Certainly want to welcome everyone that has come to be
with us here. This morning.
We have a wonderful crowd, we have a number of visitors that
are here among us some even all the way from Georgia and we
welcome you. And if you're a visitor here
today, we would hope and pray you would feel as you are.
And that is our honored guest and we welcome you every time
that we have an opportunity to meet, I want to invite your
attention to a passage found in first Thessalonians.
Chapter 5 we want to read just one verse there in verse 23. 1st
Thessalonians, chapter 5 and verse 23.
Now may the God of Peace himself sanctify.
You completely and may your whole spirit Spirit soul and
body. Be preserved blameless at the
coming of our Lord. Jesus Christ, Wednesday night.
We've been studying in the book of 1st Corinthians and we're
going through the book of 1st Corinthians chapter 15.
Right now. We've spent a great deal of time
on that chapter. One of the things that the great
Apostle Paul is pointing out is there were many that were
denying whether Christ ever rose from the dead and whether they
would be a future resurrection of the dead and Paul points out
that God is so powerful and he is so great.
And he is so mighty that he is able to create a body that is
fit for every environment. Paul said that the fish of the
sea, they have a body, the fowl of the air, they have a body,
the animals on the Earth, they have a body.
You and I as man, we have a body, but he talks about the
thing. That's going to be the Greatest
thing of all. And that is that which is raised
in glory or the body will have in heaven, one day.
So I thought I'd talk on the nature of, man this morning,
we'll talk about what we are now and the greatest blessings of
all what the child of God will become the question, what is
man? And what is his nature as a
question that has baffled man throughout the ages?
By experience and observation, we may learn many practical
lessons about our physical organism and the working of our
intellect and emotions, but such does not answer the question.
What is man? And what is his nature
psychology? Also in the much talked about
psychoanalysis, May teach us much about the methods of the
operation of man's Spirit but they cannot reveal to us what it
is or from whence it came. And so we ask ourselves the
question this morning. What is man and what is his
nature? And when we do so we have to go
all the way back to man's beginning.
In Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7.
The bible says, and the Lord God formed man of the Dust of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life and
Man became a living being. That's the new King James.
The King James says, and Man became a living soul Other words
in this great work. God did not merely just speak
man into his existence. You know, God said, let there be
this. And there was this, he said, let
there be that in there was that. And when God created everything,
in the days of the Bible describes that he did, he
literally spoke everything into his existence.
Now, we don't want to limit God because God could have spoke man
into existence to but he didn't do that.
He He honored The Man by creating him by his own personal
act. Now, this passage Genesis 2 and
7 has to be understood in the context of other passages.
To, for example, man has 3 parks in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5
and verse 23. Paul said, now may the God of
Peace himself sanctify, you completely and may your whole
Spirit soul and body be preserved blameless at the
coming of the Lord. Jesus Christ.
Now in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7, it only talks about two
kinds of man or two parts of man, it talks about his body and
it talks about his soul but interesting and 1st
Thessalonians. 5:23. Paul says As there's another
part of man. And that is the spirit.
In other words, immediately and simultaneously when God created
man in that way of body and soul, he also created man and
gave him a spirit. And the Bible says, a spirit
within him Zechariah Chapter 12 and verse 1, the burden of the
word of the Lord against Israel, thus says the Lord who stretches
out the heavens. Is lays the foundation of the
earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Now, you know, interestingly when we go back to Genesis
chapter 2 and verse 7, there's a word that we have to clarify and
Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7. It's the word breath.
I've tried to picture in my mind's eye.
How it was that God breathed into his nostrils, the Breath of
Life. The Bible knows says that he
did. And the word breath can be
translated from the word. It is a Hebrew word shama and it
means this a puff wind angry or vital breath.
It can also be translated as divine inspiration.
That's very familiar passage in the New Testament.
Second Timothy 3:16 and 17. Where the Bible says that all
scripture is given by inspiration of God and we know
what that means. We know that inspiration there
means to breathe out or god-breathed.
So it's a generic term that's used in a number of places in
the Bible, it's also translated, according to mr.
Strong intellectually, or concrete or an animal.
