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You're listening to KFI AM six on
demand. So the holidays have passed.

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You're on the other side of that
hill. And every year, it seems

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that just about this time, right
after the holidays, so many people fall

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fall into a type of sadness,
sometimes a very deep, deep sadness.

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This may describe you. Maybe you're
just like that. Maybe you ramp up

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to the holidays and then fall off
that emotional cliff at the very very end,

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feeling kind of left absent. And
a lot of this comes from really

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the energy of ramping up emotionally.
You have all these these raised expectations.

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They are filled with the obligations that
you have parties and gatherings and gifts and

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all these things. So you've got
these obligations, unusual schedules, you're eating

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habits are strange. You're eating more, You're eating more foods that are fatty,

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or more sweets, and everything's kind
of getting twisted and turned around,

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and it's easy for your body just
to kind of rebel and spin you into

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a case of these post holiday blues, some even deeper. Sometimes what starts

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as kind of this post holiday blues
becomes a very deep and sometimes dark depression.

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That's not obviously what the holidays are
about. I don't want you to

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be wrapped up in something in such
a way that it puts you into a

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spin of sadness. For some the
post holiday blues don't tend to last very

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long. They come and go as
you get back into a regular schedule,

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you have your regular habits. This
cloud, this gray dark cloud, sometimes

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hard to even define. So many
people I've talked with we'll say, well,

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well, I don't know. It's
more it's sort of sad, or

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maybe I'm bummed the holidays are gone, but it's there, and this cloud

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tends to dissipate. But having this
this feeling of sadness isn't just tied to

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the holidays. It can be tied
to many things. The holidays just happens

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to be one of those those times
of great change and expectations and excitement because

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you're gathering around with others and you're
happy about seeing family or connecting with people.

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The general spirit of the time,
seasons are sort of changing, and

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you're going into this time where it's
kind of cozy and romantic, and through

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the entirety of that process, you
can hear the clicking like on a roller

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coaster, clicking up that hill click
click click click click click click click click,

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and then you go through the ride
and at the end there's this this

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absence all those things you were so
excited for, those expectations about those connections

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and gifts, both giving receiving,
and it's gone. Unfortunately, Sometimes during

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the holidays, the kind of postcard
Norman Rockwell idea of family getting together isn't

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always matt That too could make you
kind of look at your life situation of

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where you're standing and say, oh, well, I don't have this in

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my life, or I don't have
a relationship right now, or I don't

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have this connection with my family,
or my parents have passed on, whatever

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it might be. Sometimes, by
way of comparison, you stand looking at

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your life around the holidays and you
start to compare or contrast, and that

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too can leave you sad. But
during this time, as you come out

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of the holidays, it's time for
newness as well. The new year is

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here. You're looking at maybe climbing
emotional mountains or conquering things in your life,

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and so it can be a time
of excitement as well, but some

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trepidation too. And God knows that
while while you're in this world, you're

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going to face times of sadness,
not to tied to holidays, but tied

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to many things. You know,
as often times your sadness is tied to

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these things, these circumstances that will
change. You're hitching yourself emotionally to something

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that will come or go, will
wax or wane, And it's easy to

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get distracted by the world and all
these changes, and then you lose focus

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on what is truly important. Of
course God, so the world and all

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its shininess and all its bells and
whistles comes cruising by capturing your attention,

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and for a while it's all you
see and can think about. This can

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be tied to holidays, this can
be tied to life situations, and in

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that distraction you lose sight of God. And that can leave this emptiness,

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this great emptiness in your heart.
Well, and God knows this. God

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doesn't want you to get lost in
all of the things that are in front

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of you, all the things in
life that distract you. He wants you

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to get lost in Him. John
sixteen thirty three says, I have told

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you these things so that in me
you may have peace in this world,

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you will have trouble. But take
heart, I have overcome the world.

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God knows you're going to get tripped
up by the things in the world.

