Let's get started.
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The topic is, "Spirits, Demons
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and Talking to the Dead."
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Is there such a
person as the devil?
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I want you to
notice a text today,
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it's found in 1 John 4:8.
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And this perhaps
is the greatest text
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we're going to read today.
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That's why put
it up the front here
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1 John 4:8,
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I believe it is.
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Here it is, it says,
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"He who does not
love does not know God..."
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What does it say?
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"The God is love."
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Because God is love,
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God created us with
the ability to choose,
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and God has
given to everyone of us
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the gift of freedom.
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I want you to know this,.
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God never coerces the conscience
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Now we know of
great religious systems
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that are based on fear.
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It is obvious that God
is not behind those systems
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because the Bible
says, God is love.
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Now, I want you to hear this.
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The authority in these meetings
is a very special authority.
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It's not the
church, it's not me,
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but if you turn in your Bibles
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to the Book of
Isaiah 8:19 and 20.
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Isaiah 8:19 and 20,
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Isaiah 8:19 and 20,
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we got the text, the Bible says,
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"When they say to you,
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'Seek those who are
mediums and wizards,
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who whisper and mutter,'
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should not a
people seek their God?
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Should they seek the
dead on behalf of the living?
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To the law and to the testimony.
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If they do not speak
according to this word,
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it is because there
is no light in them."
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I just want you to hear
this and be very plain on this.
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Our authority in these
meetings is not the church,
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because the Christian
church has frequently erred
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and continues to do so,
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it's not the
church, it's not the pope,
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even though he
may be very nice man.
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It is not the priest,
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because he's a
sinner like the rest of us,
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same as the pope.
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It is not the
television evangelist,
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not the pastor,
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but the Holy Spirit
speaking through God's word.
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Sometime ago when I was
in the great city of Sydney,
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lady came along to the meetings
at the Sydney Opera House,
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and after those
meetings she asked to see me,
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she said, "I
can't believe a word
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that you said is true."
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I said why not.
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She said, "Because sometime ago,
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some months ago
I lost my husband,
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we were so close,
we loved each other."
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She said, I've been praying that
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something would happen
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and that God
would bring him back.
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She said the other night I
was sitting in the kitchen,
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heard a rattling at the door,
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there he was in
the same old clothes.
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The casual clothes
that he love to wear.
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He came in and we sat
down and talked about things
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that nobody knew,
but my husband and I.
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So she said, you
may have the Bible,
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I have a greater authority
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because I spoke
to my dead husband.
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Now, we're going to
have a little of summary
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what I spoke about last time.
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Every single
religion in the world believes
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that the dead are alive,
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because they believe in
the immortality of the soul,
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for instance, the
ancient Egyptians,
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Babylonians, the
Greeks the, the Romans,
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our dear friends
the Roman Catholics,
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the Mormons, the Muslims,
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most Protestants and
the Orthodox churches.
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I'm gonna tell you
today that every religion
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in the world believes in
the immortality of the soul
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and they believe that
the dead are actually alive
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except one religion
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and that is the
religion of the Bible.
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And today we are not
going to go according
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to the authority of my church,
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we are going to go
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according to the authority
of the living word of God.
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Now we're gonna have a little
summary of the last meeting.
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Number one, the
dead know nothing,
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we're going to talk about
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the condition of man in death.
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The dead know nothing.
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The text is Ecclesiastes 9:5,
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I'm going to
give you lots of text,
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
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the Bible says,
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"For the living
know that they will die,
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but the dead know nothing
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and they have no more reward,
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for the memory of
them is forgotten.
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I'm told by
millions of people that
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when a person
dies all of a suddenly
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he's in the presence of God
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and he knows everything,
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but the Bible says,
the dead know nothing.
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The Bible teaches
that God alone in immortal,
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which means that I do
not have an immortal soul.
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The text is 1
Timothy 6:15 and 16
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in the New Testament,
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1 Timothy 6:15 and 16 it says,
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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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who alone 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,
don't forget this,
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my Catholic friends
and my Protestant friends.
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The Bible says, God
alone has immortality.
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And if God
alone has immortality,
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then it is a falsehood to say
that I have an immortal soul.
