Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 72

Singer: Brother Jim's got the mic in hand.

Singer: David's laughing like a one man band talking disco, bell bottom

Singer: flares and a little bit of scripture to say your prayers.

Singer: Yes, it's the past, it's the present.

Singer: It's the Holy.

Singer: Sit back and join us.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: We're keeping it real.

Singer: From the red, white and blue to the spinning wheel.

Singer: It's stories and Devotion.

Singer: Good vibes to share.

Singer: Come on and listen to Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Hey, you!

Brother Jim: Yes, you.

Brother Jim: May I have your attention, please?

Brother Jim: How you doing?

Brother Jim: Allow me to brighten your day.

Brother Jim: Because it's time, my friends.

Brother Jim: Time for Bible.

Brother Jim: Bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Whether you are driving down the road, sitting at your desk,

Brother Jim: mowing the lawn, or mowing the lawn, or pretending to work

Brother Jim: while secretly listening to us, your favorite podcast.

Brother Jim: We are grateful you are making a choice to spend a little time

Brother Jim: with us today.

Brother Jim: Now, the goal of Bible bibs and a prayer is quite simple.

Brother Jim: Like us.

Brother Jim: Kind of like your host.

Brother Jim: Well, yeah, as I said, kind of like your host for this morning.

Brother Jim: Our goal is to talk about God's Word, encourage one another in

Brother Jim: our faith, share a few laughs, a lot of laughs, and hopefully

Brother Jim: leave you just a little bit closer to Jesus than when you

Brother Jim: start listening to us.

Brother Jim: So grab your coffee, your rocket fuel, your Bible.

Brother Jim: That would even be better.

Brother Jim: Buckle up and let's get ready to hit the road, because we are

Brother Jim: fast and we are furious.

Brother Jim: I don't know how fast we are anymore, David.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but we can be furious.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Kind of like combining a turtle with a wolverine.

Brother Jim: Can you do that on a computer?

Brother Jim: Put a wolverine and a turtle together.

David: Uh, maybe we'll see if that comes out.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: Yeah. A picture of you and I.

Brother Jim: But, hey, this is Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: a prayer.

Brother Jim: Let's get started.

Brother Jim: Number one, we are grateful you are here.

Brother Jim: And since you're here, why don't you ignore your responsibilities

Brother Jim: for the day?

Brother Jim: Just for a few minutes.

Brother Jim: Pretend your inbox, as always, does not exist.

Brother Jim: And you know what?

Brother Jim: As David, I know he's such a fan of emails, but who cares about

Brother Jim: all the blah blah blah?

Brother Jim: Hey, we can offer special warranty for you.

Brother Jim: Hey, we can do this.

Brother Jim: We can do that, huh?

Brother Jim: I tell you.

Brother Jim: But let us spread.

Brother Jim: Spend us a little time laugh and

Brother Jim: learning and growing together in

Brother Jim: Christ.

Brother Jim: Because around here we believe that it's.

Brother Jim: Life is serious enough already, so we might as well walk through

Brother Jim: it with a little faith, a little laughter, a lot of grace, and

Brother Jim: two good looking guys coming into your home today.

Brother Jim: Hey folks, did you know the first French fries weren't

Brother Jim: actually cooked in France?

Brother Jim: They were cooked in Greece.

Brother Jim: And how's the moon?

Brother Jim: Like dentures.

Brother Jim: Both come out at night.

Brother Jim: I thought those two were pretty good.

Brother Jim: Yes, it is.

Brother Jim: Double joke.

Brother Jim: Thursday.

Brother Jim: Come on, friends, let's turn

Brother Jim: this in from a conversation into

Brother Jim: an experience.

Brother Jim: What a blessing.

Brother Jim: Right, Miss Ida?

Brother Jim: I had to move him here.

Brother Jim: Mr. Dan the chicken man.

Brother Jim: Happy?

Brother Jim: Lynn.

Brother Jim: And of course, Mr. Tom, the dead turkey.

Brother Jim: Hang in there, buddy.

Brother Jim: Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Uh, so in saying all that, good morning to you.

Brother Jim: Good morning, our friends.

Brother Jim: Good morning to the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Let us take a moment and thank God for another beautiful day.

Brother Jim: You know what?

Brother Jim: We got breath in our lungs.

Brother Jim: The hearts are beaten.

Brother Jim: And, uh, we can see.

Brother Jim: Hopefully we can hear.

Brother Jim: We can move.

Brother Jim: And yes, it might hurt a little bit, but that's okay because we

Brother Jim: got another opportunity to grow, learn and try again.

Brother Jim: Because here on Bible Bibs in Prayer, we do not just roll out

Brother Jim: of bed and now we're not surviving the morning.

Brother Jim: I gotta be honest, there are

Brother Jim: mornings we're just trying to

Brother Jim: survive.

Brother Jim: But for the majority of the time we started with gratitude.

Brother Jim: We started with a good conversation.

Brother Jim: We started with positive energy and some questionable jokes.

Brother Jim: But that's what makes us fun and makes us so special.

Brother Jim: Here's one for you listeners out there.

Brother Jim: What do you call a man who is, oh, wait a minute here.

Brother Jim: Got it.

Brother Jim: Boy, I want to make sure I do this right.

Brother Jim: My friends, I want to do the right introduction for my

Brother Jim: co-host and partner in crime.

Brother Jim: God made him special.

Brother Jim: Yes, he did.

