1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,400 We're glad that you can be safe and we're also glad that we came 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,040 up with the idea together, collaborate, how we can have the 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,480 word of God coming out on Sunday even though we're not here. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,720 So we're doing this on Saturday. Bill has been gracious enough to 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,880 come in to help us produce this. So to be live tomorrow morning 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:24,120 on the platforms of Calvary Chapel Online, YouTube, 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,240 Westmoreland County YouTube, as well as the Facebook and Grace 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:34,480 FM radio station 91.7. So as I was thinking about today 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:39,200 and tomorrow, pastures, always the most important day of the 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,560 week is Sunday because we get to proclaim the word to his people. 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,480 And when snowstorms come, obviously that circumvents that. 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,600 But because of the technology that's been developed since the 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,240 COVID issue back in the early 20s, 2020, we've been able to 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,600 have this technology to be able to still do what the Lord wants 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,760 us to do. And Jesus said man does not live 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,200 by bread alone. And sometimes you wonder if we 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,960 really believe that if you go into Giant Eagle or the 18 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:12,120 supermarket yesterday or today, it's like it's the end of the 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,480 world. The shelves are bare, 20 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,720 everybody's grabbing everything. Like it's like that's all we 21 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,680 have, that we need this and we don't have this. 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,320 What's going to happen, right? But everything will most likely 23 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,960 be cleared up sometime Monday afternoon and life will will go 24 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:30,040 on again. So it's amazing how these these 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,840 storms really disrupt things for a little while, but not forever. 26 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,320 So I wanted to share in first John chapter 3 before I get into 27 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:42,440 First Corinthians 15. One of the mysteries of of life 28 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,440 is what happens to the body or the soul, the spirit after 29 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,000 death. And the Lord has given us plenty 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,920 of verses and information in the Scriptures to be assured that 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,880 there is a plan for us after we leave our physical bodies as 32 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,840 believers and and head into the next World. 33 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,000 So that's what first Corinthians chapter 15 is all about. 34 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,880 But there's other verses that sort of a correlate or parallel 35 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,040 with what Paul's teaching about. In the book of First Corinthians 36 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,880 chapter 15, the apostle John and 1st John chapter 3 said, Behold, 37 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,600 what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we 38 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,440 should be called the children of God. 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,560 Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,360 Him. Beloved, now we are the children 41 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,400 of God, and it has not been yet revealed what we shall be, but 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,480 we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, 43 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,320 for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope 44 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,360 in Himself purifies Himself, just as He is pure. 45 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,960 So it tells us. They're very clearly that we 46 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,640 don't know everything yet, but one thing we do know that when 47 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,320 He is revealed, when we come before him and that day when 48 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,640 we're in the Kingdom, it says we're going to be like Him, for 49 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:11,040 we shall see Him as He is. So we know Jesus received a 50 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,880 resurrected body of flesh and bone. 51 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:20,120 Blood wasn't necessary anymore in the body to keep the body 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,040 alive because He's eternal and will be eternal one day too. 53 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,680 And when he had resurrected, he was able to tell his disciples 54 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,320 to touch him, to feel him, to see he wasn't a spirit, but he 55 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,760 was actually a physical body that had risen again from the 56 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,200 dead. He also was able to eat. 57 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,120 He was able to walk through doors. 58 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:46,680 He had abilities that he didn't manifest when he was in his form 59 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,080 before his death is burial in his resurrection. 60 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,600 So that's going to be fascinating to see how things 61 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,360 coincide and develop when we are out of this present body. 62 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,640 Now we know Paul also talked about to be absent the bodies to 63 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,040 be present with the Lord. So we know for sure that when we 64 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,120 leave this life, we will be in the presence of God and some 65 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,440 type of spiritual body until that day of the final 66 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,320 resurrection when we'll be given a brand new physical body. 67 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,000 It won't be the same body that actually went into the grave. 68 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,920 It's not going to be put together again like that body. 69 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,800 It's going to be a body that's fit for eternity in heaven, not 70 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,680 a body that needs to be fit for the earth anymore. 