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#696: 3 Events of the Risen Savior · Zion Word Ministries International Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: I want to go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 today if you've got the Bible, and if not, you can look on the screen.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to stop off at verse 14.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm only going to use four scriptures today.
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SPEAKER_01: Usually I use about 10 or 12, but only today four.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, they're all connected together.
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SPEAKER_01: They're primarily the scriptures today, but do the uh preaching and teaching, and we're just the vessel.
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SPEAKER_01: And if Christ be not risen, then your preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.
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SPEAKER_01: Means worthless, no good.
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SPEAKER_01: Then drop down to verse 17, and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain.
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SPEAKER_01: You're yet in your sins.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh-oh.
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SPEAKER_01: Serious?
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SPEAKER_01: Then they also, which are falling asleep in Christ, are perish.
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SPEAKER_01: But as you heard from the scripture this morning, that he isn't there.
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SPEAKER_01: He is raised.
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SPEAKER_01: And in a glorified state.
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SPEAKER_01: The only one, the first fruits, which guarantees our resurrection to come.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Then we go to verse 14.
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SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, uh verse 1.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll get it right here.
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SPEAKER_01: Today I want to look at there are five recorded events concerning the post-resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I will not be looking at Luke 24, where it talks about on the road to Emmaus are the Sea of Galilee appearances in John 21.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll skip those.
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SPEAKER_01: They're too long to go into.
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SPEAKER_01: I would hope that you would check that out on your own.
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SPEAKER_01: But today I want to look at three events that are recorded about the resurrection of Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: We start in verse 1.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, you understand Paul was given the meaning of the new covenant.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul, the apostle.
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SPEAKER_01: Which was the meaning of the cross and the resurrection.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul always preached about the resurrection because there were some that didn't believe in the resurrection, and he always preached the resurrection of Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: And so he was given these insights.
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SPEAKER_01: To be saved, one must also believe in the resurrection.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not enough to believe that Jesus is the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: You must believe in the death, burial, and resurrection, which is the gospel, which is cannot be refuted.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's possible to believe in vain.
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SPEAKER_01: And if a person believes in vain, uh they're cut off eternally.
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SPEAKER_01: They lose their soul if they believe in vain because the belief system is perverted.
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SPEAKER_01: And again, the cross, Psalms 22, you read that sometime.
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SPEAKER_01: It was prophesied the way the Savior would die for our sins.
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SPEAKER_01: I explain it this way.
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SPEAKER_01: He died for us because of our sins.
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SPEAKER_01: Sins can't be saved.
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SPEAKER_01: And also, he had to come against the swim theory, which was, well, Christ didn't actually die.
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SPEAKER_01: He just laid in the barred tomb, and then when the cool of the tomb hit his battered body, he somehow another came to and crawled up.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the best the devil can come up with.
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SPEAKER_01: But the resurrection proves the atonement was valid.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: Now I'll get started on a scripture in a minute.
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SPEAKER_01: I said only four scriptures today.
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SPEAKER_01: But the cross really validates the resurrection and vice versa.
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SPEAKER_01: So God accepted the sacrifice of his son because Christ rose.
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SPEAKER_01: Have you got it?
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SPEAKER_01: Done deal.
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SPEAKER_01: And everybody here has access to eternal life.
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SPEAKER_01: Everyone on the earth has access to eternal life, but only those that receive Jesus as Savior and Lord by faith actually have it.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, after Christ ascended, Paul saw him.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, have you found verse one yet?
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody, okay.
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SPEAKER_01: I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand.
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SPEAKER_01: Brother Molly standing as the preaching, uh, the blessing on the word.
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SPEAKER_01: Will you please for me?
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Turn to your neighbor and say, Jesus is still on the throne, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: He's still on the throne.
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SPEAKER_01: I got a good idea.
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SPEAKER_01: He might be standing up right about it now, wanting to come back.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, verse 1, I declare unto you the gospel.
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SPEAKER_01: Say gospel now, which I preached unto you, which you had received, wherein you stand.
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SPEAKER_01: You got it made.
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SPEAKER_01: By which also you're saved.
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SPEAKER_01: If you keep in memory that which I preach unto you, lest you believe in vain.
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SPEAKER_01: So if a person believes in vain, they're exempt from salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to scripture, number one.
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SPEAKER_01: Number two, he was buried in the borrowed tomb, of course.
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SPEAKER_01: And that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures.
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SPEAKER_01: So he fulfilled over 300 prophecies about himself, and there are other prophecies yet to be fulfilled by Christ also.
