Live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Welcome to the
Pillars Of Our Faith event.
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I give all my service to You.
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I give all my service to You.
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No matter the
cost or what others do,
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I give all my service to You.
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I give all my problems to You.
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I give all my problems to You.
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No matter the
cost or what others do,
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I give all my problems to You.
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I give all my family to You.
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I give all my family to You.
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No matter the
cost or what others do,
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I give all my family to You.
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I give all my future to You.
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I give all my future to You.
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No matter the
cost or what others do,
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I give all my future to You.
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I give all my worship to You.
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I give all my worship to You.
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No matter the
cost or what others do,
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I give all my worship to You.
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I give all my worship
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to You.
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Thank you, C.A.
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Well, it is so good to
have all of you here at 3ABN.
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And we just want to
welcome everyone who is watching
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from around the world to 3ABN.
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If you're just
joining us, this is the
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Pillars Of Our Faith event.
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And aren't we having a
marvelous time in the Lord.
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Right now, our next speaker
will be Pastor John Lomacang.
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You may know him as the
pastor who hosts House Calls.
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We know him as the pastor
who makes house calls because
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he's our local pastor
here at the Thompsonville
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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His topic will be
State Of The Dead.
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But before that, we have
Ladye Love and Reggie Smith
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who are going to
sing a beautiful song,
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Marvel Not At What I Say.
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Amen.
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Can we say amen again?
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Amen.
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I always like it when
a song tells the truth.
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And what I like about the songs
written by the Pillars projects
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are, they all tell the truth.
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And I'm going to ask for the
Lord to give me the wisdom and
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strength to just tell the truth.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Father in heaven,
this is Your opportunity.
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I'm the person that
you've given this responsibility
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and I pray now
through your Holy Spirit
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that I just tell the truth
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to the glory and
honor of your name.
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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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My topic is The Nature Of Man.
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You know it's
amazing, it's amazing what God
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can do with dust.
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When we look around our world
today, everything that exists
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that has life in it
had a beginning somewhere.
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But God's crowning act of
creation was humankind, mankind.
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And the record is clear
what God can do with dust.
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The Bible says in
Geneses 2 and verse 7:
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Now you'll notice I didn't
use the King James Version.
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I used the New
King James Version.
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Because the word used in
the King James Version, soul,
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has taken on a connotation
that the Bible never intended.
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God didn't insert an
additional man into man.
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God inserted into man the breath
of life that belongs to God.
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What do you say? Amen.
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So man does not have a...
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Man is not two
parts; man and man.
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He's dust and
the breath of life.
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When the dust of the
ground that only God can design
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is mixed with the breath of
life that only belongs to God,
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then man becomes a living being.
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Say that with
me, "living being. "
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So the word soul has
taken on the wrong connotation
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based on something
called Neo-Platonism.
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The teaching of Plato that the
soul and the body and the spirit
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are separate living entities.
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And that the soul
survives the death of the body.
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It even affected
the early Jewish church
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by the time that Jesus came.
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That's why Jesus
waited four days before He
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went to raise Lazarus.
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Because there was a belief
existing that the soul attempted
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for three days to
get back into the body.
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And if it were
successful then the body would
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come back to life.
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Jesus waited four days,
not because Jesus is ever late.
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He's always on time.
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What do you say? Amen.
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But Jesus waited four
days to buttress, that is,
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to debunk that is, the ideology
that the soul is the soul
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container of life.
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And then He said on
that particular day,
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"I am the
resurrection and the life. "
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So Jesus is the only one.
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In Him was life, and
that life is the light of men.
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That's why He waited four days.
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And so when Lazarus came
back to life, you may remember
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the story, from that on they
decided that Jesus must die.
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Because a belief that was even
embraced by the Jews of His day
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was completely obliterated
by the resurrection of Lazarus.
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So from the outset, we see
that man did not possess a soul.
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Man is a soul.
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Someone say amen. Amen.
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We are living souls.
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The breath belongs to
God, the body belongs to us.
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And then God made
it abundantly clear
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before the fall what the results
would be if man would make the
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decision to go
opposite to God's direction.
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And by the way, when
you read that, brethren,
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there is no gray
area in this topic.
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It's only gray because of
what people have taught that's
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outside of scripture.
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It is as black and
white as black and white.
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No gray areas.
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As a matter of fact, Genesis
2 and verse 16 starts this way.
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Notice how the devil
makes it appear as though
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you can't do anything.
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God said take
whatever you want, but...
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I looked that word up in
the Hebrew and the Bible said...
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This is what God
actually said in the Hebrew,
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"You will definitely die. "
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"I am sure
you're going to die. "
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God made it abundantly
clear that the payment for
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transgression is sin.
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The wages of sin is what? Death.
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But then Eve...
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I don't want to get on the woman
thing right now because my wife
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is a very obedient wife.
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But I'd say, in
the very beginning...
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I say obedient, not in
the sense that I'm her master,
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but we have a love
relationship and we like
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spending time together.
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Amen.
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And I believe that if more women
and more husbands and wives
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spend time together, there'll
be a whole lot less temptation.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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But Eve decided to take a
stroll that God did not give her
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a GPS to follow.
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She went in an ungodly direction
to the very tree that God
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forbade her to partake
of and she stood there.
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And Satan, knowing that Eve
had already been compromised,
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reeled her in with a lie.
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Notice Genesis 3 and verse 4.
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In other words, I looked
that up also in the Hebrew
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and he said to her, "I
am sure you won't die. "
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And that's why people
take drugs nowadays because
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somebody said, "I am
sure you won't die. "
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That's why people have illicit
relationships because they
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believe that they are
exempt from any kind of sexually
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transmitted disease and they
believe that they will not die
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no matter what.
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I also believe that's
why people bungee jump.
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I've said, I am not
going to give the devil
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a chance to kill me.
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Anybody else? Come on.
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Folk nowadays strap themselves
to a gigantic rubber band
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and in the back of
their mind the devil says,
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"You will not surely die. "
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I listened to Paul
Harvey one day on the news.
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He talked about a 23
year old man that had
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gone bungee jumping.
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And you know Paul Harvey's
classic ending to the stories.
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And he said, "And he was 23."
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The cord was longer
than the distance between
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from where he jumped
to where the ground was.
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And I always think about that.
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Some people strap themselves
to these cords and jump.
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Other people are ridiculously
very adventurous and so they
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sit in a seat and they get
pulled back like a gigantic
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sling shot and get
shot out into space.
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Now, do you know
how far you would go if
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you're not seat belted in?
