Dr. David Jeremiah: The Reality Of Heaven (LIFE Today)

the following program is sponsored by friends of Life outreach international have you ever wondered what heavens life dr. David Jeremiah is revealing the mysteries of heaven you know the one thing that most people believe about heaven is it's a boring place and I hear people you know Mark Twain used to make some comments about that he didn't want to go to heaven because there's nothing to do most people think that in heaven you you know play a harp and float around on clouds and all that sort of stuff and the Bible is is so clear about those questions [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to life today I'm James Robison beta thrill to have you you know we're getting older and one of the things that happens you know do you say goodbye and a lot of your friends I'm saying goodbye and actually reaching the funerals that people I've had to Christ's years ago some of them very close friends some of us have family in heaven that not just parents or relatives but we have a child in heaven we have someone here with us today that you I believe respect like Biddy and I do as much as anyone that we know period and we do know a lot of very fine very impactful people who really love God and love others but this man is a gift I'm holding a book he wrote that's called revealing the mysteries of heaven and the author is in my opinion one of the great statesmen today not only in the church in the nation but I believe in the world and it is an honor for Betty and me to welcome back to life today dr. David Jeremiah would you give him a little hair [Applause] I know you're not walking to somewhere to go in Betty and I are grateful and honored that you have joined us with your schedule all of our viewers support everything we do and because we try to share God's love with even people that think no one ever noticed but they would be curious why would you come spend this time with us when you have such a busy schedule I'm curious James you're a very persuasive person that's one of the reasons but we've had some we've had some wonderful discussions over the years about different things and when you told me that you wanted to talk about heaven and then why he wanted to talk about it that does was pretty pretty inviting I'm glad to do that well do you believe that their tremendous number of people and as we do get older and we say goodbye to a lot of people with known a long time and I know you are and as a pastor you you've done probably more funerals sometimes and with people you wouldn't have imagined you were going to be having a few at that time do you find that the interest and maybe curiosity are very sincere desire to know about it is is very very real in people's lives today which led you to pour a lot of time into this book is that what inspired you to do it well you know James a lot of people talk about heaven and they they believe in heaven they just don't know anything about it in fact I think people spend more time planning for a two-week vacation than they plan for where they're going to spend eternity I mean they get brochures they look up the map where they're gonna go and here we're going to spend eternity in heaven listen to this in the Bible heaven is mentioned 600 times in the Old Testament it's mentioned in 33 of the 39 books and in the New Testament it's mentioned in 21 of the 27 books heaven is everywhere in the Bible it's always on the horizon and yet somehow we can read the Bible and read right past all the important things about heaven and I've had some of the most unbelievable questions asked to me about heaven and so I decided to this book is a little different it's all the questions people ask about heaven that most people wouldn't think about what wouldn't came to your mind when you say I here's some of these the hard to imagine questions what what pops up is someone that kind of made me shock to you that people were asking about well you know first of all where is heaven I mean people don't know where it is they think they do it's up and they don't know for sure what that means and is there just one heaven or is there more than one and a lot of questions like that and you know the one thing that most people believe about heaven is it's a boring place and I hear people you know Mark Twain used to make some comments about that he didn't want to go to heaven because there's nothing to do most people think that in heaven you you know play a harp and float around on clouds and all that sort of stuff and the Bible is is so clear about those questions that it's just fun to be able to you know it's fun to be able to answer some questions right from the scripture that people you you know have and that are they're asking those questions I mean let me read that just the chapter titles what's up with heaven where are they now won't heaven be boring now these are titles of chapters your future superbody both some of us are waiting for that a lot of people go right to that chapter first Wow and boy that's again heavens Oscars the heavenly City worship in heaven the new heaven and the new earth that's interesting you know I've told you I believe God made some things here on earth pretty good you know you we kind of joked around about it because I like to fish and I know that there is the river of life and I've got a few there's some fish in it am I crazy you know I'm not sure I'm the right guy to answer that question James all right and then we're going to have they say what on earth is a millennium what about the children and tough-minded about heaven could committee and I Betty you you really wanted to ask in your yeah you know we'd all star daughter in forty years of age three beautiful children and now she's got one granddaughter and another granddaughter on the way and after we lost her my my thoughts and my heart went immediately to the thoughts of heaven and what's going on there you know what's my daughter doing I think a lot of people wonder that well when you when you go to be what's happening well you know Betty the Bible doesn't tell us everything that's happening in heaven there's still a lot to look forward to there