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"Amazing Facts" Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: The Christians
of the Ancient Mediterranean
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world used catacombs, a network
of subterranean chambers and
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galleries, for burial.
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But during times of persecution,
the catacombs became places of
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refuge because burial grounds
were guarded or sacrosanct by
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Roman law.
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When churches above ground were
destroyed by imperial order,
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worshipers met
in catacomb chapels.
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By AD 200, Christians had carved
some 600 miles of tombs in the
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volcanic rock
in and around Rome.
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Eventually, the catacombs
expanded into honeycombs of
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galleries with
staircases and multiple levels.
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Romans preferred cremation, but
Christians followed the practice
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of interring the dead in
catacombs, which they called
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coemeteria, or sleeping
places, to suggest that, for a
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Christian, death is merely a
sleep before the resurrection.
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Did you know that Jesus plainly
taught that death is a sleep?
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In fact, all of
scripture confirms that it is an
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unconscious sleep until the
Resurrection at Christ's Return.
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So why is there so
much confusion, even among
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Christians, over
what happens when we die?
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And how can you protect yourself
against some of the potentially
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dangerous delusions
about death in the last days?
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Doug: There is a jellyfish
called the Turritopsis dohrnii.
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It's a species of jellyfish
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that's known as the "immortal
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jellyfish" because it's got this
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remarkable ability to regenerate
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its cells.
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Can you imagine that?
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And if it's injured, it kind of
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goes back to its embryonic
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state, and it's almost like it
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can control its own
stem cells and regenerates.
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Now, they might get eaten by a
turtle, but they don't die from
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old age.
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Scientists are spending,
and even some millionaires are
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personally spending millions
of dollars to find out what they
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can do to reverse
the aging process.
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People go through exercise
regimes and take supplements and
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spend a lot of money trying to
do all they can to prolong these
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lives because we know that
if you live long enough, you'll
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die, with very few exceptions.
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Now, there are some exceptions
in the Bible of people that did
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not die.
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"Enoch walked with God, and he
was not, because God took him."
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And then you've got
Elijah that did not die.
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He went to heaven
in a chariot of fire.
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The angels caught him up.
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Now, you can read in
Revelation 14--it talks about
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this subject.
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And this is in verse 13.
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It says, "Then I heard a voice
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from heaven saying, 'Write:
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Blessed are the dead who die in
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the Lord from now on.'
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'Yes,' says the Spirit, 'that
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they may rest from their labors,
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and their works follow them.'"
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So here it's talking about,
"Blessed are those who die from
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now on, that they may rest."
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You read later that "those who
worship the beast and its image
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have no rest day or night."
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But what happens when you die?
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Do you go right to heaven?
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Do you go right
to the other place?
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Do you go to purgatory
or limbo or Abraham's bosom?
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There's a lot of confusion
about what happens when you die.
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If you walk through the typical
church graveyard, you're going
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to see all these tombstones,
and you'll find there's even
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disagreement
written on the tombstones.
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One tombstone will say, "RIP."
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You remember--what's that mean?
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Rest in peace.
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And they'll say, "Our dear
mother is now resting in the
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arms of Jesus, awaiting
the resurrection trump."
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Then you walk down two or three
tombstones that say, "Our dear
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mother is now walking the golden
street singing with the angels."
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And you go, "Is she resting or
is she walking down the streets?
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What happens?"
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What is the definition of
"death" according to the Bible?
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It says in 2 Kings 20, verse 1,
"You shall die, and NOT live."
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Dying is the opposite of living.
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Living is a consciousness
of life and activity.
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Death is the
absence of all that.
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You don't know anything.
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You're not doing anything.
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You're dead.
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Keep that in mind.
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Again, "The soul that sins,"
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will do what?
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Will burn for ever and ever.
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It says, "The soul
that sins will die."
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You know John 3:16?
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"For God so loved the world, He
gave His only begotten Son, that
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whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have
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everlasting life."
