 I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago, and then he says, whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth. He says, such and one caught up to the third heaven. So here Paul is saying that he met somebody, whether through a vision or actually did God put this person in front of him, he's like, I'll ask God when I get there, and we'll ask God when we get there as well. But he's saying he saw somebody that was caught up, he saw somebody that was saved and went to heaven, went to the third heaven. What is that? That's the spiritual heaven. That's the heaven that we were all looking forward to when we die physically on this earth. We're going to be caught up to the third heaven. All right, now go back to Revelation chapter 21. So all that to say this, there's three heavens in the Bible. Whenever the Bible uses the word heaven, you have to kind of decide, all right, what's the context of this verse? Which heaven is it talking about? But clearly when it's talking about us dying and being with the Lord, it's talking about this third heaven. Okay, look at Revelation chapter 21 and look at verse number one. So after the millennial reign of Christ, the Bible describes what heaven is going to look like to us, what this new heaven and new earth, this is where we are in Revelation 21 and Revelation 22, after the millennial reign of Christ, after all the things of the end times prophecy have happened, this is where we are going to spend our eternity. Look at verse number one. The Bible says this and it says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Now one of the guys asked me, the other kind of took me by surprise a few months ago and asked me, now do you think that this is a new heaven or in a new earth or do you think it's kind of like the same earth that's been all kind of fixed up? And I think that now that I've thought about this, I mean I believe what the Bible says, it's a new heaven and a new earth. It's not like refurbished or anything like that. So it's a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. So tonight we're talking about the third heaven. We're talking about spiritual heaven number one and then number two, we're going to talk about where we will spend eternity in this new heaven and this new earth. Now I'm going to answer three questions. I'm just going to answer three questions about heaven that people commonly ask. And I'm going to show you what the Bible says, not what some book somebody wrote says. I'm going to show you what the Bible says and I'm going to kind of give you my opinion on why the Bible doesn't answer some of these questions and why the Bible does answer some of these questions. But I think we can get a good idea about this. The first question that a lot of people will ask about heaven is when we get to heaven, how old will we be? Look at 1 John chapter three. Go to 1 John chapter three. So people are always asking how old will we be in heaven? In 1 John chapter number three, the Bible kind of gives us some detail about what things are going to be like, what we're going to be like in heaven in verse number two. But look at 1 John chapter three in verse number two. The Bible says this. It says, Beloved, now are we the sons of God? Now you've been adopted into God's family if you're saved. You are a lowercase s son of God or a daughter of God. You've been adopted into his family. You are a child of God at this point. Beloved, now we are the sons of God and it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. So of course I've preached extensively on the first resurrection that we're all going to be part of the first resurrection and at that point we will have our glorified bodies. This is talking about Jesus coming back in his glorified body and it's saying we are also going to have these glorified bodies after the first resurrection. So here's why. The answer is the Bible doesn't say how old you're going to be when you get to heaven. The Bible simply doesn't say next question. But I'm going to tell you why the Bible doesn't say. Because age, when you think about what people are asking when they ask how old I'm going to be when I get to heaven, everyone in their mind has an ideal age of what it would like to be. And I'm sure that number is different for everybody. But just think about the idea of age. It's really to answer the question, it's really a silly question. It's kind of an irrelevant question is what I'm showing you is because age is a function or a measure of your failing body. It's a function or a measure of your dying self, your physical flesh. And we're going to have glorified perfect bodies when we are in heaven and we are in eternity. Even going into the millennial reign after the first resurrection we are going to have glorified bodies. So it's really an irrelevant question is age is just a measure of our remaining time on earth. Turn to James chapter 4. Age is just a measure of our remaining time on earth. Or it's a measure of what we think is our remaining time on earth. You look at somebody who's older or what you think is older, you think when you're 15, well when you're 8 you think somebody that's 20 is old. When you're 15 you think somebody that's 25 or 30 is old. When you're 40 you think somebody that is 60 is old. And you start to kind of realize, oh man am I old? At that point. But it's just a relative measure of how much time you think you have left in this body on this earth. Look at James chapter 4 and verse 14. And I know we've read this verse before but I just want to focus on the very beginning part of this verse. It says, whereas you know what shall be on the moral. So here's the irony. How old you will be in heaven is irrelevant. And guess what? What James chapter 4 is saying in the very first part of this verse, you know it says what is your life? It is even a vapor. Talking about how quick your life goes by. But the first part of the verse, you know what the Bible is saying here? It's saying your age today is irrelevant. It's saying today that