John Osteen's Final Televised Sermon: My Destination Is Heaven (1998)

nothing was more important to Jesus than the one person no matter who that one was or where they came from through many years of ministry Lakewood Church has discovered that there is no greater joy and loving and caring for God's people one at a time join Pastor John and Dodi Osteen for the next 30 minutes as they make God's Word relevant to your life store you can find the you need to me the life you lead amen and we say to you welcome you all we're glad to have you as you watch our television program way down here in Texas I know this goes all over the world but we just say we're glad y'all tuned in to watch us could I have an amen amen I want to give you a scripture that I think I'll bless you and help you and make you think Psalm 69 in the Living Bible the sixth verse says O Lord God the armies of heaven don't let me be a stumbling block to those who trust in you O God of Israel don't let me cause them to be ashamed now you know sometimes we do things that maybe it's not intentional but then maybe it is on the other hand maybe it's deliberate to be a stumbling block to people and to keep them from being their best for Jesus because we have disappointed them and sometimes we cause them to be confused but you know it's too late in the day Jesus is going to come soon so we need to watch ourselves and keep ourselves from being a stumbling block keep ourselves from going places that we shouldn't be going doing things that we shouldn't be doing saying things that we shouldn't be saying because we don't want to be a stumbling block to anybody we want to point people to Jesus and all the people said amen Thank You Dodie that's good everyone to invite the people in the Houston area the Saran has come visit us here at Lakewood Church we have good services all the time all the time we believe we have a good God and he's good all the time we have services Sunday morning at 10 o'clock Sunday night at 7 o'clock and and whizzer night at 7:30 find your way out here once you find the church it'll be easy to find that to that and so we invite you to come to be with us let's give them a good hand clap would you must hold up our Bibles and let's make our confession this is my Bible I am what it says I am I have what he says I have I can do what he says I can do today I will be taught the Word of God I boldly confess my mind is alert my heart is receptive I will never be the same I'm about to receive the incorruptible indestructible everliving see of the word of God I will never be the same never never never I'll never be the same in Jesus name Amen you may be seated television audience if you want to you can turn with us to the book of first Peter blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us forgiven us birth again unto a living hole by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved could I have an amen reserved in heaven for you you are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation to be revealed in the last time wherein you greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be you're in heaven is through manifold trial and temptation that's a trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold that perishes though it be tried with fire might be found under the praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ could I have an amen whom having not seen your love in whom no now you see of not yet believing you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory receiving the end of your faith even the deliverance of your soul could I have an amen I like the scripture I just enjoy coming through the camera there to you people all over the world and to talk about Jesus and what God the Father has done for all of us now this talks about trials and temptations and all of us have those there is the evil day that comes to every person the Bible says that we may be able to stand in the evil day and thank God we are well able I said we are well able to stand with stand in the evil day and having all we stand this talks about the trial of our faith when the temptations and the trials come it's really the trying of our faith are you still gonna believe God in the midnight hour are you still gonna dance with joy when you don't see anything but darkness about you that's what he's talking about it says that if need be you are in heavy trial for a season thank God it's not forever it's just for a season shout is just for a season it's just for season do it again it's not forever it didn't get them to say it came to pass came to pass I don't know what you're going through out there but it's just for a season and it's not gonna last forever it will pass on by haha devil let me preach would you notice is our faith that's tried the trying of our faith is much more precious than that of gold Oh God the devil sent ago I know jobs a good man I know this but let me just send some disease upon him let me put this on him and he'll curse you to your face oh I want to tell you and I think we ought to be like job though he slay me yet will I trust him oh thank God he said oh that my words were written in and in a pen and with an iron pen forever I know it's our call about me I know that my body is suffering I know that trial and temptation are all about me but I know that my Redeemer liveth thank God we know and it's the trying of our faith our faith would you still trust God would you still confess his word when you have no feeling when you have no good rapport when you still trust God it's your faith that cries out and our faith will not be shaken can I have an amen but you know the thing that he is saying here is don't don't get all caught up in the trials they're gonna pass away don't get all caught up in the things that have to do with this world no this world is not your home we're just a passing through though they said don't say just a passing I'm pastor I'll say what I want