Participants: John Stanton, John Lomacang
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL110002
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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a
00:03 friend and sit back as we explore God's 00:04 word together on this edition of House Calls. 00:22 Welcome to one of the most informative 00:23 places on the planet at least that's what 00:25 I believe if I didn't believe that I wouldn't 00:27 be here but I don't believe that by 00:29 myself, My good friend John is here 00:31 with me and this is the House Calls 00:32 program that you've tuned into and thank 00:33 you for tuning in. That was a mouthful 00:36 we're so glad that you've joined us for 00:38 the continuation of the topic that we 00:40 believe is vitally important what the 00:42 Bible says about death in the context of 00:45 the last day deceptions that are 00:46 forming all around us. And so this is not just 00:50 about the topic of death but how Satan 00:53 is setting up an atmosphere to get us 00:55 all deceived so that we can be sitting 00:58 ducks as it were for His grand deception 01:01 in the end time and. So good to have you 01:02 here John. Yes, it's good to be here and 01:04 this is very important topic I believe. 01:06 Yeah, and we're glad that our guest have 01:08 tuned in, if you have family members that 01:10 are scurrying around the kitchen say hey 01:13 come on and watch this program. 01:14 Take a break from all the cares of life and 01:16 listen to what God has to say to you from his word. 01:19 But before we do any thing we always like 01:21 to go to God in prayer, so John would 01:23 you pray for us today. Amen. 01:25 Father, we are thankful for your 01:28 word as we open it again here today. 01:30 We just pray that you invite all of us into 01:34 your presence that as we come there Lord, 01:37 your spirit would meet us and we would 01:40 understand very clearly from your 01:42 word, what you have to say on this very 01:43 important topic. We know that time is 01:46 short and we're living in the last days and 01:48 may we be found handling your word. 01:51 Rightly dividing the word of truth and 01:53 applying it to our own lives. 01:55 Father lead us and guide us today to do 01:57 just that and to give you honor in all that 01:59 we do and all that we say, 02:00 in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 02:04 And as many of you know very well 02:07 House Calls would not be anything 02:09 without your Bible questions, so for those 02:11 of you who are continuing to send it. 02:13 If you're sitting next to a computer or have 02:15 one of those gadgets that you call your 02:17 PDA, you can put this email address in there 02:20 and send us a question that may come to your 02:22 mind during the program or even after, 02:24 you can send those to housecalls@3abn.org 02:27 that's housecalls@3abn.org 02:30 and thanks to modern technology, 02:31 we can get that question in no time 02:33 flat and we'll try our best to answer that. 02:36 But so here's our question session and 02:40 get your pens and papers down, 02:41 and follow long as we bring to your mind 02:44 what somebody else may have asked or 02:45 may be even you. What do you have 02:47 for us John? I have a question from 02:51 Alantra and she is from Nassau, 02:54 the Bahamas. Okay, Nassau, Nassau 02:58 I asked you before, How are we 03:00 pronouncing this? Nassau the Bahamas. 03:04 Sometimes when you don't come from that 03:05 land you don't pronounce it right, 03:07 so forgive me. Question on Genesis 03:10 5 one through three, verse 1 and 2 states 03:13 that we were created in God's likeness but 03:17 verse 3 emphasizes that Adam begot a son 03:21 in his likeness after his image, and so the 03:26 question is here in whose image are we 03:28 created, God's or Adam's? And this is a good 03:32 question I, I think one of the things that we 03:36 need to do when we read a text is also to 03:39 find a context of the passage and to see to 03:42 read up a little bit before or little after it 03:44 to find out what this passage is actually 03:46 trying to tell us, before we get into 03:48 these specifics of each verse. 03:50 So if you look here we find that there's 03:55 been the fall of man in Genesis 3, 03:59 then you the initial murder. 04:01 The first murder that ever was committed 04:03 by Cain of his brother Abel in chapter 4 and 04:09 then you have clearly delineated there the 04:12 line of Cain beginning in verse 16, down 04:16 through verse O' 24, then in verse 25 and 04:22 then down to the beginning of 5 04:24 actually all the way to the end of 5, you have 04:27 the line of the Godly which is through Seth. 04:30 Okay. The next son of Adam and Eve 04:33 and so, you're seeing here little bit of a 04:35 genealogy but its more than just 04:38 genealogy that we find after the line of 04:40 Seth and you find and also Cain but you find 04:44 here a comparison between the image of 04:48 Satan, in other words his character through 04:51 Cain's line and then the character of Seth 04:54 which is a Godly character. Down all the way to 04:59 Noah and then of course chapter 6 talks 05:01 about Noah's day. So we pickup the 05:05 passage that is mentioned here from 05:06 Genesis 5 verses 1 through 3 right after it 05:09 began to speak of Seth's line which was, 05:12 which is an expansion for a further 05:15 understanding of what the Godly line, 05:19 those made after God's image will look like. 05:22 Okay. You know what I'm saying. 05:23 So in effect what you're going, what's 05:25 going on here as you, you have the 05:28 character of Seth, which is after God's 05:32 image, that is his character being 05:34 formed but you also have a actual line of 05:39 humanity that comes from Adam that 05:41 continues on down through Seth. Okay. 05:44 So this is why there is some confusion as to 05:46 lineage or likeness and the image that 05:52 those who are being formed in or created 05:55 in from generation to generation. 05:58 So 5 verse 1, this is the book of 06:00 Genealogy of Adam in the day that God 06:03 created man, he made him in his likeness. 06:05 In the likeness of God He created them male 06:08 and female, blessed them and God called 06:11 them mankind in the day they were created. 06:15 And Adam lived 130 years and he begot a 06:17 son in his own likeness after his 06:20 image the name, and named him Seth. 06:23 So although you are seeing here a Godly 06:27 line that comes from Adam passed down through Seth. 06:30 And we're talking about the character of 06:31 God and his image reproducing his people. 06:33 Okay. You're also talking about the 06:36 lineage of Adam which not only passes 06:39 on you'd hope some characteristics that are 06:42 formed in the image of God, we formed, 06:45 we generated which are passing on, 06:48 the lineage of Adam which now contains what? 06:51 Sin, that's right. So that's why you're 06:54 getting both likenesses here, 06:56 both images here alluded to in this 06:59 passage and I hope that provides some clarity. 07:01 Okay. Because the passage really is 07:03 giving us both. And their initial question 07:06 if you were to wrap it up. Well the, the initial 07:08 question is in whose image are we created 07:11 God's or Adam's, both. Now, even in the 07:14 image of God in that as a Christian and 07:17 you've been implanted within you and the 07:20 new birth experience the Spirit of Christ 07:23 which is the Holy Spirit. He's now formed your 07:26 image or remade your image back into 07:28 His character, His likeness. That's right. 