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Before we begin, let me say that
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preached on this passage and 
because this subject comes up 

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all the time, I thought I might 
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So I pulled that old sermon out 
and I really didn't like it at 

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all. 
I didn't think it was very clear

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and I was very critical of my 
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So I decided to put together a 
new one, put it on PowerPoint, 

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and maybe it would be a little 
easier to understand perhaps 

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less confusing on a subject. 
T', that's very much 

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misunderstood today among people
that follow or study the Bible. 

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There are three erroneous 
positions that come from this 

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passage, and they are these 
number one that Jesus after his 

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death. 
And before his resurrection on 

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the third day, descended down 
into the hadean realm and preach

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to the Des parted spirits that 
were there, that's number one, a

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second. 
Erroneous position is this that 

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Jesus after His death and before
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day, preached only to the 
disobedient spirits of those who

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lived before the flood and 
third, we find that Jesus after 

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his death. 
And before his resurrection on 

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the third day, descended down 
into Hades as a ceremonial 

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Proclamation, whether that was 
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And undoubtedly, there are 
variations of these three 

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arguments But let's first take a
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Look at this idea or where these
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I tried to go back Beyond this 
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this. 
But according to Alexander 

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Campbell there is a preacher by 
the name of Jesse be Ferguson in

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1844 and may I say before we go 
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perfect example of what happens 
when a preacher is good. 

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What happens when a preacher is 
Well known and what happens when

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a preacher is well-liked. 
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like that deters or drifts into 
error. 18:44, Jesse be Ferguson 

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in First Peter chapter 3 and 
verses 19 and 20. 

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He was the first one to take in 
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sectarian view of this passage. 
The passage reads this by whom. 

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He also went and preached to the
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were disobedient. 
His conclusion was simply this 

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that Jesus preached to those in 
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Figuratively. 
Glee or dead physically. 

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You know, Alexander Campbell 
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I thought it was very 
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described this man and he said, 
you know, he was a man It worked

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with a church in Nashville, 
Tennessee. 

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Alexander Campbell said that 
that church was made up of 

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Nashville's Elite. 
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Jesse Ferguson, the congregation
literally exploded into several 

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hundred members. 
Now notice what happens though 

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when you leave what is right, 
this is according to Alexander 

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Campbell. 
This is a direct quote. 

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I'm going to put on there when 
he called him and what he 

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actually said. 
He said brother Ferguson's 

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official position. 
Here it is that Jesus Christ in,

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or by his spiritual nature did 
after his death actually and 

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personally, descending to Hades,
usually called hell, the 

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invisible world of wicked 
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and post diluvian by the way. 
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before. 
And after the flood, Both ante 

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and post alluvion, but 
especially in the case before us

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to preach the gospel to all the 
dead, not those in the flesh. 

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But actually two Spirits, then 
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preached to the imprisoned. 
In as his congregation Alexander

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Campbell wrote, I wish you would
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Let me tell you what happened. 
Hey, a congregation in size of 

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several hundred. 
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result after Jesse. 
Ferguson and I quote, finish 

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teaching people, his erroneous 
views about the spirits in 

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prison. 
The church was virtually 

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destroyed. 
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restore the church less than 60 
members, could be found who were

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willing to worship together and 
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was an avowed. 
Universalist, Now, what's that 

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mean? 
Are Universalist is somebody 

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that believes that no matter 
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No matter how good or how bad 
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practice, no matter what you do,
it doesn't really matter because

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in the end eventually everybody 
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That's a Universalist, in fact 
that that suits and fits Roman 

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Catholics Roman Catholicism in 
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Several years ago, there was a 
gentleman he is now passed on 

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and I was talking to him on a 
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He was the father of a general 
contractor that we were painting

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that house. 
And I was talking to him about 

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stuff and all of a sudden he 
said, now wait a minute, it 

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doesn't matter what you do. 
I mean, he liked to cuss like a 

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sailor. 
He like to do whatever he wanted

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to do, he said, doesn't really 
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because we're all going to the 
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Anyway, in other words, we're 
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sentence. 
We have to serve after this 

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life. 
But in the end, in the end it's 

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going to be okay because 
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That's a Universalist. 
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this to, if it doesn't matter, 
please get this. 

