We pray that the Spirit of
God will speak to your heart
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and guide you through His Word.
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We know that the Lord always
has blessings in store for us,
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so thank you for tuning in.
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Tonight we're
beginning a new topic.
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The topic entitled,
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"The Truth
about the Millennium."
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Say that word
together, millennium.
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A number of years ago
when I was in New York City
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with Pastor Doug Batchelor.
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The entire series was referred
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to as the
Millennium of Prophecy.
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And that was one word
that was a tongue twister to me
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for various reasons.
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So I had to figure
out a way to say it.
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And so tonight
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I will encourage
you if you are also,
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if your tongue also
gets twisted by that,
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just say millennium,
instead of millennium,
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you try to save in
one word, it could really,
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you know, all kinds
of accidents could occur,
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but just say millennium.
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Together, millennium,
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which simply means
1000 years milli, annum,
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milli, annum, 1000 years.
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But we're going to pray tonight
and I want to just thank you
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for getting your
Bibles, your pens,
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inviting your
family and your friends
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for this thoughtful
study through the Word of God.
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But before we do anything,
I'll tell you in just a moment
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where to get a
copy of the lesson
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and how to download
that, but let's begin by
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inviting the Lord's
presence through prayer.
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Gracious Father in
heaven, we thank You
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that Your Word is true.
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And that always,
Father, we can turn to You
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and find in You the hope,
the courage, the strength,
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the guidance and the truth.
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And so, Lord, guide us tonight
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through the presence and
power of Your Holy Spirit,
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and may we be blessed
as You expand our knowledge
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in preparation
for Your soon return.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Now just before our theme song,
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want to tell you where
to get a copy of the lesson.
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Go to this website, ASF,
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that's A Sharper
Focus abbreviated,
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asf.3abn.org.
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Download lesson number 25,
The Truth about the Millennium,
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The Truth about the Millennium.
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And we'll be expanding
on that lesson on next week,
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but tonight you'll find
just about 10 questions there.
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And on question 10
you'll find six blank lines.
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We're going to go ahead
and fill those out together.
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But let's first
begin with our theme song.
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What's our theme
song? "Victory in Jesus."
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Let's sing our
theme song together.
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Here we are.
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sin
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And won the victory.
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Together.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
The streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen?
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What a wonderful song.
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When we travel around,
people have said to us,
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"We love that
song, Victory in Jesus.
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It's become a favorite."
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But it really
spells why we do what we do
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and how we're
able to do what we do,
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we have victory in?
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In Jesus.
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Now for those of
you tuning in, if my...
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I got to say this
because it feels this way,
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if my lip looks a
little out off kilter
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is because I live
in Southern Illinois,
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and the guys here do not
know how to play basketball.
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I've been trying
for years to teach him,
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but I keep getting
the brunt of the elbow.
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So tonight, ignore it
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as my lip goes through a
wonderful transformation.
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It will look better
next week, I promise you.
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But why the topic
of the millennium.
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There are many untruths
told about the millennium,
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but tonight,
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we're gonna tell the
truth about the millennium,
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ain't that right?
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People have been taught
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along with the secret rapture.
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Many people have been taught
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that with this false
teaching of the secret rapture,
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there is also an
accompanying false teaching
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about the
earthly reign of Christ.
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They teach that Christ
is going to reign on earth
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for a 1000 years.
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Now one of the evidences
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we covered when we talked
about the Second Coming is,
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this time Jesus is not
coming to walk the earth.
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This time He's
coming to take us home.
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Can you say amen to that?
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He came to abide with us.
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He came to walk
among us, but this time
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He's calling He's coming so
that we could walk with Him.
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Let's go to John Chapter
14, just to lay some foundation.
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This is not the first
question, but John Chapter 14.
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Look at the promise of Jesus.
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The promise of
Jesus lays the foundation,
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and Satan during the Dark Ages
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introduced so
many false doctrines
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into the church,
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and so many of
them have taken root
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on the basis of theories.
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But any theory
that's not supported
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by the
scriptures is not the truth,
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ain't that right?
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The truth of God's
Word is the only foundation,
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the only reliable
source that we can turn to.
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Look at John Chapter 14,
and I'll begin with verse 1,
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the promise of Jesus.
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He said, "Let not
your heart be," what?
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"Troubled, you believe
in God, believe also in Me.
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In my Father's house
are many mansions..."
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Where are the mansions?
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In his Father's
house, not on earth?
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He says,
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"If it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare
a place for you."
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He says "I,"
what's the next word?
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"Go. I go."
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And then it says in verse 3,
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"And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again,"
that's the Second Coming,
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"and receive you to Myself,
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that where I am."
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Come on, tell me
somebody, where is He?
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It starts with the
letter H, where is He?
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Heaven, "that where I
am, there you may be also."
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How we're going to get
there? He's going to come again.
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He's not saying, I see
you when you get there.
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He's saying, "I
will come again."
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As a matter of fact,
throughout His writings,
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throughout His writings,
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He continually
said to His disciples,
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"I am the way, I am
the truth, I am the life."
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But after He made this
statement, He reiterated,
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"Where I am
going, you cannot come."
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And one of the reasons why
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we have to wait
till Jesus comes back.
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We also learned this
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on the topic of
the Second Coming,
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something must take
place in order that we can...
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In order for us to
safely be able to go to heaven.
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Let's go to 1
Corinthians Chapter 15.
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This is just some foundation.
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Since this topic is paramount
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or the next step to the
Second Coming of Christ,
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it's important to
lay some foundation
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as some reminders.
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We can look at
the Bible together.
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1 Corinthians Chapter 15.
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All right?
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And we're going to look
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at first verse...
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Verse 20 down to verse 26.
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This is foundation.
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All right?
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The discussion was
about the resurrection.
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This entire chapter is
about the resurrection.
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"But now," verse 20,
"Christ is risen from the dead,
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and has become the
firstfruits of those
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who have fallen asleep.
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For since by man came death,
by Man also came the," what?
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"Resurrection of the dead."
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One of the things
left out in Christianity
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is the resurrection.
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It's kind of die and
go directly to heaven.
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You never hear people
say, they went to hell.
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Isn't that funny,
every funeral you go to,
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the preacher never
says, he's in hell now.
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Like we have the wherewithal
to determine where people go.
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That's only,
that's the job of Christ.
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Verse 22, verse 21,
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"For since by man came
death, by Man," capital M,
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"also came the
resurrection of the dead."
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Verse 22, "For as
in Adam," how many die?
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"All die, even so in Christ,"
how many shall be made alive?
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"All."
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But here's the key,
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"But each one in his own order:
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Christ the firstfruits,
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afterward those who
are Christ's at His," what?
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"At His coming.
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Then comes the end," verse 24,
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"when He delivers the
kingdom to God the Father,
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when He puts an end to all rule
and all authority and power.
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For He must reign
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till He has put all
enemies under His feet.
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The last enemy that
will be destroyed is," what?
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"Death." Okay,
that's the resurrection.
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Now go to verse 51, verse 51.
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Let's look at this
change that must take place.
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"Behold, I tell you or show
you a mystery," the Bible says,
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"we shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be," together,
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"changed, in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye,
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at the last
trumpet," what trumpet?
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Last one.
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"For the trumpet will sound,
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and the dead will be
raised incorruptible,
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and we shall be changed.
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For this corruptible
must put on incorruption,
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and this mortal
must put on immortality."
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Verse 54,
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"So when this corruptible
has put on incorruption,
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and this mortal
has put on immortality,
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then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written:
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'Death is
swallowed up in victory.
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O death, where is thy sting?
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O grave, where is thy victory?'"
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So what has to happen
before we can go to heaven?
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Somebody tell me.
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Say it again.
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We've got to be changed.
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We've got to be changed.
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And when does the change happen?
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At the last trumpet.
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That trumpet is
very significant.
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It lays the foundation
for our first question.
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You see, the change
does not take place at death,
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the change takes place
at the coming of the Lord.
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And we cannot go
in this physical body
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because mortal man cannot exist
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in the presence
of an immortal God.
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By the way, I don't
think people know this.
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But you know, one of the reasons
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why astronauts wear suits.
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I'm not talking
about a suit and a tie,
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but multimillion dollar suits
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because you cannot exist
outside of earth's atmosphere.
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No man can break out
of earth's atmosphere.
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Matter of fact, we
can't exist naturally above
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20 to 25,000 feet.
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Really the
ceiling? for a person,
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if you hit about 13,000 feet,
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that's about the highest
you're going to be able to go
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without having
some oxygen assistance.
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That's why when you fly planes,
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many of the
single engine planes,
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they could go
above that ceiling,
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but most pilots
stay below that ceiling
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because they could fly
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without any
assistance of oxygen.
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So that's why most of
the dual engine planes,
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even the dual engine
prop planes are designed
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with oxygen masks.
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When you go above 13,000
feet, you better have breathing
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from some other apparatus.
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Matter of fact, when you fly
to St. Louis out at Cape Air,
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you don't go above
13,000 feet. You know why?
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There are no mountains.
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You can fly at 2,000
feet on the way to St. Louis,
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there's nothing to hit.
