The Holy City: New Jerusalem

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You know, it's a delight and a joy to know that we are getting ready for that city. What a day. I don't know the moment. You do know the moment, but all of us have got to make a trip across the great divide. We've got to join a world up. World down here. You know, there's only two races of people on the earth. This idea, black and white and yellow and brown.

All that's that's just something for man to fuss about. We just two races. One of us, we race into heaven and the other race us as race and the hell. Which are you race in which race are you part of the race for heaven. Are the race for Hale. I call on you today to get you ready for that race for heaven. Today we're going to talk about the holy city, New Jerusalem. Our whole tax is in the sick in the 21st chapter of the Book of Revelation, the twentieth first chapter of the Book of Revelation. Today, this morning. Get ready for this broadcast. I read my chapter in my book, my my book on the masterpiece, The Book of Revelation. I read my chapter own own Chapter 21. And I'm telling you, I was blessed the size of that city, the beauty of that city, the grand awe of that city.

I don't think the average person, very few people on today in today's world have any idea of what God has prepared for them. That belong to him. Did you know God said that in his Bible? He said it has not even entered the heart of man know the mind of man another. Have they seen that which I have prepared for them that served me for them, that love me. And so I'm one of those that's on my race to heaven. I got this city in my mind. I've been raised in this way over 68 years now. 1952, I was born again, became a believer, and I'm on my way to that city and it's going to be a grand moment. When I arrived, my Wanita is there. And, you know, I look around at this this hour of this epidemic and I'm just of glad all of a sudden she's over there instead of here. She was so sick there at the end. I wouldn't want to be here, have to go to the hospital. They wouldn't want to let me in. I'd have to go to see the president of the hospital to get in. They'd be with her. She just would not stand it without me being there. And I love that I did. She was she was so wonderful. But listen, I'm go into that city also, and you can either go to that city or you can spend eternity in the new heavens and the new earth. And not in the city, but there in with a saved of the earth are you can spend eternity lost. I don't want to one of you to be lost. I'm I'll tell you, there's no such thing as the person that could be an enemy to me, that it would make me want them to spend eternity in hell. I just don't have it in my heart. I pray for every unsaved person I know. I pray for everybody that's been that's gone back on the Lord.

Out there live in a backslid life for those who have left their first love and are just wandering around after the world. I mean, there's so many things. You know what Apostle Paul said in First Corinthians nine and 27? He said. He said, I keep under my body and brain it in two subjection, brain it in to surrender to Christ, bring it into subject less. When I have preached to others, I myself would be a castaway. Apostle Paul knew that any man could lose out and become a castaway, and he said, I'm not gonna let that happen to me. He made it plain. I keep under my body. I keep my body discipline. I keep my life disciplined, I, I keep me going the right direction because I don't want to preach unto others that I myself would become a castaway. So I beg of you today, I beg of you to get your life so given to Christ and so surrendered to the cross that you can say with Paul, I keep under my body, I keep myself discipline, I keep myself surrendered.

I keep my several liban in my Bible, livin in my church and living in the gospel that I preach to others and live in for the Lord Jesus Christ less at any time. I should become a castaway. That's that's a good thought to always have in your mind and to always be faithful. Let me take you to the Book of Revelation 21. Now, I'm not gonna read a law to go backwards and forward two verses, but I want to talk about this city called New Jerusalem, the holy city. There's a name given for the city in this 21st chapter of Revelation, eight names and all of them are magnificent names. So they they point to the greatness of this city, all the riches of the world. A wooden bar, one 12th of this city is 12 stories high and every level is fifteen hundred miles square. The city is fifteen hundred miles high. And and you're talking about a city so massive and so grand or so full of riches. And there's there's no sun. Don't even need the sun. The city itself, the city of New Jerusalem, which is a temple. A tabernacle. It's the house of God. No wonder, David said in Psalms twenty three. I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, because New Jerusalem is actually a Temple Tabernacle. Because it both. And Jesus Christ and God, the Father, the temple of it, and all the glory of their magnificent being magnificent persons will feel the breath of that city and the breath of the new heaven and the new earth. And God will walk among us, as he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. You remember when God would come down in the garden in the cool of the day to walk with Adam and Eve before they sin? Before sin entered the world in the. And the scene and the Garden of Eden. God would come down and walk with them. The days come in when God's gonna come down and walk with you and me. If we're part of that city, God will be big enough. And we'll have eternity. And he'll have time for everybody. There'll be no end of the time. He'll have for everybody. And it will be a marvelous place. And we'll know. We'll know one another. He'll be Joe Chambers for ever. Jesus was Jesus when he lived on the earth. He was Jesus. And when he hung on the cross, he was Jesus. And that got in the in the tomb. He was Jesus when he came out of the tomb. He was Jesus when he was in the heart of the earth. Before he came out of the tomb. He was Jesus when his twelve disciples, eleven disciples saw him. He was Jesus when 500 approximately watched him as seen from the Mount of Olives. He was Jesus going up to the stratosphere. He was Jesus. When God honored him. And gave him a name which is above every name. I'm telling you, he's Jesus. Always will be. And you are whoever you are and always will be. You say, well, maybe I'll be good looking over there. Everybody will be good lookin over there. There won't be no ugly in heaven. There will be no ugly in heaven, I promise you. All right. Let's go to John to Revelation 21. And so 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.

