1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,120 Good morning. So who, who here needs Jesus 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,080 today? That's why we're here, right? 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,040 It's all about him and him feeding us his word and 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,520 encouraging us by the power of the Holy Spirit. 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,960 So we're taking our time going through. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,480 Good to see you. How's your foot? 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:25,200 Not kicking any field goals yet. Right now you know Lydia. 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:29,120 Lydia broke her foot on ice so her and Cindy are boot buddies. 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,040 Cindy's got a boot on too still. So keep Cindy in your prayers. 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,160 She's still dealing with a lot of pain and she was hoping to be 11 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,800 here today but too too much pain. 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,000 So going to get another MRI on February 2nd to see if there 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,960 might be some issues in her neck are causing the nerves to be 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,920 impeded down through her leg and sciatica. 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,240 So thank you for your prayers for her. 16 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,400 You know, I, I'm in this section on the resurrection and I can't 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,160 seem to get out of it. Usually I go through a chapter 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,240 and I get through it pretty quickly. 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,880 But this, the resurrection chapter, there's so much depth, 20 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,000 There's so much life, There's so much hope and, and future for 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,920 all of us. And lots of times you don't 22 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,320 think about needing to be raised again from the dead when you're 23 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:26,960 young. But the older you get, the more 24 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,360 you realize this is an important teaching. 25 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,920 So if you're under 20 today, you might think, what's this have to 26 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,920 do with me? I got my whole life ahead of me. 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,560 Well, there's young people that get sick and pass away too. 28 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,680 So it impacts all of us. This before I get started. 29 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,880 The Calvary Chapel magazine is available talking about the 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,880 pro-life and saving the unborn. Really good articles in here. 31 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,680 Also wonderful article on here about Charlie Kirk's passing and 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,560 how he impacted Calvary Chapel pastors and what's happening on 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,160 college campuses as a result of Charlie's life and his legacy. 34 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,680 That continues. A matter of fact tonight, the 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,960 Calvary Chapel, Philadelphia, the church that we were planted 36 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,760 out of 30 years ago Sunday night, they're having Rob McCoy, 37 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,600 the number two guy that started the Turning Point with Charlie 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,240 back in the beginning. So he's going to speak in the 39 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,600 church tonight about the impact that turning point USA faith has 40 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,560 upon college campuses and high schools and continues to keep 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,000 growing and growing and growing. So we're, we're excited to be a 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,080 part of that, involved in that as well. 43 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,920 So let's pray, Father, we're thankful this morning, Lord, for 44 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,680 your word. And Lord, I'm so grateful that 45 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,480 we are here for one reason. And that's to hear from you, 46 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,400 Lord, to get truth, to get fed your word, to be encouraged to, 47 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,520 to learn, to have hope and not to spare. 48 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:00,400 And also, Lord, to be impacted by what you've done for us so 49 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,040 that we can also be used by you to impact others. 50 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,720 So that they can know the good news and how you saved us and 51 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,080 how you've forgiven us. And how you've continually been 52 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,880 with us throughout all the seasons of life. 53 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,760 The ups and downs, the valleys, the mountaintops, the the times 54 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,360 of victory, the times of defeat, the times of health, the times 55 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,560 of sickness. Lord, you've, you've just been 56 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,560 there all the time and you never leave us. 57 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,840 You never forsake us and you're always available for us to talk 58 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,040 to throughout the day 24/7. Lord, you're never too busy to 59 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,600 listen to each of us simultaneously. 60 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,720 That's something that I can't even begin to comprehend, how 61 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,320 you can listen to all the cries, all the heartache, all the 62 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,320 prayers, all the needs of the human race all over the world at 63 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,480 one time because you're God, omniscient on all knowing. 64 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,600 You're all everywhere, present, omnipresent, and you're able to 65 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,120 do the ultimate multitask of being intimately involved with 66 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,040 every human being on the face of the planet. 67 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,720 And we worship you because you're such a great and mighty 68 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,360 and awesome God. And Lord, help us to understand 69 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,399 again this morning the significance of the resurrection 70 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:25,000 as we review it again and then continually on in this chapter 71 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,800 that we might understand what it is that you want us to know. 72 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,920 And we pray these things in Jesus name, Amen. 73 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,480 So I want to read the the tremendous verses that encourage 74 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:47,760 us in regard to the resurrection and why it's really, really 75 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,600 important to grasp this truth. Because if we don't know the 76 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,800 resurrection and we don't believe that, then there's 77 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,000 really no point in actually even coming to church or believing in 78 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,360 Jesus. Because the whole gospel hinges 79 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,200 on the fact that there is life after death. 80 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,880 And we have the guarantee and the assurance and a historical 81 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,360 documentation that Christ literally rose again from the 82 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,080 dead. He's the only one that's ever 83 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,400 done that in human history. And so if you're going to be a 84 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:25,720 follower of some movement or some person, you want to make 85 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,160 sure that you're following Jesus because he's the true God, the 86 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,320 living God, the one who created us and the one who has good 87 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:39,800 things in store for all of us. And so when we think about this 88 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,280 truth of the resurrection and all that Christ has done, I want 89 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:48,280 to read again when I've read the last couple weeks regarding 90 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,280 Lazarus, when he died and Jesus showed up a few days after his 91 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:58,280 death, verse 17 of Luke chapter or John Chapter 11, it says. 92 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,440 And so when Jesus came, he found that he had already been in the 93 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,280 tomb for days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, 94 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,960 about two miles away, and many of the Jews had joined the women 95 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,040 around Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their 96 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,680 brother. So I don't have to tell you all 97 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,960 of you have been around. I'm sure long enough you've been 98 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,560 to funerals, you've been to situations where people have 99 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,520 passed away and your heart's broken, and you know what it's 100 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,960 like to lose someone you love that you won't see again until 101 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:31,040 heaven if they're believers and you're a believer. 102 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,360 And so Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, she 103 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,320 went and met him. But Mary was sitting in the 104 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,320 house now. Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if 105 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,800 you had been here, my brother would not have died. 106 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,760 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God 107 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,240 will give you. So Martha knew that Jesus could 108 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,360 do miracles, and her trust was in him to perhaps do a miracle. 