1. FEEL THE 'TUG' OF HEAVEN

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So how y’all are. Good turnout today. Thank you for coming out, getting up this morning for this, especially, it’s my life group who’ve been through this back in 2021.

Let’s let’s ask God’s blessing in our class today before we begin. Okay,  Heavenly Father, Praise be Your name. As we think through what we’re going to talk about today, This is another reason for us to hold you in amazement and awe, that you have created this place for us, and that this is not our final existence here on earth. Thank you, that we have the joy to look forward to that, thank you for what you did for us to make that possible. Thank you for the resurrection, Lord, that demonstrates that that’s something we’re going to enjoy going forward. We praise Your name, we thank a lot of people that in this group, and.

Related that are struggling with different health issues, we continue to pray for Jim Talber, with Glenn, and for Susan. We continue to pray for Mindy, and for Joanna, and for Mona, as they all are going through different kinds of issues, and we pray for your intervention on their behalf. It’s amazing, as we watch these folks folks, that we can see where our intercessor repairs have actually worked and just demonstrate the power of.

Interce repair, but also demonstrate the great love for us that you listen and pay attention, you have in mind always what’s good for us. Praise you for that, in Jesus’ name, we pray, God.

All right!  There are many questions that we face in life, and some of these are are humorous questions. I’m a public speaker, so I get a lot of very humorous questions for the audience, it turns out, but not not jokes. You’re classic, right? I thought I’d heard all the knock knock jokes until I heard this one, Knock Knock. Control freak? Now y’all say control freak who control over?

It’ll come to you in a minute. The people from O. Miss can understand that one, and then of course, this one. How many does it take to change the light bulb, How many psychiatrists does it take to change the light bulb, Just one, but the light bulb has to want to be changed, right. How many dyslectics does it change to take a light bulb. Oh, y’all, y’all can work through that, but there are other great questions in life that are not humorous at all, e.g., where did I come from?

Where am I going? Why am I here, and then where am I going?

There is a the secularist, the intelligentsia, the people in the well, I shouldn’t say, one of those people are that’ll shoot, but anyway, the intelligentia have their answers to these questions, and the question is, where did I come from? Well, you evolved from millions of years of scum. Over time, you just pond scum, and over time, there’s been this, this, you know, evolution, where you ended up, where we are right now, and if you believe that, then.

Logically follows that why am I here? But you actually have no purpose in being here, okay? As a matter of fact, Where am I going? You’re not going anywhere when you. When you die, you just take your last breath, and you vanish. As a matter of fact, I was at a funeral service for one of my neighbors in our neighborhood not long ago, and we were at this particular church, in this particular church.

It was a Unitarian church. I don’t believe in the Trinity, they don’t believe in Jesus Christ with it, and it’s kind of interesting, it really remarkably sad. When the preacher got up, and she was smiling, and she was said, We don’t really know what happens after someone dies.

Then I’m thinking, what a wonderful thing to tell the people in the audience. You have no idea what’s going to happen to people when people die. One of your great blessings, one of the great ways that God has blessed you and me, is we should know where we’re going.

Ok, and so as it turns out, archeologists have not been able to find a single culture that does not have some notion of the afterlife. The Australian Aborigines believe in a distant land beyond the horizon, the early Finns, there was an island in the faraway east, the Mexicans, Peruvians, Polynesians, you go to the sun or moon after death, Native Americans, of course, a happy hunting ground.

In ancient Egypt, the embalmed bodies had maps placed inside to get them to the future world. Everybody has this notion, every society has this notion that there’s, there’s some place that we’re going. The Romans said that righteous would picnic in the legion fields. Every culture has some notion of what’s going to happen after you die. It’s not that your good as can become extinct, and one of the reasons that the people in this room know that there’s going to be an afterlie.

Is because God put it in your heart already, okay. When we study the wisdom lived to, you probably already forgot that, but when we study the Book of Ecclesiastes, we believe Solomon, the wisest men ever. Here’s what he said. He has made everything beautiful in his time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom what God has done from the beginning to end. So there’s God has put something in you.

