(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's
worthy ? ? worthy of all ?
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My name is Dr. Carlton
Byrd and I'm here at the
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Berean Seventh Day Adventist
Church here in Atlanta,
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Georgia, home of
Breath of Life Ministries and
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we are grateful to
be in the Word today.
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Today we're going to get
in the Word once again because
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if it's in the Word
it deserves to be heard.
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Praise be to God.
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And we're going to the Book
of Genesis, chapter two verse 7
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The Word of God
says, "And the Lord, "God
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formed man of the,
what of the ground?
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Dust of the ground.
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"And breathed into his
nostrils the breath of"
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what? Life.
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Breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life and man
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became a living, what?
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Father, stop by this way today.
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Oh, God, I pray that in this
sanctuary over the television
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airways that, Lord God,
your Word will go forth and it
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would not return
void to You today.
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May it penetrate.
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Lord God, pray, oh, God,
that Thy people would have
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receptive hearts, minds,
bodies, souls and spirit, and
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that, oh, God, today we
might be converted by Your Word,
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hiding behind Your
cross, forgive us for our sin.
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In the name of Jesus we pray.
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Let everyone say Amen.
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And Amen.
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Death.
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What is death?
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What does death mean?
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What is it all about?
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What is death?
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Well, I want to say this
from the beginning today, what a
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mighty God we serve.
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What a mighty God we serve.
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Angels bow down before Him.
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Heaven and
earth adore him, what?
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A mighty God we serve.
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I'm here to let you know
that there are some things about
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the mighty God we serve.
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Number one, God is
omnipresent, God is omniscient
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and God is omnipotent.
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Which means God is all
powerful, God is all knowing
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and God is all
places all at the same time.
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But not only is God all of
that, but God is sovereign.
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Which means God can do what He
wants, when He wants, where He
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wants, how He wants and He
doesn't have to ask you and
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me for permission
to do what He wants.
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But not only is God
sovereign, God is timeless.
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God was always here, has
always been here, always will
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be here, always was, always is.
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And because God is all of that
and because God is timeless,
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God, my friends, is immortal.
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Which means God can't die.
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God can't die.
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God is uncreated.
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God is self-existent.
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God has no
beginning and God has no end.
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Now, on the other hand,
human beings are mortal.
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Everybody say mortal.
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Mortal means subject to death.
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Human beings are mortal.
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Mortal means subject to death.
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Mortuary means house of death.
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Mortician means a
person who works with the dead.
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And mortgage means
you'll pay it until you're dead.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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God is infinite.
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Man is finite.
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God is eternal.
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Human beings are transitory.
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God is immortal.
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Humans are mortal.
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No human lives forever.
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All humans are subject to death.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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The Bible is very clear.
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In Ecclesiastes 9, verses
5 and 6, "For the living know
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that they shall die, but
the dead know not anything."
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James 4:14 describes the
lives of humans as a vapor, that
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appears for a little time
and then it vanishes away.
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Now, we know that
God, according to Genesis,
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chapter 1, we know that God
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created this earth
in six literal days.
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On day six, God created man.
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God created what, everybody?
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Now, the Bible is
very clear in Genesis,
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chapter 1, verse 1.
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"In the beginning God
created the heavens and
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the, "what? Earth.
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The Bible goes on Genesis,
chapter 1, verse 26 and says,
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"And God said, let us
make man in our image,
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after our likeness.
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The evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
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So let me be clear
right now and hear me well.
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Man didn't come from monkeys.
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Man came from God.
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Man did not come
from a big bang theory.
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Man came from God.
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God created man.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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Now, how did God
create man in the beginning?
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Let's go back to Genesis.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Let's go back to
Genesis, chapter 2, verse 7 .
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Genesis 2:7.
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How did God create
man in the beginning?
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The Word of God says, "And
the Lord God formed man of the
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dust of the,"what?
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Ground.
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"And breathed into man's, "what?
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Nostrils.
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The breath of what?
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Life.
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"And man became a living," what?
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Now, there are two,
how many, everybody?
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There are two primary elements
in which God created man.
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God, the Bible teaches, took
dust of the ground and breath
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of life and man
became a living what?
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If we have dust but we
don't have breath, do we
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have a living soul?
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No.
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Because we need dust
of the ground and what?
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Breath of life to
become a living what? Soul.