07:30 Yet, you have the characteristics of 07:32 Adam in that he could only pass on to his 07:35 line, a mortal flesh including the tainting 07:39 of sin and I also have that within my 07:43 members, my body as well. You know, when I think 07:46 about that, I think of the text in the Bible, 07:48 let me go there and I'll tell you to follow me. 07:51 I think about the fact that one of the 07:53 greatest challenges of being a Christian is 07:55 being a Christian. You heard exactly 07:58 what I said. That's right. 07:59 One of the greatest challenges of being a 08:01 Christian is being a Christian. 08:06 But one of the greatest testimonies 08:07 of the Power of Christ is that a person in 08:11 sinful flesh can live a Christ-like life. 08:16 That's right. And so, Galatians, I want you 08:20 to go there with me, because that's a 08:22 wonderful question Galatians, a lot of 08:24 people don't understand what happens when 08:28 Jesus comes into our lives? 08:31 You know we take on, we are no longer 08:34 under the condemnation of the old Adam. 08:38 Even though we were born in sin, the sinful 08:41 nature formed and molded, shaped 08:44 inequity this entire world of consistent sin. 08:49 How do you, let me use this story. 08:53 Recently, one of my computer's hard drive 08:55 is failed and if you know anything about 08:58 the computer hard drive. When they're made 08:59 they are made in what's called a clean lab. 09:03 In other words zero dust 09:04 particles get on the inside. 09:07 When they are made, They're made in an 09:08 enclosure that is promised to be 100% 09:13 or as high as they can get that percentage to 09:15 be dust free, contamination free, particle free. 09:20 So in that case the seal and you know 09:22 that you can't just open up a hard drive in casing. 09:25 Matter of fact you notice on there, 09:27 it says manufacture's warranty 09:29 void if case opened. But there's a lot of 09:32 valuable information on the inside. 09:35 So when corruption enters it, 09:38 it cannot enter it by opening the case, 09:41 it enters it by something happens on 09:42 the outside of it. It comes in and corrupts 09:45 the information on the inside. 09:47 Well, in the same way when God made us, 09:50 God encased us in perfection. 09:53 So in the story of Eve and fall of Adam we 09:58 find that the corruption that came 10:00 to both of them came from an outside source. 10:04 Came from Satan, came from the one 10:06 who came to deceive them. It entered into them 10:09 and corrupted them. But then actually 10:12 brings the question, Can the, can we 10:16 return that hard drive back to a non-corrupt, 10:22 non, what's the word here when something 10:26 gets into the program. Virus. Virus. 10:31 A virus free environment and this was the Mac 10:36 didn't want me to say this but that's why 10:38 I like a Mac over a PC. Because I had so 10:43 many viruses on my PC through the years 10:45 I got sick and tired of viruses, so I bought a Mac, 10:49 that's not a commercial but its 10:50 here to illustrate the particular point. 10:52 You see when the Lord comes into our 10:55 lives in a sinful environment where 10:58 we can be contaminated at any moment of the day. 11:01 He says, I am going to empower you to live a 11:04 contaminant free life in a contaminated environment. 11:08 We have the Adam flesh contaminated, 11:12 we have the nature of Christ uncontaminated. 11:16 So that's why John said we have both right now. 11:20 We are living a sinful world, mortal flesh 11:24 but we have inherited the immortal 11:27 righteousness of Jesus. That's why, Galatians 11:30 2:20 is so important, so what is that all mean? 11:34 That means until Jesus comes we 11:37 cannot under or over emphasize the 11:40 importance of staying connected to Christ as 11:42 John 15 says without me you can do nothing. 11:46 See! But then Paul says, I can do all 11:48 things through Christ who strengthens me. 11:50 So how many natures do we have now? 11:52 We have the flesh if you are a Christian 11:54 you have the flesh of Adam. 11:56 But if you are one who accepted the 11:58 Jesus Christ, He now has imparted to you 12:00 an impurity of his righteousness. 12:02 He no longer counts you to be guilty but 12:05 now he gives you the day by day power to 12:06 live above the contaminants of the world. 12:10 Look at Galatians 2:20 and this puts it 12:12 into the perfect setting and I'll answer the 12:14 question in a moment how long do we have 12:16 to struggle with this mortal flesh. Alright? 12:20 Galatians 2:20 reads as follows, I have 12:23 been crucified with Christ. What has been crucified? 12:26 The body, the sin, The nature of Adam has 12:29 been crucified. The nature that has 12:31 caused us to just naturally slide down 12:33 the sliding boat. Head long into sin 12:36 and embrace it and kiss it, that nature 12:39 hopefully has been killed. That great longing 12:43 loving desire for sin, hopefully that has 12:46 been killed. We shouldn't love 12:48 the sinful things as we loved that before we 12:50 accepted Christ. If you have this deep 12:52 intention and loving desire for all the 12:54 things that would cause you to be 12:55 corrupted and sinful. Then you're like a pig 12:59 going back into the mud after they've 13:00 been cleaned up and rebuild up. 13:03 The only way by the way the only way you 13:04 can keep a pig clean is to keep it on a chain 13:08 in the house, you can't keep it from sin. 13:11 But let's finish the text. I have been crucified 13:15 with Christ it is no longer I who live, 13:17 that is that nature that you're born with 13:19 if you're a Christian, you don't live with 13:20 that nature anymore, but how do you live 13:23 the Christian life? But Christ lives in me 13:26 and the life which I now live in the flesh 13:28 as John said that Adam compartment, 13:31 the Adam container, how do you live 13:33 Christ like life? The life which I now 13:36 live in the flesh Adam's container 13:38 I live by faith in the son of God who loved 13:40 me and gave himself for me. In a nutshell we are gonna 13:44 have this Adam container until Jesus 13:46 comes and replaces it with a perfect, 13:48 a perfect body to fit a perfect nature. 13:52 So that's the day by day you know how do 13:54 we keep that going? Paul says, I die daily. 13:58 And Paul also instructs us in Romans 7 verse 22, 14:03 I delight. It says I delight in the law of 14:05 God according to the inward man but I see 14:09 another law in my members that's the 14:11 flesh warring against the law of my mind 14:15 and bringing me to the captivity to the 14:17 law of sin and which is in my members. 14:19 That's right. O wretched man that I am! 14:21 Who will deliver me from this body of death? 14:25 So, body is a passing a mortal thing, 14:30 it will one day be gone, we receive new 14:32 bodies and we're talking about the 14:33 resurrection in the part of our program 14:35 coming up here. But then he declared 14:38 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord 14:40 so then with the mind I serve the law of God 14:43 with my flesh or with that flesh the law of sin. 14:47 There was therefore now no condemnation 14:49 to those who are in Christ Jesus who do 14:52 not walk according to the flesh but 14:54 according to the spirit. You know what that's 14:55 like John? The Lord when he says 14:59 that now I wanna help people understand 15:01 what that means. When he says that we, 15:03 read that part, the law of my mind or the law 15:05 of the flesh, read that verse again. 