Amen and Amen, Thank
you Todd, so very very much.
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Tonight's message
is entitled Soul Man!
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I'm going to ask you to
turn with me if you will,
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to 2 Samuel and we will read
from Chapter 14 after we pray.
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2 Samuel 14:14,
but before we do that,
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shall we not go to
the Lord in prayer.
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Father God we thank you again
for the truth of Your word.
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We thank you for Jesus,
our Savior and our friend.
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We ask You Lord again to
speak to us and allow us to
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hear your voice, and your
words, because we need to know
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the truth in these last
days so that we can prepare
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for that grand and awful day
when Christ returns for His own.
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Please dear Lord, teach us again
this night and help us to be
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doers of the word
and not just hears only.
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We thank you, in
Jesus Name! AMEN!
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How many have ever
had a lie told about you?
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About 50 percent.
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It's not very pleasant is it?
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It it's awful to have
people think something about you
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that is not true.
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It is very difficult to put
a stop to a lie once it begins
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to circulate.
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Because all you can
say is it is not true.
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People tend to believe
what they want to believe.
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What is sad is that
even in our world today
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people tend to believe a lie
sometimes more than the truth.
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Well a lie, in fact several
lies have been told about God.
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God has spent the last
7000 years of earth's history,
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of earth's recorded history,
trying to tell the truth
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about certain lies
that were spread about Him
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even in heaven itself.
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These untrue statements
have reached planet Earth
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and they have, as it
were, defaced the image of God.
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and so we want, as best we can,
from God's Word to put to rest
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one of the most vicious
of those untrue statements.
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Our message is called Soul Man!
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I'm in the book of 2
Samuel, what book did I say?
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2 Samuel 14:14
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Now, before we go little
further I want to go to the
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New Testament to the
book of 1 Timothy 6:16
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Now if you didn't know
who the text was talking about
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the idea that it ends with honor
and everlasting power means
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we must be talking about who?
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We must be talking about God.
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Two things we need
to establish right now.
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Every person who has lived or
who is living, unless they are
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alive at the second coming
of Christ, will at one time or
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another, sooner
or later, see death.
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Is that understood?
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All of us are going to die.
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Unless Jesus comes and we
are translated, it is appointed
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unto man, Solomon says, once
to die, and then the judgment.
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1 Timothy 6:16 makes a very
important foundational statement
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It says that there is one
being in the universe that has
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immortality, it is not
you, it is not me, it is God.
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Now we need to nail that nail
down, only God has immortality.
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Amen! and Amen!
everybody else then is mortal.
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God alone has a immortality!
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It is a biblical statement,
it is true, it is fact.
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only God has
immortality. Can you say Amen?
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Now, what about us?
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Let's go to the very first book
of the Bible, book of Genesis.
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What book did I say?
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I'm in Genesis 3:4
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If indeed God
alone has immortality,
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where did the
confusion come from?
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Here is one of lies.
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You will not surely die.
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Satan, speaking through
the serpent, twisted the truth
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and that twisting of the
truth of God, has spawned more
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confusion and consternation,
and unbelief, and woe,
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and outright rejection of the
grace and gospel of Christ than
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perhaps any other.
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What has come from
that original statement
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has confused many and turned
many off against Christianity.
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You will not really die,
is not a God-given utterance,
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it is a Satanic utterance.
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The idea that when you
die, you don't really die,
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does not come from God.
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It comes from the lips of Satan
himself, do you understand that?
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It is very, very important.
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It doesn't come from
God, it comes from Satan.
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Because at Adam and Eve
did not drop dead that second,
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they believed it.
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There are many who
believe it and teach it today.
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But it does not, I
say again, come from God.
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The moment you accept that
idea, the idea that when we die
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part of us lives on, you have
created for yourself one big,
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fact theological conundrum.
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In other words, you have dug
a hole for yourself and in order
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to solve that problem, you
have to deface the image of God.
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Now I want you to listen
very carefully, because this
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is very, very important.
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To get out of the
Ecclesiological or
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Eschatological quicksand
that, that theology creates,
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you have to throw mud on
the face and reputation of God.
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If you believe and preach
and teach that when you die
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you don't really die, you turn
a loving God into a monster.
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I am going to show you
how in just a little bit.
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Now let's head in another
direction and try to tie some
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of these things together.
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What is man?
It's a basic question.
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What are we? Let's
answer that question from the
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book of Genesis,
what book did I say?
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Genesis 2:7 and let's
begin to answer that question.
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What is man, what are we anyway?
