CHRIST
ETERNAL SENIOR MINISTRIES
THE
"WORD" MESSAGE CENTER
JUNE
20/21, 2026
{LX652-25}
DECLARATION
For
[we are not] ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of
God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
(Rom 1:16-17 KJV)
SABBATH
AND TORAH MESSAGES
"CHUKAT"
THE RED HEIFER
(Statute
or Decree)
Numbers
19:1-22:1, Judges 11:1-33, Hebrews 9:1-28
This
is the statute of the Torah which Adonai commanded saying: Speak to
Bnei-Yisrael that they bring to you a flawless red heifer on which
there is no blemish and on which has never been a yoke. (Num
19:2 TLV)
THE
"WORD" is transmitted to the four corners of the
earth as commanded in HOLY SCRIPTURE by the COMMANDER IN CHIEF, LORD
JESUS, THE CHRIST, AMEN. {IAW:
Jos 5:14-15, Matt
28:18-20}
KJV
THE
"WORD" MESSAGE FOLLOWS
SUBJECT:
GUEST:
Pastor
HYMAN
APPLEMAN
(1903-1983)
MESSAGE
SOURCE: From
The Archives
of Classic Sermons Library, NEWS
for Christians. I Know
There is a Heaven
www.newsforchristians.com
MSG/DTG:
2026062021-lx652-25
Hello
again, Beloved, May the Peace of Jesus be with you now and forever,
Amen
Do
you ever have thoughts of what Heaven will be like? The Bible is
full of significant hints regarding what we might expect. The WORD
is very convincing that much of what we will learn cannot be grasped
by our limited fleshly brains! As a man who still remembers how to
be a child. {my bride will verify this statement!}
believing with a child-like faith and trust is the key to
understanding the incredible eternal life that awaits those who say
YES, to Jesus!
This
sermon delivered by Pastor Hyman Appleman provides for us a glimpse
of his 1930's era view on the topic. I think you will agree that his
words provide great strength that the WORD of GOD is immutable.
Never changing, always perfect. Perfect, just like the Garden of Eden
and Perfect as it was and will be more so in Heaven!
Let
our voices be heard now as we go to prayer;
OPENING
PRAYER:
Lord,
we call upon You with humble hearts to grant us with open eyes, and
souls to absorb the "WORD" of conformation that there is
indeed a Heaven not
unlike the Garden only so much more! Remove the scales from the eyes
of those who cannot see, and call their name to Jesus the Christ and
salvation. AMEN
AND
NOW,
THE
"WORD"
Hyman
Appelman [1903-1983] was born in Russia to orthodox Jewish
parents who moved to America in 1914. Appelman became a trial lawyer
in Chicago. At age twenty-eight he was converted to Christianity,
causing his parents to disown him. His father said to him, "When
your sides come together from hunger and you come crawling to my
door, I will throw you a crust of bread as I would any other dog."
Feeling a definite call to preach, he attended Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary and became one of the greatest evangelists of
his generation. Dr. Appelman made eight or nine trips around the
world and several trips to Russia as an evangelist. It was hard to
find a day in his long ministry of fifty-three years that he was not
preaching somewhere. He was the author of some forty books. {source:
Classic Sermons, NEWS for Christians}
I
Know There is a Heaven
By
Pastor Hyman Appleman, 1903-1983
"And
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and
God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain: for the former
things are passed away."
(Rev
21:1-4)
Pastor
Appleman begins:
Heaven
is a prepared place for a prepared people. It is one of the
mightiest, if not the very mightiest, rewards God Almighty holds out
to those who accept His Son as Savior and by persistent well-doing
show forth their title to eternal fellowship with the hosts of glory.
It is a joyous, noble, inspiring, cheering doctrine. It has
encouraged the martyr at the stake and sustained the bed-ridden
Christian tormented by the burden, the weight, the ailments of the
flesh. Its message has charmed our childhood, heartened our maturity,
inspired our old age. It has given us the brave fortitude to bear the
trials and temptations of life with unbowed head and unfaltering
step. There is not a soul among us, no matter how seemingly
indifferent or unconcerned, who is not at times—and these times
come oftener and oftener with the advance of years—brought face to
face with the problems of the reality, of the very existence of
heaven. It is my purpose, God aiding, to bring to your minds, hearts,
your souls some of the glorious, victorious truths about heaven, its
citizens, its perfections, its conditions, and, perhaps most of all,
to point out to you what you must do to get there; then to plead with
you in all the passion of my soul that you put your feet by faith in
the way of the cross that leads to God and to heaven. My outline is
simple, brief, and, I hope, to the point. I know there is a heaven. I
know what kind of place it is. I know I am going there.
