The topic today is,
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"Where is the
blessed Virgin Mary."
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My beloved Roman
Catholic friends tell me,
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that she's in
heaven interceding for us.
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Where are the
saints? Where is St Peter?
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The Catholic
Church tells me that,
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the great Roman Catholic
Church is built upon St Peter.
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That's because I
believe he's alive and well.
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Where are the beloved dead?
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That's a topic
today. What happens to me?
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What happens to
the soul when I die?
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Now firstly today,
I want to tell you,
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there is life after death.
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That's an absolute certainty,
there is life after death,
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death is not the end.
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And please turn on the
Bible to Matthew Chapter 28:1-7,
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dear hearts and gentle
people, Matthew 28:1-7.
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I'm glad to see you today.
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Matthew 28:1-7
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says, "Now after the Sabbath,
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as the first day of
the week began to dawn..."
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Now that tells me that
the first day of the week
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or Sunday is not the Sabbath.
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That's plain, isn't it?
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"Now after the Sabbath,
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as the first day of
the week began to dawn,
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Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary
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came to see the tomb.
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And behold, there
was a great earthquake,
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for an angel of the
Lord descended from heaven,
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and came and rolled
back the stone from the door,
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and sat on it.
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His countenance
was like lightning,
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and his clothing
as white as snow.
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And the guards
shook for fear of him,
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became like dead men.
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But the angel
answered and said to the women,
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'Do not be afraid, for
I know that you seek Jesus
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who was crucified.
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He is not here, for He
is a risen, as He said.
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Come, see the
place where the Lord lay.
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And go quickly
and tell His disciples
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that He is risen from the dead,
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and indeed He is going
before you into Galilee,
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there you will see Him.
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Behold, I have told you."
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So the Bible
teaches that Christ,
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Son of God rose from the dead.
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Many Christians,
mainly Protestants believe
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that this is the tomb of Christ.
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It is called The Garden Tomb.
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I don't think it is,
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even though just about
all the Protestants believe
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The Garden Tomb
is the right spot.
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It's called
General Gordon's tomb.
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Most archaeologists
think that the Catholics
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and the Orthodox
may have it right.
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And it's more likely that
the Church of the Sepulchre
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which is run by
the Greek Orthodox
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or the Armenian Orthodox,
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the Roman Catholic Church
and some other little groups.
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I think that this most likely
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is the site
where Christ was laid.
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It doesn't really
matter, my friends.
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Now, this
place, this place here,
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I want to say this,
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I say it rather sadly is
rather a money making racket.
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Because when you go in
there, the priest says to you
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and they've said it
to me dozens of times,
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hey, give me some
money, give me some money.
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They're not slow, they
say give me some money.
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But I want you to know this.
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It doesn't matter if
this is the right tomb
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or if The Garden
Tomb is the right tomb.
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The truth of the matter is
that when they got to the tomb,
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the tomb was empty
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because Jesus
was not in the tomb.
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Jesus had been
raised from the dead,
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that's the good news.
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Now...
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I believe in the
resurrection of Christ
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not because of blind faith.
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On television some time ago,
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I saw a great
convention in North America
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with thousands of
Protestant ministers.
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And they asked one
prominent Protestant minister,
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why did he believe
in the resurrection?
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He got up and when
he made the statement,
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everybody broke out
into loud claim, applause.
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Why do you believe
in the resurrection,
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they said him?
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He said, "Because of my faith."
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Everybody applauded.
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I think it is a tragic
answer, because on my faith,
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but the Buddhist
has faith in Buddha,
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doesn't make it right.
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And the Muslim
extremists who blows up a plane
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and murders hundreds of people
has faith also in his cause.
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It's a misguided faith.
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Jesus didn't say,
you will know faith
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and faith will set you free.
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Jesus said, ''You
will know the truths,
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truth will set you free."
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What we need my friend
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is to have faith
in the truths of God.
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I believe in the resurrection
not because of blind faith,
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but because I
believe it is the truth.
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I believe it is
based on evidence.
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Think of some of the
evidence, eyewitnesses.
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He was seen by Mary Magdalene.
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At the start she
thought he was who?
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The gardener.
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He was seen by the disciples.
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The disciples
who did not believe
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in the resurrection.
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He was seen by two
men on the road to Emmaus.
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Now you say so what?
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Well, this is how the
court system operates.
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In America we believe
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in the viability
of reliable witnesses,
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never forget it.
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And we've got the witnesses,
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we've got Mary
Magdalene, disciples,
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the two men on
the road to Emmaus.
