I couldn't stand with this, the book of Revelation chapter 21. Hallelujah. Verse number one. Here's something else John saw. He said, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. It's not gonna be water next time, my dear brothers and sisters. Amen. You think you could ever sing that song for us? Probably not. All right, and there was no more sea, which deals with no separation, praise the Lord. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God 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. Now in verse number 22, please. Revelation 21, verse 22. 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 into it. and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for 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 it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. Can you say tonight, I will be there? Praise God, amen, you may be seated, thank you, amen. Revelation 21, giving us a picture, amen, of our place called heaven, amen, called a new heaven and a new earth, and thank God that God is gonna give us something brand new, amen, hallelujah, thank God for it. I want you to think with me for a little while tonight, if we can transport ourselves for a little while. I wanna preach about heaven for a few moments tonight, on the comfort of heaven. the comfort of heaven. You'll find in our Bible tonight that heaven is a place that God describes as being a place that is completely pure. He said, there'll be nothing that defileth, nothing that worketh a lie, no abomination, no abominable, amen, no wicked, no ungodly, no devilish, amen. There'll be nothing but purity in heaven. Amen, heaven, as you know, will be a peaceful place. I didn't say a quiet place. Amen, it's not gonna, preachers have said it true, this is the quietest place you'll ever be in the world, amen. Whether you go heaven or hell, it's not gonna be quiet. But in heaven, it's gonna be peaceful. There'll be no rebels, there'll be no rebellion. There'll be nothing contrary to the way or the will of God being done. It's gonna be a peaceful place, amen. It is as Jesus told his disciples, amen. You remember the other night about believe? What was he telling them? He said, let not your heart be troubled. What'd he tell them? I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. He desires to have you with him. So he's gone to prepare a place. Heaven is a private place. It's not open for visitors. It's not open for trespassers. Amen. And by the way, how would a trespasser find his way anyhow? Amen. Amen. There'll be nothing in heaven but the privacy that God has granted his people. That's why the wall is there. That's why the gates are there. It's a secure place for God's people, but it's private. Amen. You've gotten to see what he said this morning, his passing, that heaven's a prepared place. You have to have a reservation. Amen. Amen. A prepared place, as one preacher said, for a prepared people. Amen. It's private. We'll read about the fact that heaven is a place that shall be eternal. It's permanent. Thank God. Amen. Glad I'm not going to the home of the sky for 30 day reprieve. I'm glad there's no one-year rental term, amen. I'm glad it's forever and ever and ever is a permanent place. It is a place, as we said, it might be peaceful, but it's not gonna be quiet. It is gonna be a place of loud, lofty, often praise. Amen, amen. Well, preacher, what about those that don't like to worship? Well, they need to get saved, and then they'll enjoy the worship. Because when I read my Bible, the ones who got upset with worship was a man named Judas, who Jesus said was the devil. Amen. Oh, Lord, help me, Jesus, amen. I can't even get into it, okay? I know there's knuckleheads and blockheads and all the rest, but when people don't like worship, something is wrong. I'm not gonna say what it is, but something's wrong, amen? Because heaven is gonna be a place where you don't have to think about it. You don't have to work it up. is coming out. You're gonna praise. Amen. Now I hate it for those who've been in churches that don't practice this, and so they don't have the, they've never been used to it, they've never participated in it, and heaven's gonna be an eye opener, amen. But to me, I've seen people go places they've never been, and no one had, they just came out. They started cheering for the team without knowing what they were doing. They didn't know a touchdown from a home run. Way to go, they didn't care. That's part of the environment. When you get to heaven, if you haven't been around it, it will not take long to realize this is the manner of heaven. This is the acceptable, no praise is not acceptable. Amen. Like Brother Will's talking about going back to that church and you can't do that, you're unsettling things because you said amen, you can't be doing that around here. Amen. I know people have gone to a, a Bible college in Florida, down near the panhandle. And in that college, I don't know, back years ago, it was just what hadn't changed today, that they don't want you saying amen because you disrupt the service. And people may not understand why you're doing so, and so they have these time of, basically you come to church and have time out. You just sit there and be quiet. They even have things called Vespers. I don't even know what a Vesper is, but it seemed like something offensive to God to me. Amen. Amen. God wants you to, he's seeking such to worship him. Amen. I believe when God saves you, he wants you to worship. Let the redeemed of the Lord say, so what, that they're redeemed. Amen. I am redeemed. Lord, I'm glad I'm saved. Amen. And when you get to heaven, I don't care who you are, where you came from. If you are saved, you are gonna praise. You can't help it, amen, it's coming out. Amen, you may not be around, whoever I'm talking to, amen, may not be around it, may not have been associated with it, but it's gonna not take half a second to have them realize this is what heaven's all about. The angels are crying out, the church is crying out, everyone you know is in heaven saying glory, glory, glory, and there I go, glory! Over what? I don't know yet, but glory! Amen. I appreciate, I love the fact that God introduced me two years ago and I was coming out of a place, didn't have that, had no idea. Amen was an unusual thing and got around it and I saw people raising their hand. What in the world is going on? What are they doing? I thought they were asking for help. I didn't know, I really didn't know what they were doing. I really didn't. I know they're interrupting the service, preacher, preacher, preacher, preacher, but they were just worshiping. They were just rejoicing. They were just doing their part in praising. Amen. And then I watched people doing, they had two hands up. I'm like, what in the world? Amen. It was, I mean, brand new. And then people saying amen and people just testifying, not having a, on the fifth Sunday we have a testimony service. Well, it was just people just testifying. Oh man, I love that. I like this. I like something inside. I like this. And we were there a couple days and it wasn't a couple days in the meeting. Amen. It got so good, my wife's hammering up in the air. Yeah, it's just something on the inside was just like, this is something I've been missing. And ever since then, I've just always had the mindset that when you go to church, give it your best. I've always had that mindset. Amen, give it your best, and when it comes to worship, give it your best. Amen, you have to take you and put you aside. Remember, it's not personality. Amen, you lay a $100 bill in front of them, you find their personality, they have no problem then. That shame and that whatever, how they sound, no, it's out the window. and you let them get a check in the mail, and all dignity is gone. Some great blessing, oh, they lose themselves, and oh, I couldn't help it, I got so excited. I've always wanted one of these. Then you come to church, and why can't you just let it out? Because you're binding it in, amen, amen. Quit, quit, quit, quit riding the personality train. Amen, and start walking in the spirit, because that spirit that's inside of you is that well of living water that's gonna keep springing up inside of you, and you keep plunging it and pushing it down. Let it out, amen. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Amen. Well, you think about heaven tonight, and we're talking about the comfort of heaven. And if we were to stop tonight and think about heaven and what we know about, we don't know much about it. Amen, I can't, I'm not an artist, I couldn't draw it for you. But if I described it to you, there's no way we can fully get the picture of it. Because we're bound by what we've seen on earth. If I talk about a gate, you're gonna think about some mansion had this gate. God's not like them, his is so much better. Amen, and I've never seen a gate of pearl. Amen. I've never seen walls of jasper. I've never been on a city street that was gold clear as crystal. I've never been anywhere where the foundations were jewels. And the light was the Lamb of God. You think about that light and the radiating and the colors and all that's gonna be. There's no way anybody can paint a picture or draw a picture, even compare what heaven's gonna be like. There's no way. How do you draw for me what it's gonna be like being around the throne? Can you draw the mansion properly? We have no idea. When God talks about something, we just see what we've seen. So we think, oh, it's gonna look like this and this kind of thing. God is so far above man in his ability, what he can design, amen. God is a wonderful architect, a wonderful designer and builder, and he's beyond compare, amen. There's nothing we can compare it to. But what we do know is enough for me to say, I wanna go there. Amen, I wanna be there, amen. So with that in mind tonight, the comfort of heaven, here's how heaven comforts us. Number one, the comfort of heaven is it gives us deliverance from sin. Now here's the thing, if you have never allowed yourself to comprehend the actual evil, the filthiness, our own depravity, you won't understand what it means to deliver from sin. You know what it takes a person to appreciate that is one who knows what they were that God delivered them from. Amen. I'm glad that in salvation God has delivered us, amen, from the power of sin. Forgiving us according to the price of sin, but one day we'll be free from the presence of sin. You realize that in heaven there will be nothing but purity. there'll be no sin. Amen, there'll be nothing that defileth, nothing that worketh. No one's gonna come up to you and tell you a lie. No one's gonna come up to you and tell you something that hurts your feelings. Nobody's gonna say something to misrepresent you. or lead you down a wrong path. There'll be nothing in heaven to draw you away into sin. Amen, I'm looking forward to being in heaven and being free from the opportunity to sin. I remember years ago, Brother Student Blue preached and he was talking about temptation. And he said, when you have temptation by itself, you can handle it. You have an opportunity without temptation, you can handle it. But you put those two together. Temptation with opportunity. He said, that's when you gotta watch out. Amen. See, with people, if that temptation is there, but people are all around you, you don't have opportunity, that temptation, you can kind of push it away. But if the temptation's there and no one's there to know what you're doing, now you're in trouble. You better make your way out quickly, amen? But I'm looking for the day when I can live a life and not have to worry about sin popping up somewhere, amen? Not having to worry about myself with the opportunity to sin. And therefore there'll be no more falling, no more failing, no more sin in my heart, in my life. Won't have to deal with sin in anybody's life, amen? Can you imagine? No, I cannot. What it's gonna be like to be in a place where there's absolutely no sin. Millennial kingdom, Jesus ruling, peace on earth, and them bunch of rebels have the audacity to rise up against the God of glory. Heaven won't be like that. There'll be no more Luciferian uprisings. No more angel anarchy. No saint is rising up like an Absalom and saying, y'all come and follow me, we're starting a new kingdom. There'd be none of that. There'd be no sin in it, no sin. Nothing on the side corner, nothing down the street, nothing in your mansion, amen. Nothing of sin at all. I don't know about you, but the one I get sickest of the most is me. Amen, yeah, I hate sin, hate what sinners do, but I'm telling you, when I find myself doing what they do, it's like, what is wrong with you? Why did you give in? Why did you do that? Opportunity, but thank God in heaven, there's no opportunity to sin. Praise God, amen. And that is why sinners don't wanna go to heaven. Amen, there's no corner liquor store. There's no, There's no Christian pharmacist in the church. I'd say he was licensed, but there's no Christian pharmacist. No dispensary, I guess you'd call it, place you can go get your pills that you need to help you cope with life, because you don't have any peace on the inside. Amen. You realize that heaven, there's no ADHD, no PTSD. know whatever thing they can come up with, their anxiety and problems of life, they just can't cope, the peace of God isn't sufficient down, there'll be none of that in heaven. Amen, no opportunity for sin, and if you ask a sinner, then I don't wanna go. But those that are saved, you know we're saying, God, please, hasten the day when I can be in a place where there is no sin. Amen, no opportunity to sin. In sin, there's no more offense. You understand that every time we sin, we offend God? It's an offense against Almighty God. Amen, that's why there's grief, that's why there's guilt, because we offended God. That's what drives you to repentance, that godly sorrow, the fact, I offended God. I didn't just do wrong, I didn't just, oops, I didn't just slip, I offended God. I transgressed the law of God. I purposely, willfully said, I'm doing what I wanna do. Opportunity's available, I'm doing it, I don't care about, now you may not have thought you thought all that, but you actually processed, and you did what you knew I should not be doing. You had opportunity, but now there's an offense. Now you gotta live with that offense. Amen. I don't know about you, but as you go through the Christian life, you're gonna find this much out. You got saved, but you still got that nature, that old man, and you're still gonna sin. But it's different than when you were lost. When you were lost, it didn't bother you. If you offended somebody, you didn't notice or didn't care. When you get saved and you sin, boy, that guilt, Boy, that grief of, Lord, I'm sorry, Lord, I'm sorry I offended you, I didn't, because you can feel that barrier, amen, with that grief when you wrong somebody and you feel that distance and that I can't reach them like I want to, I feel there's a, yeah, the grief and the guilt because I offended them. Or someone offended me with their sin. Amen, so there's an offense taking place, causing grief and guilt. So the offense comes with, thank God, there'll be deliverance from offense, deliverance from opportunity, and deliverance from the obstruction of sin. Your sins have withholding good things from you. Your sins have separated you from God. If I regard iniquity in my heart, God will not hear me. Amen. One sinner destroyeth much good. We're thankful tonight that we can walk in the light and have fellowship with the Father and Jesus Christ. Sin separates fellowship. It hinders your prayers, affects your spiritual life. That's an obstruction. What I was gonna do, I'm not doing because of sin. I was gonna do this in righteousness, but I put myself as a servant of sin. So now that sin is obstructing that weight and that sin that so easily doth beset us. Thank God in heaven there'll be no besetting sin. There'll be nothing that's gonna spring up on you and weigh you down and trouble you and cause you to say, well, I can't really go to the throne today, I'll let them go, I sinned against God and I don't know about, no, that'll be gone. No more an obstruction, no more anything, I don't know about you, but it troubles and it should trouble me. Amen. When I sin, it should trouble me. And I should