That says there got to be something after this, this can’t be all there is, okay? And so the three quick questions of life from the Bible’s response is, NO. 1, Where did I come from? We were made by God. And if you believe that you understand that, why am I here? Then I need to live for Him, I need to live to please Him in the Great Book of.

A spiritual, spiritual guide to a high quality life, something like that that Jimmy Lawson and I studied together. There was a, there was a’in there about why men curse so much, you know. He talked about men cursing. Why do men curse so easily, and the answer was because men do not have so much as the desire to please God. That’s why we do that. And so why am I here? I’m here to live for God, And where am I going? You’re going to.

Meet God. You and I are going to go and meet God and work. I think we’re trying to figure out in this class, because what is that going to be like, What is heaven really going to be like, and it in. In Spain, there is a statue to Christopher Columbus, and under the statue you’ll see just a minute, is this phrase here, Neplus Ultra, which, in the Latin means No more. Beyond this is. This was the the motto the Spanish people until 1492.

Okay, because they said we were the edge here, there’s nothing beyond where we are, until Columbus made his sale in 1492, and now there is this statue of him.

In in Spain, and that black circle thing going around says Ulta, and that lion is eating the first word, and he’s eating the word. No, there is something beyond that, and one of the things that we get to celebrate today is that Jesus said, There is more beyond, and I’m going to prove it, and I’m going to prove it by walking under the tomb, and that’s, that’s our the resurrection is.

Absolutely to us, understanding that this is something you and I can be assured of, this is something that’s going to happen, it is very real.

Now Christians are going to go to heaven, What’s it going to be like? We’ll be talking something about that today. Well, who should we ask about what happens Will be like if if I ask you, what is Child. We want to know what China was like. You can come and ask me what China was like, because I’ve studied. I’ve read books on China. I’ve studied the Chinese economy. I’ve watched TV shows on the Chinese economy. I could, you know. I could tell you things.

About about China, or you could ask Larry Collins. Now Larry Collins was the international trade representative for the Louisiana Department of Economic Development. He’s been to China, He’s been to China a lot. What, what? Who do you think would be better to tell you what China is like me, somebody’s read about it. Are are somebody who’s actually been there. And so what we’re going to do is we’re going to read the red, we’re going to read the red lines in the new.

Testa, we know somebody who has been there, who is singing. We’re going to see several people who have been there, that have seen it, and come back to describe what it’s going to be like. So we’re going to be, We’re going to be talking those people saw and what they have to say about it.

Now there are some people today that do not believe in the actual life, like the minister of that particular church, they have no idea, but in after life, but this was also true at Jesus’s time, right.

Group of people called the Sadducees. These were the guess what, the elite intelligentsia, the LSU, the the intelligentsia, right, because they were the most smart people, the most smart people, and the wealthiest people around, they were charge of the the operation of the temple, and all that sort of stuff. Yes, sir, I thought you were going to say they’re sad, you see. Oh, oh.

See, if y’all, you probably already knew this, because you saw it, seen the ring, when he’s picking his nose, that’s an Alabama graduate back there. Comments like that, right? So we have this group of Sadducees, right, And the Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife. They tried to trick Jesus.

Remember that scene. They they said, What did this woman? You believe in That All right, Well, suppose they had this woman, and she marries this man, he died, so she marries another man, he died, she marries another man.

He does it seven times. When she goes to heaven. Who’s your husband, who’s your husband. And Jesus had a reply to that, He said, Are you not in error, because you did not know the scriptures or the power of God. When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, they will be like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising, have you not read of the Book of Moses and the account of the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the god of the dead, but of the living. Your badly, the second, So I am, I am present, I am.

Present tense, the God of Moses, I’m present tense, the God of Abraham and Isaac. Now so Abraham and Isaac. These people must still be around somehow, right? And they are still around somehow. We’ll talk about where they are a little bit later on. So why would the Sadducees in there, Jesus pointed out. And one of the reasons we are often in error about what heaven is going to be like is because we do not know the scriptures, and we really don’t know the power of God. 

