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Episode 131 - Then Comes The End · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is the Lord, and he is greatly to be praised.
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  Speaker 2: From the rising of the sun until the going down
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  Speaker 2: of the same, the name of the Lord is to
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  Speaker 2: be praised. Let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God again for this glorious, beautiful, wonderful, magnificent, splendid
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  Speaker 2: day that he has allowed us to see to breathe
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  Speaker 2: the breath of life that comes from him. We thank
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  Speaker 2: Him for this a man life of godliness and hope
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  Speaker 2: that we have in him. Thank Him for this great
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  Speaker 2: salvation that he has brought down to us from heaven.
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  Speaker 2: And we are a man, the recipients of his great mercy,
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  Speaker 2: his great love, his great compassion, his forgiveness, and his
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  Speaker 2: goodness toward each and every one of us. So we
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  Speaker 2: elated to be accounted among those. And also this hate
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  Speaker 2: man to be found faithful, a man in the ministry
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  Speaker 2: that God has, a man imparted unto us and trusted
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  Speaker 2: unto us. So that is our endeavor, that is our hope,
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  Speaker 2: that is our desire. That is why we are here,
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  Speaker 2: a man to preach and to teach the word of
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  Speaker 2: the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Faithfully.
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  Speaker 2: Do it in love, do it with compassion, do it
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  Speaker 2: with the hope that God will, by his spirit a
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  Speaker 2: man move within the hearts of people everywhere. People will
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  Speaker 2: be saved, people will be edified, people will be a
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  Speaker 2: man brought into the Kingdom of God, a man again
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  Speaker 2: for His glory and honor. Today we are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: the first letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthian Church.
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  Speaker 2: We're in chapter number fifteen, and today our focus is
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  Speaker 2: going to continue on this a man crucial topic of
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection biblical doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: from the dead. The title the topic, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: for our gushing on today is then comes the End,
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  Speaker 2: Then comes the end. Just a quick moment we will
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  Speaker 2: take out now for just a word of prayer. Father, again,
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  Speaker 2: blessed be your name. From the rising of the sun
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  Speaker 2: to the going down of the same, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. And
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  Speaker 2: we pray now that some one somewhere we're here, the
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  Speaker 2: voice of the Savior, be changed, be directed, be instructed,
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  Speaker 2: be filled with knowledge and wisdom, with the hope of
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  Speaker 2: glory for your kingdom and majesty in honor. We pray
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  Speaker 2: and give thanks for all things.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and amen. All right.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be looking at Versus number twenty through
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  Speaker 2: twenty five today. But before we get there, we understand
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  Speaker 2: that in this letter, this portion of the letter, chapter fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: the apostle has turned his attention to the crucial doctrine
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  Speaker 2: again of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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  Speaker 2: because it is the cornerstone and the pillar of the
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  Speaker 2: gospel of salvation, of our redemption of our adoption of
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  Speaker 2: our forgiveness. Remember, he makes the argument that if Christ
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  Speaker 2: has not risen from the dead, we are yet in
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  Speaker 2: our sins, we are not even a church. Actually, there
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  Speaker 2: is no atonement a man if Jesus Christ does not
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  Speaker 2: rise from the dead, and the hope for our own
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  Speaker 2: future eternal destiny is gone. And it was also because
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  Speaker 2: you can basic really on multiple statements, but on this
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  Speaker 2: one statement that Jesus made the Gospel of John uniquely
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  Speaker 2: found there by the way he said, let not your
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  Speaker 2: heart be trouble. You believe in God. Believe also me
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  Speaker 2: in me in my Father's house of many mansions. If
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  Speaker 2: it were not so, I would have told you said
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  Speaker 2: I go listen. This is the poorted part. He says,
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  Speaker 2: I go to prepare a place for you that whether
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  Speaker 2: I go where I'm going, you may be also. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if he was going to die, and that's what he
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  Speaker 2: was doing, preparing his disciples for his eventual betrayal, crucifixion,
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  Speaker 2: his body going into the ground, but if he's not
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  Speaker 2: going to rise again from the dead, how is it
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  Speaker 2: that he's stating that he's going to prepare a place
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  Speaker 2: for us, that where he is, we will be there also,
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  Speaker 2: so if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then
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  Speaker 2: he just made a false statement. And so our very
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  Speaker 2: hope of eternal life and destiny is tied up in
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so it was therefore
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  Speaker 2: crucially necessary in the mind of the Apostle Paul, that
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  Speaker 2: the urgency of this factual account amen, of these amen
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  Speaker 2: events that occurred. Amen, and and and and again the
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  Speaker 2: resurrection itself been the lynch pen as it were of
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  Speaker 2: this amen.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. It was crucial for the apostle uh that this
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  Speaker 2: be permanently uh and and and forever, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: sealed within the hearts and the minds of the church.