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So I've determined
that when the devil says,
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"You will not surely
die," I listen to God instead.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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Thus the lie was born.
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And I'm amazed how Satan is more
supported today than God is.
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Even, surprisingly
enough, among Christians.
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For example, some Christians
argue and try to prove
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that Satan was right.
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You think about that.
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You go to funerals,
some of the greatest lies
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are told at funerals.
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"Up in heaven looking down. "
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No she's not, she's right there.
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"Oh she's so happy
that you came here today,
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oh dearly departed soul. "
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People say that Frank
Sinatra is in heaven dancing
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on the streets of gold.
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No, he's not.
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And Liberace is not up in
heaven playing on the piano.
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How did the piano get there?
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And let me make
this one clear too.
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Dogs don't die and
go to heaven either.
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I need to make
something else clear.
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And you need to look
this up theologically.
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Animals are not
going to be in heaven.
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Animals are going
to be on the new earth.
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During the 1000 years, there are
no pets running back and forth
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on the streets of gold.
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They will be in the new earth.
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We always talk about
them being in heaven.
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They're not
going to be in heaven.
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Look and read your Bible.
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I've been hearing that
preached even in our church.
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"Oh, your pet
may be in heaven. "
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No he won't, he'll be in
the new earth but not in heaven.
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I've got a lot of dogs that
died and I'm looking forward to
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them being in the new earth.
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But I know they're
not going to be in heaven.
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During the 1000 years
we're going to be reviewing
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the records of the
decisions that Jesus has made.
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We're not going to be walking
a puppy or riding a horse.
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Amen, somebody.
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Then there are songs that
are written that tell lies.
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"When I die, hallelujah
by and by, I'll fly away. "
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No you're not.
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Not unless they're
transporting you're body from
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New York to Chicago.
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And then again,
you won't even know it.
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And movie producers do all they
can to scheme and try to make
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Satan seem like he is valid.
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For example, listen
to some of the movies.
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And by the way, I don't
watch these kinds of movies.
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Amen.
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If it's a demonic movie,
stay off of my television.
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I don't even watch it
even if it is for free.
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Here's some of the movies.
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The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir. Remember that one?
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You've got to have gray
hair to remember that one.
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Death Becomes Her.
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Then the Whoopi Goldberg
and Patrick Swayze movie, Ghost.
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Love after
death. That's not true.
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Angels In The Outfield.
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Another one, Heaven Can
Wait. All Dogs Go To Heaven.
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Dead Like Me, was another one.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
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Living men shouldn't wear plaid.
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Anyway, I just...
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I'm sorry.
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That was not in
the sermon notes.
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Here's another one, Soul Taker.
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And then this modern repetitive
whatever they call it,
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Six Feet Under.
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And then there are
those that write books.
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You know, sometimes
you could be intellectual
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but if your mind is not
guided by God's Holy Spirit,
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you are two french
fries short of a Happy Meal.
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Because you have a Ph. D.,
an M.D., or whatever else is
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after your name, if God is not
in it, it doesn't mean anything.
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It means you are
intellectually on your way down.
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I'm trying to be kind about it.
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But here are some of
the books that are written.
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Evidence Of The
Afterlife, written an M.D.
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That means mentally disturbed.
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In this sense.
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I don't want to make
that mean that all the time.
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But in this sense, if you
have evidence of the afterlife,
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you've got to be
mentally disturbed.
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Another one,
Nothing Better Than Death.
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About 20 or 30 experiences
about near death experiences.
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Another book and
you've hear about this,
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Embraced By The Light.
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It was sold at all of
these Wal-Mart's and Sam's Club
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and all these other big stores.
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And people bought
it by the millions.
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Somebody said that when you die,
they got embraced by the light.
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Somebody should have
turned the flashlight off.
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Because they did
not go to the light.
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Remember the Bible says,
"God dwells in a light which
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no man can approach unto, which
no man has seen nor can see. "
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Even when Moses asked
to see God, he could not.
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And I'll tell you later on why.
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Here's another one, I
saw this book in one of the
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best seller catalogs,
Twenty Minutes In Hell.
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Why only 20 minutes?
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Another one, One Hour In Heaven.
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They were in heaven three
times longer than the person who
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wrote the other
book was in hell.
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Here's another one.
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There's an
organization actually called,
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After Death Communications
Research Foundation.
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An organization that exists
only to support Satan's lie.
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And another one,
teachings; purgatory, limbo,
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the immortality of the soul.
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And then those talk shows where
they get that nice shaven guy,
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he looks like a
young huppy buppy.
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You know, he's intellectual
and he sounds so nice
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and so convincing.
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And he tells people that their
loved ones are sending messages.
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And the program
is called, Medium.
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You know what medium
means; he's halfway to insanity.
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Because you cannot base
your feelings and say that your
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feelings and your premonitions
and your apparitions
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are supported by God's word.
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I would rather trust a
"thus saith the Lord" any day
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over somebody else's experience.
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The Lord made it
very, very clear.
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When Eve sinned, she
opened the door to deception
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but Adam opened
the door to death.
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Notice Romans 5 and
verse 12, the Bible says:
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What that means is
everybody received the nature
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of their father, Adam.
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Every one of us.
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By the way, the
mortality rate is 100%.
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In 120 years, God forbid,
everyone of us in here if Jesus
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doesn't come, will be dead.
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That's a fact.
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Unless somebody found some
vitamins I haven't taken yet.
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And when they fell into
sin, something happened that
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man never expected
and God never intended.
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Genesis 5 and verse
5, the record is clear.
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So you cannot prove that
man has an immortal soul.
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There is no such
thing as an immortal soul.
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Listen to Ezekiel 18 verse 4.
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There are some people that
like that text in Matthew 28
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that says, "Fear him not
that's able to destroy the body
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but not able to
destroy the soul.
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But fear Him who is
able to destroy both the
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body and soul in hell. "
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They use that to support
the idea that souls don't die,
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but if you finish it, it
says, "Who can destroy both
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body and soul in hell. "
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It's evidence that the
soul is not immortal, amen.
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When Adam sinned, God made it
clear what Adam's fate would be.
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Genesis 3 and verse
19, this is Biblical.
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We return to where we came from.
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In other words,
"Adam, you're going back to
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where you came from. "
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The ground is your
home until the resurrection.
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As a matter of fact, Hebrews
chapter 11, the faith chapter.
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When you read that...
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I don't have it on
my notes but when you
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read that, think about this.
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Read about all those who were
persecuted, all the faithful.
