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00:12 You want to hear an amazing fact? 00:14 Every fall in the woods of September 00:16 when it gets cold, 00:17 there are these wood frogs 00:19 they kind of crawl under the leaves, 00:20 but they can't get away from the cold, 00:22 they end up freezing solid. 00:24 Two thirds of their body turns to ice. 00:27 If you pick them up, they would not move. 00:29 If you bent one of their legs, it would break off. 00:32 Inside these frozen frogs, 00:34 other weird physiological things are going on. 00:37 Their hearts stop beating, the lungs stop breathing, 00:41 and their blood no longer flows. 00:43 To all outward appearance, they're dead. 00:46 The craziest thing is they can remain 00:49 in this frozen state withstanding temperatures 00:51 way below zero for as long as seven months. 00:55 And then when spring arrives, they fall out, 00:58 shake themselves and hop away. 01:01 They're able to do this because when the weather turns cold, 01:04 their bodies release a glucose kind of an antifreeze 01:07 into their bloodstream. 01:08 Then, when the weather warms up, 01:10 something within these frogs seems to spark a resurrection. 01:14 Kids, did you know the Bible tells us 01:16 that if you've got the Spirit of God in you, 01:18 if you committed your life to Jesus, 01:20 it will help you survive the winter of death, 01:22 and it'll spark a resurrection when Jesus comes. 01:25 We're going to learn more about that 01:27 in today's program. 01:28 So let's get on board and begin an amazing adventure. 01:49 Good evening, everyone. 01:51 Welcome again to Amazing Adventure, 01:53 A Journey for Life with Jesus. 01:54 I'd like to welcome all of our young people 01:56 here in Michigan, 01:57 also our friends who are joining us 01:59 across the country and around the world. 02:01 We've been looking at some very important Bible truths 02:03 over the past few nights and tonight, 02:05 a very important subject. 02:07 So I'm really glad that you're here. 02:09 All right, well we are ready to get started 02:10 with our discovery this evening. 02:12 So let's invite Pastor Doug to come forward. 02:15 Good evening, Pastor Doug! 02:18 Hello, all hands on deck. 02:20 Welcome to Amazing Adventure. 02:23 So glad to see each of you here. 02:24 Want to welcome our friends who are watching on television 02:27 or the internet 02:28 and it's been just a joy to work here 02:30 with these young people 02:32 and doing this special series for kids 02:33 and it has been an adventure. 02:35 All right, well, we got our theme song 02:37 that we like to sing. 02:38 It's Life is an Adventure, 02:39 so I am gonna invite our song leaders 02:41 to come forward. 02:42 Let's stand 02:44 and we're going to sing together, 02:45 life is an adventure following the King. 02:46 So everybody stand and let's sing. 02:53 Life is an adventure following the King 02:58 Every day with Jesus makes us want to sing 03:03 Walking in the spirit he will lead the way 03:08 With his words to guide us glowing deep inside us 03:13 Nothing can divide us following the King 03:19 Life is an adventure following the King 03:24 Every day with Jesus makes us want to sing 03:30 Conquering with kindness everywhere we go 03:35 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising 03:40 Life is so amazing following the King 03:47 Life is so amazing 03:50 Following the King 03:55 Thank you everybody. Please be seated. 03:57 Thank you to our song leaders 03:59 for helping us here with our song. 04:01 Well, Pastor Ross, this has been a joy 04:04 doing this program and meeting 04:05 so many new friends. 04:07 And I hope you'll be telling your friends 04:09 about the Amazing Adventure program 04:10 so they can get closer to Jesus. 04:13 All right, we do have our video Bible questions. 04:16 I think we have an extra one 04:17 that we're gonna be looking at this evening. 04:18 So we'll be ready to look at the first one. 04:21 Hi, Pastor Doug, my name is Abby, 04:24 and my Bible question is, 04:26 how do we know the Bible is real? 04:29 So Abby has a question, important one, 04:31 how do we know that the Bible is real? 04:36 How many of you know your multiplication tables? 04:40 Seven times seven is 49 04:43 and five times five? 04:45 Twenty Five. 04:46 So you memorize that 04:48 probably somewhere in elementary school, 04:50 I'm still working on it, but I know some of them. 04:54 And the reason you use the multiplication table 04:56 is because it works. 04:58 The reason we know the Bible is true 05:01 is because it works. 05:03 It does change lives. 05:05 You've got millions of lives over 6000 years of history 05:10 that have been transformed by the power 05:12 and the message of this book. 05:13 Also because of its supernatural ability 05:17 to foretell the future. 05:19 For example, Jesus said, 05:21 "These teachings of my will go into all the world." 05:25 That was a prophecy Jesus made, 05:27 that His teachings would go into all the world. 05:29 How did He know that? 05:31 He was an uneducated carpenter in a small town. 05:35 He didn't have any degrees or any military experience. 05:39 But did His prophecy come true? 05:42 Christianity is now the largest religion 05:44 in the world, 2.2 billion Christians. 05:46 Jesus teachings went into all the world. 05:49 Jesus foretold Jerusalem would be destroyed. 05:52 Jesus foretold many things, 05:54 the Bible prophecies tell many things 05:55 that all came to pass 05:58 and the reason that we know that Bible is real 06:01 is because it works. 06:03 It has proven itself to be true. 06:04 Jesus said, "Thy Word is truth." 06:08 And then Jesus said, 06:09 "I am the way, the truth and the life." 06:13 And so the evidence of history, bestselling book, 06:17 even after well, for 2000 years, 06:19 at least the last 2000 years. 06:21 It's, they weren't printing it except the last 500 years. 06:26 Yeah. 06:28 Bestselling book in the world because it works. 06:31 It is real. 06:33 All right, very good, our next question. 06:34 Hi, Pastor Doug. 06:36 My name is Laura and I'm from Branch, Michigan. 06:39 My Bible question is, 06:41 how did God choose the disciples? 06:43 Okay, so the next question is a good one. 06:45 I didn't think of that until I saw the question. 06:48 How did Christ choose the disciples? 06:50 Right now when we say disciple, 06:53 technically you are all disciples, 06:56 many times people talk about the 12 disciples, 06:58 they usually mean the apostles. 07:01 Disciple is anybody 07:03 that follows the teachings of Jesus. 07:05 But I think she's asking, 07:07 "How did Jesus pick the 12 apostles?" 07:09 Well, his decision was led by the Holy Spirit. 07:12 A God guided Jesus to the people 07:14 that would have the potential 07:17 to be the leaders of the newly formed church. 07:19 Now with one exception, 07:21 Jesus did not on His own pick Judas, 07:25 as Jesus picked the other apostles, 07:28 they started recommending Judas to Jesus. 07:31 They said, "Oh, he's really smart. 07:32 He's a scribe, 07:34 he can be the treasurer for the group. 07:35 He's got great ability. 07:36 He really would like to be an apostle 07:39 and Jesus gave in to their request 07:41 and Jesus said, "Have I not chosen 12 07:43 and one is the devil." 07:44 So right from the beginning, 07:46 Jesus knew that Judas did not have the best motives. 07:49 In fact, 07:50 when Judas first decided to follow Jesus, 07:52 he said, "Master, I'll follow you anywhere." 