? (Theme Song) ? ? Jesus is worthy ? 00:00:01.33\00:00:11.73 ? oh yes, he's worthy ? ? worthy of all... ? 00:00:11.73\00:00:18.96 ? all the praise ? ? (Music) ? 00:00:18.96\00:00:22.90 Pastor Byrd: God, tonight we pray a day 00:00:22.90\00:00:25.16 for the power of your Holy Ghost. 00:00:25.16\00:00:26.60 We ask that, God, you would come in this place tonight. 00:00:26.60\00:00:28.86 Lord, you be the teacher. 00:00:28.86\00:00:31.13 God, we are your students. 00:00:31.13\00:00:33.60 Your Bible is our textbook and our destination 00:00:33.60\00:00:38.96 goal is heaven. 00:00:38.96\00:00:41.20 So, hide me behind your cross, forgive us our sins 00:00:41.20\00:00:43.26 and, God, give a us hunger and a thirsting for you Word. 00:00:43.26\00:00:45.96 It's in the name Jesus we pray, begging for 00:00:45.96\00:00:48.23 forgiveness of sin. 00:00:48.23\00:00:49.53 Let everyone say Amen. 00:00:49.53\00:00:50.66 And Amen. 00:00:50.66\00:00:52.60 Now, we have studied thus far from the Word of God 00:00:52.60\00:00:56.46 that we get excited about Jesus Christ, recognizing 00:00:56.46\00:01:03.33 that Jesus Christ is God. 00:01:03.33\00:01:06.33 Jesus Christ is what, everybody? 00:01:06.33\00:01:08.00 Because the Word of God says in Genesis, Chapter 00:01:08.00\00:01:10.50 1:1, go there, Genesis 1:1, the Word of God says, 00:01:10.50\00:01:13.10 "In the beginning," whom, everybody? 00:01:13.10\00:01:19.36 In the beginning, whom? 00:01:19.36\00:01:20.23 Talk to me. 00:01:20.23\00:01:21.46 In the beginning God created the heavens 00:01:21.46\00:01:23.93 and the what? 00:01:23.93\00:01:25.03 (Aud: Earth.) Then we go down to verse 26. 00:01:25.03\00:01:28.63 Genesis 1:26. 00:01:28.63\00:01:31.80 The Word of God, and God said, let whom, everybody? 00:01:31.80\00:01:36.10 Let us make what? 00:01:36.10\00:01:36.90 (Aud: Man.) In our own what? 00:01:36.90\00:01:40.76 (Aud: Image.) After our what? 00:01:40.76\00:01:41.93 (Aud: Likeness.) This points to the fact that there 00:01:41.93\00:01:44.60 are three in one when we talk about God. 00:01:44.60\00:01:47.13 The plurality of the Godhead. 00:01:47.13\00:01:48.40 The text does not say, and God said, let me make man 00:01:48.40\00:01:52.40 in my own image after my own likeness. 00:01:52.40\00:01:55.26 The text says, and God said, let whom make man? 00:01:55.26\00:01:58.70 Let us make man in our what? 00:01:58.70\00:02:01.30 Image. 00:02:01.30\00:02:02.73 After our what? 00:02:02.73\00:02:03.33 Likeness. 00:02:03.33\00:02:05.20 Pointing to three in one, the Father, the Son and the 00:02:05.20\00:02:08.43 Holy what, everybody? 00:02:08.43\00:02:10.16 (Aud: Ghost.) They are all working to bring about 00:02:10.16\00:02:12.36 our salvation. 00:02:12.36\00:02:13.36 Our what, everybody? 00:02:13.36\00:02:14.33 Our salvation. 00:02:14.33\00:02:16.00 So Jesus is God. 00:02:16.00\00:02:18.03 Amen? 00:02:18.03\00:02:18.86 But then we go to the New Testament because there are 00:02:18.86\00:02:21.20 some people that say, we want a little bit of the old, 00:02:21.20\00:02:23.80 but we want some of the new as well. 00:02:23.80\00:02:25.46 Amen. 00:02:25.46\00:02:26.23 And so we go to the book of John. 00:02:26.23\00:02:28.33 What book, everybody? 00:02:28.33\00:02:29.03 In the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 00:02:29.03\00:02:34.06 We go to the book of John and we're going to Chapter 1, 00:02:34.06\00:02:37.83 verse 1. John 1:1. 00:02:37.83\00:02:45.23 The Word of God says, again, in the what? 00:02:45.23\00:02:48.53 (Aud: Beginning.) Now Genesis 1:1 says, in the 00:02:48.53\00:02:51.46 beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 00:02:51.46\00:02:54.16 John 1:1 says, in the beginning 00:02:54.16\00:02:54.80 We skip down to verse 14 and the Bible says that 00:03:18.90\00:03:22.66 the Word became flesh. 00:03:22.66\00:03:27.20 Which means that Jesus Christ, God the Son, became 00:03:27.20\00:03:31.50 flesh and he dwelt among us. 00:03:31.50\00:03:35.46 And so we discover from Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:26, 00:03:35.46\00:03:39.00 John 1:1-3 and verse 14 that Jesus, indeed, is God. 00:03:39.00\00:03:46.50 We've also shared with you thus far that we get 00:03:46.50\00:03:49.23 excited about Jesus because not only is he God, 00:03:49.23\00:03:51.53 but we get excited about Jesus because Jesus saved 00:03:51.53\00:03:54.23 my soul. 00:03:54.23\00:03:56.13 That I have salvation through Jesus Christ. 