"And life is worth the
living just because He lives."
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Amen. Amen.
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This morning, there is
a song called "Kindness"
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that is probably
unfamiliar to most of us
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and so we're
gonna have Fidi sing
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through the
first verse in chorus
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and then we're
gonna join him again
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on the first verse and
chorus as we learn the song.
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It's such a powerful song
and I'm just really excited
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that we're gonna
have an opportunity
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to sing it this morning.
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Open up the skies of mercy
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Rain down the cleansing flood
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Healing waters rise around us
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Hear our cries
Lord, let them rise
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It's Your kindness, Lord
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That leads us to repentance
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Your favor Lord, is our desire
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It's Your beauty, Lord
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That makes us stand in silence
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Your love Your
love, is better than life
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Open up the skies of mercy
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Rain down the cleansing flood
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Healing waters rise around us
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Hear our cries
Lord, let them rise
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It's Your kindness, Lord
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That leads us to repentance
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Your favor Lord, is our desire
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It's Your beauty, Lord
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That makes us stand in silence
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Your love Your
love, is better than life
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We can feel
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We can feel Your mercy falling
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You are turning
our hearts back again
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Hear our praises rise to heaven
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Draw us near,
Lord, And meet us here
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It's Your kindness, Lord
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That leads us to repentance
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Your favor Lord, is our desire
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It's Your beauty, Lord
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That makes us stand in silence
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Your love Your
love, is better than life
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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Better than all
the riches of the world
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It's Your kindness, Lord
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That leads us to repentance
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Your favor Lord, is our desire
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It's Your beauty, Lord
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That makes us stand in silence
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Your love Your love
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It's Your kindness, Lord
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That leads us to repentance
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Your favor Lord, is our desire
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It's Your beauty, Lord
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That makes us stand in silence
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Your love Your
love is better than life
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God, in the
quiet of that revelry
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we listen for You
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of all new beginnings.
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We need You now.
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As we set out
together on this new voyage,
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You lead us through
Holy Scripture teach us.
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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Are you afraid of death?
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Are you afraid of dying?
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My freshman year as it
turns out second semester
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on a rain slicking curve
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two beautiful
young college girls
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spun out of control
and were killed instantly.
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I knew them.
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One of them was
sitting in the next row
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over end to the back of
the communications class
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we were taking together.
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I didn't know them that well
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but that very night
when I crawled into bed,
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I'm telling you what I
went into an emotional tailspin.
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I tossed and turned in that
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dormitory bunk bed panicked,
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feeling as if
death's cold clammy hand
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was groping in the
darkness trying to find me next
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and I suddenly
found myself petrified,
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petrified over death.
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I was sure I would be the
next victim on that campus.
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I should have gone
to talk to somebody,
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I should have
talked to the dean,
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I should have talked to the
some counselor at the college,
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but I was too chicken to admit
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that I was scared of death.
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You afraid of death? May be not.
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Most of us are kind
of like Woody Allen.
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Woody Allen said,
"I'm not afraid of dying.
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I just don't want to
be there when it happens."
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But one of these days it
is gonna happen for Woody,
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for you and for me.
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And when death comes to
us what will it feel like.
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Do you suppose you
have warning like well,
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I think I'm gonna die in
just the next few moments
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or will death
stalefully grab us from behind.
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And when death comes, what next?
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Believing as I do that we all
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not like a panicky
freshman I understand that,
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but we all nurse
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a secret fear of
death believing that.
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I think the time is
right for you and I,
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for us to undertake--
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by the way I love
that word undertake
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because that will
make us undertakers
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which is a great death word.
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It is time for us
to undertake a journey.
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A candid and frank exploration
of this thing called death.
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We'll do it,
come on I promise you,
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we'll do it from a
safe and skeptic distance.
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Kind of like the
pathologist in that CSI morgue.
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We're not dealing
my own death here,
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we're dealing with
somebody else's death.
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We'll deal with it that
way, but we need to take a look.
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It's a tiny little mini
series that we begin today
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just three parts long.
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We'll call the series
"The Truth About Death."
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Today will be "The
Fork-tongued Beast."
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Next week will
be "The Unmade Bed"
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and then the third week
will be "The Midnight Blitz"
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because could it be true
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that if we can expose
the truth about death,
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we can defang death of its fear.
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So let's just
plunge into this thing.
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I mean, come on,
tell me, how in the world,
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how in the world do we get
into this death thing anyway?
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I mean, look, if
God-- if there is a God
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and I believe there is
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and if He is a
loving and compassionate God
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and I also believe
that He is that too.
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Then why in the name
of God in all that is good
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would He invent
something so wretched
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and treacherous as death
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or may be He didn't invent it.
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May be death didn't
get invented by anybody.
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May be it's
just some people say,
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you know, just been here.
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You evolve, you live, you die.
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You must learn to embrace it.
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It's kind of the way of life
in a random universe like ours.
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Is that it or could it be?
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It makes you wonder
could it be that the very fact
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we numinously
fear is mortal foe.
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Could it be that
that numinous fear
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in fact is proof enough?
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We've been made not to succumb
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to death in the beginning.
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Open your Bible with me please,
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to that story in the beginning.
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We got to, we got to find
the answers, guys, come on.
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Open your Bible with me, please
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to a story long,
long ago and far, far away
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five days of creation
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on this
primordial pristine planet.
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Over five are gone,
it's day six already.
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Already, the planet is bursting
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and its green seems
the eco system alive
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with every imaginable life
form from orchids to orcas,
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to ostriches to
orangutans, wow, what a place.
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By then when the
Creator comes to His masterful,
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crowing act of creation,
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suddenly the
account burst with detail.
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Let's go to that
Genesis Chapter 2,
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crowning act of
Creator, Genesis 2.
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By the way if you
didn't bring your Bible
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you got to grab the pew
Bible right in front of you.
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It's waiting to be picked up,
just hoping you'll pick it up.
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Genesis 2, be page
one in your pew Bible.
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Let's take a look
at this, Genesis 2,
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by the way pew Bible--
hope the Bible same translation
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today the New King
James Version, Genesis 2.
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Here comes the
detail, verse 7, Genesis 2:7,
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"And the Lord God"
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hit the pause
button right there.
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I need to remind you
just in case you didn't know
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or have forgotten that
according to the New Testament
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John 1,
Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1
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the lowered God,
the divine player.
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In the first three chapters
of Genesis that divine player
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is none other than
the pre-incarnate Christ.
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Now I have no idea what the
pre-incarnate Christ look like,
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I know what Jesus looks like
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because I've
looked at that picture
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as you have for a long time.
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So we've got that
face in our minds.
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Well, this is the
face of the same being,
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same one, the Lord God,
the pre-incarnate Christ.
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And the Lord God formed--
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by the way the
Hebrew word for form is
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what a potter does
with a hunk of clay.
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Just takes that clay forms.
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"And the Lord God formed man."
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By the way as well
in the Hebrew aw-dawm.
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Not a proper name.
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It's a name, it's a generic
name for humanity, aw-dawm.
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"And the Lord
God formed" aw-dawm
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"man out of the dust of the"
aw-dawm-ah, Hebrew for ground.
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See the connection because
he came out of the ground.
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His name even
sounds like ground.
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"And the Lord God formed man
out of the dust of the ground,
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and He breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
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and man became a living being."
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Hey, do you remember
when you were in first grade
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and your teacher announced today
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boy and girls, our
class in afternoon.
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All right, boys and girls,
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today I'm gonna put
something special in your hands
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and I want you to
make for me a face.
