Heaven Is The Vision - Heaven Part 4

Yeah. Well, welcome to real life

church. It's a snow day.

Can you guys believe this? Unreal.

I would encourage you guys to hang in here today because

you're going to learn so much about heaven.

I mean, your mind is going to be blown the truth of what heavens

really like. You know, sometimes you look at

the world and we think it's too far beyond, it's too broken for

redemption. And today you're going to see

that God is not only restoring us, it's actually redeem

everything. I'm telling you, it's just going

to blow your mind. Before we jump in, I'll

celebrate some wins. It's amazing.

Every time we talk about heaven, people come to Jesus.

We've talked about not only made for a person, you're also made

for a place. And the person is Jesus and the

place is heaven. And I'm so excited to share with

you more about heaven. Last week, check this out, we

had six people start a relationship with Jesus, all

because we're talking about heaven.

And the point is this, you can't have heaven without Jesus, and

you have Jesus without heaven. They come together.

And so we're talking about heaven again today.

And I believe God's going to see more people come to Christ.

I would encourage you guys who are watching, man, it's it means

the world to us when you share, like, comment, follow.

Holy smokes, we've done the 10 days of heavenly vision.

And I can't tell you how exciting it's been, how powerful

it's been to see people share and comment in the world,

responding to these little bits of gold, these little pieces,

these Nuggets of scripture, just encouraging people about

thinking differently about heaven and how it changed their

life. So today, just by hitting that

share button, hitting that like button, it may change somebody's

eternity. And today's going to be no

different. It's going to be very, very,

very powerful. I'll say thank you guys for

joining us, jump in, encourage each other.

You're all at home in your PJS drinking your coffee.

Hopefully it's not too crazy of a Snowmageddon.

But I want to encourage you guys.

Look at the look at the chat, look who's on there.

Reach out, care for somebody, let them know you love in the

day. And I'm excited if you're new,

it's the first time you're enjoying us a real life church.

I'm excited to see what God's going to do through your life.

So my prayer is this whole series is that you would see

heaven so much differently. You'd be moved by heaven that

actually changed the way you live on earth.

And I believe God has been answering this prayer every

single week. I know he's going to do it again

today. Today is a big reminder.

We look out, we we see the world in absolute chaos at times.

We see what's happening in Minnesota, we see the

protesting, we see Venezuela. We got Greenland, we got

Ukraine. We got all sorts of things

happen in the world. And you may just look out and

wonder, is God still in control? Is the world too far gone for

God to fix you? You may look out and wonder, can

God still move in these areas? Is there is there something past

redemption or is there someone past redemption?

And it's easy to say, man, this whole world is going to hell in

a handbasket. And I would encourage you today,

you're going to see something drastically different, that the

world itself is going to be redeemed by God and it's

actually going to heaven and not to hell.

Not to say that hell didn't exist, but the reality is God's

do something very different on this earth.

The redemption goes far beyond just us.

So God has not done yet. And the point today is neither

are we. So don't you check this out.

I'm going to expand your vision to heaven.

Just think about this. You may not know this in the New

Testament, it's out. This is actually not the first

time it mentions the new heaven and the new earth.

It's actually mentioned way before Revelation 21.

It's actually mentioned four times in the Bible all the way

back in the Old Testament with Isaiah.

So I want you to check this verse out, Isaiah 6517.

It says this, behold, I'll create new heavens and a new

earth. How do you guys right now, your

mind is absolutely blown. You've grown up in church, you

you've heard some of these stories and you had no idea that

the new heaven and the new earth actually exist all the way back

in the Old Testament. You just thought this was like

the end times, like the game plan was revealed at the end.

But you see here in Isaiah 65, Isaiah 66 says this verse 22 as

a new heavens and a new earth that I make will endure before

me. It will last before me declares

the Lord. So will your name and

descendants endure that they will last forever.

So it's mentioned twice in the Old Testament, second Peter 313,

third time in keeping with his promises, talking about God.

