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Our Lords Return_ What Then? Msg 916 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: I would like you to place the outline of today's
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  Speaker 1: message at First Thessalonians Chapter four. Just slide it in
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  Speaker 1: there at the crease of First Thessalonians four, where we
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  Speaker 1: will turn as I begin the message in a few moments.
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  Speaker 1: And once you've done that, locate First John chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: the last two verses, which lead naturally into the first
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  Speaker 1: three verses of chapter three. Understand, the chapter breaks in
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  Speaker 1: our Bible are not inspired of God. They have been
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  Speaker 1: added in later centuries, and how helpful they are to
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  Speaker 1: assist us. But there were occasions when those who did
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  Speaker 1: the chapter breaks broke them at an incorrect place. It's
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  Speaker 1: the only time you'll ever hear me attempt at correct
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  Speaker 1: something that said the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: But actually, the chapter.
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  Speaker 1: Breaks are out a part of the Bible. They are
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  Speaker 1: simply added for assisting us in locating the scriptures. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, the chapter should have ended, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: A second chapter should have ended verse twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: then the third began at verse twenty eight down through
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it. Hope that doesn't trouble you. It's
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  Speaker 1: just an editorial thing.
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  Speaker 2: That helpful.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you wanted to read it as
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  Speaker 1: it was originally written. There were no punctuation marks, There
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  Speaker 1: was no break. It was constant, constant, constant, constant, the
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  Speaker 1: manuscript running rot after another after another after another, in
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  Speaker 1: rolls that were called the scrolls, the sacred scrolls, the
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  Speaker 1: grape of scripture. And we are grateful that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: has preserved it for us in language that even we
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  Speaker 1: speak to appreciate it even more, and out of respect
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  Speaker 1: for our heavenly Father and his word. Will you stand
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  Speaker 1: with me as we read God's word? First John, chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty eight. Now, little children abide in him, so
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  Speaker 1: that when he appears, we may have confidence and not
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  Speaker 1: shrink away from him in shame at his coming. If
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  Speaker 1: you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone
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  Speaker 1: also who practices righteousness is born of him. See how
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  Speaker 1: great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we
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  Speaker 1: would be called children of God, And such we are.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, the world does not know us, because
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  Speaker 1: it did not know him Beloved. Now we are children
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  Speaker 1: of God, and it has not appeared as yet what
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  Speaker 1: we will be. We know that when he appears, we
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  Speaker 1: will be like him, because we will see him just
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  Speaker 1: as he is. And everyone who has this hope fixed
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  Speaker 1: on him. Purifies himself, just as he is pure.
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  Speaker 2: You may be seated.
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  Speaker 1: Please join me for a few moments of prayer. What
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  Speaker 1: a gripping thought we have just sung, our Father, when
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  Speaker 1: we read and sing that our name has been cleared,
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  Speaker 1: that you will present us faultless before the presence of
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  Speaker 1: your glory, with a joy that is beyond description. That
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  Speaker 1: for you and for us we have that relationship that
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  Speaker 1: gives us a sense of confidence at your coming.
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  Speaker 2: We do not shrink.
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  Speaker 1: Away in shame or fear, but we anticipate your son's
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  Speaker 1: return at any moment.
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  Speaker 2: With great delight.
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  Speaker 1: We wait on tiptoe for that hour when the Lord
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  Speaker 1: himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the arc Angel and the trumpet call of God,
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  Speaker 1: and the dead in Christ having risen first, we shall
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  Speaker 1: be caught up together with them in the clouds to
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  Speaker 1: meet your son in the air, to be forever with him.
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  Speaker 1: What a relief that will bring. Until then, our Father,
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  Speaker 1: we bask in your love which will not ever let
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  Speaker 1: us go.
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  Speaker 2: We're thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: Today whatever may be the need in any heart occupying
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  Speaker 1: any seat in this place of worship, whatever may be
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  Speaker 1: that need, I pray that you will, in these quiet moments,
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  Speaker 1: bring a calm reassurance, reminding each one of us that
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  Speaker 1: you do all things well, and that nothing touches us
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  Speaker 1: that has not first passed through the fingers of our
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  Speaker 1: faithful God, whose.
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  Speaker 2: Hand is upon us.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, even though others walk away from their young,
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  Speaker 1: you will never walk away from us. As the prophet
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  Speaker 1: has written, can the mother of the nursing child leave
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  Speaker 1: her young? Yes, she may leave, But I will never
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  Speaker 1: leave you. I have graven you upon the palms.
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  Speaker 2: Of my hands.
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  Speaker 3: Your ways are continually before me.
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  Speaker 2: Even this day.