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  Speaker 2: Because again, the the the doctrine of the resurrection is indispensable.
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  Speaker 2: It's indispensable to the Gospel, it's indispensable to the Church. Again,
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  Speaker 2: even existing as a viable or true entity in the earth,
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  Speaker 2: we do not exist without the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: from the dead. And and so what we're going to see, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and what we've allready seen, and we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: reiterate some of this, is that Jesus, in his resurrection
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  Speaker 2: triumph over a man death and the grave, he also
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  Speaker 2: authenticated his deity and his origin. Where he came from.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I am from above, you are from beneath,
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  Speaker 2: He said, I came down from heaven, which means, of
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  Speaker 2: course he was already eternally in.
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  Speaker 1: Existence, a man, and and and and.
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  Speaker 2: He also finished in his resurrection his earthly bodily ministry.
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  Speaker 2: If he had just come and ministered and died and
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  Speaker 2: was put into the grave, he would just simply be
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  Speaker 2: a dead hero. But no, no, no, he finished a man,
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  Speaker 2: his earthly bodily ministry, that is, from from from for
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  Speaker 2: the reason he came, and all of that onto we
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  Speaker 2: know that he's still uh building his church, but he's
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  Speaker 2: now operating at the right hand of the Majesty on High.
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  Speaker 2: So for his earthly bodily ministry, he finished it with
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection from the dead. And then, of course he
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  Speaker 2: transferred to all who believe in him, who all who
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  Speaker 2: all have salvation through him. By him, he transferred to
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  Speaker 2: each and every one of us the hope, eternal hope,
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  Speaker 2: a man of our own future, a man rising up,
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  Speaker 2: as it were, from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: He validated all of the.
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament scriptural prophecies him self when he rose from
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  Speaker 2: the dead, and he gave surety to future prophecies that
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  Speaker 2: are yet to be fulfilled. So in his resurrection, all
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  Speaker 2: of these things and more, I don't even have time
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  Speaker 2: to list all of it, but all of these things
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  Speaker 2: and more a man occurred in the resurrection of Gus
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  Speaker 2: Christ from the dead. And so one of these sureties
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  Speaker 2: is what we're going to look at today. And this
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  Speaker 2: again in the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to begin reading first number twenty amen, verse twenty.
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, chapter number fifteen. I'm reading from the New
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  Speaker 2: King James version, verse twenty. But now listen to what
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  Speaker 2: Paul says. Now, Christ is risen from the dead and
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  Speaker 2: has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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  Speaker 2: For since by man came death, by man, also came
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, all die. Even so in Christ all shall
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  Speaker 2: be made alive, but each one in his own order,
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  Speaker 2: Christ the first fruits after with those who are Christ.
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  Speaker 2: At his coming, every believer, everyone who has been born
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  Speaker 2: again in him of the water and the spirit identified
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  Speaker 2: with him in his death, in his burial, in his resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: they will, of course again rise from the dead. This
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  Speaker 2: is what the apostle Paul is talking about. But here's
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty four. We're gonna again kind of focus on
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more today in our session.
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  Speaker 1: Then comes the end.
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  Speaker 2: Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to
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  Speaker 2: God the Father, when he puts an end to all
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  Speaker 2: rule and all authority and power. For must reign. He
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  Speaker 2: must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now, unlike a man's inability to put an end to
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  Speaker 2: the undesirable, to the uh, the destruction to the deadly
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  Speaker 2: things uh that exist in our world today. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, these things are a direct result of our
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  Speaker 2: sin and rebellion against God in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But again, unlike our inability to put an end a
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  Speaker 2: man to a man, or put an end to our
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  Speaker 2: very again existence, to seal it up, to to to
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  Speaker 2: make anything permanent to we, we don't don't we We
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  Speaker 2: just don't have. First of all, we just don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: And you hear politicians making all kinds of promises and
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  Speaker 2: and nations and entities and and and corporations and and
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  Speaker 2: and Uh. Again, man in and of himself, Uh, desiring
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  Speaker 2: to bring an end, for example, in the medical industry.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not speaking, uh, disparagingly in any way, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a desire to put an end to
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  Speaker 2: Ah well, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Not may not be seems sometimes it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not the desire to put an end to certain diseases
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  Speaker 2: and illnesses that are plaguing mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But man doesn't have that power, he doesn't possess it.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, but but well, what we we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see is that through the resurrection, because of the res direction,
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  Speaker 2: by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, the.