to say this world is not our hope we're just a passing through amen we're on our way to heaven we just thought we'd come by and invite some of you people on television to go with us blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy thank God for His mercy thank God for his abundant mercy have given us new birth have you got the new birth have you got the new birth out there are you just religious or have you really been born again do you know a time when your life has been changed or you did you just join a church someplace and just start going to church but you have no reality and you oh there is a new birth you must be born again jesus said and he hath according to his abundant mercy begotten us again go to a Living Hope a Living Hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead Nutan unnoticed to an inheritance to an inheritance incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you you have an inheritance if you have claimed that inheritance thank God for that inheritance I will talk a little bit about heaven and the life after death and what happens you know so many millions of people view these tapes on television or in just playing the tape and you don't have hope you don't have any reality you don't have any assurance so many people are afraid to die there Freda live they live in the fear of death they don't know what's going to happen to them when they die I'm glad that we can come through the television camera I'm glad we can preach here and tell people there is a way to escape and get out of the fear of death you can know that you know that you know thank God you know people don't realize and we get saved so long we forget what it means to walk in darkness to be without God in the world without hope without anybody to help us lost and undone without God we forget there people out there who need help and we want to encourage you today that God has provided a way for you to have peace here and peace you're after I never get tired of telling the story of Paul younger children who now is pastor of the largest church in the world he has nearly a million people in his church can you imagine but he wasn't always the pastor of the largest church in the world he wasn't always filled with peace and joy and being a blessing to millions like he is today he was a young man very very sick sick of the death he was lost he had many many gods but he didn't have any peace in his heart and he lay upon that sick man dying and he said in the darkness I cried out to this God come and help me get me get me ready help me not to know what I'll to know and he said I got no answer and he cried out to the other God he knew and he got no answer and then in the darkness in the death death upon him he cried out to other gods and other gods and other gods that's why we have a mission work to go around the world because millions are crying out to false gods and they get no answer I believe they ought to hear about Jesus and finally in the darkness oh this touches my heart he cried out is there any God out there anywhere is there any God out there anywhere if you can hear me any God I don't ask you to hear me just tell me how to die I'm afraid to die in a little while there was a knock at the door and a little Christian woman said God sent me and led him to the Lord the Living God sent somebody to tell him about the Living God lift your hands and praise the Lord lift your hands and praise the Lord no mile or thank your father that you hear in answer prayer you're the Living God you're not an idol who cannot speak who cannot see you're the Living God and younger Joe was saved became that great pastor I think about people all over this world who don't know how to live they don't know how to die they're in little huts they're in mansions they're out there in the world and they're crying out I need somebody to tell me not only had a lil but I had to die there are only two places to go and find out what some people teach there are only two places to go when you die two places you say brother scene are you going to tell me that today I know this I've been saved well that's alright mr. smarty we got to think about people that haven't come as far as you are hey man we're thinking about people right now in hospitals in jails and prisons in rest homes in homes here just in just a normal home but you still have no peace and you don't know what's gonna happen when you die I think about older people I'm not old older people facing death going getting ready to go out into attorney where are you going Luke six says 16 says that was a rich man that fared sumptuously every day now jesus said this there was a rich man that fired sumptuously every day and there was a beggar laid at his gate full of sores and the dogs came and licked his sores and it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into paradise into heaven and the rich man also died and the Bible says in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torments and he cried out Oh father Abraham send Lazarus that he may dip his finger to water to cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame and Abraham said son remember your life time beside that nobody can cross the gulf between there and here he said Oh father Abraham send him send somebody back to my household because I have five brothers they're headed this way tell him about this place thus they come to this place of torment you know the reason we give this program to you we don't want you to go to hell I wish there wasn't a hell don't die loss don't die without Jesus don't die without without getting born again there is a place called but thank god that's not the only place you can go you go to heaven I said you can go to heaven oh thank god it's wonderful to know that we when we die we don't have to go to hell we can go to heaven and you know you don't need to turn over there but let me read you about to heaven I heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men