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  Speaker 1: This day, our ways are before you. Some anticipate with
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  Speaker 1: great delight the months that will unfold in the spring
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  Speaker 1: and summer of this year. Others look upon them with
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  Speaker 1: dread and discouragement. Bring us all together around the theme
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  Speaker 1: that someday all of the cares of this age will pass,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be like Him, for we will see
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  Speaker 1: him as he is. Comfort us with those words for
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  Speaker 1: those who have never come to Christ. Terrify them, frighten them,
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  Speaker 1: keep them awake until they find faith and trust and
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  Speaker 1: hope in Him whom to know is life everlasting. We
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  Speaker 1: give our gifts our Father, that the message of your
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  Speaker 1: word may go forth here and across the states and
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  Speaker 1: the seas, so that others may know of the love
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  Speaker 1: of our heavenly Father. Thank you for giving us our occupation,
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  Speaker 1: and from our wage, we return to you what is
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  Speaker 1: already yours, since you own it all, and we give
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  Speaker 1: gratefully in the name of our Savior Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone said Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The return of Christ strikes fear or brings comfort. It
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  Speaker 1: does one or the other. Everything depends on whether one
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  Speaker 1: is ready for it or not. In Billy Graham's massive autobiography,
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  Speaker 1: almost seven hundred and fifty pages long, he tells a
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  Speaker 1: story that probably most of us never knew before we
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  Speaker 1: read that autobiography. He tells of the time when the
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  Speaker 1: just elected President John F. Kennedy was about to take
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  Speaker 1: office and he invited mister Graham to play golf with
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  Speaker 1: him in Florida. Graham writes in his book that as
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  Speaker 1: they were riding along on their way to the golf course,
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  Speaker 1: President Kennedy asked that the car be pulled over and stopped.
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  Speaker 1: The engine was turned off, and mister Graham was surprised
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  Speaker 1: with the question, is it true, asked Kennedy that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: will return someday. I assured him it was true, and
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  Speaker 1: that all churches, including his own, affirmed it in their creeds. Tragically,
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  Speaker 1: only three years later, the man was assassinated and Cardinal
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  Speaker 1: Cushing was speaking at the funeral service, and he chose
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  Speaker 1: as his text first Thessalonians, Chapter four, verse sixteen, as
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  Speaker 1: he read boldly before a listening nation in grief, for
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  Speaker 1: the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a
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  Speaker 1: loud command.
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  Speaker 2: With the voice of the archangel.
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  Speaker 1: And with the trumpet call of God, and the dead
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  Speaker 1: in Christ will rise first. A little less than thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years later, Graham completed his biography. In doing so,
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  Speaker 1: the final pages seven twenty nine and seven point thirty
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  Speaker 1: and with these words, I don't know the future, but
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  Speaker 1: I do know this. The best is yet to be.
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  Speaker 1: Heaven awaits us, and that will be far far more
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  Speaker 1: glorious than anything we can ever imagine. As the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: dear friends, Now we are children of God, and what
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  Speaker 1: we will be has not yet been made known. But
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  Speaker 1: we know that when He appears, we shall be like him,
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  Speaker 1: for we shall see him as he is.
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  Speaker 2: This is the hope of every believer.
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  Speaker 1: It is my hope writes Graham, and I pray that
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  Speaker 1: it is your hope as well. I know that soon
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  Speaker 1: my life will be over. I thank God for it
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  Speaker 1: and for all He has given me in this life.
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  Speaker 1: But I look forward to heaven. I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: the reunion with friends and loved ones who have gone
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  Speaker 1: on before. I look forward to Heaven's freedom from sorrow
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  Speaker 1: and pain. Most of all, I look forward to seeing
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  Speaker 1: Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for
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  Speaker 1: all He has done for us and for using me
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  Speaker 1: on this earth by his grace, just as I am.
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  Speaker 1: You may not look forward to it. You may have
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  Speaker 1: been misinformed about it. After all, the media is full
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  Speaker 1: of all kinds of misinformation, exaggerations, and the comments of
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  Speaker 1: cynics who sneer at such silly things as what they.
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  Speaker 2: Call pie in the sky. By and by, and.
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  Speaker 1: If you're confused about it, it would be easy for
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  Speaker 1: me to say to many of you, welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: club that many of you are a part of. You
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  Speaker 1: would be hard pressed to name the events as they
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  Speaker 1: will unfold, even though the Bible sets them forth in
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  Speaker 1: a manner you could almost turn into numerical order, first
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  Speaker 1: and then second, and then third, and fourth, and right
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  Speaker 1: on down the line. That's why I wanted you to
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  Speaker 1: turn to First Thessalonians four thirteen through eighteen. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Paul's explanation of what's ahead, and he takes away a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of the mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Now some remains, of course, after all, it's an eternal
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  Speaker 1: home to which we go, but much of it is clear.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we need to know it's an actual reality.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't a distant dream.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't some mystical thinking of a theologian tucked away
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  Speaker 1: in the island of Patmos who gets carried away late
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  Speaker 1: one night with his writings. So much is believed wrongly
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  Speaker 1: these days about spiritual things. It was Mark Twain who
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  Speaker 1: once wrote, the trouble with the world is not that
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  Speaker 1: people know too.