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What are the two
options that Jesus gives us?
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Perish or everlasting life.
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Romans 6:23, "The wages of sin
is an altered state," or "The
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wages of sin are death."
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The first one who lied about
that was the devil when he told
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Adam and Eve,
"You'll not really die."
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And that's been repeated in
many pulpits around the world.
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Number two, do the dead come
back to converse with or haunt
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the living?
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Should Christians
be afraid of ghosts?
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What does the Bible say?
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"The living," and this
here is from Ecclesiastes
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9, written by King Solomon.
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Ecclesiastes 9. I'll
read verses 5, 6, and 10.
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"The living know that
they'll die; but the dead know?"
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What's their IQ?
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Zero. They don't know anything.
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"They have no more reward in
anything done under the sun,"
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meaning this life.
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"Also their love, their hatred,
their envy have now PERISHED;
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nevermore will they have a share
in anything done under the sun."
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They don't come back and haunt.
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There is no work or device or
knowledge or wisdom in the grave
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where you're going.
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Now, if those are--if that
term's clear, please say amen.
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What words could God use to
say that the dead don't know
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anything that He did not use?
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And you could look at
Psalm 146, verse 3 and 4.
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It says, "Put not your trust
in princes, neither in the Son
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of Man, in whom
there is no help.
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His breath goes forth; in that
very day his thoughts perish."
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He doesn't think anything.
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All through the Bible, it
says, "The dead do not praise
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the Lord."
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Number three,
what happens at death?
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The Bible makes it pretty clear.
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It says, and this is from
Ecclesiastes 12, verse 7, "Then
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the dust will RETURN to the
earth as it was, and the spirit
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will RETURN to God who gave it."
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Okay, you're
thinking right there,
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"There you got it, Pastor Doug.
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The spirit returns to God."
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What is that spirit?
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What is that word "spirit?"
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Do you know it says, "God
breathed into Adam the breath of
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life, and he
became a living soul."
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That is the exact same word
you see here in Ecclesiastes 12.
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It is the Hebrew word ruach,
and it means wind, breath.
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God breathed into him.
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When a person dies,
the breath returns to God.
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Ecclesiastes here, he says,
"Whether you're good or bad, dog
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or cat."
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It doesn't matter what it is,
the breath of life returns to
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God who gave it.
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It's not talking
about some ghost that flies
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off that's conscious.
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It's just saying
the power of life.
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"The Lord God formed man out of
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the dust of the ground, and
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He breathed into his nostrils
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the breath of life."
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That is that word
ruach, which means spirit.
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You have a similar word in
Greek for that breath of life or
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that spirit.
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It's the word pneuma.
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Now, when someone--the
word "pneuma" means a wind.
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Any of you men ever
worked with pneumatic tools?
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Now you got all these
power batteries you clip on
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everything, we don't use
pneumatic tools near as much.
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But that meant that they were
driven by a compressor, air.
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And if you get the
disease of the lungs, it's
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called pneumonia.
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Pneuma meant-- it's
translated spirit, but it
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meant wind.
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And--because it was
a breathing problem.
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So it's the same word.
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It's just talking
about the breath of life.
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It's not conscious.
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And when you die,
you've got creation in reverse.
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The elements
return to the earth.
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Probably worth a $1.98 in
calcium, magnesium, and who
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knows what.
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And the spirit
returns to God who gave it.
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Okay, number four, where
do the dead go when they die?
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You're going to see why this
is so important to understand in
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the last days.
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So where do they go?
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It tells you clearly.
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Job says in chapter 21,
verse 32, it says, "Yet he will
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be," what?
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"Brought to the GRAVE, and
will--vigil will be kept over
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the TOMB."
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I believe there's angels--
guardian angels that watch the
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spot where someone perishes, and
they'll raise them back up, but
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they remain in the tomb.
