Revelation 21.1, just think for just a moment as you reread these verses of what it would be like for John, for God to, you have been John and God reveals these wonderful things to you. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. That is an amazing thing. And not only just that, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things. And I will be his God. He shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and the murderers and the whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in a lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Those who habitually practiced those things and were unrepentant. May the Lord's blessing to the reading of his words. Pray for a moment. Heavenly Father, what a monumental passage. We have but two chapters that are solely about this wonderful new earth. Now there are a lot of other things in the prophets, but these two chapters are really our mainstay of what's gonna happen in the future. So Lord, may we handle them carefully, may we let the Bible interpret itself, and may our time together be precious, exciting, what you have planned for us. So Lord, help me today, forgive me of sin, empty me of sin. of self and please film with your spirit today. Be with those teaching downstairs. We wonder, why would you love me so? I am so unworthy of your love, but thankfully, we thank you forever that you did. So let's bless our time together. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. We finally arrived at this place, this is called the eternal state, if you would, the eternal order, if you would, significantly different from what the world is now, even the time of the millennial kingdom where God will have, by the way, if you're thinking with me, just thinking clearly, during the tribulation time, there's so many difficult things and the earth goes through so much destruction, God's gonna have to redo it, regenerate it somehow, energize it somehow change it before even the millennium goes on. But now we have a new heaven and a new earth. We read of a place called heaven. It's made for the pure and the free. These truths in God's word he hath given, how beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be, sweet home of the happy and free, fair haven of rest for the weary. How beautiful heaven must be. Now I will have to say, many people today have taken the New Jerusalem and that's all they know about heaven. That is the capital, yes, that's the capital of the new earth. But eternity is far more than the New Jerusalem, far more than the gates of pearl and streets of gold. That's just the New Jerusalem. Heaven's gonna be, there's new heavens, in 2 Peter, and a new earth. So I personally believe we're gonna be involved for eternity going out to, that's my personal opinion, but they're gonna be there and God's gonna let us enjoy his creation for eternity. It's gonna be a wonderful thing. A little girl was looking outside one night, she was drinking in the splendor of all the millions, yeah, billions of stars, and she said, Mom, if heaven is so pretty on the wrong side, I can't wait to see it on the right side. I'm telling you, Mrs. Crum, this morning is sitting on the right side. Someday, Mrs. Nelson's sitting on the right side. Someday, somebody up here, when your grandson or your sons will be up here preaching, they'll say, now, Pastor Tim, he's on the right side now. The Lord's church is coming and waits, and I'll be on the right side eventually. Sadly, I think this longing For heaven, I was just reading in 425 in our hymnal. I love the song. I'm kind of homesick for a country. We need, I love the song, but that should be just the tip. I am desperately homesick for a country. Now, I'm not gonna change the song. I like Mr. Parsons. He's an independent Baptist as far as I know, but I love the beautiful song. But there should be this longing. We have lost the longing for heaven. We've gotten so involved. We put our stakes down so deep. We are not thinking. We're about instant gratification. It's the right now. It's the me, me, me generation. It's material comfort. It's narcissistic indulgence. The church has become so worldly. One man said, nothing more graphically demonstrates that worldliness than the current lack of interest in heaven. Who wants to hear? Well, we're going to float up there with wings and sit on clouds and strum harps. I don't know who made that up, but shame on them. Now, there'll be music, yes. But sitting on clouds with wings, we'll never have wings. And strumming harps, I don't care much for harp, and I hope I don't have to do that. But somebody, maybe one of y'all who likes harp music can do that. Maybe Adam can do it. Maybe he likes harp music. I don't know. Whoever likes the string music. I like stringed instruments, but just not so much the harp. So let us rejoice. Let us not think that this, I said this Thursday, I said, if there was a train on the way to heaven, it's going to stop by the mausoleum here in Wheelersburg, would you go? Well, let me check my calendar. Well, you know, I got here. You shouldn't have to check your calendar. Yes, I'm ready to go now. Take me home. Swing low, sweet chariot, carry me on to glory. Stop being so earthbound. What matters