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SPEAKER_01: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve.
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SPEAKER_01: And after that, he was seen above 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part remains to this present, but some have fallen asleep.
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SPEAKER_01: In other words, some of those five hundred brethren have physically died.
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SPEAKER_01: After that, he was seen of James, then of all the apostles, last of all, he was seen of me as one born out of due time.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: So today we're going to take a brief look at three events that's recorded in the scripture.
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SPEAKER_01: And the first one is found in St.
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SPEAKER_01: John chapter 20 and verse 11.
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SPEAKER_01: If you'd like to turn there if you have a Bible today.
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SPEAKER_01: And if not, you can uh, like I say, look on the screen.
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unknown: St.
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SPEAKER_01: John 20, verse 11 to 18.
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SPEAKER_01: But Mary stood without the sepulchre, weeping as she wept.
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SPEAKER_01: She stooped down and looked into the sepulchre.
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SPEAKER_01: And seized two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
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SPEAKER_01: And they said to her, Woman, why weepest thou?
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SPEAKER_01: She said unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
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SPEAKER_01: And when she had said thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said to her, Woman, why weep why weepest thou?
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SPEAKER_01: Whom seekest thou?
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SPEAKER_01: Thou means you.
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SPEAKER_01: She supposed him to be the gardener.
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SPEAKER_01: There's something about the Lord loves gardening, Blissa.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: She said, Sir, if you've borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said to her, Mary, you know the Lord knows our name.
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SPEAKER_01: She turned herself and said unto him, Raboni, which is to say, Master.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus said to her, Touch me not.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not yet ascended to my father.
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SPEAKER_01: Now is already resurrected.
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SPEAKER_01: But go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my father and your father and to my God and your God.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's heavy right there.
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SPEAKER_01: That's heavy.
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SPEAKER_01: Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things to her.
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SPEAKER_01: The first account.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: We have the risen Savior.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, later on, Jesus allowed different ones to touch him.
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SPEAKER_01: The significance of that is he could not allow humans tempted by any type of impurities whatsoever to touch his glorified body until he went to heaven and offered himself on the altar of heaven and took his blood up to heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he came back down and then people could touch him again.
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SPEAKER_01: Which Christ ascended several times and descended several times.
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SPEAKER_01: I explain it this way: Christ descended from heaven, then he descended to the underworld, then he ascended back from the underworld, then he ascended back to heaven, then he descended back from heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: Several days later, he ascended back to heaven, and one day he will descend from heaven again.
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SPEAKER_01: Clear as mud, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh well, we tried.
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SPEAKER_01: Now drop down to verse 19 for account number two.
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SPEAKER_01: Then this same day at evening, behold, the first day of the week.
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SPEAKER_01: Now that's Sunday, when the doors were shut, and where the disciples were gathered, uh assembled for the fear of the Jews.
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SPEAKER_01: So they were under a spirit of fear.
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SPEAKER_01: Came Jesus and stood in the midst and said to them, Peace be unto you.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, how do you get through a locked door?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, he can do whatever he wants.
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SPEAKER_01: I explained this way.
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SPEAKER_01: There's different dimensions, different rifts between dimensions, and he just simply turned sideways and walk through and then turn back.
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SPEAKER_01: Never mind.
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SPEAKER_01: You got a better idea?
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SPEAKER_01: When he had so said, he showed himself, he showed them his hands and his side.
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SPEAKER_01: Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: The Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: God in the flesh.
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SPEAKER_01: Then said, Jesus, then, peace be unto you, as my Father has sent me, even so I send you.
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SPEAKER_01: And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: They were born again then, not on the day of Pentecost.
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SPEAKER_01: Because they were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, and an unbeliever cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_01: They had to be saved before Pentecost.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is another message.
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SPEAKER_01: He breathed on them and received the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to stay out of the hundred messages here, but the same one that breathed on them breathed in the nostrils of Adam 4,000 years before that.
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SPEAKER_01: The same one.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know, he can breathe on us today by the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_01: He wants to.
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SPEAKER_01: If you want him.
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SPEAKER_01: Not only do I want him, I need him.
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SPEAKER_01: I can't make it without him.
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SPEAKER_01: He's my first great love.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: We owe him everything.
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SPEAKER_01: And we need to serve him 100%.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he said this whosoever sins you remit, they're remitted.
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SPEAKER_01: 23, and whosoever sins you retain, they are retained.