feel that grief and that remorse I wanna be right with you. But Lord, I know there's an offense. Please forgive me. But how we are, I can say I'm sorry, I can confess it, I can forsake it, fully repentant of it, but boy, that guilt just doesn't go away easy. And boy, the devil loves to, doesn't he? We talked about this morning how that your mind, you could be right there in the message, and all of a sudden, boop. Not always a sinful thing. Oh, tomorrow I need a, no, no, no, I can tell you anything about that later. Well, that's one thing. But you could be in church, have your hand rising to the sky, and all of a sudden, the devil brings up something. I'm not worthy. I can't worship God. Did you confess it? Yeah. Did you turn from it? Yeah. Okay. It's gone. It's taken care of, it's done. But oh, that guilt plays on us, the devil plays on us. Amen, so now that sin is an obstruction. But thank God in heaven, you won't be going down the street of gold and have some wrong thought or some wrong deed, and then see, geez, I can't see, I'm gonna go hide the other way. Amen, amen, I'm glad that the guilt of shame, all that'll be gone. I'm not gonna walk around heaven with my head hung low, because I see something that reminds me of something I did. Amen, amen, so thank God there'll be a time we will be delivered from sin. Listen carefully, the comfort of heaven, Not just deliverance from sin, but distancing from sinners. Listen to me. I've read about preachers in the past talking about this very matter, that a sinner would be glad to go to heaven if they can keep sinning. But if they have to quit their sinning to go, no, that's all. Oh, I want Jesus, I wanna go to heaven. I don't wanna go to heaven. I wanna go to heaven. Well, you're gonna have to, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You mean I gotta do this and I can't do that and I can't be this and I can't be this? I thought you wanted to go to heaven. Well, not that badly. Not that badly. Can I remind you that young ruler was sorrowful because he had great possessions. But let me ask you something, sir. What were you planning to do with those possessions? That might be the problem. You might have had plans for your money of what you wanna do for yourself in pleasure, and if you gave it all away, you can't afford to do it. Amen. So the time will come, heaven will be a comfort, because we will be distant from sinners. I gotta remind you what Jesus said of those who are saved. He said, the world hates you. Then he let her know, but don't let that shock you surprise you. He said, they hated me. If they hate me, they're gonna hate you. So it's time to understand. Sinners are hateful. The world, if you're saved, the world hates you. Now, either you believe Jesus or you don't. Either you wanna run to your NIV on this one or something else, but Jesus said, if you are mine, the world will hate you, no question. You don't have to introduce yourself, they're gonna hate you. John lets us know that if you don't love that which has been born of God, you don't know God yourself. You say you love God and hate the brother, you're still walking in darkness, you don't know God. Amen, amen, amen, amen. This does not bother me. Don't let it bother you. Because in heaven, the ones who are there are the ones who want to be there. Amen, and if that sinner wanted to go to heaven, they'd deal with their sin. That ought to be, as that preacher said the other day, that ought to be motivational. Oh, let me go back up. Maybe it was. Hold on. I'm cycling back through. One of the preachers talked about repentance. Might have been a message I heard. But he was talking about the fact about, that's who it was, I heard another preacher say this. He was talking about repentance. And he said, you remember years ago, a preacher called him who was a leading evangelist. You heard that, probably heard this story. And called him, asked him about that, about repentance. because it's becoming a big issue. He said, I don't know about all. He said, let me ask you a question. Well, let me ask you a question. He said, a man comes in to the church, an obvious sinner, comes staggering to the church. You give a clear presentation of the gospel, and you offer them that free gift of salvation. and offer and plead with them and show them it's a free gift. You can leave today knowing you're saved, knowing you're forgiven, knowing you're going to heaven. If you would come and receive this free gift, and the invitation, they walk out. He says, he said, why'd he leave? He said, why did he not take a free gift? Because he wasn't gonna repent. Amen. I have talked to people in the worst condition in their life, sitting there, and I've told them about salvation, about being saved, and they listened, they said, I'm going to hell, and then they said this, do I need to, no, they didn't say do I, they said, well, that means I gotta quit doing this. I didn't say that, they said, well, I gotta quit doing this, I'm not ready for that. I'm not ready to walk away from my sin. We're not talking about works, we're talking about repentance. Not willing, God's not gonna save you in your sin. And you keep living like a hog and a dog and all, but God, no, no, that's not God's salvation. That's a man-made operation. And that'll get you as far as the grave is all it's gonna get you. Amen. A man has to be willing to turn from his sin that God's gonna save them from their sin, not in their sin. Amen. That hog pit dwelling person has never been saved. God's gonna bring them out, or God's gonna bury them. Amen. Heaven's a place that'll distance us from sinners. While we're here, we're living among darkness, but thank God, there's not enough darkness to put out the light. And we're to be constant light, constant salt, amen, constantly sharing, letting people know the way to heaven, how to help them get to God and salvation, amen, but the day's coming, someone has to make a decision, amen, and I'm not willing to stay forever. Amen. The distancing from sinners. Only saved people will be in heaven. He clarifies that in chapter 21, the last verse about names are in the book of life. That's the criteria. And how do you get your name in the book of life? You gotta be born again. And that's his registry of all the births. has a record book, so and so was born on this day. There's a record book. And there's nobody gonna be in heaven that hasn't first had a registry. A time when God wrote down when they got birth into the family of God. It's not your works, it's not your membership, it's not your baptism, it's not your giving, it's not your deeds. Have you been born again? You don't get to heaven unless you've been born again. Amen. Amen. So that means there's no sinners in heaven. None of them. Amen. That means that on earth, what we have to deal with with sinners is always having to deal with their temptation. Because sinners don't sin alone. Amen. I think the reason we talked about that, and you've had a little more experience than I have with that for sure, but you mentioned about watching people, wicked, ungodly, someone says they're saved, and intentionally, purposely put something in front of them to see. Oh, you say you're saved? And try to push them into sin. It doesn't mean the person's saved or lost, but this person is trying to make them by putting temptation before them. Because sinners don't like condemnation. And you're trying to act like you're better than me? I'm gonna show you you're no different than me. And I'm gonna prove to everyone you're no different. I'm sick of your hottie-tottie and holy attitude. I'm gonna show everyone you're just like I am. You just wear the title of Christian. Y'all remember the testimony of that preacher the other day? When he talked about gonna go to that one church, he said, but I knew all those people. I gambled with them, I drank with them, I partied with them, and I didn't wanna go. I know what they are. All right, that's the same type thing. Let me see if I can get, they say they're saved, they say they're a Christian, they act like they're better than me, like I'm something bad wrong with me. Well, I'm gonna show them they're no different than I am. And so a