In today's troubled
world people are wondering,
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"Where Are We Headed?"
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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Good evening again everyone,
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I'm glad you are
at Revelation Today
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and I know you are
going to be blessed tonight.
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Now, according to the
Bible the devil is a deceiver.
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Working through a snake he
beguiled or he deceived Eve
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way back there in the
Garden of Eden and sin
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and all its attended misery
entered the world as a result.
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When it comes to
the subject of death
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there are all kinds of
deceptions doing the rounds.
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So, watch right on the subject,
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should we
believe in reincarnation?
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Should we expect to see a
bright light in a long tunnel
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when we are in
a state near dead?
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What about those people
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who claim to be
able to contact the dead?
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Now, this is the
very important subject.
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Tonight you're
gonna be blessed to hear
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just what the Bible has to say.
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The presenter
tonight of Revelation Today
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is Ron Halverson.
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God bless you.
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Let's have a word of prayer now
as we open God's Word together.
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Gracious Father, I thank
You for Christ our Savior,
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I thank You for the
privilege of being here,
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but most of all Father
I thank You that we can,
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in this great
country of ours come together
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in worship and freedom.
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I thank You we can
open the Bible together in
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that we have open minds,
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with open hearts
we're willing to learn
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and we're willing to
follow the Lord Jesus.
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We thank You in
Christ name, amen and amen.
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There's a principle I
want to share with you tonight.
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Principle. The
principle is this.
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Better to walk
alone than with a crowd
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going in a wrong direction.
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How's that principle? Come on.
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Better to walk alone
than to walk with a crowd
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that's going in
the wrong direction.
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Eugene Petersen wrote
once of visiting a monastery.
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And while there at the monastery
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he made friends
with some of the monks
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and it was time to go to dinner
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and so they were
crossing the campus there
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and walk by a little cemetery
and it was an open grave.
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So Eugene Petersen said,
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which member of your community
passed way or died recently?
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They said, oh, nobody.
The grave is for the next one.
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Everyday three times a
day they walk to go to eat
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and the members of
the community are reminded
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what we spend our
waking hours trying to forget.
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One of them
will be the next one.
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Now, if I knew I was going
to preach about death tonight,
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I would have stayed home.
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You say, it's not
really exciting message.
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Well, it isn't until you
get to the Bible, until you find
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what God's answer
is in the Word of God
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and then you'll go
home rejoicing in the Lord
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and not afraid of the
future, not afraid of death
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and not afraid of anything
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knowing that
God is a God of life
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and God is a God of resurrection
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and God is a God of hope.
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And so we come here
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to Revelation in
our subject tonight,
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"The Mystery of
Death, Deadly Delusions."
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Each day of your existence
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and my existence
here on this planet
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we're reminded of the
grim reality of death.
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It haunts us, we
know so little about it.
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In fact, we know
almost nothing regarding
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the ultimate physical experience
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except for what is
revealed in the Bible.
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I mean different
interpretations of death.
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Some say death is an illusion.
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That there's no
such thing as death,
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that's just in your mind.
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That's denial.
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Some others say, no
death is not only illusion.
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They say death is the
ultimate biological reality.
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In other words, to
your biological accident
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and at the end the accident
boom, hits the wall, boom,
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you're over that's it,
no more, nothing after.
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That's the agnostic
and atheist explanation
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for death, future
and that's their hope.
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Others say that, that
it is merely a transition
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from one life to another,
from one person to another
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and so they say this is
just transitorios, transition.
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Death is transition.
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Others say that death
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is a termination
of human existence.
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Death is death,
that's it no more.
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That's a frustrating
way to look to the future,
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especially when you get my age.
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Some say that no death
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is a state of
non-conscious existence.
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Now, I've been trying
to figure out for a while
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how can you be
non-conscious and exist?
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Well, I'm still
wrestling with that.
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Others say that well,
no, it's really a sleep
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before the resurrection
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so all these
explanations for death,
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now they all can't be right
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because they all
disagree with each other.
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And so we want
to find out tonight,
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we want to go and
find out what is truth,
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what is the true
meaning of death?
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Now, you know in our culture
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they say there's
nothing really true.
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Everything is how
you feel about it.
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In other words,
there's no black and white,
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there's just grey.
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In other words, is there's no
such thing as truth and error,
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no such thing
as right and wrong.
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If it's right for
you, it's all right.
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If it's wrong for
you, then it's wrong.
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You see, nothing to
do with commandments,
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nothing to do with morality
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and has nothing to
do with right or wrong
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or truth and error.
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But the Bible specifically says
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there is truth
and there is error,
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there is conflict
between right and wrong,
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between good and evil
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and there's conflict
between Christ and Satan.
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So we look at some of
these various beliefs,
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ideas about death.
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For instance, the
Buddhist teachings
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about death is death
is not the end of life,
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it's merely the end of the
body reinhabit in this life.
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Our spirits still
remains and seeks out through
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the need of
attachment, it has to attach,
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this soul has to
attach to something
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and so it goes
along and attaches.
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They have six
places that attaches to.
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One, it attaches to
heaven, some attach.
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Others human beings,
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so it finds its life in
other human beings it attaches.
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Thirdly, Asura.
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And others say in
all hungry ghosts,
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I sure don't want
to attach to that.
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Animals and finally held itself.
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That's their
explanation for death.
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Islam says this, it
holds that human existence
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continues after
death of the human body
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in the form of spiritual
and physical resurrection.
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There is a direct relationship
between conduct on earth
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and the life beyond.
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The afterlife will be one
of rewards and punishments
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which is consummated
with earthly conduct.
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A day will come
when God will resurrect
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and God with the first
and the last of the creation
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and judge everyone justly.
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People enter their
final aboard hell or paradise.
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Hindus say, and
they teach that death,
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well, it's not often
welcome and while it experiences
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may present some difficulties
to those who are dying,
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yeah and to the family.
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It's still a
part of the continuum.
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You live on, you
live on in some animals
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and how you
treated people on earth
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you're gonna go to
become, I hope you become a cow.
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Yeah, I was all through
India and cows are sacred.
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In fact, there's a
religion called Jainism
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and they believe it that
you can even go into insects
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and so when they walk
on the street they sweep,
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they don't want to
step on an ant or an uncle.
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That's the explanation.
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Christianity has all
different types of belief.
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It's amazing,
Christian teaching,
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body dies, decays,
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spirit of soul
lives on in an afterlife
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and some, the part of man
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that's placed in
the dust of the earth
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is that which
sleeps, the soul lives on.
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Man's body that's placed in
the earth, thus if the body,
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it is the body that
sleeps in death not the spirit.
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The spirit is
the thinking, living,
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acting spiritual part
of the person, the soul.
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And then there's
those in the Christianity
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that says no, soul
is the whole person,
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the whole person
goes down into the grave
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until the resurrection
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and then they are
raised up in newness of life.
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Now, they all can't be right.
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So how do we find truth? Here.
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There's no confusion, I
mean, we go to the Bible
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and we find in the Bible
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that there is an
answer to the problem
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that Jesus Christ
was dead and is alive,
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He knows, He knows.
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Now, the other night we
looked at the frightening world
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of the occult explosion.
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We discovered from the Bible
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that the occult
came from paganism.
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That even latched
itself in the church
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and latched itself
upon the Israelites
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and upon the people
of God through history.
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Satan's attack is
at the most fundamental
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biblical truth
found in the Bible,
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that's the
condition of man in death.
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It was the first lie in Eden
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and it would be the
last lie in last days
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to the tribulation.
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In fact, down through the ages
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Satan has used deception
to create a whole culture,
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a whole society that has
fallen under the occult trap.
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We can readily understand
why a pagan society would accept
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such a satanic concept,
immortality of the soul.
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You posses
immortality that's what it says,
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you have an immortal soul.
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You heard that many
times, you have an immortal soul
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for getting in
the Garden of Eden
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that man had an immortal soul.
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No, conditioned upon obedience,
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the day you eat there
off, the day you will die.
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If you die you don't
have an immortal soul,
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therefore you must receive
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an immortal soul
at the end of time
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because if you
don't have it now,
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you got to get it somewhere.
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That's the very beginning.
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Right in the beginning
in the Book of Genesis.
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We've all kinds of explanations,
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immortal-ADC,
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After Death
Communication you can talk.
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Then that we have
transmigration of the soul,
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the soul goes to
another or to a lower being
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or to a lower organism.
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Then we have reincarnation.
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All these have
been taught in history
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and been taught even
in Christian circles.
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The Assyrians, the Babylonians,
the Egyptian cultures
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all believe in life after death.
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Intricate details
preparing the death for life,
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in fact, there
was mummy deification.
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The deification of mummies.
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When I go to London, England
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I always head right
away to the London museum.
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They have one of the finest
mummy exhibitions anywhere,
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mummies and daddies.
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And I spend
hours. It's fascinating.
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It's fascinating.
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I mean, they
built extensive pyramids
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and exotic death chambers.
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In fact, when a pharaoh
died they killed all his slaves.
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They killed his wives.
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So they had to
try to keep him alive.
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I mean, they
had to feed him good
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because if he died they died.
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I mean, that's the
Egyptian, that's the way
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and they put their money
in there riches in there,
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fortune in these
exotic death chambers,
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all in preparation for what?
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A journey to another realm.
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The Greeks
created a whole philosophy
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about death and the hereafter.