it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter how old you are today. Because the 15 year old doesn't know what's tomorrow. And the 90 year old doesn't know what's tomorrow. So this is why we go out and we tell people that you know, hey you know you should be more concerned about your salvation. Because you get this idea amongst the general population of people today that I'm young, I've got time. This is why young people they go out and they do stupid things and they think that they're invincible and they think that nothing can ever happen to them. But the Bible is saying that's not the case at all. Because if you're 19, if you're 18, you don't know what's on the moral. And if you're 100, you don't know what's on the moral. You could die in five seconds no matter what age you are. And then the Bible is saying that whatever that time is, whether you have 20 years on this earth or you have 90 years on this earth, it's short either way, the Bible is saying. It's just a vapor. So we will not be children that are growing in heaven. We know that. But what is the ideal age on earth? Because they want to be that age in heaven, which makes no sense. Because anybody would have a different number. If I went and did a poll to this whole church on what is the ideal age that you would like to be forever, I guarantee you every single person will give a different number. You couldn't pay me a million dollars to be 20 again. A lot of people are like, oh I want to be younger. You couldn't pay me every dollar in the world to be 20 again. I was a stupid idiot when I was 20. And I'm not ashamed to say it. I know a lot of the 20-year-olds today, the 19-year-olds today in this church and other churches like ours, they're a thousand miles ahead of where I was when I was 20 years old. So as hard as I am on you young people, just remember that. I was a stupid idiot when I was your age and I'm not ashamed to say it. But look, what's the ideal age? It doesn't even matter. Maybe if you ask me today, like I'll take the wisdom over being 20, no problem, any day of the week. So anybody that really preaches a sermon or writes a book that says you're going to be this age when you're in heaven, they're just making stuff up. They're just making up details that aren't there. It's an important note, and I've said this before many times, but it's an important note that when the Bible doesn't say, the Bible just doesn't say. We can just, you know, we'll know when we get to heaven. But the point is in the measure of eternity, in the measure of eternity, and in the glorified body that we're in that will never age, the Bible, I don't think the Bible says because it literally doesn't matter. It literally makes no difference how old you are. I mean, what's even the measure of how old you are in your glorified body? I mean, does it start like ticking at the resurrection, or how does that work? You know, we can just ask Jesus those things when we get to heaven. Go back to Revelation chapter 21. So in the measure of eternity and the measure of what our glorified bodies are going to be versus what our bodies are now, age is just a, it's a measuring stick that we put on our mortal bodies. And we are not going to have mortal bodies. We're not going to be slowly dying in heaven. We're going to have glorified bodies. The eternal age is irrelevant. Revelation chapter 21, look at verse number one. The next question is, what will heaven be like? And that's what I really love about Revelation chapter 21, especially, is it kind of gives us the end state of heaven. After everything is done, after Jesus Christ has come back and has ruled and reigned for a thousand years with us, by the way, in our glorified bodies, we've been ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ for a thousand years, what will heaven, what will the eternal place for us to be be like? Look at verse number one. It says, 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. That's kind of sad to me because I like to fish. But number two is, but it won't be sad. We'll get to that in just a minute. And I saw, 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 shall be his people and the God himself shall be with them and be their God. Look at verse number four. 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. So look, you have to remember back in the millennial reign before the new heaven and the new earth, there were still people that were born and died. Not everybody was in their glorified bodies in the millennial reign of Jesus Christ. And I have preached a whole sermon on that. But here all that is going to be gone. There is going to be no more death. There's going to be no more opposition when you think about it that way. There's nothing more opposition to Jesus Christ, opposition to the saved. During the millennial reign there was opposition. And you remember the devil was led out of hell and gathered everybody and there was this final battle after the millennial reign of Christ, the battle of Gog and Magog. But all that is over in the new heaven and the new earth. Look at verse number five. It says, And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Right, for these words are true and faithful. So this is the heaven, the place that God has prepared for us. So what is it going to be like? Look at Revelation chapter 22 and look at verse number three. The first thing it says is that there will be no more death up there in Revelation chapter 21. It says there will be no more death. Let me turn there myself. I'm going to turn back there. But look at Revelation chapter 22 and look at verse number three. Revelation 22 3 says, And there should be no more curse. What is the curse? The curse was that which came upon creation. But the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it. We'll get to the last part of that verse. So look, there's no more dying. Again, why the concept of age is just completely irrelevant because no one is going to die in heaven. No one is going to age in heaven. So how old