Brother Jim: And then he broke the mold just to be safe.

Brother Jim: If looks could kill, he'd be completely harmless.

Brother Jim: And yes, my friends, there are times he is just a bit outside.

Brother Jim: Please welcome the one, the only, Mr. David Keener.

Brother Jim: And plus, just not my co-host.

Brother Jim: But he is one of my best friends in the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Good morning, my friend.

Brother Jim: How is life treating you in Kingsville today?

David: Good morning.

David: You know, I'm used to taking these ribs.

David: I was driving with my car, the other my wife the other day in

David: the car and she said, you really have no sense of direction.

David: And I said, where did that come from?

Brother Jim: Took just a second there.

Brother Jim: Was there another line coming?

Brother Jim: But I got it, I got it.

Brother Jim: Did you get it?

Brother Jim: Ah!

Brother Jim: Where's that coming from?

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: He isn't the best color

Brother Jim: commentator in the business for

Brother Jim: nothing.

David: Folks, I've said before, I'm the

David: best color commentator in this

David: room.

Brother Jim: Yes, and that says a lot right there.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Uh, big plans for the weekend, my friend.

David: Not this weekend.

David: However, next weekend we're

David: going to Monster Jam in

David: Pittsburgh.

David: Gonna go check out the monster trucks again.

David: We did it last year, and it was.

David: It was nice.

David: It was fun.

David: It was filthy.

David: Um, I think I might have said

David: previously that I underestimated

David: how dirty you would actually get

David: at those things, but the kids

David: love it.

David: So we're gonna go, we're gonna go over to the that city across

David: the river there.

Brother Jim: Oh, come on.

Brother Jim: Pittsburgh.

David: And, you know, driving in Pittsburgh is just awful because

David: everything is one way.

David: You come out of the tunnel and

David: it's like, go forty five

David: different directions

David: immediately.

Brother Jim: Pandemonium's running wild chaos trying to get in the right lane.

Brother Jim: And I have found David.

Brother Jim: When you use your GPS, even she can't keep up with what exits we

Brother Jim: were going to the zoo.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: And oh my goodness, let's just

Brother Jim: say the hands were like death

Brother Jim: grip.

Brother Jim: And it's like, everybody be

Brother Jim: quiet so I can listen to the

Brother Jim: lady talking.

Brother Jim: Oh, I just once it'd be nice to

Brother Jim: go through Pittsburgh with

Brother Jim: somebody else driving that you

Brother Jim: trust.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So you could actually see because it is cool when you come

Brother Jim: through the tunnel, the stadium, three rivers and all that.

Brother Jim: But I never get to see it because I'm so, uh, you know.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: And the bridges.

David: There's a lot of them.

Brother Jim: When we were leaving, we got stuck on a bridge.

Brother Jim: No, brother Jim does not do well on bridges.

Brother Jim: And it was one of them steel like wire mesh bridges.

Brother Jim: And you could just feel everything shaking.

David: At least one of those is double stacked, too.

David: Like there's traffic above and there's traffic below that.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. How about you folks scared of bridges?

Brother Jim: Do you like to go to Pittsburgh?

Brother Jim: Maybe you can find a good restaurant over there.

David: Oh, I always hit up remaining brothers when I'm over there.

David: Ah, yes.

Brother Jim: Okay. That's the one down by, uh.

David: They got.

David: They've got several of them.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes. We stopped there on, I

Brother Jim: think I still got my card, my

Brother Jim: rewards card.

David: Hey, there you go.

Brother Jim: Yeah. So, uh, that sounds.

Brother Jim: I've never been to one.

Brother Jim: My grandson, Dawson, he's into it big time.

Brother Jim: Yeah, he's got to go to one, and he just loved it.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Toro.

Brother Jim: He got a little.

Brother Jim: It's called Toro.

Brother Jim: It's pretty cool.

Brother Jim: Mhm.

Brother Jim: Uh, one of the big monster trucks.

Brother Jim: And I like the lady that, uh, s p sponsors.

Brother Jim: I can't think of her name, but s t p, you know.

Brother Jim: Oh, my goodness.

Brother Jim: And she is good.

David: They've got two or three women

David: drivers in the in the monster

David: jam.

Brother Jim: Yeah. And it shows her at home this little video of her.

Brother Jim: I mean she's got a sweet ride truck.

Brother Jim: Old school, old school, you know, box style.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Man, I am envious.

Brother Jim: I gotta admit it.

Brother Jim: I'm not, you know, the monster truck.

Brother Jim: Yeah, whatever.

Brother Jim: But that old truck.

Brother Jim: I don't know if it's a Chevy or

Brother Jim: a Ford, but oh my goodness, it

Brother Jim: is sweet.

Brother Jim: Uh, but how about you guys?

Brother Jim: What you got going on?

Brother Jim: I mean, the Fourth of July is

Brother Jim: going to be here before we know

Brother Jim: it.

Brother Jim: Uh, trying to get everything

Brother Jim: finished up and, uh, it is

Brother Jim: crazy.

Brother Jim: Just time.

Brother Jim: Time.

Brother Jim: It just.

Brother Jim: There's never enough time, David.

David: No, it really isn't.

Brother Jim: Still haven't got all my mulch done, you know.

Brother Jim: Uh, just, uh, went and got everything for the garden.

Brother Jim: And of course, you know, I've

Brother Jim: got this old Massey tractor, had

Brother Jim: it rebuilt, reliable as they

Brother Jim: come.

