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00:38 Hello, friends,
00:40 and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents. 00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:43 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:45 Today, we will be studying a topic 00:47 that nearly every person ever born on this planet 00:50 has asked about in some form or fashion 00:53 and that being the study of 00:55 "What Happens to Man after Death." 00:58 What Happens to Man after Death 00:59 is program number 17 in this study guide 01:02 out of the 25 Bible studies that is entitled 01:06 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 01:08 What The Bible Says." 01:10 Brother Richard Bland of the United Prison Ministries 01:13 has put this together, 01:15 and we're working along with him 01:16 to bring these messages into one hour sermons. 01:20 "What Happens to Man After Death" is today's message 01:24 and with most all truths, 01:26 Satan has devised several deceptions 01:28 dealing with life after death, 01:30 some of which are overwhelmingly convincing, 01:34 especially for those of us 01:35 who have never searched the scriptures thoroughly 01:38 about this subject. 01:39 So searching the scriptures is precisely 01:42 what we will be doing today with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 01:46 And in doing so, we will discover 01:48 what makes man a living soul, where all men go after death, 01:53 and where our spirit, 01:55 our breath of life goes when we die? 01:57 And what the Bible says about the dead praising the Lord. 02:01 We will also discuss 02:02 who has the power to call the dead 02:05 from the resting place, 02:06 and what happens to the dead at the Second Coming of Christ. 02:10 It is an exciting message that all need to understand 02:14 and be grounded in the truth of... 02:17 I'm looking forward to this study today. 02:19 As I know that the Holy Spirit will be leading, and guiding, 02:22 and teaching all of us through Pastor Kenny Shelton. 02:26 But first, 02:27 we're gonna go to 3ABN and will be blessed 02:29 by a song that is entitled "Face to Face," 02:33 as played on the violin by Jaime Jorge. 05:28 Thanks for joining us once again here at Behold the Lamb. 05:31 We do appreciate you, want you to know that 05:33 the beginning of every program because without you we don't, 05:36 wouldn't have a program. 05:37 And we're very grateful and thankful for your cards, 05:39 your letters, phone calls, support of Behold the Lamb 05:42 that helps us to go around the world 05:44 with this message. 05:46 And I think that you're going, you know, 05:47 already that this message as we've already heard the title, 05:50 you know, that needs to go around the world. 05:51 There's many, many people who misunderstand this subject, 05:55 what happens to man at death. 05:57 What happens to man at death? 06:00 Again, one really misunderstood, 06:01 but today I believe from the Word of God, 06:03 it's gonna be very, very clear and it needs to be. 06:05 But before we get into the Word of God, as usual, 06:08 I'm going to kneel and we'll have prayer together. 06:09 Please join me as we pray together. 06:13 Merciful Father in heaven, again, 06:14 we thank You for the privilege of prayer. 06:16 Now we invite Your Holy Spirit 06:18 to take possession of each and every one. 06:20 Take possession of my heart, my mind, and Lord, my thoughts, 06:23 and may not be in my thoughts, but your thoughts. 06:25 Bless us now we pray to this 06:27 and bring conviction upon each of our hearts 06:29 and understanding in Jesus' name. 06:30 Amen. 06:33 Again, be sure, have your Bible, pencil, and paper, 06:35 I say it every time, I'm gonna continue to say it 06:38 because some passages I'm gonna break them down, 06:40 paraphrase a little bit, but you need to look them up. 06:42 Because of our time 06:44 we want to cover as much as we possibly can. 06:45 A warning on this subject, a warning on this subject. 06:49 You know, a lot of time we love warnings, don't we? 06:51 If something's gonna maybe hurt us, 06:53 or maybe it's misunderstood, or we don't understand it, 06:55 there's a warning here on this subject. 06:57 If we don't understand it, listen, 06:59 if we don't understand it, we will be deceived. 07:04 Did you get it? 07:06 If we don't understand this subject, 07:07 we will be deceived by the enemy. 07:11 Bible says in 1 Timothy 4:1, notice quickly, 07:15 a couple of passages we go here, 07:17 it says, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, 07:20 in the latter times some shall depart from the faith," 07:23 notice, "giving heed to," what? 07:26 "Seducing spirits, and doctrines of," what? 07:29 "Of devils." 07:30 So when always, anybody say well, 07:32 there's not any doctrines of devils out there. 07:34 There's a lot of doctrines of devil. 07:36 You think about it. 07:37 If it's not the truth, it is a doctrine of the enemy. 07:41 So we need to understand what truth is here. 07:44 In the last days, 07:45 the enemy's going to use this subject to try to fool, 07:47 deceive mankind. 07:49 Revelation Chapter 14, turn with to Revelation 16. 07:52 Revelation Chapter 16, 07:54 here's what the Bible has to say, 07:56 verse 14. 07:57 Revelation 16:14, 08:00 I know you've read this many time 08:02 but let's read it again, the Bible says, 08:04 "For they are spirits of devils," 08:06 and what the devil's doing? 08:08 "They're working miracles, 08:10 which go forth unto the kings of the earth 08:12 and the whole world," to do what? 08:15 "To gather them, good, 08:16 to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." 08:19 So the enemy is going to be involved 08:21 in these closing hours of earth's history. 08:23 He's going to deceive, 08:24 he's going to try to fool us on this very subject 08:27 because he has deceived multimillions of people. 08:32 Bible says spirits of demons working miracles. 08:35 Remember, if it's not a truth from God's Word, it is what? 08:38 An untruth from the devil. 08:40 Do we get that? You remember that? 08:42 It's a lie from the enemy and the world is taking it, 08:45 they say hook, line, and sinker. 08:47 As you remember, as what was said to Eve, 08:49 you remember what the enemy said to Eve? 08:51 Genesis 3:4, he simply told Eve, 08:54 you go ahead and take of that tree. 08:55 Don't you worry about it 08:57 because "You will not surely die." 09:00 We all know that was what? 09:01 The first lie was told in the garden, was it not? 09:04 But remember, there's meaning of this, 09:06 "Ye shall not surely die." 09:08 He was telling her that there was something 09:10 that within her that will continue to live on. 09:13 Interesting. 09:14 What a lie. What a set up. 09:17 Eve I saw in Genesis 3:6, 09:21 notice what she said here, 09:22 the enemy had her fooled because he began to, 09:25 she began to reason and talk with him. 09:27 She said I, notice this, 09:28 "I saw the tree was good for food." 09:31 How's the enemy gets us lot of time? 09:32 He gets us through food, he gets us through the belly. 09:35 Did you get it? He works on that. 09:37 She said, I saw it, "Ooh, it was good for food." 09:39 Number two, she said I looked on it, 09:41 "Ooh, it was pleasant to the eye." 09:43 How the devil works? 