In the past 30 or 40 years, there has been a number of people who claim that they have died and went to heaven and then came back.

I think you know what I'm talking about.

And of course, with this kind of claim, they wrote books.

They made a ton of money and got media exposure.

And in my personal judgment, mostly that's fraud, except one person

actually confessed it. One person came clean, and he said all the stuff that he said in that book

was all made up. It's absolutely astounding to me, and I'm sure it is to many of you, if not most of you,

that these dear people are willing to hear and believe these pretenders are not willing to believe

in the one and only true son of God, divine son of God, who actually rose from the dead. It's astounding to me.

They can follow these people and read their books by the millions, but they do not believe the

one who rose from the dead after three days, not just a couple of minutes or a few minutes. And that is why

the story that Jesus tells is of vital importance. Listen carefully. Jesus, who co-existed with the

Father before all worlds, Jesus who is a member of the Holy Trinity from before the foundation of the earth,

he tells something that has actually taken place, something that has happened.

Obviously, it's in the Old Testament because that was before his death and resurrection.

Jesus, who alone knows the realm of the

spirits and what goes on on the other side of the curtain, tells this story about two men,

the real men, this is not a parable, two men, one was rich or but lived the self-centered life,

and one was poor, and yet was righteous.

They both died, and they each went to one of the two locations. Make no mistake about it,

there are only two locations in which everyone is going to end up, either heaven or hell.

When a man who lived for self this whole time gets into hell for just

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