71 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,120 That's only temporal. So let me say a prayer and then 72 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,400 we'll get into this today. Father, we thank you for your 73 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,560 word. We thank You for the ability to 74 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,080 proclaim Your word on the media and the technology. 75 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,960 We would never even contemplate the possibility of these kind of 76 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,400 things five years ago. But Lord, you use the crisis in 77 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,160 the world to be able to give us a whole new way of getting the 78 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,600 word of God out, not only on the radio or television, but now 79 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,560 through media and the Internet and technology and social media 80 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,840 platforms, Father, and having our own YouTube channel, Calvary 81 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:13,200 Chapel, Westmoreland, YouTube, or many people, hundreds every 82 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,080 week tune into that, that aren't even in the actual building. 83 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,560 And we're grateful for that. Lord, your word can go forth and 84 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,040 so Lord be glorified today. Please bless, encourage your 85 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,000 people today. I pray they're all safe and you 86 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,360 would bless them. We pray especially for the 87 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,000 Hamley family this morning where Carrie had lost her father this 88 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,120 past week. We pray you would comfort them 89 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,160 and their heartache and they're broken this and and Lord just 90 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,680 give them your peace and we we pray for everyone else other 91 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,400 needs of physical afflictions or health issues or spiritual 92 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,400 challenges, Lord, family issues, financial issues, whatever they 93 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,720 might be. Lord, we're we're learning as 94 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,080 we're in the word of God that you meet every need of every 95 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,840 human heart if we seek your face and ask for your help. 96 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,080 I love that verse where you tell us the trust in the Lord Lord, I 97 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,360 want to trust you Lord with all my heart. 98 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,360 I don't want to lean to my own understanding in all my ways. 99 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,880 Lord, I want to learn to acknowledge you because you said 100 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,520 you will direct my path. And so Lord, that's a promise. 101 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,000 Proverbs 3, five and six we can all hold on to in these days of 102 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,240 so many challenges. And we love you and we're so 103 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,720 grateful, Lord, that we know of your love for us. 104 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,040 And we pray these things in Jesus name, Amen. 105 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,960 So we're going to pick up where we left off last week in First 106 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,120 Corinthians chapter 15, starting with verse 35. 107 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,720 But someone will say, how are the dead raised up and with what 108 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,640 body do they come? So excuse me. 109 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,600 Paul addressed that question with a statement, foolish one, 110 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,120 in verse 36. What you sow is not made alive 111 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,200 unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,760 that body that shall be bit mere grain, perhaps wheat or some 113 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,040 other grain. But God gives it a body as He 114 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,120 pleases into each seed. Its own body. 115 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,240 All flesh is not of the same flesh, but there is one kind of 116 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,720 flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and 117 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,800 another of birds. There are also celestial bodies 118 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,680 and terrestrial bodies, but the glory of the celestial is 1 and 119 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,600 the glory of the terrestrial is another. 120 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,000 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, 121 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,440 another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another 122 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,120 star in glory. So also is the resurrection of 123 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,680 the dead. The body is sown in corruption, 124 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,840 it is raised in incorruption, it is sown in dishonor, it is 125 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,800 raised in glory, it is sown in weakness, and it is raised in 126 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,360 power. It is sown a natural body. 127 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,200 It is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and 128 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,040 there's a spiritual body. And so it is written. 129 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 The first man, Adam, became a living being. 130 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,400 The last Adam became a life giving spirit. 131 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,280 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and 132 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,960 afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth 133 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,040 made of dust. The second man is the Lord from 134 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,280 heaven. As was the man of dust, so also 135 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,320 those who are made of dust. And as is the heavenly man, so 136 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,280 also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image 137 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,880 of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the 138 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,680 heavenly man. So we see in these verses that 139 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,920 Paul is giving us a real overview of the difference 140 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,160 between the body we have right now and the body we're going to 141 00:08:55,160 --> 00:09:00,320 receive from the Lord when we leave this life and are taken up 142 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,880 in that resurrection eventually. Now, if you are involved with 143 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,960 gardening and you've planted things, I'm not much of A 144 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,960 gardener. My wife, my mom, they're really 145 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,160 into that stuff. They take these ugly bulbs that 146 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,360 are, they look like they're dead already and they plant them in 147 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,560 the ground. And then they tell me or they 148 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,120 say, hey, this is going to become a gladiola or this is 149 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:23,880 going to become a Tulip or whatever. 