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You make your own face please
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and then she handed out
red lumps and blue lumps
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and green lumps and
yellow lumps of clay.
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You remember that?
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Your teacher said all
right, work this clay.
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All right, make it into a
face and so you took that lump
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and you rounded
it into this kind of
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cockamamie shaped head.
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You took a little bit out of
the back of the head and you,
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you squiggled into
this long pointing nose.
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You took the sides of the head,
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and you pulled it out
as ear are cauliflower.
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You punched in two
holes, got two holes for the eye
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and dropped in
two little clay balls
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and then you
pencil prick that smile
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and you held it up to
your teacher and she told you
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it was the most beautiful
face she had ever seen.
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And we were all
thinking of ourselves
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I'm sure glad he
was not my creator.
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Genesis 2:7, "And the Lord God
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formed man of the
dust of the ground,
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and breathed into his nostrils"
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breathed into his nostrils
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"the breath of life, and
man became a living being."
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Just hit the pause button
again for one more moment.
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We need to know
the vital ingredients
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that when they are combined
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turn a human being
into a living being.
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We got to get these down.
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Grab your, grab your study guide
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and your worship bulletin today,
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blow the snow off of it.
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Take that study
guide out and by the way
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if you don't have a study
guide, you got to get this one.
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There are some
equations that we are gonna
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share with you
that you got to have.
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So hold your hand up,
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our friendly
ushers will be coming
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your way up in the balcony
in the overflow right here.
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Just hold your hand up and say
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I need one of
those study guides.
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And while we're
getting those out here
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I want to welcome those of you
who are watching on television,
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listening on a radio,
we're delighted you are here.
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You can get the same series.
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Let me put it on
the screen for you.
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This is the series,
"The Truth About Death."
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Little three part mini series.
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Go to our website
please, www.pmchurch.tv
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and you're looking
for today's teaching
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"The Forked-Tongue Beast."
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That's today's
teaching and when you say
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study guide right
beside that title,
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you click on, you will have
the same study guide we have
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and you can
plunge into this with us.
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I'm glad you're here, everybody.
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All right, let's
go. We got to go.
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Genesis 2:7, fill it up please.
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"Dust of the ground."
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Okay, what are the ingredients
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that make a human
being a living being?
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"Dust of the ground" +
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"Breath of
life" = "Living soul."
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"Dust of the ground" +
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"Breath of
life" = "Living soul."
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We just saw it in this verse,
we're not adding anything.
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Those are the two ingredients
that make a living being.
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The Creator
stoops over this statue.
00:21:18.82\00:21:20.31
I mean you try to
imagine in your heart this is--
00:21:20.34\00:21:23.08
there's just this clay statue,
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.29
perfect man but lifeless.
00:21:25.32\00:21:28.48
And the Creator the
pre-incarnate Christ
00:21:28.51\00:21:30.47
puts His mouth over that
clay, those clay nostrils
00:21:30.50\00:21:33.83
and He breathes
in the animating life
00:21:33.86\00:21:35.82
that belongs only
to God and as He does
00:21:35.85\00:21:38.72
suddenly those huge
eyes begin to flutter
00:21:38.75\00:21:41.49
and that massive chest go
00:21:41.52\00:21:43.94
and Adam becomes a living being.
00:21:43.97\00:21:47.18
In fact here's an easy way
00:21:47.21\00:21:48.24
to remember the
formula, jot it down.
00:21:48.27\00:21:49.71
Body + Breath = Being.
00:21:49.74\00:21:54.47
All right. Body
+ Breath = Being.
00:21:54.50\00:22:00.17
So now what does God do?
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Drop down to verse 15,
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and "Then the Lord
God took the man" aw-dawm
00:22:03.92\00:22:07.10
"and He put him in the Garden
of Eden to tend and keep it."
00:22:07.13\00:22:09.91
And verse 16, "The Lord
God commanded the man, saying,
00:22:09.94\00:22:13.30
'Of every tree of the
garden you may eat freely,
00:22:13.33\00:22:16.49
but'" verse 17 "'of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil
00:22:16.52\00:22:21.42
you shall not
eat, for in the day
00:22:21.45\00:22:24.78
that you eat of it
you shall surely die.'"
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.86
Now I want you to
imagine in your mind,
00:22:28.89\00:22:31.05
Adam is listening to his Creator
00:22:31.08\00:22:32.57
and friend give
these instructions.
00:22:32.60\00:22:33.85
Hey, time out please.
00:22:33.88\00:22:36.34
My Lord, and dear divine friend,
00:22:36.37\00:22:39.88
I ought to ask You a question.
00:22:39.91\00:22:41.39
You said that if the day
that I eat of it, I'm gonna die.
00:22:41.42\00:22:44.44
What does that mean?
What do you mean die?
00:22:44.47\00:22:49.11
You think about it.
There has been no death.
00:22:49.14\00:22:52.24
There has been no death on
this primordial planet, zero.
00:22:52.27\00:22:55.88
Nobody in the
universe has seen death.
00:22:55.91\00:22:58.95
What do You say I'll
have it? I would die?
00:22:58.98\00:23:05.05
The Creator is
warning in verse 17 is clear.
00:23:05.08\00:23:07.80
That whatever death is
00:23:07.83\00:23:09.16
and right now we
don't know what it is,
00:23:09.19\00:23:10.45
but whatever death
is, it would only ensue
00:23:10.48\00:23:13.23
should the man or woman chose
to reject the Creator as Lord.
00:23:13.26\00:23:19.01
Unless the humans
choose to disobey the Creator,
00:23:19.04\00:23:22.02
there will never be
death on this planet
00:23:22.05\00:23:27.18
which being interpreted means.
00:23:27.21\00:23:30.80
That any theory of
origin that necessitates death
00:23:30.83\00:23:34.72
as a method of
the Creators creating
00:23:34.75\00:23:37.50
or evolving life
forms of this planet
00:23:37.53\00:23:40.11
is in direct contradiction
to the utterly clear
00:23:40.14\00:23:43.32
and plain teaching of scripture.
00:23:43.35\00:23:45.53
In fact would you
write this down please?
00:23:45.56\00:23:47.53
Genesis 2:17
makes clear that death
00:23:47.56\00:23:50.91
is the consequence
of human rebellion,
00:23:50.94\00:23:53.98
not the modus
operandi of human evolution.
00:23:54.01\00:23:58.42
Keep writing.
00:23:58.45\00:23:59.48
The Creator did not need
long ages of death cycles
00:23:59.51\00:24:03.57
in order to
create our life cycle.
00:24:03.60\00:24:06.58
Roman 6:23. Keep scribbling.
00:24:06.61\00:24:08.67
"For the wages of sin"
00:24:08.70\00:24:10.35
Hey, tell me what
are the wages of sin?
00:24:10.38\00:24:11.86
Say it to me. Death.
00:24:11.89\00:24:14.12
"The wages of sin is
death"-- i.e., no sin, no death.
00:24:14.15\00:24:20.18
Whatever death is,
00:24:20.21\00:24:22.33
it is the fruit of sin
and rebellion against God.
00:24:22.36\00:24:29.54
No wonder the serpent
00:24:29.57\00:24:34.43
went with bared fangs
00:24:34.46\00:24:38.06
after the truth about death.
00:24:38.09\00:24:42.45
Chapter 3:1, "Now the
serpent was more cunning
00:24:42.48\00:24:49.72
than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
00:24:49.75\00:24:53.05
And he said to the
woman, 'Has God indeed said,
00:24:53.08\00:24:57.48
"You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?''
