Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021438
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:48 FOR CENTRAL STUDY HOUR. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING 00:51 IN, WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR 00:54 WEBSITE OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS. 00:56 LIKE WE SAY EVERY WEEK, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU'RE 00:58 JOINING US, WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE. TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. 01:03 WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR FAVORITES AND PASTOR DOUG IS 01:06 GOING TO BRING US THE LESSON STUDY AND WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP 01:09 GOD'S WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. WE'RE READY, HERE AT CENTRAL, 01:12 TO START SINGING SO I HOPE YOU ARE TOO. 01:14 PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS, IF YOU'RE AT HOME AND YOU HAVE THEM, AND 01:17 JOIN WITH US ON OUR FIRST REQUEST - #154 - 'WHEN I SURVEY 01:22 THE WONDROUS CROSS' - THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS SO I'M 01:24 SO GLAD THAT IT WAS THE NEXT AS WE WORKED OUR WAY THROUGH THE 01:28 HYMNAL. IT'S NOT A NEW ONE, BUT IT'S A 01:30 BEAUTIFUL ONE, SO WE ARE GOING TO SING THAT. 01:32 THIS IS A REQUEST FROM SUSIE IN AUSTRALIA, WILLIAM IN NIGERIA, 01:36 LEMUEL IN THE PHILIPPINES, AND AIME IN RWANDA. 01:41 ALL THREE STANZAS - THERE'S FOUR - WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL FOUR 01:44 STANZAS BECAUSE IT'S A SHORT ONE. #154. 01:46 (MUSIC) 04:50 >>WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING THAT. 04:54 OUR NEXT SONG IS A PERFECT SONG FOR TODAY. #633 - 05:02 'WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN' - IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. 05:06 WE HAVE SUNG THIS OVER THE YEARS MANY, MANY TIMES AND I'M SO 05:11 EXCITED WE'RE SINGING THAT TODAY. IT IS THE PERFECT SONG 05:16 TODAY, AFTER 16 YEARS OF STANDING UP HERE - PRETTY MUCH 05:20 OVER ONE-THIRD OF MY LIFE WITH YOU GUYS- IS THE END OF 05:25 CENTRAL STUDY HOUR BEING HERE AND THE TRANSITION TO 05:29 GRANITE BAY, SO I WANT US TO SING THIS SONG WITH ALL THE 05:36 HAPPINESS IN OUR HEARTS AND THE SMILING FACES BECAUSE IF THIS - 05:42 IF WE DON'T SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN, WE WILL MEET ON THE SEA 05:46 OF GLASS ONE DAY WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN. #633 - 05:52 I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A REQUEST 05:54 FROM RAYMUNDO IN BELIZE, KERYL IN FRANCE, MARGARET IN 05:58 NEW ZEALAND, AND KENNY, THELMA, AND MICAH IN THE SEYCHELLES. 06:03 WE'LL SING THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS. I WANT TO HEAR 06:06 YOU SING THIS LOUD THIS MORNING, OKAY? #633 - HERE WE GO. 06:10 (MUSIC) 08:15 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. AT THIS TIME, LET'S BOW OUR 08:18 HEADS FOR PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO 08:24 MUCH FOR BEING WITH US TODAY AND FOR ALWAYS BEING WITH US. 08:29 AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR KNOWING THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS 08:33 LEADING AND GUIDING AND YOU WILL BE WITH US AND THE REST OF THE 08:37 JOURNEY, UNTIL WE ARE ON THOSE STREETS OF GOLD. 08:42 AND I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH EACH PERSON HERE AT CENTRAL 08:45 CHURCH AND OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. 08:49 I DON'T KNOW THEIR FACES - I KNOW SOME OF THEM - I'VE MET 08:53 THEM IN DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT THEY'RE SPECIAL TO ME AND I KNOW 08:58 THEY'RE SPECIAL TO YOU, SO I PRAY THAT WE'LL ALL MEET 09:03 TOGETHER ON THE SEA OF GLASS WHERE WE CAN CONTINUE SINGING 09:07 OUR FAVORITE HYMNS AND SONGS AND PRAISING YOU. 09:12 AND IF WE DON'T SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN BEFORE HEAVEN, HELP US TO 09:18 REMAIN FAITHFUL. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 09:22 >>IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY HERE. 09:25 AMAZING FACTS AND SACRAMENTO CENTRAL'S PARTNERSHIP OVER THE 09:29 LAST 20 YEARS IN WORKING TOGETHER TO PRODUCE PROGRAMMING 09:35 LIKE THIS ONE - CENTRAL STUDY HOUR - AND ALSO THE EVERLASTING 09:39 GOSPEL AND TODAY, ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT THE LAST LESSON THAT 09:45 AMAZING FACTS WILL BE HERE - HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL, BUT 09:50 THIS IS ACTUALLY THE LAST TIME THAT, AS YOU'VE HEARD DEBBIE 09:54 KIPPEL, THIS IS THE LAST TIME SHE'LL BE HERE AND INTRODUCING 09:58 THE SONGS AND SINGING WITH US. SHE'LL BE GOING ON TO GRANITE 10:02 BAY TO WORK WITH AMAZING FACTS THERE. 10:04 AND THIS IS ALSO THE LAST LESSON, TECHNICALLY - WE DON'T 10:08 WANT TO SAY THE FINAL PASTOR DOUG, BUT THIS IS THE LAST 10:11 LESSON THAT PASTOR DOUG WILL BE TEACHING HERE WITH 10:14 CENTRAL STUDY HOUR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 10:18 WE'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO COME ON UP. 10:20 AND PASTOR MIKE, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND COMING UP AS WELL. 10:22 PASTOR MIKE HAS BEEN HERE A LOT LONGER THAN I HAVE AND I 10:24 CERTAINLY WANTED TO ALLOW PASTOR MIKE TO SHARE A FEW SHORT WORDS 10:28 OF APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE. IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS 10:31 PARTNERSHIP. I'VE ENJOYED IT FOR THE LAST 10:33 YEAR AND A HALF AND IT'S BEEN AN EXCITING JOURNEY. BUT PASTOR 10:35 MIKE PLEASE, BY ALL MEANS, SHARE A FEW THOUGHTS WITH US. 10:39 >>WELL, PASTOR DOUG, IT'S BEEN - FOR MY PART - BEEN 16 YEARS. 10:42 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? >>AMEN. 10:44 >>AMEN, YES. SO I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE 10:49 WORKING WITH YOU AND, YOU KNOW, YOUR FACE IS AROUND THIS WORLD 10:55 ON SO MANY TV SCREENS AND ONCE IN A WHILE WE FILL IN AND PEOPLE 10:58 WILL SAY TO ME, 'I'VE SEEN YOU ON CENTRAL STUDY HOUR.' AND I 11:01 SAY, 'WELL, I FILL IN WHEN THE BOSS IS GONE.' AND THAT'S BEEN 11:05 MY ROLE FOR 16 YEARS SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU. 11:09 THIS SPOT, IT'S A HALLOWED SPOT. NOT BECAUSE YOU'VE STOOD THERE - 11:13 OR PASTOR CHRIS AND MYSELF, BUT GOD HAS COME DOWN AND SPOKEN, I 11:17 BELIEVE, THROUGH YOU HERE FOR OVER THESE MANY, MANY YEARS AND 11:21 WE'RE SURE HE'LL CONTINUE TO DO SO. SO, AGAIN, IT'S A PRIVILEGE 11:25 AND A JOY TO HAVE HAD A PART WITH YOUR STAY HERE. IT'S NOT 11:30 THE END - YOU'LL BE - YOUR CHURCH IS ONLY TWO MILES FROM 11:32 MY HOUSE. YOU KNOW THAT? SO GOD BLESS YOU, ANYWAY. THANK YOU. 11:38 >>I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE JEN, IF YOU DON'T MIND COMING UP. WE 11:41 JUST HAVE A LITTLE GIFT WE'D LIKE TO SHARE ON BEHALF OF 11:43 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 11:45 FOR AMAZING FACTS. 11:47 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT TUNED IN HERE ON THE CAMERA. 11:50 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND READ THAT, BUT I'M GOING TO 11:53 TRY TO READ THAT SO FOLK CAN KNOW WHAT WE'VE WRITTEN ON HERE. 11:57 IT SAYS, "IN APPRECIATION FOR 20 MEMORABLE YEARS OF SERVICE 12:02 TOGETHER" - YOU SEE, I WROTE THIS - I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER 12:05 WHAT I WROTE - "IN APPRECIATION FOR 20 MEMORABLE YEARS OF 12:08 SERVICE TOGETHER IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL 12:13 THROUGH CENTRAL STUDY HOUR AND THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 12:16 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WILL ALWAYS 12:19 REMAIN GRATEFUL FOR THE PARTNERSHIP ENJOYED 12:23 WITH AMAZING FACTS." AND SO WE'D LIKE TO - WE'D LIKE 12:28 TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU BUT WE KNOW YOU'VE GOT A CLASS RIGHT 12:31 NOW SO WE'RE GOING TO HOLD ON TO THIS FOR YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU 12:35 GET THIS BEFORE YOU LEAVE TODAY. BUT IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL 20 12:38 YEARS - GREAT PARTNERSHIP. WE KNOW IT'S NOT OVER. 12:41 WE CONTINUE HERE - CENTRAL STUDY HOUR WILL CONTINUE HERE AT 12:45 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND AMAZING FACTS STUDY HOUR WILL CONTINUE 12:48 AS WELL. AND IT'S BEEN JUST TREMENDOUS. 