We are racing towards the
global crises at the close.
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God is going to set
up His kingdom on earth.
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Preparation for the
tribulation and the translation
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is to develop a
character like Jesus Christ,
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to reach every hamlet,
every village, every man,
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every child,
every person in India,
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every person in South America.
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must hear these
Three Angels' messages.
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These are
stories that illustrate
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the kind of fabric of character
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and perseverance that we need
to go through the tribulation
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just as certainly as they did.
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The Bible makes it very clear,
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we are living
in an unusual hour.
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The last grains
of sand are trickling
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through the hour glass of
time and the door probation
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is about the swing shut.
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"Hope Beyond The Grave."
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Come with me to the
enchanted land of the Nile.
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There at the
enchanted land of the Nile,
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you'll see the Nile River,
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you see the massive
imposing pyramids towering
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above the shifting
desert sands of Egypt.
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The mighty Pharaohs prepared
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for their
journey beyond the grave.
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Indeed the Pharaohs
and the ancient Egyptians
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had an incredible
fascination with death
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and an insatiable
inquest for immortality.
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And so they believed in
this quest that when you die,
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you live on
immediately in the afterlife.
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This is what the
ancient Egyptians believed.
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And so they believed
that the person's soul
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returned again
and again to its body.
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So therefore, they mastered
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to perfection
preserving a dead body.
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I think the arid
climate had a lot to do with it,
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and so all the statues of
slaves and soldiers became,
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as they believed it,
real people in the afterlife.
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So that's why they were buried
with many statues and so forth.
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Thoughts of their
afterlife compelled them
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to build and build they did.
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They would go to their
bigger than life pyramid,
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the house of their "Ka"
that is to say the house
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of their disembodied
"soul" as they believed.
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They believed
their soul was immortal
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and was released
from the body at death.
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And so 4000 years ago,
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the Pyramids of
Giza rose to the heavens.
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And let me tell
you, I've been there,
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I can tell you they
are bigger than life.
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You are dwarf, as a little
ant there in their presence.
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And so it took 20 years
and over 100,000 workers
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to build the
Great Pyramid of Cheops,
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which is the most imposing
of the pyramids of the trio.
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The Sphinx guarded
the pyramids of Giza.
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But as we will learn,
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that set no prove
not too trust worthy
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and so the giant
colossal of stones were built
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in the shape of
the rays of the sun.
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Therefore, they
believe that the pharaoh
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ascended to heaven
on the rays of the sun
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and on the
staircase of the pyramid.
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So deep within
them all was the secret
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burial chamber of a pharaoh.
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And some of them
mightier than others,
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some of them more
well known than others,
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like how about
Rameses the Great?
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And so the massive
pyramids that concealed
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the tombs of the mighty pharaohs
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were all exploited by
robbers, unfortunately,
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because the
pyramids were so massive,
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you just couldn't get
your mind off of them,
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they were a beacon reminder,
there's treasures in here,
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it's all for the
taking and take it they did.
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And so where would the pharaohs
go next to be secretly buried?
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And so they decided they had
to try to outsmart the robbers.
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Well, what did they do?
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We travel now up the
Nile River past many religious
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buildings and
temples and so forth.
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We go up the Nile
River, the Valley of the Kings.
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After the pyramid age,
the New Kingdom of pharaohs
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were buried in tombs,
cut into remote cliffs
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in the desert valley,
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some of them
reminiscent of those pyramids.
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And so here
they tried to conceal
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the tombs of the pharaohs.
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I said, they tried.
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They assumed all
were plundered eventually,
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those who were digging
for the buried treasures,
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well, guess what, eventually,
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the archaeologists and
the school of thought was,
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that the prevailing
opinion was that they assumed
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all were plundered
and robbed after time.
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And so-- But there
was one that Howard Carter
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believed was still
hidden deep in the sands,
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we're talking now
about around a year 1922.
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He was the boy
king who mysteriously
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died prematurely
by the age of 20.
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And so the year was 1922
and something breathtaking
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was about to unfold
beneath the desert sands.
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Howard Carter, on November 4,
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and his diggers
discovered a rock cut step
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below the entrance to
the tomb of Ramases VI.
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The sunken steps led to
a walled-up tomb entrance.
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And on November
23, the work resumed,
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an excitement grew
as symbols containing
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Tutankhamun's
name were uncovered.
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Well, on November 26,
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Carter made a small opening
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and prepared to
enter the chamber.
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And this is just
fascinating in the extreme.
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This is an actual
photograph of Howard Carter
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as he was actually now peering
through the little window,
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the little hole that he made
there and inserted a candle,
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the single most
coveted prize in archaeology
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is about to be discovered.
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Finally Howard
Carter lights a candle
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and for the first
time in 3,000 years,
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how many years, everyone?
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Three thousand years,
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the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh
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is found intact and
untouched for over 3,000 years.
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And so they discovered a very
lavish burial beyond belief.
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And inside, they discovered
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four boxes one inside the other.
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And in the fourth box
was a sandstone sarcophagus
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containing a
nest of three coffins
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and the inner coffin--
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Oh, and Tut's mummy
had 150 pieces of jewelry
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in the wrappings and on and on.
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He had a chariot
there and a bed there
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and the couches there.
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In the fourth
box, solid gold coffin
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and the golden mask that
enclosed the pharaoh's body.
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I mean, look at this
breath taking picture here.
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And so his solid
gold inner coffin
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weighs about 243 pounds.
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We're talking
about massive wealth,
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massive wealth of the
ancient kingdom of Egypt.
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If the treasure of this boy king
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was so
magnificent and so luxurious,
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can you imagine what
the robbers must have taken.
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The treasure
trove that they must
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have discovered and
taken, they taken in comparison,
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I'm sure that King Tut's
treasures seem very little.
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So why were the
pharaohs and King Tut mummified?
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Why were they mummified?
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Because they
believed in the immortality
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of a disembodied soul.
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Are the
pharaohs of ancient Egypt
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alive enjoying their
treasures in afterlife?
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Did you know that the Bible
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never uses the
term immortal soul
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or immortality of the soul?
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So what does
that translate into?
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This is the secret
buried with them all.
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The secret is, after all,
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could it be that
all the hard work
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was for nothing that
they really are still dead.
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Could that be a secret that's
been buried with all of them,
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that they didn't go on
to an afterlife immediately?
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Well, to most, death
is the troubling mystery
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around the world.
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But God's word
solves death's mystery.
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So we must take the
magnifying glass to Scripture
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and find out what
the Bible says, amen.
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And so man makes complicated
what God makes clear.
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We cannot afford
guessing about this one.
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Indeed, death is a fact of
life that we must all face.
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Therefore, it is
wise to know the facts
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and to be
prepared when death comes,
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because most of the time
death comes unexpectedly.
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And so, God wants
little children to understand
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this important subject.
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And so when a
man dies, what next?
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What happens when a man dies?
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Is death the end
or just the beginning,
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as the Egyptians believe?
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Does man have an immortal soul,
like the pharaohs believed?
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Where do we go when we die?
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Well, 86 percent of Americans
believe in the afterlife,
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according to a Harris
Poll and if you would ask
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the average person on the street
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these questions about death,
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you would get a lot
of different answers.
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Why don't you do that
bring back a report to me,
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would you do that?
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All right, some
say, "Well, when you die
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if you're not
right, you go to Limbo."
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Some say, "If you
die and you're not right,
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you go to purgatory."
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Some say, "If you're not
right, you go to hell fire."
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That's tomorrow night's message.
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And some say, "If
you are right with God,
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immediately, you
go right to heaven."
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Well, some say, "No,
you will be reincarnated."
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Shirley MacLaine
would tell you that
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and a host of other
celebrities would tell you,
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that they believe that
reincarnation is the truth.
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A matter of fact
they are not alone,
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the whole religion
revolves around the incarnation.
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Are Americans
becoming more Hindu?
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Over a million Hindus
live in the United States
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and one billion
who live on earth.
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Twenty four percent of Americans
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believe in reincarnation.
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Now that is astounding.
And should I add disturbing.
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2008, Harris Poll.
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Hinduism, teaches
that selves come back
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to earth again and
again in different bodies.
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So therefore,
beware where you step,
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that you might be running
into, "Joe, is that you?"
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All right, anyway.
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Where are our beloved dead?
Where are our beloved dead?
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Can we find a
hope beyond the grave?
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Well, are the dead, dead?
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Or really living
more than they ever were?
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There are many grave errors
about death popular today.
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So what is now being portrayed
and taught in popular movies,
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popular talk
shows, popular music,
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popular books, and magazines?
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What's being taught?
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Well, here is the
complete first season,
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a television season
entitled "Medium" a while back.
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She sees what others can't.
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Here is a blockbuster
movie by starring Bruce Willis
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entitled "The Sixth Sense"
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the number one
thriller of all time.
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And it showcased a
little boy that was troubled.
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And he went to
visit his psychiatrist,
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Bruce Willis and
he had a problem.