00:03:56.13\00:03:59.33 I don't know about you, but that can make 00:03:59.33\00:04:01.20 somebody excited. 00:04:01.20\00:04:02.66 The fact that you and I, whether you want to accept, 00:04:02.66\00:04:05.20 believe or claim it, we're sinners. 00:04:05.20\00:04:07.20 Come on, say Amen. 00:04:07.20\00:04:08.50 All of us are sinners saved by grace. 00:04:08.50\00:04:11.83 If it weren't for the grace of God I would not 00:04:11.83\00:04:14.26 be here tonight. 00:04:14.26\00:04:15.73 If it weren't for the grace of God, you would not 00:04:15.73\00:04:17.86 be here tonight. 00:04:17.86\00:04:18.93 If you have sinned you have need of a savior. 00:04:18.93\00:04:21.76 God sent his son Jesus to save us from sin. 00:04:21.76\00:04:25.83 Because see, Adam and Eve messed up. 00:04:25.83\00:04:27.76 Remember we told you that God had a dilemma. 00:04:27.76\00:04:29.56 Either he was going to have to excuse them, excuse what 00:04:29.56\00:04:32.16 Adam and Eve had done, or he would have to destroy 00:04:32.16\00:04:36.93 them and start all over. 00:04:36.93\00:04:38.13 Satan is waiting. 00:04:38.13\00:04:39.83 Satan is trying to see what God is going to do, 00:04:39.83\00:04:41.80 because see, Satan has told all these lies about God. 00:04:41.80\00:04:44.06 He wants to entrap, if you will, God and see if God 00:04:44.06\00:04:46.66 falls into this, but God had a plan already before 00:04:46.66\00:04:50.20 this thing got started. 00:04:50.20\00:04:51.83 Before the foundation of the world, God had a plan. 00:04:51.83\00:04:55.03 God's plan, God sent his son. 00:04:55.03\00:04:57.50 God could have sent a plague of flies, a plague 00:04:57.50\00:05:01.93 of frogs, but God sent his best. 00:05:01.93\00:05:06.20 God sent Jesus and Jesus died to save you and me. 00:05:06.20\00:05:09.16 Hallelujah, somebody. 00:05:09.16\00:05:10.33 For God so loved the world that God gave God's only 00:05:10.33\00:05:14.20 begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not 00:05:14.20\00:05:16.63 what, everybody? 00:05:16.63\00:05:17.56 But have everlasting life. 00:05:17.56\00:05:19.00 For the wages of sin is what? 00:05:19.00\00:05:20.36 Death. 00:05:20.36\00:05:22.10 But the gift of God is what? 00:05:22.10\00:05:24.10 Eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:05:24.10\00:05:27.10 He was wounded for our transgressions. 00:05:27.10\00:05:29.53 Bruised for our iniquity. 00:05:29.53\00:05:30.96 The chastisment of our peace was upon him 00:05:30.96\00:05:33.56 but tonight we can proudly say that by his stripes we 00:05:33.56\00:05:38.76 are healed tonight. 00:05:38.76\00:05:40.00 Hallelujah, somebody. 00:05:40.00\00:05:41.93 And so therefore, Jesus came the first time as a baby 00:05:41.93\00:05:45.93 and saved us, because blood was shed. 00:05:45.93\00:05:49.40 I told you Saturday and Sunday night that I don't 00:05:49.40\00:05:52.46 have to a window and confess my sins to any man. 00:05:52.46\00:05:59.66 I told you that I don't have to go and find a lamb 00:05:59.66\00:06:02.00 from somewhere and cut the lamb's throat, blood spill 00:06:02.00\00:06:03.80 on me, put my hand on top of the lamb in order for 00:06:03.80\00:06:05.23 the sins to be symbolically transferred from the sin 00:06:05.23\00:06:08.30 bearer to the sin offerer. 00:06:08.30\00:06:09.36 I don't have to do that anymore because Jesus, 00:06:09.36\00:06:14.36 the Lamb of God, took away my sin. 00:06:14.36\00:06:18.63 He took away your sin. 00:06:18.63\00:06:20.60 And there is no other name in heaven whereby we can be 00:06:20.60\00:06:23.90 saved but save the name of Jesus. 00:06:23.90\00:06:26.73 That's why I love calling his name. 00:06:26.73\00:06:30.13 Jesus, sweetest name I know. 00:06:30.13\00:06:32.03 Jesus, I've got to tell it wherever I go, because when 00:06:32.03\00:06:35.00 I call the name of Jesus, demons fickle, Satan 00:06:35.00\00:06:39.20 and his imps tremble. 00:06:39.20\00:06:41.20 Let me give you some good news tonight. 00:06:41.20\00:06:42.76 Whenever you're in a pickle, if ever you feel 00:06:42.76\00:06:45.16 the devil is just on you, do me a favor, just call 00:06:45.16\00:06:47.60 his name. 00:06:47.60\00:06:48.43 Just call the name Jesus. 