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  Speaker 2: Little, but that they know so many things. It ain't so.
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  Speaker 1: To unlearn wrong things is always harder than learning new
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  Speaker 1: things for the first time. So if it's possible for
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  Speaker 1: you to wash your mind free of all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: you picked up along the way that was gathered outside
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, and just focus your mind on what Paul
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  Speaker 1: writes as he explains these events, you'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: put the order together rather simply.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Why is it? He says, we do.
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  Speaker 1: Not want you to be uninformed, brethren. The answer is
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  Speaker 1: in the latter part of verse thirteen of this fourth chapter,
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  Speaker 1: so that you will not grieve as do the rest
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  Speaker 1: you have no hope. You see, when you know what
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  Speaker 1: is happening, and when you know what is coming, your
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  Speaker 1: grief is not hopeless. Oh, we still grieve, And there's
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  Speaker 1: everything right about tears. I, for one, believe a person
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  Speaker 1: does not get through grief without fully expressing it. And
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  Speaker 1: I think some Christians have been told incorrectly that tears
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  Speaker 1: have no place at a funeral.
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  Speaker 2: What a foolish statement to make.
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  Speaker 1: You've lost a loved one, you'll miss them throughout your
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  Speaker 1: earthly life, but you don't grieve.
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  Speaker 2: As those who have no hope. Why not.
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  Speaker 1: See the word four in verse fourteen, He's going to
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  Speaker 1: explain why.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, here is an order of events that will unfold.
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  Speaker 2: First four, If we believe that Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Died and rose again, stop right there. If you do not,
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  Speaker 1: no wonder, you're terrified. No wonder when the doctor comes
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  Speaker 1: with that awful report that it's terminal, that you break
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  Speaker 1: out in a cold sweat.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder you can't sleep.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of the night, you awaken and find
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  Speaker 1: yourself preoccupied with a thousand alien thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Why you've never believed that Jesus died and rose again?
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  Speaker 2: He said, well, I just to believe. Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's called being born again. Believing right helps you think right.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking right helps you worry less, and worrying less helps
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  Speaker 1: you anticipate the greatest event.
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  Speaker 2: Just over the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: So let's make sure first of all that you believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus died and rose again, you've been born again.
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  Speaker 1: If you have never made that journey of faith, this
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  Speaker 1: is the moment to stop everything else, ignore whatever else
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  Speaker 1: I may say, and come to terms with that in
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  Speaker 1: your life, so that you might have this kind of
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  Speaker 1: hope about which Paul writes to begin with, Let's understand death.
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  Speaker 1: While much of it is a mystery, let's understand what occurs.
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  Speaker 1: We are made up of a body. People can see
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  Speaker 1: our body. We deal with our body. It's our body
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  Speaker 1: that ages, it's our body that is decaying and dying.
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  Speaker 1: We also have within us a soul and spirit. It's invisible.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put them together. Let's call them the soul, spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the visible. The material is the body. The immaterial is
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  Speaker 1: the soul spirit. At death, they separate, they separate. We
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  Speaker 1: lovingly care for the body. We have professionals that embalm
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  Speaker 1: the body, that provide a dignified burial, and we place
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  Speaker 1: them in the ground or they're cremated. The point is
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  Speaker 1: the body is dealt with. However, at death, since there
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  Speaker 1: is a separation, the soul spirit instantly goes to be
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  Speaker 1: with the Lord two Corinthians five seventeen. To be absent
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  Speaker 1: from the body of five eight. To be absent from
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  Speaker 1: the body is to be face to face with the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no purgatory, there's no probation period, there's no
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  Speaker 1: waiting to see if you were sincere.
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  Speaker 2: When death occurs, the body is laid away.
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  Speaker 1: And the soul's spirit is instantly with the Lord without
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  Speaker 1: a body. So your mother, your father, your relative, your
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  Speaker 1: loved one who died in Christ, the sole spirit of
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  Speaker 1: those individuals is now in the presence of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the benefits and blessings of heaven, but without a body.
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  Speaker 1: Their soul spirit awaits the resurrection of their old body,
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  Speaker 1: which will be changed.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read on.
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  Speaker 1: If we believe that Jesus died and rose again. Even
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  Speaker 1: so God will bring with him. That's Christ, those who
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  Speaker 1: have fallen asleep in Jesus. This is Paul's favorite expression
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  Speaker 1: for the death of a Christian believers are if you
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  Speaker 1: will a sleep in Jesus, you'll see.
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  Speaker 2: That on many a grave marker of a believer. A
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  Speaker 2: sleep in Jesus mean the soul is asleep.
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  Speaker 1: It means the body, means the body is waiting for
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  Speaker 1: its resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the believer who has died.
