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Foreign. [Music] Praise the Lord, everyone! Standing in the house of the Lord, let's lift our hands and invite God's presence into this house. Jesus, dear Lord, we need the presence of God in this house today. We ask You to baptize us, mind, heart, and spirit. Open our minds and hearts to Your word as we go into Your word. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. God bless you. You may be seated. Worship with them. Let's have church. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] And that's one thing I know. [Music] [Music] [Music] They're all part of me. [Music] [Music] Lord, what will I do in this world? [Music] Hallelujah. I, I sure hope that there's a harmonica in heaven. I hope that we get, when, when all of us get to glory, I hope that we're able to. That's a wonderful instrument. Brother, brother Eric, you may be seated. Thank you all for being in second service today. You know, heaven really is going to be a wonderful, a wonderful place. There's nothing on this earth that can compare to it. I heard a statement the other day, and, and the person said that we're just trying to have a little bit of heaven on earth. And I understand that statement, that as the church, we are, we're trying to bring a little bit of it down here, and that's okay. But it's not, it's not going to be anything compared to what we see in glory. God has such a beautiful place for us prepared. He has such a wonderful place for us prepared. We're not going to have to deal with the stress, the worry of finances, the, the workload. That's all going to be left down here. We're just going to get to enjoy worship, music, uh, being in each other's presence, and, and like I said, I hope there's a harmonica in heaven. Hallelujah. Well, thank you for being with us in service today. Let's worship together. [Music] [Applause] It's been one of those days. It drives me to my knees when there are more questions than answers. And all of the things I can't figure out, and leave me with more tears than laughter. And I don't know how He's going to move, but I know that He knows what I need. And sometimes He's water to the thirsty. And sometimes He's fire and He's all consuming. And sometimes His voice is louder than thunder. [Music] But sometimes, yes, sometimes, sometimes He whispers. [Music] So I'll be listening and waiting on Him. And I choose to trust and believe that the same God who spoke all the stars in the place, oh, He's the same God that speaks peace to me. And I don't know how He's going to move, but I know that He knows what we need. And sometimes He's water to the thirsty. And sometimes He's fire and He's all consuming. And sometimes His voice is [Music] And sometimes He's fire and He's all consuming. And sometimes His voice is louder than thunder. Oh, but sometimes, yes, sometimes, sometimes He whispers. [Music] Hallelujah. If everyone would please remain standing. We're going to give everyone an opportunity to be blessed this afternoon. Look at that balcony up there. It's different when you see it from this side. And maybe I didn't notice it this morning because I was, I was thinking about singing and all that. But it looks really good. It looks like there's a lot of space up there to fit a lot of people. And that's wonderful. [Music] Hallelujah. If everyone would just march gladly, we're going to give you all an opportunity to be blessed. Lord Jesus, we thank You so much for this opportunity. God, take these, these ties and these offerings and use them to the best of Your ability. God, and, and make it go as far as it can. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. [Music] I count on one thing. The same God that never fails will not fail. The same God that's never late, He's working all things out. Working all things out. Oh yes, I will lift when my heart is heavy all my days. [Music] I count on one thing. That same God that's never failed, He won't fail me now. He won't fail me now. And in this waiting, that same God that's never late, He's working all things out. He's working all things out. Oh yes, I will lift You high in the lowest valley. Yes, I will bless Your name. Oh yes, I will sing for joy when [Music] Oh yes, I will. I choose to praise and glorify, glorify the name of our names. Oh, 'cause nothing can stand against. I choose to praise and glorify, glorify the name of all names. Oh, nothing can stand against. Oh yes, I will lift You high in the lowest valley. [Music] When my heart all is days. Oh yes, I will. Oh, all my days. Oh yes, I will. Oh. [Music] Hallelujah. Are you ready to go? The word I want to go to the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter one and verse one. Ezekiel chapter one and verse one. For one quick passage, and then I'll let you be seated. Now it came to pass in the thirteenth year, the fourth month, and the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. God bless you. You may be seated. I want to preach to you for a few minutes, or teach for a few minutes, from this subject: Visions of Heaven. Visions of Heaven. I