09:45 Eye sometime, 09:46 we look at something and say, ooh, that looks good 09:48 or that looks pleasant when really, it's really not. 09:51 It's not for us but the devil makes you think 09:53 that is pleasant to the eye. 09:55 And number three, 09:56 she said, "I know this will make me wise." 10:00 Remember, God had given her all the wisdom 10:02 that really needed, right? 10:03 He said the tree of knowledge of what? 10:05 Good and evil. 10:06 She knew nothing but what? 10:08 But good. 10:09 And now when she took of this tree as it were, 10:11 right the forbidden tree, 10:13 now she's gonna understand about evil thing. 10:15 So we see the devil, Adam and Eve failed. 10:18 They sinned 10:20 and now the whole world we see has fallen, why? 10:22 From one lie of the enemy. 10:26 Let's deal with this lie, what do you say? 10:28 Let's deal with the lie, if it's a lie of the devil 10:30 when he said to her, "Ye shall not surely die." 10:32 What happens to a man at death? 10:34 Think about it. 10:35 What a question? 10:37 Is it one that deserves an answer? 10:39 I think it does. It deserves an answer. 10:41 Not from maybe the men of the world 10:44 or maybe the minds of the world, 10:46 but from the Word of God's 10:47 where we want to find the answer. 10:49 It must be considered here today. 10:51 Some teach that when one dies, think about it. 10:55 They are reborn in the, you know, in a different body. 10:58 And there's another life for them. 11:00 Some really believe that, in fact, 11:01 multitudes believe that. 11:03 Other say, that when you die that something lives on, 11:07 you die but something lives on 11:09 and then you might go straight to your reward. 11:13 Still there's others and many, list could go on and on. 11:16 But still others believe that when you die, 11:18 you rest in your grave and you wait till Jesus comes. 11:22 Who's right? 11:24 Again, there's multitude that we go down, 11:26 but we won't do it today. 11:27 Remember, as taught by some. 11:29 Now remember, it's taught by some, 11:31 believed by many. 11:34 Somehow man's life is lie his thoughts and his, 11:39 you know, it continue on after death. 11:42 So somehow, even though after he dies, 11:44 he still lives. 11:45 Does that really make sense to us? 11:47 If he lives after death, he must live somewhere. 11:53 Well, where? 11:55 Well, if he lives on after death, 11:58 he must be, somebody said, 11:59 well, in heaven he must be living 12:01 or if he went to hell, he must be living. 12:05 Still we think about it, 12:06 nothing's in scriptures so far but think about it. 12:08 If he goes to heaven or hell at death, 12:11 then what need is thereof a judgment. 12:14 The Bible teaches of judgment, 12:15 why are we giving Three Angels' Message 12:17 of a judgment hour in the warning? 12:19 What good, what need is there of a judgment 12:21 if someone who dies already went to their reward? 12:24 What is the deal we need to think about that? 12:29 Really it gets even deeper if you think about it. 12:32 What need is there if we go to our reward 12:35 when we die one way or the other up or down? 12:38 What need is there of a resurrection? 12:41 That sound like a waste of time. 12:43 We're already where we're supposed to be evidently. 12:46 Huh. 12:48 And then really get down to it. 12:51 What need is there of a Second Coming of Jesus. 12:54 Can't you see the devil behind this? 12:57 This is our hope, 12:58 this is our encouragement, is the Second Coming of Jesus. 13:01 Why is Jesus coming back? 13:03 He's coming back to take us home. 13:05 We'll read the passage, the dead in Christ rise first. 13:08 We which are alive remain will be caught up 13:10 to meet Him in the air. 13:11 The wicked are struck dead by the brightness of His coming. 13:13 There's a reason for His coming. 13:16 But if we're already there when we die, then why? 13:19 Why worry about all this stuff? 13:21 It doesn't seem right to me. 13:24 I mean, it doesn't even balance out at all. 13:28 So if people go to their reward at death, 13:31 think about it. 13:32 Before there's a judgment, did you get it? 13:34 It'd be like, if you may be committed a crime, 13:36 you did something 13:37 and somebody just look at you and say, okay, 13:39 Mary, you're gonna get death. 13:43 You mean before she's had it, right? 13:45 You know, you go to the jury. 13:50 Before she's had a trial and just all of a sudden, 13:52 well, you did this, okay, you're gonna... 13:54 It doesn't sound right. 13:55 All of us would say, well, wait a minute here, 13:57 I need to have a jury. 13:58 I mean, we need to have a trial. 13:59 Don't try convicting me, I'm not guilty. 14:03 So people go to the reward at death. 14:05 I want you to listen carefully, before there's a judgment. 14:09 This could cause some real problems. 14:12 What do you mean by that? 14:15 Well, because some people may go to the wrong place. 14:19 Somebody's not with me, you're not thinking along. 14:22 They may have been because there was no judgment. 14:27 See, they may have been sent to the wrong place. 14:31 And then all of a sudden, 14:33 they're sent to the wrong place, 14:35 and then when there's a judgment later, 14:36 whatever, we're gonna say, oh, you, 14:39 well, you were sent to heaven, but you should be in hell. 14:43 Or somebody's in hell, now you're gonna go to heaven. 14:45 You have to say, you can't make a judgment. 14:47 You see, what it meant, you can't go to your reward 14:49 before there's a judgment. 14:52 That makes sense, doesn't it? 14:53 But yet we teach that a lot of people. 14:56 For instance, think about Lazarus with me quickly. 15:00 Lazarus was dead, how many days? 15:02 Four days. 15:04 And was he a righteous man? 15:07 Yes, he was. He died in the Lord, didn't he? 15:09 So if it's like some people teach, he's dead, he 15:12 should have went to where soon as he died? 15:15 To heaven. 15:17 People say at death he went to heaven. 15:18 So the man was in heaven for four days. 15:20 And then God, 15:22 Jesus calls Him back as it where and said, 15:23 I made a mistake. 15:25 Now, I'll be careful with that. 15:29 Lazarus may have a right to be a little bit upset. 15:33 Don't call me back to this miserable world. 15:35 Man, I've already been tasting of the glories of heaven. 15:39 It has to be that way if that teaching is true. 15:42 He had to be there because that's what happened. 15:45 People say, the righteous go to heaven at death. 15:47 The Bible does not teach that. 15:51 Interesting thought, 15:54 that God would say, 15:56 well, you don't belong there right now. 15:58 Come on back here for a while. 16:00 None of us would really like that at all 16:01 in this whole world, will we? 16:02 What happens to the man at death? 16:04 Question. 16:05 In the beginning, 16:06 did God create man to live or to die? 16:10 Did He create man to live or to die? 16:12 He created man to live for eternity, didn't He? 16:16 Forever, so that makes sense. 16:19 Let's get together on the same page, to live. 16:22 But if he sinned, then he would what? 16:25 Then he would die. 16:27 Genesis 2:17 says, 16:29 "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," 16:32 Genesis 2:17, 16:34 "Thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day," what? 16:37 "That thou eatest thereof thou shalt, what? 16:40 "You shall surely die." 16:41 This is what God said. 16:43 We need not question that. God said, you're gonna die. 16:46 The death sentence, you see, 16:48 would be pronounced the day that man sinned 16:53 and he would what? 16:54 There would be a process of his dying. 