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The Bible teaches that
the dead saints are sleeping.
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Acts 7:59 and 60.
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Acts 7:59 and 60.
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Acts 7:59,
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"And they stoned
Stephen as he was calling on God
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and saying, "Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit."
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Then he knelt down
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and cried out with a loud voice,
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"Lord, do not
charge them with this sin."
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And when he said
this, he fell asleep.
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The Bible does not
says the churches teach
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that Stephen went
into the presence of God
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and went to heaven,
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the Bible says, he fell asleep.
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And this of
course is the teaching
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of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Come over here to John 11:11-14,
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John 11:11-14,
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"These things He 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,
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"Lord, if he
sleeps he will get well."
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However, Jesus spoke of..."
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What does it say?
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"His death,
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but they thought
that He was speaking
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about 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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' So Jesus our Lord said,
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the dead are sleeping.
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Listen carefully
my beloved Catholic
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and my Protestant friends
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and my Muslim friends,
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Stephen is
sleeping, he knows nothing,
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Peter is
sleeping, John is sleeping,
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the great Saint Paul,
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the great Saint
Peter, they are sleeping.
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And what is more,
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the Bible teaches the
Blessed Virgin Mary is sleeping,
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that is why the Bible tells me
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I should pray to
God and to God alone
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and only Christ can save,
not the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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because the Bible
says she is sleeping.
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I want you to come over
here to 1 Corinthians 15:3- 6,
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1 Corinthians 15,
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the Bible is very,
very plain on this subject.
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1 Corinthians 15:3-6,
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"For I delivered
to you first of all
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that which I also received:
that Christ died for our sins
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according to the
Scriptures, that's the gospel,
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and that He was seen by Cephas,
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then by the twelve.
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After that He was seen by
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over five
hundred brethren at once,
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of whom the greater
part remain to the present,
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but some have fallen asleep."
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So here the Bible contrast
the living with the dead
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and the Bible says that
the dead are sound asleep,
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and the dead know nothing.
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Therefore we
shall ask in a moment
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then who are the
spirits in spiritism
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that some of you
may be consulting.
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And the Bible even
tells us of one character
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who most people
say he is in heaven
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and the Bible says plainly,
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he is not in heaven,
and that is King David.
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Come over here to Acts 2:34,
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Acts 2:34,
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Acts 2:34, the Bible says,
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"For David did not
ascend into the heavens,
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but he says himself:
'The Lord said to my Lord,
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"Sit at My right hand.'
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" The Bible says,
David in not in heaven.
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When you say the
church is disagreeable,
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I really, I'm not concerned.
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I'd be concerned if the
word of God was contrary
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to what I'm saying,
hear what I'm saying.
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The Bible tells me
that the saints are sleeping
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and the saints know nothing.
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Therefore when people
are praying to the saints,
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they are praying to dead people,
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and the dead
people can't hear them
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and the dead
people know nothing.
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This is the word of the Lord,
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and the Bible teaches that
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death is not what we
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look upon as our friend.
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The Bible teaches the
resurrection is our hope,
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not death.
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Come over here to 1
Thessalonians 4:13 and 16,
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1 Thessalonians 4
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and here we got a text
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that talks once
again about death
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and the great hope that we have.
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1 Thessalonians 4:13,
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"But I do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren,
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concerning those who have, what?
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Who've fallen asleep,
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he is telling about dead people,
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those who have fallen asleep,
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lest you sorrow as
others who have no hope."
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And verse 16 he says,
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"For the Lord
Himself will descend
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from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel,
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and the trumpet call of
God, the trumpet of God.
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And the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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So the Bible teaches
that death is not our hope,
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but our hope is
the resurrection.
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On that day I'm
going to see my old father,
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I'm going to see my mother.
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I won't see them as old people,
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they'll be young
people with a broom
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of eternal youth
upon their foreheads.
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My friend Graham Bradford
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will walk out of the tomb.
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When I conducted his
funeral, I quoted the words,
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'Rest in piece, rise in glory,
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to a true believer
death is only a shadow,"
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but it is not our hope,
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but we believe in
the coming of Christ
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and in the
resurrection of the dead.
