A Little Bit of Heaven

Introduction

Let’s look at Revelation 21. Revelation 21, beginning in verse 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with us. And he will dwell with us, or them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

But the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable and the murderers and the whormongers, and all sorcerers, all idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. It’s good to be with you again today. I hate the circumstances that are involved as far as Ken is concerned, and uh the COVID that he has at this time. My daughter Dawn also tested positive for it. So John and Don and uh the kids are not with us today as well. And I’ve heard there’s several others here that are having problems. I’m just thankful that it wasn’t last year that these things took place and that the uh conditions are a lot more mild now than they were it seemed last year in that regard.

But I do hope Ken does does better and uh is able to be back out with you soon, or else I may have to come back in the process. Anyway, I thought it might be good for us today. Let’s think concerning this lesson that’s involved. I thought it might be good for us to think about heaven a little bit because we think about heaven a great deal, and we’re longing for heaven. We’re preparing ourselves for that place and that abode that is to come as as time comes comes forward. We think of it as a city of gold and as uh uh the walls of jasper and and so forth, the throne of God, and the chapter four of Revelation talks so much concerning that throne and 20 and four elders and and uh the beasts that are involved therewith, and all that glorify God in the presence of God at that time.

We think of the redeemed of all ages that have gone on and that are there that we hope to be among when this life is over as well. We think of all of this, and uh we we think perhaps of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 and and his being caught up into the third heavens, into the very presence of God, hearing things that were unspeakable for him that he could not repeat unto us the glory that was there as far as paradise was concerned. And we think about that, that and we long for that and we look forward unto that. And we we see it in figurative language because evidently that’s all we can understand in our finite minds as we look toward it.

But as we think about heaven, we think concerning the glories that are therein and we set our affections on things that are above, not on things of this earth in that regard. I’m glad to be a child of God. I’m glad to be a Christian, glad to be seeking as best I can to please God and serve him in this life. For sure, there’s nothing better and there’s no greater goal in life than to prepare ourselves for eternity when this life is over for sure in that regard. We live in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised unto those that love him in this life. It is good to be a Christian. Paul Paul thought concerning it. He said, I’m in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, be with Christ, which is very far, it’s far better to be with the Lord.

But he says it’s more needful for me to remain and be with you. There are those here upon this earth that need us in one form or another, and we need to remain here upon this earth. We think about heaven and we think about the glories that are involved therein and all that is there. And that’s good for us. But I think sometimes we go around with Bassett expression upon our face. We have the droopy eyes. Do you ever we had a basset hound when I was a when I was a kid? Had these droopy eyes and had these droopy ears that were down. He had hung his head all the time. We had a pup one time, and he’d step on one ear because they were so big, and he’d pull it out and he’d step on the other ear.

He had trouble walking because of such. But sometimes we as Christians would go around like that. We act as though life is miserable in its very nature. Everything is bad. We listen unto the news and we think concerning what this country is coming into and how evil the rulers may appear to be in one form or another. And whether they lie or whether they deceive or whether they’re just out for the money, as we talked about in class, it’s it’s just not all preachers that are out for money in life, but uh sounded a little that way in class. I did, but anyway, others are out for money as well. And we get discouraged. We get discouraged thinking about all of these things that are involved.

Well, I want you to think a little differently this morning and think about something that we have while we live upon the face of this earth and while we’re here, and not think simply concerning the evils that are involved in life all round about us, even in the church of our Lord, as we might think about it from that standpoint. At times there are hypocrites, at times there are false apostles, as we were talking in class and so forth. But there are things that are good within this life. There are things that are precious within this life. The Lord has given unto us so many things that we ought to be thankful. We sing a song, counts your many blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

1. Peace With God

Such is the case indeed. We look toward heaven, but while we are here on this earth, there is a little bit of heaven here now that God has given unto us that we need to be thankful for, and we need to rejoice in as we live. Let me show you just a few of these, and this lesson will be yours. I think concerning peace with God. We have peace with God. While here upon this earth, the circumstances of life are difficult. There are hardships, there are all kinds of evils that are round about us as we’ve been talking. And yet, in Romans 8, chapter and verse 31, it says, If God be forced, who can be against us? That’s the truth. If God be force, who can be against us?

We have peace with God. While we walk upon the face of this earth, we have peace with God. God being with us, who can be He that is with us is far more powerful than He that is in the world. In that regard, as we recognize it, God with us. We think concerning sin. We think about sin and we think about the evil that sin has. And yet we have peace with God through obedience unto the gospel of Christ. We have peace with God, the Lord’s hand. Isaiah 59, verse 1 and 2 the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is ear heavy that he cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.

