Now I'm going to ask you to send me your Bibles tonight to the 25th chapter of Matthew, please, in the 31st verse. Matthew chapter 25, verse number 31. These first seven or eight words are some of the richest in all the Bible, some of my favorites. When the Son of Man shall come in His glory. Boy, that's going to be some coming in His glory. What's His glory going to be like? You can't even dream it. All the holy angels with Him. Then shall He set up on the throne of His glory. And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the king say unto them on the right hand, Come ye, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was in hunger, and you gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. Naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, Lord, when shall we be in hunger, and fed thee, or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When shall we be in stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? For when shall we be sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the king shall answer, and say unto them, the righteous. Verily I say unto you, insomuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was a hundred, and ye came to, and ye gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in. Naked, and ye clothed me not. Sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they say also unto, So they also answer Him, saying, Lord, when shall we be a hundred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, In so much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous unto life eternal. The great division which awaits all who have taught the stage of life you'll be on the one hand the most awesome and awful, and on the other the gladdest and grandest of Him of time and eternity. Out of our text, we learn that our Lord Jesus is very, very much contained with the true intent of the hearts of men. We find that faith without work there is God. And not everyone that saith, but he that doeth shall inherit the kingdom of God. Not that one man's work shall add one dot or tittle to the work of him on the cross. He said, It is finished. He didn't say I'm finished. He said it's finished. The work of salvation. Not that it would add to that, but that the way a man has lived is going to be the test of the validity of a profession of faith. Now you can put that down. The man who professes to be saved, but he has spent his entire life away from God in opposition to God and the things of God is not a child of God. The righteous hunger after the things of God. A pig may fall into the mud. He'll stay there for it is a pig like nature. But when a sheep, though he slips through, he stumbles in that same death spot of sin, he will feel unclean and uncomfortable and will quickly remove himself, their friend. God is a God of judgment. He is a God of opportunity. He is a God of grace. And he always warns men that when man shall have lived out his life and come to that time in the future when life is over and God shall have brought man's existence to an eternal and angenic. Then it shall be that the wicked shall be damned and doomed, as was the theme of my message this morning. But, oh, happy day, it will be a beginning of a grand and glad eternal honeymoon of Jesus, which is the topic of my message tonight. Tonight, when we see Christ, the Bible tells us that there is a heaven. What a beautiful place this must be. I want you to turn with me for a moment over to the book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible, and reading in chapter 22, follow along as I shall read. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, full of crystals, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bear twelve manner of fruit, and yielded his fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him. And they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their forehead. And there shall be no night there. And they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth him light. And they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me, These things are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the things of the prophecy of this book. And I, John, saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. Then saith unto me, See, thou do it not, for I am my fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets. And if they would keep the sayings of this book, therefore worship God. And he saith unto me, Feel not. The sayings of the prophecy of this book, For the time is a hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. You see, eternity is a continuation of life. And he which is filthy, let him be filthy still. And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. But he that is holy, let him be holy still. Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gate into the city. Heaven is a beautiful and wonderful place. I think heaven is going to be a place of music. I like music. I started out to be a musician. In fact, well, I'm not telling you how great I really was. We have numerous requests regarding my fame. One of these nights, I'm going to stay in a house. It's going to be a place of beautiful music. I must say that as God has blessed and inspired and led and prospered our church, there is absolutely nothing that has thrown my heart any more than the terrific inspiration and growth and prosperity of the music program of the First Baptist Church. Now, we are attempting to grow and go and do our best in every area for God and are making strides. And if I believe anything in the world, it is that one thing in which this ministry itself, it is in the ministry of music. I don't know who's going to be leading that great choir up there. But I'm going to tell you, if it isn't Joe Ray, I'm going to be disappointed. I really am. And it's going to have to go a long way to be more beautiful than what we have heard tonight. And there are some folks who do not like to do some of the things we do. I told the folks one Sunday, some of you'd write because we shake hands. It ain't scripture. Well, the Bible says greet each other with a holy kiss. So we'll start doing that, if you would prefer. I recommend that you be careful here you sit by next Sunday. Now listen, the Bible also says clap your hands or you... I don't believe in a super sensationalism for the sake of super sensationalism. And I want you to know that when a church, when a people are blessed with a genuine baptism of the power of God, there is going to be such an electrified and electrifying power of the presence of Jesus that men will not be able to contain themselves. And there is nothing any more worshipful, any more genuine, any more deep testament, any more biblical, any more right, than that the people of God, so expedited to the joy of the Lord, cannot refrain themselves and start to fall off and say, Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Oh, it's wonderful when Joel Carroll goes to that higher. It's great when the men sing, and the ladies sing, and they sing, and they sing, but I'll tell you, if you think that's good, I read something about, He hath not paid what God hath prepared for them that love Him. I don't know how many times I've said it a few years. The world says that this world and all that is in it came into existence by the mere spoken word. It was no trouble for God to say, Be, and the world's word. But He's gone to prepare a place for them that love Him. And if this world, with the taste of T -Bane Steaks and homemade ice cream and watermelon and all those good things, with music like Joker and Amen, with the beauty of a dying concept, with those things that cry and thrill and fill us here, are the result of something He did in a second. I want you to tell me what heaven's going to be like. He's been working on two thousand years. He's been thinking of taste, and truth, and thrill, and sight, and experiences, and signs that you've never even seen yet. Oh, what a place heaven's going to be. And the music, the music, the redeemed of the ages. I must admit that David Shelf is obviously the world's worst singer. I am firmly convinced that he is the only man in captivity that can sing in two keys at once at the same time. Now, first, it's got to be something. But David, I'll tell you, son, you're going to sing up there. Oh, what a voice. Well, when David starts and sings, now that's going to be heaven. That's really going to be heaven. And all of us, with all of us screeching and groaning, I get so excited, I make up more words in the platform and just hear more hallelujahs where they don't go and sing and who's still glaze at me. Oh, dear, you're going to quit going when I get up there. Oh, I'm just going to really sing good. You're going to look at me and say, is that my part? Singing like that? I can't believe that's what he's done. And David finally found the key. Oh, the music, the music, the music that's going to be in heaven. I suppose the highest experience that any of us ever has is to hear a grand symphony, a great chorus singing, hallelujah, and some heart falling at the same site. I just want to go to heaven. I don't know anything any more beautiful than to hear a sea of people singing just as I am. The greatest experiences of my life have been with music. I was yonder in a stadium meeting, the biggest meeting I ever had in my life. 146 churches, thousands were saved in Alexander, Louisiana. The last night, 800 and some came to Christ. He said, in 9, 10 minutes, he didn't stay away. But the choir sang, just as I am, Dr. Mrs. Buck were there. And the choir sang, the Savior's waiting, down this hill they came. And that's where they came. And the music just seemed to overwhelm the place. I'll never forget the first Sunday I went home from first time to first. After After three or four months, I said, honey, it's there. It's there. It's coming. It's there. He said, what? What? I don't know, but it's there. The way you're standing, the Savior's waiting. I tell you, when you go for that highway and Jesus is coming, praise God! I think we're going to get so high, He's going to say, come on up! And up we're going to go. Oh, I love music. I really do. And I think that when we get to heaven and all of us can see scripture, you imagine this for a moment. The Bible says thousands and thousands ministering to Him and 10 ,000 times 10 ,000 stand before Him. There are going to be untold billions of angels alone. Think of the chorus and the chorus and the orchestras and the harp. But oh, nobody in this world can sing. Like an old no -good drunk or harlot or liar that's been paid by God. No one can much. The singing of the angels from the heart of the redeemed when they join with angelic cry and sing. Amazing grace, how sweet the time that saves a rest like me. Oh, what music, what the choir was singing, what sounds in heaven. I think that music is going to be a place of life. Talk about, I