07:54 Jesus knew his heart and he said, 07:57 "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have the Nest, 08:01 but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 08:03 Judas, if you're following me 08:04 because you want riches and fame, 08:06 you're following me for the wrong reason. 08:09 Jesus knew what was going on, 08:10 Judas heart, he wanted power, 08:12 he wanted money. 08:13 And so, but the Holy Spirit guided Jesus 08:15 in choosing the other 11 apostles. 08:18 Okay, our next question that we have. 08:20 Hi, my name is Brooke 08:22 and I am eight years old and I am from California 08:24 and my Bible question is, 08:25 how can Jesus be a man and God at the same time? 08:28 All right, we got a question from someone 08:31 in our home church in California, 08:33 and Brooke is asking 08:34 how could Jesus be both God and man? 08:37 Now the Bible speaks of several mysteries. 08:39 I don't know if I remember them all. 08:40 You got, of course a mystery of iniquity. 08:42 And you get the mystery of godliness 08:45 and the mystery of the resurrection. 08:47 But one of the mysteries is the idea 08:50 of what we call the incarnation, 08:53 how God could fill a man 08:57 and how Jesus could be 100% man and 100% God. 09:01 How many percent is that? 09:03 It seems like 200% but nothing, 09:05 no person can be 200% of the one thing 09:08 and so it is something of a mystery 09:11 that God came into the form of man 09:15 in the incarnation 09:16 when Jesus was born 09:19 and when Jesus rose from the dead, 09:20 did He still have a human form? 09:23 He did. 09:24 Did He appear to the disciples after the resurrection? 09:27 Was he still human? Did they touch him? 09:29 After the resurrection, 09:31 Jesus ate in front of the disciples. 09:33 Did He still have scars in His hands? 09:35 He did. 09:37 So even in eternity, Jesus is retaining this form 09:40 He took as the person on earth. 09:42 Now, of course, man was made in the image of God. 09:44 So it started out with our imitating His image, 09:47 but it is something of a mystery. 09:50 You know, I heard a story one time, 09:53 this man couldn't understand the story of the incarnation. 09:59 He was an old farmer 10:00 and his wife kept telling him to go to church 10:02 and he didn't want to go to church. 10:03 He couldn't understand how Jesus become a man. 10:06 Why would He do that? 10:08 He didn't need to become a man to save them. 10:09 And while the man was thinking about 10:11 that there was a terrible blizzard outside 10:13 and he went to look out the window 10:15 and just as he looked out the window, 10:16 he heard bang, and he looked up 10:19 and a goose had flown into the window. 10:23 And so he thought, oh, they're caught in the blizzard. 10:27 They don't know what to do. They're cold. 10:29 He thought I will open the barn 10:30 and he got a lantern and he went out. 10:32 He said, "I'll open the barn 10:33 'cause there's a whole flock of geese 10:34 that were outside freezing." 10:36 He went to open the barn, 10:37 and he tried to shoot the geese into the barn, 10:41 but they wouldn't follow him. 10:43 And he finally realized I'll get one of my geese 10:47 and he got one of his tamed geese. 10:49 He brought it outside. 10:51 He let the other geese see his tamed goose. 10:53 He brought that one into the barn 10:54 and then they followed him in. 10:56 He realized the reason God had to become a man 10:58 is because we needed to know that he understood us. 11:03 God already knows everything. 11:05 But it is, the incarnation is something of a mystery. 11:08 All right. 11:09 Well, that is it for our Bible questions this evening. 11:11 We'll take some more tomorrow. 11:12 Thank you very much, Pastor Ross, 11:14 and thank you young people for your good questions. 11:16 We have, I think, 11:17 what's gonna be a very interesting 11:19 and important lesson tonight, and it's called 11:21 "Whistling through the Graveyard." 11:24 And I remember one time 11:27 I ran away from home and at night, 11:31 I had to go from the street to the mountains 11:32 where I lived by going through a graveyard, 11:35 and I was a little scared 11:37 because I had watched all these stories about, 11:39 you know, ghosts coming out of the grave, 11:41 I used to watch Casper the ghost, 11:43 he was a friendly ghost, 11:45 and there were you know, boogeyman under the bed. 11:47 And you know, you grow up 11:49 and you have all these things you're afraid of 11:50 and so going through the cemetery, 11:52 I just thought, boy, 11:54 I hope nobody jumps out of the grave 11:55 and grabs me by the ankle and pulls me in 11:58 'cause there could be zombies out there 11:59 and a lot of people are scared. 12:01 The subject of death spooks and scares people. 12:04 And the devil uses this, and I'm gonna explain tonight 12:07 what the Bible says about the subject. 12:09 So, of course, we had our memory verse, 12:11 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 12:13 "The Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, 12:16 with the voice of the archangel, 12:18 and the trumpet of God 12:19 and the dead in Christ will rise." 12:21 We do not need to worry about death 12:22 because those who die believing in Jesus 12:25 will live again. 12:27 Now this year, Pastor Doug and Mrs. Batchelor 12:29 and a couple of our Amazing Facts team 12:31 that are here tonight, we were in France 12:34 and there is a creepy cemetery in France. 12:37 It is the biggest cemetery in the world. 12:39 It is underground. 12:40 What happened? 12:42 About 150 years ago, 12:44 they ran out of room in Paris to bury all the dead people, 12:47 you know, they had plagues and cemeteries 12:48 filled a lot of spots 12:50 and they weren't cremating people, 12:51 they needed a new grave and sometimes they try 12:53 and put two or three people in a grave 12:54 and they got where the graves were 12:56 so overcrowded with bodies, every square inch, 12:59 they put a body, then it rained real hard, 13:02 and the cemeteries were collapsing 13:04 and land sliding, 13:06 where they had all these skeletons 13:07 in the street 13:09 and the officials in Paris said, 13:10 "We got to do something. 13:11 This is unsanitary. 13:13 We got this dead people bodies everywhere. 13:14 We don't know what to do." 13:16 Underneath the city of Paris, 13:18 they had 200 miles of tunnels 13:23 that were dug by workmen that dug out limestone 13:26 when they were building up the city of Paris, 13:28 200 miles of tunnels. 13:31 And they said, "Well, why don't we just dig up 13:33 all the graves and we will put them 13:35 in the tunnels under Paris and they spent a hundred, 13:39 over a hundred years of moving the cemetery. 13:42 There are now 6 million bodies buried underneath. 13:47 Six million former Parisians 13:49 buried underneath the city of Paris 13:51 and when we were there, we went down 13:53 and we videotaped a creepy amazing fact about, 13:56 you know, Ezekiel has this vision 13:57 full of bones, a valley full of bones 13:59 and we talked about the bones in Paris 14:02 and they've only opened one mile we went, 14:04 we took a tour one mile of the tunnels 14:06 and it's kind of weird, you know, 14:08 you're walking along and, 14:09 and they got them all stacked up. 14:10 It's like a work of art. 14:12 And some of the stack I mean, 14:13 they make artistic designs with the bones. 14:14 They wanted to stack them 14:16 so they wouldn't keep falling over into the aisles 14:18 and you're not allowed to go 14:20 into some of the unexplored tunnels 14:22 or some of the distant tunnels. 14:23 They've got them all gated off 14:25 because a few years ago, one man, 14:27 I just remember his first name was Nestor. 