So the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband, prepared as a bride that dawn for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold. Behold. I'm sorry. Behold the tabernacle of God. Behold the tabernacle of God. Isn't that beautiful? Words of words, man. And. And he will do well with them. And they shall be his people. And God himself shall be with them and be their God. We shall dwell with God and God shall dwell with us. What more do he does say than to say that we're going to dwell with God and God is going to dwell with us, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

And that and there shall be no more death near the sorrow. Nah, not. No pain. No cry enough. And but. But I shall be. I'm sorry. No, no cry. Heather Shelbie.

Any more pain for the former. Things are passed away and he set up on the throne said behold I make all things new now. I love that term. Let's start right there. Behold, I make all things new. You all kinds of opinions about the future. You hear. Kinds of opinions about how it's going to be. Is there going to be on this earth just completely stripped away and a brand new earth? Oh, the heavens. Vanish in a new heaven to appear. No, he says, I make all things new. See, Jesus died on the cross to redeem the universe. Jesus died on the cause to redeem the heavens. He died because the devil had been there. He and the devil left his footprints in heaven. So heaven's got to be stripped of that memory and stripped of that time that Satan walked on this wonderful streets. And the new and the earth is going to be completely redeemed. And be a new friend. I'm telling you, we've got so exciting things that happen until they are breathtaking. I'm telling you. And he that set up on the throne said, behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Right. But these words are the true and faithful flow. These words are true and faithful. He said to me, it is done. I'm Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give him that is a third step of the fountain of the waters of life. Really. Hallelujah. He that overcome it. Now this is one word you don't want to miss. He that over cometh shall inherit all things up. He then overcome his shall inherit all things. And I will be his God. And He shall be my son. Now we'll go back to different parts of the Scripture about the twenty first chapter of Revelation. Here's my tax. So why don't you open your Bible and get the King James version now. So you'll have the same words as Brother Chambers. And let's look at some things in this gray chapter that are just plain old. Both Well, man. I got a lot more than I can get to promise you. But let's begin with these eight titles, eight things now, which he describes the city of New Jerusalem, this great holy city. The first is the holy city. Do you understand? We're talking about the holy city. We're talking about a city that will be absolute. We'll see. The state of New Jerusalem is different than heaven. You understand Satan was in heaven, but Satan has never been in the city of New Jerusalem. He's never been there. Jesus created that city after he was resurrected and ascended to heaven. Remember what he said? And John? Fourteen one. I go to prepare a place for you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am. There you may be. Oh, so now I don't know about you, but my wife passed three years ago and I still have trouble trying to situate me with her in heaven. I still have trouble understanding what must be going. Own up there. I've asked God several times to let me have the trip that Paul had. You remember he said that God let God caught him up to paradise and he saw paradise. He didn't say how long he was there, but he said the Lord would not let me come back and tell you about paradise. Why couldn't Paul tell us about paradise? I think it was so magnificent that if Paul would have told us, maybe people would have wanted to serve God just for the city instead of for God sake. We have to serve God because we love God. We serve Jesus because we love the Lord. We don't serve in heaven. That's not what I'm serving God. I'm gonna serve him. If I if I thought there was no city, I would still serve God. I mean that. I mean, any other life is nothing. But. But. But what? Literally living in sin is live. But I live in a little bit like hell on earth. It really is. I see people all the time it in sand. And it's miserable. Look, it is pathetic. I'm overwhelmed by the sorrows. I see the darkness. I see the the path that Satan will take you down. When you give yourself over to the world instead of the Lord Jesus. The devil will take you down the darkest roads you imagine, and all kinds of dark and terrible things will begin to happen to you. And so I I'm glad he didn't tell us. Although my curiosity tells me. Oh, what? I like to see paradise. What I like to go there and come back and tell you. Wouldn't that be something that come back and tell me all about it? Well, I don't guess he's gonna let me. He sure hasn't done so yet. Forward. So I don't know how much time I got. I guess he was waited for me to get so completely surrendered to him until if he did that, I'd give him all the glory. Well, I promise him right now, I'd give him all the go. Well, let's look at these names of the city of New Jerusalem. Number one is called the Holy City. I mentioned that it's a holy city. It is absolutely. That devil has never put his foot in his home. One inch of that city. That devil is never walk down the street. Not a demon has ever been there. Nothing unclean. Nothing we weekend. Nothing evil. It is absolutely a perfectly holy city. No sin has been there. No sin has ended. There had been a locked hole, had been a thievery done. Nothing has happened in that city. That's not the Pyrrhus substance. It's a holy city. And then I love it that it's New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem. Do you understand that Jerusalem is a God. Name, a God name? And I say God. I mean, it is a name that just feels the Bible.