We are looking forward, we're longing for to a new heaven and

a new earth, a home of righteousness.

This is amazing. Like I, the Peter is looking

back at Isaiah and his home and his heart is looking forward to

the new heaven and the new earth.

And of course, Revelation 21 one, this is the most popular

and most of us probably only thought of this verse.

It says this and I saw this John talking a new heaven, a new

earth for the 1st heaven and the first earth had passed away.

Now, if you're like me, I think of this verse, I'm thinking man.

So the old heaven and the old earth, they're destroyed like

they've passed away. But if you really look at this

verse and you look at the Holy Scripture, you're going to find

out that doesn't mean it's destroyed.

Think about this. When we pass away as humans, are

we destroyed? Like we we talk about

resurrected souls and resurrected bodies?

Do we cease to exist and God just recreates us from the

scratch or he resurrects us? So just because you pass away

doesn't mean you're actually destroyed.

Think about this, Noah, the time the flood, God destroyed the

earth in the flood, but did the earth actually be destroyed?

It's all gone or he just change it in a drastic way.

And so I would encourage you that God is not destroying the

old earth and creating a brand new and he's actually

resurrecting the old earth. Remember when he created the

heavens and the earth and he looked at and said things were

good and they're very good? He is never ceased.

He's never renounced his claim on his creation.

He's actually never abandoned his earth and he's going to

restore it. Think about this.

This is very interesting. This is a prophetess, Anna in

the New Testament. Jesus had been born in Mary and

Joseph and baby Jesus, they traveled to the temple.

And Anna's in her 80s and she's one of the last prophets, the

Old Testament. And look, look at her life.

It says she's never left the temple, but she's worshipped

night and day. You think about being devout,

somebody who knows scripture, they've never left the temple,

the presence of God, and they're worshipping day and night.

Not only that, they're she's fasting and she's praying, she's

seeking God's presence, she's living in the Holy Spirit.

She knows exactly the plan of God and this is what she says

coming up to them being Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus.

At that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about

the child, about Jesus. To all who are looking forward

to look at this, what does it say?

The redemption of Jerusalem? It doesn't say the redemption of

humanity or the redemption of a person.

It's actually the redemption of a city.

So Jesus is not just saving souls according to this verse.

He's actually saving cities. He saved civilization.

For the longest time, most of us have thought that the plan of

salvation only extends to humanity.

And I would encourage you that God's redemptive plan is not so

modest. It actually extends to

everything. It's restoring every bit of His

creation and more. Ephesians 110 says this and it

says God's perfect plan. He says to bring all things, not

just some things or little pieces, but every single thing.

Look at this in heaven and on earth together under one head,

Christ, everything is being redeemed, not just people.

And the reality is this, if we're not careful, we can look

at the world and we can kind of give up on it.

We can kind of look out and, and say, man, this is way too far

gone. Like man, thank God, I'm leaving

earth and going to heaven and I'm exiting this old rickety

world. And these things are beyond

redemption. So the nations and the cities

and corruption and, and, and leadership and politicians and,

and different levels of authority, all this is just

going to disappear one day. And life can be good.

And that cannot be farther from the truth because God is

actually going to use those things and redeem all those

things. He's never given up on any

square inch or any split second of anything he has created.

Let me encourage you with this. God will surrender no territory

to the enemy. Can I get an Amen?

He's going to surrender 0 territory.

There's only one flag that's going to fly over anything he's

ever created and it's the banner of Jesus.

And I get really excited when I think about this scripture and I

think about this truth, man, my heart starts pumping.

Then I get just, it's just just boisterous man.

Just heart throbbing with excitement because everything

that we feel is wrong and injust, corrupt and broken and

the wars and the, and the, and the hatred and the bitterness

and the, all these things. And we can kind of go, oh man,

where's God? I'm encouraging him that God is

not a scientist that failed with an experiment that got thwarted

and he had to make a bad thing or a good thing out of bad.