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If it doesn't matter what I do 
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eventually I'm going to make 
Heaven, I could have teed off at

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River Lakes this morning about 
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I could have done all manner of 
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My point is, if it doesn't 
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our life matters, what we do and
everybody's going to be saved 

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anyway, then why why bother this
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Universalist he went on further 
to say this but as is often the 

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case, those who are in the 
process of changing from truth 

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to error, leave behind a twisted
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So I think it's obvious that 
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I am saying Jesus did not go 
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spirits and preach to them, but 
let's just do this, let's set 

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that conclusion aside and let's 
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Let's say that he did. 
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the passage means. 
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What did he preach? 
If he actually did that, what 

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did he preach? 
If Jesus went into Hades and 

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preach to anyone at that time, 
what did he preach? 

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That he preached the gospel to 
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Could it be? 
That Jesus would preach a 

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message of Salvation to people 
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What do you preach? 
Also this to, why would he 

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preach something about a message
of salvation for change? 

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When in Hades, you don't have 
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status at all. 
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supports Roman Catholic doctrine
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So what does the Bible say in 
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I love that narrative there. 
Where Jesus heals, the man that 

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was born blind and I'm not going
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We all know what happens, he 
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Siloam. 
He watches the clip from his 

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eyes and he is healed and now he
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want to go back before that and 
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This is what Jesus said to his 
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This is what he said. 
In John 9 verses 4 and 5. 

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What did Jesus say? 
I must work. 

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The works of him. 
That's God. 

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Who sent me? 
That's Jesus. 

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While it is day, in other words,
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The night is coming when no one 
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And as long as I am in the 
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world. 
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world himself preaching? 
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world? 
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nobody can work, he calls that 
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So preaching books is done to 
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Notice, what else? 
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Corinthians, 6 and 24. 
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have heard you and in the day of
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behold. 
Now is the accepted time behold.

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Now is the day of salvation. 
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Let's go step further. 
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What happens after this, Hebrews
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man once to die but after this 
the Judgment. 

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So what does this mean? 
It means that preaching and 

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changes have to be done when a 
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According to this in John 
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preaching is done in this life, 
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and to obedience is also done. 
In this life. 

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Furthermore, I'm going to put 
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That is extremely encouraging. 
I'm gonna sit on there for a 

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minute. 
You know what this means. 

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This means that when you die, If
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will never be lost. 
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side of that will do that too. 
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What about a positive 
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What about this? 
What about when I draw my last 

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breath? 
And I passed from this life, and

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I have died in a safe condition.
What about all of our loved ones

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that have we have loved and lost
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unto death. 
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Never be lost ever Okay, stay 
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Here's the flip side of that, we
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If that is the case, and those 
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will never be lost in. 
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that die in a lost condition can
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Remember this after this life is
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You know what that means? 
That means there's no second 

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chance. 
It means there's no second 

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chance. 
It means that I can't go 

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somewhere and pay some sort of a
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spiritual world and have 
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Pray me out of there and someday
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There is no Second Chance. 
Here's the point is to be done 

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in this. 
Life preaching is done in this 

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life. 
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What's next? 
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If I die in a safe condition, 
I've never lost it by Dinah, 

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lost condition. 
I will never be saved. 

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Okay, let's talk about the 
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Now, for just a minute, In the 
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this. 
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about hadean realm, I'm just 
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you go, when you die. 
And everybody, that dies goes to

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the hadean realm, in fact, when 
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Christ, sometimes people think 
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They didn't go to heaven because
there needs to be the judgment 

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and the judgment is as 
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Not necessarily a judgement day.
Our life is the trial at the 

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point of death. 
We're here. 

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Either guilty or not guilty. 
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those that are saved long for 
that return, guess what we get 

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our entrance into the 
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not squeaking by, but we have an
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Everlasting Kingdom. 
Great stuff. 