is eternity, Pastor Tim, that's what matters. Eternity, where are you gonna spend eternity? So four things, I know the outline is quite incomplete. Number one is it's a planned as a new creation. It's interesting, very few good books today are written about heaven. Even classes on eschatology will often run out of time before they get to the eternal order. You would think we're going to spend eternity somewhere. We would just be digging for every single biblical thing. By the way, if you're going to find out what's true about eternity, there's only one authoritative source. If you're writing your book and you're leaving the Bible out, just throw that book away. This is the only truth about eternity, and you must base your book about heaven on this. Not on, well, I heard all these stories, but no. There's one true story. History is His story. History. Verse 1, 21, 1, and I saw a new heaven and new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. John, can you imagine? And I saw the awe and wonder. Now hold your finger there for just a moment. We need to go back and consider 2 Peter 3 for just a moment as well. 2 Peter 3, 5. Peter adds this interesting comment. He tells us the first heaven and first earth, which then was perished. A reference, I believe, to the creation from Genesis 1-1, and now the second heaven and earth, which are now. So let's look back, read for ourselves, because the Bible speaks for itself far better than any pastor can ever preach about it. Let the Bible say its words, and let us just learn from that. Three, five, a second, Peter. For this they then willingly are ignorant of by the word of God. By the way, we'll just stop for just a moment. Willingly ignorant, that describes so many today. They don't want to know. You know, if you're thirsty for something, man. The only thing better be Diet Milk, dude. But there's no thirst. There's no thirst in America for God's Word. It's falling in the street. I can't get up. Yes, exactly, shame on me as a pastor that I have not preached more diligently and the truth of the gospel needs to be shared from pulpits across Greenup and Siloam, Adams counties, if anybody else from another county, your county as well. We need to hear the truth of the gospel. Peter says, they are willingly ignorant of that by the word of God the heavens were of old. Evolution is still not true. I have this thing on my phone called a 1440. I don't know if anybody else has it, but you get the news without a lot of other things on it. And still, they found some new pterodactyl-type flying lizard that was either between 71 to 64 million years old. I don't understand it. We're only 6,000 to 10,000 years old, is all the Earth is. How can we have something milled? Were you there? So somebody's got to take it when Ken Ham dies. Somebody else got to start. Were you there? Were you there? God says he did it. Just trust Him. The earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world then was being overflowed with water, perished. We understand that, the flood. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word, were kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Please don't start using that for gap theory. It does not work there. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering. Aren't you glad to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance? But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Why? Because we've got to have an earth that has no sin on it. And this earth is laden with sin. I cannot imagine the cacophony of sorrow that goes up every day from America to God's ears of how we treat our unborn children. It has become a sacrosanct thing to some. It's like, it's almost like, it is, it's so sad. Verse 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the, what? Where in the heavens, the curse all the way through, when Adam and Eve took of the fruit, when Adam took of that fruit, the curse is like shockwaves through the universe. The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. There we are. That's Revelation 21. We're leading up to Revelation 21. That was end of 20. As 21 starts, and I still... And Paul said he was caught up in 2 Corinthians 12 to the third heaven. I knew a man in Christ about 14 years ago, whether in the body or I cannot tell, or neither out of the body, I cannot tell. God knoweth such a one caught up to the third heaven. It's very simple to think about. When you think about heavens, we have the atmosphere. That's the first heaven. Outer space, the second heaven. God's dwelling place, the third heaven. Now this might also be a reference to what John is saying. I'm not sure. But that's a simplistic way to look at it. Atmosphere, outer space, God's home. The new heaven and new earth. New there is not merely new in time, chronological, but also new in kind. One of the laws, two laws of thermodynamics, God is not creating. He created everything, but now as God, he's upholding all things by the word of his power. So it doesn't have to be, he can take the same elements and then redo them to a new earth. Was not the flood still the earth after the flood? Yes. So the earth, it was redone. Yes. But here we can take these elements and redo them and