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The word of God answers
that question I'm in Genesis 2:7
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The Bible says, Genesis 2:7
"and the Lord God formed man
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of the dust of the ground
and breathed into his nostrils
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the breath of life and
man became a living being. "
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Alright, let's look
at it for just a second.
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God formed man from the dust
of the ground, breathed into
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his nostrils the breath of life,
and man became, the Bible says
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a living being.
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Let's go to the book of
Job, Job 4:17 I will give you
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a second to find it.
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Job 4:17
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Alright, first God made us from
the dust and breathed into us
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air and we became souls.
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Now the Bible does not
play with words or mince words.
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It uses the exact terms
for what it is trying to say.
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The Bible says, God took dust,
breathed into it air and man
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was given a soul.
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Amen! you're not listening,
that is not what the Bible says.
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That's what man says.
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The Bible says, God took
dust, breathed into a air
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and man "became" a soul.
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Didn't say man was given a soul,
it says, man became a soul.
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There is ladies and gentlemen
a great deal of difference
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can you say Amen!
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Different becoming
as oppose to given.
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The Bible equation is
this, I want you to get it.
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Body plus breath equals soul.
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Body minus breath equals?
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Equals dust! Equals dust!
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It does not equal soul.
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Because to get to a soul,
according to Genesis you have
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to have body and
breath, if you don't have body
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and breath, you don't
have a um hum, makes sense?
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Let's go to the book of
Psalms, what book did I say?
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Psalms 146:4
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Psalms says and uses the
word spirit, there are some
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translators who use the word
breath, but all the translators
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agree that which leaves the
body is not a conscious entity,
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we will come to that a little
later, but rather the breath
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of God that was
given at creation.
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The spirit leaves, or the breath
leaves, and returns to God
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who gave it, the
body goes to the ground.
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Now what is important in
that text is that the Bible says
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in that very day the
thoughts do what? Perish!
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They stop, doesn't come
back and congratulates you,
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and pat you on the back when
you do good in a baseball game.
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Doesn't come back to your
house and haunt you at night.
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Doesn't wait for you in the
cemetery when the Sun goes down.
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Thoughts perish! AMEN!
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Right from the word of God
the Bible does not use the word
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spirit as a conscious entity
that lives on after death.
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I'm going to prove that
to you in just a little bit.
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So the Bible says in that very
day the thoughts do what? Perish
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So everything you planned
to do tomorrow, what happens?
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Gone! All the bills
you have to pay, Gone!
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Car payment, Gone!
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House note, Gone!
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Credit card payment, Gone!
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Your thoughts perish!
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So that which goes to
God is not a thinking entity,
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it has no personality.
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Further proof let's go to
the book of Ecclesiastics.
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What book did I say?
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I'm in the book
of Ecclesiastics 9:5
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So when you die how much of what
is going on earth are you aware?
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NOTHING!
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You don't know, You do not know.
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Let's go to verse 6, I'm in
Ecclesiastics 9:5, we just read
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5 let's go to 6.
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So if you have a girlfriend
or wife, and loved her
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Are you still loving her?
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People say I will love
you forever, no you won't!
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You'll love till you die.
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Amen, bring it back
up guys, let's finish.
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So once you die, that's it!
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Amen! That's it!
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Once you die, that is it!
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Solomon, the wisest man that
ever lived, is saying once you
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die, no love, no hate, no
envy, no jealousy, no malice,
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no revenge, it ends when
you close your eyes in death.
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So if you don't get it
right you don't get to come back
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and say I'm sorry.
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That's why you straighten
things out why you are alive
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ladies and gentlemen, because
you don't get to come back
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to say you are sorry.
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Or if someone does you
wrong you don't get to come back
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and bug them.
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Love, hate, envy, it all ends.
Let's look at Ecclesiastes 9:10
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So God is saying, Solomon
is saying this also, under
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inspiration from the
Lord, what ever you have to do
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do it now, and do it well
because this is your one chance
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ladies and
gentlemen, this is it!
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Whatever you do, put your whole
body into it, put your whole
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mind into it, put your
whole soul into it, particularly
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when it comes to serving
the Lord because your life
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depends on it.
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Amen! Because when you come
to the grave it's too late then.
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There is nothing more
that can be done, so do it now,
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Because you don't have a part
anymore in anything that happens
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under the sun.
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Amen! and Amen! Lets go to
the book of Job, I'm in the book
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of Job 14:14
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So when we die Job is affirming
that you're going to wait
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someplace, we are going to stay
someplace until the change comes
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The change does not
come at the point of death.
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That's Job's point, it doesn't
happen at death it happens
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later on, and we are going
to see what the later on is.
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I'm in Job 17:13 now
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I hope you are getting a chance
to write these texts down or
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outline them in your
Bible because you can go back
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and reference these things,
it will be good to do that.
