1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,500 Certainly want to welcome everyone that has come to be 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:05,000 with us here. This morning. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,300 We have a wonderful crowd, we have a number of visitors that 4 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:12,000 are here among us some even all the way from Georgia and we 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,400 welcome you. And if you're a visitor here 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,000 today, we would hope and pray you would feel as you are. 7 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,200 And that is our honored guest and we welcome you every time 8 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:23,700 that we have an opportunity to meet, I want to invite your 9 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:26,200 attention to a passage found in first Thessalonians. 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:32,700 Chapter 5 we want to read just one verse there in verse 23. 1st 11 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:35,500 Thessalonians, chapter 5 and verse 23. 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,300 Now may the God of Peace himself sanctify. 13 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,600 You completely and may your whole spirit Spirit soul and 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,200 body. Be preserved blameless at the 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,600 coming of our Lord. Jesus Christ, Wednesday night. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,100 We've been studying in the book of 1st Corinthians and we're 17 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,300 going through the book of 1st Corinthians chapter 15. 18 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:58,900 Right now. We've spent a great deal of time 19 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:01,600 on that chapter. One of the things that the great 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,000 Apostle Paul is pointing out is there were many that were 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,400 denying whether Christ ever rose from the dead and whether they 22 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,400 would be a future resurrection of the dead and Paul points out 23 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,900 that God is so powerful and he is so great. 24 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:21,300 And he is so mighty that he is able to create a body that is 25 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:25,000 fit for every environment. Paul said that the fish of the 26 00:01:25,008 --> 00:01:28,800 sea, they have a body, the fowl of the air, they have a body, 27 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:31,300 the animals on the Earth, they have a body. 28 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:35,400 You and I as man, we have a body, but he talks about the 29 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:36,800 thing. That's going to be the Greatest 30 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,300 thing of all. And that is that which is raised 31 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:43,500 in glory or the body will have in heaven, one day. 32 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:46,700 So I thought I'd talk on the nature of, man this morning, 33 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:50,700 we'll talk about what we are now and the greatest blessings of 34 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:56,200 all what the child of God will become the question, what is 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,000 man? And what is his nature as a 36 00:01:59,008 --> 00:02:01,900 question that has baffled man throughout the ages? 37 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,300 By experience and observation, we may learn many practical 38 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:10,600 lessons about our physical organism and the working of our 39 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,900 intellect and emotions, but such does not answer the question. 40 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,100 What is man? And what is his nature 41 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:21,300 psychology? Also in the much talked about 42 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:25,300 psychoanalysis, May teach us much about the methods of the 43 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,500 operation of man's Spirit but they cannot reveal to us what it 44 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,600 is or from whence it came. And so we ask ourselves the 45 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,800 question this morning. What is man and what is his 46 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,300 nature? And when we do so we have to go 47 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:41,600 all the way back to man's beginning. 48 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:44,400 In Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7. 49 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:48,700 The bible says, and the Lord God formed man of the Dust of the 50 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:52,500 ground and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life and 51 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:56,300 Man became a living being. That's the new King James. 52 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:02,700 The King James says, and Man became a living soul Other words 53 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,800 in this great work. God did not merely just speak 54 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,200 man into his existence. You know, God said, let there be 55 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,000 this. And there was this, he said, let 56 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,200 there be that in there was that. And when God created everything, 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,300 in the days of the Bible describes that he did, he 58 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:23,800 literally spoke everything into his existence. 59 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:28,500 Now, we don't want to limit God because God could have spoke man 60 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,800 into existence to but he didn't do that. 61 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:36,600 He He honored The Man by creating him by his own personal 62 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,900 act. Now, this passage Genesis 2 and 63 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:44,800 7 has to be understood in the context of other passages. 64 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,900 To, for example, man has 3 parks in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 65 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:54,600 and verse 23. Paul said, now may the God of 66 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,600 Peace himself sanctify, you completely and may your whole 67 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,300 Spirit soul and body be preserved blameless at the 68 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:06,700 coming of the Lord. Jesus Christ. 69 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,900 Now in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7, it only talks about two 70 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:15,600 kinds of man or two parts of man, it talks about his body and 71 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,000 it talks about his soul but interesting and 1st 72 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Thessalonians. 5:23. Paul says As there's another 73 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,500 part of man. And that is the spirit. 74 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:32,600 In other words, immediately and simultaneously when God created 75 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:38,700 man in that way of body and soul, he also created man and 76 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:42,700 gave him a spirit. And the Bible says, a spirit 77 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:47,100 within him Zechariah Chapter 12 and verse 1, the burden of the 78 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:51,100 word of the Lord against Israel, thus says the Lord who stretches 79 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:53,900 out the heavens. Is lays the foundation of the 80 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:59,300 earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. 81 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:03,700 Now, you know, interestingly when we go back to Genesis 82 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:07,500 chapter 2 and verse 7, there's a word that we have to clarify and 83 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,400 Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7. It's the word breath. 