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The devil is setting people up
to think they're going to talk
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to the dead right away.
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Do the dead ever
come back to life?
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Well, yes, they do.
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It says in John chapter 5:28,
Jesus is very clear, "The hour
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is coming in which all that
are in the graves will hear His
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voice & come forth--those who
have done good, the RESURRECTION
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of life, & those that have
done evil, the RESURRECTION
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of damnation."
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How many Resurrections?
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Two.
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Paul tells us the dead in Christ
rise first in 1 Thessalonians
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chapter 4.
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And so we need to know
that there are two separate
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Resurrections, and yes, there is
going to be life and there are
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going to be rewards,
but it hasn't happened yet.
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The Bible tells us that Jesus
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Christ is the one
that has the keys.
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You can read in Revelation 1:18,
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"I have the keys of Hades," the
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word "Hades" there means the
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grave, "and Death."
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Only Jesus can unlock the grave.
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The demons could not raise
Samuel for King Saul to view.
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The devil does not have
the power of resurrection.
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He can counterfeit it, but
he doesn't have that power.
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Number six, how does the
Bible repeatedly refer to death?
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What terminology does it use?
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You look in John chapter 11.
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It says, "Our
friend Lazarus," what?
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"SLEEPS, but I go
that I might wake him up."
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The disciples said,
"Oh, Lord, don't wake him up.
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If he's sleeping,
that's good, he'll get better,
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he needs to rest."
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And Jesus, "No,
you don't understand."
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Jesus spoke of
his what? His death.
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They thought he was talking
about speaking--taking rest
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in sleep.
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Then Jesus said to them
plainly, "Lazarus is," what?
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He is dead.
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Dead, dead, dead.
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Lazarus had been dead four days,
and when they said, "Roll away
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the stone," Martha protested and
said, "Lord, you're sure this is
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a good idea?
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He's already begun to decompose,
and it's going to smell
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very bad.
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This is not
going to be pleasant."
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But the Bible says Jesus
said, "I am the resurrection and
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the life.
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Trust Me."
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She said, "I know he'll
rise in the Resurrection at the
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last day."
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Jesus said, "Trust Me."
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And they rolled away the
stone, and Jesus said, "Lazarus,
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come forth."
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And I heard one commentator
say, "If Jesus had not specified
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Lazarus, every grave in the
world would have opened up."
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If the Word of God said,
"Come forth," it would have all
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come forth.
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But He said,
"Lazarus, come forth."
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And it says, "He who had died
came out bound hand & foot," he
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had been embalmed with
graveclothes, "& his face was
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wrapped about with a cloth.
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And Jesus said to them,
'Loose him, & let him go.'"
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Now listen very carefully: there
are about a dozen resurrections
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in the Bible.
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Elijah resurrected a boy.
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Elisha resurrected a boy.
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Jesus resurrected Moses,
because Moses appears in heaven.
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The daughter of
Jairus was resurrected.
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Peter resurrected Dorcas.
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Lazarus is resurrected.
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Paul resurrects Eutychus.
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Jesus resurrects
the widow of Nain's son.
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And I'm probably leaving a
couple out, but there's--I've
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counted--about a dozen
resurrections in the Bible.
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Are you aware--now, if someone
you know had been dead for two
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or three days in our world and
the doctors declared them really
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dead, and they were even buried,
and then they came out healthy
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and alive, every broadcaster in
the country would want to talk
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to Lazarus, am I right?
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There would be every media
crew that you could think of all
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clamoring for a space with
a microphone shoved up in his
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face, and what
would be the question?
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"What happened?
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What did you experience?"
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How much does the Bible say
these resurrected people said
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about what they knew at death?
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Nothing.
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Now, someone's going to ask
me about the parable of the rich
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man and Lazarus.
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Maybe Pastor Ross
and I'll talk about that.
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We'll follow up. Maybe
we'll do that question.
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Nobody resurrected ever said
a word about what it was like to
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be resurrected.