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But when you're in California,
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you got to have something to
hold you above that altitude,
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if you decide to go over
Mount Lassen or over mount,
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the other one, Mount Shasta.
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So let's go ahead and begin
with the most important event.
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Question number one.
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Question number one.
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Here it is.
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What event marks the
beginning of the millennium?
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What event marks the
beginning of the millennium?
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1 Thessalonians Chapter 4.
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And you theologians
know where I'm headed.
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But we need to go there anyway
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because some people
don't know where I'm headed.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
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All right?
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And the Bible reads,
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"For the Lord Himself
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will descend from
heaven with a," what? "Shout,
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with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God.
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And the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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Don't go to the next slide yet,
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just come away from the
slide for a brief moment.
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What's going to
happen when Jesus descends?
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What is He going to blow?
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Now that trumpet is not
that Jesus needs a trumpet,
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but His voice, the
voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God,
the loud command of the Lord,
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and you'll find out as
a result of what happens,
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you'll find out what
that command is all about.
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Matter of fact, when Jesus
said to Lazarus, come forth,
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that was the trump of God,
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but He specified everybody
else relax Lazarus, come forth.
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Amen?
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Because if He just
said, "Come forth."
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Man, I tell you,
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there would have been
quite an uproar in Jerusalem.
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The Jews would have had
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no reason to
doubt His Messiahship.
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But when He
brought Lazarus forth
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in John Chapter 11,
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they determined from that
day that they must kill Jesus.
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Now why?
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Because Jesus debunked this idea
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that man could be raised
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without the
assistance of Christ.
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And the reason
He came in and rose
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Lazarus after
four days is because
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they believe something
now known as Neoplatonism
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that taught that the soul
tried to get back into the body
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for three days.
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And if it was successful,
they came back to life.
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Look it up, Neoplatonism.
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Jesus came after four days,
not because He can't count.
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But after four
days, like Martha said,
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"By now, Lord,
he starting to rot.
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Don't even, please don't
ask him to come out now."
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But, if the
Lord calls you forth,
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He never calls you forth
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and leave you in
a rotting condition.
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So let's go to
the very next verse.
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What's going to
happen as a result
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of this trumpet of God,
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as a result of the
voice of the archangel?
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Here it says,
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"Then we who are alive
and remain shall be," what?
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"Caught up together with
them in the clouds to do," what?
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"To meet the Lord in the air.
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And thus shall we
always be with the Lord."
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When do we meet Jesus?
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Come on, somebody tell me.
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When?
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After the last
trump, at a Second Coming.
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A point that I must reiterate,
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we did this in the
topic of the Second Coming.
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We did this in
the topic about death.
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But you know what they said,
repetition is a good teacher.
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We don't meet Jesus face
to face until He descends,
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then the resurrection happens,
then we are caught up to meet.
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What two words
did I say? To meet.
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You don't meet Him at death.
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Matter of fact
the saints who died,
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they didn't die hoping
to meet Jesus right away.
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They died, they gave their lives
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so that they could
obtain a better resurrection.
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They didn't die
for a better journey.
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They said, we want
the better resurrection.
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We'll find out what
resurrection that is.
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So on question number one.
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What event marks the
beginning of the millennium?
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The Second Coming/Resurrection.
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Second Coming/Resurrection.
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That's what marks the
beginning of the millennium.
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Second Coming, Resurrection.
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And you can also add
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something else that marks
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the beginning of the millennium,
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we finally meet Jesus.
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Amen, somebody?
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We finally meet Jesus.
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We've been talking about
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we've been living for His glory,
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but we finally
meet Him face to face.
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What a wonderful
day that's going to be.
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Now let's go to
Revelation Chapter 20.
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Revelation Chapter 20.
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Revelation Chapter 20
is the millennium chapter.
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Right, the word millennium
doesn't appear in the Bible,
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just like the word
rapture does not appear.
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But the word rapture
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simply comes from
a word that means,
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it comes from the
Greek word, Parousia,
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which simply means
to be snatched away.
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But it doesn't
mean to disappear.
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It never teaches that it
means to be snatched away.
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The Lord in His own power
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is going to pull us
like by divine magnets,
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where He's going to
suspend gravity for the saints.
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What do you all say? Amen. Amen.
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And we're going to
rise to meet the Lord,
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and then He's going
to give us oxygen masks
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better than the
astronauts ever had.
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You know why we're not
going to need oxygen mask?
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Somebody tell me,
come on, talk to me.
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Somebody tell me,
why won't we need it?
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Thank you. We will be immortal.
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We will no longer be mortal,
we will put on immortality.
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That's why it says,
when this corruptible,
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this thing that's
dying and decaying,
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when it becomes incorruptible,
00:19:33.97\00:19:35.64
longer susceptible to
decay and breaking down,
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we also put on immortality.
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Mortal will be
replaced with immortality.
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So if you can die,
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there is no environment in
which you are going to die.
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So we could soar through
space for our seven day journey
00:19:51.69\00:19:55.56
to be with the Lord in the air.
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Amen?
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To be with the
Lord in His Kingdom.
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Now, Revelation Chapter 20.
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I know you're all there.
00:20:01.06\00:20:02.40
I'm on my way, relax.
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Okay, Revelation
20:4, here it is.
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"And I saw thrones,"
00:20:09.67\00:20:11.84
the Bible says,
00:20:11.87\00:20:13.88
"and they sat on them,
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and judgment was
committed to them."
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Something people didn't
know the saints would do
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when they're in heaven,
judgment was committed to them.
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I'll tell you
about that in a moment.
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"Then I saw the souls of
those who had been," what?
00:20:26.29\00:20:29.19
"Beheaded for their witness
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to Jesus and
for the Word of God,
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who had not worshiped
the beast or his image,
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and had not received his mark
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on their
foreheads or on their hands.
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And they lived and reigned
with Christ for," how long?
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"A thousand years."
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Now I want to discuss another
point of reiteration here.
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Christ doesn't
live and reign with us.
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We live and reign where?
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With Him.
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We live and reign
with Christ a 1000 years.
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Something else that is
important to emphasize here.
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When the Bible says,
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.23
judgment is given to the saints.
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.80
During the 1000 years,
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.17
the records of all those
who have not made the kingdom
00:21:14.20\00:21:17.64
will be reviewed by the saints.
00:21:17.67\00:21:21.41
Paul the Apostle says
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.11
that we are worthy to
judge in small matters,
00:21:23.14\00:21:26.51
because Paul the Apostle says,
00:21:26.55\00:21:28.08
"Don't you know that one
day you will judge angels?
00:21:28.12\00:21:31.49
And if you're going
to judge angels one day,
00:21:31.52\00:21:33.66
why not in small
earthly matters?"
00:21:33.69\00:21:36.42
So when somebody
says, "Don't judge me,"
00:21:36.46\00:21:39.69
tap him on the shoulder.
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I'm not condemning you,
00:21:41.73\00:21:43.70
but surely by your
fruits I'll know you.
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That's the only
judgment God has given to us.
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Not to tell them
what's going to happen,
00:21:48.84\00:21:50.34
not to point them
to heaven or hell,
00:21:50.37\00:21:52.31
not to decide
00:21:52.34\00:21:53.68
what their
destination is going to be.
00:21:53.71\00:21:56.31
But by their fruits,
you'll be able to know.
00:21:56.34\00:21:58.25
When you go to
the fruit supermarket,
00:21:58.28\00:22:01.08
somebody says, this is an apple,
00:22:01.12\00:22:03.02
and it feels like an orange.
00:22:03.05\00:22:04.45
You got to judge
whether or not that is an apple
00:22:04.49\00:22:06.39
or whether not
that is an orange.
00:22:06.42\00:22:07.76
That's judgment.
00:22:07.79\00:22:09.12
That's the ability to
judge between one and the other.
00:22:09.16\00:22:12.09
So during the 1000 years,
what's going to happen here?
00:22:12.13\00:22:15.06
Let's write
this, write this down.
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Revelation 20:4.
00:22:17.13\00:22:19.73
What did they do?
00:22:19.77\00:22:21.30
What did they do?
00:22:21.34\00:22:23.97
What happens?
00:22:24.01\00:22:26.41
And where are the saints?
00:22:26.44\00:22:27.88
They live and reign with Christ.
00:22:27.91\00:22:30.88
They live and reign with Christ.
00:22:30.91\00:22:34.22
That's another event
that marks the beginning
00:22:34.25\00:22:36.42
of the millennium.
00:22:36.45\00:22:37.79
The saints live
and reign with Christ.
00:22:37.82\00:22:40.66
He doesn't reign with
us, we reign with Him.
00:22:40.69\00:22:44.46
And until the
1000 years are done,
00:22:44.49\00:22:50.63
Jesus will not
again touch this earth.
00:22:50.67\00:22:55.20
All right?
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.24
It's important to note
that because there's so many
00:22:57.27\00:22:59.67
untruths out there
about what happens.
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.84
There are people actually,
there are many false religions
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.75
and there are many true...
00:23:04.78\00:23:06.95
Sorry, let me use
a different phrase.