16:57 It would begin the process, not immediately, 17:00 but the process will begin the day that he sinned, 17:04 he begin to die. 17:06 Here's a fact from the Bible. 17:10 It's clear. 17:11 Man was created, 17:12 listen carefully before you make judgment. 17:14 Man was created, notice this, in the beginning 17:17 with the possibility of immortality. 17:22 Did you get it? 17:23 When he was created with the possibility of what? 17:26 Immortality, but with what? 17:30 If he met the conditions of obedience. 17:33 Adam and Eve were made what, the possibility of what? 17:36 Being immortal, they could live forever 17:37 as long as they didn't touch or eat of the tree. 17:40 They were made to live forever, immortality. 17:42 But they didn't, they disobeyed and then if they sinned, 17:47 then naturally the death decree was out. 17:49 Just a little proof here quickly about man 17:52 and about God because people say, 17:54 there's something immortal about man. 17:58 He must have something that's immortal that lives on 18:00 if you believe that he lives on, 18:02 he goes places, and so on and so forth as soon as he die. 18:05 You remember, Job, 18:07 would we say he's a righteous man? 18:08 Was Job a righteous man? 18:09 You better believe he was a righteous man. 18:11 God said, he was righteous. 18:13 But notice what the Bible said in Job 4:1. 18:16 Job 4:17, notice this, it says here, 18:20 "Shall mortal man be more just than God?" 18:24 We talked about there's proof. 18:26 So man that is not immortal, what is he? 18:29 Job said, man is mortal or subject to death. 18:34 And then when you look at man 18:35 and then you look at God on the other side, 18:38 we see that concerning God in 1 Timothy 6:16. 18:42 1 Timothy 6:16, 18:45 talks about God, "Who only hath," what? 18:48 Immortality. 18:50 "Who only has immortality?" 18:52 This is the only place in the Bible 18:54 that this word is used. 18:55 So there's no use for stride a monkey around. 18:58 And try to look at and say, 18:59 well, other people had this to say, 19:00 this is the only place it's used, immortality. 19:03 Who has immortality? 19:05 Only God has. 19:07 So God is immortal, man is what? 19:09 Mortal or subject to death. 19:12 So how is it that we believe that people, 19:14 some people, you know, they live on after death, 19:16 they go to their reward. 19:18 Kind of interesting thought. 19:20 Many different religions we know teach 19:24 something about us is immortal. 19:26 They have to. 19:28 They teach us something is immortal. 19:30 That something lives on, we talked about after death. 19:33 Now, is this teaching biblical? 19:36 We need to look at, is this biblical? 19:37 We got to get some, you know, some Bible passages for it. 19:40 We've got to prove it. 19:42 Where does it come from then? 19:43 If it's not, where does it really come from? 19:46 Well, there's a story told of a lawyer, 19:48 who held a debate. 19:50 He held a debate with a rabbi, and with a priest, 19:53 and a pastor, and a minister of a church. 19:56 And it was on the subject of immortality. 19:59 Are you there? 20:01 They sat down, had a debate about immortality. 20:04 And so as they sat back and they began to talk, 20:07 the men came up with, well, that man is indestructible. 20:11 And he's not subject to death. 20:15 What do you mean it? It's interesting. 20:17 Now it was time for the lawyer to speak. 20:20 The other, the pastor, and a priest, and rabbi, 20:21 they all spoke and said, well, 20:23 there's something about man that's immortal. 20:25 Even though the Bible said that man is mortal. 20:27 Only one that's immortal is Jesus. 20:30 He's not subject to death. 20:35 Interesting, the lawyer got up and say, 20:36 you know, a lawyer has, 20:37 usually have some pretty good arguments. 20:39 He just simply got up and he spoke. 20:40 He said this simple, 20:42 "These men never once used the Bible," 20:46 never once used the Bible, "to prove their position." 20:50 They didn't even quote from the Bible. 20:54 Now, if you're wanting to find truth, 20:55 surely you've got to go to where? 20:57 You've got to go to the truth, you find it in the Word of God. 21:00 But they all came about hypothetical things. 21:03 See, some say, oh, yeah, but we preached from the Bible. 21:06 The next pastor were, we preach from the Bible. 21:08 Well, yes, everybody say we preach from the Bible, 21:11 they should at least, 21:12 but there are some who twist the scriptures. 21:15 There are some who stretch the scriptures, 21:18 and then there are those who wander completely away 21:20 from the scriptures. 21:22 Did you get that one? 21:23 Long way from scripture. 21:26 And because many teachers teach this position 21:30 that there's something about man that lives on after death. 21:33 Many people believe them because of who they are. 21:37 Many big time preachers and pastors 21:39 will teach on this subject. 21:40 And many people say, well, he said. 21:44 Not because the Bible said but because some teacher said. 21:48 Let me give you an example. 21:50 A well-known, you got to keep this in your mind. 21:52 Well-known, respected man was speaking 21:56 and he was speaking to a group of, 21:57 you want to call them elite scientists. 22:00 And of people of, you know, professors, 22:04 so he had the attention of some people with good minds. 22:07 Listen carefully. 22:09 Remember, we're talking about here 22:10 because someone teaches something sometime, 22:13 and their name is maybe big time, 22:14 we just believe it because of big time, 22:16 big time name, not because the Bible says so. 22:22 He sent out a bunch of advertisements and said, 22:23 we're gonna have a meeting. 22:26 I've got some news and I want to share it 22:28 with all my scientist friends, the good minds of the world, 22:31 and all the professors because you want to know this. 22:34 He says, suppose that you take a pail of water, 22:38 and you put it on a scale and you put 10 pounds of water. 22:42 When you weigh, you've got 10 pounds of water in it. 22:45 They're all thinking because they're saying, man, 22:47 he's gonna try to fool us here 22:49 something like we're gonna follow him 22:51 and we're gonna figure out what he's coming up with here. 22:54 And then he said, now suppose I've got, 22:56 the pail's got 10 pounds of water in it here. 22:59 Now I take five pounds of fish 23:03 and I put the five pounds of fish in this pail. 23:07 Now what do I have? How much does it weigh? 23:11 Now they begin to think. 23:12 He said, now what you to think, think on this now, 23:14 the total weight would be 15 pounds 23:16 but now think, wait a minute now, 23:18 they said, oh, there must be something 23:20 he knows that we don't know. 23:22 Because when we add 10 and 5, 23:25 it's always been 15 to me. 23:28 But yet he must have something we don't know, 23:30 so we're gonna listen to him after all he's in, 23:33 you know, high position, he's well respected, 23:35 he must have some good information. 23:40 Man said, why is it after I added the 5 pounds of fish 23:44 to the 10 pounds of water, it still weighs 10 pounds. 