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Job is continuing a series of
statements that affirms the fact
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that when I die after my toil
here on planet Earth, I wait
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as it were in the grave.
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My house is then the grave.
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I don't go anywhere, I
wait and something spectacular
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happens a little later on,
and we will talk about that
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in just a little bit.
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The point I am trying to
stress here is that there is no
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indication anywhere in the
Old Testament, certainly not
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in the book of Job who
discusses death quite a lot.
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That when we die we
ascend immediately into the
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presence of God, and I want
you to understand that, because
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later on we are going to come
to a text that seems to say that
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I'm going to show
you that it does not.
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So the majority of the
Scriptures that we have read
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tonight, in fact all of
them, have affirmed that we are
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going to die, when we die
we are going to the grave,
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and we don't come back and haunt
haunted houses or visit our
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relatives on their
birthday, or say nice things,
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or even scores, when you die
you die and ladies and gentlemen
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as cold as it is, that is it!
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That's why God says today
if you hear His voice, do what?
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Harden not your heart.
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Because tomorrow is
not promised to you.
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So does the Bible say
that the soul is immortal?
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One word answer, Nope!
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Your silence says, you
are waiting for Scripture.
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Amen! here it
comes. Ezekiel 18:4
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What book did I say?
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Now according to
that text, souls do what?
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Die! The soul
that sins shall die.
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Very first text that we read.
The second one, God alone has
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immortality. Souls die! Further
proof, same book of Ezekiel
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same 18:20
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The very first line, "the
soul who sins shall die. "
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Two times in that same chapter
and there is a third time in
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the same book of Ezekiel,
we didn't and put it down
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but it is in Ezekiel 33,
the statement is made again.
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"A soul that sins shall die. "
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Can it get any
plainer than that?
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Souls do die! Romans 6:23
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Romans 3:23
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So the punishment for
a sin is what? is death!
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The gift of God is? Eternal Life
00:28:01.64\00:28:05.48
So if everybody had
eternal life when they were born
00:28:05.51\00:28:08.90
then what is God's gift?
00:28:08.93\00:28:10.91
Doesn't make sense.
00:28:13.82\00:28:15.39
Eternal life is promised
to those who are in Christ
00:28:15.42\00:28:19.99
as a gift from God.
00:28:20.02\00:28:23.81
Everybody doesn't have it.
00:28:23.84\00:28:26.16
Amen? Amen! The wages of sin
is not eternal life, the wages
00:28:26.19\00:28:33.93
of sin is death!
00:28:33.96\00:28:35.39
So that sooner or later
sinners are going to die.
00:28:35.42\00:28:41.12
Now You may not die
today, you may not die tomorrow,
00:28:41.15\00:28:44.39
but sooner or later, God
says the wages of sin is death.
00:28:44.42\00:28:49.71
Galatians 6:6, 7, "Be not
deceived, God is not mocked
00:28:49.74\00:28:52.55
What a man sows he is
going to... and the wages of sin
00:28:52.58\00:28:56.63
if you work for sin, you
are going to get your wages.
00:28:56.66\00:28:59.75
It would be unfair to
have you work for something
00:28:59.78\00:29:02.21
and not pay you
what you deserve.
00:29:02.24\00:29:03.50
So the wages of sin
is death! Is that plain?
00:29:03.53\00:29:06.97
So that just simply means that
everybody doesn't live for ever.
00:29:07.00\00:29:11.33
Sinners are going to die. Amen!
00:29:11.36\00:29:16.49
Very, Very true.
1 Corinthians 15:26
00:29:16.52\00:29:20.83
So one day God is going
to destroy sinners and death.
00:29:30.10\00:29:36.20
It is all going to be over.
00:29:36.23\00:29:38.66
Death is no figment, it claimed
the life of Christ, but it
00:29:38.69\00:29:45.54
could not keep
Him. Can you say Amen?
00:29:45.57\00:29:47.64
Even Jesus did not
ascend to heaven immediately.
00:29:47.67\00:29:54.14
Now this is a very important
point, even Jesus didn't
00:29:54.17\00:29:57.61
die and go right to heaven.
00:29:57.64\00:29:59.76
Let's look at John 20:17
00:29:59.79\00:30:03.22
So Christ didn't die
go right to the kingdom.
00:30:25.72\00:30:28.78
He did not, nor do we die
and shoot right to the kingdom.
00:30:28.81\00:30:31.97
We are going to wrestle
with that in just a little bit.
00:30:32.01\00:30:35.16
I will come back to that.
