1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,100 The question. What is man? 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,100 Has been a question that has baffled man throughout the ages. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,300 By experience and observation, we may learn many practical 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:15,800 lessons about our physical organism and the working of our 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,000 intellect and emotions. But in itself such does not 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,500 answer the question. What is, man? 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,000 The Bible is the revelation of God to man and man to himself 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 that being said by experiment. We may learn the mode of 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 operation of the seat of a life but that gives us no clue at all 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,700 as to what that life truly is. We may learn the method of the 11 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:44,300 operation of electricity without learning one thing as to what 12 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:49,700 electricity is psychology in the much talked about psychoanalysis 13 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:54,400 May teach us much about the methods of the in of man's 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,300 Spirit but they cannot reveal to us what it is or from whence it 15 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:01,800 came. And so we ask ourselves the 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,800 question this morning. What is man we answer first by 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,900 looking at man's beginning. A very familiar passage is found 18 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,200 in the second chapter of the Book of Genesis and the 7th 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,400 verse where the Bible says, and the Lord God formed Man Out of 20 00:01:17,408 --> 00:01:20,900 the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils, the 21 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:26,600 breath of life and Man became Name a living soul in this great 22 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:27,200 work. God. 23 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,700 Did not merely speak man into existence as he did all other 24 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:35,700 works in creation but he honored The Man by forming him with his 25 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:39,900 own personal act, you know, the Bible says, when God and in all 26 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,700 of his infinite, wisdom and power and might as the great 27 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:46,200 architect of this universe, when he spoke all the other things 28 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,200 into existence, he said, let there be light in the Bible 29 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,500 says, and there was light and so forth and so on, All other 30 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:59,400 aspects of creation. But not when it came to man, he 31 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,800 did. So, with his own personal act, 32 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:06,500 the Bible says from the dust of the ground, he created, man. 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,199 And he breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life and 34 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,900 Man became a living Soul. Now, this verse needs to be 35 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:18,500 studied in connection with other passages in the Bible. 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,800 You know, that's one of the greatest things that's found in 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,800 the scriptures or the greatest thing about the hers is it never 38 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,100 contradicts itself, it all works together. 39 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:31,300 So when we look at Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7, what does 40 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:36,400 it say? It lists two aspects of man man 41 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,300 in bodily form and a man having a soul. 42 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,900 That's only two. We look at that in connection 43 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:45,500 with other passages in the Bible. 44 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:48,900 Like, for example, in the New Testament in 1st Thessalonians 45 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:53,200 chapter 5 and verse 23. Because the Bible says that man 46 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:57,000 does not have two parts, but man has three parts. 47 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,500 And in 1st Thessalonians, 5:23 the Apostle, Paul, he said, and 48 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:06,300 the Very God of Peace sanctify, you wholly and I pray God. 49 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:13,500 That's your spirit soul. And body. 50 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,500 Be preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 51 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,700 No contradiction. Just an addition where we find 52 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:30,100 that man has 3 parks. In Genesis 2 and 7. 53 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:34,300 It mentions only two body and soul, but then as much as body 54 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:39,700 and soul was created immediately and simultaneously, God, created 55 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:43,200 the spirit in Zechariah, Chapter 12 and verse 1. 56 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:47,100 The Bible says, the burden of the word of the Lord for Israel. 57 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:49,800 Saith the Lord. Which stretcheth forth the 58 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,600 heavens and lay at the foundation of the earth and 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,000 formed with the spirit of man within him. 60 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:01,700 Now, Going back to our passage in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 61 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,700 7. And the Lord God formed man of 62 00:04:04,708 --> 00:04:07,300 the Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils. 63 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:10,000 The breath of life and Man became a living soul. 64 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,900 And to notice a very interesting word here and that is the word 65 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:19,899 breathe, or breath. It comes from a Hebrew word 66 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:24,900 which is called shama or shama. However it is that you pronounce 67 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:27,500 that word. Interesting word because the 68 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:31,500 Bible says that, whatever, God did he did that, when Man became 69 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,900 a living Soul, God, did that he breathed into his nostrils? 70 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:39,100 The breath of life that word Breathe by definition. 71 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,500 According to mr. Strong is a puff. 72 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:48,500 Wind angry or vital breath? Divine inspiration, 73 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,500 intellectually or concrete an animal. 74 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:55,400 Well, since the breath that's introduced into the nostrils of 75 00:04:55,407 --> 00:05:00,700 this, man is the same that makes other animals alive it, 76 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:02,900 required. That man made in the image of 77 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:06,400 his creator, should have something else added to it, to 78 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,300 lift him above all order of living beings and that was the 79 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:13,000 spirit. It created within him. 80 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:15,900 We're going to get to this later. 81 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:22,000 But man has something that's eternal. 