>> COMING UP NEXT ON
"AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
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>> THE BIBLE TEACHES, "FOR GOD
SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS
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ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,"
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM CAN HAVE
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IMMORTALITY, EVERLASTING LIFE.
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OTHERWISE YOU PERISH.
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TWO CHOICES, PERISH
OR EVERLASTING LIFE.
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"AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
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PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM
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"THE EVERLASTING
GOSPEL" VIDEO SERIES.
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>> YOU MAY THINK THIS
IS A STRANGE STATEMENT.
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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
SUBJECTS IN LIFE TO UNDERSTAND
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IS DEATH.
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BECAUSE, WELL, IT'S
JUST AS CERTAIN AS TAXES.
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I DON'T WANT TO BE MACABRE
OR SOBERING OR DEPRESSING TODAY.
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I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE
THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT
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BEFORE WE CONCLUDE THE MESSAGE,
BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CONFUSION
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AND IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR
US TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT,
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BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT
APPLIES, DEATH APPLIES TO EVERY
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LIFE.
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THERE'S ANOTHER QUOTE FOR YOU,
"DEATH APPLIES TO EVERY LIFE."
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AND WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT.
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ALL OF US HERE HAVE BEEN TOUCHED
BY THIS SUBJECT, AND SO I DON'T
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WANT TO BE UNKIND OR
DISRESPECTFUL, BUT THERE IS SO
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MUCH CONFUSION IN THE
CEMETERY, EVEN IF YOU GO TO
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A CHURCHYARD CEMETERY.
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IT COULD BE A BAPTIST OR A
METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY AND
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YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES,
ANY OF YOU EVER DO THAT?
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YOU VISIT THE CEMETERY AND MAYBE
YOU'VE BEEN THERE BECAUSE OF
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A SERVICE AND YOU WALKED
AROUND A LITTLE BIT ON YOUR OWN
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AFTERWARDS, AND YOU READ SOME
OF THE TOUCHING INSCRIPTIONS.
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AND YOU CAN QUICKLY SEE THERE'S
NOT A CONSENSUS EVEN IN THE SAME
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DENOMINATIONAL CEMETERY
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE.
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FOR INSTANCE, ONE CEMETERY MIGHT
READ, "OUR DEAR FATHER IS NOW
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SLEEPING QUIETLY IN THE
ARMS OF JESUS WAITING FOR THE
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RESURRECTION TRUMPET."
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AND THE SAME CEMETERY YOU WALK
A FEW MORE TOMBSTONES AND IT
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WILL SAY, "OUR MOTHER IS NOW
SINGING ON THE GOLDEN STREETS
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WITH THE ANGELS."
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AND YOU'RE WONDERING, "WELL, ARE
THEY AWAKE, ARE THEY SINGING?
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WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
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WHERE ARE THEY?"
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AND THERE'S JUST NO AGREEMENT.
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WHEN WE WENT TO THE PHILIPPINES
A FEW YEARS AGO, SOME OF OUR
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CREW THAT'S HERE REMEMBER WE
WENT TO VISIT A CHINESE CEMETERY
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IN MANILA.
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AND I DIDN'T SEE ONE IN CHINA,
SO I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT
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THE ONE IN MANILA.
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AND THIS CEMETERY IS FAMOUS
AROUND THE WORLD, BECAUSE THEY
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HAVE BUILT VERY ELABORATE
APARTMENTS FOR THE DEAD.
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AND IN THE APARTMENTS SOME
OF THEM WILL HAVE HOT AND COLD
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RUNNING WATER.
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THEY'VE GOT ROOMS;
THEY'VE GOT FURNITURE.
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I EVEN SAW ONE,
THEY GOT ELECTRICITY AND
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AIR CONDITIONING.
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AND IT'S AMAZING, BECAUSE
IT'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ANCIENT
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PHARAOHS, I GUESS PART OF THEIR
RELIGION IS YOU WANT TO HAVE ALL
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OF THE AMENITIES
FOR THE AFTERLIFE.
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SO THEY WOULD PUT THE SERVANTS
IN THERE WITH THE PHARAOHS AND
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ALL THESE DIFFERENT BELIEFS
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE.
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NOW, TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'VE
GOT TO GO BACK TO THE BASICS.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WHEN GOD
MADE ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN
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OF EDEN HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL.
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WHAT IS A SOUL?
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SECOND CHAPTER OF GENESIS, 2:7,
WE READ THERE THAT THE LORD GOD
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FORMED THE MAN FROM THE DUST OF
THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIS
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NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE.
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AND NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, IT
DOESN'T SAY GOD GAVE HIM A SOUL,
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IT SAYS MAN
BECAME A LIVING SOUL.
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THE COMBINATION OF
THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER,
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HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL.
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NOW, WHEN SOMEONE DIES, THE
OPPOSITE OF THOSE TWO THINGS
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HAPPENS.
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IN OTHER WORDS, BEFORE MAN
BECOMES A SOUL IT'S THE ELEMENTS
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OF THE EARTH THAT GOD COMBINES
WITH THE BREATH OF LIFE AND HE
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BECOMES, THOSE TWO THINGS
TOGETHER EQUAL A LIVING SOUL.
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WHEN YOU DIE, THOSE TWO
THINGS ARE BASICALLY SEPARATED.
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YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN
ECCLESIASTES 12:7, "THEN THE
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DUST SHALL RETURN TO THE EARTH
AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT WILL
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RETURN TO GOD WHO GAVE IT."
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SO WHEN A PERSON DIES, WE
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BODY,
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ASHES TO ASHES.
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I'VE SAT OVER MANY
GRAVES AT A GRAVESITE SERVICE.
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IT, THE BODY, WILL
TURN BACK INTO DUST.
