WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.199 practical ways. Well, good morning, good morning, there you go, 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:18.600 we talked. Oh yeah, good morning to you and you 5 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:19.000 and you. 6 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.399 Good job Chris. 7 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:24.359 Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the Bible guys, Today's Thursday. 8 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:25.239 I decided to save. 9 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.519 The good morning, starting to worry that it wasn't gonna happen. 10 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.679 I mean last week he jump right off on Monday. 11 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.800 Yeah, was a close one. 12 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.479 Yeah, so almost weeked right underneath the yes, just under 13 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:35.719 the line there, good job man. 14 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.960 Yeah. Well, hey, welcome to the Bible guys. This is 15 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.320 a great episode today, Today's Thursday, and we're talking about 16 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.000 God's well is gift of eternal life. 17 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:50.640 It's it's actually a question for you. Yes, what interesting 18 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:52.719 thing did you do in the last two days? 19 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:55.880 What interesting thing did I do in the last two days? 20 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.520 Yeah, the last five days? 21 00:00:58.520 --> 00:00:58.560 What? 22 00:00:59.119 --> 00:00:59.320 Well? 23 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:00.679 I went to time Detroit? 24 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.920 Oh yeah, do you like the Detroit thing? Yes, go 25 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:04.439 to a show. 26 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:06.599 We were and saw a concert. 27 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:08.879 Yes, good with your wife, going a date, all that 28 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:09.439 kind of stuff. 29 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:11.239 What are you driving at? 30 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.200 Nothing? I just was thinking that, you know, this is 31 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.920 going to be one of those days where we let 32 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:20.079 guests ask questions, and so I thought I'd ask you 33 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:21.599 a question before we let the guest to it, because 34 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.359 I never get to ask you questions like that for reals. Yeah, 35 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.000 I had no agenda. I'm just curious about the wonderful 36 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:29.760 life of zar Ball. 37 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.239 Really huh, Well, I think that's sort of out of 38 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:34.799 the blue and took me by surprise. 39 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.719 Yeah, well, there you go. See, isn't that nice? 40 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:37.359 Sure? 41 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.680 I actually all right, you owe me one. 42 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:41.519 Well, let me just say this. Let me just say this. 43 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.959 I'm going to promote. I'm going to promote the David 44 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:45.120 Whitney Hotel. 45 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.040 It's a good hotel. The Whitney is amazing. 46 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.719 In the eighteen hundreds, it was so lovely and wonderful, 47 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.879 and we decided to make a weekend of it. 48 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.920 They spent millions renovating that place. I'm sure millions and 49 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.920 millions of I'm. 50 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.840 Sure they did because we because we saw the fruits 51 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:04.159 of it. And I'm telling you, it was extremely impressive. 52 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.959 And somehow it felt ancient, and like the style of 53 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.360 everything was ancient, but somehow it felt one hundred percent modern. 54 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.800 I mean not eighty not eighty percent modern, one hundred 55 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.800 percent modern. So other than the air duct system, like 56 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.520 we realized how ancient that was. It made a lot 57 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.960 of noise, it was small and all that stuff, but 58 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.199 like everything felt old but it was brand new. Wow, 59 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.319 and so it was just it was just incredible. 60 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:29.800 Well cool. 61 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.319 Yeah, So anyway, all that to say, it was a 62 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.879 little expensive, but it was a Marriott hotel. Lit's get points. 63 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.599 So that's why we did bonvoy. 64 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:41.479 Yeah, yeah, yeah, well good, Yeah. I think it's just interesting. 65 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.360 People love hearing about zar Ba. Oh come on, and 66 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:46.879 you sang to us today. So then I thought, let's 67 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:48.080 find out what it's been up to. 68 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:51.960 That's really it. That was it. Well what about you, Jeff, 69 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:52.800 how what have you been up to? 70 00:02:52.879 --> 00:03:00.719 Not much? So today is stumped the pastor and which 71 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:02.800 is one of our favorite segments. I'm still confused, and 72 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.080 it's always I just I think we do a lot 73 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.719 of the same things at the beginning of every show. 74 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:09.080 So I just thought I'll do something different. 75 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.240 Man, all right, by that that makes sense to that 76 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:13.000 thought makes sense. 77 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:17.039 So you know, it's freaked out. He's like looking at 78 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.159 me as I'm like, I'm like, what are you up too. 79 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:21.400 I'm waiting like five minutes from how we're gonna go. 80 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.879 Ah ha, but you even to find out I'm going 81 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:29.560 through your wallet right picked. So, uh, the stump the 82 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:33.360 pastor is we have guests that are listeners that will 83 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.479 write in and say, hey, I've always wondered about this 84 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.759 from the Bible, and since where the Bible? Guys, Usually 85 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:41.639 the stumped the pastors are stuff about the Bible, are 86 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.479 about faith or something like that. So Jony p she's 87 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.520 one of our regular listeners. Yes, she makes lots of 88 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.560 comments and things, and so she's she's like a platinum listener. Yes, probably, 89 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.280 don't you think. Well, we've definitely level. 