82 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,800 And all other forms of creation do not have that. 83 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,900 That's what makes man different from everything else that God 84 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:33,300 has created keeping this in mind. 85 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,100 What else do we know about the nature of man? 86 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,800 In Genesis chapter 2 and verse 26. 87 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,500 We find that the body without the spirit is dead for. 88 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:49,300 The scripture says, for as the body without the spirit is dead. 89 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:54,700 So faith without works is dead. Also you know we look at this 90 00:05:54,700 --> 00:06:00,700 passage so many times from the aspect of faith And we draw the 91 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:05,300 connection because we understand that the body without the spirit 92 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:08,300 is dead. If the life force is removed 93 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:11,400 from the body of the bided body, does not continue to live. 94 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:15,600 So we look at that in connection with faith and works. 95 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,000 Now, we understand that the kind of faith that we need to have, 96 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,000 is not a dead faith. Not a faith, that substitutes 97 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,700 words for deeds and all of that, but we need to have a working 98 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,000 Faith. The way we do that is we 99 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,400 demonstrate our Five are obedient works. 100 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,800 We understand that, for example, you should be able to look at my 101 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,100 life, I'll just use me as an example and you should be able 102 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,400 to look at my life and understand that I'm a Christian 103 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:44,400 and understand that I am a child of God. 104 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:48,400 Without me saying one word about what I believe you ought to be 105 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,300 able to do that. You, I ought to be living my 106 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:55,700 life in such a way that I am demonstrating my faith by my not 107 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,800 Merit. Oriole works, but my obedient 108 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,000 works. You know, the Bible says that 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,500 we're not we're saved by grace. We are we're saved by grace. 110 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,100 That's true. And the Bible says not works. 111 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:11,600 Lest any man should boast. All that means is that's a 112 00:07:11,608 --> 00:07:14,200 passage. That's misinterpreted so much 113 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,400 today. Those were the word works, 114 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:18,900 there's talking about works of Merit. 115 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:22,900 In other words, there is no list in the world that I can create 116 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,700 and I can say I've done all of these wonderful things. 117 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:28,800 Therefore I've earned my salvation. 118 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,700 But we are saved by works. Obedient Works demonstrating our 119 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:35,900 faith, in our life. All that being said, that's the 120 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:40,300 connection or the comparison between the body and the spirit 121 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,200 as the body. Without the spirit is dead. 122 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:48,700 So faith without works is dead. Also death is predicated of the 123 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:53,200 body and the separation of the spirit from the body results in 124 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,800 death of the body. Now, we find a characteristic of 125 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,100 man. That's different from all 126 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:02,000 others. In creation is as we have on the 127 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:08,100 board we were made or created in the image of our creator or God 128 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:12,500 as we've already read Genesis 1:26, let us make man in our 129 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:16,200 image, after our likeness and so forth and so on. 130 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:21,800 And the Bible says, in verse 27, that God created Man In His 131 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,600 Image. Now here's a point that we need 132 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,100 to make here. We have the question, what's it 133 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:33,799 talking about when it says that we were made in the image of 134 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,600 God? Let me just make a statement 135 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:42,600 here being made in the image of God has absolutely nothing to do 136 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,100 with our physical appearance or our physical bodies. 137 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:51,700 It doesn't mean that at all. You know, I'm going to make a 138 00:08:51,708 --> 00:08:54,800 statement here when it says, let us make man in our image. 139 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,600 After our likeness, I want to make a point about likeness 140 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,100 Tanner my son. Let us song earlier. 141 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:08,200 Looks like me. And his whole life people have 142 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,400 said, Tanner is in my likeness sometimes even called him my 143 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,400 little mini me. I have to tell you, I kind of 144 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,100 like that. I like it that we wear our hair 145 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:22,300 of the same. I like it that my son resembles 146 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:26,800 me or looks like me Taylor is, in the likeness of Tina, she 147 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,500 bears that likeness and so we use that word likeness when we 148 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:35,100 talk about that today, when somebody looks like someone 149 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:40,200 physically, but when the Bible says, let us make man in our 150 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,300 image, after our likeness, it has nothing to do with physical 151 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:49,300 appearance at all. Now, if the view that 152 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,500 entertained by materialist be true, then man is no more than 153 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:58,800 an image shaped out of clay with air, breathed into him, acts 17 154 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,700 and 29 says for as much. Then as we are The Offspring of 155 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:05,100 God. We ought not to think of the 156 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:11,600 godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone Graven by Art 157 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,300 and man's device. So the word image does carry the 158 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:20,400 idea of likeness But here's my question, what's the point of 159 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,800 like this? What's the points of likeness we 160 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,000 are in the image of God? Well, there are three things, 161 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,700 three points of likeness that make us in God's image. 162 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:41,600 Number one is intellect. Intellect man, is different from 163 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:47,900 all other forms of creation because of intellect, the spirit 164 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:51,400 knows in First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 11. 