00:06:48.43\00:06:51.16 You can call Carlton Byrd's name, but I can't do 00:06:51.16\00:06:53.43 nothing for you. 00:06:53.43\00:06:54.70 But if you call the name of Jesus, sooner than 00:06:54.70\00:06:58.23 right now, faster than immediately, my Jesus will 00:06:58.23\00:07:02.23 answer your prayer. 00:07:02.23\00:07:03.86 At his first coming, the Bible says in Matthew 1:21, 00:07:03.86\00:07:06.83 Jesus came to save his people and she shall bring 00:07:06.83\00:07:09.86 So, when he came to this earth, Jesus, the first time 00:07:17.80\00:07:22.00 he came as a baby. 00:07:22.00\00:07:23.46 He came to save his people. 00:07:23.46\00:07:25.93 He came to save them from lying, save them from 00:07:25.93\00:07:28.93 killing, save them from stealing, save them from 00:07:28.93\00:07:31.33 doubt, save them from depression. 00:07:31.33\00:07:33.70 Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. 00:07:33.70\00:07:37.96 And so the Bible teaches that he that believes 00:07:37.96\00:07:40.93 on the Lord Jesus Christ, he shall be saved. 00:07:40.93\00:07:43.96 But sadly tonight, even in 2012, April 18, everybody 00:07:43.96\00:07:47.83 doesn't believe in Jesus. 00:07:47.83\00:07:51.30 Everybody doesn't believe he's a way maker, 00:07:51.30\00:07:54.10 that he will turn your midnight into day. 00:07:54.10\00:07:56.66 And so now we've got a world full of strife, sin 00:07:56.66\00:07:59.76 and confusion and mess. 00:07:59.76\00:08:01.43 I told you Sunday night we live in a world that people 00:08:01.43\00:08:03.96 say, if it feels good, do it. 00:08:03.96\00:08:05.46 Every night you watch the news, somebody's 00:08:05.46\00:08:08.23 getting killed. 00:08:08.23\00:08:09.43 There's trouble of some sort. 00:08:09.43\00:08:11.46 The world is sick and when somebody is sick, somebody 00:08:11.46\00:08:14.23 needs a doctor. 00:08:14.23\00:08:15.03 Doctor Jesus is coming back one day to get his people. 00:08:15.03\00:08:18.53 The first time he came to save his people. 00:08:18.53\00:08:21.70 But as we told you Sunday night, the second time he's 00:08:21.70\00:08:24.86 coming to get his people. 00:08:24.86\00:08:26.80 I don't know about you, but this is what 00:08:26.80\00:08:28.90 I'm looking forward to. 00:08:28.90\00:08:29.83 Anybody else looking forward to that? 00:08:29.83\00:08:31.70 I said, anybody else looking forward to that? 00:08:31.70\00:08:33.33 You don't seem excited about looking forward 00:08:33.33\00:08:35.26 to Jesus' coming. 00:08:35.26\00:08:35.90 I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward 00:08:35.90\00:08:37.46 to Jesus' coming. 00:08:37.46\00:08:38.36 Let me try it this way. 00:08:38.36\00:08:39.66 Anybody tired of living paycheck to paycheck? 00:08:39.66\00:08:43.06 Oh, don't act like you don't know what I'm 00:08:43.06\00:08:44.53 talking about. 00:08:44.53\00:08:45.20 We've got some folk up in here that think they got 00:08:45.20\00:08:46.56 all that, then some and a bag of chips. 00:08:46.56\00:08:50.16 Let them miss one paycheck. 00:08:50.16\00:08:50.86 Come on, say Amen. 00:08:50.86\00:08:51.73 If you're like me and you miss one paycheck, you're 00:08:51.73\00:08:52.96 crying and calling on the name of the Lord. 00:08:52.96\00:08:55.96 Anybody try the house notes? 00:08:55.96\00:08:56.96 Taking this medicine, that medicine. 00:08:56.96\00:09:00.33 Anybody tired of high gas prices. 00:09:00.33\00:09:02.23 Come on, say Amen. 00:09:02.23\00:09:03.63 One day Jesus is going to come. 00:09:03.63\00:09:06.56 Jesus is going to come and put an end to all of this. 00:09:06.56\00:09:08.23 We read in the Word, Matthew 24 that Jesus is 00:09:08.23\00:09:12.86 coming very soon. 00:09:12.86\00:09:14.26 The signs of his coming, war, rumors of war, 00:09:14.26\00:09:16.63 earthquakes, pestilence is all in diverse places. 00:09:16.63\00:09:21.16 We read that nobody knows, according to Matthew 24:36-39, 00:09:21.16\00:09:26.86 that no one knows the exact date of Jesus' coming. 00:09:26.86\00:09:31.26 We just know he's coming soon. 00:09:31.26\00:09:33.36 We read that his feet will not touch the earth. 00:09:33.36\00:09:36.43 He left in the clouds, he will return in the clouds. 00:09:36.43\00:09:41.10 And for all of those who missed Sunday and Saturday 00:09:41.10\00:09:46.50 night, you are now all caught up. 00:09:46.50\00:09:49.80 Do I have a witness in this place? 