will be a surprise and a wonderful blessing to us but there are some things we do know let me tell you a couple of things I know for sure the Bible says and his servants will serve him in heaven there will be a kind of service of God that's unlike anything we know here unbounded by time unfettered by fatigue no jealousy or who's getting the credit for what but all for Jesus all to serve Him and assigned by the Lord Himself to the tasks that are meaningful the Bible also says that in heaven were going to worship Him and the you know there are more songs in the book of Revelation than in any other book in the Bible except for Psalms the the book of Revelation is full of songs in fact one place in the book of Revelation it starts with a blessing and honor and then it's blessing and honor and glory and that it's blessing and honor and glory and it goes all the way there's a Sevenfold praise as the trends it's the ultimate climax of praise in heaven and of course the scripture tells us in Revelation that we be gathered around the throne with the throngs of people who know the Lord and praising him I honestly don't think there's one thing I know isn't going to happen in heaven and it's got me kind of worried no preaching in hell you know I tell our guys in the music department you gonna have a job I'm not gonna have a job I'm not sure what I'm gonna I'm gonna have to fight I might have to turn into a musician or something I'm not sure what do you give comfort though that you find is effective because you know to say that that our journey has been up and down is not an exaggeration there are the very there are those times that that I didn't want to share what I was feeling about the loss of our daughter because I could tell it was so heavy on her many times I found myself asking God for the grace to hide where I was or I would have been right with her and I felt that I needed to to somehow comfort her with just some kind of stability and steadfastness that perhaps exude a confidence that she wasn't feeling and then I'm sure it flipped I feel like it was a real desire on our part not so to speak to get down at the same time but be there to comfort and I've said to our viewers and to say to everybody here the thing that I saw about the Christian world was they even people who watched us all over the world would look in and see a mom and a dad that had what they considered to be the most perfect daughter anybody could ever hope she was a miracle baby we weren't supposed to ever have another child after we had our first daughter and we adopted a son and then we had this little miracle baby and she was a miracle everybody that knew her and her children and her church knew what a miracle she was unless she's gone and Jack Hayford saw the literal vision he's only seen two he said was like full Technicolor but he watched Robin going to heaven and he wrote it all for us it's a phenomenal thing he said disclosure she got to the house of God he could tell that she was glad they said let's go to the house Lauren we could see it he talked about the joy of the people there that was just unbelievable she saw when she experienced it so obviously there was comfort there but the people watching us on television and I'm sure a lot of in this video they really put prayer arms around us and they really lifted us up and you admit the world to us so when you're talking to someone that like asks a question you've heard this question I'm sure a lot what do you think the best thing that people can hold on to to get through those highs and lows and knowing that yes she's in the president Lord but how do we deal with it right here any suggestions or counsel there change one of the things that Christians are good at is becoming very pious and spiritual when something like this happens and the Bible doesn't say that we don't sorrow the Bible says we don't sorrow as others who have no hope but we sorrow and for us to get through this process sorrowing as a part of it I was just yesterday thinking about how blessed we are to be in life and how blessed we are to have life you know anybody who's had any kind of a life crisis will say as soon as that's over life becomes more important than it ever was before everyday becomes kind of like a gift and we have that in our in our DNA that life is something to hang on to something to treasure something something to to thank God for and yet sometimes that life is taken away from somebody we love in terms of its physical being when that happens it's a huge shock to us it's and especially you know we know kids are not supposed to die before their parents do that's not that's not the way it's supposed to work but it happens and let me tell you what you know there there's there's a lot of sublime answers to all of this a lot of sophisticated answers but I want to tell you the best one I ever heard we had a lady who worked for us as shadow mountain in our office and our camp is kind of spread out and so when these people move about from place to place to get in a golf cart in the and you know you've never seen anything as scary as a woman driving a golf cart around campus anyway and it's it's very common and this woman worked in our financial department and one day I was I was in another office at Turning Point and I got a call saying you need to come to campus right away this gal who worked in our finance office and gotten in her car to go somewhere and a guy came in the front gate in a pickup truck and lost control of its truck and he hit her and he killed her just right on the spot never had anything like that happen before this woman died in the arms of a good friend of mine her husband was a interesting man he was he was very quiet I knew him only by name and his son played basketball with my son so I knew him that way but at the funeral he got up and asked if he could speak I'll never forget this James he said people ask me all the time how I got through the loss of my wife in such a tragic way and he said this is what I tell him he paused for a moment and he said I trust God that's what gets it through it that's how we get through it with all the other things we don't understand we don't