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He was
disturbed because he said,
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"I see dead people."
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What does the
Bible say about this?
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That's what
Hollywood is telling you.
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Can the dead
communicate with the living?
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Did you know
this is Spiritualism?
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"A belief that
spirits of the dead
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communicate with the living."
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That is Spiritualism.
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And that's what
Webster's dictionary says.
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Well, here's another series.
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"Ghost Whisperer" maybe
you've heard about that.
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She claims to see
and talk to dead people.
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C.B.S. recently
aired this daring series.
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In 2005, NBC
aired "Revelations,"
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in which the spirit of a dead
girl is able to mouth messages
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through the lips of another
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comatose girl
about the end time.
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Well, guess what?
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Now it's really mainstream
because popular talk shows
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have psychics like
John Edwards and others,
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on their shows
claiming to contact the dead
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and they will
actually claim to do that
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and actually there
are some really incredible
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eerie stuff that
unfolds on these talk shows,
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that seem to
confirm that indeed,
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they are contacting the
dead right then and there.
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That is a little scary.
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I say, pass on
to another channel.
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Almost half of Americans believe
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they've had contact
with someone who died.
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One widower in
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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declared to me with
certainty that her husband
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who had died continues to come
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and get in bed
with her at night.
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You see on the campaign trail
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I hear a lot of
stories I'd learned new things.
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I don't believe
everything but I'm--
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One woman in Longview,
Texas told me a long story.
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She told me she
married her husband
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after he died and she
proudly showed me the ring
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which she said her husband
gave her to prove that indeed,
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she is married
to her dead husband.
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So what does the Bible teach
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about what
happens when a man dies?
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The Book of Job 16:22,
"When a few years are come,
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then I shall go the way whence,"
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everyone together
"I shall not return."
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Can you say that with me
again? I still not return.
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So "as a cloud
vanishes and is gone,
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so he who," what?
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"Goes down to the
grave does not return.
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He will never come
to his house again."
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Aren't you glad about that?
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So whatever hauntedhouses are,
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it's not on Uncle Tom actually
coming back to the house.
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Job 7: 9 and 10.
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Did you know that
Spiritualism was really
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was really jumpstarted
in a very powerful way.
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What event marks the
rise of modern spiritualism
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that was really jumpstarted
there in the 19th century,
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mid 19th century, this
event brought a sudden change
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in views about death
there in Hydesville, New York.
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This was the birthplace
of modern spirituaism.
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And there's a cottage in a
home there of the Fox Sisters
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through whose
mediumship communication
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with the spirit
world was established
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there around the year 1848.
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Now the two young girls,
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Margetha and Katie
Fox and their parents,
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Mr. and Mrs. John D.
Fox, by the way disclaimer,
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I don't think
I'm related to them.
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They heard rumors
that the house was haunted.
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So what did they do?
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They call the
phantom "Mr. Split-foot"
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because what they would do
is they hear the wrappings.
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They would wrap back and they
would establish communication
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and so this was the two
girls became this buttress,
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the idea that that we could
have spiritualistic mediums.
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And the two girls
became spirit mediums.
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And so this was
no laughing matter.
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Well, here today
what do you have?
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Casper, the Friendly
Ghost, harmless entertainment?
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Question mark.
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A matter of fact,
did you know about
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25 percent or so of Americans
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claim that they
have seen a ghost?
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So there's a lot
of strange things
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going on here in America.
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So what was
Satan's first big lie?
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Five words, big lie.
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He told Eve at the first
bully pulpit that he had,
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the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
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And the serpent was the
first spiritualistic medium.
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The serpent was not the devil.
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The serpent was used
as a puppet by the devil.
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And so it became
like a medium, didn't it?
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And so "You
shall not surely die."
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So that's the first
big lie that was hatched
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there in the Garden of Eden.
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This is a bold twist
of the truth, isn't it?
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But aren't you glad you
shall know the truth, right.
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"You shall know the truth.
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And the truth shall set
you free." Amen. John 8: 32.
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Now spiritism claims
the dead are not dead.
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Now there's two
main tenets of belief,
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two main principles or beliefs
that kind of go together.
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They are really inseparable.
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Number one, spiritism
claims the dead are not dead.
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"The fundamental
principle of spiritism
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is that human beings
survive bodily death,
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and that occasionally
not yet fully understood,
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we can communicate with
those who have gone before."
00:19:03.94\00:19:06.98
J. Arthur Hill,
Spiritism: History,
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Phenomena, and
Doctrine, page 25.
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Number two, spiritism claims
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the dead
communicate with the living.
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No wonder, Sir
Oliver Lodge said this.
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"There is no
death in the graveyard.
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I have frequent
talks with the dead.
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I cannot doubt the
people live after death
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for I
frequently talk with them."
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So maybe they
should have pay phones
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there at the
tombstones, you know, all right.
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So anyway, "And when
they shall say unto you,
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seek unto them that
have familiar spirits,
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and unto wizards that
peep, and that mutter:
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should not a people
seek under their God?
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For the living to the dead."
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"To the law and the testimony."
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What is the law
on the testimony?
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What is the law
on the testimony?
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It's the Word of God.
It's the inspired Word of God.
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And so "if they speak
not according to this word,"
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it is what?
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"It is because there
is no light in them."
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Avoid them, take a detour
around them, don't listen.
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And so that's
Isaiah 8:19 and 20.
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So can we expect, I ask
your thinking mind here.
00:20:06.03\00:20:10.94
Can we expect
incredible deceptive miracles
00:20:10.97\00:20:14.41
in the last days?
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It's in the movies.
00:20:16.11\00:20:17.98
It's at the box office,
it's on your television,
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it's in the music,
it's in the cartoons,
00:20:20.82\00:20:22.78
it's everywhere, that
the dead are not dead,
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and many believe, "Well,
I think I've seen my uncle,"
00:20:27.16\00:20:29.56
or "I think I've seen
my child," or "I think."
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What is going on?
00:20:32.13\00:20:34.00
Well, The Beatles say,
00:20:34.03\00:20:35.73
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
00:20:35.76\00:20:37.80
All right, let's move on.
00:20:37.83\00:20:39.57
How about when
Michael Jackson passed away?
00:20:39.60\00:20:43.27
You remember that they
had that very large gathering,
00:20:43.30\00:20:47.94
that memorial and his
friend Brooke Shields was there.
00:20:47.98\00:20:53.75
And she said,
"Although our hearts are aching,
00:20:53.82\00:20:56.69
we need to look up
where he's undoubtedly perched
00:20:56.72\00:21:00.59
in a crescent moon
and we need to smile."
00:21:00.66\00:21:04.83
Very interesting.
00:21:04.86\00:21:06.39
You know there are
two certainties of life,
00:21:06.43\00:21:09.63
death and taxation.
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Wouldn't it be nice if
it happened in that order?
00:21:13.67\00:21:15.64
All right, anyway.
00:21:15.67\00:21:17.04
So what is beyond the
grave? What is beyond the grave?
00:21:17.11\00:21:23.18
Remember Socrates,
the great philosopher,
00:21:23.21\00:21:26.48
prepared as the-- they were
preparing the hemlock poison,
00:21:26.51\00:21:32.15
then he would commit suicide,
00:21:32.19\00:21:33.66
you remember
here's what he said,
00:21:33.69\00:21:35.52
"Farewell I go
the way of all flesh,
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but whether to life
or oblivion, I know not."
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Would you agree
that's pretty sad?
00:21:40.63\00:21:42.83
It kind of reminds me
of a little boy that was
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meandering through the cemetery
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in Richmond,
Virginia during the day,
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.54
and this young boy stumbled
across an epitaph that read,
00:21:52.57\00:21:56.51
Paul Adams, who died
and on Paul Adams' tombstone
00:21:56.54\00:22:02.42
the epitaph read, "Stop
my friend, as you go by.
00:22:02.45\00:22:05.99
As you are now, so once was I.
00:22:06.02\00:22:08.52
As I am now, you soon shall be.
00:22:08.56\00:22:10.43
So, prepare
yourself to follow me."
00:22:10.46\00:22:12.93
So he was reading this
epitaph, there in the cemetery,
00:22:12.96\00:22:16.16
well, he pulled out a
crayon and he responded.
00:22:16.20\00:22:19.00
"To follow you I'm not content
00:22:19.03\00:22:20.77
until I know
just where you went."
00:22:20.84\00:22:24.44
So that's a
question, "If a man dies,
00:22:24.47\00:22:26.61
will he live again?" Job 14: 14.
00:22:26.68\00:22:29.51
Now if we're gonna
understand this subject,
00:22:29.54\00:22:32.65
we must understand that
God did not create us to die.
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Is that true? Yes or no.
00:22:36.02\00:22:37.59
We were not created to die,
we were created to live, what?
00:22:37.62\00:22:41.39
Forever.
00:22:41.42\00:22:42.76
But if we are going
to understand death,
00:22:42.79\00:22:44.56
we must understand
how God created us,
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.00
which is the reverse
of death, would you agree?
