But I never noticed until now, what is it that the politicians are looking at when they're giving their speech? Prompter. Yeah, we got one there. And so if I'm supposed to go off that, save what you guys have got up there for me, I'm not going to do it. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. It's a privilege to be in church today. I wouldn't want to be where the preacher's at. I think it starts snowing up there at the blast of June. You know, where's that? He's not in Montreal. Somewhere. We're up in Canada. And I say we'll be back tomorrow. But anyway, so I've been chosen to preach today. I may be in a little bit of trouble because I've read the chapter many, many times that we'll read here in a moment, but got up in a computer And I got a printer and I learned how to make it print on both sides. And so if I printed my notes out, I'd have ten pages of notes. But if I could do that in front and back, then I'm only using five pages of paper, five sheets of paper. But I didn't notice, I printed them out and didn't cut them, you know, to the size. But what I didn't notice was that the back side wasn't printed in the same place as the front side. And I cut half the notes away. And so I'm going to have to think of something to say while I'm saying one thing. I'll try to think of something to say when I'm finished with that. And we try to stretch this thing at least till noon. You know, you hate to get out before noon. Amen. And if I hadn't been here in Sunday school, I might have preached on how to magnify the Lord. Amen. And that was real good. And somewhere down the road, I will put that to work. Well, there's a church over near Hilliard, Florida. In fact, I guess it isn't Hilliard. Buford Grove Baptist Church. Brother Curtis Harrington's a pastor there. And I know he's been there a long time because the family that's got 25 kids or something, Duggars or Dugars, however you say that, you know, you know all about that. Brother Harrington married that couple there in Buford Grove Baptist Church. And I know, you know, they've got kids 30 years old, I guess. But anyway, that's, that's where that I preached in the mission meeting over there a year or so ago, they took the minister of support victim of this press. And I think Tim's been there probably back there this week. And today, Brother Ted Johnson, right here on the second row, his wife, Becky and his daughter, I'm assuming Rachel Pensacola Christian college student working this summer. in the graphics department, I think. Are you working in advertising? No. Are you working for the college? You're working in the graphics department? No. Okay. I thought you may know the boss, you know, Aaron Ebert. I think he works in graphics, maybe as an instructor. And Trinidad and Arbor, she's working, I think, in graphics. Anyway, we're well acquainted with the School of Christian College. I own a great part of it. I put a lot of money over there, amen. But anyway, Brother John came by yesterday, took them, Friday, came by Friday, took them on a tour of the print shop, showed them around as much as we could. And Vacation Bible School this year, the money that their children brought, they gave it to missions. They brought a check for $1,358 that their children at Vacation Bible School raised and gave it to the ministry to print Bibles with. And so we appreciate Brother Jobs and his wife and daughter being here. That's a real blessing. Amen. And things are going real good at the press. You might want to pray especially hard right now because the 25,000 Bibles that we shipped to Peru that you've been praying about, they reached Lima, Peru on Tuesday. We didn't know about it until Thursday. But Brother Don Rich sent an email and said he got a call from Lima and that they were at the port. They've been loaded on a truck. and will be delivered to him in Cajamarca by Thursday of this week. And then another thing you might want to pray about, Brother Berg prayed for years, Lord give us a good quality four-color press. We got that. That's working well, real good. And then another machine, a computer to play, that's new technology. And boy, we'd always just dreamed about one of those. We got one and we took the chance and bought it. That machine, I think, was $28,400. We didn't put out any mooch letters, or, you know, make it sound like we're going under if we didn't raise some money. But tomorrow, the people who are supposed to be in to set it up, show Brother Bergen how to run it, that kind of stuff. And I mean, that's a big advancement in the print shop. But good news, that 28.5 or 28.4 or whatever, paid for. So that was a real blessing. Amen. Machines, well, the check hadn't been written, but we got the money to pay for it. and so victor beverage press by the lord is doing real good uh... get ready well i started at three thousand bibles for brent logan they're going down to guadalajara they got a crusade coming up for early next year sometime and three thousand bibles going to their coastal regal recently said that this all of the all the place bibles going out and so that's a big blessing payment all right i said i have a little bit about trouble and uh... brother corinne How much education have you