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00:05 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:14 >>DO THE DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH THE LIVING ACCORDING 00:16 TO THE BIBLE? IF SOMEONE COMES TO YOU SAYING, 00:18 'I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN. I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE 00:21 OTHER SIDE.' AS A CHRISTIAN YOU OUGHT TO RUN THE OTHER 00:23 DIRECTION. IT'S CALLED 'SPIRITISM'. 00:29 >>YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, IN THE LAST DAYS, JESUS IS VERY CLEAR - IN 00:34 MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, VERSE 24 HE WARNS US THAT THE DECEPTIONS ARE 00:39 GOING TO BE SO COMPELLING THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, EVEN THE 00:42 VERY ELECT WOULD BE DECEIVED. THAT MEANS EVEN PROFESSED 00:45 CHRISTIANS WOULD BE DECEIVED. AND SO THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS 00:50 WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE. THE DEVIL IS A MASTER DECEIVER. 00:54 NOW THE BIBLE'S VERY CLEAR THAT NECROMANCY - THAT'S THE PRACTICE 00:59 OR ATTEMPTING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD - IS SOMETHING 01:02 THAT IS FORBIDDEN. INTERESTING - OH, SOMEONE DID A 01:05 SURVEY BACK IN 1977 AND ABOUT 35% OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANS 01:12 BELIEVED THAT YOU COULD COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD. 01:14 ACTUALLY, IT WAS JUST ANY AMERICANS. 01:17 THEN, BY THE TIME YOU GOT TO 1983 THERE WAS ANOTHER STUDY 01:20 THAT WAS DONE AND IT HAD GONE UP ANOTHER 15% AND ABOUT 42% OF 01:26 AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD. 01:29 WHAT'S REALLY SAD NOW IS, WHILE IT'S ALWAYS BEEN FORBIDDEN IN 01:33 SCRIPTURE FOR CHRISTIANS TO TRY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD, 01:36 NOW THERE'S A NEW FORM OF NECROMANCY THAT IS BEING 01:39 BAPTIZED AND EMBRACED BY CHRISTIANS. YOU CAN SEE 01:44 THAT PEOPLE ARE SORT OF PREOCCUPIED WITH THE PARANORMAL. 01:47 JUST TO GIVE YOU A FEW EXAMPLES: DR. EBEN ALEXANDER, A 01:52 NEUROSURGEON WHO, IRONICALLY, NEVER REALLY BELIEVED IN 01:54 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES UNTIL HE FELL INTO A COMA, AND THEN HE 01:58 DETAILS, IN HIS BOOK 'PROOF OF HEAVEN: A DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE 02:03 WITH THE AFTERLIFE' ABOUT HIS BEING TAKEN OFF TO HEAVEN AND 02:07 HAVING A CHANGE OF HEART AND SEEING THINGS AND PEOPLE THERE. 02:11 AND THERE'S SOMEONE NAMED DON PIPER. 02:13 HE WROTE A BOOK - DIED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT - HEAD ON - 02:17 STRUCK BY AN 18-WHEELER - A MINISTER, I SHOULD ADD. 02:22 A PASTOR STOPPED AND PRAYED OVER HIS BODY WHEN HE HAD BEEN 02:25 DECLARED DEAD AND HE SAYS FOR 90 MINUTES HE WAS IN HEAVEN AND HE 02:29 WROTE A BEST-SELLING - NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING BOOK ON THAT 02:32 AND TALKED ABOUT SEEING RELATIVES UP THERE AND TALKING 02:35 WITH THEM. AND THEN HE WENT ON AND ENDORSED THIS LATEST BOOK 02:40 THAT'S BECOME VERY POPULAR, 'HEAVEN IS FOR REAL'. 02:43 IT'S A 2010 NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING BOOK ABOUT A LITTLE 02:47 BOY'S ASTOUNDING STORY OF HIS TRIP TO HEAVEN AND BACK - 02:52 WRITTEN BY, AGAIN, A PASTOR - TODD BURPO - ABOUT HIS 02:55 4-YEAR-OLD SON COLTON, WHO EXPERIENCED ONE OF THESE 02:58 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES DURING EMERGENCY SURGERY. 03:02 HE OSTENSIBLY DIED AND HE WAS TAKEN OFF INTO HEAVEN AND HE SAW 03:07 GRANDPA AND GRANDMA AND HE SAW A BABY SISTER THAT WAS MISCARRIED 03:11 BY HIS MOTHER AND HE TALKED TO JESUS AND HE DESCRIBED WHAT 03:15 HEAVEN WAS LIKE. OF COURSE, HIS FATHER WAS A MINISTER 03:19 AND HE GREW UP WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE OF CHRISTIAN THINGS. 03:23 AND NOW THEY'RE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT IT AND EVERYBODY'S 03:26 PROBABLY GOING TO THINK THIS IS JUST WONDERFUL. 