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And the Bible says they
all died in faith not having
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received the promise
but having seen it afar off.
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And then the Bible ends
in that chapter, it says,
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"But God, having
prepared something better
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that they without us
will not be made perfect. "
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They didn't die
hoping to go to heaven.
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The Bible says in verse
35, they wanted to obtain
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a better resurrection.
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Not a better death.
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If you get buried in a
$35,000 coffin, you're still
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going into the ground.
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It could be nickel
plated, it could be see through,
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it could have air conditioning,
it could have an escape hatch,
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you ain't going anywhere.
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I like that Danny had an uncle
that got buried, and he got
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buried in his pajamas.
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And they said,
"Why would you do that?"
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"So that when people
come, they know I'm resting
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until Jesus comes. "
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I've seen people go
to funerals and they say,
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"Well, how did he look?"
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He looked real good
but he was still dead.
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It doesn't matter how
you look, you're still dead.
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Oh he looked really
good, but he was dead.
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He didn't know how he looked.
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Then you go to funerals, "Man, I
don't even know who that was. "
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Well in the resurrection,
the Bible says we will know
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as we are known.
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We are going to look a whole
lot better in the resurrection.
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What do you say? Amen.
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But God made it clear.
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Let's discover this further
because the Bible makes it
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abundantly clear what
happens after you die.
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Ecclesiastes 3 and
verse 20, the Bible says:
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Look at the next
one, Job 34 and verse 15.
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Let's keep on seeing the
theme from verse to verse.
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David the
Psalmist, Psalm 104 verse 29.
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You may notice that
there's a word that's repeated
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in all those verses.
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And the word is what? Return.
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That means we go
to where we began.
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We did not begin
in heaven, God did.
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We began in the dust.
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And that's why ministers
say, "From dust thou art,
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unto dust thou shalt... "
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It's in the Bible there.
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Earth to earth... Come on.
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...ashes to ashes... What?
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...dust to dust.
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I've left many
funeral sites in the cemetery,
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but nobody ever
followed me home.
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A young lady once said
she smelled the cologne of
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her father that had died.
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Well somebody needs to
get rid of his cologne because
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that's not him.
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And what you've got to
keep in mind is that devil is
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busy about fooling people.
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And if your mind is
not safeguarded by what
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God says in His word, the devil
will make a fool out of you.
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He'll make you see and hear
and smell all kinds of things.
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There was a movie that
came out not too long ago,
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and I didn't watch
that either, called 23.
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Somebody died and
their favorite number was 23
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and it started
showing up everywhere.
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And they said that person
was trying to send a message.
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No they were not.
00:25:39.84\00:25:41.02
The devil was
trying to send a message.
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That's why the Bible says
we've got to keep ourselves
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from being fooled.
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The Lord made it
very clear in the Word.
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And we do not want to be fooled.
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We've got to be clear
because if you think that the
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devil is done, the
best is yet to come.
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Sorry, sorry. The
worst is yet to come.
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We didn't come from
heaven, we came from the dust.
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The Bible made
it very, very clear.
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Here's another one,
Ecclesiastes 12 and verse 7.
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This is one that we
often get confused by.
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A lot of people try to
use this as support for their
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belief in the afterlife.
00:26:17.59\00:26:18.63
Ecclesiastes 12 and verse 7.
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People read that
and say, "There it is.
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The spirit goes back to God. "
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But they've got to
follow that carefully because
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if you follow what goes
back to God, you have to begin
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what came from God.
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The spirit that came
from God is the life giving
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power that only God possesses.
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When you pop a
balloon, where does the air go?
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In the air.
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It goes into the very
atmosphere that God created.
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When you unplug a light,
where does the electricity go?
00:26:52.38\00:26:55.06
It goes back to
electricity heaven? No.
00:26:58.50\00:27:00.76
It doesn't, it doesn't.
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It's waiting.
00:27:04.07\00:27:06.15
In the very same way,
that life giving force
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that belongs only to God...
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But get this now.
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I want to read that verse
again and say something that
00:27:11.30\00:27:13.02
you may have missed.
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"Then the dust will return
to the earth as it was and
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the spirit will
return to God who gave it. "
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Now notice, this text means that
whether you are righteous or
00:27:19.15\00:27:22.20
wicked, your
spirit goes to heaven.
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Because it's the breath of life.
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If this text meant you
died and went to heaven,
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that would mean even
wicked people go to heaven.
00:27:29.35\00:27:31.14
But this does not mean that.
00:27:32.19\00:27:33.96
Because if the spirit that goes
to heaven is a living source
00:27:33.99\00:27:38.13
that survives the body
that died, it means everybody
00:27:38.16\00:27:41.31
dies and goes to heaven.
00:27:41.34\00:27:42.34
So the spirit that returns
to God is abundantly clear
00:27:42.37\00:27:45.64
the breath of life.
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Because people that are
not righteous do not die and
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go to heaven,
even after Jesus comes.
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Job 27 verse 3
made it very clear.
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Are you following?
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If you want to see the
text you can peak at the screen.
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Job 27 and verse
3, the Bible says:
00:27:57.98\00:28:00.15
The spirit is the life force
that God put into Adam's body
00:28:08.23\00:28:12.57
through Adam's nostrils.
00:28:12.60\00:28:14.20
Those were the portals in.
00:28:14.23\00:28:15.86
And by the way, if you try to
bring somebody back to life by
00:28:16.36\00:28:19.67
breathing into their
nostrils, if they are dead
00:28:19.70\00:28:22.07
you can't do that.
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.34
We don't possess
the life giving force.
00:28:23.37\00:28:25.14
In Him is life.
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The life belongs only
to Jesus, only to God.
00:28:26.75\00:28:29.83
So the spirit that Adam had was
simply the breath of life that
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God gave him.
00:28:33.93\00:28:35.10
And by the way, when you
read the account of the flood
00:28:35.13\00:28:37.23
the Bible makes it very clear
that the word breath and spirit
00:28:37.26\00:28:39.65
sometimes is interchangeable.
00:28:39.68\00:28:41.08
Notice in Genesis
chapter 7 and verses 21 and 22.
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Talking about the flood.
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Once again, we did
not come from heaven.
00:29:11.38\00:29:13.84
And death is not an
alternate route to heaven.
00:29:13.87\00:29:17.46
Death is an enemy.
00:29:18.01\00:29:19.65
Death is not something we like.
00:29:20.66\00:29:22.37
That's why
people cry at funerals.
00:29:22.40\00:29:24.48
People don't go to
funerals and rejoice.