got? You've been to college. You read well. Come up here and read Revelation chapter 21 for me. I am having some eye problems. Anyway, I didn't want to get somebody up here and went to school in the same place I did. Amen. Revelation chapter 21. I believe there are 27 verses there. Do you want to read it out of my Bible? And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven coming out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, Neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst. of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the whoremongers, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. And there came unto me one of the seven angels, which the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee thy bride, thy Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy city Jerusalem, descending out of the heaven from God. Having the glory of God, and her light was like unto a stone, most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, at the gates twelve angels, and the names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations. And in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth four square, and the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, and a hundred and forty and four cubits according to the measure of man, that is of the angel. And the building of the wall of it was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third The fourth, Emerald. The fifth, Sardonyx. The sixth, Sardius. The seventh, Chrysalite. The eighth, Beryl. The ninth, a Topaz. The tenth, a Chrysophorus. The eleventh, a Jasenith. The twelfth, an Amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls. Every several gate was one of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor to it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night therein, there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into anything that defile it, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Amen. Thank you, Brother Corey. I really didn't know how to pronounce all those words. He got through it real good. Amen. Well, you know, without me telling you, that's a chapter about heaven. And recently, there are two statements that's really drawn my thinking toward these last chapters in the book of Revelation more than ever. And one of them was when James Knox made the statement that out of the 1,189 chapters of the Bible, there's only three given to our future abode. So you read 1,167 chapters before you get to the subject of heaven in detail. And that really struck a note with me. And then not long ago, Tim was preaching and he said something about the first three chapters of the book of Genesis And he said there's a lot of interest given that direction and everything that I'm saying. It was in capsule form, but here's the essence of what he said. And there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time studying the first three chapters of the book of Genesis, but the older you get, the more interested you become in the last three chapters of the Bible more than the first three. And how true that is. You know, in those first three chapters of the Bible, Of course, the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now that's of interest to everybody that's a Christian, but there are some people that read that and spend their life proving that God created the universe. All the scientific findings, all the things they can come up with, write books about it, fine, go for it. Build a ministry on it. There are people that read Genesis 1 and 1, the beginning of God created the heaven and the earth, and then verse number 2, the earth was without form, void and without form. 37, delight yourself also in the Lord, and I do. Man, there is just nothing like knowing God. And I go to bed every night thinking about Him. And I get up every morning thinking about Him. And the first thing I do is go back in that office and get that Bible open and read something about Him. And I have delighted myself in the Lord. And it said, He shall give you the desires of your heart. This is what's inside your heart. I want to do a concert in heaven. Amen. And I've done put the request in. Amen. I'm going to do a concert. Now, you know, the Lord is pretty good at humbling you. And when I get up there, I say, Lord, is it time for me to sing? He may say, well, Homer wrote a Haber's up right now. Just as soon as he finishes, we'll let you sing. That'd be about like the way it'd work. Like the guy who went through the Johnstown flood. You know, wasn't that in Tennessee? The director, every time he preached, he told about the Johnstown flood. And finally they said, he got up to heaven, and Peter said, anything you want to do? He said, yeah, get everybody together. Let me tell them about the Johnstown flood. He said, all right. Noah's preaching right now. Soon as he finishes, you got it. Amen. Well, that'd be bad, wouldn't it? Amen. But anyway, I'm going to sing. Amen. And you know, I'm probably going to shout a little bit. I wouldn't doubt. If I don't get to just really become exuberant and maybe lose myself emotionally and go at it, you know? And I mean, just do a little shout. I mean, after all, an expression of joy and thrill