150 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,080 And it's even hard to imagine when you look at those bulbs are 151 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,160 so ugly and they and they have no evidence of any kind of life, 152 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,680 that whenever that bulb goes into the ground, it dies, is in 153 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:36,560 a germinate sin. And then it produces in the 154 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,880 spring these glorious colors and flowers. 155 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,560 And we know the metamorphose illustration of the Caterpillar 156 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,520 that turns into the beautiful butterfly something out of death 157 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,560 and ugly become something incredible that we all have. 158 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,400 Oh, and all over when we see these things. 159 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,680 So we know that this body of ours, when it goes into the 160 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:04,880 grave, most of the time, depending on the age, it's 161 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,520 pretty, pretty dead. You know, physically, the 162 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,880 appearance of the face and the body and the skin and everything 163 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,240 is deteriorated to a point prior to death that it looks like 164 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,520 sometimes people are walking around dead. 165 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,800 Of course, young people, they're vibrant, beautiful, the best of 166 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,400 the best at the age that they're at. 167 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,280 When they die, they don't have the same appearance of someone. 168 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,640 Maybe that's in the near end of elderly life, but nonetheless, 169 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,520 their bodies will also deteriorate in the ground and 170 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,280 then turn to dust. Ashes, the ashes, dust, the 171 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,200 dust. We were produced from the dust, 172 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:47,000 from the seed of Adam, and we're going to die the same way back 173 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,960 into that place where we were birthed out of ashes to ashes, 174 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,080 dust to us, dust to dust. So Paul's addressing these 175 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,560 questions that the Corinthian believers had, they didn't 176 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:01,160 believe in a literal resurrection of their but 177 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,480 physical bodies. That was a heresy to them at the 178 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,880 time, and that's why Paul spent so much time in this 1st 179 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,960 Corinthians 15, to educate them that, yeah, there is a literal 180 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:17,160 physical resurrection of you one day as a believer, as Christ had 181 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,360 risen from the dead and had a physical body, This is going to 182 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,920 happen to you too. So they're, they're asking 183 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:27,600 these, these various questions to try to understand what this 184 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,080 is all about. So he says that they're foolish 185 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,320 when they ask a question, how, how can the dead be raised up? 186 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,600 They already know the gospel that Christ died for our sins 187 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,680 according to the Scriptures, that he was buried. 188 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,080 And then he rose again on the third day. 189 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,560 And the evidence of the eyewitnesses, many who saw him, 190 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:49,000 over 500 people had the eyewitness account that, yes, 191 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,320 Christ truly had risen from the dead. 192 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,560 And so he begins to explain to them using the science of 193 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:01,520 gardening, if you may, or planning using these 194 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,520 illustrations, explain to them how the body has to be planted 195 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,440 into the earth and go back to where it was from in order to 196 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,800 come out something different. And so he says in verse 37, and 197 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,280 what you sow, you don't sow that body that shall be. 198 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,960 In other words, what what's being planted into the ground is 199 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,720 not what is actually going to be manifest at the resurrection. 200 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,360 It's going to be a completely different body than what was 201 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,720 planted into the soil. And perhaps he gives the 202 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,680 illustration of wheat and grain and, and God gives the 203 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:39,280 illustration that when these seeds go into the ground, they 204 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,840 come out completely different than what it looked like when it 205 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,160 was planted into the ground. And he talks about the types of 206 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,800 flesh you have. Human flesh is one kind of flesh 207 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,320 of men in verse 39, and another flesh of animals and a fish and 208 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,560 of another of birds. And we know for sure there is a 209 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:02,120 literal resurrection, physical resurrection plan of God for 210 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,400 human beings, not so much for animals and fish and birds and 211 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,840 all those kind of things. Whether what are those kind of 212 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,600 species will be in heaven one day will be interesting. 