00:30:35.19\00:30:36.62
Let's go to the book of
Acts, What book did I say?
00:30:36.65\00:30:38.78
Acts 2:34
00:30:38.81\00:30:44.22
Now David's life
was an incredible life.
00:30:57.53\00:30:59.49
Those of you who has studied
the life of David what a saga.
00:30:59.52\00:31:03.53
When he was good, he was
very good, when he was bad
00:31:03.56\00:31:08.89
Lord, he was very bad.
00:31:08.92\00:31:11.65
Just about every sin that
you can name, David at one time
00:31:11.68\00:31:20.28
or another, in
his life, committed.
00:31:20.31\00:31:21.52
He surely did, as you pick
them off, David pretty much
00:31:21.55\00:31:26.17
stepped on all of them.
00:31:26.20\00:31:27.55
Yet God called him a
man after Mine own heart.
00:31:27.58\00:31:34.01
One of the reasons he did
that was because when David was
00:31:34.04\00:31:37.13
called for his sin,
David never made excuses.
00:31:37.16\00:31:40.14
He said Lord if you
have to punish me, punish me.
00:31:40.17\00:31:44.55
Just save me.
00:31:44.58\00:31:46.24
You see God can work with that.
00:31:46.27\00:31:48.06
When you say Lord I have sinned,
I am throwing myself on Your
00:31:48.09\00:31:51.86
mercy, do what you have to do,
just don't block my name out.
00:31:51.89\00:31:54.35
Just don't take
my name off the list.
00:31:54.38\00:31:57.38
God can do that.
00:31:57.41\00:31:59.06
If you look at Saul's life,
and David's life, Saul the first
00:31:59.09\00:32:03.57
king, David the second.
00:32:03.60\00:32:04.79
Saul was rejected
by God, David was not.
00:32:04.82\00:32:08.14
David's list of
sins far eclipses Saul's.
00:32:08.17\00:32:11.56
David's, dare we say, rap sheet
was much longer than Saul's.
00:32:11.59\00:32:15.90
The difference between Saul
and David, is that when David
00:32:15.93\00:32:20.08
was called to account
for his sins, David said Lord
00:32:20.11\00:32:23.60
I have sinned and I repent.
00:32:23.63\00:32:27.10
Saul made excuses
and he did not repent.
00:32:27.13\00:32:33.14
Saul made excuses, that
is a lesson for you and me.
00:32:33.17\00:32:36.60
When God calls you,
the best thing you can do,
00:32:36.63\00:32:40.93
the only thing you can
do is say Lord, I sinned.
00:32:40.96\00:32:43.82
Create in me a clean
heart and renew a right spirit.
00:32:43.85\00:32:49.42
God knows you sinned.
00:32:49.45\00:32:50.79
You have to
admit it to yourself.
00:32:50.82\00:32:52.73
and if we confess our sins, He
is faithful and just to forgive.
00:32:52.76\00:32:58.88
But David, the Bible
says, has not gone into heaven.
00:32:58.91\00:33:05.17
He is dead and buried.
00:33:05.20\00:33:07.39
Right to this day. Acts 2:29
00:33:07.42\00:33:10.06
Now, does it say that
David is in the presence of God?
00:33:23.03\00:33:26.17
Does it say that David is
dancing around the throne?
00:33:26.20\00:33:29.66
NO! New testament, book of
Acts the word is given, David is
00:33:29.69\00:33:36.69
dead and buried in the
tomb, to this very day.
00:33:36.72\00:33:40.18
He didn't immediately go to
heaven, he didn't really go to
00:33:40.21\00:33:42.79
Hell, in the tomb waiting for
something, waiting for something
00:33:42.82\00:33:48.05
and we are going to come
to that in just a little bit.
00:33:48.08\00:33:49.85
Nowhere does it give indication,
that the great David is in glory
00:33:49.88\00:33:54.70
with the Lord. This
is very, very important!
00:33:54.73\00:33:57.14
If anybody would have gotten
in, could have been David,
00:33:57.17\00:34:00.15
should have been David,
but David is waiting just like
00:34:00.18\00:34:04.10
we are waiting.
00:34:04.13\00:34:05.33
The Bible is singular, straight
and secular and makes sense.
00:34:05.36\00:34:09.46
It says David is
in the ground waiting.
00:34:09.49\00:34:11.63
1 Corinthians
15:51-54 What book did I say?
00:34:11.66\00:34:13.94
1 Corinthians 15:51-54
00:34:13.97\00:34:20.35
Now let's look at this!
00:35:17.07\00:35:18.32
The Bible says it is going
to happen at the last trump.
00:35:18.35\00:35:23.75
The trumpet shall sound and the
dead will come up incorruptible.