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.90
Creation is the
reverse of death.
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And so how did God
create man in the first place?
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.17
Go with me to
the Book of Genesis.
00:22:55.20\00:22:56.60
The word Genesis
means beginnings.
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.44
Genesis, we did not evolve,
00:22:59.47\00:23:02.51
we came from the
Creator's hand. Amen.
00:23:02.54\00:23:05.28
We came from His-- His hands.
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.42
The Bible makes it very
clear how we were created,
00:23:08.45\00:23:10.99
verse 7, okay.
00:23:11.02\00:23:12.35
Genesis 2:7, if
you have it say, amen.
00:23:12.39\00:23:14.52
All right, very good.
00:23:14.56\00:23:15.92
Verse seven, let's read
it together, can we do that?
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"And the Lord God formed
man of the dust of the ground,"
00:23:18.89\00:23:22.66
everybody, "and
breathed into his nostrils,
00:23:22.70\00:23:25.53
the breath of life and
man became a living soul."
00:23:25.57\00:23:28.90
Now is there anything
complicated about that?
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.21
Would you agree,
that's very crystal clear?
00:23:31.24\00:23:33.38
A schoolboy can understand that.
00:23:33.41\00:23:35.64
So how did God create
man? We can sum it up this way.
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Dust plus breath
equals a living soul.
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Body plus breath
equals a living soul.
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He formed man of
the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his nostrils,
00:23:49.92\00:23:51.89
the breath of life and
man became a living soul.
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So what is another word
for this "Breath of Life?"
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He breathed into our
nostrils, the breath of life.
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What's another name
for that breath of life?
00:24:02.57\00:24:04.81
Job 27: 3.
00:24:04.84\00:24:06.78
Notice the way
that we arrive at truth,
00:24:06.81\00:24:09.48
is by comparing
Scripture with Scripture,
00:24:09.51\00:24:12.51
line upon line,
precept upon precept. Amen.
00:24:12.55\00:24:16.32
"All the while
my breath is in me,
00:24:16.35\00:24:18.55
and the Spirit of
God is in my nostrils."
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.89
So what do you
have in your nostrils?
00:24:21.92\00:24:23.32
We read in Genesis
2:7, that the Lord breathed
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.43
into Adam's
nostrils, the breath of life.
00:24:25.46\00:24:29.16
Job says that that breath
of life is the Spirit of God.
00:24:29.20\00:24:34.40
So it's synonymous.
00:24:34.44\00:24:37.11
Breath equals Spirit. Amen.
00:24:37.14\00:24:41.78
So death is creation in reverse.
00:24:41.81\00:24:46.08
So what happens when a man dies?
00:24:46.11\00:24:47.95
We're building, we're
putting the puzzle together.
00:24:47.98\00:24:50.29
Let's go to Ecclesiastes.
00:24:50.32\00:24:52.19
This is found after
the Book of Proverbs,
00:24:52.22\00:24:55.66
we're going to, and
before the Book of Isaiah.
00:24:55.69\00:24:58.09
We're going to
Ecclesiastes, Chapter 12,
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.50
the last Chapter in that book.
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.60
Are we learning
something tonight?
00:25:02.63\00:25:04.57
Ecclesiastes 12,
looking there at verse 7.
00:25:04.60\00:25:08.34
"Then the dust
will return to the earth
00:25:08.37\00:25:11.11
as it was and the spirit
will return to God who gave it."
00:25:11.14\00:25:15.21
So let's consider this verse.
What happens when a man dies?
00:25:15.24\00:25:19.78
What returns to God at death
according to the scripture?
00:25:19.81\00:25:24.42
The spirit. That's right.
00:25:24.45\00:25:25.92
The spirit,
everybody say, the spirit.
00:25:25.95\00:25:28.16
The spirit returns to God,
the spirit returns the God.
00:25:28.19\00:25:34.30
So wait a minute.
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.26
It doesn't say the
soul goes back to God,
00:25:36.30\00:25:38.83
it says the spirit or
the breath goes back to God.
00:25:38.87\00:25:42.40
Isn't the soul immortal?
Well, the Greeks believe that.
00:25:42.44\00:25:47.71
The Bible says,
"Only God is immortal."
00:25:47.74\00:25:50.85
1Timothy 6:16.
00:25:50.88\00:25:53.21
The Bible says, Man is mortal.
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.32
Job 4:17, "Subject to death."
00:25:55.35\00:25:57.65
"We seek for
immortality." Romans 6:7.
00:25:57.69\00:26:01.26
We receive
immortality not when we die,
00:26:01.29\00:26:04.99
but when, what?
00:26:05.03\00:26:06.36
When Jesus comes
again. Notice here.
00:26:06.39\00:26:09.80
And not everyone
will receive immortality,
00:26:09.83\00:26:12.00
only those who
believe in Jesus. Amen.
00:26:12.03\00:26:16.10
Sudden changes
are about to catch
00:26:16.14\00:26:18.04
the world by surprise.
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.11
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00:26:20.18\00:26:23.45
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00:26:23.48\00:26:26.92
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00:26:26.95\00:26:30.59
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00:26:30.62\00:26:33.22
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00:26:33.25\00:26:36.42
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00:26:36.46\00:26:38.39
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00:26:38.43\00:26:41.53
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1 Corinthians 15, go there
with me in the New Testament.
00:27:18.80\00:27:21.94
Paul, the
Apostle is writing here
00:27:21.97\00:27:26.61
under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
00:27:26.68\00:27:28.51
So let's go to
1Corinthians Chapter 15,
00:27:28.54\00:27:33.28
looking there at
verse 50, 51. All right.
00:27:33.31\00:27:38.15
"Behold, I tell you a mystery.
00:27:38.19\00:27:39.62
We shall not all
sleep but we shall all be."
00:27:39.65\00:27:41.49
what? "We shall all be changed."
00:27:41.52\00:27:44.13
"In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye at the last trumpet.
00:27:44.16\00:27:48.40
For their trumpet will sound
00:27:48.43\00:27:50.27
and the dead will be
raised incorruptible.
00:27:50.30\00:27:53.54
And we shall be
changed for this corruptible
00:27:53.57\00:27:57.74
must put on incorruption.
00:27:57.77\00:27:59.34
And this," what?
00:27:59.37\00:28:00.71
Everyone, read it
together with me, all right.
00:28:00.78\00:28:02.24
"This mortal must put
on immortality." Amen.
00:28:02.28\00:28:07.75
So I want you to notice here.
00:28:07.78\00:28:09.65
So when this corruptible
has put on incorruption,
00:28:09.68\00:28:12.82
and this mortal
has put on immortality,
00:28:12.85\00:28:15.16
then shall be brought to pass
the saying that it is written,
00:28:15.19\00:28:18.23
"Death is
swallowed up in victory."
00:28:18.26\00:28:21.83
"Oh, Death where is your sting?
00:28:21.86\00:28:23.47
Oh. Hades," that is the
grave, "where is your victory?"
00:28:23.50\00:28:27.14
Is this good news or what?
00:28:27.17\00:28:28.87
You should
highlight it memorize it.
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.07
This is resounding good news
that we receive immortality,
00:28:31.11\00:28:34.51
not when we die, but
when Jesus comes again.
00:28:34.54\00:28:38.71
Are you looking forward to that?
00:28:38.75\00:28:40.12
The arrow of prophecy points
ot the coming of Jesus Christ.
00:28:40.15\00:28:44.45
And so, "In a moment,
00:28:44.49\00:28:46.86
in the twinkling of an
eye at the last trumpet,
00:28:46.89\00:28:50.56
this corruptible
must put on incorruption
00:28:50.63\00:28:53.33
and this mortal
must put on immortality."
00:28:53.40\00:28:56.70
When? I repeat, not a
death, but when Jesus comes.
00:28:56.77\00:29:00.84
Therefore,
there is no such thing
00:29:00.87\00:29:04.91
as an immortal
soul. Poor King Tut.
00:29:04.94\00:29:09.08
Can a soul die?
Obviously it can.
00:29:10.58\00:29:16.05
Ezekiel 18:4 and 20,
00:29:16.08\00:29:17.89
"The soul that
sinneth, it shall die."
00:29:17.92\00:29:23.63
Now what part of
that don't we understand?
00:29:23.66\00:29:26.13
The soul shall die.
Amen. So what is the soul?
00:29:26.16\00:29:30.80
We know the spirit is in
our nostrils, the breath,
00:29:30.87\00:29:34.40
and when we die,
nothing the thinks,
00:29:34.44\00:29:36.34
but that which
enables us to think,
00:29:36.37\00:29:38.27
the breath, goes
back to God that spirit.
00:29:38.31\00:29:41.41
And that's why
Jesus said, "Father,
00:29:41.44\00:29:43.35
into Thy hands I
commit my spirit or my,"
00:29:43.38\00:29:46.05
what? My breath.
00:29:46.08\00:29:47.42
And He breathed
this last. And He died.
00:29:47.45\00:29:50.19
So what is a soul?