remake them. It's going to be significantly different because we see in verse one of chapter 21, there's no more seas, one or two, no more sea. In Revelation 21, we're back over there, a restorative work. We had the tribulation time. The earth has been, I want to say bombarded and all these things, the earth has been nearly destroyed by all the things happening during the tribulation time, and God regenerates regeneration of the earth during the millennial time, I think very similar, likely, to the Garden of Eden. But there's still death. Matt, how would you know that, pastor? Because at the end of the millennium, the sea gave up the dead which were in them, and they all stand before God. And so there's a sea even on the millennial kingdom. And here in 21, saw new heaven to earth, for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away, and there was no more sea. That does not mean no more water. For in 22 verse one, and he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. Let me ask you, how much of the earth's surface today is water? Three quarters, three quarters. And you put this 1500 mile city On the earth as it is now, with all of it being ground, it only takes up 1 75th of the surface of the current earth. This new Jerusalem, 1,500 miles square, only 1 75th. of the current earth size. Who says God can't triple the size of the earth after he remakes it? So don't be concerned. There's so much room. It's 1,500 miles up and out. Can you imagine? Jeremy and I, we had these cans. You put a long line on the can, and you go, I hate Jeremy! And he goes, I hate you too! Can you imagine a 1,500 mile line working that far? It's not gonna work. There's gonna be room for everyone and then some. God has it all planned out. New heavens, new earth. You say, but pastor, I've read in the Old Testament prophets that sometimes the Old Testament prophets don't think of it all as chronological. Sometimes they talk about the eternal order. Sometimes they talk about the millennium. And the internal order, when we finally get to the, Now, heaven. We're going to go to heaven, yes, for a short period. There's so much misconception. Where God dwells, we call that heaven. So when I die, Lord willing, when the Lord's heritage is coming, I'm going to go to heaven with my parents. And then the church goes to heaven during the tribulation time. And then we come back with him, I think seven years later, come back with him. And for a thousand years, he's on this earth. And then there's a new heaven, a new earth. And then God comes down. See, the holy city comes down from God out of heaven. So really, heaven comes to here. It's not like you and I are going to leave this planet. I'm never coming back here. My neighbor's never going to see me again. I'm going to show him. No, we're coming back. Matter of fact, our home, fraternity, It's a new earth, new earth. Isn't that amazing? We're not going off planet forever. God's coming to us. But isn't that what he's done before? Was he not tabernacled with us in the person of Jesus, God in the flesh on earth that he might die for us? That's just mind boggling that God himself will be our God. He's our God now, we understand that. But to dwell with us, wow. That is heaven. See, that's what makes heaven, God. God makes heaven. So if you, I wanna see the gates of, I wanna see the gates of peril, I wanna see Jesus. And I wanna thank him, I wanna thank him for saving my sinful soul. And he walks with me and he talks with me. And he'll tell me one of his own. And the joy I'll share as I tarry there forever. You will also know. Won't that be glory? That'll be glory. That'll be glory. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. It really follows the conjunction of and, follows the previous chapter when it was destroyed. If you remember, we find that death and hell cast in a lake of fire. Satan goes into a lake of fire in chapter 20, verse 10. And so this, you need to put 2 Peter 3 right here between 20 and 21, and there'll be this burning, because we're off planet, and God's gonna take care of all this at approximately the same time. It's interesting, I found this wonderful comment from Joseph Zeiss. Imagine the earth, and listen to this. Get you just a little bit, tickle your ears, what we're gonna see. An earth which no longer smarts and smokes under the curse of sin. An earth which needs no more to be torn with hooks and irons to make it yield its fruits. An earth where thorns and thistles no longer infest the ground, nor serpents hiss among the flowers. Or strawberry patch. Nor savage beasts lay an ambush to devour, An earth whose sod is never cut with graves, Whose soil is never moistened with tears, Or saturated with human blood, Whose fields are never blasted with unpropitious seasons, Whose atmosphere never gives wing to the seeds of plague and death, Whose ways are never lined with funeral processions, Or blocked with an armed man on their way to war, an earth whose hills flow with salvation, whose valleys know only the sweetness of Jehovah's smiles, an earth from end to end and from center to the utmost part clothed with the eternal blessedness of paradise restored. Paradise restored. That is gonna be exciting, isn't