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If we don't have
dust, but we have breath,
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are we a living soul?
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No.
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Because dust of the
ground plus breath of life equal
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a living what?
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Soul.
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We're very clear, number
one, that God created man.
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We're very clear that God
is immortal, which means God is
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not subject to death.
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But we're also very
clear that man is mortal, which
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means man is subject to death.
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We're very clear that
man didn't come from monkeys.
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We're very clear there was
no big-bang theory, that man
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came from God and God created
man by taking the dust of the
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ground, breathing into his
nostrils the breath of life
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man became a living what?
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Soul.
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Now then, Pastor
Byrd, what happens to an
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individual at death?
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We know how an individual
got here, God created them, dust
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of ground, breath of life,
living soul, but what happens,
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what's the
reverse of that process?
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Well, go with me to
the book of Ecclesiastes.
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What book, everybody?
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Ecclesiastes, chapter 12
and we're going to verse 7.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7.
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Now, we are very clear
that God took two elements
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to create man.
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Dust from the ground,
breath of life, and man became
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a living soul.
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What happens when
an individual dies?
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The reverse of that process.
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The Word of God says in
Ecclesiastes 12:7, if you're
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with me you say Amen.
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Amen.
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"Then shall the dust
return to the, "what? Earth.
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As it was.
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"And the spirit shall
return to, whom, everybody?
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The spirit shall return to whom?
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God, Who gave it.
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So let's be clear.
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Two elements created man, dust
of the ground, breath of life,
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man became a living, what?
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Soul.
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When an individual dies,
the Bible says in Ecclesiastes
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12:7 that the body
returns to what? Dust.
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And the spirit returns to whom?
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God.
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The spirit returns to God.
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That's very clear.
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Okay.
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When an individual dies then
body returns to dust, spirit
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returns to God.
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Pastor Byrd, aren't
the spirit and the soul
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the same thing?
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Because I hear all the time,
okay, body returns to dust.
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That's fine.
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But the Bible says
the spirit returns to God.
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So doesn't the
soul return to God?
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I know we just read that dust
of the ground, breath of life,
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living soul.
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But how do we know
what the spirit is?
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Is the spirit the breath
that was breathed into man's
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nostrils or is the spirit
the same thing as the soul?
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When an individual dies,
body returns to dust, spirit
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returns to God.
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But how do we know
what the spirit is?
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Go to the Book of Job.
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Job 27:3.
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The Word of God says,
"All the while my, what?
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Breath.
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My what, everybody?
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Breath is in me and the, what?
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Spirit of God is in my, what?
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All right.
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Let's stay right
there for a minute.
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All the while my breath is
in me and the spirit of whom?
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God, is in my what?
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From this text we discover
that the spirit and the breath
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are one and the same.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So that nullifies that thought
that says, well the spirit and
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the soul are the same.
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No, the spirit and the breath,
which is in one's nostrils,
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are the same.
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Understand, God took
two elements to create man.
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Dust of the what?
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Ground.
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Breath into his what?
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Nostrils.
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The breath of what?
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Life.
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Man became a living what?
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I must have dust plus what?
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Breath, in order to
be a living what? Soul.
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When an individual dies
the body returns to what?
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Dust.
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The spirit which is the breath
of life, which is in one's
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nostrils, returns
to whom, everybody?
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God.
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That's what the Word says.
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Pastor, we don't have
souls because we are souls,
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so do souls die?
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Go with me to
the Book of Ezekiel.
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Let's get some more Word.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe and
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know where it's found.
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Ezekiel.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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And we're going to chapter 18.
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"Behold all
souls are," what? Mine.
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As the soul of the Father,
so also the soul of the Son is,
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what? Mine.
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The soul that, what?
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Sinneth. It shall what?
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Die.
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So the question is
asked, do souls die?
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The answer is yes.
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Because the soul
that sinneth it shall die.
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And in case you didn't
know, I'm here to let you know
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that all of us have sinned.
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All of us have come
short of the glory of God.
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So guess what?
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That harmonizes with
what we read in Ecclesiastes,
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"For the living
know that they shall die,
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but the dead know not
anything, "because all
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of us have sinned, come short
of the glory of God, and the
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Bible is clear that the
soul that sinneth it shall die.
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Dead people are dead people.
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Pastor, what do you mean?
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Go with me to the Book of Job.
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Job, chapter 7.