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AND SOMEONE MIGHT ASK,
"WELL, WHAT ABOUT CREMATION?"
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WELL, THAT'S JUST REALLY
ACCELERATING THE SAME PROCESS.
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THERE ARE A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES
OF SAVED PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE WHO
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WERE CREMATED, LIKE JONATHAN
FOR INSTANCE, THE SON OF SAUL.
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AND WE EXPECT
HE'LL BE IN THE KINGDOM.
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CREMATION DOES NOT DISQUALIFY
YOU FROM THE RESURRECTION.
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SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT, YOU
KNOW, IF YOU'RE BURIED GOD CAN
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FIND ALL OF THE PARTS AND
PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
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BUT IF YOU'RE CREMATED, IF THEY
SCATTER THE ASHES, HE'LL NEVER
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BE ABLE TO REASSEMBLE YOU.
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THERE ARE ACTUALLY
PEOPLE WHO WORRY ABOUT THIS.
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IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER,
BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
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EVERYTHING IS NEW.
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HE'S NOT USING THE OLD
PARTS TO REASSEMBLE YOU.
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GOD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, RIGHT?
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SO WHAT ABOUT THE SPIRIT?
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SO IF THE SOUL IS THE
COMBINATION OF THE BODY AND
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THE ELEMENTS, BUT YOU'VE
GOT THIS INNER SPIRIT AND
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THE BREATH, THE SPIRIT
RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT,
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WHAT IS THIS SPIRIT
THAT RETURNS TO GOD IN DEATH?
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WE'RE GONNA LET THE
BIBLE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.
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YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS, RIGHT FRIENDS?
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JOB 27:3, "ALL THE WHILE MY
BREATH IS IN ME, AND THE SPIRIT
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OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS."
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NOW, I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYBODY
SING A SONG SAYING, "I'M SO
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THANKFUL FOR THE
SPIRIT IN MY NOSE."
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I MEAN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE
SPIRIT IN THEIR HEARTS AND THE
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SPIRIT IN THEIR MIND, BUT THEY
DON'T TALK ABOUT THE SPIRIT IN
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THEIR NOSE.
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WHY DOES IT SAY, "AND THE SPIRIT
OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS?"
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THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BREATH.
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THAT WORD THERE IN HEBREWS IS
TALKING ABOUT THE BREATH OF GOD.
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ADAM, GOD BREATHED INTO
ADAM THE BREATH OF LIFE.
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IT'S THE SPIRIT, SAME WORD.
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AND AGAIN, JAMES
2:26 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
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MANY VERSES BEAR THIS OUT,
"THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT,"
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AND THAT WORD THERE, "SPIRIT,"
IS THE GREEK WORD, "PNEUMA,"
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IT MEANS "THE WIND OR BREATH,"
"THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT
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IS," WHAT?
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"IS DEAD."
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YOU DON'T HAVE A
LITTLE GHOST INSIDE OF YOU.
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THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
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THE BREATH THAT RETURNS
TO GOD IS THE BREATH OF LIFE.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN ECCLESIASTES
WHEN IT SAYS, "WHEN YOU DIE
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THE BODY RETURNS TO THE EARTH,
THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO
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GAVE IT," IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
SPIRIT OF THE GOOD AND THE BAD,
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AND THE ANIMALS," THE
SPIRIT OF LIFE OF ALL CREATURES
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RETURNS THE GOD WHO GAVE IT.
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LIKE IF YOU WERE TO UNPLUG SOME
ELECTRIC APPLIANCE AND YOU SAY,
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"WHERE DID THE ELECTRICITY GO?"
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WELL, IT'S BACK AT THE
POWER PLANT, WHERE IT CAME FROM.
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WHEN SOMEONE DIES, THE ESSENCE,
THE POWER OF LIFE RETURNS TO
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GOD.
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NOW, THAT BRINGS UP THE NEXT
QUESTION, WHAT IS A SOUL AND CAN
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A SOUL DIE?
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YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE EXPRESSION
ABOUT THE IMMORTAL SOUL?
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THE BIBLE SAYS THE
SOUL IS NOT IMMORTAL.
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EZEKIEL 18:4, "THE
SOUL THAT SINS SHALL," WHAT?
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"THE SOUL THAT SINS WILL DIE."
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NOW, I WILL ASK YOU, AND YOU
CAN ANSWER ME, NAME ONE VERSE IN
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THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT
MAN HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL?
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WE'VE GOT SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE
HERE, AND I'M ALWAYS VERY SECURE
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WHEN I ASK THIS QUESTION.
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SOMEONE MIGHT MISQUOTE
SOMETHING, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA
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FIND A VERSE THAT I KNOW OF
IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT MAN
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POSSESSES AN IMMORTAL SOUL.
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FOLKS ARE SHOCKED TO HEAR THAT,
BECAUSE SO MANY PREACHERS PREACH
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ABOUT IT AND SO MANY PEOPLE
SING ABOUT IT, AND YET THE BIBLE
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DOESN'T SAY ONE TIME
THAT MAN HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL.
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MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS
THE OPPOSITE, IT SAYS WE ARE
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MORTALS, AND WHEN JESUS
COMES, THEN THIS MORTAL PUTS
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ON IMMORTALITY.
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BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE MORTAL
AND MORTAL MEANS YOU CAN DIE.
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A LOT OF
CONFUSION IN THE CEMETERY.
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AND SO OFTEN PEOPLE SAY, "YOU'VE
GOT AN IMMORTAL SOUL TO SAVE."
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THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
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THE BIBLE TEACHES IF YOU
WANT IMMORTALITY, YOU GET THAT
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FROM GOD.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN JOB
4:17, "SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE
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JUST THAN GOD?"
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NOW, NOTICE, DOES IT SAY
"MORTAL," OR, "IMMORTAL?"