00:23:06.98\00:23:08.98
There are many non religions,
and there are many religions
00:23:09.02\00:23:13.99
that are preparing for
the reign of Christ on earth.
00:23:14.02\00:23:18.03
That's why the
Middle East is such a focus.
00:23:18.06\00:23:20.73
They want, the
one wants the temple,
00:23:20.76\00:23:22.73
the Jews want
the Temple Mount back
00:23:22.76\00:23:24.43
the Arabs don't
want to give it back.
00:23:24.47\00:23:26.57
Because they're both preparing
for the coming of either
00:23:26.60\00:23:30.51
Mohammad or the Messiah.
00:23:30.54\00:23:33.98
And they are waiting for
Him to reign in Jerusalem.
00:23:34.01\00:23:36.54
Let me give you a bulletin.
00:23:36.58\00:23:38.05
He's not going to
reign in Jerusalem.
00:23:38.08\00:23:39.95
He's going to reign
in the New Jerusalem.
00:23:39.98\00:23:43.25
Amen for that.
00:23:43.28\00:23:44.62
Look at Revelation Chapter 21.
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Very quickly,
Revelation Chapter 21.
00:23:46.02\00:23:48.79
The Bible makes it so clear.
00:23:48.82\00:23:51.29
It makes it so clear,
Revelation Chapter 21.
00:23:51.33\00:23:53.96
This is at the
end of the 1000 years.
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.33
We're kind of
running ahead of ourselves,
00:23:55.36\00:23:57.03
but you'll see
this again next week.
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Revelation 21:1,
00:23:59.27\00:24:01.54
"And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
00:24:01.57\00:24:04.37
the first heaven and the earth
first earth had passed away,
00:24:04.41\00:24:07.44
and there was no more sea."
00:24:07.48\00:24:09.31
The inference of that is,
man is no longer separated.
00:24:09.34\00:24:12.71
"Then I, John,
saw the holy city,"
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.75
what Jerusalem?
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.28
"New Jerusalem,
00:24:16.32\00:24:19.55
coming down out of
heaven," Where's it coming from?
00:24:19.59\00:24:24.36
"Out of heaven from God,
00:24:24.39\00:24:28.26
prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
00:24:28.30\00:24:34.30
Clearly, and just the bulletin,
00:24:34.34\00:24:37.74
sometimes we say the
church is the Lamb's wife.
00:24:37.77\00:24:40.41
The church is the bride of a..."
00:24:43.45\00:24:45.48
Knows that's not true.
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.38
The church is not the bride.
00:24:48.42\00:24:49.82
The church is
pictured in that relationship.
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.05
Husband loves your wife,
00:24:52.09\00:24:53.42
love your wives as
Christ loved the church.
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.59
That's the relationship setting.
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.06
But let's look at
Revelation 21:9-10.
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Just this is kind
of extra, no charge,
00:25:01.00\00:25:05.43
extra, something very
important to understand.
00:25:05.47\00:25:08.57
"Then one of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls
00:25:08.60\00:25:11.31
filled with the
seven last plagues
00:25:11.34\00:25:13.31
came to me and
talked with me saying,
00:25:13.34\00:25:15.38
'Come,
00:25:15.41\00:25:17.25
I will show you the bride,
00:25:17.28\00:25:20.88
the lamb's wife,'
00:25:20.92\00:25:23.99
and he carried me
away in the spirit
00:25:24.02\00:25:26.92
to a great and high mountain
00:25:26.96\00:25:28.99
and showed me the
great city," the what?
00:25:29.02\00:25:33.13
"Holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God."
00:25:33.16\00:25:37.97
Let me go and put this together.
00:25:38.00\00:25:40.90
We're the guests at the wedding.
00:25:40.94\00:25:43.51
Come on, say amen.
00:25:43.54\00:25:45.27
We're the guests at the wedding
00:25:45.31\00:25:47.68
and what are the two categories
of the guests right now?
00:25:47.71\00:25:51.35
Five are wise, five are foolish.
00:25:51.38\00:25:56.35
Okay, they all
slumbered, slumber is that,
00:25:56.38\00:25:58.42
they all slept.
00:25:58.45\00:25:59.79
But five are wise
and five are foolish.
00:25:59.82\00:26:02.72
At midnight the call was made,
"Behold, the bridegroom cometh,
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go ye out to meet him."
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Now to be very, very clear.
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A kingdom without the
saints is an empty kingdom.
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We will be in the New Jerusalem
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with the lamb as he delivers
the kingdom to His Father.
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He's really delivering
the redeemed to His Father.
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We are in the kingdom
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and the New
Jerusalem fill with the saints
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represent that full picture
of the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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That was just extra.
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All right, question number
two, is that all we up to now?
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Just number two?
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Got to move faster than that.
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Question number two, here it is.
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In what category
does the Bible place
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the resurrection of the saints?
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In what category
does the Bible place
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the resurrection of the saints?
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Revelation 20:5.
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We just read verse 4,
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where they live and
reign with Christ a 1000 years.
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What does the
Bible say about this
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and which one of
these resurrections is it?
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Since we're in Revelation,
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I'll just go to
the screen right away.
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Revelation 20:5 says,
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"But the rest of the dead
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did not live
again until the," what?
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"Thousand years were finished.
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This is the first resurrection."
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So now if there's a first,
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what you
naturally have at least?
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You have at least the second.
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Not gonna be a third,
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but you'll have
at least the second.
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Now I could add some
different components in there,
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but really
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don't want to add that in
00:27:35.85\00:27:37.25
because those
who crucified Jesus,
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He made an appointment.
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Okay?
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It's not a happy appointment.
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When they adjured Him to
tell about his Messiahship.
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I adjure you, "Are
you the Son of God."
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"I am.
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And you will see Me
coming in the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory."
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In Revelation 1:7
makes it very clear,
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"Behold, he cometh with clouds
and every eye will see Him,
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even those that pierced Him.
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And then all the tribes
of the earth will mourn."
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So when He comes,
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there's going to be
a special resurrection
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for those who crucified Him.
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Now get this,
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to come forth from the grave
00:28:22.26\00:28:23.60
to see Him no longer
with a crown of thorns,
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but a crown of glory.
00:28:26.23\00:28:28.10
Then they are destroyed
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by the brightness of His coming.
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After it's very clear to
them that that is the guy
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who made an appointment with us.
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Truly, He is the Son of God.
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Destroyed by the
brightness of His coming,
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then they come forth in the...
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They have a
special resurrection,
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not a first resurrection,
a special resurrection,
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because the first resurrection
is for the righteous.
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This is a special appointment,
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because the Bible will
tell you in just a moment,
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why it's not a
first resurrection,
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but it's an appointment
that Jesus set 2000 years ago.
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Then they are destroyed by
the brightness of His coming
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only to come forth again
in the second resurrection
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to receive their
judgment for the rejection
00:29:10.18\00:29:12.45
of the Messiah.
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Sad reality. Sad reality.
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So here,
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what is this
resurrection called?
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What category
does the Bible place
00:29:18.62\00:29:19.95
the resurrection of the saints?
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In what?
00:29:21.36\00:29:22.69
First
resurrection, write that down.
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The first resurrection.
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Now, let's go to
question number three.
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Question number three.
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You know, one
of the best methods
00:29:33.57\00:29:34.90
of teaching the Bible
is question and answer,
00:29:34.94\00:29:36.74
question and answer.
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That's one of the best methods
because the question resonates,
00:29:38.14\00:29:42.01
the answer
comes from God's Word.
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All right?
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Question number three.
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Here's the question.
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What is the advantage
00:29:49.42\00:29:51.92
in being in the
first resurrection?
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What is the advantage
00:29:53.76\00:29:55.46
in being in the
first resurrection?
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I have the saying
00:29:57.16\00:29:58.49
and I want to see
if I get it right.
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Born once died twice,
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born twice, you might die once.
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See because if you
stay alive till Jesus comes,
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you'll never die.
00:30:12.01\00:30:13.41
You won't receive any,
00:30:13.44\00:30:15.34
you won't need
to be resurrected.
00:30:15.38\00:30:16.95
So if you're born
twice, you might die once.
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But if you're born
once, you will die twice.
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Born once, that
means the physical birth,
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you don't accept Jesus,
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.12
you'll be
destroyed when He comes,
00:30:28.16\00:30:29.52
and you come forth in
the second resurrection
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for the second death.
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But if you are
born again, born twice,
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the natural birth
and the spiritual birth,
00:30:36.03\00:30:38.30
you may die once,
00:30:38.33\00:30:39.93
but you will have
that resurrection,
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the first resurrection.
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Amen?
00:30:43.00\00:30:44.34
So you got to make
sure that you're born again.
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Here's the answer.
00:30:47.14\00:30:48.48
What's the advantage in
being in the first resurrection?
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Revelation 20:6.
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The Bible reads as follows,
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"Blessed and holy
00:30:55.35\00:30:58.12
is he who has part
in first resurrection."
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Let's read the rest together,
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"Over such the
second death has no power,
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but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ,
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and shall reign
with Him," how long?
00:31:12.47\00:31:14.90
"A thousand years."