14:30 He decided to go exploring on his own 14:32 and they never saw him again 14:34 until 11 years later they found him. 14:38 He got lost among all the bones. 14:41 That'd be awful, huh. 14:44 Does cemetery scare you? 14:46 You don't need to be scared. 14:48 I wouldn't be one bit scared. 14:50 You know, I heard a story once about a boy. 14:52 He decided to take a shortcut home from school 14:55 and it was a little creepy going through the cemetery 14:58 but it's on daytime I should be safe 15:00 and he stopped and he read some of the tombstones. 15:02 And he saw one 15:03 that he thought was very interesting. 15:05 The tombstone was really a message to the living. 15:07 Here's what it said, "Stop my friend, 15:10 as you go by, as you are now so once was I, 15:16 as I am now, you soon will be. 15:20 So prepare yourself to follow me." 15:23 He looked at that for a minute. 15:25 And then he looked to his right and he looked to his left 15:26 and he got a crayon out of his bag. 15:29 And he wrote underneath the tombstone, 15:32 "To follow you, I'm not content 15:34 until I know just where you went." 15:38 Where do people go when they die? 15:41 He was a little worried about that. 15:42 We're going to find out what the Bible says 15:44 about the death and what happens 15:46 'cause you need to understand this 15:48 so you won't be deceived by the devil. 15:50 Number one. 15:51 What really happens when you die? 15:54 And where do you go? 15:55 What does the Bible say? 15:57 Genesis 2:7, God told Adam and Eve, 16:00 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." 16:04 And it says, "He breathed 16:05 into his nostrils the breath of life, 16:09 and man became a living soul." 16:11 So God took the elements of the earth there, 16:13 the dust, and the ground, and the clay, 16:15 and He formed Adam 16:17 and then He gave him, have you ever seen 16:20 when someone may be stopped breathing 16:21 'cause they were drowned 16:23 and someone else will give them a artificial respiration. 16:25 That means you kind of gotta kiss a person, 16:27 and you blow in their mouth. 16:30 And some people have, 16:32 many people had been saved because of that. 16:34 They get the water out and they blow in n their mouth 16:36 and God sort of gave Adam the kiss of life, 16:38 you might say, He breathed into him, 16:41 and Adam became a living soul. 16:44 And the Bible says when a person dies, 16:47 that's sort of his creation in reverse. 16:50 Ecclesiastes 12:7. 16:52 It says, "Then the dust will return 16:54 to the earth as it was, 16:56 and the spirit will return to God who gave it." 16:58 Now this is where people get mixed up. 17:01 Solomon here in Ecclesiastes, 17:03 he says, "The spirit returns to God." 17:06 So what is happening when the spirit returns to God? 17:08 Does that mean that when you die, 17:11 that some little butterfly light goes flutters out of you 17:14 and goes off to be with God, the spirit? 17:19 Is that what happens? 17:21 No, the spirit the Bible tells us 17:23 is the breath of life. 17:24 Now I need one person to come up here 17:26 and help me illustrate something fairly simple. 17:29 So, let's see here. 17:34 All right, you young man right here. 17:36 Okay, come on. Yeah, you, you are the one. 17:40 Okay, come on, what's your name? 17:42 Levi. 17:43 That's a great name, Levi. 17:45 All right here. 17:49 You know what that is? 17:50 No. 17:52 This is called a plasma ball. 17:56 Now see that little socket on the back. 17:58 Yeah. 17:59 You want to plug that in there for me? 18:01 I'll help you. 18:02 Ah. 18:03 I am just kidding. 18:06 You want to touch that and see what happens? 18:08 It follows your fingers, isn't it? 18:10 It's got plasma, look at that, whoa. 18:14 So now what's making it do this? 18:17 We plugged it in. 18:19 What's coming through this wire? 18:21 Energy. Energy, yeah. 18:23 You know what makes the lights come on? 18:26 Have you heard the word electricity? 18:27 Yeah, that's what this is. 18:29 All right, so we got electricity coming through. 18:30 Now it's giving it life. 18:32 See it all moving? 18:34 It's kind of, you know, it's kind of follows my hand. 18:35 Whoa, that looks creepy, doesn't it? 18:38 I wonder what would happen if you kissed it? 18:41 No, I'm not gonna try it. 18:43 Anyway, unplug it now very carefully. 18:47 Oh, where did the plasma go? 18:52 I don't know. 18:54 It went back to the electric company, 18:55 didn't it? 18:57 What happens when God breathes the breath of life, 19:00 it's like electricity into man. 19:04 It gives him power, 19:05 it brings the energy combines with the body 19:08 and you've got the plasma ball and it does interesting things. 19:12 And when you then unplug it, 19:14 power is just back at the power company. 19:17 Thank you very much. Let's give him a hand. 19:22 When you die, and it says a spirit returns to God, 19:25 it's not talking about a little personalized ghost. 19:28 As a matter of fact, it says the spirit of you, 19:31 it could be an animal, a dog or a cat, 19:33 the spirit of life of any creature 19:36 when it dies, returns to God. 19:38 It's not saying the ghost jumps out of them 19:40 and goes off to heaven. 19:42 The spirit returns to God who gave it, 19:44 and that's Ecclesiastes 12:7. 19:45 Number two. 19:47 What is the spirit that returns to God when someone dies? 19:52 Hey, here's an interesting verse, 19:54 Job 27:3, it says, 19:56 "The Spirit of God is in my nostrils." 20:00 Now if the spirit is a ghost, 20:02 how many of you ever thought you had a ghost in your nose? 20:06 Job said, "The Spirit of God's in my nostrils." 20:09 That's not talking about a ghost 20:10 or a spirit going up your nose. 20:13 It's talking about wind, air. 20:17 The breath of life. 20:19 You know, in Hebrew, 20:20 the word is ruach, just means breath. 20:23 In Greek, it's the same word except its pneuma 20:26 and that means breath. 20:27 It means the same thing. 20:29 You ever heard, you boys, 20:30 some of you know about what a pneumatic tool is? 20:32 Anyone know what a pneumatic tool is? 20:34 Pneumatic tools are tools 20:35 that are driven in a shop by air, 20:37 air, and if someone gets sick, they get pneumonia. 20:41 That's a disease of your breathing. 20:43 Pneuma means spirit breath. 20:45 And so some people think that there's a ghost. 20:48 And it's really just talking about 20:49 the breath of God that gives life 20:51 so when a person dies, 20:53 you've got creation in reverse. 20:56 The body without the spirit is what? 20:59 It's dead. 21:01 If a person dies, they cease to exist, 21:04 the Spirit of God, the life goes back to God 21:06 who gave it, the body, 21:08 now you know, if a person is not mummified 21:10 like the Egyptians used to very carefully wrap 21:12 and mummify a body. 21:13 What happens when a deer gets hit by car 21:15 and it lays on the road long enough? 21:17 What happens to that deer? 21:19 It just sort of rots and turns back 21:20 into soil after a while, doesn't it? 21:23 And that's what the Bible says ashes to ashes. 21:26 God said to Adam and Eve, "Ashes you are, 21:28 unto ashes you'll return, dust you are, 21:30 unto dust you'll return. 21:32 That's why the resurrection is so important. 21:34 So if the spirit is the breath of life, 21:38 what is a soul? 21:41 Bible says in Genesis 2:7, 21:43 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, 21:48 and he breathed into his nostrils 21:50 the breath of life, and man", 21:52 here it is, "became a soul." 21:56 Notice the combination, 21:58 breath of life into his nostrils 22:00 plus the body, man becomes a living soul. 22:03 Okay, I just, I want to make sure 22:05 you guys don't miss this 22:06 'cause the devil's fooling with a lot of people. 