you are? It's like asking, you know, it's like saying, you know, what's two plus two and the answer is a banana or something. It just makes no sense at all, right? It's an irrelevant concept. In heaven. But look at this. Look at this in Revelation chapter. Let me see. Let me go back here. Look at verse number four of Revelation chapter 21 one more time. So we're looking at what heaven is going to be like. It says, God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death. That's number one. Neither sorrow nor crying. So the Bible is saying that there's going to be no sorrow in heaven. Now that, look, that's a kind of a hard concept to wrap your head around. If you just think about, you know, life today and the things that go on in just a regular life today. And the Bible is saying there's going to be none of that. There's going to be no crying, no sadness, no sorrow. You just think about just, I mean, just think about things that make you upset. Some people are upset all the time. You know people that are just upset all the time? You ever have a friend? You ever have a friend that I used to have a friend that I would never even want to ask him how he was doing? It was just something bad all the time. And he was just the kind of person that no matter what was going on, bad or good, it was just bad. You just saw the bad in everything. You almost don't want to even say, how was your week? Because he would just find something bad. Things weren't that bad for him. But he just was a very negative person. We've all met negative people. We've all been negative at times. But there will be none of this in heaven. You will not be upset anymore ever in heaven. That's what the Bible is saying here. That's a hard concept for us to wrap our heads around. What you will never be upset, you will have no more sorrow. Because look, if I got upset, like say I was a really positive person, which I hope that I am, but maybe I'm not as much as I should be. Say I'm super positive. I'm upset at times. Look, if you're on this earth right now and you never get upset, something is wrong with you. As a matter of fact, I don't want to preach a different sermon. But this is what they're trying to get you to do, is not be upset about anything. It's trying to just get you to accept everything. But there will be no more being upset. Because there will be no more evil. There will be literally no reason for anyone to ever be upset. I mean, it's never going to happen. Think about people that are depressed. I mean, think about depression. You know how I like all-time highs and all-time lows? In our country today, I just went and I refreshed. This is one of those stats that I refresh every year when I bring it up in a sermon. And yep, it's getting worse. There's never been a time in our nation's history when more people are clinically depressed. And look, this is staggering, by the way. This kind of shocked me. People today in the United States that are diagnosed with depression. Think about that. Diagnosed with depression. Meaning they felt depressed. Look, we all feel depressed from time to time. Like you go on a vacation and then you have to go back to work and you have post-vacation depression. That's normal. Everybody's depressed from time to time. What I'm talking about is people that are just depressed so much, they're literally called a doctor and they're like, I need to come in because I'm depressed. And then they go into a doctor and then they're diagnosed with depression. So they've gone down several steps. So what I'm trying to get you to see is it's a major problem for them. It's like a real thing for them. You know what the percentage is? 29% of people in the United States are clinically diagnosed with depression. I mean, turn to Isaiah chapter 41. Turn to Isaiah chapter 41. Let's talk about this for just a couple of minutes. Isaiah chapter 41 and look at verse number 10. Look at Isaiah chapter 41. Look at verse number 10. So depression's a real problem today. This will not be in heaven at all. But it's hard to wrap your head around because look, any person, everybody, at some point gets a little down, gets a little depressed. But look, the Bible even gives us the answer for depression. So the irony is, is the reason that there's no depression in heaven is kind of the same way we can get rid of depression here. Look at Isaiah chapter 41 and look at verse number 10. The Bible says this. It says, fear thou not for I, look at, I mean, there's a word that just keeps popping up here in this verse. See if you can recognize the pattern. Be not dismayed for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Look what he says. Be not dismayed. You know what that means? Don't be depressed. And then he points out what is the answer for depression? The Bible here is saying is the answer for depression is the I in this verse. Who is the I? It's not me. It's not me just because I read it. The verse is talking about the Lord, the Lord your God. The Lord your God is the answer for depression. So look, I mean, this is what this is why our country is so depressed today. I'm just kind of giving a general statement here is why. It's because they've left I. They've left, they've turned their back on the I. In Isaiah 41 verse number 10. They've turned their back on the Lord. Turn your back on the Lord more. You're going to be more depressed. United States of America. And you can just see it through all the stupid clown world policies that are being pushed by this nation. Look, you take a kid. You take a kid that should be happy. You take a kid that should be happy, should be playing, should be out there making pillows out of garbage bags and beating his friends. That's what kids should be doing and laughing and enjoying their life. You take that kid and then you just confuse them. You just confuse them about the most basic things about them. Instead of a father going to his son and saying to his son, son, I'm going to make a man out of you and I'm going to teach you how to do things and I'm