23:48 Somebody's not with me. 23:50 You'll get it next day or two. 23:53 Think about it. 23:54 Now, mom is trying to get it all figured out now. 23:57 Why after I add five pounds of fish 23:59 does the scale still say 10 pounds? 24:02 All of a sudden, the wise men begin to scratch their heads 24:04 and the scientists said, man, 24:06 we can't be outdone by this guy here. 24:08 We're gonna figure this thing out. 24:09 So they began to talk among themselves. 24:11 Some made some deep 24:13 and hard to follow explanations. 24:16 They got so deep, they couldn't even follow it. 24:19 They got so deep, the average person couldn't understand 24:21 what was being said. 24:22 They were giving some reasons 24:24 it seem trying to explain the situation 24:27 that seemed like it didn't have an explanation. 24:31 All they heard was a bunch of theories. 24:34 All they heard was a bunch of maybes. 24:36 In fact, one scientist said, "I've got it." 24:39 I've got it. 24:40 It must be that you added, 24:43 when you added that five pounds, 24:45 it must have been the five pounds 24:47 that you added was un-gravitating gravitation. 24:53 Well, I might as well sit down. 24:57 And the fish, but it was un-gravitating gravitation. 25:01 See the scientists gonna get deep 25:03 'cause they have to come up with something, 25:05 they can't let somebody outsmart them. 25:07 Another guy said, well, wait, 25:09 it may be that when he added that five pounds, 25:12 it must be some kind of a vacuum. 25:15 There's a vacuum that took place 25:16 that doesn't weigh anything 25:18 because the fish may be filled with air 25:20 or the air was taken out of them. 25:22 And so it didn't weigh five pounds. 25:27 Oh, they tried their best to come up with something 25:30 because they were in that position, 25:32 just like some preachers do some time. 25:37 Finally, the man who was in charge 25:38 of the discussion said, 25:41 all of you are wrong. 25:44 What do you mean we're wrong? 25:46 Ten plus five equals fifteen. 25:50 It always has, it always will. 25:53 And all of you learned men, and scientist, and professor, 25:57 you should have known that. 25:58 You should know that's what it is. 26:01 Well, what happened here? 26:04 These scientists, these professors were misled. 26:09 Did you get it? 26:10 By trusting too much to a prominent leader. 26:15 You know, what the Bible says about sometime the leaders 26:17 in Isaiah 9:16. 26:20 It says, "The leaders of this people cause them to err." 26:25 Many times our leaders go in the wrong direction. 26:28 God warns us in here, 26:29 the leaders sometime cause them to err. 26:33 It was too simple. 26:36 You know, it's too simple putting down to say what? 26:39 Ten plus five equals fifteen. 26:42 And they knew that couldn't be that way. 26:44 So they wanted the deeper explanation. 26:49 So they were fooled. Isn't that interesting? 26:53 Isn't it strange 26:54 with so many Bible passages that hopefully 26:56 we'll have some time to look up a bunch here in a minute, 27:00 that tells us once again about man. 27:02 Number one, Job 4:17. 27:05 Man is what? 27:06 Mortal, immortal? Mortal. 27:09 Man is mortal. 27:10 Bible says that, Job 4:17. 27:14 The Bible says that God is immortal. 27:17 That's in 1 Timothy 1:17. 27:20 1 Timothy, we just mentioned while ago, 6:16, 27:24 only God has immortality. 27:28 In Romans 2:7 quickly, 27:30 a Bible just comes up and says, 27:32 "Man must seek after immortality." 27:35 What does man do? What should we do? 27:37 We're mortal, but we must seek for what? 27:39 Immortality. And that's what? 27:42 Having Jesus to come into our life, isn't it? 27:44 And that which is dead can be alive again, 27:47 we can live forever with Him. 27:50 Immortality is given, 27:52 the Bible said in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 27:58 immortality is given at the Second Coming of Jesus. 28:03 But people say, no, immortality, 28:04 there must be something because when we die, 28:06 we go to heaven, or we go to hell. 28:09 That's what people said, don't be surprised. 28:11 Remember don't be surprised if people are confused. 28:16 The scientists, and the scholars, 28:18 and the professors said 10 plus 5 equals 10. 28:29 Carson knows better than that. 28:32 But all these brains became confused. 28:38 It was too simple. 28:41 Ten plus five is fifteen. 28:42 Let's look at a few clear, 28:44 just easy steps as our time takes away quickly here. 28:48 And see what two things that God used in the beginning 28:52 to make a living soul. 28:55 Remember, 28:56 how many songs are written out there, you know, 28:58 the undying soul, the soul that never dies. 29:02 We have to be very careful that either is truth in a song 29:05 or it's err. 29:07 What two things that God made in the very beginning? 29:09 It's okay, that's one of the questions here 29:11 to look at. 29:12 Genesis Chapter 2, 29:14 we always go back to the beginning to find truth. 29:15 Why? 29:16 Because that's when God made man, did He not? 29:18 Genesis 2:7, the Bible says, 29:21 "The Lord God formed man out of," what? 29:24 "Out of the dust of the ground, 29:26 and then he breathed into his nostrils," what? 29:29 "The breath of life, and man became a living soul." 29:33 Notice what it says there. 29:35 Number two, God breathed. 29:37 Did you get it? 29:39 He breathed into Adam's nostrils 29:41 the breath of what? 29:43 The breath of life. 29:44 Nothing, notice this, 29:46 don't put things in that we shouldn't be putting in. 29:48 Not here. 29:50 Nothing is said here or indicated 29:51 that any immortal soul was put into Adam's nostril. 29:57 Did you get it? 29:58 He never said anything about an immortal 30:00 was put in there. 30:01 Instead, God simply breathed into his nostrils. 30:03 Let's read it for what it says here 30:04 and not go beyond that point. 30:06 Then it says here that man became a living soul. 30:11 So it takes what? 30:13 Body and breath, 30:16 I'm breathing and now, would you consider me 30:18 what I consider you as a soul. 30:20 I can say you're a soul, can I? You can say I'm a soul, why? 30:23 Because I have a body. 30:26 At this point I'm breathing, 30:29 body plus spark of life 30:32 breath from God equals soul. 30:35 Oh! Wow, so it takes two things. 30:37 If one of those are missing, then there is no soul. 30:39 Did you get it? 30:41 If one of those were missing, it's kind of interesting, 30:43 we'll prove it as we go, notice this. 30:46 God breathe, remember, 30:48 to his nostrils the breath of what? 30:49 Life. Then he became a living soul. 30:53 In the very beginning when God created Adam, 30:56 think with me for just a moment, notice. 30:58 Was Adam perfect when God created him? 31:01 Yeah, but what was he? 31:04 Was he thinking and alive and doing all kind of things 31:06 soon as God made him? 31:08 Well, think about when He first made him, 31:10 God made the perfect Adam. 31:13 And I won't think that he was laying out, 31:15 if you allow me to do that. 31:17 But he wasn't breathing. 31:20 Did you get it? 31:22 But he was a perfect specimen of a human being, 31:25 like our eyes have never seen. 31:28 But he wasn't breathing yet. 31:30 Interesting, and so God said 31:33 then something had to happen here. 31:35 It says, He breathed into his nostrils, 31:37 he became what? 31:39 Yeah, a living soul. 31:41 See, he needed a switch turned on, 31:43 perfect body, but he needed some power. 