Welcome back.
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Today we're talking about
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what happens when a person dies?
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In the last
program, we spoke about
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the reality of
Christ's resurrection.
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But there is overwhelming
evidence to prove the truth
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that Christ is
alive and well in heaven,
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that Christ rose from the dead.
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And our hope today
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is in the
resurrection of Christ.
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Question we're going to
ask and answer now is this.
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Where do we go at
death? What happens when I die?
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Come over here to
the Book of Acts 2:29.
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Would you please to
the Book of Acts 2:29.
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Where is the
Blessed Virgin Mary?
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Let's go, Acts
2:29, "Men and brethren,
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let me speak freely to
you of the patriarch David,
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that he is both dead and buried,
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and his tomb is
with us to this day."
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Now we're talking about David,
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the man who wrote
the book of Psalms,
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I mean one of God's great
men, one of God's great heroes.
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So if anybody is in
heaven, it ought to be David,
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don't you think?
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Now verse 34 says,
"For David did not ascend
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into the heavens."
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I mean, how
plain can you get it.
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David did not
ascend into the heavens
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but he says himself,
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'The Lord said to my
Lord, sit at my right hand,
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Till I make your
enemies your footstool."
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So the Bible says
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that Saint David
is not in heaven.
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Now come over now
to the words of Jesus,
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come over here to John 11,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
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John 11:43 and 44.
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John 11:43 and 44.
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Now this is talking about
the resurrection of Lazarus,
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a man who died, who
was dead for four days,
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and Jesus went to the
tomb and resurrected him.
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Amazing story,
amazing because it's true.
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So look at this, John 11:43.
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"Now when He had
said these things,
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He cried with a loud voice,"
Lazarus, come down from heaven.
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He came to the tomb.
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"When he said these things,
He cried with a loud voice,
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"Lazarus come forth."
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And he came, you
know where Lazarus was?
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He was in the
grave, he was in the tomb.
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"And he who had
died came out bound hand
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and foot with grave clothes,
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his face was
wrapped up with a cloth.
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Jesus said to them,
"Loose him, and let him go."
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I want you to know this.
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The Bible says that Lazarus
was called from the grave.
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He wasn't called down from haven
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and he wasn't
called up from hell,
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and he wasn't
called out of purgatory.
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The Bible says he
came from the grave.
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Now come over
here to John Chapter...
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Now why don't we read the Bible?
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Why don't we believe this text?
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John 5:28 and 29, Jesus
said, "Do not marvel at this,
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for the hour is coming in
which all who are in the graves
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will hear His
voice and come forth.
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Those who have done good,
to the resurrection of life,
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and those who have done evil,
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to the
resurrection of condemnation."
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Now listen to me.
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Look at me, the Bible says,
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"I don't have an immortal soul."
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The Bible says the doctrine
of the immortality of the soul
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comes from the devil.
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This is in the Book Genesis.
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The Bible says,
"When I die, I go to sleep
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and I rest in the grave."
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Now if the Bible is true.
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Now this is rather delicate,
what I'm gonna tell you now.
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I don't want to offend
my beloved Catholic friends.
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But Mary is not in
heaven, Peter is not in heaven,
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the saints are not in heaven.
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So why should I trust in Mary
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to save my soul,
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when she is in the grave
all waiting the resurrection,
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and that's why the Bible teaches
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that only Jesus
Christ can save me.
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And you see the true church
is not built upon a dead saint.
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The truth church is
built upon the living Christ.
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Did you hear this?
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The true church is
built upon the living Christ.
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And so the Bible tells me
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that my hope is in the
resurrection of Christ.
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Our loved ones are not in pain.
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Our loved ones are not in...
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You say, you don't
believe in purgatory.
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No, of course, I
don't believe in purgatory.
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Purgatory is not
taught in the Bible.
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Purgatory was an
invention of the medieval church
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to scare people
into going to church
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and supporting the church
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with their
silver and their gold.
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It is not taught in the Bible,
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neither is limbo
taught in the Bible.
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How many souls are burning today
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in the fires of hell?
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Well, there's none.
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None, the Bible tells us
that we sleep in the grave
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until the resurrection.
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Now we come to the next question
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that we have already
asked and answered it.
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But we'll do it again.
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Are the dead conscious?
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And this is a very
important question,
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because all of
my Catholic friends
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and most of my
Protestant friends,
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certainly Martin
Luther didn't believed
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in the immortality of a soul.
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Hear this Lutherans.