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God knows that you will wrestle with
them, and that you will continually,

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throughout your life be dealing with times
of sadness or frustration. But a common

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cure for sadness is hope. We
talk about hope all the time on the

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program because this is really at the
core of the Gospel. The good News

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is that story of hope. It
keeps you pressing on, moving forward,

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looking towards those things that God has
for you in your life, not just

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the things that the world has for
you. So hope is this amazing and

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wonderful thing. It can propel you, motivate you, guide you, even

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inspire you. But if your hope
is rooted only in temporal things, as

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we've said many times on the program, it will only be temporary. You

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root your hope, you attach your
hope, you focus your hope on the

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temporal things, the temporary things,
then likewise your hope will be temporary.

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So when you were approaching the holidays
a few weeks ago, maybe you got

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excited in the hope of vacation.
Maybe you got excited in the hope of

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seen friends. Maybe you got excited
about the hope of seeing family, of

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giving gifts, of receiving gifts.
All of this is normal and it's really

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really wonderful. You should be hopeful
in those things. But it's still all

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very temporal. So when the holidays
pass, it's like water displacement. All

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of a sudden, there's this void, this emptiness that's there where all those

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crazy things where you're having longer days
because maybe you're going to parties after work,

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maybe work was having parties. All
these things, You're going shopping,

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you're hearing music and people smiling,
mostly going back and forth in the hustle

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of it all, and then all
of a sudden it gets quiet. That

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day after Christmas, when you turn
on the radio station that you've been listening

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to that played Chris miss music all
season, and now it's back to its

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regular playlist. The stores, the
decorations have come down, you even take

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the decorations down at home, and
you go through all of this right about

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now, and there's this void.
So in that void, in this emptiness,

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what happens sadness starts to creep in
because you feel that there's something that's

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missing, and really it's not missing
at all. All those things can be

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experienced all year round. It's more
that the expectations and everything that comes with

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it, and the change of habits
and all of that that comes with the

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holidays is now being redirected balanced out
again. You've put your sight on all

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those things and maybe lost sight of
the importance of just God, and now

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in the absence of the holidays,
this void gets filled with simple every day

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sadness. So every time of year
about this time you've come through the holidays,

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you've gone up that hill of excitement
and all of the fun with the

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expectations and parties and gathering with family
and friends, and you have a wonderful

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time and you welcome in the new
year, and all of that brings such

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great excitement family, friends, good
food, a change of weather. But

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as it leaves and you're looking at
the newness of the new year, even

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in that context, sometimes you can
get lost in the fact that those things

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have left that a lot of the
holiday spirit or ideas or things with that

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you were enjoying are God. And
so when that happens the holidays passed,

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there's this void sadness tends to creep
in, and I want you to I

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want you to snap out of that. I want you to look towards God,

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who doesn't change. Ever, this
cycle has been around since the beginning,

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this sadness that will creep in during
these times. Even the Psalmist wrestled

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with sadness, obviously not because of
holidays necessarily, but sought comfort in the

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hope of God, not the hope
of things. Psalm forty two five says,

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why my soul are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me? Put

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your hope in God, for I
will yet praise Him, my Savior and

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my God. The world and all
the temporary distractions in it will compete for

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you tention no doubt daily day and
day out, and often twists your emotions

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up into a ball, causing confusion, maybe loss of direction. You get

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turned around, and this is when
you should submit totally and completely to God.

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Proverbs three five and six says trust
in the Lord with all your heart,

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and lean not on your own understanding
in all your ways. Submit to

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Him and He will make your path
straight. See if you get caught up

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in the things of the world,
things going on in life, you get

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turned around. You don't know which
ways up, But with God you always

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do. God is God of hope. True hope can only come from God.

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This hope comes from the complete trust
in God and his plan for you.

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Romans fifteen thirteen says, May the
God of Hope fill you with all

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joy and peace as you trust in
him. Life situations will a weigh on

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you, pull you in different directions
all the time, make you feel like

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you're going to burst. But always
remember the greater is he who is living

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inside you than he who is in
the world. Michael, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. Good morning,
Jesus. Nice to talk to you.