31:47 And God gave the power and I'm just paraphrasing it, 31:49 a little switch, electrical switch. 31:53 Oh! Suddenly he begin to breathe. 31:56 Then God said, now, he's living, what? Soul. 31:59 You realize that animals and human beings, 32:02 animal have a living soul. 32:05 You can refer to them as a living soul, why? 32:07 Because they have a body and they're breathing. 32:10 Now, what if one part is missing, 32:13 what if a part is missing? 32:18 There's two things, what, that make a soul, 32:21 so you can't have one thing and call it a soul. 32:25 Body and what? 32:26 I'll go over till we get it. 32:27 Breath equals soul, 32:30 you know, how many times you go into the kitchen 32:32 to just allow me to ramble for a minute. 32:34 You go into the kitchen, you have a toaster 32:36 and you have some bread, now when you walk in there, 32:39 you don't walk over to the bread and say, 32:41 "Hand me a piece of toast, please." 32:45 See it's gonna take two things to get some toast out there. 32:49 It's gonna take a toaster 32:51 and it's gonna take some bread. 32:53 There's still no toast, I put it in the toaster, right, 32:57 put down, and all of a sudden then when the toast comes out, 33:00 I've never heard anybody when you have toast there, 33:01 you say give me the bread, pass me the bread, please. 33:04 May I have a piece of toast? 33:05 Because it's toast, it takes the toaster, 33:08 bread equals toast. 33:10 That makes sense. 33:13 Let's keep thinking, we'll use some more illustration 33:14 as we go. 33:16 Remember, you can't get toast if you just have the toaster, 33:18 you can't have toast if you just have bread. 33:22 So what happens you see, what's God saying? 33:26 "If one is missing, then there is no soul. 33:32 The soul simply ceases to exist." 33:36 Give you another illustration. 33:38 We had the light switch, we got a light switch, right? 33:40 It has electricity, right? 33:42 You know the electricity and I've got a light bulb. 33:47 Now what do... Where's the light? 33:49 Only way I get light is have electricity 33:51 and a light bulb and I put those two together, 33:55 turn the switch and light comes on. 33:57 When I turn the light switch off, 33:59 where does the light go? 34:01 Somebody say it ceases to exist. 34:04 It ceases to exist because it takes electricity 34:07 and a light bulb to make light, 34:10 does that make sense. 34:11 I'm building a house. Let's go deeper here. 34:13 I'm building a house. 34:14 I've got a big pile of wood over here, 34:16 I've got 50 pounds of nails over here. 34:19 Does that make sense? 34:20 When you come out there and you look at my boards 34:22 and you look at the nails, 34:23 no wonder, that's a beautiful house. 34:28 Somebody get that. 34:30 Somebody think for just a minute, 34:32 no one comes out on a building project, 34:34 we've been on many of them where a bunch of material 34:36 is delivered that shell the whole house. 34:39 No one's ever come out 34:41 before they're put together 34:43 to look at the lumber and the nails, will say, 34:44 "Man, what a beautiful house you have here." 34:46 Oh, we know they'd be blind because they couldn't see. 34:49 Are you still with me? 34:51 But now I take the two things that I have, I take the lumber, 34:54 and I take the nails. 34:56 Right? I take the nails and do what? 34:58 I put them into the lumber and when you come out again, 35:01 you're gonna look, you say, man, that's a beautiful house. 35:04 That's all you do, it takes two things. 35:06 Did you get it? 35:07 My lumber and nails, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 35:09 Oh! Okay, I've got a beautiful house now. 35:12 Okay, then we say, "Oh, now, wait a minute, 35:14 I made a mistake, I'm gonna take the house apart." 35:17 So I pulled the nails back out at day, 35:20 or you give me a day. 35:21 I pulled the nails back out, I put them in over here 35:23 and I put the wood here. 35:25 Where do house go? 35:28 It ceases to exist because it has to have boards, 35:32 lumber and nails, then you have a house. 35:35 Bible says, if we remember, you have to have a body, 35:39 plus the spark of life, the Spirit of God. 35:43 And you become a soul. 35:45 But you can't have a soul, if one of those are missing. 35:48 At death, our breath returns back to God, don't we? 35:52 Now remember, that's the spark of life. 35:53 That's not, people say, oh, it goes back. 35:55 We'll talk more about that as we go. 35:57 But think along the line with me, 35:58 it's very important in the Hebrew and the Greek, 36:00 for instance, 36:02 soul and translate in English word, 36:05 soul and spirit. 36:06 You know, we read a lot, soul and spirit in the Bible, 36:08 and people don't realize what it is. 36:10 It's used over 1,700 times in the Bible. 36:13 So it could be confusing unless maybe you study 36:15 except every time 1,700 times that this, 36:20 the Bible talks about translation here 36:22 of soul or spirit, 36:23 think about, they all mean the same thing. 36:27 Wow! 36:28 Not one time 36:31 are those words soul or spirit 36:34 said to be immortal. 36:36 Did you get it? 36:37 See, it can't be too confusing to us, 36:39 we've made it confusing because we've listened 36:40 to other people over the years. 36:43 And we just, you know, surface read, 36:45 remember if his soul and body, oh, I'm dying soon. 36:48 Every time it's used in Scripture, 36:50 it's never said to be immortal. 36:53 It's never too said to be a never dying. 36:56 It's never said to be eternal, did you get it? 36:58 It's never said to be everlasting 37:02 nor are the dead represented 37:06 to be capable of any kind of consciousness after death. 37:09 Does that make sense? 37:11 Apart from the body, 37:12 there's no consciousness, interesting. 37:15 Question two on our list is, where do all men go at death? 37:19 Let's answer some questions quickly as we go down. 37:21 Where do well men go at death? 37:22 Ecclesiastes 3:20 says, "All go to," what? 37:27 "One place, all are dust and all return to dust again." 37:32 So at death, that's what, God says what? Life. 37:35 He created man, man's up and he got, he's thinking, 37:37 as long as man's thinking, he is breathing, 37:39 he has a body, he's a soul. 37:40 But once he... 37:42 People say, oh, he quit breathing, 37:43 that means he died. 37:46 So there's no soul, it ceases to exist 37:49 because it takes two things. 37:51 So we all go to one place, the dust. 37:54 The Bible said we return to dust. 37:55 How many funerals have you been to that says dust 37:57 that we're gonna return to dust, 37:59 that's what the Bible says, 38:01 all go to one place. 38:02 Job says, he said, we go to the grave, 38:04 interesting. 38:06 Job Chapter 7, 38:07 so if you're not writing it down, 38:08 you're not gonna get any of them... 38:10 Job 7:9-10, 38:11 now, many of you at home we're talking, 38:13 many people know what, certainly understandable, 38:14 but those who do not understand it, 38:16 you need to study to show yourself 38:17 approved unto God because I can tell you this, 38:19 I guarantee you will be deceived before the Lord comes 38:22 if you don't know it, interesting. 