want to go to the book of Job. Job the 40th chapter and the 18th verse. Job chapter 40 and verse 18. In fact, why don't we just back up to verse 16? Job 40 and 16. We'll start there. Job the 40th chapter in the 16th verse. And Job is, is talking about death. He's, he's concerned about death. And he says, "Lo now his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly." We'll read through verse 18. "He moveth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong as pieces of brass. His bones are like bars of iron." His bones are like bars of iron. If you read the entire passage, you'll find that Job is dealing here with death. He realizes he's dying. And there's two things that are confusing him. One is, how can he die if he's been so strong? But the second thing is, and we find the hint of it right here when he says, "His bones are like bars of iron," there is an indication that Job feels imprisoned in his own body. Imprisoned in his own body. He said, "This skeleton is, is like iron bars. I feel like I'm a prisoner to this body of flesh." Romans 7 and 24. Paul has some, some similar sentiments in Romans chapter 7 and verse 24. There's a similar feeling that we get from Paul when he says, "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" I am trapped. I'm imprisoned in a dying body. I'm imprisoned in a dying body. Now, I want to present to you that Ezekiel says, "I'm on the, I'm working near a river, and I'm with a bunch of other captives." He had been taken into slavery, and he had been put on a royal canal by Nebuchadnezzar in the country of Babylon. They had taken the Jews captive, and they forced them to work on a royal tributary called the Chebar River. And while he's there, digging, digging, and mucking out this river, God gives him a vision of heaven. It's an amazing thing to me that John got a vision while he was on the Isle of Patmos, banished to die in prison. Ezekiel gets a vision of heaven while he's working as a slave. And Daniel gets his vision while he's in a den of lions. And Paul gets his vision in a dungeon, a prison dungeon. This is the key. Will you listen to me? God always gives the hopeless hope. [Applause] If you will listen, if you'll stay close, if you'll have a relationship with God, God will never leave you hopeless. He will always give you a vision of hope when you're hopeless. I'm preaching to you, talking to you for a few minutes about a vision, or visions of heaven. Now, the number one reason why people are scared and fearful to go to heaven is because they don't know what's there. We're afraid of boredom more than anything else. One of the most important things that we're afraid of is that we're going to be bored. I've said it over and over and over. Nothing makes me any more discouraged about going to heaven than the picture some people paint. I'm not interested in being a chubby little cherub floating around naked on a silver lined cloud playing a harp for all eternity. I have no desire for any of that. I'm not interested in playing a harp. I love the violin. I'm not interested in playing a violin. When I almost cut my hand off a few years ago, the surgeon was stitching it back together, and while he was working on my hand, he had my hand there, and he was sewing it up. While he was sewing it up, I asked him, I said, "When you get done, am I going to be able to play the violin?" He said, "Oh yes, you should be able to play it very effectively." I said, "Well, that's wonderful. I never have been able to before." I'm not interested in any of that. But one of the things that I've learned from seeing people filled with the Holy Ghost is, while the Holy Ghost completely changes, completely changes a person's spirit, it does not change their personality. While they will be a new man walking their shoes as far as desires and hopes and dreams and mission, they remain the same in personality. In other words, if a man is an artist before he gets the Holy Ghost, he's just going to be an artist after he gets the Holy Ghost. That don't cuss and spit and chew and beat his wife. If a man's an avid carpenter and loves to work with wood, the Holy Ghost is not going to change him into a pipe fitter. He's still going to love the beauty of working with wood. He's just going to be delivered from his alcoholism. He's going to want to be saved. He's going to want a late relationship with God instead of Hollywood. So much of what God put you, put in you, will remain there. And so we've got to get an idea of what heaven is going to be like, and what heaven is going to look like. John 14 and 2. This is what Jesus said in John 14 and 2. He says, "In my Father's house are many mansions." If this wasn't true, I wouldn't lie to you and tell you that it is. "I go to prepare a place, listen, a place for you." He didn't say a place for y'all. It's not a commune. [Music] It's not an apartment building where all the apartments look just alike. You, you hadn't got it yet. "I go to prepare a place for you." You have a place in heaven. I have a place for me. This mansion is not a physical mansion. It's a