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So there's a story that was told of a sunny school teacher who had a group of first graders

and he decided that he wanted to explain to these first graders what they had to do to go to heaven.

But he decided before he did that, he wanted to know what they already knew.

So he thought he would ask him a series of questions to discover kind of where they were

and their understanding of heaven and what it took to go to heaven.

So he asked him the first question and he said, okay, kids, if I saw my house and my car

and had a big ride sale and gave all the money to the church,

would that get me into heaven and all the kids went, no, it's all right.

Same question. If I cleaned the church, if I cleaned the church,

mowed the church lawn and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get me into having all the kids like,

no. He said, what about this? What if I'm kind to animals and give candy to children?

Would that get me into heaven? And the kids are like, no. And he said, well then,

how can I get into heaven? And the kid in the back stood up and said, you got to be dead.

So today we are in part one of our three part series, heaven.

Who goes there other than just dead people? Anyway, now you know this because you're part of

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