I.
I Know There Is A Heaven
Fairness
says so. Decency, justice, rightness, honor, honesty, common sense,
demand it. Where would the justice, the boasted equity of God, were
there no heaven? Christians do not always have the best of it in this
life. Many of them are poor. Many of them are sick. Many of them are
oppressed, afflicted, tormented. There is very little reward for them
in this life. Tell me, can you believe that the sacrificial saint and
the selfish sinner will meet God and enjoy the same conditions of
life beyond? Fairness requires that there be a difference. Heaven is
the difference. Fairness says so.
Feeling
says so. There is something in my heart as there is surely in your
hearts, some affection, some emotion, some drawing, pulling, echoing
something that tells us again and again that there is life beyond the
skies, a life with God, a life with joy, of tenderness, purity,
holiness, peace, where these troublesome, trying, tempestuous burdens
that afflict us will be sloughed off and we shall stand free and
upright in the sight of God and of His Christ. Look into the very
depths of your souls. Tell me, is it not so? Is there not in your
hearts a longing for the fellowship of God, for the communion of
Christ, for the freedom of the Holy Spirit, for the presence of the
angels? That feeling was placed there by God. It has grown with the
passing of the years. Surely God would not have endowed you with that
yearning, kept it alive all these years, unless he meant to satisfy
it in His own good time, in His own good will. This life cannot be
the all in all. Our feelings prohibit such a thought. There must be a
heaven. There is a heaven. Feeling says so.
Faith
says so. Faith is confidence in the Word of God. The Book
unmistakable, definitely, shoutingly, pressingly, imperatively
teaches that there is a heaven. Doubt it, and the whole Christian
system is exploded. Jesus spoke the fact of God when He said, "In
my Father's house are many mansions… I go to prepare a place for
you." Faith says so. Backed up by, founded on the inerrant,
unchangeable, unmistakable, eternal Word of God. The world that
Christians are seeking, is a city whose founder and builder is God, a
city of peace, of rest, of bliss, of reward. There is a heaven. Faith
says so.
II.
I Know What Kind of a Place Heaven Is
My
heart tells me. My soul whispers to me. My mind loves to dwell upon
it. But, best of all, most assuring of all, safest of all, most
satisfactory of all, the Bible definitely describes it. It is good
exercise, inspiring practice, uplifting meditation, to run the
references in the old Book on Heaven.
It
is a prepared place. It is not an accidental, fortuitous
conglomeration of a jerry-build something. It is a prepared place.
God is its architect. Christ is its superintendent. The Holy Spirit
is its builder. It is a work of art, a labor of love. It is in every
detail a thing of beauty, a joy forever. Its grasses, trees, flowers,
are of breath-taking beauty. Its streets are paved with gold. Its
buildings are of the costliest, everlasting marble. Its government is
in the hands of the Prince of peace.
The
Holy Spirit is its superintendent of education. The angels make up
its teaching staffs. There are no jailhouses, no prisons, no
reformatories, no hospitals, no orphanages, no old folks' homes, no
drugstores, no doctors, no dentists, no lawyers, no courts, no blind,
no deaf, no dumb, no cripples, no weak, no aged, no feeble. Sin and
Satan are banished forever. Nothing that is unclean or defileth in
any way will be permitted to enter through its wide gates. There is
nothing on earth to which we can compare it. The human mind cannot
comprehend nor can the human tongue describe the glories of that
eternal, prepared place.
It
is a populated place. John says he saw a great multitude which no man
could number of every nation, kindred, and tribe, out of all the
earth. Thank God for that. From every continent, clime, country,
color, creed, over all the earth, Jew and Gentile, black and white,
Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, young and old, rich and poor, week and
strong, educated, ignorant, they have all been bidden to the marriage
supper of the Lamb, and myriads have accepted the invitation. What a
crowd that will be! What a place of meeting, or greeting, of
rejoicing that will be!