going to teach you how to be a man and how to take care of your mother and how to take care of your sister and how to use tools and how to work hard and how to do all these things that the Bible, the Lord God says that you should know how to do as a man instead of doing those things that will build him up to be a joyful, strong, Christian, young man. Let's confuse him about whether he even is a boy. And then he's depressed. It's a circus and you can't even believe that it's happening. And then you just confuse them and confuse them and confuse them for years and then you wonder like, man, they're depressed and they're suicidal. What's happening? You left the Lord. That's what's happening. I mean, it's not complicated. We're not building the space shuttle up here. I just explained why depression is eating this country up in two and a half minutes in one verse from the Bible. Turn your back on your God and what he tells you to do and what not to do. That's another thing. Sin, what'll it do? It'll eat you up and depress you. It'll tear you apart. Self-focus, which the Bible, which the Lord your God teaches against. You know, just focus on yourself more and more and more. I mean, just think about the idea of aging. Look, I am getting older. I understand. I look at a picture of my wedding, my wedding photo. I don't do this, but if I look at a picture of my wedding photo and I've told my wife this, she looks the same and you couldn't even tell that it was me. But who cares? Who cares? I mean, aging is just something that just, whatever. I mean, it's no big deal. I mean, I don't care. As long as she's with me, I'm good, right? Go back to Revelation chapter 21. There's no more depression in heaven. It's all gone. There's no more loneliness in heaven. You think about, that's another one. Everyone's lonely today. Loneliness is rampant. Nobody has any friends today. And they're just lonely. All of that is over in heaven. Look at Revelation chapter 21, verse number 10. What else is there about heaven? There's several verses that talk about this next attribute of heaven. But first, we see that there's no more death. There's no more sorrow, which means there's going to be nothing that upsets you, nothing that depresses you, nothing that makes you lonely or feel bad. There's going to be none of that. You can't even wrap your head around that because you literally need to be upset over things today. It is literally your Christian duty to protect your family to be upset and pass judgment on evil today. You have to do that. I think, what I think, is it's going to be like a load of bricks just lifted off of you because you're not going to have to be on your guard about everything. I mean, isn't that true today? Don't you just have to be on your guard about everything today as Satan and all his demons that run the show today are trying to teach you that evil is good and good is evil? I mean, you have to be constantly on your guard. Every letter you get in the mail, every phone call that you get, is how's this person trying to rip me off? You're constantly on your guard. Every single thing that they're trying to teach kids, whether it be in movies and cartoons and whatever, there's always some kind of angle where they're trying to, I mean, if you just get rid of all of it, it's going to be easier, but there's always some kind of angle where they're trying to get you, they're trying to drag you into the mire. And it's, I think, it's just going to be like a load of bricks removed. You just don't have to worry about any of that anymore. There's going to be none of that anymore. There's going to be no being on your guard anymore. I mean, it's hard to even imagine, but it's going to be great. Look at verse number 10 of Revelation, chapter number 21. What's the next thing about it? The next thing is that it's going to be beautiful. It's going to be so beautiful that it's hard to even imagine reading these verses. Look at verse 10. It says, He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. And her light was unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone clear as crystal. Skip down to verse number 18. It says, The building of the wall was of jasper and the city was pure gold. The streets were pure gold. It was pure gold like unto clear glass. It says, The foundations of the wall of the city were furnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth and emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardis, the seventh chrysalite, the eighth barrel, the ninth, a topaz, the tenth, a chrysophorus, the eleventh, a jasinth, the twelfth and amethyst. I mean, there's all these verses just describing the unbelievable beauty of heaven. It's going to be beautiful. Now, look, I believe that beauty, this is another thing that they're trying to take away from you today. They're trying to take away what is beautiful today. I believe that the reason, I mean, you think soul winning. So you go out soul winning, and I remember, I remember in Sacramento, one of the soul winning tips that Pastor Jimenez had was, don't walk on people's lawns in Sacramento. Make sure you take the sidewalks, don't walk on people's lawns. I don't really give that tip so much in Fresno because there's just not a lot of people that take care of their lawns. There's not a lot of lawns here because it's so hot and whatever, but people just don't put as much effort into their lawn. But the point is this, a nice lawn looks nice. We all were stopped yesterday. I'm telling you, like all of us stopped, we were done soul winning, and we stopped and we looked over at this yard, and this yard had these, I don't even know what they were. They were like flowers, part flower, part cabbage or something, but they were all these weird, neat colors and they were placed and these great, and my wife took a picture and I'm like, I got to find some of those. I like landscape. I like doing, I like making things look beautiful like that. But look, I don't care if you have a nice lawn and this is a very superficial