he liked to wander into
  • 00:26:14.396 --> 00:26:17.799
  • The woods back behind our house.
  • 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:20.602
  • I would go after him and bring him back in,
  • 00:26:20.602 --> 00:26:23.505
  • Then i started disciplining him and say,
  • 00:26:23.505 --> 00:26:25.707
  • "you can't do that, son."
  • 00:26:25.707 --> 00:26:27.642
  • But it didn't do any good.
  • 00:26:27.642 --> 00:26:29.678
  • One day i decided i'll just let him go off in the woods
  • 00:26:29.678 --> 00:26:32.547
  • And just see where he'll go.
  • 00:26:32.547 --> 00:26:35.016
  • And i followed him from a distance,
  • 00:26:35.016 --> 00:26:37.519
  • Hiding behind a tree.
  • 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:39.187
  • He wandered deeper into the woods and finally he realized
  • 00:26:39.187 --> 00:26:42.557
  • As he looked around, he was lost and he began to cry.
  • 00:26:42.557 --> 00:26:47.095
  • I let him cry a little bit but after a while,
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  • I stepped out from my hiding place and said,
  • 00:26:50.498 --> 00:26:52.767
  • "son, are you ready to go home?"
  • 00:26:52.767 --> 00:26:57.605
  • If you're god's child through jesus christ,
  • 00:26:57.605 --> 00:27:00.875
  • He promises to watch your path.
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  • Sometimes it feels like life is hopeless but he will be there,
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  • When you're ready, to take you all the way home.
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  • ♪♪♪
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