Many
of you have fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives,
sons, daughters that have crossed chilly Jordan before you. Thanks be
unto God, you will all clasp hands and rejoice in the presence of God
nevermore to endure the pangs, the bitter pangs of parting. All of us
have friends that were as dear to us as our own flesh and blood whom
God has called up higher. They, too, are waiting for us, waiting to
welcome us into that fellowship of eternal bliss. Yes, heaven is a
peopled place, filled with those who have washed their garments and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
It
is a perfect place. The wisdom, the grace, the power of God assure
and insure its perfections. There can be no flaws there, no mistakes,
no something to have been left out or something to have been put in.
There are no disappointments in heaven, no discouragements, no
disheartening s. There is no sorrow in glory, no suffering, no pain.
There are no tears in the presence of God, and the sable-hued angel
of death walks not its golden streets. None of the toil, none of the
trial, none of the tribulation of earth find a resting-place there.
The waters of the river of life flow abundantly to be freely quaffed
by all unto the renewal of youth, vigor, vitality. We never grow old
up there.
III.
I Know I Am Going There
I
have the assurance of that fact. It shouts in my heart, sings in my
soul, sounds in my mind. I know beyond peradventure, beyond question,
beyond doubt, beyond any sort of uncertainty that I am bound for the
Promise Land, that one day I shall tread its golden streets, that one
day I shall hear the angels sing, that one day I shall meet all of my
precious friends who have gone on before me, that one day I shall see
my blessed Savior face to face.
I
know I am going there because I am saved. My entrance into glory land
is not postulated upon the facts that I am who I am, a regenerated
Christian. I am going there because I am saved, because I have
believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, because I have confessed Him
before men, because my sins are forgiven, because my name is written
in the Lamb's Book of Life. Paul said, "If thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." I have
done all that. I have put my utter faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I
have believed on Him. I have confessed Him before men. By His own
unalterable, Holy Word, I know I am saved. I am going to heaven, for
I have received Jesus.
I
know I am going there because I am sealed, sealed in the eternal
love, in the eternal purpose, in the eternal power, by the eternal
Spirit of God. The matchless promises of God's Word tell me so.
I
know I am going to heaven because I am sustained. All along the
journey from earth to heaven, since the day I first accepted the
Christ as my Redeemer, God has made ample, abundant, satisfactory
provision for my welfare. There is nothing I need, material, mental,
physical, spiritual, that is not abundantly available to me according
to the riches of God's grace by and in Christ Jesus. I have the gift
of the Holy Spirit to encourage and empower me. I have the promises
of the blessed Word to cash on the bank of heaven for all my needs. I
have proved again and again that Matt. 6:33, "Seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be
added unto you."
IV.
I Beseech You to Have Your Passport
Permit
me one last word. As God gave me utterance, I have told you why I
know there is a heaven; what kind of place it is; why I know I am
going there. May I passionately, earnestly, urgently, beseech you to
get your passport. You may if you will. It is altogether dependent
upon your willingness. There is but one thing in your way: not your
sins; Christ can and will wash those away; not your weaknesses, the
Holy Spirit can conquer those in you. There is nothing in your way
but your own, "I will." This hour, if you are ready to say
to God, "Lord have mercy on me, a sinner," God stands ready
to enroll you in the citizenship of heaven. Make sure your name is
written in His Book.
Today
the gates of glory swing wide open for your entrance. God is bending
down from the throne. Jesus is reaching out His pierced hands to you.
The Holy Spirit is softly whispering the gentle welcome to the
invitation. Will you accept it?
Some
years ago, one of the engineers of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
Paul Railroad, a superb Christian man, built his home by the side of
the right of way. He had a six-year old daughter. Every day the
engineer, in passing his home, pulled the cord of the engine's
whistle to greet his loved ones. The little daughter got into the
habit of climbing on the fence to wave at her daddy as he passed. One
day she overbalanced herself and tumbled into the ravine at the foot
of the tracks. Her father came home that night to find her with a
bruised scratched body. "Darling," he said to her, "you
must not climb that fence anymore. The next time you might hurt
yourself pretty badly."
"I'll
tell you what I'll do," answered the father; "tomorrow
before I leave I'll take a board out of the fence. Tomorrow evening
and every other evening when I go past, you can stick your head and
shoulders through that hole and see me and wave at me."