mansion, and it's a, in the fact that you're going to want to dwell there. I don't, I still don't think you got it yet. Jesus said, "I'm going to prepare a place for you, specific to with all the amenities that Jason Davidson appreciates." [Music] "I'm going to prepare a place." Lord have mercy. "Specific unto Cody Frederick." It's gonna fit his personality. It's gonna fit his dreams and his desires. Everybody's not going to be on a cloud that looks alike, playing a harp that looks alike, doing the same stuff. Heaven is going to be specific for you. "I'm going to prepare you a mansion." That doesn't mean a mansion like you drive through the rich part of town and say, "Well, there's a, look at that mansion." It's not a mansion like that. It's a mansion in the fact that for you, it's going to be a mansion because you don't like what I like, and you don't appreciate what I appreciate, you don't operate like I operate. There's a whole different idea for you than there is for me. He didn't say, "I'm going to prepare a place for my people." He said, "I'm preparing you, specific to your dreams, your desires, your hopes, your wishes." What, what was the first idea of what heaven's going to be? The Garden of Eden. God didn't drop them off in the garden and say, "Take off, hope you figure something out." He put them in the garden, and then He gave them very specific plans. "This is what's going to fill your day. I want you to tend this garden." You know why? Because I put the desire to work with plants and fruits and vegetables in you when I created you, Adam. I know you love, I know you love that type of stuff because I put it in there. And so this garden, the reason it's a garden is because what I put in you. Oh, my Lord have mercy. Had I put a desire for fishing in you, or to work with the, the sea animals, then it would have been a seashore. Well, but I put you in a, I put you in a garden because I put the desire to work with a garden in you when I created, when I created you. And so the garden is specific. I prepared the garden for you. Oh, Lord Jesus. And so I want you to name the animals, and I want you to have a, a relationship with them that you know what their needs are and their desires are in their habitat. And I put this in you, and you're gonna stay busy with that along with having a deep relationship with Me. You're gonna have a relationship with the things around you. And so you're never going to be bored. And so we get glimpses of what heaven's going to be, because the only way it can be put on earth is it's already in heaven. Because earth, heaven's not a reflection of earth. Earth is a reflection of heaven through a broken mirror. You, you missed it. The earth is a reflection of heaven through a broken mirror because sin broke the mirror, and we therefore get a fragmented idea and view. This is what Paul was talking about when he said, "Oh, you can see it, you can understand it, but you're going to have to view it through a glass darkly." You're going to catch glimpses. Man, I'm telling you, I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. He said, "I go to prepare a place individually for you." That could have been worded a lot differently. Ezekiel, I'm sorry, Exodus. Exodus chapter 31, and we're going to read five verses, the first five verses of Exodus the 31st chapter, and we're going to get a little bit of a vision of what heaven is. Man, I, I'm telling you, I've never been so excited about preaching something in all my life. It is time for the church to stop laying up their treasure on earth. It is time for you to get your head up and let heaven become your goal, not down here. We now live in a broken world where they're saying that, uh, that one out of every three people is going to suffer cancer in their lifetime. And do you understand that many of them are going to die of cancer? Do you understand what that means? One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Do you understand the dynamics of that? Just in this crowd here today, who wants to build a future in a world like that? Not only are we dealing with cancer, but we're dealing with heart disease. We're dealing with sexually transmitted diseases. We're dealing with AIDS that is quietly, without anybody talking about it, on a rebound again. We're talking about a world where gain of function research is going on all over this nation, and where they've already told us that that coronavirus is just the first of a lifestyle that's going to be like that from this then on. And the next one's probably going to be very deadly. And your hopes are still here. What are you preaching today? I'm preaching that you need to get your vision off this temporal earth, and you need to understand we're going to a city where there is no night. We're going to a place. Let me tell you, and I won't take time to go there. I won't take time to go there. But in the book of Romans, in the book of Romans, in the same chapter, God says, "I'm taking you to a country." And then, then He says, "I'm taking you to a city." What was He doing? He knew that this world was full of