He's actually going to redeem every single piece.

Like he's just getting started. Like he is not done yet.

And so we're not done yet. Now think about Isaiah 60 and

you think about what heaven's going to look like.

And I want you to see the stuff that God redeems.

I want to read part of Isaiah 60.

And this is actually a vision of the New Jerusalem that's going

to be in the new heavens. This is what it says, and I'll

start in verse 5. It says then you will look and

be radiant. Your heart will throb and swell

with joy. That sounds good.

This is the New Jerusalem in new heaven says the wealth of the

Seas will be brought to you to the you the riches of the

nations will come. So there's nations in this new

Jerusalem in heaven, herds of camels.

How many guys do camels in heaven, right will cover your

land. Young camels from Midian and

Etha and all from Sheba will come bearing look at this gold

and incense in proclaiming the praise the Lord.

All kidder flocks will be gathered to you.

The Rams. So now you got Rams of Nepaloth

will serve you. They'll be accepted as offerings

on my altar. I will adorn my glorious temple.

Talk about the temple in heaven. Who are these that fly along

like clouds, like doves to their nest?

So there's birds. It's just surely the islands.

Come on, there's islands in heaven.

Look to me and the lead are the ships of Tarsus.

So not only there's islands, actually ships coming from these

islands. Bring your children from afar.

Look at this with silver and gold to do what honor to the

honor of the Lord your God, the whole in Israel who has endowed

you with splendor. You think about this, you had

no, you're thinking like, OK, I thought we were going to be

floating around the clouds and we're going to Angel wings.

All stuff. Heaven is coming to the new

earth and it's going to be the same place as this old earth.

And the things that are corrupt right now in this world, all the

money, all the politics, all the brokenness is going to be used

in the new earth to God's glory. Not only does he restore his

creation, the work of his hands, the the world itself, the Bible

says that the earth itself groans with pains for

redemption. So it's not just us that are

being redeemed. It's every part of creation

that's being redeemed. But further yet it's pretty

amazing. Not only the gold's redeemed,

right? You saw that it's used for God's

glory, but what else redeemed? There's ships sailing on the sea

from these awesome islands. They're going with their

children and with their gold and silver to honor the Lord.

So not only is the the creator has redeemed his creation, he's

actually redeeming the works of his creation.

He's redeeming the ships that we built in the systems of our

civilizations. And in the heaven you're going

to find culture and art and nations and kings and gold and

treasure and islands and animals.

Like this is a far different heaven.

This is way more exciting and God's way bigger than maybe we

ever thought. For some of us, our minds have

thought, man God's a pretty modest God, like he's done all

he can and we're kind of going to give up and we're here to

reach people. But the reality is God's

redemption extends far beyond most of us ever thought or even

imagine. Think about this, the words for

the new heaven that you see in the Bible and the new earth.

You see the words redeem, restore, recover, return, renew,

regenerate and resurrect. And so the Earth is actually the

return to its original condition before it was lost, before it

was broken. So think about this.

This is pretty cool. Adam and Eve, they're in

paradise, and they'll be the only two people that will

actually experience all three Earths.

They'll be in paradise. They're in Paradise Lost, and

they're in paradise resurrected. How crazy to think about.

It's all the same planet. Like we're literally on the same

globe and God is going to resurrect all of the brokenness

and change it and to be transformed into something for

his glory the way it should be. So this is amazing.

So if you're homesick for heaven, you have loved ones

there, you're dream about it. You may I can't wait man, till

God brings me home. I can't wait to be a part of the

glory of God and see what's happening.

And you're homesick. This is pretty crazy thing about

you're actually homesick while you're still home.

You're homesick now to the place you're going to be in the

future. It is amazing to think through.

And so God is not a scientist with a failed experience.

He's a Redeemer finishing his masterpiece and he wants to

finish it with us. It's pretty cool.