109 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,040 And Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. 110 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,760 And Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the 111 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,880 resurrection at the last day. So this woman knew about the 112 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,800 resurrection, she believed in it, she knew it was true, she 113 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,480 knew it was going to happen. That wasn't the issue. 114 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,240 The issue was her heartache right now and the fact that she 115 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,200 lost this dear person in her life. 116 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:31,440 And so Jesus is standing there with her and totally involved in 117 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,120 her emotions and her pain. And he said to her, I am the 118 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,240 resurrection and the life. It isn't of some future thing 119 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,320 that will occur one day. Right now you can experience the 120 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,480 reality of this life eternal. We said I am the resurrection 121 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,080 and the life I am as a present verb tense. 122 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,120 He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. 123 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,440 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. 124 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,600 Do you believe this? And that's something that each 125 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,600 of us have to believe individually and personally. 126 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,880 I can't believe for you, and you can't believe for me. 127 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,720 This has to be between you and God and you and God alone. 128 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,240 Do you believe this? And she said to him, yes, Lord, 129 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,320 I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who has 130 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,360 come into the world. So that's the right answer that 131 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:32,960 Martha gave to Jesus. Yes, Lord, I believe that you 132 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,120 are the Christ, the Son of God who has come into the world. 133 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,640 That's the affirmation that each of us have to make individually 134 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,480 and personally in order to experience this promise of 135 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:49,560 everlasting life in the resurrection and forgiveness of 136 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:53,840 sins. I love Gina's prayer in the end 137 00:08:53,840 --> 00:09:00,440 of the worship when she said that if you think that you sin 138 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,760 too much or you've done too many bad things that you could never 139 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,800 be forgiven, that's the ultimate lie from the devil. 140 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:15,200 Jesus came to die for sinners, which we all are, and he loves 141 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,920 us. And so we come to him by faith, 142 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,920 asking him to forgive us and trust him, and he will forgive 143 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:27,800 us. And then in John also the 14th 144 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,240 chapter, this is a verse that we as pastors use all the time at 145 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,760 funerals. It says, let not your heart be 146 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,840 troubled the day some of you may be troubled about something or 147 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,360 someone or some circumstance or situation in your life that's 148 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,160 overwhelming. I know a lot of people are 149 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,040 dealing with serious health issues and surgeries and 150 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,600 different relationship issues and financial issues and this on 151 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,280 and on and on. There isn't one person in here 152 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,240 today that isn't dealing with something personally that's 153 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,480 troubling you or something that someone else is dealing with 154 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,720 that you're concerned for because they're troubled with 155 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,640 something. And so he says, don't let your 156 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,480 heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also 157 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,560 in me. In my Father's house are many 158 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,160 mansions. And if it were not so, I would 159 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,360 have told you. And I go to prepare a place for 160 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,160 you. And if I go to prepare a place 161 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,920 for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that 162 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,400 where I am, there you may be also. 163 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,000 And where I go, you know, and the way you know. 164 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,280 So Jesus is telling the disciples and all of us who are 165 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,000 reading this and here today, anybody that reads the 166 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,200 Scriptures, this is for you if you're a follower of Christ, 167 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,640 that the Lord has a plan for you and he specifically prepared a 168 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,080 place for you to be with him whenever you leave this world. 169 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:01,680 He's already set it up for you. It's already built and ready for 170 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:05,160 you to experience and to live in for all eternity. 171 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,680 And he promises that we won't be left here alone, that one day he 172 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:14,000 will come again and receive us to himself, whether it's in our 173 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,200 own personal death or in the rapture or the second coming of 174 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,880 Christ. Christ is coming again. 175 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,160 And he's telling these guys who you, you know about this. 176 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,920 You know where who I am, where I'm going. 177 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,800 And Thomas, the one who doubted said, Lord, we don't know where 178 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,800 you're going and how can we know the way? 179 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,480 And Jesus said I, I am the way people are looking every day for 180 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,160 an answer. They're looking for direction. 181 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,600 They're looking for what's going to happen to me, What's going to 182 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,280 happen to me after I leave this world? 183 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,280 Where am I going to go? What's going to go on in the 184 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,880 next World if there is a next World? 185 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:59,720 People think that way. He says I am the way I am the 186 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:01,880 truth. I am the life. 187 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,160 No man comes to the Father, but through Me. 188 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:13,560 You can hang out on that verse for every circumstance in your 189 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:18,240 life. When you're confused, when you 190 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,040 become hopeless, when you're in situations where you are 191 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,720 desperate for some type of answer to the dilemma or the 192 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,520 problem you're experiencing, you can go to Jesus and He will 193 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,880 comfort you. He will speak to you through his 194 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,440 word and through the Holy Spirit in your life. 195 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,520 And he will assure you that everything's under control, that 196 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:49,440 he has it all planned out and that he is the one, the only one 197 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,040 that can give you real life. There. 198 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,240 There is no life apart from Christ. 199 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,880 You might be living and you think, well, I'm living life. 200 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:58,240 I'm alive. I'm yeah. 201 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,240 But when you get to the end of the day, you say, is this all 202 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,520 there is to life? If this is life, why do I feel 203 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,080 so dead inside? Why do I feel so empty? 204 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,600 Why do I still feel like I'm missing something and I don't 205 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:17,120 know what it is I'm looking for? It's because you're looking for 206 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,640 life in what can't give you life. 207 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,400 Jesus says man's life does not consist in the abundance of the 208 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,600 things he possesses. It isn't a materialism or wealth 209 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:35,280 or success or accomplishments or another person. 210 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,440 You may find it very important in your life. 211 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:45,920 Your life is found only in the person of knowing Jesus Christ. 