The
man did just as he said. From then on, daily, when the train sped
past, the whistle blowing, the child pressed herself into the fence
and waved hand and handkerchief to the much loved father. The days
sped past. The winter came. The little girl contracted a severe cold
that rapidly developed into double pneumonia. The man took time out
of his job and sat night and day by the bed of his child. The doctors
did the best they could, but God wanted that flower in His own
garden. The girl grew steadily worse until one day the family
physician came out to call the father into the sickroom with the
dreadful news that the child was dying. The father and mother stood
at the foot of the bed watching. Pale of face, eyes closed, she lay
there on her back in her little bed. Minutes went past. After a time,
she opened her eyes. Noticing the tears of her parents, she whispered
in a faint little voice, "Daddy, Mamma, why are you crying?"
The
father and mother choked with their emotions, were unable to answer.
They looked at the good doctor. The doctor turned to the child and,
taking her small hand in his, gently told her that her father and
mother were weeping because she was leaving them to be with Jesus.
Again the child looked up into the face of her father. "Daddy,"
she said, "you mean I am going to die?" "Yes,
darling," he whispered, "you are leaving Daddy and Mamma to
go to be with Jesus." The girl whimpered a little softly crying.
Then she bethought herself of something and began to comfort the
mourning ones. "Daddy," she said, "Mamma, don't cry.
When I get to heaven, the first thing I am going to do is tell Jesus
about you. I am going to tell Him what a good Daddy and Mamma you
were and how you always talked to me about Him. Then I am going to
ask Jesus to take a board out of the wall around heaven. Every day I
shall go to that opening and watch for you. When I see you coming, I
shall wave at you to show you where I am that you may come to me."
This
is just what Jesus is doing for us and to us right now. Bending over
the battlements of glory, His pierced Hand is Stretched Out Still to
us (Isaiah 9:12b, 17b and 21b). He is beckoning us to come to Him. He
is longingly, yearningly, pleadingly, anxiously waiting for you. Will
you this very moment accept His invitation? Will you, in humble,
penitent, childlike, yet bold, trusting faith, come to the blessed
Savior right now, that you, together with the great multitude of us,
may start on the journey to the Promised Land, never finish until you
stand complete in the Lord Jesus Christ before the throne of God in
the glorious heavens? God give you the grace to come, and meet this
Jesus and celebrate the first birthday of your immortal soul, or to
reaffirm your position with the Holy Spirit, as a child of God.
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CLOSING
COMMENT AND PRAYER
Let
us Pray:
What
a remarkable thing
it is to have
a reservation from
the hands of the Great Shepherd of the Sheep. A
confirmed reservation to your eternal home, alive and forever healed
as a citizen in the Kingdom of Almighty GOD. As
such, to be
blessed and benefit
from His eternal being, character, unending
love and almighty power
through salvation.
All of this through His grace, His gift, His promise possible only
through the "WORD",
HIS
BLOOD, and
HIS NAME, JESUS
the CHRIST
OUR LORD,
AMEN
DOXOLOGY
Praise
God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise
Him, all creatures here below;
Praise
Him above, Ye heaven-ly host;
Praise
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Amen
BENEDICTION:
Now
to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery
which has been kept secret for long ages past, (26) but now is
manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the
nations, leading to obedience of faith; (27) to the only wise God,
through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.
(Rom
16:25-27
Nasb)
Christ
go with you now...until we meet again
Christ
go with you now...keep praying on till then
It
really doesn't matter what the weather...
Just
as long as we all are TOGETHER...
Christ
go with you now...Till we meet again!
THE
CALL
If
you have never invited Jesus to be your Lord and savior, or, if you
have in the past yet remain unsure of your salvation, conversion, and
forgiveness of sin, Please pray with me now: Lord Jesus I need
to fill a hole in my life that follows me where ever I go. I am a
long-time Sinner and I now CONFESS and REPENT of all my
sins in Your Holy Name. I believe that You JESUS are
the Lord, that you were hung on a cross and died. I believe that you
were raised back to life then ascended into heaven and
are presently seated at the right hand of
The Father. Please come into me,
Lord Jesus, clean me, take me and make me, reach me,
teach me how to be Yours and let me serve from this day
forward and forever, I receive You right now!
Thank-You Jesus, AMEN
If
you sincerely prayed with me, your salvation has been assured. {Rom
10:9 KJV} -That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Waste
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also received the lord Jesus. Be introduced to a church that
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that you will never tire of; the discovery of the Majesty, Beauty and
loving Power of Jesus the Christ. Welcome to the family! Until we
meet again, next week, PEACE be with you and yours in the Shepherd's
Love!
Chaplain
Gary and Linda Thompson, CESM
C.E.S.M.
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