15:07 With the mind I serve the law of God but 15:09 with the flesh the law of sins is that what it says? 15:11 Yeah! He thanks God that with a mind 15:14 I myself serve the law of God but with the 15:17 flesh the law of sin. So here's the question 15:20 we've to ask ourselves when you read that verse. 15:22 Are we're saying well you know if I just, 15:25 if I just live in my mind I am completely 15:27 in harmony with Jesus. But if I live in the 15:29 flesh I am completely in harmony with Sin. 15:32 That's not what its saying, its not saying 15:33 that as a Christian you have to go back and 15:35 forth, back and forth to be in this perfect 15:36 environment what is in essence saying is 15:39 I've got to live a Christian life but I am 15:41 on a ball and chain. And one day the Lord 15:45 is gonna come and cut that chain and I no 15:47 longer have to be even subject to its weight. 15:50 That the great struggle of the 15:51 Christian life is we've to do it in a body, 15:55 that's very, very immortal. That's why our eyes 15:58 get bad and our hair turns gray and our 16:00 teeth begin to get weak and our bones 16:02 begin to ache as we get older and our 16:04 muscles begin to atrophy. All these things begin 16:06 to happen because this flesh is just 16:08 defective and that's the best Adam could 16:10 give us but God is gonna replace that 16:12 defected flesh one day with a beautiful body. 16:15 We'll never get old again and all those 16:16 things are our part of sin will not rise up 16:18 again praise God for that. But until then the 16:21 Lord is saying here's what I want to 16:22 encourage you, if you are my son you are 16:24 my daughter, you are who I want to you to 16:27 be right now in this world but one day I'll 16:30 take care of the rest of it and that's why 16:32 Isaiah 25 verse 9 could you read that 16:34 for us I guess you have another one, 16:36 Isaiah 25 verse 9, as I finish the thought go 16:38 there, that's why this text is so encouraging 16:40 to us. Isaiah says, don't worry about it 16:43 and here's the key. The Lord has already 16:45 saved us from the penalty of sin. 16:47 He day by day, day by day saves us from the 16:50 power of sin, what this body wants to do 16:52 he can save us from that. But when he's gonna 16:55 save us from the presence of sin, 16:57 Read that for us John Isaiah 25 verse 9. 17:00 And it will be setting that they behold this 17:02 is our God we've waited for Him and 17:04 He will save us this is the Lord. 17:06 We've waited for Him, we'll be glad 17:08 and rejoice in His salvation. 17:10 Wouldn't you be glad the day when sin is 17:12 not even a factor anymore? No more temptation. 17:14 No more ball and chain, nothing to 17:16 bring you down because you know what? 17:19 Your mind won't even desire it. 17:22 Because the mind of Christ will be 17:24 completely perfectly reproduced in you. 17:27 As there was no sin in Jesus. I remember 17:29 Him saying that prince of this world 17:31 has come but he has nothing in me. 17:33 Isn't that wonderful. So when that mind of 17:35 Christ is completely reproduced in us and 17:37 we now have this perfect righteous body, 17:40 Satan won't be able to get in. 17:42 And going back to my original thought there 17:45 will be no corruption in the hard drive 17:47 because the inside and the outside will be the same. 17:50 And notice that event yeah, 17:52 occurs on that day, right. Day of the resurrection. 17:57 That is when we are, we are declared 18:01 incorruptible, the bodies are immortal 18:05 and our minds also become non you know 18:08 non-susceptible to temptation, 18:10 temptation will not be there. 18:13 But that happens at the resurrection, 18:14 some want to make that you know this 18:16 happen early in advance. When we die then we 18:20 are incorruptible we can enter into the 18:21 presence of God. But nowhere do we 18:24 find that, that is possible prior to the 18:27 resurrection, which is one of the reasons 18:29 wide part of our ubject today as we 18:31 continue on with this is about the 18:34 resurrection and this event occurring. 18:36 Wow! So, probably we shouldn't go any 18:39 further on this question either 18:42 because we've got about another 8 minutes, 18:44 8 or 9 minutes for our question and answer time. 18:47 And I have one that's gonna take that time. 18:48 You have one. Oh! Yeah. Go for it. 18:51 This is a beautiful question and this 18:52 gonna take up all that time and maybe just 18:54 about a minute more. Hello, my question is 18:57 about the probation period. 19:00 I know that, I know you've talked about 19:03 this subject before, so you don't need to talk 19:05 about it on the show but if you could send 19:08 me back an email, okay I'll get pass that, 19:10 my question is, it's been about probation 19:12 period is it already too late, have the doors 19:16 already shut and if not what signs are there to 19:20 let me know when it is too late? 19:22 More or less prove that it hasn't happened 19:24 yet, and here's the reason. The reason for my 19:28 concern is that through my life I've 19:32 been very close to God and Jesus and 19:35 I could feel the Holy Spirit In my life. 19:39 I've fallen away since then and now I've 19:41 made a choice to bring Jesus back into 19:44 my life but it isn't the same, I don't have 19:47 the feelings, I don't have the feeling of 19:50 God in my life. It feels as though 19:53 I waited too long and blasphemed the Holy 19:56 Spirit for too long and I now it's too late. 19:59 I hope this isn't true but would, But would 20:02 hope that there is still time and proof in, 20:05 of this in the scripture, thank you 20:08 and I hope to hear back from you soon 20:10 by the way I like your show, the best on 3ABN. 20:14 Thank you so much. Lol. Keep up the good work. 20:18 Well, let me just encourage you wouldn't even 20:20 like our show if probation closed for you. 20:24 Okay, yeah. Okay, Let me just start right 20:25 there, you wouldn't even like our show if 20:28 the Holy Spirit of God wasn't connecting 20:30 from you to us because spiritual 20:34 things are spiritually discerned, but let me 20:36 tell you what has happened. 20:38 This is what you are experiencing, 20:41 John what I like you to do is go to Psalm 20:43 51 and I am gonna go to Ezekiel chapter 37. 20:48 These two are pictures of what 20:51 happens when a person sometimes 20:54 falls away. You see when a person falls 20:59 away Paul the Apostle tells us. 21:01 We're not in the books of Paul, 21:03 we're in the book of Ezekiel and the book 21:04 of David and the book of Psalms. 