God lives in heavenly Jerusalem. There is a Jerusalem up there in the northern parts. When people see the northern lights, they're seeing the lights of that city. I believe that you say you're crazy. Oh, well, maybe I am, but. But I've heard enough about it and seen enough about it that I know it has to be the light of that city in the northern parts. Oh, yes, there is a city of God in the northern part. Bless the Lord. Oh, my soul. And all that is within me. Bless his holy name. That city is a magnificent city. I was going to read. I was going to quote. It didn't come out. So I'll read in the Book of Psalms. It talks about that city. And I've always loved it. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the City of God, in the city of our God and the mountains of His Holiness. That's Psalms 47 40, not 48. Hymns, Psalms 48. One great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the City of God and the mountains of His Holiness. Beautiful, poor situation is Mt. Zion. That's that's Jerusalem. Is Mount Zion on the sides of the noise? The City of the Great King. God is known in her for a refuge as the first three verses of Psalms 48. I mean, that was written by the Psalmist, David, because he had a little sense of the city of New Jerusalem, called it Zion. Great is God's Jerusalem. Great is God's Zion. And then I've been to Zion over in Israel. And that's a beautiful city. That city is has been the heart of of the earth all the way back. Even before David remember, Abraham met a prince and he spoke of Jerusalem that the king of Jerusalem. The Prince of Jerusalem. Well, he was talking about the heavenly Jerusalem. But many people think of the earthly Jerusalem. My friend, I'm telling you, there is a holy Jerusalem now, a wonderful city. Nobody. But John has seen it. Nobody but John of the human of the human people. Human frame has seen it. But, oh, what a day that's going to be when we do see it. And then his call the lamb's wife, the lamb. Who is the lamb? We know who the lamb is. That's Jesus Christ, the lamb of God. Well, the lamb has a wife. Here it says in this in the in the ninth chapter. It is called the Lambs Wife. Let me just go read that verse. You know, you get into these things. And they're so wonderful. And if you don't read them, you've missed some of the structure of them, it says. And then came on to me, an angel, one of the seven angels which had the seven miles follow the seven last plagues up and talk with me saying, come hither.

I will show the bride the lamb's wife. I will show the bride the Lambs wife.

That's Revelation 21 verse. Bush. And beautiful. Come, I will show. That's first night. I'm sorry. Come here. I will show the the. The bride. The lamb's wife. So here in one bar, sir. Oh. Jerusalem is gold.

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And thence call the lamb's wife. Now you say by the chambers. I thought Jerusalem was a place where people live. Well, they are. They're the bride. And in the city. And the bride are so united together. The city is called the bride, as well as the great multitude of the redeemed. That's going to make up the inhabitants of this city. They both are called the bride. But I like cold in the city, the bride, because it's the place where the bride shall live. We will inherit that city for eternity. It will be the home of the bride of Jesus Christ. The bride of Jesus Christ is at all the same. No, that's not all that saved. That's the one that he has chosen. He has chosen them because they own the right to be chosen. The Bible said many are called, but few are chosen. Many are called. But few are chosen. Has a motive to call to serve the Lord. But there is a smaller number within the multitude who who are chosen to be part of the bride. And they not chose to be part of the bride because the color of their skin are because of the wealth or because of the mentality. They are called to be part of the bride because they earn that reward. It is a reward. I love to read about it all. They are all right. A great man of God. Many today don't preached what I'm preaching to you, but the old timers did. I promise you that one of the greatest showman as ever was said.

The bride is not distinctly the result of reward. Then what is rewards all about anyway? Rewards are about earning the place that you would serve in and be part of for eternity. You are right now earning your place in the future kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. You're earning it right now the way you're live in the way your faith for the things you devote yourself to, that the things you love beyond all else, the things that your life is just caught up in. That's what you're gonna be rewarded for. And so you're either earning the right to live somewhere in the city or you're earning the right to serve somewhere in the middle you own or you're earning the right to be part of the bride. Every thayn you receive has a born again believer is received by reward. We are saved by grace. Oh, nobody gets saved by what you do. You can be so dedicated and devoted and still be full of cardinality. And not even not even born again. The church has got a lot of people that are not really saved. They just they're religious, you know. And they do things in the religious vein.

They like that better than the things that they're in in the economic world. OK. Oh, I understand all of that. I'm trying to help, you know, that being part of this. But the lambs, why do you want be part of the lambs wife? Do you. Are you dedicated to being part of the lambs wives? He said the bride. The Lambs. Why? Now that's those two names. So we already got we've got holy the holy city. We've got New Jerusalem.

We've got the Lambs bride. And then we've got the blood of the Lambs wife. I'm sorry. Then we've got the bride.

But I like another name. He gives her the city. This is breathtaking to me. And that's the name Tabernacle. The city of New Jerusalem is called a Tabernacle. Now, why in the world is it called a tabernacle? Well, I'll tell you why. But let me read it first. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold that Tabernacle of God is with me. He's talking about the new city. He's done by the holy city. He's done the new Jerusalem. He's done that. The lamb's wife, he's still not the bride.