sinner will purposely try to put temptation in front of what they think is a child of God. Amen, okay. Would a real Christian, a real Christian purposely try to get another Christian to fall? I don't believe so. I don't believe so. I'm talking purposely, intentional mischief to cause him to fall. I don't know anyone can get out of sorts in any way, but the characteristic of a Christian is not trying to get people to sin. But a sinner? The more the merrier. Isn't that their motto? The more the merrier, the more people we can get doing, the better off it's gonna be. Hey, they act like they don't do. Let's see if they'll take part in this, in temptation. You watch your life. When temptation comes around, look for sinner carrying the sign. This way. Free this, free that. This way. This way. Amen. I tell you what, if I'm off base, I'm off base, I don't think I am, but if I am, just listen to me. A Christian is not gonna tempt a Christian to sin. And if they do so, you just treat them like you would a sinner and distance yourself. If you're gonna get me to try to sin, I'm gonna treat you like I treat a sinner. I'm gonna separate myself because you're trying to get me to sin. Amen, amen. I'm gonna flee, run. Flee from it, don't hang around and tell them no. In the name of Jesus, I say no. In the name of Jesus, run! Best thing you can do is make tracks, amen. So distancing, the sinners will try to lay temptation before you. Sinners will lay their transgressions before you. It's interesting, is it not? I don't know if that's the right word. But how sinners will get so angry at you living your life as a Christian. And you're not, like I said, you're not carrying placards and signs and letters of condemnation or whatever. You're just trying to live for God, okay? Well, they take it like you're putting it in their face. Oh, you just think you're better than me. No, I'm just trying to live my life. I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm not trying to offend you, I'm not trying to drive a wedge, I'm just trying to live for God. If you get upset with that, you get upset with it, but I'm just trying to live for God. And they get upset with you putting your life before them, even though you're not putting it into them. Oh, but they have no problem putting their sin before your face. It's really more like when they know you're against it, they'll purposely bring it out. Oh, that's right, you don't like this, do you? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I forgot your family didn't do that. Oh, blankety, blank, blank. Oh, I forgot y'all were more sensitive to that kind of language. You didn't forget. Put on a certain program when you walk in. Talk certain topics when you get around. And they knew you were there, they know how you feel and how you believe, and they purposely lay their transgression before your face. What you gonna do? What you gonna say? Thank God there's a place we can distance ourselves from sinners who wanna lay their transgressions before our face. Amen, thank God we can be free one day, distant from sinners with their tongue. Amen. I'll tell you something. James tells us about how evil the tongue is. And that little tongue, what a dangerous member it is. And that's what you have in God inside to help you regulate and control your tongue. They have no regulator. They have no controller. They have no one on the inside to say, nope, nope, nope, nope. And we struggle with the tongue. They don't. They don't struggle at all. They don't mind spewing out, spewing out, spewing out, spewing out, spewing out, spewing out, spewing out. Oh, did that hurt you? Yeah, that's the tongue that's coming out of an evil heart. Amen, and a wicked mind. Evil intentions. These are the ones that can't sleep at night because they didn't cause any mischief during the day. Amen, amen. You realize that when you think about a serpent, a viper, we know they have fangs, but the first thing you think about is their tongue. Because that tongue is their sensory perceptor. That's what they use to sense something nearby is that tongue. Picking up heat, different things, that tongue is their sensor. They're not just striking at something till they've sensed it with their tongue. They're not trusting their eyes, it's their tongue. You ever seen a snake? That tongue. Fork tongue. Double tongue. Bipolar tongue. Gonna pick up on either side of their face. trying to find something they can strike. What do they use first? Their tongue. When they sense, they use that tongue, and for those people, their tongue is attached to their fangs. So it's not just forked, it's a fang tongue. And that tongue comes out, and you get injected with poison. And they did it on purpose. That's what sinners do. They have no God to please. They have no reason to guard what they say. They're like those in the Bible that said, our tongue is our own, who will lord over us? That's a sinner. A sinner has no problem telling you how they feel, what they think about you or anybody else, and they don't mind using that tongue for whatever purpose they wanna use it for. Flattery. Do you really think a Christian's gonna live a life using flattery? Come on now. Flattery is false praise. A falsehood is not truth. Which means it's a lie. Now if you say you're a Christian and you can be a liar, you need to go read Revelation chapter 21 verse number eight. And all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Well I'm saved, I just have a problem with lying. You got a problem with more than that. You done lied to yourself about being saved. Because the Holy Ghost is not gonna put up with lying. Remember what happened to Ananias and Sapphira when they lied to the Holy Ghost? God made an example of those two when they lied to the Holy Ghost. My people don't lie. Quit your lying. Flattery is lying. Now I don't think you ought to purposely hurt somebody by telling them the truth. As the preacher said, isn't it a second opinion? You're ugly too. Okay. We're not talking about, well, I just, I just, I just want to tell the truth. No, just keep your mouth shut. Okay. But don't purposely try to make somebody believe something that you don't believe. Amen. You can always look in their eyes. You know what I'm talking about. They get around and they wanna, oh, look at their eyes. They're lying to you. They want you to be their friend. Or they want you to do something for them. So they will tell you what they think you wanna hear about yourself. They want me to take part? Why would they pick me? Because you were there. Or because you might have money to take them out to eat afterwards. Oh, we've been, no, you're flattering me. Quit, shut up. No, no. Why are you acting like a viper? The flattering tongue worketh ruin. Why are you acting like a viper? Christians don't act like vipers. Now, listen to me. Every one of us are gonna say things we shouldn't say that hurt somebody. Not intentionally. Not intentionally. But when you're seeking to hurt them intentionally, you need to go back and find out from God what's wrong in your heart. Because that's not a characteristic of a child of God. Wanting to use their tongue to hurt people. Whether through flattery or some other means just to purposely cause people hurt. Amen! Amen, amen, thank God one day we'll be having a distance between us and the tongue of the wicked. Amen, what about the trouble of the wicked? Man that is born only a few days and full of trouble, where did it all come from? We're not talking about trials, we're talking about trouble. You know what sinners do? They cause trouble. Amen. You go back and look at the books and they'll tell you back in 1963, go back and read and they'll show you the crimes being committed in the public schools. Or what they call the offenses. Getting out of line, chewing gum, not getting permission to go to the restroom, throwing an eraser. Okay, now find out what do you think the crimes are in public schools. How about assault on a teacher? Now I'm not even gonna talk about the things, other things they do that's just absolute atrocities in schools today. That would put people in prison and they come in schools and they just get it because they're only