But his hand is there, his his ears hear our prayers within this life. He can indeed forgive us of our sins. We recognize the nature of the gospel of Christ as given unto mankind. You think of Acts 22 and verse 16. And Paul was told, Why terriest thou arise and be baptized and wash away your sins? Wash away. What is the greatest day of your life? As you look back over your life, do you not remember the day in which you were baptized into Christ Jesus and the joy that came into your heart, recognizing that your sins were gone and that you were just as pure and white as snow? What greater day could there be than the day when one is baptized into Christ Jesus on his part?

You think concerning it, you think concerning 1 Peter 3 and verse 21, the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us. Or Acts 238, where it says, Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. You come forth with the forgiveness of your sins. We’re baptized into Christ Jesus, where all spiritual blessings are, Galatians 3.27. Or as you’d put it in Romans 6 and verse 4, we’re baptized into his death. We gain the benefits of the death of Jesus Christ when we’re baptized for the forgiveness of our sin. How can anybody delay? How can you help but be baptized to have peace with God? Not in eternity right now. Well, we say all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and we think about sin, and we think, well, we’re not perfect, and we wind up, we wind up falling short, and we recognize our imperfections within this life.

And then we think, we think of 1 John, the first chapter. 1 John, the first chapter talks to us concerning this very idea. As he’d put it all down, and let’s drop down into verse 7. He says, But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. Peace with God. If we walk in the light, we have fellowship with him. And walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. In verse verse 9, he says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

As you look at chapter 2 of 1 John, he puts it like this, my little children, these things write unto you, that ye sin not. Yet if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. In verse 3 he says, and hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments. But whoso keepeth his word, verse 5, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Hereby know we that we know we are in him through obedience unto Christ, through confession of sins, through repenting of our sins, through turning unto him. We can gain forgiveness. You see it in Acts 8 chapter, when you see Simon, who obeyed the gospel of Christ, gained the forgiveness of his sins.

And then he sinned again. And Peter rebuked him and told him, Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Peace with God through obedience unto the Lord, through penitence, through prayer, through turning back unto the Lord and walking with him again within this life. We have peace. Not that we are perfect, but that we have forgiveness. We have the hope of eternal life within us. But we have peace of mind and conscience with God in this regard. You think of temptations, temptations on every hand. You watch the TV and you see temptations of all kinds thrown in your face all the time, it seems, in one form or another within this life. And yet we look at 1 Corinthians, the 10th chapter and verse 13.

That there’s no temptation taking us, but such is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that year, Abel, but will with the temptation and also provide a way of escape. There is a way of escape out of the temptations. Therefore we have peace with God in that regard. What about death? Death. All of us facing death. Some of us are getting older in life, uh, in one form or another, but all of us are facing death. You think of Psalms 23 and verse 4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I’ll fear no evil. Why? For thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

2. The Privilege of Prayer

Thou anointest my head with all my cup runneth over. My cup. That’s not in heaven. That’s right now. My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I’ll dwell in the house of the Lord forever. A little bit of heaven. A little bit of heaven right now, we can have in Christ Jesus with the forgiveness of our sins and the hope of eternity within us. In that regard, for sure, peace with God. We’ll have it in heaven. But we have it now in Christ Jesus as well. The privilege of prayer. You think, you think of the privilege of prayer that we have that God has given unto us. How could we approach the throne of grace if it were not for the grace of God that allows us and encourages us to pray unto him within this life for sure?

We can approach the throne of grace boldly, is what the Hebrew letter says in chapter 4 and verse 16. Come boldly into the throne of grace, that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need, being assured that if we ask anything according to his will, as he told the apostles at least, we ask according to his will, that we’ll have those things be granted unto us within this life. James 5 and verse 16 talks concerning us. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Jesus, in the in the Sermon on the Mount in chapter 5, talks to us concerning the idea of entering into your closet. Entering into your closet and praying unto God. Be not as the hypocrites are.

They love to stand in the in the synagogues and pray. And they love to stand on the street corners and pray in order that they might be heard of men. He says, Enter into your closet and close the door. And when you pray, you’ll be heard of your Father in heaven. You think of that. When we depart this life and we enter into heaven, we’ll be with God. We’ll be in heaven. When you enter into your closet and you pray, God hears your prayer. Is that not a little bit of heaven? Right here on this earth. Are you not with God who is in heaven in your closet, praying unto the Lord? A little bit of heaven right now. Doesn’t it make you want to pray?

Pray. Not unto men, not to be seen of men, just pray in order to be heard of God. Do you not pity the sinner who has not obeyed the gospel of Christ or who is not faithful unto the Lord, who cannot pray unto his God and expect to be heard by God. Pray, free sick loved ones. Pray for the lost. Thank God for all that God has done for you within this life for sure. Pray for the temptations that are round about you, that you be led not into temptation, but delivered from evil within life as Jesus taught us to pray. How sad it is. But how wonderful it is that while we hear, while we’re here on this earth, we can talk unto our Father in heaven, and he’ll hear our prayers.

3. Fellowship With Christ

Let me give you another one that we have in this regard. We have fellowship with Christ. Fellowship with Christ right here on this earth. You think concerning the passage in Matthew, what is it? Matthew 18 and verse 20, where you think concerning Jesus talking unto the apostles and saying, We’re two or three are gathered together in my name. Here am I also in the midst of them. Some say, well, he was just talking unto the apostles on that occasion. Well, he was talking unto the apostles. You think concerning the same thing over in Matthew 28 and the Great Commission, where they’re at the end of Matthew 28, the end of the gospel of Matthew. He says, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. I’m with you. He’s talking to the apostles again. There’s a passage over in the Hebrew letter. I think about over in Hebrews, the second chapter. Now about verse 12, Jesus is talking on this occasion from verse 11, but in verse 12 it says, saying, I will declare thy name. That’s God’s name. He’s going to declare God’s name unto my brethren. In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. In the midst of the church, Jesus is going to sing praise unto the Father. We’re in the midst of the church. Jesus, I take it.

He sings, sings praise evidently through our lips unto the Father. I’ll give you another one. It’s found in Matthew 26 and verse 29. We read concerning the Lord’s Supper. This is when Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper. And he puts it like this in verse 29. He says, But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink at new with you in my Father’s kingdom. Where is the Lord’s Supper? Where is the Lord’s Supper? On the day of Pentecost, we see the disciples. They continued from that day, on the day when the church began on the day of Pentecost. You see, on that day, they continued. What is it, verse 42? Where they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine of breaking of bread and in prayer, spiritual activities that are involved.

The breaking of bread on that occasion, I take it as is the Lord’s Supper. They began from the day of Pentecost at least, they began partaking of the Lord’s Supper. Over in 1 Corinthians 11th chapter, we read concerning the nature of the Lord’s Supper. And down about verse 26, it puts it like this. He says, For as often as he eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death till he comes. The Lord’s Supper began, I take it upon Pentecost, or from that time forward, as they continued from that day, partaking the Lord’s Supper. It continues and will continue until he comes. Jesus said he would not partake of the fruit of the vine and the bread until he partook of it new in the Father’s kingdom.

The kingdom is now. The Lord’s Supper is now. Jesus partakes of the Lord’s Supper with us. I take it figurative, perhaps. He partakes of it through our partaking of it. The fruit of the vine and the bread, as we did earlier, even this morning. You see the fellowship that we have. We have fellowship with the Lord. We’ve already talked concerning prayer. Who is our intercessor between us and the Father? If it is Jesus, there is but one God and one mediator between God and man, the Lord Christ Jesus is who that is. Jesus is our mediator. We pray. We pray in our closet, but we pray together when we assemble together, serving him. The Lord is with us. He hears our how can he intercede with the Father if he does not hear our prayers?

He hears our prayers. When we assemble together, we’re not alone. We’re not just with one another. We’re with the Lord. And we need to remember that. When we sing the songs, we needn’t mean the words that we sing. When we pray, we need to say the amen at the end, for the Lord hears our prayers. If we pray. We have a little bit of heaven. We have fellowship. We have fellowship with the Lord in this regard for sure. No wonder. No wonder the Hebrew writer would say, not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, as the matter of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. We need not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. We need to meet with the Lord, and we need to be thankful that we have a little bit of heaven here on this earth.

4. The Bible

We have the Lord with us when we assemble together with the saints in the house of God. That’s a little bit of heaven. When we die, we want to die and be with the Lord. But now we can be with the Lord when we assemble. Let me give you another one, and that is the Bible. The Bible.

We have the Bible, God’s inherent word given unto us. Greatest advice there ever was. We’ve been studying the Proverbs. I’m going to Pope City right now. Mike Freeze is the preacher over there. And I’m assembling with him. But uh we’ve been studying the Proverbs. Great advice given unto us. Advice from God, specifically wisdom, literature, wisdom from God given unto us in that regard for us. The best way to live this life on a secular basis and on a spiritual basis, either one that is involved therewith. But you have this given unto us. We have somebody says, Well, you buy a toaster and you have a manual comes with it, and you buy it. You buy a car, you have if you’ve got an automobile, you need to check the glove box because there’s probably a there’s probably a manual in the glove box.

They say, but when you have a baby, there’s no manual that comes with the baby. And I dare to differ with you. There is a manual that comes with every baby that’s ever born. It’s just the Bible. You read it. Train up a child in the way he should go when he’s old, he will not depart there from. Proverbs, a different proverbs. The Ephesian letter in Ephesians 6. Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We have the Bible. It is our manual, it is our guide, it is our instruction in living righteously. It is our, it is our manual for going to heaven when this life is over. You think.

I don’t mean to be faithful unto it and just follow it. I don’t have to, I don’t have to live this life and try out everything and find out. Well, will this way get me there? Will that way get me there? I just have to listen to the word of God and decide that’s the way to heaven, and I’m going to follow that in life. I don’t have to. We talked about lying a while ago in class. I don’t have to decide. Now, will this lie help somebody or will it not help somebody? I don’t have to figure all that stuff out. My GPS just tells me all liars are going to have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. And I do, I do my best to tell the truth, the best I know the truth within this life.

And I don’t question whether it’s the best thing to do or not. My Bible tells me it’s the best thing. You think you think concerning adultery and all the temptations that are involved in this life for committing adultery. I just look at what is it, 1 Corinthians. Is it 1810? I have to think a minute. Flee fornication. You flee that. Or Jesus, what is it? Matthew 5, 28. Not to look upon a woman to lust after her lest you’ve committed adultery already in your heart. You watch your mind, you watch your thinking. Don’t allow yourself to go in directions that you ought not to. You think about drinking. You think, well, social drinking, that’s the thing to do within life. That’s what everybody does. And think how happy and parting they are.

I just go to 1 Peter 4. 3 in verse 4 or 4 in verse 3, whichever it is. It was 4 and 3, I think. Anyway, 1 Peter. He talks about drunkenness, revelings, banquetings. He’s talking about drunken. He’s talking about being half drunken. And he’s talking about drinking with others irregardless of the amount that is involved therewith. He’s talking about social drinking as well in that regard. I just look at, I just look at my GPS. And I that’s the one thing I liked about President Trump. He saw the evils that were involved in drinking. And at least he didn’t, and my is what I understand, anyway, about him. He had more wisdom than sometimes our brethren have in that regard. The Bible. When you look at, you look at certain passages you think concerning, oh, it’s John 12, John 12 and verse 48.

He says, He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my word hath one that judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last great day. The word’s going to judge us. You know what the Bible? It’s in heaven. It’s going to be in heaven. When we get to heaven, what’s going to judge us? His word is going to judge us in heaven. What do we have now? We have the word of God now. Do you read it on a daily basis? We have a little bit of heaven right in our hands in this book right here. How can you help but read it? And study it. And prize it and obey it and serve the Lord while we live. That’s a little bit of heaven we have the Bible itself that is involved.

5. Opportunity to Serve

Let me show you another opportunity to serve. The Revelation letter, it’s in chapter 22 and verse 3. It says, it’s talking about heaven. That’s what I showed you a while ago. But his servants serve him, is what that text says. His servants serve him. That’s in heaven. But now, while we’re here on this earth, we have the opportunity and the ability to serve the Lord. That’s a little bit of heaven that we have now. Your assembling together shows your service unto the Lord. Your daily walk within life, as you do those things that are pleasing in the sight of the Lord. The love that you have for God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the love that you have for your fellow man or your neighbor.

Love him even as yourself within this life. As you serve the Lord from day to day, you’re doing the very thing that you’re going to be doing when you get into heaven if you get there. That’s a little bit of heaven. Little bit of heaven right now. While here, whether we’ve got one talent or whether we’ve got two talents or whether we’ve got five talents.

6. We Have Hope and We Have Others

To be with Christ, to be in eternity. But for the brethren, it was more needful for him to remain that he might serve now before he goes to heaven and serves then. That’s a little bit of heaven. Let me press on. There’s hope that we have. There’s hope that we have. We have in heaven we’ll have the actuality. But now what we have is the hope of that which is to come in time to be. Over in Acts, the first chapter, you see the apostles, and they watch Jesus. They watch Jesus, they watch him as he ascends up into heaven. You watch him go into the clouds. And they’re standing there in amazement and marveling concerning Jesus as he departs from them. And the two men in white, the angels and messengers of God that are there on that occasion.

Why gave you into heaven? This same Jesus, whom you see go into heaven, he’s going to come again in like manner as you have seen him. You turn over to 1 Thessalonians 4 and you begin reading concerning the coming of the Lord, coming, coming in flaming fire with his angels and so forth, as it would put it. And you see him the dead in Christ, shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain that are in Christ shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall they ever be with the Lord. We have, we have hope. We have hope of the resurrection in the last great day. We have hope of the coming of the Lord, even at that time for sure.

Hope based upon the resurrection of Jesus, as he came forth from the tomb, as Romans 1 and verse 4 says, knowing that we can be with the Lord in eternity. But now the hope is there within us. This hope motivates us. This what is it? Hebrews. Hebrews 6 talks concerning hope as the anchor of the soul. What keeps us steadfast in this life? What keeps us pressing on? What keeps us serving the Lord? What keeps us striving to encourage our children to be faithful unto God and encourage one another to be faithful unto the Lord? It is the hope that we have of eternity when this life is over. That’s a little bit of heaven that we have. Desire plus expectation of that which will be when this life is over.

And let me give you one final one. This one’s important for you as well. We have others.

With when this life is over. What do you think about when you think about heaven? A lot of times.

I’ve got a brother named Grant. I miss him. He died back in 14. Died of cancer. But he died. Preached the gospel of Christ. Served the Lord. I’m not the judge. I don’t know if he made it or he didn’t make it. He held a meeting just a couple of weeks, I believe, before he passed away. Or at least before he got down so bad that he was going that way. I think about him. I could talk to him. Preachers sometimes can’t talk to just everybody about everything. You just can’t bear your heart sometimes to brethren. Sometimes there are brethren with ill motives as you were talking about in class a while ago. There’s things that you just can’t deal with. Some want to question every motive that you have and everything that you say.

Sometimes that’s the case involved. I had Grant. I had Grant. He was my brother. Me and him, we could differ on any subject. It made no difference. We could take the wildest position there was with each other. And the other one would just say, no, that ain’t right. And we’d bat it back and forth and hopefully come to the truth no matter what was involved. I have hope of going to heaven. I hope I see Grant when I get to heaven. If I don’t see Grant, I’ll see the redeemed of all the ages. That’s who’s found in heaven. Jesus is coming back. He’s coming back. The dead in Christ shall rise first. Then those of us that are alive that are in Christ will be caught up together with him in the air.

That’s 1 Thessalonians 4. He says, wherefore comfort one another with these words.

We have others. You know, we what we look for in heaven is to be with the redeemed. What we have now is to be with the brethren. We have those that are striving to serve the Lord, those that have obeyed the gospel of Christ, those that are seeking to be faithful unto the Lord. Oh, it may be, it may be I’m a hypocrite. It may be that my motives are wrong and so forth. It may be that all of us won’t make it. But we do, I believe. I think what was it? Elijah in the long ago. Elijah on Mount Carmel. He’s running for his life, Jezebel. Wasn’t the nicest of woman in the world to him. And he ran. He didn’t like Ahab either a whole lot.

And they just were mean to him. And here he is out there by himself. And he’s run and he’s run. And he cries unto God. He says, I only am left. I’m the only one. Is that your attitude? Everybody else is a hypocrite. Nobody else is any count at all. I’m the only one left serving the Lord. And the Lord says, Elijah, I’ve got 7,000 who haven’t bowed the knee down to Baal, nor kissed her, kissed his image. 7,000. Elijah, you’re not the only one. Elijah had others with him on this earth. We look toward heaven. We look toward the redeemed of all ages. We look at the church. We look at our fellow Christians. We look at those that are striving to do the best they can.

Conclusion

As imperfect as all of us are, constantly seeking forgiveness, constantly seeking to do what’s right, constantly seeking to please our God and prepare ourselves for eternity. We have other Christians about us. You know what that is? That’s a little bit of heaven. That’s what heaven’s all about is other saints, and we have them among us in this land, I believe, of ours. What do you think? What do you think? You go around with a sad expression on your face? You got that bath expression? You’re down on everything in life. You see nothing that’s good round about you. You need to count your many blessings. You need to see what the Lord has done for you. You need to see the little bit of heaven that we have while here on this earth, and you need to start grinning, and you need to start rejoicing.

And you need to start being thankful, and you need to start looking toward heaven when this life is over. The invitation’s yours. If you never obeyed the gospel of Christ, why tarry? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins. Or if you’ve wandered away, repent. Pray to God, if perhaps the thought of your heart might be forgiven you, confess it before those you sinned against, and determine, determined to set your GPS on heaven, and make it when this life is over. The invitation is yours. Come while we’re stand and sing this song.