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Plato, Aristotle,
Socrates, I mean they taught
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the continuation of spirit life,
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the continuation of
soul life after death.
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Death has always fascinated us
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and frightened
us at the same time.
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But even more
tragic, the same pagan
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and philosophical
and theological teachings
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of pagan world crept even
into the Christian church.
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The fear and mystery of
death has made us vulnerable
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to an ancient occult practice.
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And now we find
a terrible delusion
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to the brightness of the tunnel.
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Death is reality.
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You see, death comes
in many ways old age,
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weeks, months, years, old age.
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Death comes in
many ways it comes in -
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I mean, accident, tragic death.
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One moment you are
alive and that's it,
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next moment you are dead.
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I mean I don't want to scare you
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but you can leave this
place and not make it home.
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My wife's driving so I
think I will make it home.
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If I was driving it would be
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lesser chance for
me to make it home.
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But accidents,
terrifying, tragic, death
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and then it comes disease,
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I mean disease,
invisible to the human eye,
00:14:06.21\00:14:08.60
disease attacks the body of
some of the healthiest people
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and they get the news
and within a split moment
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the news comes critical.
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The news agonizing death.
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However it
comes, whenever it comes
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it shocks doesn't it, come on.
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Even if you're prepared for
it, you're not prepared for it.
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It hurts, it
numbs, it-- by the way
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the Bible says that
this is the last enemy
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that will be
defeated by Jesus Christ.
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The enemy we call,
the enemy we call death
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and we have to face it,
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we don't like to think about it,
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we don't like to talk about
it, we don't joke about it.
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In fact, even when it comes
there's something within us
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that tries
desperately not to face it.
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We embalm the dead.
We beautify the dead.
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I mean, we transform cemeteries
into beautiful scenic parks.
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I mean, beautiful
places to walk, scenic parks.
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This is the cemetery of the dead
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but death is still the enemy.
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It's an enemy to mankind
and Jesus said it would be
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the last enemy defeated
but death is inevitable.
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You heard about the
merchant of Bagdad, didn't you?
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Well, the
merchant sent his servant
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down to the
market place in Bagdad
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to buy provisions
and bring it back.
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And the servant was
gone just a short time
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and he came galloping back
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into the
courtyard of that merchant
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and he jumped off the horse
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and the merchant asked
where's the provisions?
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I mean what's wrong he said,
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well, I was down in
the market place in Bagdad
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and I saw death in the
crowd and death looked at me
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and it made a
threatening gesture
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and oh, master, he said,
lend me your fastest horse
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I've got to gallop from Bagdad,
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I've got to got to
Samara and hide from death.
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And so the merchant
lend him his fastest horse
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and he galloped in
the direction of Samara.
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That afternoon the merchant
went down to the market place
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and he saw a death in the crowd,
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he walked over and said, death,
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why did you make a
threatening gesture
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at my servant this morning
in the market place in Bagdad?
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This all wasn't a
threatening gesture at all,
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it was sort of surprise,
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I have an appointment
with him tonight in Samara.
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I was surprised
to see him in Bagdad.
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Well, in a sense we
all have an appointment.
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You see, it's inevitable,
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we have an appointment in Samara
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and here we meet an issue
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that comes very
close to the human heart.
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But who can fail to understand
the loneliness it comes,
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the empty chair, the silence,
that tells upon a person
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who has seen a
treasured love one.
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And many of us have sat
beside those we love the most
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and there's nothing we
can do but weep with them.
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Hold their hand, yesterday
it was laughter in our home
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and it was
happiness and joy and tears
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and there was love and
then death, an emptiness.
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Now, what do we hear
the cries of lonely people
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and suffering in
despairing people,
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multitudes saying
tell me it isn't soul,
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I mean tell me
there is no death.
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Death is without
doubt man's greatest enemy,
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so in an attempt to
deprive the traditional enemy,
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man has vigorously attacked it.
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They fought well, perhaps
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we could find a
fountain of youth.
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Now, they say the
Fountain of Youth is in Florida.
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Don't believe it, I live there.
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I sure I haven't
found it you can see that.
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So Ponce de León
said I could go there,
00:17:42.31\00:17:44.39
and went to Florida searching
for the Fountain of Youth,
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he searched and searched
and searched till he died.
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Now, but they fought it
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they could just find
the Fountain of Youth.
00:17:51.28\00:17:53.29
Others thought of reincarnation.
00:17:53.32\00:17:55.45
Pleasant thought, reincarnation
00:17:55.48\00:17:58.33
and that was something
they tried to cheat death
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through the
theory of reincarnation.
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And by the way lately it spread
this idea of reincarnation
00:18:03.30\00:18:06.40
in the search of Bridey Murphy,
00:18:06.43\00:18:08.71
Morey Bernstein set out
to prove it, reincarnation,
00:18:08.74\00:18:11.78
actually takes place his subject
00:18:11.81\00:18:14.10
while hypnotize claim
that dead people haunt houses
00:18:14.13\00:18:17.30
we discovered the
other night, that's not true.
00:18:17.33\00:18:22.75
He says they reenter
the body through the fetus
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in a mother's
womb, that's not true.
00:18:25.31\00:18:28.83
All kind of answers,
all kinds of explanations
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but man cannot cheat
death by occupying another body
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or finding a Fountain of Youth
00:18:35.72\00:18:37.35
and then they
came up with an idea
00:18:37.38\00:18:39.11
this is called the Deep
Freeze Method, Cryonics.
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If you could freeze the body,
if you could freeze the body
00:18:43.64\00:18:47.20
and then they'll later on
find the cure for the disease
00:18:47.23\00:18:49.93
you died from
they'll just store the body
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to inoculate you and
you'll be live again.
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Oh, come on.
00:18:57.38\00:18:59.38
I'm not gonna be a
popsicle for nobody,
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because my hope is
not in being frozen,
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my hope is being lifted up
00:19:05.38\00:19:07.06
to the glory of the
Kingdom of God, amen.
00:19:07.09\00:19:10.02
While they did try that cryonics
00:19:10.05\00:19:12.15
and people spend a lot of money
00:19:12.18\00:19:13.95
in their frozen as
long as their money lasts
00:19:13.98\00:19:16.26
once their money
stops they get unfrozen.
00:19:16.29\00:19:20.48
So, you better
have a lot of bucks.
00:19:20.51\00:19:23.34
And then there are some people
00:19:23.37\00:19:24.40
who just deny it totally saying,
00:19:24.43\00:19:25.98
no, there's no
such thing as death.
00:19:26.01\00:19:28.10
And then the spiritualist
says, no this is spiritual realm
00:19:28.13\00:19:30.63
and you go off
there to another realm.
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But there are two eternal truths
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I want to tell you
about tonight about death.
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Man cannot eradicate it.
00:19:36.60\00:19:38.58
Secondly man cannot bestow
upon another eternal life.
00:19:38.61\00:19:42.45
Eternal life comes to you
individually by your choices.
00:19:42.48\00:19:45.53
Your mother
can't give it to you,
00:19:45.56\00:19:47.04
your father
can't give it to you,
00:19:47.07\00:19:48.71
your husband
can't give it to you,
00:19:48.74\00:19:50.33
your wife can't give it to you,
00:19:50.36\00:19:52.01
it comes by your choice to
choose to have eternal life,
00:19:52.04\00:19:56.25
that comes by your
choice for Jesus Christ.
00:19:56.28\00:20:01.07
Man can't bestow
upon another eternal life.
00:20:01.10\00:20:05.28
Death is the
result of disobedience.
00:20:05.31\00:20:08.11
Death is the
result of broken law.
00:20:08.14\00:20:10.76
Death is the result
of rebellion against God
00:20:10.79\00:20:13.47
and death is because of sin.
00:20:13.50\00:20:15.31
The wages of sin is death.
00:20:15.34\00:20:18.74
Payday, some day as
the old preacher said,
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payday someday.
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Let's go to Bible, let's see
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what the Bible
says about this subject.
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Let's go, it doesn't
matter what Buddhists or Hindus
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or some Christians
or whatever new ages
00:20:29.90\00:20:32.93
whatever let's go
to the Bible and find,
00:20:32.96\00:20:34.76
I think Jesus could
show us the way, don't you?
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He was there
and he's back again.
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Listen, so let's go to Genesis,
let's go to the beginning.
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"And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground,
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
00:20:45.17\00:20:47.66
and man became a living soul."
00:20:47.69\00:20:50.47
And then He goes on to say,
00:20:50.50\00:20:52.03
"But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil,
00:20:52.06\00:20:53.59
thou shall not eat
of it for in the day
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that thou eat thereof
thou shall surely" what?
00:20:55.66\00:20:58.68
Die.
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"Die." All right.
00:20:59.77\00:21:01.73
Here's the test,
there's the temptation,
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there's the fall.
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Is man mortal or immortal?
Well, let's look at the Bible.
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Let's see what the Bible says.
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"Now the serpent was more subtle
00:21:13.29\00:21:14.67
than any beast of the field
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.14
which the Lord God had made.
00:21:16.17\00:21:17.79
And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said
00:21:17.82\00:21:21.91
that Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?"
00:21:21.94\00:21:24.82
And then he goes on,
00:21:24.85\00:21:26.07
"And the woman
said unto the serpent,
00:21:26.10\00:21:27.91
We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
00:21:27.94\00:21:30.20
but of the fruit of the tree
00:21:30.23\00:21:31.26
which is in the
midst of the garden,
00:21:31.29\00:21:32.88
God said, Ye
shall not eat of it,
00:21:32.91\00:21:34.89
neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye die.