this is a revelation 20 and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall wipe away she'll be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes heaven is a place where you won't have any tears God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither oh I thank God for this neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away we're telling you about a land that's fairer than Dave we're telling you about a place you can go when you know all of us are going to die if Jesus Heron's I mean you might as well get ready for that but you need to you need to realize there's a place you can go where there are no tears no pain no sorrow no death joy and happiness forever and forever and forever oh there's a place of torment oh my how do you have your being about you why do you have your senses about you make the decision where you're gonna go make Jesus the Lord of your life Jesus said when he was getting ready to go in the people his disciples were full of sorrow he said let not your heart be troubled don't let your heart be troubled neither let your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me somebody's this is what right ocean you think I've got to go to hell I believe in God I believe in God I'm not gonna go to hell well the Bible says the devil believes in God and Trimble's the devil believes in God more than you believe in God so it's not enough just to believe in God you believe in God jesus said believe also in me and then he said something one of them in my father's house are many mansions mansions mansions in my father's house are many mansions why die and go to hell and suffer forever when you can make Jesus the Lord of your life and go to heaven and have your mansion let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions and Jesus listen he's in a bit we're not so I wouldn't have told you he said I go to prepare a place for you preparing a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I'll come again and receive you unto myself and Thomas said Lord where you going we don't know where you're going and how can we know the way and listen to this one of the greatest scriptures in the Bible Jesus said I am the way I am the way the way the heaven is not a religion is not a church membership is not a ritual that's religious the way to heaven is a person what have you done with Jesus what have you done with Jesus what have you done with you you see you need to make him the Lord of your life he said I am the way I am the truth and I am the life yeah now listen nobody gets to heaven nobody goes to the Father except through me I am the door I am the way I am the truth I am the lion the only way we want this to go out all over the world the only way to go to that wonderful place where there is no pain no death no crying no sorrow is through Jesus it's through making him the Lord of your life now I was on my way to hell lost and undone without God coming home from that dance hall at two o'clock in the morning I didn't have any hope I would like a piece of driftwood on a restless sea I had no purpose in life but God call me out of darkness into his marvelous light Oh hallelujah and he saved me and he delivered me and he made me may I made him the Lord of my life and now I'm not on my way to hell I'm on my way to heaven and we want you to go with us we want you to go with us I'll make in Jesus the Lord of your life you know so wonderful to be saved so wonderful to have eternal life it's so wonderful to know that you're not afraid of life or death it's wonderful to know that God is el-shaddai the God who is almighty he is Jehovah Rapha the Lord our healer Jehovah Jireh the Lord our provider and Jesus is our great Shepherd when we make him the Lord of our life to Shepherd us throughout life he won't leave you alone he said I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you thank God for the way to heaven thank God even though we have a few trials down here a path of the just is as a shining light it shines more and more and more and more and more and more and more unto the perfect day it doesn't get darker darker darker darker it gets brighter and brighter and brighter and brighter our God is alive he's the Living God we are not way to his his household and Jesus is the Lord of our life and we're not ashamed to call him our Lord thank you Jesus thank you Jesus let's bow our heads in prayer so talked to the television audience you know we are aware that this these messages go out all over the world they go out across the other continents of the world and we may not ever get to see you personally but this is our missus to you we want to meet you in heaven you'll have to live under the domination of the devil and darkness and depression and feel like committing suicide and feel like life has no purpose in at all you can help purpose and you can help peace in your heart through the Lord Jesus Christ you know when I got saved I didn't know how to pray somebody taught me how to pray and I pray the sinner's prayer and I'd like to lead you in that sinner's prayer why don't you just say this Oh God I know that without Jesus I'm lost Oh God I don't want to stay like I am I want peace in my heart I want eternal life I want to be sure I'm ready for heaven and I'm ready to live life on earth so today I turn my back on the devil and demons in the world and sin I'll never go back I'll leave my old life entirely and Jesus I ask you to come into my heart and be my Lord and be my Savior I accept you right now Lord as my Lord and my Savior and I'll not be ashamed of you and I thank you Jesus that now when I live I'll have peace and when I die I'll go to heaven

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Keywords: John Osteen (Organization Leader), Osteen, John, Sermons

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Length: 26min 5sec (1565 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 07 2014