The power of God is greatly demonstrated on this particular day, right. So Easter Sunday, the power of God to raise somebody from the dead. Amazing. When our life group, which is the very best life group you could be in, right. We have a very best life group that you can be in. We’re still one of the things we did was studying the book of Matthew, and one of the things you get all the way through the book of Matthew is starting to get an appreciation of how powerful God is and what He can do there.

Isis nothing that stands in his way. The the creation responds to him. He is not limited by creation, he made creation. He can make creation do whatever he wants it to do. And so if you’re, you’re in error because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God, as it turns out, Jesus do, very much, knew very much, both of those, right. And so because of that, he strongly urged men to live this life through the lens of eternity, through good times and bad times, always value the eternal.

Over the external, so he said, I, I used to play golf with one of my buds. He’s very ill now, about to go to glory. He said. He said, I’m gonna gory right to the roof of my house. That looks like what he’s going to do.

But he was always saying me, he said, Really, in the context of eternity, what does it matter? I mean, he was. He was saying that all the time. In the context of eternity, what does it matter? And that’s one of the things Jesus is trying to get us to do. It’s a pink in terms of eternity.

And let that motivate us and determine we’re going to be at, and so, we need to think about eternity, whether it’s good times or bad times, and so.

When we study the Sermon on the Mount in our life group, and when you study the Sermon on the Mount in here, in the very first part, the Beatitudes, this is what Jesus said. Blessed are you, when people insult you, persecute you falsely, say all kinds of evil against you, because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because what great is your reward in heaven. Look towards heaven.

Jesus said, Of what, what? How do I go to the cross for the joy set before me. Okay, I’m looking ahead to eternity. Okay. So even in bad times, we need to look ahead to eternity, even in good times, we need to look ahead to eternity. 

You know. Jesus sends the disciples out on this mission early on, and they came back, and man, they were fired up. They were really fired up, and said, Man, we were casting out demons, we’re healing people, we are.

Just we’re doing all this stuff, and what does Jesus say to them. However do not rejoice that the spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Now. By the way, in this sentence, matter of fact, in the NIV, heaven is spelled with a small h, and when I talk to you almost all the time, I’m going to talk to you, I’m gonna have up here heaven with a capital H, and the reason I have it with a capital H is, we’ll see in just a minute, is because heaven is a place. 

When I, I don’t know if I mentioned this to y’all, but I’m from Wink, Texas. I mentioned that to you before, but I’m from Wink, Texas. When you write down Wink quick changes your head like that, when I, when I, when you write the word Win Texas. What do you start? The first letter is it’s capital letter, because it’s a place, right. Well, what we’re going to see here is that heaven is a place. It is a place, it’s not a fog bank. It is a place that we’re all going. 

And so he says, even in good times, and he said, by the way, what if things are going very well for you, but it’s going very well for you at the expense of your faith, What does Jesus say? He says, What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world yet forfeits his own soul? You know what, what? This is stupid to put all this effort into making money and stuff, and you did not get. Spend eternity in the big age heaven. What does that? What is that all about? He’s called attention to this, this way of thinking, so Jesus was very clear about this.

We’re going to kind of see this through the class. You’ll certainly see it in the Book of Matthew. Is that there’s going to be a judgment. I’m sorry, but there’s going to be a judgment. Now the good news for the people in this room, you don’t have to worry about that. I’m going to argue, but there is going to be a judgment out there, and it will be a universal. Everybody is going to get judged here, not just us.

I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word, Jesus is saying, and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed over from death to life, just like Jesus did today.

I tell you the truth, a time is coming, has now come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. Those who hear will live, or as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and He has given Him authority to judge, because He is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this for a time is coming, when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out, and those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. So he’s going to use metaphors all the way through the New Testament, and what these metaphors say is, there’s only two options on Judgment Day. 

