I want to give you a little more time at home this evening with your families, and me too. I'm going to get right into the message. Now, once again, we take up the study of our Lord's intimate conversation with his disciples the last night before he went to the cross, before he died. We need to be reminded that our Lord was about to undertake or go through the most agonizing and excruciatingly painful, not only physically but emotionally, experience for him. a great and awful, he was feeling this terrible, this awful burden and weight of this heavy trial that he was about to undergo. Yes, it was a trial for him that he willingly went through. But he was feeling the awful burden and weight of this heavy experience that lay before him, going to the cross. Perhaps the reason we cannot enter into it is because we really are ignorant of this thing of crucifixion. It just doesn't take place now. But our Lord was facing this ignominious death, and yet He is taking a deep interest Terry seems to be unmindful of his own troubles. He says he was troubled, but he seems to be unmindful of his own troubles and his own problems, for lack of a better word, and trials. And he seems to be concerned about these disciples, right up to the bitter end, he's concerned about them. He's got their welfare. on his mind. And you remember our study a couple of weeks ago that began in chapter 13 where it says, having loved his own, he loved him right up to then. Right up until he, you know, he's hanging there on the cross. In excruciating pain. No sedatives, no painkillers. Nails dripping in his hands and his feet. terrible crown on his head, parched with thirst, and just been brutally beaten to a pulp. And what does he say? He looks down at Mary, and he cares for her. He says, she needs someplace to live now. She needs somebody to take care of her. And he says, woman, behold your son. You go with him, and he'll take care of her. Right up until he expired, his life, under such pain, caring for his own. He cared for his own. Now, in order to enter into this scene, we must put ourselves into what the disciples must have been going through at this time. place ourselves into their mindset, what they must have been thinking at this time. Now, they've been hearing Christ talk of His death, of His approaching sufferings and His death. He told them a couple of times, the Son of Man is going to go to Jerusalem and be delivered to the priests, and they're going to take Him and scourge Him. And He told them everything that was going to take place. And they're going to crucify Him. He's going to be buried and rise again the third day. He told them this a couple of times, that I can recall, before it happened. And yet, they seemed perplexed by it. You know, we read that and we think, why can't they see that he said this was going to happen? Why can't... They seemed perplexed by what was going on. Well, to be sympathetic to these poor little young, these poor fishermen. They probably thought, now he spoke in parables. He was always speaking in parables. Lord, what are you saying? Always. They'd say, Lord, what do you mean by this? And they were poor, simple fishermen, like us. I mean, we were just poor, simple people having a hard time understanding this book. And whenever Christ spoke, they'd say, Lord, you ought to explain this to us. And he said this to them, point blank, he was going to go and die, but yet they seemed perplexed by it. Now they probably thought he was speaking in a parable or something. And he says at one place they were afraid to ask him what he meant by this. They were afraid that he might have meant what he said, that he was going to go die. Now they knew, they believed Christ by this time. They believed him, they knew him, they knew he was the Christ. They believed this. They knew he was the Messiah. He asked him, what do you think of Christ? You're the Christ, you're the Messiah, blessed. God's revealed this to you, Peter, and the rest of them. They knew that he was the Messiah, but they thought like everybody else, like all the Jews thought, that he was going to be a conquering Messiah, that he was going to set up a kingdom on the earth. They were just men, just like many of our conceptions are so off base, you know. And their hopes had just been recently raised when he rode into Jerusalem on this donkey. It wasn't exactly probably the entrance they wanted him to have on his donkey, but nevertheless, he rode into Jerusalem on this donkey, and all the people started throwing flowers and coats in his way and hollering, Hosanna to the son of David, Hosanna. And the whole city was in an uproar because of him, and they thought, And these poor little fishermen, you know, had been looking around. You know, it's coming, it's happening, you know. And then, but then, right after that, they get up in this upper room and he says, we're going to have dinner tonight. You go and prepare the Passover. Okay. You know, we run, did it and everything. They all met together and they were abuzz and maybe excited about what was going to go, what had been going on in their entrance into Jerusalem and what he was going to do next, you know. And then he said, then they heard him say he was troubled. They said, one of you are going to deny me, betray me. And then he said to Peter, Peter, you are going to deny me. All of you, another place it says, he said, all of you shall be offended at me this day. You see what they're going through? They're perplexed, and by now, and they heard him