00:21:34.92\00:21:39.00
And the serpent
said unto the woman,
00:21:39.03\00:21:40.60
Ye shall not surely die."
00:21:40.63\00:21:42.70
Who says you
shall not surely die?
00:21:42.73\00:21:45.32
Christ or God or Satan?
00:21:45.35\00:21:47.70
Satan says you
have immortal soul,
00:21:47.73\00:21:50.15
Satan says you have immortality,
00:21:50.18\00:21:52.50
Satan says you, who I want
to listen to, God or Satan?
00:21:52.53\00:21:56.65
God?
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.19
Listen to me, he
says you'll be like God.
00:21:58.22\00:22:00.96
What about being like God?
00:22:00.99\00:22:02.99
God has immortality and
so Satan comes and lies.
00:22:03.02\00:22:07.67
By the way Satan
never says anything true.
00:22:07.70\00:22:10.78
He says you're
beautiful, you're not.
00:22:10.81\00:22:12.68
He says you're ugly, you're not.
00:22:12.71\00:22:14.44
He says you're a
loser and you're not.
00:22:14.47\00:22:15.98
I mean, he never
tells you the truth.
00:22:16.01\00:22:17.83
So don't believe
him. Don't believe him.
00:22:17.86\00:22:22.24
He says doesn't
matter, don't believe him.
00:22:22.27\00:22:25.37
If Gods says it I
believe it, that settles it.
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Amen.
00:22:30.58\00:22:31.61
You see, it's not
what Ron Halverson
00:22:31.64\00:22:32.97
wants to tell you, it's
not what Ron Halverson says,
00:22:33.00\00:22:35.27
not what your preacher
says, not what your church says,
00:22:35.30\00:22:38.12
not what those who
have so called died
00:22:38.15\00:22:39.96
and come back
again, give me a break,
00:22:39.99\00:22:42.26
not what
Hollywood says for sure.
00:22:42.29\00:22:44.35
What does God's book
say? What does the Bible say?
00:22:44.38\00:22:47.20
What's the evidence?
What's the weight of evidence?
00:22:47.23\00:22:51.13
I want you to notice
this, it was on a tombstone
00:22:51.16\00:22:53.38
in Richmond,
Virginia, on the tombstone,
00:22:53.41\00:22:55.55
"Stop my friend as you go by.
00:22:55.58\00:22:57.67
As you are now so once was I.
As I am now you soon shall be.
00:22:57.70\00:23:01.04
Prepare yourself to
follow me." That's graphic.
00:23:01.07\00:23:03.72
Little boy was coming
through the cemetery read that,
00:23:03.75\00:23:06.10
took out his
crayon and he wrote this,
00:23:06.13\00:23:08.25
"To follow you I'm not content,
00:23:08.28\00:23:09.65
until I know
which way you went."
00:23:09.68\00:23:11.73
Which way you went.
00:23:20.45\00:23:21.88
Well, let's see
which way you went,
00:23:21.91\00:23:23.07
let's see what the
Bible says, all right.
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.53
"Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was
00:23:25.56\00:23:28.72
and the spirit shall
return to God who gave it."
00:23:28.75\00:23:31.32
Now, follow me carefully,
listen to the word of God,
00:23:31.35\00:23:34.08
weigh the evidence.
00:23:34.11\00:23:35.15
We've been influenced
all of our lives one way.
00:23:35.18\00:23:38.24
Now, let's just
listen to the other side.
00:23:38.27\00:23:40.53
Let's listen to what
God says fully in his word.
00:23:40.56\00:23:43.24
You see anything out
of context is a pretext.
00:23:43.27\00:23:45.92
You have to have the
weight of the evidence,
00:23:45.95\00:23:47.75
not grabbing one text here
00:23:47.78\00:23:49.47
and fashioning
whole doctrine on it.
00:23:49.50\00:23:51.20
You take the Bible
wholly and you take the text
00:23:51.23\00:23:54.64
and on the subject
you bring them together
00:23:54.67\00:23:57.30
and there you have the picture.
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.99
And so listen to the
picture, notice what he says.
00:24:00.02\00:24:03.72
"The spirit is
"the spark if life"
00:24:03.75\00:24:08.05
or the breath of life."
00:24:08.08\00:24:10.45
Listen to the Word of God.
00:24:10.48\00:24:11.76
"All the while
my breath is in me,
00:24:11.79\00:24:13.71
and the spirit of God is" where?
00:24:13.74\00:24:16.28
"In my nostrils."
00:24:16.31\00:24:18.78
Well, you see,
Brother Halverson,
00:24:18.81\00:24:19.84
the spirit is the
thinking, spiritual part of you,
00:24:19.87\00:24:23.05
it floats off when you
die like some kind of Casper,
00:24:23.08\00:24:26.64
the friendly ghost.
00:24:26.67\00:24:29.40
No.
00:24:29.43\00:24:31.20
All the while my breath is in me
00:24:31.23\00:24:33.60
and the spirit of
God is in my what?
00:24:33.63\00:24:35.71
In my nostrils.
00:24:35.74\00:24:37.85
The word breath is
in the margin spirit.
00:24:37.88\00:24:41.25
So he says the
breath is the spirit of God,
00:24:41.28\00:24:44.20
it's the spark of life.
00:24:44.23\00:24:45.95
James said this the apostle,
00:24:45.98\00:24:48.20
"For as the body
without the spirit is dead
00:24:48.23\00:24:50.51
so faith without works is dead"
00:24:50.54\00:24:53.34
and the margin says breath,
it's breath interpreted breath
00:24:53.37\00:24:57.35
so the breath is the
spirit, the breath is the spark,
00:24:57.38\00:25:00.53
but someone says, Brother
Ron, what about the soul,
00:25:00.56\00:25:03.11
I mean, the word soul was
used 850 times in the Bible.
00:25:03.14\00:25:06.59
Check up on me.
00:25:06.62\00:25:08.51
And nowhere does
it say it is immortal.
00:25:08.54\00:25:12.35
Nowhere in the Bible does
it say the soul is immortal.
00:25:12.38\00:25:16.76
In fact, it says the
soul that sins it shall die.
00:25:16.79\00:25:20.96
The Bible says all have
sinned, therefore all souls die.
00:25:20.99\00:25:25.51
Let's look at
man in the beginning.
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Let's look at the
formula for creation,
00:25:27.85\00:25:30.12
the creation of man.
00:25:30.15\00:25:31.65
Here's the formula.
00:25:31.68\00:25:32.87
Body, it forms
man from the dust,
00:25:32.90\00:25:37.32
forms him in his own image,
00:25:37.35\00:25:38.72
he forms with
eyes, ears, nose, mouth
00:25:38.75\00:25:41.73
but he can't
speak, he can't smell,
00:25:41.76\00:25:44.64
he can't listen, he's just form.
00:25:44.67\00:25:48.63
Then God does something,
God breathes into his body.
00:25:48.66\00:25:55.30
Breath says its
nostrils and what happens?
00:25:55.33\00:25:59.45
Man becomes a living soul.
00:25:59.48\00:26:02.28
It does not say
that man has body,
00:26:02.31\00:26:04.72
man has breath
and man has a soul,
00:26:04.75\00:26:06.92
nowhere in the
Bible does it say that.
00:26:06.95\00:26:08.81
It says man has a body,
man receives the spark of life
00:26:08.84\00:26:11.84
which is breath and
he becomes a living soul.
00:26:11.87\00:26:17.08
When the breath leaves
the body, man is a dead soul.
00:26:17.11\00:26:21.90
And I'm gonna
show you how and when
00:26:21.93\00:26:24.17
that'll take
place the resurrection
00:26:24.20\00:26:26.57
and then man will receive
the gift of eternal life.
00:26:26.60\00:26:30.48
Not body, breath and
soul. Let me illustrate.
00:26:30.51\00:26:33.55
Here we have a
flashlight, all right.
00:26:33.58\00:26:38.24
This is it physically,
00:26:38.27\00:26:40.43
now if I would
open this flashlight
00:26:40.46\00:26:45.29
and if I would take
out the batteries...
00:26:45.32\00:26:47.69
I take out battery here
00:26:51.53\00:26:55.02
and I take out
the battery and...
00:26:55.05\00:26:59.31
I'll do that all
night. What do I need?
00:27:07.96\00:27:12.14
You see the
battery is the spark.
00:27:12.17\00:27:15.08
You see the
battery brings light.
00:27:15.11\00:27:17.82
The battery-- now let me see
00:27:17.85\00:27:19.29
if I can do it,
put it in right apart,
00:27:19.32\00:27:20.93
I put them wrong but
we'll get this now, there?
00:27:20.96\00:27:26.59
The spark.
00:27:29.96\00:27:31.64
God takes body
creates it, gives the spark,
00:27:31.67\00:27:37.58
when we die,
00:27:37.61\00:27:40.14
when we're resurrected, simple.
00:27:40.17\00:27:46.13
Why do we make
it so complicated?
00:27:46.16\00:27:47.80
Well, let me illustrate.
Water, H2O, all right.
00:27:47.83\00:27:55.20
So many parts of what?
00:27:55.23\00:27:56.96
Hydrogen and what? Oxygen.