All right. So, what's the point?
The point is, if the breath that God gave man, is the same breath
that an animal has what distinguishes, a man.
A human being from an animal. That is the spirit that is
within him. One scholar, said it this way,
he said the spirit of God or the spirit that Matt gets from God,
that man gets from God is what makes us different from all
other living beings so God created the spirit within him
keeping that in mind. What do we know about the nature
of man? First of all, we know that the
body without the spirit is dead. You know, that is so well, known
and understood that James divinely inspired by the Holy
Spirit and James to, and 26 said this for as the body, without
the spirit is dead. Everybody understands that the
body without the spirit is dead. When the spirit leaves the body,
the body is dead, it is gone. There's nothing left, there's no
life force inside. And James would say everybody
understands as the body without the spirit is dead.
So faith without works is dead. Also another words, if we don't
demonstrate our faith by are obedient works that our faith is
a dead faith. But he uses the analogy or the
example of the body, without the spirit is dead.
What else do we know? This is wonderful.
We've made in the image of God. Do you ever think you weren't
special? Do you ever think that you had
no responsibilities? There is nothing about you.
That was any good. Some people feel that way about
themselves. I want you to understand, you
are special because you've been made in the image of God.
Now, what does that mean? We're going to talk about what
that means. First of all, Genesis 1:26.
It says God said, let us make man in our image, after our
likeness Now the US and they are, they're included, Jesus
Christ and it also included the Holy Spirit.
And I want to make a point about that because don't ever let
anyone in the religious world tell you different.
Jesus Christ was not a created being Some people believe that
that God created Jesus. No, he did not.
I don't know when the beginning was and I really don't care
where the beginning was and I really don't care that.
I can't explain this. All I do know, is in the
beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.
And when all of that was happening, we find that God
created man and in Genesis 1:26, God said, let us God, Jesus
Christ and the Holy Spirit. Parrot, Our God, Jesus Christ in
the holy spirit. Let us make man in our image,
according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle
and over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth, Jesus was there to.
Now being in the image of God does not refer to our physical
bodies. I read something this week.
Listen. It was written by a materialist.
And a materialist said that man is no more than an image shaped
out of clay with air breathed into him.
Therefore, if you want to have something in God's image, all
you have to do is have a statue. What does it mean to be in the
image or the likeness of God? First of all, acts 17 and 29 to
the materialist? It says, for as much then as we
are The Offspring of God. We ought not to think that the
godhead is like gold or silver or stone Graven by Art and man's
device. when you talk about being in the image of God, it
has nothing to do with physical appearance at all.
People have all manner of statues and whatnots.
We're going to talk about what God is and just a minute, but
he's not that and neither is man.
We're in the image of our creator.
What are the points of likeness between God and ourselves?
Number one intellect The spirit knows.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
The Bible says, much that our thoughts are not God's thoughts,
our ways are not God's ways as the heavens are higher than the
earth. So are God's thoughts than our
thoughts, and God's ways than our ways.
We understand that But understand this too that if we
are made in the image of God, there has to be points of
likeness between ourselves and our creator, one of which is
intellect and no animal, no other created thing in the
world. Has that kind of intellect.
What does the Bible say? The Bible says that the spirit
knows First, Corinthians, 2 and 11 for what man knows the things
of man, except the spirit of man, which is in him.
Him even so no one knows the things of God, except the spirit
of God. Isn't that great?
Look at this. Nobody knows me more than my
spirit. My human Spirit, the part of my
intellect. I'm going to tell you something.
You can fake and fool everybody in the world.
But when you look in the mirror, you can't fake him out. when you
look in the mirror and you look at your life, you can't fake
that guy. That guy knows.
And sometimes we don't like what we see when I look in the
mirror. I may not like what I see
sometimes. I'm not talking about physical
appearance. How about examining your life so
when you examine your life, understand this your spirit
knows. Is that the point of likeness
with God intellect? And no one knows.
God except the spirit of God. No one knows.