21:07 Paul tells us that some times when we fall 21:09 away it seems almost impossible for us to 21:11 restore ourselves and let me read this text in 21:14 second Peter to illustrate exactly what 21:16 I'm talking about. Second Peter 2:20 For 21:19 if after they have escaped the pollutions 21:21 of the world through the knowledge of the 21:23 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again 21:26 entangled in them and overcome, 21:28 the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21:31 That's the reason why you're experiencing 21:33 this dirt, this dryness, this oh! I just don't 21:38 even have the love and the intensity and 21:41 the word you use over and over, feeling, 21:43 I don't feel Jesus, I don't have the feeling 21:45 that he is there, I don't feel the Holy Spirit, 21:47 I feel like I am cut off from him. 21:49 Feeling is not a reliable thing let me 21:52 tell you why I say that. You know when you 21:55 first start building a house and John has 21:57 build a number of houses I know he can 21:59 add to his experience. When you first buy 22:01 the property and you show up there you 22:04 have a, you have an idea in your mind 22:05 what it's gonna look like but I tell you what? 22:08 You sure don't feel like showing up everyday. 22:11 Hammering, hammering, hammering nails out 22:14 there in the coal with air muffs on, 22:15 wiring wire you just don't feel like it. 22:20 But what you have in your mind is what is 22:22 gonna finally look like and you can't 22:24 wait till the work is done. So what I want to talk 22:28 to you about right now is the work that 22:30 Jesus is doing in your life. First of all our job and 22:35 the reason why you like this program and 22:36 I believe this is what God is saying to you today. 22:39 The reason why's important to keep up 22:40 your spiritual nourishment is because when you 22:42 get that what's gonna happen, James 5 verse 22:44 20, let him know that he who turns a sinner 22:48 from the error of his way will save his sou 22:51 from death and will cover a multitude of sins. 22:53 The Lord Jesus when you accept Jesus back 22:56 into your life through repentance he's 22:58 forgiven you, he's bloated out your sins. 23:01 He's already done that but here's what you 23:03 need is an experience. And this is where 23:06 something that's gonna be a process. 23:08 John, let's read the prayer of David, 23:12 after David went down that path that 23:14 you evidently went down and David thought, 23:18 David knew that he needed a 23:19 reconstruction project from God to start in his life. 23:24 I want you to read from Psalms 51 verse 23:27 1, down to verse 11. Okay. 23:32 Have mercy upon me oh God, according to 23:34 your loving kindness. According to the 23:36 multitude of your tender mercies, 23:38 blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly 23:41 from my inequity and cleanse me from my sin. 23:45 For I acknowledge my transgressions and 23:47 my sin is always before me, against you. 23:50 You only have I sinned, And done this 23:52 evil in Your sight that you may be found just 23:56 when you speak and blameless 23:57 when you judge. Behold, I was brought 24:00 forth inequity and in sin my mother conceived me. 24:04 Behold you desire truth in the inward 24:06 parts and in the hidden part. 24:08 You will make me to know wisdom. 24:11 Purge me with hyssop and I will be cleaned, 24:13 wash me and I will be whiter than snow. 24:16 Make me hear joy and gladness let the bones 24:19 You have broken may rejoice. 24:21 Hide your face from my sins and blot 24:23 out all my inequities. And this is the part 24:25 I want you to emphasize from verses 10 down 24:28 to verse 12. Create in me a clean heart, 24:32 O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 24:36 Do not cast me away from your presence, 24:39 and do not take your holy spirit from me. 24:41 Restore me to the joy of your salvation, 24:45 and uphold me by your generous spirit. 24:48 And what the end result would be verse 13. 24:50 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. 24:52 And sinners shall be converted to you. 24:54 You know what so beautiful about that 24:56 picture John is David realized that okay, 24:59 okay, I've sinned against God now I've 25:02 got to coming back you know the coming 25:05 back is a journey its not, its not like 25:08 making toast. It's not like a microwave 25:12 beverage, it is a, it is an experience. 25:15 You see there's a song I sing called Lord 25:18 I am coming home, I've wandered far 25:21 away from God but now I am coming home. 25:24 If you've walked and I heard a story about a 25:26 man who walked from the east coast to 25:29 the west coast, well if you decided to walk 25:31 from the west coast to the east coast it's 25:33 going to take in just about as long. 25:36 If not longer and the journey will only be 25:38 shortened by just a few days as a matter 25:42 of fact, I heard a news broadcast just a few 25:43 days ago John this is an amazing story 25:46 about a man who had a puppy beautiful 25:48 little black lab. Young puppy, a black 25:51 Labrador, just as spunky as ever, 25:53 couldn't, didn't like to be in house too much 25:55 and he was out side the house. 25:57 But he when went out of the house put him 25:59 out on Saturday went out on Sunday 26:00 morning and realize the dog wasn't there. 26:05 Two days later he got a call this happened in 26:08 California, he got a call from Oregon, 26:12 this puppy somehow found a way to be 750 26:19 miles away. This man lived in Sacramento 26:22 his dog, He got a call from Oregon. 26:25 This dog was 750 miles away. 26:28 Don't know how he got there you know 26:31 friends sometimes we are far away from 26:33 God and don't know how we got there. 26:35 But here's the beautiful thing about God. 26:38 He got the call because they had a 26:39 chip in this dog that was able to locate a 26:42 location chip and they got a call from the 26:44 agency saying you know did you know 26:46 that your dog is in Oregon? He is looking around 26:50 the neighborhood, do you know that your 26:51 dog is in Oregon? He said with tears 26:53 in his eyes, he got in his car he says, 26:55 I don't think I've ever driven that fast in my 26:57 life and when I got to that place where they 27:01 had found my puppy, I couldn't wait with 27:04 tears in my eyes I reached on and my 27:05 puppy jumped into my arms. And they showed on 27:08 the news the pictures of this man with his 27:09 puppy and he says even as I am telling 27:11 you the story the young man might be 27:12 in his 30's is even now I am telling you 27:14 the story, I can't help but feel like I wanna cry. 27:18 You know what's beautiful about that 27:19 we sometimes wander faraway from God 27:21 and don't know how we got there. 27:22 But here's the beautiful news, 27:24 he's 750 miles away but God takes us over 27:27 that same road and you know what's so 27:28 beautiful about that sometimes he picks us 27:30 up and puts us in his car and gets us back 27:32 home a lot faster than we could do ourselves. 27:35 So sisters or brother whomever you maybe 27:37 that's on this journey I wanna tell you how 27:39 God does it. He gave the story of Ezekiel, 27:43 He gave the story to Ezekiel about the 27:45 value of dry bones and as those bones 27:47 came together the question was asked 27:49 can these bones live instead of Ezekiel 27:52 saying of course they could. He said Lord he, you 27:55 know and brethren here's what God is 27:57 gonna do and he is doing it right now for 27:59 you to be watching this program God is 28:01 doing this right now in your life sister or 28:03 brother he says I will put my spirit in you 28:07 and you shall live and I will place your 28:11 heart, let me put my glasses on, where are 28:14 you glasses? And I will place a new, 28:17 here it is so all of a sudden I got 28:19 a little blurry eyed. And I will place in 28:22 your own land, like that puppy that came back home. 28:27 Then you shall know that I the Lord have 28:30 spoken it and performed it says the Lord. 28:33 Your in a process of coming back. 28:35 Please do not allow your feelings to be the 28:38 guy but your desire for Godly things will 28:42 lead you to the place and the last text that 28:44 John read in, in Psalms 51 verse 11 to 13. 