00:35:23.78\00:35:30.39
At that point death is swallowed
up in victory, it's the key text
00:35:30.42\00:35:36.89
that Paul is writing
to the Corinthian church.
00:35:36.92\00:35:39.90
You do not go to heaven
immediately when you die,
00:35:39.93\00:35:42.33
nor do you go to hell
when you die, you wait for the
00:35:42.36\00:35:46.97
trumpet of God, you wait for
00:35:47.00\00:35:49.39
the day of judgment,
00:35:49.42\00:35:50.85
you wait for the return
of Christ and at that point
00:35:50.88\00:35:54.29
you put on a incorruption.
00:35:54.32\00:35:56.34
At that point you're corruptible
body, your mortal body becomes
00:35:56.37\00:36:01.72
immortal, do
you understand that?
00:36:01.75\00:36:03.90
It is very, very important!
1 Corinthians 15:16-23
00:36:03.93\00:36:09.98
Now let's just tie a
bow around this, if we can.
00:37:15.10\00:37:18.94
The Bible is saying
some very important things.
00:37:18.97\00:37:21.48
He is saying that Christ's
resurrection from the dead
00:37:21.51\00:37:25.74
guarantees that those who
fall asleep in Christ, will be
00:37:25.77\00:37:29.58
resurrected from the
dead. Can you say Amen?
00:37:29.61\00:37:31.62
Resurrected, it means that
they will go down and come up.
00:37:32.87\00:37:37.56
But it says that is going to
happen when Jesus comes again.
00:37:37.59\00:37:44.29
Not at the point of
death, is that clear?
00:37:44.32\00:37:47.06
It is very, very important,
because a lot of people are
00:37:47.09\00:37:50.13
teaching you some
things that are not biblical.
00:37:50.16\00:37:51.67
You need to know
what the truth is.
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.86
Jesus is coming
to gather His own.
00:37:54.89\00:37:58.76
If Jesus is coming back with
His reward, and you go to heaven
00:37:58.79\00:38:05.66
at the point of death,
what is Jesus coming back for?
00:38:05.69\00:38:10.24
So why is He coming back here?
00:38:17.28\00:38:20.52
The saved are there.
00:38:20.55\00:38:24.08
Wasted trip, don't you think?
00:38:24.11\00:38:26.50
Burning gas for nothing.
00:38:26.53\00:38:28.70
Let's go on.
00:38:33.55\00:38:34.52
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
00:38:34.53\00:38:42.66
Now, it's interesting that
Paul ends that statement to the
00:40:22.41\00:40:26.57
brethren at Thessalonica with
a statement, comfort one another
00:40:26.60\00:40:30.69
with these words, he's saying
that because when you really
00:40:30.72\00:40:34.24
know that, it shouldn't distress
you, it should comfort you.
00:40:34.27\00:40:38.81
It is designed to be a comfort.
00:40:38.84\00:40:42.09
My dad died in 1979, the
year that I was ordained.
00:40:42.12\00:40:50.49
Never got to come to my
ordination because he had
00:40:50.52\00:40:56.81
a stroke and was
somewhat disabled, couldn't come
00:40:56.84\00:41:00.03
to my ordination.
00:41:00.06\00:41:01.36
I have said this so many times,
that I had the privilege of
00:41:01.39\00:41:05.85
baptizing my father
one month before he died
00:41:05.88\00:41:08.21
of a massive stroke.
00:41:08.24\00:41:10.26
We were very pleased about that.
00:41:10.29\00:41:11.50
My mother lived on a number
of years, it was my privilege
00:41:11.53\00:41:16.61
to bring her into the
church and baptize her also.
00:41:16.64\00:41:19.84
But the last ten years of my
mom's life, she also suffered
00:41:19.87\00:41:24.82
a number of mini strokes.
Each one taking her further
00:41:24.85\00:41:29.96
into herself so that the last
4 or 5 years of her life she
00:41:29.99\00:41:34.61
could not communicate with us.
00:41:34.64\00:41:37.06
She couldn't talk, she could
walk some, when I would go home
00:41:37.09\00:41:40.53
I knew that she recognized
me, by the twinkle in her eye.
00:41:40.56\00:41:45.66
You know the dance in her eye.
00:41:45.69\00:41:47.11
She would take my hand
and squeeze it very firmly.
00:41:47.14\00:41:50.77
But she could audibleize,
she couldn't say hello but I
00:41:50.80\00:41:56.09
knew new she knew I was there.
My sister determined as a nurse
00:41:56.12\00:41:59.74
that we were not going to
put her in a nursing home.