38:24 We'll prove that as we go along. 38:25 Remember Job 7:9-10 says, "We all go to one place." 38:29 Job said, "Everybody goes to one place that's to grave." 38:33 All turn Genesis 2:7, 38:36 all return to the dust, remember that. 38:38 Question number three, 38:40 how much does the man know at a death? 38:43 Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, 38:46 Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, the Bible said, 38:50 "For the living," what? 38:51 "The living know." 38:53 See I know everybody's breathing here, 38:55 you have a body, you are a soul, 38:56 you know that one day you're going to die 38:59 if Jesus doesn't come. 39:00 The Bible said, 39:02 "The living know that they're going to die," 39:03 but no, "but the dead know not anything, 39:07 neither have portion." 39:08 What is that? 39:10 "Any more a reward for the memory 39:12 of them is forgotten." 39:14 Verse 6, also notice this, "That death is said their love, 39:18 their hatred, their envy is now perished, 39:22 neither have they any more a portion forever 39:25 and anything that's done under the sun." 39:27 People say, my loved ones came back to me. 39:30 That's an impossibility according to Scripture. 39:33 Because once you die, 39:34 the Bible said, you can never come back again. 39:37 You have no portion. 39:38 You don't love anymore, you don't hate anymore, 39:40 you have no portion of anything 39:41 that's done under the sun anymore. 39:44 You never come back and the passage of Scripture 39:46 says you never come back to your house again, 39:49 even though people swear 39:50 that their loved ones have come back, 39:52 and that they've talked to them and they delivered a message 39:55 is exactly what the enemy is going to be doing 39:56 before Jesus comes, 39:58 and you are going to be sucked into this. 39:59 If you don't know the difference 40:01 that that's an impossibility because the devil can do it. 40:04 He's going to impersonate Jesus Christ Himself, 40:06 is he not? 40:08 And he has his ministering spirits, they're gonna... 40:09 They know your relatives and your friends 40:11 better than you know them. 40:13 Why? Because they've observed them all their life. 40:15 They know exactly what they've been doing 40:16 in the secret confines of their own house, 40:18 you don't know. 40:20 They know their voice, 40:21 they know secrets that you said, 40:23 they know where you buried things, 40:24 they know all kinds of things. 40:25 These are demons, 40:27 a dead man doesn't know anything. 40:29 So when a man dies, where does he go? 40:32 And how much does he know? 40:35 When a man dies, it's exactly the opposite 40:38 of the creative process, does that makes sense? 40:41 When you die it's exactly the opposite. 40:44 First his breath goeth forth from him. 40:47 Psalms 146:4, 40:49 what happens when a man dies? 40:51 How many people have you said, well, he took his last breath. 40:54 And some of you been around for that sad to say, 40:56 you've heard, you've seen people, 40:57 they took their last... 41:01 They don't breathe anymore. 41:04 They were soul, they are not now, 41:05 their soul cease to exist because spark of life is gone. 41:10 Job said this, notice, Job said, 41:12 "The breath of the Almighty hath given me life." 41:15 Did you get it? 41:16 God breathe in, Job said this, the what? 41:19 "The breath of the Almighty giveth me life," Job 33:4. 41:25 Breath in would be life, wouldn't it? 41:27 Did you notice that? 41:28 Again, Job 27:3, the Bible said, 41:32 "All the while my breath is in me 41:34 and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils." 41:37 Remember, this is called the Spirit of God here, 41:40 the breath, the spark of life. 41:43 He's repeating here when he says, 41:44 the breath is in me and the Spirit of God, 41:47 that's the same thing, that's a spark of life. 41:49 Who gives life? 41:51 God gives life. Absolutely, He gives life. 41:53 God gives it to all men, we know that. 41:56 Question four, what happens to the breath 41:58 and the spirit at death? 41:59 See, people just read one little passage. 42:01 They won't read all the other stuff. 42:02 And they'll say, what happens at death? 42:04 What happens to the breath and what happens to the spirit? 42:06 It says here, the spirit shall return to God, 42:09 who gave it. 42:10 What is he talking about? 42:12 Spirit here translated, the breath, 42:13 the spark of life, what? 42:15 He can't... He do not breathe, he's dead. 42:19 He's alive. 42:20 God takes it... 42:22 There's nothing that floats up because there can't be 42:24 because the body is still here. 42:25 It's dead and it's in the grave. 42:27 And it takes the body and breath 42:29 and then you have a soul. 42:31 So the devil has hoodwinked so many people. 42:35 I mean, he's hoodwinked him. 42:37 And after all, wouldn't we say, 42:39 if this be a truth that we're talking about today, 42:41 isn't God's way the best? 42:43 Isn't God's way really the best? 42:45 Sure, it is. 42:46 We may have been taught the other way all of our life 42:47 but it doesn't matter. 42:49 God's way is always the best. 42:51 And he talks about death as asleep. 42:53 Do you remember that? 42:55 And then it goes on, the Bible goes on, 42:57 Genesis 3:19, 42:58 it says once again we've talked about, 42:59 "Dust thou art and dust shalt thou," what? 43:02 "Dust to they will return." 43:03 Again, Psalms 146:4 says, 43:08 "In that very day, his thoughts perish." 43:10 See, we think something lives on, 43:12 it said that in very day he's cannot capable 43:14 of loving anymore. 43:15 He's not capable of communicating. 43:17 He can't come back anymore. 43:18 He can't think anymore. 43:20 He can't reason anymore 43:21 and will give you a passage in the moment. 43:22 It said, the dead praise not the Lord. 43:27 Can't do anything because he doesn't know, 43:29 he's dead. 43:30 Spark of life goes, in that very day his thoughts. 43:33 Remember, Ecclesiastes 9:6 talks about 43:36 the feelings are gone, the emotion's gone, 43:38 the love is gone, the hatred if there be any is gone. 43:41 Envy is perished, the Bible said. 43:44 Remember for Adam, 43:45 for God gave Adam the spark of life or breath. 43:49 That's what it gave him. 43:53 He did not think or he did not feel, did he? 43:56 Remember we talked about it, when He first created Adam, 43:58 he did not think, he did not feel 44:00 because he was what? 44:01 He was dead. Actually, he was dead. 44:04 God had not yet given him life, 44:08 then he became a soul. 44:13 Now, this is something 44:14 we need to really be looking at. 44:17 Question number five. 44:18 Who alone has power to call the dead 44:19 from the resting place? 44:21 Who alone can do that? 44:23 John 11:25, time's going quickly, notice, 44:26 it said, "Jesus said unto him," I like this passage. 44:29 If I shout and get excited, you shout with me. 44:31 Notice what it says here. 44:32 "Jesus said unto her, 44:34 I am the resurrection," and what? 44:36 "And the life: he that believeth in me, 44:38 though he were dead, yet shall he live." 44:41 Isn't that beautiful? 44:42 Jesus says, I am the resurrection 44:44 and the life. 44:46 When Jesus said, the dead when they die, 44:48 they are asleep until I come again. 