00:29:50.22\00:29:51.95
1 Peter 3:20 makes it clear
00:29:51.99\00:29:54.26
that there were
eight souls saved
00:29:54.29\00:29:56.56
from the flood
in the days of Noah.
00:29:56.59\00:29:59.23
Those are real people.
00:29:59.26\00:30:00.60
Acts 27:37, 276
souls or real people
00:30:00.63\00:30:04.70
were shipwrecked.
00:30:04.73\00:30:06.07
You remember there
in that Chapter of Acts.
00:30:06.10\00:30:09.44
And Acts 2:41, makes it
clear on the day of Pentecost,
00:30:09.47\00:30:13.31
that there were 3,000 souls
00:30:13.38\00:30:15.38
or people that
joined the church.
00:30:15.41\00:30:18.38
That's why what do
you call your grandkids?
00:30:18.41\00:30:20.42
What do I call my children?
00:30:20.45\00:30:21.98
Precious, you call
them precious souls, right.
00:30:22.02\00:30:24.42
What does that mean?
Real precious people.
00:30:24.45\00:30:27.79
By the way do you want to see
what a living soul looks like?
00:30:27.82\00:30:30.83
Look in the mirror.
All right, here we go.
00:30:30.86\00:30:33.70
The Bible uses the
term "soul" 1,600 times
00:30:33.73\00:30:39.17
but never once
as an immortal soul,
00:30:39.20\00:30:43.41
an undying soul or
an everlasting soul.
00:30:43.44\00:30:46.11
I mean, look at your
trusty, Strong's Concordance.
00:30:46.14\00:30:49.31
If you want a good concordance
00:30:49.34\00:30:50.68
get one that
Strong's Concordance
00:30:50.75\00:30:52.91
and you've got
to be strong, David,
00:30:52.95\00:30:54.32
pick it up because
it is very, very big.
00:30:54.35\00:30:56.69
And you look it out up,
you look up the word soul.
00:30:56.72\00:30:58.92
And you will
discover that it is never
00:30:58.95\00:31:01.89
used to
describe, as it says here.
00:31:01.92\00:31:05.89
Never once as an immortal soul
00:31:05.93\00:31:08.53
or something that
exists apart from the body.
00:31:08.56\00:31:11.33
You won't find
that in the Bible.
00:31:11.37\00:31:13.17
And so the idea
that you never die,
00:31:13.20\00:31:17.41
that when you die,
you're really not dead,
00:31:17.44\00:31:18.97
you just you never die.
00:31:19.01\00:31:20.78
Well, that is a smooth
pleasing false teaching.
00:31:20.81\00:31:24.75
2 Timothy 2:2-4.
00:31:24.78\00:31:27.32
Paul said that in the last
days people would turn away
00:31:27.35\00:31:30.29
from the truth and
end up believing fables.
00:31:30.32\00:31:33.25
Did you know that mythology is
00:31:33.29\00:31:36.59
very, very strong in
influencing whole civilizations
00:31:36.62\00:31:42.76
or whole groups of people?
00:31:42.80\00:31:44.63
Mythologies, false
fables or false teachings
00:31:44.67\00:31:49.57
are very, very
rampant in our world today.
00:31:49.60\00:31:53.81
So how did this false
doctrine become popular
00:31:53.88\00:31:56.75
in the Christian
churches of today?
00:31:56.78\00:31:59.18
It slipped through the
back door of the church.
00:31:59.21\00:32:02.95
When the church apostatized,
you know, that early church.
00:32:02.98\00:32:06.96
God has always had His faithful,
00:32:06.99\00:32:08.76
but the church
ultimately apostatized.
00:32:08.79\00:32:12.49
And up came the papal power.
00:32:12.53\00:32:15.76
The papal power has popularized
false teachings about death.
00:32:15.80\00:32:20.87
Hence, that's why
they say pray to Mary,
00:32:20.94\00:32:25.24
pray to the saints, and
they have statutes and so forth.
00:32:25.27\00:32:28.91
Why do they have these statues?
00:32:28.94\00:32:30.58
Why do they have them?
00:32:30.65\00:32:32.15
So you can know, these people
have lived on, they are alive.
00:32:32.18\00:32:37.09
And you can actually
pray to some of them.
00:32:37.12\00:32:40.59
And so this is
all based on the false
00:32:40.66\00:32:43.86
teaching of the
immortality of the soul.
00:32:43.93\00:32:47.40
And so what
happens when a man dies?
00:32:47.43\00:32:50.00
All right, let's see if we can
turn on the light in our mind.
00:32:50.07\00:32:52.30
All right.
00:32:52.33\00:32:53.67
We could use this simple
illustration that the body
00:32:53.74\00:32:57.34
could be
represented by a light bulb.
00:32:57.41\00:32:59.97
The breath could rep-- represent
00:33:00.01\00:33:02.21
or it be
epresented by electricity.
00:33:02.24\00:33:05.08
And the combination of the bulb
00:33:05.11\00:33:06.61
and the electricity is
illumination, its light.
00:33:06.65\00:33:10.79
Now if I ask one of
the deacons here tonight,
00:33:10.82\00:33:13.12
could you please,
one of the ushers,
00:33:13.15\00:33:15.06
please turn off the lights?
00:33:15.09\00:33:16.59
And I wish to take up a vote.
00:33:16.62\00:33:18.23
Sometimes I do, do this as
we crisscross North America.
00:33:18.26\00:33:21.00
If I was to ask, okay,
00:33:21.03\00:33:22.70
how many think the
light went down somewhere?
00:33:22.73\00:33:26.40
All right, how many think
the light went up somewhere?
00:33:26.43\00:33:29.60
All right, how many
think the light just cease
00:33:29.64\00:33:31.54
to exist because
there was a disconnect?
00:33:31.57\00:33:34.28
And see that's what happens.
00:33:34.31\00:33:36.08
When a person dies,
well, let's put it this way,
00:33:36.11\00:33:38.38
the lights go out
until it's reconnected.
00:33:38.41\00:33:42.08
And would you agree that
electricityis his breath,
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.12
can you say, amen?
00:33:44.19\00:33:45.52
"'Cause from dust thou art
to dust thou shalt return."
00:33:45.55\00:33:47.36
When the lights go out the bulb
00:33:47.39\00:33:48.72
still there but it
needs that electricity again.
00:33:48.76\00:33:51.93
So that will
happen when Jesus comes.
00:33:51.96\00:33:54.00
So the Bible never says the soul
00:33:54.03\00:33:55.93
returns to God at death.
00:33:55.96\00:33:57.30
You will not find
that in the Scriptures.
00:33:57.37\00:33:59.57
So where are the
dead? Bible makes it clear.
00:33:59.60\00:34:03.81
They are in the grave.
00:34:03.84\00:34:05.17
That's what
Jesus taught as well.
00:34:05.21\00:34:06.54
Let's go to John
Chapter five, John 5:28, 29.
00:34:06.57\00:34:11.25
Turn there very
quickly with me here.
00:34:11.28\00:34:13.35
Keep our foot
on the accelerator.
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.02
Are we learning
something tonight? I hope so.
00:34:15.05\00:34:17.62
All right. Please say, yes.
00:34:17.65\00:34:19.29
We're working hard
at this, all right.
00:34:19.32\00:34:20.99
John 5:28, 29. All right.
00:34:21.02\00:34:24.33
"Do not marvel at this
00:34:24.36\00:34:25.69
for the hour is
coming in the which
00:34:25.73\00:34:27.06
all who are in the
graves will," what?
00:34:27.10\00:34:29.03
"Will hear His voice," and
notice what the Bible says,
00:34:29.06\00:34:32.20
"and come forth
those who have done good
00:34:32.23\00:34:36.37
to the resurrection of life
and those who have done evil
00:34:36.40\00:34:39.11
to the
resurrection of condemnation."
00:34:39.14\00:34:40.98
So where are the dead?
00:34:41.01\00:34:42.44
They go into the
graves, both the righteous,
00:34:42.48\00:34:45.71
and the unrighteous, the saved,
00:34:45.75\00:34:47.72
and the unsaved
go to the graves,
00:34:47.75\00:34:50.09
and will come forth,
00:34:50.12\00:34:51.45
either in the resurrection
of life when Jesus comes again,
00:34:51.49\00:34:54.32
or later on in a
resurrection of condemnation.
00:34:54.36\00:34:57.53
And that is
after the millennium,
00:34:57.56\00:35:00.20
as we will explore
in the future night.
00:35:00.23\00:35:03.00
So where is King David?
00:35:03.03\00:35:04.93
In light of this,
go to Acts Chapter 2.
00:35:04.97\00:35:08.27
Acts Chapter two. Turn
there with me. Acts 2:29.
00:35:08.30\00:35:12.04
All right, verse
29. "Men and brethren."
00:35:12.07\00:35:14.48
Peter speaking on
the day of Pentecost.