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  Speaker 1: For this, we say to you by the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord will not precede.
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  Speaker 2: Those who have fallen asleep. Let's track that carefully.
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  Speaker 1: When the Lord returns in the sky to meet us
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  Speaker 1: in the air, some of us will be alive at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and there will be this marvelous reunion in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, but it will be preceded by the raising
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  Speaker 1: of the bodies of the.
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  Speaker 2: Believers who have died. They'll let me go too fast.
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  Speaker 1: Here the dead believer's bodies are pulled out of the
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  Speaker 1: grave miraculously and joined to the soul.
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  Speaker 2: And spirit that awaits him.
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  Speaker 1: We who are alive and remain will be caught up
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  Speaker 1: with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
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  Speaker 1: the air. So the dead believers are made alive and
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  Speaker 1: glorified in their bodies, and the living believers are taken
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  Speaker 1: from this earth to Heaven. And there is a whole
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  Speaker 1: molecular change in the bodily makeup. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: know what our bodies will be like, study the resurrected
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ. We'll be able to pass through space instantly.
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  Speaker 1: Matter means nothing, Gravity has no hold on a glorified body,
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  Speaker 1: and there will be no presence of sin in our bodies.
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  Speaker 1: There's an old hymn that ends, then we shall be
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  Speaker 1: where we would be. Then we shall be what we
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  Speaker 1: should be. Things that are not now nor could be
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  Speaker 1: soon shall be our own. Some of you go, what
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  Speaker 1: it does sound a little like a tongue twister. The
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  Speaker 1: point is we will be changed, and the things we
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  Speaker 1: long to be, namely sinless and perfect, will then become
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  Speaker 1: a reality. We shall be what we would be. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the subject at hand, Verse fifteen. As we say
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  Speaker 1: to you by the word of the Lord, that we
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  Speaker 1: who are alive and remain that is on this earth
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  Speaker 1: until the coming of the Lord will not precede those
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  Speaker 1: who have fallen asleep.
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  Speaker 2: A watch closely.
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  Speaker 1: This is the moment it will occur, and it will
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  Speaker 1: be universally known. The Lord himself will descend from heaven
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  Speaker 1: with a shout, so there will be some kind of command,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of announcement coming from Heaven or from himself. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a statement said with volume.
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  Speaker 2: It will be a shout.
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  Speaker 1: Blended with that will be the voice of the Archangel
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  Speaker 1: making his announcement, and with that will be the trumpet
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  Speaker 1: call of God. Trumpeters love that statement. Yeah, Finally our
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  Speaker 1: instrument gets the credit it deserves, the trumpet call of God.
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  Speaker 1: The point is there will be a clarion call that
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  Speaker 1: will be trumpet like, and it will be a blast
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  Speaker 1: heard around the world. And those without Christ are left
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  Speaker 1: on this earth for a dreadful.
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  Speaker 2: Future I will not get into.
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  Speaker 1: And believers on this earth will be caught up instantly
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  Speaker 1: to be with their Lord forever. In fact, it says
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  Speaker 1: we will be caught up together with them. That's the
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  Speaker 1: dead who have been raised will be caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So
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  Speaker 1: we shall always be with the Lord. Comfort one another
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  Speaker 1: with these words.
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  Speaker 2: How great is that.
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  Speaker 1: Comfort one another with these words invariably. And I have
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  Speaker 1: the privilege of serving people who have lost loved ones.
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  Speaker 1: I remind them of this very passage of scripture. It
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  Speaker 1: is one of the is a pastor's favorite text to use.
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  Speaker 1: This is the event that the grieving can look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Your loved one will not remain in the grave. And
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  Speaker 1: let's say, terrible thought, your loved one was lost in battle,
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  Speaker 1: or was the body was exploded in a terrible event.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will have no trouble bringing that body back together.
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  Speaker 1: He created you from nothing to start with, and he
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  Speaker 1: will create you from nothing as he brings you back,
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  Speaker 1: recreate you in a glorified state. And we will always
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  Speaker 1: be with the Lord. Please notice that no probation, no purgatory,
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  Speaker 1: no possibility of leaving. It is a permanent residence. We
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  Speaker 1: will always be with the Lord. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: childish fairy tale, a fantasy. This is not some fanatical possibility.
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  Speaker 1: This is a reality. This is the event next year.
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  Speaker 1: This is our hope, this is our assurance. And we
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  Speaker 1: comfort one another with these words.
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  Speaker 2: The only ones not.
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  Speaker 1: Comforted are those who are not ready. And I'll repeat,
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  Speaker 1: you have life in which to get.
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  Speaker 2: Ready beyond life.
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  Speaker 1: You have no further opportunity to ready yourself for eternity.
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  Speaker 1: You take care of that now rather than await eternity.