00:41:59.77\00:42:01.51
We determined we
would keep her home.
00:42:01.54\00:42:03.12
So my sister took care of her.
00:42:03.15\00:42:05.39
Between the two of us we
got our finances together.
00:42:05.42\00:42:09.13
I sold my car and we
got a hospital bed for her,
00:42:09.16\00:42:12.06
and we got a
number of things for her.
00:42:12.09\00:42:14.01
To try and keep her
home, we didn't want to put
00:42:14.04\00:42:16.74
her in a nursing facility.
00:42:16.77\00:42:18.05
My sister decided that
she would make that sacrifice
00:42:18.08\00:42:19.91
and said if you are going
to make the physical sacrifice
00:42:19.94\00:42:22.40
I will make the financial
sacrifice, if I ever have any
00:42:22.43\00:42:25.44
money and you need money, I
will send it home so that my
00:42:25.47\00:42:28.71
mothers last years can be fine.
00:42:28.74\00:42:30.59
But she declined precipitated-
lessly the last couple years.
00:42:30.62\00:42:35.05
Now do you think if my dad
were in heaven looking down
00:42:35.08\00:42:39.83
at his wife of just shy of 40
years, going down to the point
00:42:39.86\00:42:46.91
where she had to be
fed through a straw.
00:42:46.94\00:42:48.45
Couldn't take care
of her bathroom needs.
00:42:48.48\00:42:53.55
My sister had to bath her,
and walk her, and nurse her,
00:42:53.58\00:42:57.77
and actually move her
limbs so they wouldn't freeze.
00:42:57.80\00:43:00.00
Do you think my father
could enjoy heaven knowing that
00:43:00.03\00:43:03.60
person who had shared his
life for 40 years was suffering
00:43:03.63\00:43:07.49
like that, would heaven
be heaven if you had to watch
00:43:07.52\00:43:09.74
the suffering here on earth?
00:43:09.77\00:43:11.05
It would not! So the idea
that people fly immediately to
00:43:11.08\00:43:16.18
heaven and turn around and look
at what is going on down here
00:43:16.21\00:43:18.93
on earth is unbiblical.
00:43:18.96\00:43:20.27
Heaven couldn't be heaven if you
have to watch what is going on
00:43:20.30\00:43:24.32
down here on earth.
00:43:24.35\00:43:25.53
I was just looking the other
day at all the carnage of 9/11.
00:43:25.56\00:43:30.66
If Saints were in heaven
watching that 9/11, could
00:43:30.69\00:43:33.74
heaven be heaven?
00:43:33.77\00:43:34.74
Could you enjoy heaven watching
what is going on, what mankind
00:43:34.75\00:43:37.88
is doing to mankind?
00:43:37.91\00:43:39.17
The drugs, the violence, the
guns, the pornography, the filth
00:43:39.20\00:43:45.08
even on TV sets, our literature,
how can heaven be heaven
00:43:45.11\00:43:49.09
if I'm in heaven watching
all that stuff that is going on?
00:43:49.12\00:43:51.28
Heaven could not simply be
heaven, it would not be heaven.
00:43:51.31\00:43:55.85
Solomon says that once we
die we have no more portion of
00:43:55.88\00:44:00.43
what's going on, on planet Earth
00:44:00.46\00:44:01.58
Our loves, our hates they are
all forgotten and we wait until
00:44:01.61\00:44:05.06
the coming of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
00:44:05.09\00:44:07.36
Can you say Amen?
00:44:07.39\00:44:08.92
If we believe that Jesus died
and rose again even so God will
00:44:08.95\00:44:14.86
bring with him those
who sleep with Jesus.
00:44:14.89\00:44:17.24
There are basically 4 classes of
people, I'm looking at my time.
00:44:17.27\00:44:20.82
You have, when Christ
comes, the righteous living.
00:44:20.85\00:44:23.49
You have the righteous dead.
You have the unrighteous living.
00:44:23.52\00:44:28.04
And the unrighteous
dead. Those last two categories
00:44:28.07\00:44:31.45
we don't have time to go into
right now, but it is safe to say
00:44:31.48\00:44:35.57
that those of us who are alive,
those who have died in Christ,
00:44:35.60\00:44:39.07
at that point will
ascend to be with Jesus.
00:44:39.10\00:44:42.36
The Bible says we
will ever be with the Lord.
00:44:42.39\00:44:45.33
Can you say Amen?
00:44:45.36\00:44:46.83
A couple more
things, then we are done.
00:44:46.86\00:44:51.70
We saw what 1 Thessalonians
had to say, and we saw the
00:44:51.73\00:44:58.01
order of ascension.