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And the Bible teaches
that all who sleep in death
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good and bad are
going to be resurrected.
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Come over here to
the words of Christ.
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John 5:28 and 29,
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John 5 to the words of Christ.
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John 5:28 and
29, the Bible says,
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Jesus says, "Do
not marvel at this,
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for the hour is coming
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in which all who
are in the, where?
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No, not in heaven or
in purgatory or in hell,
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those who are in
graves will hear His voice
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and come forth
those who have done good,
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to the resurrection of life,
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and those who have done evil,
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to the
resurrection of damnation."
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Listen...
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If you and I don't meet again,
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we're going to meet
in the resurrection day.
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Everybody is going to be there.
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Man said to me once, he said,
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I don't believe
any of that he said,
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when I die, I go six feet under
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and that he said
is the end of me.
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I said no, my friend,
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it's only the very start of you.
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Because the day is going to come
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when God's people,
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all of God's
people like Martin Luther,
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the Apostle Paul,
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the Blessed Virgin Mary,
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Saint Peter who is now sleeping.
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Now, my beloved friends
in the Roman Catholic Church
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believe that their church
is build upon Saint Peter.
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If that is true,
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then the church is
built upon a dead man.
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I don't want to
belong to a church
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that is built upon a dead man.
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I want to belong to a church
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that is built
not upon a dead man,
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but upon our living Christ.
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And the true church
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of the living God
is a living church,
00:15:30.56\00:15:32.49
because it is built
upon our living Jesus,
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but the Bible teaches
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the wicked are
also going to be raised.
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Who are the wicked?
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Any person outside of Christ.
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These people died
hating God and cursing God,
00:15:46.51\00:15:50.98
but one day they are
going to be resurrected,
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Hitler, and Stalin,
00:15:54.12\00:15:56.48
and Mao Zedong
and a billion more.
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Every person who is
turned away from God
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and fought God and
rejected his gospel.
00:16:05.13\00:16:10.77
May be some of you who
are watching the telecast.
00:16:10.80\00:16:16.10
The Bible says, every person.
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And there's
something we need to know.
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We can fool a lot of people.
00:16:22.48\00:16:25.01
We can fool our spouses.
00:16:25.05\00:16:27.38
We can fool the church pastor.
00:16:27.42\00:16:30.12
We can even fool
the US government.
00:16:30.15\00:16:34.06
We can fool the
taxation department.
00:16:34.09\00:16:37.23
You can do a lot of fooling
00:16:37.26\00:16:39.39
and you can do
a lot of cheating,
00:16:39.43\00:16:41.16
but you can't fool God,
00:16:41.20\00:16:44.63
because one day we're
all going to come back,
00:16:44.67\00:16:49.74
but the righteous are
going to be raised immortal.
00:16:49.77\00:16:53.61
They're going to
be raised in glory,
00:16:53.64\00:16:56.85
but the wicked
are going to come up
00:16:56.88\00:16:58.91
just as they died.
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And then they're going
to face God in judgment.
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You know, this is what make us
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think about our soul salvation.
00:17:12.23\00:17:15.60
You know, I know people
00:17:15.63\00:17:17.83
who've gone through
their lives cheating,
00:17:17.87\00:17:21.40
living a lie,
stealing, gossiping,
00:17:21.44\00:17:26.07
I'm talking about
people in the church.
00:17:26.11\00:17:30.78
I'm not talking about the people
00:17:30.81\00:17:32.48
on Hollywood Boulevard,
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'cause sometimes I think
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they've got a better opportunity
00:17:36.92\00:17:38.52
to be saved than
some people in the church.
00:17:38.55\00:17:41.86
So many saying well,
00:17:41.89\00:17:43.43
what is he saying
well for, it's the truth.
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My wife Beverley
just gave me a book,
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new book by Philip
Yancey Vanishing Grace.
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Gonna sure get
it Vanishing Grace
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because he says,
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grace is
vanishing from the world,
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because grace is
vanishing the church.
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And he said one of the reasons,
00:18:05.95\00:18:08.22
so many people
have left the church
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has been because...
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You want to hear it?