00:27:56.99\00:27:59.35
Does anybody know what they are?
00:27:59.38\00:28:02.10
Two parts what?
00:28:02.13\00:28:04.57
Two parts hydrogen, one
part oxygen, is that it?
00:28:04.60\00:28:08.63
Okay, well, whatever. It has it.
00:28:08.66\00:28:15.24
Take away
hydrogen from the water.
00:28:15.27\00:28:21.95
It's the right combination
of hydrogen and oxygen
00:28:21.98\00:28:23.84
that makes water, right.
00:28:23.87\00:28:25.73
What's the right
combination of breath and body
00:28:25.76\00:28:27.97
that makes man a living soul?
00:28:28.00\00:28:30.04
I mean, it doesn't
take a rocket scientist.
00:28:30.07\00:28:32.60
Why do we make
things so complicated?
00:28:32.63\00:28:35.04
Let me illustrate.
00:28:35.07\00:28:36.15
My wife comes
in, she says honey,
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.54
I'd like to have a coffee
table for our living room.
00:28:38.57\00:28:44.24
Well, I said, all
right I'll make you one.
00:28:44.27\00:28:47.00
Now, you got to imagine please
00:28:47.03\00:28:48.77
'cause anything
breaks in my house
00:28:48.80\00:28:50.44
I have to wait till someone,
I have to wait till Tim comes.
00:28:50.47\00:28:53.97
I mean, really, I mean,
00:28:54.00\00:28:57.46
when Carrol's
grandfather was around
00:28:57.49\00:29:00.23
I had to wait till he came.
00:29:00.26\00:29:01.39
Once a year I get
things fixed and anybody knows,
00:29:01.42\00:29:04.20
I mean they're just smiling
my friends in the front row,
00:29:04.23\00:29:05.91
they are smiling over this.
00:29:05.94\00:29:07.24
But let's imagine I
can't, I'll say honey,
00:29:07.27\00:29:09.43
I'll be happy to
make you a coffee table.
00:29:09.46\00:29:11.34
So I go to my workshop
find my way through what I need
00:29:11.37\00:29:17.20
and I get the wood
and I drill the holes
00:29:17.23\00:29:20.94
and I make the-put it together
00:29:20.97\00:29:24.76
and arrange it and glue, screws,
00:29:24.79\00:29:30.69
sand it, varnish it,
bring it in the house,
00:29:30.72\00:29:34.94
and say here it is honey,
she goes ah, it's beautiful.
00:29:34.97\00:29:38.64
And then you
know what you do men,
00:29:38.67\00:29:39.94
what you do the rest of the day.
00:29:39.97\00:29:42.32
Find the place
for it, put it here,
00:29:42.35\00:29:44.38
she says I don't know,
over here, I don't know.
00:29:44.41\00:29:48.99
Over here, for the rest
of the day you're doing this.
00:29:49.02\00:29:51.54
Come on.
00:29:51.57\00:29:55.27
And finally she says this,
brilliant statement, she says,
00:29:55.30\00:29:59.14
you know the more I
think about this room
00:29:59.17\00:30:00.75
and the way it is and
the decor, what's decor?
00:30:00.78\00:30:03.09
Here's the coffee table, hon.
00:30:03.12\00:30:05.04
Come on I want
to go out fishing.
00:30:05.07\00:30:08.54
She says, I think the
chair would do better.
00:30:08.57\00:30:12.83
A chair would do better!
00:30:12.86\00:30:15.22
So I bring the coffee
table out to the workshop,
00:30:15.25\00:30:17.73
I take the screws out,
00:30:17.76\00:30:18.80
I put the wood here
and the legs over there.
00:30:18.83\00:30:21.81
You see the moment I separate,
00:30:21.84\00:30:24.98
the moment it
ceases to be a table,
00:30:25.01\00:30:27.94
the moment God
separates breath from your body,
00:30:27.97\00:30:30.55
the moment you
cease to be who you are
00:30:30.58\00:30:37.20
until he makes you
again to be who you are.
00:30:37.23\00:30:41.98
That's the Word of God.
00:30:42.01\00:30:43.04
That's the Bible and
that's what the Bible says.
00:30:43.07\00:30:46.49
And so is with man.
00:30:46.52\00:30:47.98
He seizes to be a dead
00:30:48.01\00:30:49.72
until the
resurrection as we shall see.
00:30:49.75\00:30:52.07
By the way the
word soul and body,
00:30:52.10\00:30:54.55
the word soul
and body is mentioned
00:30:54.58\00:30:56.60
1,800 times in the
Bible, check up on me.
00:30:56.63\00:30:59.26
But nowhere does it
say that it is immortal,
00:30:59.29\00:31:03.07
nowhere, does
not one text context,
00:31:03.10\00:31:06.33
so we got to find the
weight of evidence, all right.
00:31:06.36\00:31:08.58
Let's turn, let's look
at the biblical evidence,
00:31:08.61\00:31:10.25
all right together tonight.
00:31:10.28\00:31:11.81
And notice what the Bible says,
"Behold, all souls are mine,
00:31:11.84\00:31:14.16
as the soul of the father,
00:31:14.19\00:31:15.24
so also the soul
of the son is mine,
00:31:15.27\00:31:17.09
the soul that
sinneth, it shall" what "die."
00:31:17.12\00:31:20.24
Immorality cannot die, we die,
00:31:20.27\00:31:23.30
so we do not
possess immortality.
00:31:23.33\00:31:26.53
That doesn't mean we
shall not possess immortality
00:31:26.56\00:31:29.37
that means we do
not have immortality.
00:31:29.40\00:31:32.20
Well, let's go
to the Word of God.
00:31:32.23\00:31:33.26
Let's see the
weight of evidence.
00:31:33.29\00:31:34.84
Well, my momma told me.
00:31:34.87\00:31:36.17
Hey, your momma is a
wonderful Christian woman,
00:31:36.20\00:31:38.84
she is going to
heaven by the grace of God.
00:31:38.87\00:31:41.96
But what does David say.
00:31:41.99\00:31:44.80
I mean I've got
to take David's word
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.48
even above my own mother's word
00:31:46.51\00:31:48.46
because the Bible is
above my mother's word.
00:31:48.49\00:31:50.83
Come on, amen.
00:31:50.86\00:31:52.14
Amen. Come on, now.
00:31:52.17\00:31:53.31
"Put not your trust in
princes, nor in the son of man,
00:31:53.34\00:31:55.43
in whom there is no help.
00:31:55.46\00:31:56.49
His breath goeth forth,
he returneth to his earth,
00:31:56.52\00:31:58.83
in that very day his
thoughts" what "perish."
00:31:58.86\00:32:01.85
You don't have thought
after death, the Bible says.
00:32:01.88\00:32:04.50
You don't have
thoughts after death.
00:32:04.53\00:32:06.73
Doesn't sound like the soul
is the Casper floating around
00:32:06.76\00:32:09.29
and you're
thinking looking down.
00:32:09.32\00:32:10.86
Someone said I like
to think mom is up there.
00:32:10.89\00:32:12.82
Why would you like to think
mom is looking down on you?
00:32:12.85\00:32:14.96
You have enough
trouble, haven't you?
00:32:14.99\00:32:16.60
You think would it
ever be heaven for a mother,
00:32:16.63\00:32:18.53
I don't think it
would be heaven for mother
00:32:18.56\00:32:19.86
looking down on her son Ronny
00:32:19.89\00:32:21.97
because her son Ronny had gone
through two cancer treatments.
00:32:22.00\00:32:25.79
His son Ronny has
been sick. Listen to me.
00:32:25.82\00:32:28.10
God's way has always been
best. He puts them to rest.
00:32:28.13\00:32:31.17
The resurrection you
go to heaven with momma.
00:32:31.20\00:32:33.66
What's better than that? Amen.
00:32:33.69\00:32:36.70
Well, we want
biblical proof for that.
00:32:36.73\00:32:38.80
Well, let's look at the
biblical proof, come on.
00:32:38.83\00:32:40.95
Let's see what the Bible says.
00:32:40.98\00:32:42.40
"The dead praise not the Lord,
00:32:42.43\00:32:43.69
neither any that
go down into silence."
00:32:43.72\00:32:45.36
It says when you die,
you go down in the silence.
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.61
That's the Word of God.
I am not making that up.
00:32:47.64\00:32:49.59
That's the Bible, Book of Acts.
00:32:49.62\00:32:51.00
"Men and brethren, let
me freely speak unto you
00:32:51.03\00:32:52.85
of the patriarch David,
00:32:52.88\00:32:54.14
that he is both dead and buried,
00:32:54.17\00:32:55.95
his sepulchre is
with us to this day."
00:32:55.98\00:32:58.76
Someone says "well
that's just the house."
00:32:58.79\00:33:01.06
Hey listen to me
00:33:01.09\00:33:02.84
if I got to live
with this house forever...
00:33:02.87\00:33:05.26
Come on.
00:33:08.24\00:33:10.47
When this house comes
up, it's gonna be a mansion,
00:33:10.50\00:33:14.97
not an old tenement, come on.
00:33:15.00\00:33:17.69
I mean handsome not.
00:33:17.72\00:33:18.75
Yeah, I am going
to come up handsome
00:33:18.78\00:33:19.92
I figured it out.
00:33:19.95\00:33:22.40
I am going to come up
brilliant to get a figure
00:33:22.43\00:33:24.01
that has to be a real
transformation by the way.