00:24:57.51\00:25:00.80
Hit the pause button again.
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Clearly, clearly,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:02.09\00:25:04.11
clearly the serpent
creature has been co-opted
00:25:04.14\00:25:08.93
by an intelligent life
form that is using the serpent
00:25:08.96\00:25:12.26
as a medium for his
own nefarious purpose.
00:25:12.29\00:25:17.00
And who's that
intelligent life form?
00:25:17.03\00:25:18.56
The Bibles, the Bibles last book
00:25:18.59\00:25:21.78
confirms this story in
the Bible's first book.
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I want to look
at that last book,
00:25:25.03\00:25:26.20
in fact I want you to go there.
00:25:26.23\00:25:27.26
Keep your finger right here
00:25:27.29\00:25:28.40
because we are
coming immediately back
00:25:28.43\00:25:29.90
but you need to
see this for yourself
00:25:29.93\00:25:31.37
in your own Bible Revelation,
00:25:31.40\00:25:33.03
the Bible's
last book chapter 12.
00:25:33.06\00:25:35.42
I want you to see
this. Revelation 12:7.
00:25:35.45\00:25:42.47
All right, that is
our page number here
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page number 829.
00:25:44.18\00:25:46.17
All right, Revelation 12:7,
00:25:46.20\00:25:47.68
"And war" this is the most
00:25:47.71\00:25:50.93
inexplicable line in
all of Holy Scripture.
00:25:50.96\00:25:53.87
How you get war in the home
00:25:53.90\00:25:55.68
and family of God
with perfect parents?
00:25:55.71\00:25:57.65
You know, I have
parents come to me heartbroken.
00:25:57.68\00:25:59.59
What happened to my daughter?
What happened to my child?
00:25:59.62\00:26:01.61
I had two parents in
my office this very week,
00:26:01.64\00:26:03.53
this very week with tears.
00:26:03.56\00:26:09.25
I tell parents listen,
don't be too hard on yourself.
00:26:09.28\00:26:12.01
I've been there and
done that, and number two
00:26:12.04\00:26:14.93
you can be the most
perfect parent in the universe
00:26:14.96\00:26:19.10
and you can have
your family fall apart.
00:26:19.13\00:26:22.32
So take it easy on yourself.
00:26:22.35\00:26:25.29
God, even God
couldn't stop the war.
00:26:25.32\00:26:29.35
Not of your love, not if
you give people free choice.
00:26:29.38\00:26:32.15
You can shoot at
them if they disobey,
00:26:32.18\00:26:33.43
but if give them free choice,
it's a whole another ball game
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.91
and love always gives
free choices, doesn't it.
00:26:35.94\00:26:38.65
Or it's not love,
it's rape and war.
00:26:38.68\00:26:43.76
By the way the
Greek word for war,
00:26:43.79\00:26:44.99
Polemos from whence
comes our word polemics.
00:26:45.02\00:26:48.31
It's a war of ideologies,
00:26:48.34\00:26:49.69
it's a war of ideas,
the war of philosophies.
00:26:49.72\00:26:51.52
That's the word, they
are not boxing each other.
00:26:51.55\00:26:53.62
"And war broke out in heaven,
00:26:53.65\00:26:55.70
Michael and his angels
fought with the dragon,
00:26:55.73\00:26:57.41
and the dragon and his
angels fought back" verse 8,
00:26:57.44\00:26:59.75
"but they" the dragon and
his angels "did not prevail,
00:26:59.78\00:27:03.08
nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer."
00:27:03.11\00:27:06.11
Verse 9 "So the
great dragon was cast out,"
00:27:06.14\00:27:09.48
you can't a leave a
rebel in the house forever.
00:27:09.51\00:27:11.51
It will destroy everything.
00:27:11.54\00:27:13.16
"So the great
dragon was cast out,"
00:27:13.19\00:27:15.52
verse 9 "that serpent of
old, called the Devil and Satan,
00:27:15.55\00:27:20.96
who deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth,
00:27:20.99\00:27:24.16
and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:27:24.19\00:27:27.14
Write it down
ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:27.17\00:27:29.02
"The serpent of Genesis is
none other than the devil,"
00:27:29.05\00:27:32.59
write it in" none other
than the Devil or Satan,
00:27:32.62\00:27:35.36
the fallen Lucifer of heaven.
00:27:35.39\00:27:38.78
That's who that
is. That's who he is.
00:27:38.81\00:27:43.92
Once upon a time there was a
civil war in the house of God
00:27:43.95\00:27:50.83
and Lucifer was
finally cast out of paradise
00:27:50.86\00:27:54.29
and lo he came to Eden.
00:27:54.32\00:28:01.28
Go back where your
finger was, in Genesis 3:1.
00:28:01.31\00:28:05.47
"Now the
serpent was more cunning
00:28:05.50\00:28:08.34
than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
00:28:08.37\00:28:11.47
And he said to the woman,
please, Has God indeed said,
00:28:11.50\00:28:17.08
'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?'"
00:28:17.11\00:28:19.66
By the way that is
the most ludicrous line
00:28:19.69\00:28:21.50
you could possibly think of,
00:28:21.53\00:28:22.87
but that's the whole
point why he spoke it.
00:28:22.90\00:28:25.90
I mean, he's
making a-- it's ludicrous.
00:28:25.93\00:28:28.85
Hey, hey, girl, you, come here.
00:28:28.88\00:28:31.48
Did God tell you, you
can't eat any of these trees?
00:28:31.51\00:28:34.22
How dumb?
00:28:34.25\00:28:36.98
All He wants,
whenever Lucifer comes to you
00:28:37.01\00:28:39.88
all He wants is
for you to engage
00:28:39.91\00:28:43.05
in a little bit of
friendly conversation.
00:28:43.08\00:28:46.35
Trust me it's never
friendly and you'll never win.
00:28:46.38\00:28:49.39
Because if your consensus
is saying don't, don't, don't
00:28:49.42\00:28:52.75
and there's another voice
in you saying, do, do, do.
00:28:52.78\00:28:55.68
The voice is saying do if
you argue with that voice,
00:28:55.71\00:28:58.76
he sets you up for
the kill just like that.
00:28:58.79\00:29:03.52
You walk away.
You just walk away.
00:29:03.55\00:29:07.23
Get out of that car,
walk away from that party,
00:29:07.26\00:29:11.07
get out of that
place, just get out.
00:29:11.10\00:29:14.94
If your mind has got
consensus to you saying,
00:29:14.97\00:29:17.87
don't, don't, don't,
don't you argue, just leave.
00:29:17.90\00:29:24.04
It worked, hook,
line, and sinker.
00:29:24.07\00:29:27.13
She bit the bate.
00:29:27.16\00:29:28.83
"And the woman
said" hey, wait a minute.
00:29:28.86\00:29:30.99
What are you
talking about? Verse 2.
00:29:31.02\00:29:33.51
"We may eat the fruit of
the trees of the garden,"
00:29:33.54\00:29:35.81
you got it wrong buddy, verse 3,
00:29:35.84\00:29:39.19
"But of the fruit of the tree
00:29:39.22\00:29:40.93
which is in the
midst of the garden,"
00:29:40.96\00:29:42.50
coincidently if this very
tree that you are coiled in.
00:29:42.53\00:29:46.94
"But of the fruit of the tree
00:29:46.97\00:29:49.68
that is in the
midst of the garden,
00:29:49.71\00:29:50.93
God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
00:29:50.96\00:29:52.92
nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.'