Brother Jim: Pulled it out of the barn, had it stored.

Brother Jim: Winter, of course, got a new battery.

Brother Jim: She started right up going good.

Brother Jim: And all of a sudden I think the clutch is going out.

Brother Jim: It's like, but I will say this.

Brother Jim: I had to run out and get my father in law's tractor and I've

Brother Jim: got a big well, it's not a big tiller, but a tiller for the

Brother Jim: back of the tractor.

Brother Jim: There's nothing like the smell

Brother Jim: of freshly tilled dirt, you know

Brother Jim: that?

Brother Jim: Just one of them amazing smells.

Brother Jim: So, uh.

Brother Jim: But yeah.

Brother Jim: What's your big plans for the weekend?

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Peg?

Brother Jim: Abraham, what's going on?

Brother Jim: We sure do miss you.

Brother Jim: Hope to see you soon.

Brother Jim: But, uh, what you got going on, Peg?

Brother Jim: You know, let us know.

Brother Jim: Hopefully, we got some viewers listening in from other parts of

Brother Jim: the out of our country from around the world.

Brother Jim: And we know we do.

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Please don't let that stop you from letting us know.

Brother Jim: I would love David to have

Brother Jim: someone from another country,

Brother Jim: another area.

Brother Jim: Let us know what it's like over there.

David: That'd be cool.

Brother Jim: Under there.

Brother Jim: Up there, I don't care.

Brother Jim: Just let us know.

Brother Jim: Uh, so again, you know, get a little rest, hopefully a little

Brother Jim: family time, graduation parties out the yin yang.

Brother Jim: I gotta say, David, I went to one the other day and they had I

Brother Jim: think we've joked about it.

Brother Jim: Everybody has pulled pork.

Brother Jim: I don't care if I eat another pulled pork sandwich in my life,

Brother Jim: but they had chicken breast smoked was amazing.

David: Sounds good.

Brother Jim: They had these sausages.

Brother Jim: I mean, David, they were big sausages filled with cheese.

Brother Jim: That's nice.

David: That sounds really good.

Brother Jim: And then they had like, pulled, pulled chicken, which was good.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And then of course they had

Brother Jim: pulled pork, which I. But I tell

Brother Jim: you I was wishing I went back on

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: I mean nice grilled chicken smoked.

David: Oh it sounds really good.

David: It was making me hungry.

Brother Jim: And they had kiwi.

Brother Jim: You like kiwi the fruit I.

David: It's been a long time since I've had it.

David: I think it's okay.

Brother Jim: Yeah, there's a lot of work to it.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: It's like crab legs, you know.

Brother Jim: But, boy, it was good.

Brother Jim: Uh, yeah.

Brother Jim: And believe it or not, it was all protein and or fruits, so I

Brother Jim: didn't feel too bad.

Brother Jim: So. Yeah, but, uh, maybe a little sleeping in this weekend.

Brother Jim: Uh, but you know what?

Brother Jim: Hey, don't live for the weekend.

Brother Jim: My friends, each day is a blessing, you know?

Brother Jim: And whatever it is, we hope it's filled with peace, laughter, and

Brother Jim: a little bit of joy.

Brother Jim: How about a whole lot of joy?

Brother Jim: Because weekends again may come and weekends will go.

Brother Jim: But God's goodness does not take a day off now.

Brother Jim: This past Sunday I talked about this to guess who else doesn't

Brother Jim: take a day off.

Brother Jim: Satan.

Brother Jim: Satan does not take a day off as well.

Brother Jim: Think about that because that is the truth.

Brother Jim: So again, as I said in our Sunday morning message, you

Brother Jim: serve, you can either serve one out of two kingdoms.

Brother Jim: You can either serve God's

Brother Jim: kingdom or you can serve Satan's

Brother Jim: kingdom slash the world slash

Brother Jim: your own.

Brother Jim: Ooh, yes.

Brother Jim: So which one are you serving?

Brother Jim: Alrighty then.

Brother Jim: A week has almost come to an end.

Brother Jim: Friends, let me ask you this morning.

Brother Jim: What have you done to make this

Brother Jim: week to make a difference in

Brother Jim: God's kingdom?

Brother Jim: Not not just what you

Brother Jim: accomplished, not just what you

Brother Jim: survive, but how did you shine

Brother Jim: for Jesus in the middle of all

Brother Jim: this?

Brother Jim: Kind of like that old song, This little Light of mine.

Brother Jim: I'm going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Brother Jim: The weekend is almost here.

Brother Jim: So go ahead, take a breath, stretch those shoulders.

Brother Jim: Maybe even crack a smile.

Brother Jim: Come on, crack a smile with me.

Brother Jim: Let's go, let's go.

Brother Jim: That you've been hiding since Monday.

Brother Jim: Because now it is time to saddle up and hit that weekend trail.

Brother Jim: New weekend trail.

Brother Jim: Let me get the hat on here.

Brother Jim: Woo hoo!

Brother Jim: Yeah!

Brother Jim: Feeling like a cowboy with old Toby Keith saying.

Brother Jim: Should have been a cowboy.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Hit that brand new weekend trail together.

Brother Jim: So listen up.

Brother Jim: I know you might be a little tired, a little worn down, maybe

Brother Jim: even a little.

Brother Jim: I just need five minutes or a silence and a snack, and I.