talking about leaving them. I'm going, he said, I'm leaving, I'm going to a place you can't come with me. And by now, they were just perplexed, confused, totally confused, much like we are most of the time. Totally confused about what's going on with me, about themselves, about the kingdom of God, the Messiah. And especially Peter, you know, that he'd just been told he was going to deny Christ. What do you think he thought? Am I a goner? Am I lost? What's going to happen here? And they were troubled and confused and sorrowful and just ready to... Look at verse 1 of chapter 14. Right after he said, Peter, you're going to deny me. You're going to deny that you ever even knew me. But he says, let not your heart be troubled. Don't be troubled. And he says this thus, too, Viola, we're confused most of the time. We're confused about ourselves. Do I know this love? Here's a point I long to know. Oft it causes me anxious thought and trouble and sorrow. Do I love the Lord or no? I want to decide this thing. Do I or not? Don't be troubled. Don't be troubled. But they were troubled. They were troubled. Their master, their Lord, their friend, their companion, the one that they depended on for three and a half years now, the one like babies. They were like little children depending totally upon the Lord for their food, for their clothing, for their drink, for answers to their questions. They were like little bitty babies following Him around. What now, Lord? What now? He'd send them off and something, you know, they'd try to cast out a devil or something. They'd come running back with their tail between their legs. Lord, why couldn't I? Oh, you little thing. And you have to tend to them like children, you know. Like little puppy dogs all around them, you know. Big beasts. He attended to them for these three and a half years, and he says, I'm leaving. Anyway, they were trouble. They were trouble. He was leaving. And that's just like a little child, you know, watching its mother leave, and they're deeply troubled. Deeply troubled. It's not going far. Well, what's Christ going to say to comfort these troubled? He says, don't be troubled. What's he going to say to comfort them? Look at it, verse 1. He says, don't be troubled. You believe in God. You notice there's not a question mark there, is there? Barbara, he says, don't be troubled. You believe in God. Now, why'd he say it like this? He said, do you believe in God? Well, you ought to believe on me. That's not what he said. You believe in God. You do. Why? Because he came to reveal the Father. That's the purpose of Christ's coming. He came. Did I come to show you the Father? I came to reveal the Father to you." That was his earthly mission, to declare God to men, to declare the Father. And he taught them concerning the Father. He had shown them the Father. He had given them faith in the Father and understanding of the Father. He had given them everything they had, and he knew that they believed. Very weakly, very weakly, but they did. And sure, there's great comfort to be had here. I see it in you. Henry, Rick, I see it in you. Charles, you believe in God. I know you do. I can tell. You give every evidence of believing in God. Yeah, you do. You believe. Some of you believe in God. Yeah, you do. You believe in him. You believe that he's the great and sovereign God who created all things, and he sustains all things, and he controls all things, and he does all things for our good concerning us. You believe that, Jeanette. I know you do, don't you? You're shaking your head. Well, Christ said, Believe also me. You believe in God. Well, believe also in me. Trust in me. You trust this. This word faith is best translated trust. You trust that God is the one who cares for you. God is the one who provides for you. And in the end, God is one that's going to receive you. Christ said, trust me. I am God's main thing. Believe me, I'm God. And we'll see you later on down here how he said to Philip, say, show us God. He said, look at me, look at me. But he says, I'm God and I'm a man. And this is our great, Roberta, this is our, this is our consolation. This is our comfort. This is all our hope that there's a man at the right hand of the Father who is touched with a feeling of our infirmities. And he says, don't be troubled. I go to the Father, me, a man up there, flesh, sitting at the right end of God, me. And you know what? He's called an advocate, a mediator. He's called a close brother, a friend that sticks, Jimmy's a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Your brother may forsake you, not this one. He said, I'll never, never, never. Never. And he carries all weight with the Father. He's got all influence with the Heavenly Father. There was a story, I read a story one time back in the Civil War, of a soldier who, you may have heard this, but I'll tell it again. There was a soldier back in the Civil War who had received word that his father He was an only child, and he received word that his father had passed away, and he was stationed somewhere around Washington or something. And his father had passed away. He was an only son, and he wanted to go home. He was just a young boy, and he wanted to go home to console his mother. They were poor, and he needed to go home to take care of his mother. He had no other family to take care of her. To be discharged from the Army took a tremendous act. As a matter of fact, the only one that could discharge him was the President of the United States. At least the