Colossians 119 This is for God was pleased to have all his

fullness dwell on him, which is Jesus and through him to

reconcile to himself all things, every single thing on the earth,

whether things on earth or things in heaven by making peace

through his blood shed on the cross, Jesus is going to bring

redemption and his perfect timing to every single thing.

So big picture, heaven is not Plan B for some of us and most

of us, we think man, we could escape this this earth and then

we get to move into the the perfection of heaven when the

reality is heaven is actually God finishing his plan A where

he redeems all thanks for his glory.

And so we don't give up like we see corruption, we see

brokenness, we see, see, see just injustice, we see, we see

trauma, we see brokenness and we think, oh, where's God?

God is going to redeem it and he wants to use us as part of the

process. Think about this.

God will not and has not ever will give up the title deed to

earth. He's not surrendering earth to

the enemy. He's not giving up on it.

May have so much joy in our bones to think about.

He's not going to destroy this place.

He's going to redeem it for His glory.

He is a big God and he will destroy all the competitors.

Anybody wants to take dominion. Any powers of evil he'll destroy

and take away because of his authority, His might, and his

power for his glory. And for some of us, we thought

man, God's real modest, right? Like his redemptive work is.

It's just he's just barely getting by and it just extends

to humanity. But it's far larger, larger than

that. When Christ down the cross, he

bought and paid for not just us, but he paid for the entire earth

as well. You see this in the Psalms of

the earth. We filled with God's glory.

So here's the point. If God is not done yet, and by

the way, He's right on time, He knows exactly what he's doing.

Here's the point, we are not done either.

Like we are a part of God's plan of redemption.

We get to join him by God's grace and God's mercy.

We get to join God in his plan to bring redemption to not just

to humanity, but the world itself.

Right now. They actually find this of all

places in the Great Commission. If you don't know, it's in

Matthew 28 and then we're start in verse 18.

It says, then Jesus came and said to them being his

disciples, He said all authority.

Now where's the authority coming from?

Look at this, in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

My Father has given me every bit of authority and dominion.

And Jesus is not going to lose 1 square inch or one split second

of his dominion. It's given to Jesus all of

heaven, all of earth, and he sells to those disciples.

Therefore, go, go. Why?

Go? Because I have all authority.

Go because I'm going to redeem all things.

Go because I want you to play a part of the story.

I know how the story works out. I want you to play a part of the

story and go and make disciples of all nations, nations that

he'll one day redeem. Now, whether in the new heaven

and the earth we have the same nations, we don't really know.

But we do know we will have nations and we need to play a

part of the redemption of those nations right now.

How incredible to play a part of that story, man, it'd be amazing

to get to heaven and God say, well done, my good and faithful

service. Thank you for playing a part of

redemption on earth and not building a sandcastle with those

years I gave you, but leveraging it for the redemption of

humanity in the world and speaking out for truth and

justice and the things that matter at the heart of God.

So he makes disciples, all nations baptized in the name of

the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them

to obey everything. I've command you and look at the

end. So we're going to teach,

baptize, and then we're going to go make disciples.

How like what's our motivation? Why should we do this?

Because it's a surely I am with you always to the very end of

the age. We go through the power of Jesus

that all authority goes with us, that Jesus authority on heaven

earth is actually living in US and over us is the power of God

through us. So we get to be the vessels that

restore that redeem that that work for God's goodness.

And you look out and you look at every situation really corrupt

or broken and we need the opportunity to step in for

Jesus. It's an opportunity to be the

hands of feet of Christ. Why?

Because we have the authority of God to do the work of God that

he's not willing just to do in heaven.

He wants to do now on Earth. And so when you see brokenness,

you see disease, you see injustice, you, you see family

dynamics, you see all these things that are broken, you are

the person given by God, the authority of heaven and earth to

make a difference right now in their lives.

Nothing is outside the hand of God.

And so when you pray, you better pray like it matters, because it

does matter, because Jesus has given us the authority.

So we pray with boldness if somebody has a disease or

somebody's broken or somebody has lost.