example, but I don't care if you have a nice lawn or you don't have a nice lawn. Nobody thinks that an overgrown lawn of thistles and weeds is beautiful. No one thinks that. But people, they go to a yard that is well groomed and is symmetrical and orderly and everyone, whether they have a yard like that or not, whether they've chosen to put that effort into that, everyone looks at that and says, that's beautiful. That's nice. I believe that's kind of written into us. What beauty is and what beauty isn't. Whether you have a spotless, clean house or not, I can't imagine that anybody enjoys just walking into a garbage pit for a house. Maybe they've just chosen to not, you know, to not put the effort into making it beautiful and orderly and clean, but the Bible says, you know, all things should be done decently and in order. We like order. It's in our conscience. We like it. But isn't the world trying to teach us that it doesn't matter? You know, God cares what you look like, actually. Not talking about being, you know, a good looking person or anything like that, but God cares what you wear. God cares what you put on your skin. God cares about all these things. And people are just trying to say, like, hey, go on, just destroy your body. Just go out and put a bunch of holes all over yourself and just brand yourself and just put tattoos from head to toe. I tell you what, I see a young lady with all these piercings all over her face who's 16, 17, 18 years old and just tattoos all over her neck and face thinks she'll never be able to cover up. I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for her. I'm like, who lied to you? Who lied to you? Who led you? Where was your dad? Is what I think. I feel sorry for that. Look, there are certain things but the world is trying to tell you, no, everything's beautiful. No, it's not. No, it's not. Just like it's trying to say that everything's good. No, some things are evil. Some things are evil. You see, you know, I mean, it's just, it's all the same thing, trying to teach us that evil is good and good is evil. Look, heaven is going to be beautiful. Heaven is going to be so beautiful that we will not, it will be unimaginably beautiful. And I look forward to that. Turn to Revelation 22 now. So Revelation 21 shows us that heaven will have no death, no sorrow, no depression. You will never be upset. That weight of being on your guard looking out for evil people, there will be no evil people there. It's only the people in the Lamb's Book of Life. What's the Lamb's Book of Life? Is that a different Book of Life? It's the Book of Life. I mean, it's not, we're not going to create some, they use the Lamb's Book of Life instead of the Book of Life and we'll create a whole new, weird doctrine out of it. The Book of Life is the Book of Life. It's going to be all saved people in heaven. There will be no sin there. We will have glorified bodies. There will be no death, no aging. Look at Revelation 22 in verse number three. Here's a question. What will we be doing? What will we do all day? Look at Revelation 22 in verse number three. Revelation 22 in verse number three. The Bible says this. It says, there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it and his servants, that's you, shall serve him. And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. There's your mark right there. His name is going to be in your forehead and that's why the mark of the beast is going to be in your forehead because Satan just copies everything God does. Satan never has his own ideas. He does things and changes it a little bit. You say this, so I'm going to be doing what? I'm going to be serving Jesus with my life in eternity. Turn to Matthew chapter 22. You say, is my wife going to be serving Jesus with me? How many people have you seen that write books and they say statements and they give notes to their wife saying, you know, I can't wait to or God forbid somebody's spouse has passed away and they're saying, well, I can't wait to go to heaven and spend eternity with my wife or spend eternity with my husband. Well, I've got some bad news for you here. We're going to look at what the Bible says. Look at verse number 23 or maybe good news for you. We'll see. Look at verse number 23. There's going to be a bunch of ladies. Yes! Verse number 23 of Matthew chapter 22. The same day came to him the Sadducees would say that there is no resurrection and asked him, saying, master, Moses said if a man die having no children his brother shall marry his wife. So we know this doctrine. This is kind of the thing that happened with Ruth and Boaz, the nearest kinsman. His brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed into his brother. So you have a man that dies and now his wife is a widow and she's got children and it's the duty of his brother if he has a brother or the nearest kinsman to marry this lady and raise a family with her. Now there were with a seven brethren and the first issue left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the second also and the third and unto the seventh so all these men just keep dying. I mean this woman is very suspicious first of all. Like what is going on here? I think this story has been in the news in the last few years and the last of all the woman died also. So what happens is they're trying to like they're trying to catch Jesus. Right? They're trying to catch him with some you know extreme situation and they're saying alright so this woman dies or this woman dies he's got seven brothers and then he dies and then she marries the brother that brother dies marries the other brother that brother dies marries the other brother so she's married all seven of these brothers alright she's been married to them all and they all mysteriously die alright. Look at what the Bible says in verse 28 says therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven for they all had her so all of these seven brothers were married to this girl and they're saying in heaven who's she going to she'll never be