never could pronounce it. I always want to say, Humphrey Bogart. Is it Aurora Boy Alex? Is that the way you pronounce it? I always get Bogart in there, in some way. I can never say it. Did you ever, I mean, the first time I ever looked through a prison, did you ever do that? And saw so many pillars and so many lights that I couldn't even imagine. Jesus Christ is the light of the world. At once for a few hours in the church, and all of heaven thundered, and the bowels of the earth began to crumble, and to rumble, and the rock slid, and the door of the temple was ripped from heaven to the very top of the bottom. And angels stood, and God sought amazement, as the Son of God was crucified, and the Father turned His face, and the skies blackened, and the lightning flashed, and all darkened as the world had never been blackened. Did any wonder that they sang, Long lay the world in sin, and all a tiny, that He came forth, and the world told His word. Jesus Christ is the light of the world. The Bible says there will be no candle, there will be no light bulb, there will be no electricity, there will be no sun. For all of the beauty of heaven will emanate from the sun. Jesus lights the beauty of heaven. Well, what shall I say? Again, I say to you, Or beautifully you may speak, or magnificently you orate, or grandly you may write. Still, in all of the sermons, and all of the songs, and all of the thoughts, and all of the dreams of all of the world, you still haven't even come close to what it's really going to be like. I love that word, that precious word. I hath not seen. Fear hath not heard, nor hath it even entered into the fight of man. In the wildest imagination of splendor, what God hath prepaid for them that love Him. Well, who are going to be the redeemed in heaven? I suggest four or five categories. Same with me to the book of Hebrews. Who is here in heaven? It's going to be a number, a multitude which no man can count. More than the signs of the sea and the stars in the skies. Uncarnable and uncarned. Saved by Him who wrote every one by His blood in the Lamb's book of life. Or in Hebrews chapter 11, verses 12, 11 through 12. and by faith, these men look forward to the cross and hear their names. Verse 5, by faith, Enoch was translated, and 7, by faith, Noah is there, and 8, by faith, Abraham is there, and 11, by faith, Sarah is there, and verse 9, Isaac and Jacob, and on and on. And he recounts the faithful of the Old Testament, and he says, and what else shall I say? Time would forbid me in the 30th verse to tell of Gideon, and Barak, and Tamsin, and Jephthah, and David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, and on and on, who by faith are in heaven. The Old Testament believers are in heaven. I'm going to walk and talk, there's a little course, with the elders and with the fishermen. I'm going to sing with the angels, I'm going to talk with David, I'm going to write with Moses, and preach with Paul, and worship with the saints of God. The Old Testament saints, you see, are there on the same terms by which we are there. There are no special ways. There is, there has always been one way for man to be saved. And that is through the medium of the substitutionary death of the innocent for the guilty. We are saved by looking back to the fact that an innocent Lamb of God was shed for our sins one day. They were saved by looking forward to the fact that one day the death of the innocent would provide salvation in the future for them. We've never seen Jesus, nor did they, but we all look toward the cross, though at different perspectives, and there find grace and faith to the death of the innocent for the guilty. God's Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. The only difference is that we know his name, and they did not know it yet at that point. So the Bible would one day record in prophetic power, you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. The Old Testament saints are there in faith because they look toward the Lord. The innocent will be there. Do you know that until as recently as a hundred years ago, they tell us that in many lands through many centuries, the majority of the babies born in the world died before age three. Because of malnutrition and hunger and sickness and poverty and disease, that means that most of the people that were ever born in this world will be in heaven. Why? Because babies go to heaven. Because through innocence, because the death of the baby, the death of the child, the death of the imbecile, or the one that was retarded to a degree, that they were not responsible, they could not comprehend, they too are going to be in heaven. Now someone has surmised that because we will be like Jesus, who was 33 years of age, when he died and rose again, that everybody in heaven will be 33 years of age. But that may be true. That there's a very valid reason for believing that may be true. But I cannot help but think somehow, there are going to be some babies in heaven. And there are some babies down here. Some of them are 50 years old, but I know. But the little babies, little, little John, think of that, little John, your boy, my little children, and yours, the babies, the innocent, will be in heaven. That's going to be a wonderful, wonderful thing. The New Testament saints are going to be there. There's going to be at least one harlot that's going to be in heaven. The woman who was taken in adultery, who heard those words, that