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Martin Luther did not believed
in the immortality of the soul,
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but most of my
Protestant friends
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believe in the
immortality of the soul,
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and they believe that
the dead are conscious
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and the dead can
come back on occasions
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and talk to you.
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This of course is spiritism.
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I want you to come
over here to John 11,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke
John, fourth gospel.
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John 11, we're going to
notice the words of Jesus
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and the words of John also.
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John 11:1, are
the dead conscious?
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"Now a certain man was
sick, Lazarus of Bethany,
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the town of Mary
and her sister Martha."
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So here's a man who get sick
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and he gets so
sick this man dies.
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Then if you come
to verses 11 to 14,
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"These things He, Jesus said,
and after that He said to them,
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"Our friend Lazarus sleeps,
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but I go that I
may wake him up."
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Then His disciples said, "Lord,
if he sleeps he will get well."
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How be it.
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However, Jesus
spoke of his death,
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but they thought
that He was speaking about
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taking rest in sleep.
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Then Jesus said to them plainly,
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"Lazarus is dead."
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Now I challenge you.
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You may find this
to be a shocking talk,
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some of you may be saying,
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I really don't
want to hear this.
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My friend, I'm not here
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to defend the
opinions of my church
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or some organization,
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I'm here simply to show
you what the Bible teaches,
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and all the way
through the New Testament,
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death is likened unto a sleep
and Jesus, our blessed Lord,
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and if we can't believe
Jesus, we can't believe anybody.
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Jesus said,
"Lazarus is sleeping,
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Lazarus is dead."
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And that's why we
read a few moments ago,
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Jesus went to the tomb
where Lazarus was sleeping
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and Jesus said
Lazarus come forth
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and the dead man
woke up and came out.
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And I believe
that's going to happen
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to God's people one day.
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So I don't believe in
the immortality of the soul.
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I don't believe in purgatory.
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I don't believe
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in the
edification of the saints,
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because a dead
saint cannot save me,
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I need a living Christ.
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Amen.
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Do you hear this,
and so Jesus here I say,
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you Peter, you were just a
tumbling old stone he said,
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I said you Peter, I'm going
to build my church on the rock,
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and the rock is Christ Himself.
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So the true church is
built upon a living Christ,
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the false church is
built upon a sleeping saint.
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There was a little boy
who lost his soldier dad.
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Little boy was grieving.
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The young mother
didn't know what to tell him,
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but she thought about
it and she prayed about it,
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seems to me that God helped her.
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She said, "Remember
how we used to play,
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used to play in the
daytime, summertime.
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All right.
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Long summer days,
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then I'd call you
in our supper time
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and say come home,
come home, it's supper time.
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When you came
in late in the day,
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you'd have dinner
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and as you would have
dinner you start to nod off.
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And mummy and
daddy would pick you up
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and take you into your bedroom
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and we'd undress you
and put your pajamas on
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and you'd fall asleep,
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and you'd
peacefully sleep unconscious,
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until the sun was shining
through the glass windows
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and the birds were singing.
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So she said that's
how it is with death.
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Daddy is sleeping.
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And when Jesus comes
and the sun is shining,
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Jesus is going to wake him up.
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Just as he woke up
Lazarus, Lazarus come forth,
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this man who'd
been dead for four days,
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whose body was
starting to deteriorate,
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he came out of that tomb...
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same as Jesus did.
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Jesus came out of the tomb.
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Next question, will
we see our loved ones
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who died
trusting in Christ again?
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For instance,
will I see my mother?
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I'm largely here today
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because of my mother
teaching me this faith,
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and praying with me as a
bit of a delinquent youth.
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Will I see my father
again who was brought up
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in the great
Roman Catholic Church.
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As a young boy
he was an altar boy
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in Australia
serving under the priest.
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But later on in life
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after he came to
some of my meetings,
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he discovered
Christ in the gospel
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and was baptized in the Christ
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and died in the
truth of the resurrection,
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will I see them
again? That is the question.
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I want you to take your Bible,
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come over here to
1 Thessalonians 4,
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1 Thessalonians 4,
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you folks who are
watching in television,
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just listen to this
one in the Bible verse 13,
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"But I do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren,
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concerning those who," what?
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Fallen asleep.
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And not talking about
people in church either.
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No, I do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren,
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concerning those who
have fallen asleep..."
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What's he talking about?
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"Lest you sorrow as
others who have no hope."
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Now there you got it again,
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Jesus spoke about a death
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and Jesus called it a sleep.
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He did this all the
way through His teachings.
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When Jesus went into the tomb,
Jesus slept for three days.