and excitement over something, it comes out in a shout. Like a ball game, you know, that kind of thing. But Psalm 35 said this, let them shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his saints. Psalm 47 said to the chief musician, that's who it's to, he said, a psalm that's for the sons of Korah, oh clap your hands, all you people, shout unto God with a voice of triumph. Isaiah chapter 12 said, Cry aloud and shout, thou in heaven and resign, for a great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. So I'll probably do a little shouting, you know. But either way, I just said all that to get up to where I want to just throw you out a skeleton, and you can preach the sermon yourself from here on out. And the skeleton. I just put the skeleton out, and I'll name a few things, and you might want to take a pen and make a little note if there's something that you thought about when I'm going through this that I didn't cover. But you know that the great joy of being in heaven is verse number 4 of chapter 21, where God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Isn't that a wonderful thing? You know how He does that? He takes away everything that caused the tears. Everything that caused you to weep and cry. Everything that brought sorrow and heartache into your life, He takes it away. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more. And He goes through some things that there will be no more of. Death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away." Brother, I mean, how many things can you think of that's bad? They're going to be gone. Now, one of the reasons that I read the first three chapters of Genesis And then look at the last three chapters of the Revelation and think these are the better ones. It's because over here in the first three chapters, you know what there's found? There's a devil. You know what's over here? Well, he's in the pit for a thousand years and then he gets out and goes to the lake of fire. Amen? He's a has-been. You know what's over here? There's death. You know what's over here? There's life. You know what's over here? There's thorns and thistles. There's a curse. There's sin. There's rebellion. There's death. You know what's over here? There's joy and happiness and tranquility and peace. There's God and there's Jesus Christ. And I'm telling you, it's much better on this end than it is back on this end. Man, I'm telling you, what a chapter. And so the things that will not be there. Well, I took a yellow pad one time and started naming some things that wouldn't be there, and you fill up a yellow pad, and I thought, man, I need to categorize this some way, and so I just took the alphabet, and I thought I'd just start with A, and you know, the first thing I thought about is the first thing, it's just what I said just now. No more adversary. The devil's not your friend. The devil is your adversary. Amen, he has been. You know, all you've got to do, you know, the devil gives you trouble, just tell him to go home. Amen. Amen. Go back where you come from. Amen. But there'll be no adversary. But I just got to write. You know what? In fact, heaven will be so wonderful, there won't even be any aggravation. Isn't that wonderful? There won't be agitation. There won't be any annoyance. By the way, I don't know if you like this one or not. Some of you will. Some of you won't. There won't be any adultery. Amen. won't be any of it. None. There won't be any abortions. There won't be any AIDS. Amen. You got alphabets, 26 letters. You know what that is? That's one point each for this sermon. So put it together yourself. Amen. Now there's a B. What about the B? Amen. You know there won't be a broken home in heaven? Isn't that good? Amen. There won't be any bad debts in heaven. In fact, it'll be so good, there won't even be any bad breath in heaven. Amen. There won't be a broken bone. There won't be any bitterness. There won't be any backaches. There won't be any baldness. Amen. Bunions. Amen. No cold beer. Amen. Business meetings. I mean, you name it. Just go on. Think. Write it down. What is there that's been in your life that was bad, you know, to be? What about the sea? Wouldn't it be wonderful there'd be no cancer? There won't be a cemetery in heaven. Amen. There'd be no crime. There'd be no complaining. Not even complaining. You know, in heaven, there won't even be a complaint department. Amen. There wasn't a lot of people complaining about the church. Find you another one. Amen. I mean, that's a simple thing to settle. Amen. They said, well, if it wasn't for me, you know, the church wouldn't make it. But what a way to find out. Wasn't that right? Amen. You may not be as important as you think you are. But I know I'm not. Amen. Where are we at? B, C, D. Well, now this is a good one. I like this one. You know what happened? Some things that people just balk at. I mean, they just balk at it. They just don't like it. But I'm just going to tell you, hey, I know you suffer and you get preached at all the time for it, but you know in heaven, they won't have a dress code. Nobody don't dress code in heaven. Amen. I mean, he read you the chapter. You see the bride, the Lamb, see how she's dressed. Amen. dress