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MORTAL, THAT MEANS YOU DIE.
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IMMORTAL MEANS YOU CAN'T DIE.
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WHO IS IT THAT HAS
IMMORTALITY, MAN OR GOD?
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1 TIMOTHY 6:15-16, "THE KING
OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS
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WHO ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY."
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WHO IS IT THAT
ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY?
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GOD.
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SO THIS COMMON TEACHING THAT
IS SO PERVASIVE ALL THROUGH EVEN
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THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT WE ARE
ALL IMMORTAL AND YOU'RE EITHER
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GONNA LIVE FOREVER IN HELL
OR YOU'RE GONNA LIVE FOREVER
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IN HEAVEN, THE
BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
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THE BIBLE TEACHES, "FOR GOD
SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS
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ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,"
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM CAN HAVE
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IMMORTALITY, EVERLASTING LIFE."
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OTHERWISE YOU PERISH.
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TWO CHOICES, PERISH
OR EVERLASTING LIFE.
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST
LIE THE DEVIL EVER TOLD?
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IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
WHAT DID HE SAYS TO EVE?
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"YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE."
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WHAT DID GOD
SAY TO ADAM AND EVE?
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"IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN
FRUIT, YOU WILL SURELY DIE."
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THE DEVIL SAID, "YOU
WILL NOT SURELY DIE."
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AND THE BIGGEST JOKE THE DEVIL
HAS EVER PLAYED ON THE CHRISTIAN
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CHURCH IS HE NO HAS PASTORS
ECHOING THE LIE OF THE DEVIL.
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THE DEVIL SAID, "YOU WON'T
REALLY DIE, YOU'RE IMMORTAL."
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GOD SAID, "YOU WILL
DIE, AND IF YOU WANT TO LIVE,
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IT'S ON MY TERMS."
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AND YET, THE MAJORITY OF THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CATHOLICS AND
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PROTESTANTS AROUND THE WORLD,
ARE TEACHING THE FIRST LIE.
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IF YOU WANT EVERLASTING LIFE,
IT'S A GIFT OF GOD; OTHERWISE
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IT'S PERISH.
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NOW, I WANT TO TRY TO DO THESE
THINGS IN SOME LOGICAL SEQUENCE.
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AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THERE IS
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A RESURRECTION; THERE IS
IMMORTALITY, THERE IS PUNISHMENT
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AND RESURRECTION FOR THE WICKED.
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THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE.
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WHY IT DOES NOT BURN THROUGH
ENDLESS AGES, THE WICKED ARE
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PUNISHED IN THE LAKE OF FIRE,
SOMETIMES CALLED "HELLFIRE."
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BUT NOBODY IS IN HELLFIRE NOW
AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
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WHO DIE, THEY'RE
NOT IN HEAVEN YET.
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NOW, THAT SHOCKS A LOT OF PEOPLE
WHEN THEY FIRST HEAR THAT.
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WHEN DO PEOPLE
GET THEIR REWARDS?
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WE'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
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LET'S FIND OUT
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
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REVELATION 22:12, "JESUS SAID,
BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY AND MY
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REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE TO
EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORKS
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SHALL BE."
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WHEN DO THEY GET THE REWARDS?
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WHEN JESUS COMES.
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ONE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTAND IS BECAUSE, HAS THE
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JUDGMENT DAY HAPPENED YET?
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ARE YOU WITH ME?
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HAS THE GENERAL
JUDGMENT HAPPENED YET?
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DON'T PEOPLE GET
REWARDED AFTER THE JUDGMENT?
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WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO PULL
PEOPLE OUT OF HEAVEN AND SAY,
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"WE HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED THIS
PREVIEW, NOW WE'RE GONNA FIND
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OUT IF YOU REALLY DESERVE IT?"
00:11:29.36\00:11:31.73
OR TO TAKE PEOPLE OUT OF
HELL AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF
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BURNING, AND TO YANK THEM UP AND
SAY, "WELL, WE THOUGHT IT'D BE
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TIME TO TRY YOU AND SEE
IF YOU'RE REALLY GUILTY."
00:11:38.23\00:11:41.40
DOES GOD OPERATE THAT WAY?
00:11:41.40\00:11:43.70
NO, THE REWARD COMES AFTER THE
INVESTIGATION, AFTER THE TRIAL.
00:11:43.70\00:11:47.63
JOB 14:12, "SO MAN LIES DOWN AND
RISETH NOT TILL THE HEAVENS BE
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NO MORE."
00:11:54.53\00:11:55.36
PEOPLE LAY IN THE GRAVE,
THEY REST, THEY SLEEP UNTIL THE
00:11:55.36\00:11:59.03
HEAVENS BE NO MORE.
00:11:59.03\00:12:00.13
WHEN WILL THE
HEAVENS BE NO MORE?
00:12:00.13\00:12:02.46
2 PETER 3:10 GIVES US THAT TIME,
"THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME,
00:12:02.46\00:12:07.80
IN WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS
AWAY AND THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH
00:12:07.80\00:12:11.86
FERVENT HEAT."
00:12:11.86\00:12:12.96
WHEN IS IT THAT THE HEAVENS
PASS AWAY THAT THE HEAVENS ARE
00:12:12.96\00:12:15.33
NO MORE?
00:12:15.33\00:12:16.46
THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE COMING
OF JESUS, WHEN HE COMES LIKE
00:12:16.46\00:12:19.13
A THIEF.
00:12:19.13\00:12:20.00
THAT'S WHEN, IT SAYS,
"THE WICKED--THE DEAD LAY DOWN
00:12:20.00\00:12:23.36
UNTIL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE."
00:12:23.36\00:12:24.83
THEY'RE STILL THERE RESTING.