00:31:14.94\00:31:17.57
So if you're in
the first resurrection,
00:31:17.61\00:31:19.41
you're not only blessed
and you're holy but death.
00:31:19.44\00:31:23.14
What's the death?
00:31:23.18\00:31:24.71
Has no power
over the saints. Why?
00:31:24.75\00:31:28.02
Because if you
put on immortality,
00:31:28.05\00:31:30.59
death is like,
00:31:30.62\00:31:31.95
it's like a
mosquito hitting a window.
00:31:31.99\00:31:34.92
Just not going to
penetrate all day long.
00:31:34.96\00:31:38.93
Never going to make a dent.
00:31:38.96\00:31:41.56
Death has no
power over the saints.
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.27
So if you put the answer,
00:31:44.30\00:31:45.63
what is the advantage in
being in the first resurrection?
00:31:45.67\00:31:48.44
Death has no power.
00:31:48.47\00:31:50.81
Death has no power.
00:31:50.84\00:31:53.78
And you want to put
death has no power over me.
00:31:53.81\00:31:56.61
Personalize it.
00:31:56.64\00:31:57.98
Death has no power over me.
00:31:58.01\00:31:59.81
Let's make that personal.
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A number of other reasons there,
00:32:02.65\00:32:03.99
but we put this in
the earlier section,
00:32:04.02\00:32:05.42
you'll reign with
Christ, you will reign with Him.
00:32:05.45\00:32:09.12
And the added
benefits will be priests
00:32:09.16\00:32:12.56
and praise the
Lord, a holy nation,
00:32:12.59\00:32:14.00
a royal priesthood,
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.66
as Peter the
Apostle made so clear.
00:32:15.70\00:32:18.17
You'll see what
that royal priesthood
00:32:18.20\00:32:19.53
is really all about,
because you'll be reigning.
00:32:19.57\00:32:21.90
You know, there are
many kings in our world,
00:32:21.94\00:32:23.51
there are lot of
nations that still have kings,
00:32:23.54\00:32:25.11
lot of countries
that still have kings,
00:32:25.14\00:32:27.38
and there are lords many,
00:32:27.41\00:32:29.24
but Jesus is King of
kings and Lord of lords.
00:32:29.28\00:32:35.38
And you got to
understand that in the context
00:32:35.42\00:32:38.75
of like Great Britain,
00:32:38.79\00:32:40.36
you know, the king, king.
00:32:40.39\00:32:43.22
Elvis was the
king of rock and roll.
00:32:43.26\00:32:45.83
James Brown was
the king of soul.
00:32:45.86\00:32:48.40
Jesus is the king
of all that. Amen?
00:32:48.43\00:32:50.77
Not a rock and
roll and not of soul,
00:32:50.80\00:32:52.50
but He's the King of kings.
00:32:52.53\00:32:54.74
So you may even
say, I'm a king, He said,
00:32:54.77\00:32:57.51
that means nothing.
00:32:57.54\00:32:58.91
I'm the King of kings.
00:32:58.94\00:33:01.34
That means there is no
name higher than My name.
00:33:01.38\00:33:05.91
Praise God for
that kind of connection.
00:33:05.95\00:33:07.68
Now ask yourself the question,
00:33:07.72\00:33:09.38
to whom would you
rather be connected?
00:33:09.42\00:33:12.05
If you know you have
that kind of benefit,
00:33:12.09\00:33:13.89
that kind of eternal
benefit, that kind of advantage,
00:33:13.92\00:33:16.73
never dying again.
00:33:16.76\00:33:18.16
I don't know, I don't understand
00:33:18.19\00:33:19.53
when a person is...
00:33:19.56\00:33:21.40
When the appeal goes
forward to accept Jesus
00:33:21.43\00:33:24.47
so that you can
have eternal life.
00:33:24.50\00:33:26.10
It always puzzles me
that people sit there like,
00:33:26.13\00:33:30.34
why would I
want to live forever.
00:33:30.37\00:33:33.07
I really want to
burn in the fires of hell.
00:33:33.11\00:33:35.71
And they don't think that way.
00:33:35.74\00:33:37.61
But because they are
so connected to the world,
00:33:37.65\00:33:40.32
they can't
fathom the disconnect,
00:33:40.35\00:33:43.18
and the joys that
will come in hereafter.
00:33:43.22\00:33:46.02
And I'll be honest with
you, I am a gadgetarian.
00:33:46.05\00:33:49.96
I like gadgets,
00:33:49.99\00:33:51.33
we have a lot of guys
that love the iPad, the new,
00:33:51.36\00:33:53.80
we're waiting for whatever
Mac has to come out with a new,
00:33:53.83\00:33:56.16
that's just who we are.
00:33:56.20\00:33:58.07
But Mac or Apple
cannot create anything
00:33:58.10\00:34:01.70
better than what the
Lord is going to reveal
00:34:01.74\00:34:03.20
to us in eternity.
00:34:03.24\00:34:04.57
Can you say amen to that?
00:34:04.61\00:34:07.74
I mean, we won't need internet.
00:34:07.78\00:34:12.75
We won't need airplanes.
00:34:12.78\00:34:15.72
We won't need any of that.
00:34:15.75\00:34:17.39
I mean, if mankind
could create these things
00:34:17.42\00:34:20.02
in such an advanced
setting, what can God create?
00:34:20.06\00:34:23.76
And that's only, men
are creating these things
00:34:23.79\00:34:25.69
with maybe one seventh
of their brain in operation.
00:34:25.73\00:34:28.46
Wow.
00:34:28.50\00:34:29.83
And if you combine
00:34:29.86\00:34:31.20
all the brains of all men alive,
00:34:31.23\00:34:32.57
is still can't
equal half of God's brain.
00:34:32.60\00:34:37.07
You guys get that on Tuesday.
00:34:37.11\00:34:39.64
Okay, praise God for that.
00:34:39.67\00:34:41.41
All right, here
we go to number four.
00:34:41.44\00:34:43.38
So what answer did you put down?
00:34:43.41\00:34:45.51
What is the advantage?
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.18
Death has no power.
00:34:47.22\00:34:48.65
Death has no power.
00:34:48.68\00:34:50.19
We long for that day
00:34:50.22\00:34:51.89
when there will
be no more funerals,
00:34:51.92\00:34:54.36
even so come Lord Jesus.
00:34:54.39\00:34:56.86
Question number four.
00:34:56.89\00:34:58.96
How does the Bible
describe the two resurrections?
00:34:58.99\00:35:02.50
How does the Bible
describe the two resurrections?
00:35:02.53\00:35:04.90
John 5:28-29.
00:35:04.93\00:35:08.60
John 5:28-29.
00:35:08.64\00:35:10.94
There are two resurrections.
00:35:10.97\00:35:13.21
Somehow people
don't know this, you know,
00:35:13.24\00:35:16.75
and it really
makes it very clear
00:35:16.78\00:35:18.88
that these two resurrections
00:35:18.91\00:35:20.25
mark two
definitive times in history.
00:35:20.28\00:35:22.45
You saw that in
Revelation Chapter 20,
00:35:22.48\00:35:24.62
"Blessed and holy
00:35:24.65\00:35:25.99
is he who was part in
the first resurrection."
00:35:26.02\00:35:28.22
And then it says,
00:35:28.26\00:35:30.23
"The rest of the
dead live not again
00:35:30.26\00:35:32.33
till the thousand
years are finished."
00:35:32.36\00:35:35.33
Now let's look at John
5:28-29. Are you ready?
00:35:35.36\00:35:38.73
Here it is.
00:35:38.77\00:35:40.54
"Do not marvel at this,"
00:35:40.57\00:35:42.10
or as the King
James Version says,
00:35:42.14\00:35:43.47
"Marvel not at this,
00:35:43.51\00:35:45.01
for the hour is
coming in which,"
00:35:45.04\00:35:48.04
what's the next word together?
00:35:48.08\00:35:50.15
"All who are in the
graves, not in heaven,
00:35:50.18\00:35:57.09
will hear His
voice and come forth."
00:35:57.12\00:36:01.32
Next,
00:36:01.36\00:36:02.72
"Those who have done good,
to the resurrection of life,
00:36:02.76\00:36:07.66
those who have done? evil,
00:36:07.70\00:36:09.10
to the
resurrection of condemnation,"
00:36:09.13\00:36:12.43
or as the King James Version,
00:36:12.47\00:36:13.80
"the resurrection of damnation,"
00:36:13.84\00:36:15.64
they will be
assigned to the flame.
00:36:15.67\00:36:19.04
But the righteous coming
forth in the first resurrection,
00:36:19.07\00:36:21.78
the first resurrection, then,
00:36:21.81\00:36:23.48
if we were to give a
title to the first resurrection,
00:36:23.51\00:36:26.01
it would be the
resurrection of life.
00:36:26.05\00:36:31.85
So would that be
the better resurrection?
00:36:31.89\00:36:33.22
Yes or no? That's
the better resurrection.
00:36:33.25\00:36:35.39
You come forth to life eternal.