213 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,440 We know horses are going to be there. 214 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,840 How did they get there? Were they created up there? 215 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,240 And this is a whole new dimension of creation on the 216 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,600 other side of this world that we live in right now. 217 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,800 Anytime will tell. But he's talking about this 218 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,680 importance of your body and my body, and he says that there's 219 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,880 celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies and God planted these 220 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,560 things and created them for for his glory. 221 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,240 He said there is one glory of the sun, nothing better than a 222 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,760 sun shining on a day where it's bright and it's warm. 223 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,480 We're looking forward to that in the spring. 224 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:56,440 And God created that celestial body to manifest that to the 225 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,920 human race. And the glory of the moon, 226 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,880 nothing more beautiful than the night with a full moon where you 227 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,200 can see so much better when there's a full moon. 228 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,920 And this the beauty of it in the in the sky with the stars and 229 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,360 how all the stars are different and unique. 230 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,120 They different from one another in regard to the glory that's 231 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,480 being manifested, he says then in verse 42, so also is the 232 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:24,080 resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption. 233 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:29,520 So he's giving the illustration again that when my body passes 234 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,960 from this life, it will go into the ground in a corruptible 235 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,120 state. This has nothing to do with my 236 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,200 spiritual state. This is my physical state. 237 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,760 The body will deteriorate. It's it's meant to die. 238 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,120 And the Bible tells us the wages of sin is death, but the gift of 239 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,920 God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 240 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,080 And so he says that the body is sown in corruption, but it is 241 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,200 raised in corruption. So whenever I come out of that 242 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,280 ground that day, it's not going to be in the old decrypted, 243 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,800 corrupted body, It's going to be in a brand new design body of 244 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,880 God, this fit for the eternal state, he said. 245 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,760 It's sown in dishonor, but it's raising glory. 246 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,400 And there's nothing attractive about a corpse and a Funeral 247 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,640 Home that's made-up to look like it's better than it really 248 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,120 actually is. And it's always funny when 249 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,080 people say, oh, she looks great or he looks good or whatever. 250 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,160 Well, that isn't even the person anymore. 251 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,040 It's this makeup and the mortuaries gifting and how to 252 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,840 make something that's dead look somewhat alive. 253 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,960 It's it's usually not that well done. 254 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:42,040 But he says that this corruptible body that's sown in 255 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,680 dishonor is going to be raised in glory. 256 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,920 It's sown in weakness, but it's raised in power in verse 43. 257 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,080 So when someone dies, usually it's either an accident or a 258 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:58,360 crisis of health or or this old age or whatever, but it's weak 259 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,960 when it goes into the ground. There's nothing that would 260 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,880 evidence any kind of strength or any kind of power. 261 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,440 There's no capacity for it to manifest any strength or life 262 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:13,560 anymore. It's totally own and a natural 263 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:19,320 body. It's my are we OK with the 264 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,920 sound? Is that the batteries? 265 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:28,200 You think, OK, so we just keep going on, right? 266 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,560 Sorry folks, sometimes we have these technical issues, but it's 267 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,360 going to be raised a spiritual body. 268 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,480 And so there's a natural body you and I have right now. 269 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,320 And then he said, and then there's a spiritual body. 270 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,800 So that's what you're going to be looking forward to, the new 271 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,480 body that's inclined for spiritual eternal life in a 272 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,440 state that will be with Christ to be like he is forever and 273 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,720 ever and ever to die again. And so it's written the first 274 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,720 man, Adam became a living being. We know how Adam was born. 275 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,359 He was born out of the dust. It says the last Adam became a 276 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:08,160 life giving spirit. So Christ represents the second 277 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,960 Adam, the the second birth of, of the human race, the new 278 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,319 creation of how we're going to be. 279 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:20,240 And he said in verse 46, however, the spiritual is not 280 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:24,640 first, but the natural. So we're born a natural birth 281 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,760 initially, it might maybe live 7080 years if we're fortunate. 