Brother Jim: Trust me, I get that.

Brother Jim: And you know, David, the funny thing I found I'm snacking on.

David: What's that?

Brother Jim: There's applesauce packets.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: My grandson and I, we have this

Brother Jim: thing that's part of our

Brother Jim: routine.

Brother Jim: I'm hooked on them things.

Brother Jim: And you go to oldies and get all kinds of varieties applesauce,

Brother Jim: uh, blueberries, bananas, you know, all that.

Brother Jim: And man two of them.

Brother Jim: And I am a happy man.

David: So so what I'm hearing is you're doing the same thing I'm doing

David: and you're eating his snacks.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: That's just the preparation for the snack.

Brother Jim: You know, five minutes later, I'm like, I had applesauce.

Brother Jim: Doesn't fill me up.

Brother Jim: What do we got?

Brother Jim: Uh, but come on, come on, come on.

Brother Jim: You can do this.

Brother Jim: You are almost there.

Brother Jim: God has carried you.

Brother Jim: He's lifted you.

Brother Jim: He might have even drug you through the week.

Brother Jim: And he is not done with you yet.

Brother Jim: Not by a long shot.

Brother Jim: So step into the weekend with faith.

Brother Jim: Step into it with joy.

Brother Jim: Step into it knowing that God still has purpose for you even

Brother Jim: on your days off.

Brother Jim: Now, a couple had been married

Brother Jim: for forty years and also

Brother Jim: celebrated their sixtieth

Brother Jim: birthdays.

Brother Jim: During the celebration, a fairy godmother appeared and said that

Brother Jim: because they had been such a loving couple all those years,

Brother Jim: she would give them one.

Brother Jim: Yes, one wish.

Brother Jim: Each being the faithful, loving spouse for all these years.

Brother Jim: Naturally, the wife wanted for her husband and her husband to

Brother Jim: have a romantic vocation together, so she wished for them

Brother Jim: to travel around the world.

Brother Jim: Pretty nice, isn't it?

Brother Jim: The fairy godmother waved her wand and boom, bada bing!

Brother Jim: She had the tickets in her hand.

Brother Jim: Now it was the husband's turn,

Brother Jim: and the fairy godmother assured

Brother Jim: him he could have any wish he

Brother Jim: wanted.

Brother Jim: All he needed to do was ask for his heart's desire.

Brother Jim: Oh, boy.

Brother Jim: He paused for a moment, then said, well, honestly, I'd like

Brother Jim: to have a woman thirty years younger than me.

Brother Jim: The fairy godmother picked up her wand and bought a boom.

Brother Jim: Bada bing!

Brother Jim: He was ninety.

Brother Jim: Be careful what you wish for.

Brother Jim: What would be your one wish, David?

Brother Jim: Putting you on the spot.

David: My one wish would be for unlimited wishes.

Brother Jim: See, I always play that card too.

David: I don't know if you're allowed

David: or not, but yeah, I would try

David: it.

Brother Jim: Yeah. And there would be a lot of good in that.

Brother Jim: There would be a lot of good.

David: Now, if I couldn't do that one, probably unlimited health maybe.

Brother Jim: Yeah. If I was being selfish, it

Brother Jim: would be just a week on the

Brother Jim: beach, man.

Brother Jim: No phone, no nothing.

Brother Jim: Just sitting there watching.

Brother Jim: Perfect weather, the breeze coming up.

Brother Jim: You know, that would be that

Brother Jim: would be one wish, you know, or

Brother Jim: to be younger, you know, go to

Brother Jim: Alaska, check out some grizzly

Brother Jim: bears.

Brother Jim: Polar bears, you know.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Look for Bigfoot.

Brother Jim: Very disappointed.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I did not know this, but a lady,

Brother Jim: a good friend from our church,

Brother Jim: she went down to the Bigfoot

Brother Jim: festival.

Brother Jim: I didn't know it was going on.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: So I told her.

Brother Jim: I said, oh, if I would have known, I would have went down.

Brother Jim: I got all the things for it.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: So, uh, yeah, but today's

Brother Jim: thought anyway, what would you

Brother Jim: wish for?

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: We'd love to hear that.

Brother Jim: Uh, today's thought, the doctrine of the Kingdom of

Brother Jim: Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly

Brother Jim: one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and

Brother Jim: changed human thought.

Brother Jim: H g Wells.

Brother Jim: Now, we've, uh, had this little discussion on hell, and now

Brother Jim: we're into heaven.

Brother Jim: Now, of course, this past Tuesday we had Miss Buffy from T

Brother Jim: four C here.

Brother Jim: So that kind of got away, but felt that was a good thing to

Brother Jim: get out to help us start, uh, learning about the organizations

Brother Jim: that are out there to help.

Brother Jim: But let's get back to it, shall we?

Brother Jim: Our opening scripture, John fourteen one two three let not

Brother Jim: your heart be troubled.

Brother Jim: You believe in God.

Brother Jim: Believe in me.

Brother Jim: Also in my father's house are many, many mansions.

Brother Jim: I go to prepare a place for you.

Brother Jim: And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and

Brother Jim: receive you to myself.

Brother Jim: That where I am, there you may be also.

Brother Jim: Now again, if I were to ask ten people, what is heaven?

Brother Jim: We're going to probably get ten

Brother Jim: different responses, right,

Brother Jim: David?