00:12:24.83\00:12:26.90
NOW, SOME OF YOU ARE CONFUSED,
YOU'RE SAYING, "BUT DOESN'T
00:12:26.90\00:12:29.03
THE BIBLE TELL US
THAT PART OF US GOES?
00:12:29.03\00:12:32.46
IS THERE ABRAHAM'S BOSOM?"
00:12:32.46\00:12:33.83
LET'S KEEP
READING, STAY WITH ME.
00:12:33.83\00:12:36.50
1 CORINTHIANS 15, THIS TO
ME IS A SLAM-DUNK, FRIENDS.
00:12:36.50\00:12:39.76
IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT
ABOUT WHEN THE REWARDS HAPPEN,
00:12:39.76\00:12:41.70
1 CORINTHIANS 15:22-23, "FOR
AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN
00:12:41.70\00:12:48.46
CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE,
BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER."
00:12:48.46\00:12:52.80
THERE'S A
SEQUENCE, THERE'S AN ORDER.
00:12:52.80\00:12:54.30
WHAT'S THAT ORDER?
00:12:54.30\00:12:55.20
"CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS,
AFTERWARD THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S
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AT HIS COMING."
00:13:00.16\00:13:01.96
THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST;
LATER IT'S EVEN THE POWER OF
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CHRIST AFTER THE MILLENNIUM
THAT RAISES THE WICKED.
00:13:05.06\00:13:08.63
BUT IT'S THE COMING OF CHRIST
THAT RAISES BOTH, DID YOU CATCH
00:13:08.63\00:13:11.33
THAT?
00:13:11.33\00:13:12.26
THE NEXT TIME CHRIST
COMES, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE
00:13:12.26\00:13:14.93
AND AT THE END OF THE
1,000 YEARS THE WICKED RISE,
00:13:14.93\00:13:18.10
BUT THEY'RE NOT RISEN YET.
00:13:18.10\00:13:20.73
FURTHERMORE, IN THE SAME
CHAPTER, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51 ON
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TO 53, "WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED
IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF
00:13:26.73\00:13:31.33
AN EYE AT THE LAST TRUMPET."
00:13:31.33\00:13:33.63
HAS THAT LAST
TRUMPET SOUNDED YET?
00:13:33.63\00:13:35.60
WHEN DOES THE
TRANSFORMATION TAKE PLACE?
00:13:35.60\00:13:37.56
"FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND
AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED,
00:13:37.56\00:13:40.63
INCORRUPTIBLE.
00:13:40.63\00:13:41.96
FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE--"
"CORRUPTIBLE" MEANS A BODY
00:13:41.96\00:13:44.33
THAT DECOMPOSES, IT GETS OLD.
00:13:44.33\00:13:45.90
"FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST
PUT ON INCORRUPTION," NOW CATCH
00:13:45.90\00:13:49.00
THIS, "THIS MORTAL
MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY."
00:13:49.00\00:13:52.66
DO WE HAVE IMMORTALITY NOW?
00:13:52.66\00:13:54.73
IT'S AT THE COMING OF THE LORD.
00:13:54.73\00:13:56.66
JOHN 5:28-29, JESUS IS SPEAKING.
00:13:56.66\00:13:59.63
IF THIS WAS A BIBLE WITH
RED LETTER, THIS WOULD BE RED.
00:13:59.63\00:14:03.36
"ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVE SHALL
HEAR HIS VOICE AND SHALL COME
00:14:03.36\00:14:05.86
FORTH."
00:14:05.86\00:14:06.96
NOW, I KNOW SOME OF YOU, YOU
KNOW YOUR BIBLES AND YOUR MINDS
00:14:06.96\00:14:09.83
ARE SPINNING, YOU SAY, "WAIT,
BUT PASTOR DOUG, AREN'T THERE
00:14:09.83\00:14:13.40
SOME PEOPLE IN HEAVEN NOW?
00:14:13.40\00:14:15.26
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SEEM TO TEACH
THROUGH SOME PARABLES AND OTHERS
00:14:15.26\00:14:17.60
THAT THERE ARE
SOME IN HEAVEN NOW?"
00:14:17.60\00:14:19.93
IS ANYONE IN HEAVEN NOW?
00:14:19.93\00:14:22.16
YES.
00:14:22.16\00:14:23.36
ARE THERE ANY
HUMANS IN HEAVEN NOW?
00:14:23.36\00:14:25.23
NOT JUST TALKING
ABOUT ANGELS AND JESUS.
00:14:25.23\00:14:26.96
YEAH, THERE ARE SOME EXCEPTIONS
AND THE BIBLE EXPLAINS ALL OF
00:14:26.96\00:14:29.90
THOSE EXCEPTIONS.
00:14:29.90\00:14:31.86
FIRST OF ALL, YOU CAN READ IN
MARK 9 AND LUKE AND IN MATTHEW,
00:14:31.86\00:14:36.93
THE STORY OF
THE TRANSFIGURATION.
00:14:36.93\00:14:39.03
WHO APPEARS TO
JESUS ON THAT MOUNTAINTOP?
00:14:39.03\00:14:41.86
MOSES AND ELIJAH.
00:14:41.86\00:14:44.50
THEY'RE REAL,
HE'S TALKING TO THEM.
00:14:44.50\00:14:47.20
THE APOSTLES SAW THEM.
00:14:47.20\00:14:48.80
THEY'RE BOTH FROM PRIOR HISTORY.
00:14:48.80\00:14:51.10
HOW'D THEY GET TO HEAVEN?
00:14:51.10\00:14:52.66
WELL, WE KNOW ABOUT
HOW ELIJAH GOT THERE.
00:14:52.66\00:14:55.00
YOU READ ABOUT
THAT IN 2 KINGS 2:11.