00:33:24.04\00:33:26.05
But anyway I am
going to come up different.
00:33:26.08\00:33:28.33
David, what did
he say about David?"
00:33:28.36\00:33:30.19
David is not
ascended into the heavens."
00:33:30.22\00:33:32.32
Of all people
David should have gone
00:33:32.35\00:33:34.05
right to heaven when he died.
00:33:34.08\00:33:35.35
If that was the
case but it says no
00:33:35.38\00:33:37.23
David is still in the
grave waiting for the day
00:33:37.26\00:33:39.38
when Jesus would come and
call him forth from the grave.
00:33:39.41\00:33:42.54
Now since there
is no time in death.
00:33:42.57\00:33:44.71
The moment I will go to
sleep, I wake up in the morning.
00:33:44.74\00:33:48.03
Have you ever gone to sleep
and maybe you have been sick.
00:33:48.06\00:33:50.41
Oh, terrible you go
to sleep and next morning
00:33:50.44\00:33:53.11
you wake up and you're well.
00:33:53.14\00:33:55.12
And it seems like you just
laid your head on your pillow
00:33:55.15\00:33:57.74
and the next thing you're awake.
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.65
Well, you see that's
the way it is with God.
00:33:59.68\00:34:01.24
God's way is always best.
00:34:01.27\00:34:03.08
You lay your
head upon the pillow
00:34:03.11\00:34:04.73
and the next thing
you know you wake up well.
00:34:04.76\00:34:08.37
Well, wow I love that.
00:34:08.40\00:34:10.45
That's the most positive message
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.18
in the Word of God for me.
00:34:12.21\00:34:13.77
The Bible tells us again listen.
00:34:13.80\00:34:15.53
"Marvel not at this,
for the hour is coming,
00:34:15.56\00:34:17.63
in that which all
that are in the graves
00:34:17.66\00:34:19.21
shall hear his voice,
00:34:19.24\00:34:20.35
and shall come
forth from the grave.
00:34:20.38\00:34:22.18
They have done good,
unto the resurrection of life,
00:34:22.21\00:34:24.27
and they that have done evil,
00:34:24.30\00:34:25.33
unto the
resurrection of damnation."
00:34:25.36\00:34:27.39
That's what John says.
00:34:27.42\00:34:28.91
And he is the same one
who writes the Revelation.
00:34:28.94\00:34:31.23
He is the same one
that writes about heaven.
00:34:31.26\00:34:33.34
He is the same one that
writes about the future.
00:34:33.37\00:34:35.48
And he tells us this in
the fifth chapter of John.
00:34:35.51\00:34:38.54
1 Corinthians 15,
00:34:38.57\00:34:39.86
this is the Word of
God, the weight of evidence.
00:34:39.89\00:34:41.58
Listen "Behold, I
shew you a mystery,
00:34:41.61\00:34:43.42
we shall not all sleep."
00:34:43.45\00:34:44.87
By the way every time
Jesus spoke about death,
00:34:44.90\00:34:47.01
he called it sleep.
00:34:47.04\00:34:48.54
Soul sleep. Every
time he talked time.
00:34:48.57\00:34:51.20
Every time the
Apostle Paul talked about it,
00:34:51.23\00:34:53.56
he talked about sleep.
00:34:53.59\00:34:54.72
"Behold, I shew you a
mystery we shall not all sleep,
00:34:54.75\00:34:57.32
but we shall all be
changed, in a moment,
00:34:57.35\00:34:59.77
in the twinkling of an eye,
00:34:59.80\00:35:01.25
at the last trump, for
the trumpet shall sound,
00:35:01.28\00:35:03.98
and the dead in
Christ shall rise first.
00:35:04.01\00:35:07.45
We shall be changed.
00:35:07.48\00:35:08.74
For the corruptible
must put on incorruption,
00:35:08.77\00:35:10.59
a mortal must
put on immortality."
00:35:10.62\00:35:12.31
If you have immortality,
why do you have to put it on?
00:35:12.34\00:35:15.01
And "So when this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption,
00:35:15.04\00:35:18.20
and when this mortal
have put on immortality,
00:35:18.23\00:35:20.84
then shall be
brought to pass the saying,
00:35:20.87\00:35:23.09
Death is
swallowed up in victory.
00:35:23.12\00:35:25.24
O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?"
00:35:25.27\00:35:29.24
What a promise made
by the apostle there,
00:35:29.27\00:35:31.80
Paul, that there
will be the resurrection,
00:35:31.83\00:35:34.98
there will be the
resurrection of the dead.
00:35:35.01\00:35:37.26
That the grave will break forth
00:35:37.29\00:35:39.31
and they will come
forth in the resurrection
00:35:39.34\00:35:42.30
and into this new, into this
new experience and new life.
00:35:42.33\00:35:45.60
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17,
this is the weight of evidence
00:35:45.63\00:35:49.54
"The Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
00:35:49.57\00:35:52.03
with the voice of the archangel,
00:35:52.06\00:35:53.29
and with the trump of God
00:35:53.32\00:35:54.35
and the dead in Christ
shall what, rise first.
00:35:54.38\00:35:58.17
Then we which
are alive and remain
00:35:58.20\00:36:02.09
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:36:02.12\00:36:03.34
so shall we ever
be with the Lord."
00:36:03.37\00:36:05.22
Comfort one
another with those words
00:36:05.25\00:36:06.86
and that is comfort,
isn't it my dear friend.
00:36:06.89\00:36:08.94
Isn't that comfort
to be caught up together
00:36:08.97\00:36:12.65
with them in the cloud
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:36:12.68\00:36:15.49
so shall we ever
be with the Lord.
00:36:15.52\00:36:18.25
And that's the Word
of God the Bible says.
00:36:18.28\00:36:21.29
Then we which are alive remain
00:36:21.32\00:36:22.56
that you and I will be
caught together with them.
00:36:22.59\00:36:25.01
Who? Those who are raised.
00:36:25.04\00:36:26.41
The ones you love,
00:36:26.44\00:36:27.56
you're gonna be
caught up together.
00:36:27.59\00:36:28.76
Families are going to
be caught up together.
00:36:28.79\00:36:30.27
Can you imagine
what it would be like
00:36:30.30\00:36:31.42
going through the stars?
00:36:31.45\00:36:32.70
Can you know what
it's like when we go
00:36:32.73\00:36:33.89
through all
reigning together as family.
00:36:33.92\00:36:35.63
Can you know what it's like
00:36:35.66\00:36:36.69
when we see our
grandmother again,
00:36:36.72\00:36:38.73
my beautiful
Christian grandmother.
00:36:38.76\00:36:40.55
And I can put
my arms around her.
00:36:40.58\00:36:42.47
And I could-- she
will say "good boy Ronny."
00:36:42.50\00:36:46.36
And she knew I was a rascal.
00:36:46.39\00:36:50.31
But we'll be caught
up together in the cloud
00:36:50.34\00:36:52.03
to meet the Lord in the air.
00:36:52.06\00:36:53.68
I hope I am in Brooklyn anyway.
00:36:53.71\00:36:56.29
I hope I am in Brooklyn.
What a great promise it is.
00:36:56.32\00:36:59.19
I am thrilled with the
promise of return of Christ
00:36:59.22\00:37:01.47
to earth the second time.
00:37:01.50\00:37:02.86
That's what this is all about.
00:37:02.89\00:37:04.28
That's what
Revelation today is all about.
00:37:04.31\00:37:06.82
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 tells us,
00:37:06.85\00:37:09.45
"For the living
know that they shall die
00:37:09.48\00:37:10.74
but the dead
know not any thing."
00:37:10.77\00:37:12.93
How clearer can that be?
00:37:12.96\00:37:14.49
Neither have they
any more a reward,
00:37:14.52\00:37:16.18
for the memory of
them is forgotten."
00:37:16.21\00:37:18.32
The Bible says notice
00:37:18.35\00:37:20.37
"For the living
know they shall die,
00:37:20.40\00:37:21.68
the dead know not any thing."
00:37:21.71\00:37:23.77
One what?
00:37:23.80\00:37:24.83
"Neither have
they any more reward
00:37:24.86\00:37:26.53
for the memory of
them is forgotten.
00:37:26.56\00:37:28.27
"Also their love, their hatred,
their envy is now perished,
00:37:28.30\00:37:31.95
neither have
they any more portion
00:37:31.98\00:37:33.28
of anything done under the sun."
00:37:33.31\00:37:34.78
You don't go back
to haunt the house.
00:37:34.81\00:37:38.14
And if it comes it's not
your loved one, it's a demon.
00:37:38.17\00:37:42.97
It's a demon. Notice the Bible.
00:37:43.00\00:37:47.94
Well, you say, Ron, what
about the thief on the cross.
00:37:47.97\00:37:50.31
You know, didn't
Jesus say to the thief
00:37:50.34\00:37:52.54
you're going to go
with me to paradise.
00:37:52.57\00:37:54.15
Didn't Jesus
say today right now,
00:37:54.18\00:37:56.41
I am going to
take you to paradise.
00:37:56.44\00:37:57.68
Well, let's look at it.
00:37:57.71\00:37:58.74
Let's find out
what the Bible says.
00:37:58.77\00:38:00.55
And let's see what the
Bible says on this subject.
00:38:00.58\00:38:03.01
All right, notice here.