165 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,500 The Bible says, for what man knoweth the things of a man, 166 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:02,600 save the spirit of a man, which is in him for Sulphur, even so 167 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,600 the things of God knoweth no man. 168 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:08,800 Man, but the spirit of God, what's that saying to me, that's 169 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,500 saying that I have a likeness or similarity to God in that. 170 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,300 I have a spirit that knows my thoughts, just as the spirit of 171 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:22,000 God knows his thoughts. That is a point of likeness. 172 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,500 Now, it's a very interesting concept about having intellect 173 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:30,500 and understanding things that other forms of creation. 174 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:36,900 Do not understand in Romans chapter 8 and I realized as Sean 175 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:39,700 McAllister was preaching, when he was here over at Brundage, he 176 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:43,300 mentioned in a sermon about Romans chapter 8 and be careful 177 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,500 about when it has a capital S is talking about the holy spirit so 178 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:48,300 forth. And so on I'll just make this 179 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:53,200 point here, there's something about me and you That's 180 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,000 different from all other forms of creation by way of intellect. 181 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 That is very important. And that is this in Romans 182 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,500 chapter 8. I believe when the Bible says 183 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:07,500 that the spirit, that's the Holy Spirit, the spirit, testifies, 184 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:11,100 with our spirit that we are, the sons of God. 185 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,900 How does that work? Now, it doesn't say that the 186 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:18,700 spirit, the Holy Spirit, testifies to our spirit, that 187 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:20,400 would been miraculous and direct. 188 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,100 It doesn't say that it says with She know what that means to me. 189 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:26,800 I respectfully submit to you. Is what I believe that's talking 190 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,300 about when I open up this book and the Holy Spirit reveals 191 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:33,500 himself to me about all the things that I must do in order 192 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:38,300 to be saved my intellectual. Mind, the mind of my spirit can 193 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,100 understand what it is that I must do in order to be saved. 194 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,200 When I compare that with what the book says, with what I have 195 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,900 done, I can know and I can determine whether I'm a Child of 196 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:53,200 God. That's wonderful. 197 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,100 There's nothing miraculous. That means I can understand. 198 00:12:58,100 --> 00:12:59,900 You know why? Because I have a point of 199 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:03,700 likeness with God and that is intellect. 200 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,300 Bible says that nobody knows my thoughts. 201 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,600 Except the spirit of me that I have. 202 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:15,400 Nobody knows my thoughts. Like that. 203 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,100 Just like nobody knows the thoughts of God. 204 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,000 Save the spirit of God. Now. 205 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,400 In Romans 8, also. It talks about the spirit with 206 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,100 groanings that cannot be uttered. 207 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,200 I believe that's talking about the human Spirit, the spirit of 208 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,100 man. I want to illustrate it to you 209 00:13:35,108 --> 00:13:39,700 like this. This has happened to me twice in 210 00:13:39,708 --> 00:13:43,100 my life. Just twice. 211 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:50,200 And I've never told anybody this until just now. but it happened 212 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:56,200 to me not long ago last summer, It happened when the death of 213 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,700 our first born, son. And it happened when I got a 214 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:04,600 phone call from the doctor saying that I had throat cancer. 215 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:11,300 The Bible says in Romans chapter 8, It's sometimes, I do not know 216 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:13,200 as I paraphrase what to pray for. 217 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:17,900 But my spirit, I believe that's what that's talking about with 218 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:19,600 groanings. That cannot be uttered 219 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:25,500 understands what I feel. When I got that phone call, I 220 00:14:25,508 --> 00:14:27,100 want to tell you something. I was by myself. 221 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,400 And I wasn't afraid for me, but I fell to my knees and I started 222 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,700 to pray and I started to cry and I'm going to tell you something 223 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:37,100 right now. I did not know what to say. 224 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:43,700 I had no clue as to what to say. I knew how I felt. 225 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,500 I knew that I was I was torn inside, not for me, but for my 226 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:53,800 family, And the only thing that I could think of is my family or 227 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,100 the possibility of how awful it would be if my family had to go 228 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,800 on without me they need me. And I'm going to tell you 229 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,300 something, I absolutely. Now you may not think that I've 230 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:09,000 ever been at a loss for words, but I'm going to tell you, I had 231 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:14,300 a loss for words. I was over whelmed. 232 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:18,500 Folks, I believe that's exactly what that's talking about. 233 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:22,700 I knew what I knew how I felt. I couldn't form the words. 234 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:26,200 Here's the blessing. God heard those groanings. 235 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:32,000 As if I would have spoke them myself from my own lips. 236 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 I'm going to tell you something folks, that is a blessing. 237 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:39,900 You know why? Intellect. 238 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,900 It makes me different. Makes you different from all 239 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:47,800 other forms of creation. I'll just go to another passage 240 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,100 to though, in Ephesians, chapter 4 and verse 23. 