The Heaven Tour

Welcome back. Session three, or three and a half, I guess, for Heaven Tour. And looking forward to tonight's message and our being able to interact a little bit tonight, I think. Then tomorrow night, a Q &A session, and I'll let Brad talk about that in just a few minutes.

But let's turn to number 556. Sing just two hymns tonight, Heaven-related songs. And the first is the song, Oh, That Will Be Glory. Let's stand, shall we? And ladies, help us out on those high notes in the chorus.

Well, I appreciate Jim Stroop's ministry with the law and grace and going to the jails every week and that faithfulness through how many years now, Jim? Only 33, that's a good round number there. Jim, would you please lead us in prayer tonight?

Which our life and your name shall be called together to be with you forever. Father, we look forward to this evening. Brother Brad, as he brings forth.

Amen, thank you, and you may be seated. We're gonna sing here in just a moment the song on the other side of the song sheet. We sang last night, Jerusalem the Golden. In a moment, we'll sing When This Passing World Is Done.

Announcements and Hymn Selection

But a couple announcements I just wanted to be sure to emphasize tonight. If you're on the texting, the texting program, then you got a text this afternoon about love offering for Brother Zockel and encourage you to give to that tonight, tomorrow night.

Anything that's put in the offering box will go to him and wanna be generous with our speaker. The other thing is on the bulletin card from Sunday on the back of it, we mentioned that starting a week from this coming Sunday, so November 2nd, I'm sorry, November 3rd, the dark months service schedule will begin.

We fall back with our clocks Saturday night, November 2nd, and then that's when it gets dark at like five o 'clock in the afternoon. And so with that time change, we adjust the Sunday schedule to an afternoon service at one o 'clock.

And the bulletin says that bring a light lunch after the morning service. But Chris and I got to talking about this. Mark and Rachel Barilla, our missionaries to Cameroon are gonna be here that day. And we thought, you know what would be fun is to have an international potluck.

Or think about that, okay, an international potluck. What's that mean? What that means is you plan to prepare some kind of food stuff that is non-American, okay? You know, like don't bring, if you wanna do Asian, don't bring le choy, you know.

But some kind of international dish. French fries, I don't know. But anyway, who are you talking to about this? Becca Foster, yeah. And Chris was telling her at the fall festival that we had a week and a half or so ago, there was somebody brought some baklava.

And Chris was telling her, oh yeah, we had this international dinner at our church in Vermont years and years ago. And Chris made a couple of big, big cookie sheet pans of homemade baklava. And she says, oh, that'd be good.

And an international dinner, that'd be fun. So we got to talking about that, yeah, that would be. So we're gonna do that a week from Sunday, November 3rd. So be thinking about, you know, what kind of international dish can I come up with?

So no hamburgers, no hot dogs, you know, no pot roast. Not 12 lasagnas. Not 12 lasagnas, yeah, okay. Anyway, so there'll be a signup sheet Sunday for that to, so we can have a good international variety for that time.

And we'll enjoy the barillas with us. And I may see if they can come up with some suggestions for an interesting Cameroonian dish on that particular day. All right, the song sheet. When This Passing World is Done.

The tune, you may have heard it. It's not an unfamiliar tune, written by Richard Redhead. And I mean, this is in 1853, so I've never met the guy. I've never seen a picture of him. But I do kind of wonder if he didn't have red hair.

But the tune is familiar. The text, written by Robert Murray Machein. He was, it continues to be a very profoundly influential guy. He died in his late 20s as a pastor in Scotland and had a very brief but powerful ministry under his ministry.

Actually, while he was away, a revival started in his region, and it just spread when he got back. Had very, very powerful ministry. So he wrote the text, and it's about when this passing world is done, then I'll know something that I really didn't know before.

Let's sing it together. Okay, I hope that sounds familiar. When this passing has sung, I stand. All right, Brother Zockel, come on ahead.

Giveaways and Light Banter

The first thing I need to do is, we have some giveaways there,.

But I don't want to stop you.

On Sunday, I put somebody through like the greatest rows of challenge. Mr. Dan, he answered every question. Was he not like seven for seven? And so, I'm telling you what, we've got a few of those here, too, so I'll have this for you here, sir.

So thank you so much. You're very kind, and so we'll answer them at the end of the session.

All right, let's see.

We have some different, I have two more at total random, and I don't know if I'll have to go far, because this one, the first person's name is James,.

And it looks strong.

All right, sir, congratulations. Thank you so much.

All right, you have your choice.

Would you like a mother, or would you like one of us?

Oh, I have to, ooh, what the? Oh, that's a hard decision.

I have one of each.

Okay, get greedy.

I don't know how we can stop it.

I love that mug, but did you do these personally?

No, my brother did.

Wow, because they're all different. I noticed that. Yeah, they are. As much as I, I just gotta go with the book.

You got the book. All right, congratulations. The next winner for the mug, Autumn and Kyle.

Are they here?

Autumn. And Kyle, congratulations. Could one of you come down here, Kyle? You have to make it. Let's give him a hand, too, and let's give our, Mr. James a round of applause. Here you go. Microwave safe, okay?

Good, okay, absolutely.

The Believer’s Present Condition in Christ

Well, let's go ahead and do our study here,.

As we would, and you're not gonna believe this.

I think I told you, the Clairol box came. This was no reflection on your pasture. This, my daughter's order for Clairol hair color came, and it was sent to Pastor Brian, and it came through.

I have no idea why.

I was like, oh, man, you don't even know this, and so this was a mistake, but it actually came through, and I'm looking, and it says, Amazon, your hair color's sent to Pastor Craig.

I'm like, oh, no, I better talk to Craig, too,.

So I have no idea, so I told my daughter, don't be piggybacking on my orders, I think. All right.

Tonight, we want to talk about our condition of the believers, and I want to do this, if I may. I'm going to ask for some of you to read some of the passages, and so if you have your Bibles out, and you wouldn't mind, I'm not gonna call and embarrass anybody, but if you say, hey, you know, you'll be glad to take a passage and read it aloud, I'd like to have us take a look at some of the passages here.

What is the condition of the believer? Numerous times that I have received on livestream or comments, and you may have, too. Somebody says, okay, when I get to heaven, will I be identifiable? Will people understand?

Will I be recognizable? Will I still be me? Will you still be you? Will I recognize you? Will you recognize me? Will I recognize anybody? I've heard more than once from the pulpit of various churches, a pastor says, no, you won't know anybody when you get there.

I have no idea why they would use that, so what we wanna do is go to the scriptures, and so I'm going to pass out some scriptures here, and we'll read them and take a look at them. Would anybody venture to want to read one out loud?

If you raise your hand, then I'll give you a passage that you can read as we go through. Would that be okay? I mean, let me see. Who would like to read? I'm gonna start right here. Sir Philippians 1 .6.

Dan, you don't get another book for this, okay? Don't get greedy, but I will use you, okay? Ephesians chapter one in verse four. Ephesians chapter one in verse four, sir. All right, and then I need one more.

One more person here. Let me see, all right, Mr. James. Romans chapter eight in verse 29. Romans eight in verse 29, all right? All right, let's go ahead, and let's start talking about the condition. Now, I wanna go back and share some things with you as we talk about what is it going to be like whenever we leave this life?

Well, we went over earlier the immediacy of the believer in heaven, all right? And so, as I have shared with you, does the scripture say that when the believer dies, will he or she be immediately in heaven?

This is very important that you see this because those that would hold to soul sleep will conveniently eliminate a very important word as we take a look in 2 Corinthians chapter five verses six through eight.

I'll remind you, 2 Corinthians chapter 12, Paul has already been, as he writes that letter, he says, 14 years before, I experienced being able to be in heaven, see mysteries, some I am not allowed to, inutterable things, I can't share these things, but you'll notice his boldness.

Now, in 2 Corinthians chapter five verses six through eight, he then says, this is our confidence, and this is our preference. And those that would hold to soul sleep say, oh, all it says in there is we would rather be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

So, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

If you're going to read the scripture, read it in its context, read it wholly, don't cherry pick. It tells you there, and it says it twice, we are confidence, we are confidence, and this is our confidence, that when the Christian is absent from this body, he or she is present with the Lord.

So, the immediacy is there. Philippians chapter one verses 21 and 23, for to me to live is Christ, living on earth is Christ, to die is gain, we said the Greek word is kairdos, means better, why? Because verse 23, if I leave this body, I will be with Jesus, which is far better.

And then the illustration in Luke chapter 16, where Jesus himself says, this faithful one Lazarus, when he died, he was taken by the angels, immediately into the presence of God. Those among other passages we see, that we're going to go there, there is no limbo, there is no purgatory, there is no soul sleep, the corruption of Ecclesiastes chapter nine in verse five, as I said, those that would try to take that passage and justify soul sleep, it's an absolute abhorrent thing to take scripture like that and turn that.

If you want to go back to an earlier live stream when I talked about that in detail, I want to remind you again, that has absolutely nothing, when somebody uses the quote, the dead know nothing, they are ripping it out of context, if they're trying to use that to justify soul sleep, it has absolutely nothing to do with soul sleep in that passage, okay?

So, we are heading to heaven, believers, if you're coming to Jesus Christ, you've made a commitment to Jesus Christ, and then what is the condition of them, of the one? Well, we know in 2 Corinthians chapter five, it tells you in verse 17, that when someone comes to Christ, then they are a new creation.

Well, the old things have passed away, behold, and that means pay attention, all things become new. Now, we know in Revelation 21 in verse five, Jesus says, in this existence in heaven, all things will be new, and that includes you, okay?

So, let's start off with these different passages here as we talk about the condition of the believer, when you came to Christ, the Bible says in Colossians chapter two in verse 10, you've been made complete, that's talking about the condition of the soul, you have been made there, you don't have to improve on your soul in any way, you have been enrolled in heaven, as Jesus says to the disciples in Luke chapter 10, when they're excited about doing wondrous things in his name, he says, here's a greater excitement that your names are enrolled in heaven.

And Hebrews chapter 12, verses 22 and 23, repeats that, if you were to look in Mount Zion, which is another name for heaven right now, one of the things besides God the Father, and the new Jerusalem, and countless angels, are those whose names are enrolled in heaven, the spirits of the righteous made perfect, we'll talk more about that, okay?

So, let's take a look first of all, and let's look at Philippians chapter one in verse six. Who had that? Would you read that please, sir? Thank you very, very much. It's a very powerful word for the word complete.

Some translations say perfected. So if you have something perfect, there is no need to do anything else, it is complete. What this is saying is, is we have a very good principled start here, that he who has begun a good work in you, you're what is called sanctification, you're becoming holy, as the Bible tells us, be ye holy, for I am holy, and we're working toward that.

Our soul is secure in heaven, but we have this condition of wanting to learn to be more like Christ throughout our walk here on earth, facing the challenges, and here's a promise as we look in Philippians, and it tells us here, this is a confident thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, is gonna carry this on through, and perfect it up to the day of Jesus Christ when we are in heaven, and in the presence of him, all right?

First thing is, we are in a condition of learning in our behavior to be holy conditionally. Our soul is secure, but our body and our condition here is we're learning to be sanctified, being more like Christ each day.

First Corinthians 10 31, whether therefore we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we're doing all to the glory of God. We're learning in practice. Now the second one, Ephesians chapter one and verse four, also gives us a teaching.

I think that's Mr. Dan. Is that correct, sir? It's telling us, here's the desire of the Lord, that we should what? Well, just move on around, or be narcissistic in heaven. We want what we want. No, the desire of the Lord is that we should be holy.

What's holy mean? An easy way to put this is sacredly separate. Sacred separateness, that's an easy way to remember what holiness is. I see what the world wants to do to pull me down, I'm gonna be separate from that, and I'm gonna be blameless.

So I want there to be nothing that people would call Jesus into question because of my behavior, my irresponsible behavior, which would bring blame upon. As Nathan told David, the reason why God is going to judge you is not so much you had a child out of wedlock, or that you caused someone to die, but that the enemies of God had a reason to mock him because of your behavior.

We're to be holy, we're to be blameless. This is our intent. While we're here on earth, let's move on here in Romans chapter eight and verse 29. Go ahead, sir. We are called to be conformed to the image of his son.

The icon is this word, to be like him. Like you see in an image on a coin, we're to be like that. If people see us, they should see a representation of Jesus Christ. Now we understand this, we're going in a long stretch from where we were.

I mean, we realize when we came to Christ in our condition, like Jesus says in the first public sermon, blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see the kingdom of God. We realize there's nothing we can do.

This is by the grace of God, Ephesians two, eight, nine, that we've had this gift. It's not of our own works. The salvation is not of our own works. What we see here is as we're learning to be more like him, that we're looking forward to that time when we shall be like him in heaven, all right?

So if you're taking notes, let's start talking about this. When you step into heaven, what will the condition of the Christian be like? All right, in no particular order, let's start talking about this.

One thing we're going to say is, you are in the eternity future. On the new earth after the resurrection, you will have a flesh and bone body. Job in the very first manuscript age wise, the first book of the Bible is the book of Job.

And in chapter 19, verse 25 and 26, Job in the spirit of prophecy has already said this. This flesh may fail. Worms destroy this body. Yet I do know this, I know my redeemer lives and in my flesh will I see him.

In my flesh, Job says, in my flesh, and I will see him with my own eyes and that not of another. So in the very first presentation manuscript wise in the Bible, we already have the talk about the promise of the resurrection and the joy of seeing the redeemer.

Now, when you go to first John chapter three and verse one and verse two, you're also going to see a principle presentation of what the believer is going to be like. Very fascinating. Behold what manner of love the father's bestowed upon us that we should be called the children of God.

And so we are. Before I go on, understand this. Your standing, no matter what you look like or feel like, the condition is that you're part of the family. I wanna remind you again, when we go to heaven, we're going to a person, we're not going to a place, and that's the same way.

If I'm coming over, if I'm going to Thanksgiving, all right, what do you say when you're going, when we were kids? Well, we're going to 123 Maple Street over in Cincinnati, Ohio. No, you don't say that.

You say, we're going to Uncle Joe and Aunt Shirley's, right? Didn't you say that whenever you were going somewhere? You name the people's home. You name the residents of the home, the family members. You don't say, oh, we're going to this structure and we're gonna shove turkey in our face.

Okay, you're talking about we're going to go and we're going to enjoy things, but you will name the home, you'll name the residents. And what bothered me when I very first started this ministry was people would talk, you know, I'm having people following me on the internet channels through the many different ways, and there are amazing ideas of what people think heaven's going to be like.

And they would talk about heaven as if it's a place of self-indulgent, sort of like a glorified Disneyland. I'm going to go and I'm gonna have everything for me. Do you know one of the most asked questions that I have through all of this, you're thinking of all the myriads of questions, and I do encourage you, I think I have about five questions that have been handed in to me so far.

If you have some, have them ready for tomorrow night. And if you go, oh, I forgot, tomorrow night, you're more than welcome to raise your hand during the time that we have allotted to ask questions. Do you know what one of the most asked questions that I had, especially in the early months of my ministry on heaven?

Ready?

Will my pets be there? If I could tell you, if I had a dollar for every time somebody said, how can I relate to God the Father better? I would be in poverty. In the opening, there were people that came on by the droves and saying, gimme, gimme, gimme, tell me what I'm going to get.

Well, the first thing is, there's a universalistic belief that everybody gets to go, and we've already talked about that, all right? And that shocked a lot of people. I remember one in the second month that I had this ministry, somebody actually wrote and said, how dare you say only Christians can go to heaven?

Boy, did we have a good talk, all right? And you understand that people think it's just wide open. True statement, and being on livestream, I know a lot of my friends will watch this later on that are on there, and they can verify this.

A lady had written, and she said, this is my heaven. I'm going to be sitting at the seashore on a lawn chair surrounded by my pets and my relatives drinking non-alcoholic pina coladas. And I said, can I ask you, first of all, ma 'am, how can you tell me you're a Christian?

Can you tell me what the decision was? And she started fumbling around. If you hesitate on telling your salvation, there's a problem. And I said, so what you're saying then is you're going to be in a narcissistic nirvana in heaven calling God as if he's some celestial bellhop.

That's insulting. Well, when I went, usually if I have a conversation, I'll go to the person's profile that I might know them better. You can imagine what it's like. On her profile in her presentation, there's absolutely nothing about the Lord.

It's totally all me. And I said, I think we can tell you right now, I want to introduce Jesus Christ to you and what salvation really is because you have absolutely no idea what heaven is like. I'm gonna remind you, this is secondarily a place.

It is a person, it's God's home. And it tells us here, behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should what? That we should be as rich or as strong or as tall or as good like?

No, that we should be called the children of God. And I love this phrase, and so we are. Then it tells you the condition of the children, the believers, the members of Yahweh's family through Jesus Christ.

First John chapter three and verse two. We do not know totally what we will be like. I paraphrase this. We don't know totally what we'll be like in our condition. And that tonight in the time that I have, I can't tell you everything about the condition, but it does say this.

But I can tell you this. We shall see Jesus as he is. Not as he was on a cross or not as he was as a shepherd or a miracle worker or a breaker of bread and passing out and feeding as he is. Well, how is he?

Revelation chapter one very clearly shows you the magnificence of him in there in the symbolism of the hair, white like wool denoting wisdom of ages, eyes of flame of fire, meaning that he's looking and judgment, feet of brass having gone through the tribulations.

And also, this also can represent the feet of brass of stamping out the judgments, the belt of gold representing deity, the godness of him. And then of course, in Revelation chapter 19, it tells us he is the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

We will see him that way. We will see him as he is. And we shall be like him.

Could you say that again?

First John three, two. We shall see him as he is and we shall be like him. What in the world? Oh, this opens up a whole doorway of reality and excitement here, right? First thing, we will have a resurrected body.

We will have a flesh and bone body. Jesus, we will be like him. What does he have one? Yeah, Luke chapter 24. When he came back, he had a resurrection body. He appears before the disciples and they're shook.

They would say, is this an apparition? Are we hallucinating? He's in the room. He appeared in the room. The door was locked. But wait a minute. This doesn't work this way. Go touch him.

You go touch him. I'm not gonna touch him.

You go over there and everything. Jesus knows what's going on and he says, gentlemen, come over here. Feel my hands, feel my hand, okay? Luke chapter 24. Look, feel my hand. A spirit, or some of your translation says a ghost, does not have flesh and bones such as I have.

All right? We're gonna be like him. And then the very next verse, which always puzzled me as a kid, but it makes perfect sense. Then after all this is magnificent, you think he's gonna go into this main sermon.

He goes, do you have something to eat? And they hand it to him. Well, you know why? Because he's then verifying. He eats it and then some of them go, it's gonna fall through on the floor. It's gonna fall through on the floor.

He ate it.

And he's going, and this is the condition that we will have. We will be like him. He had a tangible, feelable body of reality, of flesh and bone, and so shall we. Right now, my mom, my dad, my oldest brother, they're in a condition in heaven where they are in, they do not have the resurrection bodies.

The resurrection has not happened yet. That's called the rapture in the Latin, but this is literally in the Greek, it's the harpazo, the snatching away. Somebody's gonna ask you, why does this passage in 1 Thessalonians 4 say that the dead in Christ shall rise if they're already supposed to be in heaven?

Well, it's an easy answer here, and it's talking about the bodies. My mom's in heaven, but her body is buried in Delaware right now. My brother, he is buried in Florida. He's in heaven right now. His body is there.

During the harpazo, that's the word, the snatching of away. The bodies will then go up in the condition. That's found. The description of the event is going to be in 1 Thessalonians 4, and then the condition of what happens is in 1 Corinthians 15, and it starts about verse 50.

It says, oh, we will be changed. That's the understatement of the Bible. We are going to be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, okay? And then it says in verse 53, we shall be incorruptible.

Now, it's not hard for us to understand that we face corruption right now. Aging, weakness, illness. We went through 2019, where they closed down the school where I was teaching because of something called COVID, and even in the midst of that, we saw many in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee community succumb to that, and my father-in-law was one of them, through that illness going through.

These were all coming through, and they were taking people down. We're going to be away from that. We're going to have bodies that'll be free from that. We're going to have a condition in which we're going to have bodies that do not have corruption.

Remember this. The first thing is incorruptible, and the person says, okay, that's everything I know. No, incorruption means more than that. The corruption of the sin nature, the desire to get what I want, or to win my argument, or to face a battle of anger, and to be constantly in this conflict.

You say, boy, if I was just like the New Testament saints where I would be above that.

Oh, really?

The Apostle Paul in Romans 7 says, I have a battle. Romans 7, go about halfway through the chapter, and he says this. The good that I want to do, I'm not doing. The bad that I don't want to do, I end up doing.

Well, so I'm in a conflict here, this flesh. I don't want to do this. I end up failing there. I want to avoid this. I end up failing there. I should be doing this out of honor to the Lord. I'm not doing this, and suddenly he bursts out.

This is the Apostle Paul, wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from this body of sin? This is a man that we're really holding up to and being a great example, and he's saying this. Relate to me.

We are facing a battle. The last verse says, but I thank the Lord I find a victory through the Lord Jesus Christ. Right now, we're in a battle, which is why Ephesians tells us in chapter six, putting on this armor, we're in a battle.

There's going to be a day that we'll be delivered from that, and we will be incorruptible, and we'll be escaping the sin problem. First John chapter two and verse 16 says, we're constantly in this battle.

Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Did you notice something that's not in there? Satan's not mentioned in there. I'll have a lot of questions. Can you tell me something? Well, if Satan's gone in the millennial kingdom for 1 ,000 years, how come people still sin?

I said, well, he's not an automatic default to use sinning. There are people in there. Will there be a lot of sin? Oh, my. Revelation chapter 20, they're going to pull a siege around Jerusalem. There will be so many in their self-centered ways, even in the beauty of the millennial kingdom, that they're going to cause a rebellion, and there will be scores and scores, 10 ,000s and possibly millions in rebellion that we don't need God.

All right, you understand something? Then Satan is released. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, you don't have to have Satan pushing you along. We can do a mess on our own, right?

And so we're free from this corruption and temptation. I want you to think about this. If you would please write this down. In the eternal kingdom, there are two home run verses which will tell you the condition of us in heaven beyond the fact that we'll never get sick or we'll never fall down, anything along that line.

Revelation chapter 22 and verse three, the curse is gone. The condition, Revelation 21 and 22 are absolutely fantastic, and if you haven't read them yet this week, I would highly recommend you, if whatever your devotions are, excuse me, whatever your devotions are, you take time and you stop and make sure that you add that to your devotions.

Reading the promise of the believers in the eternal kingdom, and one of the things it says in there, among the many things, that we are going to be free from the curse, the curse to sin or the curse from sin.

We're not going to have people in there in a condition because of the effects of sin, that they have illness, that they have injury, that they have anger, that they don't communicate, and the effects of sin, of being hurt, of being a victim of this, on those things are all gone, or the desire to sin, and somebody says, well, how can that happen?

Do we have free will? Of course you have free will in heaven. Well, how can you have free will and not sin? Let me give you an example. I spoke, oh, about a year ago, to a college and career group in Knoxville, Tennessee, and this question came up during a Q and A time.

If we have free will, how can we not sin? I said this, let me give you an example here. I've been with you for about a little bit over an hour in a Q and A, and during that time since I came in, I not once have had a desire to steal a motorcycle.

I said there were no motorcycles on the street whenever I came in. I didn't hear the roar of a motorcycle, and any time in this past hour, there are no pictures of motorcycles over here. You didn't sing a hymn about motorcycles.

Nobody had a motorcycle in their discussion. Nobody even mentioned anything about a Harley Davidson or a Yamaha or anything. It has not come up, out of sight, out of mind. It's not here. It has never been.

And I can tell you before the Lord, I have had not one iota of larceny in wanting to steal a motorcycle. It's not in the condition of where we've been. This would be the same way in heaven. Sin is gone, and so there are so many other things.

We tend to think that heaven is a celestial library, that we're gonna shuffle around in very thick slippers, wearing robes, we're gonna be safe, but we're constantly shushed, and it's gonna be boring, and maybe we've got a book or two to read.

Are you kidding? The activity of heaven is absolutely astounding. We talked about this this morning. The holidays, such as the example of Revelation 19 and verse nine, the feasting. The first official holiday is the marriage feast of the Lamb.

And, of course, the feasting and the celebration at the tables, Matthew chapter eight and verse 11. Recognizing people, and Matthew, I'm sorry, Matthew chapter eight and verse 11, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that's father, son, and grandson, intimating.

Families will be recognized. We see this. I love this passage. If you might write this down. Isaiah chapter 56 and verse five. Isaiah 56 is a very blessed chapter to me. And the Lord says this in the Old Testament.

If you follow me, Yahweh says, I don't care what your culture is. I don't care what your nationality is. I don't care whether you're a nationalist or you're a stranger, you're a foreigner. If you are loyal to me, and continue on, read that entire chapter, but it keys off in verse five.

In my home, once again, home, and on my walls, I will make a memorial for you. And I will give you a name closer than if I were to call you a son or daughter. An everlasting name which will not be cut off.

Can you imagine that? When I was speaking in Walthall of South Carolina, I'll be going back next week, as a matter of fact, speaking there, and I spent the afternoon with a very dear family. They are, he's a head deacon, and they brought me over for the afternoon before I was to speak that evening.

And they have this nice ranch house, and he said, come on over here. My daughter came with me. My wife was unable to travel. My daughter went in the kitchen, and they were preparing lunch. And he says, I wanna show you something, Brad.

Comes in the hall. Now listen, immediately, so many people are gonna start nodding if you remember this, either somewhere or you do it yourself. He says, I wanna show you the family. The hallway down to the bedrooms, all the grandkids, and the family, and the sons and daughters.

You ever seen that before? They have pictures all the way down. And here's grandkid, and he's showing these fascinating pictures all over the United States. And this one, they're very successful. Then they go over, this one over here, and traveling and everything.

This is Isaiah 56 in verse five. I'm looking at him, and I'm saying, Victor, you're very, very proud of this family. Oh, yeah, this is kind of like the Hall of Fame, right? I mean, that's Isaiah 56 five.