12:51 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING US TO BE A PART OF WHAT GOD IS 12:54 DOING THROUGH AMAZING FACTS AS WELL. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS. 12:59 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M ALMOST SPEECHLESS BUT THAT 13:04 DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY LONG. YOU KNOW, IT HAS - THIS IS, SORT 13:09 OF, A TRANSITION TIME BUT I'M QUITE CONFIDENT THAT WE'RE GOING 13:15 TO CONTINUE - AMAZING FACTS TO BE WORKING WITH AND DOING THINGS 13:18 WITH SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND WE WERE TALKING - AND THE GRANITE 13:22 BAY STAFF, JUST THIS WEEK, ABOUT INVITING PASTOR CHRIS AND 13:25 PASTOR MIKE TO COME AND PREACH FOR US. 13:27 FOR INSTANCE, PASTOR ROSS AND I ARE GOING TO BE GONE IN ABOUT A 13:30 MONTH TO ALBUQUERQUE DOING SOME MEETINGS THERE AND WE SAID, 13:33 'WELL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE MONTH - WHAT WILL WE DO?' 13:35 I SAID, 'LET'S HAVE PASTOR CHRIS COME OVER AND PREACH.' AND SO, 13:38 WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING TO SEE EACH OTHER - WE LIVE IN THE 13:41 SAME VALLEY - BUT IT DOES KIND OF MARK A TRANSITION POINT. 13:44 KAREN REMINDED ME LAST NIGHT THAT WE STARTED AT SACRAMENTO 13:49 CENTRAL IN SEPTEMBER 21 YEARS AGO. 13:53 AND SO THIS ACTUALLY DID - JUST THE WAY THE STARS LINED UP - 13:57 THOUGH I'VE NOT TECHNICALLY BEEN THE PASTOR HERE SINCE THE END OF 13:59 JANUARY AND I'M STILL TEACHING HERE UNTIL NOW. 14:02 AND SO THIS KIND OF MARKS 21 YEARS, WHICH IS THREE TIMES 14:06 SEVEN, WHICH HAS A SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. 14:09 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT IT MEANS SOMETHING. 14:12 AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M - I'VE GOT MIXED EMOTIONS. 14:17 YOU KNOW, I'M A LITTLE SAD, BUT I'M ALSO VERY EXCITED BECAUSE I 14:20 THINK, WHERE WE ONCE HAD ONE CHURCH DOING MEDIA, NOW WE'RE 14:23 GOING TO HAVE TWO AND THAT THE LORD TOLD US TO BE FRUITFUL AND 14:27 MULTIPLY. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO MULTIPLY 14:29 THE GOSPEL AND SO THIS IS GOOD NEWS. 14:32 THE GOSPEL IS GOING FORTH AND SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT 14:35 THE LORD IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL 14:37 AND I HOPE YOU'LL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR AMAZING FACTS AND 14:41 GRANITE BAY AND WHAT THE CHURCH PROGRAMS ARE GOING TO DO THERE. 14:45 OH, COME ON NOW, SOME OF YOU ARE CRYING, STOP THAT. 14:48 IF I START CRYING, I TOLD DEBBIE, IT'S GOING TO GET UGLY 14:50 AND SO. THAT'S HAPPY TEARS. ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD. 14:57 YOU KNOW, JUST BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR LESSON I DO WANT TO 15:00 MENTION SOMETHING I JUST ALLUDED TO. 15:03 A PART OF SABBATH SCHOOL IS TO TALK ABOUT MISSION WORK AND 15:06 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, BEGINNING THE LAST 15:09 DAY OF OCTOBER - SOMETIMES KNOWN AS HALLOWEEN. 15:12 THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BE WHEN - IT WAS A FRIDAY NIGHT - SO WE'RE 15:16 STARTING AND SEE WE HAD TO FINISH THESE MEETINGS BEFORE 15:19 THANKSGIVING SO WE ARE STARTING OCTOBER 31 IN ALBUQUERQUE. 15:23 WE'LL BE UPLINKING AN EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM THAT 15:26 EVERYBODY - CENTRAL CHURCH, GRANITE BAY - ANY CHURCH THAT'S 15:30 WATCHING - IN YOUR HOME - IF YOU GET THE INTERNET OR IF YOU GET 15:33 THESE PROGRAMS ON SATELLITE, YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAMS 15:36 CALLED 'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY.' AND WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH A NEW 15:41 RENDITION OF LESSONS. THEY ARE SIMILAR TO THE 15:44 'STORACLE OF PROPHECY' LESSONS BUT THEY'RE CALLED 'LANDMARKS OF 15:46 PROPHECY' AND THERE'LL BE 21 PRESENTATIONS. 15:49 IF YOU CAN INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, YOU CAN DO SOME EVANGELISM. 15:52 AND SO WE HOPE, IF YOUR CHURCH OR YOUR HOME IS INTERESTED IN 15:55 DOING THIS EVENT THIS FALL, JUST GO TO 'LANDMARKSOFPROPHECY.COM,' 16:00 YOU CAN REGISTER YOUR SITE THERE, FIND OUT MORE, 16:03 AND GET THE DETAILS THERE. 16:05 WE HOPE YOU'LL PARTICIPATE AND PRAY FOR THE SERIES. 16:08 UNLESS THE LORD BUILDS THE HOUSE THEY LABOR IN VAIN, RIGHT? 16:11 WE NEED TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL BLESS. 16:13 IN A MINUTE I'LL BE DOING LESSON #12. 16:16 DURING LESSON 13 IN THIS SERIES, I'M GOING TO BE IN AUSTRALIA AND 16:22 - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? I'LL BE IN PASTOR CHRIS' 16:24 COUNTRY AND HE'LL BE HERE TEACHING THE LAST LESSON. 16:28 SO I'LL BE IN AUSTRALIA AND - PRAY FOR THAT AS WELL. 16:31 WE'RE NOT ONLY GOING TO BE SPEAKING IN SYDNEY, DOING A 16:35 SERIES AT THE MAIN CHURCH THERE IN WAHROONGA, WE'LL BE GOING TO 16:39 ADELAIDE AND DOING A CITY-WIDE SERIES IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF 16:43 AUSTRALIA. THEN I FLY ALL THE WAY TO THE 16:45 WESTERN PART OF AUSTRALIA - TO PERTH - AND FROM THERE I TAKE 16:49 ANOTHER PLANE AND ANOTHER THREE-HOUR CAR RIDE AND WE'RE 16:52 GOING OUT TO THE MIDDLE OF THE OUTBACK AND WE'LL BE DOING A 16:54 SERIES AMONG THE ABORIGINES THERE. 16:57 AND SO THAT'S VERY EXCITING AND THEY SAID, 'NO ONE EVER COMES 16:59 OUT HERE.' AND SO I SAID, 'I'LL COME.' AND I READ ABOUT IT AS A 17:03 KID AND ALWAYS WANTED TO GO OUT THERE TO THE WAY OUT. 17:06 YOU KNOW ME, I GO TO CAVES AND OUT IN THE DESERT. 17:08 I LIKE GOING TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. 17:10 AND SO, PRAY ABOUT THAT SERIES AS WELL. 17:13 ANYWAY, THAT'S WHERE I'LL BE NEXT WEEK AND THAT'S WHEN YOU'LL 17:15 GET THE LAST - WE'RE ENTERING THE NEW QUARTER SOON ON JAMES. 17:19 YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY THAT. 17:20 THE NEW STUDY ON THE BOOK OF JAMES - WRITTEN BY A FRIEND OF 17:23 MINE - I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS NOW, THE NEXT QUARTER - 17:27 ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO - 25 YEARS AGO, TWO YOUNG INTERNS GOT 17:34 ORDAINED AT REDWOOD CAMP MEETING. 17:37 I WAS ONE AND THE OTHER WAS CLINT WALEEN. 17:39 CLINT IS NOW A DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY AND HE WROTE THE 17:41 LESSON. SO I ENJOYED TEACHING THE LESSON 17:44 - THE FIRST COUPLE WE RECORDED - AND JUST KNOWING THAT MY FRIEND 17:50 WHO WAS ORDAINED WITH ME IS THE AUTHOR OF THOSE STUDIES. 17:53 ANYWAY - AND SO TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #13 - NO, #12 RATHER - 17:57 DEALING WITH 'DEATH AND RESURRECTION' AND THESE ARE THE 18:00 TEACHINGS OF JESUS, MORE SPECIFICALLY, ON THAT SUBJECT 18:04 BUT WE'LL BE BOUNCING AROUND IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE HE'S THE 18:06 AUTHOR OF THE ENTIRE WORD. OUR FREE STUDY - THIS IS A VERY 18:11 GOOD LESSON - IT'S CALLED 'ARE THE DEAD REALLY DEAD?' 18:13 IF YOU'VE NOT READ THIS BEFORE, THIS IS THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY 18:16 GUIDE ON THE SUBJECT. WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 18:19 IT'S FILLED WITH GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS AND AMAZING FACTS 18:22 ON THE SUBJECT OF DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION. 18:25 AND THESE LESSONS ARE GREAT BECAUSE THE MIXTURE OF THE STUDY 18:30 POINTS, THE SCRIPTURES, THE PICTURES MAKES IT EASY FOR 18:33 EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND. WHEN YOU CALL, CALL THE NUMBER 18:37 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER #117. 