00:29:24.98\00:29:26.96
Well I've been to a funeral
once, I need to say this.
00:29:26.99\00:29:30.26
I was at a funeral once.
00:29:30.29\00:29:31.69
I try to be kind, I try
to say nice things about the
00:29:32.60\00:29:36.39
person that had died.
00:29:36.42\00:29:37.53
They didn't have a pastor
so I got invited to, you know,
00:29:38.43\00:29:40.87
the local funeral parlor
did that and invited me to
00:29:40.91\00:29:44.52
go ahead and
perform the funeral.
00:29:44.55\00:29:46.18
I said all these nice things
about the guy that was dead.
00:29:46.21\00:29:48.88
Didn't know that he was hated.
00:29:48.91\00:29:50.33
And people started
popping up giving testimonies
00:29:52.22\00:29:54.54
to the contrary.
00:29:54.57\00:29:55.78
And they were saying, "I'm so
glad that, you know, is dead. "
00:29:57.13\00:30:00.16
"I'm so happy that
so and so is dead. "
00:30:00.19\00:30:03.24
And I though, whoa.
00:30:03.27\00:30:04.27
You know, I thought I was
coming to do a Christian funeral
00:30:04.30\00:30:07.88
but I evidentially
found out that this guy
00:30:07.91\00:30:09.59
had lived a horrible
life and everybody there was
00:30:09.62\00:30:11.98
testifying to the fact.
00:30:12.01\00:30:13.00
That was the first
funeral that they didn't put
00:30:13.03\00:30:15.17
that man in heaven.
00:30:15.20\00:30:16.23
But somebody asked
the question, "What about
00:30:21.24\00:30:22.86
the thief on the cross?"
00:30:22.89\00:30:24.02
What about him?
00:30:24.05\00:30:25.02
What does the
Bible say about him?
00:30:25.03\00:30:26.39
Let's look at that
together, Luke 23 verse 43.
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.58
Look at what Jesus said to
him. He's talking to the thief.
00:30:28.61\00:30:31.29
Get this now, Jesus
made the promise that day.
00:30:35.42\00:30:39.11
Because three days later
when Jesus rose, He told Mary
00:30:39.87\00:30:43.45
that He had not
yet gone to heaven.
00:30:43.48\00:30:45.90
He said "Do not... "
00:30:45.93\00:30:47.31
And I'll read that
verse in just a moment.
00:30:47.34\00:30:48.82
But notice, we often forget
what the thief asked Jesus.
00:30:48.85\00:30:52.42
The key is remembering
what the thief asked.
00:30:52.45\00:30:55.40
Look at verse 42 of Luke 23.
00:30:55.43\00:30:58.19
Remember me when you
come, not when you go to heaven.
00:31:08.98\00:31:11.35
Because three days
later Jesus said to Mary in
00:31:11.38\00:31:14.17
John chapter 20 verse 17:
00:31:14.20\00:31:15.47
You want to get this,
this is a powerful thought,
00:31:28.04\00:31:29.76
but even Jesus had to
wait until His resurrection
00:31:29.79\00:31:32.41
before going to heaven.
00:31:32.44\00:31:33.90
So if Jesus had to wait
until His resurrection to go
00:31:36.84\00:31:39.48
to heaven, how do we
get a go pass go card?
00:31:39.51\00:31:42.83
Dying, go directly to heaven.
Don't wait for the resurrection.
00:31:44.03\00:31:47.06
Even by that very act...
00:31:47.09\00:31:49.42
Let me talk to this side.
00:31:49.45\00:31:50.42
I keep looking over
there, I know you're over here.
00:31:50.43\00:31:52.66
Even by that very act
is evidence that Jesus,
00:31:52.69\00:31:56.79
if Jesus had to wait
until the resurrection,
00:31:56.82\00:31:58.73
what makes us better than Jesus?
00:31:58.76\00:32:01.02
Jesus made it clear,
the resurrection is the
00:32:01.99\00:32:04.10
way to the Father.
00:32:04.13\00:32:05.12
Three days later.
00:32:05.15\00:32:06.15
So the thief said, "When
you get back, remember me. "
00:32:06.18\00:32:09.00
"When you come into
your kingdom, remember me. "
00:32:09.03\00:32:11.41
But thieves, you know, people
that are stealing our minds
00:32:11.44\00:32:14.38
from pulpits around America,
wants us somehow to believe...
00:32:14.41\00:32:17.12
And you know they
go to those texts.
00:32:17.15\00:32:18.40
They pull one text out of the
entire Bible and build an entire
00:32:18.43\00:32:21.92
world trade center around it.
00:32:21.95\00:32:24.12
It's like one piece
of metal that ends up
00:32:24.80\00:32:26.45
to be 120 stories high.
00:32:26.48\00:32:28.13
But they ignore all the
other verses in the Bible that
00:32:29.15\00:32:31.38
makes it abundantly clear
what happens when you die.
00:32:31.41\00:32:33.44
The Bible made it clear.
00:32:33.96\00:32:35.12
Here's Job, one of the
oldest books in the Bible,
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that asks the
question and answers it.
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Job chapter 14
beginning with verse 10.
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Here it is.
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"But man dies and is laid away.
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Indeed he breathes his
last and," look at the question,
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"where is he?"
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Follow carefully.
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"As water disappears from
the sea, and a river becomes
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parched and dries
up," get this brethren,
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"so man lies down
and does not rise.
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Till the heavens are no
more, they will not awake
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nor be roused
from their sleep. "
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And Job asked the question,
Job made a request of God.
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"Until the time of
trouble is gone," Job says,
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"keep me in the ground. "
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And notice what else he says.
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And brother what he
meant, and you'll see this
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in just a moment,
there's got to be a change
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before we go to heaven.
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You can't go the way you are.
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You can be the nicest Christian,
you can't go to heaven
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until your change comes.
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And so when death
comes, life ceases.
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There is absolutely no
consciousness after death.
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You know, when my
father's... He's dead now.
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I'll get you confused.
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If you read my book, I have
two fathers and two mothers.
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The man that raised me,
when his second wife died,
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because his first wife
died; when his second wife died
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she had loaned me some money.
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He didn't want to
give me the money.
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So his wife loaned it to me.
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And she died and
he tried to collect.
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And I said, "The
dead know not anything. "
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I said, "She loaned me
the money and Sears is not
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calling her for any money
and JC Penney is not calling her
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for any money because they know
the debt has been cancelled.
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Papa, the debt
has been cancelled. "
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And he kind of
looked at me and...