00:38:03.04\00:38:04.86
"And then he said to
Jesus, 'Lord, remember me
00:38:04.89\00:38:07.88
when You comes
into Your kingdom."
00:38:07.91\00:38:09.89
And now notice what Jesus says.
00:38:09.92\00:38:12.53
"And Jesus said to him,
'Assuredly, I say to you,
00:38:12.56\00:38:17.54
today you will be
with Me in paradise."
00:38:17.57\00:38:20.08
Now I want to give
you little Bible lesson.
00:38:20.11\00:38:22.53
They didn't have
commas in the days of Jesus,
00:38:22.56\00:38:24.37
in the days when
the book was written.
00:38:24.40\00:38:26.17
But anyway just let's
first of all look at the comma.
00:38:26.20\00:38:30.22
Now the comma
puts it in the present.
00:38:30.25\00:38:33.91
"Jesus said unto him
'Assuredly I say to you today
00:38:33.94\00:38:36.53
you will be
with Me in paradise.'
00:38:36.56\00:38:39.84
" Right, but look
at that little comma.
00:38:39.87\00:38:42.01
I am going to just change
it. I am just going to move it.
00:38:42.04\00:38:44.91
But it wasn't
there in the first place
00:38:44.94\00:38:46.29
but I am just going to move it.
00:38:46.32\00:38:47.84
Notice, he says
this "Jesus said to him
00:38:47.87\00:38:50.46
'Assuredly I say to you today,
00:38:50.49\00:38:52.20
you will be with
Me in paradise.',
00:38:52.23\00:38:54.17
Well, it's not only a comma
friend, you see Jesus Christ,
00:38:58.40\00:39:02.12
the thief did not
even die that day.
00:39:02.15\00:39:04.17
How can he go to
paradise and be with Jesus.
00:39:04.20\00:39:06.82
Because you remember the story
00:39:06.85\00:39:08.24
I am going to read it for
you right here in the Bible.
00:39:08.27\00:39:10.49
You see, by the way
let's look at another
00:39:10.52\00:39:12.58
little thing
about changing a comma.
00:39:12.61\00:39:15.74
It was during the
days of women's suffrage
00:39:15.77\00:39:17.29
that was when
they were marching,
00:39:17.32\00:39:18.35
you know, they
want to be equal to men.
00:39:18.38\00:39:19.96
Look at this.
00:39:19.99\00:39:21.02
"Woman: without her,
man would be a beast."
00:39:21.05\00:39:24.26
That's pretty good.
00:39:24.29\00:39:25.32
I mean women can you imagine
are marching to the streets
00:39:25.35\00:39:27.69
but they made a slight--
00:39:27.72\00:39:28.76
the printer made a slight error.
00:39:28.79\00:39:30.06
He put woman without
her man, would be a beast.
00:39:30.09\00:39:35.38
Of course, the printer
was chased out of town.
00:39:35.41\00:39:38.04
But when you see just
a comma like that moved
00:39:38.07\00:39:39.93
but the Bible is
very clear on it.
00:39:39.96\00:39:41.75
Not just a comma
"Jesus saith unto her."
00:39:41.78\00:39:44.50
This is on Sunday,
this is three days later.
00:39:44.53\00:39:47.90
He says "Touch me not
00:39:47.93\00:39:49.90
for I have not yet
ascended to my Father."
00:39:49.93\00:39:52.46
How can he take the thief
to heaven to his father's house
00:39:52.49\00:39:56.21
and three days later
he says don't touch me
00:39:56.24\00:39:58.96
I haven't gone there myself.
00:39:58.99\00:40:04.23
Text out of
context is a pretext.
00:40:04.26\00:40:06.29
And yet they build the
whole doctrine on that passage.
00:40:06.32\00:40:10.06
No, friend, he
is talking future.
00:40:10.09\00:40:12.01
You see the thief he says
00:40:12.04\00:40:13.39
"with every drop of
blood that pours of my veins,
00:40:13.42\00:40:15.67
listen every drop of
blood that pours from my veins
00:40:15.70\00:40:18.36
you shall be with Me
in paradise" Listen to me.
00:40:18.39\00:40:21.85
No one will
keep you from heaven.
00:40:21.88\00:40:23.50
Because I am
dying sacrificing Myself
00:40:23.53\00:40:26.16
just so you can go to heaven.
00:40:26.19\00:40:27.84
What a wonderful
promise it was to that thief.
00:40:27.87\00:40:30.19
Listen to me that
promise made with thief
00:40:30.22\00:40:32.04
1,900 years ago on cross is
made to everyone of you here
00:40:32.07\00:40:36.18
in this great
auditorium tonight,
00:40:36.21\00:40:37.73
can you say amen.
00:40:37.76\00:40:38.97
You have that
promise, it's a promise of God,
00:40:39.00\00:40:41.72
a promise of God.
00:40:41.75\00:40:44.19
John 20:17 he
hadn't ascended himself.
00:40:44.22\00:40:48.16
In fact, "Then
came the soldiers,
00:40:48.19\00:40:50.08
and brake the legs of the first,
00:40:50.11\00:40:51.69
and the other which
was crucified with him.
00:40:51.72\00:40:53.83
But when they came to Jesus,
00:40:53.86\00:40:55.01
and saw that he
was dead already,
00:40:55.04\00:40:56.91
they brake not his legs."
00:40:56.94\00:40:58.68
Bible tells us what
hour it was in the afternoon.
00:40:58.71\00:41:01.40
They rushed to get
the body of the cross.
00:41:01.43\00:41:03.48
Because Jews were not
buried on the Sabbath.
00:41:03.51\00:41:05.96
So he had to be buried
before the Sabbath came.
00:41:05.99\00:41:08.77
It was about to set the sun.
00:41:08.80\00:41:10.58
They took it to
Joseph of Arimathea's tomb,
00:41:10.61\00:41:12.95
put it in the
tomb, Mary Magdalene,
00:41:12.98\00:41:15.25
Mary the mother of Jesus
00:41:15.28\00:41:16.31
wouldn't even
anoint the body on Sabbath,
00:41:16.34\00:41:19.28
so it was on the
first day of the week
00:41:19.31\00:41:21.03
they came to
anoint the body of Jesus.
00:41:21.06\00:41:23.54
They kept the Sabbath
according to the commandments.
00:41:23.57\00:41:26.94
And I think if it
was good enough for Mary
00:41:26.97\00:41:29.82
the mother of Jesus surely
should be good enough for me.
00:41:29.85\00:41:33.91
It would be good enough for
me. But what does it tell us.
00:41:33.94\00:41:37.23
They broke the
legs to hasten death.
00:41:37.26\00:41:39.12
They hadn't even
died the sun went down.
00:41:39.15\00:41:42.36
"So man lieth
down, and riseth not
00:41:42.39\00:41:44.06
till the heavens be no more."
00:41:44.09\00:41:45.12
Listen this is scripture.
00:41:45.15\00:41:46.56
"They shall not awake, nor
be raised out of their sleep.
00:41:46.59\00:41:48.71
If a man dies,
shall he live again?
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.42
All the days of
my appointed time
00:41:50.45\00:41:52.21
will I wait, till
my what, change come."
00:41:52.24\00:41:55.55
Listen to me friend,
when will that change come.
00:41:55.58\00:41:58.01
"These things said he,
00:41:58.04\00:41:59.39
and after that
he saith unto them,
00:41:59.42\00:42:00.62
Our friend
Lazarus what, sleepeth,
00:42:00.65\00:42:02.83
but I go, that I may
awake him out of sleep.
00:42:02.86\00:42:04.88
And then said his disciples,
00:42:04.91\00:42:06.18
Lord, if he
sleep, he shall do well."
00:42:06.21\00:42:08.02
Jesus says no "Howbeit
Jesus spake of what, his death.
00:42:08.05\00:42:12.27
And they thought that he had
spoke of taking rest in sleep.
00:42:12.30\00:42:15.11
And then said Jesus unto
them plainly, Lazarus is dead."
00:42:15.14\00:42:19.23
You mean to say
that Jesus came there
00:42:19.26\00:42:23.45
to that place in that tomb,
call Lazarus down of the heaven
00:42:23.48\00:42:28.00
because he received the reward
00:42:28.03\00:42:30.01
put him back into
the stinking grave.
00:42:30.04\00:42:32.94
Put him back into
four days stinking.
00:42:32.97\00:42:35.53
And then brought him forth
from the day from the grave
00:42:35.56\00:42:38.62
so when a few more years
he could go through it again.
00:42:38.65\00:42:43.67
Don't you see
God's way is always best?
00:42:43.70\00:42:47.24
Don't you see friend
God's way is always best?
00:42:47.27\00:42:50.70
Listen to the word of God.
This is the weight of evidence.
00:42:50.73\00:42:53.62
"For the Lord
himself shall descend
00:42:53.65\00:42:54.88
from heaven with a shout,
00:42:54.91\00:42:55.94
with the voice of the archangel,
00:42:55.97\00:42:57.40
and the trump of God,
00:42:57.43\00:42:58.68
and the dead in Christ
shall what, rise first."
00:42:58.71\00:43:03.83
Dead in Christ, where are they?
00:43:03.86\00:43:04.97
In the grave,
waiting for the resurrection.
00:43:05.00\00:43:07.19
That's a word of God.
And the word of God is plain.