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It is my pleasure. How are
you good? Good? Good? Looking

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out the Pacific Ocean on a beautiful
day here in your kingdom. It's not

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really sweet. How can I help
you? Yeah, I just I'm looking

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here in Matthew, and I'm in
the scriptures daily, you know very many,

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I would say hours daily. And
I've learned through your word and the

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Old Testament how to really in the
imagination and the image, to really to

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be with you, and just how
everything came about and fulfilling in you.

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And it's just such an amazing thing, these scriptures and how they live and

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are alive, and it's just something. But you're in Matthew eleven and it's

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I'm sure you've been asked this before, where it starts with John's being Jesus

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Tribute to John and eleven, and
it talks about a man dressed in soft

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clothing, behold those who are soft
clothing, and anyway, it goes on

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down to fourteen and it says,
and if you care to accept it,

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he himself is Elijah. Now this
is after he states that the kingdom suffers

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violence and the profit of the law
prophesied until John. And then if you

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care to accept it, he himself
is Elijah. And I'm just wondering how

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much if I've missed uff over the
years he talks, if this is in

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fact reincarnation, I know, I
don't see it in very many other scriptures

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where the physical body, you know, is again in flesh. But or

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is this really just a spirit thing
where you know the spirit of Elijah comes

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through John and that I know that
spirit went on a long time before you

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manifested into your flesh. So I'm
just curious about that. Okay, a

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couple of things. First, the
full verse that you're referring to, and

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if you care to accept it,
he himself is Elijah who was to come

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or is to come, depending on
the translation. But so that's a qualifier

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that references that. Now if you
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In Luke One's seventeen, there's a
bit of a clarification that is important here.

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But to kind of interpret this verse. So one seventeen, I'm going

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to read to you real quick.
Yeah, okay, So in one seventeen

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you read this, and it is
he who will go as a forerunner before

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him in the spirit and power of
a Elijah to turn the hearts of the

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fathers. So the comparison there is
not about the physical, but about the

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spiritual and the message and the prophecy
that was coming, both with Elijah and

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with John the Baptist. Now here's
the clincher that it's not reincarnation. What

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do you know about Elijah? Yeah, he was, Well, let's see,

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did he die? No, he
didn't exactly, So there is no

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reincarnation. Reincarnation means reinfleshed or so
the flesh is not gone, so there's

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no way to have reincarnation. Plus, Scripture has over and over again it

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makes claims that there isn't any reincarnation. It says it's appointed for man to

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die once and then the judgment in
Hebrews, and then in Corinthians, Paul

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says to be absent from the body
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So there's no place the testiment that
would have been. I'm just sure there

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would have been more examples of that, and and it really there's not.

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And I knew just deep down that
the whole I mean, I didn't want

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it to be or you know,
I was hoping, I just because I

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already think I really knew that it
was the spirit. You. Oh,

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that's exactly the way you should study
Scripture. You should ask those questions not

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about you know, like you said, not hoping for an outcome or trying

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to squeeze an outcome in there.
You're just letting it breathe and speak naturally.

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And in that case, it's very
easy to look at that and think

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that it is at least leaning towards
reincarnation. But once you start letting it,

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you know, unfold a little bit
and explain itself. You start to

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see that there there's no real room
for reincarnation there at all. Michael,

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But a great question. I love
the fact that you're thinking through those things

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and processing because a lot of people
just kind of stare at scripture, and

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when you're actually studying it and wanting
to poke at it and look and see

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what it has to say. I
think it's a very powerful thing. So

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good for you for investigating Scripture.
Of course says to test all things,

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and I love that you're testing those
things. Steve, Welcome to the Jesus

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Christ Show. Good morning Jesus.
Hi Steve, how can I help you?

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Yeah, I have a life situation
that I have been talking to God

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about and I just don't know what
to do. I mean, sometimes I

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get an answer and other times I
don't. Okay, I've been dating this

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girl for over a year now,
and we've had our problems where we've talked

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a little bit, then we don't
talk. And you know, we just

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seen each other here about a couple
of weeks ago and spent some time together

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and she told me she about me, and I had felt that I loved

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her, and I feel that God
had put me in the place to be

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with her in the beginning, and
now we're not really talking very much anymore.