country dwellers and city dwellers, and He said, "Listen, I got it specific for whatever you want." You want to live in the country on a hillside with a thousand acres? I got you. You want to live in the city with community and coffee shops? I got you. "I'm taking you to a country. I'm taking you to a city." It's, oh God, it's specific for you. [Applause] Come on, somebody. You're gonna love heaven. You're gonna love heaven. You're gonna love heaven. And there's no more death, and there's no more dying, and there's no more disease, and there's no more pain, and there's no more heartache. You're gonna love heaven. You're gonna love, you're gonna appreciate the glory world. [Applause] Somebody said, "Well, Brother Copeland, what do you want me to do? Just stop down here?" Oh, no, no. Jesus said, "Work until I come." But there is a difference in working while your vision is on the job you're doing, and there's a difference in working while you look. [Music] You say, "Well, you can't get anything done like that." Well, I tell you what, they did in building the temple and the wall. They said they worked. They built that temple and that wall, and they said, they said the whole time they did it, they had a sword in one hand and a trowel in another. They were working, saying, "Come on, you want some of this? Got a, I hadn't just got a trowel, I got a sword too." And it is time for the church to work with a trowel in one hand and a heavenly vision in the other, and say, "I'm not going to quit working. I'm not going to quit supplying for my family. I'm not going to quit building. I'm going to build another house. I'm going to work until You come back. But I want you to know my vision and my hopes and my dreams are no longer down here. I've shifted my treasure to the glory world." And anytime you're ready to take me out of here, I'm ready to go. Somebody clap, lift your hands and worship the Lord. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. Praise Him. Magnify. Exodus chapter 30 and verse 1. Exodus chapter 31, I'm sorry, 31-1. "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel, I'm glad that's not my name, the son of Uriah, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and knowledge, in all manner of workmanship." Stop right there. Don't go any further. We're going to read on, but just hang on just a second. Where did that wisdom and understanding and knowledge of workmanship come from? Where did it come from? It came from heaven. Are you getting it? It came from heaven. You know how they knew how to build the temple? Because it came from heaven. Verse 4: "And from heaven to devise cunning works." What cunning works? The cunning works from heaven to work in gold, and silver, and in brass. That knowledge came from heaven. You're going to get it in a few minutes. You hadn't yet. It don't look like, but you're going through. Verse 5: "And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship." All this knowledge to do all this stuff was given to people on earth from heaven. Somebody says, "All that in heaven?" He said, "I'm going to prepare mansions for you." My Lord, is all that in heaven? John said, "I stood in heaven and I looked and saw one sitting on the throne in the throne room." You know what a throne room looks like? You know what a throne looks like? How did he recognize it as a throne in a throne room? Probably all the marble and the marble columns and the terracotta vases and all the gold and all the silver. Where'd that come from? You think Jesus was there doing all that refining, all that? Or could it be that the saints that have gone on before us? Oh, my Lord have mercy. Somebody said, "I don't believe that." So God's doing all this while the saints sit over on a cloud somewhere bored, watching Him work? No. He said, "I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. I'm taking you to heaven, and you're going to rule and you're going to reign with Me in the glory world." He said, "Well, you say, 'Well, how many people is going to be in heaven?'" Well, I, I, I, I don't know. But I'll tell you this, John said when I saw the vision of them, I saw, I saw a group, a group. I saw a number of people that no man was capable. Well, let me tell you something, man's capable of pretty high numbers. I said, mankind's capable of pretty high numbers. I saw a number that no man, there was no way a man could number that multitude. It was so many, and they're all going to rule and reign with Him in glory. What are they going to rule over? This one earth? They're all going to rule over this one earth. Everybody's going to rule over one square mile. Let me tell you something. Every time NASA comes up with a new lens for the NASA telescope, they don't find new planets. They find new galaxies. They find alternate universes with millions of planets in them. You think they're just hanging out there for no reason? You think all that's just floating around? Somebody said, "What are you getting into?" I'm not getting into anything today. I'm telling you that God does everything with intention. God does everything