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The meanness of
folks of the church, yeah.
00:18:17.83\00:18:22.46
The people, they're meanest,
00:18:22.50\00:18:26.60
hardest on other people,
00:18:26.63\00:18:29.34
curse other people,
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hold up sign saying burn,
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so and so burn in
the name of Jesus, yeah.
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Well, I want you to
know God is an impartial God
00:18:39.85\00:18:45.25
and there's
coming a judgment day
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and you won't be dealing with me
00:18:47.49\00:18:50.09
and you won't be
dealing with the church
00:18:50.13\00:18:52.49
and you won't be
dealing with your spouse,
00:18:52.53\00:18:55.33
you'll be
dealing with Almighty God
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as He sits upon
the great white throne.
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So every person
is going to come back
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Hitler, Stalin and
all of those monsters.
00:19:08.04\00:19:11.81
I've had people
come to me and they say,
00:19:11.85\00:19:13.42
"Oh, you can't be judgmental."
00:19:13.45\00:19:15.08
Oh, I can't be
judgmental on that.
00:19:15.12\00:19:17.99
You're gonna tell me a
person who died hating God,
00:19:18.02\00:19:21.36
cursing God is gonna be saved.
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Don't do, please
don't even start.
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When I was looking
after church in Los Angeles,
00:19:29.13\00:19:32.73
some of my folks went
along to a funeral service
00:19:32.77\00:19:36.10
taken by a pastor
00:19:36.14\00:19:37.61
who claims to believe the truth.
00:19:37.64\00:19:42.71
He took the
funeral service of a person
00:19:42.74\00:19:45.61
who had died in a
great state of sin,
00:19:45.65\00:19:50.82
blaspheming God
00:19:50.85\00:19:53.42
but this man was such a humbug
00:19:53.46\00:19:57.99
and such a hypocrite.
00:19:58.03\00:19:59.79
He said one
millisecond before he died,
00:19:59.83\00:20:04.37
Jesus appeared and said,
00:20:04.40\00:20:06.13
what do you
want, heaven or hell?
00:20:06.17\00:20:07.64
And the man said heaven.
00:20:07.67\00:20:09.00
He said, well, you're in.
00:20:09.04\00:20:12.24
That's a lie, that's a lie.
00:20:12.27\00:20:17.61
There is only one deathbed
repentance in the Bible.
00:20:17.65\00:20:21.05
Did you know this?
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Only one.
00:20:22.58\00:20:23.92
So we don't presume
on the grace of God,
00:20:23.95\00:20:26.42
only one.
00:20:26.45\00:20:28.16
We're not talking
cheap grace here today.
00:20:28.19\00:20:31.73
And we live in a
part of the world
00:20:31.76\00:20:33.40
where everybody goes to heaven,
00:20:33.43\00:20:35.83
even the mafia
members go to heaven,
00:20:35.86\00:20:37.73
you know this, even the mafia.
00:20:37.77\00:20:39.30
Oh, they are
first people in heaven,
00:20:39.33\00:20:42.74
because they've
gone along to confession
00:20:42.77\00:20:44.84
and the priest
has absolved them,
00:20:44.87\00:20:47.58
it's a lie.
00:20:47.61\00:20:50.75
There's only one,
00:20:50.78\00:20:53.25
so that no one will
presume on the grace of God
00:20:53.28\00:20:56.08
but there is one
soul no one will despair.
00:20:56.12\00:21:00.92
And remember this,
00:21:00.96\00:21:02.29
the person who plans to repent
00:21:02.32\00:21:03.66
at the eleventh hour
usually dies at 5 to 11.
00:21:03.69\00:21:09.70
You know, you know, that's true.
00:21:09.73\00:21:11.47
Hear this, the
person who plans to repent
00:21:11.50\00:21:14.04
at the eleventh
hour he dies at 10:55.
00:21:14.07\00:21:19.31
Hear what we're saying,
00:21:19.34\00:21:21.41
so I'm not talking here
today a cheap grace religion.
00:21:21.44\00:21:27.35
And some people
believe that at the very end
00:21:27.38\00:21:30.15
even the devil is
going to be saved.