00:35:14.51\00:35:16.24
"Let me speak freely to
you of the patriarch David,
00:35:16.28\00:35:18.98
that he is both dead and buried
00:35:19.01\00:35:20.52
and his tomb is
with us to this day."
00:35:20.55\00:35:22.65
So he says David, the Psalmist,
00:35:22.68\00:35:25.55
I mean, when you think
about praising the Lord,
00:35:25.59\00:35:28.19
you think about David.
00:35:28.22\00:35:29.56
And if anybody
heaven, praising the Lord,
00:35:29.59\00:35:32.93
if when you die the
righteous go to heaven,
00:35:32.96\00:35:35.23
if the righteous,
it would be King David.
00:35:35.26\00:35:37.47
But Peter declared,
David is dead and buried.
00:35:37.50\00:35:42.34
Oh, but that's just his body.
00:35:42.37\00:35:43.71
He actually, he had a
soul that goes up to heaven.
00:35:43.74\00:35:46.71
Well, let's read verse 34.
00:35:46.78\00:35:48.54
"For David did not
ascend into the heavens."
00:35:48.58\00:35:53.25
What part of that
don't we understand?
00:35:53.28\00:35:55.52
He did not
ascend to the heavens,
00:35:55.55\00:35:57.72
but said, but he says himself,
00:35:57.75\00:35:59.82
The Lord said to my
Lord, 'sit at my right hand
00:35:59.85\00:36:02.59
till I make your
enemies your footstool.'"
00:36:02.62\00:36:04.36
You say, "Mark, this is so new.
00:36:04.39\00:36:06.16
I didn't
understand this before."
00:36:06.19\00:36:08.80
Well, you know, praise God that
00:36:08.83\00:36:10.87
in the last days the
truth goes marching on.
00:36:10.90\00:36:13.94
Amen. And so
where is King David?
00:36:13.97\00:36:16.17
Dead, buried, not
ascended into the heavens.
00:36:16.20\00:36:19.41
So what does the
Bible call death then?
00:36:19.44\00:36:22.78
Death is called a sleep
numerous times in Scripture.
00:36:22.81\00:36:28.22
Sixty six times in the
Bible, some have counted.
00:36:28.25\00:36:31.42
Psalms 13: 3,
"Consider and hear me,
00:36:31.45\00:36:33.69
oh Lord my God: lighten my eyes,
00:36:33.76\00:36:35.79
lest I sleep
the sleep of death."
00:36:35.82\00:36:38.43
So how did Jesus view death?
00:36:38.46\00:36:40.53
Take your Bible and turn
with me to John Chapter 11.
00:36:40.60\00:36:43.97
John Chapter 11. Let's
look at this very quickly here.
00:36:44.00\00:36:47.64
John Chapter 11, as we
do this Bible investigation.
00:36:47.67\00:36:53.78
John Chapter 11, we must
understand what the Bible
00:36:53.81\00:36:58.51
teaches about
hope beyond the grave.
00:36:58.55\00:37:01.95
John Chapter 11,
looking there at verse 11.
00:37:01.98\00:37:06.12
"These things He said, and
after that He said to them,
00:37:06.15\00:37:08.46
'Our friend Lazarus sleeps,
00:37:08.49\00:37:10.06
but I go that I
may wake him up.'
00:37:10.13\00:37:11.89
Then His disciples said, 'Lord,
00:37:11.93\00:37:13.29
if he sleeps he will get well.'
00:37:13.33\00:37:15.13
However, Jesus
spoke of his death,
00:37:15.16\00:37:17.37
but they thought
that He was speaking
00:37:17.40\00:37:19.10
about taking rest in sleep."
00:37:19.13\00:37:20.77
So they misunderstood.
So Jesus clarified.
00:37:20.84\00:37:24.54
Now I don't believe
they want to hear this.
00:37:24.57\00:37:27.08
As I do not believe
many people want to hear
00:37:27.11\00:37:29.48
this about their loved either.
00:37:29.51\00:37:31.38
But it's the truth.
00:37:31.41\00:37:32.75
How many agree,
truth is not always
00:37:32.78\00:37:34.85
what you want to hear initially,
00:37:34.88\00:37:36.72
until you further understand
why it's so important to know
00:37:36.79\00:37:40.76
and how the truth
does set you free.
00:37:40.79\00:37:43.16
Look at verse 14.
00:37:43.19\00:37:44.53
"Then Jesus said to them
plainly, 'Lazarus is dead.'"
00:37:44.56\00:37:50.67
And they understood
what he meant. He's dead.
00:37:50.70\00:37:53.54
He's really dead.
He's not in heaven.
00:37:53.57\00:37:56.27
Would you agree,
Lazarus was a righteous person,
00:37:56.30\00:37:59.57
and if the
righteous, when they die,
00:37:59.61\00:38:01.71
they go to be with the Lord,
Lazarus would've been up there.
00:38:01.74\00:38:05.11
David would have been up there.
00:38:05.15\00:38:06.92
But He said "Lazarus
sleeps" "Lazarus is dead"
00:38:06.95\00:38:09.68
and he was "dead for four days."
00:38:09.72\00:38:11.89
His body was decomposing.
00:38:11.92\00:38:14.06
And so how much does a
dead person know therefore?
00:38:14.09\00:38:17.26
"The living know
that they shall die,
00:38:17.33\00:38:19.16
but the dead know
not," what? "Anything."
00:38:19.19\00:38:22.10
Ecclesiastes 9: 5. You need
to highlight that scripture.
00:38:22.13\00:38:25.63
That is one of the
most paramount scriptures
00:38:25.67\00:38:28.54
and reference to
the state of the dead.
00:38:28.57\00:38:30.74
I mean, this
makes it crystal clear.
00:38:30.81\00:38:33.88
You know, many believe
that when you die suddenly
00:38:33.91\00:38:36.34
you know more than
you ever have before.
00:38:36.38\00:38:40.52
And so what
happens when you die?
00:38:40.55\00:38:44.09
"His breath goeth forth,
he returneth to his earth,
00:38:44.12\00:38:48.82
in that very day
his thoughts perish."
00:38:48.86\00:38:53.06
Bible doesn't say just the body,
00:38:53.09\00:38:54.93
it says he goes to the earth.
00:38:54.96\00:38:58.53
The Bible makes that
clear. Psalms 146: 4.
00:38:58.57\00:39:01.87
In James 2:26, we read,
00:39:01.90\00:39:04.74
"The body without
the spirit is dead."
00:39:04.77\00:39:07.64
And in the Greek the
word "spirit" is pneuma,
00:39:07.68\00:39:10.08
from which we get pneumonia,
00:39:10.15\00:39:12.05
that has to do with
breathing complications right.
00:39:12.08\00:39:15.55
So therefore, the body
without the breath is dead,
00:39:15.58\00:39:21.26
pneuma, breath, okay.
00:39:21.29\00:39:23.32
So the Hebrew word
ruach in Ecclesiastes 12: 7,
00:39:23.36\00:39:29.16
it talks about
the spirit goes back
00:39:29.20\00:39:33.23
to God when a person dies.
00:39:33.27\00:39:35.80
And that word spirit is breath.
00:39:35.84\00:39:38.71
That's what ruach
means, spirit or breath.
00:39:38.74\00:39:42.71
And so "The dead
praise not the Lord,
00:39:42.74\00:39:46.55
neither any that go down
into silence." Psalms 115:17.
00:39:46.58\00:39:51.12
You know, Lazarus
was dead four days.
00:39:51.15\00:39:55.22
So nobody could doubt.
Well, he wasn't really dead.
00:39:55.26\00:39:58.33
I mean, he was dead.
00:39:58.36\00:40:00.10
And he was placed in a tomb
00:40:00.13\00:40:02.06
and the stone was
put in front of it.
00:40:02.10\00:40:04.00
I mean, the man was dead.
00:40:04.07\00:40:06.00
And he was dead for
four days but to him,
00:40:06.03\00:40:09.34
he didn't have
any glowing testimony
00:40:09.37\00:40:11.31
about the bliss
and glories of heaven,
00:40:11.34\00:40:13.41
because he didn't know anything.
00:40:13.48\00:40:14.98
The Bible says the
dead know not anything.
00:40:15.01\00:40:17.55
There was no glowing testimony.
00:40:17.58\00:40:20.15
So if the CNN
cameras were there, you know,
00:40:20.22\00:40:22.35
he would just say, "Look,
I don't remember anything."
00:40:22.38\00:40:25.09
"Come on, give us a testimony."
00:40:25.12\00:40:29.66
But to him it was
just for a moment.
00:40:29.69\00:40:32.29
So what did those
who were resurrected
00:40:32.33\00:40:34.30
from death have to say about
00:40:34.33\00:40:35.90
what they
experienced after they died?
00:40:35.93\00:40:39.27
They were a number of people
00:40:39.30\00:40:40.64
that have been
resurrected in the Bible.
00:40:40.67\00:40:43.10
Eutychus,
00:40:43.14\00:40:45.74
Moses, all right,
00:40:45.77\00:40:50.25
Jairus' daughter, Lazarus
and the number of others.