Okay, you’re either going to be a sheep or a goat, you’re either going to be a wheat or a tares, you’re either going to be good, fish or bad fish, You’re either going to be wise virgins or foolish virgins. There is no third group. There’s no third group where people are really kind of nice, kind of pleasant people, but do not believe in Jesus Christ, Okay, I have no faith in Him. 

There’s no third group. You’re in one of these two places, so how do we get in that right right group? It’s not based on how much you did.  Again, apologies to my life group here on this.

But Beg is a wonderful Scottish preacher, God did wonderful accent.  He has his talk where he has what he talks about what is called the Fort Lauderdale Question. This was the reason it’s called the Fort Lauderdale Question.  Because Billy Graham brought it up in a sermon he was preaching Fort Lauderdale. Basically, the question is, what are you going to say on Judgment Day when you show up at the further Gates?

And Beg makes the point, If your response begins in the first person, you have missed it all. Yet if you say, Well, I did that, I did not. Do you start with the first person. You told him this with, With what’s going on here, our interests will always be in the third person. Why am I here, because he, because he covered my sins, because he always in the third person, not in the first person, and so he talked. Here’s this funny thing where he talks about he wants, when he gets to heaven.  He wants to talk to the the thief on the cross said, I want to talk to that guy, but what happened when he showed up in heaven, and and in St. Peter, he says, What are you doing here? I don’t know.

But why are you here? I don’t know, and he says, Well, I gotta go get a supervisor. So he goes to get a supervisor.

Supervisor. what, what? Let’s just ask you a couple questions. What is your position of a doctrine of salvation by grace? And the guy says, I’ve never heard of it. Well, what? 

What do you think about the inspiration of the scriptures? I’ve never heard of it. Well. What are you doing here? What? 

How did you get here? He said, The guy on the Middle Cross told me I could come here.

Is he dead? He did, Does he answer the question? So you and I are not going to get to heaven based on how much we did, and it’s not going to be based on how much we sin. Thank God for that, isn’t it?

God says, I was talking to one of my buds out in California, the other day I went to school with, and we were talking about you know, How should you keep praying, praying, praying over the St., because you sinned, so you had to sin, that you didn’t it. 

It’s it’s pointless, after asking God the first time, to ask Him to forget the sin, because when you ask him the first time, He said He cast it as far as the east is from the west.

Think about that just a minute. If you go north to south in the globe, there’s going to be a time when you go through the north, you head south, but if you go east to west, you never stop. If you’re still chasing, you’re chance chasing west the whole time. That’s how far God throws that way.

So I said, when you ask him the second time, he’s going to say, What are you talking about? Well, you know. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Why did he breathe this? I don’t know what you’re talking about. 

So it’s not based on how much we sin, it all is based on. Jesus’ power atone for your sins. Do you have faith in Him, and what He did? Okay, so we have these remarkable, inclusive statements. I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life, will not be condemned. 

My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I will raise Him up on the last day. More of this in John. I told you that you would die in your sins, If you do not believe, I am the Lord I came to be, will indeed die in your Sin.  For God so loved the world He gave His one and only Son. Whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. 

So how the answer starts with the Word He, not with the Word I. 

When we get there, Okay, now we have these examples from Hebrews. At one point in our life, group studied the Book of Hebrews a long time ago, and you, when the writer of the Hebrews said, What are you doing? Why are y’all going back? Trying to go back to the old Way.

I mean, why would you do? Look what you did in the past, especially Israelites? What did you do in the past? God put these plagues on Pharaoh. He made it so dark you couldn’t see, he had frogs everywhere, he turned the water to blood. He did all these things, and then you leave, and He opens the Red Sea, and you walk. 6 million people walk through the Red Sea on dry land, You get on the other side, and the sea comes in on the Phago’s.

Arm, and then you go out in the wilderness, and he provides quail, he provides manna, he provides water, and then you still play with bearheads. You go to Knessparnia, and God says there’s promised land. 