241 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:58,300 Here's more about intellect and be renewed in the spirit of what 242 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,500 of your mind. Be renewed in the spirit of your 243 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:04,700 mind. How is it that your renewed in 244 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,300 the spirit of your mind? I think that's exactly what 245 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:10,100 Romans chapter 12 is talking about verses one and two about 246 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:12,400 being transformed. Don't be conformed to the world 247 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:17,100 but be transformed by how by the renewing of your mind. 248 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:21,700 There's only one way, you can renew your mind and that is to 249 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:25,700 look to the word of God and have your mind, renewed, day by day. 250 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,900 Intellect a point of lightness but secondly, there's something 251 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:36,700 else that we have as a point of likeness with our creator and 252 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:44,000 that is emotion. Emotion. 253 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:50,200 The Bible says, for example, that the spirit Grieves in 254 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:55,100 Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30, it says grieve, not the Holy 255 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:57,500 Spirit. You know that work. 256 00:16:57,500 --> 00:16:59,900 Grieve means I'm going to give you the exact definition of this 257 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,900 word grief. It's great because it really it 258 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:07,099 really brings it home and let me ask you have you ever had this 259 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,300 feeling? Have you ever had this? 260 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:11,099 It says grieve not the Holy Spirit. 261 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:12,900 What did I say? I'm talking about a point of 262 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:16,400 likeness emotion grieve, not the Holy Spirit, the word grieve, 263 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,900 their means get this to cause distress. 264 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:28,099 Sorrow or sadness. Point of likeness emotion, the 265 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:30,600 spirit. Grieves, I'm gonna tell you 266 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,100 something, I've had sorrow, have you? 267 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,400 I've been sad. I have been forlorn, I have had 268 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,900 all that same idea, I guess what your creator understands every 269 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:46,000 bit of that, too. Because that's a point of 270 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,300 likeness he has with his creation In Daniel chapter 7 and 271 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:53,600 verse 15. The Bible says, I Daniel was 272 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,000 grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body and the, and 273 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,400 the visions of my head, troubled me, you know, there is even a 274 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,400 grief process today, isn't there? 275 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:08,000 Sometimes people go through, shock in the process and then 276 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:13,400 sadness or tears and sometimes anger kicks in You're sometimes 277 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,500 angers first but there is a process. 278 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,500 We feel things that handles don't feel and that's a point of 279 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:25,900 likeness we have with our great creator. 280 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,800 Another form of emotion is to rejoice. 281 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,100 You know, when the Bible talks about rejoicing, even the angels 282 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:40,700 in heaven Rejoice, these are beings that are in heaven and 283 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:44,200 even they rejoice. When what when even one sinner 284 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:50,400 comes to repentance, I Rejoice to it great when we can Rejoice 285 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,400 together about things when someone obeys the gospel and we 286 00:18:55,400 --> 00:19:00,000 all Rejoice together we might have one might have planted a 287 00:19:00,008 --> 00:19:02,200 seed. One might have watered, God gave 288 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,500 the increase and when that soul is saved, what do we do? 289 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,900 We all Rejoice death. What Jesus said? 290 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:13,600 We all Rejoice together. That's a form of the motion in 291 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,300 Luke 147. The Bible says and my spirit 292 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:22,500 hath rejoiced in God, my savior, two forms of emotion, breathing 293 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,700 and rejoicing. But the third part or the third 294 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,000 thing, that is a point of likeness between us and our 295 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 creator and this really separates us. 296 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:36,800 This really separates us and that is this both our creator 297 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,800 and our self have a determined. Will. 298 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,900 That's what makes us really different. 299 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,400 You might think that an animal has emotions and you might argue 300 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,600 that point not higher forms of or higher degrees of but I'm 301 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,400 going to tell you when you get down to a determined will you 302 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,000 start separating us from everything for a grand a great 303 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,000 degree. A determined will the Bible says 304 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,300 the spirit wills and Matthew 26 and 41, the Bible says watch and 305 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:09,700 pray that ye enter not into temptation the spirit. 306 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:12,900 Indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 307 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:16,000 What about God? How do we know that God Wills? 308 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,200 Because the scripture says so first John five, Fourteen and 309 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,200 fifteen. If we ask anything according to 310 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:27,300 what according to his will, He heareth us. 311 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:30,000 And God always hears his children. 312 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,900 He always hears the audible words of his children, but he 313 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:39,700 answers those prayers favorably in our favor as we ask if we 314 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:44,300 pray according to his will, and if it is his, will he grants 315 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:46,100 those things? And that's what that passage is 316 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:50,300 talking about. Now, intelligence is not an 317 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:53,800 attribute of the body if it were the body would be just as 318 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,300 intelligent after the separation of the Hear it from the body, as 319 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:00,900 before the image consists, not in physical likeness, but an 320 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:03,400 intellectual or spiritual likeness. 321 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,000 Now, what I'm saying here in summary of this part is this God 322 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,400 possesses these things in an infinite degree. 323 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,300 And before I start, I don't want to leave the impression that 324 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:16,100 we're just like God because we are not. 325 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,300 He is great. We are not God. 326 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:24,500 Possesses these things in an infinite degree. 