212 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,960 And he says no one can come to the Father except through him. 213 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,560 What happens to us when we die? This is a mystery for most 214 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,440 people that have ever lived. Scholars, philosophers, 215 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:11,960 scientists, they all have different types of positions or 216 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,240 opinions on what happens to the soul after death. 217 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,200 Some people think that when you die, that's it, It's the end. 218 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,240 There's nothing else to look forward to. 219 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:31,840 But for us as Christians, we have so much to look forward to. 220 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:40,080 And people will come and ask me at times whenever they lose a 221 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,520 loved one or they're getting ready to lose someone they love. 222 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,440 What's going to happen to my dad or my mom or my brother or my 223 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,200 sister or my wife, my husband, my child, whatever my friend, 224 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,560 What's going to happen to them after they die? 225 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,480 Well, if they don't know the gospel and what we're studying 226 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,080 about the resurrection, that's a rough place to be in, isn't it? 227 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,840 It's a place of despair and a place of hopelessness. 228 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:18,680 But we're we're told that the Lord has promised us that 229 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,160 whenever we leave this body, and the apostle Paul, the one who's 230 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,480 teaching us and First Corinthians here, is that 231 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,320 there's a plan in all this deterioration of human life in 232 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,960 existence. He says in 2nd Corinthians 5 For 233 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,280 we know that if our earthly house, that's its body, we live 234 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,960 in this tent is destroyed, whether through death, through 235 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,600 accident, through disease, or this old age, we have a building 236 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,160 from God, a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. 237 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,080 And that's the place where he said in my Father's house are 238 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,360 many mansions. And if it were not so, I would 239 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,320 have told you. And if I told you I'd go to 240 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,040 prepare a place for you, that where I am you, maybe also 241 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,840 there's another place you're going to be living other than 242 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,600 this, because this is going to deteriorate and go into the 243 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,680 ground. For in this we groan earnestly, 244 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,840 desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from 245 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,800 heaven, if indeed having been clothed, we shall not be found 246 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,360 naked. For we who are in this tent, 247 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,400 grown, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, 248 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,240 but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by 249 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,160 life. So the plan of God is to 250 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:37,840 eventually remove us physically from this place through a lot of 251 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,960 different events. Like I said, it could be 252 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,640 physical death, it could be the rapture for alive when Christ 253 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,680 comes. We'll talk about that a little 254 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,160 bit today, the second coming, the final resurrection. 255 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:56,640 But there is this impulse and it's not fatalism for us to want 256 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,680 to be with Jesus in heaven. That's the ultimate. 257 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,760 Like, it's good to raise kids, be married, have jobs, enjoy 258 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,520 life and everything that God's allowed us to experience in this 259 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,440 world. But the longer you live and the 260 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,319 more you're around the sorrow and the pain and the heartache 261 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:18,640 of what the human race goes through, you have a different 262 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,520 vantage point of when you look at life and what is it really 263 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,319 about. It's really all about people 264 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:28,640 coming to know God and being reconciled to him so they can 265 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:35,400 spend not 70 or 80 years on this earth, but all eternity with God 266 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:43,320 one day in heaven. And so Paul the apostle, he had 267 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,040 this encounter, it was like a supernatural revelation where he 268 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,640 was taken up into the 3rd heaven paradise and he saw things and 269 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,080 he heard things and he experienced things that like no 270 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,760 one had ever experienced. And and that's why he was able 271 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:03,560 to write so deeply about the Kingdom and the things of God 272 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,720 and the, and the plan of God for the days ahead that God had 273 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,680 spoken into his life and told him about these things. 274 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:17,160 And so he had this desire after he saw that to realize like, 275 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,800 like this place here, it ain't doing it for me anymore. 276 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,040 I mean, I have not seen nor ear heard nor entered into the heart 277 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,640 of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him. 278 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,280 He saw all that. And, and so for him to have to 279 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,960 like come back and get to work here and stay busy and do what 280 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,400 he did was a challenge. And, and he did it with all his 281 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,400 heart, his passion for the sake of us, but he could not wait 282 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,920 until he left and was in the presence of the Lord himself. 283 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,160 Now he who has prepared us for this very thing, this eternal 284 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,600 life, this resurrection, is God who has given us the Spirit as a 285 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,120 guarantee. Now the Holy Spirit, if you're a 286 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:07,280 Christian here today, the Holy Spirit lives within you. 287 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,200 And so when you're hearing these things that I'm teaching the, 288 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,520 the Bible, that what the Bible's teaching, they click, they make 289 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:19,200 sense. They're they're like stabilizing 290 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,160 factors in, in your daily life, your experience. 291 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,680 If you're not a Christian here today, you must think I am 292 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,920 totally out of my mind because like, it sounds like science 293 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,320 fiction. Some of the stuff I'm going to 294 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,920 get into. Unfortunately, most churches 295 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,080 don't even take the believers into the reality of what is 296 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,480 being taught here today. It's it's like, I don't know. 297 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,520 I mean, we're supposed to be teaching the whole whole council 298 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,120 of God and, and my responsibility as a pastor is to 299 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:53,640 like, wow, this is like a little bit over overwhelming and deep. 300 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,960 And will the people be able to handle it? 301 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,520 Will they be able to receive it? Will they, you know, would do 302 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,560 anything for them? And should I, should I find some 303 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:08,120 other section of scripture where everybody's happy, you know, but 304 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:11,160 no, I mean, this is happiness, this is joy. 305 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,320 If you understand this and believe this, but you got it. 306 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,200 You got to go through all this stuff. 307 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,440 So. So then Paul says, so we are 308 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,240 always confident, knowing that while we were at home in the 309 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,560 body, like right now in the present body, we're confident of 310 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:33,800 this one thing, that when we are absent from this body, we're 311 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,280 present with the Lord, we go to be with Jesus, we leave this 312 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,560 body, we go to be with Jesus. What's it like when you leave 313 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,080 this body and go to be with Jesus? 314 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,240 Well, they, the physical body will go into the ground. 315 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,080 You've been at funerals, you know, the casket goes into the 316 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,720 ground. The body deteriorates. 317 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,200 And that's not the end of the body though. 