00:14:55.00\00:14:57.70
WHAT HAPPENED?
00:14:57.70\00:14:59.03
HE TOOK A CHARIOT OF ANGELS,
SO TO SPEAK, OR THEY CALLED IT
00:14:59.03\00:15:04.46
CHARIOTS AND HORSES OF
FIRE, CAME DOWN AND SWOOPED HIM
00:15:04.46\00:15:07.13
UP AND TOOK HIM UP TO HEAVEN.
00:15:07.13\00:15:09.73
SO WE KNOW HOW HE
GOT THERE WITHOUT DYING.
00:15:09.73\00:15:11.63
HOW DID MOSES GET THERE?
00:15:11.63\00:15:13.60
WELL, THE LORD BURIED MOSES.
00:15:13.60\00:15:15.13
YOU CAN READ, AND BY THE WAY,
JEWISH TRADITION SAYS 3 DAYS
00:15:15.13\00:15:18.23
LATER THE LORD RAISED MOSES
SO THAT HE COULD WITNESS THEM
00:15:18.23\00:15:22.20
CROSSING OVER
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:15:22.20\00:15:24.40
THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE; YOU READ
ABOUT IT IN THE BOOK OF JUDE.
00:15:24.40\00:15:26.96
THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER,
VERSE 9, MICHAEL COMES DISPUTING
00:15:26.96\00:15:30.60
WITH THE DEVIL
OVER THE BODY OF MOSES.
00:15:30.60\00:15:33.23
WHY WOULD MICHAEL
DISPUTE WITH THE DEVIL?
00:15:33.23\00:15:34.86
HE'S COMING TO RAISE HIM.
00:15:34.86\00:15:36.53
AND BECAUSE MOSES
APPEARS, YOU KNOW HE'S THERE.
00:15:36.53\00:15:38.93
WHO ELSE IS THERE?
00:15:38.93\00:15:40.76
"ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; AND
HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM."
00:15:40.76\00:15:44.36
YOU CAN FIND THAT IN GENESIS,
YOU CAN FIND THAT IN HEBREWS,
00:15:44.36\00:15:46.86
NO QUESTION, ENOCH'S THERE.
00:15:46.86\00:15:49.10
BUT THERE'S MORE.
00:15:49.10\00:15:50.70
REMEMBER OUR SCRIPTURE
READING AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS
00:15:50.70\00:15:52.73
MESSAGE?
00:15:52.73\00:15:53.83
IN MATTHEW 27, DURING THE TIME
WHEN CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS
00:15:53.83\00:15:57.60
THERE WAS THIS EARTHQUAKE, ALL
THE GRAVES IN THE WORLD OPENED
00:15:57.60\00:16:01.60
UP, IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS?
00:16:01.60\00:16:03.43
NO, NOT ALL, IT'S NOT UNIVERSAL.
00:16:03.43\00:16:04.73
MANY OF THE GRAVES AROUND
JERUSALEM OPENED UP AND MANY OF
00:16:04.73\00:16:09.23
THE SAINTS WHO SLEPT.
00:16:09.23\00:16:10.53
SOME OF THE PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS
AND KINGS WHO LIVED PRIOR TO
00:16:10.53\00:16:13.76
THE TIME OF CHRIST, A
SPECIAL RESURRECTION TOOK PLACE.
00:16:13.76\00:16:17.63
IT DOESN'T TELL US WHO THEY ARE.
00:16:17.63\00:16:19.46
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ISAIAH,
JEREMIAH; IT COULD HAVE BEEN
00:16:19.46\00:16:22.86
ABRAHAM, WE DON'T KNOW, THAT
WAS RAISED IN THAT RESURRECTION.
00:16:22.86\00:16:26.96
AND THAT PROBABLY EXPLAINS--AND
IT SAYS, "THEY CAME OUT OF THE
00:16:26.96\00:16:30.46
GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION,
THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY,
00:16:30.46\00:16:32.96
THEY APPEARED UNTO MANY,
AND THEN AT THE ASCENSION OF
00:16:32.96\00:16:35.63
CHRIST THEY ASCENDED WITH HIM."
00:16:35.63\00:16:37.66
SORT OF A TROPHY, THE FIRST
FRUITS OF WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.
00:16:37.66\00:16:41.66
THE LORD OFTEN
DOES THINGS THAT WAY.
00:16:41.66\00:16:44.13
NOW, IN CONNECTION WITH
THE SUBJECT OF DEATH AND
00:16:44.13\00:16:47.60
THE CEMETERY, I PROBABLY
NEED TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT
00:16:47.60\00:16:51.70
REINCARNATION.
00:16:51.70\00:16:54.23
I EVEN MEET CHRISTIANS THAT
BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION, AND I
00:16:54.23\00:16:58.06
ADMIT, I'M NOT PROUD OF IT, THAT
WHEN I FIRST BECAME A CHRISTIAN,
00:16:58.06\00:17:01.10
I CAME OUT OF THE NEW AGE
MOVEMENT AND EASTERN RELIGIONS,
00:17:01.10\00:17:03.33
I BELIEVED IN REINCARNATION.
00:17:03.33\00:17:04.73
I TRIED TO COMMINGLE THE BIBLE
TEACHING WITH REINCARNATION;
00:17:04.73\00:17:08.83
I TRIED TO MAKE
THE TWO OF THEM FIT.
00:17:08.83\00:17:11.36
AND I SAID, "WELL, AFTER
ALL, THERE'S AT LEAST ONE
00:17:11.36\00:17:13.20
REINCARNATION, WHEN
THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE,
00:17:13.20\00:17:15.33
MAYBE THERE WERE OTHERS.
00:17:15.33\00:17:17.23
AND I TRIED TO ARGUE FOR THAT.