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Don't you think
that's strange? Why?
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"The living know they'll die;
the dead know not anything."
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1 Thessalonians 4:14, "If we
believe that Jesus died and rose
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again, even so God will
bring with Him those who SLEEP
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in Jesus."
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And if you look in the book of
Job 14, verse 12, "So man lies
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down and does not rise."
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Is that clear?
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"Till the heavens are no more."
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The Bible says, "When Jesus
comes, the heavens will depart
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as a scroll."
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"Till the heavens are no
more, nor will they awake nor be
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roused from their sleep."
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So all the dead who
have ever died are where?
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They're asleep.
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Number seven, but isn't
it true the soul is immortal?
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Is that what the Bible says?
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Listen to what the Bible says.
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It's like a dictionary
definition in Ezekiel 18, verse
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4, "The soul who sins will DIE."
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Death is the absence of life.
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And again, Job
4:17, "Can," what?
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"MORTAL man be more
righteous than God?"
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Does man have
immortality or is immortal?
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Can you show me a verse in
the Bible that says you have an
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immortal soul?
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There is no verse.
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Matter of fact, the word
"immortal" only appears one time
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in the Bible, and it's
in connection with God.
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Listen to what the Bible says
here in Matthew 10, verse 28:
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"Do not fear those who kill the
body but cannot kill the soul.
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But rather fear
Him," that's capital H-I-M.
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That's God.
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"Who is able to do," what?
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"DESTROY both
soul and body in hell."
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Now, there is a lake of fire.
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I believe in hell.
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"Every one man is rewarded
according to his works."
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But what ultimately
happens to the soul in hell?
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Destroy.
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God does not
immortalize sinners.
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It's the devil
that spreads that lie.
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Who has immortality,
according to Paul, alone?
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1 Timothy 6:15 and 16.
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"The King of kings, the
Lord of lords, who ALONE
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has IMMORTALITY."
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Who has immortality alone?
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God.
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See, eternal life is a gift.
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You don't already have it.
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You get eternal
life through faith.
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"Whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have
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eternal life."
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If you don't believe
in Him, you're mortal.
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God told Adam and Eve, "If you
disobey, you will surely die."
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Isn't that what it says?
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Number eight, will human beings
ever be given immortality?
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Yes, we were just
talking about this.
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You can read here in
1 Thessalonians 4:16.
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Now, these verses I'm going
to share with you--you've heard
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the expression "slam dunk"?
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There are some verses that are
what I call a slam-dunk verse,
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meaning it's
just without question.
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That it settles the issue.
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We got a couple
of them coming here.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16, "For the
Lord Himself will descend from
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heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with
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a trumpet of God.
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And the DEAD in
Christ will RISE first."
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When do the dead rise?
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When the Lord
descends from heaven.
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Has He descended from
heaven with a shout yet?
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They have not risen yet.
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1 Corinthians 15:52, "For the
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trumpet will sound, and the dead
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will be raised INCORRUPTIBLE,
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and we will be changed."
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When does that happen?
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When the trumpet
sounds, when the Lord descends.
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"For this corruptible,"
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"corruptible" means these bodies
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that grow old and
die and decompose.
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"This corruptible must put on
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INCORRUPTION," a body that is
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eternal, "and this mortal must
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put on IMMORTALITY."
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Now, let me talk about
this for just a moment.
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What kind of bodies do
we get in the Resurrection?
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Are we ghosts?
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How many of you have seen,
you know, some of the medieval
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pictures of people resurrected
and they say, "You become an
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angel," and you become a naked
little angel, and you play harps
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on clouds?
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And they think they're
kind of half-spirit, half-real.
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When Jesus rose from
the dead, was He real?
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What did He do to
prove He was real?
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He said, "I'm tangible.
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Touch me.
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Feel me.
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A spirit does not have flesh and
bone as you see that I have."
