Imagine with me an impossible scenario. Let me set it up. You are living with Jesus in the new heaven and new earth a million years from now, and having such a grand time, you want to send a postcard back to Church on the Ridge to land June 1st, 2025? And what’s it going to say? What do all postcards say?
I wish you were here right now.
Forget a time machine. There’s something about this ridiculous little scenario that would astound you. Now, it’s not the picture on the flip side showing what heaven looks like. That’d stagger our imagination. But you turn it over. And I think what would surprise you most is the return zip code. Today I’m going to just tackle a pretty easy question where will heaven be located?
How do we answer? This question now reveals a lot about how carefully we study our Bibles, preferring a biblical description of heaven to Hollywood’s CGI enhanced cinematography. This question, where is heaven going to be? Also bears significant implications on how we live today, even on a potentially divisive subject that we may not have connected to this question.
Now I realize this postcard from heaven is a ridiculous scenario, but admit it, it’s not an impossible one. Aren’t they called forever stamps? By the time we’re citizens of the new heavens and the new Earth, everyone’s eternal state will be sealed, including the adversary and his minions and all of those who refuse to bow their knee to Jesus.
To better picture what this grand scene will be like, let’s peer into what John the Revelator saw in an open vision while imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos in the years A.D. 90 to 95, I’ve asked my good friend Mary Reynolds to come and to read from revelation 21. So if you have your if you have your mobile device or your physical Bible, turn with us to Revelation 21.
We’re going to be hearing it in the New international Version. And as you do, I invite you to use your sanctified imagination to view what John calls home movies.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
He who was seated on the throne said, I’m making everything new. Then he said, write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true. He said to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.
Those who are victorious will inherit all of this. I will, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. Going down to verse nine, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God it shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper clear as crystal. It had a great high wall with 12 gates, and with 12 angels at the gates.
And on the gates were written the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. The wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of the lamb. The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and walls.
The city was laid out like a square as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod, and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide, and as high as it is long. The angel measured the wall using the human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick.
The great street of the city was of gold, as pure and as transparent glass is this 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the lamb are its temple. The city does not need sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the lamb is its lamp.
The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. And on no day, while its gates ever be shut. For there will be no night.
That just really gives me. There will be no night. There. For the glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Amen.
May God at a blessing to the reading of His Word.
Thank you. Will you pray with me, Lord, your word is anointed. Now I humbly ask that you will anoint these words you’ve given me and speak to this precious group of people about the hope of heaven. In Jesus name, Amen. So you may be surprised where we will be living for eternity and what Jesus meant by the phrase Kingdom of heaven, a dimension that the Holy Spirit unlocks for every sincere Christ follower to experience now and for all eternity in heaven.
Now we’re going to be using Jesus’s own words in John 14 as a set of binoculars or a telescope through which to look at what we’ve just heard Mary read. Right. So a set of lenses, it helps to read through this. I want to ask you, if you prefer 1 or 2. Okay. Ophthalmology jokes. These. All right.
Let me set it up. In today’s church, we two quickly overlook the hope of heaven, which is the point of this series entitled afterlife. Author Ted Dekker warns that this neglect has lulled believers into what he calls the slumber of Christianity, where our focus is consumed by earthly concerns. You may attend a church filled with colorfully dressed Christians who sing and wave their lamps in celebration, but check the flames that light the path to the wedding feast, and you’ll know if the bridesmaids do you dance with our wise or foolish?
When we avoid thinking about death, we also lose sight of the afterlife, and with its neglect, we miss out on the living hope that can sustain us. So before heading to the cross, Jesus, calling himself the way, offers his followers assurance of heaven. In John 14 one he says, do not let your heart be troubled. What is let mean allow, permit.
You have some agency in that. Why? Because he goes to prepare a place for us. And if the same creator who made all of creation in just six days has been working on heaven for the last 2000 years, we can only imagine its beauty. But more than its splendor, heaven is meaningful because it’s our true home, a place of reunion with our Savior and with our loved ones.
