Heaven

pray with me one more time would you Lord Jesus we love you Jesus you are here Lord God we are standing right now in your presence on holy ground one more time I make myself available to you Jesus anoint this church Lord anoint your word anoint us today as we hear from youth let us be changed by the power of the cross let our hearts Lord take hope in you oh we believe in your Lord we know you're coming back for us Jesus and we're trusting you hallelujah somebody say in Jesus name you may be seated thank you singers thank you musicians halleluja halleluja jackin good to see you today who were glad you're here thankful for the presence of the Lord that's in this house right now reach 2018 that was our message God was reaching us it was about us reaching him was about a church reaching the world we gathered on this campus for the last past 52 weeks with a goal in mind to grow and to learn every day as the return of our Savior gets closer and closer and closer Doron every service would usher us into a place of worship along with his singers and his musicians Cathy every Sunday had teachers on staff that they were ready and willing to impact their lives of their students with a word LeBron and Jessica had a team out in the foyer every Sunday ready to welcome newcomers to CAC Horton and Cheston II they would coordinate youth activities and functions and Eunice would help the ladies to reach their potential and David was in place with the men cornerstone apostolic Stacey was keeping us in a mode of Prayer for needs around the globe and at home connect group leaders like Christian with the - group and Logan and Whitney with our young families office workers keeping up with finances and trying to keep up with me all in an effort to reach Chattanooga and our world streaming services online trying to streamline the services here in the house people in the parking lot making sure we're safe people washing out trash cans floors and bathrooms being cleaned and rearranged greater small it takes all of us to make an impact on our world in this hour I wish you'd look at your neighbor and say thank you come on tell somebody thank you to everyone of you may the Lord richly bless you but I've come today if I could to simply say this keep up the good fight keep moving forward in the battle keep reaching keep believing for revival in this generation you sunday school teachers you singers you musicians you workers whatever position you are in you need to know something you're making a difference in your world I said you're making a difference in your world now we begin a new year we continue with a momentum into another year of great possibilities only God knows himself the results of your efforts we do know that know that every soul matters to God and every soul has the potential to change their world I stand here today as pastor of this assembly and I declare that what God is wanting in us I declare that what we are striving for I declare it is worth every moment of every time that you have invested anything hear me please all of the music practices it's worth it every memory verse teachers are trying to get your kids to memorize it's worth it all of you teachers helpers trying to pour glass of juice it's worth it hear what I'm saying all the decorating of classrooms it's worth it listen to me every prayer that you've ever prayed it's worth it every meal that you've ever fasted it's worth it why because it is all pointing to one thing and that is what we're doing this year heaven heaven a word that once held a sacred place in the heart of man in the heart of the church a place of cold heaven that was talked about in the scriptures but our world seems to have forgotten seems to have had a memory loss about the mystery heaven the unknowns the what about this the vastness and the expanse of heaven but I stand here today one more time and I sound yet another alarm to dis generation heaven is still real heaven is still the goal won't be sidetracked with this world and the distractions of your day to day but remember heaven is still where we're going I've come to declare anybody listening to this preacher right now there's still a heaven to gain and a hell to shun there's still a place that God has prepared for those that are looking for him listen to me it's not about this world this present world than what we've got here but there's such a greater place heaven hallelujah John started it this way in his ministry in Matthew chapter 3 verse 1 in those days Came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand repent turn from your sinful ways why because there's a heaven out there Jesus echoed the words Matthew 4:17 from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand everybody say heaven heaven is closed heaven is nearer than you can even imagine heaven is out there friend of mine get it drawing closer to the Church of this hour there are places in this great planet that are a majestic and all inspiring no doubt every single one of you could tell us of a place that you've been that was an amazing place maybe it's a mountain somewhere that you saw or a valley that dipped way low it could be that it's a sandy beach or sand dune of a desert it might be that there's animals and creatures involved in it it could be that it's cities and skyscrapers and skylines and in some way there is beauty and amazement and inspiration to all of them but I stand here today at this podium and I declare but heaven but heaven a place that no one has ever been to him and I'm saying yet a place that we all want to go to the rider the Corinthians said it in first Corinthians chapter 2 verse number 9 but as it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him I don't know about you but I want the things of God to be active in my life I want the blessings of God to be poured out on my life and I've got to realize if I'm going to make heaven my home I've got to do what I've got to do to follow a God telling me to do God has things in place for all of us and there are things in heaven that you can not even imagine his plan from the beginning has been heaven hmm in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth let's look what the rider says in the book of Apocalypse the book of Revelation chapter 21 I will begin at verse number 10 and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God having the glory of God her light was like her the stone most precious even like a Jasper stone clear as crystal and had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and gates twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel on the east three gates on the North three gates on the South three gates on the west three gates though all of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb and he that talked with me had a gold and reed to measure the city the gates thereof and the wall thereof and the city lieth Foursquare and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the city with a reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of all equal and he measured the wall thereof a hundred and forty-four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel the building of the wall is it was Jasper the city was pure gold like him the clear glass heavens a place that you and I cannot even imagine and yet a writer sat down with pen and paper if you will and try to tell us what to expect in that particular place come today to this podium to declare in 2019 that heaven is for those who are prepared and ready there is no way to sneak into heaven there is no entrance into heaven except him we are going to spend time in this year looking at that place I don't know about you but I am so excited why because this world is not my home I am simply passing through my treasures are laid up somewhere else somebody knows his song beyond the blue the angels beckon me from heavens open door and I just can't feel at home in this world anymore I'm telling you friends we're gonna talk about it as much as we can why because heaven is near it's gotta be something that wakes you in the midnight hour with expectancy it's not listen to me it's gotta be something that when you hear a tune or a tone of a trumpet that your ear perks up and says was that the sound of the last Trump am I about to be carried out of this place should I not put gas in my car cuz I'm fixin to go it ought to be something that causes you to say there's nobody at the church house yet does that mean the rapture happened oh there comes somebody right there oh it's the pastor's wife yeah sister Michelle still here we're all still good now the pastor were gone we wouldn't think much of it but I come to tell somebody if we get excited about heaven you what will change coming at the house of the Lord will change you'll be more concerned about the choices that you make you'll be more concerned about your coworker and your family member if you keep talking about heaven you keep bringing it up heaven is near happiness near heaven is near heaven is near when you talk about it when you teach about it when you preach about it when you really understand heaven is close at hand first Corinthians chapter number 15 when we begin reading at verse number 51 behold I show you a mystery mmm everybody say mystery didn't say mystical it said a mystery something to ponder something to question something to scratch the coconut about I'll show you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment is nobody else understand these verses in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last Trump no pun intended for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory I'm telling somebody today that there's something happening in the world in which we live the darkness the questions the confusion no people wondering what's going on it up here's that everything has been unleashed it appears that the Devils are rising up in power and he's taking over people's minds he's taken over schools he's taking over politicians he's taken over this and that but I declare the Council of the Lord and it says simply this that there is gonna be a changing that's a corruptible and a mortal is gonna be changed to a place that it's gonna be different than you can ever imagine or think churches arise in this podium today and I declare heaven is in view and I'm watching for it I'm listening for it I'm deciding that death is gonna be swallowed up I've not got to worry about what they're doing now I've got to concern myself with the bare end of the end I don't know about you friends but the longer I live the more I realize that I need Jesus now more than ever before I wish you'd elbow your neighbors say you need Jesus he's coming back to take us to a place that is prepared for us death is done away with and the dead that are alive are caught up together with those that are already gone but the Word of God has already established it that will forever be with him in heaven I'm declaring today from this podium that for the next 52 weeks we're gonna talk about heaven we're gonna consider heaven I want somebody to know that heaven needs to be a word on your heart and on your mind so that when somebody at your work or somebody in your family begins to bellyache moan and complain and say I don't know what's gonna happen I don't know what this is coming to to you yes I do it's a place called heaven oh yeah what is that all about it's more than just a place of Sam it's more than just a place of tranquility it's more than just a place where you can bend your leg around your head and feel like you've done something it's something that says I am born with the Pricer the Holy Ghost powers in my life I'm looking for his return I'm not settling for here and now what I'm looking for him please understand pastor today your young folk you're giving yourself to study to better yourself and I'm all for it you need to oh your parents say that's right come on parents you say listen to Pastor you need an education where's my grandpa with a third grade education used to say you need an education they can't take from you okay Paul learn to read by the Bible you learn to read by the Bible third grade education and every time you talk to him hmm Paul would talk about heaven heaven heaven used to sing an old song and some y'all don't even know I'm using my Bible for a road man say something y'all like though it's too many words in that yo back up we need six words that's all sorry drawn I know why it's cuz our attention span is so short tell me I'm lying you know why they put Times on the tweets you tweet out so we can go back that's been seven minutes ago it's funny when somebody calls you look at your phone see when they call us his wit what does it say now oh it's ringing really I don't even know is now I know her there was now see where we rolled Jesus don't let me get sidetracked understand where pastors coming from today the word of the Lord is still right heaven is still real if you're not ready for heaven you better get ready if you have yet to repent of your sins you need to know that's where you start I am sorry Lord I turn away from that wickedness