03:29 I DON'T DOUBT THE SINCERITY OF THESE PEOPLE. 03:31 I DON'T DOUBT THAT THEY HAD SOME KIND OF EXPERIENCE. 03:34 BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO SAY WE'RE GOING 03:37 TO BASE TRUTH ON WHAT SOMEBODY EXPERIENCES WHEN THEY SUPPOSEDLY 03:42 DIE ON AN OPERATING TABLE OR THEY SLIP INTO A COMA BECAUSE 03:46 THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT THAT. 03:48 FIRST WE WANT TO BASE IT ON 'WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT 03:51 COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD?' ISAIAH 8:19, "AND WHEN THEY SAY 03:57 TO YOU, 'SEEK THOSE WHO ARE MEDIUMS AND WIZARDS, WHO WHISPER 04:00 AND MUTTER,' SHOULD NOT A PEOPLE SEEK THEIR GOD? 04:03 SHOULD THEY SEEK THE DEAD ON BEHALF OF THE LIVING? 04:06 TO THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY! IF THEY DO NOT SPEAK ACCORDING 04:09 TO THIS WORD, IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NOT LIGHT IN THEM." 04:14 AND SO IF A PERSON SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I DIED ON THE OPERATING 04:18 TABLE AND I WAS TALKING TO GRANDMA IN HEAVEN AND SHE GAVE 04:20 ME A MESSAGE.' I DON'T DOUBT A PERSON CAN HAVE A DREAM, BUT 04:25 THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN. 04:27 DREAMS CAN COME FROM GOD. DREAMS CAN COME FROM THE DEVIL. 04:31 AND SO WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT THIS SORT OF 04:33 THING. LEVITICUS 19:31, "GIVE NO REGARD 04:37 TO MEDIUMS AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS; DO NOT SEEK AFTER THEM, TO BE 04:42 DEFILED BY THEM: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD." 04:44 MEDIUMS WOULD SAY, 'WE'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD.' SO THIS 04:48 IS SORT OF A NEW BAPTIZED - OR SANCTIFIED - VERSION OF 04:52 NECROMANCY, WHEN CHRISTIANS SAY, 'I HAD AN EXPERIENCE. 04:56 I WENT TO HEAVEN AND I HAVE A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD.' YOU 04:59 KNOW, THERE'S NO EXAMPLE ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE OF SOMEONE 05:02 GETTING A MESSAGE - A CHRISTIAN - A BELIEVER - OF GETTING A 05:06 MESSAGE FROM SOMEBODY WHO HAD DIED. 05:08 IT ONLY HAPPENS WITH KING SAUL WHEN HE CONSULTS A WITCH. 05:12 THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO DIED THAT COMMUNICATED WITH SOMEONE LIVING 05:15 IS WHEN MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO JESUS ON THE MOUNT 05:19 OF TRANSFIGURATION. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY SAID. 05:22 IT SAYS THEY TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HIS SACRIFICE BUT THEY DIDN'T 05:26 COMMUNICATE WITH PETER, JAMES AND JOHN. 05:29 JESUS, WHO WAS GLORIFIED, HE ENTERED INTO THIS STATE AND THEY 05:33 TALKED TO HIM. SO THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE 05:35 GETTING MESSAGES FROM THOSE THAT ARE DEAD - AND WE KNOW WHY 05:39 ELIJAH WAS THERE - HE DIDN'T DIE. 05:41 HE WENT TO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT. AND THE BOOK OF JUDE 05:43 SAYS MOSES WAS RESURRECTED BY JESUS AFTER HE DIED. 05:48 DEUTERONOMY 18:10-12, "THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU 05:52 ANYONE WHO MAKES HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, 05:55 OR ONE WHO PRACTICES WITCHCRAFT, OR A SOOTHSAYER, OR ONE WHO 06:00 INTERPRETS OMENS, OR A SORCERER, OR ONE WHO CONJURES SPELLS, OR A 06:04 MEDIUM," - THAT'S NECROMANCY - "OR A SPIRITIST," - SOMEONE WHO 06:09 CONSULTS WITH THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD - 06:12 "OR ONE WHO CALLS UP THE DEAD. FOR ALL WHO DO THESE THINGS ARE 06:16 AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, AND BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS 06:19 THE LORD YOUR GOD DRIVES THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU." 06:22 SO, HERE'S A QUESTION: DO THE DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH THE 06:26 LIVING, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE? I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A FEW VERSES: 06:30 JOB 14:21, SPEAKING OF A MAN WHO DIES IT SAYS, "HIS SONS COME TO 06:35 HONOR AND HE DOES NOT KNOW IT." SO A MAN DIES - DOES HE GO TO 06:40 HEAVEN AND LOOK DOWN AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING ON EARTH? 06:42 HE DOESN'T KNOW IF HIS SONS COME TO HONOR - "THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW 06:45 AND HE DOES NOT PERCEIVE IT." - THINK ABOUT IT ANYWAY. 06:49 WOULD YOUR RELATIVES, IF THEY WENT TO HEAVEN AND THEY COULD 06:51 LOOK DOWN AND SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE ON EARTH - A 06:55 MOTHER HAD A BUNCH OF KIDS AND GRAND-KIDS AND SEE ALL THE 06:58 TRIALS AND THE TROUBLE AND THE TEMPTATION AND THE FAILURES AND 07:00 THE PAIN - WOULD THEY BE ENJOYING HEAVEN LOOKING DOWN AT 07:04 ALL OF THAT HAPPENING? NO. 07:07 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THAT'S NOT THE CASE. 07:10 JESUS SAID THAT NO ONE HAS ASCENDED - NOW THIS IS THE FINAL 07:13 WORD FOR ME - NOT THAT I'M DONE - BUT THIS IS, I THINK, 07:16 PRETTY IMPORTANT. "NO ONE HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN 07:19 BUT HE WHO CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 07:21 NOBODY CAME - WENT UP TO HEAVEN AND CAME BACK DOWN WITH A 07:24 MESSAGE EXCEPT JESUS. JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAME 07:27 FROM THE FATHER WITH A MESSAGE FOR EARTH. SO WHAT'S HAPPENING 07:31 WHEN PEOPLE HAVE THESE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES? 07:35 STUDIES SUGGEST THAT BETWEEN 10% TO 25% OF HEART ATTACK 07:39 SURVIVORS, THEY REPORT HAVING NDES - OR 'NEAR-DEATH 07:43 EXPERIENCES' - SO IT'S VERY COMMON. 07:46 BRITISH RESEARCHER, SUSAN BLACKMORE, AUTHOR OF 'DYING TO 07:48 LIVE: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES' NOTES THAT MANY OF THESE NDES 07:52 SUCH AS EUPHORIA AND THE FEELING OF MOVING TOWARDS THE LIGHT ARE, 07:56 IN FACT, TYPICAL SYMPTOMS OF OXYGEN DEPRIVATION. 08:01 THIS HAPPENS FREQUENTLY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT PROBLEM. 08:05 IN ONE EXPERIMENT, DR. LADISLAS MEDUNA ADMINISTERED 30% CARBON 08:10 DIOXIDE AND 70% OXYGEN TO A SUBJECT. 08:13 AFTERWARD, THE SUBJECT STATED, 'I FELT LIKE I WAS LOOKING DOWN 08:17 AT MYSELF AS THOUGH I WAS OUT THERE IN SPACE. 08:20 I FELT SORT OF SEPARATED.' IT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE INDUCED. 08:24 AND I'M SURE IT FEELS VERY REAL TO THEM, BUT WE DON'T BASE OUR 08:28 THEOLOGY ON THAT. SOMEONE ELSE DID SOME STUDIES - 08:31 'ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO THE RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBE OF THE BRAIN 08:35 HAS BEEN SHOWN TO RELIABLY INDUCE THE SAME DISASSOCIATION 08:39 FOUND IN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND OBES - OR 'OUT OF BODY 08:44 EXPERIENCES'. OTHER ELEMENTS OF NEAR-DEATH 08:46 EXPERIENCES CAN BE REPRODUCED WITH ANESTHETICS. 08:50 AND SO THAT'S WHY SUCH A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THESE PEOPLE THAT 08:52 DIE ON THE OPERATING TABLE ARE SAYING, 'I HAD A DREAM.' HERE'S 08:56 WHAT YOU NEED TO PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO: THESE NEAR-DEATH 08:59 EXPERIENCES THAT I JUST TALKED TO YOU ABOUT - DON PIPER AND 09:03 TODD BURPO AND COLTON AND THE DOCTOR - THEY ALL LIVE IN 09:07 AMERICA IN A CONTEXT OF CHRISTIANITY AND SO THEY HAVE 09:10 THESE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RELIGION 09:13 THEY'VE GROWN UP IN. GUESS WHO THEY SEE IN INDIA WHEN 09:17 THEY HAVE A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. KRISHNA. 09:21 AND IF YOU GO TO A BUDDHIST COUNTRY AND THEY HAVE A 09:23 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHO DO THEY SEE? BUDDHA. 09:27 SO ARE WE GOING TO BASE OUR THEOLOGY ON PEOPLE'S NEAR-DEATH 09:29 EXPERIENCES FROM WHATEVER COUNTRY THEY'RE IN? 09:33 COULD IT BE THE DEVIL CAN EXPLOIT THESE EXPERIENCES? 09:37 FOLLOW ME. ARE THE DEAD CONSCIOUS, 09:40 BIBLICALLY? DO THEY KNOW ANYTHING? 09:42 PSALM 115, VERSE 17 - NOW, LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR - 09:46 I DO BELIEVE IN HEAVEN. I WANT TO GO THERE SOMEDAY. 09:49 I THINK IT'S REAL. I DON'T DENY THAT. 09:51 BUT I DON'T BELIEVE PEOPLE GO RIGHT FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN WHEN 09:54 THEY DIE - BEFORE THE RESURRECTION AND BEFORE THE 09:56 JUDGMENT. THE BIBLE'S VERY CLEAR ABOUT 09:59 WHEN THIS ALL TAKES PLACE AND IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 10:02 YES, ENOCH'S IN HEAVEN, ELIJAH'S IN HEAVEN, MOSES IS IN HEAVEN. 10:05 THERE ARE SOME WHO WENT TO HEAVEN THAT JESUS ROSE AT THE 10:07 END OF MATTHEW 27 IN A SPECIAL RESURRECTION, BUT THE VAST 10:12 MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE STILL SLEEPING IN THEIR GRAVES. 10:14 'OH, BUT PASTOR DOUG, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 10:17 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD.'' YES, THAT'S TRUE FOR 10:20 THEM. WHEN A PERSON DIES IN A SAVED CONDITION, THEIR NEXT 10:24 CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 10:27 THEY HAVE NO CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME, BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. 10:30 THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT, BECAUSE IF SOMEONE COMES 10:32 TO YOU SAYING, 'I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN. 10:34 I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE OTHER SIDE.' AS A CHRISTIAN, YOU 10:37 OUGHT TO RUN THE OTHER DIRECTION. 10:38 IT'S CALLED 'SPIRITISM'. LET ME GIVE YOU THOSE VERSES: 10:41 PSALM 115:17, "THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THE LORD." 10:45 FIRST THING I'D DO IF I DIED AND WENT RIGHT TO HEAVEN IS PRAISE 10:47 THE LORD. BUT DAVID SAID THEY DO NOT 10:49 PRAISE THE LORD. PETER SAID, IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, 10:52 'DAVID IS DEAD AND BURIED AND NOT ASCENDED TO HEAVEN.' IT 10:56 CAN'T BE ANY MORE CLEAR BECAUSE, YOU'D THINK DAVID WOULD MAKE IT. 11:00 PSALM 6:5, "FOR IN DEATH THERE IS NO REMEMBRANCE OF THEE." 11:04 PSALM 146, VERSE 2-4, "WHILE I LIVE I WILL PRAISE THE LORD: I 11:08 WILL SING PRAISES UNTO MY GOD WHILE I HAVE ANY BEING." 11:11 - WHILE I'M ALIVE - "PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, NOR IN 11:14 THE SON OF MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO HELP. 11:16 HIS BREATH GOETH FORTH, HE RETURNETH TO HIS EARTH; IN THAT 11:20 VERY DAY HIS THOUGHTS PERISH." HE'S NOT UP WALKING AROUND 11:23 HEAVEN AND SENDING MESSAGES TO YOU HERE ON EARTH. 11:27 'OH, BUT PASTOR DOUG, YOU KNOW, I SENSE MY HUSBAND'S PRESENCE. 11:31 WE WERE MARRIED 50 YEARS AND HE DIED AND I - 11:33 I JUST HEARD HIM SPEAKING TO ME. I FELT, AT THE FUNERAL, HE WAS 11:37 LOOKING DOWN ON ME.' IT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE THESE 11:40 EXPERIENCES. YOU'RE MARRIED TO ANYBODY THAT 11:42 LONG - MY BROTHER DIED AND FOR 32 YEARS HE WAS ALWAYS THERE IN 11:50 MY LIFE. I HAD AUTO DIAL - I COULD ALWAYS 11:52 TALK TO MY BROTHER. I SENSED HIS PRESENCE. 11:54 AND WHEN HE DIED, SOMETIMES I FELT HE WAS NEAR. 11:58 IT'S JUST BECAUSE I HAD SO MANY MEMORIES IN MY MIND OF MY 12:02 BROTHER - THAT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL - BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN 12:05 THAT MY BROTHER'S DISEMBODIED SPIRIT WAS FLOATING AROUND MY 12:08 HOUSE OR THAT HE'S SPEAKING TO ME FROM HEAVEN. 12:10 I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. AND SO, I'M NOT TRYING TO TAKE 12:14 AWAY FROM PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCES, BUT YOU DON'T BASE TRUTH UPON 12:17 THAT. ISAIAH 38:18, "...DEATH CAN-NOT CELEBRATE THEE." 12:22 ECCLESIASTES 9, VERSES 5 AND 6, "FOR THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY 12:26 WILL DIE; BUT THE DEAD" - DO YOU KNOW THE REST OF THAT VERSE? 12:29 THEY - "KNOW NOTHING." HOW MUCH DO THEY KNOW? 12:32 THE DEAD DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. SO IF YOU SAY, 'I WAS IN HEAVEN 12:34 AND I SAW GRANDMA' OR 'GRANDPA' OR 'MY LITTLE SISTER' OR 12:37 SOMETHING, THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 12:39 THEY'RE SLEEPING. SO WHO SPOKE TO YOU? 12:43 DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 12:46 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, 12:49 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR 12:51 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 12:53 TO GET YOUR COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, 12:55 SIMPLY CALL US AND ASK FOR THE OFFER NUMBER SHOWN ON YOUR 12:58 SCREEN OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS AND DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY, 13:02 AND BE SURE TO SELECT THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD 13:04 OPTION ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 13:06 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH 13:09 AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. 13:12 AND MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 13:17 >> WELL MAYBE THAT LITTLE BOY HAD A DREAM. 13:20 'WELL, HE KNEW THINGS HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN. 13:24 DID THE DEVIL KNOW THOSE THINGS? DID THE DEVIL KNOW WHAT HIS 13:27 GRANDPA LOOKED LIKE? DID THE DEVIL KNOW ABOUT THE 13:29 LITTLE SISTER? DOES THE - SURE THE DEVIL KNOWS. 13:32 THE DEVIL CAN GIVE INFORMATION TO HIS PROPHETS. 13:36 HE CAN SPEAK THROUGH DREAMS. AND EVEN THOSE WHO BECOME 13:40 MEDIUMS - YOU KNOW WHAT A MEDIUM IS? 13:42 THE PERSON WHO IS IN THE MIDDLE - THEY ARE THE GO-BETWEEN 13:45 BETWEEN THE REAL WORLD AND THE SPIRIT WORLD. 13:48 AND EVEN IF IT'S A CUTE LITTLE BOY WHO SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A 13:51 MESSAGE FROM BEYOND' - HE IS THE MEDIUM FOR THE MESSAGE. 13:56 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE SHOULD NOT GET INFORMATION ABOUT 13:58 DEATH OR HEAVEN OR HELL FROM MEDIUMS. 14:02 WE GET IT FROM THE WORD, AMEN? 'THE LIVING KNOW THEY'LL DIE. 14:06 THE DEAD DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.' "ALSO THEIR LOVE, THEIR HATRED, 14:10 AND THEIR ENVY HAVE NOW PERISHED; NEVERMORE WILL THEY 14:13 HAVE A SHARE IN ANYTHING THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN." 14:17 AND YOU CAN GO TO - YOU CAN READ IN VERSE 10 - IT SAYS IN VERSE 14:21 10, "WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS TO DO, DO IT WITH YOUR MIGHT; FOR 14:25 THERE IS NO WORK OR DEVICE OR KNOWLEDGE OR WISDOM IN THE GRAVE 14:29 WHERE YOU ARE GOING." SO WHERE DO THE DEAD GO? 14:33 JOB 17:3 - WHEN THEY DIE - "IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE." 14:39 WHERE DO THE DEAD WAIT? IN THE GRAVE. 14:41 YOU CAN READ JOB 21:32, "YET SHALL HE BE BROUGHT TO THE 14:45 GRAVE, AND SHALL REMAIN IN THE TOMB." 14:47 WHERE DO THEY STAY UNTIL THE RESURRECTION? IN THE TOMB. 14:51 THEY'RE NOT ROAMING AROUND LIKE EBENEZER SCROOGE GOING INTO THE 14:55 PAST AND THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. 14:58 2 PETER 2:9, "THEN THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY 15:01 OUT OF TEMPTATIONS AND TO RESERVE THE UNJUST UNDER 15:05 PUNISHMENT FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT," - THEY DON'T GET 15:07 PUNISHED. THEY DON'T GET REWARDED - 15:09 UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. IT'D BE KIND OF STRANGE TO JUDGE 15:12 THEM AND SAY - PULL THEM OUT OF HEAVEN TO JUDGE THEM. 15:16 BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE KING SAUL, 15:20 HE SAW THIS APPARITION OF SAMUEL? 15:24 YOU'LL FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE IN 1 SAMUEL 28, VERSES 3-20. 