22:08 I need a couple of people who are good cooks. 22:11 And we'll get over here and just, 22:13 you're going to do some real important cooking. 22:15 Okay, young lady here, you can come and yeah, 22:17 I'll get two together, yeah, there we go, 22:19 I'll get two, don't worry, we're not done. 22:20 We'll get more chances. 22:22 Look in the treasure chest and one of you see 22:25 if you can find some bread. 22:27 One of you see if you can find something, 22:29 wave to the camera while you're in there. 22:30 Say hi. Go ahead. 22:32 Find some bread and find something 22:33 to put on the bread. 22:35 There you go. Okay, come on over here. 22:38 Now, what's your name? Lanayi. 22:39 Lanayi, can you open up those pieces of bread? 22:42 I need two pieces of bread. 22:43 And your name? Sophia. 22:44 Sophia, why don't you open up those two pieces? 22:46 What are those? Cheese. 22:48 What is that? Cheese. 22:50 What do you say when you get a picture taken? 22:52 Cheese Except that's actually vegan cheese. 22:55 Oh, that's good. I like it. 22:57 It's better. 22:58 Okay, that's gonna be hard to take apart. 23:00 All right, I'll hold that one for you 23:01 when open the other one up here. 23:03 Let me take your, masseur. 23:05 All right, yeah, I'll take your wrappers, 23:07 in which I'm just very sanitary that way. 23:10 Here, you wanna me to hold your cheese? 23:13 Okay, now why don't you put that on the bread? 23:16 You a good cook? 23:18 Okay, here we go. 23:22 And we don't want to scam 23:24 so we had two pieces of vegan cheese in. 23:26 Well, you want to finish off this masterpiece, 23:29 put that on there. 23:30 Now what did we just create? Let me take your wrappers. 23:33 What is this now? Cheese sandwich. 23:35 A sandwich. 23:37 You mean all we had to do 23:39 was put together two pieces of bread 23:43 and two pieces of cheese and voila, 23:45 miracle has transpired. 23:48 These guys are great cooks, aren't they? 23:51 You didn't know you had it, 23:52 you can probably start your own television show now. 23:54 You know where the word sandwich 23:55 comes from, 23:57 the Earl of Sandwich was a gambler 24:01 and he was so involved, gambling was very wealthy. 24:04 He told the servants he said, I need something to eat. 24:06 Well, eating was a big affair back then. 24:08 He said, just make me something quick and bring it, 24:10 I can't stop playing this card game. 24:12 So they took a couple pieces of bread 24:14 and stuck some cheese 24:16 and meat on it and handed to him. 24:17 And it became very popular among his guests 24:19 and they called it a sandwich. 24:21 That's where the word comes from anyway, but don't gamble. 24:23 So now, I want you to disassemble. 24:29 You can let want her holding the bread. 24:33 You take the cheese. 24:35 All right. 24:37 Where did the sandwich go? 24:40 Where did it go? 24:42 Is that a sandwich? Is that a sandwich? 24:46 That's two pieces of bread. 24:47 If you said, "Mom, 24:49 can you make me a sandwich for lunch." 24:50 And you look in your lunch box 24:51 and you open up and you got that? 24:53 You gonna say, "I want another mother," right? 24:56 If that's my sandwich, 24:57 I think you have a right to protest 24:59 and call the authorities and if you say, "Mom. 25:02 I want a sandwich," and you look in your lunch box 25:04 and she says, "There's your sandwich." 25:07 What? Is that a sandwich? 25:09 No. Is that a sandwich? 25:12 Put them back together again. 25:15 Now what do we have? 25:17 It's not much of a sandwich. 25:19 I mean, I'd like something some lettuce 25:20 and something else on there 25:21 but it does qualify as a sandwich. 25:23 All right. Split it up again. 25:27 Yeah, there we go. 25:28 I asked you again. Where did the sandwich go? 25:32 It stops being a sandwich when you separate the two. 25:37 You got the body, you got the spirit. 25:41 When you separate the body from the spirit, 25:43 you don't have a soul. 25:45 Everyone says, "Where does the soul go 25:47 when the spirit and the body are separated?" 25:49 It stops being a soul. 25:52 Now if you guys really want it bad enough, 25:53 I'll let you keep that stuff or you can leave with me. 25:56 Why don't you put the cheese back on there? 25:58 We will auction that off after the program, 26:00 now that everybody's touched it here. 26:03 Thank you. Let's give him a hand. 26:04 Thank you very much. 26:10 So you beginning to get the idea 26:12 when people say, "Yeah, 26:14 but they died, where did the soul go?" 26:16 It stops being a soul, 26:17 because it's a combination of the breath of God 26:20 and the body that equals a soul. 26:23 So when a person dies and they're saved, 26:26 do they go immediately to heaven? 26:30 What does the Bible say? 26:32 Peter preaching at Pentecost. 26:34 Now this is after Jesus died. 26:36 Peter says, "Men and brethren," 26:38 he's talking to a crowd of thousands of Jewish men. 26:40 He says, "Let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David." 26:44 You all know, David killed Goliath. 26:45 Is David good or bad? Good. 26:47 Will David be in heaven? Yes. 26:49 Okay, here's what Peter says about King David, 26:52 who's been dead for a 1000 years 26:53 when Peter said this. 26:55 "Let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David 26:58 that he is dead and buried, his sepulcher, his tomb, 27:02 his grave is with us to this day." 27:05 And then he says, 27:07 "David is not ascended in heaven." 27:09 Now how can that be misunderstood? 27:10 Peter said, "David is dead, 27:12 he's buried, his tomb is here, 27:14 he's not in heaven." 27:16 So when people die, 27:17 do they go to heaven before the resurrection? 27:20 No, they stay in their graves. 27:22 You can read about this in Psalm 115:17, 27:26 "The dead do not praise the Lord nor any 27:29 who go down into silence." 27:32 Now, if you die and you went right to heaven, 27:34 the first thing I would do is praise the Lord, 27:36 that I'm there, right? 27:38 But it says, "The dead aren't praising the Lord." 27:40 You see, the resurrection, is it past or future? 27:43 The Great Resurrection Day? Future. 27:46 The Great Judgment Day, 27:47 is it in the past or in the future? 27:49 The Great Resurrection doesn't happen 27:51 until after the Great Judgment 27:54 and so, it's all gonna be in the future. 27:57 So where are people who died? 28:01 They're in their graves or they're asleep, 28:03 they're unconscious until that day comes. 28:06 Listen to what the Bible says. 28:08 What do dead people know after they die? 28:14 Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived. 28:16 Here's what he wrote about that. 28:18 "The Living know that they will die. 28:20 But the dead know," you see it on our sale up here, 28:23 the dead know how much, 28:25 zero, nada, zip, nothing. 28:29 They don't know anything. 28:31 They're not thinking anything. 28:33 You know, in the Bible, there are 12 resurrections, 28:36 approximately 12 resurrections. 28:38 We're not sure when Paul was stoned 28:41 if he was stoned to death 28:42 and God did rose him or if he was just unconscious 28:44 and God healed him, it's not clear. 28:46 But there's about 12 resurrections. 28:48 Now if you knew somebody that was dead for several days 28:50 and they were resurrected, 28:52 what would be the first thing you'd want to ask them? 28:56 What did you see? What was it like? 29:00 And yet the people who are resurrected, 29:03 they never make any comment on what they saw 29:05 when they were dead. 29:06 You know why? The dead know how much? 29:09 They don't know anything. 29:10 They're not praising the Lord. 29:11 They're unconscious. 29:13 Here's what Solomon also says in Ecclesiastes 9:10, 29:17 "Whatever your hand finds to do, 29:20 do it with your might." 29:22 While you're alive, young people, 29:23 do what you're going to do 29:24 while you're alive because he says, 29:26 "There is no work or device or knowledge 29:30 or wisdom in the grave where you're going." 29:33 If you're going to live, live while you're young 29:36 and you're alive and your hands, 29:37 and your body, 29:39 and your mind are all working, live life to the fullest. 29:42 It says, "You're not going to be doing anything for God 29:44 when you're dead, do it while you're alive." 29:48 Can a dead person's soul or spirit come back 29:53 and talk to the living? 29:55 What does the Bible say? 29:57 Can they see what's happening on this earth? 30:01 No. 30:02 The Bible says, 30:03 "He will be brought to the grave 30:06 and a vigil will be kept over him." 30:08 Scripture say he remains in the tomb. 30:11 "So man lieth down 30:13 and he riseth not till the heavens be no more." 30:18 When does he rise? 30:19 When the heavens are no more. 30:21 What does the Bible say? 30:22 The Bible says, "The heavens will depart as a scroll 30:26 when Jesus comes." 30:27 So it's not until the resurrection 30:28 they know anything. 30:30 So when somebody says, 30:32 well, you know, that house is haunted, 30:36 somebody died in that house and there's spirits there. 30:41 Could a person sense there's evil spirits somewhere? 30:46 Oh, sure. 30:48 Does the devil have fallen angels? 30:50 Yeah. 30:52 So when a person feels like they're being spooked, 30:55 its fallen angels impersonating the dead. 30:59 Dead people don't know anything. 31:00 It is not your grandma and your grandpa. 31:02 Now I don't know how you feel. 31:05 But my father's mom, 31:07 Grandma Batchelor was a Christian. 31:09 She was a Baptist. 31:11 She died. 31:12 If you die and you went right to heaven, 31:14 and she'd be up there in heaven looking down on you, 31:16 I even heard it on the news today in my hotel room, 31:18 they talked about so and so is up in heaven 31:20 now looking down on everybody. 31:22 Everybody says this. 31:24 You go to funerals. 31:26 There'll be the body sitting there 31:27 in the grave in the casket. 31:29 You know, if you've ever been to a funeral, 31:30 sometimes the body is right there 31:31 and there's a casket. 31:33 Sometimes it's open, sometimes it's closed. 31:34 Preacher is up there, he's preaching. 31:35 And he's saying, 31:37 "Our dear beloved loved one is up in heaven 31:39 singing with the angels." 31:41 And you're looking at their body right there. 31:42 You know, no, they are not right there. 31:44 But they make everybody seem like they're right in heaven. 31:47 But I'll explain that in a minute 31:48 why there's so much confusion. 31:51 Mrs. Batchelor and I bought a house. 31:55 The person we bought the house from, 31:58 the man died in the house before we bought it, 32:02 and some people heard that they said, 32:04 don't you think that's creepy? 32:05 I said, "No, not at all. 32:06 Doesn't bother me one bit." 32:08 We lived in that house, 22 years 32:09 we loved it, we miss it. 32:11 Never got haunted. 32:13 If we did get haunted, we weren't aware of it. 32:16 You know, once you know what the devil's tricks are, 32:19 I have people they say, something moved on my table. 32:24 It moved all by itself. 32:26 I said, "Yeah, so what?" 32:28 I say, "You curse those devils, they might haunt you, 32:31 if you ignore them, they get upset 32:32 and they leave you alone." 32:34 The Bible says, "Resist the devil 32:36 and he will flee from you." 32:38 You don't have to be afraid of things like that. 32:41 When you're with Christ, 32:42 the Bible says greater is He that is in you. 32:45 Who's stronger, Jesus or the devil? 32:47 Who's stronger, Jesus' angels or the devil's angels? 32:51 He will give His angels guard over you. 32:54 The Bible says, 32:55 "The angel of the Lord encamps round about you." 32:58 Jesus said, "They are angels," 33:00 speaking of children, "they are angels, 33:01 do behold the face of my Father in heaven." 33:04 You got good angels around you. 33:05 And so if you ever seen anything spooky, 33:07 just tell your good angels, 33:08 can you please take care of these guys for me? 33:10 These bad angels are trying to scare me. 33:12 You don't have to be afraid. 33:15 Bible says when a person dies, Job 7:10, 33:19 He, person who dies, 33:20 "Will never return to his house, 33:23 nor will his place know him anymore." 33:25 When they're dead, 33:26 they're not going back to haunt their house 33:28 and what exactly would be the purpose 33:29 of haunting your house? 33:32 Why would someone want to do that? 33:35 Well, you know, I'm bored. 33:37 So until the resurrection, 33:38 I'm going to scare everybody who moves into my house. 33:41 Why would they do that? 33:43 Now people they say, I am in astrology. 33:46 I'm gonna look at the stars 33:47 and based on when you're born and what the stars are doing, 33:50 your destiny is there. 33:52 My mother used to write songs about astrology, 33:56 and I knew a lot of her friends that were astrologers 33:59 and I asked him, I said, "Do you believe this stuff?" 34:01 They said," No." 34:02 They said, "We write astrology, 34:04 astrology things for the newspaper, 34:05 we don't even believe it, but they pay us." 34:09 So it's nonsense. 34:10 I know people that used to go to sA(C)ances, 34:13 and they said, "Yes we, 34:14 we felt the curtains move and we felt the spirit 34:17 and we saw a mist." 34:19 And usually the people who are the mediums 34:21 are doing that to trick people. 34:23 You know what it says in the Bible? 34:24 Leviticus 20:27, 34:26 "A man or a woman who has a familiar spirit," 34:30 someone who says they can talk to the dead, 34:33 "who is a wizard, also says this about witches 34:36 and anyone in the occult shall be put to death, 34:39 because they were involved in diabolical worship." 34:43 You can read a story in the Bible about King Saul. 34:46 He was a good king, started out a good king 34:49 but then he turned away from the Lord 34:51 and in the end, he went and talked to a witch 34:54 and because he talked to a witch 34:55 the Spirit of God withdrew from him, 34:57 the next day he killed himself. 34:59 Do not dabble in astrology, watching TV programs 35:03 that talk about talking to the dead and zombies. 35:06 Why would a Christian wants that stuff? 35:08 Huh? 35:09 Playing video games about spirits and ghosts? 35:12 Ha, you got real quiet. 35:15 Christians shouldn't have anything to do with that. 35:17 Can I have an amen out there somewhere? 35:19 Amen. 35:20 Yeah, the Bible says have nothing to do 35:23 with the unfruitful works of darkness, 35:26 but rather reprove them. 35:29 What does the Bible say death is like? 35:32 We read in John 11, 35:34 Jesus had a friend, good friend, 35:36 he had a friend, Martha, Mary, and Lazarus 35:41 were three siblings 35:43 and he would stay in their house in Bethany. 35:45 And one day Lazarus got sick and he was very sick, 35:49 so Mary and Martha sent a message to Jesus 35:52 and they said, 35:53 "Can you please come and heal Lazarus? 35:56 He's sick." 35:57 Well, Jesus knew what He was going to do. 35:59 So He didn't come right away. 36:00 And while Jesus was gone up in Galilee, Lazarus died. 36:05 Finally, Jesus told the apostles, 36:09 they said, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, 36:12 but I go that I might wake him up." 36:14 All the disciples heard the Lazarus was sick 36:15 and you know, they believe, 36:17 well, if you sleep, you're resting. 36:18 That's good. 36:19 Maybe his fever will subside, you'll get better 36:21 and that's wonderful. 36:22 And Jesus said to them, no, no, 36:23 when I said Lazarus is sleeping, 36:25 I'm going to wake him up. 36:26 He said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 36:30 What does that mean? 36:32 He's dead. 36:33 As my grandpa used to say, deader than a doornail. 36:36 Lazarus was not breathing, 36:40 most certainly dead. 36:43 There's no life. 36:44 He was already beginning to decompose. 36:47 Now when he said this, he comes to the grave and... 36:53 Oh, you know, I might need a couple of friends here. 36:58 I might want to help illustrate this. 37:00 So have you been up? 37:02 Yeah, come on up. 37:05 I need two girls and one boy. 37:06 I need two Marthas and a Lazarus here. 37:11 You think you can be Lazarus? 37:13 All right, come on up. 37:14 You gotta be Mary and Martha. 37:16 Come on up, hurry. 37:17 Right, come on. 37:20 All right, girls, I need you to look in the treasure chest 37:23 and find some bandages. 37:25 You go find something that tells time in there. 37:27 Wave at the camera when you look in the treasure chest. 37:30 You wave. 37:31 Yep, there you go, all right. 37:33 Now share one of those wraps of bandages with... 37:37 All right, you are Martha, you are Mary. 37:39 What's your real name? 37:40 Shaya. 37:41 All right, we'll call you Mary and your real name? 37:43 Abigail. Abigail, and you are? 37:44 Edith. You are Lazarus. 37:46 Okay. All right. 37:47 Hang on to that for a second now. 37:49 After Lazarus died, his sisters had to wrap him up. 37:52 I'll give you this in just a second, okay? 37:54 So you guys gotta wrap him up here 37:56 'cause you're gonna bury him. 37:58 All right, you know, 37:59 you just start like make a mummy out of him, 38:01 I know you've never met before, but don't be afraid. 38:03 Let's, I'll get you started. 38:04 Put your hands at your side, you're dead. 38:06 Okay, here we go. 38:08 You're talking way too much for a person that's dead. 38:11 So here we go, you got to get his legs. 38:15 Yeah, now don't try and walk, this won't end well. 38:20 He's gonna start stinking if you don't hurry up. 38:25 There we go. 38:26 Keep going here, do you want to hand it to me? 38:30 Mary is beating Martha. 38:32 Let's go. 38:33 Well, I you know, 38:35 I'm not gonna put him in a pyramid 38:36 so you don't have to, like totally, 38:40 is it getting hard to breathe Lazarus? 38:42 No, not yet. Okay. 38:44 All right. 38:45 Let's suppose that's gonna be good for now. 38:47 All right, you got them. Okay. 38:50 Do you ever get tired in church? 38:52 Come on sometimes. 38:54 Have you ever fallen asleep in church? 38:55 Never. Never? 38:56 Never. Well, you're gonna now. 38:58 All right, so let me help you. 39:03 Just now before you go to sleep, 39:06 can you tell time, Lazarus? 39:09 What time does that say? 39:11 It says 7:32. 39:14 7:32, okay, go sleep. 39:18 All right, just stay there. 39:20 Don't open your eyes. 39:21 You all watch him. Make sure he doesn't cheat. 39:23 Hang on here. 39:26 All right. 39:28 Lazarus awake. 39:31 What time is it now? 39:33 It's 10:32. 39:35 So you've been asleep three hours. 39:38 How did it feel? 39:41 You get a little rest. 39:43 We were all, we've been waiting for you to wake up. 39:44 We've been here three hours waiting for you to wake up 39:47 and you just woke up. 39:50 All right, girls you want to help him up? 39:51 The Bible says that after Jesus rose him, 39:54 He told them loose him. 39:56 So you got to lose him. 39:57 You know that would be fun as if you both grab one 39:58 and pull real fast and see what happens. 40:00 See if he just kind of rolls out. 40:02 Rolls out. 40:03 Here, let's stand him up, that will be easier. 40:05 No. 40:07 Oh, he's alive. 40:09 You say, "Praise the Lord." 40:10 Let's give him a hand. Okay. 40:14 You know, the most important decision 40:15 a young person can make 40:17 is that decision to follow Jesus 40:19 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 40:22 That's why we're so excited to tell you 40:23 about the new Amazing Adventure programs 40:26 that are available. 40:27 During these nearly 10 hours 40:29 of exciting high definition programs, 40:31 the young people will do science experiments, 40:33 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 40:37 and most of all, they'll learn about Jesus 40:39 from the Word of God. 40:41 There's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 40:43 to go along with each of the video presentations. 40:46 These beautiful illustrated study guides 40:48 are full of pictures, and puzzles, and Bible stories. 40:51 They'll lead your kids 40:52 through an incredible journey with Jesus. 40:54 And for me, the most exciting thing 40:56 is this new Amazing Adventure series 40:58 goes along with the Amazing Facts Adventure Bible. 41:01 The Bible, the study guides, 41:03 the DVDs are all designed to lead your young person 41:06 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 41:09 Call the number on your screen 41:10 or contact us at afbookstore.com. 41:15 The Bible calls death a sleep. 41:17 It's a dreamless sleep. 41:20 So when Lazarus died, how long was he dead? 41:23 Four days. How long did it feel for him? 41:27 Minutes. 41:28 He died from a fever 41:30 and next thing you knew he's in a tomb, 41:31 he's all wrapped up and Jesus is saying let him go. 41:35 You know, Lazarus never commented 41:38 on experiencing anything in death. 41:41 Think about this, if you die and went right to hell, 41:43 or if you die and went right to heaven, 41:46 first of all, why would God send someone to hell 41:48 right after they die before a judgment? 41:51 And wouldn't that be mean if Lazarus died, 41:53 he went right to heaven. 41:54 He's up in heaven. 41:56 He's singing with the angels. He's getting ready. 41:57 He's reaching out for the tree of life 41:59 and just before he gets to the Tree of Life, 42:01 boom, he's back on earth 42:02 and he's in the grave clothes again as you want. 42:05 Well, thanks, Jesus. 42:07 That wouldn't be a nice thing to do to your friend. 42:10 No, Lazarus didn't have any comment 42:13 because the living know they'll die, 42:14 the dead know nothing. 42:17 He said, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep." 42:21 Then he said, "Lazarus come forth, 42:23 and he who had died came out bound hand 42:26 and foot with grave clothes, 42:27 and they set him free." 42:29 Is there anyone in heaven now? 42:33 Yes, there are. 42:35 Bible says that when Jesus died, 42:37 that there was a great earthquake 42:39 and many of the graves were open, 42:41 not all but around Jerusalem, 42:42 many graves were open 42:44 and the bodies of the saints 42:45 who had fallen asleep were raised. 42:47 It might have been Isaiah or Jeremiah 42:50 or some of the prophets, 42:52 not David, we already learnt that. 42:54 There's a small resurrection. 42:56 Bible tells us Moses and Elijah are in heaven 42:58 and Enoch is in heaven. 43:00 There are some that are there, but not very many. 43:04 Next question, if nobody's in heaven now 43:07 what about the other place? 43:09 Is anybody in Hellfire now? 43:13 Scriptures say, Job 21:30," 43:16 For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom. 43:20 They will be brought on for the day of wrath." 43:24 They are waiting in the grave. 43:26 You can read in Revelation 20:5, 43:29 "The rest of the dead do not live again 43:31 until the thousand years are over." 43:34 When Jesus comes, the dead in Christ rise, 43:37 the rest of the dead, 43:39 they don't live again until the millennium goes by. 43:42 They stay in their graves. 43:45 They've not even been judged yet. 43:47 They're sleeping a dreamless sleep. 43:50 Now this is important to know 43:52 because I know people that believe 43:53 that when you die, 43:56 if you're good, you go to heaven right away 43:58 and if you're bad you go to hell, 44:00 and you burn forever and ever. 44:01 Have you heard that? Some people believe that. 44:04 I know this mother, she had a son that died, 44:08 son was not a Christian, he died drinking, 44:10 he drove into a tree, he was living the lost life 44:13 and a preacher told her, he's burning in hell now. 44:17 And that poor woman nearly went insane 44:20 thinking that every day she was walking around, 44:23 her son was blistering in the flames. 44:26 But that's so sad 44:27 because that's not what the Bible teaches, 44:30 and yet a lot of people think that's what God does. 44:33 When are the wicked judged? 44:35 Let's read in the Bible. 44:37 At the end of the 1000 years, John 21:2, 44:40 "Then I, John, saw the Holy City." 44:44 See, when Jesus comes, 44:45 we go up to meet Him in the air. 44:46 We're talking about that tomorrow night. 44:49 And then at the end of the 1000 years, 44:51 the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven, 44:53 comes to the earth. 44:55 Jesus has a great judgment day, when He's here on earth, 44:59 He raises all the wicked who have ever lived. 45:02 This is great judgment, 45:03 you read about it in Revelation 20:11. 45:06 You know, the Bible tells us all will stand 45:08 before the judgment seat of God. 45:11 The Lord has video and audio of everything 45:16 we have ever said, done, or thought. 45:19 God knows everything, will give an account, 45:20 that's why we need Jesus to wash away all of our sins 45:24 and give us a new beginning. 45:26 "Great white throne and him who sat on it, 45:28 from whom face the earth and the heaven fled away. 45:33 And I saw the dead, small and great, 45:35 standing before God, and the books were open 45:39 and another book, which was open, 45:41 which is the book of life." 45:43 Your name, you want in that book. 45:46 "And the dead were judged," 45:48 you had the Book of Records, The Book of Life, 45:50 "the dead were judged according to" what? 45:54 "Their works." 45:56 We are saved by faith, 45:57 but we're judged according to our works, 45:58 'cause our works show if we were saved by faith. 46:02 "And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast," 46:07 what's it say? 46:09 "Into the lake of fire." 46:10 So is there a place the Bible calls Hellfire? 46:14 There is a lake of fire. 46:15 Is it burning now? 46:18 Is anyone in there now? 46:20 No. 46:21 How long will they burn? 46:26 No, they don't burn 1000 years. 46:28 That'd be terrible. 46:30 Any of you ever burned your finger? 46:33 How'd you like to do that? 46:35 Burn your finger for 60 seconds. 46:38 I'll tell you a story. 46:39 This is important point. 46:41 I know you're going to think this is rough, 46:42 but I used to live in the mountains in the cave. 46:45 I had a pet cat named Stranger. 46:47 I fed, she just showed up one day 46:49 so I called him a stranger 46:50 and he lived with me for about a year. 46:52 And I would feed Stranger a little bit, 46:54 but I liked him to feed himself 46:55 because he would catch the little lizards. 46:57 I didn't like that he caught the lizards, 46:59 they're probably good because they eat the bugs 47:01 but he catch the mice 47:03 and they used to get into my food. 47:06 He was like a tiger sometimes he catch a squirrel 47:09 and there would be a vicious fight 47:11 between Stranger and this big squirrel. 47:14 And then he always wanted to bring it up 47:16 and drop it on my sleeping bag as a prize. 47:19 But one day I was cooking dinner one evening 47:24 and Stranger caught a mouse 47:26 and you know cats are a little bit sadistic. 47:28 You know what that means? 47:30 Sadistic means they like to watch things suffer. 47:32 Now a dog, if he catches a mouse, 47:33 he swallows it with one gulp, 47:37 dog, they don't even chew and they're happy 47:39 and they're on their way. 47:40 Cat, no, no, no, no, 47:41 cat catches a mouse and he's got it there. 47:43 He's going, look what I got? 47:46 Just try and get away. 47:50 They throw it up in the air and they bat it 47:51 and they go catch it again. 47:54 And they kind of torture the poor things 47:55 and my cat caught this cute little kangaroo mouse. 47:59 They're kind of cute, you know, a little round body big feet 48:01 and they kind of hopping. 48:03 And you know I hated to see the thing suffer 48:05 but you know the cat had to eat so I was making my dinner, 48:10 and Stranger was getting ready for his dinner. 48:13 He's playing with a little rat, 48:14 but the poor thing was so dazed that it hopped to get away 48:18 and in its desperation to get away from the Stranger, 48:21 it hopped into my campfire. 48:27 And I felt so bad 48:28 because there's nothing I could do. 48:30 He just fell right off in the hot coals 48:32 and I saw the poor thing, squeak and writhe, 48:35 I thought, oh, just like you, oh, 48:38 the old poor little mouse is suffering. 48:41 Now your heart, didn't you hurt to hear? 48:43 Doesn't that bother you to think 48:45 a little mouse burning? 48:47 Do you think God would burn His children forever and ever? 48:50 You wouldn't do it to your dog. 48:53 You wouldn't do it to a mouse. 48:55 And yet there are churches full of people 48:58 who think that God is gonna take 49:00 bad children that died lost, 49:03 once they reach the age of accountability and they die, 49:07 and He's going to put them 49:08 in blistering sulfur and brimstone, 49:10 and they're going to burn there forever and ever and ever. 49:13 Think about how terrible that is. 49:14 It's not what the Bible teaches. 49:17 Thank God. Amen? 49:19 God is not gonna have a universe 49:21 where people are gonna be tortured through eternity 49:23 for the sins of one lifetime. 49:25 That is why you call a doctrine of devils. 49:28 What does the Bible say? 49:29 "The wicked will perish into smoke." 49:33 They'll do what? 49:35 "They will consume away." 49:37 All right, I need a brave volunteer. 49:41 I'm gonna go around, 49:43 I sometimes neglect the edges here. 49:45 And so last time I had two girls and a boy 49:47 and so I said, no, don't raise your hands 49:49 if you've had your hands up before. 49:52 You all right, you got a friend who's advocating for you 49:54 so you can come on, okay. 49:56 When you're advocating for you to know... 49:57 Well, no, I just needed one. 49:59 Sorry guys sit down. 50:00 Just one sorry, but don't worry, 50:01 no we're not done yet. 50:03 All right. 50:09 Let's see here. 50:15 Are you strong enough to do that if you use both hands? 50:18 You don't know. I appreciate your honesty. 50:21 But let's put your jacket down here 50:22 'cause we don't want that to go up in flames. 50:25 Try use both hands, see if you can, 50:26 just click the handle here clicks in, 50:29 let me show you how it works. 50:31 Oh, yeah, I see. Squeeze real hard. 50:33 No you just, with your hands like a grip here. 50:35 Give me a hand, give me both hands. 50:37 You go. 50:39 You can do that? 50:41 All right, you can let go now. 50:43 See if you can do it on your own now. 50:45 You can. 50:46 I know you could, all right come on back here. 50:48 What's your name? 50:49 Elliot. Elliot. 