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  Speaker 1: End will come.
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  Speaker 2: There's an end that is coming to all of the upheaval,
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  Speaker 2: all of the dysfunction that is in our world today,
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  Speaker 2: out of the destruction, all of the corruption, all of
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  Speaker 2: this again as a result of man's rebellion and disobedience,
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  Speaker 2: Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden, all of this
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  Speaker 2: will come to an end. And the really please understand
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  Speaker 2: that the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is
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  Speaker 2: not just a Christianity religious belief that serves as the
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  Speaker 2: hope of those who are professing Christians or believers in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, but it.
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  Speaker 2: The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most consequential, cosmic, universal.
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  Speaker 1: Historical event.
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  Speaker 2: Ever that has transpired within the entire existence and within
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  Speaker 2: the entire rim of mankind in space and time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's really indescribable in its scope and how far and
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  Speaker 2: wide it reaches. Because it what we're talking about here,
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  Speaker 2: and the Apostle Paul writes about this in Romans chapter
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  Speaker 2: number eight. The whole of creation is groaning and travailing
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  Speaker 2: in birth pain. And why is it Because because of
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  Speaker 2: the fall of man, what sin did to the created order.
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  Speaker 2: And so the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
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  Speaker 2: again sets a seal, gives us the hope of the
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  Speaker 2: end that the Bible speaks of that will come. But
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  Speaker 2: it cannot come. It could not happen without the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ from the dead, and without us then
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  Speaker 2: having the ability to rise from the dead through him.
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  Speaker 2: By that same spirit. The Bible, the Bible, the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God, a man speaks of our amen again eternal existence.
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  Speaker 2: It will come because of him. And so what we
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  Speaker 2: find here is that the fall of Adam introduced death
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  Speaker 2: into the human race, and by this man, Adam This
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  Speaker 2: is what Paul is writing about.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: We are all under the effects and the penalty of sin. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible speaks of the wages of sin being death
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  Speaker 2: a man. But the gift of God is what eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: And God pronounced the sentence to Adam before he sin.
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  Speaker 2: He had a man the ability to not sin and
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  Speaker 2: to fall into this corruption. But of course we know
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  Speaker 2: he failed in so doing. But God told him that
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  Speaker 2: in the day that you eat there of you will
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  Speaker 2: surely die.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. And so.
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  Speaker 2: By Adam we are all under this penalty. We're all
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  Speaker 2: under this sentence. But by the man Christ, Jesus, a man,
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  Speaker 2: all who again comes to him, all who believe in him,
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  Speaker 2: all who repent, amen, and are obedient to the faith
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  Speaker 2: baptized into him. Of course they are quickened.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: They are delivered from that death and made alive in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Paul said, the old man is crucified. I
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  Speaker 2: am dead with Christ. I die with him. But a
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  Speaker 2: man through that same resurrection power, a man, the new
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  Speaker 2: man comes forth. And Jesus said, he who lives and
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  Speaker 2: believes in Me, who never dies.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So we are delivered from the law of sin and
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  Speaker 2: death and transferred as it were, to the law of
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of life, which is in Christ Jesus. Amen,
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  Speaker 2: such is the amen again, the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: from the dead. Such is this h Such is the efficacy,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, of the power of this resurrection a
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  Speaker 2: man Christ, Paul writes, here, is the first fruits. He's
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  Speaker 2: the first fruits of those who a man are to
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  Speaker 2: be resurrected from the dead. He is the first, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, And this is what Paul is writing speaking
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  Speaker 2: of here. He is the first, and he is the last,
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  Speaker 2: the only a man to be raised from the dead
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  Speaker 2: of his own power.
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  Speaker 1: That's the key.
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  Speaker 2: Christ was not the first to be raised from the dead. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But he's the first to be resurrected or raised from
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  Speaker 2: the dead by his own power. We've already gone over that.
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  Speaker 2: But again, by way of remind death had no claim,
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  Speaker 2: the grave had no claim, he said before he died.