84 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:13,900 I've tried to picture in my mind's eye. 85 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:18,500 How it was that God breathed into his nostrils, the Breath of 86 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:21,800 Life. The Bible knows says that he 87 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,500 did. And the word breath can be 88 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:27,600 translated from the word. It is a Hebrew word shama and it 89 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:33,400 means this a puff wind angry or vital breath. 90 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:37,100 It can also be translated as divine inspiration. 91 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:39,700 That's very familiar passage in the New Testament. 92 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:44,300 Second Timothy 3:16 and 17. Where the Bible says that all 93 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:49,400 scripture is given by inspiration of God and we know 94 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,800 what that means. We know that inspiration there 95 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,900 means to breathe out or god-breathed. 96 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:59,400 So it's a generic term that's used in a number of places in 97 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,400 the Bible, it's also translated, according to mr. 98 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,600 Strong intellectually, or concrete or an animal. 99 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:09,100 All right. So, what's the point? 100 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:15,800 The point is, if the breath that God gave man, is the same breath 101 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,100 that an animal has what distinguishes, a man. 102 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:26,700 A human being from an animal. That is the spirit that is 103 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:30,100 within him. One scholar, said it this way, 104 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:33,800 he said the spirit of God or the spirit that Matt gets from God, 105 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,300 that man gets from God is what makes us different from all 106 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:42,500 other living beings so God created the spirit within him 107 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,400 keeping that in mind. What do we know about the nature 108 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,900 of man? First of all, we know that the 109 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:53,100 body without the spirit is dead. You know, that is so well, known 110 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:57,200 and understood that James divinely inspired by the Holy 111 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,200 Spirit and James to, and 26 said this for as the body, without 112 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,200 the spirit is dead. Everybody understands that the 113 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:10,700 body without the spirit is dead. When the spirit leaves the body, 114 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,200 the body is dead, it is gone. There's nothing left, there's no 115 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,600 life force inside. And James would say everybody 116 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,500 understands as the body without the spirit is dead. 117 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,300 So faith without works is dead. Also another words, if we don't 118 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:30,900 demonstrate our faith by are obedient works that our faith is 119 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:35,900 a dead faith. But he uses the analogy or the 120 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:41,600 example of the body, without the spirit is dead. 121 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:44,000 What else do we know? This is wonderful. 122 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:51,700 We've made in the image of God. Do you ever think you weren't 123 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:55,700 special? Do you ever think that you had 124 00:07:55,700 --> 00:08:00,000 no responsibilities? There is nothing about you. 125 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,800 That was any good. Some people feel that way about 126 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,900 themselves. I want you to understand, you 127 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:13,400 are special because you've been made in the image of God. 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,500 Now, what does that mean? We're going to talk about what 129 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,900 that means. First of all, Genesis 1:26. 130 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:25,200 It says God said, let us make man in our image, after our 131 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,600 likeness Now the US and they are, they're included, Jesus 132 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,100 Christ and it also included the Holy Spirit. 133 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,100 And I want to make a point about that because don't ever let 134 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,900 anyone in the religious world tell you different. 135 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:47,100 Jesus Christ was not a created being Some people believe that 136 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:51,000 that God created Jesus. No, he did not. 137 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,300 I don't know when the beginning was and I really don't care 138 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:57,900 where the beginning was and I really don't care that. 139 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,200 I can't explain this. All I do know, is in the 140 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,300 beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. 141 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,000 And when all of that was happening, we find that God 142 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:14,300 created man and in Genesis 1:26, God said, let us God, Jesus 143 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:18,500 Christ and the Holy Spirit. Parrot, Our God, Jesus Christ in 144 00:09:18,508 --> 00:09:22,000 the holy spirit. Let us make man in our image, 145 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,900 according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the 146 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:30,600 fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle 147 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,500 and over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps 148 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:39,700 on the earth, Jesus was there to. 149 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,900 Now being in the image of God does not refer to our physical 150 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:45,500 bodies. I read something this week. 151 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:49,300 Listen. It was written by a materialist. 152 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:56,600 And a materialist said that man is no more than an image shaped 153 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,700 out of clay with air breathed into him. 154 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,900 Therefore, if you want to have something in God's image, all 155 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:06,800 you have to do is have a statue. What does it mean to be in the 156 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:12,400 image or the likeness of God? First of all, acts 17 and 29 to 157 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,400 the materialist? It says, for as much then as we 158 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,300 are The Offspring of God. We ought not to think that the 159 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:26,200 godhead is like gold or silver or stone Graven by Art and man's 160 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:33,900 device. when you talk about being in the image of God, it 161 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,900 has nothing to do with physical appearance at all. 162 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,500 People have all manner of statues and whatnots. 163 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,900 We're going to talk about what God is and just a minute, but 164 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:49,400 he's not that and neither is man. 165 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,200 We're in the image of our creator. 166 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,300 What are the points of likeness between God and ourselves? 167 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:02,000 Number one intellect The spirit knows. 168 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:04,900 Now, I'm going to tell you something. 169 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:07,800 The Bible says, much that our thoughts are not God's thoughts, 170 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,700 our ways are not God's ways as the heavens are higher than the 171 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:12,300 earth. So are God's thoughts than our 172 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:14,500 thoughts, and God's ways than our ways. 173 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:18,800 We understand that But understand this too that if we 174 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,300 are made in the image of God, there has to be points of 175 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:26,200 likeness between ourselves and our creator, one of which is 176 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,200 intellect and no animal, no other created thing in the 177 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,100 world. Has that kind of intellect. 178 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:38,500 What does the Bible say? The Bible says that the spirit 179 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:43,300 knows First, Corinthians, 2 and 11 for what man knows the things 180 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,900 of man, except the spirit of man, which is in him. 181 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,900 Him even so no one knows the things of God, except the spirit 182 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:54,800 of God. Isn't that great? 183 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,900 Look at this. Nobody knows me more than my 184 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:03,400 spirit. My human Spirit, the part of my 185 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,700 intellect. I'm going to tell you something. 186 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:10,400 You can fake and fool everybody in the world. 187 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:16,200 But when you look in the mirror, you can't fake him out. when you 188 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,400 look in the mirror and you look at your life, you can't fake 189 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,600 that guy. That guy knows. 190 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:28,400 And sometimes we don't like what we see when I look in the 191 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,600 mirror. I may not like what I see 192 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,900 sometimes. I'm not talking about physical 193 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:34,500 appearance. How about examining your life so 194 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:37,000 when you examine your life, understand this your spirit 195 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,200 knows. Is that the point of likeness 196 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,800 with God intellect? And no one knows. 197 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,800 God except the spirit of God. No one knows. 198 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:55,300 God more than the spirit of God. One of the great things about 199 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:59,300 the Bible. One of the great things about 200 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:02,500 the Bible. One of the great things about 201 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:06,700 being a child of God. Is that the word of God God's 202 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:12,700 revelation to man is such that we can understand it, because it 203 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:18,100 appeals to our intellect. When the Bible tells me exactly 204 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:22,100 what I must do to be saved, I can understand what I must do to 205 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:24,600 be saved. I could read from the word of 206 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,000 God, and it tells me what I need to do in my life. 207 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:30,300 The kind of life, I need to live the way that I need to worship 208 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:32,300 God. All of those things is in the 209 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:35,300 Bible and it appeals to our intellect. 210 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,300 How do I know that Ephesians 4, and 23 and be renewed in the 211 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,500 spirit of what in the spirit of your mind? 212 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:51,700 Romans chapter 12 and be not conformed to this world, but be 213 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:56,400 transformed by, what the renewing of your mind. 214 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Don't you see? Everything in the word of God, 215 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,900 appeals to our intellect and the spirit knows. 216 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:12,700 No other creation can do that. No other part of creation can 217 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:16,300 have that. What else? 218 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,400 What else? Emotion. 219 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:28,500 The spirit does two things by way of emotion, it Grieves. 220 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:32,900 And it rejoices In Daniel 7 and 15. 221 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:38,500 I Daniel listen to his testimony here, I Daniel was grieved in my 222 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:43,500 spirit within my body and the visions of my head troubled me, 223 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,900 have you ever grieved kind of sounds a little bit like Daniel 224 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:51,900 7 and 15 when you grieve? You know, there's a whole 225 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:54,500 process to grieving, I don't know everything there is to know 226 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:57,400 about grieving or the whole process but there's a process. 227 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:03,000 They say, sometimes when things are tragically taken from us or 228 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,400 people that we dearly love our tragically taken from us and we 229 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,100 couldn't plan for it and we couldn't get ready for it. 230 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:13,100 And something happens, terribly and tragically, the first thing 231 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:15,900 that enters into the picture, the first part of the grieving 232 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:21,500 process is the period of shock. And sometimes people that are in 233 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,900 Shock, they show, no emotion at all. 234 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,700 But then something happens. reality sets, in here comes the 235 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:35,500 sadness. And here comes the tears. 236 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:41,400 You know, what else comes? Anger. 237 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,700 That's next. I want to share something with 238 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:48,800 you when I was a freshman in college, my best friend in high 239 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,400 school was killed. He had gone off to the Marines 240 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,300 and I went on to college and he got sick. 241 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:05,400 And he got a terrible fever. Get spinal meningitis. 242 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:11,800 And the fever went up to like 106 and climbing, And he died. 243 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:18,200 And I got a phone call. And from some friends said, he 244 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,900 died. It was very sad. 245 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:22,400 That was my best friend in high school. 246 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:25,000 Didn't see that coming at all. Play football with him and 247 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 toughest kid, I ever knew toughest kid great kid. 248 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,800 What does funeral? And went through the grieving 249 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,400 process, but I remember this. Several weeks afterwards. 250 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,400 My Dad pulled me aside and said you are absolutely behaving. 251 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,600 Awfully what do you still mad at? 252 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,200 What are you so angry for? It was kind of uncharacteristic. 253 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,600 And then I realized wait a minute and he helped me to 254 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,600 realize that's part of the grieving process. 255 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,800 I was angry that I lost my best friend. 256 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,700 Did you know that that's a point of likeness? 