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And then on two
occasions, He said, "I'm hungry.
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You got anything to eat?"
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And they said, "Well, we got
some honeycomb and some fish."
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He said, "Oh, that sounds good."
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Another time He's by the lake,
and He says, "Children, have you
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caught any food?"
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And He--they came in, He
had breakfast cooking, and they
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brought some fish.
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He had some bread baking, and
they brought the fish, and they
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had fish
sandwiches or something.
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But He said He was real.
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Did God make Adam and Eve real?
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The devil messed things up.
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God is going to
complete His plan.
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He's going to do what
he planned for this world.
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He's not going to
let the devil mess it up.
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The Bible says we'll go forth,
we'll plant vineyards and eat
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the fruit from them.
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We'll build
houses and inhabit them.
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The children will play with the
animals, if you read Isaiah 11.
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The Bible is very clear that the
earth made new is going to be
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real, and God is going
to resurrect us with these
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glorified, real bodies that have
senses, except now we've got,
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you know, just five senses.
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In heaven, we'll
have the sixth sense.
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Before we sinned,
we could see angels.
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We've lost that perception.
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It's going to be restored.
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Do you know they're
around us right now?
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Elisha knew that.
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His servant lost
faith one day, and
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he said, "Lord, open his eyes."
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And his eyes were open.
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He saw the
mountains were filled with
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chariots and horses of fire.
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There's a whole spiritual
dimension around us now that we
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just don't
perceive, but it's very real.
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"As in Adam," I'm giving
you 1 Corinthians 15, verse 22.
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"As in Adam all die, even so in
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Christ shall all be made alive."
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Now he tells you
when it's going to happen.
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"But each one in its own order:
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Christ the firstfruits,"
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Jesus was risen first,
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"afterward those who are
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Christ's at His coming."
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Can you say that with me?
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"Afterward those
who are Christ's," when?
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"At His coming."
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When are they made alive?
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Jesus said, "Here's
the order: at His coming."
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They're not made
alive as soon as they die.
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They're sleeping a
peaceful--they are R-I-P.
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Resting in peace.
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A lot of the early
church fathers knew this.
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Martin Luther knew it.
00:20:10.74\00:20:12.04
He said, "Jesus will come
and knock on my grave and wake
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me up."
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And a lot of the others
understood these things.
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Number nine, so if the dead
cannot converse with the living,
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what did the witch
conjure up for King Saul?
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It says, "I saw
three unclean spirits.
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They are the SPIRITS of
DEMONS, performing signs."
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Jesus said in the last days,
the devil is going to have signs
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that will be so convincing that
if it were possible, even the
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very elect would be deceived.
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He said there'll be false
christs and false prophets that
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will do many great wonders.
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These are wonderful,
amazing things, but they're
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evil spirits.
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We should not be
deceived by this.
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You know what it says in 1
Chronicles chapter 10, verse 13?
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You realize the story of King
Saul is not only in 1 Samuel.
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It's also in 1 Chronicles.
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There's two parallel stories.
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Here's what it says: "So
Saul died for his unfaithfulness
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which he had committed against
the Lord, because he did not
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keep the Word of the Lord,
and also because he consulted a
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medium for guidance."
00:21:15.50\00:21:17.71
He went to a spiritist.
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It wasn't Samuel the
prophet he talked to.
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It was the devil.
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And in the last days, people who
think that you die and you go
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right to heaven or hell,
they don't believe the Bible.
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But if they got grandma coming
back and talking to them, if
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they got a spouse that
died, they'll think, "Oh, I got
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a message."
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And they said, "Don't worry,
Jesus didn't really mean that.
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People have misunderstood what
it says there in the Bible."
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And there's going to be
deception that's going to
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go out.
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Evil spirits posing as
the dead are going to be
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convincing people.
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And unless we know how to rebuke
those spirits when they come to
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us, we're set up
for a great deception.
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Now, I've got to just
say something before I close.