intentional. It may just be that one of those galaxies has got my name on it. Come on, somebody. All this knowledge came from heaven. I just got a feeling if you, if you love to paint, there's going to be some painting for you to do in the glory world. I just got a feeling if you like to work with gold and silver, there's going to be some gold and silver to be worked in the glory world. I just got a feeling if you like to work with wood, there's going to be some wood to be worked in the glory world. Somebody said, "Well, I'm, I'm tired. I don't want to work no more." Oh, you, it won't be like that when you get to the glory world because you're going to have a brand new body that never gets tired. You're gonna have a mind and an understanding that's not limited down to ten percent of your brain power, but you're gonna have a hundred percent of brain function and a body that never gets old and never has to sleep, and, and eyes that never grow dim, and lungs that never struggle to breathe. Do, do you understand that? You're going to be at peak performance for eternity. And the things that your heart desires is going to be there. I don't have time to go into it, but when God got ready for them to build the tabernacle, He came all the way down to to saying, "And this needs to be this many cubits, and that needs to be that many cubits," and all that. So all you people that like math, they'll be a job for you in heaven. Don't worry about it. He's still laying that thing out, 15, 1500 miles foursquare with 12 floors, and that's just heaven. That's just the holding spot. Do you understand that? You think you've been somewhere when you go see the Grand Canyon? You think you've been somewhere when you go see Niagara Falls? You think you've been somewhere because you can brag because you've been to Paris or you've been to Rome? Well, let me tell you something, when you leave this earth, that's what Job was talking about when he said, "This, this skeleton." See, the more spiritual you get, the more heavenly vision you have. Yes, sir. That's right. The more carnal you get, the more you like this, this prison house you're in. Do you understand? With all the universes and galaxies that they're finding out there, that this earth is a grain of sand on a seashore? Yes, sir. You, you haven't got it yet. I said, this big old globe is one grain of sand on a beach, and you're confined to that one grain of sand, and you think you're something because you're moving around that one grain of sand, and there's billions around you that you've never seen, that you can't imagine. This is what was going on in Corinth. Corinth is referred to by historians today as the, the Paris of the antiquities. Corinth was where all the art was displayed. Our Louvre would have been in Corinth. All the sculptures would have been Corinth. The fine tapestries and the paintings that people would come from all over the world to see. The greatest music that ever fell on human ear took place in the theaters in Corinth. They came from all over the world, and it was easy to get there because there was a seashore on both sides. There's still things that they did in Corinth that they admit today, "We can't do. We don't have the technology to do it today." And they were doing it in Corinth 3,000 years ago. You see, Corinth was just a little strip of land between two oceans, and the ships would pull up on one side, and they would put them on trucks and truck them across land and put them in the ocean on the outside. And Paul had the guts, the nerve, to tell Corinth, "You think you're something? You think you're somebody with all your art and your music and your theaters and your sculptures and your tapestries?" He said, "Let me tell you something. I have never seen, and your ears have never heard, what God has in store for those." Oh, my God have mercy. "I'm taking you to a city where you can't even imagine what you're gonna see, and what you're gonna know, what you're gonna hear." My God. Here I am, imprisoned, imprisoned in this little earth, where I peek through a broken glass trying to catch a glimpse of what God has in store for me, and I see little pieces, and I see little fragments. But one of these days, like Job said, like Paul said, "Who is going to deliver me from this body of death?" Do you understand? If you could really see what God has waiting on us, on this earth, we live in a, we live in a little eight by twelve prison cell, looking through bars, feeling insecure, that one day an angel of death is gonna come and open that door and set us free, and we're scared to walk through it. Yes, sir. We're afraid to go. We're afraid to live our prisons. Can you imagine what happens to a prisoner that he feels so secure in his cell that when they let him out, he goes and commits another crime so he'll put him back? Can you imagine what has happened to the deranged mentality of a guy like that? And can you imagine the lack of faith that it takes, my Lord have mercy, for those of us to look at God and say, "Leave us here. Don't take me out of here. Leave me in this prison where my