I’m going to give it to you. I’m going to say we’re not sure you came, we’re not sure. You don’t know the power of God, He’s already demonstrated it to you. You don’t know the power of God. Do not be like them, okay. 

Remember Moses, all the things that Moses did, how he talk of God.  Walk, How he brought down the temperament, and yet he said, Look, Jesus is far greater than God, he’s way more powerful than Moses ever thought about me. 

So if you have faith, guess what you have ahead. So what will heaven be like? Let’s kind of get some earlier things down here. Will we be angels, will we have little wings on our back, little halos up here, flying around a fog back. No, that’s not what heaven is going to be like at all.

Media is not, the cartoonists have not done us any favor in describing what heaven is going to be like. It’s not going to be like you see it described there, but we’d be floating around in a fog bank.

Where will heaven be? Will it be in the sky, or will it be somewhere else? Are there two homes? Okay, Jane left us a few years ago. Where is Jane right now? Is she in the final heaven, or she in another heaven? Okay, we want to talk about that as we go through here. Will it just be one long church service? All right, now really, this come on, now let me ask. Yeah, everybody’s going home.

How many come on, listening. Listen. I mean, you know it sounds really spiritual. Saying I can’t wait to sit there and just worship God all day long, forever and ever, it into eternity. We’re sitting there, and the same time, we’re going to that next class, and saying, you know, if the worship service, if they do ten songs instead of five, I’m gonna be so irritated if if Blaine preaches for three hours, There’s no way I’m that’s. That’s a really good way. We think there’s going to be, we’ve greatly underestimate how great it’s going to be to be in the presence of God, what that’s going to be like to be able to worship with Him, worship with other people. 

There’s going to be a whole lot of other stuff going on, besides that, a whole lot of other stuff going on, besides that, well, we know each other, we identify them. Hey, will we be able to pick each other? I’ll be able to say, Pat, how you doing This is great seeing you. You know. Yeah.

We’re going to be these kind of blobs, where nobody gets gingerless blobs, where nobody knows who we are, how Oh, this is really good. We’re gonna talking. How old would be?

How many of you have seen the movie or read the book, Heaven is for real. Yeah, you read it. That’s a great book. It’s about this preacher whose son, a great young son, dies and on the table in this hospital, and then he is brought back to life, and over the next year or so, he starts talking about what he saw when he was dead, and one of the things he talks about is his grandfather.

And how we’ll talk about the little later, but interesting to see, because he, when they showed him a picture of his grandfather, no, I don’t know who he was until they showed him another picture of what his grandfather was, and he said, Yes, we’ll talk about that a little bit more.

As we go along. What will be missing there, is there anything going to be? There is going to be some stuff that’s missing there. So here’s some quick thoughts. Okay, how are we doing? Here’s some quick thoughts about heaven from the Scriptures.

First of all, when we study Romans, remember this great passage in chapter eight, which is the greatest chapter in the New Testament, in my opinion, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us. Paul, writing to the Church of Corinth, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no, you can’t conceive.

You’re not going to be able to conceive, well, you and I, we’re going to have a probably, six weeks on this, eight weeks on this, maybe, and we’re still going to come away saying this mold that way, it’s way more better than that, but God has revealed it to us through His spirit, John, in Revelation 21, Here’s John, he’s actually been there, he’s telling us what happened in his life, and John, here is grappling with the English language, or his case, Greek language, and he’s trying to describe what he saw. 

He said, Well, how can I? How can I describe it’s kind of? Each one of the gates was made out of a single pearl. Now we just read over that this is the largest pearl ever found. This is a Laotes pearl, found off the coast of Philippines back in the 1930s, And this sucker is the latest value, for it was the $35 million, and it’s about this size, that size football. 

The gates in heaven are made, the gates are made out of single pearl. John said, How can I describe this thing? The walls are decorated with every kind of precious jewel. I meant to bring in a little piece of asphalt to show it to you, and ask you how much this asphalt was worth, and of course, that little piece of asphalt was not worth anything. That’s why we use it to pave our streets. 