President had to give the order to somebody to let him go. So one day he went to the White House hoping that He could get in to see the President. He tried all avenues and couldn't get in. And he was sitting outside of the gate to the White House. And he sat down on the curb there and began weeping with his head in his hands. He couldn't get in. He couldn't go home. He was ready to be shipped out. And he began weeping. The President was his only hope. But he couldn't get in. And a little while later, a little while later, a little boy, a little boy walked up and said, Mr., why are you crying? And he looked up to the little boy and said, I told him a story. I need to go home. My dad died, my mother. And by herself, I just need to go home, and the president's the only one that'll let me in. And you can see these guards here at the gate. There's guards at the front door. I just can't get in to see. And the little boy said, Don't. Don't worry. Quit crying. I said, Come with me. So the fella got up, and they walked up to the gate, and there were two guards standing there, two sentries with their rifles, you know. And when the boy walked up, they just And they walked through that gate. And the soldier was incredulous there. And they walked down the front steps and came up to those big white double doors of that white house, two guards standing there with guns like this. When the boy walked up, good morning, and they walked through those double gates and walked down the hall and there was the Oval Office. There's a guard standing there at the door. And when this boy walked up with his soldier behind him, good morning, that little boy reached up, grabbed a knob, walked on in, walked past the secretary, walked right on into that Oval Office and said, Dad, somebody wants to see you. The Son of God is at the right hand of the Father. A man, just like you and me. Shall we look? Just like you and me. A man. He may have looked just like you, but he wasn't much to look at. Or me. I'll conclude myself there. But he was a man, nevertheless. And he's at the right hand of the Father, and he carries all weight, all influence with the Father. The Father delights to do. what the son wants, delights to honor his son and his son's request. Well, look at verse 2. He says, you believe in God? Believe in me. I am God. Verse 2, he says, in my father's house, in my father's house, I like that old song of what I can remember of it, come and go with me to my father's house, where there is joy, joy, joy. In my father's house are many mansions," he said. Now, there is something comforting and quieting and secure about the old home place. Let me get a little sentimental here. I know people abuse this, but nevertheless, this is the same sense and vein in which our Lord is speaking to his disciples. I don't say this to all men. I don't say this publicly on the radio, that you're going to meet Mom in heaven, that sort of thing. That's not what I'm talking about here. But nevertheless, he says, in my Father's home, my Father's got a house. Father's home. secure and comforting about the old home place, you know, home. Just the word sounds good, doesn't it? Home. When I was a boy, we used to take trips down to Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, every year, twice a year, summertime and at Christmas time, to my granddaddy's house, Granddaddy Freeze. And it wasn't much, the place wasn't very big, it was just a little, little one-story brick house, about the size of Joe and Nancy's house. It wasn't very big. There wasn't anything special about it. The yard was pretty small, on a pretty busy street, pretty busy neighborhood. It had a little kind of a lean-to for a garage in the back. There just wasn't much to it at all. But I just thought that was the greatest place there ever was. Why? It was granddad's. It was granddaddy's house. And my cousin and I, we'd find things to do, mostly meanness, but throw rocks at people's trash cans and whatever. But it was granddad. And boy, I looked so forward to going down to granddad's. There wasn't nothing there, but I wanted to go. I was so excited. Granddad. And you know, if your parents are still living in the old home place, You'll probably always call it home. I've heard you call it. I've heard, I think, Henry say, we're going home this week. Home. You'll always call it home. And your room, if the room that you stayed in is still there, it's still your room. My room back in Ashland is still my Paul's room. It doesn't look much like what it did when I lived there, but sometimes I go rummaging through the drawers. And my mom has left most of that junk in those drawers. I guess in remembrance of me, but it's my room. But you know, the scripture says a believer is a stranger and a sojourner here in this world. A stranger and a sojourner. And I kind of think we're kind of like young people who first start out and we're living in pitiful little apartments. little efficiencies, you know. Somebody else owns them. We're struggling the skin of our teeth trying to get by, trying to make it, trying to make ends meet. And every now and then, during the preaching of the gospel, the fellowship of the saints, the worship of God, we go home. We go home. Get a little taste. You know, you go home during the Christmas or whatever. You go home and you just get filled up. filled with food and love and money. Here, son, who was it the other day that was telling me, Lewis, saying Phil gives him money. He doesn't need money. Here, son, you're going to