And he calls it a tabernacle. A tabernacle. A tabernacle is a place where God is manifest. A tabernacle is a place where God reveals his glory. It's a place y his glory is ever present and always available and always real. Hallelujah. So New Jerusalem is at Taba. Think about it. You say I don't enjoy much going to church. Well, you're not gonna be part of New Jerusalem. You won't be a judge. All your life. The rest of your days. That's what David said. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for that long. To tell you something, friend. My delight is that I'm going to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. I've been saved sixty eight plus years now. I've always loved the House of God. I come here every morning. I was here this morning at quarter past fire. Had to get on my face with God. And did I have a marvelous time? I was in the Tabernacle. I was in the House of God. It's not the eternal house, but is the press and church. Why I'm committed. Why I'm Shepherd. I'm dedicated to what? With God and love him. But that tabernacle is where it will dwell. Eternity. So. New Jerusalem is called the Tabernacle. I would guarantee you many of you have never heard that before and I don't think it never dawned on me quite like it has just everything about the Bible. Gas just gets bigger for me. Richer and bigger and better and rich and bigger and better. It's a grow in book. So it's called a tabernacle. And then his skin got a bride adorned for her husband, a bride adorned for her husband. Let me read that. I've already read it. Let me read it again.

I saw our John saw the holy shit in New Jerusalem come nana of Heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband, prepared as a bride. The city is in hands to such a grand or that it is called the bride adorned for her husband, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lowne. I mean, these are terms that describe the magnificent and the grand door of the city that we know of as New Jerusalem, the holy city or the city of Light. You just heard how precious lady is singing about this great city. What a day. What a day. This city will be the center, the city. I've got so many things to say about it. I'm trying my best to hurry and I'm not good at it. And then it's got a great city. I like that called a great city. That's in verse 10. Again, I've read it and read it again. And I heard him and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me a great city. So he calls it a great city. Oh, it is great. I get a little of that in a minute. I hope you hang on. Stay with me. If not, I mean read the twenty first chapter of Revelation and read it slowly about three times, maybe five times. So I'll read it every day for a week and steady it as you read it. And here you begin to memorize certain little key parts of it. And it begins to get a hold of you. That part I'm remembering, Bill, where is is is what I read in what Bush was reading. It says, Behold, I make all things new and make all things new. I don't replace all things with new things. I make all things new that we must remember that his quite his death on the cross was the redeemer thing. That devil had made a mess up. His death on the cross was to make everything perfectly purer, that Satan had come along and destroyed and defiled and and they crushed. You know, it's marvelous to hear God say things like that, because when God says that, that settles it. Did you know that I make. Oh, Thain's knew a great city. Then go holy Jerusalem. Holy Jerusalem. I like that tomb. It's so holy. It is so holy. Did I already say that holy city. No, I said first am holy city. Now it's holy Jerusalem t he he takes a play of words all through this chapter until the city becomes the center of revelation. Twenty one it just becomes a center and if it's a bride it's a tabernacle. Then he speaks of it as the temple that God, the Father and God the Sunnah is the temple of the city is the temple of the city. So is the temple. But they are the temple of the city is the tabernacle. But they are the center of this tabernacle and the city is a holy city.