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He was unconscious,
didn't go to purgatory,
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didn't go to any
place called hell,
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any of that stuff.
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No, no, no, that's
not taught in the Bible.
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He slept and the
Bible says, Paul says,
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I don't want you to be ignorant
concerning people who've died,
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people who've fallen asleep.
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Now verses 16 and onwards.
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Have a look at this,
because this is really terrific,
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verse 16 and onwards.
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Have you got it?
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"For the Lord Himself
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will descend from
heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trumpet of God.
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The dead in
Christ will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain
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shall be caught up together
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with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
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And thus we shall
always be with the Lord.
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Therefore comfort one
another with these words."
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Now the Bible teaches this.
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I just want you
to think about this.
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The Bible teaches that
Christ is going to come,
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and He's going to come
in power and great glory.
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And Christ is the
mighty Son of God,
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He died and He
came out of that tomb,
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and the Bible says,
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"He is going to come
back in magnificent glory.
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And I'm gonna put up
a picture on the screen
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and it just moves my heart
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because it's a picture of Christ
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coming with the angels.
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That's going to happen.
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I believe it's
going to happen soon,
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I believe the signs
of the times tells me
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that we are living
in the very last days.
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I believe this.
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I'm convinced that this
is true and the Bible says
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when Christ comes back,
He is going to give a shout,
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it's gonna be
pretty noisy, folks,
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not gonna be a secret rapture.
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No, no, no people said,
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"You believe in secret rapture?"
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No, I can't believe
in the secret rapture,
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that's the
delusion of the devil,
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it's not taught in the Bible.
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The Bible says
Christ comes backs
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with the sound of the trumpet,
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you know, shout
of the archangel,
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and then something
tremendous is going to happen,
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the graves are
going to crack open,
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and people by the millions
are going to be resurrected,
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think about that.
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Amen. Think about that.
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So do I expect
to see my old dad,
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who is baptized in
the Catholic Church?
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I shall do.
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He's not gonna be an old man,
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going to be young man,
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young strong, lost most of hair
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but he's gonna have it all back.
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My mother is going to be a
beautiful young woman again.
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I have just come
back from Australia.
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For last few days, I
have traveled 19,000 miles,
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and every time
I go to Australia,
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I can tell you something.
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This must be a scientific truth.
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The continents
must be drifting apart
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because it seems to be
further to go there each time.
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All the planes are going slower,
00:15:44.51\00:15:46.04
even though I
went on a Dreamliner,
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came back on a Dreamliner,
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but it seems though
it takes a longer now.
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But I went down to
Australia to bury my old friend.
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I guess, perhaps the
best friend I ever had,
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Graeme Bradford.
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We traveled the world together,
we went to Russia together.
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We went to lots of places,
dangerous places together,
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but he got melanoma
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and he fought it
for about five years.
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The doctors would see him
out, you know, they would say,
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you look remarkable
for a man who ought to dead
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because he was
running and jogging,
00:16:24.78\00:16:27.22
and preaching and
he kept going, going,
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keep, he kept going on
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and we are going
to see him again.
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Yes, on the last
day at the resurrection.
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When I see him again,
he's not going to be a man
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dying of c
cancer, nothing like that.
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He's gonna be the same
guy, the same Graeme Bradford,
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same sense of humor,
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same child of
God, but no cancer,
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no melanoma, no pain,
no hospitals, no doctors,
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no morphine.
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That's our hope.
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I want you to think about it.
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If the doctrine of the
immortality of the soul
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is really true.
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Just be honest,
think about this.
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The Bible says that
the way to destruction
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is wide and broad,
and most people go there.
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The way to
salvation the Bible say
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is narrow and straight,
only a few that will find it.
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Now people don't
want to hear that.
00:17:32.61\00:17:34.68
They want to
think that everybody y
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is going to go to
heaven, everybody,
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but the Bible says,
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few there be that
find it if that is true.
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And if the doctrine of
the immortality of the soul
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is true,
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then right now there
are billions of people
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screaming in hell.
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Think about that.
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People say, "Well, you
know, it gives a lot of comfort
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to my heart to believe it."
00:18:06.18\00:18:08.05
No, no, no.
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What sort of God would that be?
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So there's nobody in purgatory,
there's nobody in hell,
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there's nobody in limbo,
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there is a judgment
day when Christ returns.
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There's gonna be a big fire,
God is gonna clean up the mess.
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It's going to be a judgment day.
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But right now, our
loved ones are sleeping.
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When I was a boy preacher...
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Oh, just a few years ago.