00:44:58.04\00:44:59.32
What about the idea
that souls burn forever?
00:44:59.35\00:45:05.79
Here is the problem, if you buy,
I'll use that terminology, if
00:45:05.82\00:45:13.83
you believe that creation, at
birth you are given, or mankind
00:45:13.86\00:45:20.84
is given an immortal
soul, as I said before, you
00:45:20.87\00:45:24.91
immediately dig a hole
for yourself and here's why.
00:45:24.94\00:45:28.03
If you have an immortal soul
at birth, that means at death
00:45:28.06\00:45:34.65
you have to put
that soul someplace.
00:45:34.68\00:45:36.63
Does that makes sense?
Since it doesn't die, you have
00:45:36.66\00:45:41.59
to put it someplace, you have
to develop a theology that puts
00:45:41.62\00:45:45.44
So if a person says to you
I believe in an immortal soul
00:45:45.47\00:45:48.73
then you don't have to ask them
what they believe about death.
00:45:48.76\00:45:52.05
They have already told you.
00:45:52.08\00:45:53.26
One they have to believe that
soul goes immediately to heaven
00:45:53.29\00:45:58.13
or hell, they have to
believe that because the
00:45:58.16\00:46:00.70
soul is immortal.
00:46:00.73\00:46:01.87
So since it is immortal and does
not die, you have to develop
00:46:01.90\00:46:05.62
a theology that says the soul
has to go someplace immediately
00:46:05.65\00:46:09.09
at the point of death.
00:46:09.12\00:46:10.09
So that means they also believe
in an eternally burning hell.
00:46:10.10\00:46:14.48
Because if the soul is immortal
that it has to be someplace
00:46:14.51\00:46:19.07
for eternity, make sense?
00:46:19.10\00:46:21.24
So that means if it is going
to hell, then hell has to burn
00:46:21.27\00:46:26.25
forever because
the soul never dies.
00:46:26.28\00:46:29.73
You see the closet you
sort of box yourself in?
00:46:29.76\00:46:32.83
Then you turn a
loving God into a monster,
00:46:32.86\00:46:37.43
because someone is saying,
How could God be just and fair
00:46:37.46\00:46:42.26
loving and then burn people
forever, it doesn't seem fitting
00:46:42.29\00:46:46.42
for loving God.
How could God do that?
00:46:46.45\00:46:48.55
So you have to invent this
theology that says people burn
00:46:48.58\00:46:53.17
forever because you have this
soul that you say is eternal.
00:46:53.20\00:46:58.58
The Bible says, the
soul that sins shall die.
00:46:58.61\00:47:02.88
At creation, our very first
Scripture, our first lesson,
00:47:02.91\00:47:07.03
Body plus breath equals
soul. Body, no breath, no soul.
00:47:07.06\00:47:14.54
Amen! Well what about
fire that burns forever?
00:47:14.58\00:47:18.32
Well let's go to
the book of Jude.
00:47:18.36\00:47:19.33
We are running into a
little thing the Bible does.
00:47:22.00\00:47:24.13
Look at this! Jude verse 7.
00:47:24.17\00:47:25.14
Hmmm! Sodom and Gomorrah
were burned with eternal fire.
00:47:50.20\00:47:55.98
Are Sodom and
Gomorrah burning today? No!
00:47:56.01\00:48:02.24
If we got on our plane and
went over to Jordan or Israel
00:48:02.27\00:48:07.85
and went to the
southern end of the Dead Sea,
00:48:07.88\00:48:10.14
would we find Sodom
and Gomorrah burning?
00:48:10.17\00:48:13.64
No! So what does the Bible
mean when it is talking about
00:48:13.67\00:48:19.25
or mentions eternal fire?
00:48:19.28\00:48:22.08
What kind of
fire is eternal fire?
00:48:22.11\00:48:27.69
Eternal fire is fire that
burns with the eternal affect.
00:48:27.73\00:48:37.28
Did you hear me? Eternal affect!
00:48:37.31\00:48:42.25
In other words, when God burns
it, it is gone once and for all
00:48:42.28\00:48:49.84
and forever.
00:48:49.87\00:48:51.17
It will never come back
again, the effect is eternal,
00:48:51.20\00:48:56.49
not the duration.
00:48:56.52\00:48:58.63
You are mighty quiet.
00:49:00.91\00:49:01.88
The affect is
eternal, not the duration.
00:49:01.89\00:49:07.18
Sodom and Gomorrah were
burnt with eternal fire.
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Affect not duration.