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Here's what the Bible says,
Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5 and 6.
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There's something
every one of us knows.
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What is it? That we will die.
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Let me tell you what that means.
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It means their mind
no longer is working.
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It doesn't mean you forgot them.
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It means they
can't process anymore.
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That brain is just
as dead as the body is.
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Not under this sun.
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Maybe the sun after
the Lord remakes the earth.
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But not under this sun.
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Nobody is coming to your house,
nobody is going to be sitting
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down at the dinner table.
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Stop putting that extra plate
out there and throwing salt
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over your shoulder and talking
to people that you can't see.
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Amen, somebody.
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Amen.
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All kinds of nonsense.
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I went to somebody's house
once, they had an extra plate.
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I said, "Well, who's that for?"
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"My Father. He
died a while ago. "
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What? Has he
eaten since he died?
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I don't want to be insensitive
but that's kind of ridiculous
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What do you think?
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And these traditions, and
then some people try to comfort
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other folk by saying, "You
know, don't say that because
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mama can hear you. "
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Well now, let
me give you a hint.
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If mama shows up and
talks to you, you better say,
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"Satan, get out of my house. "
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And when you read
your Bible in Deuteronomy,
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the Bible calls
those, "familiar spirits. "
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From which we
get the word family.
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And then some people are
drawn in because they say,
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"Nobody knows
that but my mother. "
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Well the devil has got angels
that are listening on your
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conversation right now.
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So they come back and tell
you something that only mama
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told you and the angel repeats
what she said many years ago.
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And you think, "Well
that's got to be mama. "
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But remember Saul.
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When Saul disobeyed God
and God departed from him,
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he went to a
witch to talk to Samuel.
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And Samuel was
in his grave dead.
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But if Samuel was righteous
and died and went to heaven,
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he would have come
down but he came up.
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And then the other things
is, witches don't have power
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over saints that
have died in Jesus.
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That was a satanic
apparition and that was the
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sealing of Saul's fate.
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Going down to a witch.
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And some people that go
to soothsayers and want to
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get their palms read.
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If you want your palm
read, get some red ink.
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Because they're
just going to lie to you.
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That's it, they're
going to lie to you.
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They're not going
to tell you the truth.
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Here's what the Bible says
in Ecclesiastes 9 verse 10.
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Let me keep going on.
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The dead don't know anything.
All communication ceases.
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Get this, Ecclesiastes
9 verse 10, here it is.
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There's so many people dead
in New York that you have to
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go get buried in New Jersey.
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Somebody just got that.
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There's no space to
bury folk in New York.
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And by the way, I suspect that
there may be some people that
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died right here
where this church is built.
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When the resurrection comes,
if they're righteous the Lord's
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going to make a
hole in the floor and
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bring them up to heaven.
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But they are not
doing anything right now.
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They are not working,
they are not computing,
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they are not communicating.
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They are not doing anything.
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And by the way,
Christians are not in heaven
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singing songs to God.
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Let's read the Bible
again, Psalm 115 verse 17.
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Get that, my brethren.
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Not up into praise,
but down into silence.
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All singing ceases.
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That's what Job meant
when he says, "I will wait
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until my change comes. "
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And then some people think
that the New Testament doesn't
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teach that we are sleeping.
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By the way, let me
make this very clear.
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Thirty-six times
in the Old Testament
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you find the word slept.
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Slept, slept, slept, slept.
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And some people say, "Well,
do you believe in soul sleep?"
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No, I believe that you're dead.
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Don't fall into that trap.
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"Died and slept
with his fathers. "
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"Died and slept
with his fathers. "
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"Died and buried
with his fathers. "
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Sleep is the condition of
those who are resting in Jesus.
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Do you know why?
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Because one day the
Lord is going to wake you up.
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The second death has no
resurrection on the heels of it.
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It's gone, kaputs forever.
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But not the first death.
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Let's look at the example.
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John 11 verses 11-14.
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They thought that, well that's
what you need when you're sick.
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That's the problem.
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What you think
rather than what Jesus said.
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That's Jesus' word.
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Now I'm going to
not be sacrilegious,
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but is Jesus a liar?
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He can't lie. He can't die.
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He can't fail. He can't change.
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And by the way, what Jesus says
it's not open for alternation by
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any doctor on earth.
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Whether
theological or any other such.
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Whether he's in university
or not, if it doesn't agree
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with Jesus, forget it.
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David the psalmist
said, Psalm 13 verse 3:
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And by the way, when you
continue to read this subject
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you see very clearly that
Jesus even said to His disciples
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before He left to go to heaven,
He says, "I'm going someplace
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that you can't even go.
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You can't even follow Me. "
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Look at John 7 verses 33 and 34.
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Is that clear?
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"You can't go where I'm
going. I'm going to My Father.
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You can't even go. "
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Jesus didn't say, "I'll
see you when you get there. "
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People nowadays say, "Oh, you
know, they're with the Lord. "
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You hear all these TV preachers.
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And I'm glad our TV
preachers tell the truth.
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What do you say? Amen.
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"Oh, they're
with the Lord now. "
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"Dearly brother, he
served God for 48 years.
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He's with the Lord now. "
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Come on, just read the Bible.
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Stop believing these lies.
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And by the way, if you
like a lie, the Lord says,
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"Okay, if you want
a lie, here's a lie. "
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"Those who receive not a love
of the truth that they might be
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saved, God will send
them strong delusion that
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they will believe the lie. "
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What lie?
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This very lie
that Satan told them,
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"You will not surely die. "
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And people
believe that nowadays.
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But Jesus said, "Where
I'm going you can't come. "
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So the question is, how
are we going to get there?
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You see, the grave is our place
of rest until Jesus returns.
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We will not go to
heaven until Jesus returns.
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Here is the phrase
from the lips of Jesus.
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John 14 verses 2 and 3.
Are you ready, here we go.
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I'm almost
done. This is amazing.
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My church members are getting
happy, I'm preaching sermons
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within an hour.
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This is amazing.
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I told you guys if you
give me a clock I could be done.
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Anyhow, here we go.
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John 14 verses 2 and
3, the words of Jesus.
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We're not going to
get there until He comes
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back to receive us.
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What do you say?
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That's why you've
got to remember, it's not
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about the rapture.
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It's not about
dying and going to heaven.
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It's about the
second coming of Jesus.
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It's about the resurrection.
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It's about waiting for
God to come back and get us.
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How are you going to
go if He's not finished
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building your house?
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"I'm still working on it,
what are you doing up here?"
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And by the way,
I've got to say this.