codes. You know, dress codes, I don't matter to me, but I got to read another day, you know, used to what we preached 25 years ago. That's gone now. You see these boys walking around, walking shorts all the time. Well, you're half naked. This is where you get that. Read Psalm 47. It said, uncover the thigh, make bare the leg, pass over the river, social thigh, nakedness be seen. Amen. That girl's too, okay. And I don't believe that's a sin. Well, I didn't say it's a sin. I just said you're naked. Amen. I didn't say there's anything wrong with it. I just said you're naked. Amen. Well, you read it and give me your interpretation. I doubt if you'll change me, but I'm willing to listen. Amen. Danny Farley, you know, a friend of ours in Houston, Texas, Danny said he likes to water ski. I didn't know that, but he always gets attention because he skis fully dressed. I don't know how you ski with cowboy boots. But I did see Danny in a pair of tennis shoes once. They were here for a couple of weeks. They came to our house and we did a cookout out there and he wore tennis shoes that cookout. Amen. He said, well, he made me bad. I'd like you to see the way people get mad with their own one person doing it. Then when you preach this kind of stuff, well, you're shooting at me. I shoot at all of you. Amen. I'll tell you another thing. You know, in heaven, there won't be any beards. Now, 25 years ago, we preached against that real hard. Now, everybody's got them. Everybody's wearing them old beards, you know. And you say, well, what do you think about it? I don't think too much about it. I know Brother Tom Woodward started this church, and people laugh about it. And I made kind of fun of myself. But either way, the guy came by and presented his ministry, and the church took him on. I was not here at that point, but the church took him on for support, and supported him. And then, I don't know whether it was years later or whatever, but he got a picture from him on the mission field, and he'd grown a beard, and Brother Woodward dropped him. That wasn't what he showed himself when he came here. When a guy steps on his platform and you look at his demeanor, you look at his posture, you look at his, you know, whatever, is he polite, pulpit manners, that kind of thing? And here's what you're looking at, okay? And so he got on the mission field and grew a beard. Man, right here's one, amen. I didn't see you sitting there, Johnny. Amen. You know what? In fact, somebody said, well, I'm trying to be like Abe Lincoln. Look, if you're five foot six and weigh 240 pounds, a beard won't make you look like Abe Lincoln. Amen. I don't like it. Well, mutual agreement. I don't like a beard either. Amen. That's the reason I shave. Amen. But anyway, folks got a hard on Brother Woodward because he dropped the guy for growing a beard. And I didn't know this, but they said, well, it's to mark a manhood. No, it's to mark a Jewish manhood. They said, well, Christ is a Jew. No, Jesus is made out of the similitude of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was a Gentile. Now, on the earth, physically, humanly speaking, Jesus was a Jew. And so Brother Woodward, he said, there's my justification. And, you know, there's a guy named Joseph. And when Joseph got ready to go before the king, he's going before a Gentile king, you know what he did? The Bible said he shaved himself. Amen. We're having a good time, aren't we? Isn't this a blessing? Amen. Done all right? I mean, you give me your mercies for going, what? They say Spurs you. He's not the Bible. Amen. You think the bearded one. I was old Jeremy. No, you don't have a beard, do you, brother Jeremy? Amen. Here they got the little, there, you know. Amen. Isn't that good? This is what I'm about to be. I know some good field beards. I'm not, I don't want to soften it. I don't want to get to apologizing for it, you know. I think a man ought to wear long breeches and shave clean, get a haircut off his ears, off his collar, tapered. You ought to be able to run it up backwards in your hand and feel it stiff and say, you know. You say, you're the old school. Yeah. And I'm trying to go back like Tony Hudson and get farther back to the old-fashioned way all the time. Amen. You know, by the way, we're at Tim's preaching this week. I thought I'd just check that one out. And he's in that camp meeting. I understand it's a good church. I've not met the preacher, but I've heard him preach and good preacher. He went to school, Karl Lackie. So I guess this is the reason. But anyway, on their website, many websites advertise their churches. They put on frequently asked questions, how should I dress? That'll be one of them. And normally when they put that on there, they said, we don't have a dress standard. And they'll go on and soften it and smooth it and whatever. But this guy put this on his website. Suitable clothing. To uphold modesty on our property, we are asking no shorts, cutoffs, tank tops, or exposed waists. Amen. No skimpy tops, see-through tops, or bathing suits. Amen. Men and boys wear long pants and shirts. Amen. Women and girls in dresses or skirts, pin, or sew, all slits. Amen. That's bad. That's a good thing. Amen. What do you