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Dead people cannot go back
Job 7:9, the Word of God says,
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"As the cloud is consumed
and vanishes away, so he that
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goeth down to the grave
shall come up no more, "Let's
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read verse 10, "He shall
return no more to his, "what?
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House , "neither
shall his place know him
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any, " what? More.
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Well Big Mama came
and haunted my house.
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No, Big Mama didn't.
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You just ate too much
before you went to sleep.
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Job 14:12.
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The Word of God says, "So
man lieth down and arises not
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to the heavens
but no," what? More.
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They shall not, what?
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Awake.
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Nor be raised out of
their, what, everybody?
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Out of their sleep.
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Go to verse 21.
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"His sons come to
honor, he knoweth it not.
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And they are brought low,
but he perceiveth it not of
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them."Dead people do not
know what their loved ones on
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earth are doing
because they are dead.
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Bodies return to dust,
spirit returns to God, soul
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ceases to exist.
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They can't haunt houses,
they don't know what their
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loved ones do.
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But let's get some more.
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Go the Book of Psalms.
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And we're going to Psalms 6.
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Let's get some more Word.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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know where it's found.
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Psalms 6 and
we're going to verse 5.
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Psalms 6:5.
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The Word of God says to us
in Psalms 6:5, "For in death
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there is no remembrance of
me. "In the grave, who shall
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give thee thanks.
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Dead people do not remember
nor do they give thanks.
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Why?
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They are what? Dead.
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Let's get some more.
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The Word of God says in
Psalms 115:17, "The dead
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praise not,"the what?
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Lord, "neither any
that go down into, what?
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That's why I'm getting
my praise on why I've got
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breath in my body.
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I'm getting my praise on
while I can lift my hands and
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wave my hands because when
I die I can't praise the Lord.
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Let's get some more.
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Go to Psalms 146.
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Psalm 146 and
we're going to verse 4.
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Let's get some more Word.
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The dead can't haunt houses.
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The dead do not know what
their loved ones are doing.
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The dead do not
remember or give thanks.
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The dead cannot praise the Lord.
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Psalm 146:4, the Word of God
says, "His breath goeth forth.
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He returneth to his earth
in that very day his thoughts,"
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what, everybody? Parish.
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Dead people cannot think.
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I wonder what
they're thinking about me?
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They're not thinking
anything about you because
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they're dead.
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Go to the Book of Isaiah.
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verses 18-19.
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The Word of God says in
Isaiah 38:18-19, "For the grave
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cannot, "what?
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Praise Thee.
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"Death cannot, "what?
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Celebrate Thee.
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"They that go down into
the pit cannot hope for Thy,"
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what, everybody?
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Truth.
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Verse 19 , "The living he
shall praise Thee as I do this
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day, the father to his
children, to make known
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Thy, "what?
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Truth.
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The dead can't learn
truth because the dead are what?
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Dead.
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That's why it's so important.
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That's why I
have such a passion.
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That's why I have such a
desire to tell you who are
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alive the truth of God's Word.
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Because when
you're dead, you're dead.
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Who would be caught up to
meet the Lord in the air at
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Jesus' second coming
if the dead in Christ were
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already in heaven?
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The Bible is clear that
the dead in Christ shall rise,
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what? First.
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Then we still alive will be
caught up to meet the Lord in
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the air and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
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Group number three, the
unrighteous or the wicked
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living, they die at
the brightness of Christ's
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second what? Coming.
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Group number four, the
wicked dead according to
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Revelations
20:5, "The wicked dead
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remain dead until the thousand
years are finished. "Because
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the Bible says there
are how many resurrections?
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Two resurrections.
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First resurrection same
time as Jesus' second coming.
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The dead in Christ rise, we
which are alive and remain are
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caught up, wicked living
die at the brightness of his
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coming, wicked dead remain dead.
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One thousand years.
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The righteous are in heaven
participating in judgment.
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Remember, Satan
is on this earth.
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He is bound, he is on vacation
because he can't deceive
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anybody else because
everybody is what? Dead.
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At the end of the one thousand
years there's a resurrection
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of the wicked.
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A resurrection of the wicked.
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Remember we told you
previously, Pastor Byrd,
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why would God
resurrect the wicked
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only for them to die again?
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We told you, because the
prophecy must come to pass.