But if I showed you a similar piece of gold, an ounce of gold, which I meant to look up, I think it’s around four grand,

 $4000, a little bitty ounce. 

John’s in the streets in heaven, okay, are made of gold. It’s like a bride on their wedding day. When the first weddings I went to, here was a wedding Ronnie and Cheryl is wonderful too. Just well, it’s always with the very best on the way. Just great, they make sure that that happens. 

All right. There’s no death, no mourning, no crying, no pain, which came to my mind this past week, on Wednesday, when I had a tooth pulled out. Right here, I remember, although it’s not like it used to be. I woke up to be drunk. We’re done. Wait, I just. I just sat down. Wait a minute. But anyway, but there’ll be no death, no mourning, no crying, no pain up there, 

C. S. Lewis, this is really good, C. S. Lewis has a great quote, he said, Explains what heaven is like to us, It’s like trying to explain sex to a five year old. And you’re trying this is really wonderful, wonderful experience. It’s just a great experience to look at. This is - Is it kind of like eating chocolate?

No, it’s way better. His only reference point is chocolate. Does he eat chocolate, and our only reference point? It’s what we see around here that seems to be really, really great, and what John is doing here. He said, How can I explain what I saw using the Greek language? I can’t do it. The language is bankrupt, so let me just take these extreme pictures here.

These extreme metaphors that try to get across to you how wonderful it’s going to be. Great. You still have to be able to grasp it, but let me try to get across to you how wonderful it’s going to be, and so guess what we have ahead. 

Jesus has some real clear indicators. Again in John. Don’t let your hearts be troubled, trust in God, trust also in me. In my father’s house, with many rooms, there’s lots of work.

It’s going to be a place, capital H, where you’re going to have a room. There could be lots of people, right. You have friends that I’m going to come to your church. You have too many people there. 

Well, we’ll be really surprised. We get to heaven. If that bothers you, it would be lots of people together. One of the definitions of hell is you’re not going to get people around you. Loneliness is one of the. Well, the terrible things about going to hell, there’s going to be lines of people around.

Ok, I’ve told you, I’m going there to play a place, like I say, it’s going to be a place, it’s going to be a fog bag. Okay, don’t be a place in the clouds when you have wings on, if I go and prepare a place for you. He’s preparing a place for a Sean.

We’re going to see them and know them, you’re, you’re not going to be some genderless glob up there. You people are going to block up you and say, Remember, when I came to a place to try to get a TV set, I didn’t eat you. Remember that, Davy Smith, yeah?

You remember bringing big bowl of soup over to my house when I was really sick a long time ago, We’re going to know each other, yeah, you’re not going to be a gingerless blot.

And I will come back and take you to be with me. One of the things, what the good, the many good things about what heaven is going to be like is, we are going to be able to be ready on Jesus Christ, we’re going to be around God.

And just like trying to explain sex to a five year old, we have no idea how good that’s going to be. We have no idea you had a negative reaction to the eternity of the church service. I understand that, okay, but on the other hand, we’re not going to be at the Trinity at church service, we could be doing stuff you like to do. You’re going to be doing stuff you like to give luck to do. My wife is going to be planting and growing flowers, she loves to do, we’re going to be doing.

Things things we love to do, but they’re not things we don’t like to do, and we’re going to be able to be with Jesus and with God, we have no idea how good that’s going to be. So one of the commentators talked about this little boy was out one day, a very cloudy day, flying a kite, got way way up in the sky, and this man comes walking by me, asks Well, what you doing? He said, I’m flying a cock. He looks, He doesn’t see a kite, because how do you know it’s still up there? He says, because I can feel the.

"TUG!"

That’s what God put in you, God put in you a tug for capital age habit, okay, There’s something in you, there’s something in you that knows that there’s something on the other side, okay, and so we need a proper view of heaven, so it’ll tuck at us even more what we try to do in this class. So the key to getting that there I am, the way, the truth. No one comes to the Father except through me. It was this very old, inclusive statement, There’s only one way.