able to answer this one and look what Jesus says Jesus answered and said ye do err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels of God in heaven so you're not married in heaven is what the Bible is saying here it's you know you're married on this earth so guess what make the most of your marriage here is what you should do and hopefully your wife isn't on her deathbed you know thanking God she's released from you at that point you know but it's a it's a good measure if you think about it look I've literally known people I have literally known people and maybe you have too where you know they get older and ever you know they and the women just can't she just can't wait from to die just please I've had enough and you know that's a good measuring stick for us I mean you know my thought is on this with my wife I'm like I know we're not gonna be married in heaven but like hopefully she lets me visit you know she's pretty much gonna be living on another part of town I wanna be the guy like on the south side of the railroad tracks and then she's gonna be in the nice part of town hopefully I can come over every now and then while we're serving Jesus but it's a good measurement for us in our marriage that make the most of your marriage here cause your marriage is for you on earth your marriage is for you pay attention to it now pay attention to it cause you don't know what you don't know if you're gonna live another 5 seconds you don't know if you're gonna live I don't care if you're 15 or you're not married when you're 15 I don't care if you're 20 or 30 but you don't know how long your marriage is gonna be you don't know when you are gonna pass away or your wife is gonna pass away and go to heaven but when that happens that's your marriage at that point so please pay attention to your marriage now you know John chapter 14 and look at verse number 2 John chapter 14 and verse number 2 so I haven't mentioned rewards in heaven but we know that we will have rewards in heaven and even in Revelation chapter 22 I'll just read it for you but Jesus literally says he says behold they come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according to his work so in chapter 14 2 the Bible says in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you look God is preparing heaven for us he is preparing this place that the Bible gives us these great details on but it's just we these details are such great details we can't even really wrap our heads around these things I have no experience at all with having a life of no sorrow at having a life with no sad feelings or no bad thoughts I have no experience with that look it's better it's going to be better than anything we could possibly imagine it is really all you know we should need to know it's really anything we could possibly imagine or read even in the Bible so on that note no one no one should choose to go to hell because if people go to hell they literally chose to go there when you think about it that way they made that decision you know but many people most people will choose they will just think about it think about it from that perspective all the things we just learned about heaven and people will choose to go to hell my wife met a person the other day that said that believed that when you die you have seven minutes to choose between heaven and hell and like I mean you kind of want to chuckle but it's really kind of sad when you think about it that this person actually believed that but if you have seven minutes there will be no one in hell if you have seven minutes to sit here and stare at this beautiful heaven this beautiful place that God has prepared for us and then seven minutes I mean you wouldn't need seven minutes you'd need about a second to be like I don't want to go there you know hell is not a place hell is eternal suffering we were talking about with the guys today hell is not a place you know one of the guys had a bunch of friends they were like I'd rather be a ruler in hell no one's going to be ruling in hell they're all going to be screaming all my friends are in hell I want to go there if you have a friend in hell none of them want you there they're all screaming for you to get saved so you can go to heaven right now they're doing that that's what the man in hell said in Luke 16 at least God told them when Abraham told them you can't get out the last plea that he made was please send somebody back to tell my family to tell them because why he didn't care about it he knew that it was too late for him at that point but what did he think about next everybody he used to know he didn't want anyone that he used to know his friends his family coming where he currently was where he was currently stuck for what? for eternity it's the worst thing you could possibly imagine so no there's not seven minutes it's right now in 2nd Corinthians 6 this is where you know Paul says it says now is the accepted time he says now behold now is the day of salvation he's saying there's no seven minutes so the choice the decision and where you put your trust it must be done here and it's an easy choice when you just look at all of these things that are in heaven all of these things that are going to be so great that we can't even imagine what they're going to be like but it's ironic that we're going to be doing what we were doing in heaven we're doing the exact same thing that we're supposed to be doing here which is what serving Jesus and heaven is going to be prepared greater in Luke he talks about how you know the guy that had ten talents gets ten cities and Jesus in Revelation 22 and all over the Bible talks about who he's bringing his reward with him the better you serve Jesus here the better your eternity is going to be so the better that you serve Christ in this moment in this vapor the better your eternity will be talk about like the best investment that you could ever make in your life you're investing into your own eternity so that's heaven let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer