Thank you.
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Good evening and welcome.
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So good to see so many here.
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Our journey tonight
is one of my favorites.
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I think you'll agree
it's one of yours by the
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time we've concluded.
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Let's fasten, fasten
tightly our seatbelts
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and we shall go
to Egypt tonight.
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We're going to go
inside the great pyramid.
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Egypt is a curious place.
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Fascinating place.
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It's a strange mixture
of the old and the new,
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the ancient and the modern.
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It's where the east and
the west are married together.
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In the city of Cairo,
this by the way, happens to be
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the University of Cairo.
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And our guide will be a
professor of antiquities here.
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The city of Cairo is a city
of nearly 11 million people.
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And of those 11 million,
almost all who have a faith
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are followers of Islam.
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The very few who are
Christians are mostly Coptic,
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Egyptian Coptic, which
is similar to Roman Catholic
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in many, many ways.
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But they make up a very small
percentage of the population,
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not only in the city of Cairo,
but throughout Egypt as well.
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We were going down the highway
in a bus at about 45 or 50 mph,
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a tour bus, and here streaking
by us on the right side
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is this motorcycle
being driven by a man
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with three children behind him.
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And they're all waving at us.
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And I was able to
focus and shoot this picture.
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I thought, that's a record.
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I have never seen four
on a motorcycle before.
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The next day, similar situation.
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But riding on the motorcycle
was a man; in front of him
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was a child, behind him
was a child, behind that child
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was the mother, and behind
the mother still another child.
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Five on a motorcycle and
I couldn't get the picture
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quickly enough.
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Here's a guy that's on
the way to the market place
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to pick up a couple
of chickens for dinner.
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Now I want you to
think about it for a moment.
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I don't think I'd care to
carry the chickens on my head
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in a little cage like that.
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You get the
picture, now don't you.
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Well, there are
others on the way to market.
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Look at this guy.
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Now, be reminded.
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There are cars and trucks and
buses, and horns are blowing,
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and there are people everywhere.
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And here's this guy on
the apron of the freeway
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in his own little world.
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A little cart, and notice
down in the bottom of that cart
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there is a little hemp
hammock, a little rope hammock.
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There's not one in this
one, but I have seen often
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a little child in there
asleep swinging back and forth.
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And it's like
they're in their own world.
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They're already
really very relaxed.
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But if you think they're
relaxed, take a look at this.
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As the kids would say, kicked
back and cooled out, chilled.
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The horse knows the way
to carry the wagon, I guess.
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Here's a lady who's been
to market and bringing the
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groceries back on her
head and her child in her arms.
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But notice this one.
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Here's a lady out in the
countryside carrying atop
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her head the bottom
quarter of a 55 gallon barrel.
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And I don't know what's in
it, maybe nothing is in it.
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But I couldn't carry
that much steel in my arms,
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let alone on the
top of my head that way.
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I want to show you the
area of the Gypsy farmers.
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The growing season is
such that they can grow
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three different crops here.
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The growing season is long,
all they need to do is put down
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fertilizer and water
and three separate crops.
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Consequently then, the
farmers live out here during the
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growing season and
then go to their homes,
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perhaps in the city of Cairo,
perhaps some other village,
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to spend the off months, the
3 months of non-growing season.
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And here, they're
caring for some farm animals.
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And just down the road a ways,
there are their summer or their
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working homes I
should better say.
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Their growing season homes.
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The roofs are
made of corn stalks.
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It wouldn't keep out the rain,
but there's very, very little
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rain ever here at all anyway.
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Next to them were a couple
of ladies building an addition
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onto their home.
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Maybe it's a bedroom for
another child who's coming.
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I don't know.
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What I do know very well
is their building material
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has been freshly
scooped from the barnyard.
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They smell terribly.
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And they're in it, you
can see, up to their necks.
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You just wonder how
they keep from getting
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really, really very ill.
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I don't know.
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We had been warned
not to get in the water,
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don't get any water in
your mouth or your eyes.
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And yet, here are the
little native boys in the canal
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swimming with the caribou
and just having the best time
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in all of the world.
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And I discovered that the little
boys in Egypt are not unlike
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little American boys
in the heat of summer.
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They'll go skinny dipping.
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And as we went by, here was this
little guy running along side
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our bus with his hand out.
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"Baksheesh," he was
shouting. "Baksheesh. "
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Traveling with me was a young
man by the name of Joe Kreger.
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And Joe was holding out a dime.
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And this little guy ran for
about half a block and Joe just
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held the dime, so he gave up.
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And when he stopped running,
Joe dropped the dime for him.
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And he caught it on the second
bounce and when he looked up,
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Joe was holding another dime.
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After about a mile, I
had to bring it to an end.
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I could see the
headlines in the Cairo paper,
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American preachers run naked
native boy to death, you know.
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So I put an end to it.
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We were coming out here
to see the great pyramids.
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There were dozens
and dozens of them.
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Many of them date
back thousands of years.
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We're going to go
inside the great, the largest
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of all of the pyramids.
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The pyramid of
King Cheops, or Khufu.
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Either name is correct.
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One is his Greek name and
the other is his Egyptian name.
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Every pagan religion has held
within it at least two major
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non-Biblical doctrines.
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One of them is the
idea of sun worship
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and worshipping the
sun on the day of the sun,
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the first day of
the week, Sunday.
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And the second
non-Biblical doctrine;
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the idea that when you
die, you don't really die.
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But a soul, or a spirit, or
a ghost of some sort, lives on
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and goes on to other realms.
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Some add to that, reincarnation.
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You conquer this world,
this life, and then come back
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as another and
another and another.
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But they all have
this false teaching,
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the pagan religions do.
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And particularly was it
exemplified here amongst
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the ancient pharaohs or kings
who believed that when you died,
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your soul or spirit was released
from the body and would go
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to enjoy other
things, wonderful things.
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They would bury with
them, all kinds of treasures;
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toys, games, seeds that they
could plant in the after world
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to grow their favorite foods.
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And gold and
treasures of all kinds.
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And that was the reason for the
building of the great pyramids.
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Now, the pharaoh was
buried right in the very center
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of the pyramid.
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Equal distance from top
to bottom and vertically,
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and equal distance horizontally.
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Right in the very center.
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It was a part of
their religion, you see,
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this idea of equilibrium,
and yin and yang is not so
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terribly far removed from
it when you go out to China.
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But at any event, the
queens were not so regarded.
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Their burial
chambers were way down beneath
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these great pyramids.
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They didn't have equality
in life and they didn't have
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equality in death
even though they sat upon
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the throne as the queen.
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And so we're going to,
after we take a moment to look
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at the Sphinx, go
inside the great pyramid.
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For years I would ask the folks,
"Find out for me tomorrow night
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what happened to the nose of
the Sphinx for it is missing. "
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And almost without exception,
someone or several would
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come back with the
answer, "Well, Napoleon's
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soldiers blew it
off there when they were
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training in their big guns. "
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And I had heard that
and learned that in history.
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But guess what?
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Recently, pictures or drawings
of the Sphinx that pre-date
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Napoleon by at least
100 years are found and his
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nose is already gone.
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What happened to
his nose, I don't know.
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Maybe he had a bad cold and went
"kachew", I just don't know.
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Well, we're going to go
inside this great pyramid
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with this little guy here.
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He had picked up a little
bit of the English language
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during the World War II years.
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I suppose he was
just a little child.
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But he knew a few words of
language, and our professor
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who teaches at the university
has been inside so many times.
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And so he turns us
over to this gentleman,
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and he would say to
us, "Follow me closely now.
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Okey dokey?
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Okey dokey, follow Sam. "
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He called himself Sam.
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"Follow Sam, okey
dokey? Okey dokey. "
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And we got back inside
and he began to sing to us,
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"Yankee doodle went to town. "
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"Oh," he said,
"I must be fair. "
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"Are you from
Dixie? I say, from Dixie?"
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You know, the Yanks and the
folks below the Mason-Dixon,
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he wanted to treat fairly.
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And so we found our way
back through this force part
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of the tunnel and eventually we
would come to the natural shaft
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that goes up to
the burial chamber.
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Now you must get
down on hands and knees
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for the shaft is
only about 4 feet square.
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And you have to climb
at an angle that I suppose
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to have been between 18
and 20 degrees, fairly steep.
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And here, about half of my
tour group turned and went back.
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They said it's too dark with
tons and tons of stone over us
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and it's claustrophobic.
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And tons of stone indeed.
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There are 5 million
stones that make up the pyramid.
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I'm sorry, I should have
said there are 3 million stones.
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And they believe that the
stones average in weight about
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30 thousand pounds.
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That means the ones way
up at the top are smaller
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but those at the base are
much, much heavier than that.
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And so, we had to crawl on
hands and knees until we got
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in the very center of the place
and then it all opened out.
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Here is a good picture of the
way the big stones fit together.
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Where you see that
white line, that is the joint.
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There is no mortar.
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And those stones, tons
and tons each, fit so tightly
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that you couldn't slip
a paper in between them.
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That's some real
engineering, it seems to me.
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Now suddenly, the
place has opened up.
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The shaft overhead is 30 feet
high and it's an inverted "V".
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And we're just steps from
the entry to the burial chamber.
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There it is.
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We again must get down on
hands and knees to go inside.
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And when we step
inside, our first lighted scene
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is the sarcophagus or the
stone tomb of King Cheops.
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Long, long ago vandalized.
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All of the treasures
and the gems, whatever,
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taken and stolen away.
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And after we had been
here for a little while,
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Sam our guide said
to us, "Shhh, shhh. "
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"Be very quiet. "
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"Shhh. "
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And when it became
as hushed as it is now,
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Sam turned off the lights.
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Now I've been in
some dark places, folks.
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I've been in the bottom of
the Carlsbad Caverns when they
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turned the lights out.
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And I've been in other places.
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But nothing seemed
as dark as this place.
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I mean, it seemed so
oppressive, you could cut
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the darkness with scissors.
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"Shhh," Sam
continued. "Shhh, quiet. "
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And in a little bit,
this is what you could hear.
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Thump, thump. Thump, thump.
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Thump, thump. Thump, thump.
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But Lyle heard this...
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Thump, thump, thump, thump,
thump, thump, thump, thump.
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Oh I was thankful when
they turned the lights on.
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I felt so very, very good.
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Sam allowed us to have
our pictures taken with him.
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And then he said,
"Let's get out of here. "
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I said, "That's a good idea. "
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And I suggest that we
conclude here tonight.
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Thank you so very
much for traveling with me.
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Recently, I was channel
surfing when I came across
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America's foremost psychic.
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That's the way
he's titled these days.
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And it went something like this.
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There was an audience
much larger than this one.
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"There's a lady here
who's just lost her husband.
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Yes, I understand
ma'am. you're in great grief.
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I understand that.
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But your husband
is right here with me.
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He's standing
right here beside me.
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Your dead husband is right here.
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He's telling me to tell you that
he's in a much better place.
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Please don't worry
about him, he's fine,
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and that you'll be fine.
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Oh he's laughing.
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He's telling me that...
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He's telling me that you've been
trying to find your red shoes,
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your red heels. "
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And the lady's jaw
drops almost to the floor.
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"He's telling me to tell
you that shortly before his
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sudden death, he, as
a prank, hid your shoes
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in the garage on a shelf.
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And if you'll go to that
shelf and pull some boxes aside,
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you'll find the box
with your red high heels. "
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And the lady did.
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And she did.
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And chalk up hundreds more then,
if not thousands or perhaps
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multiplied millions as they
watch television, believers,
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that there is no
such thing as death.
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That death is just a
graduation to another plane.
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That it's just a moving on.
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It seems that the world,
including largely the church,
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has forgotten the
truth, the sad truth,
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that the devil has
assigned to us evil agents.
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It's true that when we're
born, we have a guardian angel
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that's placed beside us
to guide our feet in paths of
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righteousness and to speak
to us with a still small voice.
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Our guarding angel is also
our recording angel, of course.
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But the devil himself
has put beside us evil angels
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to take record of
every single thing that we do
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and encourage us to walk
in paths of unrighteousness.
00:16:02.77\00:16:05.66
And evil angels are a party to
every little conversation that
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seemed to have been private.
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Every little action that
you thought no one else knew
00:16:12.57\00:16:15.39
anything about.
00:16:15.42\00:16:16.80
And so the devil whispers
into the ear of the channeler,
00:16:16.83\00:16:19.79
the spirit medium.
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And he comes across
looking as if he's speaking
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for God Almighty.
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And again, underlining this
idea that there is no death.
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It's only just a
graduation ceremony.
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I get a
magazine, I don't know why.
00:16:30.61\00:16:32.96
It's called "AARP".
00:16:33.52\00:16:35.10
Perhaps some of
you folks get it.
00:16:35.13\00:16:36.70
That's for the association
of retired people, they tell me.
00:16:36.73\00:16:40.00
Why they send it
to me, I have no idea.
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It's for old
folks, as I've said.
00:16:41.83\00:16:43.30
But on the front cover it says,
00:16:43.33\00:16:45.40
"Life After Death.
What Do You Believe?"
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And then it says, if you
read inside, there is a poll.
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And I'm going to read you
just a couple of sentences
00:16:51.08\00:16:53.52
from the poll.
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"We found that people
50 years of age and older
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tend to be down
right conventional
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in their basic beliefs.
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73% agree with
this statement, quote,
00:17:01.89\00:17:05.81
'I believe that there
is life after death. '"
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Immediately at death, moreover.
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And then it goes on to
say that women are more likely
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to believe in
that idea than men.
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And not I'm exactly sure
about how true that is or
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how important that it is.
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I want you now,
please, to open your Bibles
00:17:28.08\00:17:30.68
to our first
scripture for this evening.
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We're going to go to the
writing of the apostle Paul to a
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young preacher by
the name of Timothy.
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1 Timothy chapter 4,
please turn there with me.
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And by the way, I'm just
going to say as we begin tonight
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that I'm going to
cover a lot of ground,
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I'm going to cover
a lot of scripture,
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and we won't be
able to turn to everyone.
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But I know that you "A"
students will take notes.
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And we will make available, by
recording also, the information.
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And I want again to
encourage everybody to go home
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and check it out.
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You check out every preacher
that you hear on television.
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You check out every
preacher that comes through town
00:18:03.71\00:18:07.34
and every revival.
00:18:07.37\00:18:08.34
And you check out Lyle.
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Be certain you check
everyone by the Word.
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As we've said before,
don't go to the preacher and
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check the Bible
out by the preacher.
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But rather, you check the
preacher out by the Bible.
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And then you'll always be safe.
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Now we're ready to read
together 1 Timothy chapter 4
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and the first 3 verses.
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Listen very carefully and
notice the end time context.
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"Now the Spirit speaks
expressly that in the last days
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many are going to depart from
the faith giving heed to... "
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Now you tell me
what it says next.
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What kinds of
spirits? What kind?
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"Deceiving spirits. "
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Would that be the
work of the Holy Spirit?
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Absolutely not.
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Would that be the work of the
evil spirit, the devil spirit?
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Certainly it is.
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"Giving heed to seducing spirits
and the doctrines of devils,
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speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their conscience
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seared with a hot iron,
they'll forbid some to marry,
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and to tell some that they're
to abstain from certain food. "
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Now, let me just give
you a thumbnail sketch
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of what I believe
God is saying here.
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God is saying that there is a
religious power in the last day.
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A power that is prominent, maybe
that's a better way to say it.
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A religious power, or
denomination if you please.
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You may put it that
way if you don't mind.
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There is a power
that forbids some to marry
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and disallows some to
eat certain things at certain
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times of the year.
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And a power that
promotes spiritism.
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Now I don't know
how that part, at least,
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could be more clear.
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How could that
possibly be more clear.
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From there, we're going
to go without transition
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to Revelation chapter 16.
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The last book for those
who live in the very last days.
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And I'm going to begin
now, to read at verse 13.
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Revelation 16 verses 13-15.
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Revelation chapter 16
beginning with verse 13.
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Here in vision, John over
viewing the last days said,
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"I saw three
unclean spirits like... "
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Now you tell me
what they were like.
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They were like frogs.
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It's not an accident, I
think, that God through John
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uses that symbol, for
in many pagan cultures
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the frog was an
object of veneration.
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He was an object of worship.
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And certainly that was
the way it was in Egypt.
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There would come
a plague of frogs.
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The Bible speaks about that.
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The Exodus is clear about it.
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The plagues of
Revelation speak about it.
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Frogs everywhere.
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Frogs under foot.
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Hardly could you cross
the street without walking
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on some or many.
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And then one day, this
plague of frogs would almost
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suddenly disappear.
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They would hop down to the
river bank or to the lake shore,
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to the sea bed, and
dig themselves a grave
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and pull it in
behind them and die.
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That's what the pagans believed.
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And then a few days later, they
would come out of their grave
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with a new suit of clothes.
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Proof, they believed,
that the frog was the evidence
00:21:02.18\00:21:05.50
that there was no death.
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Death was only
just a transition.
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And so here in the
symbolism, John says,
00:21:09.38\00:21:12.71
"I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs.
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One came out of the
mouth of the dragon,
00:21:14.72\00:21:16.22
one from the mouth of the beast,
00:21:16.25\00:21:17.36
one out of the mouth
of the false prophet. "
00:21:17.39\00:21:18.94
And then he
identifies them for us.
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"These are the spirits of
devils that are working miracles
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that go to the kings of
the earth and the whole world,
00:21:24.14\00:21:25.97
to gather them to the battle of
the great day of God Almighty. "
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And then the 15th verse.
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"Behold, I come as a thief. "
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Jesus says, when you
see occultism and spiritism
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and demon worship and this
idea of occultism everywhere,
00:21:34.73\00:21:40.20
not only in the East, not
only out in India somewhere,
00:21:40.23\00:21:43.19
but flooding the universities
of the West and being taught
00:21:43.22\00:21:47.14
from kindergarten
through the highest level of the
00:21:47.17\00:21:49.26
graduate school,
when you see that happen,
00:21:49.29\00:21:51.35
"then know that I'm
near, even at the door. "
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Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I
believe that the rapid expansion
00:21:54.65\00:21:58.01
of spiritism throughout
the whole world, particularly
00:21:58.04\00:22:00.72
in this Christian segment of
the world, is one of the most
00:22:00.75\00:22:03.92
certain signs of the
imminent coming of Jesus.
00:22:03.95\00:22:06.04
He must come
again. And come He shall.
00:22:06.07\00:22:09.73
Spiritism.
00:22:10.97\00:22:12.02
Where did it begin?
00:22:12.05\00:22:13.27
Well we've read from the
last book, the Revelation,
00:22:13.30\00:22:15.80
there's going to be
a big problem to the
00:22:15.83\00:22:17.18
terminal generation and
everyone alive to meet Jesus
00:22:17.21\00:22:20.03
is going to be
tested in this area.
00:22:20.06\00:22:22.07
Now let's go back to
the beginning, shall we.
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.06
Let's go back to the
book of Genesis chapter 3.
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And in the word Genesis,
of course, we have the word
00:22:26.78\00:22:29.42
genes and genetics and origins.
00:22:29.45\00:22:31.74
Alright?
00:22:31.77\00:22:32.74
Genesis chapter 3 and I shall
begin here at the first verse.
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Genesis chapter 3 beginning
at verse 1 and reading down
00:22:36.87\00:22:40.89
through the end of verse 5.
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"Now the serpent was more
subtle than the other beast
00:22:43.52\00:22:45.46
of the field that
the Lord had made.
00:22:45.49\00:22:46.85
And the serpent said to
the woman, 'Ye, has God said
00:22:46.88\00:22:49.43
you're not to eat of
every tree in the garden?'
00:22:49.46\00:22:51.41
The woman said to the serpent,
'We may eat of the fruit
00:22:51.44\00:22:53.45
of the trees of the garden
except for the fruit of the
00:22:53.48\00:22:55.28
tree in the
middle of the garden.
00:22:55.31\00:22:56.45
God has said, 'Don't eat it,
don't touch it, lest you die. '"
00:22:56.48\00:23:01.30
Now by the way, my Bible
with a center Hebrew margin
00:23:01.33\00:23:03.70
reference says,
"dying, thou shalt die. "
00:23:03.73\00:23:06.40
In other words, what God
wasn't saying, "As soon as you
00:23:06.43\00:23:08.53
touch the fruit the fruit,
you're going to drop dead. "
00:23:08.56\00:23:10.16
What He was saying is,
"As soon as you disobey Me
00:23:10.19\00:23:12.49
in this area, the death
process is going to begin.
00:23:12.52\00:23:15.17
The wrinkles are going to begin.
00:23:15.98\00:23:17.28
Your hair is going
to begin to turn gray
00:23:17.31\00:23:20.10
and you're going to die. "
00:23:20.13\00:23:21.99
Death, He's saying, is a total
and complete cessation of life.
00:23:22.02\00:23:25.81
"God has told us,
'Don't eat from it,
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.01
don't touch it, lest we die. '
00:23:32.04\00:23:34.45
And the serpent
said to the woman,
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.05
'No, you won't die.
You won't surely die. '"
00:23:36.08\00:23:40.57
By the way, there is
the hint here of a question,
00:23:46.25\00:23:48.53
"Well, it may
seem like you're dead,
00:23:48.56\00:23:50.33
but you're not really dead.
00:23:50.36\00:23:52.23
You won't surely, no
you won't completely die. "
00:23:52.81\00:23:56.27
"For God knows," verse 5,
"God knows that in the day
00:24:01.52\00:24:03.86
you eat the fruit thereof,
your eyes will be opened
00:24:03.89\00:24:05.82
and you shall be... "
00:24:05.85\00:24:07.40
What? Help me now please.
00:24:07.43\00:24:08.74
"You shall be God,
knowing both good and evil. "
00:24:08.77\00:24:12.21
The original lie; there
is no death and you are God.
00:24:12.24\00:24:15.62
Now there comes then
this question and its basic
00:24:17.09\00:24:19.37
to Christianity.
00:24:19.40\00:24:20.53
Are you really
dead when you die?
00:24:22.46\00:24:24.39
You ask most of the
Christian world and they'll say,
00:24:26.99\00:24:28.74
"No, you're not
dead when you die.
00:24:28.77\00:24:30.43
For there's a soul or a
spirit or some such thing
00:24:30.83\00:24:33.18
that lives on. "
00:24:33.21\00:24:34.43
And I have news for you.
00:24:34.46\00:24:35.92
The psychics have
made multiplied millions
00:24:35.95\00:24:38.49
in the last decade by
sharing that idea, as we alluded
00:24:38.52\00:24:41.77
with our illustration
when we began a little bit ago.
00:24:41.80\00:24:44.18
The idea of talking with
the dead whether it's through
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.04
Jonathan Edward or J. Z.
Knight, to whose place I've been
00:24:46.07\00:24:48.87
over in Yelm
Washington recently.
00:24:48.90\00:24:50.44
Mediums and
channelers are everywhere today.
00:24:50.47\00:24:53.70
I'll talk to you basically
and briefly about Halloween.
00:24:53.73\00:24:56.41
Halloween, originally, was
based totally and completely
00:24:56.92\00:24:59.15
in spiritism.
00:24:59.18\00:25:00.29
The Druid people who
lived largely in England and
00:25:00.69\00:25:02.90
Scotland and Ireland, believed
that in the fall of the year,
00:25:02.93\00:25:05.92
the evil, the ugly dead things,
the monstrous sort of things,
00:25:05.95\00:25:10.16
would come back and they
would torment you and they
00:25:10.19\00:25:12.94
would taunt you and
they would haunt you
00:25:12.97\00:25:14.87
unless you treated them.
00:25:14.90\00:25:15.87
Thus then came trick or treat.
00:25:15.90\00:25:17.96
Now let me take
one step from there.
00:25:17.99\00:25:19.98
There was a guy by
the name of Harry Houdini
00:25:20.01\00:25:23.12
who did magical tricks
that seemed to defy science.
00:25:23.15\00:25:27.55
And if you've not read
a book or two about him,
00:25:29.71\00:25:31.76
it might not be a bad idea.
00:25:31.79\00:25:33.89
Harry Houdini died
on Halloween of 1926.
00:25:33.92\00:25:38.96
Every Halloween since his death,
there has been a gathering
00:25:38.99\00:25:44.03
beside his grave because
he promised to come back.
00:25:44.06\00:25:46.76
His family members have
been there year in and year out,
00:25:46.79\00:25:50.63
and now to the
3rd and 4th generation
00:25:50.66\00:25:52.98
to see if he would return.
00:25:53.01\00:25:55.29
He hasn't made it. Not yet.
00:25:55.32\00:25:57.78
The first séance
happened in the Garden of Eden,
00:25:59.29\00:26:02.62
as we've just read
from Genesis chapter 3.
00:26:02.65\00:26:05.43
The first medium was a snake.
00:26:05.46\00:26:07.77
And the first possession was
the devil taking and speaking,
00:26:07.80\00:26:11.35
taking hold of and speaking
through the body of this snake.
00:26:11.38\00:26:15.07
And we also find
there, the first lie.
00:26:15.10\00:26:17.29
First medium, first possession.
00:26:17.32\00:26:19.17
The first lie; there
is no such thing as death.
00:26:19.20\00:26:22.44
He deceived Eve,
she flunked the test.
00:26:23.18\00:26:26.00
John chapter 8 and
verse 44 says that the devil,
00:26:26.03\00:26:29.73
who told Eve that original lie,
there is no such thing as death,
00:26:29.76\00:26:32.67
John 8:44 says that he is a
liar, and he is not only just
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a liar, he is the father of it.
00:26:38.05\00:26:40.58
He's the originator of it.
00:26:40.61\00:26:41.91
And indeed he is.
00:26:41.94\00:26:43.27
The whole idea of an immortal
soul, not subject to death;
00:26:43.30\00:26:48.71
that's the basic interpretation
of the idea of an immortal soul.
00:26:48.74\00:26:52.49
And we've had in the
church, many, many hymns that
00:26:52.52\00:26:55.37
carry that idea.
00:26:55.40\00:26:56.70
"Where The Soul
Never Dies," for instance.
00:26:57.49\00:27:00.13
I've heard it in many churches.
00:27:00.16\00:27:01.76
"Where The Soul Never Dies"
00:27:01.79\00:27:04.11
Now look, folks.
00:27:04.76\00:27:05.73
If there is no such thing
as death, and I mean the total
00:27:06.95\00:27:09.83
cessation of life,
then we are now immortal.
00:27:09.86\00:27:15.72
A man out on the battlefield
receives a mortal wound.
00:27:15.75\00:27:18.83
What does that mean?
00:27:18.86\00:27:19.83
That means he died as
a result of the wound.
00:27:20.01\00:27:22.54
It was a fatality.
00:27:22.57\00:27:23.94
We use that phrase
synonymously with mortality.
00:27:23.97\00:27:28.00
It was a
fatality, a mortal wound.
00:27:28.03\00:27:30.95
Now, I want you folks to turn
with me to 1 Timothy, please.
00:27:30.98\00:27:35.64
We were back in Timothy a
bit ago and must of necessity
00:27:35.67\00:27:38.30
go there again tonight.
00:27:38.33\00:27:39.80
1 Timothy chapter 6.
00:27:39.83\00:27:42.07
This is the apostle Paul
writing to the young preacher
00:27:43.65\00:27:46.17
his first letter.
00:27:46.20\00:27:48.86
And we're going to begin
to read down at verse 15.
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1 Timothy 6 verses 15 and 16.
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"Which in His time He shall
show, He who is the blessed
00:27:58.57\00:28:02.46
and the only
Potentate, the King of kings
00:28:02.49\00:28:04.38
and the Lord of lords. "
00:28:04.41\00:28:05.43
Now whom do you think
it's speaking about here?
00:28:05.46\00:28:07.04
It's speaking about
God Almighty, isn't it.
00:28:07.54\00:28:09.60
Of course, the
context is quite clear.
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And then in verse 16 it says,
"Who only hath immortality,
00:28:11.76\00:28:16.01
dwelling in the light which
no man can approach unto. "
00:28:16.04\00:28:19.84
And so here, God through
the apostle Paul, is telling us
00:28:19.87\00:28:22.64
that at this point
now, God only, God alone,
00:28:22.67\00:28:26.42
the God family
only has immortality.
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In 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse
10, there the same apostle Paul
00:28:31.04\00:28:35.77
in the second
letter says and I quote,
00:28:35.80\00:28:38.13
"Jesus' appearing will
abolish death, it brought life
00:28:38.16\00:28:43.05
and immortality to
light through the gospel. "
00:28:43.08\00:28:46.60
The death of Jesus, the second
coming of Jesus will bright
00:28:46.63\00:28:49.64
to us immortality.
00:28:49.67\00:28:51.08
From here, we're going to
go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
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You remember that when
we talked about heaven,
00:28:54.40\00:28:56.52
I said to you ladies and
gentlemen that this had become
00:28:56.55\00:28:59.18
my favorite passage
in all of the Bible.
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1 Corinthians
chapter 15 verses 51- 53.
00:29:03.14\00:29:10.14
1 Corinthians 15:51
00:29:10.17\00:29:12.70
Here, God through Paul says,
"Look, I'll show you a mystery.
00:29:12.73\00:29:17.00
We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed;
00:29:17.03\00:29:19.98
in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump.
00:29:20.01\00:29:22.68
For the trumpet shall sound
and the dead shall be raised
00:29:22.71\00:29:26.00
incorruptible and
we shall be changed.
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.96
This corruptible
must put on incorruption,
00:29:28.99\00:29:31.52
and then this
mortal will put on... "
00:29:31.55\00:29:34.54
There it is.
00:29:34.57\00:29:36.36
When do we become immortal?
00:29:36.39\00:29:38.68
As soon as we die?
00:29:38.71\00:29:40.05
No, when Jesus
comes and we are changed.
00:29:40.08\00:29:43.83
Changed in an instant
and given life eternal.
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Given by grace, immortality,
instantly and immediately
00:29:47.06\00:29:50.56
at the second coming of Jesus.
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Put in your notes there, if you
will please, Romans chapter 2
00:29:52.37\00:29:54.90
verse 7 where it
says, the same apostle Paul,
00:29:54.93\00:29:58.08
it says now that
man seeks immortality.
00:29:58.11\00:30:01.74
We have a longing for, we're
tired and we're sick of death.
00:30:01.77\00:30:05.13
We're so tired of
going to the grave yard.
00:30:05.16\00:30:08.11
We're so tired of burying
there our hopes and our dreams
00:30:08.91\00:30:11.93
and our babies.
00:30:11.96\00:30:13.24
We're sick of it.
00:30:13.27\00:30:14.37
Man, therefore,
seeks immortality.
00:30:17.40\00:30:20.68
Now listen to me.
00:30:20.71\00:30:21.68
Why would I seek for something
that I already have, huh?
00:30:24.46\00:30:28.34
"Come now, let us
reason together," said God.
00:30:35.23\00:30:40.80
Now let me take your mind
back not so very many days
00:30:41.81\00:30:47.08
as we step back to the future.
00:30:47.90\00:30:49.77
Our Lord Jesus is
on a missionary journey
00:30:50.52\00:30:52.43
with the disciples when word
comes that their dear friend,
00:30:52.46\00:30:55.56
Lazarus, is gravely ill.
00:30:55.59\00:30:57.56
And you read this, by
the way, in John chapter 11.
00:30:57.59\00:31:00.59
Instead of turning immediately
around and going back,
00:31:00.62\00:31:03.19
Jesus continues on and
then the really bad news arrives
00:31:03.22\00:31:07.04
that Lazarus has died.
00:31:07.07\00:31:10.41
I'm going to have you read
with me, if you will please,
00:31:11.04\00:31:13.91
John 11 and verse 11.
00:31:13.94\00:31:17.53
John chapter 11 and
beginning, well let's see.
00:31:20.44\00:31:24.95
Maybe we shall begin
to read, yeah at verse 11.
00:31:24.98\00:31:28.22
That'll work just very well.
00:31:28.25\00:31:29.56
"These things Jesus said,
and after that He said to them,
00:31:31.53\00:31:33.60
'Our friend Lazarus sleeps
but I go that I might wake him
00:31:33.63\00:31:36.16
out of sleep. '
00:31:36.19\00:31:37.16
Then His disciples said, 'Lord,
if he sleeps he shall do well. '
00:31:37.40\00:31:40.70
Howbeit, Jesus had spoken
of his dying, but they thought
00:31:40.73\00:31:44.59
He was speaking of
taking rest in sleep.
00:31:44.62\00:31:46.78
So Jesus said unto them
plainly, 'Lazarus is dead. '"
00:31:46.81\00:31:51.84
And He turned around, you
remember, went back to Bethany
00:31:53.18\00:31:55.33
and tried to comfort the girls.
00:31:55.36\00:31:57.26
And He said, "I'm
going to go to his grave. "
00:31:57.29\00:31:59.04
And the girls said, "Oh
no, Lord, don't do that.
00:31:59.07\00:32:00.79
No, please don't. Don't.
00:32:00.82\00:32:03.67
He's been in there days now
and his body is decomposing.
00:32:03.70\00:32:06.49
It's going to
be very unpleasant.
00:32:06.52\00:32:07.68
Don't even go. "
00:32:07.71\00:32:09.29
But Jesus went to
the grave, you remember.
00:32:09.32\00:32:11.51
And in front of the grave,
He called out, didn't he huh,
00:32:12.03\00:32:14.52
"Hey Lazarus, come on back
from heaven, My best friend.
00:32:14.55\00:32:17.26
Come on now. "
00:32:17.29\00:32:18.38
Is that the way it goes?
00:32:18.41\00:32:20.50
No, Jesus called,
"Lazarus, come forth. "
00:32:20.53\00:32:25.35
Wake up.
00:32:25.95\00:32:27.39
Many of the new
translations say, "Wake up. "
00:32:27.42\00:32:29.99
And Lazarus came
up out of the grave.
00:32:30.02\00:32:34.23
David is not in heaven.
00:32:34.26\00:32:35.59
Lazarus didn't go to heaven.
00:32:35.62\00:32:37.10
The key word in all of
the Bible to describe death
00:32:37.13\00:32:39.97
is the word "sleep".
00:32:40.00\00:32:41.56
You find it again
and again and again.
00:32:41.59\00:32:43.46
Dozens, yes
many dozens of times.
00:32:43.49\00:32:46.76
Martin Luther, one of
my great indoor sports,
00:32:46.79\00:32:49.25
one of my great heroes, Martin
Luther, whom I believe to be
00:32:49.28\00:32:52.63
not only one of the greatest
Christians, but certainly
00:32:52.66\00:32:54.85
one of the greatest
New Testament scholars
00:32:54.88\00:32:56.90
since the time of the apostle
Paul, said this shortly before
00:32:56.93\00:33:00.70
his own death.
00:33:00.73\00:33:01.85
He gathered his wife and
his children around his bedside
00:33:02.65\00:33:05.55
and he said, "I'm about
to fall into a deep sleep.
00:33:05.58\00:33:09.35
And the very next voice that I
hear will be the voice of Jesus
00:33:10.55\00:33:13.61
on resurrection morning.
00:33:13.64\00:33:15.26
He shall be knocking on
the door of my little grave
00:33:16.29\00:33:18.82
and saying to me,
'Brother Martin, brother Martin.
00:33:18.85\00:33:22.30
It's time to get up. '"
00:33:22.33\00:33:24.42
How often times, I've fallen
asleep as a kid on the farm
00:33:25.54\00:33:30.03
after working 10, 12, 14 hours
putting up hay or irrigating
00:33:30.06\00:33:34.83
or milking or a
combination of all of those.
00:33:34.86\00:33:37.17
It seemed I'd barely put
my head to the pillow and
00:33:37.20\00:33:39.39
Dad would be calling,
"Lyle, son, it's time to milk.
00:33:39.42\00:33:41.97
Time to get up. "
00:33:42.00\00:33:43.10
It seemed I'd
hardly closed my eyes.
00:33:43.13\00:33:44.70
You've had that
experience. I know you have.
00:33:44.73\00:33:46.90
And the rest of
you have as well.
00:33:46.93\00:33:49.22
You know folks, death
is only painful to those
00:33:49.25\00:33:54.04
that are left behind.
00:33:54.07\00:33:55.04
And Peggy and I have
learned that again recently.
00:33:55.05\00:33:58.17
Death is not a problem for those
who die with a faith in Jesus.
00:33:59.14\00:34:03.04
It shall be to
them just an instant.
00:34:03.07\00:34:05.45
The very next voice I hear, the
very next thing that'll happen,
00:34:05.48\00:34:08.60
I'll hear the voice of Jesus
calling, "It's time to get up. "
00:34:08.63\00:34:11.82
But for those that
are left behind to grieve
00:34:11.85\00:34:14.37
and to weep and to see
the empty place at the table
00:34:14.77\00:34:18.60
and the clothes
that hang unused,
00:34:18.63\00:34:21.70
for those it's most painful.
00:34:22.64\00:34:27.56
I've mentioned it before and I'm
going to do it again tonight,
00:34:28.88\00:34:31.14
ladies and gentlemen, don't
let your kids watch Harry Potter
00:34:31.17\00:34:34.77
and don't let your
kids read Harry Potter.
00:34:34.80\00:34:37.05
And if you have the books
in the house or in the garage,
00:34:37.08\00:34:39.89
get them out, get them out.