00:29:52.95\00:29:55.45
Then the serpent
said to the woman,
00:29:55.48\00:29:58.08
'You will not surely die.
00:29:58.11\00:30:01.93
For God knows that
in the day you eat of it
00:30:01.96\00:30:04.13
your eyes will be opened,
00:30:04.16\00:30:05.55
and you will be like
God, knowing good from evil.'"
00:30:05.58\00:30:11.32
Would you write it down please,
00:30:11.35\00:30:13.89
those words you
will not surely die
00:30:13.92\00:30:17.30
in the English are
the strongest wording
00:30:17.33\00:30:20.83
Hebrew is capable of,
00:30:20.86\00:30:22.62
literally the
Hebrew reads "Dying,
00:30:22.65\00:30:24.98
you will not die"--
i.e., "You will positively"
00:30:25.01\00:30:30.51
I promise you
positively you will not die.
00:30:30.54\00:30:34.95
The serpent's
language is as forceful
00:30:34.98\00:30:37.76
as he can possibly
make it. Take my word lady.
00:30:37.79\00:30:41.63
Take my word, read my lips,
00:30:41.66\00:30:45.05
I promise you, you will not die.
00:30:45.08\00:30:50.37
That's what the
Hebrew is telling us.
00:30:50.40\00:30:54.04
It is a blatant
contradiction of God's warning
00:30:54.07\00:30:56.16
to Adam and Eve
00:30:56.19\00:30:57.22
proving that
the serpent's tongue
00:30:57.25\00:30:59.13
has been forked
from the beginning.
00:30:59.16\00:31:04.90
Jesus by the way, the creator
00:31:04.93\00:31:07.35
when he became
incarnated into our midst
00:31:07.38\00:31:09.50
matched the
serpent's strong language
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.94
with a bit of strong
language back at you of his own.
00:31:11.97\00:31:15.70
Jot it down this
is from John 8:44
00:31:15.73\00:31:18.00
and I love it in the
NIV. Watch this, fill it in.
00:31:18.03\00:31:20.95
Jesus said, "The
devil was a murderer
00:31:20.98\00:31:23.89
from the beginning,
not holding to the truth,
00:31:23.92\00:31:25.97
for there is no
truth, no truth in him.
00:31:26.00\00:31:31.07
When he lies,"
isn't it something
00:31:31.10\00:31:33.91
"he speaks his native language,"
00:31:33.94\00:31:37.30
that's all he
knows what to do is lie.
00:31:37.33\00:31:40.03
Oh, he will mix the truth in.
00:31:40.06\00:31:41.89
He'll have a
little bit of the truth in
00:31:41.92\00:31:43.60
to catch you off guard.
00:31:43.63\00:31:45.11
But when he speaks
lying is his native language
00:31:45.14\00:31:48.48
and then Phil is
saying, "For he is a liar
00:31:48.51\00:31:50.38
and the father of lies."
00:31:50.41\00:31:54.61
He is a liar and
the father of lies.
00:31:54.64\00:31:57.22
And what did he
say to the human race?
00:31:57.25\00:31:59.13
You're not gonna
die, you're not gonna die,
00:31:59.16\00:32:01.77
I said, this is
what I say to you,
00:32:01.80\00:32:03.24
liar, liar pants on fire.
00:32:03.27\00:32:08.57
Because she did die
00:32:08.60\00:32:10.09
and so did he...
00:32:14.06\00:32:17.90
and so will you...
00:32:17.93\00:32:21.57
so will I.
00:32:21.60\00:32:23.12
Verse 6 "So when the woman saw"
00:32:27.36\00:32:33.74
he's going at her sore eyes.
00:32:33.77\00:32:35.90
"When the woman saw that
the tree was good for food,
00:32:35.93\00:32:38.81
that it was
pleasant for the eyes,
00:32:38.84\00:32:40.99
and a tree
desirable to make one wise,
00:32:41.02\00:32:43.19
she took of its fruit and ate.
00:32:43.22\00:32:44.78
And she also gave to her
husband with her, and he ate."
00:32:44.81\00:32:51.18
And what follows,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:32:51.21\00:32:53.69
is one of the
most heartbreaking,
00:32:53.72\00:32:55.28
heart to heart conversations
in all of scripture.
00:32:55.31\00:32:59.34
And at the very end of it,
00:32:59.37\00:33:01.60
God turns to Adam
and answers the unspoken
00:33:01.63\00:33:06.20
but now open question,
what happens when I die?
00:33:06.23\00:33:11.62
He never
answered in chapter two,
00:33:11.65\00:33:13.70
now has to come the answer.
00:33:13.73\00:33:17.79
The devil lied about death.
00:33:17.82\00:33:19.53
Listen to God tell
the truth about death.
00:33:19.56\00:33:21.09
Verse 17 "Then to Adam"
the pre-incarnate Christ said,
00:33:21.12\00:33:27.46
"Because you have
heeded the voice of your wife,
00:33:27.49\00:33:31.17
and have eaten from the
tree of which I commanded you,
00:33:31.20\00:33:33.66
saying, 'You
shall not eat of it.'"
00:33:33.69\00:33:35.97
Let me tell you something, Adam.
00:33:36.00\00:33:37.29
Here's the planet you now
get with Lucifer as your lord.
00:33:37.32\00:33:40.53
You went to the running booth,
00:33:40.56\00:33:41.75
you went to that
tree, you pulled the lever,
00:33:41.78\00:33:43.31
we would rather have
Lucifer than Me, all right.
00:33:43.34\00:33:46.63
Here's what you get now. "
00:33:46.66\00:33:48.10
Cursed is the
ground for your sake,
00:33:48.13\00:33:51.87
in toil you shall eat of
it all the days of your life."
00:33:51.90\00:33:55.32
Verse 18, "Both
thorns and thistles
00:33:55.35\00:33:58.15
it shall now
bring forth for you,
00:33:58.18\00:34:00.72
and you shall eat
the herb of the field."
00:34:00.75\00:34:03.36
Verse 19 "And in
the sweat of your face
00:34:03.39\00:34:06.84
you shall eat bread till
you return to the ground,
00:34:06.87\00:34:11.65
for out of it you were taken,
00:34:11.68\00:34:15.14
for dust you are, and
to dust you shall return."
00:34:15.17\00:34:21.02
What is death? God
is absolutely clear.
00:34:21.05\00:34:24.65
Death is the great
reversal of creation.
00:34:24.68\00:34:29.08
That's what death
is, cutting us off
00:34:29.11\00:34:35.97
from the source of
life because of our choice.
00:34:36.00\00:34:40.11
Would you jot it down, please?
00:34:40.14\00:34:41.17
Death is to
return to the ground.
00:34:41.20\00:34:43.90
Death is to
"return to the ground,
00:34:43.93\00:34:45.35
for dust you are,
00:34:45.38\00:34:47.42
and to dust you
shall return." Guess what?
00:34:47.45\00:34:51.27
Those are the words we
intone at the grave site
00:34:51.30\00:34:54.46
those of us that join you there.
00:34:54.49\00:34:57.71
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
00:34:57.74\00:35:02.99
that's where it came from
00:35:03.02\00:35:04.43
the Creator's
definition of death.
00:35:04.46\00:35:10.25
You remember that equation
00:35:10.28\00:35:11.48
we put on the
screen a moment ago.
00:35:11.51\00:35:12.80
Hey, guys, just put the screen--
00:35:12.83\00:35:13.86
let's put that equation
please back up on the screen.