need this. Thanks. Food and love and money. Well, in a sense, I believe this is the way Christ is appealing to his disciples. And he says, in my father's house are many mansions, many abodes, many abodes. Now, this word mansion, I'm really unsure of exactly what he means there, but it will work both ways. Look up at verse 23. Verse 23, this is the same exact word in the Greek that's used there for mansions. Right here in verse 23, Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he'll keep my words and my father will love him. And we will come unto him and make our abode. That's the exact same word right there, abode. The word is monad in the Greek, abode. And he says, I believe now, I believe that Christ is saying here, in my father's house are many reservations. There are many reservations. There are many, many places, not necessarily houses to live in. You know, this is what Rick and I were talking about. This is what people are all taking up with. Well, how big my mansion is going to be, you know. That's not the sense here at all. The word mansion there is not talking about some great and glorious beautiful place to live. He's talking about a reservation, a boat. You have a place. You have a place to dwell. He said, in my father's house. It's my dad's house. My father's house. He lives there. I live there. And you've got a place to live there, Ted. There's plenty of room, he said. Plenty of room. You've got you a place, Ted. Uh-huh. Any mansion. He said, if it weren't so, I would have told you. He said, I always speak the truth, always. Now, turn over with me to Revelation chapter 4. Revelation chapter 4. Now, we can only conjecture or guess or surmise from what we're reading here concerning the kingdom of heaven. We don't know much about heaven. Nobody does. Paul, the apostle, went there, and when he came back, he said, I saw things. He said, I can't, it's not lawful, I can't utter it, I don't know how to describe it. We don't have anything here to go by, he said. Well, we can only surmise what heaven is like from what we read here. Like many great kingdoms now, I'm convinced of this. Our God is king. King, high and holy, lifted up. We don't know anything about a kingdom. We see something of the pomp and the show of the British monarchy or royal rule. We see something of that. We see their splendor and all that they go through, their pageantry and all. But this is God we're talking about here. King of kings and high and lofty. Now, you know, you know, that there are great and glorious things to be seen in this kingdom of God. Great and glorious, indescribable things to be seen. Things. And perhaps the temple, back in the Old Testament, the temple was a picture of some of this glory and this grandeur. But look at Revelation chapter 4, verse 1. There's some pictures here of heaven described to us. Says, After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I'll show you things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on that throne, and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper in a sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like an emerald. And around about the throne were four-and-twenty seats. And upon those seats I saw the four-and-twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which were the seven spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. In the midst of the throne, round about the throne, were beasts, four beasts full of eyes, behind and before. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle, and the four beasts had six wings about them, and they were full of eyes within, and they rest not night and day, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is to come. Now look down at chapter 5, verse 6. And I beheld, and he said, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and of the midst of the elders, stood a lamb, as it had been slain." having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. Now look over at chapter 7, verse 9. And after this, verse 9 of chapter 7, After this I beheld in low a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before that throne, and before that Lamb clothed with white robes. And there before the throne, and serve him night and day in his temple, and he sits on the throne, and shall dwell with them, and they hunger no more, and thirst no more. And the sun shall not light on them, nor any heat for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and lead them unto living fountains of waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Now look over at Revelation 21. Revelation 21, here is a glorious description of eternity, of heaven. Revelation 21, verse 10, he says, He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the whole of Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. having the glory of God, her light was like unto a stone most precious, like a jasper stone." He's talking about a crystal cathedral. This was clear as crystal. It had a wall great and high and twelve gates, and the gates, twelve angels and names written on them. And on down through here, he talks about this city. Verse 19, "...the foundations of the wall were garnished with all manner of precious stones, jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emeralds and so forth, sardonyx and sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, all the precious stones and so forth. Now, hold your place right there and turn back to the text there in John 14. Now, to be sure, based upon that description, there are glorious