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On the other hand, those that 
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condition, they go to the hadean
realm to, but they go to another

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place in the hadean realm, and 
at the time of Christ, when 

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Jesus comes back, their sentence
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According to the scripture is 
not me, didn't make that up. 

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All right, so let's talk about 
some in possibilities in 

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possibilities in the hadean 
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The Bible talks about the fact 
that there is an impassable 

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Gulf. 
It is between them and may. 

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I say, I'll just call the names 
out. 

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And I'm going to prove it to you
on one side, the place, where 

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save people go. 
It's called Paradise on the 

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other side, it's where lost 
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And we call that Tartarus even 
though you can't read that 

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English word, in our 
translations, In this passage, 

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I'm going to prove to you. 
That's exactly what the word is,

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all right. in Luke chapter 16 
now This is a very familiar 

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Passage. 
And it's the rich man and 

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Lazarus, right? 
So you got the rich man and you 

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got Lazarus the rich man fared 
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But Lazarus was a beggar and all
he wanted was the crumbs that 

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fell from the master's table 
like some dog somewhere. 

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So, eat a terrible life. 
He had an awful life, they both 

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die. 
Now sometimes Scholars say that 

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this is not a true-to-life 
narrative and some say that it's

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a parable. 
I'm saying this, I believe it is

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a true-to-life narrative and 
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Parables of Jesus, Jesus never 
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of Abraham and calls the place 
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comfort, all that being said, it
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Here's why. 
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a laying alongside. 
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the Physical Realm laying it, 
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spiritual realm, or spiritual 
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And they both had add to be 
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All Parables were true. 
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spiritual side. 
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All Parables were true. 
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If this is a true-to-life 
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what will be. 
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So here we go. 
So it was that the beggar died 

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and was carried by the angels to
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Like what Joe hisle said, I 
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I heard him say this from the 
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I believe it was here. 
It plans, Road and Joe. 

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Hisle said you know I just think
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over it it comes my time to 
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I think I'm not going to be 
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phrase right here. 
Don't you think it just might be

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one of the angels that take you 
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not afraid. 
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death, but like this man, that 
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He was carried by the angels to 
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And being in torments, in Hades,
I've highlighted this word for a

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reason. 
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Also in the King James version 
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the English version of the Greek
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So, if anybody ever wonders, 
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It's this word right here. 
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when it talks about Satan in the
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were cast out of heaven and cast
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Start Taurus. 
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lost people go, they go to 
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He lifted up his eyes and he saw
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And Lazarus in his bosom. 
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Abraham I have mercy on me and 
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tip of his finger in water and 
cool. 

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My tongue for I am tormented in 
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you, I know that whatever pain, 
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to, because we live in the 
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He knew he was in torment and he
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of your finger and water. 
Just put that on my tongue. 

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Let's go further. 
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Remember that in your lifetime, 
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and likewise Lazarus, evil 
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But now he is comforted and you 
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about the impossibilities in the
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between us, and you, there is a 
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So that those who want to pass 
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those from their pass to us. 
This impassable Gulf here. 

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This Great Gulf 18 Robertson 
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Chasm, a be Bruce says it's 
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You know what that means? 
It's impossible to go from one 

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What about those beautiful words
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And that Thief, says to him, 
Lord remember me when thou 

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comest into thy kingdom? 
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be with me in Paradise. 
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He was on the other side of the 
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Where Lazarus went, he was over 
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He was over there with all the 
redeemed, waiting for the second

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coming of Christ. 
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that, that's where Jesus was the
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He was on the other side where 
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of Heaven are chains of Darkness
waiting the resurrection. 

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So the thief went to Paradise, 
are there. 

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Wicked people there too. 
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the other side of the golf, The 
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Jesus goes to the hadean realm 
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righteous go. 
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There's no reason to preach to 
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no way to preach to those, that 
weren't By the way, did the 

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righteous need to be preached 
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Nope, they made it. 
They made it. 

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Did the wicked need to be 
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late. 
So the righteous don't need 

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preaching in that realm. 
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It's too late. 
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Because there's a great Gulf 
fixed so summing up so far. 

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Stay with me number one, Jesus 
did not preach to anyone. 