90 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.280 We definitely received many questions from Jony. 91 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.159 Yea and comments and so hi Jony, Hi Joni. And 92 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.800 here's a question. She says, can you explain how it 93 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:06.240 is possible? This is a heavy question. Can you explain 94 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.199 how it is possible that I can be happy in 95 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.680 heaven if my loved ones have not been saved and 96 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.919 would not be there with me? Yeah, this is actually 97 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.439 I love The heart behind the question. 98 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.240 Yeah, the heart behind the question is it is incredibly sad. Yeah, 99 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.480 So I actually don't I don't think that I can 100 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.800 come up with a sadder thought, right. 101 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:29.600 There isn't one no, there isn't one no. 102 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.879 To be separated from a loved one for eternity is 103 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:40.279 heartbreaking no matter what, it doesn't matter. That thought is 104 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:45.800 just incredibly, incredibly sad. So it's the reality of like hell. So, 105 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:51.519 you know, the some scholars over the past couple decades 106 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.759 have tried to erase hell, the idea of hell. Yeah. Sure, 107 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.480 And there was a very famous author and there was 108 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.199 a wave that sort of swept through the chur which 109 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.240 is even the theology through the churches that maybe God 110 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.839 perhaps wouldn't condemn anybody, but just give everybody a second 111 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.120 and third and a fourth chance, and maybe perhaps everybody 112 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:11.759 makes it into heaven and that there is no hell. 113 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.480 But at the same time, you know, if you were to, 114 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.879 you know, take the Gospels literally and you know, take 115 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.000 Jesus at his word, the Bible is pretty clear that 116 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.480 there is a heaven, there is a hell, and it 117 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.079 is a very sad thought that most people don't want 118 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.040 to think about. But the idea is is, you know, 119 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.560 when we get to heaven, how could we even be 120 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.560 happy if our loved ones aren't with us? So I 121 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.600 only have one answer, Jeff, and it's not based on 122 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:45.079 It is based on scripture, but it is the only 123 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.759 comforting thought that I can come up with, which is, 124 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.120 I believe what the Scripture says when he says He'll 125 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:56.120 wipe away every tear and there'll be no more sorrow. 126 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.519 There's no more what is that revelation twenty one? There's 127 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.079 no more. 128 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.120 People ie every tear from their eyes. You have be 129 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.759 no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All 130 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:08.839 these things are gone forever, forever. 131 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.279 So therefore, and by the way, this is the same 132 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:16.160 answer that I answered in the Baptist Baba College mail 133 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.199 room to Sean Sears, who's a pastor currently in Boston 134 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:24.160 by the Way of Grace Church. He's a good friend 135 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.680 of mine. But anyway, he asked me, he said, won't 136 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.079 you get bored in heaven? He goes, the idea of 137 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:32.879 eternity makes me want to throw up. That's what he 138 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:35.240 said to me in the mail room. He said, he goes. 139 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.839 If I think about eternity and I think about being 140 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.160 there for billions and billions and billions of years, and 141 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:44.079 then I think of that being like one day, and 142 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:46.879 that being just the very beginning, and the idea of 143 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.920 always existing forever. He said, it makes me want to 144 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.879 throw up because I think to myself, that is the 145 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.920 most boring existence that I could ever even imagine. He said, 146 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:59.040 what would you say about that? 147 00:06:59.560 --> 00:06:59.879 Wow? 148 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.600 And I actually said to me, I actually said to him, 149 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.040 I said, well, I'm going to trust in Revelation twenty 150 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.680 one that says it's impossible to be bored, right. So, 151 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.879 like the idea of boring being a negative feeling to 152 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.879 you know, boredom leads to depression, Boredom leads to you know, sadness, 153 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:20.240 Boredom leads to all sorts of things that are negative. 154 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.319 And the scripture says, and so I cling to the 155 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:29.519 fact that it is literally impossible to be sad in heaven. Right. 156 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:33.000 So therefore, you know, will the reality and the knowledge 157 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.079 be available to me that our loved ones are not 158 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:42.199 with us? I think so, based on everything we know 159 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:47.959 about interpersonal relationships identity, right, you know, the apostles have identities, 160 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.319 the martyrs have identities, Abraham and Lazarus have personal identities, 161 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:58.600 you know, Elijah, Moses, you know, people beyond eternity. There's 162 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.040 indications that we will retain knowledge of identity. So I 163 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:03.959 believe that there will be identities. I think there would 164 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.319 be knowledge. I think I'll recognize my wife in heaven. 