And this as a bride, it's a beautiful is a rave. This adorned is prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, I'm telling you. And then I love the term that it's a fountain. Believe in water. The city is a fountain of live in water. You'll see the first verse of the next last chapter of the Bible, Chapter 22 Revelation. It starts off by speaking of this it here's what it says and I'll read it to you. He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal proceed and out of the throne of God and of the land. Now the throne is in the city. So he sees this rib of proceed and out of the throne, which is out of the city, are both the father and the son. So it's a fountain of Libyan waters to satisfy the long ends of everybody. Now, something came to me while ago. I was sitting here pray and weighed in on the broadcast time and and weighed in on loving you and bringing you something rich and sweet. And I got to thinking about how the heart of man has an unsaid as fireball. These Zyra. There's something in every one of us that whatever happens today, tomorrow, there's always these feelings have not been satisfied. That's why people go and when to shop all the time, because they're never satisfied. That's why a man will go by and visit the new car shop. Every so often because they're never satisfied. And when my wife passed up, I realized that there was something inside of me that loved her and was satisfied by her. I could be happy if I was holding her hand anywhere, doing anything. If I had her hand in mine and she's there looking at me with her with a sweetness and let me know she loves her, Joseph. And I'm sitting there loving my one leader and we could be happy. And suddenly he's gone. She's in heaven. And I'm still here. And I'll tell you is I will shut down in my house sometime. And the longing of my heart will be almost QCAT shattering. I mean, just longing. And I have to go to pray and go to quoting the Bible. Go to seek the Lord. To get myself out of that that terrible feeling. Because we are human beings. And there's something inside of us that's never satisfied. I will tell you something, Wolf. Tondo meal awhile ago and it overwhelm. When we get to heaven. The whole beauty, beauty of everything God has here is gonna to satisfy every every pain inside you, every desire you've ever felt. Every every emotion that's ever gone on and supplied. It's got to be told. You will feel completely and perfectly happy. And there won't be an ounce of you that has an ounce of longing ever again for eternity. It will be a totally satisfying experience. And I believe that the presence of God and the presence of Jesus is the essence of that satisfaction. They are like a river of live in waters flowing to satisfy the deepest longings of our heart. There will be a completeness take hold of us and possess us, and we will be possessed by completeness. They're so full and so total and so absolute that we will be happy and happy and happy for ever and ever and ever. And along with all that happiness. We will have so much to enjoy. I mean, it's overwhelming. The things that we will have to enjoy. Didn't know that I will be part of the bride of Jesus Christ. Now you say. Do you know that? Well, I'm stride into that. And I believe I'm Ugne in that. And I'm like a Paul. Now, I gotta have you know, Paul said I can't not myself to have apprehended. But there's one thing I do forget in those things which are behind have pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high quality of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, not that high calling of God, which is in Christ Jesus outlawed has to be part of this, but has to be part of this bride. And that's my call. And I pressed toward it. And I believe I'm going to acquire it. I really do. But I can tell you this. Whatever I acquire, we'll be totally satisfying to me. And I will be happy with him forever. I promise you that. But those who are called and chosen. Hallelujah. And if you chosen and you. And you're a bedrock. But Jesus said he's happy within the house of God. Was your delight. You see, I said the other day on on Facebook, you don't build Joe life. Don't build a church around your your normal natural life. You build your natural, normal life around your church. You are not the center of your Christian life. He and his church is the center of your Christian life. And whatever you are planning, you plan it around your church. You don't plan your church around it. You plant. You plan. You plan your church around Jesus. Now, I'm not just talking about the church. I'm done that Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life. And that certainly centers you in the church. So the city is for the blood of Christ. Now, the Bible said the gates of the city never close. The gates of the city, never close. The whole world, the heavens and the earth full of people who have been saved, who are part of the kingdom of God. And part of the kingdom of Christ. And they spend eternity in heaven and eternity and the things of God. There will be a multitude of them who live in the in the cities of the world. The Bible says very clearly that the new heaven and the new earth will be full of cities and those cities will be worth the Sabliere. And they were born in the riches of their cities to the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be the capital of the earth.

Now, this city is so light, so full of light, that there's no need of the sun.

The city of new. Some will lighten the whole new heaven and a whole new earth and everything will be lit by this city. Oh, it may not be visible on the total other side of the spear, but it will be the light of it will be visible and there will be no shadows there. You won't be able to get behind something in hide.

There won't be no places. Where are you? It's dark back there because the sun can't reach it. Oh, no, no. This light from the city will feel every inch of the whole stratosphere, the whole heaven and the whole earth. So the city is the light of the whole new heavens and the whole new earth. What a place. What a place. The very presence of heaven and earth will be so overwhelming. Until there will be no sea and nowhere. There will be no such thing as sea and sand would have passed or a form of thanes will not be remembered. Sam will be no more than the things that Adam and Eve got involved in. In sand, in the presence of Lucifer is forever banquet's and gone and over with. Oh, what a day.

Now the city is so massive. We've got to think about the size of this city. It is fifteen hundred now cubic. That means high and wide both ways. Fifteen hundred miles. That's fifteen hundred by fifteen hundred.

Baa. Fifteen hundred. Fifteen hundred. This way. Fifteen hundred that way. And fifteen hundred. That way. And it has twelve foundations. So that those foundations will be stacked up that beautiful city toward the great heavens. Hallelujah. And you talk about. I was looking at my article that came out of the book, the masterpiece. You're to get my book The Masterpiece. We had people audited this week. I wish I could get it in every home. All over the world. Do you know how tall the city of New Jerusalem is? Mount Everest is twenty nine thousand and thirty five miles high. Did you know that? Mount Everest.

Twenty nine thousand and thirty five miles. Ha ha ha. The city of New Jerusalem is seven million. Nine hundred and thirty thousand feet. Seven million. Nine hundred and thirty thousand feet. Is that. I'm sorry. Nine hundred and twenty thousand feet. That's how tall it is. I mean, Mt. Everest is nothing but a molehill compared to the city of New Jerusalem.

At every level. Every level is two hundred and twenty five hours apart, every level unsolved. That's not right. Every level is one hundred and twenty five miles apart. Every level. A hundred and twenty five miles apart. So level one hundred twenty five miles up. There's another level and another level and another all the way to the top. And and the whole city is made out of just brush stone. It appears that Jasper Stone is the exterior. The structure of the building, but the inside garnished with gold. So the city is a gold and city and and these walls are a massively ha I mean, wonderfully hard. Each wall level is garnished with a precious stone. I always like the twelfth level because it's garnished with amethyst the amethyst stone. Can you imagine how beautiful it would be? Now you've done. Fifteen hundred miles on four sides. That's six thousand miles around the city. And that hole outside of this fourth of this twelve level is garnished with amethyst stones. There's no such thing as treasures on the earth that even begin to compare with this marvelous city.