We pray with great expectation that God wants to move because

he has all authority to do so in our time, in our life.

And so we step in as men and women of courage, not being

casual as Christians, but full of courage because it actually

makes a difference. Now when you serve, we serve

because it matters. When you serve people, you're

like, oh, I'm not making a difference.

And you know, I don't know if this person can change or this

person is just too far gone. Can I encourage you that God has

not given up, that he is going to redeem and we need to play a

part of that story. I was actually at the car place

the other day and I was talking to somebody and there's a car at

our church. So we're going to hand off.

And I was telling part of the story of the person taking it.

And this guy's like, well, as long as we're working hard, as

long as you're going the extra mile, as long as you're putting

their time in, as long as you show them self this and that.

I was like, Hey, listen, you know, it's a good thing that God

didn't have the same standard for us because the Bible says

in, in Romans, it says that we were yet helpless.

Christ died for us. Like when we could not do what

need to be done, Jesus stepped in because we needed him.

And that's what we do for people sometimes we help them with

their loss and they're stranded and they're broken and you feel

like, man, they're, they're, they're probably just going to

walk on me again. Well, guess what?

We serve them because God is redeeming things and we don't,

we're not the Holy Spirit. And so we get to just lay our

lives down and surrender and serve people.

So me honestly serve some people this weekend.

There's some driveways that need to be shoveled.

Amen, right. There's some people that need

some help and gospel the people in your heart.

Why? Because you get to bring

redemption. You get to soften hearts by

serving. You know, it's amazing.

We give now like heaven, it's amazing.

Christians are the only people that when we exchange money,

we're actually doing it for God's glory.

That's the amazing thing, like at church.

And we give, we're given to God's glory as a man and woman

of God. And we, we steward our money

well, we invest it well, we serve it.

We serve God with our money through investments, through

strategies, through through our businesses, and we're honoring

God. Guess what?

We're worshipping God and every now and then we get to travel

like the new heaven, right with our children and go to the new

Jerusalem to the temple and we get to worship God.

So every time you give, guess what you're giving like heaven,

Amen. You're you're giving right now

is already going to be something you're going to do in eternity.

I would encourage you as well. When you make disciples, you're

AC it actually matters like how many of you have learned

something today by watching this video?

Just a couple pieces of scripture and it's changing your

life, it's transforming your heart.

It's, it's, it's motivating you to go out.

It's spurring you on. How many of you could just

simply share that with somebody else, right?

We, we just bring it to our family and our friends, our

children. We can share the post like we,

we can start a Bible study. We can call up a friend and just

weave in the stories. What God's doing.

Just remind people, Oh, there's something so much greater.

Oh man, you know what? We're in the same earth.

You can just share these stories as a part of your life and truly

make disciples that go out and change the world.

Why we do this? Because God is not done yet.

Our church has an amazing vision.

This year, 2026, we want to see 100 people baptized.

Why? Because God's not done and

neither are we. Like we believe that God is

moving and there's a redemption across our city and we're

believing that God is willing and we just need to lock in to

his mission and his call to bring to disciple to share Jesus

and see what God can do across our city.

We're believing God to send out 30 people commissioned to be

disciple makers across our city. And not only that, hopefully

across the nations as God has called us to go, people that

would make disciples by sharing God's truth and helping people

obey his teachings and sent out for him to the Holy Spirit.

We're praying and trusting God that we can locate our first

permanent home. Come on, somebody, we've already

have $1.9 million committed to the space, but now we're looking

for a space that God has given to us.

We know who owns the place in Jesus, Every Square Inn, she

owns everything right now. There's people that steward it.

And maybe God moves on the heart of somebody as opportunity comes

up. And so we're just praying.

Lord, show us. Lord, show us the space.

That's what we want to do in 2026.

And ultimately for us to scatter out with the gospel, the power

of God, the authority God to a lost and dying world.