327 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:29,900 And I got them in a finite degree, but I have them. 328 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:36,100 It's a point of likeness a point of likeness with my creative 329 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,800 Paul declares that we ought not to think that God is like a 330 00:21:40,808 --> 00:21:44,500 material image in Acts 17 and 29. 331 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,400 In fact, Paul declared the ignorance cause men to think 332 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:52,300 that God was like material images. 333 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,400 Notice the passage is found in the book of Acts really quickly. 334 00:21:55,700 --> 00:22:00,300 Acts chapter 17 and beginning in verse 29, forasmuch, then as we 335 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,100 are The Offspring. Spring of God, we ought not to 336 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:05,500 think that the godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone 337 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:09,700 Graven by Art and man's device. Look at verse 30 and the times 338 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:16,000 of ignorance, God winked at That was a time of ignorance when man 339 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,200 thought, God could be worshipped as a Graven image and there was 340 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,100 a time of ignorance God winked at that not anymore but now 341 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:28,600 commandeth all men everywhere to repent. 342 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:35,900 A continuation of that passage. And so it is now, folks, someone 343 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:38,800 that believes that, man, that God can be worshipped in a 344 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,800 Graven image. It's still just ignorance. 345 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:48,400 Because God is not that material image. 346 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,600 You know we've talked about what is man. 347 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,900 Now let's ask ourselves the question. 348 00:22:54,900 --> 00:23:01,100 What is God? In John chapter 4, a very 349 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:04,500 familiar narrative and I'll just paraphrase through that rather 350 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:07,500 quickly. But you remember the incident 351 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:11,500 when Jesus was with his disciples and Jesus was passing 352 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:15,000 through Samaria. Now, many times, especially in 353 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,600 the last week of the life of Jesus. 354 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,800 You remember that as they were going to Jerusalem for the 355 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,000 Passover, they went through Jericho. 356 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,200 Why avoid Samaria? You know why? 357 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,900 Because the Samaritans and the Jews hated each And they worship 358 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:32,300 even in different places. They couldn't stand each other. 359 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,400 But Jesus, on purpose, goes through Samaria. 360 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,900 And what does he find as he's walking along? 361 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:41,200 He comes to the woman at the well, and he says, woman, draw 362 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,600 me to drink and she says, how is it that a Jew and a man be 363 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,200 asking of me, a woman of Samaria for a drink. 364 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,100 And Jesus said, if you knew who I was, you be asking for a drink 365 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,700 that I can give you and if you had that water that I have, 366 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,400 you'll never thirst. She had no idea none at all. 367 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,400 What he was talking about. So you know she says, let's have 368 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,500 it. I'll take it. 369 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,100 It's have some of that water. They start talking about places 370 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:15,900 of worship and Jesus responds like this, he says wait a minute 371 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:24,100 he says God is a spirit. and they that worship Him must 372 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:31,700 worship Him in both spirit and in truth, John Chapter 4 verses 373 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:34,800 and verse 24, finally along this line. 374 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,300 You remember that? Jesus, when he went to go got 375 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:39,800 this, brow and he hung on calvary's Cross. 376 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,200 He hung there for about six hours, Jesus dies, on the cross, 377 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,500 Jesus is taken down from the cross. 378 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,700 He is buried. The Bible says, and we find in 379 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:53,300 Luke chapter 24, that account that early on that Sunday 380 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:56,200 morning when those women had gone out to spy the Sepulchre. 381 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,600 Only to find that the stone was rolled away and the D of Jesus 382 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,000 was gone. Remember that? 383 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:07,000 Remember, when two disciples were walking along that seven 384 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,100 and three-quarter mile journey to a little village called 385 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,100 Emmaus? And as they're walking along, 386 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:13,800 they get a visitor, remember who he is? 387 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,100 It's Jesus, but they don't recognize who he is, and Jesus 388 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:22,000 preaches himself to them by beginning, with Moses and all 389 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 the prophets and revealed himself through God's word to 390 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,200 them. Jesus was resurrected from the 391 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,800 dead on that day. Day now. 392 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,500 When Jesus spent those 40 days with his disciples, one of the 393 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,600 things that he said, is a spirit hath, not Flesh and Bones. 394 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:44,900 So if God is a spirit, he has no Flesh and Bones and there's no 395 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,500 image that can be ever put together, no statue, nothing. 396 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:56,100 Back in a simulate, what God is? Because God is a spirit. 397 00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,800 Well, we find it death, the spirit returns to God, not 398 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,300 talking about this, this part of, man. 399 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:05,200 I'm going to make this point because sometimes people say 400 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:10,200 this, sometimes people say that when you use the word spirit in 401 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,800 the Bible in the New Testament, you are saying that 402 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,100 interchangeably that spirit and soul could be used, just 403 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:20,500 equally. So you might be able to say that 404 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:23,900 spirit in a general sense, includes the soul or you can be 405 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:27,200 speaking of something called The Soul by mentioning it in a 406 00:26:27,208 --> 00:26:30,700 general sense as the spirit. But you can't always look at 407 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:34,700 these interchangeably because these These are three specific 408 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:39,600 separate parts of, man. How do I know that Ecclesiastes? 