do? Well, I better move on because I got 24 more letters in the alphabet to go. Amen. They said, what else? Well, I don't know what's next. D, that was the dress codes. And then E, I don't know, just earwax. Amen. Won't be any of it in heaven. Have you done it right? Wouldn't it be a good thing? Amen. F. There won't be no failing. Everybody pass the test. Amen. G. Godinus. There'll be some Godinuses there. Amen. They'll have another name. But amen. There'll be no griping. There'll be no guilt. H. Hatred. There won't be a hospital over there. R. There won't be an internal revenue service. Amen. There'll be no revenge. I. No immorality. Amen. Now let me read you a verse that I don't know what to do with it. I just kind of read it and get away from it as quick as I can. But it's in the Bible. And you know what it says? It says in this verse that But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part of the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." All liars? What about those that just lie about insignificant things? Maybe they're excluded. What about those that just lie, you know, spasmodically or whatsoever. You do what you want to with it, but I believe, I believe that the tendency of a born-again person with the Spirit of God living inside them are truthful. It's in all of us, all of us. I heard a fellow say one time, said, before he got saved, said a curse all the time, cursed a lot. Said he got saved, no curse at all. He said, before I saved, drank a lot of liquor. He said, I got saved, don't drink liquor at all. He said, before I saved, lied a lot. He said, still do a little bit. Isn't that about the way we think? It's all right. We use the phrase, but we still practice the end that justifies the means. The end does not justify the means. And situational ethics is not very strongly taught in the Bible. Tell the truth. If you said you was going to be there, be there. I mean, isn't that right? We call it punctual. I mean, that sounds a little better, but it's truthful. Amen. All. Isn't that rough? Now, I don't want the fable to say that all doesn't mean all. It's like, you know, that Christ died for a select few people, not all people, all types of people. No. All. Not every single individual. There are certain types of it. Oh, no. All liars. You say, Bertie, that's bothering me. Good. If you can't tell the truth about everything, unknowingly, without intentionally doing it, you may say something that's not exactly right. But if you're a born-again Christian with the Spirit of God in you, You will be repulsed at lying and at liars. You won't do it yourself. Well, I better get off that one. M, movie house, mosquitos, mice. You know, I'd take up my wife dead, no mice. She'd rather meet a Kodiak bear in the hall of the house than she would a mouse, amen. Amen. By the way, you know the difference of man and a mouse? Mouse has got hair on his chest, amen. Isn't that right? Amen. Habituaries, pee, pain, pills, problems, won't get into that stuff. Now I've got a page here where all the notes are printed. S, sickness, sorrows, well, a little gross on a Sunday morning, nasal drip, okay. Sinus infection, snakes, stealing, sin, tea, all kinds of stuff, televisions, I hate to see it go. It's out, even if it's gone, even if it's addicted to it, he'll break it. Even tears, trials, ulcers, undertakers, won't be any. V, violence, vengeance. Wayward children, no. Wheelchairs, no. Whores and home owners, where are the churches? Amen. I don't want to do the X, but the Y. I can handle it that way. No more having it your way. You're not going to get it your way. You know, it's amazing how many people, they're dissatisfied with something happening at church because they didn't do it like they thought it ought to be done. You can take people who don't have a clue about what's going on spiritually. They know more about the pastor of the church than the pastor does. You're not going to get it your way. You know, in fact, I'll tell you this, give you one illustration, and I'll stop. When I started preaching, I was in the Free Will Baptist Church. Now, all Free Will Baptists don't believe what I'm going to tell you. In fact, Bob Jones University, I think Bob Jones III at one time, joined the Free Will Baptist Church in Golden Square, North Carolina. And so they're very educated people. But when I started preaching in Cleveland, Ohio, and I didn't know, I didn't know anything. I just knew God called me to preach. And some people gave me some good books and good literature to read and whatever. I started reading, started reading a lot of Dr. M. R. L. Hahn's books, old Bible teacher from Michigan. And so I started learning some things, started learning eternal security, preach that, that caused a stir. And I started learning the premillennial coming of Christ. And so I started preaching that a little bit. And so they had a business meeting. And they voted in the business meeting that nobody would preach from the book of Revelation. And the old pastor, he didn't have a clue what was going on. But he made the statement, he said, there's more confusion in that book than any other book in the Bible. And he said, I've never heard of one man who understood it and