00:40:50.28\00:40:55.08
But guess what
they had in common.
00:40:55.12\00:40:57.62
Guess how much they
knew after they died.
00:40:57.65\00:41:01.59
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
The dead know not anything.
00:41:01.62\00:41:07.76
And would you agree if
any of these individuals
00:41:07.80\00:41:10.07
had died and gone to heaven,
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.13
they would tell you,
they would share that?
00:41:12.17\00:41:14.50
Would you agree if you had died
00:41:14.54\00:41:15.87
and actually gone to heaven,
00:41:15.90\00:41:17.41
you would share that?
00:41:17.44\00:41:18.84
So are you ready now
to hear the key point
00:41:18.87\00:41:21.18
we have learned thus
far. The dead are dead.
00:41:21.21\00:41:26.18
Now just stay with me.
00:41:26.21\00:41:29.18
Death is the best good night's
sleep you will ever receive.
00:41:29.22\00:41:35.06
"Oh, I slept like a
baby." What does a baby do?
00:41:35.09\00:41:39.06
Well, baby sleeps soundly, uh,
00:41:39.09\00:41:42.30
when they are a couple years old
00:41:42.33\00:41:45.40
and then when
you get and you know,
00:41:45.43\00:41:48.04
towards retirement age,
00:41:48.07\00:41:49.40
then you start
being like you were
00:41:49.44\00:41:50.81
when you first
came from the hospital,
00:41:50.84\00:41:52.17
you Keep waking up...
00:41:52.21\00:41:53.54
All right,
anyway, let me move on.
00:41:53.58\00:41:55.14
'Oh, I slept like a
log, I slept so good."
00:41:55.18\00:41:59.21
Well, the log is dead wood.
00:41:59.25\00:42:00.62
So all right,
anyway, let's move on.
00:42:00.65\00:42:02.75
So what about the
thief on the cross, Mark?
00:42:02.78\00:42:05.75
The thief on the cross,
he was told that he would be
00:42:05.79\00:42:09.36
with the Lord in paradise
when he died there on Friday.
00:42:09.39\00:42:13.29
Well, let's go,
take a look at this.
00:42:13.33\00:42:14.96
This is the case
of the misplacedcomma.
00:42:15.00\00:42:17.83
All right, let's go to Luke
Chapter 23, Luke Chapter 23,
00:42:17.87\00:42:22.17
we know that when a person dies,
00:42:22.20\00:42:23.91
they go to the grave.
00:42:23.94\00:42:25.27
We know they do
not know anything.
00:42:25.31\00:42:27.21
We know that when they die
that they don't go anywhere,
00:42:27.28\00:42:31.55
they're just there in the
grave until their resurrection,
00:42:31.58\00:42:34.32
either resurrection
of life or damnation.
00:42:34.35\00:42:36.79
Luke Chapter 23, the
Bible says here in verse 42,
00:42:36.82\00:42:41.69
"Then he said to Jesus,
00:42:41.72\00:42:43.06
'Lord, remember me when
you come into your kingdom.'"
00:42:43.09\00:42:45.73
So the question is, when
would Jesus go into his kingdom?
00:42:45.76\00:42:49.23
Did He go Friday? Or
did He go some time later?
00:42:49.26\00:42:53.77
"And Jesus said to him,
'Assuredly, I say to you,'"
00:42:53.84\00:42:56.44
comma, "today you will
be with Me in Paradise."
00:42:56.47\00:43:01.38
Now are you
ready to see something?
00:43:01.41\00:43:05.38
Did Jesus go to
paradise that day?
00:43:05.41\00:43:09.52
On Sunday
morning he said to Mary,
00:43:09.55\00:43:11.92
"I have not yet
ascended to My Father."
00:43:11.95\00:43:14.72
I haven't gone to My Kingdom.
I have not gone to My Father.
00:43:14.76\00:43:19.49
He was resurrected but He
hadn't gone back to Father.
00:43:19.53\00:43:22.70
John Chapter 20:17.
00:43:22.73\00:43:25.60
So would you agree that
with the way that comma,
00:43:25.63\00:43:29.00
where that comma is inserted,
00:43:29.04\00:43:31.34
that doesn't make
that harmonize with that?
00:43:31.37\00:43:33.68
You say, Mark, you've
got me confused, punctuation,
00:43:33.71\00:43:35.91
are we to be
suspicious of all punctuation?"
00:43:35.94\00:43:38.31
No, I don't know of any
other case in all of the Bible
00:43:38.35\00:43:42.72
where it's a significant factor
other than this scripture here.
00:43:42.75\00:43:47.36
You say, "Well, what happened?"
00:43:47.39\00:43:49.09
You see, long after the
apostles and others died,
00:43:49.12\00:43:53.40
long time after that
hundreds of years later,
00:43:53.43\00:43:57.10
finally when the
Bible was put together,
00:43:57.17\00:44:00.44
they begin to
insert punctuation.
00:44:00.47\00:44:03.91
And by then, the church
believed that when you die,
00:44:03.94\00:44:07.84
you really don't die,
00:44:07.88\00:44:09.44
that the righteous go right
to be with the Lord right away.
00:44:09.48\00:44:12.38
And so that's when they inserted
00:44:12.41\00:44:13.92
the comma in the wrong place.
00:44:13.95\00:44:15.28
Let me tell you
where the comma should go.
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.02
Verse 43.
00:44:17.09\00:44:19.19
"Assuredly, I say
to you today," comma,
00:44:19.22\00:44:22.56
"you will be
with me in paradise."
00:44:22.59\00:44:24.96
That's what Jesus was saying.
He was saying, here I am dying.
00:44:24.99\00:44:29.86
But I'm telling you,
even though I'm dying today,
00:44:29.90\00:44:32.90
you will be with
me in paradise. Amen.
00:44:32.93\00:44:36.81
That's what He was saying there.
00:44:36.84\00:44:38.61
You say, but
Mark, the Bible says,
00:44:38.64\00:44:40.38
"absent from the body,
present with the Lord." Exactly.
00:44:40.41\00:44:45.31
But what does that scripture
say it has to harmonize
00:44:45.35\00:44:48.05
with all the other
Scriptures that we've looked at.
00:44:48.08\00:44:50.79
When are we going to
be present with the Lord?
00:44:50.82\00:44:53.96
The Bible tells
us not when we die,
00:44:53.99\00:44:56.76
but when the Lord comes for us,
00:44:56.83\00:44:58.69
then we go to be with the Lord.
00:44:58.73\00:45:00.60
And then we
receive an immortal body,
00:45:00.63\00:45:02.93
and that's how we
are absent from this body
00:45:02.96\00:45:06.07
and present with the
Lord with an immortal body.
00:45:06.10\00:45:08.97
You see that's 1 Corinthians,
00:45:09.00\00:45:11.04
Chapter 15 and this is
2 Corinthians, Chapter 5,
00:45:11.07\00:45:14.51
the two agree that when
we're absent from this body
00:45:14.54\00:45:18.25
and we're present
to be with the Lord,
00:45:18.28\00:45:20.12
it's not a death,
but it's when Jesus comes
00:45:20.15\00:45:22.95
again and raises the dead. Amen.
00:45:22.98\00:45:25.92
That's why the Scriptures say,
00:45:25.95\00:45:27.49
"Let not your heart be troubled.
00:45:27.56\00:45:28.89
You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
00:45:28.92\00:45:31.06
In My Father's
house are many mansions,
00:45:31.09\00:45:33.03
if it were not so,
I would have told you.
00:45:33.06\00:45:34.63
I go to prepare a place for you.
00:45:34.66\00:45:36.43
And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
00:45:36.46\00:45:38.40
I will come again and
receive you unto myself."
00:45:38.43\00:45:42.84
Not at death, but when I come.
00:45:42.87\00:45:44.47
"And receive you unto
myself that where I am,
00:45:44.51\00:45:47.38
there ye may be also."
00:45:47.41\00:45:49.01
Does this makes sense? Yes
or no. That's John 14: 1-3.
00:45:49.04\00:45:52.98
And so in what condition
00:45:53.01\00:45:54.75
will we be
present with the Lord?
00:45:54.78\00:45:57.59
"Who will transform
our lowly body that it
00:45:57.62\00:45:59.82
will be conformed
to His glorious body."
00:45:59.85\00:46:02.56
That's Philippians 3:21.
00:46:02.59\00:46:04.96
"We shall be
like Him." 1 John 3:2.
00:46:04.99\00:46:09.20
You say, "But, Mark,
what about near death visions
00:46:09.23\00:46:11.47
and out-of-the-
body experiences?"
00:46:11.50\00:46:13.44
Approximately ten
percent of Americans
00:46:13.47\00:46:15.30
had an out-of-body experience.
00:46:15.34\00:46:17.41
Out-of-body experiences,
00:46:17.44\00:46:18.81
episodes in which
a person's conscious
00:46:18.84\00:46:20.61
self seems to leave their body,
00:46:20.68\00:46:22.68
they report that
they can look down
00:46:22.71\00:46:25.18
or back at their body,
00:46:25.21\00:46:26.55
they seem to be released
from their body temporarily.