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  Speaker 2: No one takes my life from me. I lay it down,
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  Speaker 2: I have power to lead it down. I have power
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  Speaker 2: to take it up again.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so he is eternal in his existence. Amen, he was,
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  Speaker 2: is and is to come. And so again, what he
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  Speaker 2: did in that body, it was necessary for the shedding
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  Speaker 2: of his blood. Without the shedding of his blood, there's
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  Speaker 2: no remission of sin. It was necessary for him to
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  Speaker 2: be bodily put into the grave and bodily risen from
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  Speaker 2: that grave. Again no claim, did death have no power?
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  Speaker 2: Did death have no power? Did the grave have over
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  Speaker 2: him a man? Because again he was the sinless son
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  Speaker 2: of God. Amen, he was separate from sinners, as the
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  Speaker 2: Bible speaks of, higher than the heavens. And of course him,
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  Speaker 2: he himself being the very existence of life. In him, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: we live and have being and have life, And by
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  Speaker 2: him were all things created and made, and so on
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  Speaker 2: and so on. So again, it was impossible for death
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  Speaker 2: to hold him down. It was impossible for the grade
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  Speaker 2: to a man lock him away. So this is why
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection of Christ from the dead is so fundamentally
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  Speaker 2: irremovable from the faith, from the promises of God, and
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  Speaker 2: from the very you have to go to this the
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  Speaker 2: very trustworthiness of God a man. Remember again, if Jesus
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  Speaker 2: makes the claim that he is going to rise from
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  Speaker 2: the dead and he doesn't, then how is it that
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  Speaker 2: we can believe? How is it that we can trust
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  Speaker 2: anything else that he says? And if God has made
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  Speaker 2: the claim, and that's what And again this is not
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  Speaker 2: me saying, this is what the apostle.
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  Speaker 1: Paul makes the argument, we we we we.
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  Speaker 2: We covered this in the very at the very outset
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  Speaker 2: of this particular chapter. How that we are, Paul says,
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  Speaker 2: we're found false witnesses of God because we are testifying
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  Speaker 2: that God raised Christ from the dead, whom he raised
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  Speaker 2: not up if the dead do not rise. So again,
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  Speaker 2: again this goes to the very trustworthiness of God, his promises,
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  Speaker 2: his word.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And it is precisely because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That we have hope.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, that we have a reason for our own existence. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: as the apostle again are using this portion of the letter,
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  Speaker 2: let us just eat and drink for tomorrow we die,
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  Speaker 2: because if in this life only we have hope, we
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  Speaker 2: of all men are the most miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But again, not only is the resurrection of Jesus from
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  Speaker 2: the dead significantly transformative and foundational as again the catalysts
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  Speaker 2: for the Gospel to be preached, but it is also
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  Speaker 2: the genesis, if you will, of the end of the
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  Speaker 2: kingdoms of this world. That's what we're gonna see Christ
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  Speaker 2: rising from the day Remember keep in mind now he
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  Speaker 2: said the pilot, my kingdom is not of this world.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise my servants would fight that I would be not
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  Speaker 2: be delivered unto you. But my kingdom is not from here.
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  Speaker 2: So if Christ is not raised from the dead and
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  Speaker 2: he has a kingdom, then what happens to his kingdom?
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  Speaker 2: And who are we fighting for? If we are fighting,
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  Speaker 2: if we're at warfare, what are we fighting for? Who
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  Speaker 2: are we fighting for a dead martyr? No no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no no no no no. But in that he
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  Speaker 2: rolls from the dead, and that the scriptures, the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament scriptures, by the way, again makes the claim and
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  Speaker 2: prophetically also reveals to us that his kingdom is an
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  Speaker 2: everlasting kingdom, his dominion is an everlasting dominion. Then his
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  Speaker 2: resurrection from the dead had to occur in order for
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  Speaker 2: all of that to be true. Amen, about the eternality
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  Speaker 2: of his kingdom and dominion. Christ again is the first
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  Speaker 2: and the only to rise from the dead of his
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  Speaker 2: own power, of his own authority. All who die in Christ, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: will also be raised up from the dead by that
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  Speaker 2: same power.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, And on the.
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  Speaker 2: Authority that he has in himself. As John chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 2: as the resurrection. Remember what Jesus said before he raised
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  Speaker 2: Lazar from the dead. I am the resurrection and the life.
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  Speaker 2: He believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall
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  Speaker 2: he live. And he who lives and believes in.