taught it right. He said, that was a man named Oliver Green. Well, Oliver Green should have teached and preached what he believed. And so you don't preach the book of the revelation. I'm just a preacher kid in there. So what am I going to do? And so I raised my hand. They let me speak. And I said, well, you know, you can vote anything you want. You're the pastor. All you have to do to keep me from preaching for the book of revelations is don't let me preach. But if you let me preach, I'll make you no promises. I followed Sunday night. They asked me to preach. So I believe Revelation chapter 20, first six verses. Six times it said, he's going to reign for a thousand years. You say, that was great. No. I was as wrong as wrong could be. You say, really? That's right. I was not the authority. He was. You don't rebel against authority. What do you do? If you can't submit to it, you separate from it. So the right thing to have done would have been said, adios amigo, and went down the road. But people hate to do that. It kind of stings when somebody don't get their way. We're not going to do it your way. And we're not going to do it my way. It's his way or no way. He is the way. Amen. He is the way. And the thing about trusting Christ and going to heaven, it's hard to say, I want to go. I want to go. You know why? You're locked into your own way. You don't want to change. I witnessed a fellow the other day entering a place of business, and he was sitting there on the stair steps, and he was sitting there. And so I gave him a gospel track. He said, I don't want it. I don't want it. And another fellow standing there, I gave him the gospel track. And he said, I'll read it to him. And the guy said, no. I said, no, don't do that. If he don't want to go to heaven, we don't want him there. Amen. If you don't want to go, you're not going. But you never will make preparations to go. And are you willing to forsake your way and go His way? It's not my way, it's His way. Now, the old fable is told a lot about the old crane down by the lake digging snails out of the mud and eating them. I mean that long beak. The boy's running down that mud and he's pulling those snails out and he's eating those snails, having the time of his life. And all of a sudden, And a beautiful swan just so gracefully glides in and lands right beside the crane. And the crane said, where did you come from? And the swan said, I came from heaven. He said, heaven? Where's that? He said, well, it's a long ways off. He said, what kind of place is heaven? He said, well, heaven's a place of splendor and beauty and glory. I can never describe to you. It's wonderful. He said, could I go to heaven? And the swan said, you surely may. And he looked back at that bud and those snails. And he said, are there snails in heaven? He said, no. There's nothing so repulsive as a snail in heaven. And the crane looked at the bud and looked at the swan and said, no, I don't want to go. I like saints. And that's the way with a lot of people. I like my adultery. I like my bitterness. I like my hatred. I like my lying. I like my whatever. In fact, as I preached maybe here once before, when God said in the book of Corinthians, Paul said, today is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Most people say, Not today. You know why? They want it their way. You can't have it your way. You come at His time and His way. And if you don't, you don't come. You want to go? I can't wait to get there. I want to go. Well, you can go if you come to Christ. It's not me. It's Him. You trust Him as your Savior. He'll take you to the city that Brother Coy read about this morning in that Revelation 21. And that'll be your home for eternity. Eternity. I'm not talking about until you retire on your job and move or change or something else. No. I'm talking about for all eternity. Do you want to go? Well, I'm inviting you today. If you never trusted Christ, Make your way to this altar. And when you come, somebody come, pray with you. Pray. You'll come to know the Lord. And that'll be your future home. Let's pray. Father, we thank You today for Your goodness. And I understand what Tim meant the other day when he said, the older we get, the closer we get to home. The more we're interested in those last chapters, and the less interested in the first ones, We know there wouldn't have been in the last chapters had those first ones not been there. We know that. We certainly wouldn't want to belittle chapters in the book of Matthew and Mark, Luke, John. Christ dying for us. Those chapters deal with the resurrection. Any of those great doctrinal statements that Paul made about being saved by grace, not of works. Having all of our sins forgiven for Christ's sake. But what we read about in Revelation 21-22 is the result of knowing that Christ that died for us. And I just believe that born-again people have a longing to get on home. I pray you speak to hearts today. Maybe there are some that haven't been paying good attention to their future home. Maybe they ought to get in there and read some more. and begin to rejoice over what lies in the future for born-again people. Thank you for what you do in this service today. In Jesus' name, our heads bow.