a school kid. Wickedness, unbelievable wickedness going on. You know why? That's what sinners do. They cause trouble. They're always trying to diss, okay? Have you ever been around family? And it's okay at first, till somebody showed up. or somebody showed out. Now that little gathering you had really begins to irritate you because that person is just causing trouble. They're agitating. They're stirring people up in wickedness. Before they showed up, we could converse, we're having, it was fine. It was fine. A lot of times when it comes down to separating from family gatherings, it's because of one or two people. that just wanna stir the pot all the time. I've got family, and in the mind is like, if we could have a gathering and them not come, it'd be good. Honestly, I would go, we'd have a good time, I think, and I could tolerate. But if they're coming, I know that they're just gonna be boisterous, they're gonna all try to take over things, they're gonna be dominating and domineering, and I'm not putting up with it. I'm not gonna drive X number of hours and spend my time to sit around there because family, and then listen to somebody cause trouble in the house, forget it. I'd rather sit at home and do whatever, watch grass grow. count the raindrops as they fall from the sky. Whatever, I don't wanna put myself in that situation because they're just causing trouble. That's what sinners do. Thank God when we get to heaven, you won't have to worry about the temptations, the transgressions, amen. Heaven's not just you're not sinning, they're not sinning. You don't have to walk by a sinner. You don't have to hear those undertones and that viper tongue talking about, well, why is the Lord doing it that way? Didn't we worship yesterday and now we gotta go back to the throne again today? There'll be none of that trash. I don't know, he said he's gonna do this. Do you really think that's a good idea? I think we ought to take it up and have a vote. There'll be none of that stuff. Amen. Oh, amen. Help me. Good night now, my soul in the morning. Praise God, amen. Distancing from sinners, amen. We will be free from sin. Thirdly, it'll be a departure from our suffering. See, heaven, the comfort of heaven is we won't suffer anymore. No more suffering. John 16, 33, Jesus said, in the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. Why? I've overcome the world. See, there's coming a day you'll have no more trouble, no more suffering, no more heartache, no more pain, amen. The godly, as you know, are gonna suffer persecution. The Bible said in our text that the former things are passed away. Well, what is it he said is gonna pass away? Well, if you look down in verse number four, he talks about wiping all tears from their eyes, but he said there should be no more death. Well, we'll just call that there'll be no more parting. Amen, no more saying goodbye to loved ones. No more death snatching away somebody you love. Amen. Amen. And I guess we could take this further, not just in death, but there'd be no more parting. People walking away from you. It's like a death. Amen. Thank God in heaven, you won't have to deal anymore with people parting. Amen. Departing from you and walking away. Amen. Treating you like you're dead. Okay? Amen. Thank God. I'm trying to preach about heaven now, amen, the comfort of heaven. We'll have a departure from suffering, there'll be no more parting. Then he said there'll be no more sorrow, that's our problems. Amen, no more problems. Well, glory. Amen, amen. Amen, amen, amen. Thank God. I appreciate how God will allow things to happen and then it'll be a simple fix. But you don't always know that. Amen. When I walked in Wednesday morning and smelled first, then I saw my, something just doesn't smell right. Then I saw what happened in that room and I'm like, oh no. And I already noticed when I opened my phone up that two units across the street weren't working, two units near her weren't working. Oh boy. Then the AC on the main auditorium wasn't coming up. Oh boy. Oh Lord, we got four units down. Internet's not working. We got a flooded building. And I'm supposed to study for preaching tonight. That was Wednesday morning after my Tuesday night, which I'm not even gonna get into. Okay, and I'm gonna preach tonight? All right, Lord, you won't have to help me. Amen. Because in your mind, you're wondering, okay, what does this mean? What is wrong? Is it a simple fix, hard fix? What is it? Well, praise God, some of it was a simple fix. Thank God for it. Amen, and then that led to finding out other things that we were that close to having disaster. But it got discovered because this problem led us to discover that problem. And so now it becomes, well, thank you for the problem that let us prevent a bigger problem. Amen. Then we found out that the other problems could be fixed with little tweaks here and there. Thank you, Lord, it wasn't what it could have been in my mind's eye. Thank you, Lord, for taking care of that pressure, that problem, that stuff that comes in your life that is just a problem to you. Amen, amen. Some of y'all had a week like that last week, didn't you? This happened and that happened and that happened and that happened. You think about that and that's going on and ah! You feel like the maniac running through the yard, don't you? Ah! What's wrong with him? Oh, nothing, he's just getting the stress out, amen. He didn't have any dessert in the house, that's how he deals with his stress, amen. Run through the yard. The problems, the sorrow involved. What about next? He said there'll be no death, no sorrow, no crying, no pity. Nothing that's hurting you bringing the tears. You've cried before what we call happy tears. Why are you crying? I'm so happy. Why? But sometimes it can be so overwhelming what happens. It's the joy and the tears run. But I don't think he's talking about the happy tears. I think he's talking about that brokenness, that pity of what I'm dealing with and how it's affecting me, bringing me to tears. Amen. Amen. Have you ever been hurt and it just hurts so much, you started crying just because how it hurt? That's what we're talking about. Then he does mention plainly, no more pain. So no more parting, no more problems, no more pity, no more pain. Amen, praise God. Nothing that hurts you anymore, nothing, amen. You realize you can run down the street of gold 1,500 miles, just keep on running, and never twist an ankle, never get hurt, don't come back and go ow, ooh, ouch, ee, amen, amen. You can bend and stretch and run and jump and never throw your back out, never have a problem with your foot, your ankle, your knee, or anything else. Shoulder going out, there'll be no more pain. You will never hurt again. Never. Amen, I say happy day. I say bring it on. Amen, amen. Parting hurts. Problems can hurt. Crying means there's probably some hurt. And flat out pain, no question, that hurt. Amen. I don't care how strong you think you are. You can get hurt. Amen. So we find that there will be some things finally being done with, amen. Another thing I want you to consider is this, the comfort of heaven is when it comes to that time, we will finally have a complete death of self. Amen. Boy, what a struggle we have, don't we? With ourselves. Amen. We said so in Brother Paul. The things I would, I don't. But the things I would not, I do. Can you almost hear Paul saying, what is wrong with you? You claim to be a Christian, you claim to be an apostle, you claim to be a servant of the most high God, you claim to have done more labors than anyone else, and you can't do right all the time. I can hear that frustration. I want to and I don't. I don't want to and I do. Oh! Oh! There's nothing good about my flesh. Nothing good about my flesh. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing. None. I don't care who you are. Your flesh stinketh. Amen. Amen. You've been dead more than Lazarus was. You really stink. Amen. Amen. That flesh stinks. It's putrid. Amen. It's amazing how often we'll put it on and walk around and get used to the smell, I guess, of that putrid, rotting flesh of ours, and we'll let that flesh rise up, and then we're like, why'd you do that? Don't do that. Don't give into your flesh. Don't make provision. Don't give into the devil. You did it again. I'm getting sick of myself. Thank God there'll be a day that myself will finally be dead. Amen, I'll be in a glorified body, amen. I will not have the same problems I have today, amen. Glad I won't be having to deal with myself on a regular basis, amen. Trying to pick myself up, straighten myself out, rebuke myself, correct myself, exhort myself, encourage myself. Just believe God, would you? I'm glad the day's coming. The comfort of heaven is me is gonna be gone. I thank God, amen, that I won't have to deal with me anymore. Amen. No longer look at that mirror and say, listen up, buddy. Amen. I won't have to do that anymore. No more dealing with myself, with my sin, my whatever it might be that's hindering me. Amen, I will have nothing restricting me in those realms, amen. 1 John 3, 2 tells us that we shall be like him. We shall see him as he is. Boy, now, think about it. So John said, we shall be like him. We'll be in a glorified body, no more temptation, no more being drawn away of our own lust and enticed. There's nothing to entice you. And in that glorified form, no longer dealing with this old flesh, that old nature. Finally, the old nature will be put to rest for good. Man, praise God. No more having to deal with my flesh. No longer having to deal with my faults. Preacher, you got faults? Come on. Come on, come on, come on. I've heard preachers say, people say, you got so many faults. He said, look, come to me and I'll give you a list. I'll add to your list, amen. We know part of our faults, our shortcomings, our besetting sins. We know those things. But when we get to heaven, we'll no longer have to deal with our faults, our failures. Oh mercy, okay. That's a good verse, I'm gonna highlight that verse. That's a good verse right there. Oh, that's a good, oh yes, I love that, thank you. Oh, the Bible's so precious, oh, da, da, da, da. And 10 minutes later, you are so carnal and so full of whatever. It's like how in the world did you go from not wanting to leave your Bible time to being a carnal, fleshly, flesh-controlled, flesh-operating creature. Amen, don't let that be too convicting on you. Amen, amen. Have you been, again, as preachers, as I said oftentimes, is it just me? Am I the only one who struggles with themself? You're reading your Bible and you're like, you get, then you're like, wait a second. What did I read? I hate to tell you, but there was nowhere in my text that said Walmart. Nowhere in my text laid out a grocery list. Sorry, nowhere in my list laid out my work for the day. I'm not reading my Bible and seeing all those things about the bills you gotta pay, what you have to, so why is that in my mind when I was gonna read my Bible? I just read about the crucifixion and what'd you get out of that? Well, if I go to food line first, I can go to the post office. And you catch yourself, don't you? And honestly, when I look at myself, it's like, well, that was a failure. I read my Bible. My mind was, see, we don't realize how we can do two things at one time. You did read it. You read every word. But your mind was somewhere else while you were reading. That's why if you sat down and write down what you got out of your Bible reading, and it's all about your duties, your obligations, versus what you actually got in the scripture. I don't know about you, but that's pretty bad when I'm in my Bible, and what I get out of my Bible is what I have to do outside my Bible. But I read my Bible. Failure. Go to pray. Have you ever tried to pray? I'm using that word meaning because you didn't do very well. You did try, but it wasn't very successful. Right? I tried. I went to my prayer place, I got myself to pray, but in reality, if I stopped and thought about what I actually said, or what I actually thought about. Being human, you get praying for somebody, you start thinking about their life, then you start thinking about this, which leads to this, which leads to that, which leads to you being in China doing who knows what. You were praying about this, well done, but how'd you end up all the way over there? and you don't even know what you're saying. And now, okay, I'm giving personal testimony, sorry. Then I catch myself and I'm like, okay, what am I supposed to say now? I am way over there. What do I say? Well, Lord, as I was saying, no, somehow something got off track somewhere And I failed in that one. I did, I tried, but I failed. But I'm glad in heaven there'll be no more failure. Thank God, and I'm glad I won't remember them either, hallelujah. But thank God as well, the self will die and I'll have no more fears. Amen. I preach, I ain't afraid. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Amen, we all have fears. And every one of us have different fears. depending on your life, depending on what you're dealing with right now. That apprehension, I'm not talking about you walking around, hiding yourself in a closet so scared, but there's fears, there's apprehension, there's anxiety, there's care. Amen. But I'm glad in heaven there'll be no more fearfulness, no more walking afraid of what's behind that rock over there. What happens if I open door number two? I'm supposed to open door number one. Oh God help me. I'm gonna, yes Lord, I'm gonna open that door and I'm gonna believe you. And you turn the handle and while the door's opening, ah! And you go running down the hallway. Why? I was scared. I didn't know what was lurking behind that door. But in all my faith, I opened the door. But my fear took over running down the hallway. Amen. Amen. Well, Miss Sophie gets it, amen. Amen. Notice this one closing, okay. No, it's not closing. I'm sorry, we got two more. Okay. Number five, grace. You ready? The comfort of heaven is when you get to heaven is a place, listen carefully, where you are desired. by the saints. Right now, the Bible said, we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as also I am known. Amen. Amen. You may not think you're known down here, except being known, but unknown. But when you get to heaven, you are already known. And you're welcome. Amen. Oh, help me, Lord Jesus, amen. You are either severely not right with God or you are severely lost when you cannot welcome a child of God into your presence. I said a child of God. Amen, amen. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Something not right. when a professed child of God cannot welcome into their presence a child of God. Something's wrong. Either restoration, forgiveness, salvation, something needs to happen. Amen. When you get to heaven, I promise you, you don't have to worry about going through the pearly gates and hoping somebody will be glad you're there. The man of God's concern in the meeting was that his name has been smeared so much that probably no one will show up. When you get to heaven, that's not gonna be the problem. See, because in heaven, everyone understands what they were. And they understand forgiveness. There are no, understanding before they went to heaven, they were not perfect people. Even saved, they weren't perfect, they still had, amen, when you read about their lives and things they did, they were no perfect people outside of Jesus Christ. Amen, so everyone who's gone to heaven has gone as an imperfect person who's been forgiven by God. Amen, so there's nobody in heaven that's better than you. See, when you get to heaven, there'll be nobody that's a celebrity. There's no any one Christian who's being set apart than all the rest as being superior. We've all come by the way of the cross. We've all come as wicked viles, sins, repenting of our sins, putting faith in Jesus Christ. We've all had our sins under the blood. We all realize what I am is only because of Jesus and by Jesus. So in heaven, there's no celebrities. There's no cliques. Amen. Yeah, whatever, amen. I get so weary of this stupid trash, amen. A clique is always being led by a lost person. I say they're all lost people. Some of the lost person's leading that clique. When you're purposely isolating from other people, there's no place for cliques in church and there'll be no cliques