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There's no such
conversation like that even
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when Lazarus died.
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When he came back
to life he didn't say,
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"Why did you bring
me back from heaven?"
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He had no
account. Do you know why?
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Because the dead
know not anything.
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When you go to bed at night,
are you watching the news?
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Are you reading a newspaper?
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How is it that in this life you
are very mortal until you die.
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Then all of a
sudden you become immortal.
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Then people say, "Mama's
looking down from heaven. "
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Now what does
she have, telescopes?
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What kind of divine
telescope do you have?
00:44:03.11\00:44:04.92
I don't want to be insensitive,
but I want to hit the
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devil on his head.
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He's a liar and we
need to know he's a liar.
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God is not a liar, amen.
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People can't even see around
the corner in this life, but
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they die and all of a sudden
they can see 37 million miles
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down to earth.
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Can't even see from the
back to the front of the stage.
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Who is that?
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That's what we do in this life.
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While we're alive we can't
see that far, but then we die
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and all of a sudden
they can see a long way.
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But that doesn't happen
because we're not in heaven.
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One day we will be
what Jesus wants us to be.
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We don't get like
He is by disobedience
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and we don't
become like Him at death.
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The Bible makes it very clear.
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Let me continue.
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Notice 1
Corinthians 15 verse 22.
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You've got to get this.
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See, Jesus if the first and only
to gain the victory over death.
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At His coming, so
will we. Here's the Bible.
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And I'm reading this from
the New American Standard Bible.
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1 Corinthians 15 verses 22-23.
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That's the scripture.
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So it seems as if
the resurrection has
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almost been ignored.
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That's why I love that song
that Reggie and Ladye Love sang.
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It comes from this scripture
here in John 5 verses 28-29.
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This is the hope we have.
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And by the way, you've
got to make your mind up
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to be in the first resurrection.
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Which resurrection did I say?
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The first.
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Here's the Bible,
John 5 verses 28-29.
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The same voice
that Lazarus heard.
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The voice that will
break the silence of the grave
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is the trumpet call of God.
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Amen for that.
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So when Paul
repeated these words in
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1 Thessalonians
chapter 4 verses 16-18,
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he was making it very clear.
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Lazarus, He said your name.
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But next time He's just going
to say, "Come forth, saints. "
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He's going to send His
angels to gather His saints.
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Now why send the
angels to gather people that
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are already there?
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A young man got
baptized not too long ago.
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I could just say his name
because I praise God for him.
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If he beats me
up, that's alright.
00:46:42.33\00:46:43.45
I could survive it.
00:46:43.48\00:46:44.45
But this young man argued
with us for years as he watched
00:46:45.36\00:46:48.04
House Calls program.
00:46:48.07\00:46:49.15
And he was running
audio for us at 3ABN.
00:46:49.18\00:46:51.72
And, you know, one day he called
me into his office and he said,
00:46:51.75\00:46:53.87
"You know, Pastor
John, I'm done fighting.
00:46:53.90\00:46:55.72
I'm done arguing with you.
00:46:55.75\00:46:57.24
I can't argue with
what you are saying anymore.
00:46:57.27\00:47:01.45
What do I need to do
to join your church?"
00:47:02.03\00:47:03.66
Somebody say amen. Amen.
00:47:03.69\00:47:05.25
And here's what convinced him.
00:47:05.32\00:47:06.56
He said, "You know, when
I thought about the topic of
00:47:06.59\00:47:08.20
death, it didn't make sense to
go and come back and go again. "
00:47:08.23\00:47:10.65
And then he said, "Your
church makes God look like
00:47:11.60\00:47:16.25
He knows what He's doing. "
00:47:16.28\00:47:17.95
Amen.
00:47:17.98\00:47:19.07
Do you know why?
00:47:29.09\00:47:30.06
Because we don't
preach for money.
00:47:30.07\00:47:31.20
You know that.
00:47:31.23\00:47:32.20
I mean, you know that.
00:47:33.25\00:47:34.22
Adventist pastors are probably
the poorest pastors on earth.
00:47:34.24\00:47:37.20
But we've got the
greatest inheritance.
00:47:37.23\00:47:38.47
What do you say? Amen.
00:47:38.50\00:47:39.97
Because you can't
buy your way to heaven.
00:47:40.00\00:47:41.40
You can have all those
hotels but you can't buy
00:47:41.43\00:47:43.27
your way to heaven.
00:47:43.30\00:47:44.27
You've got to tell the
truth. That's the way there.
00:47:44.28\00:47:46.78
You've got to uplift
Jesus. That's the way there.
00:47:46.81\00:47:49.39
You've got to tell the
truth. And here's the text.
00:47:49.42\00:47:51.29
When the Lord comes down, 1
Thessalonians 4 verse 16-18.
00:47:51.32\00:47:54.46
Are you ready?
00:47:54.49\00:47:55.46
Here's the comfort, brethren.
00:48:16.11\00:48:17.44
The comfort is that
death is not the last chapter.
00:48:17.47\00:48:21.15
One more chapter to be written.
00:48:21.88\00:48:23.71
Those who died in Christ will
not rise until Jesus descends.
00:48:23.74\00:48:26.68
Those who were dead
and those who never died
00:48:26.71\00:48:29.15
meet Jesus at the same time.
00:48:29.18\00:48:32.26
Those who were dead
and those who never died
00:48:32.29\00:48:35.03
will be caught up together.
00:48:35.06\00:48:37.68
That's what Paul says.
00:48:37.71\00:48:38.89
But what about, "To be
absent from the body is to be
00:48:38.92\00:48:41.67
present with the Lord. "
00:48:41.70\00:48:42.86
I'm going to beat that
one up like an angry dog.
00:48:42.89\00:48:45.57
Two ways that we
can understand that.
00:48:48.80\00:48:50.93
Paul sometimes wrote
to the church while he was
00:48:50.96\00:48:53.31
away from the church.
00:48:53.34\00:48:54.31
Here's the first verse, 1
Corinthians 5 and verse 3.
00:48:54.32\00:48:57.23
Here's what Paul says.
00:48:57.26\00:48:58.50
Paul says, "I'm not there. "
00:49:14.81\00:49:15.96
In other words, if
it was today, he says,
00:49:15.99\00:49:17.72
"I'm sending you an email.
00:49:17.75\00:49:18.72
I'd like to be there,
but here's my email. "
00:49:18.73\00:49:20.50
"I'm absent in body but
I'm present in spirit. "
00:49:20.53\00:49:23.77
Paul didn't send a
spirit to the Ephesians church
00:49:23.80\00:49:26.42
or the Corinthians church.