44:52 Then I give them immortality, but not until, 44:55 there's nothing immortal about a man 44:57 because he's mortal, because we've all sinned 44:59 and come short of the glory of God. 45:01 Notice that, Job 14:14 45:04 some questions that answered here 45:06 are just beautiful, it helps us understand. 45:08 Job 14:14 says this. 45:10 Listen, Job's asking a question here, 45:14 and he says, if a man die, will he live again? 45:17 See the good news. 45:18 If a man dies, that's not going to be it. 45:21 Will he live again? 45:22 Oh! It's good. 45:23 And then he answered his own question 45:26 in Job 14:14, he says, "All" notice this, 45:28 "All the days of my appointed time will I," what? 45:32 "Will I wait until my change comes." 45:35 That's beautiful, did you get it? 45:37 What did he say? 45:38 All the appointed days... 45:39 Notice this here, appointed time will I wait 45:42 till my change come. 45:44 He said, I'm gonna die. 45:45 I'm gonna go back into the grave 45:46 if it's long period of time, I'm returning to dust. 45:48 Did you get it? 45:50 He said, I'm going to wait in the grave. 45:52 Did you notice that, until my change come? 45:54 He didn't talk about a change... 45:56 He just said till my change comes. 45:59 Now, what does he mean by that? 46:01 Job 17:13, 46:03 "Where would he be then if he's waiting, 46:05 where's he waiting at? 46:07 He answers own question again, 46:09 Job 17:13, where would he be? 46:12 He said, "If I wait, the grave is my house." 46:16 If I wait, the grave is what? 46:18 In my house. 46:20 When would the change come? 46:22 Job 14:15 says this, notice this, 46:26 "Thou shalt call, Job knew this, 46:27 he said, when you call, oh Lord, 46:29 that I'm gonna be waiting in the grave till You come. 46:31 But when you call, notice this, 46:33 "When thou shalt call, I will answer thee, thou wilt," 46:37 notice this, "have a desire to the works of thine hand." 46:42 He knew 46:43 that when the resurrection time came, when Jesus call, 46:46 that's when he would put on immortality, 46:48 that's when he would come back to life. 46:50 Notice that word desire, if you look that word up there, 46:53 I think it's in Hebrew. 46:54 It says, notice this, I'm gonna say it again, 46:56 thou wilt have the desire of the works of thine hands. 47:01 If you look at that, it's talking about here. 47:04 God is going to raise us up 47:06 and he's going to look at something remarkable. 47:11 When we come out of the grave, we're going to be remarkable, 47:14 because we're going to be changed 47:16 and we're going to be like Jesus. 47:18 Notice that, He's going to, notice this, 47:20 that word is translated, He's going to inspect. 47:25 When He calls us out of the grave, 47:26 God's going to look at, He's going to inspect, what? 47:28 The work of His hands, how wonderful it is. 47:31 All that He ever went through, He says well worth it. 47:34 Isn't that wonderful? 47:35 He inspects the works of His hands. 47:37 Job said, "I know you're gonna call, 47:39 I'm going to answer. 47:41 You know, Jesus said in John Chapter 5, 47:43 we have seven or eight minutes. Come on, stay with me. 47:46 John 5:28-29, it says, 47:49 "All that are in the grave..." 47:50 How many in the grave? 47:52 Bible says, "All that in the grave 47:53 shall hear his voice, and shall come forth." 47:58 Wow! 47:59 That goes on, but notice that, they're going to hear it 48:01 and then they're going to come forth. 48:02 Question six. 48:03 When will the dead come out of their grave? 48:06 Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 4, 48:09 what's going to happen here? 48:11 What does the Bible say? 48:13 Turn with to first or jot it down 48:14 1 Thessalonians 4, it's 13 all through 16 there, 48:18 but I just want to read a couple of them. 48:21 Yeah, 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4. 48:25 Yeah, 13, 14, 15, and 16, 48:29 but notice this verse 16. 48:30 It says, "For the Lord himself shall descend 48:31 from heaven with a," what? 48:33 "A shout, with the voice of the archangel 48:35 and the trump of God: 48:37 and the dead in Christ shall rise," what? 48:38 "First." 48:40 Remember, if they went to the reward, 48:41 what good is it coming back, put them back in the grave 48:44 and then bringing them back out again. 48:46 God doesn't operate that, He's busy. 48:48 They're gonna come out of the grave, 48:49 that's beautiful. 48:51 Question seven. 48:52 How many will be resurrected according to the Bible? 48:54 We just read it in John 5:28-29, 48:57 but we'll read a little bit on the next couple of lines, 48:59 notice, "All that are in the grave will do," what? 49:04 "They'll hear his voice and come forth, 49:05 they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, 49:08 and they that have done evil 49:10 to the resurrection of damnation." 49:12 It says two resurrections, right? 49:13 One for the righteous and one for the wicked, 49:16 kind of interesting thought. 49:17 Question eight. 49:19 What will happen to the righteous dead 49:20 at Christ's second coming? 49:22 We know that in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, 49:26 1 Thessalonians Chapter, what? 49:28 Four notice this, 49:31 and it says here verse 15, 49:32 am I there? 49:35 Yeah, I'm gonna read verse, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 49:38 "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, 49:41 that we which are alive and remain 49:43 unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them 49:46 that are sleep." 49:47 This is very important passage of scripture, did you get it? 49:49 Paul makes it clear. 49:51 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 49:53 "We which are," what? 49:55 "Alive and remain into the coming of the Lord 49:57 shall not prevent," come on somebody, 49:59 "then which are asleep." 50:01 You know, what prevent means here, 50:02 in the original language? 50:03 It says here, a go before. 50:06 Did you get it? 50:07 God says, the Lord says, 50:08 here unto the coming of the Lord 50:10 shall not prevent or go before those that are dead. 50:12 You know those that are alive will not go to heaven 50:15 before those that are asleep. 50:16 Does that make sense? 50:18 That's what it says, will not prevent, 50:20 that means go before those which are asleep. 50:23 We're all gonna see the Lord right 50:24 coming in the clouds of glory, 50:25 how wonderful that's going to be. 50:29 Those who died will not reach heaven 50:32 before those who live to see Christ come. 50:36 Answer me this one because this is something 50:37 that we have to consider 50:39 when we're looking for what truth is. 50:41 You remember 1,000 years after David's death, 50:46 Peter said in the New Testament, 50:48 Acts 2:29-34, 50:51 notice what it says, 50:52 "David has not yet ascended to heaven. 50:56 Thousand years after he was dead, 50:58 now either Peter was not telling the truth 51:00 and he's a liar, or he's telling the truth. 51:02 Now let's get down to it. 51:04 He said, David has not yet, what? 51:06 Ascended into the heavens, it's been over 1000 years. 51:10 Because Peter knew the truth, 51:12 we rest and sleep in the grave till Jesus comes. 51:14 And then we're resurrected together. 51:17 With the living and with the righteous 51:19 and we meet the Lord certainly in air. 51:20 Question nine. 51:22 How will the righteous be changed? 