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  Speaker 1: So this comforting thought brings the believer great hope. Had
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  Speaker 1: a man say to me as we close the first
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  Speaker 1: service today, that just last week his mother passed into
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's presence. Just this past week, a longtime friend
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  Speaker 1: of the Swindolph family.
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  Speaker 2: Lost his wife life brief battle with cancer and gone gone.
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  Speaker 2: No just waiting. The body is asleep in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: The soul and spirit at the moment she breathed her
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  Speaker 1: last taken immediately to be with the Lord. Now that'll
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  Speaker 1: get your attention, won't it. Look at First John, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: First John, written by our friend.
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  Speaker 2: Who's written this letter.
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  Speaker 1: Aging John, the apostle speaks to us affectionately as he
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  Speaker 1: analyzes Christ's appearing. Paul explained it. John analyzes it. The
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  Speaker 1: same Greek term that Paul used in verse fifteen for
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord is used here in verse.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eight at his coming.
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  Speaker 1: See the end of verse twenty eight, same word pirusilla.
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  Speaker 2: At his coming.
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  Speaker 1: So these are talking about the same event, the coming
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  Speaker 1: of Christ twice in the section we're looking at refers
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  Speaker 1: to when he appears see verse twenty eight, little children
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  Speaker 1: abide in him, so that when he appears again in
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  Speaker 1: verse two, beloved, now we are children of God. It
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  Speaker 1: has not appeared what we will be. We know that
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  Speaker 1: when he appears identical phrases in English and in the
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  Speaker 1: original language. So it's talking about that event that is
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  Speaker 1: immediately on the horizon. No other event needs to transpire
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  Speaker 1: on this earth for which that event awaits. It is
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  Speaker 1: the next event in the future, could happen at any moment,
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  Speaker 1: at any time around April fourteen. I pray intensely that
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  Speaker 1: it will arrive right now, right now, all the old
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  Speaker 1: cares of this earth are passed away, and we're taken
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  Speaker 1: forever to be with the Lord. Talk about people left
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  Speaker 1: with debt. It's going to happen at that time. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you. Now, let's get down to business. Verse twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: He begins with an important command, Little children abide in him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stop right there. The command is not scintillating. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a frenzy. There is no sensationalism about it.
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  Speaker 1: It is not over the top, cheerleading type stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't fantastic. It is just saying abide. How'd you
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  Speaker 2: like that? Just abide?
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  Speaker 1: Abide men No is the Greek term, and it means
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  Speaker 1: to continue to.
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  Speaker 2: Just stay, stay at it, stay at what.
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  Speaker 1: Obedience, walking in the spirit, keeping short accounts with your
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  Speaker 1: having me Father.
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  Speaker 2: It's a present imperative.
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  Speaker 1: So it's saying, keep on abiding, keep on abiding, keep
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  Speaker 1: on walking in the spirit. The best way I've ever
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  Speaker 1: heard it described is a long obedience in the same direction.
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  Speaker 1: A long obedience in the same direction. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to suddenly do a deep, deep Bible study and eschopology
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for it. You don't have to go to
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  Speaker 1: seminary to be ready for it. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: stay close to the church and buy a home nearby.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to come to every service so that
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  Speaker 1: you'll be ready. All you got to do is abide,
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  Speaker 1: just abide, Just keep on doing what you've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: That'll help you be ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work in a machine shop and one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that ran a turret lathe near me
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  Speaker 1: was named Text, and about quittin time. Old Text was
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  Speaker 1: always washed up and ready to go. And I said
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  Speaker 1: to text one day, Hey, text you about are you
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for quittin time? He said, Sonny, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get ready. I stay he's ready. I stay ready. You know,
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  Speaker 1: not to stay ready for quitting time. Abide, Abide, What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm abiding, I'm walking in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing my best not to fulfill the lust of
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. If that leaves you behind Galatians five nineteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Will help you.
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  Speaker 1: It'll show you the works of the flesh or the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit. You've got your choice. The point
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  Speaker 1: is you will not shrink.
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  Speaker 2: How good is this?
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  Speaker 1: You will not shrink in shame when you are abiding.
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  Speaker 1: That brings us to the reassuring reminder, look closely, so
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  Speaker 1: that when he appears, By abiding, you will now be ready.
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  Speaker 2: This is a purpose clause.
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  Speaker 1: You abide for the purpose that when he appears, you
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  Speaker 1: will have confidence and not shrink away from him in
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  Speaker 1: shame at his coming. Literally, the Greek says, in the presence,
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  Speaker 1: in that wonderful you will not shrink away in shame.
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  Speaker 1: In the presence. You and I have been in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of great people, but we have never been in
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  Speaker 1: a presence like this. This will be a presence that
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  Speaker 1: will leave you stunned, silent, lost in wonder and love
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  Speaker 1: and praise. When he appears and we're caught up.