165 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.720 I think all the Boble says, the Bible says, you 166 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.879 will be known and fully known, and you will know 167 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.560 him because you'll see him as he is. Yes, Yeah, 168 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.240 so you'll you'll know and be known. 169 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.839 Yes, So I believe that I'll have the knowledge that 170 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:21.319 that you know that this is my this was my wife, 171 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.600 and maybe even still as my wife or you know, 172 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:26.959 or or my children or whatever it is. Now, will 173 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.759 my mentality be different? Will I be disassociated from the 174 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.480 same feelings that I have from those identities? 175 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:32.720 I don't. 176 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.759 I don't know that. That's a great that's a great discussion. 177 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:40.480 Right, Well, you will have you will have a perfect perspective. 178 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.519 Right now, you have an imperfect perspective, that's imperfect feelings 179 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.759 about your relationships, and in that context you will have 180 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:53.799 you'll have a god like, a godly perspective. 181 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.399 Yes, so it's probably safe to say even my feelings 182 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.559 about my personal relationships with you, right so, like right 183 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:02.000 now I have. 184 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.919 Yeah, there's that guy. 185 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:11.159 Yeah, so I think that I think I think it's 186 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.360 safe to say that we'll feel different, we'll have knowledge 187 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.120 that is different, but I think we'll have a personal 188 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.159 identity knowledge in history. 189 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:19.039 Yeah. 190 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.559 So therefore, I'm going to cling to the fact that 191 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.000 there will be people in my life that I know 192 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.679 will not be with me in eternity. But yet I 193 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.919 will cling to the fact that it is impossible to 194 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.080 be sad about such things. Yeah, that's what That's what 195 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:33.559 I believe. 196 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.879 Yeah, I think it's likely that he will eliminate the memory. Really, 197 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.200 yeah of that? Yeah, m. 198 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:45.080 Do you have a scripture based on that or do 199 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:45.279 you just. 200 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.279 Thinking it's just based on that same scripture, same scripture. Okay, 201 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:51.840 he's making everything new. The old have and the old 202 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.120 earth has gone by this point, he's made everything new. 203 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.799 So yeah, so Joni, here's here's the bigger thing. If 204 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.279 the people that you love are still living, there is 205 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:06.240 nothing more important than you learning God's words well enough 206 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.120 to be able to explain the gospel and lead them 207 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.840 to Jesus. And a lot of times we don't share 208 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.919 the gospel, we don't use scripture because we're afraid they 209 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.080 might be offended. But what do you have to lose 210 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:23.080 if that's the final outcome? You don't have anything to lose. Right, Instead, 211 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.559 James says, if any of us like wisdom, let us 212 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.679 ask of God, who gives liberally to everyone who asks. Right. 213 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.600 So we need wisdom and discernment on how we also 214 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.240 need the tools we need to learn how to share 215 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.639 the gospel. Whether you know Bernie Schmidt at Heritage Church 216 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.919 teaches how to use the three circles right, the three 217 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.960 circles of the Gospel and or the Romans Road or whatever. 218 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:51.240 But learn some scriptures to be able to gently speak 219 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:54.720 the truth in love? And was it Jude talks about 220 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.360 some are saved by fear of hell, others are saved 221 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.759 because of love. Right, So you're also looking for God's 222 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.519 tactic on which is the thing that will get my 223 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.639 loved one's attention to share the gospel them. If it's 224 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:12.600 somebody who's already gone, well, then let that awareness build 225 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.960 a passion in you to rescue as many others as 226 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.759 you possibly can. That's part of my testimony. Talk about it. 227 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.919 My father, my biological father, is an alcoholic, gave me 228 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.360 up for adoption, abandon me all these things. When I 229 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.120 became a pastor, later, I started a recovery program in 230 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.679 our church specifically with the thought that I was never 231 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:32.120 able to help my father, but I'm going to help 232 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:36.120 other people's fathers, right right, And maybe it's the same 233 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:41.679 that right now, maybe some alleviation of this pressure that 234 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.399 you feel is use that as an impetus to say, 235 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:45.879 I'm going to try to lead as many people to 236 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.200 Jesus as possible, and God will bless you. 237 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.799 And then and one last thing. I know this is long, 238 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.879 but it's all Bible stuff, right, so it's definitely a 239 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:58.159 worthy segment to go along. I would also say this too, 240 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.320 So if you've been praying for a love who is 241 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.679 still alive, who has rejected Christ and they and they 242 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:08.440 have you know, been held bent no pun