We are not a losing team. We're on the winning team for

Jesus full of God's authority in heaven earth, all things

redeemed through him and we go out, we get to share the message

of hope and share a heaven that most people have never ever even

heard of. And so we serve God.

We're actually part of God, not just now on this earth.

We're actually part of the God for what he's already doing

heaven. What do you guys pray?

Jesus tossed to pray. He said, Lord, not my will be

done, but your will be done. He's asking his will be done

from heaven, and we pray that your will be done on earth just

like in heaven. We're actually bringing heaven

to earth. When we see relationships

restored, we see people come to Christ.

We see people that get just a different perspective because

the truth is unlocking them and bringing freedom.

You're bringing heaven to earth and we get the pleasure and the

privilege and the honor of bringing as much redemption as

possible to much of humanity in the world as possible right now

in our life. So like I said, maybe you sold

God short, right? Like maybe you get a little

dishard and you're watching too much Fox and CNN, right?

And you're getting a little dishard and you're wondering,

man, I don't know how much God can redeem.

He's going to redeem every single bit of it.

And so I would encourage you, why don't we pray like it

matters this week? Like pick somebody out that's

close to you but far from God and pray specifically for them

to come to Christ. Pray for God to work or life.

Pray for God to redeem, to restore, to reconcile and to

resurrect lives this week. What if you take a bold step of

obedience this week? God's been asking to, to get in

the scripture and maybe he's asked you to join a life group

or join a deeper group called the way and, and get in the

scripture and practices like maybe take a bold step of

obedience And it, it, it probably won't be easy.

And that's probably good because we got to step out into God's

mission and God's call. What if you partner with us on

mission and not just casually like, oh, I'll be there on

Sunday, but actually partner with some courage?

Like it's going to cost some things.

There going to be a little bit of blood, sweat and tears.

There's going to be some passion.

There's going to be some work involved to move the gospel

forward. Because I believe God is

willing, if Jesus was willing to down the cross, not just to

redeem us, but to also redeem humanity, we should be willing

to serve, to give, to lead, to sacrifice and put him first.

And so this mission is the greatest mission we could ever

be a part of. And I believe God is calling us

in 2026. This is why we exist.

This is the hope of the world. This is the vision we have from

God for our church. Why?

Because God is not done moving and neither are we.

Amen. So I encourage you guys couple

things. One, if God's moving, you know,

like man, I want to join a team. I want to be a part of the

mission. I'm thinking about life groups.

Just let us know in the comments.

Reach out to us. You can just direct message us.

You can go to the website, you can the the numbers on there.

All these things reach out to us.

Let us know. We want you to live out the will

of heaven on earth. And if you need Jesus, if you're

watching this video, like man, heaven is so much sweeter, so

much more amazing. I could ever know.

I would encourage there's only one way to heaven is through

Jesus the only the fathers to the Son He's the way truth and

life no man come but the Father but through him.

If you need Jesus you're just going to cry out to Jesus Lord I

need you. Thank you for loving me save my

soul. God I want you to use my life.

I turn to you and cry out to Christ.

If you do that please let us know.

We want to help you with your steps with Jesus.

Guys last thing next week you're not going to miss it.

OK, so this is February 1st. It's at 10:00 only, OK, And

we're doing a life group. I want to say this, right, kick

off and tailgate party. And so if you hear last year,

it's going to be very similar. We're at 10:00 only our life

groups. The way groups, they're going to

share about their groups. It's a huge community day.

And then we're going to put all these tables and we're going to

pack it out. We have more tables.

We even had our last social and then we're going to invite you

guys in. We're going to have chicken

nachos and we're just going to hang out.

So between 10 plan on being there from 11:50 and just level

like a one hour gathering time and they have a big tailgate

party after so invite you guys to be a part of it and so is

leave day. Guys make sure you love on some

people in the comments and don't forget whoever finds Jesus

discovers real life and purpose. Check it out though not just on

earth but also in heaven. God bless guys.