Do you understand that yet? I'm not. I said it. Pay the streets of the whole city. Pay would go every street pay would go. I mean, is it so gorgeous that the gates on all four sides. There's three gates on each side. Four of the sides of the building. That's twelve gates. Each of those gates is named after one of the tribes of Israel. Each of those gates is named after one of the tribes of Israel. So, you know, it's the city that relates to the world, to us, all of us, God's people. From the dawn of human history, God's people have been destined to this city. God's people have been planned for this city. It's it's part of God's great drama of the finish of it. And then eternity to bear. I mean, what a picture. What what a marvel. What a marvel. And so you've got you've got these massive. It is so. Toll. That is amazing to me, when John would see the city, when John was. See the city.

The Angel. The angel of the Lord. I like this. I mean, let me take you to it. And let me find the right place here. Any cat. All right. Here we go. Night. And there came one of the angels, 17 Yoza, which had the seven last vows of wrath to be put on the O.S. come hither. I will show the bride the lamb's wife.

I will show me the bride the landslide and any carry me away in the spirit. See, John is seeing this in the spirit. It's all a drama. Before him you don't just hear words. He sees it dramatized. He sees that and acted of it. You who enacted all this. Maybe angels. I don't know. But I know John saw it. John saw it. And he carried me away in the spirit to great and high mountain. And notice that Guardian Angel took John Bird. Take him. Do a great and heart mountain now. Why did you take him to a great high mountain? Because he's fixing to look at a city that's fifteen hundred miles high and fifteen hundred miles away.

How are you gonna see that if you don't have a vantage point? That would would be in this case, that great and high mountain. Ha ha. That mountain was we don't know. It was high enough to see that whole city. It was high enough to look on a city. Fifteen hundred miles square. I would say it was probably a pretty good ways. Put a good ways up a huge mountain in St. John's in the spirit. So we're not we're not hindered here by by earthly figuration as an earthly numbers and earthly high. We're looking here at something heavenly and something wonderful. So the angel took John to exceed and great and high mountain. Listen now.

And showed me. Showed me. He saw it. Showed me notice that he didn't say. Told me. He showed me. You know, one of the things I love about revelation is all through it.

You see these great drama dramas. You see these great Panorama Panorama scenes. You see these great Panorama scenes. You see these scenes that are just heavenly, breathtaking. And John tells us what he saw. Someone says, I don't believe I don't believe that's how it is. That's how John saw it. Now you see when you see that, John, so it when you see that John, so it when you understand that John saw it, then, you know, it had to be real. There goes the angel witness showed him a. The angel witness showed him something that didn't exist. This is a dramatic moment. This is a dramatic theme. And John is seeing it. I love that. And he showed me the great city that the holy Jerusalem, DAR Holy Jerusalem. Come on. Come on down. Come in out of heaven from God in this pathetic picture is coming down. We aren't there yet. That's future. I may get there. Behold that day. I know I will be. Behold that we will all see it if we part of his people were part of his great company of the of the saved. And so he showed me the great city of holy Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, Heaven, the glory of God.

I didn't go to get a hold of that while ago. That's another description of the city heaven, the glory of God. The city glows with the glory of God. The city glows with the glory of God.

And her light was lack until a stone most precious, even like a Jasper Stone curse. Kerr's crystal. Even like a Jasper Stone carries crystal. What a picture. Hallelujah. And now they're great. Had a great heart. And I'm sore. And had a wall. Great. And ha had a low grade and high. No wonder John had to be carried to a mountain and had 12 gates.

And images. All twelve of the gates. Two three on either side of the city. East, west, north and south. And and the walls of the city had twelve foundations. The walls of the city had 12 foundations. You see how it names these well, different levels that we have in this great city. And in them the name of the Twelve Apostles of the Lown to the gates are named after the Old Testament patriarchs. The walls of foundations are named after the Twelve Apostles to Gus Brennan, the whole church into his picture here. It's all about. The church from Adam and Eve. I'll go right now. Right now. And until it's all finished him, it's gonna be finished soon. I'm telling you what we are beholden is there is the echo of. Then what we're watching is the signs of the finish. What we're watching is the judgment of God. Beginning people have killed unborn babies like they were nothing but but clutter. For for the lives of those that that were pregnant, heavy with child. And in the way, way evil has abounded, has got God in his great kingdom preparing for the end when all of this is going to be judged. And it goes down and begins the name those 12 foundations. And he names each of those duos that deck decorate one each of those twelve foundations. And, you know, this has to be up like this because twelve foundations. And each of them are decorated with a different duo. I mean, it's all such a picture of magnificence. A picture of the greatness of God and the beauty of all. He's preparing for all of us. And I'm hardly got started here. It is so much. It is beautiful. I love how the angel carried him away. And there's no temple there because the Lord, God and Jesus are the temple of beard. There's no need of the sun. As I told you earlier. And and it's all so glorious and beautiful. Each level of the twelve levels is there. It is expensive and grand. A river of flowing out of the city. Now we all have a hunger. As I said earlier, for satisfaction, this city is the final satisfaction of the whole universe. I mean, the whole heavens and the earth will be completely. I mean, there will be so excited of this city. And the doors, the gates are open day and night. And so there's a constant flood of the saved of the earth. Come into the temple to worship God, the father and God the son. And and hallelujah. I presume those who are part of the blood of Christ will be the welkin in company. Paul, the savior of the Earth. Has they come and go? And this city will be a place of grand tour. I won't tell you all the animals of God. Will. We'll we'll be present to all the birds of the heavens who will be present. Everything that God made and put in the Garden of Eden will be beautifully adorned. You're talking about a city so magnificent and so wonderful, you know.