28:50 Soon and very soon you're gonna be the 28:51 one through whom many sin is gonna be 28:53 converted to the Lord because God is gonna 28:55 get you to the place where you now are a 28:57 vessel in an arm to bring people to Christ. 29:00 So be encouraged he has not cast you away. Amen. 29:04 Wow! I was so excited about those 29:07 stories, God has given me so many 29:08 illustrations about sermons I got to get 29:09 this, I got to get this program, get these 29:11 illustrations back. You know, on just 29:13 one quick wrap up of that, yeah, she did ask 29:15 what are the signs of that it's too late. 29:18 Yeah, that probation is closed for mankind, 29:23 they're gonna be seven last plagues poured out. 29:25 And you can read about that in 29:26 Revelation 15 and 16. 15 the introduction 16 29:29 the actual plagues and when those things 29:32 happen in a much more literal form you 29:35 without a doubt know it and the Gospel will 29:39 also cease to be preached. So as always you're 29:42 hearing the Gospel you're responding it, 29:44 you'll be moved to God or to come close 29:47 to God by the things you're hearing, 29:48 that means the Spirit of God is still 29:49 working on your heart and on your life. 29:51 Because remember none of us can come 29:52 to God unless he drives us to him. 29:55 Beautiful, so if you're being drawn, if you're 29:57 liking, you're wanting what you're hearing to 30:00 be a part of your life, the spirit is working 30:02 in your life. That's right and when that 30:05 time closes they will be only the unjust and 30:07 the just. The filthy and the righteous and 30:10 you're not in that filthy and that 30:12 category because you love the things of God. 30:15 You'll continue praying for you. 30:17 John said as we listen to our program we left 30:19 our fondness and by the way if you have 30:20 anymore questions and a lot of questions 30:22 come to the forefront when we talk about a 30:24 lot of things and we love to talk. 30:26 If you have any questions send those 30:27 questions to housecalls @3abn.org that's 30:31 housecalls@3abn.org and we surely do 30:34 appreciate what you do for the cause of 30:36 God and your prayers and your support of 30:38 this network it does make a difference to 30:40 keep people coming close to the 30:42 knowledge of God's word and getting 30:45 ready for the coming of our Lord. 30:47 What do we have today John? 30:48 Well, our topic I think we left off last time 30:50 that we were segueing, we laid the ground work. 30:54 But we were segueing to another look at the 30:59 nature of man or flesh or mortality. 31:01 And what the Bible says clearly about 31:03 that, we are no longer immortal we are 31:05 mortal and so what does the Bible say 31:08 about what that means to us we talked a little 31:10 it about the Spirit of God working in our lives, 31:13 in our heart as the Holy Spirit comes in 31:15 and changes our character, it changes our lives to 31:18 want the things of God and walk in his 31:20 ways to obey him. But the flesh, 31:23 the mortal flesh is still at war with us. 31:27 How does that connect and then 31:28 secondly the ground work we laid was 31:32 clearly the foundation of Satan's deception 31:36 from the very beginning until the 31:37 end is in this area. Its in the area of 31:43 the spirit world, the realm we cannot see 31:47 and there's a lot of deception there 31:48 connected to death. What happens when 31:50 we die, that's right, and some take this as 31:53 a very, a very loose subject or very, 31:58 oh I don't know what you call it, a trivial 32:00 subject within the Bible, but it's not 32:03 trivial at all. It is key, it is a key to 32:07 understanding and to being on a firm 32:10 foundation in the last days to make sure we 32:13 are not deceived by what the enemy will do. 32:16 I don't know John you and I we're watching 32:18 a basketball game last night, oh yeah, and a 32:21 commercial came on and you and I were 32:23 talking about made the comment and on 32:25 how the things it seems like within the 32:28 movie world today are being made in the 32:31 sensational, I mean the computers now 32:33 are able to do graphics and put in 32:36 you know scenes that just appear that are 32:39 absolutely impossible. We think. Phenomenal. 32:44 They're, they're phenomenal the stuff 32:45 we see coming out of the sky and the spirit 32:47 world and these beasts and things, 32:49 war against us, you know what I think its 32:53 my belief that the Bible indicates that 32:56 such a battle like that, not exactly but like 33:00 some of these things will take place in the 33:01 end and the devil is preparing people in 33:06 those kinds of things so that when it comes 33:08 upon them they will take his side. 33:13 And here's what I mean by that just kind 33:15 of expanding the controversy between 33:17 good and evil. The Bible indicates 33:22 that Joel specifically Joel chapters 1 and 33:26 then 2 you can find how it rolls in the last 33:28 days indicates that the devil is going to play 33:32 a dual role. He's gonna play good cop, 33:35 bad cop. He's gonna send his demon host 33:40 in little manifesting form to come upon 33:45 the world with disaster, destruction, 33:48 torment, whatever it maybe that he can 33:51 maybe that he can clearly show what 33:52 side is wrong. And then at the same 33:55 time he will step in as the antichrist, 33:59 he will appear or to personate Christ 34:01 himself and to say I am the one to resist 34:05 that, I am the one that you should follow. 34:08 I've come to save you and if you don't 34:11 understand what he's doing in that realm 34:13 and when your family members who may be 34:16 visited by spirits these demons or you may 34:21 have dreams with these spirits demons 34:24 speaking to you, if you don't know where 34:25 that's coming from you're going to follow 34:28 what they tell you to follow, saying that its 34:30 like it will be dark and you won't know 34:33 how to discern it. And so this is the 34:35 setup that the devil has put into play in 34:39 these last days, we are here in these, 34:41 in these couple of programs, 34:42 few programs to expose that. 34:44 That's right. And I think the Bible does a 34:46 good job of exposing it, if we just go to 34:49 look at it and see what it says about our 34:53 nature and what we're in store for if we 34:59 accept Christ and receive his 35:04 the remaking of his image within in us our 35:06 character and that he is allowed to give us 35:09 that immortal, incorruptible flesh 35:13 that body that we can live in heaven forever. 35:17 This, this topic that we talked about 35:19 prepares us for being able to discern 35:24 between deception and truth, between 35:29 what appears to be real and what is real. 35:32 Now, let me, let me give you an example. 