00:49:26.45\00:49:27.57
He said, "I'm not there. "
00:49:27.60\00:49:28.71
But here's the one that
people like to build around.
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2 Corinthians 5
verse 6-8. Are you ready?
00:49:30.91\00:49:33.44
First point, when you
read that entire story,
00:49:52.94\00:49:55.47
the word death
never appears once.
00:49:55.50\00:49:58.04
It's not even there.
00:49:58.45\00:50:00.03
You can't even
assume it's there.
00:50:00.06\00:50:01.79
Here's what Paul is saying.
00:50:01.82\00:50:03.67
If we are content in this
mortal body, we will never
00:50:03.70\00:50:08.21
be able to see the Lord
because we cannot see God
00:50:08.24\00:50:11.15
in this mortal body.
00:50:11.18\00:50:12.68
While we are at home,
that's the phrase, in this life
00:50:13.18\00:50:17.34
with all its troubles,
we'll never look forward to the
00:50:17.37\00:50:20.52
day when we will be
present with the Lord.
00:50:20.55\00:50:23.14
In order to be present
with the Lord, this mortal body
00:50:23.17\00:50:26.59
has to be replaced.
00:50:26.62\00:50:28.51
Look at what else he says
continuing in the very verse
00:50:28.54\00:50:31.33
right before that.
00:50:31.36\00:50:32.43
2 Corinthians 5 and verse 4.
00:50:32.46\00:50:34.46
Paul talked about the
inevitability of getting rid
00:50:35.19\00:50:37.42
of this mortal body.
00:50:37.45\00:50:38.42
Not dying and going
to heaven right away.
00:50:38.43\00:50:40.41
Here it is.
00:50:40.44\00:50:41.41
That's what he's meaning.
00:50:56.62\00:50:57.59
This mortal body will one
day be swallowed up in life.
00:50:57.60\00:51:00.29
How is it going
to be swallowed up?
00:51:01.27\00:51:02.34
Let me read it from
the New Living Translation
00:51:02.37\00:51:04.24
second edition.
00:51:04.27\00:51:05.24
Same text, look at what it says.
00:51:05.25\00:51:07.07
Is that clear?
00:51:24.71\00:51:26.44
One day, these dead bodies
are going to be swallowed up,
00:51:26.47\00:51:29.59
these mortal bodies are
going to be swallowed up.
00:51:29.62\00:51:32.04
And I not telling
the truth? By life.
00:51:32.07\00:51:34.19
And here's what else he says
in Philippians 3 verse 20-21.
00:51:34.22\00:51:37.70
Here's what he means by that.
00:51:37.73\00:51:39.64
Are you ready?
00:51:40.43\00:51:41.50
That confirmation,
that transformation
00:51:57.99\00:52:00.10
is not taking place at death.
00:52:00.13\00:52:01.71
When is it going to take place?
00:52:01.74\00:52:03.44
Our last
scripture for the evening.
00:52:03.47\00:52:05.87
I didn't think I'd
get through 35 slides.
00:52:05.90\00:52:08.59
But praise the Lord we've
got a good man on the truck.
00:52:08.62\00:52:12.28
I praise God for good
guys behind the camera.
00:52:12.31\00:52:14.62
1 Corinthians 15 verses 51-55.
00:52:15.14\00:52:18.02
The most powerful text
about the resurrection.
00:52:18.05\00:52:20.43
That entire
chapter of 1 Corinthians 15
00:52:20.46\00:52:22.81
is about death
and the resurrection.
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.95
The most overlooked
reason is in this verse.
00:52:26.19\00:52:28.73
The most overlooked
reason why we can't go to heaven
00:52:28.76\00:52:31.96
when we die is in this verse.
00:52:31.99\00:52:33.78
Here we go.
00:52:33.81\00:52:34.78
Here it is, before I finish.
00:52:57.67\00:52:59.00
When the trumpet
sounds, the change takes place.
00:52:59.03\00:53:02.09
The change doesn't
take place when you die,
00:53:02.12\00:53:04.85
it takes place when the Lord is
descending blowing that trumpet,
00:53:04.88\00:53:07.60
"Here I come. "
00:53:07.63\00:53:08.88
Then the change takes place.
00:53:08.91\00:53:10.43
Let's keep going.
00:53:10.46\00:53:11.43
Here's the two points that you
must get from these scriptures.
00:53:45.36\00:53:47.65
It is impossible for mortal
man to exist in the presence
00:53:47.68\00:53:51.36
of an immortal God
until man is also immortal.
00:53:51.39\00:53:54.46
Secondly, we are not
made immortal at death.
00:53:55.50\00:53:58.06
We are changed at
the return of Jesus.
00:53:58.09\00:54:00.46
Now let me tell you
why I like this sermon.
00:54:01.27\00:54:03.38
I've got two mothers that
are resting in Jesus right now.
00:54:04.45\00:54:07.63
If they saw the hardship and
the difficulty that I've been
00:54:09.47\00:54:12.91
going through since
they died, heaven would not
00:54:12.94\00:54:15.24
be a place of joy.
00:54:15.27\00:54:16.29
It'd be a place of sadness.
00:54:16.32\00:54:17.66
When Momma Haynes died, she
didn't know I left the church
00:54:19.44\00:54:22.28
and went out into the
world and almost lost my life.
00:54:22.31\00:54:24.33
Partying and gambling and
drinking and pool hustling.
00:54:24.36\00:54:28.84
And the only thing that kept
me going was the words of Momma
00:54:29.98\00:54:32.36
in the back of my mind
that she planted there when
00:54:32.39\00:54:35.07
I was a young man.
00:54:35.10\00:54:36.24
Momma doesn't know I
left the church and came back.
00:54:37.27\00:54:39.42
And, praise God, heaven
won't be a place of sadness
00:54:39.45\00:54:41.41
if she watched
those steps in my life.
00:54:41.44\00:54:42.97
But it's not a place of sadness,
It's going to be a place of joy.
00:54:43.00\00:54:45.73
What do you say?
00:54:45.76\00:54:46.73
It's going to be a
place of surprises too.
00:54:46.74\00:54:48.34
You don't know
who's going to make it.
00:54:48.37\00:54:49.49
You just better make
up your mind to be there.
00:54:49.52\00:54:51.39
We can't decide by what we
see who's going to be there
00:54:52.35\00:54:54.39
and who's not going to be there.