257 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,000 Grieving that you have with God. You know what the Bible says 258 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,000 grieve? Not the Holy Spirit. the Holy 259 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:21,700 Spirit can grieve it says, but also not only that the spirit 260 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:25,500 rejoices, I love that Luke one in seven and my spirit has 261 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:32,300 rejoiced in God my savior I don't know how it is with 262 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:36,100 animals but I know this. I got a point of like this with 263 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:42,200 God by way of intellect, by way of emotion and that emotion is 264 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,600 either grieving or rejoicing but there's more what else? 265 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:54,800 The spirit Wills. You know, that's something that 266 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,400 you have that. No animal has is determined will 267 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:01,700 I was talking to somebody not long ago when they're talking 268 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:05,300 about how we have will and God's determined will and what does 269 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:08,400 God want for our life, and going through all of that? 270 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:12,200 But really the point is this God could have created us. 271 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,600 He could have created us without Free Will and he could have 272 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,500 created a whole bunch of robots that would just follow him 273 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:25,800 anyway that he wanted. But that's not in the image of 274 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,500 God, is it? No. 275 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:32,600 Because to be in the image of God, you have to have will Jesus 276 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,300 said in Matthew 26 and 41. When those disciples were in The 277 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:40,100 Garden of Gethsemane he said Watch and Pray. 278 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,700 Watch and pray that you entered lest you enter into temptation 279 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:47,000 the spirit. Indeed is willing but the flesh 280 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,200 is weak. First John, chapter 5 in verses 281 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,900 14 and 15. It says, if we ask anything of 282 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:58,500 God, according to his will, He hears us. 283 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:06,400 That word means answer us. You know, we pray to God. 284 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:12,600 For God's will, to be done. But did you know? 285 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,700 That you have the same kind of will. 286 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:20,400 And when you're talking about your own self and your own life 287 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:24,900 you have the same. Will you have the same choices 288 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:28,800 to make in your life and you have the ability to do that? 289 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:34,600 You have the power to do that because you have the will that's 290 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,100 a point of likeness that man has with God. 291 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:43,600 Intelligence is not an attribute of the body. 292 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:49,800 And as I said, the image that were talking about is not 293 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:54,200 physical likeness, but it is intellectual and spiritual 294 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:56,400 likeness. Now, here's the difference. 295 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:02,400 God possesses all of this. In an infinite degree. 296 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,800 So don't think the word on the same level of God. 297 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,100 Just In His Image. According to his likeness, God 298 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:14,100 has all that in an infinite degree. 299 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:17,500 Me. I've got it in a finite degree. 300 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,800 And that's why we cannot ever say that we know as much as God 301 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,400 and more than God because we can't and there's times when we 302 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,300 submit our will to God's Will and that's through faith. 303 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,000 You submit your will to God's Will and please you've heard me 304 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,500 say before me say it again. Praying according to God's will 305 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,700 is not bending. God's will toward hours. 306 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,200 If you really pray with that provision, you are saying, I'm 307 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,200 going to bend my will toward yours. 308 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,100 He's got it in an infinite degree. 309 00:20:55,300 --> 00:21:00,800 We've got it in a finite degree. All right. 310 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,400 What is God? Now I know God is not a what? 311 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,600 It's a huge, he's a hoot but I talked about the nature of man. 312 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:10,900 What is man? So from that standpoint, I want 313 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:16,200 to talk about the nature of God. What is God? 314 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,000 well, first of all, in John 4:24 when Jesus was talking to the 315 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,800 Samaritan woman, he said God is a spirit He's a spirit and those 316 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:31,000 who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. 317 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,900 What else do we know? The spirit does not have Flesh 318 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:38,400 and Bones. Do you remember when Jesus rose 319 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:46,000 from the dead and Luke 24? Now, picture this, he rose from 320 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,500 the dead in Luke 24. And the Bible says, it was early 321 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:52,900 on a Sunday morning, first day of the week. 322 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:56,700 And those two disciples were on the road to the little village 323 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,200 of Emmaus and Jesus appears before them. 324 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,700 They don't know who he is. They look at him and they don't 325 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:03,900 understand his form. They don't know if this was 326 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:07,700 really Jesus and commentators will write all manner of things 327 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:09,600 as to why they didn't recognize him. 328 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,500 I'm not going to that at all. I'm just saying this and didn't 329 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,700 recognize him. But then when they invited Jesus 330 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:20,600 into their home, he made himself known unto them in the breaking 331 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,600 of bread. Then what happened? 332 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,500 Then he goes back were all the other disciples were and this is 333 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:29,800 what happens. Watch this verse 36 to 39. 334 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,500 Now, as they said these things, Jesus himself stood, in the 335 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,200 midst of them and said, peace to you. 336 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000 But they were terrified and frightened and suppose that they 337 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,300 had seen a spirit and he said to them. 338 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,800 Why are you troubled? And why do doubts, arise in your 339 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:54,200 hearts, behold my hands and my feet that it is, I myself handle 340 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,300 me and see for a spirit does not have Flesh and Bones. 341 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:05,100 As you see, I have He was raised from the dead in a bodily form, 342 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:11,600 a human form. So sure, certain he had Nail 343 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:16,200 scars in his hands and feet. Certainly, he did you know why? 344 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,800 Because he wasn't any spiritual condition, he was in a physical 345 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,100 condition, he was raised from the dead bodily and physically 346 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:26,600 and spent 40 days with those disciples before he ascended 347 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,800 into heaven. What else? 348 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:38,500 Man is both are all three man is Body, Soul and Spirit. 