00:17:17.23\00:17:18.53
PRETTY SOON, AS I STUDIED
THE BIBLE, I REALIZED YOU CAN'T
00:17:18.53\00:17:20.46
DEFEND
REINCARNATION WITH THE BIBLE.
00:17:20.46\00:17:22.43
YEAH, THERE'S THAT ONE TIME WHEN
WE'RE REASSEMBLED, EITHER YOU'RE
00:17:22.43\00:17:27.33
RESURRECTED WITH THE JUST
OR YOU'RE RESURRECTED WITH
00:17:27.33\00:17:29.93
THE LOST, AND THAT'S IT.
00:17:29.93\00:17:32.40
BUT YOU'RE YOU.
00:17:32.40\00:17:34.30
REINCARNATION TEACHES YOU
COME BACK AS SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:17:34.30\00:17:37.40
THERE IS NO REINCARNATION.
00:17:37.40\00:17:38.40
THE BIBLE TELLS US, THIS
IS VERY CLEAR, HEBREWS 9:27,
00:17:38.40\00:17:42.23
"AND AS IT IS
APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE."
00:17:42.23\00:17:46.03
HOW MANY TIMES?
00:17:46.03\00:17:47.40
NOW, WE KNOW THERE'S A
FEW EXCEPTIONS, LIKE JESUS
00:17:47.40\00:17:49.93
RESURRECTED LAZARUS
AND HE DIED AGAIN, RIGHT?
00:17:49.93\00:17:52.93
AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF RARE
EXCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
00:17:52.93\00:17:56.00
RESURRECTED AND THEY HAD TO
DIE AGAIN, BUT IT'S SPEAKING IN
00:17:56.00\00:17:59.40
TERMS OF GENERAL HUMANITY,
"IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE
00:17:59.40\00:18:02.40
TO DIE AND AFTER
THAT THE JUDGMENT."
00:18:02.40\00:18:05.16
YOU DON'T JUST KEEP ON
COMING BACK AND YOU START OUT AS
00:18:05.16\00:18:07.50
A SQUIRREL OR AN ALLIGATOR AND
WORK YOURSELF UP TO A SQUIRREL,
00:18:07.50\00:18:10.83
AND THEN YOU COME BACK AS A MAN.
00:18:10.83\00:18:12.50
NO, I GUESS THEY SAY YOU
COME BACK AS A WOMAN, THEN A MAN
00:18:12.50\00:18:14.70
AND THEN A COW.
00:18:14.70\00:18:16.93
THAT'S THE SEQUENCE THAT
THEY TEACH, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:18:16.93\00:18:20.03
YEAH, YOU'VE HEARD THE
EXPRESSION, "HOLY COW?"
00:18:20.03\00:18:23.60
THAT'S WHERE THAT COMES
FROM; IT'S TRUE, I'M SERIOUS.
00:18:23.60\00:18:27.23
SO WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN A PERSON DIES?
00:18:27.23\00:18:29.96
WHEN YOU GO TO THE CEMETERY,
DOES IT GIVE YOU THE CREEPS?
00:18:29.96\00:18:33.26
IF YOU HAD TO WALK THROUGH A
CEMETERY, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
00:18:33.26\00:18:36.30
FULL MOON, WOULD YOU BE AFRAID
THAT SOME SPOOK'S GONNA REACH
00:18:36.30\00:18:40.46
OUT OF THE GRAVE
AND GRAB YOUR ANKLE?
00:18:40.46\00:18:43.60
WE'VE BEEN
TRAINED TO THINK THAT WAY.
00:18:43.60\00:18:45.66
COME ON, ADMIT IT, HAVEN'T WE?
00:18:45.66\00:18:47.70
WE'RE TRAINED TO THINK ALL
OF THIS MACABRE GHOULISH THINGS
00:18:47.70\00:18:50.80
THAT THE DEAD
AREN'T REALLY DEAD.
00:18:50.80\00:18:52.70
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH
ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF DEATH?
00:18:52.70\00:18:56.36
WHAT IS MAN'S STATE?
00:18:56.36\00:18:58.96
BOY, IF ANYTHING IS CLEAR, IF
YOU'RE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN, THIS
00:18:58.96\00:19:01.56
IS CLEAR, THE BIBLE REFERS
TO IT AS A DREAMLESS SLEEP.
00:19:01.56\00:19:06.36
FROM THE TIME OF DEATH
UNTIL THE RESURRECTION,
00:19:06.36\00:19:09.16
THERE IS NO CONSCIOUSNESS.
00:19:09.16\00:19:12.33
SOME OF YOU HAVE RESTLESS SLEEP,
AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE NIGHT GOES
00:19:12.33\00:19:16.33
ON FOREVER.
00:19:16.33\00:19:17.40
SOME OF YOU SLEEP WELL, YOU
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THE NEXT
00:19:17.40\00:19:20.43
THING YOU KNOW, YOU MAY
HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 7 HOURS.
00:19:20.43\00:19:22.86
YOU HEAR THE ALARM AND
YOU THINK, "WHAT HAPPENED?
00:19:22.86\00:19:25.60
IT SEEMS LIKE I
JUST CLOSED MY EYES."
00:19:25.60\00:19:28.26
NO AWARENESS OF TIME.
00:19:28.26\00:19:29.46
THAT'S HOW THE BIBLE
DESCRIBES THE SLEEP OF DEATH.
00:19:29.46\00:19:33.83
FOR THE SAVED AND
THE LOST IT'S THE SAME.
00:19:33.83\00:19:36.83
PSALM 13:3, "CONSIDER AND HEAR
ME, O LORD MY GOD, LIGHTEN MINE
00:19:36.83\00:19:41.83
EYES LEST I SLEEP
THE SLEEP OF DEATH."