Peace. Eternal belonging. The good news is we don’t have to wait for the next life to experience heaven on earth. What Jesus called the kingdom of heaven initiated by his ascension to the right hand of God and his outpouring of the spirit on the day of Pentecost. That’s a day on the church calendar where believers all around the world will celebrate the launching of the church that just happens to be next Sunday, June 8th.
So here we are and we get this opportunity to understand my first point. Heaven is a real place, not a fantasy land.
Jesus describes Heaven as his father’s house with many rooms. John 14 two now too many people go, you know what? That’s that new international version. I prefer the King James because we get to pull out the word mansions, right?
And we get excited about mansions. And so many people have already laid out their floor plan of their divine palatial estate, and they’re scrolling through Zillow for interior decor ideas. And I got to just burst your bubble here, that the King James word mansions just means dwelling places. And it’s better rendered rooms. Womp womp. Okay, but this is exciting.
And let me give you some historical context about this already. As we heard Mary read, John has evoked marital imagery. And by the way, I did Pat and Mary’s wedding a little over a year ago, so you can still wish them a happy honeymoon as they’ve had their first anniversary. So we know a little bit about marriage imagery.
And, John says the New Jerusalem coming down prepared as a bride for her husband. And the wedding motif goes further. In Christ’s day, a young man would be betrothed or engaged to a young woman after the dowry was paid. But they wouldn’t marry until he finished a DIY project. He had to build an addition onto his family home for his bride and him to live in, and the young man had to wait until dad, the building inspector, looked around and said, okay son, it’s ready.
And then the son would be sent to go and collect his bride and her attendants for the wedding, often at night, and he’d be off away from the village, and he’d arrive with a shout, and that would wake the entire surrounding village up to come to the party and join in the celebration. A room then in John 14 two refers to our belonging to our father’s house, the family of God.
It doesn’t mean being divorced, you know, denied divine square footage of a mansion and empty right? The theologian reminds us that we’re already occupants of the household of God by virtue of the new birth. But people often get hyped up about the wrong goals when it comes to heaven, right? We hear about the golden streets and the pearly gates.
Our pastor in Tennessee used to tell me, Clint, when I get to heaven, we’re going to listen to Southern Gospel on the PA system. And I’d say, not on my block, Maverick City, Kirk Franklin. And that’s about it. Okay. But the fact is, the key teaching of Jesus here is that there’ll be ample space in heaven for all who come to him in this life.
God desires heaven to be full and hell empty. And the idea of the heavenly city, which is mentioned twice in this passage we just heard, isn’t a metaphorical one. It’s a real eternal dwelling coming down from God to earth. Okay, for those who follow him. And it encompasses a huge space. Now, probably, Kevin, you are better at, measurements, biblical measurements.
So you got this. But for the rest of us, 12,000 stadia is 1400 miles as long as wide. And some say even as high, some translations. So maybe the Heavenly city is like a giant cube. I don’t know, and it says that the walls were 200ft thick, think two thirds the width of, a football field. Yet many modern portrayals of heaven as some ethereal cloud shaped more by pop culture than scripture.
From Looney Tunes cartoons to celebrity interviews, heaven is often imagined as a place of indulgence or personal reward. Right? All the chocolate, none of the calories. Now we will have rewards, but even the crowns we receive, we cast at the feet of Jesus just to worship him more. But we can be guilty of crafting an individualized view of heaven like some cosmic theme park.
Don’t believe me? Out of the mouths of babes. Drew, age 11, said, up in heaven you can watch all the sports games and you can giggle at people who are in a big mess. He’s talking about the Mariners. JJ age nine, right? When people die, they go to heaven and they have nice, nice people there who make tacos.
Sign me up for that heaven. But the most telling response came from Linette, a ten year old who wrote, when you die, I think you go to heaven. When you get there, you will be the center for attraction. Then you go to a great big mansion with a pool shaped like the first letter of your name for Linette.