282 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,840 And afterward there's a spiritual life. 283 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,400 The the first man was of the earth made of dust. 284 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,200 That's referring to Adam, the second man, which is referring 285 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:46,280 to Jesus is the Lord from heaven in verse 47, as was the man of 286 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,440 dust. So also are those who are made 287 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,920 of dust. And so that's why we all go 288 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,600 through this process of physical death. 289 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,880 It's explained very clearly here that we're born of Adam, of the 290 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,800 dust, and we're going to return to that same dust that we were 291 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,440 born out of. And as a heavenly man, so also 292 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:08,440 there are those who are heavenly. 293 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,600 Now how do we become heavenly people? 294 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,240 We have to have the experience of being born again. 295 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,160 Jesus says you must be born again to enter into the Kingdom 296 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,520 of heaven. The Kingdom of heaven is only 297 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,560 for believers, not for unbelievers. 298 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,440 It's for people who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ, 299 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,800 people who have repented and are constantly turning from their 300 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,840 sins and wanting their lives to be used by the Lord and the Holy 301 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,280 Spirit for all eternity for the glory of God. 302 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,120 And so he says in verse 49, as we have been born the image of 303 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:45,280 the man of dust, we were born like Adam. 304 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,120 We shall also bear the image of the heavenly man. 305 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,960 So the same kind of body that Jesus had when he rose again 306 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:58,640 from the dead is the image of the heavenly man that we're 307 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,960 going to bear as well, as it said in first John chapter 3, 308 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,920 when we see him and that day we shall be like him, for we shall 309 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,800 see him as he is. What a beautiful promise, isn't 310 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,800 it? And so in verse 50 it says, I 311 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,640 say this brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the 312 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,440 Kingdom of heaven, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 313 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,640 So when it says that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom 314 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,520 of heaven, we got to get a new body, a new body that will be 315 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:38,520 fashioned like the body of Jesus Christ, His spiritual heavenly 316 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,800 body. That's what our new body will be 317 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:47,400 like. This body that we're discussing 318 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:52,200 right now was not any made out of the earth, but it was made 319 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,440 for the earth. That's His present body I have 320 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,120 right now. It's earthly, so God designed 321 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:02,280 your body to exist in the environmental conditions of the 322 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,200 planet Earth. Your body is designed to 323 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,520 withstand 14 lbs of pressure per square inch. 324 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:14,840 Your body is designed to take the oxygen out of the 78.929 325 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:20,000 nitrogen oxygen atmosphere in which we live. 1% neon, Freon 326 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,840 and some other gases designed for the Earth. 327 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,440 The body wasn't designed for space. 328 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,960 It was wasn't designed for the stratosphere. 329 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,240 It wasn't designed for the Moon or Mars or Venus or Jupiter. 330 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,600 It was designed only for the Earth. 331 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,400 Now to take your body out of the Earth, you got to take the 332 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,520 artificial environment with you or you can't survive. 333 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,000 The men who went to the moon had to take artificial environment 334 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,920 with them. You saw the pressure suits, the 335 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,280 space suits to maintain the 14 lbs of pressure per square inch. 336 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,760 You saw the tanks of oxygen and nitrogen on their backs so that 337 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,240 they could have the same balance of atmosphere. 338 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,200 They had to take all this artificial environment to 339 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,560 recreate the Earth's environment in order to survive on the moon 340 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,080 because the body wasn't made for the moon. 341 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,120 Your body wasn't made for heaven. 342 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,400 Your body was made for earth. So God, when he brings us into 343 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,880 his glorious presence in the heaven, in order to do that, he 344 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,280 had, he's not going to be given a space suits or nitrogen or 345 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,360 oxygen tanks or heavy shoes to clomp around in. 346 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:27,920 It's going to give you a new body that's designed for the 347 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,560 environmental conditions of heaven. 