intended against 243 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:12.440 becoming a Christian right or believing, and so maybe there's 244 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.840 a discouragement that says, you know, my wayward relative or 245 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.559 loved one or something will just never accept Christ, but 246 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.440 they're still living. I would just say, don't ever stop praying, 247 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.679 don't ever stop giving up hope, and especially if you 248 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.879 have an opportunity, so you know, to share with them. 249 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.559 I just want to say this real quick. I have 250 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:34.080 a cousin who's listening right now. Donay, So usually say Hi, 251 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:39.600 you Nay. Yeah, So Denay is my mother's brother who 252 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.519 passed away from cancer. So her father and I and I. 253 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.360 The very first time that Dnay ever came by was 254 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.840 just this past year at my house. She was driving 255 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.240 right down I seventy five and I said, hey, you're 256 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:54.679 coming down I seventy five. I said, want you to 257 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.240 pull over and and come join us on I was like, 258 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:59.399 what is it Labor day or something more of it. 259 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:02.759 So anyway, so she came by and we're just sitting 260 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.879 having lunch or something in the back some room, and 261 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:11.120 just very casually, I said, uh, yeah, I prayed with 262 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.720 your father in the hospital, and you know, we went 263 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:18.519 through the Sinner's Prayer and he said that, yeah, absolutely, 264 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.720 I've prayed that before. He actually said I prayed that before, 265 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.799 but you know, just to make sure, you know, he says, 266 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.960 I'll pray it again. And I prayed the Soner's Prayer 267 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.159 with them, and I didn't realize that she didn't know that, 268 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.240 and so the entire time she was thinking her dad 269 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.960 was not a Christian because his whole life he had 270 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.080 never really talked about it and sort of rejected. And 271 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:44.120 so she started crying and she said I didn't know, 272 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.519 and I thought to myself, Wow, you know, don't ever 273 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.919 give up. Don't ever give up praying for somebody, because 274 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.919 even in the last moments of their lives, when they're 275 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.200 faced with perhaps eternity or death. Uh, you know, you 276 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.919 never know. You never know what aly spirit can do. 277 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:07.879 Yeah, you do for someone else what you hope someone 278 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.159 else will do for the people you love. Yeah right. 279 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.559 And and so if you have access, share the gospel. 280 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:15.720 If you don't have access, share the gospel with other 281 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.399 people and pray that God will We'll bridge the gap 282 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.720 right for you. And that's powerful. I love your heart 283 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.559 on that, Jony, and God will comfort you in those 284 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.639 those things. And I don't know how. So when you 285 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:30.600 ask the question, how is it possible? I don't know 286 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.039 how it is possible. But I do believe God's words 287 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.399 are true, and God can do what I can't do. 288 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.279 And God's ways are not my ways, and God's thoughts 289 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.399 are not my thoughts. But Heaven will be heaven for you, 290 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:42.360 yeah right. 291 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:44.879 You know, speaking of heaven, Jesus spoke a lot of 292 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:45.679 heaven and John. 293 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.159 Fourteen, I love this passage is one of my favorite passages. 294 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.200 John fourteen let's just read no great nodge. 295 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:50.240 No. 296 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.200 I like it though. That was a good, good transition. Yeah, 297 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.960 I was just gonna embrace it. So we just have 298 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.480 a few minutes. Let's just jump right into it, he says. 299 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.799 Don't let your hearts be t trust in God, and 300 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.600 trust also in me. There's more than enough room in 301 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.559 my father's home. If this were not so, what I 302 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:09.759 have told you that I am going to prepare a 303 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.399 place for you, and when everything's ready, I will come 304 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:14.360 and get you so that you will always be with 305 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.559 me where I am. And you know the way to 306 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.080 where I'm going. No, we don't know, Lord, Thomas said, 307 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.200 we have no idea where you're going. How can we 308 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.799 know the way? Jesus told him, I am the Way, 309 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.039 the Truth, and the life. No one can come to 310 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.080 the Father except through me. If you'd really known me, 311 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.559 you would know who my father is. From now on. 312 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.600 You do know him and have seen him. Do you 313 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:39.279 want me to keep going? 