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  Speaker 1: Me shall never die.
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  Speaker 2: So all who are in Christ, all who die in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what Paul talks about, said, those who
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  Speaker 2: are asleep in Christ, those who die in Him will
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  Speaker 2: also be raised up from the dead again by that
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  Speaker 2: same power, and on the authority.
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  Speaker 1: Amen that he has as the resurrection. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so the biblical doctrine of the rapture, by the
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  Speaker 2: way which this of course alludes to the rapture of
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  Speaker 2: the Church, is clearly revealed in description. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: if you have your Bibles again there with you turn
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  Speaker 2: to first Thessalonian's chapter number before. I'm gonna read verses
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  Speaker 2: thirteen through eighteen, just as a reminder a man to
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  Speaker 2: us about the validity of our a man being raised
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  Speaker 2: from the dead. But I would not, Paul says, have
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  Speaker 2: you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
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  Speaker 2: that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope,
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  Speaker 2: those who are not in Christ, those who are unsaved,
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  Speaker 2: those who are outside of the ark of safety, those
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  Speaker 2: who don't have the knowledge of God as they ought
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  Speaker 2: to have and believe as they ought to believe in
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel, a man of Jesus Christ, in the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ from the dead, which would give them
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  Speaker 2: this hope.
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  Speaker 1: They have no hope. But we do.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Paul is writing about to us, so
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  Speaker 2: that we do not live in ignorance a man, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't sorrow when a believer passes from this life,
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  Speaker 2: a man gives up the ghost or the spirit, as
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  Speaker 2: it were, a man on this side of eternity, we
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  Speaker 2: don't sorrow, Paul says, as others who don't have this hope.
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  Speaker 2: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
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  Speaker 2: even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God
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  Speaker 2: bring with him. For this verse fifteen we say unto
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  Speaker 2: you by the word of the Lord, that we which
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  Speaker 2: are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: shall not prevent them, or that is, go before them
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  Speaker 2: which are asleep, For the Lord himself shall descend from
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  Speaker 2: heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
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  Speaker 2: and with the trump of God and the dead in
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  Speaker 2: Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remains,
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  Speaker 2: shall be caught up together with them in the cloud
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  Speaker 2: to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall
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  Speaker 2: we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, he says, comfort
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  Speaker 2: one another with these words. Again, this is the blessed hope,
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  Speaker 2: an assurance of all of us who are believers in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, our Savior. But again, that's not the finale.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the end. Oh that's wonderful enough in and
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  Speaker 2: of itself, but that's not the end the Bible, says Paul.
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  Speaker 1: After this, Paul says.
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  Speaker 2: Then comes the end. Now, what happens when the end comes?
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  Speaker 2: It's so much that happens. I don't have the time,
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  Speaker 2: and I won't take the time to a man go
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  Speaker 2: into minute detail, as it were, about all of the
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  Speaker 2: future events that will occur when Jesus Christ comes back,
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  Speaker 2: the second Coming, and all of that. But we can
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  Speaker 2: certainly just notate a few things here, and we will
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  Speaker 2: that will occur. But ultimately there will be a finality
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  Speaker 2: to the corruption that was caused by the amen fall
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  Speaker 2: of Atom in the Garden of Eden. Again, all of
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  Speaker 2: the creation is groaning and travailing, in birth pains, waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the whole of
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  Speaker 2: cosmic order. A man was thrown out of kilter, as
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  Speaker 2: it was, especially particularly here in the earthly rim. When
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  Speaker 2: Adam send Amen, this is why we have natural disasters
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  Speaker 2: and calamities and all of that because of the sin
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  Speaker 2: of mankind. But Amen, this will be brought to an
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  Speaker 2: ultimate end. The kingdoms of this world will have their end.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's going to happen. When Paul speaks about then
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  Speaker 2: comes the end. It's going to come a time when
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  Speaker 2: the kingdoms of this world will come to any all government,
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  Speaker 2: that includes all governments. Even though God established government, he
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  Speaker 2: ordained governments and gave them power and authority Romans thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: You can read it there a little bit about it there.