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I know there are people here,
there are people watching, you
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have loved ones that have died,
and you felt like you sense
00:22:09.49\00:22:12.29
their presence.
00:22:12.33\00:22:13.66
You've maybe felt like they
tried to communicate or give you
00:22:13.70\00:22:15.66
some kind of sign
from the other side.
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.43
I've lost some loved ones--my
mother, my father, my brother,
00:22:18.47\00:22:22.04
a son.
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.41
And you've got your mind filled
with memories and love and
00:22:23.44\00:22:28.24
affection for this person.
00:22:28.28\00:22:30.41
And sometimes you're going
to have impressions, and that's
00:22:30.45\00:22:33.65
normal that your
mind would think that.
00:22:33.68\00:22:36.28
I remember after my brother
died, I used to always be able
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to pick up the
phone and just call him.
00:22:38.79\00:22:40.82
He's my older brother.
00:22:40.86\00:22:42.46
And one day I picked up
the phone to call him, and I'd
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forgot he had
been dead for a year.
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I just forgot.
00:22:46.36\00:22:48.06
And I thought--I
felt, like, his presence.
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Well, it's just my memories,
thinking about my brother.
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So don't let your
mind play tricks on you.
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If you're going to go by
anything, go by the Bible.
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Amen?
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Number 10, why does Satan want
us to believe that the demons
00:23:01.78\00:23:05.31
are spirits of the dead?
00:23:05.35\00:23:07.62
"For false christs and false
prophets will rise and show
00:23:07.65\00:23:11.32
great signs and wonders
DECEIVE, if possible, even the
00:23:11.35\00:23:15.09
very elect."
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.26
And in the last days, these
unclean spirits like frogs are
00:23:17.29\00:23:21.46
going to come out of the
mouth, the beast, and the false
00:23:21.50\00:23:23.33
prophet, go forth to the leaders
of the world, and convince them
00:23:23.37\00:23:27.17
to go against this final
battle against God's people.
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They're going to be led by evil
spirits because they think that
00:23:30.14\00:23:32.91
they're--they're going to come
and appear to be Saint Mary or
00:23:32.94\00:23:37.31
Joseph or Paul or Christopher.
00:23:37.35\00:23:39.15
You know, there's some churches
that prayed to dead saints.
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Are they really saints that
are giving them impressions?
00:23:42.85\00:23:46.05
Is it really
Mary that's appearing?
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A lot of people
misunderstand these things.
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Nowhere in the Bible does it say
that she ascended to heaven, but
00:23:51.56\00:23:55.10
some people stake
their whole life on that.
00:23:55.13\00:23:58.23
God told Adam and Eve, "In the
day you eat thereof, you will
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surely die."
00:24:01.27\00:24:02.57
The dead are waiting,
good or bad, in the graves for
00:24:02.60\00:24:05.04
the Resurrection.
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.41
It was the devil who
said, "You will not surely die."
00:24:06.44\00:24:10.41
That means, "You
will not really die."
00:24:10.45\00:24:12.48
So the question is, who
are we going to believe?
00:24:12.51\00:24:14.95
Is anyone able to overcome
Satan's last-day deceptions?
00:24:14.98\00:24:18.72
Yes. Who?
00:24:18.75\00:24:20.92
It says in Isaiah 8:19,
"And when they say to you, 'Seek
00:24:20.96\00:24:24.89
those that are mediums
and wizards, who whisper and
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.46
mutter,' should the
people SEEK their God?
00:24:27.50\00:24:30.67
Should they seek the
dead on behalf of the living?
00:24:30.70\00:24:33.20
To the law and the testimony!
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If they do not speak according
to this WORD, it is because
00:24:34.87\00:24:38.24
there is no LIGHT in them."
00:24:38.27\00:24:39.64
Friends, it needs to be
based upon the Word of God.
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Amen?
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And as long as we know Jesus
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