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In Hades pre or post diluvian 
before or after the flood as his

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congregation which is the 
doctrine of supported by 

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universalism. 
Number two, Jesus did not preach

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to the disobedient in the days 
of Noah after he died three. 

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This passage does not mean that 
when he died, his Proclamation 

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was so great. 
That it even reached hell do You

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know why? 
Because those that were saved 

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knew that were saved and those 
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lost. 
No Proclamation. 

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You know, there's something kind
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It's wonderful on one hand. 
But it's also very sober and you

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know what it is. 
The second that I died. 

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The very second that I died. 
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I'm going to know, I'm saved. 
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condition, I'm a gnome lost. 
There's no Proclamation 

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necessary, folks. 
You know, you're safe and you 

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know you're lost, okay? 
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the passage mean? 
I just told you everything that 

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it doesn't mean. 
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mean. 
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perspective. 
Let's look at the passage again 

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on the screen. 
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whom. 
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the spirits in prison who 
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When Once the Divine 
long-suffering, waited in the 

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days of Noah. 
While the ark was being Prepared

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in which a few that is eight 
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There are two key phrases in 
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Watch one, it was in the days of
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And two. 
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prepared. 
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time frame, it was in the days 
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And number two, it was. 
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and incidentally, it took 120 
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We're talking about preaching 
that was done in that time 

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period. 
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characteristics and 
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They are. 
Number one. 

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They were spirits that live 
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Number two specifically there 
were those that were disobedient

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during the 120 years of the got 
that the ark was being prepared,

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three, they were taught while 
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Therefore, they were disobedient
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being built and number 5, and 
finally, Jesus Christ Spirit was

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involved, all of those 
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So, okay, alright. 
Well, the question is How this 

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is so simple. 
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This is so simple. 
It takes a preacher to fill this

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up. 
This is so simple. 

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This is how very, very easy to 
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spirit. 
And not in the flesh. 

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During the days of Noah. 
Proclaim God's truth to evil 

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people. 
Pre-flood generation. 

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And he did so through Noah. 
A preacher of righteousness. 

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He had a preacher do it. 
He had a man, do it. 

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That's what he did. 
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righteousness. 
Second Peter 2 and verse 5. 

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More about Noah and did not 
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But saved Noah the eight and 
eight people. 

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A preacher of righteousness 
bringing in the flood on the 

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world of the ungodly. 
That's very key to explaining 

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First Peter chapter 3 and verse 
18. 

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All it was is this Jesus Christ 
in spirit through Noah, preach 

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to people that were alive. 
Did you get that? 

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They were alive. 
What do we already established? 

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Jesus says, I got to do it, but 
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preaching, I got to do my work 
during the day because there's 

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going to come a time when 
nighttime comes and no man can 

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work, right? 
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the day. 
Also, Paul said, to those at 

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Corinth, obedience is now in the
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So so when Jesus Christ, Through
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they were alive on the Earth but
I want to notice this passage 

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right here. 
This this shows about the spirit

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of Jesus Christ in a preacher 
that was living of this 

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salvation. 
The prophets have inquired, and 

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searched carefully, who 
prophesied of the grace, that 

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would come to you searching. 
What or what manner of time, the

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spirit of Christ was in them was
indicating when he testified 

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beforehand, the sufferings of 
Christ and the glories that 

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Would follow. 
In other words, the spirit of 

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Christ was also In Those Old 
Testament prophets to just like 

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in Noah a preacher of 
righteousness. 

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So when Christ through Noah 
preached to those evil people, 

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they were alive on the Earth. 
But at the time that Peter wrote

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the letter, they were long dead 
and their Spirits were suffering

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in the prison of Hill known as 
Tartarus. 

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Do you know what this is called?
This is called a prolepsis, let 

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me paraphrase. 
It this way, Christ Was Made 

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Alive in the spirit and in the 
spirit during the days of Noah, 

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he preached to evil people. 
Whose Spirits are now in the 

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prison of Tartarus punishment. 
This is called a prolepsis what 

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in the world is that what's up 
roli? 