15:30 WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ THE WHOLE THING, BUT JUST VERY 15:33 QUICKLY - IT TELLS US THAT KING SAUL WAS DREADFULLY AFRAID 15:38 BECAUSE THE PHILISTINES HAD AMASSED AN INCREDIBLY LARGE ARMY 15:42 AGAINST ISRAEL AND HE TRIED TO TALK TO THE PROPHETS AND THERE 15:45 WAS NO MESSAGE FROM THE PROPHETS AND THE PRIESTS HAD NO MESSAGE 15:48 FROM GOD AND HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO GET SOME GUIDANCE 15:52 BUT SAUL HAD PRETTY MUCH GRIEVED AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE OF 15:55 HIS REBELLION AND PRIDE AGAINST GOD. 15:57 SO IN DESPERATION TO GET SOME GUIDANCE HE SAID, 'FIND A WITCH 16:02 FOR ME - A MEDIUM. IF I COULD ONLY HEAR FROM SAMUEL 16:06 THE PROPHET I'D FEEL A LOT BETTER.' SAMUEL WAS DEAD. 16:10 AND SO THEY GOT OUT THEIR LITTLE BLACK BOOK AND THEY FOUND A 16:14 WITCH THAT WAS STILL ALIVE IN A PLACE CALLED ENDOR - ENDOR - THE 16:18 NAME SOUND OMINOUS IN ITSELF. AND SO HE WENT TO THIS WITCH AND 16:24 SHE WENT THROUGH HER INCANTATIONS AND SHE CONJURED UP 16:27 THIS APPARITION THAT CLAIMED TO BE THE PROPHET SAMUEL. 16:31 AND THIS GHOST OR WHATEVER IT WAS SAID, 16:34 'WHY HAVE YOU DISQUIETED ME AND BROUGHT ME UP?' - 16:37 SAMUEL THE PROPHET COMING UP? 16:40 DOES THE DEVIL HAVE THE POWER TO RESURRECT? 16:42 SHE WENT THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS AT A MODERN SÉANCE AND, 16:46 YES, SAMUEL GAVE A MESSAGE - THIS GHOST THAT CLAIMED TO BE 16:49 SAMUEL - IT WAS NOT SAMUEL - A TOTALLY DISCOURAGING, HOPELESS 16:53 MESSAGE THAT FORETOLD THAT SAUL AND HIS SONS WOULD BE DEAD THE 16:56 NEXT DAY. YOU KNOW, EVEN WEATHERMEN GET IT 17:00 RIGHT SOMETIMES. THE DEVIL KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO 17:02 HAPPEN IN THAT BATTLE, ESPECIALLY IF HE COULD 17:04 DISCOURAGE SAUL. SO SOME PEOPLE WONDER IF 'WELL, 17:07 MAYBE THIS WAS REALLY SAMUEL.' NO, IT WASN'T. 17:09 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ - THE BIBLE TELLS US ONE OF THE 17:12 REASONS THAT SAUL GOT IN SO MUCH TROUBLE AND WAS CURSED: 1 17:18 CHRONICLES 10:13, "SO SAUL DIED FOR HIS UNFAITHFULNESS WHICH HE 17:23 HAD COMMITTED AGAINST THE LORD, BECAUSE HE DID NOT KEEP THE WORD 17:26 OF THE LORD, AND ALSO BECAUSE HE CONSULTED A MEDIUM" - THIS WITCH 17:30 OF ENDOR - "FOR GUIDANCE." SHOULD WE GET OUR GUIDANCE FROM 17:34 A MEDIUM? SOMEONE WHO SAID, 'I'VE PASSED TO THE OTHER SIDE 17:37 AND I'VE COME BACK. I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YOU.' IN 17:41 THE LAST DAYS THE DECEPTION WOULD BE SO PERSUASIVE THAT IF 17:44 IT WERE POSSIBLE, EVEN THE VERY ELECT WOULD BE DECEIVED. 17:47 IT REALLY TROUBLES ME WHEN I HEAR CHRISTIANS JUST FALLING ALL 17:50 OVER THEMSELVES TO READ THESE BOOKS AND GET THESE MESSAGES 17:53 FROM PEOPLE WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAVE BEEN TO HEAVEN OR HELL - SOMEONE 17:56 ELSE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT 23 MINUTES IN HELL - AND THESE 17:59 CHRISTIANS GOBBLE IT UP AND THE INFORMATION IN THERE 18:02 HAS GOD PORTRAYED AS A TYRANT. AND THE DEVIL USES THESE THINGS 18:06 TO TWIST THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD. HOW DOES JESUS, IN THE BIBLE, 18:11 REFER TO DEATH? JOHN 11:11 - IT TELLS US, "OUR 18:17 FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPS, BUT I GO THAT I MAY WAKE HIM UP." 18:22 HIS DISCIPLES SAID, 'LORD, IF HE'S SLEEPING HE'LL GET WELL, 18:24 BUT JESUS SPOKE OF HIS DEATH. 18:27 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT TAKING REST AND SLEEP AND 18:30 JESUS SAID TO THEM PLAINLY, 'LAZARUS IS DEAD.' SO WHAT DID 18:34 JESUS CALL DEATH? IT'S A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 18:38 YOU KNOW, THE WORD 'SLEEP' IS USED - OR 'REST' - TO DESCRIBE 18:43 DEATH OVER 30 TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 18:46 SO IT'S OKAY FOR US TO USE THAT TERM. 18:48 YOU CAN GO THROUGH A LOT OF GRAVEYARDS - YOU CAN TELL 18:50 THERE'S CONFUSION EVEN IN A CHURCH CEMETERY. 18:53 ONE GRAVE WILL SAY 'OUR DEARLY BELOVED MOTHER IS NOW RESTING IN 18:58 JESUS WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION TRUMP'. 19:01 YOU'LL SEE GRAVES LIKE THAT IN A BAPTIST OR A METHODIST 19:03 GRAVEYARD. THEN YOU'LL SEE ANOTHER ONE THAT 19:05 SAYS, 'OUR DEARLY BELOVED MOTHER IS NOW SINGING WITH THE ANGELS 19:07 ON THE GOLDEN STREETS.' I MEAN, THERE'S GREAT CONFUSION ON THIS. 19:11 BUT THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR - THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. 