bones have become iron prison bars. Leave me here." Because He wants to open the door through death and release you into a place. C, can you imagine? Can you imagine that Philip is preaching a revival one day, and God translates him to the desert, and he appears on a wagon in a carriage? Can you imagine that Enoch is walking with God one day, and he just, his soul just takes wings, and he finds himself in the heavenlies? Can you imagine that the Apostle Paul says, "I was in the spirit, and I was caught out of here. I was caught up in the, into what is described as a third heaven." And can you imagine that when God turns you loose from this prison house of this flesh and this earth, that you're going to be able to just fly through space and visit other galaxies? Visit other worlds? They want to know what's on Mars? You'll know. They want to know the beauty of other planets and other galaxies? You'll know. Because just as a thought, you can go there. You can visit all of God's creation when you're released from this physical body. You can see the beauty and the glory of what God has prepared. And He walks with me. Yes, and He talks with me. You know, we still pray about that and talk about that, confined to this earth. We're talking about talking to Him while we walk to the mailbox. I'm talking about walking and talking with Him in the celestials. Somebody said, "You mean it's gonna be like that?" That's what He wanted. That's all He asked for from Adam. And He just, "Meet me in the cool of the evening." I wish I could wake up with just a little desire in somebody today to say, "God, I'm ready to see all that You have in store. I'm so weary with this world. I'll stay as long as I got to be here, but there's coming a day where I'm going to a place where no heartache shall come, no more tears in the eyes, no more sad goodbyes, and forever I will be with the One who died for me." What a day! What a glorious day it's going to be when God unlocks this prison house and our soul takes wing. Can you imagine? You imagine one of the greatest mysteries that I've had in my life is how are we all going to rule and reign over one earth? But the more science backs up the Bible. See, that's the problem they've had since the, "God is dead" in the sixties. Is science did the opposite of what they wanted it to do from the sixties. When science started multiplying every year, just, just, it was go, they were finding out more in one year than they'd found out in a hundred years before. They came out with the "God is dead" theory, believing that science would forever nail the casket of Christianity closed. But the opposite has happened. Realization, science has done nothing but prove, as if we needed it, prove the Bible over and over and over again. And every time the Hubble Space Telescope is updated, advanced, they're shocked. Sister Norma Bailey, as it's become obvious to them, not that those, that those galaxies were already there, but the last view is, is that they're continuing to create themselves. Oh God, because God didn't start creating in Genesis and quit at the end of the second chapter. My God have mercy. He's been creating ever since. Creation is not something God did. It's what He is. He is a cre-, He didn't create, He is a creator. [Applause] And the Bible says that we're going to rule and reign as, as we have ruled over small things. He's gone. Man, don't that give you a whole new understanding? If you prove to be a good ruler over a small thing, I'm gonna make you a ruler over great things. He may just be creating a galaxy just for me. Somebody said, "I just want a cabin on the hillside." Well, you, that's what you have faith for. I'm sure He'll supply it. Well, you can probably pack your water in from the well pump too. Let me tell you what I want. Whatever He has for me, that's what I want. But I'm going to tell you what I refuse to do, and be like a prisoner that has been so deranged by my imprisonment that I feel safe and secure behind bars. He that the Son had set free is free indeed. Are you ready? Can I get your vision off this earth and on that one? I'm going to tell you what you can do, and I'm closing with this. But you can, I have people ask me all the time, "Well, what about the dead that have gone on? Are they already ruling and reigning? Are they in the grave? Is their body in the dirt?" What? Let me tell you why that I've never been to my grandfather's grave. I go, I've been divided dozens of times since my grandfather died. I've never visited his grave. Not because I don't love him and don't respect him. The last few years of his life, there might not have been anybody closer to him than my grandmother. I worked with him every day through my teen years and early twenties. I don't guess any death I've ever been through has hurt me as deeply as the death of my grandfather. The reason I've never went to his grave is because he's not there. He's not there. The minute he closed his eyes in death, that didn't, I walked up to the casket, it didn't even look like him. That wasn't him. He was gone. That cold, dead carcass that had put him through so much pain and so much hurt, so much misery, he reached the point, he, that that body was a prison to him that held him in pain and heartache and torture and torment. He was a prisoner to a broken body. And I promise you, the day he breathed his last breath, he looked at that carcass he lived in for 82 years and said, "Good riddance." That wasn't him. My God, I got to present this to you. You got to get a hold of this. Garland Copeland was greater than a five foot eight frame. Garland Copeland was greater than that balding, silver-headed body. Garland Copeland was greater than that thing that was falling apart and losing its teeth and losing its energy and losing its authority. There was a, you, you don't understand. There was a king inside that man. There was greatness inside that broken body. There was a spirit that was fit to rule and reign with God in the glory world. I know him because I worked with him. And the man that was inside that carcass, the body was a sad reflection of the greatest greatness of that man's spirit. And there came a day that he was just a prisoner. He was a prisoner. And the minute that king got to get out of that prison and take flight, brother, is he in soul sleep? I have no idea. Do they, do they wait? Does their spirit wait somewhere in a hole? I, I, I don't know. I know this: I know they're totally disassociated with that carcass that lays in there. It's a fallen, broken prison house. That once we've been redeemed, brother Harry Davidson, it's a sad reflection of the kingship that God puts in us. Maybe, maybe just maybe, Garland Copeland, in his heavenly body that never gets tired and don't have to wear glasses and has full use of his capacity, has been helping prepare the universe that I'm gonna rule over. He's been walking and talking with God about plans. One of my greatest memories of him, sister Norma Bailey, is with a set of blueprints rolled out. He loved them. Take his pencil and write all over those blueprints, make notes. Can you imagine the blueprints of God's universes to keep expanding? And can you imagine a king like Garland Copeland? I'm not just talking about him. What about yours? Let me tell you something. The greatest songs that's ever been sung and ever been written are being written in heaven. The Bible talks all through Revelation about a new song in the glory world. There's a specific mansion for you songwriter because there's songs that have got to be written from universes that haven't even been created yet because He's going to prepare a place for you. And you think that place is a little house on a hillside? I'm telling you, it's a universe with your name on it. It's a galaxy full of stars, and you've got to rule and reign over it. I'll have a new body. Praise the Lord. I'll have a new life. Stand together. Lift your hands. Come on, everybody. Lift your hands. All over this building. All over this tabernacle. Would you lift your hands and reach out? Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. Reach out to Him. Talk to Him. Talk to Him. Come on, come on, somebody cry out. Whoa! Somebody loved the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. His vision is so much greater than your mind can conceive. Never has it entered into the heart of man. Never has it entered into the heart of man what God truly has in store for those that love Him. It's greater. It's greater than your carcass can, can live up to. It's greater than your human brain can comprehend. There's a spirit in you that is ever. Head bowed. Ever I close, just a moment. Every head bowed. Every I close, just a moment. I gotta convince you of this. You're greater than that human brain can comprehend. You're greater, and you're meant for more than your imagination can ever conceive. It hasn't even entered in your mind the plans God has for you. And you'll never get it until your soul takes wing, until through faith, the prison bars of your fleshly body fly open, and your spirit leaves this world to comprehend and understand a world that can only be comprehended in the spirit. And when you do, the only thing you're gonna be able to say is, "Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!" What are those that have gone on before us doing? I don't know if I'm speaking future tense or right now, but either way, it's all right. I tell you what they're doing. They're doing what they loved on earth, but they're doing it in a body and a brain that don't break down and has no limitations. And they love heaven. They love it. They wouldn't come back for anything. All they want is for you to join them there. What a reunion it's gonna be. Lift your hands one last time. I'm done. Come on, somebody. Praise Him. Come on, somebody. Lift Him up. Come on, somebody. Magnify the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Come on, somebody. Tell Him, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus." Come quickly. We pray. Come, Lord Jesus, and take Your bride away. Come back and get us. God, get us out of this pitiful world. Get us out of this pitiful carcass. Deliver us from these iron bars of our flesh. Who shall deliver me from this body of death? Praise Him. Praise Him. Come on. I, you know what? I'm not just trying to hold this service. Something's trying to happen in the spirit right now. Would you let it happen? Somebody reach out. Shabarian. Come on, come on. Can you wet your appetite for something greater? Can you wet your appetite for something higher? Come on, come on. There's a place for the botanist. There's a place for the people that love military. There's an army in heaven. I don't understand what all is doing, but I'm telling you, there's an army in heaven. Yeah. Whatever, whatever you want, whatever you need, whatever your heart desires, but you're going to do it in a body that's never going to grow old, it's never going to break down, it's never going to need any sleep or any rest. Heaven is prepared for you. You understand that? It's not just a general place that you don't know, you're gonna get there and you don't know if you're gonna like it or not. Somebody put your finger right here and say, "He's preparing it for me specifically. It's tailored." Oh, my God. You don't understand. You're part of heaven's tailored for you. It's yours. You're not gonna get up there in some general commune and not know if you like it or not. It's tailored for you. Close your eyes one last time. I'm about to let you go, but something's happening in the spirit. I can't put my finger on, but we got to give it just a second here. Something's happening in the Holy Ghost, and I can't rush it. Come on, just a moment. Go ahead and do what you feel in the spirit right now. Go ahead. Come on, somebody. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. There it is. See, see, that's what I was waiting on right there. Come on, come on, somebody. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. It's for you. Somebody said, "What's our sweet Hannah doing?" What she loves. That's exactly what she's doing. What she loves. You know what she's waiting on us? Yeah, she's waiting. Come on, somebody. God had a place prayed expressly for her. Come on, man. I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. Don't you miss heaven? Don't you miss heaven? Don't you miss heaven? Don't you dare miss it. It's for you. He's got a place prepared for you. Don't you miss it. Come on, don't you miss the glory world. [Music] Jesus. Have mercy. Have mercy. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Push just a little bit more. Just a little bit further. That's all. Just, just, just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. [Music] Come on. [Music] [Laughter] My God have mercy. Come on, somebody. Something's happening in the Holy Ghost right now. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Do you want to go? Are you ready to go? Don't you miss the glory world. It's prepared for you. It's for you. It's prepared for you. Sister Norma Bailey, as I was writing these notes, I thought about the marriage supper of the Lamb. And I guarantee you, Paul's gonna help cook. I guarantee you. You know why? Because it's prepared for him. And you know what you do in heaven? What you love. That's what you do. Yeah. You don't lose your personality. It's going to show up in the glory world. I'm asking you. I know you're standing over you wait. And I'm asking you, lift your hands one last time as the Holy Ghost works in this place. Just one more time. Holy Ghost, do what You feel. Holy Ghost, do what You want to do in this place. This is what I feel like water do right now. I think water just began to say, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come quickly, Lord Jesus." Would you say it? Would you say it as a prayer? Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come quickly. Get us out of here, God. Come on. That's it. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come on, from your heart. Would you say it? Come quickly, Jesus. Come quickly, Lord. Come quickly and get us and take us home. Come quickly, Lord. Come quickly. [Music] Come quickly, Lord. [Music] God. [Music] Entertain Him. Entertain His presence. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Come on. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Come on. Come on. [Music] I love You, Jesus. Do you want to go? Do you want to go? Set your affections. Listen, there's nothing wrong with houses and lands and stuff. Nothing wrong with all that. We got to work till He comes back. It's not about what we have. It's where our affections are set. You got to set your affections on things above. I love you. I love you. Listen, I can't, I can't tell you how bad we need your help over the last couple, next couple of days. Men and ladies, please sign up. Men, please help us. We're gonna be working every night. If you get some spare time, come help us. I'll be here. We've got to get that balcony finished and the chairs put in. So please help us over the next few days to get ready for conference, for summit. God bless you. Shake hands. Be friendly. You're dismissed in Jesus' name. God bless you abundantly today.