409 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,600 Chapter 12 and verse 7? The bible tells me that the 410 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,100 spirit at death goes where it goes to God. 411 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,700 Then shall the dust return to the Earth as it was. 412 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,900 What's the dust? That's the body. 413 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,000 And what happens to the spirit that life force in, man, the 414 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,300 spirit goes back to God who gave it? 415 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:03,500 That's two parts but there's more. 416 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:07,300 There's more. When Jesus was crucified on the 417 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:10,700 cross, the Bible says, he hung between those two mouths 418 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:12,400 factors. And one said, if you are, who 419 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,400 you say, you are save thyself and us the other one says, Lord. 420 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,300 Remember me, when you come into your kingdom, and Jesus turned 421 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:25,900 to this man, and Jesus said today, today, Thou shalt be with 422 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:31,600 me in Paradise. In Paradise. 423 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:39,200 The soul went to Paradise, the spirit went back to God who gave 424 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:45,200 it, and the body went to the tomb back to the dust of the 425 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,600 ground when Jesus was on the cross. 426 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,300 He says, finally to his father, father into thy hands, I do what 427 00:27:52,300 --> 00:28:00,000 I commend my spirit this part, right then and there The soul 428 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,600 went somewhere else, the land of departed, righteous Souls Hades, 429 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,300 the hadean realm, the place, the Abode of the righteous Souls 430 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:13,100 death. But the spirit goes back to God, 431 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,100 who gave it. When Jesus was buried though, 432 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,100 there was another part of him and that was his body. 433 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,900 And the Bible says, according to the 16th Psalm, and the tenth 434 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:29,100 verse that, his body would not be left in Hell or Hades. 435 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:35,000 Neither will his holy one God's, holy one, see corruption. 436 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:39,000 Another translation says that that word corruption is Decay. 437 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,200 It was prophesied that Jesus went buried would not be buried. 438 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,700 So long that his body Would Decay and decompose three parts. 439 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:50,600 That's the body. So went to Paradise with the 440 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,000 thief, the spirit though, father into thy hands, I commend my 441 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,900 spirit, the spirit went back to God, who gave it, another 442 00:28:57,900 --> 00:29:01,700 example, ax7 and 59. When Stephen was giving his 443 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,500 defense, he was giving his great defense. 444 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:09,300 He was preaching, he was giving his defense and the Bible says 445 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:11,800 that they were absolutely infuriated. 446 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,400 They take him outside to Stone him to death. 447 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,800 Do you remember what happened? He says he looks up and he saw 448 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,900 Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and that was all she 449 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,900 wrote. That's all they needed to hear. 450 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,700 And the Bible says that they ran upon him and they stoned him to 451 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:33,100 death, and before he died. What did he say? 452 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:42,200 Lord, Jesus receive my spirit. Receive my spirit, but Stephen 453 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,900 Soul The Immortal part, the part that will live on forever. 454 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:51,800 He's in Paradise. With all the other redeemed and 455 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,000 saved in the body of Christ, awaiting the resurrection. 456 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:00,200 We learned from these passages in summary, thus far that the 457 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,000 spirit of death returns to God, when the Lord Jesus Christ comes 458 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,200 again, he will bring with him. Those that have died in the 459 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,800 faith 1st Thessalonians 4. And 14 says, for, if we believe 460 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,100 that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also, which sleep 461 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,500 in Jesus, will God bring with him now. 462 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,800 What's the body for then? Seems to me that there's a 463 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:28,500 couple very important parts of man in the spirit and the Soul, 464 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,600 especially the soul. So what's the body for and does 465 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,600 it matter what we do in the body? 466 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,200 Well, the body is the house that houses? 467 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,100 All of that second, Peter 1, beginning in verse 13, the Bible 468 00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:47,500 says ye and I think it meet as long as I am in this Tabernacle 469 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,500 to stir you up by putting you in remembrance knowing that 470 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:54,500 shortly. I'm Put off this Tabernacle even 471 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,700 as the Lord Jesus Christ has showed me. 472 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:01,200 Moreover, I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease 473 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,800 to have these things. Always in remembrance one more 474 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,600 passage police, second Corinthians 5. 475 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:12,200 Beginning in verse 14, we know that if our Earthly House of 476 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,600 this Tabernacle were dissolved, what do we have? 477 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:20,100 Paul says, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands 478 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,300 Eternal in the heavens. 84 in this weak groan earnestly 479 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:28,200 Desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from Heaven. 480 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:32,100 If so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked for. 481 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,700 We that are in this Tabernacle do groan being burdened, not for 482 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:40,100 that, which would be, we'd be unclothed but clothed upon that. 483 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:43,000 Mortality might be swallowed up of Life. 484 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,800 The fleshly body is the Tabernacle where, or the house 485 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,100 in which the real man lives. Paul shows that it death, we put 486 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:55,600 this This Tabernacle off and the spirit, leaves the body and 487 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,100 that's exactly what the psalmist. 