318 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,880 That's the holding period until the final resurrection, when God 319 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,600 will raise every human that has ever died since the beginning of 320 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:14,840 time and that final resurrection and the and the, and the bodies 321 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,600 will come out of the ground. A matter of fact, when Jesus was 322 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,880 resurrected, and that was a mystery in Matthew, that there 323 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,880 was some people that had actually came out of the graves 324 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,160 and they were alive again walking around town for a while. 325 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,200 And they didn't give you a lot of details about that, but it 326 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,280 was enough to say, wow, you know that that's interesting, right? 327 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:41,280 And so, so we go to Corinthians. Now back to Corinthians, First 328 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:51,000 Corinthians 15. Verse 20 But now Christ has 329 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,880 risen from the dead. So we the last couple weeks we 330 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,840 were going through the section of Scripture where the 331 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,480 Corinthian believers knew there was a resurrection and they knew 332 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,640 Jesus rose again from the dead, but they didn't believe they 333 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,520 would raise from the dead. They didn't think that was 334 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,160 important. They thought the body was evil, 335 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,760 was not worth anything. It was better off never being 336 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:14,200 brought into existence again. And they had heretical 337 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,920 teachings. They didn't understand what it 338 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,520 was that was actually being taught. 339 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:23,920 The church in Corinth had a lot of false teaching and heretical 340 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,200 ideas, so Paul had to really bring this home and take the 341 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,680 time in great detail. That's why we're going through 342 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:36,000 it so slow, to make sure that every believer in that church 343 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,280 understood in the literal resurrection from the dead. 344 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,320 That's the gospel. Christ died for our sins 345 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,120 according to scriptures. He was buried the third day. 346 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:52,040 He rose again from the dead according to the scriptures. 347 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:57,640 So Christ has become the first fruits of those who have fallen 348 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,440 asleep. Now what's interesting is the 349 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,920 first fruits was a feast in the book of Leviticus. 350 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:10,760 And when Passover occurred, the Sabbath after Passover, they 351 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:15,160 would celebrate this first fruit feast. 352 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,880 And the the priest would wave the sheaves of grain 353 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,120 representing that this harvest that was beginning to be 354 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:25,400 developed now in the springtime was God's harvest and he would 355 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,480 get the best of everything first. 356 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,200 Well, Jesus represents the first fruits because God has given to 357 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,240 you and me the best of everything that we could ever 358 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,440 possibly imagine in the person of Jesus Christ and the promise 359 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,040 that as he's risen, we're also going to rise again from the 360 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:51,280 dead, all of us. For since by man came death, by 361 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,680 man also came the resurrection of the dead. 362 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,400 For as an Adam all die, Even so in Christ all shall be made 363 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,160 alive. So we don't have time to go into 364 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,120 Romans. We were through that book and 365 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:09,280 many of you understand the fact that it tells us in Romans and 366 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,080 chapter 3 verse 23 for all of sin and fallen short of the 367 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:18,600 glory of God in Romans 623 says for the wages of sin. 368 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,680 It's death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus 369 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,360 Christ our Lord. So we're all born the first time 370 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,600 our first birth were born in Adam. 371 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,120 We're born in Adam's nature where we have a sin nature. 372 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,400 And you know, we can't blame it on Adam. 373 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,320 We make our own decisions how we sin. 374 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,920 But basically Adam was the beginning seed of rebellion 375 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,120 against God. And everybody that's ever been 376 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:51,520 born has been born with that same tendency to go their own 377 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,320 way and to sin against God. And it's such a powerful force 378 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:02,720 to sin nature that it controls the whole world and, and we 379 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,920 still have problems with it as Christians because we can be 380 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,560 tempted, we can be weakened, we can fall, we can make mistakes 381 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,600 and regrets and, and then we ask God to forgive us and he always 382 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,640 does. We have the way out of that sin 383 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,240 nature power, so to speak, because of Christ. 384 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,840 We can overcome the power of sin nature because of the Holy 385 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,440 Spirit in US. And, and not sin, but someone 386 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,880 who doesn't know Jesus, all they can do is sin habitually. 387 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,880 It's like a sin machine. They don't have to be taught to 388 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,560 do it. If this is automatic, they're 389 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,640 lost to lie, to be self-centered, to cheat, to lie, 390 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:42,160 to steal the hate and all these emotions that the human nature 391 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:49,400 has because they're sinful. And so the only way out of this 392 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:55,480 dilemma of being born in sin and getting the wage of sin, which 393 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,320 should be death and judgement, was God had to give a make a do 394 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,520 over, basically a do over right? And he sent his Son into the 395 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,600 world to live like we live, but never sin perfect. 396 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:13,600 So Jesus came to show us the way out of the sin nature. 397 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,960 But there was one step that was necessary in order to be free 398 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:25,480 from the first birth, the Adamic birth, the Adam's sin nature. 399 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,920 You needed to be born again. Jesus says in John 33, you must 400 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,160 be born again, not is not well, you should consider being born 401 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,000 again. Maybe you should try. 402 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,160 No, you must be born again and enter to enter into the Kingdom 403 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,080 of heaven, you have to have a second birth. 404 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,120 And the second birth is what gives you the power of the Holy 405 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:48,120 Spirit and the life of Christ in you. 406 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,600 And now you have a new family line. 407 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,520 Now you're, you're not a son of Adam anymore. 408 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,120 You're a son of God, son and daughter of God because what 409 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,360 Jesus Christ has done for you, you get it. 410 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,400 It's critical. It's absolutely necessary. 411 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,960 And so everybody that you talk to and you share the gospel 412 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,680 with, you need to let them know they need to be born again and 413 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,240 they're going to ask you, what's that mean? 414 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:20,000 Just like Nicodemus asked Jesus, It's a miraculous birth that 415 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:26,040 occurs by the Spirit of God that makes us and puts us in Christ. 416 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,480 It's, it's, it's awesome. So for an atom, everybody will 417 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,360 die, anybody, everybody's been born since the beginning of time 418 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,880 through that first birth will die. 419 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Even so in Christ also be made a lot. 420 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,840 So in other words, because of Christ and his life and what 421 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,920 he's done, we experience eternal life not after we leave this 422 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,440 world, but right now we're living eternal life right now 423 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,240 when Jesus said I am the resurrection present tense. 