I hate to break it to you. That sounds more like the Barbie movie than revelation 21. The point I’m trying to make is we Christians are not much more grown up than this level of childish thinking, I’m not trying to burst your bubble. Well, maybe I am. We aren’t going to be the center attraction in heaven.
Jesus is. Wow, that was a rousing Amen. Okay, why else do you think all of our Christian life we hear Jesus say, deny yourself. But when it comes to heaven, we’re like, I’m winning the lotto, right? And I get to have everything that I want. We seem to turn selfish at this point and become consumed with what’s in it for me now, if I haven’t offended you yet, this part’s for you.
Let’s not forget it was Visions of Paradise with 70 virgins apiece that prompted al-Qaida operatives to fly airplanes into the twin Towers of 911. It was the epitome of selfishness. See, the greatest feature of heaven must be finally beholding our Savior, Jesus face to face and being able to worship him unhindered. Don’t get me wrong, heaven is a real place of indescribable beauty.
But the most beautiful part of heaven is that we who are unworthy have been given access. Oh, this needs to bless somebody’s heaven. Ain’t Disneyland Hallelujah. It’s the fulfillment of God’s promise and presence. It’s far better. So let’s go to the promise we can trust. Jesus assures us that heaven is real because he says so. John 14 two if it were not so, I would have told you.
And His word is always trustworthy. We don’t base our belief in heaven on near-death experiences or people’s in New York Times bestsellers and sensational stories, but on the unshakable truth of Christ’s promise, Jesus promised us that life does not end here. It goes on living. And if you’ve been in the room when anybody has passed from this life to the next, you know that’s not them anymore.
That’s a shell behind. As Paul writes, if our hope is only for this life, we are to be most pitied. First Corinthians 1519. So what can we expect? Heaven to be like based on God’s Word? Here are a few lines from Pastor John Piper’s poem on the New Heavens in the New Earth called justified for evermore the lame can walk, the deaf can hear.
The cancer ridden bone is clear, arthritic joints are lithe and free, and every pain has ceased to be. And every sorrow deep within. And every trace of lingering sin is gone. And all that’s left is joy and endless ages to employ the mind and heart and understand and love the sovereign Lord, who planned that it should take eternity to lavish all this grace on me.
Oh God of wonder, God of might, grant us some elevated sight of endless days, and let us see the joy of what is yet to be. And may your future make us free, and guard us by the hope that we within the light of candle three. Your glory will forever see I can’t wait. I think we need to give God some praise this morning.
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That brings us to the present and future heaven. If you recall, I shared at our recent panel, when believers die, they enter the present heaven, a real spiritual realm where they abide with Jesus awaiting the resurrection of our bodies with Christ’s second coming. But this is not our final destination. What we heard Mary read in revelation 21, and I invite you to read revelation 22, the new heaven and a new earth, where God will dwell with his people.
This renewed creation will be free from death and pain and sorrow, but the new earth will not be unfamiliar. Okay, share this with us at the panel. It will be a perfected version of what we know now, just as our resurrection bodies will be transformed yet recognizable, I, for one will see eye to eye with Jordan in heaven, the new earth.
Where’s your faith? The new earth will reflect the beauty of creation, restored and redeemed. As Randy Alcorn in his classic book Heaven writes, quote, the things we love are previews of the greater life to come. So when I say that heaven is going to be on earth, I watch Christians faces fall like Droopy Dog. The cartoon and his teeth break out and play an accordion.
I watched a lot of TV as a child. My wife says. I was playing outside. Oh, you missed out okay. And then people just think, oh goodness, it’s kind of like when you have to break it to your kids and you go, listen, kids, for budgetary reasons, this year we’re can have a staycation vacation. Who’s ready to get in the car and spend a day at Snoqualmie Falls?
Womp womp. But I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer here, okay? I’m trying to help you to understand something. The future heaven, God’s dwelling place, will be in the human realm on earth. The New Jerusalem will house the throne of God and of the lamb on the new earth. Revelation 22 one through four where are all my fellow gen-xers?