488 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:01,600 David said in Psalms, 91 verse 10, when it says, the days of 489 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,700 our years are threescore years and ten. 490 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,900 If by reason of strength, they be fourscore Years yet is their 491 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,500 strength in labor and sorrow for it is soon. 492 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:15,900 Cut off and we would and we fly away. 493 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,800 What's flying away? Not the body. 494 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,700 I'm going to tell you something, wouldn't be something that body 495 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:28,700 started flying around. you know, I got to tell you something as a 496 00:32:28,708 --> 00:32:31,800 preacher and a painting contractor, I've spent a lot of 497 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,100 time in mortuaries, I spent a lot of time in that with 498 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:40,000 preaching funerals and painting mortuaries You know, I always 499 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,700 had all these thoughts and all these people in rumors and 500 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:45,200 stuff. When people talk about what 501 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,900 happens and, and, and bodies that are dead and so forth in 502 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:53,500 the mortuary and raising up and doing all manner of things, that 503 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:56,400 kind of give you the creeps, And you know what? 504 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,400 He said to me, I asked a mortician that one time, you 505 00:32:58,408 --> 00:33:02,900 know, he said, he said, man, I am a third-generation mortician, 506 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,700 I have seen it all, and if a body raises up, I'm hitting the 507 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:10,600 door. It's not possible. 508 00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:13,700 The physical body is dead. What flies away? 509 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:19,000 It's the spirit, it's the spirit that leaves the body. 510 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:24,400 Now. So it death body goes to the 511 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,900 ground, Spirit goes back to God, who gave it. 512 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,400 But now the third part and that's the most important part 513 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:37,400 That's the soul. Because the soul never dies. 514 00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:42,500 There will never be a time when the soul is no longer. 515 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,300 In fact, whether you're saved or whether you're lost, there will 516 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:49,700 never be a time when the soul is no longer. 517 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:56,800 It goes on for eternity. And you cannot kill the soul. 518 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,500 Jesus said in Matthew 10:28 and fear, not them which kill the 519 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,700 body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him 520 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:11,199 which is able to destroy both what soul and Body in hell now. 521 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,699 In Philippians chapter 1. The Bible says that the Apostle 522 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:23,900 Paul had a straight. The King James version says, he 523 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:27,600 had a straight. That passage says for me to live 524 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,900 is Christ. And to die is gain. 525 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,600 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. 526 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:44,100 Yet, when I shall choose, I know not for I am in a strait betwixt 527 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:48,300 or between two having a desire to depart and be with Christ, 528 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:51,900 Which is far better, nevertheless to abide in the 529 00:34:51,900 --> 00:34:55,900 flesh. Listen is more needful for you. 530 00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:58,800 He knew that the be with the Lord was far greater for 531 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,800 himself, but he also knew that that's not the best thing for 532 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,600 for the cause of Christ. And let me just say this. 533 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,100 It didn't mean, he had a death wish, it didn't mean, he wanted 534 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:15,100 to do himself, some kind of harm, it didn't mean that at 535 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,400 all. You know, what's really sad to 536 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,800 me? What's really sad to me is when 537 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,800 people think that there's no other way, if there's no other 538 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,700 way out, except to take their own life. 539 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:29,100 Having a death wish, and removing themselves from this 540 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,000 life. I've never understood that. 541 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,400 I've spent the better part of a year being treated. 542 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,700 I'm going to tell you something about some people that I saw I 543 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:45,300 saw some little old ladies that were fighting for their life. 544 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:49,900 I saw people that were fighting with every fiber of their being 545 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:52,900 to live. I talk to people and they would 546 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:55,400 tell me that the reason that they wanted to live is because 547 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,800 of their family and they were going to do every single thing 548 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,100 that they possibly could to live. 549 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,600 You know why folks because it doesn't make any difference, 550 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,100 whatever we're in or whatever state wherein it is never ever, 551 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:12,800 ever, okay to quit. It is never okay to end it ever 552 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,800 and nowhere in the Bible. Does it say that? 553 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,400 That's okay. Nowhere. 554 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,900 I don't understand some of the things. 555 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,500 About that. There was a song written about 556 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:32,200 that very thing. And it says, it was just another 557 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,500 story printed on the second page underneath the Tigers football 558 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:40,800 score. It said he was only 18 a boy 559 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,800 about my age. They found him face down on his 560 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,900 bedroom floor. They'll be services on Friday at 561 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:52,600 the Lawrence Funeral Home than out on Mooresville Highway. 562 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,500 They'll lay him need the stone. But how do you get that lonely? 563 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:03,200 How do you hurt that bad? To make you make the call that 564 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,200 have a no life at all. Is better than the life that you 565 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,600 had. How do you feel so empty that 566 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,700 you want to let it all go? How do you get that lonely? 567 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,900 And nobody know. Did his girlfriend break up with 568 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:23,800 him? Did he buy or steal that gun? 569 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,300 Did he lose a fight with drugs or alcohol? 