424 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,760 If you're in Christ, you are experiencing the resurrection 425 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:05,400 right now, and you'll never die. You'll die physically, but 426 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,600 you're never going to die in the sense of someone that doesn't 427 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,000 know Jesus. You're going to be in his 428 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,240 presence. People who die without Christ or 429 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,840 in a holding pattern until the final judgment called shell. 430 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,080 It's not literal hell yet, but it will be hell eventually. 431 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:28,000 There's only one time in life and one chance in life to get 432 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,960 saved and get born again. And that's right now. 433 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,160 And maybe today that would be the day for you. 434 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:41,920 But don't let it pass and you die without getting saved 435 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,480 because there's no second chance after this life. 436 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:55,080 So this being made alive in Christ, verse 23 of first 437 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,800 Corinthians 15 says, but each one in his own order. 438 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:04,960 So there's there's this order of resurrection that's going to 439 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:11,520 occur in regard to how all these things will pass by and come to 440 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,160 come to pass each one in his order. 441 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,640 Christ the first fruits, He's the first one that rose from the 442 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,000 dead afterward those who are Christ at his coming. 443 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:28,040 Now I'm going to take you to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4. 444 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,040 If you have your Bible, turn there. 445 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:38,680 If you don't, just listen. First Thessalonians chapter 4, 446 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,240 verses 13 through 18. Now this is the chapter that 447 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:51,920 believers see as discussing what is called the rapture of the 448 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,960 church when Christ will come not to land on the planet and set up 449 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,680 his Kingdom yet, but come to take us out prior to the 450 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,160 tribulation period occurring. The seven-year tribulation, 451 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,160 which you don't want to definitely be here for it would 452 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,800 be like living in Iran right now, every day of your life for 453 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,240 seven years if you were a Christian persecuting, 454 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,440 persecution, martyrdom like Nigeria. 455 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,560 Some of these served world countries that is this hell to 456 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:29,520 live in, no gospel freedom, no opportunity to go to church to 457 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,720 worship God. Very, very terrible time. 458 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,080 I don't have time to get into all the details of that great 459 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,320 tribulation, but that will happen after the rapture and 460 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:45,400 then it will be stopped during the time when Christ comes 461 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,160 second coming and sets up His thousand year reign, which is 462 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:55,400 called the millennial Kingdom prior to the final battle and 463 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,880 the new heaven and the new earth that will be eventually created 464 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,640 by the Lord. So it tells us in first 465 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,800 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 13 through 18. 466 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,800 I don't want you to be ignorant brethren, concerning those who 467 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,920 have fallen asleep. Know you love the Lord like he 468 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,560 doesn't want us to be like in the dark about this stuff. 469 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,680 He's put it in his words so we can really understand and know 470 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,640 and not be confused or or ignorant concerning those who 471 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,680 have fallen asleep. In other words, those who have 472 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,960 passed away whose bodies are in the grave. 473 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,560 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, Even so God 474 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,320 will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. 475 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,480 Now don't get the thought that whenever you die or someone you 476 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,040 love dies and knows Jesus, that they're sleeping and they're not 477 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,040 alive. No, they'd be absent in the 478 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,880 bodies. They'd be present with the Lord. 479 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:53,000 So you're very alive, but your body is sleeping in the grave. 480 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,640 It's not alive and it's dead. For this we say to you by the 481 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,080 word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the 482 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,800 coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are 483 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,120 asleep. So in other words, say the 484 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,440 rapture happened, like right now we're alive, we're not in the 485 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,520 grave, but we're not going to go up with the Lord before those 486 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,520 who are in the grave. For the Lord himself. 487 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,600 It says that we won't precede those who are asleep. 488 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,480 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout 489 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,720 and with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of 490 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,520 God. So there'll be this trumpet 491 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,640 sound and everybody that's in Christ is going to hear that 492 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,320 we're going to know like, OK, this is like, we're out of here, 493 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,720 right? But the people in the grave are 494 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,400 going to be brought back to life and it says, and the dead in 495 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,520 Christ will rise first. So these bodies are going to 496 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,720 come out of the grave. Remember the movie Left Behind? 497 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,800 Anybody ever seen that? You know, it's it's, it's done 498 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,280 as best as it can be done because it's Hollywood, 499 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,240 whatever. But can you visualize like all 500 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,480 over, I ride by these cemeteries all the time in my, and when I'm 501 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,680 driving, I do a lot of driving in my sales business. 502 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,520 And I always look at churches and I look at the cemeteries. 503 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,160 And I just think one of those days they're going to pop open 504 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,320 and people are going to be coming out of there alive. 505 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,760 Not just like the Presbyterian cemetery or the Lutheran and the 506 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,040 Methodist or every cemetery where everybody's been died. 507 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,120 Their bodies, who, who know Jesus, their bodies are going to 508 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,720 be brought out and the Lord himself will descend with 509 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,440 heaven, with a shot, with the voice of the Archangel, the 510 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,160 trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 511 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,680 Then we who are alive, in other words, say this happened today 512 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,600 and we're alive, or whoever's alive at that time physically 513 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,040 and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds 514 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,240 to meet the Lord in the air. So not only we have these bodies 515 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,680 coming out of the ground, but you'll have people like us, like 516 00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,000 this going up and we'll be waving, hey, it's finally here. 517 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,920 Good to see you. I mean it's just going to be 518 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,520 incredible. I I can't even comprehend what 519 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,199 it's going to be like and them and we'll meet them in the with 520 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,159 the Lord in the air and it says and thus we shall always be with 521 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:15,080 the Lord. Therefore comfort one another 522 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,560 with these words something I I need to be reminded pastor 523 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,679 whenever we do funerals that by the way, they're going to be 524 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,280 popping out of this grave. This isn't the end for your 525 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,239 loved one that knows Jesus these, I hate to tell you, the 526 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,440 $5000 tombstone isn't going to be worth it. 527 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,800 Don't spend a lot of money on those stones because they're 528 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,080 going to be left behind. Only the bodies are coming out 529 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,960 of the ground. Hallelujah. 