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  Speaker 2: With him, we.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare ourselves for that moment with confidence, knowing that event
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  Speaker 1: is sure to occur. Then who shrinks away and is
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  Speaker 1: coming those who.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Back to you who have never trusted in Christ. No
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  Speaker 1: wonder it terrifies you. No wonder you're you're frightened with
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  Speaker 1: the thought. Or if you're a believer and you're living
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  Speaker 1: in the flesh, no wonder you fear the thought of
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  Speaker 1: his coming and calling.
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  Speaker 2: You to be with himself.
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  Speaker 1: Well the verse that the thought continues in verse twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: If you know that he is righteous, and then you
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  Speaker 1: know that everyone also who practices.
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  Speaker 2: Righteousness is born of him. There it is.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been born and new, make certain that that's
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  Speaker 1: taken place in your life. There's nothing more important than
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  Speaker 1: you being You're being sure that you have a new birth.
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  Speaker 1: You've been born the first time from your mother, You're
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  Speaker 1: born a second time spiritually by placing your faith and
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  Speaker 1: trust in Christ. This causes John to burst forth in
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  Speaker 1: words of wonderment and praise. He starts with the word look.
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  Speaker 1: We read it here in this simple term see, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really look. Behold see how great a love the
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  Speaker 1: Father has bestowed on us. How great a love he's
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  Speaker 1: bestowed on us, Remember when we were devisions one Verse
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  Speaker 1: eight tells us that he has lavished his grace on us.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way that appears in the scriptures. I
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  Speaker 1: like to draw it out. Lavished his grace on us.
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  Speaker 1: He just unloads his grace on us. In Christ, his
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  Speaker 1: love is the same. He doesn't provide it, he bestows it.
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  Speaker 1: He unfolds it. He surrounds us, He envelops us in
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  Speaker 1: his love. He says, look, look at that kind of
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  Speaker 1: love from the Father, that he has bestowed it on us.
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  Speaker 2: That how do we know he loves us? He calls
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  Speaker 2: us his children, He causes his children.
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  Speaker 1: That we should be called the children of God, and
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  Speaker 1: such we are. Charles Wesley put it best. He wrote,
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  Speaker 1: amazing love, How can it be that thou, my God
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  Speaker 1: should die from me? And this statement of wonderment is
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  Speaker 1: followed by a glorious promise that's in verse two.
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  Speaker 2: Beloved.
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  Speaker 1: See this is for the belief. This is the comfort
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  Speaker 1: that the believer has beloved. Now now we are children
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  Speaker 1: of God, and it has not appeared as yet what
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  Speaker 1: we will be. Letus don't go any further. There are
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  Speaker 1: parts of the future life that we don't know much
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  Speaker 1: of it. One of the things we do know is
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  Speaker 1: that we won't all have wings laying on clouds strumming
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  Speaker 1: a harp? What a dingbat idea about eternity?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, does anybody look forward to that? Please?
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  Speaker 1: Since when you have to have wings when you've got
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  Speaker 1: a glorified body? Since when does a heart make it great?
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  Speaker 1: And I love beautiful heart music, but I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to play one throughout eternity.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what it's about. Look at this.
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  Speaker 1: We admit that there is much we do not know.
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  Speaker 1: We it has not appeared as yet what we will be,
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  Speaker 1: But this much is clear.
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  Speaker 2: Look at verse two.
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  Speaker 1: But we know this that when he appears, we will be.
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  Speaker 2: Like him in that creek.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it means to be glorified. Don't answer out
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  Speaker 1: a loud But haven't you recently thought.
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  Speaker 2: Why in the world do I keep.
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  Speaker 1: Doing that same dumb thing? Why on earth did I
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  Speaker 1: say that? Why do I keep returning to that bad habit?
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  Speaker 1: Why do I lose my patience? Over such as, why
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  Speaker 1: am I like that? This is all part of the
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  Speaker 1: old life, the life of this earth, the life that
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  Speaker 1: you can't get away from. Remember the song I gave you.
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  Speaker 1: Then we shall be what we would be. Then we
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  Speaker 1: shall be what we should be. We're not there yet,
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  Speaker 1: but we do know when this occurs, we'll be.
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  Speaker 2: Like him.
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  Speaker 1: Let me share you what that means. Hold your place
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  Speaker 1: and look at First Corinthians fifteen. Here we go, First
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians fifteen, which is the great chapter on resurrection in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament, verse fifty one. I don't hear how
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  Speaker 1: many pages turning, or some of you slumbering already, or
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians fifteen. It's right here in the New Testament.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse fifty one of chapter fifteen. He begins
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  Speaker 1: with another announcement. Behold, look, I tell you a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: We're in fifteen fifty one.
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  Speaker 2: We will not all sleep. Now what does that refer
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  Speaker 2: to death? The death of a believer? There we have it.
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  Speaker 2: We will not all die, but we will all be changed.