All right. Apparently Belinda Carlisle was a prophetess. Ooh! Heaven is a place on earth. You gotta smile at me, okay? I’m. I’m trying to tread some ground here. That’s a little shaky. The passage indicates that the first Earth will pass away. And the word here is protégé, where we get the word prototype. The new Earth will be patterned after this one, but it will be renewed.
Alcorn stirs our creative imagination. Quote. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer. They’re previews of the greater life to come. There’s continuity between old and new. We should expect new trees, new flowers, new rocks, new rivers, new mountains, and new animals. And as our current bodies serve as the blueprints for our resurrection bodies, this present Earth is the blueprint for the new Earth.
So my question for you is what if heaven is actually more real than this material world that we can handle with our senses? I don’t have time to describe all of this, and I, I may have botched it in the first service, but C.S. Lewis wrote this great fantastical novel called The Great Divorce. Highly encourage you to read it.
And in this, there’s an implausible trip of tourists leaving hell just to see what they missed out on in heaven. And there’s so many things and so many implications of this. Again, fantasy. But one of the things they get off the bus and they notice even the grass itself just feels like spikes to their feet. It’s so much more real and substantive than, on Earth.
You think about this. The idea of a prototype, the Old Testament Tabernacle, was a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. Hebrews eight five. Earth is a derivative realm. Heaven is the source realm. We won’t have any need for light bulbs or changing them, because the lamb will be the light. There’s no temple because we will worship him with unveiled eyes.
And one of the things that I love that C.S. Lewis proposes is this the hills and valleys of heaven will be to those you now experience, not as a copy is to an original, not as a substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower is to the root, or the diamond to the coal that formed it.
Instead of conceptualizing the New Jerusalem by visualizing a human design city with all of its traffic. I’m working through my rambling Air Farms concert on Friday night, and it took me 30 minutes to get over to tell y’all. Pray for me, then think of when you’re trying to think of the heavenly city. Think of the best of human civilizations on Earth as having their origins in heaven.
I mean, incidentally, what is the word that Jesus used with the thief on the cross? Tough Bible trivia for 100, please. Alex, hands on your buzzer. Today you will be with me in. That’s a Persian word and it literally means walled garden or enclosed garden, much like King Cyrus. It’s had these beautiful walled gardens. It’s. They’re tended, not wild, like the great walled gardens in Cyrus’s royal palace.
Keep in mind, in Genesis, Eden was never destroyed. Humanity was expelled because of the curse resulting from our sinful choices. After the fall, God, quote, drove the man out and at the east of the Garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 324 Eden was once under human’s domination dominion before we forfeited our occupancy permit by sinning.
But the good news is, God’s not done with Eden. God came to Eden to visit with Adam and Eve. Genesis three eight Stephen pointed out the same features as our panel, the same features of Tree of Life and Flowing Rivers described in Genesis and Revelation. They go on to lead Randy Alcorn to surmise that the original Eden is a park at the center of the New Jerusalem.
Think, you know Central Park in the middle of New York without all the nonsense. Okay, but life begins and ends in a garden. Alister McGrath writes, the whole of human history is thus enfolded in the subtle interplay of sorrow over a lost Paradise and the hope of its final restoration, which brings author John Mark Homer to write his great book called Garden City that life begins in a garden, yet ends in a city that itself contains a garden that we tend and our nourished by heaven on earth.
So tending makes me think of creation, care, and God’s kingdom. Now, understanding heaven as a renewed earth challenges us to care for his creation. Now, now smile at me again. I did not just make a political statement. Stewardship of the environment isn’t a distraction from the gospel. It’s part of reclaiming our original mission. In Genesis 215. Many Christ followers seem to operate as if we no longer need to steward the precious resource that Adam and Eve were first commissioned to take care of, and some mislabel this objective of creation care as belonging to the social gospel, that creation care should take a backseat to the more important work of preaching the gospel, ironically by people
who rarely share their faith with neighbors. I move on. Others may think that since the heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Second Peter 310. What does it matter if I tossed litter out of my car window, or look the other direction when my company dumps chemicals into our groundwater?
We should start with a solid assumption. Everything God makes is good and we are to care for it. And he will always require a reckoning for how well we manage what we were given. However, we tend to relegate any environmental concerns to the nutty, crunchy crowd out here on the left coast, and it may astound you to learn.
Ready for this one? You’re not ready to elbow somebody, so get ready.
John McConnell Jr, the founder of Earth Day, was a Pentecostal believer who saw no contradiction between love. I said you weren’t ready. Between loving Jesus and protecting his creation, his grandparents were at the zoos, a street outpouring in the mission in Los Angeles while his parents were some of the charter members of the Assemblies of God, the fellowship with which I am ordained on October 3rd, 1969, McConnell’s, strides into a really, you know, understanding very, conservative group, San Francisco City Council.
And on February 3rd, 1970, the board voted to celebrate Earth Day. On March 21st, 1970, the first governmental recognition of Earth Day was by a sold out Pentecostal Christian. Think of the impact we could have had over 55 years if we had not abandoned that objective. See, we’re not just waiting Star Wars fans to be beamed up to a heaven in a galaxy far, far away.
We are called to live as citizens of the kingdom. Now. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. Second Corinthians five five empowering us to live with purpose, compassion and boldness. Now, now, I love this phrase. The old time preachers had an interesting saying we do well to recall, and they said, God gives us a little bit of heaven to go to heaven with.
God gives us a little bit of heaven to go to heaven with. That means think of the best worship night we’ve ever had. Think of your best Bible study. Stephen, think about the most life impacting missions trip you’ve ever been on. Think of the most connecting conversation you ever had with another person, and that’s the tiniest foretaste of what heaven will be.
It’s an appetizer, if you will, before the main course, the marriage supper of the lamb that we will sit down to savor with our Savior seated at the head of the table in heaven.
So the Holy Spirit is heaven’s power on earth. Before his crucifixion, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit, the comforter, who would empower his followers.
John 1416 to 18. At Pentecost this promise was fulfilled. Baptism in the spirit is not a reward for holiness, but it is a gift of grace meant to empower believers for service and witness. Acts one eight. And being filled with the spirit is not a one time event. The same folks who are filled with the spirit in acts two, the Bible records are filled again with some others in acts 431, but this time, when they prayed, the place was shaken by the power of God.
Paul urges us to keep on being filled. Ephesians 518 spirit filled living. It’s a rhythm of receiving and giving, of being empowered and pouring out that power and love and ministry. Doing what? John Wimber, the founder of the vineyard movement, used to call doing the Jesus stuff, opening blind eyes, praying for healing for the sick, preaching the gospel, seeing bound people set free of oppression.
So let’s deal with the elephant in the sanctuary. Unity in the spirit. I don’t know why, honestly, but sadly, the topic of spirit baptism has often divided believers and it always makes me think of this book we used to read to our kids, the snitches. Right? To remember these these cliquish creatures who wanted to set themselves apart. So some had stars upon the stars until everybody started getting a star.
And then they’d peel their stars off so they could be the in-group. We’ve used spiritual experiences to create hierarchies, but the spirit was given to unify, not separate, separate us. Whether you’ve received a prayer, language or not, you are not a second class Christian. So please allow me to say I am profoundly sorry for the way any groups, or the way we model devotion to God in this or any other church setting has reinforced the wrong message.
Nothing could be further from the truth. My experience at receiving the baptism in the spirit in the charismatic movement of the 1980s was centered on unity. I could tell you wild stories of going to meetings of priests and nuns and and Methodist high school boys like me, all worshiping in dynamic gatherings with the power of God present to heal our differences and I say, Lord, do it again in our day.
We need revival in this valley. So the bottom line what I send you out with is this. The spirit is available now for all who believe and ask him to fill them. So you might say, well, how does one come to be filled with the spirit? I’ve prayed with hundreds of people over the years and would love to have a conversation with you sometime, but I would say receive the spirit as a gift, not something earned.
You have to start with believing this. Acts two for baptism is biblical and doctrinally sound and something for today. By God’s plan, confess any known sin and pursue holiness, because after all, he is the Holy Spirit. And then ask Jesus to fill you, seeking the giver more than the gift. Worship aloud. Expressing praise in acts two says, God filled them and they spoke.
God does the filling. I do the speaking. Okay, you’ll need to open your mouth and start forming the words out loud. And if you do, you’ll join 600 million people around the world of every possible Christian group, who have experienced acts two for experience. And then you yield to the Spirit’s prompting, even if it feels unfamiliar. The same faith with which you receive Jesus as Lord is required for you to yield to the spirit who will fill us.
And I can tell you stories of friends I know. One driving down 405. You need a prayer language. Most days aren’t 405. But she was just for the first time the words came out of her mouth or my youth pastor was looking down over a city from an airplane window, and out flowed this language they had never learned.
Or my friend Dan, who’s now a missionary in the part of world I’m not even allowed to tell you where it is. I woke up praying in a language he never learned from a dream. Now, have you noticed as you’re like, I hit, it’s time to go and you are really close to using my trigger phrase. What is it?
I’m been tiptoeing it around. I have not said this phrase yet. Speaking in tongues. Okay, I hate to break it to you again. Tongues is just King James Version language for languages. Okay, Oh, by the way, I really baffled people when I said, do you realize the King James Version Bible was the message version of his day?
Because King James wanted to get the Bible in a language people could read and understand. So he’s picking the vernacular, the the language, the lingo of his day. And so he said they would speak in languages for you. It may begin with small, repetitive sounds like a child learning to speak, but it’s a spiritual language that blesses God and builds up the believer.
They’re real prayers that he understands. Just as God hears his church crying out in on any given Sunday in Farsi, in Mandarin, in Russian, in Spanish or English. And I always just tell people trust that Jesus wants to fill you with the Holy Spirit more than you could ever want to be filled. Now, by the way. If my describing living in the power of the spirit now sounds wacky or weird, I hate to break it to you.
Heaven’s going to blow your mind. We will see God with unveiled eyes. What? That’s amazing. So let’s talk about living in the power of the spirit. Spirit empower. Believers are called to do the Jesus stuff now. Preach the gospel. Heal the sick, live with boldness. Jesus said, we do even greater works than he did after the spirit had descended.
John 1412. We are his ambassadors. Second Corinthians five filled with his spirit, living out the dimensions of the kingdom of heaven. Now, while we wait, it’s full arrival in the afterlife. When heaven comes to earth. And if that sounds like the type of life worth pursuing, then I want to invite us all to give space to Jesus by making this whole room an altar.
So I want you to all stand up. Let’s all stand up. We’re not going to call the prayer team forward. I deputize all of you as honorary members of the prayer team. Okay? And we are going to pray a prayer. I told you I was Methodist, so I got a prayer we’re going to read off the screen and and I want you just to open your hands like you’re going to receive from God.
Now, you don’t have to go full charismatic goalposts. I mean, you can do hold the baby. But whatever. Let’s just have our hands open, like we’re going to receive from God, okay? And we’re going to pray these words out loud. And once you’re done praying, I will pray for you. All right, we can do this. The work of the people.
Liturgy. Ready? Go. Lord, I offer myself fully to you. I look forward to the wonders of a new heaven and a new earth. But I want you to put me to use now doing the Jesus stuff of the kingdom of heaven here in my everyday life. I admit that I can’t do these things alone. I need more of you.
All that you are and all that you have. That’s what I want. Fill me to overflowing with the power of your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, Amen. Now, Lord, we meant the words of that prayer, realizing how risky and dangerous it was. And I pray God that you will astound your people this week as they do what my friend Tom says.
Open more doors of their life, giving more access to Jesus in their life and in their experience. And I pray that you will move in the heart and life of every person here, and that you will affect this church and this valley as a result. We love you and praise you in Jesus name, Amen. It’s going to be a great week!
We would love to pray with you. Fill out that connection card on your way out the door. God bless you and and ask God for a little bit of heaven to go to heaven with. Amen.