00:36:35.42\00:36:37.46
As Paul says,
00:36:37.49\00:36:38.83
mortality will be
swallowed up by life,
00:36:38.86\00:36:41.93
this mortal body.
00:36:41.96\00:36:43.30
So when you read that passage
about absent from the body,
00:36:43.33\00:36:45.30
present with the Lord,
00:36:45.33\00:36:47.10
you got to put that
in the right context.
00:36:47.14\00:36:48.70
That was not what
Paul was talking about.
00:36:48.74\00:36:50.51
He says, "In this tent,
we groan being burdened."
00:36:50.54\00:36:53.34
Let me ask you a question.
00:36:53.38\00:36:54.71
How many of you have burdens?
00:36:54.74\00:36:57.25
Huh? Do we all have burdens?
00:36:57.28\00:36:59.31
Every one of us has burdens.
00:36:59.35\00:37:00.68
And Paul says,
00:37:00.72\00:37:02.05
"As long as you're in this tent,
00:37:02.08\00:37:04.55
you're going to have problems."
00:37:04.59\00:37:06.25
And he said, "I would
rather be absent from this body
00:37:06.29\00:37:09.99
and I'll be present
with the Lord," right?
00:37:10.03\00:37:12.69
Who would not rather that?
00:37:12.73\00:37:14.63
But he said,
"It's going to happen
00:37:14.66\00:37:16.80
when mortality is
swallowed up by life."
00:37:16.83\00:37:22.17
Don't just stop at that
verse, read the whole thing,
00:37:22.20\00:37:24.91
and you'll get the full picture.
00:37:24.94\00:37:26.27
Praise God.
00:37:26.31\00:37:27.64
God's Word is
never a misguided word.
00:37:27.68\00:37:30.18
It always makes it clear.
00:37:30.21\00:37:31.55
So how does the Bible
describe the two resurrections?
00:37:31.58\00:37:34.62
The first one is the
resurrection of life.
00:37:34.65\00:37:37.19
Second one,
resurrection of condemnation.
00:37:37.22\00:37:40.29
You don't want to
be in that second one.
00:37:40.32\00:37:41.96
And God has made every provision
00:37:41.99\00:37:44.13
that we all can escape
00:37:44.16\00:37:46.96
the second resurrection.
00:37:47.00\00:37:49.26
Think about it for a moment,
00:37:49.30\00:37:50.63
the second resurrection
is going to be horrible.
00:37:50.67\00:37:53.37
They're going to be
people that will come forth
00:37:53.40\00:37:55.07
in the second
resurrection and I surmise,
00:37:55.10\00:37:57.51
and you'll find out why
I came to this conclusion.
00:37:57.54\00:38:01.01
Satan is going to
make some of them think
00:38:01.04\00:38:03.65
that this is the
first resurrection.
00:38:03.68\00:38:05.88
For a brief moment,
00:38:05.91\00:38:07.25
they're going to come
forth from their graves.
00:38:07.28\00:38:08.75
For a brief moment, I
believe this is totally,
00:38:08.78\00:38:11.92
I have no
scriptural support for that.
00:38:11.95\00:38:14.66
But they will think, "Oh,
00:38:14.69\00:38:16.52
finally, we're back to life,"
00:38:16.56\00:38:20.06
only to look
around and start saying,
00:38:20.10\00:38:21.93
"Wait a minute,
00:38:21.96\00:38:23.80
wait a minute."
00:38:23.83\00:38:26.30
I'm still
coughing, I die with a cold.
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.90
Wait a minute, and
everything around them.
00:38:29.94\00:38:34.08
And then all of a sudden,
00:38:34.11\00:38:35.44
they go and look
in front of them.
00:38:35.48\00:38:38.08
And they're going to
see the New Jerusalem
00:38:38.11\00:38:41.45
and these transparent walls,
00:38:41.48\00:38:43.89
and they're going to
see some folk on the inside
00:38:43.92\00:38:46.09
and then realize it's not
them, then the sad reality.
00:38:46.12\00:38:51.43
I believe that's
where it's going to be
00:38:51.46\00:38:53.33
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
00:38:53.36\00:38:55.30
I believe that's where
they're going to realize
00:38:55.33\00:38:58.23
what they have lost.
00:38:58.27\00:39:00.04
You know, it's like,
I told you the story.
00:39:00.07\00:39:02.80
Mine was small
compared to the future.
00:39:02.84\00:39:05.91
But I was so bad once, I had to.
00:39:05.94\00:39:08.38
My mom had a
birthday party for me.
00:39:08.41\00:39:12.45
But I had to stay in my room
00:39:12.48\00:39:14.75
and look down the
hall to the kitchen
00:39:14.78\00:39:16.92
where everybody was having
a piece of my birthday cake,
00:39:16.95\00:39:20.62
singing happy birthday to
John, and I'm down the hallway.
00:39:20.66\00:39:25.39
And she told me,
"You think you're bad?
00:39:25.43\00:39:29.50
All right.
00:39:29.53\00:39:31.23
I got a
spanking and punishment."
00:39:31.27\00:39:34.27
Did you think I did it
again? Come on, help me out.
00:39:34.30\00:39:35.87
Do you think I did?
00:39:35.90\00:39:37.24
Because I knew
she's meant what she said.
00:39:37.27\00:39:39.84
I was not about to
have another birthday party.
00:39:39.87\00:39:42.64
Now she gave me a
piece of cake later on,
00:39:42.68\00:39:44.21
but after all
the guests had left.
00:39:44.25\00:39:46.11
Part of the joy
of the birthday party
00:39:46.15\00:39:47.48
is to be out there
with all my friends
00:39:47.52\00:39:49.15
who are out
there singing birthday,
00:39:49.18\00:39:50.62
happy birthday down the hall.
00:39:50.65\00:39:53.62
No, stay in your room,
00:39:53.66\00:39:56.12
but you could,
just go and see him.
00:39:56.16\00:39:57.49
There he is right
over there, sing to him.
00:39:57.53\00:40:01.66
And it hurt worse
than the whipping.
00:40:01.70\00:40:04.53
I want to say,
just beat me somewhat,
00:40:04.57\00:40:06.74
I'll do anything you want,
but please let me come out.
00:40:06.77\00:40:11.31
It's gonna be worse.
00:40:11.34\00:40:13.11
It's going to be
so bad that I am not.
00:40:13.14\00:40:17.98
I am not by God's grace
going to be in that number.
00:40:18.01\00:40:20.28
Can somebody
else join me on that?
00:40:20.32\00:40:23.89
Wow, this is powerful.
00:40:23.92\00:40:26.49
Number five.
00:40:26.52\00:40:27.86
Number five.
00:40:27.89\00:40:29.86
What happens to the wicked
alive at the second coming?
00:40:29.89\00:40:34.46
What happens to the wicked
alive at the second coming?
00:40:34.50\00:40:37.07
Just for the space,
00:40:37.10\00:40:38.43
I didn't have a
whole lot of space up.
00:40:38.47\00:40:39.80
What happens to the wicked
00:40:39.83\00:40:41.50
that are alive
at the Second Coming
00:40:41.54\00:40:43.07
is really the question.
00:40:43.10\00:40:44.94
What happens to the wicked
alive at the second coming?
00:40:44.97\00:40:49.18
All right.
00:40:49.21\00:40:50.61
I'll give you a text that
you probably haven't really seen
00:40:50.65\00:40:53.01
before in its entirety.
00:40:53.05\00:40:55.25
2 Thessalonians 1:6-8.
00:40:55.28\00:40:58.35
2 Thessalonians 1:6-8.
00:40:58.39\00:41:03.29
Here it is.
00:41:03.32\00:41:04.76
Here it is.
00:41:04.79\00:41:07.66
Okay?
00:41:07.70\00:41:09.23
The Word of God says,
00:41:09.26\00:41:11.03
"Since it is a
righteous thing with God
00:41:11.07\00:41:15.10
to repay with tribulation
those who trouble you..."
00:41:15.14\00:41:18.74
Come on, somebody say amen.
00:41:18.77\00:41:20.84
God's gonna,
God is going to pay.
00:41:20.88\00:41:23.45
"Since it is a
righteous thing with God
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.88
to repay with tribulation
those who trouble you,
00:41:24.91\00:41:28.25
and to give you who
are troubled," what?
00:41:28.28\00:41:31.79
"Rest with us
00:41:31.82\00:41:33.76
when the Lord Jesus
is revealed from heaven
00:41:33.79\00:41:37.29
with His mighty angels,
00:41:37.33\00:41:39.19
in flaming fire
taking vengeance on those
00:41:39.23\00:41:42.93
who do not know God,
00:41:42.96\00:41:45.03
and on those who
do not obey the gospel
00:41:45.07\00:41:48.24
of our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:41:48.27\00:41:51.17
So how else does the
Bible describe God's judgment
00:41:51.21\00:41:54.61
on the wicked?
00:41:54.64\00:41:55.98
What's God gonna do?
00:41:56.01\00:41:57.88
What's God gonna do?
00:41:57.91\00:42:01.15
What's he gonna to do?