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Sepsis. 
A prolepsis involves bringing 

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two time frames together into 
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We give an example. 
President Abraham Lincoln was 

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born in Kentucky. 
Was he president when he was 

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born? 
No but it's bringing two time 

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frames are two errors together 
in one expression involving that

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President Abraham. 
Lincoln was born in Kentucky. 

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In other words, that is a 
prolepsis now. 

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It's a common mode of expression
that Associates a current fact 

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with a prior or antecedent event
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Peter, 3 18 and 19. 
The preaching was done by Christ

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in spirit through a preacher 
that was alive named Noah in 

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ancient times to living people. 
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though, they were not alive. 
But let's furthermore go on. 

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What about first Peter four and 
six? 

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And the reason I wanted to talk 
about this is because this is a 

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passage that's often 
misunderstood and misapplied and

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in doing. 
So the past and itself has been 

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used to support the idea of 
baptism by proxy. 

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In other words, it doesn't 
matter. 

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You're dead, you're gone but 
somebody that's living. 

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That's wonderful that loves you.
They can be baptized for the 

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dead, there are religious 
Persuasions that believe that in

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other words, something on the 
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For somebody on the spiritual 
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So that's this verse here, 
First, Peter, chapter 4. 

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And verse 6 says, for this 
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Also to those who are dead, that
they might be judged, according 

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to men in the flesh but live, 
according to God, in the spirit.

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What is that? 
It's a prolepsis that gospel was

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preached to the living. but at 
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were dead. 
Regarding prison. 

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Regarding this idea of prison. 
Burton Kaufman said this. 

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There's not a line in the 
passage that requires us to 

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believe that Jesus Christ. 
Preached personally to those 

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Spirits during the three days 
that he laid in the Tomb, folks.

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That's a misunderstanding of the
passage And if that's not the 

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case, what? 
He preached those on the safe 

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side, that's where Jesus was, 
you can't get across to preach 

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to those that are on the Lost 
side. 

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So, in conclusion, In 
conclusion, I'll just sum it up.

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Again, this passage means this. 
That Jesus Christ by his spirit 

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in no. 
Preached through Noah a 

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preacher. 
Two people who were living 

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during the days of Noah. while 
the ark was being prepared for 

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the 120 years and while those 
people were still alive, but at 

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the time of Peter is writing, 
they were in the prison of 

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Tartarus and you know what 
folks? 

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They are still there. 
Today waiting for the Judgment 

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as it is appointed unto man once
to die. 

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But after this the judgment. 
You know, it is not uncommon or 

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it's not hard or far-fetched to 
understand and believe that the 

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Lord Works through people. 
In fact, if you stop and 

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consider the word of God 
consider this please, we have as

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one preacher said, one time, we 
have the power of God in the 

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hands of man. 
In other words, Jesus is not 

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going to work on people 
directly. 

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Miraculously, neither is God, 
nor the Holy Spirit. 

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The only way that people can 
make changes in their life. 

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According to what Paul said in 
second Corinthians is to make 

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them personally by way of choice
while they're still living. 

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And during the time that you're 
still living, you can make all 

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manner of changes. 
You could change for the rest of

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your life. 
In fact, I'll tell you this 

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right now, this is the greatest 
thing in the world is about 

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being a Christian, you know why?
Because it's the only thing that

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I'm aware of that you can mess 
up constantly and be forgiven 

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and change your life over and 
over again. 

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I don't know any other thing 
like that, you know what happens

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in a job like that they go 
fired. 

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Fired. 
You know, happens if you do that

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school, F kicked out. but with 
God, you could change your life 

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as long as you're alive. 
And those people in the days of 

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Noah during that 120 years while
a preacher was preaching to 

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them, had a chance and a choice.
And they chose not. 

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So only eight Souls were saved. 
What we do with the word of God 

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folks is we take the word of God
to those that are living and 

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lost and need it. 
And they have to make the choice

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to make the change. 
So Jesus didn't preach when he 

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died. 
It's a prolepsis combining two 

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time frames of when those people
were living but at the time of 

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the writing in second Peter, at 
the time of the writing, they 

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had already died.