00:34:39.92\00:34:41.49
They are filled shot through,
absolutely saturated with
00:34:41.52\00:34:45.47
spiritism and demonism.
00:34:45.50\00:34:47.01
And we teach the kids, not
only at church, we teach them
00:34:47.60\00:34:49.74
at school and we teach
them through the movies
00:34:49.77\00:34:51.67
and we teach them
in every way possible.
00:34:51.70\00:34:53.66
I was out in the Philippines
when I learned this story.
00:34:53.69\00:34:56.56
Now let me ask you to
think through this scenario
00:34:56.59\00:35:00.82
and ask your own heart,
"Would I have the courage
00:35:00.85\00:35:03.97
that this family had?"
00:35:04.00\00:35:05.71
They were only recent Christians
and recently had adopted
00:35:05.74\00:35:09.22
the truth that when
you die, your soul is dead.
00:35:09.25\00:35:12.63
Your spirit, your
breath, goes back to God.
00:35:12.66\00:35:15.30
And there's nothing that
lives until resurrection.
00:35:15.33\00:35:17.70
Our Lord Jesus said, "I am
the resurrection and the life. "
00:35:17.73\00:35:21.43
And there is no life
for the dead until first
00:35:21.46\00:35:23.57
there is a resurrection.
00:35:23.60\00:35:25.10
This young Philippino
family had two beautiful
00:35:28.10\00:35:30.36
little girls, pre-schoolers.
00:35:30.39\00:35:31.81
And they went on a
ride with some friends.
00:35:33.39\00:35:35.87
And a bus hit them and
they were instantly killed.
00:35:35.90\00:35:40.12
You can imagine the breaking
hearts, only just imagine.
00:35:40.94\00:35:44.52
That's all we can do.
00:35:44.55\00:35:45.79
I use to go to visit the
grieving and those that had
00:35:47.22\00:35:49.46
lost children and
their spouses and I could
00:35:49.49\00:35:52.15
sympathize with them.
00:35:52.18\00:35:53.15
But now I'm able to empathize.
00:35:53.17\00:35:55.45
And I've had some who've said,
00:35:56.57\00:35:57.88
"Well I know what
you're going through. "
00:35:57.91\00:35:59.28
And they don't have any
idea unless they've been there.
00:35:59.31\00:36:02.38
And one night at the worship
hour, this husband and wife
00:36:07.34\00:36:10.67
were together and through
the front door of their house
00:36:10.88\00:36:14.24
came those two little girls.
00:36:14.27\00:36:16.10
And one walked in
and sat on mother's lap
00:36:16.50\00:36:18.77
and the other went over
and threw her arms around
00:36:18.80\00:36:20.47
daddy's neck, got on his lap.
00:36:20.50\00:36:22.15
Would you have the
courage which that family had,
00:36:23.50\00:36:25.99
that mother and dad had to say,
"Get thee behind me, Satan. "
00:36:26.02\00:36:30.43
And instantly, the
apparitions were gone.
00:36:32.41\00:36:35.27
Instantly, they were gone.
00:36:35.83\00:36:38.76
Revelation 16, as we
read a while ago says
00:36:42.86\00:36:46.73
that each one of us is
going to be tested and tempted.
00:36:46.76\00:36:49.46
Each one who's
alive, every member of the
00:36:49.49\00:36:51.84
terminal generation
is going to be tested and
00:36:51.87\00:36:53.98
tempted in this area.
00:36:54.01\00:36:55.09
Are you ready?
00:36:55.12\00:36:56.09
In medieval times
during the dark ages,
00:36:56.59\00:36:59.92
heathenism flooded the church.
00:37:01.44\00:37:03.38
Standards of the
church were lowered.
00:37:03.41\00:37:05.12
And we've talked about
that again and again and again.
00:37:05.15\00:37:07.50
And the Bibles were
taken away from the people and
00:37:07.53\00:37:09.76
what few Bibles were left from
the burnings were chained to
00:37:09.79\00:37:12.59
monastery desks and they
were for the interpretation
00:37:12.62\00:37:14.79
only of the
priests and the prelates.
00:37:15.09\00:37:16.76
And the folks would
go and ask the priests,
00:37:17.43\00:37:19.21
"What does the Bible say?"
00:37:19.24\00:37:20.28
And the priests would
tell them, well the Bible says
00:37:20.31\00:37:22.89
this and this and this.
00:37:22.92\00:37:23.89
And it didn't
necessarily say that at all.
00:37:23.90\00:37:26.53
I'm going to tell you
folks something tonight.
00:37:26.56\00:37:28.24
You take away folks Bibles,
you disallow them having Bibles,
00:37:28.27\00:37:35.46
and pretty soon you're
going to see the result.
00:37:35.49\00:37:37.52
And we've taken away the
Bibles to the large degree,
00:37:37.55\00:37:39.62
not by force and not
by law, not by the church,
00:37:39.65\00:37:41.76
but by personal choice.
00:37:41.79\00:37:43.58
We've taken away the Bibles.
They've taken away my Lord.
00:37:43.61\00:37:46.84
I think I mentioned to you
on another night, Mary cried
00:37:46.87\00:37:48.95
at the tomb, "And I don't know
what they've done with Him. "
00:37:48.98\00:37:50.75
And sometimes I
feel that same way.
00:37:50.78\00:37:52.81
You take away the Bible
and you soon have paganism.
00:37:52.84\00:37:56.28
You take away the Bible
and you soon have ignorance.
00:37:56.31\00:37:58.81
And you take away the Bible
and you soon have poor health
00:37:58.84\00:38:01.56
and you have poor
hygiene and you have death.
00:38:01.59\00:38:03.85
And you also, when
you take away the Bible,
00:38:03.88\00:38:06.08
have spiritism and paganism.
00:38:06.11\00:38:08.02
No doubt about it.
00:38:08.05\00:38:09.25
As a result of the teaching that
when you die, you don't die,
00:38:11.06\00:38:14.13
the church became fabulously
and quickly very wealthy.
00:38:14.16\00:38:18.80
You see, there came into
the church when the Bibles were
00:38:18.83\00:38:21.97
done away with, a
doctrine called purgatory.
00:38:22.00\00:38:24.83
Purgatory.
00:38:25.55\00:38:27.05
That when one dies,
one doesn't really die.
00:38:28.14\00:38:29.81
But there's a spirit or a
soul that goes on somewhere.
00:38:29.84\00:38:32.26
Goes, perhaps,
to eternal torment.
00:38:32.29\00:38:33.64
And then you had guys
like Dante, of whom we spoke on
00:38:33.67\00:38:36.20
another evening,
who embellished it
00:38:36.33\00:38:38.14
and described the
torment of the fires of hell.
00:38:38.17\00:38:41.08
And then they began to
sell indulgences so that folks
00:38:41.39\00:38:44.20
could be brought out of
the purging or out of the
00:38:44.23\00:38:46.47
fire more quickly.
00:38:46.50\00:38:47.90
Can you imagine, peace
was promised for money.
00:38:48.30\00:38:52.63
The never dying soul
could roast and fry and
00:38:53.75\00:38:56.42
burn and burn and burn and
burn forever and ever and ever.
00:38:56.45\00:38:58.73
And folks would mortgage
the farm, they would give up
00:38:58.76\00:39:01.22
anything to have their loved
ones prayed out of the fire,
00:39:01.25\00:39:04.87
prayed out of purgatory.
00:39:04.90\00:39:06.32
Saints
immediately going to heaven.
00:39:07.88\00:39:10.24
It's taught tonight
just like it was back then.
00:39:11.79\00:39:14.26
Now listen folks.
00:39:14.29\00:39:15.75
If it's true that when we
die, we instantly go to heaven,
00:39:16.79\00:39:21.42
then my suggestion is that we
do away with all of the doctors
00:39:21.45\00:39:24.76
and all of the hospitals, huh.
00:39:24.79\00:39:26.28
Why do you go and pay
those high hospital bills
00:39:26.84\00:39:29.35
when if you died, you'd
immediately go to heaven.
00:39:29.38\00:39:31.22
Why would I preach to you
here from night after night when
00:39:31.25\00:39:33.64
really, probably what I ought
to do is have someone set off
00:39:33.67\00:39:36.25
a bomb and send us
all to heaven, huh.
00:39:36.28\00:39:38.14
When they caught
finally, Charles Manson, I was
00:39:42.51\00:39:44.90
working down in Southern
California about the time
00:39:44.93\00:39:46.75
that it happened, I'll tell you.
00:39:46.78\00:39:48.12
And when they brought him
to trial and Vincent Bugliosi
00:39:48.15\00:39:50.83
looked him in the
eye and said to him,
00:39:50.86\00:39:52.39
"Charlie, in God's
name, why did you do it?
00:39:52.42\00:39:55.06
Why?"
00:39:55.09\00:39:56.36
And with that demonic grin
and with those devilish eyes,
00:39:58.23\00:40:02.46
he laughed and said,
"Hey man, you ought to
00:40:02.49\00:40:05.15
give me a trophy, man.
00:40:05.18\00:40:06.47
You ought to
give me a reward, man.
00:40:06.50\00:40:08.18
I just sent her to be
with Jesus a little early, man.
00:40:08.21\00:40:10.99
I just sent them to
heaven a little early, man. "
00:40:11.02\00:40:13.73
Son of Sam, David, Son
of Sam from New York City
00:40:14.66\00:40:17.52
said the very same thing.
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.13
And the terrorists who blow
up our buildings are promised
00:40:19.16\00:40:21.74
immediately at
death, 70 virgins.