00:42:01.18\00:42:03.05
He's gonna give to them
everlasting destruction,
00:42:03.08\00:42:07.62
taking vengeance
with flaming fire,
00:42:07.66\00:42:10.93
with flaming fire,
00:42:10.96\00:42:12.63
taking vengeance on
those who do not know God.
00:42:12.66\00:42:16.80
Now, you may
think that's unjust,
00:42:16.83\00:42:18.73
they don't know me.
00:42:18.77\00:42:20.10
Well, you know what?
00:42:20.14\00:42:21.47
It's not that
they don't know Him.
00:42:21.50\00:42:23.37
They didn't want to know Him.
00:42:23.41\00:42:24.87
Let me add
another component here
00:42:24.91\00:42:26.24
because when you
read Matthew 7:21-23,
00:42:26.27\00:42:28.98
the Lord says, there
are those that involved.
00:42:29.01\00:42:30.65
Let's go there.
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.01
Because this do not
know Him is powerful.
00:42:32.05\00:42:34.28
Whoa, it is powerful.
00:42:34.32\00:42:35.85
Slow down,
00:42:35.88\00:42:37.22
Lord is pouring
stuff in my head,
00:42:37.25\00:42:39.25
and it's connecting very fast.
00:42:39.29\00:42:41.72
Got to give you what the Lord
00:42:41.76\00:42:43.09
has just
reminding me in His Word.
00:42:43.12\00:42:44.83
You know what?
00:42:44.86\00:42:46.19
I believe
whenever we open the Bible,
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.56
the Holy Spirit is excited.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.60
What do you say?
00:42:49.63\00:42:50.97
Because he's now
actively participating
00:42:51.00\00:42:53.94
in furnishing through us
00:42:53.97\00:42:55.57
the knowledge of
those that will listen,
00:42:55.60\00:42:57.44
to those that are listening.
00:42:57.47\00:42:59.21
Here's why you
have to keep in mind
00:42:59.24\00:43:00.81
that your works are not enough.
00:43:00.84\00:43:02.84
Because he says,
00:43:02.88\00:43:04.61
"Taking vengeance on
those who," do not what?
00:43:04.65\00:43:07.18
Who do not what?
00:43:07.22\00:43:08.65
"Who do not know God."
00:43:08.68\00:43:10.02
Look at Matthew 7:21.
00:43:10.05\00:43:12.02
"Not everyone who says to me,
00:43:12.05\00:43:13.46
'Lord, Lord' shall
enter the kingdom of heaven,
00:43:13.49\00:43:15.76
but he who does the
will of my Father in heaven.
00:43:15.79\00:43:18.89
Many will say to Me in that day,
00:43:18.93\00:43:20.96
'Lord, Lord, have we
not prophesied in your name?
00:43:21.00\00:43:25.20
Cast out demons or
devils in your name,
00:43:25.23\00:43:28.30
and done many
wonders or wonderful works
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.34
in your name?'
00:43:31.37\00:43:32.71
And then I will
declare to them," together?
00:43:32.74\00:43:35.38
"I never knew you.
00:43:35.41\00:43:38.18
Depart from Me,
00:43:38.21\00:43:39.71
you who practice lawlessness
or worketh iniquity.'"
00:43:39.75\00:43:44.59
You see, iniquity,
you know what iniquity is?
00:43:44.62\00:43:46.49
Cherished sin, that sin
that people refuse to give up.
00:43:46.52\00:43:49.76
They would rather and
here's what's happening.
00:43:49.79\00:43:51.89
He's saying,
they're doing good works.
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.30
They're prophesying,
00:43:54.33\00:43:56.70
they're doing
many wonderful works,
00:43:56.73\00:43:58.53
even casting out demons.
00:43:58.57\00:44:00.54
So let me ask a question
because some people say,
00:44:00.57\00:44:03.14
why is it that we
can't cast out demons?
00:44:03.17\00:44:05.34
You can cast out
demons and not even know God.
00:44:05.37\00:44:10.18
But doesn't mean, you know Him,
00:44:10.21\00:44:11.91
but he just said
that, am I right?
00:44:11.95\00:44:13.82
So casting out demons
00:44:13.85\00:44:15.18
is not evidence
that you know God,
00:44:15.22\00:44:17.75
sometimes, and
this is how Satan works.
00:44:17.79\00:44:19.75
Let me just give
you the example of that,
00:44:19.79\00:44:21.22
because I want you to
understand the context.
00:44:21.26\00:44:23.69
Those who are truly
imbued by the Spirit of God
00:44:23.73\00:44:26.19
can do that.
00:44:26.23\00:44:27.73
But sometimes to make you
think that God is in this,
00:44:27.76\00:44:31.57
Satan will possess
somebody and cause his servant
00:44:31.60\00:44:34.90
to make it appear as
though he cast out a demon,
00:44:34.94\00:44:37.67
but he's working in conjunction
with them to make you think
00:44:37.71\00:44:41.14
they've got the
power to cast out demons.
00:44:41.18\00:44:43.14
Evidently, that's the case,
00:44:43.18\00:44:44.71
because these people
that did not know God
00:44:44.75\00:44:47.38
cast out demons in his name.
00:44:47.42\00:44:51.62
And the Lord
said, "You did that,
00:44:51.65\00:44:53.32
but I don't know you."
00:44:53.36\00:44:55.12
That's one way.
00:44:55.16\00:44:57.19
So here's the point.
00:44:57.23\00:44:58.56
Don't just get
involved in works,
00:44:58.59\00:45:00.86
have a personal
relationship with Jesus, right?
00:45:00.90\00:45:04.53
Let's look at another one.
00:45:04.57\00:45:05.90
1 John 2:3-4.
00:45:05.93\00:45:09.10
Yes, Lord, I'm
going to show it to him.
00:45:09.14\00:45:11.97
1 John 2:3-4,
00:45:12.01\00:45:14.94
because lot of people
say they know the Lord
00:45:14.98\00:45:17.21
and some people,
00:45:17.25\00:45:18.58
how could you tell me
I don't know the Lord.
00:45:18.61\00:45:20.38
Well on the authority of
God's Word, look at this.
00:45:20.42\00:45:24.05
1 John 2:3-4.
00:45:24.09\00:45:27.42
Here's the key
before we read the verse,
00:45:27.46\00:45:29.62
it is important that you know
that you know the Lord, right?
00:45:29.66\00:45:34.40
If I say, I know, Cynthia.
00:45:34.43\00:45:39.93
I could be just
making that statement.
00:45:39.97\00:45:42.50
But Cynthia might
say, "I don't know him."
00:45:42.54\00:45:46.11
So how I know that I
know Cynthia as people would,
00:45:46.14\00:45:48.78
"How do you know Cynthia?"
00:45:48.81\00:45:50.15
Well, her husband is
and our children's names are
00:45:50.18\00:45:53.48
and she's a member of my church,
00:45:53.52\00:45:54.98
and she's always at
prayer meeting, we talk.
00:45:55.02\00:45:57.65
I give enough
evidences, but then she said,
00:45:57.69\00:45:59.75
"Well, I know him."
00:45:59.79\00:46:02.02
There is a
connection on both sides.
00:46:02.06\00:46:05.83
Look at what the Lord says.
00:46:05.86\00:46:07.20
You must know
that you know Christ.
00:46:07.23\00:46:09.53
Don't leave that
up to your works.
00:46:09.56\00:46:11.43
Here's how you
know you know Him.
00:46:11.47\00:46:13.54
Verse 3.
00:46:13.57\00:46:14.90
Now,
00:46:14.94\00:46:16.44
by this, we know
that we know Him.
00:46:16.47\00:46:21.84
If we do what? Keep...
00:46:21.88\00:46:24.25
If we do what, come
on speak, if we do what?
00:46:24.28\00:46:26.41
Keep His commandments.
00:46:26.45\00:46:28.38
Check verse 4
even more concentrated.
00:46:28.42\00:46:31.99
He who says, "I know Him
00:46:32.02\00:46:34.42
and does not keep His
commandments is a," what?
00:46:34.46\00:46:37.89
"Liar, and the
truth is not in him.
00:46:37.93\00:46:40.86
Bulletin.
00:46:40.90\00:46:44.13
That's a powerful text.
00:46:44.17\00:46:45.67
And don't get upset at me.
00:46:45.70\00:46:47.34
I'm just repeating
what the Word of God says.
00:46:47.37\00:46:49.67
So there are a lot of
preachers that say, I know God,
00:46:49.70\00:46:52.07
I ain't keeping
those commandments
00:46:52.11\00:46:53.44
because they've
been nailed to the cross.
00:46:53.48\00:46:55.41
Lord didn't say that.
00:46:55.44\00:46:57.21
He didn't say, "They
got nailed to the cross."
00:46:57.25\00:46:58.58
He said, "This is
Your responsibility."
00:46:58.61\00:47:01.42
1 Corinthians 7:19.
00:47:01.45\00:47:04.02
Go there with me,
1 Corinthians 7:19.
00:47:04.05\00:47:07.92
1 Corinthians 7:19.
00:47:07.96\00:47:10.13
Okay.
00:47:10.16\00:47:11.96
It's amazing.
00:47:11.99\00:47:13.43
It's amazing what the
Bible can communicate.