00:21:30.19\00:21:33.69
Don't believe it folks.
00:21:36.73\00:21:39.23
And so I hope I've
made this truth very plain.
00:21:39.26\00:21:42.76
This is the first great pillar
00:21:42.80\00:21:46.33
that I want to establish today.
00:21:46.37\00:21:50.94
The dead are unconscious,
00:21:50.97\00:21:52.91
the Blessed Virgin
Mary is unconscious.
00:21:52.94\00:21:57.68
When the people
say praise to the dead,
00:21:57.71\00:22:01.58
they are being deceived.
00:22:01.62\00:22:04.29
The dead are
sleeping, they're not in pain.
00:22:04.32\00:22:08.62
The Bible tells us God is love.
00:22:08.66\00:22:10.59
Let's think this through.
00:22:10.63\00:22:11.96
What sort of God would He be,
00:22:11.99\00:22:14.20
He takes our loved
ones home to glory,
00:22:14.23\00:22:17.37
and they look
down upon this world
00:22:17.40\00:22:20.37
and they see the pain.
00:22:20.40\00:22:22.50
They see their loved
ones dying of cancer.
00:22:22.54\00:22:26.04
The Bible says God is love.
00:22:26.07\00:22:27.64
What sort of God do they serve,
00:22:27.68\00:22:30.15
if they are going to
have a loved one in heaven
00:22:30.18\00:22:31.81
looking down watching
our loved one die of cancer?
00:22:31.85\00:22:37.45
No, no, no,
00:22:37.49\00:22:39.32
this is a
peaceful beautiful sleep,
00:22:39.35\00:22:43.36
no worries, no pains,
00:22:43.39\00:22:47.43
a beautiful sleep
00:22:47.46\00:22:49.26
until Jesus
says time to wake up.
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Now, now listen.
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If...
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now don't get mad with me,
00:23:01.21\00:23:02.54
because I'm
telling you the truth.
00:23:02.58\00:23:04.78
Jesus said you'll know the truth
00:23:04.81\00:23:06.72
and the truth will
make you free, okay.
00:23:06.75\00:23:09.72
We should not be
afraid of the truth
00:23:09.75\00:23:12.59
because this Bible was
inspired by God who is love.
00:23:12.62\00:23:18.29
Now, if the dead are unconscious
00:23:18.33\00:23:22.33
who are the beings
that pretend to be the dead?
00:23:22.36\00:23:27.10
If the dead are unconscious,
00:23:27.14\00:23:30.01
who are the beings, who are,
00:23:30.04\00:23:33.11
who, who are these spirits?
00:23:33.14\00:23:37.31
You say, do you
believe in spirits?
00:23:37.35\00:23:39.35
Yes, I do.
00:23:39.38\00:23:41.95
I have a reason
to believe in spirits
00:23:41.98\00:23:43.92
and by the time
we're through today,
00:23:43.95\00:23:46.45
I think the biggest skeptic
00:23:46.49\00:23:48.56
in this audience
will believe also.
00:23:48.59\00:23:51.33
Come over here to Revelation 12,
00:23:51.36\00:23:53.83
you folks doing all right today?
00:23:53.86\00:23:56.56
and onwards.
00:23:56.60\00:24:00.50
Revelation 12:7 and
onwards you're ready to go.
00:24:00.54\00:24:06.98
"And war broke out in heaven..."
00:24:07.01\00:24:10.25
But that's a bit amazing.
00:24:10.28\00:24:12.58
"And war broke out in heaven:
00:24:12.61\00:24:14.55
Michael is
another name for Jesus,
00:24:14.58\00:24:17.69
and his angels
fought against dragon,
00:24:17.72\00:24:20.79
and the dragon
and his angels fought,
00:24:20.82\00:24:23.76
but they did not prevail,
00:24:23.79\00:24:25.79
nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer.
00:24:25.83\00:24:30.47
So the great
dragon was cast out,
00:24:30.50\00:24:32.70
that serpent of old,
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.97
called the Devil and
Satan, who deceives..."
00:24:35.00\00:24:38.27
what does it say?
00:24:38.31\00:24:39.64
A whole world with
a little exception.