00:35:13.89\00:35:15.80
You remember this
Body + Breath = Being.
00:35:15.83\00:35:20.99
So if death is a
great reversal of creation
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.10
the equation for death
would go something like this.
00:35:23.13\00:35:24.96
Fill it in.
00:35:24.99\00:35:26.02
Body (back to dust)
00:35:26.05\00:35:28.08
- Breath (back to God) = Death.
00:35:28.11\00:35:34.17
That's it.
00:35:34.20\00:35:36.30
And when our
bodies turn back to dust
00:35:36.33\00:35:37.61
and our breath returns to
God, is there anything leftover?
00:35:37.64\00:35:40.36
Is there something
that goes on living,
00:35:40.39\00:35:41.75
anything that goes on
existing? Very good question.
00:35:41.78\00:35:46.86
Let's illustrate it by
building a box together.
00:35:46.89\00:35:49.48
I put a stack of
boards right here,
00:35:49.51\00:35:51.05
stack of boards right here
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.29
and a pile of nails
right here. Can you see it?
00:35:52.32\00:35:54.34
You have to squint to see it,
00:35:54.37\00:35:55.45
but stack of boards
right here pile of nails.
00:35:55.48\00:35:59.03
Every carpenter knows there
is a formula for building a box.
00:35:59.06\00:36:04.40
Stack of boards, pile of nails.
00:36:04.43\00:36:05.79
Let's put the
formula on the screen please.
00:36:05.82\00:36:07.83
Boards + Nails = Box.
00:36:07.86\00:36:12.84
If you memorize that formula,
00:36:12.87\00:36:14.65
you'll be able to
build boxes till you die.
00:36:14.68\00:36:18.70
Boards + Nails = Box.
00:36:18.73\00:36:22.91
Now, Mr. Carpenter, you,
00:36:22.94\00:36:25.77
what's the formula
for taking a box apart?
00:36:25.80\00:36:28.72
It's very simple.
00:36:28.75\00:36:29.99
I'll put it on the
screen for you jot it down.
00:36:30.02\00:36:32.10
Boards - Nails =...
Now go ahead fill it in.
00:36:32.13\00:36:38.98
Go ahead fill it
in. Boards - Nails =...
00:36:39.01\00:36:43.80
Now let's put three
question marks up there.
00:36:47.99\00:36:51.40
You're not sure, I'm
looking in your faces,
00:36:51.43\00:36:52.71
you're not sure.
00:36:52.74\00:36:54.93
Hey, listen, hey
listen, people, what do you have
00:36:54.96\00:36:58.26
when you take the boards
and the nails of a box apart,
00:36:58.29\00:37:00.81
what do you
have? What do you have?
00:37:00.84\00:37:02.23
In fact let's do it this way.
00:37:02.26\00:37:03.29
There's a little 'Q'
and 'A' in your study guide.
00:37:03.32\00:37:05.03
Let's put the
'Q' up on the screen.
00:37:05.06\00:37:06.54
When you take the
boards and nails apart,
00:37:06.57\00:37:08.95
where does the box go?
00:37:08.98\00:37:11.74
Does it go-- do boxes
that have been disassembled
00:37:11.77\00:37:15.10
hover up in the corner of rooms
00:37:15.13\00:37:16.57
right up there near the
ceiling? Where do boxes go?
00:37:16.60\00:37:19.26
Do they go to a
box heaven and wait?
00:37:19.29\00:37:23.81
You know the answer
write it down, please.
00:37:23.84\00:37:25.30
The answer, "It
simply ceases to exist."
00:37:25.33\00:37:30.49
And now ladies and gentlemen,
00:37:30.52\00:37:31.71
it's precisely God's
point about death in Genesis 3.
00:37:31.74\00:37:35.06
When you take a
human being apart,
00:37:35.09\00:37:37.15
it simply ceases to exist.
00:37:37.18\00:37:40.32
In fact I'll just write it in
little shorter formula for you.
00:37:40.35\00:37:43.62
Body - Breath =
Death/ Ceasing to exist.
00:37:43.65\00:37:51.58
Death is a great
reversal of creation
00:37:51.61\00:37:57.14
and God is
looking into the face,
00:37:57.17\00:37:59.65
the pre-incarnate
Christ looking into the face--
00:37:59.68\00:38:02.40
faces of Adam and Eve
00:38:02.43\00:38:04.83
and you can almost hear Him say,
00:38:04.86\00:38:06.16
I'm so heartbroken
for you. I'm telling you.
00:38:06.19\00:38:13.53
I'm telling you
for devil lied to you.
00:38:13.56\00:38:18.08
You are going to die now.
00:38:18.11\00:38:21.69
And then the writer of Genesis
00:38:25.30\00:38:27.83
to make sure that we knew
God's definition in Genesis 3
00:38:27.86\00:38:34.03
is the correct
definition about death.
00:38:34.06\00:38:38.89
Now we might know the
truth of the serpent's lie.
00:38:38.92\00:38:41.18
Just turn the
pages, turn your pages
00:38:41.21\00:38:42.80
just like this to Genesis 5.
00:38:42.83\00:38:44.73
Drop down to verse 5, read this.
00:38:44.76\00:38:46.75
Genesis 5:5
it's speaking of Adam
00:38:46.78\00:38:48.53
and "So all the days
00:38:48.56\00:38:50.41
that Adam lived were nine
hundred and thirty years,"
00:38:50.44\00:38:54.89
and read the next
words to me "and he died."
00:38:54.92\00:39:02.62
And he died.
00:39:02.65\00:39:04.62
The devil told him he wouldn't,
00:39:04.65\00:39:06.17
the Bible tells us
he did and he died.
00:39:06.20\00:39:11.74
What happened when Adam died?
00:39:15.92\00:39:17.93
Death reverse creation,
00:39:17.96\00:39:19.56
that's how the
Bible defines death.
00:39:19.59\00:39:20.65
In fact put this on the screen
00:39:20.68\00:39:22.84
but you have it
there in your study guide
00:39:22.87\00:39:23.92
Ecclesiastes 12:7. Fill it in.
00:39:23.95\00:39:27.14
"Then [at death]" here's
how the Bible defines death.
00:39:27.17\00:39:29.34
"Then [at death]
the dust will return
00:39:29.37\00:39:31.33
to the earth as it
was, and the spirit"
00:39:31.36\00:39:34.12
now the Hebrew
word there is ruach
00:39:34.15\00:39:36.73
and it can be translated breathe
00:39:36.76\00:39:37.89
so you need to
put that in there.
00:39:37.92\00:39:39.37
"And the spirit or breath
will return to God who gave it."
00:39:39.40\00:39:43.77
I told you, Dwight, I told you
00:39:43.80\00:39:45.88
there is something intelligent
that goes back to God
00:39:45.91\00:39:48.06
when we die and
it's that spirit.
00:39:48.09\00:39:50.50
Oh, my friend, be very--
00:39:50.53\00:39:52.38
be very cautious about jumping
00:39:52.41\00:39:54.32
so quickly to that conclusion.
00:39:54.35\00:39:56.30
You want to know
what that's spirit is?
00:39:56.33\00:39:57.36
Let's go, let's check it.
00:39:57.39\00:39:58.66
You know, we have to let
the Bible interpret itself,
00:39:58.69\00:40:00.30
it's not your opinion and mine,
00:40:00.33\00:40:01.36
let's let the
Bible interpret itself.
00:40:01.39\00:40:02.58
Job 27:3, take a look at
this. It's in your study guide.
00:40:02.61\00:40:06.64
Job speaking, "All the
while my breath is in me,
00:40:06.67\00:40:09.66
and the spirit" ruach
write in the word breath.
00:40:09.69\00:40:14.27
And the spirit of God is where?
Is where? "Is in my nostrils."
00:40:14.30\00:40:20.78
Now either we
conclude ladies and gentlemen,
00:40:20.81\00:40:23.45
that our intelligent
spirit lives in our nostrils
00:40:23.48\00:40:26.86
which doesn't seem very
intelligent to me at all
00:40:26.89\00:40:33.06
or we have to
conclude and recognize
00:40:33.09\00:40:40.06
that when Ecclesiastes
12:7 describes death,
00:40:40.09\00:40:42.70
it is a great
reversal of creation.
00:40:42.73\00:40:44.33
In Genesis 2:7 it means
that our bodies go back to dust
00:40:44.36\00:40:48.13
and our breath of life
returns to the life giver.
00:40:48.16\00:40:51.93
You don't have your intelligent
spirit living up your nose.
00:40:51.96\00:40:59.60
But I thought there was
some kind of the soul thing.
00:40:59.63\00:41:01.61
You know, what about the
soul, this immortal soul?
00:41:01.64\00:41:06.59
It comes as a
rude shock to anyone
00:41:06.62\00:41:08.02
who carefully studies
the Bible teaching on death
00:41:08.05\00:41:09.94
to discover that the Bible
00:41:09.97\00:41:11.17
never speaks of
an immortal soul.
00:41:11.20\00:41:13.59
Would you jot this down
in your study guide, please?
00:41:13.62\00:41:15.97
In face, over
1,700 times the words
00:41:16.00\00:41:19.96
"soul" and "spirit"
are used in the Bible,
00:41:19.99\00:41:22.92
and not once is the
adjective "immortal"
00:41:22.95\00:41:26.21
attached to them, never.
00:41:26.24\00:41:29.73
In fact according to
the Bible immortality,
00:41:29.76\00:41:33.11
immortality belongs to
only one being in the universe
00:41:33.14\00:41:37.15
and you have the text
there 1 Timothy 6:15, 16.
00:41:37.18\00:41:41.23
"He who is the
blessed and only Potentate,"
00:41:41.26\00:41:44.46
that would be
Almighty God himself
00:41:44.49\00:41:46.45
"who alone" would you
write that down please,
00:41:46.48\00:41:49.50
alone,
a-l-o-n-e in the universe.
00:41:49.53\00:41:54.25
One being has the immortality.
00:41:54.28\00:41:56.39
You say, come on,
Dwight, the angels are immortal.
00:41:56.42\00:41:58.30
No, they are not.
00:41:58.33\00:41:59.77
The angel, look at--
if the angel were immortal
00:41:59.80\00:42:01.93
we would have
Lucifer for ever and ever.
00:42:01.96\00:42:04.24
The angels are not immortal,
00:42:04.27\00:42:05.49
they borrow life
from the life giver.
00:42:05.52\00:42:09.88
There is only one
being in this universe
00:42:09.91\00:42:11.39
ladies and
gentlemen, never forget it.
00:42:11.42\00:42:13.45
There is only one
being in the universe
00:42:13.48\00:42:16.12
who is immortal and
that is Almighty God himself.
00:42:16.15\00:42:19.41
There's nothing inside
of you that is immortal.
00:42:19.44\00:42:21.34
There is nothing inside of me.
00:42:21.37\00:42:22.84
In fact that word
immortality athanasia.
00:42:22.87\00:42:26.17
That word is used only
twice in the New Testament.
00:42:26.20\00:42:28.32
It's in your study
guide, fill this in please.
00:42:28.35\00:42:30.22
The good news is,
the good news is that
00:42:30.25\00:42:32.87
God the only one who
has immortality one day--
00:42:32.90\00:42:36.18
hold on now, one day
00:42:36.21\00:42:38.33
He is gonna
give that immortality
00:42:38.36\00:42:40.01
to you and me. Watch this.
00:42:40.04\00:42:41.40
The Greek word
athanasia is used in two places
00:42:41.43\00:42:45.05
in the New
Testament-- here in 1 Timothy 6
00:42:45.08\00:42:47.35
and in 1 Corinthians 15:53, 54
00:42:47.38\00:42:50.71
where it
describes the "immortality"
00:42:50.74\00:42:52.93
bestowed upon God's friends.
00:42:52.96\00:42:54.67
Now this is a key point. When?
00:42:54.70\00:42:56.68
At the
resurrection, write it in,
00:42:56.71\00:42:59.51
at the second coming of Jesus,
00:42:59.54\00:43:01.35
when, as Paul scribbles it there
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.17
"this mortal must
put on immortality."
00:43:03.20\00:43:06.79
You have no
immortality in you now
00:43:06.82\00:43:08.94
that immortality
will come as a gift
00:43:08.97\00:43:10.89
only when Christ returns
and there is a resurrection.
00:43:10.92\00:43:13.65
Those who are
dead will receive it,
00:43:13.68\00:43:15.16
those who are his
friends and alive,
00:43:15.19\00:43:16.64
boom in a twinkling
of an eye you got it too.
00:43:16.67\00:43:19.80
You got it.
00:43:19.83\00:43:21.34
You're going to live forever now
00:43:21.37\00:43:24.09
because you got it from the
only source in the universe.
00:43:24.12\00:43:28.01
Yes, death is the
abrupt often times
00:43:28.04\00:43:32.25
unexpected complete
cessation of physical life
00:43:32.28\00:43:37.02
and mental existent. Gone.
00:43:37.05\00:43:40.14
Where did it go? It's gone.
00:43:40.17\00:43:42.42
Where did the box
go? It's gone. It's gone.
00:43:42.45\00:43:47.57
But hallelujah, death is
not the last word about life,
00:43:47.60\00:43:52.57
Jesus is.
00:43:52.60\00:43:54.24
There's one text we skipped over
00:43:54.27\00:43:55.30
I want you to see it.
Genesis 3:15 skip right over.
00:43:55.33\00:43:59.64
The Creator is looking
straight into the snake eyes
00:43:59.67\00:44:01.51
of that serpent.
00:44:01.54\00:44:03.33
He is talking to Lucifer,
you know, who is talking to.
00:44:03.36\00:44:05.99
Genesis 3:15, "And
I" the Creator says
00:44:06.02\00:44:08.24
"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,"
00:44:08.27\00:44:10.68
I like the way Eugene
Peterson renders this.
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.97
I'm declaring war
between you and the woman.
00:44:13.00\00:44:15.33
I like the way the New
Living translation renders this.
00:44:15.36\00:44:17.43
From now on you and
the woman will be enemies.
00:44:17.46\00:44:22.29
I need you to be
reminded this morning
00:44:22.32\00:44:24.74
that you have
been declared to be
00:44:24.77\00:44:26.69
an enemy of
Lucifer not his friend.
00:44:26.72\00:44:30.22
You are his enemy.
00:44:30.25\00:44:31.60
It is been placed
in you by your Creator
00:44:31.63\00:44:33.47
to be at war with the dragon.
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.53
Never settle for
peace with the dragon,
00:44:36.56\00:44:40.15
don't you ever sue for peace.
00:44:40.18\00:44:42.94
You are supposed to be at war.
00:44:42.97\00:44:45.01
Oh, great do I
he is gonna hurt me.
00:44:45.04\00:44:47.37
Don't you worry
about that, don't you worry
00:44:47.40\00:44:51.58
because there is a
second half of this.
00:44:51.61\00:44:54.50
"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
00:44:54.53\00:44:57.46
and between your
seed and her Seed,"
00:44:57.49\00:45:00.77
Somebody is
going to come through
00:45:00.80\00:45:01.97
the line of the human race.
00:45:02.00\00:45:03.92
Who is that
somebody, some Messiah.
00:45:03.95\00:45:05.41
What's he gonna do?
And He shall bruise"
00:45:05.44\00:45:07.16
hey, serpent "He
shall bruise your head,
00:45:07.19\00:45:09.99
and you shall bruise His heel."
I have a quiz question for you.
00:45:10.02\00:45:13.33
You know, if there
are always re-black
00:45:13.36\00:45:16.53
topping the highways
here in Berrien Springs
00:45:16.56\00:45:18.53
whether we need it or not.
00:45:18.56\00:45:20.67
And so you've seen these
big steam rollers out there,
00:45:20.70\00:45:22.43
that's just these
huge steam rollers.
00:45:22.46\00:45:24.17
Here's a quiz question for you,
00:45:24.20\00:45:25.38
you'll have to
ponder it for a minute.
00:45:25.41\00:45:27.06
Which would you rather
have the steam roller row over?
00:45:27.09\00:45:30.54
You're heel or your head?
Which would you rather have?
00:45:30.57\00:45:35.62
You say that's a
no brainer, Dwight.
00:45:35.65\00:45:37.11
You got it.
That's the point here.
00:45:37.14\00:45:39.53
He's coming.
00:45:39.56\00:45:41.03
You'll crush his heel,
you will crush his heel
00:45:41.06\00:45:44.95
but he will
steam roll your head.
00:45:44.98\00:45:50.80
He will crush
your head. You'll lose.
00:45:50.83\00:45:55.69
And that's
something-- jot it down,
00:45:59.41\00:46:00.91
the fork tongue-beast
is hallelujah defeated.
00:46:00.94\00:46:08.12
The Calvary when Jesus
cried out it is finished.
00:46:08.15\00:46:11.69
The head of our
mortal enemy was crushed,
00:46:11.72\00:46:13.21
his dome was made certain
00:46:13.24\00:46:15.06
and get this when Christ
arose alive from the grave
00:46:15.09\00:46:19.28
he shook the keys in the
face of the panicked serpent
00:46:19.31\00:46:23.59
and He said I'm alive.
00:46:23.62\00:46:26.05
I was dead, I'm
now alive forever more.
00:46:26.08\00:46:29.00
And listen to this,
00:46:29.03\00:46:30.16
I have the keys to
death in the grave.
00:46:30.19\00:46:33.08
Oh, death, where is your sting.
00:46:33.11\00:46:36.06
Oh, grave,
where is your victory.
00:46:36.09\00:46:38.23
But thanks to God
who gives us the victory
00:46:38.26\00:46:40.44
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:46:40.47\00:46:41.71
what do you say? Amen and amen.
00:46:41.74\00:46:44.53
That's what I
love the single line
00:46:44.56\00:46:46.14
near the end of the
Bible I'll end with this.
00:46:46.17\00:46:48.23
Fill it in please 1 John 5:12.
00:46:48.26\00:46:50.72
"Whoever has the Son has life,
00:46:50.75\00:46:55.36
whoever does not have the
Son of God does not have life."
00:46:55.39\00:47:01.01
Dwight, what's the
point of this teaching?
00:47:01.04\00:47:02.87
Jot it down.
00:47:02.90\00:47:03.93
"If you will be
a friend of Jesus,
00:47:03.96\00:47:07.70
you never will be
afraid of death." That's it.
00:47:07.73\00:47:12.63
You don't have to
live with a fear of death.
00:47:12.66\00:47:14.59
You don't have to be
panic like that college freshman
00:47:14.62\00:47:16.57
I was telling you about.
You don't have to afraid.
00:47:16.60\00:47:19.73
If you be a friend of Jesus,
00:47:19.76\00:47:21.99
you will never have
to be afraid of death.
00:47:22.02\00:47:25.95
Don't be
afraid. Don't be afraid.
00:47:25.98\00:47:30.15
The head's been crushed.
Fear not, be of good cheer.
00:47:30.18\00:47:36.85
I've overcome the world
he who has the Son has life.
00:47:36.88\00:47:40.60
She who does not
have the Son of God
00:47:40.63\00:47:44.03
does not have life.
00:47:44.06\00:47:50.70
I want to end with
a story about the day
00:47:50.73\00:47:53.02
I saw my friend Norm Trubee die.
00:47:53.05\00:47:55.13
I shall never forget
that moment as long as I live.
00:48:00.44\00:48:04.30
Last time I saw Norm
before conducting his funeral
00:48:04.33\00:48:06.71
he was hooked up to
a life support system.
00:48:06.74\00:48:12.13
It was only supposed
to be a fairly routine
00:48:12.16\00:48:13.52
open heart surgery.
00:48:13.55\00:48:14.58
Norm was an
accountant for the university.
00:48:14.61\00:48:16.78
You know, I mean if
open heart surgeries
00:48:16.81\00:48:18.43
can never be
routine I understand that
00:48:18.46\00:48:21.27
but the surgeon ran
into great complications.
00:48:21.30\00:48:25.91
And when Norm
came out of surgery,
00:48:25.94\00:48:27.17
he never regained consciousness.
00:48:27.20\00:48:31.42
His wife Alison,
their three children
00:48:31.45\00:48:33.00
kept up this vigil by
his ICU bedside up the road
00:48:33.03\00:48:38.39
and that numbing moment came
00:48:38.42\00:48:41.30
and the doctors
gathered them, informed them
00:48:41.33\00:48:46.03
that their husband and father
00:48:46.06\00:48:52.24
had no brain
wave activity at all.
00:48:52.27\00:48:54.67
He is just being kept
alive by this respirator.
00:48:54.70\00:49:01.86
My phone rang on the
other end of it Alice,
00:49:01.89\00:49:06.30
Alice's brave voice asking
00:49:06.33\00:49:07.90
if I would come back
down to the hospital.
00:49:07.93\00:49:11.38
The doctors had some bad
news and the family needed,
00:49:11.41\00:49:14.05
needed to make a tough decision.
00:49:14.08\00:49:16.35
I hurried back
down to the hospital,
00:49:16.38\00:49:18.22
gathered with the family.
00:49:18.25\00:49:20.66
I always went by, they
could not bring themselves
00:49:20.69\00:49:25.13
to the inevitable decision.
00:49:25.16\00:49:28.75
And finally after much prayer
they called the doctors back
00:49:28.78\00:49:32.71
and informed the physicians
00:49:32.74\00:49:33.86
that they would
accept medical council
00:49:33.89\00:49:37.40
and they would disconnect
the life support system.
00:49:37.43\00:49:43.03
It was one of the most
tender and sacred moments
00:49:43.06\00:49:46.14
I've ever had the
privilege of being a part of.
00:49:46.17\00:49:52.83
Family gathered
about Norm's bed.
00:49:52.86\00:49:55.53
They are behind
the curtain in the ICU.
00:49:55.56\00:50:00.91
One by one, the
oldest to the youngest
00:50:00.94\00:50:05.07
they expressed their goodbyes
00:50:05.10\00:50:10.10
and then they
reached out to clasp hands
00:50:10.13\00:50:13.51
and they drew
me into that circle
00:50:13.54\00:50:17.73
and they began to sing.
00:50:17.76\00:50:20.27
You're not gonna believe this.
00:50:20.30\00:50:21.51
They began to sing of their
trusting faith in the Savior.
00:50:21.54\00:50:28.26
And nurses gathered around.
00:50:28.29\00:50:31.12
A white clad
technician walked into the room,
00:50:31.15\00:50:35.64
he walked into the
corner where the respirator was,
00:50:35.67\00:50:39.23
he stoop down
and he turned it off.
00:50:39.26\00:50:46.81
But hopes spray and Norm's chest
00:50:46.84\00:50:51.29
on its own kept moving.
00:50:51.32\00:50:56.09
But it was only for
a handful of breathes,
00:50:56.12\00:50:58.83
autonomic response and finally
00:50:58.86\00:51:02.84
death entered that room.
00:51:02.87\00:51:08.81
How could a
family around a loved one
00:51:08.84\00:51:13.49
so precious possibly
be singing as he is dying?
00:51:13.52\00:51:19.98
I'll tell you why.
00:51:20.01\00:51:22.32
Because the
people who knew him best
00:51:22.35\00:51:25.81
knew that Norm
trusted the Savior
00:51:25.84\00:51:32.70
and knew that one
day when Jesus comes,
00:51:32.73\00:51:38.94
life, immortal life
will be given to him.
00:51:38.97\00:51:45.36
He who has the Son has life.
00:51:45.39\00:51:49.79
He who has not the
Son of God has not life.
00:51:49.82\00:51:56.21
So what do you
have? What do you have?
00:51:56.24\00:52:04.09
May be we need,
00:52:04.12\00:52:07.66
we with this
numinous fear of death,
00:52:07.69\00:52:10.47
may be we need to
sing the prayer together.
00:52:10.50\00:52:15.43
O, when I come to
die, O when I come to die
00:52:15.46\00:52:23.16
O when I come to die,
give me, give me Jesus
00:52:23.19\00:52:29.95
You want Jesus? You want Jesus?
00:52:29.98\00:52:34.69
You want Jesus, stand your feet.
00:52:34.72\00:52:35.94
Well, if you want Jesus
you just stand your feet.
00:52:35.97\00:52:39.60
It's a beautiful
prayer, beautiful prayer.
00:52:39.63\00:52:41.66
When we get to that last stanza,
00:52:41.69\00:52:43.46
sing your prayer
when I come to die.
00:52:43.49\00:52:48.17
Sing your prayer, Give me Jesus.
00:52:48.20\00:52:51.63
In the morning when I rise
00:52:54.31\00:52:59.60
In the morning when I rise
00:52:59.63\00:53:05.66
In the morning when I rise,
00:53:05.69\00:53:11.98
give me Jesus
00:53:12.01\00:53:18.35
Give me Jesus,
00:53:18.38\00:53:24.50
give me Jesus
00:53:24.53\00:53:30.69
You can have all this world
00:53:30.72\00:53:37.03
Give me Jesus
00:53:37.06\00:53:43.11
Oh, and when I am alone
00:53:47.02\00:53:52.63
Oh, and when I am alone
00:53:52.66\00:53:58.65
Oh, and when I am alone,
00:53:58.68\00:54:04.76
give me Jesus
00:54:04.79\00:54:11.11
Give me Jesus,
00:54:11.14\00:54:17.37
give me Jesus
00:54:17.40\00:54:23.47
You can have all this world
00:54:23.50\00:54:29.72
Give me Jesus
00:54:29.75\00:54:35.67
Oh, and when I come to die
00:54:40.06\00:54:45.49
Oh, and when I come to die
00:54:45.52\00:54:51.83
Oh, and when I come to die,
00:54:51.86\00:54:58.07
give me Jesus
00:54:58.10\00:55:04.52
Give me Jesus,
00:55:04.55\00:55:10.77
give me Jesus
00:55:10.80\00:55:17.06
You can have all this world
00:55:17.09\00:55:23.16
Give me Jesus
00:55:23.19\00:55:29.22
Give me Jesus,
00:55:29.25\00:55:35.35
give me Jesus
00:55:35.38\00:55:41.39
You can have all this world
00:55:41.42\00:55:47.53
Give me Jesus
00:55:47.56\00:55:55.53
And so may the
communion of the Father
00:55:58.20\00:56:02.70
and the love of the Son
00:56:02.73\00:56:06.50
and the fellowship of the
Spirit abide with us all, amen.
00:56:06.53\00:56:13.62
I'd like to take a moment
here at the end of the service
00:56:21.69\00:56:23.68
to tell you
about one of the most
00:56:23.71\00:56:24.74
important groups of people
00:56:24.77\00:56:26.32
that make this
ministry possible.
00:56:26.35\00:56:29.19
They're team of people,
00:56:29.22\00:56:30.55
they're not afraid to get down
into the thick of life itself
00:56:30.58\00:56:34.35
which is why
you're gonna find them,
00:56:34.38\00:56:35.47
you will find them
moving forward on their knees.
00:56:35.50\00:56:38.79
They're our prayer partners.
00:56:38.82\00:56:40.64
A group of men and
women and young adults
00:56:40.67\00:56:43.78
who believe that this
humble television ministry
00:56:43.81\00:56:46.60
has been raised up by
God for such a time as this.
00:56:46.63\00:56:49.10
And so they pray earnestly
that God will use the preacher.
00:56:49.13\00:56:52.31
And God will use
me and God will use
00:56:52.34\00:56:53.94
the countless other volunteers
00:56:53.97\00:56:55.97
to spread the everlasting Gospel
00:56:56.00\00:56:58.27
and the word of God in ways
00:56:58.30\00:56:59.35
we could never
have imagined before.
00:56:59.38\00:57:01.47
They're the ones who are praying
00:57:01.50\00:57:03.09
that God is gonna open
up the hearts of people,
00:57:03.12\00:57:06.29
open up the hearts of
viewers around the world
00:57:06.32\00:57:08.96
for the message,
the critical message
00:57:08.99\00:57:11.38
for this end time generation.
00:57:11.41\00:57:14.05
And what I like
to do is ask you,
00:57:14.08\00:57:16.20
would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us?
00:57:16.23\00:57:18.87
A prayer partner
with New Perceptions.
00:57:18.90\00:57:20.50
You don't have to
call a toll free number,
00:57:20.53\00:57:22.16
you don't have to
go online to register.
00:57:22.19\00:57:24.33
All I need to know is
00:57:24.36\00:57:25.52
that you'd be willing to
lift this little ministry up
00:57:25.55\00:57:30.67
day after day after day.
00:57:30.70\00:57:32.74
Pray that somehow through radio
00:57:32.77\00:57:35.39
and television and the web,
00:57:35.42\00:57:36.62
God will open up new
doors, new regions on earth
00:57:36.65\00:57:41.17
where the everlasting
gospel can be proclaimed.
00:57:41.20\00:57:43.60
There is no
question, the power of prayer
00:57:43.63\00:57:46.21
has potential to take
this ministry to places
00:57:46.24\00:57:48.53
we could never
have imagined before.
00:57:48.56\00:57:51.35
So that's it.
00:57:51.38\00:57:52.41
Would you please be willing
to partner with me in prayer.
00:57:52.44\00:57:56.13
The times are
urgent, the need is critical.
00:57:56.16\00:57:59.84
And I hope you will say yes.
00:57:59.87\00:58:01.49
Until we're together next time,
00:58:01.52\00:58:03.80
may the prayer answering God
00:58:03.83\00:58:05.84
accompany you
every step of the way.
00:58:05.87\00:58:08.97