348 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,560 So for you and me as children of God, death is called sleep, 349 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,440 because all you do is move out of the old body, the tent, into 350 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,080 the new house that God has prepared for you. 351 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,320 It's just that simple, as Jesus tells us in my Father's house, 352 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,280 so many mansions. And if it were not so, I would 353 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,720 have told you. And if I told you, I go to 354 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,160 prepare a place for you, that where I am, you may be also. 355 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,360 So you can stake your very life on those verses, the promises of 356 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,080 God that the best is yet to come. 357 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,800 And so he says in verse 51. I tell you a mystery, We shall 358 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,920 not all sleep, but we should all be changed in a moment, and the 359 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,440 twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. 360 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,600 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised 361 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,320 incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 362 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:26,960 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal 363 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,320 must put on immortality. You understand this transition 364 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:36,040 is an absolute necessity to take us out of death and bring us 365 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,160 into this eternal life that He's promised us in John 316. 366 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,040 For God so loved this world that he gave His only begotten Son, 367 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,360 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 368 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,760 everlasting life. And so this mortal must put on 369 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,160 immortality. This physical body I'm in, 370 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:01,240 you're in right now as believers is not capable or suitable to 371 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,040 put on this immortality. We have to receive the new body. 372 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,600 So when this corruptible, which what we have right now has put 373 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,840 on the incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, 374 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,960 then it shall be brought to pass as saying that is written. 375 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,960 Death is swallowed up in victory. 376 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:21,800 Oh death, where's your sting? Oh Hades, where's your victory? 377 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:29,240 So in other words, there is no issue of the ugliness and the 378 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,960 fear of the consequences of physical death anymore. 379 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,920 Once this transformation occurs, it's completely null and void 380 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,880 the concept of physical death. It'll never be experienced again 381 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,000 once we leave this life and enter into the throne room of 382 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,040 God with a new body that's designed by the Lord to live 383 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,120 like the Lord with no more death, no more sickness, no more 384 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,360 sorrow, no more crying. For the former things have 385 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,280 passed away. As it tells us in the Book of 386 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,480 Revelation, the sting of death is sin. 387 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,120 When we get our new bodies and we're brought out of this 388 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:17,080 present fallen evil world, there will be no more sin or capacity 389 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,160 to sin in heaven because there's the Bible said in verse John 3. 390 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:26,280 When we see Him, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him 391 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,520 as He is. And he's talks about the 392 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,560 strength in this current life regarding sin as the law. 393 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,960 We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 394 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:43,960 We had evangelism training today in the fellowship hall with 395 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,000 eight brothers from different places, churches that wanted to 396 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,960 learn how to share their faith with people they're concerned 397 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,720 about in regard to not knowing what who we're talking about 398 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,560 today. People are dying and under the 399 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,600 influence of sin when they don't have a savior. 400 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,000 Once Jesus comes into your life, you're forgiven of your sins and 401 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,560 now you have the power and the ability through the Holy Spirit 402 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,560 to actually not sin anymore. Doesn't mean you're still not 403 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,760 going to sin. None of us are perfect yet, but 404 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,680 we have this ability now, this overcoming life in us by the 405 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,520 Holy Spirit to live a victorious life, to please God and not to 406 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,120 live in stupidity and sinful behaviors anymore. 407 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,600 But the influence of sin is a real problem because that's why 408 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,320 people die. The wages of sin is death. 409 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,240 Everyone's going to die because of sin. 410 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,520 And the strength of sin is the law. 411 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,400 The law we know, the 10 commandments tells us what God's 412 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,000 character is like and what he expects. 413 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,440 And every one of us have broken the 10 commandments. 414 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,000 And because of that, we need a Savior. 415 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:02,760 We can't get into the Kingdom of heaven, nor can we get into this 416 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:07,560 new body that's prepared for heaven unless we're born again 417 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,720 on this side of heaven. And the way we get born again is 418 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,840 to ask Christ into our life, recognizing that we're sinners, 419 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,440 there's no hope for us, there is no life beyond the grave outside 420 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:24,400 of eternal damnation in hell, that there will be a body 421 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,880 prepared for people to have to suffer the consequences of 422 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,040 eternal torment and punishment. I know that's a hard concept to 423 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,440 grasp and a hard thing to consider, but it's the reality. 