00:09:49.80\00:09:51.80 Let's go to work. 00:09:51.80\00:09:53.30 At Jesus' second coming there were be four primary 00:09:53.30\00:09:59.10 groups of people. 00:09:59.10\00:10:01.00 Where we left off, right? 00:10:01.00\00:10:02.06 This was the cliffhanger. 00:10:02.06\00:10:04.60 There will be four primary groups of people. 00:10:04.60\00:10:08.93 Let's read about group number one again, because 00:10:08.93\00:10:10.80 repetition deepens the impression. 00:10:10.80\00:10:12.46 Take your Bible to go with me to First Thessalonians. 00:10:12.46\00:10:15.63 First Thessalonians, Chapter 4. 00:10:15.63\00:10:17.26 Take out your Bible. 00:10:17.26\00:10:18.20 Look it up. 00:10:18.20\00:10:18.93 If your neighbor doesn't have a Bible, have your 00:10:18.93\00:10:21.10 neighbor look on with you. 00:10:21.10\00:10:22.63 First Thessalonians, Chapter 4. 00:10:22.63\00:10:25.10 I'll take my time so you can find it. 00:10:25.10\00:10:26.53 That's why I want to streamline tonight so you 00:10:26.53\00:10:28.00 can get into the Word. 00:10:28.00\00:10:29.03 Come on say Amen. 00:10:29.03\00:10:30.53 First Thessalonians, Chapter 4:16. 00:10:30.53\00:10:34.33 If your neighbor needs help finding it, help 00:10:34.33\00:10:36.50 him find it. 00:10:36.50\00:10:37.50 The Word of God says in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, "For 00:10:37.50\00:10:41.10 the Lord himself shall 00:10:41.10\00:10:41.56 (Aud: First.) All right. 00:10:53.43\00:10:54.83 Let's stop there. 00:10:54.83\00:10:55.73 Group number one, we told you, Sunday night, 00:10:55.73\00:10:58.56 the righteous dead, they rise what? 00:10:58.56\00:11:01.66 (Aud: First.) At Jesus' second coming. 00:11:01.66\00:11:04.30 Very important for you to understand that. 00:11:04.30\00:11:06.26 At Jesus' second coming, the dead in Christ rise first. 00:11:06.26\00:11:11.06 With them, friends of mine, if at his second coming 00:11:11.06\00:11:14.93 the dead in Christ rise first, that means there must 00:11:14.93\00:11:17.86 be also a resurrection. 00:11:17.86\00:11:19.50 Because when people rise, that's a resurrection. 00:11:19.50\00:11:25.00 So that means that at this first resurrection which 00:11:25.00\00:11:28.26 happens at the same time as Jesus' second coming, 00:11:28.26\00:11:31.53 the Bible teaches that the dead in Christ are going 00:11:31.53\00:11:35.36 to rise, what? 00:11:35.36\00:11:36.20 First. 00:11:36.20\00:11:37.06 Group number two. 00:11:37.06\00:11:39.93 The righteous living. 00:11:39.93\00:11:42.46 The Bible then says 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 00:11:42.46\00:11:47.16 let's read some more. 00:11:47.16\00:11:51.33 The Bible says, "Then we 00:11:51.33\00:11:51.83 the Lord." Group number two, the righteous living, 00:12:06.73\00:12:09.46 the Bible teaches are caught up to meet the Lord in the, 00:12:09.46\00:12:13.60 what? 00:12:13.60\00:12:14.46 Air. 00:12:14.46\00:12:15.16 So then that means at the second coming, which is 00:12:15.16\00:12:17.60 simultaneous to the first resurrection, the dead 00:12:17.60\00:12:20.66 in Christ rise what? 00:12:20.66\00:12:22.06 First. 00:12:22.06\00:12:22.86 Group number two, the righteous living are caught 00:12:22.86\00:12:25.73 up to meet the Lord in the what, everybody? 00:12:25.73\00:12:28.06 (Aud: Air.) Let's go to group number three. 00:12:28.06\00:12:30.33 Second Thessalonians, Chapter 2. 00:12:30.33\00:12:34.00 Let's get some more Word. 00:12:34.00\00:12:35.20 Remember I told you, know what you believe, know why 00:12:35.20\00:12:38.63 you believe it and know where it's found. 00:12:38.63\00:12:41.73 It makes no sense to be up in church, sing, shout and 00:12:41.73\00:12:44.43 sweat and you don't know what you singing, shouting 00:12:44.43\00:12:46.83 and sweating about. 00:12:46.83\00:12:47.90 Know what you believe, know why you believe it and know 00:12:47.90\00:12:51.33 where it's found. 00:12:51.33\00:12:53.13 Second Thessalonians, Chapter 2 and we're going 00:12:53.13\00:12:56.63 to verse 8, 2 Thessalonians 2:8. 00:12:56.63\00:13:01.20 If you have it, let me hear you say Amen. 00:13:01.20\00:13:03.26 "And then shall that Wicked be" what? 00:13:03.26\00:13:05.00 unrighteousness." Let me be clear with you tonight. 00:13:39.73\00:13:42.70 Satan is a liar. 00:13:42.70\00:13:44.16 And that's just not preacher cliché. 