18:43 PLEASE READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY. 18:45 YOU MAY KNOW SOMEONE THAT IS CONFUSED ON WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS 18:49 ABOUT THE SUBJECT. OKAY, MEMORY VERSE - MEMORY 18:52 VERSE FOR OUR LESSON TODAY IS FROM JOHN 11:25 - JOHN 11:25 - 18:58 THIS IS THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 19:02 "JESUS SAID TO HER, 'I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. 19:08 HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE MAY DIE, HE SHALL LIVE.'" THAT'S 19:14 A WONDERFUL PROMISE THAT IF WE BELIEVE IN CHRIST, 19:16 THOUGH WE MAY DIE - YOU NOTICE HE SAYS, 'MAY DIE.' 19:19 WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE, BEFORE NOW, HAVE DIED? 19:23 EXCEPT ENOCH, ELIJAH - YEAH, EVEN MOSES DIED. 19:29 HE'S BEEN RESURRECTED BUT EVERYONE ELSE HAS DIED, RIGHT? 19:33 BUT WILL THERE BE SOME, IN THE LAST DAYS, THAT MAY NOT DIE? 19:36 'IF YOU ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WHEN JESUS COMES' - I LIKE THAT, 19:40 THAT JESUS SAID, "THOUGH HE MAY DIE." 19:42 BECAUSE THERE WILL BE SOME EXCEPTIONS. 19:44 I WANT TO BE PART OF THAT GENERATION THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO 19:46 FIND OUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DIE, DON'T YOU? 19:48 I JUST WANT TO GET MY NEW BODY, LIKE THAT - MOMENT - THE 19:51 TWINKLING OF AN EYE. OKAY, THIS LESSON IS IMPORTANT 19:55 BECAUSE WE'RE IN A WORLD THAT HAS BEEN CURSED BY DEATH. 20:00 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES HEAVEN WONDERFUL IS WHAT IT SAYS 20:04 THERE IN REVELATION 21, 'THERE'LL BE NO MORE DEATH.' 20:10 EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD DIES. YOUR CLOTHING DIES. 20:16 MOTH CORRUPTS. YOUR REFRIGERATOR WILL SOMEDAY DIE. 20:23 YOU KNOW, KAREN AND I ARE JUST SO THANKFUL, WHEN WE BOUGHT THE 20:25 HOUSE - WHEN WE MOVED INTO SACRAMENTO HERE 21 YEARS AGO, 20:29 AND WE MOVED INTO THE HOUSE - A LADY AND HER FAMILY, THEY BUILT 20:33 THE HOUSE, THE KIDS HAD ALL GONE - MOVED AWAY - THE HUSBAND 20:36 PASSED AWAY AND SHE SAID, 'I'M MOVING INTO A RETIREMENT HOME' 20:40 AND SHE SOLD THE HOUSE WITH A LOT OF - THE WASHER, THE DRYER, 20:43 THE REFRIGERATOR, THE FREEZER, THE FURNITURE. 20:46 WE HAD NOTHING IN TOWN. IT WAS A MIRACLE THE WAY IT WORKED OUT. 20:49 OUR FREEZER THAT WE BOUGHT FROM MRS. YORTON - AND WE DON'T KNOW 20:52 HOW LONG SHE HAD IT - IS STILL GOING. 20:54 THE AIR CONDITIONER - WE KEEP THINKING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 20:58 REPLACE IT ONE OF THESE DAYS. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WELL, BUT 21:00 IT'S STILL WORKING AND SHE HAD IT FOR YEARS BEFORE WE BOUGHT 21:03 THE HOUSE. THE LORD HAS DONE, WITH THIS 21:04 HOUSE, WHAT HE DID WITH THE SHOES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 21:08 YOU KNOW HOW THEY JUST DIDN'T WEAR OUT? BUT EVENTUALLY, 21:10 WE WILL HAVE A FORMAL CEREMONY AND OUR REFRIGERATOR AND OUR 21:14 AIR CONDITIONER WILL DIE BECAUSE EVERYTHING SEEMS TO DIE. 21:18 AND IF YOU'VE LIVED LONG ENOUGH, YOU REALIZE THAT, IN SPITE OF 21:22 YOUR BEST EFFORTS - I'M DOING ALL I CAN TO BE AS HEALTHY AS I 21:25 CAN AND FOLLOW ALL THE NATURAL REMEDIES OF HEALTH AND, IF YOU 21:31 PLAN IT CAREFULLY, YOU CAN DIE LIKE MOSES DIED. 21:36 THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT. 120 - HE CLIMBS A MOUNTAIN, HIS 21:39 EYE IS NOT DIM - THEN HE FALLS OVER. ISN'T THAT THE WAY TO GO? 21:44 YOU KNOW, I'VE SAID IF AMERICANS WOULD FOLLOW THE HEALTH 21:48 PRINCIPLES GOD OUTLINED IN HIS WORD, THERE WOULD BE NO HEALTH 21:52 CRISIS. THE REASON THERE IS A HEALTH 21:55 CRISIS IN NORTH AMERICA AND MANY COUNTRIES RIGHT NOW, IS BECAUSE 21:59 OF THE ATROCIOUS LIVING HABITS OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN. 22:03 INSTEAD OF LIKE MOSES, YOU KNOW, BEING ACTIVE UNTIL YOUR FINAL 22:08 ILLNESS AND THEN YOU DIE, PEOPLE SPEND THE LAST 30 YEARS OF THEIR 22:13 LIFE DYING - FROM HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR FROM THE EFFECTS OF 22:20 DIABETES OR FROM A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS. 22:23 THAT WAS NEVER GOD'S PLAN. 22:25 BUT IF WE WOULD TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES - WHAT'S OVERWHELMING 22:27 OUR MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IS THAT PEOPLE ARE SICK FOR SUCH A HIGH 22:31 PERCENTAGE OF THEIR LIVES NOW AND MOST OF IT - NOT ALL, BUT 22:36 MOST OF IT CAN BE TRACED TO LIVING HABITS. 22:40 NOW, THAT'S A DIFFERENT STUDY ON HEALTH. THIS IS ON DEATH. 22:43 BUT IF YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF- DID 22:47 MOSES STILL DIE? AND PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF DEATH. 22:56 HEBREWS 2, VERSE 14, "INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN HAVE 23:00 PARTAKEN OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE HIMSELF (JESUS) LIKEWISE SHARED 23:05 IN THE SAME, THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HAD THE 23:10 POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL," - DEATH WAS NOT GOD'S 23:13 PLAN, IT COMES FROM THE DEVIL - "AND RELEASE THOSE WHO THROUGH 23:18 FEAR OF DEATH WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE." 23:23 LIVING A LIFE WHERE YOU ARE AFRAID OF DEATH BINDS YOU. 23:27 IT'S SLAVERY. PEOPLE ARE CONTROLLED ALL THE 23:30 TIME BY THIS FEAR OF DEATH. GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO HAVE 23:33 THAT. WHEN YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, WHAT 23:36 YOU DO IS - LET ME TELL YOU A STORY AND THEN I'LL EXPLAIN IT. 23:41 SOME SETTLERS WERE TRAVELING ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS, YEARS 23:45 AGO, IN A WAGON TRAIN AND THEY NOTICED, OFF IN THE DISTANCE, 23:50 SOMETHING THAT STRUCK TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. 23:52 THERE WAS A GREAT PRAIRIE FIRE RAGING TOWARDS THEM. 23:55 THEY SAW IT WAS MILES AWAY AND SOME OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN 24:00 BEGAN TO SCREAM AND THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT 'THIS FIRE'S 24:02 APPROACHING. WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. 24:04 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?' WELL, THE WAGON MASTER WAS NOT 24:07 AFRAID. HE SAID, 'GATHER ALL THE WAGONS 24:10 OVER HERE.' HE SET A FIRE DIRECTLY BEHIND THEM. 24:14 THE PREVAILING WINDS THAT WERE BRINGING THE APPROACHING FIRE 24:16 TOOK THE FIRE BEHIND THEM AND IT PULLED IT AWAY AND THEY WAITED 24:20 - YOU KNOW, A GRASS FIRE BURNS REALLY HOT BUT IT ONLY BURNS FOR 24:23 ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND THEN IT SIMMERED DOWN. 24:26 THEY MOVED THE WAGON TRAIN OVER TO THE SCORCHED AREA THAT WAS 24:29 BURNED AND THE CHILDREN SAID, 'AREN'T WE GOING TO BE KILLED BY 24:33 THE FIRE? THE FIRE'S COMING!' AND THE PARENTS SAID, 'NO, 24:37 BECAUSE OF WHAT THE WAGON MASTER DID WE'RE NOW STANDING WHERE THE 24:40 FIRE'S ALREADY BURNED. IT CAN'T BURN HERE TWICE.' AND 24:44 SO WHEN THE FIRE CAME TO THE EDGES IT JUST WENT AROUND THEM. 24:48 THEY WERE STANDING WHERE THE FIRE BURNED. 24:51 IF YOU DIE NOW, BEFORE JESUS COMES, OR YOU PHYSICALLY DIE, IF 24:56 YOU ARE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF 24:58 DEATH. SOMEONE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE ONLY 25:02 BORN ONCE, YOU'LL DIE TWICE.' IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONCE, THEN YOU 25:06 DIE THE SECOND DEATH. YOU NEED TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH. 25:10 BUT IF YOU'RE BORN TWICE YOU ONLY DIE ONCE. 25:13 AND IF JESUS COMES YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE AT ALL SO YOU DON'T 25:17 HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH. BUT IF WE ACCEPT CHRIST AND WE 25:22 ARE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND WE TAKE UP OUR CROSS, AND WE LAY 25:25 DOWN OUR LIVES FOR JESUS, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID 25:28 OF. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS VERY 25:30 LIBERATING ABOUT THAT? YOU'RE NOT EASILY OFFENDED WHEN 25:33 YOU'RE DEAD. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT? 25:36 TRY AND OFFEND A DEAD PERSON. THEY ALMOST NEVER REACT. 