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  Speaker 1: How long will it take in a moment in the
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  Speaker 1: twinkling of an eye, that's the flash of light across
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  Speaker 1: the eye. How the light will sometimes flash across an eyeball.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even the batting of an eye. It's the
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  Speaker 1: flash of light, the twinkling of an eye. Here it
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  Speaker 1: is again at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound.
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  Speaker 1: Remember reading this earlier.
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  Speaker 2: The dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
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  Speaker 2: He adds this four explains it.
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  Speaker 1: Now perishable must put on imperishable, and mortal must put
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  Speaker 1: on immortality.
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  Speaker 2: Why why is it necessary.
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  Speaker 1: For this bag of bones to be changed into immortality,
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  Speaker 1: Because it's a bag of bones and it's getting bagg here.
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  Speaker 1: You got everything you used to have, but it's now
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  Speaker 1: four inches lower, so you're you're just sagging, you're just wrinkling.
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  Speaker 1: You just little by little you wear it away, you're decaying.
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  Speaker 1: It's called perishable perishable. But at this moment we will
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  Speaker 1: put on imperishable. The skin will finally look like.
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  Speaker 2: You wanted it to look all your life.
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  Speaker 1: No cosmetics, you won't need them.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The perishable must put on the imperishable. The mortal must
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  Speaker 1: put on immortality. When this perishable will have put on
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  Speaker 1: imper when this mortal will have put on immortal.
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  Speaker 2: Then I love that.
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  Speaker 1: When then then will come about the saying that is written,
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  Speaker 1: death is swallowed up in victory, Oh death, whereas your sting,
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  Speaker 1: Oh death, where is your victory? Shakespeare didn't write that
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  Speaker 1: he stole it from Paul. The grave has no sting.
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  Speaker 1: The grave, not even.
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  Speaker 2: Death, has lasting jaws.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to me to God verse fifty seven, who gives
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  Speaker 1: us the victory through our Lord Jesus. Now back to
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  Speaker 1: verse two of first John three. We know that when
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  Speaker 1: he appears, we will be like him, because we will
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  Speaker 1: see him just as he is. Sandy Patty back years
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  Speaker 1: ago in the eighties made popular around the world Dotty
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  Speaker 1: Rambo's song we shall behold.
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  Speaker 2: Him, and for many of us it's one of our favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Still to this day. We shall behold him. We shall
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  Speaker 1: behold him face to face.
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  Speaker 2: In all of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, nothing else will matter. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: all of the cares and worries and struggles and problems,
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  Speaker 1: all the deterioration, all of the disabilities, How great this
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  Speaker 1: will be. All the blind will see, all the lame
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  Speaker 1: will walk, and we'll see him, and we will be
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  Speaker 1: like him, for we will see him as he is,
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  Speaker 1: lost in wonder, love and praise for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in all of time, standing on the brink of eternity,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a miraculous in turn nal change, and
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  Speaker 1: the soul spirit will emerge in a new body and liken.
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  Speaker 2: To our Savior. We will populate heaven.
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  Speaker 1: I read this past week that a massive block of
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  Speaker 1: white marble was finally placed before the sixteenth century Italian
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  Speaker 1: sculptor Michelangelo.
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  Speaker 2: He smiled.
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  Speaker 1: He walked around this block of marble, as he said
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  Speaker 1: to himself, looking at this shapeless mass.
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  Speaker 2: Mind, isn't it beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: One of his helpers, standing nearby, with no vision for such, said, well,
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  Speaker 1: all I see is a big block of marble, that's all,
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  Speaker 1: to which the replied, Oh, I.
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  Speaker 2: Forgot.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see what I see. I see David in there.
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  Speaker 1: Well I don't see him, said the helper.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's because.
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  Speaker 1: He is now in my own mind. But I am
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  Speaker 1: going to translate him into this piece of marble.
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  Speaker 2: And then he began to chip away.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you know how to do it? One
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  Speaker 1: wag said, he just chipped away everything that didn't look
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  Speaker 1: like David. How will our Lord make us like like himself?
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  Speaker 1: He'll just take away everything that doesn't look like him.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that great? Let they give you hope.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who has this hope fixed on him, look at this,
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  Speaker 1: purifies himself just as he is pure. Here's a fixed hope.
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  Speaker 1: It results in an ethical and moral purity when you
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  Speaker 1: fix your hope on the Savior's return.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't just.
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  Speaker 1: A theological truth to stand on and to live by.
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  Speaker 1: This is ethical, practical, personal counsel. You will purify yourself
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  Speaker 1: christ return, seeing him face to face, knowing you'll be
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  Speaker 1: changed inside out, spending eternity with him. You will experience
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  Speaker 1: as you focus on that, an internal cleansing. Sin will
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  Speaker 1: not seem that attractive. This is not a ceremonial cleansing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moral cleansing. Temptation will not.
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  Speaker 2: Seem nearly as alluring when you have focused on your
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  Speaker 2: Savior's return at any moment. What a grand series of verses.