00:46:26.58\00:46:29.95
And what about these
near-death experiences?
00:46:29.98\00:46:32.69
Patients are
usually critically ill,
00:46:32.72\00:46:34.69
the heart stops
beating for a few moments.
00:46:34.72\00:46:37.36
And these
near-death experiences,
00:46:37.43\00:46:39.13
the personal accounts,
00:46:39.16\00:46:40.50
they feel that they are floating
00:46:40.53\00:46:41.86
over their bodies
and I believe exactly
00:46:41.90\00:46:44.30
that what they are saying
they are telling the truth.
00:46:44.33\00:46:47.17
That that's what
they saw in their mind.
00:46:47.24\00:46:50.97
I don't doubt it one bit that
00:46:51.01\00:46:52.57
that's what they
saw in their minds.
00:46:52.61\00:46:54.18
But it was in their mind
and not in the Scriptures.
00:46:54.21\00:46:57.78
They seem to be drawn down a
tunnel toward a bright light.
00:46:57.81\00:47:01.82
And so they travel down a tunnel
00:47:01.85\00:47:04.29
and encountered deceased friends
00:47:04.32\00:47:05.82
and relatives who comfort them.
00:47:05.85\00:47:08.32
So what can cause these
out-of-body experiences?
00:47:08.36\00:47:11.83
Mind altering drugs, trauma
or a close brush with death,
00:47:11.86\00:47:16.10
brain disorders like
epilepsy and schizophrenia,
00:47:16.13\00:47:19.57
and so electrical
stimulation can also create
00:47:19.60\00:47:22.30
the sensation of
being outside the body.
00:47:22.34\00:47:25.41
But the Bible
must come first. Amen.
00:47:25.44\00:47:29.51
So think about it this way.
00:47:29.54\00:47:31.18
What about our dreams
00:47:31.21\00:47:32.55
and sensory
perception versus reality?
00:47:32.58\00:47:34.55
Have you had a
deja vu experience?
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.99
It can be
dramatic in which, you say,
00:47:37.02\00:47:41.36
"I'm meeting
somebody for the first time
00:47:41.39\00:47:43.12
but I felt like I met him before
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.46
or I'm in a circumstance
00:47:45.49\00:47:47.33
or a place where I
know I'm going there
00:47:47.40\00:47:50.07
for the first time but I feel
like I've been there before."
00:47:50.10\00:47:53.13
And so did you
know that 63 percent
00:47:53.17\00:47:56.24
of the adult American population
00:47:56.27\00:47:58.34
have had a deja vu experience.
00:47:58.37\00:48:00.28
How many of you here tonight
have had a deja vu experience?
00:48:00.31\00:48:03.28
Raise your hand if
you have, raise your hand.
00:48:03.35\00:48:05.01
And that's about the
probably, 60 percent.
00:48:05.05\00:48:07.65
And so, just because
millions experience deja vu,
00:48:07.68\00:48:11.72
would you agree,
it's all in the mind?
00:48:11.75\00:48:15.69
It's in the mind.
00:48:15.72\00:48:17.06
So what should we
do and when we have
00:48:17.13\00:48:18.46
those really
powerful deja vu experiences?
00:48:18.49\00:48:21.90
Should we write books you
can get on the talk show circuit
00:48:21.93\00:48:25.17
or should we just
say you know what,
00:48:25.20\00:48:26.97
that's not reality,
00:48:27.04\00:48:28.37
even though millions
and millions and millions
00:48:28.40\00:48:30.24
have "the experience."
00:48:30.31\00:48:32.24
Okay.
00:48:32.27\00:48:33.61
So have you ever had a dream
00:48:33.68\00:48:35.01
that you were being
chased by a pit bull
00:48:35.04\00:48:36.51
or were being chased by a bear
00:48:36.54\00:48:38.28
or a lion or some
other kind of animal,
00:48:38.31\00:48:39.95
were you being
chased by an alien
00:48:40.02\00:48:41.65
or being chased by some
mad angry person or persons?
00:48:41.68\00:48:44.65
How many of you had a dream
00:48:44.69\00:48:46.02
in which you were being chased,
00:48:46.05\00:48:47.39
and just about the time
they caught up as the bullets
00:48:47.46\00:48:50.13
are whizzing past you
and the teeth are getting
00:48:50.16\00:48:52.03
more powerful and closer,
00:48:52.06\00:48:53.93
all of a sudden,
boom, you wake up.
00:48:54.00\00:48:55.66
How many of you
had that kind of dream?
00:48:55.70\00:48:57.07
Raise your hand.
00:48:57.10\00:48:58.43
Raise your hand if you
have that kind of dream.
00:48:58.47\00:48:59.80
Okay, good percentage.
00:48:59.83\00:49:01.17
What does that mean?
Sorry, nothing. Okay.
00:49:01.20\00:49:04.31
Have you ever had a
dream that you were falling off
00:49:04.34\00:49:06.24
a cliff or falling
out of an airplane,
00:49:06.27\00:49:07.91
falling off a
building, falling off a rooftop,
00:49:07.94\00:49:10.15
falling off a tree
branch or falling off a bridge,
00:49:10.18\00:49:12.98
all I know is you were falling,
00:49:13.01\00:49:14.35
and then all of a
sudden, you woke up.
00:49:14.38\00:49:16.08
If you have that kind
of dream, raise your hand?
00:49:16.12\00:49:18.65
That's a good percentage of us.
00:49:18.69\00:49:20.19
What does that mean?
00:49:20.26\00:49:21.89
It was in your mind,
00:49:21.92\00:49:23.63
but it was not
equating with reality.
00:49:23.66\00:49:26.36
So what is our only
hope beyond the grave?
00:49:26.39\00:49:29.86
Only hope is
that when Jesus comes,
00:49:29.90\00:49:32.13
this mortal must
put on immortality.
00:49:32.17\00:49:34.60
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
Let's go there very quickly.
00:49:34.64\00:49:38.17
1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4,
00:49:38.21\00:49:40.88
let's go there
very quickly here.
00:49:40.91\00:49:42.74
1 Thessalonians,
and I'll quote it.
00:49:42.78\00:49:46.21
"For the Lord
Himself shall descend
00:49:46.25\00:49:47.88
from heaven with a shout,
00:49:47.92\00:49:49.45
with the voice of the archangel,
00:49:49.48\00:49:51.49
and with the trumpet call of God
00:49:51.52\00:49:53.12
and the dead in
Christ shall rise first.
00:49:53.15\00:49:55.52
Then we, which
are alive and remain,
00:49:55.56\00:49:57.46
shall be caught
up together with them
00:49:57.53\00:49:59.16
to meet the Lord in the air.
00:49:59.19\00:50:01.36
And so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
00:50:01.40\00:50:03.67
Wherefore, comfort one
another with these words."
00:50:03.70\00:50:07.04
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17, 18.
00:50:07.07\00:50:10.51
It says the dead in Christ.
00:50:10.54\00:50:14.18
So death shall not
separate us from the Lord,
00:50:14.21\00:50:16.75
because we are
in Christ, oh, yes,
00:50:16.78\00:50:19.41
we're actually in the grave
but would you agree He says
00:50:19.45\00:50:21.92
"I will not forget you."
00:50:21.95\00:50:23.69
"The very hairs of
your head are all numbered."
00:50:23.72\00:50:25.95
In Revelation 14:13, it says.
00:50:25.99\00:50:28.46
"Blessed are the
dead, who die in the Lord.
00:50:28.49\00:50:33.09
'Yes,' says the Spirit,
00:50:33.13\00:50:34.46
'that they may
rest from their labors,
00:50:34.50\00:50:35.83
and their works to follow them."
00:50:35.86\00:50:37.20
'" Revelation 14:13. 1
John 5:11,12, John said,
00:50:37.27\00:50:42.17
"I write this that you may know
00:50:42.20\00:50:44.21
that you have eternal life.
00:50:44.24\00:50:46.88
And this life is in His Son."
00:50:46.91\00:50:48.24
Revelation 21:4 says that
00:50:48.28\00:50:50.35
"There's gonna be
no more tears or sorrow
00:50:50.38\00:50:53.15
and no more death."
00:50:53.18\00:50:55.35
In Revelation 1:18, Jesus said,
00:50:55.38\00:50:58.22
"I have the keys of the grave."
00:50:58.25\00:51:01.09
Amen. He says, "I
live forevermore."
00:51:01.12\00:51:07.03
If you are going through a
personal crisis in your life,
00:51:07.10\00:51:09.76
if you are facing
financial challenges,
00:51:09.80\00:51:12.20
if you are suffering
from a health problem,
00:51:12.23\00:51:14.37
if your marriage
is needing a miracle,
00:51:14.40\00:51:16.84
if you have a special
concern for your children,
00:51:16.91\00:51:19.21
whatever your need maybe,
00:51:19.24\00:51:20.58
give us a call and
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00:51:20.61\00:51:22.64
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00:51:22.68\00:51:24.05
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00:51:24.08\00:51:28.32
"If the Son set you free,
you are free indeed." John 8:36.