25:41 AND SO YOU FIND THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO TAKE INSULT 25:46 AND INJURY AND WHEN PEOPLE - THE REASON JESUS WAS SO MEEK IS 25:51 BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD TO SELF. AND WHEN YOU REALLY SURRENDER 25:55 YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST AND YOU'RE DEAD TO SELF, YOU'RE NOT AFRAID 25:57 OF THOSE OFFENSES. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU'RE NOT 25:59 AFRAID OF DEATH BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST THEN 26:04 WE HAVE LIFE AND CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE, THEY GO TO SLEEP. 26:09 SO UNLESS YOU'RE AFRAID OF GOING TO SLEEP AT NIGHT - OR YOU 26:13 ALWAYS THOUGHT - KIND OF TERRORIZED KIDS - THE FIRST 26:15 PRAYER I LEARNED TO PRAY, AS SOME OF YOU, 'NOW I LAY ME DOWN 26:19 TO SLEEP, I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO KEEP, AND IF I DIE 26:24 BEFORE I WAKE.' TONY CAMPOLA, HE SAID, 'WHY DO WE TEACH KIDS TO 26:30 PRAY THAT WAY?' HE SAYS, 'WHY DON'T WE TEACH 26:32 THEM, 'LORD, WAKE ME UP BEFORE I DIE.' INSTEAD OF 'IF I DIE 26:35 BEFORE I WAKE.'' IF YOU'RE GOING TO PRAY, PRAY HE WAKES YOU UP 26:38 FIRST. BUT WE SAY, 'IF I DIE BEFORE I 26:42 WAKE, I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO TAKE.' HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER 26:45 THAT PRAYER THAT SOMEBODY TAUGHT YOU TO PRAY? 26:48 THAT CAN SCARE A KID BEFORE THEY GO TO SLEEP. 26:50 DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT? I NEVER WORRIED ABOUT SLEEP 26:54 UNTIL THEY TAUGHT ME THAT PRAYER AND I THOUGHT, 'WHAT? 26:56 I CAN DIE IN MY SLEEP?' AND SO PEOPLE LIVE IN FEAR OF 27:01 DEATH, BUT THAT'S NOT GOD'S PLAN. 27:04 YOU KNOW, IF WE UNDERSTOOD THE SUBJECT OF THE STATE OF DEATH - 27:07 AND THIS LESSON IS GOING TO COVER TWO THINGS: IT'S GOING TO 27:10 TALK ABOUT JESUS' TEACHING ON DEATH AS WELL AS THE TEACHING ON 27:15 HELL. SO LET'S GET INTO THE STATE OF THE DEAD. 27:18 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 13, VERSE 3 - AND I DON'T KNOW WHO 27:22 HAS THAT VERSE - BACK HERE? LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 27:25 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THEY CAN FIND YOU THERE. 27:27 AND YOU'LL BE NEXT ON THE LIST. I'M GOING TO READ JOB 3, 27:32 VERSE 11 - TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE TEACHINGS. 27:34 NOW THE TEACHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE DOES NOT 27:37 BEGIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WITH JESUS. 27:39 JESUS REITERATES WHAT WAS ALWAYS THE TEACHING, EVEN IN THE OLD 27:43 TESTAMENT. AND, BY THE WAY, WHAT IS THE 27:45 OLDEST BOOK IN THE BIBLE? IT'S JOB. MOSES PROBABLY WROTE THE 27:50 BOOK OF JOB IN THE WILDERNESS JUST BEFORE HE WROTE GENESIS. 27:53 AND YOU READ THE CONTEXT OF JOB AND THE AGES OF THE PEOPLE IN 28:00 JOB AND THEIR AGES FALL AROUND THE TIME OF ABRAHAM'S FATHER. 28:05 YOU NOTICE THAT THE AGES - THEY WENT FROM, YOU KNOW, 900 YEARS - 28:09 AFTER THE FLOOD, LIKE 600 YEARS, 500 YEARS AND 200 YEARS - AND 28:14 THAT WAS ABOUT THE TIME OF TERAH. 28:16 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AGES OF THE PEOPLE IN JOB, THAT'S ABOUT HOW 28:18 LONG THEY WERE LIVING. IT HAPPENED BACK THEN, PREDATING 28:20 THE TIME OF MOSES. JOB SAYS, IN JOB 3:11, 28:24 "WHY DID I NOT DIE AT BIRTH?" - THIS IS WHEN HE'S COMPLAINING 28:27 ABOUT HIS SUFFERINGS - "WHY DID I NOT PERISH WHEN I CAME FROM 28:30 THE WOMB? WHY DID THE KNEES RECEIVE ME? 28:33 OR WHY THE BREASTS, THAT I SHOULD NURSE? 28:35 FOR NOW I WOULD HAVE LAIN STILL AND BEEN QUIET, I WOULD HAVE 28:38 BEEN ASLEEP; THEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN AT REST." 28:44 IT USED TO BE, YOU KNOW, YOU PUT ON THE TOMBSTONES R-I-P - RIP - 28:47 WHAT DOES THAT STAND FOR? REST IN PEACE. 28:50 MOST PEOPLE USED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE DEAD ARE RESTING, 28:52 WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION, BUT A POPULAR MISUNDERSTANDING 28:55 ABOUT DEATH HAS BECOME VERY PROMINENT IN THE CHRISTIAN 28:58 CHURCH AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO STRAIGHTEN 29:01 THAT OUT A LITTLE TODAY. ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO DO ANOTHER 29:04 ONE, JOB 14:12, "SO MAN LIES DOWN AND DOES NOT RISE. 29:10 TILL" - IT SAYS HE'S GOING TO RISE BUT WHEN? - "TILL 29:14 THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE," - WHEN IS THAT? 2 PETER 3:10, 29:18 "BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, 29:20 IN WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE." 29:24 - AT THE COMING OF CHRIST THE HEAVENS PASS AWAY. 29:27 THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT - TALKING ABOUT THE HEAVENS 29:29 IS THE ATMOSPHERE AROUND THE EARTH. JOB SAID, 'MAN LIES DOWN 29:33 TILL THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE. THEY WILL NOT AWAKE NOR BE 29:36 ROUSED FROM THEIR SLEEP.' SO, UNTIL JESUS COMES THEY LAY DOWN, 29:41 THEY ARE NOT ROUSED FROM THEIR SLEEP. 29:43 THE JUDGMENT DAY DOES NOT HAPPEN UNTIL JESUS COMES. 29:47 THE RESURRECTION DOES NOT HAPPEN UNTIL JESUS COMES, MEANING THE 29:50 DEAD ARE ASLEEP TILL JESUS COMES, RIGHT? 29:54 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PSALM 13:3. 29:59 >>"CONSIDER AND HEAR ME, O LORD MY GOD; ENLIGHTEN MY EYES, LEST 30:05 I SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH;" >>SO EVEN KING DAVID, WHO WROTE 30:09 THE PSALMS, HOW DID HE VIEW DEATH? A SLEEP. 30:14 AND JOHN 11:11, YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY ABOUT LAZARUS, "THESE 30:22 THINGS HE SAID, AND AFTER THAT HE SAID TO THEM, 'OUR FRIEND 30:26 LAZARUS SLEEPS, BUT I GO THAT I MAY WAKE HIM UP.'" EVEN THE 30:29 DISCIPLES WERE CONFUSED. THEY SAID, 'OH LORD, HE'S BEEN 30:31 SICK FOR DAYS. IF HE'S SLEEPING THAT'S GOOD. 30:33 IT MEANS MAYBE THE FEVER WILL BREAK AND HE'LL GET BETTER.' AND 30:36 JESUS SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT. 30:38 WHEN I SAID OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPS, WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 30:41 IS DEATH. LAZARUS IS DEAD. 30:43 HE'S SLEEPING IN DEATH.' NOW THE STORY OF LAZARUS IS, I THINK, 30:47 ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES - WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT, BEFORE I GET TO 30:50 LAZARUS - I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT - I WANT TO READ 30:52 ECCLESIASTES 9:5 AND 6, WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, "FOR THE LIVING KNOW 30:59 THAT THEY WILL DIE; BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING, AND THEY HAVE NO 31:04 MORE REWARD, FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN. 31:07 ALSO THEIR LOVE, THEIR HATRED, AND THEIR ENVY HAVE NOW 31:09 PERISHED; NEVERMORE WILL THEY HAVE A SHARE IN ANYTHING DONE 31:13 UNDER THE SUN." OR IT CAN BE TRANSLATED, 'DONE 31:15 UNDER THIS SUN.' MEANING, 'IN THIS LIFE.' WHEN PEOPLE DIE, 31:18 THEY DO NOT COME BACK TO HAUNT. THEY DO NOT HOVER AROUND AS 31:22 SPIRITS TO TORMENT. THEY ARE SLEEPING A DREAMLESS, 31:26 UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP. THE LIVING KNOW THEY'LL DIE; THE 31:29 DEAD KNOW HOW MUCH? NOTHING. THEIR IQ REACHES ZERO. 31:34 THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. THEY'RE UNCONSCIOUS. 31:37 THEY'RE ASLEEP AND SO - BUT BOY, EVERYBODY OUT THERE IN THE 31:42 SPIRITUALISTIC WORLD OF OUR SOCIETY NOW, 31:44 THEY'RE ALL CHANNELING. THEY'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT HOW 31:47 THIS PERSON IS THERE - 'I SENSE THEIR PRESENCE' - AND THEY'RE 31:49 DEAD - THEY'RE ASLEEP. NOW WE BELIEVE IN EVERLASTING 31:52 LIFE. WE BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION. 31:54 WE BELIEVE THAT GOD WILL, SOMEDAY, MAKE SOME PEOPLE 31:58 IMMORTAL. WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? 32:01 WHEN JESUS COMES, THEN THIS MORTAL WILL PUT ON IMMORTALITY. 