314 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:39.799 I think so? 315 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.799 Okay, Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and we'll 316 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.080 be satisfied. And Jesus replied, have I been with you 317 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:46.720 all this time, Philip, and yet you still don't know 318 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.440 who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen 319 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.799 the Father. So why are you asking me to show 320 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:53.600 him to you. Don't you believe that I am in 321 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.360 the Father and the Father's in me. The words I 322 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.159 speak are not my own, but my Father's, who live 323 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:01.200 lives in me, does his work through me. Just believe 324 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.159 that I am in the Father and the Father's in me, 325 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:05.360 or at least believe because of the work you've seen me. 326 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:07.399 Do I tell you the truth. Anyone who believes in 327 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.200 me will do the same works I have done, and 328 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:11.720 even greater works, because I'm going to be with the Father. 329 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:13.879 You can ask for anything in my name, and I 330 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:15.960 will do it so that the Son can bring glory 331 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.639 to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, 332 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:19.360 and I will do it. 333 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.039 Yeah, I love it. So at the very beginning verses 334 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.159 two and three of the highlighted verses, there is more 335 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.360 than enough room in my Father's home. If this were 336 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.720 not so, I would have told you would I have 337 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:32.120 told you that I'm going to prepare a place for 338 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:37.159 your question mark. So you know it's interesting because when 339 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.039 he says he's joined to prepare a place for you, 340 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:42.080 I always think of the custom that the Jewish people 341 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.919 lived under which was they would just expand the home. Yeah, right, 342 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.080 and so so another version would say, in my father's house, 343 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.200 there are many rooms, right, and there's a place for you. 344 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:52.840 And what that really means. 345 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.519 Is and audio adrenaline would say, it's a big house. 346 00:16:55.879 --> 00:17:00.360 Yeah, a big room, right, a big big table, lots 347 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:00.879 and lots of. 348 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.920 Our youth pastors in the nineties. 349 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.319 Yes, so so yeah, So what they would do is 350 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.920 there would be an expansion of a family. There would 351 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.400 be a son, for instance, who would like get married off, 352 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:14.759 you know, and they would they would celebrate it, you know, 353 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.400 with a week for this wedding, and oftentimes at the 354 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.880 end of that week, they would move into the brand 355 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:24.440 new room that was added on to that father's house. 356 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.960 And so it's like, hey, don't worry, we're going to 357 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.359 expand our kingdom. 358 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.319 The Amish do that today. Yes, they keep adding on 359 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:33.599 to their homes and expanding and they'll build a new 360 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.079 wing for the new couple. And yes, that's the same idea. 361 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.200 Yeah, And so it's like and so that that's the 362 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.680 way that they would have heard it. So in my 363 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.119 father's house there are many rooms, and I'm going if 364 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:44.599 it were not so, what I've told you that I'm 365 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.559 going to prepare a place for you. And then, of course, 366 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.440 you know one of the most famous verses ever, right, 367 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:51.599 he says, I am the way the truth in the life. 368 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.640 No one comes to the Father except through me. So 369 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.720 he's talking about heaven. He's talking about, Uh, there's a 370 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.240 place for you, and he says, you already know where 371 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.359 I'm going at I love Thomas going no, we don't. 372 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.319 What are you talking what are you talking about? Clueless 373 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.119 all the time, He's like, you know what I'm talking about, 374 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:09.640 and they're like, we have no idea what you're doing. 375 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.720 It reminds me of The Chosen when when Jesus met 376 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.759 with the woman at the well and uh and then 377 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.119 she leaves and then they all walk up, and it's 378 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:20.119 so funny the way they depicted this because because they're 379 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.759 eating and and he goes, hey, you want some food, 380 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.000 and Jesus goes, I have food that you don't know 381 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.920 of from my father. And he says, what do you say, 382 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.960 I have? I have food that yeah, that you know 383 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:33.000 not of? That you know not of? And then and 384 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:34.319 then all of a sudden they all look at each 385 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.680 other and then in the Chosen One of the disciples goes 386 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.640 who got him food? Like like like he's like he 387 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.839 has no clue he has he's eating food. He's like, 388 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.160 you have food, where's your food? Like, where'd you get food? 389 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:47.359 Who brought him food? Right, He's like he has no 390 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.359 clue what they're talking about? Right, that's what Thomas says. 391 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.079 That would have been you because you're so literal. 392 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.079 Maybe so I would have been like, you're not a rock, 393 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.279 You're not a door? What are you talking about? 394 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:02.079 Got a shepherd? What you are? You not bread? 395 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.920 Are you saying that we have to go back into 396 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:04.720 our mother's womb? 397 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:06.200 Right? 398 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:07.599 Womus? 399 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.200 So you were nuts John chapter three? So yeah, it's 400 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.200 it's funny when you when you read it that way, 401 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.880