00:19:41.83\00:19:45.23
DEATH IS REFERRED TO OVER
AND OVER AGAIN IN THE BIBLE.
00:19:45.23\00:19:47.53
OLD TESTAMENT, NEW
TESTAMENT, WORDS OF JESUS.
00:19:47.53\00:19:49.86
WHEN HIS FRIENDS CAME AND
TOLD HIM, "YOUR FRIEND LAZARUS
00:19:49.86\00:19:54.83
IS SICK," AND JESUS WAITED
AND HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
00:19:54.83\00:20:00.80
AND HE SAID TO THE DISCIPLES,
"YOU KNOW, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS
00:20:00.80\00:20:04.50
SLEEPS, BUT I'M GOING
THAT I MIGHT WAKE HIM."
00:20:04.50\00:20:07.93
AND THE APOSTLES
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.
00:20:07.93\00:20:09.60
THEY SAID, "WELL, IF HE
HAD A FEVER, IF HE'S SLEEPING,
00:20:09.60\00:20:11.20
THAT'S GOOD, HE'LL GET BETTER."
00:20:11.20\00:20:12.16
HE SAID, "NO, YOU DON'T
UNDERSTAND, LAZARUS IS,"
00:20:12.16\00:20:14.16
WHAT? "DEAD."
00:20:14.16\00:20:16.53
HOW DID JESUS
REFER TO LAZARUS' DEATH?
00:20:16.53\00:20:19.46
AS WHAT?
00:20:19.46\00:20:20.46
SLEEP.
00:20:20.46\00:20:21.66
THE STORY OF LAZARUS IS A GREAT
STORY AND I'M SURPRISED THAT
00:20:21.66\00:20:24.66
IT'S NOT MORE CLEAR TO PEOPLE.
00:20:24.66\00:20:26.10
WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE TOMB AND
HE SAID, "ROLL AWAY THE STONE,"
00:20:26.10\00:20:29.66
HE WAS GETTING READY TO
RAISE HIM, HE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR
00:20:29.66\00:20:32.66
FOUR DAYS.
00:20:32.66\00:20:33.83
AND MARTHA SAID, "LORD, BY THIS
TIME HE STINKS, FOR HE'S BEEN
00:20:33.83\00:20:37.26
DEAD FOR FOUR DAYS.
00:20:37.26\00:20:38.53
THE BODY IS TURNING BACK
INTO DUST AND THAT'S NOT A HAPPY
00:20:38.53\00:20:41.63
PROCESS AND YOU DON'T WANT
TO ROLL AWAY THE STONE NOW."
00:20:41.63\00:20:45.40
AND JESUS SAID, "TRUST ME."
00:20:45.40\00:20:47.23
THEY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE,
AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS,
00:20:47.23\00:20:51.03
HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
VOICE, "LAZARUS, COME FORTH."
00:20:51.03\00:20:54.76
LAZARUS THEN CAME FORTH, HE
HAD BEEN BOUND BY GRAVE CLOTHES,
00:20:54.76\00:20:57.90
AND JESUS SAID, "LOOSE HIM."
00:20:57.90\00:20:59.93
HOW LONG HAD HE BEEN DEAD?
00:20:59.93\00:21:02.46
FOUR DAYS.
00:21:02.46\00:21:04.03
YOU KNOW ONE REASON I THINK
JESUS ALLOWED LAZARUS TO BE
00:21:04.03\00:21:05.86
IN THE GRAVE FOUR DAYS?
00:21:05.86\00:21:06.86
LAZARUS WAS IN THE
GRAVE LONGER THAN JESUS.
00:21:06.86\00:21:09.66
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE SAY,
"WELL, THESE OTHER RESURRECTIONS
00:21:09.66\00:21:12.36
IN THE BIBLE, THEY WERE PROBABLY
IN SOME KIND OF INDUCED COMA
00:21:12.36\00:21:15.60
THAT WAS--THEY
WEREN'T REALLY DEAD YET."
00:21:15.60\00:21:19.86
BUT WITH LAZARUS, HE HAD
BEEN EMBALMED; THEY HAD WRAPPED
00:21:19.86\00:21:23.86
HIM UP.
00:21:23.86\00:21:24.70
HE WOULD HAVE
SUFFOCATED OTHERWISE.
00:21:24.70\00:21:26.40
THEY WRAPPED HIM HEAD AND FOOT.
00:21:26.40\00:21:28.43
REMEMBER EVEN WITH JESUS, THEY
HAD A NAPKIN AROUND THE HEAD AND
00:21:28.43\00:21:31.50
ALL OF THIS OINTMENT AND STUFF.
00:21:31.50\00:21:33.43
LAZARUS HAD BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS
IN THE TOMB, ALREADY BEGUN TO
00:21:33.43\00:21:38.06
SMELL.
00:21:38.06\00:21:39.23
AND I EXPECT WHEN THEY ROLLED
AWAY THE STONE, I DON'T WANT TO
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BE UNPLEASANT, BUT THE STENCH
PROBABLY WAFFED IT OUT AND
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GAGGED THEM.
00:21:43.83\00:21:45.90
BUT WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE
GRAVE, IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY,
00:21:45.90\00:21:50.40
LARRY KING WOULD HAVE
CALLED LAZARUS AND SAID, "LOOK,
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I WANT AN INTERVIEW."
00:21:54.13\00:21:55.76
AM I RIGHT?
00:21:55.76\00:21:57.00
WHAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN THE FIRST QUESTION?
00:21:57.00\00:21:59.40
"WHAT HAPPENED?
00:21:59.40\00:22:01.70
WHAT'D YOU SEE?
00:22:01.70\00:22:02.60
WHERE'D YOU GO?
00:22:02.60\00:22:03.43
WHAT'D YOU DO?