35:35 If you know that your house well let me use 35:41 just another, if you know that your car 35:43 had a terrible accident 10 minutes ago and 35:48 you were driving it and your car was 35:50 totaled and it was towed away and you 35:53 go home and there's a car in your driveway 35:55 that is identical to your car. 35:59 Well, you conclude that's your car and the 36:01 one you were driving earlier is not your car 36:04 well you may want it to be, you may feel 36:06 like you can, but the reality of it is the VIN 36:09 number which is the vehicle identification 36:11 number matches the car that was just in an 36:13 accident, the car that was just totaled, 36:15 so you're going to your driveway and the 36:16 car is identical but you must conclude is 36:20 that may be the insurance company or 36:22 another car manufacturer whom ever the case 36:24 may be put a car that was identical 36:27 on identical replacement of that one. 36:30 But you cannot conclude that it was 36:32 the same one, let me take 36:34 you to an actual conclusion. 36:37 They are people today that have been deceived 36:39 by aberrations, life after 36:42 death experiences, voices from 36:46 the other side, soothsayers. 36:50 Channelers, I'm getting, 36:52 I'm getting a message, wait, I'm getting 36:54 a message, all that kind of 36:56 thing is they're programs that are 36:59 designed clearly to connect you to 37:01 the form of life. Well, I just spoke to the 37:03 Former President Roosevelt's wife 37:08 Eleanor Roosevelt, I just spoke to her this 37:10 morning and she wants me to tell my husband 37:12 to do this as the leader of this 37:14 particular nation, familiar spirits Satan 37:17 is setting the ground but the question is can 37:21 these things really exist, do they really happen 37:26 and if they really happen is it a result of 37:29 something that survives the body or is this 37:33 something that is conjured up in the 37:35 barrels of hell. And we're saying 37:38 this is a conjuring up, Satan has evil 37:42 angels that will come into the form of men and 37:47 make you appear as though your dead 37:49 relatives or some dead president or some dead 37:51 famous person is continuing on and 37:54 that's why we have phrases like this. 37:56 Well, he's in heaven now playing piano, 37:57 he's heaven now with Liberace, 37:59 he's in heaven now with the Rat Pack, 38:00 Sammy Davis Jr, Frank Sinatra and the other one, 38:04 Dean Martin. You know they're 38:06 all in heaven now we have all these statements, 38:08 oh, they're looking down on us now. 38:10 Those very things as innocent as they may 38:13 sound or priming the pump for Satan to appear 38:18 as the beam of dazzling brightness to take this 38:21 world by storm. So let's look 38:23 at what the Bible says actually happens when 38:26 we death before we get to the dead part. 38:30 Let's see how God made us. 38:32 Let's go there First John. 38:34 You know, I'd like to start off with 38:35 Job 33:4. Okay, let's go to Job 33 and verse 4, 38:43 this is just laying some ground work. 38:44 Now we recognize that there are some texts 38:49 that are challenging, they can be confusing 38:54 to some who are reading on this subject about 38:57 what happens when you die and there are about 39:00 3 or 4 of them, right, and I am 39:03 speaking honestly, I am not under 39:07 estimating that there are three or four that 39:09 appeared that way. There are hundreds 39:14 that tell us exactly what happens. 39:18 That's right. So the way of 39:19 the evidence is what we're giving you. 39:21 We're giving you all of those texts first that 39:23 show you clearly what the Bible is saying in the 39:26 propoundance of the evidence and then 39:28 we're gonna show, we're gonna cover 39:29 a few texts at the end that many were used to 39:32 develop entire doctrine about the 39:34 state of the men. Okay, let's start with Job 33. 39:36 So Job 33 verse 4 the spirit of God has made me 39:41 and the breath of the Almighty gives me what? 39:44 Life. Wonderful starting point, 39:47 so we have established here through the 39:49 scripture in the words of Job here that the 39:52 spirit of God has formed that he forms life 39:59 but it's the breath that actually gives life. 40:03 You'll see this repeated in Genesis chapter 2 40:07 in the formation of man, 40:08 how God creates man. So God is involved 40:12 in forming into likeness but is also involved 40:16 in breathing of life into what he forms. 40:20 So in other words I could make a balloon 40:24 but if I wanted to float. You got to fill it. 40:27 Got to fill it. Okay. That's right. 40:28 Let's follow that. That's right. 40:30 Alright and then another one would be 40:33 from Psalm 33:6, by the word of the 40:36 Lord the heavens were made and all the host of 40:39 them by the breath of his mouth. 40:42 Okay, and some believe in the big bang, 40:44 I believe that the word says the breath of 40:46 God's mouth gave life. I choose, 40:49 that is by faith what I trust. 40:51 I trust in God's word my stamp stand on 40:53 that the truth. And so going 40:55 back to the balloon illustration, 40:57 very important I think what was emphasizing 41:00 we like to re-emphasize these things is that 41:04 without the breath of God there is no life. 41:07 There is no life I mean you can't have, 41:10 You can't illustrate these point now we're 41:12 breathing but the question is where 41:14 is that coming from? Where is that sustaining 41:16 force us coming from? I'll be honest with you, 41:19 you can buy all the plants in the world. 41:20 It's not coming from plants but 41:23 plants are helping. That life's sustaining 41:25 for us does not come from the plant to 41:27 cleanness of the atmosphere. 41:29 Comes from the plants that are filtering things 41:31 like well you know what the filters do? 41:33 But you could take all the plants you want to 41:34 cemetery not gonna cause a resurrection. 41:37 But let's look at what the Bible says how God 41:39 did that in John laid the foundation, 41:41 the spirit, the breath, 41:42 let's see what Genesis 24 verse 7 said: 41:45 And the Lord God formed the man of the dust of 41:47 the ground and breathed into his nostrils the 41:49 breath of life and the man became 41:51 a living being. Now the King James 41:54 Version says the living soul and they are many 41:56 people that love that translation because it 41:58 keeps the mistake of the soul alive. 42:01 Oh! The soul and we make it appears though that 42:04 there is this guy living inside of us. 42:06 They're just as waiting to be died 42:07 to get out, kind of like a 42:09 battery that's still in the car that 42:10 had a wreck. People say what 42:12 the battery still works. Well, that teach us 42:14 there's a soul inside of the body. 42:16 Well, the body may be dead but the 42:17 soul is still alive. That's not what the 42:20 Bible teach us, so what I wanna 42:21 use is I wanna use the King James Version 42:23 of physiology, a man became 42:25 a living soul and show you that souls can die. 42:29 Now what we want to get also though is the 42:32 first the formation of this, 42:33 first the Lord God formed man off the dust. 42:37 Right. So the first component is dust. 42:41 So when you form something those of 42:44 we who cook or those ladies that make cakes. 42:48 You know that when you put that flour in 42:50 the baking when you begin to add all the 42:52 ingredients its not a cake yet and all 42:55 the dear hate, I mean I would dare 42:57 say you wouldn't go throw some flour 43:00 in a cake pan, throw eggs or 43:02 whatever you use, some honey or sugar 43:04 and vanilla extract and just take it to the 43:08 table and say happy birthday you 43:12 know its kind of. you take a lot of care 43:14 and exactly how you made that cake, 43:16 alright, every element that goes in there. 43:17 But and you know here's what I mean by that 43:19 is every element that forms a cake is there. 43:23 But what you haven't done is you haven't 43:25 formed it yet. The ingredients 43:28 of it let me put the picture together. 43:30 Every all the ingredients for life 43:34 like all the ingredients for cake are in God. 43:39 He has all the ingredients; 43:40 we have no ingredients let me illustrate it this 43:43 way the cake can't, the cake doesn't say 43:46 aren't you glad that I made myself. 43:48 The cake can't make his self. 43:50 Right. But it'd becomes a cake after the, 43:54 the baker or the chef gets in the culinary 43:59 spirit and goes to town and brings it out there 44:03 beautifully formed wonderfully crafted 44:06 nicely iced and your taste buds are watering as 44:11 your eyes connect across the room. 44:14 You're thinking, wow that looks good 44:16 and somebody once said, this, 44:19 This is completely along the same lines but kind 44:21 of he says you know even if we work 44:25 at a job and we don't like all the people there, 44:26 we like it when they have a birthday because 44:28 we want some of their cake. 44:30 Hey we bought a birthday cake for Jack today, 44:32 let's sing happy birthday and everybody wants 44:34 a slice of that cake. Even though we may not 44:36 necessarily be endear to that person, 44:38 my point is this, you see that when 44:41 God formed us He made us into a cake, 44:45 in a nutshell He formed us and gave 44:47 all the ingredients but you know what when 44:51 that cake is all done and stirred its not still 44:54 not a cake yet because what has to 44:56 happen to it. Got to bake it. 44:57 Got to bake it, so let's look at 44:59 the baking process here. I'm gonna, 45:00 before you go on don't go too fast on 45:02 this forming it, because God says 45:05 you are fearfully and wonderfully made. 45:07 Oh! I like that. Okay, so there is a 45:09 lot of care and consideration that 45:11 went into this also if you look at this 45:12 passage is the first time he didn't speak 45:15 and it was formed, that's right. 45:17 God used His hands, he got down on his 45:19 knees and He made with His hands He formed 45:21 man with His hands. And, what that tells 45:26 me as well is that He formed the heart to beat 45:31 to sustain the life he would give, 45:33 is that wonderful. He formed the 45:34 brain to think and sustain the functions of the 45:37 body so we can live. He formed all the things 45:40 to play their part so that the body would 45:42 live and the question is then in 45:45 science really is, science some times thinks, 45:49 sometimes they've concluded that Christians 45:52 are little ignorant. And we experienced this, 45:56 you know guys know what you're talking about 45:58 you know it's no science the after life and then 46:01 we talked about it in the terms we talked 46:03 about it today is just makes no sense 46:06 because the mind is made constructed to keep 46:10 you and the body alive and to operate all 46:13 it's functions the heart is made to keep 46:15 the body alive, when those things 46:18 to be turn at dust there is no life you cannot 46:22 sustain a function of the body you cannot sustain 46:25 the pushing of the blood through the system 46:27 there is no more life because the things that 46:29 sustain life are gone, that's right, 46:32 that's right. So the breath 46:35 that we're gonna get into now is the life 46:38 giving power that God gives, 46:41 but then the unique thing here is that 46:43 life giving power is sustained by 46:46 the functioning of the bodies that He put 46:49 into man itself, the beating heart, 46:51 the mind that works and although he keeps those 46:55 things going by his mere presence and the breath 47:00 we can't deny and science would tell us that when 47:03 we return to dust life ceases, 47:06 that's right, that's right. 47:08 So when you say, oh the after life my 47:10 soul is gone, they sit there 47:11 and go you are nuts and I say according to the 47:15 word that doesn't even sound right, right, 47:19 and I think science and the word are more 47:23 in sync than many suppose. 47:25 It is amazing to me and that is said like 47:28 the son of the doctor, 47:29 his dad was the physician, yeah, 47:32 but when you think about that and I'm glad 47:35 you brought that up because God didn't just 47:36 formed the man of the dust of the ground 47:38 but He put inside to Him things that will sustain 47:41 that life afterward, after He gets let me 47:44 use the phrase here jump start the, alternator. 47:48 God's breath is in all alternator, yeah, 47:53 that never sees His to do or design to do. 47:58 Or the fuel, whatever way you want to say, 48:01 follow me in the alternative idea though 48:02 fuel another words okay, yeah, 48:04 without the fuel about the God had put 48:06 all the things that will keep this but you know 48:07 what lot of times of, I mean in the past 48:11 I've driven a car and as I was driving the lights 48:13 will getting dimmer and dimmer and dimmer 48:15 and dimmer, alternative was going out, 48:17 it was having a near- alternator was going out. 48:18 In other words, the car was about 48:19 to have a death experience. 48:22 The alternate going out it was having a near 48:25 death experience, but it didn't die yet. 48:28 So, as weak as a human body may be as frail as 48:31 he may be on a hospital bed until 48:34 "there is no more life in him the alternative 48:37 dies in the car" as the heart and the mind sees 48:40 us to function there is no more life left 48:42 in that person. So here it is man 48:45 did not God did not put into man an extra man 48:53 anymore than the manufactor of a Ford 48:55 put into a car another car, 49:00 but the movie industry is saying there is another 49:04 car inside your car. The movie industry is 49:09 saying there is another person inside 49:12 your person. So movie 49:13 artist they make it appears so when a person 49:15 dies something floats way, but that's now, 49:19 would happen, which can think, 49:21 which can sustain itself, 49:24 which has no life in it, which has, 49:26 well not you're soul no brain and so they say 49:29 well your soul is in heaven now and so 49:31 I asked the question one doctor did a scientific 49:33 study and he said he weighted the body of 49:38 a man before while he was on his death bed 49:41 and weighed it after he died, 49:44 it was few grams different so he said your soul 49:48 weights of few grams, because the change in 49:52 the way indicated that there was a change 49:54 in the status. And I thought to myself, 49:59 the fact that he is not filled with any 50:01 breathing any longer tells you there is no air 50:04 going in and out of him and for us to thing that 50:06 air doesn't have weight or you try to pick 50:08 up an oxygen tank, when it's empty it's 50:12 different from when it's full. 50:14 So all this air that passing through 50:16 the lungs, the lungs are flattened, 50:19 a balloon with air, it has not the same 50:21 weight of a balloon without air there 50:25 is a added, although it's not 50:26 a lot maybe in the form of grams there 50:29 is a difference, milligrams or something, 50:30 milligrams exactly. So now what happens, 50:33 what returns to God after we die? 50:37 Well we talked about the fact; 50:39 God needed to add the breath here is equation, 50:41 that's right, the body that God formed, 50:45 the breath that He put into it made 50:46 possible a soul. New King James 50:50 is a living being, that's right. 