00:43:07.22\00:43:10.89
Notice what the Bible
says "Then we which are alive
00:43:10.92\00:43:13.38
and remain shall be caught
up together in the clouds,
00:43:13.41\00:43:15.04
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:43:15.07\00:43:16.11
so shall we ever
be with the Lord."
00:43:16.14\00:43:17.98
Let me tell you a story
about two little caterpillars.
00:43:18.01\00:43:20.88
Of course this
is a preacher story
00:43:20.91\00:43:22.09
but you can enjoy it.
00:43:22.12\00:43:24.27
Two little
caterpillars were crawling
00:43:24.30\00:43:25.43
through a cabbage patch.
00:43:25.46\00:43:27.40
Drilling holes in cabbages,
one little caterpillar turned
00:43:27.43\00:43:30.65
over to the other caterpillar
and said "do you know
00:43:30.68\00:43:33.15
I am not going to have to
crawl on my belly all the time.
00:43:33.18\00:43:37.03
You know some day I
am going to have wings.
00:43:37.06\00:43:39.66
And I am going to
fly across the fence
00:43:39.69\00:43:42.55
and drink and suckle
honey from the wine."
00:43:42.58\00:43:44.42
That's the caterpillar.
00:43:44.45\00:43:45.75
And the other
caterpillars say "what."
00:43:45.78\00:43:48.60
"He said oh, no I am not
going have to crawl on my belly
00:43:48.63\00:43:50.91
through the dirt
no and drill holes in.
00:43:50.94\00:43:53.29
I am going to have wings
00:43:53.32\00:43:54.35
and I am going to
fly across the fence
00:43:54.38\00:43:56.08
and drink and
suckle honey from the wine.
00:43:56.11\00:43:59.16
And the
caterpillar moved away from him
00:43:59.19\00:44:00.73
and they all
thought he was strange.
00:44:00.76\00:44:03.63
And with his last dying strength
00:44:03.66\00:44:06.51
he created his
cascade, his chrysalis.
00:44:06.54\00:44:11.03
And he lay in the chrysalis,
00:44:11.06\00:44:13.25
they came and extol his virtues.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.73
Do you notice that?
00:44:14.76\00:44:15.79
All the little caterpillars
gathered around told about
00:44:15.82\00:44:18.03
how good a caterpillar he was?
00:44:18.06\00:44:20.83
He stayed in his own row,
he drilled nice little holes,
00:44:20.86\00:44:23.77
he was friendly to everybody.
00:44:23.80\00:44:25.83
Why do you wait till
they're dead to tell them
00:44:25.86\00:44:27.41
how wonderful they were?
00:44:27.44\00:44:29.76
Hey, listen to me
get on the phone tonight
00:44:29.79\00:44:31.20
and call momma up and
tell her how wonderful she is.
00:44:31.23\00:44:34.00
Don't wait till she is gone.
00:44:34.03\00:44:36.16
Hey if you're holding
any grudges, bury them,
00:44:36.19\00:44:40.60
say hello to momma or
daddy or someone say hello,
00:44:40.63\00:44:45.34
but don't wait till they're gone
00:44:45.37\00:44:46.75
and don't start weeping then.
00:44:46.78\00:44:48.67
It means nothing.
00:44:48.70\00:44:50.04
And so they were
the two caterpillars
00:44:50.07\00:44:52.07
and then the summer sun came
and warmed the dry chrysalis
00:44:52.10\00:44:55.41
and rain fell and it
broke open and it came,
00:44:55.44\00:44:58.11
it came not an ugly
caterpillar from that death
00:44:58.14\00:45:02.05
but there came a
beautiful butterfly
00:45:02.08\00:45:04.09
and it flew across the fence
00:45:04.12\00:45:06.01
and it drank suckle
honey from the wine.
00:45:06.04\00:45:08.84
You know what
caterpillar is right.
00:45:08.87\00:45:13.85
Some day, in God's
day he will call us forth
00:45:13.88\00:45:19.96
and we'll come not forth
like ugly little caterpillars.
00:45:19.99\00:45:27.25
But we'll come forth
in the immortal body,
00:45:27.28\00:45:31.44
an
incorruptible body and we'll--
00:45:31.47\00:45:34.40
listen mother weep no more.
00:45:34.43\00:45:37.18
For someday
Jesus is going to put
00:45:37.21\00:45:38.70
that child back
in your arms again.
00:45:38.73\00:45:40.41
And you're going
to rise up to heaven
00:45:40.44\00:45:41.96
to meet the Lord in the air.
00:45:41.99\00:45:43.05
Come on that's
what God says here.
00:45:43.08\00:45:45.17
Give God praise here tonight.
00:45:45.20\00:45:50.24
Anyway Lord
Lindsay went to Egypt
00:45:50.27\00:45:52.75
found the mummy brought it back
00:45:52.78\00:45:54.53
and he noticed that the mummy's
hand was closed in a fist in
00:45:54.56\00:45:57.93
and he was wondering
what was in that fist
00:45:57.96\00:46:00.43
and curiosity got the
best and he found a flower seed
00:46:00.46\00:46:05.19
in the hand of a
mummy 2,000 years dead.
00:46:05.22\00:46:11.04
So he took the flower
seed and he put a flower box
00:46:11.07\00:46:14.04
out the window there
at the London museum.
00:46:14.07\00:46:17.00
He buried the
seed and he would water
00:46:17.03\00:46:21.43
and the sunlight would beat down
00:46:21.46\00:46:23.17
2,000 years in
the dead man's hand.
00:46:23.20\00:46:26.60
Two thousand years
in the dead man's hand
00:46:26.63\00:46:31.99
and then a green shoot
came up out of the dirt.
00:46:32.02\00:46:36.67
And soon a
beautiful, beautiful flower
00:46:36.70\00:46:42.92
and all the scientists
and all the archeologists,
00:46:42.95\00:46:45.17
you know, they gathered around
00:46:45.20\00:46:46.70
and there they saw
it a beautiful flower
00:46:46.73\00:46:48.97
2,000 years in a dead man's hand
00:46:49.00\00:46:51.88
when buried in the earth.
00:46:51.91\00:46:53.35
You see when you bury
your seed in the earth
00:46:53.38\00:46:55.46
it comes forth a flower,
00:46:55.49\00:46:57.09
when you bury a
corn in the earth
00:46:57.12\00:46:58.97
it comes forth an oak.
00:46:59.00\00:47:01.07
When you bury a man or a woman
00:47:01.10\00:47:02.54
or a child in the
earth that's not the end.
00:47:02.57\00:47:04.89
There will be resurrection.
00:47:04.92\00:47:06.46
There will be life after life
and that life is hidden in God.
00:47:06.49\00:47:12.99
Father, weep no
more. Son weep no more.
00:47:13.02\00:47:18.45
Daughter weep no more.
00:47:18.48\00:47:20.78
For this Christ
is coming back again.
00:47:20.81\00:47:23.48
This Christ is
going to come in glory.
00:47:23.51\00:47:25.69
I tell you every person
born into the human family,
00:47:25.72\00:47:28.90
no matter how
wealthy, how powerful,
00:47:28.93\00:47:31.78
how knowledgeable
he or she becomes,
00:47:31.81\00:47:34.03
no matter how
small and insignificant
00:47:34.06\00:47:36.32
he or she feels will
ultimately be defeated by death.
00:47:36.35\00:47:39.88
Therefore, we must
put our trust in God.
00:47:39.91\00:47:42.40
There will be a resurrection.
00:47:42.43\00:47:45.36
My grandmother came from Norway.
00:47:45.39\00:47:47.83
She had six children
00:47:47.86\00:47:49.95
and one on the way
that was my father.
00:47:49.98\00:47:51.60
The only one born
in America was my dad.
00:47:51.63\00:47:55.19
And my grandmother
didn't a word of English.
00:47:55.22\00:47:59.16
My grandfather
was a shipbuilder.
00:47:59.19\00:48:00.95
Halverson's are great
shipbuilders in Norway.
00:48:00.98\00:48:04.12
He worked as a carpenter to get
his family across to America.
00:48:04.15\00:48:06.90
He wanted freedom he
wanted the place to work.
00:48:06.93\00:48:09.33
He wanted to
build a home for them.
00:48:09.36\00:48:11.51
And he was working on the mass
00:48:11.54\00:48:12.57
just had come
recently to America
00:48:12.60\00:48:15.03
and working on the
Masten in Brooklyn shipyard
00:48:15.06\00:48:17.33
he fell off and every
bone in his body was broken,
00:48:17.36\00:48:19.89
3 weeks later he died.
00:48:19.92\00:48:22.23
And that little
dear grandmother of mine
00:48:22.26\00:48:25.07
she couldn't hardly
speak a word of English,
00:48:25.10\00:48:26.84
she had now seven children.
00:48:26.87\00:48:31.19
She worked as a superintendent
00:48:31.22\00:48:33.12
in a tenement
building in Brooklyn.
00:48:33.15\00:48:36.66
And she raised us.
She was a godly woman.
00:48:36.69\00:48:40.01
She used to take us to
the little Norwegian church
00:48:40.04\00:48:43.05
little Lutheran
Norwegian church.
00:48:43.08\00:48:45.82
And I would see
her carrying a Bible
00:48:45.85\00:48:47.39
and we would come
out of Sunday school
00:48:47.42\00:48:50.32
and she would have candy for us,
00:48:50.35\00:48:51.67
I know some of you
would be frighten by that.