32:06 WE DON'T HAVE IMMORTALITY NOW. 'GOD AND GOD ONLY,' THE BIBLE 32:09 SAYS, 'HATH IMMORTALITY.' SPEAKING OF - IN RELATION TO 32:13 OUR WORLD. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S TALK ABOUT 32:15 LAZARUS FOR JUST A MOMENT HERE. YOU KNOW THE STORY. 32:19 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU WANT TO TURN TO JOHN CHAPTER 11, IT'S 32:22 THERE. I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK AND I 32:24 DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO HAVE TIME TO GO INTO GREAT LENGTHS 32:27 HERE, OF THE STORY. I COULD PROBABLY TELL YOU IT AND 32:30 YOU CAN REFERENCE IT IF YOU LIKE. 32:32 JESUS HAD SOME DEAR FRIENDS: LAZARUS, MARTHA - THEY HAD A 32:38 HOME, THEY WERE BROTHER AND SISTER. 32:40 SOMETIMES THEIR YOUNGER SISTER, MARY, WOULD VISIT. 32:43 SHE PRINCIPALLY LIVED IN MAGDALA - LATER ALSO KNOWN AS 32:46 MARY MAGDALENE OR MARY OF BETHANY. 32:49 WE BELIEVE IT'S THE SAME MARY JUST LIKE YOU'VE GOT SIMON - IS 32:53 CALLED SIMON, HE'S CALLED PETER, AND HE'S CALLED CEPHUS AND 32:56 SOMETIMES PEOPLE USE DIFFERENT NAMES. 32:59 LAZARUS GOT SICK, HAD A FEVER FOR SEVERAL DAYS, HE DIED. 33:03 BY THE TIME THE MESSAGE REACHED JESUS - THEY LIVED IN BETHANY 33:07 RIGHT BY JERUSALEM. JESUS IS MINISTERING UP IN 33:09 GALILEE, WHICH IS MANY MILES AWAY. 33:11 HE'S PROBABLY 50 MILES AWAY - AND THEY SAID, 'COME, THE ONE 33:14 YOU LOVE IS SICK.' BUT HE LINGERED SEVERAL DAYS AFTER 33:17 GETTING THAT MESSAGE AND THE DISCIPLES WONDERED WHY HE DIDN'T 33:19 JUST GET UP AND GO DOWN AND HEAL HIM. 33:21 OF COURSE, JESUS DIDN'T EVEN NEED TO GO. 33:24 HE COULD HAVE SPOKEN THE WORD AND HEALED HIM LIKE HE DID 33:26 FOR THE SERVANT OF CORNELIUS, RIGHT? 33:29 BUT JESUS DELIBERATELY LINGERED BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO USE THE 33:31 RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS TO TEACH A LESSON. 33:34 SO AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS HE HEADS DOWN BUT THE TRIP TAKES A 33:37 FEW DAYS BECAUSE IT'S MANY MILES - THEY'RE TRAVELING BY FOOT. 33:41 BY THE TIME THEY GET THERE HE HAD ALREADY DIED AND WAS BURIED 33:45 GOING ON FOUR DAYS NOW. HE COMES - THE FUNERAL IS ALREADY IN 33:48 PROCESS. THEY'VE GOT HIRED MOURNERS THAT ARE THERE. 33:52 JESUS DOESN'T WANT TO GO TO THE HOUSE WHERE EVERYONE'S GATHERED 33:54 BECAUSE IT'LL BE A SPECTACLE AND THERE'S A CROWD. 33:56 HE SENDS A MESSENGER TO MARY AND MARTHA AND SAID, 33:59 'THE MASTER'S HERE. HE'S OUTSIDE THE TOWN.' AND 34:02 THAT'S WHERE THE CEMETERY WAS TOO. 34:04 USUALLY YOU DON'T PUT THE CEMETERIES RIGHT IN THE TOWN. 34:08 AND MARY AND MARTHA COME TO MEET HIM. 34:12 MARTHA COMES AND SAID, 'OH LORD, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE MY BROTHER 34:14 WOULDN'T HAVE DIED.' AND JESUS SAID, 'DON'T BE AFRAID, HE'LL 34:17 RISE AGAIN.' SHE SAID, I KNOW HE'S GOING TO RISE IN THE 34:19 RESURRECTION ON THE LAST DAY.' JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE 34:21 RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.' AND PRETTY SOON MARY CATCHES UP AND 34:26 SHE FALLS DOWN AT JESUS' FEET AND SHE'S WEEPING AND THEY COME 34:30 TO THE HILLSIDE WHERE THEY HAD DUG A HOLE IN THE HILL, WHICH 34:35 WAS COMMON BACK THEN, AND HAD COVERED IT WITH A STONE - MUCH 34:39 LIKE THE TOMB OF JESUS - AND THE MOURNERS SAID, 'OH, THEY'RE 34:43 GOING TO WEEP AT THE TOMB.' YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE'LL HAVE A 34:46 MEMORIAL SERVICE HERE AND THEN WE HAVE THE GRAVESIDE SERVICE - 34:49 YOU GO TO THE ACTUAL GRAVE - AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID BACK THEN. 34:51 THEY WERE MOURNING IN THE HOUSE AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY'RE GOING 34:53 TO CRY NOW AT THE GRAVE. 34:55 AND SO THEY GO TO THE GRAVE AND PEOPLE ALL GATHERED THERE. 34:59 JESUS SAYS, 'MARTHA, ROLL AWAY THE STONE. 35:03 HAVE THE SERVANTS ROLL AWAY THE STONE.' SHE SAYS, 'OH LORD, THAT 35:06 PROBABLY WOULDN'T - THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE GOOD. 35:08 HE'S BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS AND AFTER THREE DAYS DECOMPOSITION, 35:13 IN THIS CLIMATE ESPECIALLY, SET IN AND THERE'LL BE A SMELL.' AND 35:19 JESUS SAID, 'DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO BELIEVE?' 35:23 SO THEY ROLL AWAY THE STONE AND I JUST CAN IMAGINE - I MEAN, HE 35:28 REALLY HAD BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS AND MARTHA WAS RIGHT, UNTIL 35:32 JESUS SPOKE LIFE INTO THE CORPSE OF LAZARUS, HE WAS A DECOMPOSING 35:37 CORPSE. HE WAS REALLY DEAD. 35:40 AND I THINK JESUS ALLOWED THEM TO ACTUALLY SMELL THAT STENCH. 35:44 IF YOU'VE EVER SMELLED A DEAD BODY, IT'S AWFUL AND - HAD A 35:54 BEAR DIED IN THE WOODS NOT FAR FROM OUR PLACE. 35:58 YOU COULD TELL BECAUSE THE VULTURES WERE CIRCLING AND WHEN 36:03 WE GOT WITHIN AN EIGHTH OF A MILE, YOU COULD SMELL IT. 36:07 AND IT'S - SAME THING WHEN A HUMAN DIES. 36:11 IT'S ALMOST AN IDENTICAL SMELL. 36:13 BY THE WAY, THEY'RE BOTH OMNIVORES AND THAT'S WHY. 36:17 AND WHEN THEY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE, EVERYBODY - 36:20 'WHY'D HE DO THAT?' YOU KNOW? 36:23 I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW LAZARUS WAS DEAD. 36:26 JESUS WANTED THEM TO KNOW HE'D BEEN DEAD A LONG TIME. 36:29 AND THEN WHEN JESUS SPOKE THOSE WORDS, 'LAZARUS COME FORTH.' 36:33 SOON THEY HEARD A SHUFFLE AND EVERYBODY WAS PROBABLY AS STILL 36:36 AS THEY COULD BE AND THEY LOOKED - THEY PEERED INTO THE DARKNESS 36:39 AND PRETTY SOON THEY THOUGHT THEY SAW A SHADOW MOVE AND IT 36:42 SHUFFLED OUT INTO THE LIGHT AND THEY SAW - THERE HE WAS - 36:45 LAZARUS STANDING ALL WRAPPED UP LIKE A MOVING MUMMY. 36:49 AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'LOOSE HIM.' CAN YOU IMAGINE THE 36:53 GASPS IN THE CROWD? I MEAN, NO ONE, I MEAN, YOU 36:59 KNOW, LAZARUS - I'M SORRY - ELISHA PRAYED AND RESURRECTED A 37:04 BOY, BUT HE HAD ONLY BEEN DEAD A DAY. 37:07 ELIJAH PRAYED AND RESURRECTED A BOY - HADN'T BEEN DEAD QUITE A 37:11 DAY. SOMEBODY WHO HAD BEEN DEAD WAS 37:15 LAID DOWN ON THE BONES OF ELISHA - HE CAME BACK TO LIFE. 37:18 THERE'S SEVERAL RESURRECTIONS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT THEY'D 37:21 ONLY BEEN DEAD ABOUT A DAY. JESUS RAISES THE DAUGHTER OF 37:24 JARIUS - JUST BEEN DEAD ABOUT A DAY. 37:26 JESUS TOUCHES THE YOUNG MAN - THE WIDOW OF NAIN - DOESN'T SAY 37:30 HIS NAME - ON THE WAY TO THE FUNERAL - MAYBE BEEN DEAD TWO 37:33 DAYS. LAZARUS HAS BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 37:38 YOU MIGHT ARGUE IN THESE OTHER CASES, MAYBE THEY WERE JUST IN A 37:41 SEMI-CATATONIC, COMA-LIKE STATE. WE THOUGHT - WE CHECKED FOR A 37:46 HEARTBEAT AND THERE WASN'T ANY, BUT I GUESS THERE WAS. 37:49 WE JUST DIDN'T CHECK CLOSELY ENOUGH. 37:51 SO SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT ABOUT JESUS. 37:53 THEY SAID JESUS WASN'T REALLY DEAD. 37:55 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ARGUMENT BEFORE? 37:56 'HE SWOONED ON THE CROSS.' THAT WHEN THEY GAVE HIM THAT GALL IT 38:00 WAS ACTUALLY A DRUG THAT PUT HIM IN A STUPOR-LIKE STATE. 38:04 AND THESE FOLKS, THEY DON'T READ THEIR BIBLE, AND SOME FOLKS WILL 38:06 GO, 'OH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. HE WASN'T REALLY DEAD.' WELL, 38:08 DID YOU READ THE PART ABOUT THE ROMAN SPEAR THAT COMPLETELY 38:11 OPENED UP HIS SIDE AND ALL HIS BLOOD WAS DRAINED OUT? 38:14 I MEAN, HE WAS DEAD. SO - PEOPLE SAY THE DUMBEST THINGS. 38:19 SO, ALRIGHT, LAZARUS WAS DEAD. AND THEY KNEW HE WAS DEAD. 38:25 NOW HE CAME BACK TO LIFE. 38:26 NOW, THIS IS THE REASON I LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THIS STORY. 38:29 PEOPLE THAT SAY THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOU EITHER GO RIGHT TO 38:32 HEAVEN - BEFORE THE RESURRECTION, BEFORE THE 38:34 JUDGMENT - OR YOU GO RIGHT TO HELL BEFORE THE RESURRECTION AND 38:36 THE JUDGMENT - BEFORE THE COMING OF JESUS. 38:38 AND THAT PEOPLE ARE THERE BURNING IN HELL OR THAT PEOPLE 38:40 ARE THERE, THEY GO UP AND THEY'RE REJOICING IN HEAVEN 38:42 BEFORE THESE EVENTS HAVE TAKEN PLACE. 