530 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:52,120 So that is that resurrection and then we have I'll continue here 531 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:57,480 in First Corinthians 15. I'm glad you gave me more time, 532 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,160 Carrie today because I couldn't get all this in, believe me. 533 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,720 So we're back to First Corinthians 15. 534 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:18,360 And so all in Christ shall be made alive, but each one in his 535 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,280 own order. So we just read the order, the 536 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,480 dead in Christ 1st, and then we which are alive will be caught 537 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,200 up together with them. Christ the first fruits, 538 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,880 afterwards those who are Christ at His coming. 539 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,120 Then comes the end, when he delivers the Kingdom to God the 540 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,920 Father, when he puts an end to all rule and all authority and 541 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,760 power. For He must reign till he has 542 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,400 put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be 543 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,320 destroyed is death, for He has put all things under his feet. 544 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,840 But when He says all things are put under Him, it is evident 545 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,280 that He who put all things under Him is accepted. 546 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,400 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son 547 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,960 himself will also be subject to him who put all things under 548 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,120 him. That is God, that God may be all 549 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:15,120 and all. So we have here in Revelation 550 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:25,760 chapter 20. This is eschatology today in a 551 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,440 short and condensed version. But eschatology is a doctrine of 552 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,680 future things, things that are going to come to pass. 553 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,280 And I, and I had to think about this like before I was even 554 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,840 coming here today working on this. 555 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,440 How many here really actually care about what I'm saying? 556 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,760 And if you don't, that's OK. If you care, you don't care, you 557 00:36:51,760 --> 00:37:00,680 know, but this is God's plan. So when I was 20, I was first 558 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,920 saved. I was so excited about this. 559 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,960 Every day I'm looking up in the sky thinking like this. 560 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,000 Could this be, I actually believe like, like that day I'm 561 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,760 looking in the sky that Jesus could come back and I need to 562 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,120 start thinking like that again because I got caught up and 563 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,480 raising a family and kids and jobs and work and this 564 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,520 everything in life, right? I want this car, I want that 565 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,400 kind of house. I want this kind of vacation. 566 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,920 Nothing wrong with any of that stuff. 567 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,640 But what happens with all that stuff? 568 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,200 Jesus says the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of 569 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,560 riches, and the lusts of other things choke his word out of 570 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,160 your heart and it becomes unfruitful. 571 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:48,080 And he's so patient with us because he knows we're all going 572 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,320 to go through those days of being unfruitful. 573 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:53,520 He's going to say, do you guys really care about this? 574 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,560 Like what I did for you? Yeah, I do, Lord, but I'm really 575 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,840 busy because I got these things I got to do. 576 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,240 Where are these things I want to do? 577 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,920 And he's so merciful. He knows how we're wired. 578 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,720 We can get. So ADD, right? 579 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,160 We're all ADD spiritually, ADD right. 580 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,440 We can be like all tuned in, like really connected and really 581 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,160 resonating and really connecting with it all. 582 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:23,240 And then there can be times where like we're just not and 583 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,400 we're the, we're the ones that lose when we're like that 584 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,960 because there's no life in this life. 585 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,160 The life is in him. And the more you learn to abide 586 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,960 in him and live with him moment by moment, let him be your 587 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,360 priority. Talk to him all day. 588 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,520 You're just tuned into him. Guess what? 589 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,800 Nothing else really matters anymore. 590 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,920 Nothing else is that important. You really don't need anything 591 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,160 when you have Jesus. You have everything when you 592 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,440 have Christ, and Paul understood that. 593 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:03,520 So in Revelation 20, it talks about the millennial Kingdom and 594 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,640 the final judgment. And I saw an Angel coming down 595 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,040 from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit, and a great 596 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,040 chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that 597 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,280 serpent of old, who is a devil. And Satan bound him for 1000 598 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,360 years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shot him 599 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,520 out, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the 600 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,640 nation's no more till the 1000 years were finished. 601 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,720 But after these things, he'll be released for a little while. 602 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,280 Fascinating like so here we are. We're we're raptured, we're 603 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,920 taken up to be with the Lord. The seven-year tribulation is 604 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,920 finally over. The Antichrist is revealed, he's 605 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:47,840 a liar and all that stuff's like done in Christ comes with us in 606 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,760 the clouds to the earth for the second coming where he'll 607 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,400 establish his thousand year millennial Kingdom and we'll be 608 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,360 with him. We'll roll and reign with him at 609 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,760 that time. There's going to be work to do. 610 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,320 We, we will be in these supernatural bodies. 611 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,800 We won't die anymore. No one can kill us. 612 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,160 It's just like the Matrix, you know, try to kill me. 613 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,920 I keep coming alive again or whatever. 614 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,800 It's just fascinating. And so the Lord will reign in 615 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,760 Jerusalem. With an iron hand, there won't 616 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,760 be China behaving the way they are now and Russia and Venezuela 617 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,760 and all these crazy rogue nations. 618 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,160 They won't be able to do that anymore when Christ is ruling 619 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,440 and reigning right. And the devil won't be deceiving 620 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,840 anybody and and causing the havoc he's having right now 621 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,360 because he's going to be thrown in the the the the abyss for the 622 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,320 1000 years until that period of time is up. 623 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:49,120 And what a blessing that's going to be. 624 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:50,640 But this is what's going to happen. 625 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:55,480 OK, So this will be going on for 1000 years. 626 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,480 After the 1000 years have finished these things, he'll be 627 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,880 released. And I saw Thrones. 628 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,480 This is the vision of the apostle John when he wrote 629 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,080 revelation about the thousand year reign. 