349 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:44,500 The question is at death, The spirit returns to God. 350 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:48,800 To remember this there are three parts to a man in Ecclesiastes, 351 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,300 12:7, the dust will return to the Earth as it was and the 352 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:55,200 spirit will return to God who gave it. 353 00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:02,800 So at the point of death, the spirit goes back to God. by the 354 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:07,700 way, when Jesus, in Luke 23 and 47, when he was on the cross, 355 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,800 And he finally said, when he realized that the last bit of 356 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,300 Prophecy was finally fulfilled. He said there was one more 357 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:17,700 thing. The Bible says there was one 358 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:20,500 last thing. He said he I got to say I thirst 359 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,100 so they could take that sponge on hyssop and dip it in that 360 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:28,900 sour wine or vinegar and put it to his mouth so it would fulfill 361 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,200 the final scripture when that happened. 362 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,800 He said it is finished to his father and then he said this 363 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:41,500 father into your hands. I I commit my spirit. 364 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,600 Did all of Jesus go where his father was? 365 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:49,000 No. Just one part. 366 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:53,100 Just the spirit, the spirit went back to God. 367 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,500 Why? Because Ecclesiastes tells us 368 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,800 the wise man of old tells us that when you die, the spirit 369 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:05,700 will go back to God who gave it. Remember x 7 and 59, they're 370 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,800 about to Stone Stephen to death. What an amazing picture we have 371 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,200 in our minds eye and the Bible says he looked up and he saw 372 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,600 Jesus standing on the right hand of God and you know what? 373 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,800 That was all. She wrote, they couldn't stand 374 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,400 it, they took him and they took him outside and they stoned him 375 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,000 to death. And before he died, he said, 376 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,400 Lord Jesus. Receive my spirit. 377 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,100 Because that's where one part goes. 378 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,400 Now, when Jesus was crucified other things happen, we'll get 379 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,900 to that in a minute. But as we summarize the 380 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,400 passages, we talked about the spirit goes back to God who gave 381 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,700 it at death. And in 1st Thessalonians, 382 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:53,300 chapter 4 and verse 14. The Bible says, for if we 383 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:57,300 believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also, which 384 00:25:57,300 --> 00:25:59,500 sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. 385 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:03,700 So what about the body? What about the body? 386 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:08,400 The body goes back to the dust of the ground, the first part of 387 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,900 the queasy asked he's 12 and 7 tells us that. 388 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:13,500 So, what's the body? What's the body? 389 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:16,600 The body is the place where the real man lives. 390 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:21,100 The place where the real man lives, second. 391 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:24,300 Peter 1:13 through 15. Yes, I think it's right. 392 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:28,100 As long as I am in this tent. That's what your body is. 393 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,700 It's a tenth. The King James says, a 394 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:35,900 tabernacle What to stir you up by reminding you knowing that 395 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:39,400 shortly, I must put off this tent just as our Lord Jesus 396 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,800 Christ showing that showed me, moreover I will be careful to 397 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,000 ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after 398 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,600 my decease and at the deceased, he's going to put off his tent. 399 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,100 What else is going to happen? Spirits going to go back to God, 400 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:55,000 who gave it? That's two parts. 401 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,300 That's two parts but I'll tell you something. 402 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:05,500 The greatest thing of all When the body is buried. 403 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:12,100 When the spirit goes back to God, who gave it time goes by, 404 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:18,100 we'll get to that in a minute. But at the resurrection, we are 405 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:21,500 going to get a new resurrected body. 406 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:28,300 A new Resurrection body. Second Corinthians 5. 407 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:29,900 Beginning in verse 1, listen to this. 408 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,400 For we know that if our Earthly house, that's the Flesh of this 409 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,100 Tabernacle. That's the body were dissolved. 410 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,900 We have a building of God, a house not made with hands 411 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,100 Eternal in the heavens. What are we going to get? 412 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:48,900 We're going to get a house. We're going to get a dwelling 413 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:54,300 place for one part of us for. If we groan earnestly Desiring 414 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:58,000 to be clothed with, with our house, which is from Heaven. 415 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:03,200 That's the new resurrected body if so, Be that being clothed. 416 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,600 We shall not be found naked for, we that are in the Tabernacle. 417 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,000 Do groan being burdened, not for that would be unclothed, but 418 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,100 clothed upon that. Mortality might be swallowed up 419 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,800 of life now. We're going to get something 420 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,400 that's greater. Remember when I said that Paul 421 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,500 said that God is powerful enough to give you a body that is right 422 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,600 for every dwelling place, it's fit for that. 423 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,900 The physical body that we have in this life is fit for this 424 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:41,000 life. At death, the body goes back to 425 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,700 the dust of the ground. The Bible says the spirit, and 426 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:47,100 that's also good part of us, that's connected to our 427 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,500 intellect. The spirit goes back to God who 428 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,900 gave it. And at the point of the 429 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,500 Resurrection way at the Judgment Day, when the Lord comes back, 430 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:02,100 we're going to get a another body. let me just say this 431 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:08,400 Psalms 90 and 10 very often, quoted Passage the days of our 432 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,800 years are threescore years and ten that 70. 433 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,600 If by reason of strength, they may be fourscore yet is their 434 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,400 strength, labor and sorrow for it is soon. 435 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,200 Cut off and we fly away. Now, what part of man's flying 436 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,800 away, it's not the body. Why didn't fly away? 437 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:31,600 It's the spirit that goes back to God, who gave it? 438 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:39,700 Our bodies don't do that. So in summary quickly the body 439 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:41,700 goes back to the dust of the ground, the spirit goes back to 440 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:43,300 God who gave it. But now I want to talk about the 441 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:47,800 most important part of you. And the reason that's the most 442 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,900 important part of you, is because it's the part of you 443 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:56,000 that never ever ever dies. It is the part of you that is 444 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,500 eternal. That is something that we need 445 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:04,800 to take heed. Because what we do in this body, 446 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,900 in this flesh, determines where this part the soul That Never 447 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:11,400 Dies. That is eternal. 448 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,400 It will tell us where that's soul. 449 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Is going to go, it determines that You cannot kill the soul 450 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:25,100 fact, Matthew 10, and 28 says, this and fear, not them. 451 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,500 Which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather 452 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:34,200 fear him which is able to destroy both soul and Body. 453 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,400 In hell, you know, Paul had a fact, the King James says, he 454 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,000 had a straight. He was in betwixt in between 455 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,200 Paul had a desire to be with the Lord. 456 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,300 He had a desire to be away from this world. 457 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,400 But even in the midst of all the persecution and all the things 458 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,100 he went through, you know, he said, he said to live, is Christ 459 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,300 to die, is gain. What did he mean by that? 460 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,700 He said to live is for the glory of Christ. 461 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:09,500 In other words, if I still live and I still preach the word of 462 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:13,900 God, then it's to the benefit of Christ and his church. 463 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,500 But for me, it's going to go. He was saying, I know where I'm 464 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,900 going. And he said, for me, it's game. 465 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:31,700 He says, but if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my 466 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,200 labor. Yet what I choose. 467 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:39,100 I know not. For I am in a strait betwixt two 468 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,600 having a desire to depart and to be with Christ Which is far 469 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,600 better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for 470 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,700 you. Soul is eternal. 471 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,900 Second Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 16 to 18. 472 00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:00,900 It says for which cause we faint not but though our outward man 473 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,700 perish, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 474 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,200 All of us that are aging. And I mean, all of us that are 475 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,900 aging You know, one of the great realities of that. 476 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:19,900 Is every day. Our outward man perishes. 477 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:24,200 Little by little little at a time. 478 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,500 Our outward man perishes. And there's what they call, 479 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:34,600 Father time and you can't sidestep father time. 480 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:40,900 I'll be 50 next year and I know that father times Comin. 481 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:43,700 There's some folks in here that are whole lot older than that. 482 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:51,400 Father time is coming. If you live that long, the 483 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,900 outward man perishes but the Bible says, the inward man is 484 00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:01,100 renewed day by day. And the only way that your new 485 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,800 your inward man is renewed day by day, is through the 486 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,600 scriptures and service to God the inward man. 487 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,500 You know, in the Bible says bodily bodily exercise. 488 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,900 Profiteth little I heard somebody say one time, see you 489 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,700 don't have to exercise. Even the Bible says it profits 490 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:22,800 little That's not what he meant. That's not what he meant at all. 491 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:28,800 What he means is the benefit from the exercise is limited to 492 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,500 a portion of your life, the benefit. 493 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:35,800 Because once you die, you have no benefit from the exercise. 494 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,700 You did in your life. But spiritual exercise. 495 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:46,300 It has a benefit. For eternity. 496 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,300 Because it depends on where you're going to spend it in that 497 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:54,900 great. So where does somebody go when 498 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,600 they die? First of all, understand the 499 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,800 terms here? Hades is defined as the place of 500 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,600 disembodied Spirits. Never remember this. 501 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,700 What did Jesus do? Jesus was on the cross. 502 00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:10,600 He says, father into your hands. I commit my spirit. 503 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,300 That's the spirit part of Jesus. What did he say before that? 504 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:18,300 He told this man on the cross. He says, today you're going to 505 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:24,000 be with me in Paradise, so, the spirit went to God, the soul 506 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,600 went to paradise and we know that Joseph of Arimathea came. 507 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,500 Begged, the body of Jesus and put his body after he, and 508 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:36,600 Nicodemus, put 100 pounds of spices on the body of Jesus, and 509 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,900 they put him in the grave. Three parts. 510 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:44,800 Do you know you got three parts, too? 511 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,800 and when you die, your spirit will go back to God, who gave 512 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,699 it. Your soul will go to Hades. 513 00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:01,300 That is one of these two places. You remember, in Matthew chapter 514 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:04,900 12, they said to the Lord, they said, basically give us a magic 515 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,200 trick. Show us a sign. 516 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,300 And he said, the only thing I'm going to show you. 517 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:10,500 The only sign you're going to get is the sign of the prophet. 