50:51 All right, are sinners gonna be immortalized. 50:55 What do you think? 50:57 What did we just read? 50:58 The wicked shall perish in the smoke, 51:00 they will vanish away. 51:02 Let's see, don't you, you just, 51:04 you let me bring the paper to you. 51:05 Okay, go ahead. 51:07 Let's see if you can get it going. 51:09 All right. 51:10 How is this going to happen? 51:11 Are they're gonna burn forever? 51:23 There's no ashes. 51:25 My hair all still there? 51:28 Thank you very much. 51:29 He did a good job, huh. 51:31 Brave man. 51:39 How much was left? 51:42 Nothing was left. 51:43 The Bible says, notice this in Malachi 4:1, 51:48 "The day comes that will burn as an oven, 51:51 and all that do wickedly, will be stubble." 51:55 You know in California we have rice fields 51:57 and they burn the rice, after they harvest the rice, 52:00 they burn the stubble so that it just burns it down, 52:03 they can plow it up and it's all gone 52:05 is what the Bible is saying. 52:07 Bible says the day will come that will burn us in oven. 52:10 Now how is God going to destroy the wicked? 52:14 This is actually picture I've been there years ago, 52:16 I was 16 years old. 52:17 So that's a long time ago. 52:19 I went to the ancient city of Pompei, 52:22 Volcano Mount Vesuvius blew up, 52:24 and it was a wicked Roman, 52:25 it was like Las Vegas back then, 52:27 it was a Roman Party City, 52:29 we can tell from the excavations, 52:31 they lived a pretty wild life, 52:33 and it was like, fire fell down upon them. 52:36 They're hot ash and people were all sort of frozen in position, 52:39 and they haven't even excavated at all yet. 52:42 But whenever I think of Sodom and Gomorrah, 52:44 I think of this, 52:45 it says in Malachi Chapter 4, 52:47 "You will tread down the wicked, 52:49 for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet." 52:52 Now here's the question. 52:54 Are Sodom and Gomorrah still burning today? 52:57 No. 52:58 They're set forth as an example 53:00 of what is going to happen to the wicked. 53:01 They were consumed, the cities were never rebuilt. 53:04 The people died and they are dead and gone. 53:07 It says in Revelation 20:14, "This is the second death." 53:13 What was the first lie there on earth? 53:17 And how do we know it was a lie? 53:19 What did the devil tell Eve? 53:22 "The serpent said unto the woman, 53:23 eat from the forbidden tree, 53:26 you will not surely," what? 53:30 "Die." Said you're not gonna die. 53:31 What did God say what happened 53:33 if they ate the forbidden fruit? 53:35 He said, "You'll die." 53:36 The devil said, "You won't die." 53:37 See what the devil says 53:39 is you'll live forever in heaven 53:40 or you'll live forever in hell, but you're immortal. 53:43 But are people immortal? 53:45 Bible says, "God and God only has immortality." 53:48 What does the Bible say about sinners? 53:50 The soul who sins what will happen? 53:54 You got two choices. 53:55 You remember John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, 54:00 He gave His only begotten Son, 54:02 that whoever believes in Him might not perish, means die, 54:06 but have...?" 54:08 You got two choices? 54:09 Moses said, "I set before you this day, 54:12 life and good and blessing, death and evil and cursing." 54:15 You've got two choices, life and death. 54:17 It's not life in heaven and life in hell. 54:21 So the wicked don't burn forever. 54:23 They perish. 54:25 Bible tells us only God has immortality. 54:29 When will the dead live again? 54:32 Bible tells us, you read in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 54:36 "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven 54:38 with a shout, 54:39 with the voice of the archangel, 54:41 with the trump of God, 54:43 and the dead in Christ will rise first." 54:47 Then it says, "We who are alive." 54:48 You know, most people through history have died. 54:51 There's going to be a generation of people alive 54:54 when Jesus comes that will never have to die. 54:57 Like Enoch, who's the other one that didn't die? 55:00 Elijah. 55:02 There, the Bible says Enoch was the seventh from Adam. 55:06 There'll be people who I think are living 55:07 on the verge of the seventh millennium 55:09 who will not die, they will be translated. 55:11 I hope some of you young people are in that category. 55:14 We don't need to be afraid of dying, 55:16 because we'll get glorified bodies, 55:18 but those of us who are alive and remain will be changed. 55:21 In a moment you'll get your glorified body, 55:23 God will put you who you are in there, 55:26 in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, 55:29 for the trumpet will sound 55:30 and the dead will be raised incorruptible, 55:32 that means a body that never gets old or die or sick. 55:35 And this mortal would put on immortality. 55:39 Bible promises, he that has the son has life. 55:43 He that does not have the son does not have life. 55:45 If you've got Jesus, you may die 55:49 but as it says in 1 Corinthians, 55:50 you don't need to be afraid. 55:52 Are you glad that God has promised 55:54 to resurrect from the dead 55:56 those who love Him when Jesus comes? 55:58 Do Christians die? 56:00 Christians never really die. 56:02 They go to sleep 56:03 and when Jesus comes, they wake up. 56:05 Amen? 56:07 The Bible says that when you accept Christ, 56:09 you get eternal life. 56:10 When do you get eternal life? 56:11 When Jesus comes back or right now? 56:13 The gift of eternal life 56:15 is being offered to you right now 56:17 and the devil can't take it away. 56:19 If you surrender your life to Jesus, 56:21 you continue following Him, He will be with you, 56:24 you don't have to be afraid of death. 56:25 You don't have to be afraid of hell. 56:27 You just walk with Jesus day by day, 56:29 and He will finish the work He started in your life. 56:31 Don't you want that life? 56:59 Hi, friends. 57:01 You know, the most important decision 57:02 a young person can make 57:04 is that decision to follow Jesus 57:05 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 57:08 That's why we're so excited to tell you 57:10 about the new Amazing Adventure programs 57:12 that are available. 57:14 During these nearly 10 hours 57:15 of exciting high definition programs, 57:18 the young people will do science experiments, 57:20 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 57:23 and most of all, 57:25 they'll learn about Jesus from the Word of God. 57:28 What's really neat 57:29 is there's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 57:32 to go along with each of the video presentations. 57:35 These beautiful illustrated study guides 57:37 are full of pictures, and puzzles, and Bible stories. 57:40 They'll lead your kids 57:41 through an incredible journey with Jesus. 57:43 While they learn about Bible doctrines like heaven and hell, 57:46 and how to be ready for Jesus' coming. 57:50 And for me, the most exciting thing 57:51 is this new Amazing Adventure series 57:53 goes along with the Amazing Facts Adventure Bible. 57:56 And this is the Bible, I tell you. 57:58 It's full of studies, illustrations, puzzles, 58:01 special tools that make studying the Bible 58:04 fun and interesting. 58:06 This new Amazing Adventure series is the best ever. 58:09 The Bible, the study guides, 58:10 the DVDs are all designed to lead your young person 58:14 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 58:17 To find out more how you can get yours, 58:19 call the number on your screen 58:21 or contact us at afbookstore.com. |
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