424 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,880 There's there's two destinies when you leave this world. 425 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:46,520 One is either with Christ in heaven, eternal bliss and joy 426 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:52,280 and excitement and meaning and everything you ever longed for, 427 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,520 or this place called hell that God didn't create for us. 428 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,800 It was created for the devil and his angels. 429 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,640 But whoever follows the ways of the devil and is influenced by 430 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,560 the demonic activity on this side of heaven, it doesn't come 431 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,440 to Christ. They will also be resurrected, 432 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,400 but it'll be the resurrection unto damnation for all eternity. 433 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,520 And so that is a serious issue and why we need to understand 434 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,920 the word of God and the gospel and to share it and to pray for 435 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,720 people and to love them enough that we tell them what Christ 436 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,360 has done for us so that they can go to be with us in heaven one 437 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:35,400 day. And so he says then in verse 57, 438 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,560 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord 439 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,200 Jesus Christ. That is where the answer is for 440 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,320 victory over sin and death. It's in Jesus Christ. 441 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,720 Jesus said in John 14, six, I am the way, I am the truth. 442 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,600 I am the life. No man comes to the Father but 443 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,320 through me. And so if you're listening today 444 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:05,760 or you never heard these things before, it's not too late today. 445 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,800 Jesus is telling you I'm the way to find life. 446 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,560 I am the truth regarding what life's about and I'm the only 447 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:21,200 one that has the power to give you this eternal resurrected 448 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,760 life and a new body that will never fail you and that will 449 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,480 live at its best age and best state forever and ever. 450 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,920 No more aging, no more sin, no more death, no more cancers, no 451 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,360 more bad diagnosis is once you're in the Kingdom of heaven 452 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,080 with God. And that's what we're working 453 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,000 toward. That's what we're doing, why 454 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,840 we're doing what we're doing. Why was it important to come in 455 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,560 today and bring this word to you today? 456 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,640 Well, this is an important chapter and we didn't feel that 457 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,800 it was OK. Just ignore it this week and 458 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,760 catch up later or whatever. Some for some of us are feeding 459 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,800 on the truth of the Scriptures comes probably primarily from 460 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,400 what we hear on Sunday morning. And if you're in a church where 461 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,480 the words being taught, the whole council of God, you're 462 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,280 you're prepared, you're equipped to know how to handle the death 463 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:21,480 of loved ones who know Jesus. And you also know how to despair 464 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,640 regarding the deaths of loved ones that don't know Jesus. 465 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,680 That's why again, the church has been established by Jesus so 466 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:34,400 that people can find him and know the way and become 467 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,040 believers and have that assurance of eternal life. 468 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,360 He says in conclusion, verse 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, 469 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,040 and in light of everything we've studied in this wonderful 470 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,040 chapter of First Corinthians 15 on the resurrection, therefore, 471 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,200 my beloved brethren, because of all these things, be steadfast, 472 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:04,400 immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing 473 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,720 that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 474 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,680 So the appeal to you and to me as followers of Jesus Christ, 475 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,200 don't give up. Don't walk away from what you 476 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:22,280 know to be true. Be steady day in and day out in 477 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,840 regard to your faith and your trust and your love for Jesus 478 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,960 and for the Word of God. Immovable, meaning nothing's 479 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,400 going to shift your gears from being totally committed to 480 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,760 serving Him and loving Him so that others might know Him. 481 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,720 And it says not sometimes. It says always abounding in the 482 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,160 work of the Lord. That's what we're doing here 483 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,040 this morning, Bill and I. We're abounding in the work of 484 00:30:54,040 --> 00:31:02,320 the Lord, not for our glory, not for our benefit, but for His 485 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,080 glory and for the benefit of people that will come to know 486 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,720 Him, perhaps as a result of hearing the Word of God like 487 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,520 we're teaching it today. And then I love this promise. 488 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,320 This is actually one of my favorite verses. 