God more than the spirit of God. One of the great things about
the Bible. One of the great things about
being a child of God. Is that the word of God God's
revelation to man is such that we can understand it, because it
appeals to our intellect. When the Bible tells me exactly
what I must do to be saved, I can understand what I must do to
be saved. I could read from the word of
God, and it tells me what I need to do in my life.
The kind of life, I need to live the way that I need to worship
God. All of those things is in the
Bible and it appeals to our intellect.
How do I know that Ephesians 4, and 23 and be renewed in the
spirit of what in the spirit of your mind?
Romans chapter 12 and be not conformed to this world, but be
transformed by, what the renewing of your mind.
Don't you see? Everything in the word of God,
appeals to our intellect and the spirit knows.
No other creation can do that. No other part of creation can
have that. What else?
Emotion.
The spirit does two things by way of emotion, it Grieves.
And it rejoices In Daniel 7 and 15.
I Daniel listen to his testimony here, I Daniel was grieved in my
spirit within my body and the visions of my head troubled me,
have you ever grieved kind of sounds a little bit like Daniel
7 and 15 when you grieve? You know, there's a whole
process to grieving, I don't know everything there is to know
about grieving or the whole process but there's a process.
They say, sometimes when things are tragically taken from us or
people that we dearly love our tragically taken from us and we
couldn't plan for it and we couldn't get ready for it.
And something happens, terribly and tragically, the first thing
that enters into the picture, the first part of the grieving
process is the period of shock. And sometimes people that are in
Shock, they show, no emotion at all.
But then something happens. reality sets, in here comes the
sadness. And here comes the tears.
You know, what else comes? Anger.
That's next. I want to share something with
you when I was a freshman in college, my best friend in high
school was killed. He had gone off to the Marines
and I went on to college and he got sick.
And he got a terrible fever. Get spinal meningitis.
And the fever went up to like 106 and climbing, And he died.
And I got a phone call. And from some friends said, he
died. It was very sad.
That was my best friend in high school.
Didn't see that coming at all. Play football with him and
toughest kid, I ever knew toughest kid great kid.
What does funeral? And went through the grieving
process, but I remember this. Several weeks afterwards.
My Dad pulled me aside and said you are absolutely behaving.
Awfully what do you still mad at?
What are you so angry for? It was kind of uncharacteristic.
And then I realized wait a minute and he helped me to
realize that's part of the grieving process.
I was angry that I lost my best friend.
Did you know that that's a point of likeness?
Grieving that you have with God. You know what the Bible says
grieve? Not the Holy Spirit. the Holy
Spirit can grieve it says, but also not only that the spirit
rejoices, I love that Luke one in seven and my spirit has
rejoiced in God my savior I don't know how it is with
animals but I know this. I got a point of like this with
God by way of intellect, by way of emotion and that emotion is
either grieving or rejoicing but there's more what else?
The spirit Wills. You know, that's something that
you have that. No animal has is determined will
I was talking to somebody not long ago when they're talking
about how we have will and God's determined will and what does
God want for our life, and going through all of that?
But really the point is this God could have created us.
He could have created us without Free Will and he could have
created a whole bunch of robots that would just follow him
anyway that he wanted. But that's not in the image of
God, is it? No.
Because to be in the image of God, you have to have will Jesus
said in Matthew 26 and 41. When those disciples were in The
Garden of Gethsemane he said Watch and Pray.
Watch and pray that you entered lest you enter into temptation
the spirit. Indeed is willing but the flesh
is weak. First John, chapter 5 in verses
14 and 15. It says, if we ask anything of
God, according to his will, He hears us.
That word means answer us. You know, we pray to God.
For God's will, to be done. But did you know?
That you have the same kind of will.
And when you're talking about your own self and your own life
you have the same. Will you have the same choices
to make in your life and you have the ability to do that?
You have the power to do that because you have the will that's
a point of likeness that man has with God.
Intelligence is not an attribute of the body.
And as I said, the image that were talking about is not
physical likeness, but it is intellectual and spiritual
likeness. Now, here's the difference.
God possesses all of this. In an infinite degree.
So don't think the word on the same level of God.
Just In His Image. According to his likeness, God
has all that in an infinite degree.
Me. I've got it in a finite degree.