Brother Jim: I'm sure you and I, we share a

Brother Jim: lot of the same ideas, but also

Brother Jim: we put our own little spin on it

Brother Jim: too.

Brother Jim: Sure.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Some imagined clouds and harps are, you know, everybody with

Brother Jim: little wings flying around.

Brother Jim: I think of Bugs Bunny with that, you know.

Brother Jim: Yeah, that's just instilled in my mind.

Brother Jim: Other pictures.

Brother Jim: Other picture.

Brother Jim: Others pictured, loved ones reunited, which is great.

Brother Jim: Some think of endless joy.

Brother Jim: Peace.

Brother Jim: But what does the Bible say?

Brother Jim: Heaven is not merely a place.

Brother Jim: Heaven is the dwelling place of God.

Brother Jim: It is the eternal home prepared by Jesus Christ for all who.

Brother Jim: Here's the big one who belong to him.

Brother Jim: Now that's the catch.

Brother Jim: Because Satan in the world, which we know.

Brother Jim: Satan loves to tell lies.

Brother Jim: He loves to.

Brother Jim: He's a trickster.

Brother Jim: Trick us into believing.

Brother Jim: Oh, I believe in God.

Brother Jim: I go to church, I do this, I do that.

Brother Jim: We've talked about that.

Brother Jim: There's more to it than this.

Brother Jim: Do you truly, truly belong to him?

Brother Jim: As I asked last week, do you

Brother Jim: love Jesus or are you in love

Brother Jim: with Jesus?

Brother Jim: Heaven is a place where sin,

Brother Jim: sorrow, death, and pain are

Brother Jim: forever gone.

Brother Jim: Gone.

Brother Jim: Amen to that.

Brother Jim: No more sorrow, death, pain, anger, frustration.

Brother Jim: And here's the biggest thing for me, David.

Brother Jim: No more temptations.

Brother Jim: No more trying.

Brother Jim: Yeah, trying to be faithful.

Brother Jim: It's done.

Brother Jim: It's over with.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: The truth is that every person

Brother Jim: spends time preparing for

Brother Jim: retirement, true careers, true

Brother Jim: and vacations.

Brother Jim: But very few spend time preparing for eternity.

Brother Jim: Yet heaven is the destination

Brother Jim: should be that every believer

Brother Jim: longs for.

Brother Jim: Heaven is a real place.

Brother Jim: Jesus spoke of heaven as a real place in John fourteen.

Brother Jim: He did not say, I'm going to prepare an idea for you.

Brother Jim: He said, I go to prepare a place for you.

Brother Jim: Heaven is not imaginary.

Brother Jim: It's not symbolic.

Brother Jim: It is a real destination

Brother Jim: prepared by a real Savior for

Brother Jim: his real people, his real

Brother Jim: believers.

Brother Jim: When Jesus ascended into heaven, he.

Brother Jim: He went somewhere.

Brother Jim: And one day those who trust him will join him there.

Brother Jim: The Christian's hope is not wishful thinking.

Brother Jim: It is a promise from God Himself.

Brother Jim: Now think of this.

Brother Jim: A child once asked his grandmother, how do you know

Brother Jim: heaven is real?

Brother Jim: The grandma replied, because Jesus came from there, spoke

Brother Jim: about it, returned there, and promised to take me there.

Brother Jim: Now, do you believe that simple explanation, that faith.

Brother Jim: Faith built upon the words of Christ?

Brother Jim: Think about that.

Brother Jim: Do you build your foundation upon the words of Jesus?

Brother Jim: Heaven is where God dwells.

Brother Jim: The greatest thing about heaven is not the streets of gold.

Brother Jim: The greatest thing about heaven is, quite simply, God.

Brother Jim: Revelations twenty one three

Brother Jim: tells us, behold, the tabernacle

Brother Jim: of God is with men, and he will

Brother Jim: dwell.

Brother Jim: Dwell with them.

Brother Jim: Many people talk about seeing loved ones in heaven, and that

Brother Jim: reunion will be wonderful.

Brother Jim: Yeah, it's going to be cool seeing true David.

Brother Jim: Our loved ones can't deny that.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But the greatest joy will be seeing the Lord face to face.

Brother Jim: And I just said at his abilities we were talking about we were

Brother Jim: talking about death.

Brother Jim: And that was pretty heavy for those folks.

Brother Jim: But you know what I said, one of

Brother Jim: the biggest things I want to do,

Brother Jim: one of the first thing is when I

Brother Jim: see Jesus, I just want to run

Brother Jim: because I know I'll be able to

Brother Jim: run and jump right into his arms

Brother Jim: and just get the biggest hug

Brother Jim: imaginable.

Brother Jim: Yes, that is what I picture.

Brother Jim: Face to face with Jesus the Lord.

Brother Jim: Imagine.

Brother Jim: Never no more struggling with doubt again.

Brother Jim: Never wondering where God is.

Brother Jim: Never feeling distance from him

Brother Jim: in heaven will be in his

Brother Jim: presence forever.

Brother Jim: Isn't that great?

Brother Jim: The psalmist wrote, in your presence is fullness of joy.

Brother Jim: Psalms sixteen eleven.

Brother Jim: The joy of heaven comes from being with the one who created

Brother Jim: us and redeemed us.

Brother Jim: Heaven is free.

Brother Jim: Hear me on this, my friends.

Brother Jim: Heaven is free from sin and suffering.

Brother Jim: One reason earth is often

Brother Jim: difficult because sin has

Brother Jim: touched everything.