and great things to be beautiful things to be seen. We just read this description of these walls, of this holy Jerusalem, this city, beautiful, adorned with jewels and so forth. But Christ said here, in my Father's house are many dwellings, many reservations. And he says, if it were not so, I would have told you. But he said, verse 2, To prepare a place for you. A place. Does anybody here remember that study we did back in sometime ago from Deuteronomy, where it says, there shall be a place that the Lord God has chosen to put his name there. You remember that study back in Deuteronomy? Anybody? A place where the Lord God has chosen to put his name there. Now, Terry, there's many reservations. You got one? I got one. There's only one place to live. Where is our abiding place? Who is our abiding place? He said, I go to prepare a place for you. There's one abiding place, one dwelling. To be sure, this has a spiritual understanding to it. But one dwelling for all people. One house. He is our abode. In Him we live and move and have our being. in him. Christ said there over in chapter 15, verse 4, Abide in me. Abode, abide in me. You're talking about a mansion. You're talking about a wonderful place to live. Abide in me, and I in you. Now, look back at Revelation 21, verse 22. Look at it. Verse 22, and John said, I saw no temple therein. I didn't see a temple. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of the earth." The tabernacle of God dwelled among men, right? And men, like you and I, we dwell in the tabernacle of God in Christ. We dwell in Him. We abide in Him and I in you. Look at verse 22 of Revelation. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding..." Where did that water of life come from? Out of the throne of God, not of the Lamb. See that? It came out of the throne. That's from the throne, and that's from the Lamb. He is the water of life. Christ is the water of life. He is the water of life. Look down at verse 6. He said, well, look at verse five. There shall be no night there. They need no candle, neither light of the sun for the Lord. What are we going to need with a house? Huh? Stan, are we not? No, everyone gets tired or sleepy. Huh? We're never going to get tired or sleepy. Rick and I were talking about this. Why would we want to be in the house anyway when everything else is going on outside? Huh? Why? I mean, it'd be a fool to be indoors when the excitement, when he's out there. No, he's always everywhere. He's the omnipresent one. He's always everywhere with his people all the time. Verse 6, verse 5, there's no night there, don't need a candle, light of the sun, the Lord God gives them light. And they'll reign forever and ever. And he said unto me, Now listen, pay attention to these two words. We'll turn back to John 14 here in a second. He said, now these sayings are faithful and true. What Christ is saying, if it weren't so, I wouldn't have told you. It's true. It is. It's faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. And look at verse 7. He says, Behold, I come quickly. Now turn back to this. the text, John 14. He said, These things are faithful and true. It's the last time I'll have you turn, OK? He said, These things are faithful and true. And he said, Behold, I come quickly. Now look at the text here, verse two again. Christ said, In my Father's house is a place to live. Where? In me. In me. You're going to abide in me and I in you. Yeah, you are. That's what he said when he prayed to the Father. And he said, now, if it weren't so, I wouldn't have told you. It's faithful and true. The same one that's talking here is the one that we saw that vision of on Wednesday night, the eyes as a flame of fire. The same one that's talking here except in the body of a man. If it weren't so, I wouldn't have told you. I'm telling you now. And he says, now, I go to prepare you a place. Nancy, he's gone to prepare Nancy Potts a place. A reservation. What did he do? How did he get this thing? He went to the cross. That's what he's talking about. He said, I go to the cross to prepare a place for you. How is our place in heaven secure? Not by our works. We studied it this morning. Not by anything we do, but by what Christ is about to do. He said, I've got to go. He set his face toward Jerusalem and said, I've got to go there. Why? Joe, we wouldn't have a place. He's got to go work. He's got to go build. Build this salvation. Work out this salvation for us by dying, by living. He'd already lived, man. Now he was going to go and die and pay the penalty for the broken law that we had broken. And then he was going to go back to the Father and say, Father, now receive these. Receive these people for my sake, because of what I've done. Give them a reservoir. Give them a place. Give them what's covered to me." And the Father says, be delighted to. Be delighted to. Here's a place for us. Here's a place here. Here's a place for her. Here's a place. Many. They're all there. All there. Reservation. Now look at it. Remember what he said back there in Revelation? He said, if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again. That's what he said there in Revelation 22, wasn't it? I'm coming quickly. I've gone, I've got it all together now, and I'm coming back to get you. I'll take you back there. I'll come again. If I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again. I'll come again and receive you unto myself. See that? That's just what we've been talking about. He is our abiding place. Come again and