and I decide to follow after you you repent please forgive me I love you please help me to make a change help me to do right I am sorry I yield and submit myself to you I repent and once you have taken that command step then you need to know that being baptized in the only saving name of Jesus puts you under the blood if you will in baptism and you just died to that old man the sins of your life are remitted and washed away but aren't you glad he doesn't just leave you there but then he let you know hey I want you to know my spirits in you how do I know that listen to what you're saying and as you begin to yield a hundred percent and the tears are streaming down your face something's gonna happen and you'll begin to speak in a heavenly language as the Spirit gives utterance and beyond the shadow of any doubt your countenance will change your thought and your intent will change hey Ivan you come too late to tell me it don't happen that way yeah I've seen it time and time again just as little McKay over here just asked some of these children that have received a hot Kody up here and somebody's young for one too what was it like to receive they're holding on they'll tell you something happen and as I stand in front of one of them and they begin to speak in tone what's the first thing I know this happened is this glow begins to erupt from them and their Khal jhaqo mate happy to come they begin to say hey you know what I feel something changing in my life you know what that is that's the soul of man saying I was made to worship Him and I was made to walk on streets of heaven I was made to glorify Him and I was made to be with him for eternity why because heaven is in my view today I believe me on the shadow of any doubt that if the church will rise to the occasion and understand heaven is still real it'll drive your prayer time it'll motivate you for the sin or you work with it'll do something to your heart for the one that's driving you crazy at home hmm Jesus Jesus Jesus I asked you just a few moments ago during this 21 days to pray for your pastor pray that God will give me a lovely wife some wisdom and direction I'm trying to lead this church you want to know why because I feel so compelled and so strong that the Lord God realizes what it's going to take for this generation and I know that I know beyond the shadow of any doubt that there will come from this podium what the old-timers called Hellfire and brimstone messages why because hell is a place you do not want to go I don't care what a talk-show host may do what taking a microphone to a street and asking people is there still a place called hell or zero place called heaven and half and a ninety percent of Americans go huh-uh no matter - I'm sorry it's still real the Bible still true the angels of the Lord are still standing waiting at bay for the mouth of God to say blow the trumpet I want my bride to come home it didn't take him two thousand years to put the place together to receive you he already has that okay he already has that but you've got to make a decision Lord am I willing to trade heaven for hell I'm not going to today take time to talk about Hell and the weeping and the gnashing and the wailing and the crying and the falling and the twisting and the burning and never be destroyed you just hurt constantly pain suffering sorrow always not going to spend time talking about that today I'm simply going to tell you there is a heaven to gain and today in this house as we begin 2019 I come to a close heaven it's where I'm going heaven is why I stand here week after week heaven is why we opened the doors heaven is why we have outreach heaven is why we have things happen heaven is why we have department leaders heaven is why we have young people learning who has heaven is why we have - kids going to conferences and place heaven is why the ladies are spending time at ladies compass heaven has been while we're starting to work over a new door heaven is heaven is what it's all about why the only reason that we are doing what we do for the kingdom is because john preached it jesus preached it the kingdom of heaven is at hand oh pastor they've been talking about that for generations heaven is near heaven is near jesus is coming the raptures happened that's right that means every day we are closer every day we are closer there's anybody in here who has the ability to read and study and realize where we are living in this generation you will realize the things happening in the Word of God are happening to bring us to the place where heaven welcomes us home now if you're here today you don't yet have that wonderful holy spirit working in your life today's your day I would not walk out of this place alone I would not yeah oh sure I would not I would not I would not I would do everything within my power if I were you to pray and ask God to change you forgive you and wash you it could be today that you've got the Holy Ghost it could be that you've been baptized but yet you've gone cold and indifferent and negligent are the things of God I want you to know that sin will not enter into heaven's gates you'll not take it there that's not welcome and I don't care how much you want to justify what you say and what you do the Word of God is still the Word of God oh but you don't know but you don't have what who you're gonna justify anything with when our Savior hung on a cross and said forgive them who you gonna justify things with when he said they don't even know what they're doing forgive him I stand here today and I declare heaven is near I want you to stand with me please all over this place stand with me I want you to slip your hands to heaven if you will begin to call on the name of Jesus right now come on it's prayer time call on the name of Jesus right now with your hands high call on the name of Jesus that's right call on the name call on the name of Jesus call on the name of Jesus come on speak the name Jesus speak the name Jesus if you're here today and you're not gonna make heaven because of choices or sin or whatever this altar is open I want you to come we're gonna help you pray come on you've got to make the declaration I'm gonna change this altar is open right now I want to invite you to come we're gonna pray with you come on I can't save you I can't get you anywhere but I can pray come on this altar is open would you come come on this is a new year it's a time to start fresh and new and let God work in your life come on this altars open would you come come on in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus not chasing you I'm not pulling you down I'm not trying to wear you out I'm simply telling you heaven is still real and it's gonna have to be a choice you make Jesus I'm trusting you come on somebody you may have family and loved ones that are far from God you need to submit your will to the Lord and let the prayers of a righteous man do something come on in the name of Jesus you may have brothers and sisters you may have moms and dads you may have folk that you know that are far from the Lord you need to know the will of God is for them to be saved come on let's write churches prayer time find you an altar come on fill your mouth with a praise and offer it to the Lord I love you today Jesus i trust you today lord i lift my voice to you i bless your name i bless your name come on as if somebody wants to pray in this house if somebody wants to call on the name of the Lord in this place Jesus I love you come on that's right in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus she had Oria bucket aha in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus come on that child it's prayer time in the house of the Lord it's prayer time Lord I mean business I don't want to go to hell I don't want to burn for eternity oh god I want heaven to be my home I want to walk on streets of gold I want to be with loved ones that have gone on in the name of Jesus come on they try this prayer time call on the name of Jesus reach out to him right now come on young person come on mom and dad reach out to the Lord right now Jesus changed my heart Oh God rearranged me Lord make me what I need to be Jesus I love you and I want here in my life Jesus that's right that's right that's right come on pray come on pray heaven is real heaven is real today I tell you about Russia in the name of Jesus the name of Jesus the name of Jesus the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I love you Jesus I love you Jesus oh come on that's right pray pray talk to the Lord talk to the Lord I need you Jesus I need you Jesus that's right when's the last time you spoke in tongues come on press into his presence Jesus Jesus I need you Jesus I love shoes Jesus I believe in you Jesus I trust you come on press in do it open your mouth filled with praise give it to God I pray I love you I bless your name I worship your name is heaven heaven heaven heaven heaven the precious oh that's right yes yes yes yes yes yes yes this should be the name blessed be the name blessed be the name Jesus you're worthy Jesus you were you heard me I Love You Lord I love you Jesus Jesus is cumberly is your name come on pray reach over get ahold of somebody ray with George come on pray for somebody close by I go get out of your chair go pray with somebody but the Spirit of the Lord use you right now see ya o come to the altar come on now the father's arms how I need you how I need you how I remove news come on that trying's bone that try come on bless his name fresh worship his name bless His name worship his name lift up his name that's right hey I love you Jesus oh yes i love you lord i love you Raja you're worthy your world your world the name of Jesus the name of Jesus the name of Jesus the name of Jesus le le Marechal ha the name of Jesus the name of Jesus name of Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus oh god you can do yes you can yes you can yes you can Jesus come on that's right reach over pray with somebody else come on minister to somebody right now pray a prayer of faith with them come on bind together with them in the name in the name of Jesus the name in the name of Jesus holy is the lamb holy is the lamb holy is the lamb worthy is the name come on that's where I pray come on get ahold of somebody pray with them Jesus bless my sister today Lord anoint my brother today let your word Lord work in them God of heaven give them joy in their heart Lord let him find peace in the Holy Ghost I pray hallelujah Jesus you're worthy you're worthy you worthy worthy worthy Jesus you worthy Jesus that's right come on call on the name of the Lord you're worthy Jesus you're wonderful Jesus you're excellent Jesus heaven is in view heaven is in view Jesus Jesus Jesus oh you're worthy Lord hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus I love I love you Jesus who's thankful for the blood of Jesus anybody thankful for the power of the Cross oh yes yes yes yes yes you may want to go to heaven you may want to go to heaven I want to go Lord I want to go I want to see your Lord I want to look on your face I want to see your Lord I want to look on your face I want to see my grandparents I want to see my dad I don't want to see those who have gone before Jesus Jesus Jesus Oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the Word of God is real when we talk a lot about it in the next several months heaven and I declare that some of you that you begin to pour yourself into the things of God God's gonna begin to speak to you I said this a few weeks ago and he's gonna wake you up in the middle of the night make you go pray but he's going to quicken you when you're about to do something to go do something else instead of left-turning them you're gonna do a right turn you may get soggy fries but only God knows why if you'll yield to him you hear me if you'll yield to what he's telling you he's got heaven in mind he's got heaven in mind take the hand your neighbor let's pray together Lord I thank you for our time together today heaven is real Oh let there be a thrill again restore to the church about heaven an expectancy and excitement Lord about heaven place you've prepared for your people the name of Jesus the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus anoint each of us their God this week Lord we go go in you we walk in your presence pray Lord for every home every family in this church right now I plead the blood of Jesus over them I rebuke the enemy that's trying to destroy the family I plead the blood of Jesus over every home in every heart right now spirit of the Living God fall fresh upon us Lord we're gonna rejoice and love you help us this week Lord as we do away with media and entertainment God and we focus on you help us Lord as we bind together as a church body Glor let us grow closer together I pray in the name of Jesus we honor you Lord we love you Lord we trust you Lord we believe in your Lord we bless your name because you are God you are good you are holy and wonderful and righteous and we love you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah somebody say in Jesus name