no, that no counselor, that no psychologist, that no positive thinking had ever been able to do for her, whose guilt and burden, complex of the past, and fear of the future, who were all eradicated because of one simple encounter with Jesus Christ. He heard those words, that money cannot buy, whose joy and power are inspeakable to those that attend. Go thy way, woman, and sin no more. And from that moment on, a harlot became a mother in Israel, the cause of the grace of God, and the mercy, and the cleansing, and the compassion of a wonderful Christ. The harlot will be in heaven. There's going to be an intellect in heaven, at least one intellect, and there are going to be millions and millions of them. But here's a woman, here's a man, the apostle paul is going to be there god has used that you know why god chose hebrew to be the language of the old testament the language of god through which he spoke his message and brought peace to the world because hebrew is the most earthy down to earth dirt like normal everyday earth -bound language there is and god chose that because earth -bound men who live on an earth separated by sin from god must be so dealt with and taught with by a god who came to man on their level that they should comprehend god said i'm going to get right down there even in your language and had never seen him became him like simple flesh yet walked in perfection among us identifying tasting this being deceived and misunderstood and living like all of us how i admire the highly sophisticated educated and the grand intellect and i am reminded again and again and again that the wise things of this world are the foolishness of god apart from the cross of jesus christ and every man's wisdom every section and every acknowledgement and every uh every achievement and everything that we have done and acquired and learned will with paul all be laid at the feet of him whom the lord jesus was spoken by paul when he said i count all things but lost i may gain the excellency of the excellency of jesus christ again intellect will be there and the up and out as well as the down and out will stand side by side someone has said to me as recently as this afternoon that one of the things they enjoy the most about first baptist church is that it is a place where the poor and the middle class and the millionaire and the black and the white and the phd and the dropout all join hands around the foot of the drop i'll tell you something friends that may be one reason why it's so much like heaven down here because that's what heaven's going to be like there's a poor salmon scuttering sinful woman who probably never saw the equivalent of the equivalent of the third grade well there are so many there are so many i don't know where to stop in heaven the chains of the new testament are going to be there there's going to be a dying thief that was there i like that story about that man there's a fellow that made it by the skin of his feet he was died he was died his hands were written to the cross and yet he looked up and said lord jesus oh god remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom jesus said today thou shalt be with me in paradise and foolish men argue the theology of where is paradise not any importance the fact is not that he went to be with jesus in paradise the important thing is that he went to be with jesus in paradise you have to get the emphasis on the right to level i don't care if paradise is up down east west or sideways a man dies and goes to be with jesus he just can't do any better than that the dying thief rejoice to see that fountain in his day there too may i go by the sea watch all my sins away for indeed there is a fountain filled with blood i like the centurion he's shut down he's a trained killer a professional his job was to kill people and he was paid for doing it and he was so hardened he was so impervious to what was going on around him that with others he sat down and gambled but he began to notice that there were no blasphemies there was no swearing there was no cursing coming from the cloth but the men who stood and wrapped the tension one after one seemed to be preached to their heart by a realization that this man is different then he too made a percussion of faith in christ and was told when he said surely this one was the top centurion that big burly soldier is going to be there locked arm in arm with the little children whom jesus said let the children come to me and the big and the strong and the weak and the and they have been famed noise of infirmities and sickness think about the grand course all there yonder in heaven there's going to be a jail bird in heaven and there's going to be a jailer in heaven too the philippian jailer for whom jesus paul said should we believe I like to think of the story of this man, the Pharisee, that's going to be there. The proudest, most self -righteous man that ever lived, Nicodemus. Nicodemus was converted, I believe, that he's actually proven. And he was at an old age, born again by the Spirit of God. The martyr, John the Baptist, is going to be there. Well, where shall I stop? It's going to be a grand exchange. Let me say you two other little words. I think in heaven that there will be two amazing things. The people that we thought were going to be there, but didn't make it. And the people that we didn't think would be there, but were there. Now, Jesus Christ says, Other sheep which have I, have I