understand why we don't understand why did it happen to us did I do something that it shouldn't have but when you get right down to the basic of it you wouldn't be here today doing what you're doing I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing here's the issue I trust God you don't trust God just when you understand him you trust God and that man spoke out of faith that day in a way that just this has been several years ago and I've never forgotten that I've read all the answers about it that's the best one I ever heard when you don't understand God you trust God I have to say we've done I have to agree with that wholeheartedly because I have come to trust him even more through the heartache and now I felt like God held me all the way through the the instant grief that came and it still comes at times - hardly the star comes but I know in whom I believe absolutely not him and I look forward to seeing our daughter again and after she passed away I had a real interest in reading about heaven you know I think when I was younger you didn't really want to think about it because it meant you were leaving although all that you knew all your loved ones and everything and I'm not anxious because I want to be here as long as God wants me here to just serve Him but at the same time I look forward to it I'm not I'm not fearful and I'm excited about it because we know who believe live eternally with Jesus Christ and so it's given me a new awareness of what heaven is really about well when you have somebody invested in heaven heaven becomes very special to you and we all my parents are in heaven I have a sister and a brother in law in heaven we had a we had a child that miscarried when we were first married in heaven so when you have people in heaven heaven becomes more than just a theological subject it becomes a place that's very dear to your heart you think it's a mistake you know we we've read in Hebrews and we're surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses and it's obvious witnesses you think it's mistake because Robert listen to her daddy preach and I preached who not too long before she left as I preached the graduation a church on the move or Willie George's the passion was their pastor and they I preached this graduating class of her oldest son Chris who now pastor as a branch church of Churchill the move in the very air where the kids grew up but Robin said after I preached he boy dad you sure getting deliverer talk about Hawks me the kid said never like watch them listen like that and sometimes I feel like I hear oh boy dad that's really good is that you think just crazy imagination you think our family could be part of those witnesses let me see if I put that back in perspective James that that that's something that would be people ask me all the time can people in heaven see what we're doing down here on this earth now let me ask you this if people in heaven can see what we're doing down here on this earth is heaven still heaven I mean let's hope they can't see what we're doing down here well I just think that heavens gotta be a lot better than I just want you to know that you know we're gonna go over some of the questions if people ask in the next program and you're with us we're actually gonna be seeing you for a couple of weeks on television but we're gonna go through you talk to see the waltz you're gonna you're gonna love this and you know answer some of these questions you know how about getting in the Lamb's Book of Life since that's who's gonna be there and could you be blotted out of the Lambs book will there be work in heaven are we gonna have fellowship with one another how well will we know one another don't you think those are all pretty good questions will it touch on those everybody asks that they they don't think the Bible has anything to say about so they don't think there's any answers but there are some answers to those questions we're gonna talk to you for you know you're gonna be with us for a couple of weeks and but here's the thing I want you to know when a pastor preaches he puts a whole lot more in a book like this then you can ever get out in the Sun and you actually are able to take all of the questions and give careful attention to them biblical attention we could never cover all of it if we just sit and read him the Bible they're gonna so we can do that oh why don't you do something else so what we're gonna do is have a discussion but you literally pour answers into a book biblically and you make comments on them and you explain and expound the word that's why don't you appreciate the way dr. jeremiah birthday you're going to see you dr. Jim and the publisher who's given everyone in this audience a book thank you very very much and we're gonna send you one here's what we are asking we're asking you to prayerfully consider sharing with someone the joy of a relationship with God and a demonstration of the love that brings Jesus is the water of life and we can share water for life because the water over life I want you to watch this very very closely you're gonna hear Sheila walls in the midst of real heartache and we hold the perfect cure it's God's love shared watch I've just visited the graveside of a nine month old baby boy and I'm standing right beside his killer it was water from this exact oil that this darling boy is now getting his water from it's a hand-dug well it's it's not very deep and the water is filthy mosquitoes lay their eggs in there children get malaria they get diarrhea this little one this nine month old boy died with diarrhea the mom took him to the clinic to see if he could get some medicine they gave him medicine but at that point he was so sick he couldn't even take the medicine he vomited again right in her arms it's unthinkable I would never ever let a child of mine drink this but they've no choice James Betty this is your heart it has been your heart for years the need is urgent I've never felt such a sense of despair I've visited four children's graves that have been here three days and I've asked mothers you know what do you do when you lose a child and every single one that I said we are simply praying we