00:47:13.46\00:47:15.43
Because the Jews
had the same problem.
00:47:18.47\00:47:20.60
They said, "You've
got to be circumcised
00:47:20.64\00:47:21.97
to be saved."
00:47:22.00\00:47:23.34
And there's some
people that will say
00:47:23.37\00:47:25.07
because you keep
the commandments,
00:47:25.11\00:47:26.44
you believe in, you
know, keeping all the laws.
00:47:26.47\00:47:28.24
That's not true.
00:47:28.28\00:47:29.61
The circumcision
law done away with,
00:47:29.64\00:47:31.75
the Lord wants a heart
that has been circumcised,
00:47:31.78\00:47:35.32
remove the fleshy and
allow the spiritual rain.
00:47:35.35\00:47:38.49
Look at what the
Lord said to the Jews
00:47:38.52\00:47:39.92
through the Apostle Paul.
00:47:39.95\00:47:41.72
He said,
"Circumcision is nothing
00:47:41.76\00:47:43.89
and uncircumcision is nothing,
00:47:43.93\00:47:45.76
but keeping the
Commandments of God
00:47:45.79\00:47:47.40
is what matters.
00:47:47.43\00:47:49.56
Amen?
00:47:49.60\00:47:50.93
So are you about
all those side things,
00:47:50.97\00:47:53.67
but what matters is
keeping the commandments of God.
00:47:53.70\00:47:56.37
So when you say you know God,
00:47:56.40\00:47:58.11
"If you love me,"
finish it with me now,
00:47:58.14\00:48:00.18
"keep My Commandments."
00:48:00.21\00:48:01.54
John 14:15.
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.85
Let's go to question number six.
00:48:03.88\00:48:05.88
Question number six.
00:48:05.91\00:48:07.75
Question number six.
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.98
All right, and I did,
00:48:10.02\00:48:12.05
we did answer
number five, didn't we?
00:48:12.09\00:48:13.79
Okay, number six, here we go.
00:48:13.82\00:48:15.76
How else does the Bible describe
00:48:15.79\00:48:19.36
God's judgments on the wicked?
00:48:19.39\00:48:21.86
How else does the
Bible describe that?
00:48:21.90\00:48:24.23
How else does the
Bible describe that?
00:48:24.27\00:48:26.70
2 Thessalonians 2:8
00:48:26.74\00:48:29.57
is where we are
headed right now.
00:48:29.60\00:48:32.31
2 Thessalonians 2:8.
00:48:32.34\00:48:36.58
Okay.
00:48:36.61\00:48:39.28
And the Bible reads as follows.
00:48:39.31\00:48:40.72
So the Bible reveals,
00:48:40.75\00:48:43.42
"And then the
lawless one will be revealed,
00:48:43.45\00:48:49.09
whom the Lord will consume
with the breath of His mouth,
00:48:49.12\00:48:54.40
and destroy with the," what?
00:48:54.43\00:48:56.97
"Brightness of His coming."
00:48:57.00\00:49:00.27
So, the answer.
00:49:00.30\00:49:02.07
How else is the Bible describe
God's judgment on the wicked?"
00:49:02.10\00:49:05.17
They will be
destroyed with the," what?
00:49:05.21\00:49:07.58
"Brightness of His coming."
00:49:07.61\00:49:08.94
And let me give you a
bulletin, they know that.
00:49:08.98\00:49:11.68
You know, I know they know that.
00:49:11.71\00:49:13.08
Go to Revelation Chapter 6.
00:49:13.11\00:49:15.02
You know how they know?
00:49:15.05\00:49:16.45
You know how I know
00:49:16.48\00:49:17.82
they know that something
good is not about to happen,
00:49:17.85\00:49:20.56
or something bad
is about to happen.
00:49:20.59\00:49:22.79
Go to Revelation chapter 6.
00:49:22.82\00:49:25.99
Their reaction tells me
they know they're in trouble.
00:49:26.03\00:49:30.50
Revelation Chapter
6, Revelation Chapter 6.
00:49:30.53\00:49:34.50
Here it is.
00:49:34.54\00:49:36.71
Revelation 6:14.
00:49:36.74\00:49:39.04
"Then the sky
receded as a scroll
00:49:43.51\00:49:47.82
when it is," what?
00:49:47.85\00:49:49.18
"Rolled up or rolled together,
00:49:49.22\00:49:51.55
and every mountain and island
was moved out of its place,
00:49:51.59\00:49:58.36
and the kings of the earth,
the great men, the rich men,
00:49:58.39\00:50:02.13
the commanders, the mighty men,
00:50:02.16\00:50:05.13
every slave and every free man."
00:50:05.17\00:50:07.70
What did they do?
00:50:07.74\00:50:09.54
You don't hide
00:50:09.57\00:50:10.91
when something
good is about to happen.
00:50:10.94\00:50:13.07
They hid themselves in the caves
00:50:13.11\00:50:16.14
and in the rocks
of the mountains.
00:50:16.18\00:50:18.68
You know why they hide
00:50:18.71\00:50:20.88
because they have Adam's
nature before he repented.
00:50:20.92\00:50:24.02
Come on.
00:50:24.05\00:50:25.39
He hid, he heard
God's voice and he hid
00:50:25.42\00:50:28.79
because he knew he was naked.
00:50:28.82\00:50:30.93
They hide
because they are naked,
00:50:30.96\00:50:32.89
they don't have the
garment of righteousness.
00:50:32.93\00:50:35.30
And what did they say? Verse 16.
00:50:35.33\00:50:37.20
And they said, to the
mountains and the rocks,
00:50:37.23\00:50:40.34
you know, when you
know you're in trouble,
00:50:40.37\00:50:41.87
you start talking to
things that can't talk back.
00:50:41.90\00:50:46.94
Fall on us, they say,
00:50:46.98\00:50:49.04
"Hide us from the face of
Him who sits on the throne
00:50:49.08\00:50:51.98
and from the wrath of the Lamb,'
00:50:52.01\00:50:53.52
for great day of his
wrath has come and," what?
00:50:53.55\00:50:56.69
"Who is able to stand.'
00:50:56.72\00:50:59.19
"When you know
you're in trouble,
00:50:59.22\00:51:00.56
you start talking to
things that can't talk back.
00:51:00.59\00:51:03.02
And that's what happens here.
00:51:03.06\00:51:04.39
They are so out of their
mind, so beside themselves
00:51:04.43\00:51:06.76
that they know that
they are about to be visited
00:51:06.80\00:51:08.73
with the judgments of God.
00:51:08.76\00:51:10.10
And they're talking to
the mountains and the rocks,
00:51:10.13\00:51:11.60
hide us.
00:51:11.63\00:51:12.97
But what they don't know is
that the coming of the Lord,
00:51:13.00\00:51:16.30
every valley shall be exalted.
00:51:16.34\00:51:18.54
You can't say
you're not able to see it.
00:51:18.57\00:51:20.64
And every
mountain shall be laid low.
00:51:20.68\00:51:22.61
God is going to
make the plane visible
00:51:22.64\00:51:25.55
for every iris
see His soon return.
00:51:25.58\00:51:28.68
There's some beautiful mountains
00:51:28.72\00:51:30.05
in upper Northwest.
00:51:30.09\00:51:31.45
My wife and I were
driving up there in Columbia,
00:51:31.49\00:51:34.82
on the west coast of
Canada, British Columbia.
00:51:34.86\00:51:38.43
Oh, you got to go up there,
the mountains are gorgeous,
00:51:38.46\00:51:41.20
beautiful, so beautiful.
00:51:41.23\00:51:43.33
We were driving down the...
00:51:43.37\00:51:44.70
I don't know what
highway it was, but it was just,
00:51:44.73\00:51:46.60
the mountains were so
large and so beautiful.
00:51:46.63\00:51:48.34
We had to pull off the road,
of course, to take a picture.
00:51:48.37\00:51:51.34
You can't take a
picture. You got to feel it.
00:51:51.37\00:51:54.21
We stood out there and just
00:51:54.24\00:51:56.31
looked at these mountains
just folding over themselves,
00:51:56.34\00:51:59.38
it seemed like
three or four layers,
00:51:59.41\00:52:01.62
just folding over.
00:52:01.65\00:52:02.98
And then in the
center in the far distance,
00:52:03.02\00:52:05.59
we saw snow
capped peak with clouds,
00:52:05.62\00:52:07.66
just lapping the
surface of those mountains.
00:52:07.69\00:52:10.63
And we looked at
that and thought,
00:52:10.66\00:52:13.09
"Man, the Lord just said,
00:52:13.13\00:52:15.96
when He comes back,
every island and mountain
00:52:16.00\00:52:20.64
shall be moved
out of its place."
00:52:20.67\00:52:23.07
What a day it's going to be?
00:52:23.10\00:52:24.44
There'll be no place to hide,
00:52:24.47\00:52:25.81
and they're going to be
looking at those big mountains
00:52:25.84\00:52:27.18
in fall on us.
00:52:27.21\00:52:28.54
Lord says, not today.
00:52:28.58\00:52:31.15
Every eye will see Him.