which are not of this old. I do not know who or what or where they are, but I do believe that Jesus has been, by his own sovereign power, working out the task of revelation of the word of God to men that want him and seek him through the years. And if I believe anything in the world, it is that Jesus Christ is the light, as John says, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. And there is in the life of every man a God consciousness, an illumination, an awareness of his need for the Lord, and a conviction of his wrongness apart from God's forgiveness. That is an aid in human nature. Then the Bible tells us that God is not unjust. God is not unfair. And no man can justly accuse God of being unfair. How then do you reconcile the man that we say has never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ? While I stand firmly on mission and the call of God and the need of taking the word of God to our last dying drop to the world, I say to you that I believe the Bible teaches that if a man is genuinely hungry for God and wanting God, that some way, somehow, God will find to get the gospel to him. I think God will do that. And there are three reasons why. One is because of Paul. You'll remember that Paul was one of the most dedicated, jealous, religious men that ever lived. But he wasn't seeking Jesus. He was seeking God. He was seeking the Lord. He thought he was doing God's great service. He couldn't have been more honest. And Jesus came in and he said, Wait a minute. I've got a special revelation for you. I'm the one you're persecuting. And I'm the way of life. You remember the story of Cornelius. Cornelius was praying. He was a sincere man. He was seeking for God. He was praying for God for the way of life and salvation. And God, in Revelation, came to him and said, This is the way of salvation. I think one of the most exciting in the Bible is in Acts chapter 10. And I want you to turn with me very, very quickly, please. Acts chapter 10, verse number 1. There was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the band, called the Italian band, a devout man and one that stood God with all his house, which gave alms to the people and prayed to God all the way. He saw in a vision, evidently, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel coming into him and saying unto him, Cornelius? And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? And he said, Thy prayers and thine arms are come up for a memorial before thee. I see your sincerity. I see your genuine hunger for the truth. He said, I'm going to tell you how to get it. Now send some men to Joppa and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter. He lodged with one Simon a centurion, whose house is by the seaside. He shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. Now look. He said, I'm going to tell you the man that can tell you how to get saved. His name is Peter. And I'm going to tell you where to go and find him. I'm going to tell you who he's living with. And I'm going to tell you what the old boy does for a living. And furthermore, he lives by the seaside. There's his address. It's the third one on the list. And just about it. Somebody said, Well, the gospel is not gone to all the un -evangelized tribes. We haven't given the gospel in all the languages of the world. Maybe we haven't. and we need to. They're missing a city, but they're missing something in life as well here if we do not go. But let me ask you this. What was the purpose of time to connect us? It was exclusively that men might hear in their own way. We have many Southern Baptist missionaries who have given testimony of a real New Testament experience in time where they have gone to the foreign field and come upon villages and people to whom they couldn't speak. And they spoke in English and they heard in their own language. God can talk Swahili. God can talk whatever He wants to. You say then that everybody that's sincere is going to be saved. You're missing the point. I believe that God has probably gotten the gospel to all the... I'll tell you one thing. He will get it to all the world before the end comes because He says so in Matthew 24. That may not all be done by shortwave radio and trust and personal evangelism in the printed page. It may be by the gift of a timeless special revelation. I don't know why. I don't know if they don't know what His name is anymore than they did in the Old Testament. This I believe. I have frankly battered this around in my mind for 15 years. This I do believe. Every man in the world has a right unto himself. An awareness of his need to have pardon and forgiveness from God. And if that man, and that's a big if, because very few do it. If that man is living up to the light he does have in seeking more light and wanting to know about God, how to find God, I cannot but believe that a just and for God some way will get the word to him that atonement is made for his hands. Now I, you say, why do we go? I say why we go for three reasons. One is because Jesus said go. And that's an epiology for you. The other reason is because hell or no hell, they're missing the greatest things in the world if they don't have Jesus in this life. And the third reason is I just may be wrong. I can't, I can't understand it. I'll tell you this. I think there are going to be folks in heaven that don't dare because God got to them in spite of some of us ways that we never even dreamed of. And I think