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He was seen by a person
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who said unless I
can actually feel him,
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Thomas.
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Seen by Thomas,
he was seen by Peter.
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Peter who denied the
Lord, Peter said, I saw him,
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he was seen on one occasion
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by a crowd of
more than 500 people,
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and later on he was
seen by the Apostle Paul
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on the road to Damascus.
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And so if you ask the
people who gave their lives
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for their faith
in the resurrection.
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If you ask them,
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"Do you
believe? Do you believe?"
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They say, "Yes, we
believe that He was raised
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from the dead
because we saw Him.
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We saw Him when He
was put on the cross
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and we saw Him
when He was taken down,
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and we saw Him when
he rose from the dead."
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You've heard of Richard Dawkins,
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haven't you?
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I've talked to you about
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the greatest
atheist in the world today,
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the most famous atheist.
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Richard Dawkins,
the great professor
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from Oxford University.
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Richard says, "I can't believe,
he says, that there is a God."
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He says, "It's a
remote possibility
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but I cannot
believe there is a God."
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He was debating with
another Oxford professor
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who is a humble
Christian Professor John Lennox
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who is no dummy.
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He's professor of mathematics
at Oxford University,
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goodness me.
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I can't even imagine.
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Dawkins said to
him, "Professor Lennox,"
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he said, "You're an intelligent
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and a reasonable man.
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I cannot see how you can
just build your life upon faith.
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Said Professor Lennox,
"But we have evidence."
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Dawkins gave the
classical reply of an unbeliever
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who doesn't understand, he said,
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"No,
Christianity, it's all about
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just believing, just faith."
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John Lennox said,
this is marvelous, he said,
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"Doctor Dawkins,
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do you have faith in your wife?"
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No, he did, he did, he did,
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he said, "Do you
have faith in your wife?"
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And Dr Dawkins took the bait.
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He said, "Yes, of course,
I have faith in my wife."
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He said, "I believe in her."
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And the old mathematician
said, "Why do you believe?"
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He said, "Because of
what I see because of the...
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He said, I have
evidence to believe
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that my wife is faithful."
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He said, "Thank you."
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Everybody got the point he said,
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"We Christians do
not have a blind faith.
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We have faith,
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because we have
evidence to believe."
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And therefore we
believe in the resurrection
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not because it
makes us feel good.
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We believe in the resurrection
because of the witnesses.
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Now there is another question
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that we should
ask the unbeliever.
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And that is this, here it is.
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After that
Sunday there was nobody,
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nobody in the tomb.
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The question is what
happened to the body?
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This is a penetrating question
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that deserves a
penetrating analysis.
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What happened to the body?
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Now these are the alternatives,
the disciples stole the body.
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This is hard to believe
that a group of dispirited
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broken men would storm the tomb,
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cast aside the Roman
soldiers and steal the body.
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This would be incredible.
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In other words,
it has no credence.
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Number two,
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if the disciples
did not have the body,
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then the Jews got the body.
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They went to Pilate
and they got the body,
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that if this is so,
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why did not the
Jews who hated Christ
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and the truth
of the resurrection
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produce the dead body.
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This would be the
end of Christianity,
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the greatest destructive force
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that you could bring
against the Christian church
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would be the
dead body of Christ.
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Now the third alternative
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is that the Romans got the body,
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but if the Romans
had stolen the body,
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they too hated this schism,
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this sect of people who
call themselves Christians.
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The best way they
could have destroyed
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the Christian church
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would have been
like the Jews to say,
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"Here is the body."
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So if you can find
the body of Christ,
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you finish with Christianity.
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So the disciples,
the Jews, the Romans
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and there's a fourth alternative
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which is the only
viable alternative.
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There was nobody in the tomb,
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because the body
had been, resurrected.
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And therefore, if
you look at the evidence,
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the evidence is overwhelming
that Christ rose from the dead.
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There was a great
cynic and a great skeptic,
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he was an American,
he lived many years ago
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now in the 1800
around the 1850s.
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His name was Ingersoll.
Have you heard of him.
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Ingersoll, one of
the greatest skeptics
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in the history of America.
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He became a skeptic
because of what he saw
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my Christian friends
in the Christian church.
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He said, if this, if
this is what God is like,
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I don't want to have
anything to do with God.
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And particularly the
doctrine of eternal torment
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that God will burn
sinners for all eternity
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in a mountain flame
while they scream their
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burning hearts
out caused him to say,
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If that is God,
then God is the devil
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and I hate him.
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And this is understandable.