00:48:51.70\00:48:54.02
But anyway it was
good for a grandmother.
00:48:54.05\00:48:56.47
And it was good for a grandson.
00:48:56.50\00:48:58.51
You can have an
apple tree in heaven,
00:48:58.54\00:48:59.86
I am going to
have snicker bar treat.
00:48:59.89\00:49:01.18
That's all
right. That's all right.
00:49:01.21\00:49:05.16
Anyway my grandmother she
was a saintly Christian woman.
00:49:05.19\00:49:09.10
She had a stroke.
00:49:09.13\00:49:11.15
And half her body was paralyzed.
00:49:11.18\00:49:13.61
My momma took her in
tenement with six children.
00:49:13.64\00:49:15.87
And she took care
of them for years.
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But my mother got sick on that
00:49:20.60\00:49:22.52
when she was going
to give birth to girl
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and they put her in a home
00:49:25.94\00:49:28.09
in one of these
big county hospitals.
00:49:28.12\00:49:30.60
I would used to go there
even when I was gang bang,
00:49:30.63\00:49:32.89
even when I was a
mean I would go there.
00:49:32.92\00:49:35.69
And I walked down and
I see these hospital beds
00:49:35.72\00:49:37.49
and my little grandmother
00:49:37.52\00:49:38.55
she had half a
smile on her face,
00:49:38.58\00:49:39.82
always have half a smile.
00:49:39.85\00:49:42.63
And I had to walk up
in my black leather jacket
00:49:42.66\00:49:44.50
and skull and blood
you know looking cool.
00:49:44.53\00:49:47.57
Then my grandmother
would look up and smile.
00:49:47.60\00:49:51.02
And she would
say "Ronny good boy."
00:49:51.05\00:49:56.92
I wasn't good boy.
00:49:56.95\00:50:00.03
I don't know what she saw in me.
00:50:00.06\00:50:02.26
No one else saw much good.
00:50:02.29\00:50:04.36
But my grandmother
she would take her hand
00:50:04.39\00:50:07.83
and my hand with her good hand.
00:50:07.86\00:50:10.67
And she stroke it
she said Ronny good boy.
00:50:10.70\00:50:16.25
I can't wait till Jesus comes.
00:50:16.28\00:50:19.06
And I can't wait
to fly with my grandma
00:50:19.09\00:50:21.81
and look at her
and she'll look at me
00:50:21.84\00:50:23.19
and say good boy.
00:50:23.22\00:50:25.94
And we'll go to the
kingdom of heaven together.
00:50:25.97\00:50:27.62
Don't you think
God's way is best,
00:50:27.65\00:50:29.20
come on friend,
God's way is always best.
00:50:29.23\00:50:33.50
God's way is always best.
00:50:33.53\00:50:35.85
This death does
not have the final word
00:50:35.88\00:50:38.72
because one day your
faith will become sight
00:50:38.75\00:50:41.54
and you'll see the gates
of pearl thrown open for you.
00:50:41.57\00:50:45.21
And you will walk
in and God will say
00:50:45.24\00:50:47.37
welcome home children.
00:50:47.40\00:50:49.56
Welcome home and forever
00:50:49.59\00:50:52.02
through the ceases
of ages of eternity
00:50:52.05\00:50:54.69
we shall be home with
God and with all those
00:50:54.72\00:50:58.52
that we have loved for
the sake of Jesus Christ.
00:50:58.55\00:51:01.52
May God burn in
your heart tonight.
00:51:01.55\00:51:03.97
May you hear in Ovens Auditorium
00:51:04.00\00:51:05.99
go with this place knowing
that Jesus is the resurrection.
00:51:06.02\00:51:09.84
That he is life and
he never made a promise
00:51:09.87\00:51:12.49
that he is broken
and the promise is
00:51:12.52\00:51:14.96
I will come again and
receive you unto myself
00:51:14.99\00:51:19.76
that where I am
there yee may be also.
00:51:19.79\00:51:22.25
God bless you.
00:51:22.28\00:51:23.75
Another Bible Question.
00:51:59.81\00:52:02.07
If a person is
worried about dying
00:52:02.10\00:52:03.59
what can I say to that person?
00:52:03.62\00:52:06.67
Well, this is where
it becomes very real.
00:52:06.70\00:52:08.90
If you know
somebody approaching death
00:52:08.93\00:52:10.55
and what the fact is
00:52:10.58\00:52:11.61
we're all approaching
death on one level or another.
00:52:11.64\00:52:14.53
If you know,
somebody who is terminally ill
00:52:14.56\00:52:16.59
or struggling with these things
00:52:16.62\00:52:19.23
what do you say to
encourage that person?
00:52:19.26\00:52:21.06
Now, first thing you
say is God loves you.
00:52:21.09\00:52:25.71
1 John 4:8 and 1
John 4:16, God is love.
00:52:25.74\00:52:30.59
You tell that person John
3:16, "God so loved the world
00:52:30.62\00:52:33.98
that He gave His
only begotten son,
00:52:34.01\00:52:35.82
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish,
00:52:35.85\00:52:38.36
but have everlasting life."
00:52:38.39\00:52:42.18
You know, if you lived as
long as the oldest person ever
00:52:42.21\00:52:46.17
to have lived in recent times,
00:52:46.20\00:52:49.14
the oldest person ever
to live, live 900 some years
00:52:49.17\00:52:55.13
the myth-wait a
minute the oldest person ever
00:52:55.16\00:52:58.36
to have died is
Methuselah, live to be 969.
00:52:58.39\00:53:02.67
The oldest person who
ever lived is probably Enoch
00:53:02.70\00:53:04.53
because he didn't die.
00:53:04.56\00:53:07.01
But you want to tell us somebody
00:53:07.04\00:53:09.50
or if you live as long as anyone
00:53:09.53\00:53:11.61
in recent times to be 122 years.
00:53:11.64\00:53:13.87
A woman in France
Jeanne Calment lived to be 122.
00:53:13.90\00:53:20.55
You know just the other
day I just spoke to a lady
00:53:20.58\00:53:23.41
who was 99 years
old, about to turn 100.
00:53:23.44\00:53:31.13
I said to her,
00:53:31.16\00:53:32.78
did it take very long to
live as long as you lived?
00:53:32.81\00:53:36.43
Did it seem to take a long time?
00:53:36.46\00:53:37.84
She said, oh no, it just
passed by just like that.
00:53:37.87\00:53:41.40
I spoke to another centenarian
and asked the same question.
00:53:41.43\00:53:44.89
Does it seem like it took you
a long time to live be hundred?
00:53:44.92\00:53:47.20
She said, oh no. oh, no.
00:53:47.23\00:53:50.68
Even if you live to be 122,
00:53:50.71\00:53:53.25
not very old in the
grand scheme of things
00:53:53.28\00:53:56.65
and even then what
are you gonna do but die.
00:53:56.68\00:54:01.15
So we're all going to die.
00:54:01.18\00:54:02.51
The fact is that God has
promised everlasting life
00:54:02.54\00:54:06.01
and that's the good
thing, everlasting life.
00:54:06.04\00:54:11.25
Here's what I would do.
00:54:11.28\00:54:13.52
I would encourage somebody
00:54:13.55\00:54:14.74
by talking about
the resurrection.
00:54:14.77\00:54:18.16
You know that Jesus
said in John Chapter 11,
00:54:18.19\00:54:21.29
I am the
resurrection and the life.
00:54:21.32\00:54:25.26
In John Chapter 6 Jesus
said, he who believes in me
00:54:25.29\00:54:30.09
though he dies
yet shall he live.
00:54:30.12\00:54:33.58
He said, I will raise
him up on the last day.
00:54:33.61\00:54:38.15
Now, that's
encouragement for anybody.
00:54:38.18\00:54:40.99
John Chapter 5,
I shall turn there.
00:54:41.02\00:54:44.81
John Chapter 5:8,
00:54:44.84\00:54:47.32
'Marvel not at this:
for the hour is coming,
00:54:47.35\00:54:50.39
in that which all
that are in the graves
00:54:50.42\00:54:52.62
shall hear his
voice, and shall come forth
00:54:52.65\00:54:56.23
they that have done good
unto the resurrection of life."
00:54:56.26\00:54:59.91
Thank God for that.
00:54:59.94\00:55:01.29
Paul wrote to the Thessalonians
00:55:01.32\00:55:02.52
he said, "For the Lord himself
00:55:02.55\00:55:04.00
shall descend from
heaven, with a shout,
00:55:04.03\00:55:05.79
with a voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God,
00:55:05.82\00:55:08.18
and the dead in
Christ shall rise first."
00:55:08.21\00:55:13.78
Be encouraged today
and if you know somebody
00:55:13.81\00:55:15.95
who is looking at a
very uncertain future,
00:55:15.98\00:55:18.56
encourage that
person with the love of God.
00:55:18.59\00:55:21.20
And with the promises of
God that say that one day
00:55:21.23\00:55:24.24
there's gonna be a
great getting up morning
00:55:24.27\00:55:26.50
and we're all going to go
home where we're supposed to be.
00:55:26.53\00:55:32.18
Thanks for your
questions, God bless you.
00:55:32.21\00:55:33.93
We look forward to doing
this again some time soon.
00:55:33.96\00:55:36.15
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00:55:44.60\00:55:47.24
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00:55:47.27\00:55:50.37
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