19:13 AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW FOR SURE, IF ANYBODY IN THE BIBLE 19:17 SHOULD HAVE HAD A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE - IF ANYBODY SHOULD 19:20 HAVE HAD AN EXPERIENCE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LAZARUS. 19:24 HE WAS DEAD FOR FOUR DAYS. 19:27 YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT EVERY NEWS AGENCY IN THE WORLD WOULD 19:29 HAVE COME TO HIM AND SHOVED THEIR CAMERAS IN HIS FACE AND 19:31 SAID, 'SO, WHAT DID YOU SEE?' IT WASN'T JUST 23 MINUTES IN 19:35 HELL OR 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, HE HAD FOUR DAYS. 19:39 YOU KNOW WHAT HE COMMENTED ON? NOTHING. 19:43 WOULDN'T THE BIBLE HAVE SAID SOMETHING? 19:45 HE SAID NOTHING. WHY? BECAUSE HE EXPERIENCED NOTHING. WHY? 19:48 BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD AND HE WAS ASLEEP. 19:51 IF YOU'RE ALMOST DEAD YOU MIGHT HAVE A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE 19:54 BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT COMPLETELY DEAD. 19:56 NO ONE - SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE THEIR HEART STOP AND EVEN TAKE 19:59 THEIR HEART OUT AND A NEW HEART PUT IN AND THEY'LL HAVE A 20:02 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. NO ONE HAS THEIR BRAIN REMOVED 20:04 AND HAS THAT EXPERIENCE BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY 20:08 EXPERIENCE IN THE BRAIN. MATTER OF FACT, THERE ARE 20:10 APPROXIMATELY TWELVE RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 20:15 AND OF THOSE TWELVE RESURRECTIONS, HOW MANY OF THEM 20:17 COMMENTED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE IN DEATH? ZERO. 20:21 SO HOW MUCH SHOULD CHRISTIANS SPECULATE ABOUT TRUTH COMING 20:24 FROM A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE OR A DREAM OR A VISION OR WHEN 20:29 YOU'RE IN A COMA? JOHN 5:28-29, JESUS SAID, "DO 20:33 NOT MARVEL AT THIS; FOR THE HOUR IS COMING IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE 20:36 IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE." - 20:38 THE HOUR IS COMING - IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET - "AND COME FORTH - 20:41 THOSE WHO HAVE DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, AND THOSE 20:44 WHO HAVE DONE EVIL, TO THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION." 20:47 AND JESUS SAID, 'I WILL RAISE HIM UP' - WHEN? - 20:49 'THE LAST DAY.' THAT RESURRECTION HASN'T HAPPENED 20:52 YET. WHEN DOES IT HAPPEN? 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13, "BUT I DO 20:58 NOT WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THOSE WHO 21:00 HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP" - WHAT'S PAUL TALKING ABOUT? 21:03 THOSE WHO ARE DEAD - "LEST YOU SORROW AS OTHERS WHO HAVE NO 21:06 HOPE." WILL WE SEE OUR LOVED ONES AGAIN? YES, 21:10 I BELIEVE WE WILL. IT SAYS IN VERSE 16, "FOR THE 21:15 LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE 21:17 VOICE OF AN ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD. 21:20 AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST." 21:23 THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM IN THE 21:25 AIR. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW 'WHEN 21:27 DOES THIS RESURRECTION TAKE PLACE?' YOU CAN'T MISINTERPRET 21:29 PAUL'S WORDS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:22-23, "FOR AS IN ADAM ALL 21:34 DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE ALIVE. 21:38 BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER: CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS," - HE 21:43 ROSE 2,000 YEARS AGO - "AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE 21:46 CHRIST'S" - THE DEAD IN CHRIST - "AT HIS COMING." 21:50 WHEN DO THEY RISE? AT HIS COMING. ARE THEY RISEN YET? NO. 21:55 WHY AM I TAKING TIME TO TALK ABOUT THIS? 21:58 BECAUSE THE DEVIL SAYS - THE BIBLE SAYS, RATHER - THE BIBLE 22:02 SAYS, IN THE LAST DAYS, THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE 22:06 MAIN DECEPTIONS OF THE ENEMY. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11, "THE 22:11 COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF 22:14 SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS, AND WITH ALL 22:17 UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH, BECAUSE THEY 22:21 DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. 22:25 AND FOR THIS REASON GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT 22:29 THEY SHOULD BELIEVE THE LIE." PAUL'S NOT WRITING TO THE PAGANS 22:32 THAT ARE LOST OUT IN THE WORLD, HE'S TALKING TO THE CHURCH. 22:36 AND IF THEY DON'T RECEIVE A LOVE OF THE WORD, THE DEVIL WILL 22:39 EXPLOIT THAT AND THEY'LL HAVE ALL KINDS OF EXPERIENCES AND BE 22:42 VERY SINCERE AND GOD WILL ALLOW THEM TO BELIEVE THESE DEADLY 22:47 DELUSIONS. IT TELLS US IN REVELATION 22:50 CHAPTER 16 THAT THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COME OUT OF 22:55 THE MOUTHS OF THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE 22:57 FALSE PROPHET AND IT SAYS, 'THEY'RE DEVILS WORKING 23:00 MIRACLES.' 2 CORINTHIANS 11, 'SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED 23:05 INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.' SO WHO ARE THESE BEINGS THAT SUPPOSEDLY 23:11 COMMUNICATE IN THE DREAMS? THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE 23:15 SPIRITS OF DEVILS WORKING MIRACLES. 23:18 IT SAYS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 'THEY ARE LYING SPIRITS.' THE 23:21 DEVIL DIDN'T FALL ALONE, HE TOOK ANGELS WITH HIM AND THEY'RE 23:24 GOING AROUND DOING ALL THEY CAN TO DECEIVE PEOPLE IN THE LAST 23:27 DAYS. WITCHCRAFT IS ONE OF THE WORKS 23:30 OF THE FLESH LISTED IN GALATIANS 5:20 THAT IS FORBIDDEN. 23:34 PAUL SAYS WE SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS 23:37 OF DARKNESS, IN EPHESIANS. AND SO THERE'S DIABOLICAL 23:41 ACTIVITY GOING ON OUT THERE, BUT WHAT'S ESPECIALLY TROUBLING - 23:45 IT'S BEEN PUTTING ON THE GARB OF CHRISTIANITY LATELY. 23:49 AND WHEN IT'S PORTRAYED - ESPECIALLY THROUGH A LITTLE 23:52 CHILD, OR THROUGH 'WHY THIS PERSON WAS CONVERTED THROUGH 23:56 THIS EXPERIENCE AND THERE WAS PRAYER THAT WAS HAPPENING.' AND 24:00 IN THE CONTEXT OF THESE THINGS, PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL IT MUST BE 24:03 OF GOD.' BUT IF IT DOES NOT SPEAK ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, 24:07 THERE'S NO LIGHT IN THEM. I BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING AGAIN. 24:11 I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A RESURRECTION. 24:14 I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE OUR LOVED ONES AGAIN. 24:17 I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO CHANNEL AND GET 24:20 MESSAGES FROM THEM NOW BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR ON THAT 24:24 SUBJECT: LET ALL WHO HONOR GOD SHUN THE WORLD OF THE OCCULT. 24:30 SOMEONE REMINDED ME OF THE WORDS OF RUDYARD KIPLING - HE WROTE A 24:34 POEM ON THIS: 'OH, THE ROAD TO ENDOR IS THE OLDEST ROAD AND THE 24:39 CRAZIEST ROAD OF ALL! STRAIGHT IT RUNS TO THE WITCH'S 24:42 ABODE, AS IT DID IN THE DAYS OF SAUL, AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED OF 24:46 THE SORROW IN STORE FOR SUCH AS GO DOWN ON THE ROAD TO ENDOR!" 24:51 DON'T GO DOWN THAT ROAD FRIENDS, EVEN IF IT'S IN A BLOCKBUSTER 24:56 MOVIE OR A BEST-SELLING BOOK. GOD WANTS US TO STAY AWAY FROM 24:59 THESE MESSAGES THAT THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO TWEAK OUR THEOLOGY 25:04 WITH DECEIVING SPIRITS. JESUS IS COMING AGAIN. 25:07 HE SAYS, "I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. 25:10 HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH HE MAY DIE, HE SHALL LIVE. 25:13 AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE." 25:17 DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? 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