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Now let me deal quickly
in the time is left to me
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with a text that many, many
people use to try to justify
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the idea that when you
leave the body you go into the
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the presence of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 5, what's book
did I say? 2 Corinthians 5:8
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And what is interesting is that
this theology has been based
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on this one text, but you never
based a theology on one text.
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The Bible says here a
little there a little.
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You look at every place the
Bible speaks about a certain
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issue and develop your theology
after you read all the Bible
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has to say, not just one text.
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Does that sound to you
like a theological statement?
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Shouldn't because it is not.
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It is Paul's desire,
because if you read on he says,
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listen, whether I'm absent or
present I'm going to be in Jesus
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He is saying I would rather
be out of this tent, I'd rather
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be out of this body
with its aches and pains
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and be with the Lord.
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It is his desire, it is not a
statement that when I leave here
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I'm going to the Lord.
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Now I can say the same
thing, I would rather be out of
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body and with Jesus.
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Amen! Anybody else?
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Yeah! I'd rather that!
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I'd rather be out of
this world and with Jesus.
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Amen! This world is so
good to use you want to stay
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in it forever? NO!
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I'm getting old, hate
to admit it, but I am.
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You know when I was a
child, we used to go into my
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father's room and I
use to watch my dad get up
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in the morning,
he had his routine.
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He would get up, sit
on the side of the bed,
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and make sure that
everything was still there.
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You know! And we would
say, daddy, come on, get up.
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Because as children
you wake up and you get up.
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but now at 50 years of
age, I get up and sort of sit on
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the side of the bed now.
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I don't just jump up, actually
what I do is get up and slide
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to the floor and pray.
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but I don't hop out of bed
to pray, I slide to the floor
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and pray.
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Yeah! because I'm getting old.
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I wish it were not
true, but I am getting old.
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Now don't let this lack of hair
be, or let that frighten you
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or disturb you, I am not bald,
I am shaved, there is difference
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shaved is volitional, if I
let my hair grow it will grow
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but it wouldn't grow right here.
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So rather than deal with
that I just took it all off.
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So I'm not bald, I'm shaved.
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Bald means you have
no hair. I have hair,
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it's all on the inside.
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So Paul says I would
rather be out of this body
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and be with the Lord.
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Now I agree with Paul, but the
Bible says we have got to wait
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because Jesus
has asked us to wait.
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Now, I'm going to
skip over a couple things,
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and go to a very powerful
text, John 5, let's go to
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John 5:28
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I'm throwing my graphic guys
a curve and jumping a little bit
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because time is getting
away from me, but here we go.
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John 5:28-29.
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Is That pretty plain?
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All of those in the
grave are going to come one day
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to the resurrection
of life, or condemnation.
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I could give you some numbers,
like the term Ruwach or Nephesh
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which are the terms that are
used in the Old Testament for
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souls being used 388 times.
00:53:11.07\00:53:13.30
None mean a
conscious thing that goes
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to heaven immediately when
you die, that is not biblical.
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The one text that I
really want to come down to
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is in Revelation where Christ
says, "I am coming quickly
00:53:21.78\00:53:26.94
and my reward is with me. "
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Jesus says, "hold fast, I
am coming quickly and my reward
00:53:31.02\00:53:36.05
is with me. " That is a powerful
text because Christ is saying
00:53:36.08\00:53:40.92
to us, I'm coming to get you.
00:53:40.95\00:53:44.03
I love you so much, I'm
not going to send you on
00:53:44.06\00:53:52.20
I'm coming back to get you.
00:53:52.23\00:53:53.29
"behold I come quickly, and
my reward is with me according
00:53:53.32\00:53:58.24
to every man as
his work shall be. "
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We put together a lot of texts
and we have gone very, very fast
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but it is an important doctrine,
it is important that you
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understand what
happens when you die
00:54:08.52\00:54:10.37
so that there is
no fear in death.
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There is no
consternation in death.
00:54:12.39\00:54:14.76
We go to our graves and we
wait the call of Christ and then
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Christ comes with a trump
and the graves open and the dead
00:54:18.92\00:54:22.08
in Christ come alive.
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We join those who are
dead, those who are still alive
00:54:23.77\00:54:26.38
should that be your case, and
we as ascend up to meet Jesus
00:54:26.41\00:54:29.29
and we will
always be with the Lord.
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That is God's will for everybody
here and everybody across
00:54:31.52\00:54:35.12
the planet and everybody
under the sound of my voice.
00:54:35.15\00:54:37.94
It is God's will that
you meet Him in peace.
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Should you die, or should
you be alive when He comes
00:54:41.17\00:54:44.97
it is God's desire that
all of us ascend in the clouds
00:54:45.01\00:54:48.77
and be with the
Lord for ever and ever.
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