And that's why we cannot ever say that we know as much as God
and more than God because we can't and there's times when we
submit our will to God's Will and that's through faith.
You submit your will to God's Will and please you've heard me
say before me say it again. Praying according to God's will
is not bending. God's will toward hours.
If you really pray with that provision, you are saying, I'm
going to bend my will toward yours.
He's got it in an infinite degree.
We've got it in a finite degree. All right.
What is God? Now I know God is not a what?
It's a huge, he's a hoot but I talked about the nature of man.
What is man? So from that standpoint, I want
to talk about the nature of God. What is God?
well, first of all, in John 4:24 when Jesus was talking to the
Samaritan woman, he said God is a spirit He's a spirit and those
who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
What else do we know? The spirit does not have Flesh
and Bones. Do you remember when Jesus rose
from the dead and Luke 24? Now, picture this, he rose from
the dead in Luke 24. And the Bible says, it was early
on a Sunday morning, first day of the week.
And those two disciples were on the road to the little village
of Emmaus and Jesus appears before them.
They don't know who he is. They look at him and they don't
understand his form. They don't know if this was
really Jesus and commentators will write all manner of things
as to why they didn't recognize him.
I'm not going to that at all. I'm just saying this and didn't
recognize him. But then when they invited Jesus
into their home, he made himself known unto them in the breaking
of bread. Then what happened?
Then he goes back were all the other disciples were and this is
what happens. Watch this verse 36 to 39.
Now, as they said these things, Jesus himself stood, in the
midst of them and said, peace to you.
But they were terrified and frightened and suppose that they
had seen a spirit and he said to them.
Why are you troubled? And why do doubts, arise in your
hearts, behold my hands and my feet that it is, I myself handle
me and see for a spirit does not have Flesh and Bones.
As you see, I have He was raised from the dead in a bodily form,
a human form. So sure, certain he had Nail
scars in his hands and feet. Certainly, he did you know why?
Because he wasn't any spiritual condition, he was in a physical
condition, he was raised from the dead bodily and physically
and spent 40 days with those disciples before he ascended
into heaven. What else?
Man is both are all three man is Body, Soul and Spirit.
The question is at death, The spirit returns to God.
To remember this there are three parts to a man in Ecclesiastes,
12:7, the dust will return to the Earth as it was and the
spirit will return to God who gave it.
So at the point of death, the spirit goes back to God. by the
way, when Jesus, in Luke 23 and 47, when he was on the cross,
And he finally said, when he realized that the last bit of
Prophecy was finally fulfilled. He said there was one more
thing. The Bible says there was one
last thing. He said he I got to say I thirst
so they could take that sponge on hyssop and dip it in that
sour wine or vinegar and put it to his mouth so it would fulfill
the final scripture when that happened.
He said it is finished to his father and then he said this
father into your hands. I I commit my spirit.
Did all of Jesus go where his father was?
No. Just one part.
Just the spirit, the spirit went back to God.
Why? Because Ecclesiastes tells us
the wise man of old tells us that when you die, the spirit
will go back to God who gave it. Remember x 7 and 59, they're
about to Stone Stephen to death. What an amazing picture we have
in our minds eye and the Bible says he looked up and he saw
Jesus standing on the right hand of God and you know what?
That was all. She wrote, they couldn't stand
it, they took him and they took him outside and they stoned him
to death. And before he died, he said,
Lord Jesus. Receive my spirit.
Because that's where one part goes.
Now, when Jesus was crucified other things happen, we'll get
to that in a minute. But as we summarize the
passages, we talked about the spirit goes back to God who gave
it at death. And in 1st Thessalonians,
chapter 4 and verse 14. The Bible says, for if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also, which
sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
So what about the body? What about the body?
The body goes back to the dust of the ground, the first part of
the queasy asked he's 12 and 7 tells us that.
So, what's the body? What's the body?
The body is the place where the real man lives.
The place where the real man lives, second.
Peter 1:13 through 15. Yes, I think it's right.
As long as I am in this tent. That's what your body is.