00:40:21.77\00:40:23.48
And I can't see how
that would be heaven,
00:40:23.51\00:40:25.15
but some evidently do.
00:40:25.18\00:40:27.74
By the way, I'm going to
speak tomorrow morning on the
00:40:32.81\00:40:35.98
importance of the
home in these end times.
00:40:36.01\00:40:37.86
I pray all of you will be here.
00:40:37.89\00:40:39.72
And in case one of you
can't be, I'm going to tell you
00:40:40.71\00:40:42.36
right now, the test of
manhood is not seeing how many
00:40:42.39\00:40:48.11
women you can score with.
00:40:48.14\00:40:49.33
But rather, the real test is
to see if you can make one woman
00:40:49.36\00:40:53.29
happy for a lifetime.
00:40:53.32\00:40:54.49
Try that one.
00:40:54.52\00:40:55.49
When my boy died, there
were scores and scores who sent
00:41:00.81\00:41:05.51
cards or letters or
phone calls or in person.
00:41:05.54\00:41:08.11
They said, "But Terry
is in a better place. "
00:41:08.14\00:41:10.72
Terry is asleep in Jesus waiting
the call of the life giver.
00:41:12.61\00:41:17.91
And that's why the apostle
Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:20
00:41:17.94\00:41:21.31
would say, the last
enemy to be destroyed is death.
00:41:21.34\00:41:25.36
Those who believe
that when you die you go
00:41:25.39\00:41:27.20
immediately into heaven;
death isn't an enemy for them.
00:41:27.23\00:41:29.23
Those who believe that
there will be 70 virgins;
00:41:29.26\00:41:31.29
death isn't an enemy to them.
00:41:31.32\00:41:32.88
To Charlie Manson's;
death is not an enemy to them.
00:41:32.91\00:41:35.43
Socrates; death
was not an enemy.
00:41:36.36\00:41:38.44
Therefore then,
drink gladly the hemlock.
00:41:38.47\00:41:40.45
Let me have it.
Bring it on, man.
00:41:40.65\00:41:42.77
You contrast that with the
death of Jesus who in the garden
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.52
agonized, "If it's possible,
let this cup pass from Me. "
00:41:45.55\00:41:49.25
Please.
00:41:55.48\00:41:57.29
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, and I'd plan
for us to turn there to read,
00:41:59.71\00:42:04.41
but there's not time.
00:42:04.44\00:42:05.41
"The living know that they're
going to die, but the dead
00:42:05.42\00:42:07.39
know not anything. "
00:42:07.42\00:42:08.60
Nothing, nothing.
00:42:08.63\00:42:10.12
Verse 10, the same passage,
"Whatsoever your hand findeth
00:42:10.87\00:42:13.90
to do, do it with your might.
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.32
For there is no death
or knowledge or wisdom
00:42:15.35\00:42:17.47
in the grave where you go. "
00:42:17.50\00:42:19.61
Job chapter 7 verses 9 and 10.
00:42:20.12\00:42:22.37
It says there, the one who dies
cannot go back to his house,
00:42:22.40\00:42:26.20
can't return home.
00:42:26.23\00:42:27.85
He's asleep, there's no
way he can go back home.
00:42:27.88\00:42:30.55
And therefore, the ghost
busters; and you see them
00:42:30.58\00:42:33.06
on television with all of
their scientific machinery,
00:42:33.09\00:42:35.10
don't you now.
00:42:35.13\00:42:36.14
And they test the light
and they test the darkness
00:42:36.17\00:42:38.35
and they test the sound waves
and they test with ultraviolet
00:42:38.38\00:42:41.28
and they test in
all kinds of ways,
00:42:41.31\00:42:43.11
see if there's some
kind of a spirit out there.
00:42:43.14\00:42:45.19
And the ghost
busters and the dead seekers
00:42:45.22\00:42:47.63
are all a part of a cruel hoax.
00:42:47.66\00:42:49.98
And the channelers and the
mediums are joining it as well.
00:42:50.01\00:42:54.34
Now someone says, "But
I read in the Bible from
00:42:54.96\00:42:57.33
our Lord Jesus
Himself, 'Today, you'll be
00:42:57.36\00:43:00.32
with Me in paradise. '"
00:43:00.35\00:43:01.32
Let's turn, if you will
please, Luke chapter 23.
00:43:01.33\00:43:04.05
Luke chapter 23.
00:43:05.23\00:43:06.68
And we're going
to have to hurry now.
00:43:06.71\00:43:08.81
Luke chapter 23 finds
our Lord Jesus on the cross
00:43:08.84\00:43:13.60
and He's between two thieves.
00:43:13.63\00:43:16.32
They are there because
of what they have done.
00:43:18.08\00:43:20.53
They're paying for their sins.
00:43:20.56\00:43:21.70
Jesus is there to pay for mine.
00:43:21.73\00:43:24.96
Luke chapter 23.
00:43:29.94\00:43:31.56
I'm going to
begin at the 39th verse.
00:43:32.36\00:43:34.70
"Then one of the thieves
which was hanged railed upon
00:43:34.73\00:43:37.48
Jesus and said, 'If You're the
Christ, save Yourself and us. '
00:43:37.51\00:43:40.08
But the other answering,
rebuked the first and said,
00:43:40.11\00:43:42.26
'Don't you fear God,
seeing that we're in the
00:43:42.29\00:43:44.15
same condemnation?
00:43:44.18\00:43:45.15
We deserve it for we receive
the due reward of our deeds.
00:43:45.16\00:43:48.82
But this man has
done nothing wrong. '
00:43:48.85\00:43:51.06
And then Jesus said to him... "
00:43:53.18\00:43:54.99
No, I'm sorry, let
me back up to verse 42.
00:43:56.17\00:43:58.56
"And he said to Jesus,
'Lord, remember me when You
00:43:58.59\00:44:01.82
come in Your kingdom. '
00:44:01.85\00:44:03.61
And Jesus said unto
him, 'Verily I say today
00:44:03.64\00:44:06.64
shalt thou be
with Me in Paradise. '"
00:44:06.67\00:44:08.86
Now you read it like
it's punctuated in most Bibles
00:44:08.89\00:44:11.76
and you have Jesus saying,
"You're going to be with Me
00:44:11.79\00:44:14.37
instantly in Paradise. "
00:44:14.40\00:44:16.40
But I've got news
for you, my dears.
00:44:16.70\00:44:18.44
The punctuation in
the Bible is not inspired.
00:44:18.47\00:44:21.45
It is not.
00:44:21.48\00:44:22.45
It was placed there in
modern times by translators.
00:44:22.46\00:44:26.02
And I use to preach a
sermon where I began here,
00:44:26.64\00:44:28.87
preaching on this subject.
00:44:28.90\00:44:29.87
I called it, "The Case
of the Misplaced Comma. "
00:44:29.88\00:44:32.00
Kind of a Perry Mason
sort of approach, you know.
00:44:32.03\00:44:34.74
"The Case of
the Misplaced Comma"
00:44:34.77\00:44:36.92
You can take that text
and move the comma just
00:44:36.95\00:44:40.41
one word and you
have Jesus saying
00:44:40.44\00:44:42.92
something quite different.
00:44:42.95\00:44:44.21
"I say to you
today, in this bleak hour,
00:44:44.24\00:44:46.72
today when we have nails
in our hands and our feet
00:44:46.75\00:44:49.11
and it seems so
helpless and so hopeless,
00:44:49.14\00:44:51.05
I tell you in this
situation, you will be
00:44:51.08\00:44:54.06
with Me in Paradise. "
00:44:54.09\00:44:55.20
Now there's much
more than just that idea.
00:44:55.41\00:44:57.87
I have as much right to put
the comma there as the man who
00:44:58.47\00:45:00.79
put it on the other side.
00:45:00.82\00:45:02.13
But that doesn't make it right.
00:45:02.16\00:45:03.56
But there is
further information.
00:45:03.59\00:45:05.36
When did the thief
expect Jesus to save him?
00:45:05.39\00:45:08.99
Did he expect Him to
take him to heaven that day?
00:45:09.02\00:45:10.83
No, "Lord, remember me
when You come as King. "
00:45:11.23\00:45:15.51
When does Jesus come as King?
00:45:15.54\00:45:17.09
He comes as King with a
crown on His head at the
00:45:17.49\00:45:19.13
second coming, of course.
00:45:19.16\00:45:20.59
And that's when the thief
expected Jesus to save him.
00:45:20.62\00:45:23.33
But there is
further information.
00:45:23.36\00:45:25.04
By the way, if you
want a scripture that proves
00:45:25.07\00:45:28.16
that there are
mistakes in punctuation,
00:45:28.19\00:45:30.41
put this down in your
notes, you may have a smile.
00:45:30.44\00:45:32.74
Acts chapter 19 verse 12
where it says they brought
00:45:32.77\00:45:35.62
to the apostle Paul,
sick handkerchiefs and aprons.
00:45:35.65\00:45:39.31
John 19, John
chapter 19 verses 31-34
00:45:48.12\00:45:53.26
tells the rest of the story.
00:45:53.29\00:45:54.68
At the end of that Friday,
they came to break the legs
00:45:54.71\00:45:58.76
of the thieves.
00:45:58.79\00:45:59.82
Now in the Bible, one day
begins and the other ends when?
00:45:59.85\00:46:02.59
When the sun set here in
the western sky this evening,
00:46:03.19\00:46:06.26
according to the
Bible, it is now Saturday.
00:46:06.29\00:46:09.69
Alright?