630 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,760 They, they had sat on them and judgement was committed to them. 631 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,040 And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the 632 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,480 witness for Jesus and for the word of God, who had not 633 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,880 worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his 634 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,440 mark on their foreheads or on their hand during that 635 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,680 tribulation period. There will be some kind of 636 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,640 identification code and I don't know what it's going to look 637 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,720 like, but I know the technologies there are now, 638 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,920 whether they do implants on our wrists or our foreheads to buy 639 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,880 and sell, whether, whether it's the iPhone that you know, you're 640 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,440 not going to be able to do anything unless you have this 641 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,200 with a special code. And when you go to the store, 642 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,520 you're going to go on a trip or somewhere, you have to have that 643 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:47,720 code. And if you don't have it, 644 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,160 they're going to say, we're sorry, Sir, you're blocked. 645 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,880 You can't buy anything here. And the identification code is 646 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:59,400 that I pay homage and allegiance to the Antichrist, the ruler of 647 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,080 the world at that time that says I can't do anything unless I I'm 648 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:06,400 100% devoted and committed to his ways. 649 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:14,600 So the judges at this time in Revelation, they can see all the 650 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,840 people that were martyred during the Tribulation. 651 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,720 And then there will be believers in the Tribulation, people who 652 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:23,400 will come to faith in Christ after we're out of here. 653 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,640 They'll say, boy, I remember what Clark was telling me. 654 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,320 I never believed it. Now I know it's true. 655 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:37,560 And I'm not taking out Mark. And people will be martyred who 656 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,560 had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received 657 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,200 His mark on their foreheads or on their hands. 658 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,920 And they lived and they reigned with Christ for 1000 years. 659 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,480 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand 660 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,520 years were finished. Now these are all the people 661 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,360 that had died without Christ. This is the first resurrection. 662 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,840 Blessed is the Holy One. Blessed and holy is he who has 663 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,600 part in the first resurrection. That's us over such. 664 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:11,640 The second death has no power. But they shall be priests of God 665 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,600 and of Christ, and shall reign with Him 1000 years. 666 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,360 Now when the 1000 years have expired, Satan will be released 667 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,680 from his prison, and will go out to deceive the nations which are 668 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,040 in the four corners of the earth. 669 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,200 This is the final battle. Gog and Magog to gather them 670 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,880 together to battle, whose number is the sand of the sea. 671 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,640 And they went up the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the 672 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,520 camp of the Saints and beloved city. 673 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,560 And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 674 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,320 The devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and 675 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,200 brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are. 676 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,240 The Antichrist, the false prophet, they're already doomed. 677 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:53,920 Not this for a little while. This is it, This is final done, 678 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,680 and they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever. 679 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,960 Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from 680 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,280 whose face the earth and the heaven had fled away, and there 681 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,040 was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and 682 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,880 great, standing before God. Now we won't be standing at the 683 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,280 great white throne judgment because we were forgiven. 684 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,000 This is for people who have not ever put their faith in Jesus, 685 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,520 and it's a fair judgment. The books were open and another 686 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,960 book was open, which is the Book of life, and the dead were 687 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,240 judged according to their works. Whenever you die as an 688 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:34,720 unbeliever, you have no standing other than how you lived your 689 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:36,560 life. And if you haven't lived your 690 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,640 life perfectly, you're it doesn't matter. 691 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:40,960 You're you're going to go to hell. 692 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,600 You might say, well, I did this, I did this good. 693 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,520 I was like, doesn't matter. The only way you can get into 694 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,480 heaven is through the perfect shed blood of Jesus and his 695 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,000 righteousness. That's what gives you access 696 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,680 into the throne room of God without guilt and without shame. 697 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,520 And the dead are judged according to this book, 698 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:04,400 according to their works, by the things which were written in the 699 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,000 books. The sea gave up the dead. 700 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,480 These are all the other people that weren't resurrected when we 701 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,680 were, that weren't believers. We're in it and death in Hades. 702 00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:18,160 They were delivered up the dead who were in them, and they were 703 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,240 judged, each one according to his works. 704 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,520 Then death in Hades were cast into the lake of fire. 705 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,040 This is the second death and this is sobering. 706 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:32,680 And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into 707 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,680 the lake of fire. Aren't you glad your name is 708 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,920 written in the book of life? Jesus has your names written 709 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,000 there and they can't be erased out there there forever. 710 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:50,640 You're His, you belong to Him, and you have everlasting life. 711 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,120 So wonderful, isn't it? So wonderful. 712 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:05,120 So as I wind down here in First Corinthians 15, he makes his 713 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,920 comment about people being baptized for the dead. 714 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,680 There was false teaching, Pagan mysticism and calls and people 715 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,360 thought, well, if if my family died and they never got 716 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:20,160 baptized, I'm going to get baptized for them and my baptism 717 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,400 will be accredited their account to their account so they can be 718 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,960 in heaven. Well, first of all, baptism 719 00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,320 doesn't save anybody. The thief on the cross was never 720 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,840 baptized. And Jesus, when he said that 721 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,920 Jesus, Lord, Remember Me when you're in paradise, he said, 722 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,880 sure, surely this day you shall be with me in paradise. 723 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,800 He didn't yell down, hey, get this guy off the cross and dunk 724 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,040 him in water. And then once he's in water and 725 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,240 then I can promise him he'll be with me in paradise. 726 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:48,200 That didn't happen. He was immediately taken to be 727 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,560 with the Lord. But anyway, Paul's making a 728 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,600 point here. If these people are so desperate 729 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,960 because of understanding the need of resurrection, but 730 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,520 they're they got messed up teaching. 731 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,480 They're they're so focused on trying to do what they can to 732 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,000 get someone who's dead in into heaven and it won't work. 733 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,040 He says, why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 734 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,560 And this is Paul and the apostles. 735 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:14,680 I affirm by the boasting to you, which I have in Christ Jesus our 736 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:16,080 Lord. I die daily. 737 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,920 If in the manner of men I have fought with beast and Ephesus. 738 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,360 What advantage is it to me? In other words, Paul saying, now 739 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,600 look at my life. I've been in prison, I've been 740 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,120 threatened to be martyred. Eventually he was martyred. 