38:47 OR FOLKS WOULD SAY, 'YOU KNOW I DIED ON THE OPERATING TABLE AND 38:51 I WENT OFF INTO HEAVEN' OR 'I WENT TO HELL.' THERE'S BOOKS AND 38:53 MOVIES ABOUT THEM. THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT. 38:56 BUT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THEIR NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES. 38:58 AND I DON'T QUESTION THAT GOD MIGHT GIVE A PERSON A DREAM OR 39:01 SOMETHING AND I'M NOT GOING TO JUDGE THEM FOR THAT, BUT THAT'S 39:03 NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS HAPPENS. IF ANYBODY IN THE BIBLE SHOULD 39:08 BE OUR CRITERIA, IT'S LAZARUS. HE'D BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 39:13 IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY EVERY NEWS CORPORATION IN THE WORLD 39:17 WOULD PAY WHATEVER IT COST TO SEND THEIR BEST REPORTERS AROUND 39:22 THE WORLD WITH THEIR BEST RECORDING EQUIPMENT AND YOU 39:25 WOULD JUST SEE A CITY SUDDENLY APPEAR, OF REPORTERS, AROUND 39:30 THIS GUY NAMED LAZARUS, WITH THEIR MICROPHONES AND 39:33 THEIR CAMERAS ALL TRAINED ON LAZARUS. 39:36 AND THEY WOULD TURN UP THE MICS AND THEY WOULD DO A SOUND CHECK 39:39 AND THEY WOULD FOCUS THEIR CAMERAS AND EVERYBODY WOULD WAIT 39:42 BREATHLESSLY AS SOME REPORTER FINALLY ASKED THAT QUESTION, 39:46 'WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT WAS IT LIKE? 39:51 YOU HAVE THE ANSWER. YOU'VE BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 39:54 WHAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH?' 39:56 LAZARUS IS GOING TO KNOW THE BIG QUESTION OF THE AGES, RIGHT? 40:01 AND YOU KNOW WHAT LAZARUS SAID? UH...NOTHING. 40:08 WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. AFTER ALL THAT EXPENSE AND THOSE 40:10 CAMERA PEOPLE HAVE TRAVELED SO FAR. 40:14 NOT ONLY LAZARUS SAID NOTHING ABOUT DEATH - I MEAN, DON'T YOU 40:17 THINK THERE'D BE SOME COMMENT? DON'T YOU THINK LAZARUS WOULD 40:20 HAVE SAID - I MEAN, WOULDN'T EVERYONE HAVE GONE TO LAZARUS 40:22 AND SAID, 'DID YOU SEE MOSES AND ELIJAH IN HEAVEN? 40:26 WHAT DID YOU DO? WERE YOU ON THE GOLDEN STREETS? 40:28 WHERE WERE YOU? DID YOU EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE? 40:30 DID YOU SEE EZEKIEL THERE? WHAT WAS HAPPENING?' 40:32 LAZARUS SAID NOTHING AND NOBODY ASKED HIM WHAT HE SAW BECAUSE 40:37 THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS ABOUT DEATH. 40:40 IT WAS A SLEEP. IT WAS AN UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP. 40:45 DO YOU ASK YOUR SPOUSE EVERY DAY WHEN THEY WAKE UP, 'SO WHAT'D 40:47 YOU DREAM?' I DON'T, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CALL 40:52 ME AND WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT THEIR DREAMS ALL THE TIME ON THE 40:55 RADIO PROGRAM AND I TELL THEM I DON'T HAVE THE GIFT OF JOSEPH. 40:58 I DON'T WANT TO TRANSLATE YOUR DREAMS. 41:01 MOST OF THE DREAMS ARE A LITTLE GOOFY ANYWAY, LET'S ADMIT IT. 41:03 AREN'T OUR DREAMS KIND OF A LITTLE SCATTERED - DON'T MAKE A 41:08 LOT OF SENSE? LAZARUS DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 41:10 HE DIDN'T EVEN DREAM BECAUSE DEATH IS A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 41:16 'NOW PASTOR, WHAT ABOUT WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 41:20 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD?' THAT'S TRUE. 41:24 FOR A BELIEVER, WHEN THEY DIE, THEIR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT 41:28 IS THE RESURRECTION - ONE OF TWO RESURRECTIONS - RESURRECTION OF 41:30 THE JUST AND RESURRECTION OF JUDGEMENT. 41:33 BUT THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL THEN. 41:36 SO FOR THEM IT'S IMMEDIATE. 41:38 AND SO IF YOU HAVE A LOVED ONE THAT HAS DIED, YOU CAN REJOICE 41:41 FOR THEM BECAUSE YOU CAN BE ASSURED THEIR NEXT CONSCIOUS 41:45 THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE COMING OUT OF THE GRAVE WITH A 41:47 GLORIFIED BODY AND BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 41:50 IT SAYS WE'LL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM IN THE AIR, RIGHT? 41:53 BUT HAS IT HAPPENED YET? NO. JESUS TELLS US WHEN IT'S GOING 41:57 TO HAPPEN. THE LORD SHALL - MATTER OF FACT, 42:00 I'M KIND OF GETTING OUT OF THE FORMAT OF THE LESSON, BUT I AM 42:02 COVERING THE MATERIAL OF THE LESSON. 42:05 1 CORINTHIANS 15 - LET'S GO TO VERSE 20 - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20, 42:13 "BUT NOW CHRIST HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE 42:17 FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 42:21 - VERY CLEAR - "FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME DEATH (ADAM), BY MAN 42:26 (JESUS) ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 42:29 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL" - 42:34 IS SHALL PRESENT TENSE OR FUTURE TENSE? 42:36 THE WORD 'SHALL' IS FUTURE TENSE - "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE 42:41 ALIVE. BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER." 42:43 HERE'S THE ORDER: "CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS," - JESUS ROSE 42:46 ALREADY - "AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING." 42:52 NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT COULD BE MORE CLEAR THAN THAT. 42:54 WHEN DO THEY WAKE UP? AT HIS COMING. 42:57 AND SO THIS IDEA - WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND 43:00 THE DEAD ARE ASLEEP RIGHT NOW AND THEY'RE UNCONSCIOUS? 43:02 BECAUSE IN THE LAST DAYS SATAN IS GOING TO HAVE DECEIVING 43:05 SPIRITS. THEY WILL CLAIM TO BE RESURRECTED LOVED ONES THAT WILL 43:10 GIVE DECEPTIVE MESSAGES ABOUT THE BIBLE. 43:14 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS OUT THERE - THEY'LL 43:15 BELIEVE SOME APPARITION OR SOME MESSAGE FROM GRANDMA WHO'S DEAD 43:18 AND BURIED - BEFORE THEY BELIEVE THE BIBLE. THEY SAY, 43:22 'I FELT IT, THIS PRESENCE. IT WAS GRANDMA'S VOICE. 43:25 I COULD EVEN SMELL THE SMELL OF GRANDMA AND SHE SPOKE THIS 43:31 MESSAGE.' AND OFTEN IT'LL CONTRADICT THE BIBLE. 43:33 AND SO WE'VE GOT TO KNOW THAT THE DEAD ARE ASLEEP AND IF 43:36 YOU'RE GETTING THESE MESSAGES, THEY'RE NOT FROM GOD. 43:39 AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS 'THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COME 43:42 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE FALSE 43:44 PROPHET. THEY GO FORTH TO THE KINGS OF 43:46 THE EARTH TO DECEIVE AND THEY'RE GOING TO - THEY'RE GOING TO 43:50 IMPERSONATE THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.' ISN'T THAT WHAT HAPPENED? 43:55 KING SAUL WENT AND SAW A WITCH THAT CLAIMED TO HAVE THE POWER 44:00 TO RESURRECT SAMUEL WHO GAVE A TOTALLY DISCOURAGING MESSAGE AND 44:03 SAUL WAS DEAD THE NEXT DAY? NOT A GOOD IDEA TO CONSULT 44:07 MEDIUMS. THE BIBLE FORBIDS THAT BECAUSE 44:09 THE DEVIL DOES HAVE SOME LIMITED POWER. 44:11 SATAN HIMSELF CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 44:16 THAT'S WHY - AN ANGEL OF LIGHT MEANS A MESSENGER OF LIGHT. 44:20 THEY'LL SAY, 'I AM A MESSENGER WHO'S COME FROM HEAVEN.' 44:22 THERE'LL BE A BEAUTIFUL, MELODIOUS VOICE - 44:24 IT'LL BE DECEIVING. 44:25 THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW - 'SORRY, GET BEHIND ME SATAN. 44:28 I KNOW THE DEAD ARE ASLEEP AND THAT THAT MESSAGE IS NOT FROM 44:32 GOD.' SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT THAT. 44:36 ALRIGHT, BACK TO - BETTER GET BACK TO THE LESSON A LITTLE 44:39 DEEPER HERE. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME JOHN 5:21 44:46 - WHO HAS THAT? YOU'VE GOT THE SLIP OF PAPER. 44:48 ALRIGHT, LET'S GET YOU THE MICROPHONE. 44:51 AND I'M GOING TO READ ACTS 24:15, PAUL SAID, "I HAVE HOPE 44:56 IN GOD, WHICH THEY THEMSELVES ALSO ACCEPT, THAT THERE WILL BE 45:01 A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, BOTH OF THE JUST AND THE UNJUST." 45:06 WHAT IS THE RESURRECTION CALLED? IT'S A HOPE. 45:09 PAUL SAID, 'I HAVE A HOPE IN GOD.' 