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So Ingersoll became a
skeptic and an unbeliever
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because of the
monstrous teaching
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that God was the chief terrorist
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and the torturer in chief.
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He was asked to speak,
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give the eulogy at
his brother's grave
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at his funeral.
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Some of you will know the eulogy
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starts with these words.
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The loved and
loving brother, husband,
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father, friend, died,
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where manhood's
morning almost touches noon,
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and while the shadows
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still were
falling toward the west.
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So goes on with his
beautiful poetry and artistry.
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But at the very end
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after he talks
about his despair,
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Ingersoll says these words,
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"In the night of
deaths, hope sees a star.
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And listening love can
hear the rustle of a wing."
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Even in the heart of the skeptic
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there is an innate belief
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that we were not
made for annihilation.
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"In the night of
death, hope sees a star
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and listening love can
hear the rustle of the wing.
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Therefore, I believe
in the bright shining star
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and I believe in
the rustle of the wing."
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And I believe in these things
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because, I
believe in the evidence
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that Christ rose from the dead
and that Jesus Christ is alive.
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Therefore, I
believe in life after death.
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Now today, we're
going to ask some questions
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of the Holy
Scriptures not the Holy Church,
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but the Holy Scriptures,
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and the first
question is this one.
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Here it is.
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Do people have immortal souls?
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It is believed by
vast numbers of people,
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our Roman Catholic friends,
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almost all of the
Protestants, the Muslims,
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virtually every
religion believes
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in the immortality of the soul.
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Would you come over
here to 1 Timothy 6.
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1 Timothy 6:14-16...
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In a Holy Scripture.
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1 Timothy 6:14-16.
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And here we have a text
that talks about immortality,
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1 Timothy 6:14 and onwards.
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It says, "That you
keep this commandment
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without spot blameless
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until our Lord
Jesus Christ's appearing,
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which he will
manifest in His own time,
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He who is the
blessed and only Potentate,
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the King of kings
and Lord of lords."
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What does it say?
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Who only... What does it say?
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Who only has immortality,
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dwelling in
unapproachable light,
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whom no man has seen or can see
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to whom be honor
and everlasting power.
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Amen.
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The Bible says,
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it says it's plain as anything
that God alone is immortality.
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When all the
Catholics watching the telecast,
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just listen to this.
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If I had an immortal soul,
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how could this text
be in the Bible, you see.
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God alone has immortality.
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Now it is believed that
we've got a person today
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can have this immortal
soul but the Bible says,
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"That God alone
has immortality."
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And whatever the
soul is the Bible teaches,
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that the soul has
the capacity to die
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because we're
looking now at Ezekiel 18:4.
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Ezekiel 18:4, is the
text that we're looking at,
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Ezekiel 18:4,
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the Bible says,
"Behold, all souls are Mine.
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The soul of the father
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as well as the
soul of the Son is Mine,
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The soul who sins..."
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What does it say? Die.
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"Soul die."
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So whatever the soul is,
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the Bible says
that the soul can die.
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Therefore, if the soul
can die, listen to this.
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If the soul can die
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and if God
alone has immortality,
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then the doctrine of
the immortality of the soul
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is not taught in the Bible.
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Therefore, I
believe in the resurrection,
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but I do not believe in
the immortality of the soul.
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Are you listing to me God alone,
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the Bible says, is immortal.
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I've discovered
this, listen to this.
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Every, every
religion in the world
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teaches the
immortality of the soul,
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every religion in the world
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teaches the immortality of
the soul with one exception,
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their religion of the Bible.
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The Egyptians
believed in the immortality.
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So that's why they
built the pyramids.
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That's why they
filled the tombs,
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the mummies and embalmed them
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because they believed
that there was a thing
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that lived inside
the body, the soul.
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You think it's a Christian idea.
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My friend, it goes back
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thousands of years
before the Christian church.
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People believed in the
immortality of the soul.
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Every religion in the world
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believes in the
immortality of the soul.
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I tell you with one
exception, one big exception
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and that is the
religion of the Bible.
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Are you listening to me? Yeah.
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So the Bible does
not teach the doctrine
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of the immortality of the soul.
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Now we ask another
very important question,
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here it comes.
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Where does the doctrine
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of the immortality
of the soul come from?
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Now, I don't want to
offend my Catholic friends,
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but they believe in the
immortality of the soul.
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That's why they
believe in eternal torment.
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I don't wish to offend my
most of my Protestant friends,
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because they believe the same
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as the Catholic
church does on this,
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that man has an immortal
soul and because it cannot die,
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the soul will be burned
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and burned for
billions and trillions of years.