It's a tenth. The King James says, a
tabernacle What to stir you up by reminding you knowing that
shortly, I must put off this tent just as our Lord Jesus
Christ showing that showed me, moreover I will be careful to
ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after
my decease and at the deceased, he's going to put off his tent.
What else is going to happen? Spirits going to go back to God,
who gave it? That's two parts.
That's two parts but I'll tell you something.
The greatest thing of all When the body is buried.
When the spirit goes back to God, who gave it time goes by,
we'll get to that in a minute. But at the resurrection, we are
going to get a new resurrected body.
A new Resurrection body. Second Corinthians 5.
Beginning in verse 1, listen to this.
For we know that if our Earthly house, that's the Flesh of this
Tabernacle. That's the body were dissolved.
We have a building of God, a house not made with hands
Eternal in the heavens. What are we going to get?
We're going to get a house. We're going to get a dwelling
place for one part of us for. If we groan earnestly Desiring
to be clothed with, with our house, which is from Heaven.
That's the new resurrected body if so, Be that being clothed.
We shall not be found naked for, we that are in the Tabernacle.
Do groan being burdened, not for that would be unclothed, but
clothed upon that. Mortality might be swallowed up
of life now. We're going to get something
that's greater. Remember when I said that Paul
said that God is powerful enough to give you a body that is right
for every dwelling place, it's fit for that.
The physical body that we have in this life is fit for this
life. At death, the body goes back to
the dust of the ground. The Bible says the spirit, and
that's also good part of us, that's connected to our
intellect. The spirit goes back to God who
gave it. And at the point of the
Resurrection way at the Judgment Day, when the Lord comes back,
we're going to get a another body. let me just say this
Psalms 90 and 10 very often, quoted Passage the days of our
years are threescore years and ten that 70.
If by reason of strength, they may be fourscore yet is their
strength, labor and sorrow for it is soon.
Cut off and we fly away. Now, what part of man's flying
away, it's not the body. Why didn't fly away?
It's the spirit that goes back to God, who gave it?
Our bodies don't do that. So in summary quickly the body
goes back to the dust of the ground, the spirit goes back to
God who gave it. But now I want to talk about the
most important part of you. And the reason that's the most
important part of you, is because it's the part of you
that never ever ever dies. It is the part of you that is
eternal. That is something that we need
to take heed. Because what we do in this body,
in this flesh, determines where this part the soul That Never
Dies. That is eternal.
It will tell us where that's soul.
Is going to go, it determines that You cannot kill the soul
fact, Matthew 10, and 28 says, this and fear, not them.
Which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather
fear him which is able to destroy both soul and Body.
In hell, you know, Paul had a fact, the King James says, he
had a straight. He was in betwixt in between
Paul had a desire to be with the Lord.
He had a desire to be away from this world.
But even in the midst of all the persecution and all the things
he went through, you know, he said, he said to live, is Christ
to die, is gain. What did he mean by that?
He said to live is for the glory of Christ.
In other words, if I still live and I still preach the word of
God, then it's to the benefit of Christ and his church.
But for me, it's going to go. He was saying, I know where I'm
going. And he said, for me, it's game.
He says, but if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my
labor. Yet what I choose.
I know not. For I am in a strait betwixt two
having a desire to depart and to be with Christ Which is far
better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for
you. Soul is eternal.
Second Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 16 to 18.
It says for which cause we faint not but though our outward man
perish, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
All of us that are aging. And I mean, all of us that are
aging You know, one of the great realities of that.
Is every day. Our outward man perishes.
Little by little little at a time.
Our outward man perishes. And there's what they call,
Father time and you can't sidestep father time.
I'll be 50 next year and I know that father times Comin.
There's some folks in here that are whole lot older than that.
Father time is coming. If you live that long, the
outward man perishes but the Bible says, the inward man is
renewed day by day. And the only way that your new
your inward man is renewed day by day, is through the
scriptures and service to God the inward man.
You know, in the Bible says bodily bodily exercise.
Profiteth little I heard somebody say one time, see you
don't have to exercise. Even the Bible says it profits
little That's not what he meant. That's not what he meant at all.
What he means is the benefit from the exercise is limited to
a portion of your life, the benefit.
Because once you die, you have no benefit from the exercise.