00:51:28.35\00:51:34.79
I want to read
something in closing.
00:51:34.82\00:51:38.19
And closing by a man,
actually, Clint and Sandy.
00:51:38.23\00:51:42.63
They live in Arkansas.
I stayed in their home.
00:51:42.66\00:51:46.10
And they shared with me
this sad challenging experience
00:51:46.13\00:51:51.44
of out of their three children.
00:51:51.47\00:51:55.58
Their one and only son
was killed in a car accident.
00:51:55.61\00:52:01.75
And he shared with me the story,
00:52:01.78\00:52:04.75
a little bit of the funeral
00:52:04.79\00:52:07.06
and I asked if he
could put this on paper.
00:52:07.09\00:52:12.06
And so I read this.
00:52:12.09\00:52:15.00
A father's
thoughts from the grave.
00:52:15.03\00:52:18.30
The comforting words of
"joy comes in the morning,"
00:52:18.33\00:52:22.70
had scarcely disappeared into
the hot August afternoon air,
00:52:22.74\00:52:26.34
as the father stood on the
cool damp earth beside his son.
00:52:26.37\00:52:30.25
The gathering was
all in honor of the son,
00:52:30.28\00:52:32.85
yet he slept
through it entirely.
00:52:32.88\00:52:35.05
Jay wasn't in his usual bed
00:52:35.08\00:52:37.62
and all of this seems so
very strange and different.
00:52:37.65\00:52:41.06
Hardly a week
before Jake Cameron
00:52:41.09\00:52:44.53
had left his Iowa home,
00:52:44.56\00:52:47.10
to pursue his dreams of a PhD
00:52:47.13\00:52:50.00
at the University of
Southern Mississippi.
00:52:50.07\00:52:53.20
It had been a time
of pride and excitement
00:52:53.23\00:52:55.74
for Jay's close knit
family and his fiance.
00:52:55.77\00:52:58.64
Prayers, waffles and
hugs from his sisters,
00:52:58.67\00:53:01.64
Kimberly and Tammy
were followed by tears
00:53:01.68\00:53:04.08
as they as a watch
the white Monte Carlo
00:53:04.15\00:53:06.21
disappear over the hill.
00:53:06.25\00:53:09.08
God was now his
only traveling companion
00:53:09.12\00:53:11.92
and an eventful
trip seemed to await him.
00:53:11.95\00:53:15.12
Unexpectedly, there
was the sickening sound
00:53:15.16\00:53:18.56
of metal being ripped
apart, as a loaded log truck
00:53:18.59\00:53:22.23
struck Jay's car at
a high rate of speed.
00:53:22.26\00:53:25.97
Impact was
followed by the eerie sound
00:53:26.00\00:53:28.24
of dreams dying in
the crumpled rubble,
00:53:28.27\00:53:30.71
partially hidden by a
cloud of red Mississippi dust,
00:53:30.74\00:53:34.94
the unforgettable mixed odors
00:53:34.98\00:53:36.98
of hot diesel, gasoline and oil.
00:53:37.05\00:53:39.78
Much, much too late
came the sound of sirens.
00:53:39.81\00:53:43.39
Now, in this
place of great sadness,
00:53:43.42\00:53:46.76
the family found comfort
00:53:46.79\00:53:48.19
in remembering
Jay's midnight phone call,
00:53:48.22\00:53:51.29
just two months
earlier to his mother.
00:53:51.33\00:53:54.50
He had been
overwhelmed and battered
00:53:54.53\00:53:56.40
by studying the writings
of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
00:53:56.43\00:54:00.24
Plato, Aristotle,
and Socrates, etcetera,
00:54:00.27\00:54:03.20
and he had
doubted that God existed.
00:54:03.24\00:54:05.21
That night, he had
asked God for some small show
00:54:05.24\00:54:08.68
of His power that would
settle the doubt in his mind.
00:54:08.71\00:54:11.35
Instantly, a slow wave of
total paralysis has swept,
00:54:11.38\00:54:16.45
paralysis that swept
over his entire body,
00:54:16.48\00:54:18.89
from his toes to his head
and lingered just a moment.
00:54:18.92\00:54:24.26
There in Prescott
hall, Jay left the camp
00:54:24.33\00:54:26.80
of the doubters
and never returned.
00:54:26.83\00:54:30.47
Such a remarkable experience
00:54:30.50\00:54:32.10
warranted an
immediate call to mom.
00:54:32.13\00:54:34.57
Jay had slept through the grave,
00:54:34.60\00:54:36.71
side service surrounded
by his union college family,
00:54:36.74\00:54:39.91
dear relatives and many friends.
00:54:39.94\00:54:42.74
The time had arrived for him
to be lowered into the ground
00:54:42.78\00:54:46.31
by the kindly
Pioneer Cemetery crew.
00:54:46.35\00:54:49.78
His father told the crew
to come and finish their tasks
00:54:49.82\00:54:53.96
because the family was
not leaving until it was done.
00:54:53.99\00:54:58.26
As the casket came to rest,
at the bottom of the grave one
00:54:58.29\00:55:02.53
of the lowering
ropes became tangled.
00:55:02.56\00:55:05.17
And someone
needed to free the rope,
00:55:05.20\00:55:08.07
because of the
father's great love for the son,
00:55:08.10\00:55:11.31
he was compelled to
jump down into the hole
00:55:11.34\00:55:13.98
and tenderly freed the rope.
00:55:14.01\00:55:17.38
Now the father was
alone with his only son.
00:55:17.45\00:55:22.75
One last time he edged up
by the head of the casket,
00:55:22.78\00:55:29.89
placed his hand on the
cold metal as he whispered,
00:55:29.92\00:55:35.23
"We love you, Jay.
00:55:35.26\00:55:37.60
We will see you in the morning."
00:55:37.63\00:55:41.20
As he softly spoke to his son,
00:55:41.24\00:55:44.67
became
abundantly certain that only
00:55:44.71\00:55:46.44
one of them could
hear and understand.
00:55:46.47\00:55:49.81
The father paused to ponder
00:55:49.84\00:55:51.18
what Jay would
hear, see and think next.
00:55:51.21\00:55:55.12
Standing by his son in
the bottom of the grave,
00:55:55.15\00:55:57.62
he turned his face
upward and looked intently out
00:55:57.65\00:56:01.56
through the
rectangular hole to the blue sky
00:56:01.59\00:56:04.06
and imagined the
great resurrection morning.
00:56:04.13\00:56:07.86
His thoughts struggled to
materialize that dark cloud
00:56:07.90\00:56:11.00
in the eastern
sky in the brilliant
00:56:11.03\00:56:13.17
appearance of the Son of God.
00:56:13.20\00:56:14.94
He tried vainly to hear
the blast of the great trumpet
00:56:14.97\00:56:18.21
that will
accompany the appearing
00:56:18.24\00:56:21.28
of millions of glorious angels.
00:56:21.31\00:56:23.45
However, the sky remained blue
00:56:23.48\00:56:25.55
and the silence of
the grave lingered.
00:56:25.58\00:56:28.65
But this father
knew that one great day,
00:56:28.68\00:56:32.42
Jay and his family of
believers would indeed
00:56:32.45\00:56:35.96
hear and see the
long awaited event.
00:56:35.99\00:56:38.73
Although the mechanics,
00:56:38.76\00:56:40.80
the physiology of
the sleep of the living
00:56:40.83\00:56:42.80
and the sleep of
the dead are different,
00:56:42.83\00:56:45.23
both are free of
pain, suffering, stress,
00:56:45.27\00:56:47.80
and anguish and both are
awaiting for the morning,
00:56:47.84\00:56:50.97
to be sure loneliness
and separation are sad
00:56:51.01\00:56:53.68
but as months are
turned into years,
00:56:53.71\00:56:55.88
the sight of Jay's
grave has transformed
00:56:55.91\00:56:59.15
from the place
of great past sorrow
00:56:59.18\00:57:01.75
to a place of
anticipating great future joy.
00:57:01.78\00:57:06.32
One day not long from
now the power of heaven
00:57:06.35\00:57:09.06
will come streaking
from the throne of heaven.
00:57:09.09\00:57:11.56
And do for Jay and
all of God's people
00:57:11.59\00:57:14.23
who are sleeping in the grave,
00:57:14.30\00:57:15.83
just what it did
for Jesus on the great
00:57:15.86\00:57:19.27
resurrection
morning so long ago.
00:57:19.30\00:57:24.34
Although sudden
and alarming changes
00:57:24.37\00:57:26.68
are sweeping across the globe,
00:57:26.71\00:57:28.61
you and your
family can be prepared
00:57:28.64\00:57:30.45
to face the
future with confidence.
00:57:30.48\00:57:33.08
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