00:13:44.16\00:13:47.23 That's the truth. 00:13:47.23\00:13:48.53 Satan is a liar. 00:13:48.53\00:13:50.03 Satan is a deceiver. 00:13:50.03\00:13:52.46 Bottom line, Satan is trying to deceive you 00:13:52.46\00:13:56.00 and me because Satan does not want us to be ready 00:13:56.00\00:13:58.36 when Jesus comes. 00:13:58.36\00:13:59.40 But Satan is just that, a liar, and I ain't going to 00:13:59.40\00:14:02.70 hell for anybody. 00:14:02.70\00:14:04.36 I'm going to know what I believe, why I believe it, 00:14:04.36\00:14:06.70 where it's found. 00:14:06.70\00:14:08.26 The Bible says here in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 that 00:14:08.26\00:14:12.86 the wicked living or unrighteous living will die 00:14:12.86\00:14:16.56 at the brightness of the Lord's coming. 00:14:16.56\00:14:20.80 Now, that's why I told you Sunday night, take my time 00:14:20.80\00:14:22.66 and look at the light. 00:14:22.66\00:14:26.00 Because I'm practicing looking at light. 00:14:26.00\00:14:27.86 Come on, say Amen, everybody. 00:14:27.86\00:14:29.73 If you can't turn around and look at the light, 00:14:29.73\00:14:31.60 something wrong with you. 00:14:31.60\00:14:32.63 Get it right. 00:14:32.63\00:14:34.73 All right. 00:14:34.73\00:14:35.33 Group number three, the wicked or the unrighteous 00:14:35.33\00:14:37.93 living die at the brightness of his what, everybody? 00:14:37.93\00:14:40.30 Coming. 00:14:40.30\00:14:41.20 Now we come to where we're really going to deal 00:14:41.20\00:14:43.83 with some stuff tonight. 00:14:43.83\00:14:44.70 Go to Revelation 20. 00:14:44.70\00:14:47.46 Let's go to Revelation. 00:14:47.46\00:14:48.60 A lot of people don't like to study the Book 00:14:48.60\00:14:50.53 of Revelation because they're scared of it. 00:14:50.53\00:14:52.93 But that's just the mask of Satan. 00:14:52.93\00:14:55.90 He wants you to think you can't understand Revelation. 00:14:55.90\00:14:58.30 But let me tell you this. 00:14:58.30\00:15:00.56 Faith comes with my hearing, hearing by 00:15:00.56\00:15:03.66 the Word of God. 00:15:03.66\00:15:04.26 So we take our time. 00:15:04.26\00:15:05.10 Revelation 20:5. 00:15:05.10\00:15:06.56 The Word says, "But the rest of the" what? 00:15:06.56\00:15:13.53 So stop there. 00:15:19.66\00:15:20.50 We read then, the wicked dead will remain what? 00:15:20.50\00:15:23.06 (Aud: Dead.) For how long? 00:15:23.06\00:15:24.66 Come on, how long? 00:15:24.66\00:15:25.66 (Aud: Thousand years.) All right. 00:15:25.66\00:15:28.53 This is the what resurrection? 00:15:28.53\00:15:29.40 (Aud: First.) Which means, friends, read the Bible. 00:15:29.40\00:15:32.20 If the Bible says this is the first resurrection, 00:15:32.20\00:15:36.36 that must mean it suggests there's more than one 00:15:36.36\00:15:39.66 resurrection. 00:15:39.66\00:15:40.70 Are you hearing what I'm saying. 00:15:40.70\00:15:43.63 If the Bible says this is the first resurrection, 00:15:43.63\00:15:47.06 then that means there must be more than one resurrection. 00:15:47.06\00:15:51.20 Now, we told you earlier that first resurrection was 00:15:51.20\00:15:53.40 a good thing because the dead in Christ rise what? 00:15:53.40\00:15:55.93 First. 00:15:55.93\00:15:57.63 So then group number one, the righteous dead rise 00:15:57.63\00:15:59.76 what? 00:15:59.76\00:16:00.90 First. 00:16:00.90\00:16:02.33 Group number two, the righteous living are caught 00:16:02.33\00:16:04.33 up to meet the Lord in the what? 00:16:04.33\00:16:06.36 (Aud: Air.) Group number three, the wicked or the 00:16:06.36\00:16:07.70 unrighteous living die at the brightness of his what? 00:16:07.70\00:16:09.16 (Aud: Coming.) And group number four, the wicked 00:16:09.16\00:16:11.76 dead remain what? 00:16:11.76\00:16:12.53 (Aud: Dead.) Until the thousand years are what? 00:16:12.53\00:16:14.33 Finished. 00:16:14.33\00:16:15.10 Now, remember I told you, we teach you and then we 00:16:15.10\00:16:21.40 preach and celebrate on the end. 00:16:21.40\00:16:24.66 It's my baptized brain that makes me want to shout. 00:16:24.66\00:16:27.96 You're going to yell and holler, say something worth 00:16:27.96\00:16:29.66 yelling and hollering about. 