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SPEAKER_01: If we give the gospel unto you people and you accept Jesus, I can say by Scripture, your sins are forgiven.
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SPEAKER_01: You're heading to heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: Your name's the book of life.
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SPEAKER_01: But if you reject the gospel, your sins remain.
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SPEAKER_01: And then let's drop down to verse 26.
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SPEAKER_01: That was the second post-resurrection occurrence.
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SPEAKER_01: And now the third one.
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SPEAKER_01: After eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas, everybody say Thomas.
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SPEAKER_01: Now he's called doubting Thomas, but he wasn't always doubting Thomas.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, there are many miracles he performed in the name of Jesus in India.
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SPEAKER_01: Like one time the heathen were out in the river and they were throwing up the water and from the river, and the sunlight was hitting the water, and it was giving a kind of a rainbow effect, and they were worshiping that.
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SPEAKER_01: And they all give their heart to Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Folks, God can do way beyond we can ask or think.
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SPEAKER_01: These guys walked in a supernatural revelation, which God wants us to have also.
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SPEAKER_01: And so after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them, and then came Jesus, and the door is being shut.
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SPEAKER_01: They love shut those doors, don't they?
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SPEAKER_01: This is its first church to open door right here.
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SPEAKER_01: Always a door open.
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SPEAKER_01: He stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the message today.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, peace be unto you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: God's not against us today, He's for us.
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SPEAKER_01: Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither your finger and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand and thrust into my side, and be not faithless, but believing.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's almost like there was no scar there, but he could actually insert his fingers into the ribbon side of the Savior.
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SPEAKER_01: How's that possible?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, Christ didn't have any blood.
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SPEAKER_01: He was alive by the Holy Ghost.
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unknown: That's right.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel sorry for people who don't believe in the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: Man, you're in trouble.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he's the one going to get us out of here one day.
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SPEAKER_01: He's the one gonna resurrect us when Christ gives the word.
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SPEAKER_01: He knows where we are today.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you glad about that?
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_00: Take a moment.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, what's wine words, Doctor?
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SPEAKER_00: If I now take a powerful message for Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Wayne.
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SPEAKER_01: Then verse 29, it says again, Thomas.
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SPEAKER_01: Wait a minute, 28.
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SPEAKER_01: This is very important.
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SPEAKER_01: The most greatest confession of all time from any human being that I know of.
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SPEAKER_01: Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.
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SPEAKER_01: I can see him falling down on his knees and grabbing those nail scars, can you?
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SPEAKER_01: My Lord and my God.
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SPEAKER_01: One day everybody's gonna confess that.
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SPEAKER_01: I got news for the devil.
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SPEAKER_01: I've already done that, Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Devil.
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SPEAKER_01: Too late, too late for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: Have you bowed the knee and confessed him as Savior and Lord or not?
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SPEAKER_01: You must.
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SPEAKER_01: You get to.
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SPEAKER_01: Today's the day of salvation, and now is accepted time.
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SPEAKER_01: But you must repent and believe the gospel.
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SPEAKER_01: And then drop down to verse 30, please.
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SPEAKER_01: Many of the signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, but it's not written in this book.
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SPEAKER_01: But these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that believing you might have life through his name.
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SPEAKER_01: How many believe is the word today?
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SPEAKER_01: The word is absolute authority, cannot be changed.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Chapter 2 and verse 10.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you find that?
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SPEAKER_01: This is really what we're waiting on.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody?
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SPEAKER_01: My beloved spake, that's Jesus, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what's coming.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what's coming.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what's coming.
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SPEAKER_01: You can take this old world, but give me Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no turning back.
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SPEAKER_01: The world behind me, the cross before me.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no turning back.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: What do we go back to?
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SPEAKER_01: There is nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: Fact is, if the children of Israel tried to go back to Egypt and go back across the Red Sea, they'd drown.
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SPEAKER_01: So once you're in, you are in.
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SPEAKER_01: Which brings me to a story.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm almost done today.
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SPEAKER_01: I was on an airplane going to Africa one time recently.
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SPEAKER_01: Will and Jennifer sitting behind me, and uh, this young man sat down beside of me and I started talking to him, witnessing to him.
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SPEAKER_01: And the first thing you know, we lead him in a prayer of repentance to Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: On the airplane.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess my voice was carrying, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: It carries when I turn it up.
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SPEAKER_01: I was trying to say quiet, but it's hard to say stay quiet when I be talking about the Savior, I'll tell you.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I showed him a scripture.
