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🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas celebration. |
0:06.7 | Welcome back to the Aspastor John podcast. |
0:08.3 | Thanks for listening. |
0:10.0 | Our next question is complex and mysterious. |
0:13.0 | A lot of them are, but it comes in the form of a rather simple question, which is, where |
0:19.3 | is heaven right now? |
0:20.3 | It's a question from Eleanor in London. |
0:23.0 | Hello, Pastor John. |
0:24.0 | My kids want to know, and I don't know how to explain the answer to them of this question. |
0:29.2 | Where is heaven presently located? |
0:31.7 | And are there any indications we have from Scripture to answer that question? |
0:36.4 | When we pray, our Father who art in heaven, we are implying that heaven, at least in one |
0:46.8 | of its most common uses, is where God the Father is. |
0:54.0 | Now, one of the most basic things we know and kids know about God is that He created everything |
1:02.4 | that is not God. |
1:04.5 | Before creation, there was no material universe. |
1:10.0 | And given what we know now about space and time, we can say that before the creation |
1:16.8 | of the material universe, the world, there was no space and no time. |
1:22.8 | Albert Einstein that causes us to know this, three times the Apostle Paul refers to God's |
1:30.0 | activity before the ages, for example, 1 Corinthians 2, 7. |
1:37.6 | We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages. |
1:45.7 | Now ages is the biblical term for seasons of time. |
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