00:16:29.66\00:16:31.60 Now, if the righteous dead rise first at the second 00:16:31.60\00:16:39.03 coming, if the righteous living are caught up 00:16:39.03\00:16:45.36 to meet the Lord in the air, when an individual, your mama, 00:16:45.36\00:16:50.93 your daddy, your grandmama, your granddaddy, 00:16:50.93\00:16:54.26 Big Mama, Pawpaw, if they died on earth 00:16:54.26\00:17:01.96 and went to straight to heaven, who would rise first 00:17:01.96\00:17:12.10 at Jesus' second coming? 00:17:12.10\00:17:15.50 There would be no one to rise first because if they 00:17:15.50\00:17:18.46 were already in heaven, who would get up? 00:17:18.46\00:17:22.73 And that would make the Word of God out 00:17:22.73\00:17:26.06 to be a lie. 00:17:26.06\00:17:28.10 God is not a God that should lie. 00:17:28.10\00:17:31.43 The devil is a liar, but God is not a liar. 00:17:31.43\00:17:34.26 God's Word says the dead in Christ shall rise first. 00:17:34.26\00:17:39.40 God's Word says the righteous living, we which are live 00:17:39.40\00:17:43.13 and remain will be what? 00:17:43.13\00:17:44.93 Caught up to meet the Lord in the what? 00:17:44.93\00:17:46.50 Air. 00:17:46.50\00:17:47.60 So Big Mama and Pawpaw, they are not in heaven. 00:17:47.60\00:17:53.26 They are not looking down at you. 00:17:53.26\00:17:59.03 Go back to 1 Thessalonians, go to Chapter 4, 00:17:59.03\00:18:02.56 go to verse 18. 00:18:02.56\00:18:04.93 I'm trying to give you some Word. 00:18:04.93\00:18:07.13 You don't get this everywhere else. 00:18:07.13\00:18:08.20 Come on, say Amen. 00:18:08.20\00:18:08.90 And you're getting this free of charge. 00:18:08.90\00:18:10.13 I can't get a witness up in this place. 00:18:10.13\00:18:12.30 First Thessalonians 4:18. 00:18:12.30\00:18:14.60 Go there. 00:18:14.60\00:18:15.90 The Bible says: "Wherefore comfort one another with 00:18:15.90\00:18:21.46 these words." So what happens is, you go into a church, 00:18:21.46\00:18:25.96 preacher standing up here, and casket laid here. 00:18:25.96\00:18:34.06 Mama's in a better place. 00:18:34.06\00:18:37.46 Mama's in that casket sleeping, waiting until 00:18:37.46\00:18:39.73 the voice of the life giver, for the Lord himself shall 00:18:39.73\00:18:46.13 descend from heaven with a shout. 00:18:46.13\00:18:47.86 Now, Friday night I'm going to talk some more on this, 00:18:47.86\00:18:49.63 from the Word. 00:18:49.63\00:18:50.60 But you'll say, well, Pastor Byrd, I never knew that. 00:18:50.60\00:18:52.53 Who told you otherwise? 00:18:52.53\00:18:53.66 Where did you read in the Word of God otherwise? 00:18:53.66\00:19:01.46 Now, we read the Word of God and the Word of God says 00:19:01.46\00:19:03.80 the dead in Christ rise what? 00:19:03.80\00:19:04.90 First. 00:19:04.90\00:19:05.66 We read in the Word of God, then we which are alive, 00:19:05.66\00:19:07.53 the righteous living, are caught up to meet the Lord 00:19:07.53\00:19:09.46 in the what? 00:19:09.46\00:19:10.20 Air. 00:19:10.20\00:19:10.80 We read that the wicked or the unrighteous living die 00:19:10.80\00:19:12.60 at the brightness of his what? 00:19:12.60\00:19:13.53 Coming. 00:19:13.53\00:19:14.43 And then we read that wicked dead remain what? 00:19:14.43\00:19:17.03 Dead. 00:19:17.03\00:19:20.76 That's what the Bible says. 00:19:20.76\00:19:25.13 That's the gospel according to the Word of God. 00:19:25.13\00:19:31.63 Not the gospel according to Pastor Carlton Byrd. 00:19:31.63\00:19:33.00 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 00:19:33.00\00:19:34.63 All right, let's go and let's get some more. 00:19:34.63\00:19:36.13 Every night we go deeper, deeper. 00:19:36.13\00:19:37.50 Friday night we're going to talk more about this. 00:19:37.50\00:19:38.93 Let's go deeper. 00:19:38.93\00:19:39.70 The Bible says that this is the first resurrection, 00:19:39.70\00:19:42.73 which suggests there has to be more than 00:19:42.73\00:19:45.10 one resurrection. 00:19:45.10\00:19:46.30 Christ's second coming signals the beginning of 00:19:46.30\00:19:50.26 the millennium. 00:19:50.26\00:19:51.96 Everybody say millennium. 00:19:51.96\00:19:53.10 Millennium means one thousand years. 00:19:53.10\00:19:56.90 Christ's second coming, this first resurrection, 00:19:56.90\00:19:59.93 begins the millennium. 00:19:59.93\00:20:02.50 So right here we have Christ, Jesus' second coming, 00:20:02.50\00:20:06.40 where he's coming back to get his people. 