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There's a day coming when
everybody who's ever lived,
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we will all be
alive at the same time.
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If you lived in 2000
or if you lived in year 2,
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we'll all be
alive at the same time,
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because the prophecy must
come to pass that one day every
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knee is going to bow,
every tongue is going to confess
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that Jesus the Christ is Lord.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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At His first coming He
came to save His people.
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At his second coming, He's
coming to get His people and
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at the end of the thousand
years, at His third coming,
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He's coming back with His
people, ride on King Jesus.
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But let me tell you something.
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Satan is a liar.
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I said, Satan is a liar.
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He wants to make you believe
that dead people are alive and
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can be contacted, but the
living know that they shall
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die, but the dead
know not anything.
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Let me tell you something.
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Don't play with the devil.
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All those
questionable spirits, don't play
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with the devil.
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I say it all the time.
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I don't ask
everybody to pray for me.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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You better learn to leave
voodoo, Ouija boards, and all
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those crazy spirits alone.
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The Bible says in Isaiah
8:20, "To the Law and to the
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testimony, if they speak not
according to this Word, it is
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because there is no light
in them. "Satan knows the Bible
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better than you.
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Satan can quote
scripture better than you.
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Satan can
preach better than you.
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Satan can teach better than you.
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If Satan tempted Jesus he will
sure enough try to tempt you.
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Satan will transform himself,
2 Corinthian says, "into an
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angel of light."Let me
remind you, he's not in a
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red suit.
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He doesn't have a pitchfork.
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He doesn't have a horn or
tail coming out of his back.
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Satan will transform
himself into an angel of light.
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He will make himself appear
as a minister of God's Word.
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If you're not careful the
devil can make you do some
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mean ugly things
all in the name of God.
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He'll deceive you on
the Word, he'll deceive you
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on life, Satan will
deceive you on death.
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He'll deceive you on
resurrection power, making you
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think that he has the
power to resurrect somebody.
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But I'm here to let you know
and serve notice to the devil,
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Satan, you can't
resurrect anybody.
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Satan cannot give life,
only Jesus can give life.
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Jesus says, I am come that
you might have life and have
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it more abundantly.
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Jesus said, I am the
resurrection and the light.
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Satan thought he had defeated
Jesus on Calvary, but the
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Bible says that on the third
Appointed day Jesus got up with
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all power in His
hands and because He lives,
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I can face tomorrow.
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Because He
lives, all fear is gone.
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Because He got up, one
day the dead in Christ are
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going to get up.
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one day this mortal is
going to put on imortality.
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one day, this corruptable
is going to put on incorruption
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and death is going to be
swollowed up into victory.
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Let me close this way.
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When I was a little boy
my dad used to like watching
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cowboy movies.
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He loved westerns.
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Now, today we have color
TV and DVR and all that, but
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somebody knows back in the
day it was just black and white.
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My daddy loved
westerns and I used to watch
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the westerns with him.
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When you do
something long enough you'll
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start liking it, too.
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So I started liking them, too,
because with westerns you knew
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the plot from the beginning.
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Good guy comes in, accused,
he's on the run and he has
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to prove his innocence.
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And then there's the bad guy.
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Hero becomes
terror, protagonist becomes
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antagonist.
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The movie gets all the way to
the end, the western is almost
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over, and you begin to say
in your mind, you begin to say
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aloud, we're
running out of time.
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Are they ever going
to vindicate the man.
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Is the truth going to come out?
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And you don't know what's
going to happen because time
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is running out.
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And so, as a little boy, I
used to love the Lone Ranger
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and Tonto.
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Somebody knows
what I'm talking about.
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Damsel is in distress.
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She's lying out
on the train tracks.
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She's tied up.
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Somebody knows
what I'm talking about.
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Train begins to come.
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Choo-choo, choo-choo-choo.
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You know this
show is about to end.
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And all of a sudden you begin
to hear, da-ta-da-ta-da-da,
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da-ta-da-ta-da-da.
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And you know the
Lone Ranger is near.
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Because you knew this show
would only last 30 minutes and
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you were on minute 25, and
as you're watching, it happens
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all the time when
you're in a good western movie,
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there's a break in the
show and all of a sudden a
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commercial would come on
talking about "we pause for
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station identification.
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I would say,
Daddy, if they don't hurry
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up and get this
station identification off the
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TV the train is going to come,
that woman is on the tracks,
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and the train's going to
run over her and she's going to
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die on the tracks.