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13, "BUT 45:13 I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING 45:16 THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP," - HOW DOES PAUL DESCRIBE DEATH? 45:20 A SLEEP - "LEST YOU SORROW AS OTHERS WHO HAVE NO HOPE." 45:25 GOD WANTS US TO HAVE HOPE. THE RESURRECTION IS OUR HOPE. 45:29 PAUL SAID THAT IF, IN THIS LIFE ONLY, WE EXPERIENCE LIVING, WE 45:34 ARE, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE, MOST WRETCHED. 45:37 IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD 45:39 - YOU KNOW, I THINK C.S. LEWIS - 45:42 AND I'LL PROBABLY MISQUOTE, BUT THE ESSENCE OF 45:45 WHAT HE SAID WAS "ONE OF THE PROOFS FOR GOD IS THAT WE HAVE 45:50 BEEN MADE WITH THIS DESIRE THAT IT IS UNNATURAL FOR US NOT TO 45:55 HAVE ETERNITY. WE ARE WIRED BY GOD FOR ETERNITY. 46:00 EVEN OUR BRAINS IN OUR LIFETIMES - IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE IF 46:04 YOU BELIEVE EVOLUTION - THAT OUR BRAINS ARE ABLE TO CONTAIN MANY 46:09 MORE YEARS OF INFORMATION THAN WE ACTUALLY LIVE. 46:14 WHEN SOMEONE IS ABOUT 33 - IT'S INTERESTING THAT AT 33 YOUR 46:21 BRAIN IS AT ITS PRIME - 25 YOUR BRAIN FINALLY STOPS GROWING - 46:24 33 YOU'RE AT YOUR PRIME. BY THE WAY, WHICH IS WHEN JESUS 46:27 LAID DOWN HIS LIFE - IN HIS PRIME, RIGHT? 46:30 THAT YOUR MIND - YOU HAVEN'T REALLY - YOU'RE NOT LOSING 46:33 MEMORY YET - THAT IF YOU HAVE TRAINED YOUR MIND WELL, YOU ARE 46:37 ABLE TO CONTAIN LIBRARIES FULL OF INFORMATION. 46:43 MOST OF OUR BRAINS REMAIN UNUSED IN OUR BRIEF LIVES. 46:48 DID YOU KNOW THAT? A BABY, IF HE HAS A CERTAIN KIND 46:52 OF BRAIN SICKNESS - I THINK IT'S CALLED A HEMISPHERECTOMY - 46:57 WE'VE GOT A FEW DOCTORS HERE - DR. BAKER, IS THAT RIGHT? 46:59 WHEN THEY TAKE OUT ONE OF THE HEMISPHERES OF A BABY - A WHOLE 47:03 HALF A BRAIN - THAT BABY THEN, THE OTHER SIDE CAN COMPENSATE 47:07 AND THEY CAN LIVE A PERFECTLY NORMAL LIFE WITH A PERFECTLY 47:10 AVERAGE IQ USING HALF THE BRAIN. IT'S PHENOMENAL. I DON'T KNOW 47:17 WHAT GOT ME ON THAT. OH, WE'RE WIRED TO LIVE FOREVER. 47:21 WE KNOW THAT IT'S NOT NORMAL TO DIE AND WE WANT TO LIVE. 47:25 WE STRIVE TO LIVE AND GOD, HE WANTS US TO LIVE FOREVER. 47:30 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US JOHN 5:21. 47:35 >>JOHN 5:21, "FOR AS THE FATHER RAISES THE DEAD AND GIVES LIFE 47:41 TO THEM, EVEN SO THE SON GIVE LIFE TO WHOM HE WILL." 47:47 >>THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS CAN GIVE ETERNAL LIFE. 47:51 WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT LIFE IN THIS WORLD, HE'S OBVIOUSLY 47:53 TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING BEYOND THIS WORLD. JOB 19:25 - I LIKE 47:58 THAT WE - JOB, YOU'RE REALLY GOING BACK TO THE FOUNDATION. 48:02 "FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, AND HE SHALL STAND AT 48:06 LAST ON THE EARTH; AND AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, THIS I KNOW, 48:12 THAT IN MY FLESH" - MEANING IN NEW FLESH - "I SHALL SEE GOD, 48:16 WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MY EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT 48:19 ANOTHER. HOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!" 48:21 THIS IS THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE. 48:23 WE WILL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. THOUGH THESE BODIES ARE 48:26 DESTROYED, GOD WILL RESURRECT US WITH A GLORIFIED BODY, 48:28 BUT A REAL BODY. WHAT KIND OF BODY DID 48:31 JESUS HAVE WHEN HE ROSE? THE DISCIPLES WERE SCARED. 48:35 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS A GHOST WHEN THEY MET HIM IN THE UPPER ROOM 48:37 AND HE SAID, 'A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND BONE AS YOU SEE 48:41 THAT I HAVE.' AND HE SAID, 'I'M HUNGRY. YOU HAVE ANYTHING 48:44 TO EAT?' AND EVEN PETER SAYS, 'WE ATE WITH HIM. 48:48 WE KNOW THAT HE WAS REAL WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD. 48:51 AND SO JOB SAID, "IN MY FLESH I SHALL SEE GOD." 48:55 THE KIND OF GLORIFIED BODY THAT WAS MEANT TO LIVE FOREVER, LIKE 48:57 ADAM AND EVE HAD. NOW WHAT HAPPENS IS WE ALL ARE 49:04 GIVEN THIS BREATH OF LIFE AT CREATION. 49:06 GENESIS 2:7, "AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE 49:10 GROUND," - ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH - "AND BREATHED INTO HIS 49:12 NOSTRIL THE BREATH OF LIFE;" - THAT'S CALLED INSPIRATION - "AND 49:19 MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING." DEATH IS CREATION IN REVERSE. 49:25 IT SAYS IN ECCLESIASTES 12, VERSE 7, "THEN THE DUST WILL 49:29 RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT WILL RETURN TO 49:33 GOD WHO GAVE IT." 49:34 NOW MANY PEOPLE TAKE THAT VERSE 'THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO 49:37 GAVE IT' AND THEY THINK THE WORD 'SPIRIT' MEANS THE LITTLE GHOST 49:40 OF YOUR SOUL - THE ESSENCE OF WHO YOU ARE - A CONSCIOUS BEING 49:42 SOMEHOW FLUTTERS OUT OF YOUR DUST AND GOES OFF TO BE WITH 49:45 GOD. THE WORD THERE IS THE WORD 'BREATH.' IT SAYS, 'THE DUST 49:50 RETURNS TO THE EARTH AND THE BREATH OF LIFE RETURNS TO GOD 49:54 WHO GAVE IT.' MATTER OF FACT, EVEN JOB SAYS - SAME EXACT WORD 49:57 - RUACH - IN HEBREW - 'THE BREATH OF GOD IS IN MY 50:00 NOSTRILS.' IF YOU THINK THAT MEANS A SOUL OR A GHOST - WELL, 50:04 DO YOU HAVE A SOUL OR SPIRIT IN YOUR NOSE? 50:07 I MEAN THAT DOESN'T - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BREATH OF GOD 50:09 THAT GOES IN YOUR NOSE. SO PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'OH, SEE, 50:11 THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD AS SOON AS A PERSON DIES.' IT'S NOT 50:14 TALKING ABOUT A CONSCIOUS SPIRIT. 50:16 IT MEANS THE BREATH OF LIFE GOES BACK TO GOD, RIGHT? 50:20 AND THEN, LET'S LOOK HERE IN LUKE 8 WHEN JESUS WENT AND 50:26 RAISED THAT LITTLE GIRL, TABITHA, ALL WEPT AND MOURNED. 50:30 LUKE 8:52 - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - AND HE SAID, "DO NOT 50:35 WEEP; SHE IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPING." 50:38 HOW DID JESUS REFER TO DEATH? SLEEP. 50:43 AND THEN HE TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND SHE AROSE AND "THEN HER 50:46 SPIRIT RETURNED, AND SHE AROSE IMMEDIATELY. 50:49 AND HE COMMANDED THAT SHE BE GIVEN SOMETHING TO EAT." 50:52 ALRIGHT, TALK ABOUT THE RESURRECTION AND THE JUDGMENT. 50:54 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ALONG. SOMEONE LOOK UP 50:56 ECCLESIASTES 12:13 AND 14. OVER HERE. 51:00 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO WHOEVER HAS 51:03 THE MIC CAN PASS IT TO YOU. OKAY, DANIEL 12, VERSE 2. 51:07 NOW I LIKE THIS VERSE BECAUSE IT COVERS SEVERAL THINGS - TALKING 51:11 ABOUT, 'AND THEN MICHAEL WILL STAND UP, THE GREAT PRINCE THAT 51:13 STANDS FOR THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE. 51:16 THERE WILL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN 51:18 SINCE THERE WAS A NATION EVEN UNTO THE SAME TIME' AND IT SAYS 51:22 IN VERSE 2, "AND MANY OF THOSE WHO SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE 51:25 EARTH SHALL AWAKE." WHEN DO THEY AWAKE? 51:28 WHEN MICHAEL STANDS UP - AT THE CULMINATION OF THIS TIME OF 51:31 TROUBLE, RIGHT? SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE AND 51:35 SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT. 51:38 THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS AND THEY ARE FOLLOWED BY A JUDGMENT. 51:42 ACTS 24:15, "I HAVE HOPE IN GOD, WHICH THEY THEMSELVES ALSO 51:49 ACCEPT," - THIS IS PAUL SPEAKING IN HIS DEFENSE, TO FELIX - "THAT 51:52 THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, BOTH OF THE JUST" - 51:56 FIRST RESURRECTION - "AND THE UNJUST." - SECOND RESURRECTION. 51:59 YOU NOTICE ALSO IN DANIEL 2 - 'SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE; SOME 52:02 TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.' AND THEN YOU READ IN 52:05 JOHN 5:28, JESUS SAID, "DO NOT MARVEL AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS 52:09 COMING IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE 52:12 AND COME FORTH - THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION 52:14 OF LIFE," - FIRST RESURRECTION - "AND THOSE WHO HAVE DONE EVIL, 52:17 TO THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION." I REMEMBER 52:19 WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS I THOUGHT, 'TWO RESURRECTIONS? 