00:20:06.40\00:20:09.33 The dead in Christ rise first, then we which are alive 00:20:09.33\00:20:12.16 and remain are what? 00:20:12.16\00:20:13.30 Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. 00:20:13.30\00:20:15.13 The wicked living die at the brightness of his coming. 00:20:15.13\00:20:18.40 The wicked dead remain dead for how long, everybody? 00:20:18.40\00:20:21.83 (Aud: A thousand years.) This starts the millennium. 00:20:21.83\00:20:25.06 This starts the thousand years. 00:20:25.06\00:20:27.06 Well, that makes sense. 00:20:27.06\00:20:29.76 Let's read again. 00:20:29.76\00:20:30.93 Revelation 20:5, the Word of God says, but the rest 00:20:30.93\00:20:34.23 of the dead live not again until the thousand years 00:20:34.23\00:20:36.50 were finished. 00:20:36.50\00:20:37.30 This is the first resurrection. 00:20:37.30\00:20:38.66 Blessed and what? 00:20:38.66\00:20:42.36 Come on, blessed and what? 00:20:42.36\00:20:44.16 (Aud: Holy.) Is he that has part in the what resurrection? 00:20:44.16\00:20:46.10 First resurrection. 00:20:46.10\00:20:46.83 That's why I told you Sunday night. 00:20:46.83\00:20:49.53 If I could die in the Lord I just want to at this 00:20:49.53\00:20:51.73 first resurrection, I just want to rise first. 00:20:51.73\00:20:54.96 Thank you, Lord, that I'm here. 00:20:54.96\00:20:56.50 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 00:20:56.50\00:20:58.56 I'm not sitting around listening, why isn't 00:20:58.56\00:21:00.43 he there, why isn't she there. 00:21:00.43\00:21:01.03 I'm just thanking God I'm there. 00:21:01.03\00:21:03.00 Do I have a witness in this place? 00:21:03.00\00:21:04.46 "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 00:21:04.46\00:21:05.96 resurrection: on such the second" what? 00:21:05.96\00:21:11.06 Come on, the second what? 00:21:11.06\00:21:12.80 Second death hath no what? 00:21:12.80\00:21:15.10 (Aud: Power.) Stop, understand what you're reading. 00:21:15.10\00:21:17.63 If the Bible says second death, that suggests to me it's more 00:21:17.63\00:21:20.03 than one death. 00:21:20.03\00:21:23.60 If the second death has no power, that tells you, that 00:21:23.60\00:21:27.76 tells me that there's more than one death. 00:21:27.76\00:21:30.86 Now, if I die once, God knows I don't want 00:21:30.86\00:21:33.03 to die twice. 00:21:33.03\00:21:34.26 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 00:21:34.26\00:21:37.63 If I die on this earth here as I am, I want to live 00:21:37.63\00:21:40.10 for Jesus because I only want to die once because 00:21:40.10\00:21:42.16 at the second coming I've got to be a part 00:21:42.16\00:21:44.33 of the first resurrection. 00:21:44.33\00:21:46.23 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 00:21:46.23\00:21:48.00 All right, let's read some more. 00:21:48.00\00:21:49.50 "But they shall be priests of" whom? 00:21:49.50\00:21:51.60 God. 00:21:51.60\00:21:52.43 "And shall reign with him" for what, everybody? 00:21:52.43\00:21:54.26 (Aud: A thousand years.) All right. 00:21:54.26\00:21:56.03 Let's go to our timeline. 00:21:56.03\00:21:57.93 Second coming, first resurrection, dead in Christ 00:21:57.93\00:22:02.63 rise what? 00:22:02.63\00:22:03.43 First. 00:22:03.43\00:22:04.43 Righteous living are caught up to meet the Lord 00:22:04.43\00:22:06.96 in the what? 00:22:06.96\00:22:07.70 (Aud: Air.) The wicked dead remain what? 00:22:07.70\00:22:10.23 Dead. 00:22:10.23\00:22:11.23 And the wicked living die at the brightness 00:22:11.23\00:22:12.76 of his what? 00:22:12.76\00:22:13.43 Coming. 00:22:13.43\00:22:14.43 The righteous who rose first or were caught up 00:22:14.43\00:22:18.30 to meet the Lord in the air, the Bible says they shall 00:22:18.30\00:22:21.23 be priests of God and reign with God for how long? 00:22:21.23\00:22:24.06 (Aud: A thousand years.) So they reign with God, 00:22:24.06\00:22:26.83 the righteous do, for a thousand years, 00:22:26.83\00:22:29.13 and the wicked are what? 00:22:29.13\00:22:30.50 Dead until the end of the thousand what? 00:22:30.50\00:22:33.53 Years. 00:22:33.53\00:22:35.96 That's where you're sure there are two 00:22:35.96\00:22:37.63 resurrections. 00:22:37.63\00:22:38.23 The Word of God never contradicts itself. 00:22:38.23\00:22:39.23 Go with me. 00:22:39.23\00:22:40.20 Hold Revelation 20. 00:22:40.20\00:22:41.40 Put a bookmark there. 00:22:41.40\00:22:42.50 Getting some Word now. 00:22:42.50\00:22:43.20 Getting some scripture. 