00:22:03.43\00:22:04.06
WHO'D YOU MEET?
00:22:04.06\00:22:04.83
WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE DEAD?"
00:22:04.83\00:22:06.33
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:22:06.33\00:22:08.53
IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PUBLIC
00:22:08.53\00:22:11.30
MIRACLES OF JESUS, AND ALL
OF THE DISCIPLES KNEW ABOUT IT,
00:22:11.30\00:22:16.60
WHAT COMMENT DO WE FIND IN
THE BIBLE REGARDING LAZARUS'
00:22:16.60\00:22:20.06
EXPERIENCE WHILE HE WAS DEAD?
00:22:20.06\00:22:22.40
ZERO, NADA, NOTHING, ZIP,
ZILCH, PICK YOUR FAVORITE TERM.
00:22:22.40\00:22:30.36
THE BIGGEST QUESTION IN HISTORY
IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?
00:22:30.36\00:22:34.43
LAZARUS HAS GOT THE ANSWER,
HE COMES BACK AND WHAT'S HIS
00:22:34.43\00:22:37.60
COMMENT?
00:22:37.60\00:22:38.70
NO COMMENT.
00:22:38.70\00:22:39.60
WHY?
00:22:39.60\00:22:40.33
JESUS TELLS US WHY, HE'S ASLEEP.
00:22:40.33\00:22:42.93
LAZARUS HAD A FEVER, HE WAS
SICK; ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE LOST
00:22:42.93\00:22:45.60
CONSCIOUSNESS,
EVENTUALLY HE DIED.
00:22:45.60\00:22:47.56
HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL
ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE WOKE UP
00:22:47.56\00:22:49.26
FEELING GREAT, BUT HE'S ALL
WRAPPED UP WITH THIS ANCIENT
00:22:49.26\00:22:51.43
TOILET PAPER.
00:22:51.43\00:22:52.73
HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON
AND HE'S HEARING JESUS CALL HIM.
00:22:52.73\00:22:56.13
THAT'S ALL HE KNEW.
00:22:56.13\00:22:58.30
HE WAS LIKE ASLEEP; THIS
IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.
00:22:58.30\00:23:01.90
IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4 THE APOSTLE
PAUL SAYS, "BRETHREN, I DO NOT
00:23:01.90\00:23:06.36
WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT
REGARDING THEM THAT ARE ASLEEP."
00:23:06.36\00:23:12.23
AND THEN WHAT DOES HE
COMMENCE TO TALK ABOUT?
00:23:12.23\00:23:14.43
DEATH.
00:23:14.43\00:23:15.53
PAUL CALLS IT "ASLEEP."
00:23:15.53\00:23:17.16
HE SAID, "I WANT
YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS."
00:23:17.16\00:23:18.90
WHY?
00:23:18.90\00:23:20.03
BECAUSE NOT UNDERSTANDING
THIS COULD LEAD TO MAJOR
00:23:20.03\00:23:23.03
DECEPTION IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:23:23.03\00:23:24.86
THAT'S WHY I'VE
CHOSEN THIS SUBJECT.
00:23:24.86\00:23:26.26
MATTHEW 27, "WHEN CHRIST COMES
AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED, AND
00:23:26.26\00:23:31.43
MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS
WHICH SLEPT," THIS IS ACTUALLY
00:23:31.43\00:23:35.03
WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS.
00:23:35.03\00:23:36.33
"MANY OF THE BODIES OF
THE SAINTS WHICH," DID WHAT?
00:23:36.33\00:23:38.40
"SLEPT," THE BIBLE
REFERS TO IT AS SLEEP.
00:23:38.40\00:23:41.73
AGAIN, JOB 17:13, "IF I
WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MY HOUSE."
00:23:41.73\00:23:48.23
YOU WAIT IN THE GRAVE
UNTIL THE RESURRECTION.
00:23:48.23\00:23:51.26
ANOTHER ONE, JOB 21:32, "YET
HE SHALL BE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE
00:23:51.26\00:23:55.86
AND SHALL REMAIN IN THE TOMB."
00:23:55.86\00:23:58.63
AND FINALLY, IF THIS IS
NOT ENOUGH SCRIPTURE FOR YOU,
00:23:58.63\00:24:01.46
ACTS 2.
00:24:01.46\00:24:02.60
SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY SLEPT,
00:24:02.60\00:24:05.03
BUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
EVERYBODY WHO HAD BEEN DEAD
00:24:05.03\00:24:07.60
NOW GOES TO HEAVEN."
00:24:07.60\00:24:09.30
PETER AT PENTECOST, HE'S
PREACHING ABOUT THIS AND HE
00:24:09.30\00:24:12.03
STARTS TALKING ABOUT KING DAVID.
00:24:12.03\00:24:13.80
THIS IS GOOD KING DAVID, WHO WE
KNOW WILL BE SAVED, A MAN AFTER
00:24:13.80\00:24:16.90
GOD'S OWN HEART.
00:24:16.90\00:24:18.00
WHAT DOES PETER SAY ABOUT DAVID?
00:24:18.00\00:24:19.46
DOES HE GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN?
00:24:19.46\00:24:21.00
"MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY
SPEAK UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH
00:24:21.00\00:24:24.16
DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH," WHAT?
00:24:24.16\00:24:26.06
"DEAD AND BURIED AND HIS
SEPULCHER IS WITH US UNTO THIS
00:24:26.06\00:24:31.13
DAY, FOR DAVID IS NOT
ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS."
00:24:31.13\00:24:36.93
DEAD, BURIED, NOT IN HEAVEN,
AND WHEN DAVID DIED, IT SAYS
00:24:36.93\00:24:40.63
HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS.
00:24:40.63\00:24:42.60
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00:25:02.16\00:25:07.93
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