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I mean, I try to communicate
with her, but she doesn't communicate

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back to me. Okay, I
don't know what to do. I mean,

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I prayed to God and asked him, you know, hey, is

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she you know, telling me the
truth that she's not getting my messages all

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the time. You know, I'm
trying to get a hold of her during

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the day when I'm on my breaks
at work and try to talk to it,

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but I never hear nothing back from
her. Okay, don't know what

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to do. Well, let's let's
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this a little more reasonably. You
go to the grocery store. Grocery store

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to shop, right, yes,
okay, So you walk up and you

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go to check out at the counter, and you're in line, and the

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checker puts the little sign says this
lane closed. What do you do?

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You go to another line? Exactly? If she's put out a sign of

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sorts where she is noncommunicative with you
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out what they want and avoid what
they don't want. Very basic, and

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if she's avoiding you or not connecting
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on. I know it stinks because
you have investments of emotion and all those

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things, But that's the reality of
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misunderstanding, trust me, she will
seek you out. But it sounds like

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there's some issues with the relationship to
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work. By the way, Yes, I understand that, and I've learned

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over my past with other relationships,
you know, and I've just you know,

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tried to figure out and tried to
think that, you know, should

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I really move on? Should I
just you know, say, why wouldn't

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you move on? What? What
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I don't know. That's what I've
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on. There's there's uh, there
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takes place in some relationships when everything, every sign, every emotion, everything

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about the relationship says to move on. Yet people tend to do this kind

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of emotional loitering where they just they've
got nothing else going on. But the

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thing about relationships is you won't ever
have something else going on if you loiter

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emotionally in another relationship, so there's
nothing there. What you're describing is,

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you know, the relation that the
relationship that people have with tech support for

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their computer not emotional, you know, real deep connection with somebody. You

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have somebody who's avoiding you by the
sounds of things, and if somebody wants

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to get a hold of you,
they'll get a hold of you. It's

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not about oh, I didn't get
your text or this or that. That's

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ridiculous. Who's going to would that
stop you? You didn't hear from somebody

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and you really wanted to be connected
with him. You know, look at

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you. You're not hearing from from
her, yet you're still you're you're still

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trying to connect with her. You're
going to the to the degree of calling

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a radio program to talk about it. That's because you care. If she

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cared, she'd be doing that.
But she doesn't seem to care, or

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there's something in her life that is
distracting her that is more important at this

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point, and that's not your problem. Your issue is you and to be

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you know, I hate to use
the corning term, but to be the

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best you you can be and to
focus on yourself, getting yourself to a

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place of health, heal, so
that you can be ready for somebody who

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comes into your life who's ready to
be there with you, not somebody who's

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looking for excuses not to be with
you. That doesn't make sense nor does

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it help you at all. Okay, So I would cut ties. I

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would cut ties, and I would
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there's some if there's a there there, it'll show up again in its in

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its own time. Don't try and
force it or poke at it. Go

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do your thing, all right,
I'm trying on. That does help me

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out, Jesus. I appreciate that. I hope. So I know.

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I know it's not fun to hear, but I care about you. I

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want you to be healthy, and
you have to sometimes walk away from things

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right, and really all the signs
are there. I mean, people talk

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about well, Lord, I want
to hear prayer. I want to hear

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answer to my prayer, but you
are you just don't like the answer.

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So worry about yourself and do things
that you enjoy, and you will come

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across people that enjoy those things too, that you'll have similarities with, and

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that's how you connect and find somebody
that you're going to mesh with. But

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if somebody is kind of that off
and on, it's not worth it,

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Steve. It's a waste of your
time. And the worst part of it,

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Steve, the very worst part of
it is that every time you invest

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in somebody that's not good for you
or is not connecting with you or sharing

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insights and hopes and desires with you, you're keeping yourself from being with somebody

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that can do that very thing.
So, you know, there's these you

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see these parents sometimes who aren't honest
with their children, and let's say their

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child really stinks at baseball, and
they keep pretending like their child doesn't stink

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at baseball. That's not helping anyone, because maybe the child might be really

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good at soccer or football or what
are arts, you know, the arts,

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or something else. And if you
keep if you force people to do

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things, you don't allow them to
naturally find the thing that they're good at.

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So if you try and stay,
if you force yourself to try and

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stay in a bad relationship or one
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not available for a good one.
And that's the worst part of that.

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And you have to get over that
hump and know that you're you're of value,

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and that you have value to give
someone and to connect with someone and

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trust that it will come along.
Jim, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Thank you for taking a call.
My pleasure. How can I help

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you. I'm an old guy getting
ready to die. Wow, okay,

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you know, just I don't know
if it's not imminent, but I'm thinking

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about it. So I'm thinking about
the next life. Now I can understand

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the tunnel, the white light,
the feeling of good. After that,

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it gets a little hazy because let's
say I get through the tunnel, I

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get through the white light, the
feeling of love and compassion and everything.

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And there's a guy sitting there at
the pearly gates with the book's got my

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name on it, and he's pointing
out some things in there, and I'm

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saying, you know, I'm ashamed
of that. You know, I got

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it knit. But over here there's
another entry. Look at it. I

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did something good here. So he
gets out he's been Franklin Scales and we

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weighed out the good gets the bad, and he says, okay, I'm

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gonna let you in here. You
did enough good things. You've done that.

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Now This is where I have the
questions. I get through the gate,

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Now what happens? You give me
a room, Do I have a

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place to sleep? Do I get
a meal? If I got to go

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to the bathroom. You know what
happens at this point? If I get

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somebody assigns me something that shows me
around and says, hey, here's what

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you're gonna do. You're gonna get
the wash dishes because that's your skill set,

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you know. I mean, what
exactly happens once you're through the Pearly

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gate. Interesting thing is that although
the scripture of course does now your description

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is more of a Hollywood description than
it is a Biblical one. To begin

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with, it's not really dealing like
with the scales of justice there about good

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and bad. Otherwise you're comparing yourself
against humans, and that's not what heaven's

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about. It's not about comparing yourself
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That's why the standard is so high. But as far as what heaven's

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like, there's not a lot of
description. Of course, the apostle John

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talks about certain heavenly things in Revelation. You can read about these things and

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the glory of God the city is
filled with brilliance of costly stones, crystal

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clear jasper. These things are are
man's way of trying to describe something that's

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that there's no way to describe.
However, as far as the specif czivis

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that you're talking about, the interesting
thing about heaven is that it's more of

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a place of no moors, like
it talks about. There's no more tears,

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no more pain, no more sorrow. There's not a necessity to eat,

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but it doesn't mean that you can't
eat in heaven. It just wouldn't

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be out of necessity. There's no
necessity to sleep, there's no necessity for

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those things. Those are very human
things that you're attributing to heaven, but

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they're not necessary in heaven, nor
do they have a place. As far

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as rooms, there is talk of
mansions, there is talk of but again

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that is a human way to describe
things there. There are discussions in scripture

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about having the tree of life,
there, about having the Paradise or the

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garden of Eden being restored, the
river of water of life flowing freely through

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it, yielding fruit monthly, heal
the nations. There's descriptions of things that

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are in about Heaven, but they're
not. There are illustrations or some there's

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sketches, human sketches of things that
help you understand a feeling or an attitude,

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rather than a with specificity the details
of heaven. When it talks about

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the streets are paved with gold,
it's not about the streets literally being paved

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with gold. It's about that even
the streets, the very lowly thing that

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you walk upon, are so precious
they're like gold. So it's hard to

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find literal descriptions there because it's very
different than earth. But it is a

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place of peace, and it is
a place of worship of God. That's

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the key and a connection and a
regniting of you with your maker. Kfi Man