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That's a doctrine that
made Ingersoll hate God.
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So we asked the question,
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where does the doctrine
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of the immortality
of the soul come from.
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It comes from
the Garden of Eden.
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Would you believe it?
Come with me to Genesis 3:1-5.
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This will surprise you I think,
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Genesis 3:1-5 dear
hearts and gentle people,
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Genesis 3:1-5.
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"Now the serpent,
now who is the serpent?
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The serpent is
Satan, that's the devil.
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Now the serpent
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was more cunning than
any beast of the field
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which the Lord God had
made, Yahweh Elohim, Lord God.
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He said to the
woman, has God indeed said,
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"You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?"
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The woman said to the serpent,
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"We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
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we can do that, we
can do that Mr. Serpent.
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Verse 3, "But of
the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden.
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God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you
touch it lest you die."
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God said, "If you break my law,
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if you take the
fruit, you're going to die."
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Okay, because you've
got an immortal soul.
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Now read on little bit further.
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This is what,
this is what it says.
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Let's read this again.
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Look at verse 2, "The
woman said to the serpent,
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"We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
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but of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden,
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God has said,
'You shall not eat it
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nor shall you
touch it, lest you die."
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That's the truth,
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"Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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"You will not surely die."
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You see.
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"For God knows that in the day
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you eat of it your
eyes will be opened,
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and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil."
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Let's get this very plain.
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God said, "If you
eat of this fruit,
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you are going to die."
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The soul that sins it will die.
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God alone has immortality.
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But the serpent who
is the great deceiver,
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Lucifer the arch
rebel, the great antichrist.
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He said, "Go ahead and
eat it, you won't die."
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You see you've
got an immortal soul
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and you will become like God.
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You cannot die."
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Therefore, listen carefully,
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the doctrine of the
immortality of the soul
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is not the doctrine of God.
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It is the
doctrine of the serpent.
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Where did it come from?
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It is the devil's lie.
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So I believe in
the resurrection.
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But I do not
believe for one moment
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in the devil's lie.
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Now have you heard of Socrates?
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Yes.
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Socrates was dying,
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he had to drink
this fatal hemlock,
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Socrates said, "I don't care.
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See this
doesn't worry me to die.
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His disciples were
upset, he said, "I don't worry."
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He said, "The body is a shell,
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inside the shell
is an immortal soul
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and the soul cannot die."
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You know where the
Greeks got it from.
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They got it from the Egyptians.
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Egyptians passed
down to the Babylonians
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down to the Greeks, and
the Greeks to the Romans,
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and the Romans passed it down
to the Roman Catholic Church,
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and the Catholic Church
gave it to the Protestant world.
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So I believe that
Christ rose from the dead.
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My hope is in Christ.
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My hope is in the resurrection.
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My hope is not
in the devil's lie.
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Now, in our next program
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which is coming
up straight after.
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We're going to talk about this.
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Where do we go at death?
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What happens at death?
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Where do I go when I die?
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My Catholic friends
say, hell, purgatory, limbo.
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Some say heaven, whatever.
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What does the Bible teach?
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Where are the beloved dead?
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That's the next program.
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Hi, I'm John Carter.
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I guess the toughest place
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that I've ever been to as far
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as the preaching of the
gospel is concerned is India.
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Home to more than
on a billion souls,
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and I guess hundreds of
millions of different Gods.
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It almost overwhelms the senses.
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What can we do?
Well, we've been to India.
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We've run outdoor meetings,
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we've had
thousands and thousands
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of people Hindus and
Muslims at our meetings
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coming forward in altar calls.
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But we're going to try to
do something else as well.
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We're going to start small.
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We're starting
with a program called,
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"Touching The Untouchables."
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And we're going to start
with a little untouchable girls.
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We're doing this now.
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We're getting them food,
because they're so hungry,
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hard to come to
Jesus when you're hungry.
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And so we're getting them food
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and we'll be
sending them to school.
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We're trying to feed their souls
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and fill their bellies.
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In India, home to
more than a billion souls
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and hundreds of millions of Gods
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controlled by evil spirits,
please help us in this work.
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Please help us,
write to me John Carter,
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P.O. Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, California 91358,
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or write to me at
Terrigal in Australia.
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We have an Australian office
as we have an Indian office
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with somebody
there working full time
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trying to touch
the with untouchables
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with a love of Jesus.
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Please write to me
today, and Jesus said,
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"I have come to seek
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and to save
that which was lost."
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