in heaven. There won't be, amen. Amen. Amen. I tell you, I was a little bit surprised last night. We were leaving, were you with, who was with me when I was leaving the auditorium? Was that you? Or was it you? Or was it you? When they were moving the pews around. That was you. That was Brother Bill. I'm working my way through, amen. Okay, and that one boy, he's always very friendly and nice. The other one's a little quiet. But I was very surprised at his response And man, thank y'all for coming, so good to see you. And I was like, oh yeah. Because I thought he was just whatever. And I'm like, okay, I'm seeing a side of you I haven't seen before. I like it. I like it. I like seeing those parts of people you don't always get to see. Amen, because there's no cliques. I'm part of this group and I'm part of that group. Thank God in heaven we'll all be together. There'll be no separation of the brethren. I'm all for biblical separation, amen. If someone's not right, you have to pull apart. But I think too many times people pull apart because they don't like the color of their shoes or the color of their suit or they don't operate just like we do and stuff, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A lot of prejudice, a lot of judgmental spirits, a lot of better than everyone else because we just do it, oh, just get over it, get over yourself, amen. Amen, God's people ought to be able to get along with each other and not feel strange among each other and feel like there's something wrong with you and nonsense, that's crazy. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. To treat a brother because he's done something that you've never done. Amen, boy, amen, amen, amen. Well, glory to God, amen, amen. So in heaven, you'll be desired by the saints. You do remember the Bible tells about being surrounded by great coddled witnesses. Who do you think they are? Where do you think they are? Now, I don't know what they're allowed to see. They said there's a cloud of witnesses. I don't know what they're allowed to see, how often they can see, but when you get to heaven, you know who's there is that cloud of witnesses. And you'll be known even as you are known. Hey, Brother Peter, how do you know me? Who have you been talking to? No, because Peter knows everyone else. I'm known as I'm known. Don't it be wonderful to actually have people who actually welcome you? They won't look at you like. Go down the other aisle, because you're in that aisle. Oh, I'm gonna tie my shoe. You're not tying your shoe. Why can't you look at a brother? Why can't you look at the sister? Amen. I'm not talking about the issues of having to separate. We're talking about just the basic Christian life attitude with the brethren. It's a shame. It's a shame. When you've got Christians that act worse than sinners when it comes to interacting with each other. People that won't forgive you for something you did 10 years ago. brother. I heard him say this too. How long ago is that? 10 years ago. Oh, okay. And you still remember that from 10 years ago. Have you talked to him about it? Nope. But you know about it. You're acting or whatever for 10 years ago and people can't change in 10 years. Amen, I'll tell you something, amen. It's like Brother Young said the other day, it depends on the season you get with people. What they're going through. See, here's the thing I've dealt with people. If I'm up there preaching, and I'm preaching on something, I'm continuing what I preached the other day, okay? If I talk about anything about repentance or faith, but I just preached about it, I'm not gonna go into full contextual elaboration of what I just preached about. But if someone hears that and not realize I'm just summarizing, oh, he doesn't believe in this or he's this or he's that. No, you're taking one little part of what was said, just like the wicked do, and making a judgment on them. Oh, they're liberal because they said this. Do you know the whole story? No. So don't make a summary on a person based on one statement. Well, he's a Calvinist because he said this. No, he just didn't have time to give you his whole dissertation of all he believes. Then you're gonna complain how long he preached. There's no winning with people like that. Amen. So you may just live your life for God and not worry about all those type of people in your life, but thank God in heaven, it'll be people who will actually welcome you. They'll actually celebrate your coming. Think about this. God said in Zephaniah that I will rejoice over thee with singing. The same God that said, Jesus said himself that there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels over one sinner that repented. Did you do that? Did you do that? If you did, that means there was rejoicing over you when you got saved. Unless Jesus was a liar. Huh? They're rejoicing more in heaven over one sinner that repents. And remember that time, they're all in paradise. So God's the one shouting. Because it's in the presence of the, I've heard songs where the angels, yeah, they might, but it was the presence of the angels. It was God rejoicing. Wait a minute, Jesus told that scribe to go out and preach. When they came back, he said, how'd it go? They said, oh, the devil's a subject unto us. We were casting out devils, healing the sick. All them devils had to bow to our will. And Jesus said, you ought not rejoice over that. You ought to rejoice because your name's written in the book of life. And Jesus, in that hour, rejoiced in spirit. Over what? Their names are in the book of life. Amen, he was rejoicing because they were saved. There's rejoicing over you when you got saved. So you telling me there'll be more excitement over you getting saved than you coming home? Amen, amen, amen, amen. You let a child be somewhere for years and years and years and years. Okay, can you imagine, I don't care how right with God he is, but if you didn't see him for 15 years, then he came walking in the door. How stoic are you gonna be? Oh, blessed be thou, my son. How sweet of you to decide to stop by to see your dear mother. Now I'm talking, you've kept a good relationship, You've talked and you've done, but you haven't seen him physically. You haven't seen him. You haven't held your son. 15 years. And he was walking in the door. Out of the way. Everybody out of the way. Mama's coming, boy. Amen. I don't care how much you say, well, mama, come on now. I'm a grown man now. No, no, no. And he'd be the same way. Mama! and there would be a grand celebration, and I promise you, those around are gonna know. There's been a reunion over at that house. Now that's us on earth. If you understand the love God has for you, you can't tell me he's not gonna be excited to see you. He was excited when you got saved, but he was just kinda like, huh? All right, just give him that card, the house is down the street. If you have any problems, let us know. If you can't find your way, ask one of these people on the street, they'll be glad to help you. I just don't believe that. I think there's gonna be a celebration every time a child of God comes home. Every time, every time, every time, every time. Well, preacher, what if you're not right with God? Can I remind you of the story of the prodigal? In the picture of the father, that when he saw his son a great way off, who had not yet been restored to the father, And you thank a holy, righteous, loving God who gave his life for you. Won't be glad to see you. Amen, amen, amen, amen. So think about the cloud, think about Christ, and the welcome you'll get in heaven. You're not gonna go to heaven and have to drop your head. I'm just so and so. When y'all were singing that song today about Well, just in time, that's what it was. Talk about that thief on the cross. And while you're saying that, I was in my mind seeing that, even tonight. You got a testimony to tell. Someone gets to heaven. Let me tell you something. You wanna talk about just in time? I was hanging on the cross, I was going to hell, I was moments away from hell, but the Jesus hanging on that cross spoke to my heart, saved my soul, it just, I mean just in time. What happened to you? Amen. Oh, desired by the