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SPEAKER_01: Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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SPEAKER_01: And he goes, You mean I'm in?
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SPEAKER_01: And I said, You are in.
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SPEAKER_01: He starts rejoicing and just right on the airplane.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Folks, God can save to the uttermost.
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SPEAKER_01: But they've got to come in contact with the Holy Spirit through a vessel that knows God and can witness and lead them to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to encourage you this year to lead somebody to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: You can do it.
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SPEAKER_01: You could do it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're going the wrong way.
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SPEAKER_01: And those that are away from the Lord, backslid, encourage them to come back.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not going to get any better until they come back and return to their first love.
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SPEAKER_01: Because those that are watching and waiting are going to fly away one of these days.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we're going to go to a place that's out of this world.
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SPEAKER_01: Last scripture today is St.
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SPEAKER_01: John chapter 14.
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SPEAKER_01: We use this a lot for funerals, but this is not a funeral today.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not a funeral today.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Let not your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_01: You believe in God, believe in me.
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SPEAKER_01: Then verse 2.
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SPEAKER_01: In my father's house are many mansions.
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SPEAKER_01: You're going to think about a city that's 1,500 miles high, wide, and long.
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SPEAKER_01: Pyramid shape.
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SPEAKER_01: I hold a clear title to a mansion that Jesus has gone to prepare.
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SPEAKER_01: Fire cannot touch it, thieves cannot harm it, and it never needs a repair.
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SPEAKER_01: The termites can't harm its foundation, for on the rock of ages it'll stand.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe it's almost completed and ready for me to move in.
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SPEAKER_01: My deed was co-signed and recorded the day Jesus saved me from sin.
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SPEAKER_01: My name was engraved in gold letters from the Lamb's Book of Life, say for them.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm an error of your mansion in glory, and one day I shall roam.
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SPEAKER_01: I forgot the last part, I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I waited for him to call me and lead me home, something like that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's only been 30 years since I recorded that.
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SPEAKER_01: But the fact is it's true.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, if you want a little log cabin on the corner of Glory Land, I guess you can have it.
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SPEAKER_01: But the average mansion in heaven is one city block square for each person.
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SPEAKER_01: Mathematicians have figured that out.
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SPEAKER_01: If everyone was saved since Adam, but we know that's not so.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to a big, big place.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's just a city.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, don't miss heaven for the world now.
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SPEAKER_01: Eternity is a long time.
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SPEAKER_01: We're only here for a short season.
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SPEAKER_01: But Jesus said in his father's house, Oh man, come and go to me in my father's house.
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SPEAKER_01: For those peace.
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SPEAKER_01: If it were not so, I would have told you, and I'm going to go prepare a place for you.
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SPEAKER_01: So there he is.
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SPEAKER_01: He's, you know, touching up a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: If you want walker, worker furniture, you can have it.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think there's any big eyes, little ears in heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody gets a mansion, but I won't have time to live in it.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, where's your mansion at, preacher?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's on Glory Avenue.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know where it's at.
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SPEAKER_01: And some are up there, and so is yours.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell you the half has not yet been told.
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SPEAKER_01: But then in verse 3, if I go to prepare a place, and he did go back to heaven, did he not?
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SPEAKER_01: Sit on the right hand of God until his enemies be made his footstool.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's almost over.
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SPEAKER_01: I will come again.
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SPEAKER_01: And receive you to myself where I am, there you may be also.
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SPEAKER_01: Where's Jesus?
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SPEAKER_01: He's in heaven right now.
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SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is here on the earth to bear with us to our hearts that the gospel is true.
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SPEAKER_01: All we have to do is give our lives to Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Repent of your sins.
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SPEAKER_01: For all of sin.
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SPEAKER_01: See, we don't throw stones.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: Christ doesn't throw stones.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of you need to get serious about this thing because salvation is for eternity.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Like the old timers preachers of heaven to gain and a hell of shun.
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SPEAKER_01: And that is still true today.
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SPEAKER_01: How's he with you and the Lord Jesus?
24:16
SPEAKER_01: People can wait one day too long.
24:20
SPEAKER_01: I remember a man in the rest of home.
24:22
SPEAKER_01: I used to go visit with him every Sunday after church in the old show.
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SPEAKER_01: Old guy, he's probably oh 70-ish.
24:29
SPEAKER_01: He's probably in his 80s, maybe 90s, I don't know.
24:32
SPEAKER_01: I can't tell age anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm still young in the Lord, praise God.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: But I'd go in and see him.
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SPEAKER_01: His granddaughter went, preacher, go see my grandpa.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: I walked in there and started talking to him.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't hear about God.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't hear about this and I started cussing, you know.
24:48
SPEAKER_01: And so I said, okay, I'll see you next Sunday.
24:51
SPEAKER_01: I go back in and he's worse.
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SPEAKER_01: Bedridden.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: And there I shared the gospel.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, I've got a captivated audience here.
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SPEAKER_01: Now you're going to hear the gospel.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to hear it.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: You're going to hear it.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: You heard it.
25:09
SPEAKER_01: But I couldn't do anything with him as far as prayer goes.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: Prayer is talking to God.
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SPEAKER_01: That's just it.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: Simple, like we're talking.
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SPEAKER_01: He hears us.
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SPEAKER_01: The next Sunday I'll go back in and I asked the girl, where's the old man?
25:24
SPEAKER_01: She said, Oh, he died last night.
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SPEAKER_01: These things bother me.
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SPEAKER_01: Did he receive Christ?
25:33
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
25:35
SPEAKER_01: I was sent to Mount Vernon.
25:36
SPEAKER_01: You know where Mount Vernon is?
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody?
25:39
SPEAKER_01: We'll pray for you then.
25:42
SPEAKER_01: There's this veteran up there dying of lung cancer.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: You need to quit them cigarettes now.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: It's a terrible thing to choke to death on your own blood.
25:51
SPEAKER_01: And there he was.
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SPEAKER_01: This little woman there in the first church I pastored many years ago.
25:57
SPEAKER_01: Let's go see my brother.
25:58
SPEAKER_01: He's dying.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: I go to see him.
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SPEAKER_01: I said, walked in there.
26:02
SPEAKER_01: I said, sir, I'm here to talk to you about Jesus.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: He said, and I asked, I said, are you Christian?
26:06
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Well, I'm church of Christ.
26:08
SPEAKER_01: I said, look, I didn't ask you what church you went to.
26:12
SPEAKER_01: Where's that camera at?
26:13
SPEAKER_01: Let me look here.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at this camera.
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SPEAKER_01: Zoom in on me.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you people to listen to me.
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SPEAKER_01: These here are not.
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SPEAKER_01: You will.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you a Christian?
26:26
SPEAKER_01: He goes, I'm church of Christ.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: I said, No.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: I want to know if you're a Christian.
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SPEAKER_01: I couldn't do anything with him.
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SPEAKER_01: I said, Are you saved?
26:32
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've been baptized.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not what I asked you.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: So I had to leave.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: About a month goes by.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: You can come back now.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: And I go back up there, and he had previously called and said, I want the preacher to come back.
26:47
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saved.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: So I'll go to the hospital.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: Now he's in a coma on the bed.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: And his wife's crying, and it's a terrible situation.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: But I remembered someone taught years ago that the last thing that leaves the physical body is the ears.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
27:04
SPEAKER_01: They can still hear.
27:05
SPEAKER_01: They might be in a coma, but they can still hear from time to time what's going on.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: I think that's right.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: And what could I do is in a coma so I walk up the side of the bed.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: And I said, sir, you want me to come back?
27:22
SPEAKER_01: Here I am.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: If you can hear me, you prayed his prayer in your heart.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: And God has said.
27:31
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if he did, but I believe he did.
27:34
SPEAKER_01: God wouldn't send me up there for no reason at all.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: And then I found out his wife was living with another man.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: And it all came out then.
27:48
SPEAKER_01: Folks, it's time to get serious about God.
27:51
SPEAKER_01: Real serious.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: Don't let anybody steal your crown.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: God's got so much for us.
28:02
SPEAKER_01: Waiting.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: And one day we're gonna go to chapter two of God's prophetic plan.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: Don't miss out.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: Don't miss out.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: Let's stand up today.
28:13
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening to me.
28:16
SPEAKER_01: What about the multitudes have been saved, hundreds of people have been saved?
28:20
SPEAKER_01: I don't keep track anymore.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm concerned about those that put it off, procrastinate, and die without Christ.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: It bothers me.
28:28
SPEAKER_01: And it should bother you.
28:31
SPEAKER_01: If we love God, we want people to make heaven their home.
28:35
SPEAKER_01: Plenty of room for everybody.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: But God requires one thing.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: You know, if the Lord, what you did, he went to the cross publicly, humiliated.
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SPEAKER_01: One of the worst deaths, not the bath.
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SPEAKER_01: But he did it publicly for all sick.