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Episode 134 - We Shall Be Changed · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessings, Blessings, blessings. Once again, we welcome you to this
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  Speaker 1: another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcast. I
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  Speaker 1: am your host's pastor, al Zachary, and I just wanna
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  Speaker 1: read just a portion of the Psalm eighteen few verses here.
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  Speaker 1: I will love the old Lord my strength. The Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the psalmon says, is my rock and my fortress, and
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  Speaker 1: my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will
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  Speaker 1: trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation, and
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  Speaker 1: my high tower, he says. He says, I will call
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  Speaker 1: upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised soul.
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  Speaker 1: Shall I be saved from mine enemies. The sorrows of
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  Speaker 1: death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made
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  Speaker 1: me afraid. The sorrows of hell compass me, about the
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  Speaker 1: snares of death prevented me. But in verse six, he says,
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  Speaker 1: in my distress, I called upon the Lord, cried unto
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  Speaker 1: my God. He heard my voice out of his temple,
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  Speaker 1: and my cry came before him even to his ears.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord that he hears the cries of his people,
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  Speaker 1: the call Amen. In our distress, we have hope, We
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  Speaker 1: have deliverance. We have a fortress, We have a strong tower.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the Lord, the Bible tells us, is
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  Speaker 1: a strong tower. The righteous run therein, and we have
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  Speaker 1: safety in him. Thank God for amen, this great salvation,
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  Speaker 1: this deliverance. Thank God for this beauty, for glorious day
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  Speaker 1: in the month of November twoenty twenty four, that He
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  Speaker 1: has allowed us to see breathe the breath of life
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  Speaker 1: to come from him. Thank God for again all of
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  Speaker 1: his blessings. Thank God for this opportunity to a man
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  Speaker 1: partake of share in share the word of God, to
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  Speaker 1: speak forth the truth of God to a man prayerfully,
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  Speaker 1: as we have been charged to do rightfully divide the
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  Speaker 1: word of truth. We just want to glory Father Lord
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  Speaker 1: today and give him honor for again all of his
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  Speaker 1: a man goodness toward each and every one of us,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a man. You are thankful in this season. This
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  Speaker 1: is a season of thanksgiving is and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's always a season of thanksgiving for the people of God.
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  Speaker 1: And even though we are coming approaching this celebratory day
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  Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving in the month of November, we are as
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  Speaker 1: the people of God to always be thankful. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us and everything give thanks for this is the
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  Speaker 1: will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us. And so
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  Speaker 1: again we are a man joyful in the God of
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  Speaker 1: our salvation, and thankful to Him, a man for the
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  Speaker 1: multitude of his mercies new every morning, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: new every morning. His mercies are new every morning. Great
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  Speaker 1: is his faithfulness toward each and every one of us.
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  Speaker 1: So again we welcome you to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcasts audio podcasts. For those
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  Speaker 1: We pray that audio video however you listen, Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: with someone else. Amen. We are again here to a
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  Speaker 1: man preach the word of God without charge. We're not
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  Speaker 1: getting compensated, we're not getting paid. We don't do this
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  Speaker 1: for the money. There is no renunration that comes to us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We take on the calls for this and we thank
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  Speaker 1: God again for you who are listening. And certainly we
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  Speaker 1: pray that the Lord will always a man leave you
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  Speaker 1: with something, a man that will be beneficial and fruitful. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: For your pilgrimage. Amen, as we all strive together, Amen
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  Speaker 1: to make it Amen, to hear the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord say, well done, good and faithful servant. Amen. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I want. That is my goal. Amen, I want
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  Speaker 1: to say some of you may have heard me say
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  Speaker 1: this before. I want to be able to say, as
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul said at the end of his journey,
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  Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight. I finished my course.
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  Speaker 1: I kept the faith. Amen, fought a good fight, finish
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  Speaker 1: my course, I kept the faith. You can write that
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  Speaker 1: on my tombstone if you will. If that is I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going up in the rapture, by the way, that
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  Speaker 1: is where we're going today. First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, the
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  Speaker 1: final verses of this magnificent treatise that the Apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: wrote to the church. And I'm going to read that
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  Speaker 1: first before we delve into Amen, the beauty of these promises,
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  Speaker 1: this mystery that has been revealed to us a man.
