I’m going to be talking with you about what the  Bible says about heaven what you always wanted to   know about heaven probably the most misunderstood  doctrine in the scripture and unfortunately   misunderstood by a lot of God’s people we get  caught up in the myths that surround heaven and   so we’re gonna talk about this and it seems to me  very appropriate because the Bible tells us we’re   going to spend eternity there and it wouldn’t  make sense would it not to check out the place   where you’re gonna live forever and ever and find  out all you can about it and there’s a lot in the

Bible about it and we’re gonna talk about all the  different aspects of it some of you know that over   the years that I’ve been here one of my favorite  things has been the collection of epitaphs I don’t   know how I got started on that but somebody got  me started and I started collecting them and of   course epitaphs are very fitting for a series  on heaven because it’s written on your tombstone   here’s my all-time favorite I love this one it  goes like this here lies the body of old man   peas buried Neath the flowers and trees but peas  ain’t here just the pod peas shelled out and went

to God that’s actually on a tombstone someplace  up in the northwest and it’s very appropriate   epitaph because it’s very accurate that’s what  happens when you die as a Christian you shell   out you go to God the pod stays here right well  I shared that back east at a conference and a   lady came up to me after she had heard this and  a bit later she had gone home and she told me   that this little epitaph got her into a lot of  trouble and I could not imagine how this could   have gotten her into trouble but she explained  to me that she had not written it down correctly

and when she went to share it with the ladies  missionary group what came out was here lies the   body of oh man peace buried Neath the flowers  and trees but peas ain’t here just the shell she said immediately she knew she was in trouble  and she couldn’t finish it out well I have a whole   lot of these and they’re very interesting and  it is amazing what people write or have written   on their tombstone it was Sunday and in Sunday  school the fifth grade class was convening the   teacher was drilling her class about the gospel  and salvation and she was quizzing them at this

particular moment in the class and she said if  I sold everything I owned and I gave the money   to the church would that get me into heaven  and the whole class responded spontaneously   with a big note well she said if I clean my house  every day mowed the yard planted flowers made my   home beautiful would that get me into heaven  and once again you can just see it if you’ve   been around kids everybody said no well if I  was kind of animals and polite to my friends   and if I loved my family would that get me  into heaven as if programmed the answer was