it? It is. And you and I, pastor, why are you excited? If I'm not excited, you're not gonna get excited. If we're not excited, we're gonna miss what God has for us and be excited about the share with the good news. The good news. I can give you some news about 2017 Yukon trucks, the transmission. I can give you some news on that. That's not necessarily good news. If you've got one, you need to trade it as soon as possible. Not saying those kind of, that's not so much good news what I'm telling you though. We have the best is yet to come. We're praying for people to keep them down here sometimes. Let me go. If it comes to me and you're living, let me go. And that's the way we should be. I know there's a lot of nuances there, but we are going to the place of glory, are we not? When my father-in-law was up in the hospital, and he'd been on the ventilator, and he was on different things, and finally the last sibling of the six arrived, they were on the bed, we walked out, and they unhooked the machines, in 15 minutes, not like 15 minutes, he was in glory. Just waiting for that last of the six to get there. And off he goes. I think sometimes we need to understand what's existing and what is living. If the person knows Christ as Savior, let him go. Now, I've lost both all my parents and my father and they were all four were gone. I'm telling you, let's have the right mentality. of what's to come. It's gonna be wonderful. It's gonna be wonderful. Number two, if you're still thinking about it and you're not going to sleep yet, it's provided not only planned a new creation, it's provided a new capital. Verse two, I saw, John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. See, so the holy city is not all that's in heaven. It's coming down from God out of heaven, preparing as a bride adorned for her husband. This is one of five places in the book of Revelation John called, and I, John, saw. Not once in the gospel of John does John say, and I, John, did this. No, it's disciple whom Jesus loved, by the way. What a moniker. He's the disciple whom Jesus loved. What that would be said of me and you? My disciple, Pastor Wayne, my disciple who I love with great love. Yes. He knows my name. He knows how many hair I lost in the shower today. And I really think he has them numbered, not total amount. That's not too hard for God. He knows all the bees that are in my house right now on the side, not in my house, hopefully they're not in the house. He knows all the bees that are under my side, even that big, I would not want to see what big of a nest that's under there. He knows all about them. He knows all about us, does he not? A new capital. The holy city. Now, I have to say, sometimes Jerusalem is not such a holy city, but that is holy because it's what has happened there. You pick out one city in all eternity, it's the singular point of God's focus, it is Jerusalem. A new Jerusalem is going to be. By the way, we, and remember the marriage supper of the Lamb, when you get married, you don't receive all the things marriage involves on that very wedding day, so we have the marriage supper of the Lamb, and someday, we'll have the new Jerusalem in which to live, and be a part of. What a wonderful thing that will be. Paul compared the earthly Jerusalem with the New Jerusalem above, later on teaching in Galatians 4. He called the New Jerusalem the city of my God, promised the overcomer would write their name upon that city. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate destination of all saints. We'll have a part of the New Jerusalem, but again, please don't limit eternity, the new order, if you would, the eternal order. Now, I'm not saying the new world order, please don't confuse that. The new order, eternal order, don't limit that to just the New Jerusalem. It's gonna be far more than that. That's going to be the capital where God reigns, but I think we're going to just read the scriptures, read the Psalms. much more than just the gates of pearl and streets of gold. Three, is prepared for a new community, verse three. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, prepared for a new community. It's planned as a new creation, provided as a new capital, prepared as a new community. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle is with men, and the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. And God himself shall be with them, and be their God, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. I thought of the anthem that we have sung as a choir. God shall wipe away. We need to get that for our choir. First of all, under this we see they are blessed by the presence of God. God himself shall be with them. Remember in Garden of Eden, if you just compared Genesis 1, 2, and 3 with Revelation 21 and 22, so much we lost. You're going to have pain and childbearing. No more pain here. You're going to have sorrow. You're gonna have to buy the sweat of your brow. We're not gonna have that now. We're gonna have sorrow. We're not gonna have that now. All the things that we lost in chapter three, we're gonna get so much to be taken care of because of the second Adam, who died that we might have life and paid the penalty for us. And so we will have