52:21 I THOUGHT THERE WAS ONLY ONE.' BUT THE BIBLE IS PRETTY CLEAR 52:24 THAT THESE BIBLE WRITERS - I JUST GAVE YOU THREE OUT OF 52:26 SEVERAL EXAMPLES - THEY SEPARATE THEM, OKAY? 52:30 GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US THAT VERSE FROM 52:33 ECCLESIASTES 12:13 AND 14, PLEASE. 52:36 >>"LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER: FEAR GOD AND 52:39 KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS MAN'S ALL. 52:44 FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT, INCLUDING EVERY 52:48 SECRET THING, WHETHER GOOD OR EVIL." 52:51 >>THAT'S THE SUMMARIZATION OF THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED - 52:55 THAT WE SHOULD LIVE REVERENT LIVES - THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS. 52:57 FEAR GOD - A LIFE OF REVERING GOD. 53:01 KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A DAY OF RECKONING 53:05 FOR EVERYTHING. PAUL SAID WE MUST ALL STAND 53:07 BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. 53:09 THERE IS A JUDGMENT DAY THAT COMES. 53:12 PART OF THE JUDGMENT HAPPENS BEFORE JESUS COMES. 53:17 JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD. 53:19 THIS IS THE JUDGMENT CALLED THE PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT AND THAT 53:22 STANDS TO REASON - IT MAKES SENSE. 53:24 IF THE LORD IS DISPENSING REWARDS WHEN HE COMES, DOES IT 53:29 MAKE SENSE TO YOU THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME KIND OF JUDGMENT 53:32 BEFORE HE COMES, OTHERWISE HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO'S 53:35 GOING UP AND WHO'S NOT, RIGHT? 53:38 SO THERE'S A PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT, THERE'S ALSO A 53:41 JUDGMENT THAT TAKES PLACE DURING THE 1,000 YEARS AND THEN THERE 53:45 IS THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT AT THE END OF THE 53:47 MILLENNIUM AND THAT'S WHERE - THEN CHRIST IS ON HIS THRONE. 53:52 SO - OH, THERE'S SO MUCH I'M TRYING TO COVER HERE. 53:55 LET ME SEE HERE, WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT HELL? 53:59 I'VE GOT TO GET INTO THAT. 54:00 JESUS USED TWO WORDS TALKING ABOUT HELL. 54:03 THERE'S ACTUALLY FOUR - TWO ARE OLD TESTAMENT AND ONE IS USED BY 54:07 PETER - TARTARIS IS ONLY USED ONCE IN THE BIBLE - IT MEANS A 54:10 PLACE OF DARKNESS. JESUS USED THE WORD GEHENNA, 54:13 WHICH WAS BASED ON THE VALLEY OF HINNOM OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM. 54:18 THEY HAD ONCE HAD PAGAN GODS THERE AND THEY TURNED IT INTO A 54:21 CITY DUMP AND IT WAS ALWAYS SMOLDERING AND IT STUNK AND IT 54:25 WAS FULL OF WORMS AND THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID YOU'RE BETTER OFF 54:28 GOING TO HEAVEN MISSING A HAND, FOOT OR EYE THAN GOING TO 54:31 GEHENNA, WHERE THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED AND THE WORM DOES NOT 54:35 DIE. HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE VALLEY - THE DUMP. 54:38 AND THE OTHER WORD JESUS USED IS HADES. 54:40 IN THE GREEK WORLD, EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT PLUTO, THE GOD OF 54:43 HADES, WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PLACE OF TORMENT. 54:46 AND THAT COMES IN PROMINENTLY IN THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN 54:51 AND LAZARUS. PEOPLE OFTEN THINK, WHEN THEY'RE 54:54 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND DEATH, THEY TURN THAT PARABLE THAT YOU FIND 54:57 IN LUKE 16, VERSE 19, ABOUT A RICH MAN THAT FEASTS SUMPTUOUSLY 55:01 EVERY DAY AND A POOR BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS - INTERESTING - IT 55:05 TALKS ABOUT RAISING A MAN NAMED LAZARUS. 55:08 LAZARUS WAS A VERY COMMON JEWISH NAME. 55:10 IT COMES FROM THE WORD ELIEZER - IT'S THE GREEK WAY OF SAYING 55:13 ELIEZER. AND HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS POOR 55:18 BEGGAR - HE'S A SYMBOL OF THE GENTILES. 55:20 THE DOGS COME AND LICK HIS SORES. 55:23 THE RICH MAN SYMBOLIZES THE JEWS - OR THE CHURCH, IN OUR DAY AND 55:26 AGE. WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH BUT WE JUST 55:29 FEAST AND WE ARE CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, 55:31 ALL THE RICHES OF TRUTH AND WE DON'T SHARE IT. 55:36 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S THIS GREAT REVERSAL THAT TAKES 55:38 PLACE. WE FIND OUT THAT THE RICH MAN, 55:40 AFTER HE DIES, HE IS NOW IN THE GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT CALLED 55:45 HADES AND LAZARUS, THE POOR MAN, WHO IS BEING COMFORTED BY THE 55:49 DOGS - THAT REPRESENTED THE GENTILES. 55:52 THE JEWS THOUGHT, 'WE'RE GOING TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, BUT THE DOGS 55:56 - THE GENTILES - THEY'RE ALL CURSED BY GOD.' 55:58 BUT, INSTEAD, LAZARUS GOES TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. 56:01 HE GOES TO THE JEWISH PLACE OF REWARD. 56:03 SO JESUS IS USING GREAT IRONY IN THIS STORY. 56:07 IT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY BECAUSE IT TELLS, IN THE 56:10 PARABLE, ABOUT THEM TALKING BACK AND FORTH. 56:13 DO WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE IN HEAVEN ARE GOING TO BE ABLE 56:15 TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE IN HELL AND THE PEOPLE IN HELL ARE GOING 56:17 TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN? WOULD A DROP OF WATER COOL THE 56:21 PERSON'S TONGUE WHO IS BURNING IN HADES? 56:24 THIS GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT? DO WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT ALL 56:31 THOSE WHO DIE ARE GOING TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM? 56:34 THINK ABOUT HOW BIG HIS BOSOM WOULD HAVE TO BE IF EVERYBODY 56:38 DIES - I MEAN, THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE IS VERY CLEAR. 56:42 THE MESSAGE OF THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS HAD 56:45 NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STATE OF THE DEAD, IT HAD TO DO WITH IF 56:49 WE - THE PUNCH LINE - THE PUNCH LINE OF THE PARABLE IS 56:52 USUALLY WHAT THE MESSAGE IS. 56:55 HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS - THE MORAL OF THE STORY - I DON'T LIKE 56:57 USING 'PUNCH LINE.' THE MORAL OF THE STORY WAS THE LAST VERSE AND 57:01 HE SAYS, 'IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS THEN 57:04 NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED THOUGH ONE SHOULD RISE FROM THE 57:07 DEAD.' IF THE JEWISH NATION DID NOT BELIEVE THE WRITINGS OF 57:13 MOSES AND THE PROPHETS - THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH, THEN THE 57:16 RESURRECTION WOULD NOT CONVINCE THEM. THE RESURRECTION OF 57:19 LAZARUS DIDN'T CONVINCE THEM. THEY WANTED TO CONDEMN LAZARUS. 57:22 THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS WOULD NOT CONVINCE THEM. 57:25 THAT WAS THE MESSAGE OF THE WHOLE PARABLE. 57:27 IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STATE OF THE DEAD SO DON'T TAKE 57:29 THAT PART OF IT LITERALLY. SO ANYWAY, WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME 57:32 AND THERE'S STILL SOME LESSON LEFT. 57:33 I'LL HAVE MY NOTES ONLINE, FRIENDS. 57:35 AND DON'T FORGET THE FREE STUDY GUIDE. 57:38 ASK FOR OFFER #117 WHEN YOU CALL AND IT'S CALLED, 'ARE THE DEAD 57:42 REALLY DEAD?' AND THIS IS REALLY VALUABLE AND 57:45 IF YOU WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR ON THIS SUBJECT, THIS STUDY HAS 57:46 GOT A LOT MORE SCRIPTURES IN IT. 788-3966 - THAT'S 866-788-3966. 57:55 THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND, GOD WILLING, WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER 57:58 WITH YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) |
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