00:22:43.20\00:22:44.26 Go with me to the Book of John, Chapter 5, 00:22:44.26\00:22:47.53 verse 28 and 29. 00:22:47.53\00:22:49.50 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, 00:22:49.50\00:22:50.96 know where it's found. 00:22:50.96\00:22:52.30 Ironically, John the Revelator wrote Revelation. 00:22:52.30\00:22:55.26 John the Revelator also wrote John. 00:22:55.26\00:22:57.76 John 5. 00:22:57.76\00:22:58.90 John what, everybody. 00:22:58.90\00:23:00.20 Now, put a bookmark in Revelation 20 00:23:00.20\00:23:02.00 because we're coming back. 00:23:02.00\00:23:02.53 John 5:28, the Word of God says, "Marvel not at this: 00:23:02.53\00:23:11.56 (Aud: Voice.) Let's stop right there. 00:23:22.53\00:23:25.03 Shall hear his what? 00:23:25.03\00:23:26.00 (Aud: Voice.) "And shall come forth; they that have 00:23:26.00\00:23:27.30 done good, unto the resurrection of" what? 00:23:27.30\00:23:29.03 (Aud: Life.) "And they that have done evil, unto the 00:23:29.03\00:23:31.00 resurrection of damnation." 00:23:31.00\00:23:32.26 Now let's stop there. 00:23:32.26\00:23:32.73 The Bible says in essence there are going to be two 00:23:32.73\00:23:36.06 resurrections. 00:23:36.06\00:23:36.90 The hour is coming where all that are in the graves 00:23:36.90\00:23:39.50 shall hear his voice. 00:23:39.50\00:23:42.20 You know what that teaches me right there? 00:23:42.20\00:23:43.90 Understand what you're reading. 00:23:43.90\00:23:45.63 The devil doesn't have resurrection, why? 00:23:45.63\00:23:48.60 The Bible says all that are in the graves shall 00:23:48.60\00:23:50.53 hear his voice. 00:23:50.53\00:23:51.60 So don't let anybody be deceived tonight that 00:23:51.60\00:23:55.13 the devil can call you from the grave. 00:23:55.13\00:23:58.23 The devil didn't create you, the devil can't recreate you, 00:23:58.23\00:24:02.06 the devil can't call anybody from the grave. 00:24:02.06\00:24:07.96 All that are in the grave shall hear his voice 00:24:07.96\00:24:11.40 because he says, I am the Resurrection. 00:24:11.40\00:24:15.10 And the what, everybody? 00:24:15.10\00:24:17.10 (Aud: Life.) So, two resurrections. 00:24:17.10\00:24:18.93 One good one, one bad one. 00:24:18.93\00:24:21.13 All right. 00:24:21.13\00:24:23.50 Go back to Revelation. 00:24:23.50\00:24:25.53 Now, we discovered this, true or false? 00:24:25.53\00:24:31.13 That the second coming and first resurrection happen 00:24:31.13\00:24:33.23 at the same time? 00:24:33.23\00:24:34.40 I'm doing all this sweating and teaching up here 00:24:34.40\00:24:38.36 and you all looking at me like I lost my mind. 00:24:38.36\00:24:39.73 Let's try that one more time. 00:24:39.73\00:24:41.56 Let me use another word. 00:24:41.56\00:24:44.06 The second coming of Jesus and the first resurrection 00:24:44.06\00:24:47.56 happen simultaneously, true or false? 00:24:47.56\00:24:50.03 (Aud: True.) Right, I feel better now. 00:24:50.03\00:24:52.36 And at the second coming of Christ, the dead in Christ 00:24:52.36\00:24:57.56 rise what? 00:24:57.56\00:24:58.50 (Aud: First.) The righteous living are caught up 00:24:58.50\00:25:01.46 to meet the Lord in the what? 00:25:01.46\00:25:02.66 (Aud: Air.) The wicked dead remain what? 00:25:02.66\00:25:05.30 (Aud: Dead.) The wicked living die at the brightness of 00:25:05.30\00:25:10.66 his what? 00:25:10.66\00:25:11.56 (Aud: Coming.) Then we discover that the righteous 00:25:11.56\00:25:13.73 reign with Christ for how long? 00:25:13.73\00:25:15.20 (Aud: A thousand years.) The wicked are dead on this 00:25:15.20\00:25:20.60 earth for how long? 00:25:20.60\00:25:21.03 A thousand years. 00:25:21.03\00:25:21.73 At the end of the one thousand years there's 00:25:21.73\00:25:23.56 another resurrection. 00:25:23.56\00:25:24.36 Are you following me? 00:25:24.36\00:25:25.80 Are you with me, everybody? 00:25:25.80\00:25:26.50 The period in between the second coming 00:25:26.50\00:25:29.10 and the first resurrection and the second resurrection 00:25:29.10\00:25:33.30 is what we call the millennium ... 00:25:33.30\00:25:36.26 It's an age-old question. 00:25:36.26\00:25:37.76 What happens after we die? 00:25:37.76\00:25:39.46 The Breath of Life gift offer this week is "What 00:25:39.46\00:25:42.40 the Bible Says About Death." 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