all these things because of what he has done for us. And God himself, The greatest news. Now, it's going to be the greatest horror to those who don't know Christ. Meeting God. Well, I think most people today want to bypass that. Pastor, I don't think, you're not going to bypass it. We just read it in 20. We just talked about the Great White Throne of Judgment. Even we believers, we're going to stand before God. Our rewards, our loss of rewards, read it, 1 Corinthians 3, 2 Corinthians chapter 5. We're going to stand there and see what we could have done and what we did. And the fire is going to try our works of what sort it is. And whoo, can you imagine the bonfires are going to go up? Do you see the no tears? See, that happens long before we get to 21. Well, there'll be no tears, no tears up there. No tears, no tears up. No tears and heaven will be found. that only applies to the eternal order. I'm telling you, this is where he wipes away tears. I think we're going to be sad. I think the greatest saddest day outside of Christ's crucifixion is going to be the Great White Throne Judgment. I think we're going to be there. We've got to be somewhere. The earth and heaven have fled away. We're going to be some kind of in a jury box or something watching. And don't you imagine the tears we're going to shed when we see those who go? So Christ's eternity, I heard one man say to those who were called to the mission field, and they were neglected to go, and God said, go, I'm not gonna go, I'm gonna stay here and do what I wanna do, and they're gonna see the heathen go by and look at them. If you'd have just come, if you'd have just come, I may have gotten saved. If you'd have just come, and they're gonna look at my neighbors and your neighbors. If you'd have just told me once, I'm not saying they all would. Remember the thief in hell, he looked up and, I'm sorry, that rich man in Lazarus, the rich man looked up in hell, and he knew he was supposed to be, he knew he, I had rejected, but just send somebody, tell my, if you send Moses back from the dead, they'll, no, they won't. They're willingly ignorant, but that does not stop us from sharing the news with others. We are to share. God's power to change. the blessed of life, the presence of God, not only that, the blessed by the absence of grief, verse four, absence of grief. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, no tears, all the memories of pain and suffering, no death, no graveyard, no highways lined with cemeteries, no depositories of the dead, no funeral processions, no gloomy hearses, no chiseling out of epitaphs on tombstones, no obituary lists in the newspaper. That's all going to be a thing of the past. On the right hand, on the left, we have death before us all around us because we are in the land of the dying, going to the land of the living. But most people think it's just the opposite. I'm in the land of the living, going to the land of the dying. No, no, no. It's the opposite of that. We're in the land of the dying. Just look around. We're going to the land of the living. It will be amazing. So, blessed by presence of God, by the absence of grief, neither sorrow nor crying. Isaiah 35, and the ransom of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Former things are passed away, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen, 2 Corinthians 4, 17, 18, are eternal. And finally, that protected by the new constitution, planned as a new creation, provided with a new capital, prepared for a new community, protected by a new constitution. So when the pilgrims came over, they had a constitution that said something similar to, in the name of God, amen, we whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of the dread sovereign Lord King James, having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of Christian faith and honor and of our king and country, to voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, due by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic." And so the pilgrims came over, but they brought with them decay and destruction and humanity. And so now we find that our, what was constituted way back then is now we have so digressed from what was intended. Why? Because we're humankind. That's what we do in many ways. Godly men themselves, but in them was the seed of evil, et cetera, if you would. You remember in Exodus 1.8, a new king came on the scene in Egypt, which knew not Joseph. We have a world in our own country who does not know the Savior, does not know the King. Three great guarantees before we pray. Number one, it'll be a splendid place to live, a splendid place to live. Most people like moving into a new home. We find it's going to be a splendid place for us. It's going to be exactly what God wants for us. Behold, I make all things new. It is done. The same kind of word was on the cross when Christ said, Tetelestai, it is finished. It is done. God has a plan for us. He has it all planned. We are trusting him for our future. He said, let light be by the word of His power. I'm thinking He can handle a new Jerusalem and everything to follow. He's upholding everything by the word of His power. Now He will continue on. A splendid place to