Oh, by the way...

If you weren't paying attention, just listen to the sermon again online...they're only like 10 minutes. Talk about busy. I've been non stop today from 4:44 am-9:44 pm. This Holy Week has been a blur of activity.

My favorite verse today, "...and he made the stars". God made the sun and moon and...oh, by the way, the stars too. Almost like it was an afterthought. God is that big.

We ended the night with a wondering. Christ is risen, indeed, but do we have any idea what heaven is like? The question came up in regard to a man who has had two wives (like my dad). Here's the answer I found in Mark 12 (I had mis-remembered it being something Paul had talked about):
Some Sadducees, the party that denies any possibility of resurrection, came up and asked, "Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to marry the widow and have children. Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless. The second married her. He died, and still no child. The same with the third. All seven took their turn, but no child. Finally the wife died. When they are raised at the resurrection, whose wife is she? All seven were her husband."

Jesus said, "You're way off base, and here's why: One, you don't know your Bibles; two, you don't know how God works. After the dead are raised up, we're past the marriage business. As it is with angels now, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. And regarding the dead, whether or not they are raised, don't you ever read the Bible? How God at the bush said to Moses, 'I am—not was—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? The living God is God of the living, not the dead. You're way, way off base."

I love the song "I Can Only Imagine". That pretty much sums it up. Heaven is mind-blowing. As much as I love my wife and kids, Jesus loves me a million times more. It's hard to even wrap your head around. And he loves us all that way. Certainly, we will be surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, but we'll all be singing our praises to God. It is hard to imagine.

Christ is risen. We will be raised to eternal life that none of us can really comprehend now.