518 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,500 Jonah for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the 519 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,100 whales belly or the belly of that, great fish. 520 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:18,400 So shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the 521 00:35:18,408 --> 00:35:22,700 heart of the Earth. Jesus went to Paradise. 522 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,400 What else we talked about this Wednesday? 523 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,000 What else when he went to Paradise? 524 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,600 It was prophetically stated though that Jesus Christ, he 525 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:39,300 would not remain in Hades. Paradise. 526 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,700 And his flesh, it says the psalmist David would not see 527 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:47,400 corruption. Meaning would not Decay. 528 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,800 He was raised on the third day. Fulfilling prophecy. 529 00:35:55,100 --> 00:36:00,500 Now. When Jesus was on the cross and 530 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,800 he told the thief. The thief says, remember me when 531 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,600 you come into your kingdom and Jesus says today, you will be 532 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,500 with me in Paradise. There's a whole lot of talk 533 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,100 about whether or not Jesus actually saved. 534 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,500 The man. Well certainly he saved the man, 535 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,900 and somebody might say, well, wait a minute, he wasn't 536 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:21,500 baptized for the remission of sins. 537 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:24,800 He didn't have to be because Jesus lived under the Old Law 538 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,500 and the requirement of baptism for the remission of sins did 539 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,900 not happen until acts to when the church was established. 540 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,000 Secondly, you can't contact the blood of Jesus before he shed 541 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,700 his blood. So Jesus say the man. 542 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:44,000 Sure, he did. How do I know that the 543 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,100 definition of the word Paradise is the Abode of The Souls of the 544 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:52,500 righteous iums are said, this persons who are assigned to. 545 00:36:52,508 --> 00:36:55,900 This place will always be among those who are comforted or 546 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:58,000 saved. And Jesus said that this is the 547 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,900 place that they were going on that day. 548 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,800 So therefore he was saved. Now, we can't talk about 549 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,200 paradise and tart tourist without talking about the rich, 550 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,800 man and Lazarus. Because that's the place in the 551 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,800 Bible that talks about both places and two different people 552 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:19,000 going, one to each place. The Bible says that Jesus 553 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,700 pictures, a man that was a rich man that had all the good things 554 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:25,400 in life. There was a beggar named 555 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,100 Lazarus. He got the crumbs at the Kings 556 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:29,200 Table. You get nothing. 557 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:31,500 Bible says, they're both going to die. 558 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:35,400 The rich man. It says he died and was buried. 559 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,200 Not Lazarus. You don't have to Lazarus when 560 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,100 he died. He was carried by the angels to 561 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:44,300 Abraham's bosom. I don't know about you. 562 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:47,800 I like what Joe hisle said about 15 years ago. 563 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,300 One time I heard him say this, he said I can't help but think 564 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:57,400 If there's an angel, when I cross over somehow some way and 565 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,700 I'm not going to be afraid when I draw my final breath and my 566 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:03,600 spirit goes back to God who gave it. 567 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,200 There's going to be someone there, there's going to be 568 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,800 someone there. That'll help me across the 569 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,700 chilly Waters of Jordan. The chilly Waters of death and I 570 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:14,900 will not be afraid in that great. 571 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:19,900 Lazarus, had a terrible life. Maybe you've had great 572 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:22,100 challenges in your life. I'ma tell you. 573 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:26,900 He had a lousy life. But you know what Bible says, he 574 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:36,500 was taken to Abraham's bosom. Now, Abraham's bosom is a phrase 575 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,000 that was among the Jews to signify the paradise of God. 576 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:47,400 Now, some people argue what, wait a minute and we kind of 577 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,000 talked about this Wednesday a little bit. 578 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,100 But when the rich man looked across the Great Gulf that was 579 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:56,600 fixed between paradise and Tartarus. 580 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:00,500 The rich man saw Lazarus and Abraham's bosom. 581 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,200 He said, send Lazarus that he might dip his finger in water 582 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,700 and touch it to my tongue. For I perish with this terrible, 583 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:12,600 terrible thirst. He looked up and tormented said 584 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:16,000 so the question is, what were his eyes and what were his 585 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,900 tongue? And I made the statement a 586 00:39:17,908 --> 00:39:20,100 couple weeks ago, not these eyes. 587 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,600 These eyes were in the ground and not this tongue. 588 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,700 This tongue was in the ground because that was in the body. 589 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:36,300 But listen, the only part of a human being that has feeling is 590 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:39,700 the Inner Man. That's right. 591 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:45,700 When the body and the Soul are united, thus all exercises 592 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:50,300 itself through the body as a vehicle, because the body itself 593 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,700 has no feeling, let me prove that to you. 594 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,000 If you ever had a surgery they put you under anesthetic and 595 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,900 they put you out and you are unconscious. 596 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:05,900 They don't give you any for the pain while you're unconscious. 597 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,500 They give you something for the pain. 598 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,500 When you are conscious afterwards and man you want 599 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,100 that, pain killer Not when they're out. 600 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:17,500 You know why the body feels nothing without the Inner Man? 601 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,900 The body feels nothing without the spirit. 