570 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,100 did his mom and daddy, forget to say, I love you, son. 571 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,500 Did no one. See the writing on the wall? 572 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,600 I'm not blaming anybody. We all do the best we can. 573 00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:49,300 I know hindsight's 20/20. but I still don't understand one 574 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:53,200 little example. Elijah, we all know the story he 575 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,300 was depressed, he was down. He wanted to die. 576 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,700 But let's always use him as an example and look at the whole 577 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:04,400 story. Went to a funeral not long ago. 578 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,400 When the preacher use, that story be at a funeral funeral 579 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,300 home of the fellow that took his own life but there's a second 580 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:14,300 part to that you know what, the angel lord said to him, oh he 581 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:16,300 was down. He wanted to end it. 582 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,200 He wanted to die Angel lord said, you know, he said he says 583 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,700 you're wrong, get up and go back. 584 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,600 What else? There's work to be done, what 585 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,000 else? It's not time for you to die. 586 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,900 And by the way, your entire thinking is wrong. 587 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,800 Because it's not hopeless. There are still 7000 that have 588 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,800 not bowed the knee to Baal. It's never okay to quit in this 589 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,900 life. It is never okay to quit. 590 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:53,200 Paul had a struggle to know that to be with the Lord would have 591 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,600 been wonderful and great but he knew that the cause of Christ 592 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,800 needed him in this life and folks that needs to be every 593 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,000 Christians desire. Let's leave this world better 594 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,600 than we found it. You know. 595 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,400 Anybody can do that. Anybody can you might say? 596 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:17,400 Well not me. Yeah, you yes, you everybody in 597 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,500 their own, even small center of influence can make the world 598 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:24,100 better than they found it. Can make the world better for 599 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:28,400 the cause of Christ than once. It was then what it once was. 600 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,400 Because not tell you something, folks, the soul is eternal and 601 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,400 will be judged by the things that we did when all these 602 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,900 things were together in the body. 603 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:46,400 Outer man, perishes Inner Man, renewed, day by day second, 604 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,200 Corinthians 4, and I'm almost finished 2nd Corinthians 4 605 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,200 beginning in verse 16 for which cause we faint not. 606 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,100 But through our outward man perish though. 607 00:39:56,100 --> 00:40:00,000 Our outward man perish. Yet the inward man is renewed 608 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,200 day by day. Today for our light Affliction, 609 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,900 which is, but for a moment worketh for us a far more 610 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,800 exceeding and eternal weight of Glory. 611 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:10,600 While we look not at the things which are seen. 612 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,800 But the things that are not seen for the things which are seen 613 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,400 are temporal, but the things which are not seen are Eternal. 614 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,100 That's an amazing passage. You know what he says he's 615 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,100 talking about the outer man and it's going to perish and I tell 616 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:29,100 you this, If I live long enough and the Lord doesn't come back, 617 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:35,200 this outer man, this body is going to Decay Parish where out. 618 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:39,000 I may be an old old man that can't even move. 619 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:45,100 And at the very same time, my inner man can be still renewed, 620 00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:49,400 day by day. Member be renewed, Ephesians 621 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:57,700 4:23 in the spirit of your mind. Romans 12 verses 1 and 2 are 622 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:02,900 concerned today. Folks is our Eternal Soul that 623 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,700 being said, I want to ask you how it is with you today. 624 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:09,800 How is it with you today in this life? 625 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,400 Have you been living? As you should have? 626 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,400 You understood what the Bible teaches that you must do in 627 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,400 order to be saved? And have you follow that? 628 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,600 Are you on the path? Are you on the straight and 629 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,800 narrow way? First of all, the Bible is very 630 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,100 clear on what a person must do to be saved. 631 00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:29,700 The Bible, says in, Romans 1 and 17. 632 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:33,300 So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 633 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:38,700 Jesus said, in Mark, 16 15 and 16, he that believeth and is 634 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:42,200 baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be 635 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,700 damned Jesus said in Luke 13 and 3. 636 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:48,700 And it also verse 5, I tell you nay, but except you repent, you 637 00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:52,400 shall all likewise perish. Then Jesus said, if you'll 638 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,900 confess me before, Man, I will confess you before my Father, 639 00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:58,400 which is in heaven. That confession is simply. 640 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,700 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 641 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,600 These are steps that are unto they are up to, or they Point 642 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,100 toward the point of Salvation, which is in water, baptism where 643 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,900 we go down into the Waters of baptism contact. 644 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:16,600 The blood of Jesus have our sins washed away and the Lord Jesus 645 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,700 Christ adds us to his church, right then and there we thank 646 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:23,200 you for listening to our podcast, put on by the church. 647 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:27,900 Of Christ at 22:15 plans, Road in Bakersfield. 648 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:31,900 If you would like any additional information or you would like to 649 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:34,900 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 650 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,400 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 651 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,400 Bakersfield.com. 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