Brother Jim: Like David said about going to

Brother Jim: the monster truck show dirt

Brother Jim: everywhere.

Brother Jim: You can't avoid it, right?

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: The same with sin.

Brother Jim: Anywhere you turn, anything you listen to, anything you watch.

Brother Jim: Sin is pretty much associated with that.

Brother Jim: It's dirt.

Brother Jim: It's everywhere, kind of like

Brother Jim: dust and amazing how you can

Brother Jim: dust.

Brother Jim: And the next day, there it is again.

Brother Jim: We experience on this earth.

Brother Jim: We experience sickness, we experience grief, we experience

Brother Jim: disappointment, we experience death, we experience anger.

Brother Jim: We experience all these human emotions.

Brother Jim: But heaven is different.

Brother Jim: It will be different.

Brother Jim: Revelation twenty one four And God will wipe away every tear

Brother Jim: from their eyes.

Brother Jim: There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.

Brother Jim: And here we go.

Brother Jim: They'll shall be no more pain.

Brother Jim: Think about that.

Brother Jim: No more hospitals, no more co-pays.

Brother Jim: No more dealing with making

Brother Jim: appointments for the doctor's

Brother Jim: office, getting them cancelled,

Brother Jim: waiting, dealing with insurance

Brother Jim: reps.

Brother Jim: No more funerals.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: No more funerals.

Brother Jim: No more broken hearts.

Brother Jim: No more fear.

Brother Jim: No anxiety.

Brother Jim: No more goodbyes.

Brother Jim: Everything that sin brought into

Brother Jim: the world will be removed

Brother Jim: forever.

Brother Jim: Life is like traveling through a storm.

Brother Jim: Heaven is arriving safely at home.

Brother Jim: When the storm can never reach you again.

Brother Jim: Think about that.

Brother Jim: Heaven is a place of joy and worship.

Brother Jim: Many people wonder what believers will do in heaven.

Brother Jim: The Bible describes joyful

Brother Jim: worship, service, fellowship,

Brother Jim: and praise.

Brother Jim: Far from being bored.

Brother Jim: Think about that one.

Brother Jim: How many people say heaven's just going to be boring?

Brother Jim: Not true my friends.

Brother Jim: Heaven will be the most

Brother Jim: fulfilling experience

Brother Jim: imaginable.

Brother Jim: Now revelation seven nine to ten

Brother Jim: describes a multitude from every

Brother Jim: nation.

Brother Jim: Can you imagine that every nation today, David, with all

Brother Jim: the war, with all the chaos, all the murders, the killing, every

Brother Jim: nation will be there praising God before his throne?

Brother Jim: Wouldn't that be something to see?

David: That sounds amazing.

Brother Jim: We can't even get a group of

Brother Jim: school board members together

Brother Jim: without somebody causing a fight

Brother Jim: or a stink, let alone even David

Brother Jim: said, oh, I gotta go to that

Brother Jim: city.

Brother Jim: Uh, Pittsburgh.

Brother Jim: Uh huh.

Brother Jim: Uh huh.

Brother Jim: I'm gonna have to wear a Steeler shirt or something.

Brother Jim: I don't own one, but I'll get one.

Brother Jim: Doing nothing but praising God before his throne in heaven.

Brother Jim: There will be no more division.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: No more hatred.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: And no more conflict.

Brother Jim: Double big wow.

Brother Jim: People from every tribe,

Brother Jim: language and nation will worship

Brother Jim: together as one family redeemed

Brother Jim: by Christ.

Brother Jim: Again.

Brother Jim: You think if we tried that today on earth, David.

Brother Jim: So number one, the planning committees involved.

Brother Jim: Yeah, it would be have to be probably twenty years out before

Brother Jim: that would actually happen.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And by then what has happened then?

Brother Jim: You know it.

Brother Jim: Just remember that song We Are the World.

Brother Jim: Yeah, which was cool.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But still, look at our world today.

Brother Jim: I mean, good golly again.

Brother Jim: We fight over everything.

David: You're so divided.

Brother Jim: We are so divided.

Brother Jim: But in heaven we will not be divided.

Brother Jim: We will be redeemed by Christ.

Brother Jim: Our worship on earth is only a

Brother Jim: glimpse of what it is, of what's

Brother Jim: to come.

Brother Jim: Heaven is the believer's true home.

Brother Jim: The Bible teaches that Christians are pilgrims and

Brother Jim: strangers in this world.

Brother Jim: The earth is not our final destination.

Brother Jim: In Philippians three twenty, for our citizenship is in heaven.

Brother Jim: We enjoy God's blessings here,

Brother Jim: but our permanent home is with

Brother Jim: him.

Brother Jim: And there's something inside every believer.

Brother Jim: It should be at least, that longs for more because we were

Brother Jim: created for eternity.

Brother Jim: The reason nothing in this world fully satisfies is because we

Brother Jim: are made for another world.

Brother Jim: So kind of like Chinese food.

Brother Jim: You eat it, you're full.

Brother Jim: Oh, and then an hour later, we got to eat.

David: That's right. True. Yeah. It is.

David: Yes.

Brother Jim: Are we ever satisfied with the money?

Brother Jim: We could always use a little more money.

David: Sure.

Brother Jim: Time could always use a little more time.

David: Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Good looks.

Brother Jim: Yeah, well, I'll let you guys respond on that one.