489 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,760 I have to preach this to myself often when I get discouraged. 490 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,520 I think, wow, nothing's really happening in the ministry. 491 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,520 Or, you know, what's up with without all of us as people, Why 492 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,840 can we be so committed and passionate and then all of a 493 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,840 sudden like not care anymore, be complacent or a pathetic. 494 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,040 And I'm not saying that's the case with any of you, but 495 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,040 sometimes as a pastor, you, you just wonder, is any of this 496 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,560 making a difference in anybody's lives? 497 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:49,320 But it is, he says, knowing that your labor, your work is not in 498 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,360 vain in the Lord. So we can be totally confident 499 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,880 that what it is we're doing every day in regards to our own 500 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,720 ministries, sharing our faith, sharing the gospel, praying for 501 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:10,880 people, witnessing of our faith, starting ministries that the 502 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,640 Lord might give you a heart to Start learning more how to 503 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,000 effectively share your faith. That's the purpose of our 504 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,440 meetings that we have here periodically, conversational 505 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,560 evangelism, how to get this conversation going, to begin to 506 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,120 tell people about Jesus, The purpose of Grace FM. 507 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,360 But the word of God is rolling 24/7, 7 days a week, independent 508 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,280 of weather patterns or anything else at stations on there. 509 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,880 There'll be pastors just like myself and Lewis that are just 510 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,120 teaching the Word simply so people can learn how to follow 511 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,680 the Lord, so that they can have hope. 512 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,920 They don't have to despair no matter what's happening in the 513 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,640 world. They don't have to to be 514 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,720 depressed or be negative, but to know and read this book of First 515 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,280 Corinthians, excuse me, chapter 15. 516 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,360 Read it over and over and over again and be reminded of death. 517 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,400 Where's our sting of death? Where's your victory? 518 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,600 Jesus has given us the victory over sin and death and all 519 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,920 praise and all glory to his name. 520 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,280 So now we're going to take the Lord's Supper together and you 521 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,000 can enjoy the rest of your Sunday safely in your home. 522 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,520 Go out and build a snowman or something with your kids. 523 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,960 Watch out. It's super cold, so make sure 524 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,120 you got the right clothing on. You don't want to get frostbite. 525 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,560 Thank you for tuning in today. Spread this message to others. 526 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,480 Send it to friends on Facebook. Let it go viral. 527 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,080 I think it's one of the most important sections of Scripture 528 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,320 because it answers the biggest question that people have. 529 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,960 What happens after death? Let's prepare our hearts for the 530 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:10,360 Lord's Supper. We take the Lord's Supper every 531 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,600 week. As Jesus said, this is a 532 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,360 blessing to Him. He gave it to us to strengthen 533 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:21,480 us and remind us of what life's about and what life's, What kind 534 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,000 of life do you have that's worth living for? 535 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,440 It's about following Him right and endeavoring to know Him 536 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,239 better every day. So may this supper bless you. 537 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,360 Take this as a believer. If you're not a believer, it's 538 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,639 not really going to impact you at all. 539 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,840 If you're a believer and you're not serious about where you're 540 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,679 at right now with the Lord, this is an opportunity again, just to 541 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:46,880 say, Lord, I want to get back on track with you and I want to 542 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,639 have you first in my life. I want to live for you and that 543 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,280 you would you would do that. And he'll, he'll honor that 544 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,679 prayer. He doesn't condemn us. 545 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:59,440 He's always just like, come on back, get back in the race, get 546 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,960 back into living in a way. So you're steadfast and movable, 547 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,520 always abounding in your work for the Lord, for as much as you 548 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,360 know your labor is not in vain in him. 549 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,800 On the night that Jesus betrayed, he took the bread in 550 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,360 his hands and he broke it, and he gave thanks and he said, 551 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,800 take, eat, this is my body which is given for you. 552 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:32,420 Eat this in remembrance of me. In the same manner, that night 553 00:35:32,420 --> 00:35:36,620 he took the cup, and he said, this cup is a new covenant in my 554 00:35:36,620 --> 00:35:39,780 blood, which is shed for the forgiveness, the sins of many. 555 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:48,040 Drink this remembrance of me, for as often as you eat this 556 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,280 bread and you drink this cup, you show forth the Lord's death 557 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,800 till he comes again. God bless you guys. 558 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,280 Thanks for tuning in. Love you.