741 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,840 He says you think I'd be doing this stuff if this resurrection 742 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,000 wasn't true. You're crazy. 743 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,800 He said if the dead do not rise, if in other words everything 744 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,920 that was written here, if this isn't true, let us eat, drink 745 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:48,720 and be merry. Why? 746 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:54,680 For tomorrow we die. Let us eat, drink and be merry, 747 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,520 for tomorrow we die. Now this last verse I'm going to 748 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,520 read is also very sobering. It says don't be deceived. 749 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,440 Evil company corrupts good habits. 750 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,400 As a Christian, if you ever hung around some people you know you 751 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,560 shouldn't hang around. Usually they have more of an 752 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,680 influence on you than you do with them, and all of a sudden 753 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,600 your worldview starts changing. Well, they're not too bad. 754 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,120 They're nice people. I don't think transgenderism is 755 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,800 that big of a deal. Yeah, they had an abortion. 756 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,400 That's their right. They can do that. 757 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,040 That. I'm not gonna say anything about 758 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,240 that. That's their business. 759 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:34,200 Or, you know, immorality, sexual morality, fornication, adultery, 760 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,360 you know, they, they're nice people, they do that stuff. 761 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,600 But I'm not doing that. Well, you better watch out, 762 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,120 because the more you hang around people that act that way, the 763 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,440 more you can begin to become that way. 764 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,560 And Paul's warning people here. Evil company corrupts good 765 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,360 habits. Awake to righteousness. 766 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,960 Wake up everybody and don't sin. Don't be practicing sin. 767 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,320 You know why for some have not the knowledge of God, he says, 768 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,720 and I speak this to your shame. So as a worship team can come 769 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:11,240 forward, Paul's wanting us to wake up here to this truth of 770 00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:14,000 resurrection. So first of all, we have an 771 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,560 impulse and a desire to tell people about what Christ has 772 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,360 done for us. Share the gospel, right? 773 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,760 That's what we do. We're having gospel training 774 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,600 here next Saturday 9:00. If anybody wants to learn how to 775 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,080 share their faith and conversational way, not 776 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,360 pressure, but this try to get people to be open minded about 777 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:38,080 the gospel. Paul wants the church in Corinth 778 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:42,240 and the church in Greensburg to wake up to the fact that there's 779 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,880 a lot of people that don't know who Jesus is, right? 780 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:48,160 You know, people that don't know Jesus. 781 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,840 I know people don't know Jesus. We need to pray and ask God to 782 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,760 give us the grace to be able to tell them about Jesus. 783 00:49:55,600 --> 00:50:00,360 Let them listen to Grace FM tell them to tune in to 91.7. 784 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,080 They'll hear the pastors on their share of the gospel all 785 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,400 day long. And you, you share the gospel. 786 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:12,000 So that is a a lot of stuff you guys had to listen to today. 787 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:16,160 And I hope you're not confused. If you're confused, ask Lewis. 788 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:21,920 He'll help you out. No, we'll, we'll all help you 789 00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:22,760 out here. All, all that. 790 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,960 Most of us believe what I what I taught today. 791 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:50,520 So let's take the Lord's Supper. I mentioned the Underwood's had 792 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,840 a baby. Did I mention that? 793 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,920 Oh, OK. Beautiful little baby. 794 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,160 They're probably watching. We rejoice and congratulate you 795 00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,040 guys. Everything's good with the baby. 796 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,160 Amen. Lord, we're so grateful for the 797 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:13,800 truth of your word and Lord God, how you make it accessible to 798 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,800 us, how we can read it for ourselves. 799 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:23,920 And then Lord, by your grace, be able to understand it and then 800 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:29,080 believe it and then live it out. I pray for anybody here today 801 00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,520 who's heard these things. Maybe they're scared now because 802 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,920 they don't know who you are. They've heard some things that 803 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:39,760 are going to eventually happen and wonder why or how or how 804 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,360 does that impact me or Lord, I pray that they would just ask 805 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,920 you, Lord, for help. Say, Lord, Jesus, show me the 806 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,200 truth. Show me the way you said you're 807 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,680 the way. You're the truth of the life. 808 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:54,000 I need to know the way I need to know the truth. 809 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,080 And I definitely want to have the life that's resurrected and 810 00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,560 lives forever. And for those of us who 811 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,560 understand these things and have believed them for years and know 812 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,040 them helped us to be stronger in these things and our 813 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:13,120 convictions. Be more 100% focused upon what 814 00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,440 it is You want us to do with all these truths and how we live 815 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:21,120 them and how we share them. Everything you did for us, Lord, 816 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:26,520 You gave it all away for us. And You asked so little of us. 817 00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,760 Lord. You asked us to simply believe 818 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:32,400 and to trust You and repent, to turn from our sin. 819 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,720 And Lord, we do that again this morning. 820 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:39,520 Lord, we ask you to forgive us for anything this past week that 821 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,640 has been not appropriate, hasn't been right. 822 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,560 Attitudes, judgments, criticisms, self centeredness, 823 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:56,280 Lord, anger, hatred, bitterness, whatever rolls up in our lives 824 00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:01,080 at times, please cleanse us. Give us forgiving hearts of 825 00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:06,160 others. Lord, Lord, you forgive us. 826 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,560 I know as we come to you and say we're sorry, cleanse us as your, 827 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,480 as your children, as believers. And then Lord, if there's anyone 828 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,360 here who isn't a believer today for the first time they can say, 829 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,400 Lord, I'm asking you to forgive me. 830 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,760 I'm asking you to cleanse me. I get it. 831 00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:28,800 And I want to be with you one day in heaven. 832 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,480 I want to sense your presence in my life. 833 00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,720 I don't want to be alone anymore in my thoughts. 834 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,720 I don't want to live my life the way I've lived it. 835 00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:44,160 I'm tired of it. It's empty and I see nothing but 836 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,480 ruin broken lives around me every day. 837 00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:50,120 They need you, Jesus, and I need you, Jesus. 838 00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,040 Please come into my life and save me. 839 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,840 On the night that Jesus is betrayed. 840 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,200 He took the bread in his hands and he broke it and he gave 841 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,440 thanks and he said, take, eat. This is my body which was given 842 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,960 to you. Eat this in remembrance of me. 843 00:54:14,060 --> 00:54:16,220 The same manner in that evening He took the cup. 844 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:21,140 He said This cup is a new covenant in my blood which was 845 00:54:21,140 --> 00:54:23,500 shed for the forgiveness of sins of many. 846 00:54:24,620 --> 00:54:31,880 Drink this in remembrance of me. As often as we eat this bread 847 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,880 and we drink this cup, we show forth the Lord's death till he 848 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,840 comes again. God bless you guys.