50:53 You'll hear that frequently when a 50:55 plane goes down they will say total of 50:57 250 souls were on that plane, 51:01 and they perished, and they perished, right. 51:03 Those souls are reference to individuals 51:06 and that's what soul means in the Bible, 51:08 a soul does not mean separate entity it means 51:10 the individual, read the text 51:11 where soul is there and you will find soul is 51:14 always connected to the individual itself. 51:18 Clearly, we also read and you have the scripture 51:21 maybe at reference because we're gonna talk 51:22 about death now, the soul that sins 51:25 what happens to it John? Ezekiel 18:4, 51:29 the soul that sins it shall die, 51:35 but pastor, do souls really die, 51:36 don't they go on to exist afterward that shows 51:39 that when the Lord uses the word soul 51:41 there he is not talking about some disembodied 51:44 additional entity. He is talking 51:46 about the complete individual, 51:48 because who is the sinner we are, yeah, 51:52 you see when the sinner dies the reason why 51:56 John said we're gonna talk about 51:57 the resurrections, because the only 51:59 way for the sinner to have life again is in 52:00 the resurrection not in the direct route 52:03 through some a serial space and time and 52:06 end up in heaven you know as Steven Wonder 52:08 said ten zillion light years away there 52:11 is not what happens when a person dies, 52:13 there is no place waiting for them to show 52:14 up and oh they're on their way look, 52:17 look, look they are coming oh they are here now, 52:19 there is no spirit place some place, 52:22 where there spirit part, soul part is going on 52:25 that's not what the Bible teach us, yeah. 52:28 And so, the soul that sins it shall die. 52:31 Now, if you read that verse and the 52:32 context of a separate entity it dies, 52:36 if you read that in the context of the person it 52:38 makes more sense, the person to himself or 52:40 herself dies when life is over. 52:45 And so, as we then 52:48 look at the subject of death we must to ask 52:51 ourselves is this a re-unique to what 52:54 happens to animals. Are we somehow 52:56 unique because you know we don't teach 52:58 that there is a soul separate from an 53:01 animal and it goes to heaven, 53:03 I don't at least I don't hear that much maybe 53:05 some one has to wants to push that theory. 53:08 Let me read you something from Genesis chapter 7, 53:11 okay read it, verses 21 and 22, 53:15 And all flesh died this is speaking of the flood, 53:18 okay, we happened to everyone that was behind, 53:20 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, 53:24 birds and cattle, and beast, 53:26 and every creeping thing that creeps 53:28 on the earth, and every man. 53:31 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the 53:35 spirit of life, all that was on 53:38 the dry land, died. He qualifies here both 53:44 together man, beast doesn't 53:47 matter who you are, if you have the breath 53:49 of life which was giving to man and 53:51 beast also breaths perished in the flood, 53:57 that's right. So, clearly you 54:00 can't miss the connection here, 54:02 that's right, we are just as 54:04 fully dead as animals are when they die, 54:08 same thing happened as a result of the 54:09 flood to both. Because the life, 54:12 life is life they have hearts they have 54:15 brains the only difference between an animal 54:18 and us is God called them into existence but 54:20 he formed us. He made us in His image, 54:23 He formed us carefully we are wonderfully made 54:25 so what happens when a person dies is the 54:28 opposite of life. Remember God formed 54:31 man from the dust of the ground breathed into 54:35 his nostrils the breath of life and man 54:37 became a living soul. A couple of passages 54:39 here and it's very important so if you 54:41 ask the question, and if you ask 54:42 the question, where did man come from, 54:45 you got to just simply look at Genesis 2 54:46 and verse 7, they came from the 54:48 dust of the ground, so man this flesh is the 54:51 product of the ground, right. 54:53 What happens when they die here is what the 54:56 Bible says Ecclesiastes 12 and verse 7, 54:59 then the dust will return to the earth as it was: 55:05 And the spirit will return to God who gave it. 55:11 Exactly, what is the spirit? 55:13 John just made it very clear it at earlier in the 55:15 Bible the spirit that God put into our nostrils 55:19 I'll just quote Job 27 and verse 3, 55:22 All the while my breath is in me, 55:24 and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 55:26 Exact quote King James Version All the while 55:29 my breath is in me, and the spirit of God 55:32 is in my nostrils. He just talked 55:33 about the flood all in whose nostrils was 55:38 the breath of life. How did you get 55:40 there John tell us how did that breath of life 55:42 get into the nostrils, God put it there He 55:43 breathed into the nostrils of man of 55:45 Adam at the beginning, that's right. 55:47 So then, after that 55:49 happened did men did men go back to heaven? 55:53 No, the life giving power that was put within 55:56 them return to God that's what this 55:58 text is saying. So the breath of 55:59 life that belongs to God is the only thing that 56:01 God holds on to, that's right. 56:03 Now the reason I asked the question you notice I 56:05 asked did man return to heaven? 56:07 The only way that you're gonna return the only 56:09 way you're gonna get to heaven is you go back 56:11 where you came from. I want you to read Psalms 56:14 146 of verse 4, listen to this, 56:19 his spirit departs, that's once again you 56:22 look at the word there in the Hebrew that 56:24 means the breath in his body, 56:26 he returns to his earth, there we go, 56:30 that's what he returns to where he came from 56:32 he doesn't go to heaven, he doesn't go to where 56:35 he didn't come from. The only way for us to 56:37 get to heaven we will talk about this in 56:38 following program Jesus says I will come 56:41 again and receive you that where I am that you 56:43 maybe also John 14 verse 1 to 3. 56:47 He returns to his earth back to 56:48 Psalms 146 verse 4 in that very day his plans 56:51 or King James Version his thoughts perished, 56:54 perished what do you say about that? 56:55 Well, He return to earth and this makes sense we 56:57 talked about it your brain is gone you know 57:00 understand the term brain dead 57:01 what is brain dead mean? 57:03 No function whatsoever, right. Brain dead, 57:05 brain death is what you experience at death 57:08 in fact, it's not until brain death that many 57:11 will declare you dead that, 57:13 that a doctor in the room will say time of 57:16 death and they will record the time, 57:18 pull the plug, because the brain 57:19 has ceased to function. Wow! And so when it 57:22 says that he returns to this earth the place and 57:27 his thoughts perish, that's it. 57:29 That's why friends continue trusting 57:30 God's word because the Lord will make a 57:33 plan when he returns God bless 57:34 you and have a great day in Christ. |
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