receive you into my..." This is a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness. This thing, this thing of heaven, this thing of eternal life, it's a mystery. It's a glorious mystery. But somehow, Barbara, somehow this is what it's talking about. We dwell in Him. And it just can't be described. We receive it by faith. But this is it. And people in this world are all taken up with with houses and streets. And I said this one time, I believe perhaps that he talks about streets of gold, yes, for the beauty of it all, but perhaps to show our disdain for those things. We'll walk on gold. Now, oh, we wear it all over ourselves, you know, display it. Then, what's gold? We'll just walk on it like asphalt, you know, gold. You know, we'll have our eyes on him. We won't even look down. We always say, well, he's a beautiful street. Walk toward him. Streets of gold and pearly gates, you know, that's part of the beauty of the place. But David said, I want to go to behold his beauty, didn't he? I want to go and inquire in his temple and behold the beauty of the Lord. That's the one I want to see. Move aside, Abraham. And we'll talk later. Move aside, Peter. We'll talk about this later. I want to talk to you, yes, but I've got to see him. I want to see him face to face. And the scripture says the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, not a messenger, not an angel like he did at first when he first came, but the Lord himself shall descend with a shout as the archangel. The archangel will bring a shout. As the voice of a trumpet, here he comes with a voice that's never been heard before. Here he comes! Here he comes! Says, as the voice of a trumpet. You ever heard somebody whistle for their dog, somebody that could do it real loud? If I could do it, I'd do it right now. I've seen ladies do this, even, just piercing whistle, you know, just pierce your ears, but dogs come running, you know. Where do you hear this trumpet? He's coming, and every eye shall behold Him. Every eye shall behold Him. And it says, the dead in Christ shall rise first. The graves are going to open up. Oh, it sounds like a fairytale, doesn't it? Sounds foolish, doesn't it? But it's so. The graves are going to open up, and the dead in Christ shall rise. Then we which are alive, if we're alive when he comes and remains, will be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. That's what the process of longing for says. Why? Because Christ has gone to the cross, and by doing that, by going to the cross and paying our sin debt, Living this life and going to the cross to pay our sin debt, bear our sins, our punishment, and take them away. And he made us a reservation. It's all set. Secured. Stamped and locked forever. Your portion, Barbara Ross, Charles Ross, Virgie Jones, Ellen Faith, your portion in heaven is secure because of what he did. because of what Christ did. Ralph Barnard used to tell this story. Barnard, if you've ever heard him on tape, he wasn't much of a singer, although he'd sing that song, A Sinner Like Me. Anybody that's ever heard that tape of his, God's Bloodhound, you've heard it. Crinkling Boy, she'd sing that song, A Sinner Like Me, and it was a blessing. But he always wanted, he loved to hear people sing. He always had people sing. And he always wanted to sing well, but he couldn't, but he tried. But he said he had a dream one time. He said he had a dream. He said he went to heaven, and when he got there, he was standing outside this big, vast room where a lot of people Well, a great, vast throng of people were in there. And he heard this beautiful choir singing. Beautiful choir. Just as he said, the music, the melody, the harmony was just unlike anything he'd ever heard. He says, oh, it was so beautiful. And he walked closer and he got in there in the midst of all those people and he thought, oh, I'd like to get in on that choir. A vast choir singing these beautiful songs. Oh, I'd like to sing like that. I'd like to get in on that singing. He was rejoicing over this thing. It says he looked up there on one of the top rows and there was a chair. An empty chair. You know what's coming up. He worked his way up through this vast throng of people. It took him a while to get there. All the music was so beautiful. He wanted to sing with this choir. He worked his way up through there, walked up this long stairway, and made his way down the aisle. He got to that chair and said, That sounds like so much sentimentality down there, but it's true. It's true. It's true. I don't care how people abuse that sort of thing. It's true. It's true. In my father's house are many places. And Christ said, I go to prepare a place for you, Sherry Anderson, for you. You're going to go up there and there's going to be a name on a chair. No, you're not going to be seated. You're going to be standing. But there's a reservation for you to stand. and all the trust in Christ. Yeah, there is. We have his word on it. We just read it, didn't we? We just read it. Don't be troubled. I know how troubled you are at times, he said, but don't be troubled. You believe in God. Yeah, you do. I gave you that faith. Believe also in me. Now, in my Father's house, there are many places. Don't worry, there's room. There's room, and I'm going to prepare a place for you, going to the crowd, to secure it. And where I am, you may be also. And then I'm going to come again and get you, take you back with me. And we'll dwell together forever. Forever. Stand with me and I'll dismiss as anything.