I'm kind of the crazy man when I get into all of this. But but I'm trying to help you and get you excited.

I want you to get excited. Now, I got twelve minutes. I didn't know the time's gone so fast. But will you grab a phone lines of fix what? I can answer you and hear you. Quickly if you dial seven oh four three nine one oh five eight. I will put you up here. So you see the phone number. Just that first number, seven oh four three nine one oh five eight. Now, it's not gonna stay but a minute. So get it written down and grab your phone. I want to take some calls. And I want to answer questions that you may have about this city. Now, let's go back. While I'm waiting on you to call now. You're welcome.

You really are. I got two or three things I want to say to you. So please stay with me to the last moment. I want I want you to get this. I want you to get excited about this city. I want you to become become part of the overcome insane so that get ready to leap in the new heaven and the new earth and maybe even the city of New Jerusalem. I wish every one of you could be part of the bride of Christ. I would I would like myself to have encouraged a multitude that do start devoting themselves to Christ. Quit playing games with your faith. Quit being careless about your church life. Quit being careless about your devotion to the Bible. Who set you a prayer time every day to get along with God and to grow in the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost and to get rich and in the mercies of God? I'm telling you that we follow.

The Holy Ghost is one of the most wonderful things in all the world. There's nothing as wonderful as Libyan life full of the Holy Ghost. I'm telling you, I could not I could not stand not to be part of the crowd. Libyan only for Jesus and serve him with all my heart. I had something you I plan to play at the end. Or did I put it?

Oh, well, I'll find in a minute. I'm telling you, Jesus is coming and those who are ready are going to be leaving. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you overcome? What do you have to overcome? I'll tell you three things you've got to overcome. One, you've got to overcome yourself. Did you know most of us have quite a apart of selfishness in us. We don't want anything that we got to give up. What? I think. I mean, I do. I do it like I want to do it. You. All the time now, I'm I'm. I'll be what I want to be how? I'll I'll I'll I'll believe the point of the Bible. I want to believe I have. Which is part of the. No, no, no, no.

I'm done to overcome in yourself until you put yourself on the altar. Until all you are is on the altar for all he is. I can think of nothing richer and more wonderful in all the world than walk in with Jesus. And live in close to him. And knowing that you're ready to go when he calls. Not telling you, friend, that's gonna be a grand moment. That's gonna be a grand moment. And he wants you to be part of him. He wants you to be part of it. And when you are part of him, it's a rich life. It's so satisfying. Until there's no end to it, there's really no end to it. And I'm inviting you. What would Jesus give your life to him? He then overcome it. The Lamb's Book of Life. Did you know the only time in the Bible that the whole name for Jesus, the Lamb's Book of Life is named right here. The Lounds, The Book of Life. Are you in the Lamb's Book of Life today? That's the only people gonna go to heaven. Those written in the Lamb's Book of Love. Did you know when you get saved? Jesus writes your name down in his book. If you would write. Now get on your face and give your life to Christ. So render all you are there. Serve and live for the Lord Jesus would write your name down and his lamb's book of life and he would know your name. And the father says in his Bible that all the sins at the blood washes away. He never remembers them against you again. They are forever gone. Therefore ever washed away. They are no longer there. And I want to remind you, there's no tears in that city. If you have a loved one that you've tried to wind and they will not respond, are bullheaded and they are going to go to hell. A bus, a bus burst. I mean, they just can't stand the thoughts of turning their life. I would that terrible as someone would have that. But the worst Felhaber. Well, when they wouldn't if they say lost you. And you don't ever win them, you will not remember them to grieve when you get to heaven. I know people that I love so much and it'll break my heart if they're not there. If I felt like I feel now. But when when I get there that all will be removed and it won't break my heart anymore. It really won't. So there'll be no tears in heaven. Did you know that? No. Tears in the city says that right at the beginning of this great tax. He says no tears there. Now I want you to get yourself ready with God. Would you today decide while I'm sitting here just loving it? You would you decide for Christ, turn your life over to him if you gonna be a half hearted Christian, do something about that. Don't continue that half heartedness. Get give it all on the altar, become a tender. You know, the fruit of the spirit. You know what it is. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering. Gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. That's the believers life. Lovejoy peace. Longsuffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. It's a it's a marvelous life and it's a life for you. He wants you to have it. He wants you to enjoy it. He wants you to live in it and serban it up and do the things that biennium honor. He will be a will be blessed by your devotion to him. I promise you there he will be blessed. Now, I want to talk to you about a couple announcements school. We are gonna have a great school this year, we believe. I mean, it's tough getting ready to go, but we own schedule.