00:46:09.72\00:46:10.69
So when the sun set on
that Friday, in other words,
00:46:10.88\00:46:13.24
for Jesus to have
taken the thief to heaven,
00:46:13.27\00:46:15.43
he would have had to
have been dead by sundown.
00:46:15.46\00:46:17.70
But the record of the
Bible is abundantly clear
00:46:17.73\00:46:20.17
that when they came to
the thieves, they were still
00:46:20.20\00:46:22.65
very much alive and
they broke their legs
00:46:22.68\00:46:25.07
so they wouldn't run off and
they'd be able to put them back
00:46:25.10\00:46:28.05
on the cross on Saturday night
after the sun had gone down.
00:46:28.08\00:46:30.86
And then in John
chapter 20 verse 17.
00:46:30.89\00:46:33.41
John 20:17, Mary
Magdalene, the last at the cross
00:46:33.44\00:46:36.83
is first at the open tomb.
00:46:36.86\00:46:38.25
And at first, she thinks that
they have vandalized His tomb
00:46:38.28\00:46:41.76
and taken away His body.
00:46:41.79\00:46:43.17
And then she sees Him.
He speaks her name, "Mary. "
00:46:43.20\00:46:45.86
And she runs to throw her arms
around Him and never let Him
00:46:45.89\00:46:49.17
out of her sight.
00:46:49.20\00:46:50.17
And He says, "You
can't hold Me here.
00:46:50.18\00:46:51.70
I have not yet
ascended to My Father. "
00:46:51.73\00:46:54.71
We have, not only the proof from
John 19 that the two thieves
00:46:55.73\00:46:59.60
were still alive
there when Saturday came,
00:46:59.63\00:47:02.55
we have the evidence by
the word of God Almighty,
00:47:02.58\00:47:05.41
Jesus Himself
said on Sunday morning,
00:47:05.44\00:47:07.97
"I have not yet
been to heaven. "
00:47:08.00\00:47:09.04
Couldn't have taken
the thief there on Friday
00:47:09.07\00:47:10.88
because He was not
there on Sunday yet even.
00:47:10.91\00:47:18.08
Well, say.
00:47:20.56\00:47:22.41
Then there's that
parable from Luke 16,
00:47:24.37\00:47:26.40
the rich man and Lazarus.
00:47:26.43\00:47:27.48
And that's exactly what
it is, ladies and gentlemen.
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.41
You try to take a teaching
of death from that parable and
00:47:29.44\00:47:32.67
you have some
serious, serious problems.
00:47:32.70\00:47:35.10
That parable was
given, and by the way,
00:47:35.13\00:47:37.02
I studied for 2 years, parables.
00:47:37.05\00:47:38.42
And for about 6 months, I
preached on worship morning,
00:47:38.45\00:47:40.76
nothing but the parables.
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.30
A parable was
given to make one point,
00:47:43.71\00:47:46.00
to teach one idea.
00:47:46.03\00:47:48.02
It was never a shotgun blast.
00:47:48.05\00:47:49.83
It was to teach one thing.
00:47:49.86\00:47:51.90
And when the verses
preceding speak to the problem,
00:47:52.50\00:47:57.04
it's about money.
00:47:57.07\00:47:58.37
And you probably remember that.
00:47:58.40\00:48:00.10
Jesus Himself said, "You can't
worship both God and mammon. "
00:48:00.13\00:48:03.87
Alright.
00:48:03.90\00:48:04.91
So that's the
context of Luke 16.
00:48:04.94\00:48:06.95
The Jews had the mistaken
notion that if you were poor,
00:48:06.98\00:48:10.12
God didn't like you.
00:48:10.15\00:48:11.17
If you were poor and sick
with some horrible disease,
00:48:11.20\00:48:13.49
God really disliked you.
00:48:13.52\00:48:15.14
And so, God takes that
whole idea and turns it around.
00:48:15.74\00:48:18.49
He takes the poorest
guy, and he's not only poor,
00:48:18.52\00:48:20.81
he has sores all over him.
00:48:20.84\00:48:22.62
And He takes him
to Abraham's bosom.
00:48:22.65\00:48:25.18
And the rich man
goes to the fire.
00:48:25.21\00:48:27.22
Now, it says that he
went there with eyes,
00:48:27.25\00:48:29.64
the rich man, he could see.
00:48:29.67\00:48:30.94
No one who believes that
when you die a soul or spirit
00:48:30.97\00:48:33.10
lives on, believes
that the body lives on.
00:48:33.13\00:48:35.47
For you can exhume
that a week or two later.
00:48:35.50\00:48:37.62
But in this parable,
he had a body, had eyes.
00:48:37.65\00:48:40.38
"Oh, and tell him to
bring some water and put it on
00:48:40.41\00:48:42.52
the tip of my tongue.
00:48:42.55\00:48:44.14
Tip his finger in water. "
00:48:44.17\00:48:45.87
He had a tongue.
00:48:45.90\00:48:48.28
You see, it's a parable.
00:48:48.31\00:48:49.95
To try to use it as a teaching
of what happens at death
00:48:49.98\00:48:52.49
is to twist the
scripture terribly and horribly.
00:48:52.52\00:48:56.77
"Ah," someone says, "but you're
forgetting, you're trying to
00:48:56.80\00:48:59.04
duck by 2
Corinthians chapter 5."
00:48:59.07\00:49:01.13
No I'm not.
00:49:01.16\00:49:02.13
Let's go there right now.
00:49:02.14\00:49:03.64
2 Corinthians chapter 5.
00:49:03.67\00:49:06.68
I can't begin to tell you
how many times I have been
00:49:06.71\00:49:11.15
confronted by this one.
00:49:11.18\00:49:12.53
And folks say, "Ah, ha. "
00:49:12.56\00:49:14.49
2 Corinthians chapter 5
beginning at the first verse.
00:49:15.00\00:49:17.72
"For we know that if our
earthly house, this tabernacle,
00:49:17.75\00:49:20.56
were destroyed, we
have a building of God,
00:49:20.76\00:49:22.69
a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.
00:49:22.72\00:49:24.94
For in this we groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed
00:49:24.97\00:49:27.79
with our house
which is from heaven.
00:49:27.82\00:49:29.46
If so being clothed,
we'll not be found naked.
00:49:29.49\00:49:32.17
We are in this tabernacle,
and while in this tabernacle,
00:49:33.30\00:49:36.33
we groan, being burdened.
00:49:36.36\00:49:39.94
Not to be unclothed, but
rather to be clothed upon,
00:49:40.34\00:49:43.12
that mortality might
be swallowed up, life. "
00:49:43.15\00:49:46.23
In that we might, you know,
not long be subject to death
00:49:46.26\00:49:50.00
but have immortality.
00:49:50.03\00:49:51.31
That's the context.
00:49:51.34\00:49:52.31
"Now He hath wrought in us
the self same thing, God has.
00:49:53.14\00:49:57.20
He's given us the
guarantee by the Holy Spirit. "
00:49:57.23\00:50:00.42
Verse 6, "Therefore
then, I have confidence
00:50:00.45\00:50:04.06
to be absent from the body
is present with the Lord. "
00:50:04.09\00:50:07.61
Now what is he saying here?
00:50:07.64\00:50:08.86
He's putting together a contrast
and the third part of it,
00:50:08.89\00:50:13.02
everyone who uses this to
try to teach that when you die
00:50:13.05\00:50:16.16
you go to heaven, misses.
00:50:16.19\00:50:17.21
Every single person misses.
00:50:17.24\00:50:18.51
Oh, and for your information
sake, Philippians 1:23
00:50:18.54\00:50:22.65
is saying the same thing.
00:50:22.68\00:50:23.85
You "A" students
will note it down.
00:50:23.88\00:50:25.32
Now here's what God, through
the apostle Paul, is saying.
00:50:25.35\00:50:28.77
While you're here on the earth,
you have this earthly body.
00:50:28.80\00:50:32.44
But one day you're
going to have a heavenly body.
00:50:32.47\00:50:34.54
While you're in this earthly
body, you're absent from God.
00:50:35.14\00:50:38.22
When you're absent
from this body, you'll be
00:50:39.17\00:50:42.30
present with the Lord.
00:50:42.33\00:50:43.54
But what folks fail
to see and to recognize,
00:50:43.57\00:50:46.73
or if they recognize it,
they fail to share, at least,
00:50:46.76\00:50:49.56
that there is this intermediate
stage that is referred to
00:50:49.59\00:50:53.18
as the dissolved tabernacle,
the dust to dust idea,
00:50:53.21\00:50:56.28
the naked state,
the unclothed state.
00:50:56.31\00:50:57.86
Death.
00:50:57.89\00:50:59.25
The same apostle Paul
in 2 Corinthians chapter 5
00:50:59.28\00:51:02.64
verse 10 said we must
all appear before where?
00:51:02.67\00:51:06.66
Before the judgment seat.
00:51:07.16\00:51:08.51
When do we appear
before the judgment seat?
00:51:08.54\00:51:10.25
At the end of all things.
00:51:10.28\00:51:11.87
What if at death, one
was sent immediately to hell
00:51:12.47\00:51:15.08
and at the end of the age there
comes a final great judgment
00:51:15.11\00:51:19.11
maybe 500 years later and
they study the records and say,
00:51:19.14\00:51:21.88
"Oh, I'm afraid we sent
Bill to the wrong place. "
00:51:21.91\00:51:23.70
"Say, I'm sorry Bill. "
00:51:23.73\00:51:25.20
Let us reason together.