saints. Let me say this tonight. You may not be wanted down here, but they're not wanted up there. Amen, there'll be a welcome. There'll be worship together. Together, worshiping together the Lamb of God. Amen, amen. And perhaps, I don't have Bible for all this, but just wondering about being a witness and wondering if you have a chance to tell your story. Well, here's the thing we don't understand. Let me pose a question to you, okay? You get to heaven and you actually meet Brother John. Is that gonna satisfy you? John, you mean John as in John the beloved? Well, that's what they called me. You mean John the one who laid on Jesus' bosom? John, John, John, I mean John the one who wrote about, for God so loved the world. Yeah, that's me, that's me. John, wow. John, would you mind telling me? See, we can see ourselves doing that, can't we? But you don't see someone wanting to know yours, do you? But what makes you want to ask John? He knows Christ. How'd you meet Christ? How'd you get saved? But we're not that important. You're a child of God. If you have a testimony, I promise you, the child of God wants to hear it. Amen, amen, amen. If someone doesn't want to hear a testimony, something's wrong. Amen, amen. If you don't want to tell your testimony, something's wrong. Glory, amen. I love hearing people talk how they get saved. What a blessing, amen. whether you're the drunk on the street or the kid on the pew. Thank God for deliverance, amen. Amen, it'll be a time, amen, to perhaps hopefully share our story. Lastly and most importantly, amen, heaven, the comfort of heaven is it'll be a place of the display of the Savior. It's all about him. Everything is centered around the throne of God with the Lamb of God. He's the lamb, he's the Lord, he's the light, he's the life, he's everything you'll ever need. Amen. And heaven is gonna be him. And we're gonna see him as he is. Faith finally becomes sight for us, amen. The time we've been longing for. Again, thank God for heaven. Thank God for the street. Thank God for the gate. Thank God for the walls. Thank God for all that heaven is. But heaven is nothing without him. How empty. How hollow. Wouldn't exist, it'd be like a prison cell. Honestly, I saved you and go stay over there and just, okay. Calling Esther, the king hasn't even sent for me these 30 days. Heaven's not a prison cell. God himself will be in our midst. He will be the temple there. Interaction, who's wiping your tears away? All this is God's interacting with us in heaven, not giving you stuff to stay away from him. Amen, again, honestly, who cares, really, in reality? Who cares about the mansion if you don't have the Messiah? Thank you Lord for everything you've given me, But if I had this and not, no, I'd rather have you than this. Heaven would not be heaven without Christ. So the time will finally come, we will get to behold him in all of his glory. See, all you know is he says he was in heaven, but you read about his life on earth. The day will come you get to see him in all of his splendor and glory. You get to see the wounds in his hands. fully realizing all that he did for us. Amen. And anything of heaven that's beauty, it goes back to him. Amen. You get to behold him, and then you will get to bless him. Amen. Amen, amen. I think I might have a hard time expressing myself. And the Lord just goes, my child. My child. And you look at that hand, and you see that wound. that he did for you. That's why the four and 20 elders are always falling on their face. Even the angels don't understand all of that, but they see what happened. Those same angels that saw that night when he came to the manger in Bethlehem. And they announced and they sang and they worshiped about the coming of the Lord. The same ones who watched him be crucified and wondered what in the world was going on. But then watched him when he came up out of the grave and made his way back into heaven and went into the temple and knew something had never been done before. They may not understand it, but they comprehend what's going on. and then these people start showing up. Amen. These things that they realize, these people are the redeemed. We may not be able to sing their song, but we got our own song. Amen. We read in Revelation how many times those angels are the ones bursting out into worship. The angels listen up their voice and praise, holy, holy, holy, and then we pick up and resound with them and the sound is gonna be unbelievable. All the untold millions of people in heaven praising God, the angels praising God, glory, glory, the cherubim and the seraphim, glory, glory, hallelujah. Amen, it'll all be about him. Every bit of it will be him. and we'll finally get to see him face to face. See, right now, that's what we long for. Oh, I wanna see him. I don't know what he looks like, but I wanna see him. And one day, you'll see him as he is, not as you imagined, not as you pictured. Hey, man! Glory. That, to me, is a comfort. And one day, I'll get to see him. And all that we've been through, Amen, amen. I'm not gonna be the pastor of heaven, okay? But until we get to heaven, I may just look at you and say, hit it. And he starts singing, it's been worth every mile. Lord, it's been worth it. Lord, it was worth it. Every trial, every mile. Lord, there were those who told me, I'll go with you all the way, but I turned and they're gone, leaving me standing all alone, but I was not alone. God, you were there with me all the time, all the way, amen, from birth to death to glory, amen. God, you were with me the whole time. Bless your holy name. It was worth it, amen. Every mile, every trial, every tear, every bit of heartache, God, it was worth it. Just to see your face. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, glory. Hallelujah. Amen. Ha! Yeah. I said, now hit that other song. I'm on the winning side. Woo! Amen. And then I look at the rest of y'all. Y'all wouldn't mind, would you, just a minute. Would y'all mind singing that song about no regrets? Can you? So we sing it down here by faith. But you actually see him. Lord, no regrets. God, what do I have? What can I compare to you and what you are? Amen, there's nothing in my life I can look at and say, oh, no, thank you, Lord, I have no regret, amen. I look back on nothing and say, I wish differently. God bless you, I honor you, I glorify you, I praise you tonight, amen. Amen, amen, amen! It's worth it tonight, child of God! It's worth it! I say glory, bless his holy name. Bless his holy name. Amen. Amen. Oh, oh, oh. By faith, I can see it. I can't wait to taste it. Oh, mercy. Amen. Remember he knoweth. I knowest. When you walk into heaven and see that one that knows. Amen. Amen. I'm just trying to picture for you based on my Bible and personal experience what I believe God is like. When you walk into heaven, escorted by those angels. Amen. And Jesus himself meets you. He says, come here, my child. Oh, Lord, I can't imagine. Can you imagine you getting to heaven and God pulling you aside and looking at you and saying, Thank you for believing me. Thank you for receiving me. Thank you for living for me. Oh, time out, I'll be back. Amen, amen. I know what's up, we don't know. But knowing our loving God. Amen, when you've been through the toils and the troubles and sorrow, I can see God loving in his welcome. Amen. I'm not trying to portray God in any human way, but to me, picturing a father with a child coming home and knowing thou knowest, you know what I've been through. You know what I've gone through. You know what I've endured. You know the heartache and the pain And God knows how you tried. You tried, you really did try to honor him in your heartache. Thank you, my child. See, we think well done's only for that guy that had 3,000 in his church and this many saved and that many saved. But if you honor him, he will honor you. Amen. If not, who cares? Just to see him. It'll make it worth every mile of the trip. Amen. So tonight, let heaven be a comfort. Amen. Thank God. Amen. Thank God we're leaving soon. Hallelujah. Bless the Lord this evening. Let's stand together. Oh, Lord, thank you, Father. Oh, glory. Bless your sweet name. Oh, mercy. Oh, God help us.