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  Speaker 2: All governments, all principalities, all powers will forever be abolished
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  Speaker 2: as we know them today. All of the kings of
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  Speaker 2: this world, all the princes, all of the nobles, all
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  Speaker 2: of the high and mighty, the poor and lowly, of governors, magistrates,
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  Speaker 2: heads of states, corporations, coalitions, tribes. All that mankind has
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  Speaker 2: endeavored again to do will come to an end. Sin
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  Speaker 2: and rebellion will have an end. The enemy of death
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  Speaker 2: will come to an end. The finality of death will
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  Speaker 2: meet its end, because the Bible says the last and
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  Speaker 2: when this is our previous episode. By the way, the
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  Speaker 2: last enemy that is going to be destroyed is death.
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  Speaker 2: Remember keep in mind, never forget. If you don't know it,
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  Speaker 2: you're not You're gonna know it. Now, you're gonna hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: We were made to be eternal creatures. We are eternal creatures.
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  Speaker 2: Sin interrupted our eternal existence, and so because of sin
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  Speaker 2: we die, but we will live again. Jesus again John
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  Speaker 2: chapter five. Now, if he didn't and does not rather
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  Speaker 2: have the authority to do what he just or what
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  Speaker 2: he stated, rather in this chapter five of John, you
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  Speaker 2: can read it there. He says, the time will come,
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  Speaker 2: the hour will come when all who are in the
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  Speaker 2: grave will hear the voice of the Son of God
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  Speaker 2: and live, everybody, every man, woman, born, girl will be
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  Speaker 2: raised again from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: We were not made to perish. We were made to
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  Speaker 2: live and have eternal life, and that we will have
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  Speaker 2: because death will be abolished. So all that are dead
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  Speaker 2: will no longer be dead. If death is abolished, that
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  Speaker 2: means you can't be dead. All right, So also we
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  Speaker 2: can have this assurance that every enemy of righteousness will
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  Speaker 2: suffer defeat and eternal eradication, abolishment as it were.
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  Speaker 1: And again the whole of.
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  Speaker 2: Creation that is now being burden, that is under the strain,
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  Speaker 2: the consequences, the ramifications of our sin, and our continued
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  Speaker 2: rebellion against God. By the way, all of that will
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  Speaker 2: come to an end. Hopelessness and sorrows will be no more.
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  Speaker 1: His kingdom will come.
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  Speaker 2: His will, as the Lord taught us to pray, will
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  Speaker 2: be done on earth as it is in heaven. Because
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  Speaker 2: again the King will reign on the throne, and his
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  Speaker 2: kingdom will have no end.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And again it's going to be a visible kingdom, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ will sit as the king of the kings,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord of lords is written on his thigh.
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  Speaker 2: It's written in the pages of Scripture. It is written
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  Speaker 2: in eternity. It is inscribed a man in in in
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  Speaker 2: the in the in the plan of God, the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of God from the foundation of the world. And uh uh,
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  Speaker 2: this in comes because Jesus the Christ, who is the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: who is the Alphael, who is the first, who is
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  Speaker 2: the last, who is who was is and is to come.
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  Speaker 2: He has the power, he has the authority, Amen, as
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  Speaker 2: the supreme sovereign ruler over his creation. By the way, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: he he has the power, and he now reigns. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what Paul says, for he must reign until he
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  Speaker 2: has put down all rube and all authority. The end,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, will come. And there's so much to
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  Speaker 2: this that I certainly could not would not rather their
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  Speaker 2: attempt to again enumerate every single aspect of the end.
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  Speaker 2: You can read all about it in the Book of Revelation.
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  Speaker 2: A good portion of it is in the Book of Revelation,
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  Speaker 2: A good portion of it is in even in the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament. Many of the prophets spoke of the end,
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  Speaker 2: spoke of the kingdom, the millennial kingdom of Christ, and
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  Speaker 2: all of that is going to a man occur. Then
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  Speaker 2: comes the end. So let us, as the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: a man keep this hope, a man at the forefront
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  Speaker 2: of our mind, while a man live out our.
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  Speaker 1: Pilgrimage on this earth.
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  Speaker 2: And as we go through these times and seasons, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, know of a surety, Know of a
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  Speaker 2: certainty that the resurrection of Jesus Christ point two validates
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  Speaker 2: gives assurance to the end of this world as we
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  Speaker 2: know it to be. So, Father, will you just help
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  Speaker 2: us today, somebody today to see and to know and
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  Speaker 2: to have the assurance of the hope of the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: not only of you from the dead, but also the
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  Speaker 2: resurrection of all those who believe in Him, to be
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  Speaker 2: eternally blissfully, joyfully rejoicing with you forevermore. God be praised,
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  Speaker 2: God be magnified in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen.