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Introduction--What I will declare tonight, almost all of you will have heard before. -What I will declare tonight is not arresting because it's something new to us.-It's not arresting because I'm taking an approach to this text that is creative.-What I declare tonight is arresting for one reason. -IT'S ARRESTING BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. -These verses speak of something that we only know about because God revealed it. -They speak of something we can only imagine- we've never seen anything like it before. -They speak of a hope that we have that is entirely by faith.-These events will certainly come to pass. -And, if you believe that they are certain to come to pass, then your life will be changed.-You can't believe these verses and remain the same.-You can't believe these verses - really believe these verses - and waste your life.-What is described here is as certain to take place as it is certain that Jesus is Lord.-Because Jesus is the one telling us what will happen. If this doesn't happen, then Jesus was a fraud, and Jesus was no fraud.-And so as certain as you were that when you opened your eyes this morning the sun would be in the sky, MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT -heaven and earth will pass away before His words pass away-, is the fact that what Jesus describes here will one day be reality.-These things are not hard to understand. But they are things that men do not believe in as they should.-They are things that the natural man wants to deny or ignore. -They are things that a lukewarm church, a sleepy church, turns a deaf ear to. -Truths that the professing church has become numb to. -Because, if we really believe these things, then how should we live------Jesus was asked about