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I'm all nervous.
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Those that know me
know I'm high strung.
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Bent out of shape.
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My dad would look at me
in my eyes and he would say,
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"No need to worry, son.
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No need to get excited.
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" And then he would
walk out of the room.
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I would look at my dad
and say, "Dad,"and I had
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to do it respectful because
my dad was bigger than me, you
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know, and my dad
believed spare the rod,
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spoil the child.
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You all know what
I'm talking about.
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My daddy wasn't one of them
daddies tell me some time out.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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So I had to be careful.
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"Daddy?
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Where're you going?
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Come back in here.
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You are missing--the woman is
on the train tracks, the train
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is coming. "He would
say, "Son, I already know how
00:22:50.53\00:22:54.50
it's going to end.
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"Well, Daddy,
how do you know how
00:22:57.96\00:23:01.96
it's going to end?
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And he would say, "Because
the same man that produced it
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is the same man
that directed it.,
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"He would say,
"The same man who wrote
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the introduction is the same one
00:23:19.16\00:23:22.03
who wrote the conclusion."
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He would say, "The same one
who wrote the beginning is the
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same one who wrote
the ending. "And so I just
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stopped by to tell somebody on
my way to heaven that the same
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one who wrote Genesis
also wrote Revelations.
00:23:38.13\00:23:43.33
The same one that wrote about
the Garden of Eden also wrote
00:23:43.33\00:23:47.40
about the Garden of Gethsemane.
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The same one who wrote about
Calvary also wrote about the
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Resurrection.
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We don't have to fret,
because the battle's already
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won, so wait till
the battle is over.
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Shout now, we've already won.
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We don't fight for Calvary.
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We don't fight for victory.
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We fight from Calvary.
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We fight from victory.
00:24:18.13\00:24:20.90
We've already won.
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Satan thought he
defeated Jesus, but Jesus, the
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Resurrection and the Life,
God has given us the victory
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through Jesus Christ and
one day, yes, every knee's
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going to bow.
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One day, yes, every tongue's
going to confess that Jesus is
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Lord, behold he cometh with
clouds and every eye is going
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to see him.
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Death is not a
period, but only a comma in
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the story in life.
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Death is not permanent,
death is only a pause.
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Death is not the end,
death is only an interval.
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For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven
00:25:06.20\00:25:10.23
with a shout.
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With the voice of the
archangel, the trump of God,
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the dead in Christ
are going to rise first.
00:25:15.90\00:25:20.03
Hallelujah, thine the glory.
00:25:20.03\00:25:22.73
Hallelujah. Amen.
00:25:22.73\00:25:26.36
Hallelujah, thine the glory.
00:25:26.36\00:25:28.36
God one day is going to
revive us. Father, right now,
00:25:28.36\00:25:34.43
death can't keep us down.
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It can't, because, Lord,
2,000 years ago Jesus Christ
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got up.
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Thank you, Lord, for being
the Resurrection and the Life.
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Thank you, God, that we once
were blind but now we see, we
00:25:56.83\00:26:00.16
once we're lost
but now we're found.
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And oh, Lord, we look for
that day we put on our robe and
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tell the story.
00:26:08.50\00:26:10.76
But, Lord God, there's
someone today who needs to
00:26:10.76\00:26:16.56
break the chains that Satan
has on their life right now.
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They need to get up out of
their seat, they need to come
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down this aisle, give me their
hand, but Lord Jesus, give you
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their heart.
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They need to join this
ministry, be a part of this
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commandment-keeping,
Jesus-loving body right here.
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So, Lord, move,
forgive us our sins.
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Hide me behind your cross.
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Lord, I speak life over
somebody's life right now.
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I speak life.
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So, God, move them right now.
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May we never deceived upon
the state of the dead anymore.
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May we never be
deceived by Satan anymore.
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May we fully understand
that God, you took dust of the
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ground, breath of life, we
became living souls and when
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we die the body will return
to dust, the spirit will return
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to You and the soul
will cease to exist.
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And then at your second coming
the dead in Christ are going
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to rise first.
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Thank you, God.
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PB: Be sure to join us
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May God continue to bless you.
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(Music) ride on king Jesus.
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Because he got up, one
day, the dead in christ
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are going to get up.
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The dead are what? Dead.
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