You did in your life. But spiritual exercise.
It has a benefit. For eternity.
Because it depends on where you're going to spend it in that
great. So where does somebody go when
they die? First of all, understand the
terms here? Hades is defined as the place of
disembodied Spirits. Never remember this.
What did Jesus do? Jesus was on the cross.
He says, father into your hands. I commit my spirit.
That's the spirit part of Jesus. What did he say before that?
He told this man on the cross. He says, today you're going to
be with me in Paradise, so, the spirit went to God, the soul
went to paradise and we know that Joseph of Arimathea came.
Begged, the body of Jesus and put his body after he, and
Nicodemus, put 100 pounds of spices on the body of Jesus, and
they put him in the grave. Three parts.
Do you know you got three parts, too?
and when you die, your spirit will go back to God, who gave
it. Your soul will go to Hades.
That is one of these two places. You remember, in Matthew chapter
12, they said to the Lord, they said, basically give us a magic
trick. Show us a sign.
And he said, the only thing I'm going to show you.
The only sign you're going to get is the sign of the prophet.
Jonah for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
whales belly or the belly of that, great fish.
So shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the Earth. Jesus went to Paradise.
What else we talked about this Wednesday?
What else when he went to Paradise?
It was prophetically stated though that Jesus Christ, he
would not remain in Hades. Paradise.
And his flesh, it says the psalmist David would not see
corruption. Meaning would not Decay.
He was raised on the third day. Fulfilling prophecy.
Now. When Jesus was on the cross and
he told the thief. The thief says, remember me when
you come into your kingdom and Jesus says today, you will be
with me in Paradise. There's a whole lot of talk
about whether or not Jesus actually saved.
The man. Well certainly he saved the man,
and somebody might say, well, wait a minute, he wasn't
baptized for the remission of sins.
He didn't have to be because Jesus lived under the Old Law
and the requirement of baptism for the remission of sins did
not happen until acts to when the church was established.
Secondly, you can't contact the blood of Jesus before he shed
his blood. So Jesus say the man.
Sure, he did. How do I know that the
definition of the word Paradise is the Abode of The Souls of the
righteous iums are said, this persons who are assigned to.
This place will always be among those who are comforted or
saved. And Jesus said that this is the
place that they were going on that day.
So therefore he was saved. Now, we can't talk about
paradise and tart tourist without talking about the rich,
man and Lazarus. Because that's the place in the
Bible that talks about both places and two different people
going, one to each place. The Bible says that Jesus
pictures, a man that was a rich man that had all the good things
in life. There was a beggar named
Lazarus. He got the crumbs at the Kings
Table. You get nothing.
Bible says, they're both going to die.
The rich man. It says he died and was buried.
Not Lazarus. You don't have to Lazarus when
he died. He was carried by the angels to
Abraham's bosom. I don't know about you.
I like what Joe hisle said about 15 years ago.
One time I heard him say this, he said I can't help but think
If there's an angel, when I cross over somehow some way and
I'm not going to be afraid when I draw my final breath and my
spirit goes back to God who gave it.
There's going to be someone there, there's going to be
someone there. That'll help me across the
chilly Waters of Jordan. The chilly Waters of death and I
will not be afraid in that great.
Lazarus, had a terrible life. Maybe you've had great
challenges in your life. I'ma tell you.
He had a lousy life. But you know what Bible says, he
was taken to Abraham's bosom. Now, Abraham's bosom is a phrase
that was among the Jews to signify the paradise of God.
Now, some people argue what, wait a minute and we kind of
talked about this Wednesday a little bit.
But when the rich man looked across the Great Gulf that was
fixed between paradise and Tartarus.
The rich man saw Lazarus and Abraham's bosom.
He said, send Lazarus that he might dip his finger in water
and touch it to my tongue. For I perish with this terrible,
terrible thirst. He looked up and tormented said
so the question is, what were his eyes and what were his
tongue? And I made the statement a
couple weeks ago, not these eyes.
These eyes were in the ground and not this tongue.
This tongue was in the ground because that was in the body.
But listen, the only part of a human being that has feeling is
the Inner Man. That's right.