And we need you to know that Paul Craig, Christian Academy is gonna be a place that you can trust. I'm telling you, we are going to keep this place so sanitized if we do it for our church. With all these months now, we've had a big camp meeting with only one I know how to count, meeting with no bad results. Nobody got sick because we're doing everything we know to do the sanitize this place that keep it absolutely pure, absolutely pure. And I need a manager from our cafeteria. I need a manager for my cafeteria. I got one prospect that I haven't had a chance to review yet, but I'll review probably Monday. But you may be the right person. I don't know a manager from our cafeteria. I may need a couple of teachers because we could have an explosion of our enrollment. And if we do, we have to start from classes and I would need teachers. So either way, if you have any of these desires, you need to contact us immediately. Don't wait past Monday morning. Call the number seven oh four three nine one oh five eight eight. Brian, your resume may over. And let's get acquainted with you. If you own a school that's gonna have wonderful in class teaching and teachers doing everything that's safe sanitizing in this building from one end to the other every day, checking temperature. Children twice everyday. I mean, we've really got to do the right things, this thing in all of that, we don't do it right and we're doing it right for church. And either way, you're welcome. Paul Cody, I promise you, we are doing our best to be what God wants us to be in this hour. We really are. So we do. Plus, we need a staff member to don't know exactly. But I know I would like to be up on top of that and be ahead of the game. OK, ahead of the game. So be in touch immediately. Don't wait past Monday. You come to church tomorrow. I promise you, you can sanitize your hands at the door. We have space seating every other pew. We encourage everybody to keep yourself safe apart. Separation. You may wear a mask if you like. That's up to you. You could at least wear it even if you own two and take it off, as you said, alone somewhere. A space in the sanctuary. I'll be up to you again. And I promise you, everything we do is safe. Everything. And we are sanitizing this bill. And until I don't believe a virus good could exist in this building. That's how we sanitize it. I mean, every inch of it. Every inch of it. I mean, I'm going overboard, I guess. But I know what it is to do things clean and purer. Okay. And my my teachers. Oh, they're wonderful. They are wonderful. You would love our teachers. I promise you that. You would love our teachers. There's some of the best. And again, we may have an up tick that we need to start a couple of classes. And if we do, then you need to let me know that you need to that you have a teaching certificate and you like to be a teacher a year. We'd sometimes hire a teacher in some areas. That's not yet certified. But but better grade teacher knows what they're doing and good at their job. You know what your capacity is. And I'd love to talk with you. Hey, I love to talk with you as parents. I'd love to have you in the House of God tomorrow. I promise you. And I want you to go back and there's something to be archived on on the Internet and archived on Facebook and available right here at our school and our church. We want you to grow in the things of God and be usable to him. Now read this twenty first chapter of Revelation. Will you will you read this 21st chapter revelation. Read it today. Read it today. I mean, really, you'll be blessed and share this program now on Facebook icon. And so you could share it. It will go a lot of places. A lot of people might hear it and they might get saved. They might give their life to Christ. Did you know the blood of Jesus can wash away your sins? The washed of sentence can be washed clean and pure. In a moment of time if they surrender to Christ. And did you know the sick can be healed in a moment of time? If you trust in those stripes that was used in with the blood of Jesus Christ. Oh, I pray for you right now. If you're sick and body, let Russia follow that heal in flow. Give my friend a miracle right now. The high carb burden for every person out there sick. I carry a burden that they might be healed, that they may know that great power of Christ to make completely hold. You are the healer, Lord. You have a healer. Hey, it's been a great program. I'm sorry nobody called. I thought sure you'd call. Maybe. I mean, this this subject is just breath taking and I only touched the surface. You can read Revelation 21 and get an even greater amount of information. And I hope you will. I do remember our school. Remember our school. We talked hood in three weeks. School starts in three weeks. I think that's right. Teachers start in two weeks. So maybe it's one, maybe two weeks before school starts. Well, I can't keep up with. But we'll be ready. I promise you that we're dedicated. We're giving it all. We got worse. We're committed to the ultimate, to the best. We really are. Because we love your children and we love the cause of Christ and we love the kingdom. And we're here to give God all we are for the kingdom now. I love you. Jesus will come into your life. If you let him please know that this is a poor place, you can come to church in the morning. This is a clean place. You can come to church in harmony. Come in. Those front door was there. Sanitize your hands and come down and be seated and keep distance and you'll be safe. I promise you, we'll pray for your healing and for your cleansing and we'll claim a miracle of your life. I'll tell you, we mean that with all our heart. I love you. I love you much. You can be saved by grace that you know. That you can be saved by grace.

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