live. It's going to be a satisfying place to live. So the words of the Father are reminiscent to the words, again, on the Son when He redeemed. It is finished. He said unto me, it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Verse six, the beginning and the end. So He is the beginning part. We have everlasting life, but we're not eternal like God. God always has been, is now, always will be. That's who God is. We have everlasting, eternal life. He has always been. He's the Alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet. Omega, the last letter in the Greek alphabet. We would say He's A to Z. He's everything. He always has been. We have self-righteousness sometimes in our own thoughts. We need the righteousness of Christ. If you're ever going to live with God, you must have your sins forgiven and have God's righteousness applied to your life. That's the only way we're going to be there, a satisfying resource there, a satisfying responsibility. Verse seven, he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son. What an amazing thing. We're gonna be God's children, if you would, sons and daughters. What a challenge to us today to live like the Christian we say that we already are. He allows circumstances to test us and to test our mettle, if you would, to see if we're truly going to trust him in all things. It was 1871. This is a great Chicago fire happened, and D.L. Moody had gone back to his house, and he was rummaging through the remains. And one man said to him, he said, I hear you've lost everything, Mr. Moody. Oh, no. Oh, no, you've heard wrong. I didn't know you're that rich. And what he did, he took him to Revelation 21, 7. I will inherit all things. So I've still got far more left than I lost in the fire. Satisfying responsibilities, satisfying resource, and finally satisfying relationships. He's overcome us, shall inherit all things, and I will be his God. For God so loved the world. In Luke 11, if ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? So we have the Son came to die, the Holy Spirit's been given to us, and in verse seven, I will be his God and they shall be my son. The Father comes, so Father, Son, Holy Spirit have given themselves. What an amazing thing it is. And the last thing for your outline, I know I said earlier on it was the last thing, but this is, I believe, will be it. Number three on this point is heaven will be a safe place to live, verse eight. How sad. all the wickedness there. Heaven will be free from all these things. Sin has wrecked and ruined the world and God is determined to not let it ruin the world to come. That's why there'll be no sin from there. That's why death and hell are cast like a fire. There'll be no more sin because this earth has been renewed with fire and we will live with him in a joyous existence free from this sin that burdens us down. Won't that be a wonderful thing? But the fearful, unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and adulterers, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. So, pastor, what if I've done some of those things? Can I be forgiven? Yes. What the difference is between, I believe personally, between a person who sins and has no repentance, unbeliever. A person who sins but repents, you're a believer. See, if an unbeliever can sin and live high, wide, and handsome, as Adrian Rogers would say, and never repent, there's no conviction of the heart. If you're truly born again and you sin, that guilt starts squeezing your heart. And if you're truly born again and you know you're living a sin, then you need to repent. The unbeliever does not repent because he doesn't see a need of repentance. So if we sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. If we confess our sins, he will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. But the unbeliever just remains in unrepentant sin. So this morning, if you can sin and have no guilt, I believe we need the Savior. And if you have sinned, he awaits us to ask for forgiveness. How beautiful heaven must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. fair haven of rest for the weary. How beautiful heaven must be when heaven comes to earth. Let's pray. Lord, we are grateful that you do have this plan of the ages. Lord, for even be one person, I just go right to that. Lord, for even one person who has yet to receive his personal savior, or they're just not sure, may it be today. May they come forward in just a few moments. and come to the front and let myself or a lady with a lady sit down and share with them from the word of God how they can know that they know that they know that you're a child. That's why you've written these things that we may know that we're yours and you died for us. For God still loved the world, that gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. life. There's no caveats there. It's like, well, if they do the right thing, or if they keep on doing this, or keep on doing that, no, it's believe. Whosoever believeth in him. So Lord, if someone's not believed, may you work in their hearts and lives. May we as Christians this week, may you give us opportunity to share this good news with others. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.