When the body and the Soul are united, thus all exercises
itself through the body as a vehicle, because the body itself
has no feeling, let me prove that to you.
If you ever had a surgery they put you under anesthetic and
they put you out and you are unconscious.
They don't give you any for the pain while you're unconscious.
They give you something for the pain.
When you are conscious afterwards and man you want
that, pain killer Not when they're out.
You know why the body feels nothing without the Inner Man?
The body feels nothing without the spirit.
If the body could feel that people under anesthetic would
wince in pain from the surgery, they're going through and people
that have died. The body would also winced in
pain when they would have all manner of things done to them,
but it doesn't. So what I'm saying is I'm saying
when this man this rich man was in Tartarus in torment, he could
be in torment. Why?
Because what feels is the Inner Man.
That's what has feeling. Something else though.
We learn something else about the intermediate State verse 25
of that text. It's an indication that those
that are in the intermediate state will be able to recall
experiences on Earth. Verse 26 says, that there is a
great Gulf. An open Chasm says mr.
Thayer a great interval. You can't pass over.
Verses 27 through 31, listen to this, it indicates that no
communication ever took place between men on Earth and men
that have died. But one more thing.
Even those that have been permitted to rise from the dead
in the scriptures and there are many occasions, we could talk
about of someone that was raised from the dead.
Have you ever stopped to consider this?
There's not one passage not one Speck of evidence that shows
that they brought information from the other world into this
world. So anybody that says they died
went away, got information and came back to life.
I don't know what they got. But they didn't get that.
They didn't go to another world, get information died, go to
another world to come back. The only one that had
information. Was Paul.
He was given a view up into the third heaven and what does he
say? He saw things and he heard
things that a man should not hear or see.
What? Paul get?
He got a thorn in the flesh. A messenger of Satan to Buffett
him. Keep his feet on the ground.
It was so awfully said, please remove it.
You know what God Said? No with the Lord said.
Nope. My grace is sufficient for you.
so, at the end of, at the end of time and judgment, Those that
are in Paradise will be saved. Those aren't our tourists will
be lost, but I just want to talk about one final thing about the
say that some very encouraging things.
The saved are going to get. Or receive a resurrected body.
Remember what we said in Hades which is Paradise and Arcturus
that is defined by failure as the land of disembodied spirits.
That's a spirit without the body.
So that tells me that my soul is in a place that is saved in
Paradise prayerfully, that happens.
That's where I want to go. Dedicating my life to it, you
too, right? That's where I want to go.
But at the resurrection something's going to happen.
Great watch this, Ephesians our Hebrews 9:27 and 28 and as it is
appointed for men to die. How many times?
Wants. But after this, the Judgment so
Christ was offered once to Bear the sins of many to those who
eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time apart for
sin for salvation. So that's talking about the
Judgment, the resurrection. Look at First Corinthians, 15
and 42. So also is the resurrection of
the Dead. The body is sown in corruption.
That's the physical body. It's raised in incorruption,
that body is a spiritual body. It is sown in dishonor, it is
raised in glory. It is sown in weakness.
It is raised in power. Power.
The phrase raised in glory. According to mr.
Thayer means this to gain a more excellent body.
That tells me that at the resurrection, I'm going to get
an excellent body. And that excellent body is going
to be fit for the environment of Heaven in that great.
What's it going to be like first John, three?
Two and three. He loved it.
Now, we are the children of God. And it has not yet been revealed
what we shall be. But we know that when he is
revealed that the Judgment, we shall be like him for.
We shall see him as he is. so, for all those, that doubt the
resurrection, Why the world would you want to do that?
I've been sick for. You've been sick before.
He felt things wrong with you. I'm going to tell you something.
The resurrected body won't need a wheelchair.
It won't need crutches. It won't need any other AIDS at
all. Were created in the image of
God. The image of our creator.
You know what's even greater. Whatever that body is that we
don't have yet, that we're going to get at the Judgment at the
resurrection. It's going to be like Christ.
That's great stuff. And it's a place in heaven where
there is no need for any artificial life.
Why? Because the Lord is the light.
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