51:24 And when will they be changed? 51:27 Yeah, it says here, very simple. 51:28 1 Corinthians 15:51-54, 51:32 notice when the change take place, 51:34 will it change this as soon as I die, 51:35 boom, I'm gone. 51:37 The Bible does not teach that. 51:38 It is never taught that, not trying to be ugly, 51:40 smart about it, but I'm telling you it does. 51:42 Here's what the Bible said, I will paraphrase here quickly, 51:45 it says, "In a moment," 51:46 when are we going to be changed? 51:48 The Bible said, "In a moment, 51:49 in the twinkling of an eye at the," what? 51:51 "At the last trump, is when we put on immortality?" 51:55 We don't have it. 51:56 We don't... 51:58 Didn't breathe the soul into us, 51:59 we became a soul, right? 52:00 But when we had body and we're breath, 52:02 we're soul when one's missing, what? 52:03 It ceases to exist, we go over that. 52:05 It's very, very important, but what, 52:07 we're talking about putting on immortality 52:10 at the coming of Jesus. 52:12 Who alone will have the privilege 52:14 of everlasting life? 52:16 John 3:16, question number 10. 52:18 Just have about three minutes left, 52:20 little less, think about it. 52:21 Who alone will have the privilege 52:23 of everlasting life? 52:24 You remember John 3:16, 52:26 "God so loved the world that," what? 52:27 "He gave His begotten son" right? 52:29 "Whoever believes in Him shall not..." 52:31 But we need to believe in Him and be willing to follow Him 52:34 and follow His Word. 52:36 If we don't, we will be fooled in the last day, 52:38 I wish we could talk more, we can't. 52:39 Question number 11 the last one. 52:41 What does the Bible say about the possibility 52:43 of the dead praising the Lord? 52:44 Oh! 52:46 We get to, we die, we go to heaven, 52:47 we're gonna be praising the Lord, 52:49 we'll be shouting, we're gonna be... 52:50 I'll tell you when the real thing happened, 52:51 we will be shouting, we will be praising the Lord. 52:54 Psalms 115, just look it up, 52:56 verse 17, Psalms 115:17, 52:59 "The dead praise not the Lord, 53:02 neither any that go down into silence." 53:04 Did you get it? 53:06 The dead praise not the Lord, 53:07 neither any that go down into silence, 53:09 any that die. 53:10 Not until the time after He comes the second time. 53:13 How wonderful that is. 53:15 Think about it with me. 53:17 The theory of immortality as we close of the soul 53:20 was one of those false doctrines 53:23 that Rome borrowed from paganism. 53:25 Are you still with me? 53:27 Yeah, it came into the Christian church. 53:30 You know what Martin Luther said about it. 53:33 He said he clashed it with a monstrous fables 53:37 that form a part of the Roman dunghill. 53:41 Now, that's pretty powerful, isn't it? 53:43 Even Martin Luther said, 53:46 he clashed that with the dunghill. 53:49 That came from paganism that I'm dying soul 53:52 that you live on or you can come back 53:53 and be something else that you go to your reward, 53:56 never comes from the Word of God. 53:57 Seventeen hundred times, 53:59 remember spirit and breath used? 54:00 Never one time, never one time 54:03 does it really refer to or talk about, 54:05 you know, the soul takes body, what? 54:07 Body and breathe to make the soul. 54:09 The belief that the spirit of dead 54:12 returns to minister to the living 54:16 has prepared the way for modern spiritualism, 54:19 did you get it? 54:21 The belief that the spirit, the dead can come back to us 54:25 and talk to us, we've had out of body experiences 54:27 and people have said, they're on operating... 54:29 All this kind of business right here 54:31 is preparing the way for modern spiritualism 54:34 that the enemy can use the spirit, 54:36 his evil spirits to bring false messages 54:38 goes contradicts the Word of God. 54:41 You know, I pray today that Holy Spirit's 54:42 been impressing your mind, 54:44 you're gonna read these passages and study, 54:45 see whether it be soul or not. 54:46 Because I guarantee if you don't, 54:48 you will be fooled. 54:49 We've got to know the truth on this issue. 54:51 Let's pray, shall we? 54:53 Loving Father in heaven again, 54:54 we thank You for Your precious word. 54:56 Thank you, Jesus, You've made it so clear. 54:58 Let's not become confused because it's so clear 55:00 because we look around and say, 55:01 oh, yeah, but all these learned people, 55:02 everybody. 55:04 Well, we have the 10 we have the 5, 55:05 does it equal 10 or does it 15. 55:08 Lord help us today we pray and we thank you 55:09 for what you've done, the choice and decisions 55:11 have been made right now for truth in Jesus' name. 55:14 Amen. 55:16 We love you, God loves you. 55:17 We look forward to seeing you next time. 55:21 Hi, and welcome back. 55:22 I hope rather than disappointment 55:24 concerning the state of the dead, 55:26 you are elated to now know the truth. 55:30 I find comfort in knowing that my family members 55:33 who have passed before me are not looking down 55:37 and taking note of every aspect of my life, 55:40 praise God that we can trust all of that 55:43 to our Heavenly Father and His ministering angels. 55:46 Our friends and loved ones 55:48 who have died are truly at rest. 55:51 And that is a blessed thought. 55:53 Those who are alive and remain those of us 55:55 at the coming of Jesus Christ 55:57 will not be preceded into the courts of glory 56:01 by those who have lived before us. 56:03 Of course, there have been a few 56:05 whom God has seen fit to translate 56:08 or resurrect early such as Enoch, Moses, Elijah, 56:11 and those who were resurrected 56:13 at the time of Christ. 56:15 But the Bible is very clear 56:18 where the majority of the persons 56:20 whom have died are resting. 56:22 We hope that you will take the time 56:24 to contact and order this message again 56:27 that is entitled, 56:28 "What Happens to Man after Death" 56:30 for your very own. 56:32 Each donation we receive enables us 56:35 to continue to share these important Bible truths 56:38 that have been covered over and distorted to the world. 56:42 We will love to send you what happens to man after death 56:46 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:49 Along with this corresponding Bible study guide 56:52 that is entitled 56:53 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 56:56 What the Bible Says," 56:57 and remember all 25 of these Bible lesson studies 57:01 are available to you as well. 57:03 When you order all 25 sermons, 57:06 we will include five Bible study guides for free. 57:10 All 25 are offered for a love gift 57:12 of just $175 or more. 57:15 Simply call Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:18 here in the United States at (618) 942-5044, 57:24 Central Time, 57:25 or write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:27 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:33 You may also email your order at 57:35 BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 57:39 or you may order these messages 57:41 on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:44 Until next time, friends, may our precious Lord 57:48 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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