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  Speaker 1: And this ends with we will be pure just as
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  Speaker 1: He is pure. It starts with a command abide.
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  Speaker 2: It includes a word of reassurance.
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  Speaker 1: Confidence, confidence that is coming. It reaches that's zenith with wonder.
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  Speaker 1: His love is bestowed on us. It reminds us of
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  Speaker 1: the promise that we will be like him. There will
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  Speaker 1: be a lightness, and it concludes the climax. The value
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  Speaker 1: of such a fixed hope is purity. Purity in my
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  Speaker 1: own life, when I have drifted into areas I have
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  Speaker 1: no business messing around with, or when my lips have
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  Speaker 1: spoken things they have no business saying, I can be
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  Speaker 1: sure as I trace my steps, I lost focus on
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  Speaker 1: the imminent return of the Savior. There's something pure.
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  Speaker 2: About that focus.
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  Speaker 1: Let's end this message differently, all right, take your Hymnolan,
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  Speaker 1: turn to number seven fifty five. While I was concentrating
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  Speaker 1: on how best to conclude a message such as this one,
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  Speaker 1: it occurred to me that we have right here before
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  Speaker 1: us Dottie Rambo's marvelous lyrics. Because Sandy Patty isn't here,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's going to sing it, okay, but.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to read it.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to read the two stanzas, and then after
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  Speaker 1: we've read the second stanza, we'll read the refrain. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to just sit there let someone else
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  Speaker 1: read it for you. I want your lips, your eyes
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  Speaker 1: to connect with these words.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do this together.
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  Speaker 1: We shall behold him here we go. The sky shall unfold,
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  Speaker 1: preparing his entrance. The stars shall applaud him with thunders
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  Speaker 1: of praise. The sweet light in his eyes shall enhance
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  Speaker 1: those awaiting, and we shall behold him then face to face.
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  Speaker 1: The angels shall sound the shout of his coming, the
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: sleeping shall rise from their slumbering place, and those who
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: remain shall be changed in a moment. And we shall
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  Speaker 1: behold him then, face to face. And we shall behold him.
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  Speaker 1: We shall him face to face.
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  Speaker 2: In all of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we shall behold him. We shall behold him face
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  Speaker 1: to face, our Savior and Lord. And we shall behold him,
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  Speaker 1: our Savior and Lord. Just sit quietly for a few
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  Speaker 1: moments following this time of prayer. We anticipate that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And may it be this very day, our Father, when
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  Speaker 1: your son is dispatched from heaven and gathers us up
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds to meet him in the air, When
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  Speaker 1: our loved.
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  Speaker 2: Ones, all those who have gone.
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  Speaker 1: Before us, all the saints, all the martyrs, all the
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  Speaker 1: men and women of God, when we're caught up with
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  Speaker 1: them in the clouds that epical moment, nothing else will matter.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Whom we shall behold face to face in his matchless name,
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  Speaker 3: in his glorious name.
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  Speaker 2: We pray and everyone said, Amen. The sky shell.
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  Speaker 4: Unfold preparing.
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  Speaker 5: Press, the star shell applow.
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  Speaker 6: With us, the brown.
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  Speaker 2: The sweet light.
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  Speaker 5: His a.
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  Speaker 4: Shell shalling hands those all waities, and we shall.
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  Speaker 6: We hold.
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  Speaker 4: Then face to face, sweet shall be hold.
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  Speaker 5: We shall be hold him, face to face in all.
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  Speaker 1: His glow.
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  Speaker 6: We shall be.
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  Speaker 5: Hold he a sweet shall.
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  Speaker 6: Hold him fast.
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  Speaker 7: To Oh save you.
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  Speaker 4: And the age shots, the shout of.
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  Speaker 8: His is coming.
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  Speaker 4: The sleeping shall run.
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  Speaker 2: The song and bo.
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  Speaker 7: Reem shall.
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  Speaker 6: We shall be changing moment, and we shall.
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  Speaker 7: He holds face to face.
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  Speaker 6: We shout.
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  Speaker 8: Him.
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  Speaker 6: We shall really have.
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  Speaker 2: Him face two face.
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  Speaker 6: You all my wee shout again.
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  Speaker 5: FATU.
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  Speaker 8: the preceding message, Charles R. Swindahl Ink is grateful to
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  Speaker 8: Sandy Patty's performance of the song we Shall Behold Him
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  Speaker 8: from her nineteen eighty nine album The Finest Moments, with
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  Speaker 8: lyrics and music copyrighted in nineteen eighty by Dottie Rambow,
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  Speaker 8: Benson Publishing Company. The rendition heard after this message can
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  Speaker 8: be found on the Time Life Music compilation CD titled
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  Speaker 8: Sandy Patty Hymns of Faith Songs of Inspiration, released in
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  Speaker 8: two thousand and four,