00:51:30.03\00:51:31.80
We must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ
00:51:31.83\00:51:34.83
that everyone receive
the things done to the body,
00:51:34.86\00:51:37.07
whether that be good or evil.
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1 Corinthians
15:51-52, note it down.
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"We shall not all sleep
but we shall all be changed. "
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The same apostle Paul
that talked about being
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absent from the body.
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And in 2 Timothy chapter 4,
oh we've got to read this one.
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It's an absolute necessity.
00:51:54.58\00:51:56.30
The last letter from the prison
just before the apostle dies.
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Chapter 4 beginning at verse 6.
00:52:03.52\00:52:07.96
He's writing to the
young preacher and he's saying
00:52:08.64\00:52:10.65
goodbye, he's signing off.
00:52:10.68\00:52:11.79
He's saying, "I hope that
I get to see you, but if you
00:52:11.82\00:52:13.81
don't make it before the winter
storms, I'll never see you
00:52:13.84\00:52:16.96
again in this life. "
00:52:16.99\00:52:18.01
2 Timothy 4
verses 6 and following.
00:52:18.41\00:52:21.31
"I am ready now to be
offered, the time of my
00:52:21.34\00:52:24.16
leaving is at hand.
00:52:24.19\00:52:25.62
I fought a good fight
and I finished the course
00:52:25.65\00:52:27.35
and I kept the faith.
00:52:27.38\00:52:28.35
Henceforth, there's laid up
for me a crown of righteousness
00:52:28.36\00:52:30.66
which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, shall give me at
00:52:30.69\00:52:33.01
that Day, and not
to me only but to all
00:52:33.04\00:52:35.22
those who love His... "
00:52:35.25\00:52:36.92
What now?
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He's talking about the second
coming of Jesus, of course.
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The context is abundantly clear.
00:52:41.48\00:52:43.15
The apostle Paul said he's going
to be given his final reward
00:52:43.18\00:52:48.23
when Jesus comes
in His second coming.
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You read, by the
way if you will please,
00:52:51.92\00:52:53.61
Titus chapter 3 and verse 13.
00:52:53.64\00:52:57.06
Peggy wants me to be sure
to include this little thing
00:52:57.09\00:52:59.31
that she found when our
boy died a few weeks ago.
00:52:59.34\00:53:01.66
"Looking forward in
faith to the eventual reunion,"
00:53:03.54\00:53:06.26
is the subtitle.
00:53:06.29\00:53:07.55
"The thought of never again
seeing a loved one in the flesh
00:53:07.58\00:53:10.12
it difficult to accept.
00:53:10.15\00:53:11.52
But just as all matter is
transformed into new life,
00:53:11.55\00:53:14.87
the unique spirit of your
loved one is preserved forever
00:53:14.90\00:53:17.69
in the very heart of God. "
00:53:17.72\00:53:19.42
That memory will never be
gone from the heart of God.
00:53:23.14\00:53:25.79
"With the promise of
resurrection, we can look
00:53:30.98\00:53:33.47
forward to a future
reunion in which all of our
00:53:33.50\00:53:36.12
relationships are restored.
00:53:36.15\00:53:37.92
All sorrows are ended.
00:53:39.70\00:53:41.51
Therefore, we await
the resurrection with
00:53:42.57\00:53:44.84
hope and joy. "
00:53:44.87\00:53:47.20
Someone says, "Well that
which you're sharing tonight,
00:53:47.53\00:53:49.23
that when you die
you don't go to heaven,
00:53:49.26\00:53:51.35
it seems so cruel. "
00:53:51.38\00:53:52.89
Well now wait a minute,
think it through with me.
00:53:52.92\00:53:55.00
Our Lord Jesus said, "Broad
is the way and wide is the gate
00:53:55.75\00:53:58.91
that leads to hell. "
00:53:58.94\00:53:59.92
And the majority go down
that road and through that gate
00:53:59.95\00:54:02.73
to the wrong place.
00:54:02.76\00:54:03.73
While on the other hand
He said, "Narrow is the gate
00:54:03.74\00:54:06.66
and narrower still the
road that leads to eternal life,
00:54:06.69\00:54:08.75
and few there be that find it. "
00:54:08.78\00:54:10.44
You put that truth of
Jesus with the lie of the devil
00:54:10.47\00:54:12.97
that when you die,
you don't really die
00:54:13.00\00:54:14.62
but a soul or a
spirit goes somewhere.
00:54:14.65\00:54:16.44
Where have most of
our loved ones gone?
00:54:16.47\00:54:18.35
They've gone to hell.
00:54:18.38\00:54:19.67
To roast and fry?
00:54:22.11\00:54:23.28
I'd rather believe that my
loved ones, whether they died
00:54:23.31\00:54:25.53
in a saved or lost
condition, are sleeping awaiting
00:54:25.56\00:54:28.31
the final judgment than
to believe that the majority
00:54:28.34\00:54:32.26
of them roasting and burning.
00:54:32.29\00:54:35.06
Anything cruel about that?
00:54:35.09\00:54:36.70
I don't think so.
00:54:37.43\00:54:38.83
I don't think so.
00:54:39.23\00:54:40.64
I want to recommend something to
you as I move to my conclusion.
00:54:40.67\00:54:43.54
A buddy of mine has
written a little book.
00:54:43.57\00:54:46.10
It's not so very big,
but I want to tell you it's
00:54:46.13\00:54:48.82
worth its weight
in gold, and more.
00:54:48.85\00:54:50.53
It's called, "The
Search for the Eternal Soul"
00:54:50.93\00:54:53.60
and the author is my
classmate and my fellow pastor
00:54:53.63\00:54:58.02
and my buddy through the years.
00:54:58.05\00:54:59.26
His name is Daniel Knoft and
you can find his little book,
00:54:59.29\00:55:02.65
I looked it up;
Torch Light Intelligence.
00:55:02.68\00:55:05.43
Torch Light
Intelligence PO Box 135
00:55:05.46\00:55:09.62
Falls City, WA 98024
00:55:09.65\00:55:13.59
Or you can phone 1-208-371-2908
00:55:13.62\00:55:19.45
"The Search for
the Immortal Soul"
00:55:19.48\00:55:21.91
It covers the history
of heathenism coming into
00:55:21.94\00:55:25.83
the church with this idea that
when you die, you don't die.
00:55:25.86\00:55:27.91
And it covers all of
these texts that seem to teach
00:55:27.94\00:55:30.38
something different.
00:55:30.41\00:55:31.38
And it does a far better
job than I have done tonight.
00:55:31.39\00:55:35.12
1 Thessalonians
chapter 4 and verse 16.
00:55:37.22\00:55:40.57
We've said before,
these are the scriptures that
00:55:40.60\00:55:42.70
save us from antichrist.
00:55:42.73\00:55:44.27
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
00:55:44.30\00:55:47.34
"For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven
00:55:47.37\00:55:49.31
with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel,
00:55:49.34\00:55:51.51
and the trump of God.
00:55:51.54\00:55:53.30
And the dead in
Christ shall rise first.
00:55:53.33\00:55:56.94
Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
00:55:56.97\00:55:59.84
together with them to
meet our Lord in the air
00:55:59.87\00:56:02.93
and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
00:56:02.96\00:56:04.45
Wherefore, comfort one
another with these words. "
00:56:04.48\00:56:07.15
My boy, Terry,
is asleep in Jesus.
00:56:07.18\00:56:10.55
He's resting beside his
grandfather, whom in this life
00:56:10.58\00:56:13.08
he loved so very
much, Peggy's daddy.
00:56:13.11\00:56:14.78
One of the greatest
guys I ever knew in my life.
00:56:14.81\00:56:17.35
And they're sleeping together,
side by side until Jesus comes.
00:56:17.38\00:56:21.05
And Peggy's daddy, who was
killed in a logging accident
00:56:21.08\00:56:24.10
40 plus years ago,
didn't go to heaven ahead of us.
00:56:24.13\00:56:27.47
And Terry didn't go
to heaven ahead of us.
00:56:27.50\00:56:29.76
But one day, we're
all going to go together.
00:56:29.79\00:56:32.43
All of us together.
00:56:32.46\00:56:34.26
And we'll see Jesus together.
00:56:35.40\00:56:37.99
We'll meet Him together
at the same time, together.
00:56:38.88\00:56:42.66
And we'll build
new homes together.
00:56:42.69\00:56:45.41
"Wherefore,
comfort one another. "
00:56:46.33\00:56:50.00
Let's pray.
00:56:53.29\00:56:54.48
We thank You, Lord, for
this truth that saves us
00:56:59.89\00:57:05.43
from the
deceptions of the devil.
00:57:05.46\00:57:07.42
You're clear, both
Old and New Testaments,
00:57:12.63\00:57:14.84
every chapter every
verse, that death is a sleep,
00:57:14.87\00:57:17.85
a peaceful sleep
until resurrection.
00:57:17.88\00:57:20.81
None of our loved
ones have gone before us,
00:57:23.24\00:57:25.97
preceded us.
00:57:27.75\00:57:28.92
None of our loved ones
are burning in hell fire.
00:57:30.08\00:57:32.51
They're all awaiting
one of two resurrections.
00:57:33.33\00:57:35.92
Hasten the day, Lord.
00:57:37.22\00:57:38.90
We so long to be caught
up together as family units
00:57:39.58\00:57:43.42
to meet You in the
air, and then bask in the
00:57:43.45\00:57:46.81
sunlight of Your face.
00:57:46.84\00:57:48.47
Hurry home, Lord, we need
You. In Jesus' name, amen.
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