Through, we eat tears, goats, sheep, only one way through, there’s no third, there’s no kind of third way. The bad news is, hell is the alternative? You know, when I started out this class, I said, if we want to find out what heaven’s like, let’s ask somebody who’s been there.

If you want to find what hell’s like, ask somebody who’s been there, man, Jesus has been there, okay, he has been there, he has seen it, matter of fact. Jesus had more to say about hell than any other writer in the New Testament. Okay, He had a lot to say about this place, and he used, He, once again, like John had, to use metaphors.

Because the Greek language, the English language, the Aramaic language is bankrupt in terms of showing you how bad this is going to be, and so he uses, he uses these metaphors here, it’s going to be dark, and the the idea behind this is, there’s going to be loneliness, there’s going to be what you enjoy when we walked in this door, that I have a relationship with all these people, that’s a good thing feels good, right. You don’t get to have that.

In his book of When I was in graduate school, you had to be fluent in another language to get get a PHD, so I took French, and in French, I read Paul Sart’s book Hui Close, which means No Exit, and this is his description what hell’s gonna be like.

And his description of hell is this room with a light bulb on that never goes off. In this case, he is light with the darkness, but you have these three people in this room, one is a a man who’s.

A coward, one is a woman who is a prostitute, and the other is a woman who is a is, our call, was a lesbian. It turns out in this room, no two people can ever get together, because the other party is going to mess up the relationship. No, you can’t have relationships in hell.

He talks about fire, plays at hell, I mean, there’s going to be discomfort, you know what exactly that means. We’re not sure, but it’s not going to be pleasant. It’s never described as a place that’s pleasant. There’s going to be gnashing of teeth, why did I have a toothbull? Because I’ve cracked a root, because I was gnashing my teeth over some stuff. Okay, that’s what caused that to happen, and this. There’s always behind this gnashing of teeth, the idea of self approach.

Like when you’re driving, you know, down I 49, and you’re going 85, and you look at Rivervie Mirror, and these little lights are going round and round. Oh man, you know, you get everything, it’s a remorse. You’ll be experience remorse all the time. So when we use phrases like this, we have no idea what we’re saying. When we say I hope the blank Blank goes to hell, we have no idea what we’re saying to this person, because.

We. What hell is really going to be like? Bob Hendrin once said, You know, he gets on this plane, he gets on a plane to fly to some place to give a sermon. He said, I’m sitting next to this person next to me, and this person next to me has spent eternity in this place that is so wonderful, 

The English language, every language, is bankrupt in terms to describe it, or he’s going to spend eternity in a place that is so horrible that the English language and the Greek language cannot describe it, Okay, So we did kind of think about.

Those folks, as we as we encounter that what this destiny is like. Is there anything I could do that keeps him from going there? 

So I’m going to stop there for now, and what we’re going to do next week is we’re going to come back. What we’re going to discover is, if we want to understand what heaven is going to be like, we’re going to find out. We’re going to talk about what we’re going to do in heaven, we’re going to talk about what our body’s going to be like in heaven. Marriage versus no marriage. You probably got a hint of already, we’re going to talk about how old we’re going to be in heaven, all these kinds of things, and what we’re going to find out is that the only way we can do that, because of our English language is bankrupt and described it, we have to use our imaginations a little bit, and that’s okay, that’s okay, but we are going to use our imagination, because we haven’t been there, we have been there, so when.

When Marco Polo came back from his visit to China, he comes to Italy, and he’s trying to describe to people what China is like, well, the people in Italy had a little bit of an idea, because they’re around people around buildings around them.

But they couldn’t, they didn’t get to see China, so they had to use their imagination a little bit, based on what Barbara, Paula said, We’re up to the same thing, we’re going to have to use our imagination, based on what John, Ezekiel, and And Jesus and others said about heaven.

When they put off, when he visit there, Paul is not going to tell us anything, he was told not to tell us anything, but we’ll. 

We’ll talk about that too. So thank you for coming today. I appreciate the full class. That’s great. Thank God’s.