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A family came to me in Australia
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in the little town of Parkes,
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that's it's on the outer Barcoo
where the preachers are few,
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and men of religion are scanty,
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on the path seldom crossed,
that's an Australian poem.
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I won't say it all because
it wouldn't be appropriate.
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A family came to me
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because these people
had come to my meetings
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and this old man,
they called him Pops,
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he's a dear old man.
00:19:03.74\00:19:06.78
He passed away and
the family came to me
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and they said,
00:19:08.88\00:19:10.21
would you bury Pops
'cause you're a pastor.
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I said of course I will.
00:19:12.35\00:19:14.05
And then they
brought along their sons,
00:19:14.08\00:19:16.69
this is true story.
00:19:16.72\00:19:19.85
The sons opened
up their wallets,
00:19:19.89\00:19:22.32
and took out
thousands of dollars,
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they put it down on my desk,
and they said pray for Pops
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so he will get out of purgatory.
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What sort of God would he be
00:19:35.20\00:19:38.34
that you could pay him off?
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What are you talking about?
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You mean to say
00:19:44.15\00:19:45.48
that if you pay
money to the church,
00:19:45.51\00:19:48.18
God's gonna let
somebody out of hell?
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.49
What sort of God?
00:19:50.52\00:19:53.42
He be more crooked than
some modern day politicians.
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Now isn't that the truth?
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Yeah.
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So I told them, Pops died
with his faith truly in Christ.
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Living according to
the truth of the Bible.
00:20:07.00\00:20:10.67
I said, you don't, I
wouldn't take your money,
00:20:10.71\00:20:14.58
that would be an offence to me.
00:20:14.61\00:20:16.41
It would be an offence to God.
00:20:16.44\00:20:18.61
I could not belong to a church
00:20:18.65\00:20:20.78
that took money for
praise for the dead.
00:20:20.82\00:20:23.95
I couldn't belong to that.
00:20:23.99\00:20:25.99
I think it's disgusting.
00:20:26.02\00:20:29.82
But I said, "I'll pray for
you, and I'll bury the old man.
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And one day by the grace of God,
00:20:35.33\00:20:37.73
you'll see him in heaven
because it's going to happen,
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which leads
people to this question.
00:20:43.14\00:20:45.04
What about the dying thief?
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Come over here to Luke
23, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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'cause this
troubles some people,
00:20:51.95\00:20:53.45
the dying thief,
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Luke 23
00:20:55.32\00:20:58.52
:39-43.
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"Then one of the criminals
00:21:04.93\00:21:06.26
who were hanged
blasphemed Him, saying,
00:21:06.29\00:21:08.30
"If You are the
Christ save yourself and us."
00:21:08.33\00:21:10.63
But the other
answering, rebuked him saying,
00:21:10.67\00:21:14.60
'Do you not even fear God
00:21:14.64\00:21:15.97
seeing you are under
the same condemnation?
00:21:16.00\00:21:18.47
And we indeed
justly, before we received
00:21:18.51\00:21:20.64
the due reward of our deeds,
00:21:20.68\00:21:22.54
but this Man has
done nothing wrong."
00:21:22.58\00:21:24.98
Then he said to
Jesus, "Lord, remember me
00:21:25.01\00:21:28.75
when You come
into Your kingdom."
00:21:28.78\00:21:30.29
And Jesus said to him,
"Assured, I say to you come,
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today you will be
with me in Paradise."
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That text seems to teach
00:21:37.66\00:21:41.60
that Jesus and the thief
went to Paradise that day.
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Now I will show you
00:21:45.60\00:21:47.97
an apparent
contradiction in the Bible.
00:21:48.00\00:21:50.54
Come over here to John 20:17,
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John 20:17 and this describes
00:21:54.41\00:21:58.45
what happened on the
day of the resurrection.
00:21:58.48\00:22:01.18
John 20:17, three
days after the Friday
00:22:01.22\00:22:05.85
John 20:17,
00:22:05.89\00:22:07.66
"Jesus said to her,
He is talking to Mary,
00:22:07.69\00:22:10.56
"Do not cling to me
00:22:10.59\00:22:11.99
for I have not yet to
ascended to my father,
00:22:12.03\00:22:14.56
but go to my
brother and say to them
00:22:14.60\00:22:16.50
"I 'm ascending to
My Father and your God,
00:22:16.53\00:22:18.97
and to My God and your God."
00:22:19.00\00:22:20.84
Listen, you get it?
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On the Sunday Jesus said,
"I haven't been to Paradise,
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said I haven't been there yet."