00:54:54.42\00:54:55.60
Momma Haynes died but I got
back, I got back by God's grace.
00:54:57.46\00:55:01.03
I tell you, I've
got a godly wife.
00:55:01.06\00:55:02.24
God send a love...
00:55:02.27\00:55:03.88
God sent somebody who loved
Him more than she loved me.
00:55:03.91\00:55:08.75
And made sure I
was back in the truth.
00:55:09.95\00:55:11.74
Now I'm telling the truth.
00:55:11.77\00:55:13.20
And you know
what's so nice about that?
00:55:13.23\00:55:14.84
I know that Momma
didn't see what's been
00:55:14.87\00:55:16.82
happening in my life.
00:55:16.85\00:55:17.99
I've got a second
mother who I met when I was
00:55:18.75\00:55:21.18
almost 26 years old.
00:55:21.21\00:55:22.43
She gave me up as a baby.
00:55:22.46\00:55:23.84
Left me at a babysitter,
at Momma Haynes house.
00:55:23.87\00:55:26.26
She left me where I could
learn the truth so that one day
00:55:26.29\00:55:28.24
when I found her, I
could tell her the truth.
00:55:28.27\00:55:30.05
Come on, say amen. Amen.
00:55:30.76\00:55:32.60
When she died in the Lord,
we only spent 7 years together.
00:55:32.63\00:55:35.71
That's God's number,
perfect relationship.
00:55:35.74\00:55:38.08
I only had one Mother's
Day celebration with my mother,
00:55:38.11\00:55:41.04
that mother who gave me life.
00:55:41.07\00:55:42.53
That Filipino
mother who gave me life.
00:55:42.93\00:55:44.30
We only spent one
birthday together,
00:55:44.33\00:55:46.04
one Mother's Day together.
00:55:46.07\00:55:47.51
But I know that when
Jesus comes, I've got at least
00:55:48.13\00:55:51.46
two more appointments.
00:55:51.49\00:55:52.94
Can we say glory to God?
00:55:55.03\00:55:56.69
I've got two more appointments.
00:55:56.72\00:55:58.71
I'm torn between whether I've
got to be in the Virgin Islands
00:55:59.45\00:56:02.40
or if I've got
to be in New York.
00:56:02.43\00:56:04.45
So I've got to make up
my mind, I can't be in two
00:56:05.11\00:56:07.98
places at one time.
00:56:08.01\00:56:09.16
So I made up my mind I'm
going to meet them in the air.
00:56:09.19\00:56:12.06
Amen.
00:56:12.09\00:56:14.04
And I give all
the glory to Jesus.
00:56:20.00\00:56:22.01
Not because of some
theological understanding
00:56:22.42\00:56:24.56
but because of
the fact that He's my
00:56:24.59\00:56:25.86
resurrection and my life.
00:56:25.89\00:56:27.42
In Him I have life and
in Him I have forgiveness.
00:56:27.45\00:56:29.60
In Him I have salvation.
00:56:29.63\00:56:31.54
In Him I've got
hope to see them again.
00:56:31.57\00:56:34.49
I don't know about my dad's.
00:56:34.89\00:56:36.46
I'm praying that God
worked something out before
00:56:36.49\00:56:38.21
they closed their eyes.
00:56:38.24\00:56:39.21
I don't know about that but
I know that heaven's going to
00:56:39.22\00:56:40.97
be a place of surprises.
00:56:41.00\00:56:42.31
But I made up my
mind, whether you go or not
00:56:42.34\00:56:44.16
I'm going to be there.
00:56:44.19\00:56:45.16
Somebody once said, "I'm
going to cry but not forever. "
00:56:45.39\00:56:47.94
"I'm going to miss
you but not forever. "
00:56:48.81\00:56:50.46
And every time my wife
and I travel around the world
00:56:50.86\00:56:52.98
we say to people, "We
may never see you again.
00:56:53.01\00:56:54.74
But if we see you again,
let's make an appointment;
00:56:54.77\00:56:56.72
the third week by
the tree of life. "
00:56:56.75\00:56:58.50
Because the first
week belongs to Jesus.
00:56:58.53\00:57:01.20
And the second week, I've
got to ask Solomon the question,
00:57:02.16\00:57:04.79
"What was on your mind?
00:57:04.82\00:57:06.52
Why on earth would you
want to marry 700 women
00:57:08.13\00:57:11.11
when I spent my whole life
trying to make one happy. "
00:57:12.07\00:57:14.86
So I say to folk, in the
resurrection I'm going to look
00:57:16.96\00:57:20.01
like God
intended for me to look.
00:57:20.04\00:57:23.17
I'm going to
have a glorious body.
00:57:23.51\00:57:25.72
I'm not going to worry
about coloring my hair anymore.
00:57:25.75\00:57:28.85
I don't need contacts.
00:57:28.88\00:57:30.27
Somebody say amen. Amen.
00:57:30.30\00:57:31.44
I don't have to worry
about pains in my knees.
00:57:31.47\00:57:34.39
In the resurrection
when God makes us all new,
00:57:34.42\00:57:37.52
we're going to
be just like Jesus.
00:57:37.55\00:57:39.12
So brethren, don't fall
for a lie because the best
00:57:39.15\00:57:42.19
is yet to come.
00:57:42.22\00:57:43.36
You want to be
there, my brother?
00:57:43.39\00:57:45.04
You want to be there, my sister?
00:57:45.07\00:57:46.35
Hold on to the only One
that can give you eternal life.
00:57:46.38\00:57:49.40
And when that day comes...
00:57:49.43\00:57:50.78
And it's coming and I
believe it's on its way.
00:57:50.81\00:57:52.89
When that day comes and
I hear that trumpet blow,
00:57:52.92\00:57:55.33
I'm going to be
looking left and right.
00:57:55.36\00:57:56.92
St. Thomas, New
York. St. Thomas, New York.
00:57:56.95\00:57:59.97
I'm going to look up and
say, "Lo, this is my God.
00:58:00.00\00:58:02.64
I've waited for Him
and He'll save me. "
00:58:02.67\00:58:04.60
And when we get to heaven,
I'm going to see my mother
00:58:04.63\00:58:06.77
the way that God
intends for her to look.
00:58:06.80\00:58:08.28
And Momma Haynes.
00:58:08.31\00:58:09.28
No more death, no more
crying, no more suffering.
00:58:09.29\00:58:11.70
So those who are
watching, keep on trusting Jesus
00:58:11.73\00:58:14.31
because, friends say it with
me, "The best is yet to come. "
00:58:14.34\00:58:18.20