00:52:31.18\00:52:34.48
It's amazing how much
you can get out of a lesson.
00:52:34.52\00:52:37.22
It's amazing.
Question number seven.
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.05
Is that where we're going?
00:52:39.09\00:52:40.82
Number seven.
00:52:40.86\00:52:42.29
How else does the Bible describe
00:52:42.32\00:52:43.66
God's judgment on the wicked?
00:52:43.69\00:52:45.13
We answered that, didn't we?
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.70
Number seven, here it is.
00:52:47.73\00:52:51.33
What happens to
the living wicked
00:52:51.37\00:52:53.74
that are destroyed
at the Second Coming?
00:52:53.77\00:52:56.04
What happens to them?
00:52:56.07\00:52:57.87
What happens to them?
00:52:57.91\00:53:00.14
Jeremiah 25:33.
00:53:00.18\00:53:04.21
Jeremiah 25:33.
00:53:04.25\00:53:10.42
Okay.
00:53:10.45\00:53:13.05
Here's what we
read in God's Word.
00:53:13.09\00:53:17.03
"And at that day,
00:53:17.06\00:53:18.96
the slain of the Lord shall be,"
00:53:18.99\00:53:22.56
just got to picture this,
"from one end of the earth
00:53:22.60\00:53:26.40
even to the other
end of the earth."
00:53:26.43\00:53:29.10
Can you imagine that?
00:53:29.14\00:53:31.87
We're talking about Holocaust.
00:53:31.91\00:53:34.78
And it says, the next
verse, continuing in verse 33,
00:53:34.81\00:53:38.78
"They shall not be lamented,"
00:53:38.81\00:53:41.02
that means nobody's
going to be mourning,
00:53:41.05\00:53:43.65
or gathered, or buried, buried,
"they shall become," what?
00:53:43.69\00:53:48.42
"Refuse on the ground."
00:53:48.46\00:53:50.53
You know why?
00:53:50.56\00:53:51.89
Because the funeral parlor,
the funeral director himself
00:53:51.93\00:53:54.80
will either be in one
of the other categories.
00:53:54.83\00:53:57.53
There're not gonna be
funeral parlors around,
00:53:57.57\00:53:59.60
saying, oh, we got business.
00:53:59.63\00:54:02.24
Look at all these corpses.
00:54:02.27\00:54:04.27
No, that funeral director
would either be righteous
00:54:04.31\00:54:06.64
or he'll be one of
the corpses himself.
00:54:06.68\00:54:09.31
There'll be no funeral homes,
everything will be broken down.
00:54:09.34\00:54:12.71
The Bible makes it
clear in Jeremiah 4,
00:54:12.75\00:54:14.58
we will see that next week.
00:54:14.62\00:54:16.18
The city is
going to be broken down
00:54:16.22\00:54:18.99
at the presence of the
Lord and by His fierce anger.
00:54:19.02\00:54:22.42
This earth is
going to be one mess.
00:54:22.46\00:54:26.03
God is coming to
gather His saints out of this.
00:54:26.06\00:54:29.80
And the reason
why He's doing that,
00:54:29.83\00:54:31.33
He's going to
reconstruct the earth.
00:54:31.37\00:54:34.24
He's gonna,
that's a demolition job.
00:54:34.27\00:54:37.54
He's is in trouble.
00:54:37.57\00:54:39.11
People are gonna say,
man, he's really upset.
00:54:39.14\00:54:40.71
No, God's getting the
earth ready for His saints.
00:54:40.74\00:54:43.61
He's got to get rid of
all the stuff men build.
00:54:43.65\00:54:46.01
So on the clay and
the ashes of the former.
00:54:46.05\00:54:51.39
Well, God built a new
heaven and the new earth
00:54:51.42\00:54:54.29
where only
righteousness can be found.
00:54:54.32\00:54:56.76
So the answer to number seven is
00:54:56.79\00:54:58.59
what happens to
the living wicked
00:54:58.63\00:55:00.43
that are destroyed
at the Second Coming."
00:55:00.46\00:55:02.93
They are, just
they lay on the ground
00:55:02.96\00:55:05.40
wherever they fall.
00:55:05.43\00:55:06.87
Just like in the
flood, did you know that?
00:55:06.90\00:55:09.67
When people died in the flood,
00:55:09.70\00:55:11.37
there were no
funerals during the flood.
00:55:11.41\00:55:14.98
That's why, that's why
Luke asked the question.
00:55:15.01\00:55:17.65
When the Lord talks about,
00:55:17.68\00:55:19.91
one shall be
taken, one shall be left,
00:55:19.95\00:55:21.82
one shall be in the
field, one shall be taken,
00:55:21.85\00:55:23.28
one shall be left,
00:55:23.32\00:55:24.65
the one taken is
taken away in destruction
00:55:24.69\00:55:26.52
because the Bible says,
in Noah's day the flood came
00:55:26.55\00:55:28.82
and took them all away.
00:55:28.86\00:55:31.19
So also and then Luke ask
00:55:31.23\00:55:33.50
in Luke Chapter 17,
I think it's verse 23.
00:55:33.53\00:55:35.93
He says, he said, "Where Lord?"
00:55:35.96\00:55:38.97
And the Lord said,
00:55:39.00\00:55:40.34
"Wherever the
eagles are together,
00:55:40.37\00:55:42.54
that's where you're
going to find them."
00:55:42.57\00:55:43.91
Let's just
determined by God's grace
00:55:48.11\00:55:49.64
to not have eagles eat on us.
00:55:49.68\00:55:52.28
We're going to go
to the marriage supper
00:55:52.31\00:55:53.65
of the Lamb.
00:55:53.68\00:55:55.02
We are not going to be
00:55:55.05\00:55:56.38
the marriage supper of the Lamb.
00:55:56.42\00:55:58.19
Wow, wow.
00:55:58.22\00:55:59.85
What a humbling subject.
00:55:59.89\00:56:01.22
Let's see if we get one more.
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.59
Number eight, number eight.
00:56:02.62\00:56:04.76
And next week we'll
start on a new page.
00:56:04.79\00:56:06.70
So we'll probably wind up,
we just have enough I think.
00:56:06.73\00:56:09.96
Can the unsafe still be
saved at the Second Coming?
00:56:10.00\00:56:15.14
Can the unsaved still be
saved at the Second Coming?
00:56:15.17\00:56:18.84
So much for this idea about
the second chance theology,
00:56:18.87\00:56:21.51
there is no secret
rapture, there is no next plane.
00:56:21.54\00:56:24.75
After that one
takes off, that's it.
00:56:24.78\00:56:28.32
Revelation 22:11, let's go there
00:56:28.35\00:56:30.75
because we don't
have a ton of time.
00:56:30.79\00:56:32.55
Here it is.
00:56:32.59\00:56:34.19
This is the declaration.
00:56:34.22\00:56:35.59
"He who is unjust," what?
00:56:35.62\00:56:37.59
"Let him be unjust
still, he is," what?
00:56:37.63\00:56:39.86
"Filthy, let
him be filthy still,
00:56:39.89\00:56:41.86
he who is
righteous, let him be," what?
00:56:41.90\00:56:43.67
"Righteous
still, he who is holy,
00:56:43.70\00:56:45.50
let him be," what?
00:56:45.53\00:56:46.87
"Holy still."
00:56:46.90\00:56:48.24
And the next verse, "And
behold, I am coming," how?
00:56:48.27\00:56:51.81
"Quickly,
00:56:51.84\00:56:53.54
and My reward is with
Me, to give to," how many?
00:56:53.58\00:56:58.41
"Every one,"
where as the King James,
00:56:58.45\00:57:00.72
"every man,
according to his works."
00:57:00.75\00:57:04.49
So, my brothers
and sisters, tonight,
00:57:04.52\00:57:06.39
we're laying the foundation.
00:57:06.42\00:57:07.86
We're going to outline
00:57:07.89\00:57:09.22
question number
nine and number ten.
00:57:09.26\00:57:10.59
Starting on next
Wednesday, God willing,
00:57:10.63\00:57:13.40
but keep this in mind,
00:57:13.43\00:57:14.76
the opportunities
to accept the Lord
00:57:14.80\00:57:16.83
and to be in the
first resurrection
00:57:16.87\00:57:18.50
should you die or to
meet the Lord in peace,
00:57:18.53\00:57:21.30
should you have the blessing
of living until Jesus comes.
00:57:21.34\00:57:24.67
It is in giving your heart
and your life to Jesus Christ.
00:57:24.71\00:57:27.41
Can the church say amen?
00:57:27.44\00:57:29.24
There's no better,
there's no better invitation
00:57:29.28\00:57:31.78
than to come to the
marriage supper of the Lamb.
00:57:31.81\00:57:34.78
There is no better joy
than to meet the Lord in peace.
00:57:34.82\00:57:38.25
And so until we see you again,
continue studying God's Word.
00:57:38.29\00:57:42.12
If it doesn't
make sense, one day,
00:57:42.16\00:57:44.23
it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
00:57:44.26\00:57:46.80
God bless you. Let us pray.
00:57:46.83\00:57:48.60