00:22:29.64\00:22:32.68
So there's a conflict, listen.
00:22:32.71\00:22:38.19
The Bible is a
inspired Word of God
00:22:38.22\00:22:41.96
but in the original
there are no punctuation marks,
00:22:41.99\00:22:45.79
the commas were
placed by the translators
00:22:45.83\00:22:49.36
who believed in the
immortality of the soul,
00:22:49.40\00:22:52.37
therefore this
text can read this
00:22:52.40\00:22:55.94
"Assuredly, I say to you,
00:22:55.97\00:22:57.84
today you will be
with Me in Paradise."
00:22:57.87\00:23:00.61
You see where the comma is?
00:23:00.64\00:23:03.68
Or else it can say this,
00:23:03.71\00:23:06.51
"Assuredly, I say to you today,
00:23:06.55\00:23:11.49
you will be
with me in Paradise."
00:23:11.52\00:23:13.86
The thief didn't
go that day home.
00:23:17.86\00:23:22.16
He was still alive
probably live for another week,
00:23:22.20\00:23:26.00
and Jesus didn't go that day,
00:23:26.03\00:23:30.34
but one day that thief
will be with Christ in Paradise
00:23:30.37\00:23:36.98
like Sammy Tannahill.
00:23:37.01\00:23:39.51
Have you heard of him?
00:23:39.55\00:23:41.38
He is a terrible criminal.
00:23:41.42\00:23:43.75
Sammy Tannahill had
murdered many, many people.
00:23:43.79\00:23:49.06
He was going to die
in the electric chair.
00:23:49.09\00:23:51.89
There is the
man, Sammy Tannahill.
00:23:51.93\00:23:56.36
A pastor visited him
and gave him a Bible.
00:23:56.40\00:23:58.60
Sammy started to
read it, and read it.
00:23:58.63\00:24:03.61
He read it for three
days, and three nights
00:24:03.64\00:24:05.61
and couldn't sleep.
00:24:05.64\00:24:07.14
And in the end he
got down beside his bed,
00:24:07.18\00:24:09.01
he said God forgive me
for every sin in the book
00:24:09.04\00:24:11.78
because I've broken them all.
00:24:11.81\00:24:14.88
And then he was taken
00:24:14.92\00:24:16.25
and put in the electrical chair,
00:24:16.28\00:24:18.69
and the pastor
stood in front of him
00:24:18.72\00:24:20.99
and said Sammy have
you got anything to say,
00:24:21.02\00:24:23.46
he said only this
00:24:23.49\00:24:25.49
that I have put my
life in the hands of Christ,
00:24:25.53\00:24:30.20
and I have asked
God to forgive my sins.
00:24:30.23\00:24:32.90
And the pastor let him
in saying the Lord's prayer
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.67
and as they were praying,
00:24:35.70\00:24:37.57
they turned on the electricity
00:24:37.61\00:24:43.55
and Sammy fell asleep,
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.38
and he will be
with Christ in Paradise
00:24:46.41\00:24:49.88
and so will you be.
00:24:49.92\00:24:52.85
We do not believe
that the Bible teaches
00:24:52.89\00:24:55.32
a monstrous doctrine of
the immortality of the soul.
00:24:55.36\00:24:59.63
We believe in the
resurrection of Christ,
00:24:59.66\00:25:03.37
and we believe
00:25:03.40\00:25:04.97
in the
resurrection of God's people.
00:25:05.00\00:25:09.97
Remember the text that
God so loved the world.
00:25:10.01\00:25:14.58
So if you believe in
Him, you will not perish,
00:25:14.61\00:25:19.01
but you will
have everlasting life
00:25:19.05\00:25:22.22
in the
resurrection when Jesus comes.
00:25:22.25\00:25:27.06
Amen.
00:25:27.09\00:25:28.59
Now, I just
want to do something.
00:25:28.62\00:25:31.86
I want to dedicate
this program today,
00:25:31.89\00:25:35.76
and we're gonna put
this in the program.
00:25:35.80\00:25:39.10
We lovingly
dedicate this program today
00:25:39.13\00:25:42.87
to the memory
of my great friend,
00:25:42.90\00:25:49.14
and your great
friend, Dr. Graeme Bradford.
00:25:49.18\00:25:54.72
And as I said at
his funeral service,
00:25:54.75\00:25:57.62
Graeme rest in peace,
00:25:57.65\00:26:03.59
rise in glory.
00:26:03.63\00:26:04.99
Amen.
00:26:05.03\00:26:06.39
And all the people
said amen and amen.
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