602 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:29,900 If the body could feel that people under anesthetic would 603 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:32,800 wince in pain from the surgery, they're going through and people 604 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,400 that have died. The body would also winced in 605 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,700 pain when they would have all manner of things done to them, 606 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:43,100 but it doesn't. So what I'm saying is I'm saying 607 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:47,300 when this man this rich man was in Tartarus in torment, he could 608 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:48,700 be in torment. Why? 609 00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:50,700 Because what feels is the Inner Man. 610 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,700 That's what has feeling. Something else though. 611 00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:03,700 We learn something else about the intermediate State verse 25 612 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:06,200 of that text. It's an indication that those 613 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,400 that are in the intermediate state will be able to recall 614 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,100 experiences on Earth. Verse 26 says, that there is a 615 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:15,100 great Gulf. An open Chasm says mr. 616 00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:18,100 Thayer a great interval. You can't pass over. 617 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,100 Verses 27 through 31, listen to this, it indicates that no 618 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:27,200 communication ever took place between men on Earth and men 619 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,800 that have died. But one more thing. 620 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,500 Even those that have been permitted to rise from the dead 621 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:39,700 in the scriptures and there are many occasions, we could talk 622 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,800 about of someone that was raised from the dead. 623 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:43,400 Have you ever stopped to consider this? 624 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,000 There's not one passage not one Speck of evidence that shows 625 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,900 that they brought information from the other world into this 626 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:59,300 world. So anybody that says they died 627 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:03,700 went away, got information and came back to life. 628 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,400 I don't know what they got. But they didn't get that. 629 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,900 They didn't go to another world, get information died, go to 630 00:42:13,908 --> 00:42:16,400 another world to come back. The only one that had 631 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,500 information. Was Paul. 632 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,400 He was given a view up into the third heaven and what does he 633 00:42:22,408 --> 00:42:24,700 say? He saw things and he heard 634 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:27,600 things that a man should not hear or see. 635 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,200 What? Paul get? 636 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:34,300 He got a thorn in the flesh. A messenger of Satan to Buffett 637 00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:35,800 him. Keep his feet on the ground. 638 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,900 It was so awfully said, please remove it. 639 00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:39,800 You know what God Said? No with the Lord said. 640 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,000 Nope. My grace is sufficient for you. 641 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:53,300 so, at the end of, at the end of time and judgment, Those that 642 00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:56,500 are in Paradise will be saved. Those aren't our tourists will 643 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:00,200 be lost, but I just want to talk about one final thing about the 644 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,200 say that some very encouraging things. 645 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:10,200 The saved are going to get. Or receive a resurrected body. 646 00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:15,500 Remember what we said in Hades which is Paradise and Arcturus 647 00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:20,600 that is defined by failure as the land of disembodied spirits. 648 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:23,600 That's a spirit without the body. 649 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:31,500 So that tells me that my soul is in a place that is saved in 650 00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:33,800 Paradise prayerfully, that happens. 651 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,400 That's where I want to go. Dedicating my life to it, you 652 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,900 too, right? That's where I want to go. 653 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:43,400 But at the resurrection something's going to happen. 654 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,000 Great watch this, Ephesians our Hebrews 9:27 and 28 and as it is 655 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,600 appointed for men to die. How many times? 656 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:59,000 Wants. But after this, the Judgment so 657 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,900 Christ was offered once to Bear the sins of many to those who 658 00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:05,500 eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time apart for 659 00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:07,800 sin for salvation. So that's talking about the 660 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,800 Judgment, the resurrection. Look at First Corinthians, 15 661 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,700 and 42. So also is the resurrection of 662 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:16,200 the Dead. The body is sown in corruption. 663 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,500 That's the physical body. It's raised in incorruption, 664 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:23,000 that body is a spiritual body. It is sown in dishonor, it is 665 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,400 raised in glory. It is sown in weakness. 666 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,000 It is raised in power. Power. 667 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,100 The phrase raised in glory. According to mr. 668 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:33,200 Thayer means this to gain a more excellent body. 669 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:36,800 That tells me that at the resurrection, I'm going to get 670 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:42,500 an excellent body. And that excellent body is going 671 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,200 to be fit for the environment of Heaven in that great. 672 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,800 What's it going to be like first John, three? 673 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,000 Two and three. He loved it. 674 00:44:54,300 --> 00:45:01,700 Now, we are the children of God. And it has not yet been revealed 675 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,700 what we shall be. But we know that when he is 676 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:12,300 revealed that the Judgment, we shall be like him for. 677 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:19,500 We shall see him as he is. so, for all those, that doubt the 678 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:23,400 resurrection, Why the world would you want to do that? 679 00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,700 I've been sick for. You've been sick before. 680 00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:38,000 He felt things wrong with you. I'm going to tell you something. 681 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,200 The resurrected body won't need a wheelchair. 682 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,500 It won't need crutches. It won't need any other AIDS at 683 00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:48,000 all. Were created in the image of 684 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,700 God. The image of our creator. 685 00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:53,700 You know what's even greater. Whatever that body is that we 686 00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:55,800 don't have yet, that we're going to get at the Judgment at the 687 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,700 resurrection. It's going to be like Christ. 688 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:06,400 That's great stuff. And it's a place in heaven where 689 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,800 there is no need for any artificial life. 690 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,600 Why? Because the Lord is the light. 691 00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:16,000 if we're going to ever be with the Lord, we thank you for 692 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,900 listening to our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 693 00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:23,700 plans. 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