pray to God that he will send help well here we are we are the help you and I are the help so please help us change the world this is their normal they need a new normal where for the first time in their lives they drink clean fresh life-giving water boy Benny when you go from a scene of just seeing the horror of filthy water and that clean well there and we know our viewers drill that well and became a miracle not only for a few children but an entire village and we save millions of lives what do you open pray their viewers will sense in their spirit and do because they really are the only ones and can make it boss you and I commit every time we talk about drilling wells we ask God to let us drill a well he answered that prayer and we do it and it's been a tremendous blessing what what do you want our viewers to hear and consider you know just as Sheila said I would never offer here my child or my loved one water like that would you if that's all you had if that's the only choice you have of course you would just to help them live another day maybe but when you see all the disease that can come from that it's heartbreaking for a mother to watch her child slowly pass away knowing that she can do nothing not offer any hope at all to them well we can be that hope that that mothers looking for won't you join with us you've done it many times and we don't apologize for asking because there's so many needs out there these precious little ones that have no choice but to drink that one disease to water please let's give them hope this drill the water well small room thank you for helping you know we talked about dr. jeremiah about losing our precious donor and you knew we were in a battle because she was she was battling for her life and you were praying for us and betty i don't believe there's a person watching us right now or in this audience they knew exactly what would have saved our daughter's life whatever it took they would have gotten to us i know you would i know that you know you would well here is the perfect cure and it's not wishful thinking it's clean water you paid for the drilling rigs very expensive hundreds of thousands of dollars for this rig love through you paid for people like you we can drill the well he comes forty eight hundred dollars to drill a well that could be one of the great joys of your life to give a whole village well you can give a part of the well we find many people will give twelve hundred and pray for three others to join them or twenty four hundred and pray for one to join but most of the money comes from people who understand that this this is not an exaggeration if you're breaking down forty eight dollars will get ten people lot of the rest of their lives you can multiply that out this is a miracle but it does work it's not wishful thinking would you go right now online or dial that number and would you go get your bank card and use it like a check by the way that's the way you should always use a my card i like a check but would you give that gift god puts on your heart knowing that you're giving someone a miracle a miracle of life really too many changes everything and they see the love of god in the missionaries through you and in the message they share about the water of life we're going to send you dr Jeremiah's both own heaven revealing the mysteries of it you're gonna be blessed mightily about thank you for going to the phone thank you for going online god bless you for your gift today a mother living in extreme poverty will do the unthinkable give her children dirty diseased filled water that she knows could kill them with no other choice what's a mother to do with your help clean water is on the way mission water for life is the answer to a mother's prayer to save the lives of her children to offer them a bright future free from the fear of death with your gift today you can help drill and establish 350 water wells this year do a gift of $48 will help provide water for 10 people 72 dollars will provide for 15 $144 will help provide life-giving water for 30 people for a lifetime and a gift of $4,800 will help sponsor a complete well serving up to a thousand people with your gift of any amount today we'll send you revealing the mysteries of heaven in one comprehensive book dr. David Jeremiah presents scriptures references and insights that will give you a better understanding about heaven and the glorious future God has planned for you you'll get real answers to questions like what will heaven really be like and will our friends and loved ones know us I have to tell you that dr. jeremiah is one of my spiritual heroes of the faith i love the fact that he works so hard dig so deep into the Word of God if you've ever had a question about heaven this book will answer every single one please call write or make your gift online to provide life-giving water to people in need you know I'm praying with all my heart there wouldn't be a single person watching who could do something and don't you dare think that oh I couldn't give a well $48 is so little well it can save the lives of 10 precious children we're sending dr. Jeremiah revealing the mysteries of heaven and there's so much here I mean there's not only comfort and counsel but I'm telling you there is hope and in the answers to sincere serious questions I feel like answered by someone who was a No gifted by God to do it and we will send it to say thank you for any gift you make would you join betting me in thanking dr. Jeremiah thank you for watching thank you so much for your help [Applause] [Music] [Music] we're not going from a land that it's living to a place that's dying we're gone from place that's dying to a place that's living tomorrow life today is made possible by the supporters of Life outreach International your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt purposes of life the ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the programs it supports and conducts gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use unless explicitly stipulated by the donor the ministry is a member at the EC FA you

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Published: Fri Jan 03 2020