the Ethiopian, the eunuch, Cornelius, Paul were all good testimonies of this. But I see this touching it. Serving a God who loves and can and does things like this is all the more reason for me to want to serve him and get out the gospel. It's powerful. My evangelistic spirit makes me want to say, my God, what a God. What a God you serve. I think we're going to be surprised from folks that God didn't get to heaven we thought would. And some that got there, we didn't know were going to be there. Well, I've talked to you about the Old Testament saints, about those we thought it would make us it didn't, about those we didn't know that would make us it did, about the New Testament heroes, about all those who fell under the shadow of the cross and were never again the same. I've spoken to you about the innocent, how God takes the babies, the rich -hearted, and in his mercy, as David said, though they cannot come to me, and he assures that we will go to bed. Let me tell you something. There's one other category that I cannot close this night without covering, and that is me. I'm going to be there. And that, to me, is the most amazing thing in all the world. Well, you see, I know me better than you know me, and you know you better than I know you. Somebody said, how can God keep a sinner saved? I do not know. I just know that he does. I know something a whole lot harder than that. That is, how could God ever save a sinner in the first place? By his grace, he has forgiven me. At age 14, I had my own professional dance band. Drone men worked in my employ. I had the world at my feet. At 17, my name and life and popularity and clothes and thrills and thrills and nightclubs and everything that a teenage boy taught to desire and at 19 I was a safe for a suicide because I was unhappy, I was frustrated in life, everything that I wanted I had and I was hurt and quite by saying, no by divine appointment, I was led to go to a place in the dusty Arbuckle Mountain in Oklahoma for an old gospel teacher named Charlie Taylor, 66 years old, so teenagers could understand it and he told me that what I was missing was not an experience, was not a religion, was not a purse, none it was a purse out of the way, a lot of heaven, I gave him my life, and I certainly haven't been the best hand that he ever made, and I'll tell you this, I am a living testimony and mean before God with every drop of blood and mad body that every day with Jesus is sweeter than yesterday, everyone's better than the day before, and like Enoch of old when the godly and the righteous love him and serving and following, one day he just says, well you're a little closer to heaven than the other earth, just come on out, just come on out, and that's a grand reunion, the most important and wonderful experience of heaven is that it will be fellowship with Jesus Christ. I do not know how or where or why, but I say to you that my denomination, and my church, and my people are prone to get away from the man Jesus. I'm asking you to visit Monday night for the sake of zone visitation, for the sake of a prospect card, for the sake of Ben Long, for the sake of this church. I'm asking you to visit for Jesus. I ask you to witness for Jesus. I exhort you to live for Jesus. You cannot build fidelity to an organization. That about which my life is centered, though I serve him so poorly, is still the heartbeat of my vengeance, is a personal love for the man. The man to fill the water and calm the sea, died on the cross, and rose from the dead, and has gone to heaven, and has cheated at the right hand of the Father, pleading his blood ever, making atonement for my things. One day will save, well done, good and faithful service. I have been ruler, faithful over a little. I'll make you a ruler over much. Come on in, enter into the joy of thy Lord. And it will not be just a chorus. It will be a chorus about Jesus. It will not be just a song. It will be a song about Jesus. I told Gerald, in my opinion, the epitome of a great music program and a Baptist church is not that a choir goes up, people go up and say, man, what a song. What a choir. What a music program. Oh Lord, what a Savior. What a Savior. Not what a preacher, what a program, what a church. Oh church, Jesus is the light of heaven. Jesus is what's going to make heaven. Heaven, fellowship is Jesus. The man, instead of man, is going to be with Jesus in heaven. And I want to thank him again tonight for saving my poor soul, for preserving me a place in heaven, for washing me in his blood and preserving it, giving me a heavenly home. The song says, my heavenly home is bright and fair. I'm going to soon be babbling on. I want you to be in heaven with me. Go, Gerald. Come on up here. There's a song that James and Gerald will play. Sometimes life gets troublesome and dreary and hard and boring and discouraging and cold. But I want you to know it'll all pass away. One day, when we see Christ, heaven is where Jesus is. Heaven is to be with Jesus. And the first couple of this dear blind man whom I interviewed on TV today to the gate said, I don't mind being blind. And I open my eyes, man, and the next person I'm going to see will be Jesus. Jesus. Oh, it'll all go, folks. All the worries, all the thoughts will be as nothing. Because heaven is where Jesus is. He's the song. He's the light. He's heaven. He's the theme. He's the cross. He's the center. He's the circumference. Well, he's everything. He's everything.