00:24:39.67\00:24:42.84
"He was cast to the earth,
00:24:42.88\00:24:45.25
and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.98
In the next session
00:24:51.22\00:24:53.59
which is tied in
with this program,
00:24:53.62\00:24:56.36
I'm going to talk about a
being of tremendous beauty.
00:24:56.39\00:25:02.66
When I talk to folks
and I say what do you...
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.10
do you believe in?
00:25:04.13\00:25:05.47
Oh, no, I couldn't
believe in that character,
00:25:05.50\00:25:09.07
the dragon with a
pitchfork neither do I,
00:25:09.10\00:25:13.94
but the Bible
teaches that eons ago,
00:25:13.98\00:25:18.61
there was a war
among the celestial beings.
00:25:18.65\00:25:24.85
And the Bible says,
00:25:24.89\00:25:26.45
they were good angels or
good sprits and bad spirits.
00:25:26.49\00:25:32.66
There was a great
rebellion lead by a person
00:25:32.69\00:25:36.73
who was called in the KJV
00:25:36.77\00:25:38.57
which we will
discover in the next session
00:25:38.60\00:25:40.80
called Lucifer,
00:25:40.84\00:25:44.17
which is not a good translation.
00:25:44.21\00:25:47.21
It really means the shining one,
00:25:47.24\00:25:52.01
the one of immense
charisma and glory.
00:25:52.05\00:25:58.79
In our next session
00:25:58.82\00:26:00.49
we'll talk about
Demons, and Evil Spirits.
00:26:00.52\00:26:05.89
Hello, friend.
00:26:20.61\00:26:21.98
I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:22.01\00:26:25.38
I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
00:26:25.41\00:26:29.65
This great square is dedicated
00:26:29.68\00:26:31.85
to the great
communist revolution under Fidel
00:26:31.89\00:26:35.26
that came to this
country back 50, 60 years ago.
00:26:35.29\00:26:39.56
This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
00:26:39.59\00:26:43.50
We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
00:26:43.53\00:26:48.10
Freedom of speech is
not allowed here still.
00:26:48.14\00:26:51.57
Preaching the gospel out
of doors is not allowed here,
00:26:51.61\00:26:55.41
still whatever you
hear about reconciliation,
00:26:55.44\00:26:58.75
nothing has really changed.
00:26:58.78\00:27:01.58
We've been told,
00:27:01.62\00:27:02.95
we cannot run
public campaigns in Cuba
00:27:02.98\00:27:07.59
in any part of this world.
00:27:07.62\00:27:10.33
We can run meetings in churches,
00:27:10.36\00:27:12.69
that's allowed.
00:27:12.73\00:27:14.06
So what are we going to do?
00:27:14.10\00:27:15.80
We're going to
support the people of God
00:27:15.83\00:27:17.37
in this part of the world.
00:27:17.40\00:27:18.73
We're going to
step through those doors
00:27:18.77\00:27:21.00
as God opens those doors.
00:27:21.04\00:27:23.91
We're not going to
come and cause a commotion
00:27:23.94\00:27:28.18
and cause trouble
to the people of God.
00:27:28.21\00:27:31.11
We will work diligently
00:27:31.15\00:27:33.78
and as wise as serpents
00:27:33.82\00:27:37.15
and as harmless as doves.
00:27:37.19\00:27:40.29
Stand with us in the
preaching of the gospel,
00:27:40.32\00:27:42.96
wherever it is, stand with us.
00:27:42.99\00:27:45.19
Write to me, P.O. Box 1900,
00:27:45.23\00:27:47.83
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00:27:47.86\00:27:50.17
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00:27:50.20\00:27:52.63
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00:27:52.67\00:27:56.27
And let us go forward for a
mighty spiritual revolution,
00:27:56.30\00:28:01.34
as we take the Gospel of Christ
00:28:01.38\00:28:04.31
to the lost around the world
00:28:04.35\00:28:06.72
as God opens the doors.
00:28:06.75\00:28:08.85
This is John Carter
in Revolutionary Square,
00:28:08.88\00:28:12.59
in Havana, Cuba saying to you,
00:28:12.62\00:28:15.72
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