Brother Jim: Yeah, man, my hat is really crooked today.

David: It's a little out of shape.

David: I'm not sure what happened to it.

Brother Jim: It's on backwards.

Brother Jim: There we go.

David: That'll do it.

Brother Jim: Hey, maybe a little bit more common sense.

Brother Jim: How about that one?

Brother Jim: Wow, folks.

Brother Jim: Thanks, David.

Brother Jim: Let me go through most of the

Brother Jim: broadcast with my hat on

Brother Jim: backwards, looking like a stumpy

Brother Jim: or something.

David: In my defense, I don't own a cowboy hat.

David: Therefore, I didn't know it was okay.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: He's got his face covered because I'm thinking, man, I

Brother Jim: look like I just come out of the drunk or the drunk tank in a

Brother Jim: saloon back in the day.

Brother Jim: Geez.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: See you in heaven.

Brother Jim: Two.

Brother Jim: We'll have our hats on square.

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: There we go.

Brother Jim: For guys like me.

Brother Jim: Oh, boy.

Brother Jim: Uh, as believers, we should.

Brother Jim: We should live with heaven in view.

Brother Jim: When trials come.

Brother Jim: Remember heaven when grief comes.

Brother Jim: Remember heaven.

Brother Jim: When persecution comes.

Brother Jim: Remember heaven.

Brother Jim: And folks, we haven't seen

Brother Jim: persecution yet, but I truly

Brother Jim: believe.

Brother Jim: David, it will come.

Brother Jim: We will see it.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: As believers in Christ here in our own country, I'm sorry.

Brother Jim: Just my opinion.

Brother Jim: Take with that what you want.

Brother Jim: But I do believe there will be a time.

Brother Jim: Because if you look around our world today, you're seeing it

Brother Jim: more and more and more.

Brother Jim: And once we get a taste of it,

Brother Jim: it's like a rabid dog that gets

Brother Jim: a taste of blood or a wild

Brother Jim: animal.

Brother Jim: They want more.

Brother Jim: They want more.

Brother Jim: Think of all the madness that comes throughout mankind's

Brother Jim: history of, uh, just the craziness, the mob mentality.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: All it takes is one.

Brother Jim: Then we want another and then becomes Bloodfest.

Brother Jim: There's a thirst.

Brother Jim: And trust me, Satan is good at stirring the pot.

Brother Jim: But the best is yet to come.

Brother Jim: So who will be in heaven?

Brother Jim: This is perhaps the most important question.

Brother Jim: Many people assume everyone goes to heaven.

Brother Jim: Big lie.

Brother Jim: Big lie.

Brother Jim: Big lie.

Brother Jim: But Jesus taught.

Brother Jim: Otherwise, heaven is not earned.

Brother Jim: Oh, did you hear that, David?

Brother Jim: For all your good works, heaven is not earned.

Brother Jim: Imagine that.

Brother Jim: Did you hear that, Miss Ida?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You can't earn it.

Brother Jim: No matter.

Brother Jim: No matter how good of a pig you are.

Brother Jim: You can't earn it through your good works.

Brother Jim: No one enters heaven because they are good enough.

Brother Jim: David, are you good enough?

David: No.

Brother Jim: I mean, I think you're good enough, but what's God think?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: We're going to fail.

Brother Jim: We're never going to be good enough.

Brother Jim: We enter heaven.

Brother Jim: We enter heaven through faith in

Brother Jim: Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ

Brother Jim: alone.

Brother Jim: Again, one of my favorite verses, John fourteen six.

Brother Jim: I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Brother Jim: No one comes to the father except through me.

Brother Jim: Salvation is God's gift to mankind.

Brother Jim: Those who repent of sin and trust in Christ receive eternal

Brother Jim: life and the promise of heaven.

Brother Jim: But hey, if you don't, if you don't accept that, I'm going to

Brother Jim: put it in Jim's words.

Brother Jim: That's cool too.

Brother Jim: God isn't forcing you to love you, but you will be accountable

Brother Jim: for your choice.

Brother Jim: Do you understand that, my friends?

Brother Jim: You can live an ungodly life?

Brother Jim: That's your call.

Brother Jim: God loves you enough.

Brother Jim: Hey, David.

Brother Jim: Jim, if you want to be a bunch of heathens, or if you want to

Brother Jim: be good people, that's cool.

Brother Jim: But again, at the end of the day, you will answer just like

Brother Jim: me, just like David, we will answer for our decisions.

Brother Jim: And again, David, do you know when you're going to pass?

David: No, sure.

Brother Jim: Don't, I don't know, today could be the day.

Brother Jim: Now again, I embrace it.

Brother Jim: And when I say that I still

Brother Jim: there is a lot of work to be

Brother Jim: done.

Brother Jim: But how many of us truly fear death?

Brother Jim: Because I know where I'm going at the end of the day.

Brother Jim: I know because of the faith, the

Brother Jim: trust I have in Christ other

Brother Jim: than.

Brother Jim: And I'm just being real.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Other than the impact on my family, the worry of who will

Brother Jim: take care of them.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest, as fathers, as husbands, protectors, providers.

Brother Jim: That's my only concern.

Brother Jim: Sure.

Brother Jim: But again, faith, God will take care of it.

Brother Jim: But I think that's in our human nature, is it not?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, we we have that in our DNA.

Brother Jim: But again, Dave, is there anything holding you back?

Brother Jim: I mean, what's this world really offering you?

David: I mean, other than wanting to see my kids grow up.

David: That's about it.

David: Let's remove the.

Brother Jim: Family part of it.

Brother Jim: Yeah. And the only other thing I'll add is being a shepherd and

Brother Jim: trying to spread the gospel.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Because, again, I know our work is not done and I want to be a

Brother Jim: part of that.

Brother Jim: And again, as I said Sunday

Brother Jim: morning, are you feeling

Brother Jim: dangerous?

Brother Jim: Couldn't help but think, oh, Baker Mayfield, my man.

Brother Jim: I woke up this morning feeling dangerous And again, as a

Brother Jim: Christian, are you feeling are you feeling dangerous?

Brother Jim: Because guess what?

Brother Jim: Who doesn't want you to be dangerous?

Brother Jim: Satan.

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: He doesn't want you.

Brother Jim: He wants you to be quiet, complacent, comfortable.

Brother Jim: Oh, are you comfortable?

Brother Jim: People listening in.

Brother Jim: How comfortable, how complacent.

Brother Jim: How have you come?

Brother Jim: You want to challenge here?

Brother Jim: Why don't you go stick your head

Brother Jim: out the window and yell, I love

Brother Jim: Jesus!

Brother Jim: Do you?

Brother Jim: That ought to get the cops called an opportunity to witness

Brother Jim: to the police.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: No, I'm not nuts.

Brother Jim: I'm a believer.

Brother Jim: All right, so what is heaven?

Brother Jim: Heaven is a real place.

Brother Jim: Heaven is where God dwells.

Brother Jim: Heaven is free from sin, suffering and death.

Brother Jim: Heaven is filled with joy and worship.

Brother Jim: Heaven is is the believer's eternal home.

Brother Jim: Heaven is available through

Brother Jim: Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ

Brother Jim: alone.

Brother Jim: And one day every person will step into eternity.

Brother Jim: Ah, but for the believer, heaven is not merely a destination.

Brother Jim: It is the fulfillment of every promise God has made.

Brother Jim: As the old hymn says, this world is not my home.

Brother Jim: I'm just passing through it.

Brother Jim: And because of that, because of what Jesus, what Jesus did, we

Brother Jim: can look forward to the day when faith becomes sight.

Brother Jim: Hope becomes reality, and we hear the words, well done, good

Brother Jim: and faithful servant.

Brother Jim: Servant.

Brother Jim: Enter.

Brother Jim: Enter into the joy of your Lord.

Brother Jim: Now how does that sound, my friends?

Brother Jim: Do you want heaven or do you want the pleasures of the earth,

Brother Jim: the pleasures of the world?

Brother Jim: The choice is yours.

Brother Jim: But again I pray you choose wisely.

Brother Jim: We pray you choose wisely.

Brother Jim: And again, you can always go back and watch the episodes when

Brother Jim: we talk about hell.

Brother Jim: We got good news.

Brother Jim: The good news of salvation.

Brother Jim: To let other people know there's still time.

Brother Jim: But again, time is ticking.

Brother Jim: Well, my friends, that just about does it for this.

Brother Jim: Thursday, June fourth, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Excuse me.

Brother Jim: June.

Brother Jim: Eleventh.

Brother Jim: My bad.

Brother Jim: June eleventh, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mister David, my friend, any

Brother Jim: closing thoughts comments on

Brother Jim: this segment?

David: No. Heaven sounds like a good place and I want to go there.

David: You know, a lot of people say, do you believe in heaven?

David: Yeah, I believe in heaven.

David: Do you believe in hell?

David: No I don't.

David: Well, yeah, I mean, if you believe in the Bible and you

David: believe in one, then you have to believe in the other.

David: If you believe in God, you have to believe in the devil.

David: If you believe in heaven, you have to believe in hell.

Brother Jim: And is that not a trick, a lie of Satan?

David: Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah, exactly.

Brother Jim: Exactly.

Brother Jim: I mean, he is the the trickster

Brother Jim: of tricksters, the father of

Brother Jim: lies.

Brother Jim: He is a manipulator.

Brother Jim: Is that a good word?

Brother Jim: David, a manipulator, loves to stir the pot to get in here and

Brother Jim: get you thinking.

Brother Jim: To all our friends listening this morning, please remember

Brother Jim: this before you go.

Brother Jim: You.

Brother Jim: Yes, you have meaning, you have value.

Brother Jim: And most of all, you are loved.

Brother Jim: Never forget that God created you with purpose and this world

Brother Jim: is better because you, my friend, are in it.

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you, guide you, strengthen you, and

Brother Jim: walk beside you throughout every moment of each day.

Brother Jim: And especially, may you and I continue to thank our Lord above

Brother Jim: for the blessings we.

Brother Jim: Too often and yes, even Brother Jim take for granted every day.

Brother Jim: So wherever life takes you, keep

Brother Jim: smiling, keep believing, keep

Brother Jim: loving, and keep on trusting

Brother Jim: God.

Brother Jim: And remember this if we meet again, well then we will smile

Brother Jim: and rejoice together.

Brother Jim: And if not, then this parting was well made.

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining Dave and

Brother Jim: myself, along with the barnyard

Brother Jim: crew here on Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayers.

Brother Jim: Happy trails to you and to your family.

Brother Jim: Until next time.

Brother Jim: This is the big guy, Brother Jim.

Brother Jim: Out.