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  Speaker 1: So we want to amen again, take the word of
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  Speaker 1: God to our hearts. Beginning to verse number fifty, Paul
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  Speaker 1: writes these words to the church. Now this I say, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, he says, I show
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  Speaker 1: you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we
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  Speaker 1: shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling
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  Speaker 1: of an eye, at the last trump When for the trumpet,
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  Speaker 1: he says, shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
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  Speaker 1: and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put
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  Speaker 1: on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So
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  Speaker 1: when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
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  Speaker 1: mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought
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  Speaker 1: to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed
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  Speaker 1: up in victory, Oh death, where is thy sting o grave?
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  Speaker 1: Where is thy victory? The thing of death is sin,
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  Speaker 1: and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks
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  Speaker 1: be to God, Oh, yes, thanks be to God, which
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  Speaker 1: giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: on the strength of all of this, Paul says, Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: my beloved brethren, be ye, steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in
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  Speaker 1: the work of the Lord, for as much as you
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  Speaker 1: know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Praise God, Thank God for the word of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: And now just before we begin, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: take just a quick moment to as always invoke the
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  Speaker 1: presidence of the Lord. Thank you for your word. Much
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  Speaker 1: you've written and preserve for us, for our hearts, for
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  Speaker 1: our edification, for our understanding, for our knowing, for our assurance.
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  Speaker 1: We pray to your word. We penetrate deep within within
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  Speaker 1: our hearts with our minds, so that we might not
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  Speaker 1: be discouraged, live in fear, doubt or unbelief. Lord, that
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  Speaker 1: we may stand with an assurance, Amen, knowing that what
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  Speaker 1: you've promised, what you've spoken, shall surely come to pass,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in your people today in the earth, Save, deliver,
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  Speaker 1: set free those that are in captivity. For your Kingdom's sake,
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  Speaker 1: we pray, Amen, and Amen, all right, we shall be changed.
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  Speaker 1: That's the focus of Amen session on today. We shall
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  Speaker 1: be changed. Now the closing argument, if you will, of
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Pauls and again I refer to this as
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  Speaker 1: a doctrinal treatise. This chapter, if you take it separately
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  Speaker 1: from the remainder or the rest of the letter a Man,
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  Speaker 1: it is a doctrine of treatise on the resurrection of
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  Speaker 1: the dead a man. And so he has I called
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  Speaker 1: in this the closing argument or the closing words in
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  Speaker 1: these last few verses that we just read and you're hearing,
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  Speaker 1: and again this argument, this closing argument, is that there
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  Speaker 1: will be a change in our corrupted bodies, mortal bodies,
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  Speaker 1: in order for us to ascend up to a man,
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  Speaker 1: the promised, eternal, glorious presence of where God dwells. And
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  Speaker 1: Paul is already and we saw this in our previous session.
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  Speaker 1: He's already used the analogy, if you will, of the
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  Speaker 1: seed of a seed being planted in the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: then and when it and it goes into the earth,
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  Speaker 1: it dies, and then something mirac happens. Life springs forth
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  Speaker 1: from this seed. But when it comes back, the life
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  Speaker 1: that comes back from the seed that's put into the earth,
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  Speaker 1: it comes back in a very different form from what
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  Speaker 1: it was when it was sewn into the ground. And
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  Speaker 1: so it shall be for those of us, all of
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  Speaker 1: those of us who are in these earthly tabernacles, who
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  Speaker 1: are in these temporary edifices, when we are changed into
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  Speaker 1: this new glorified temple that God has for us. And
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul again speaks of this when he says, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if this earthly house is dissolved, we have a building
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  Speaker 1: not made with hands that is eternal in the heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, God has an eternal tabernacle for
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  Speaker 1: us that's already prepared for us. So this corruptible, this corrupted,
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  Speaker 1: this mortal body that we're in. This is what the
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  Speaker 1: argues here at the very end here of this treaties
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  Speaker 1: that this has to be changed. There must be a change.
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  Speaker 1: So he says in verse fifty, Now this I say, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: that flesh and blood cannot It is impossible. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: your body, my body, the bodies that we now inhabit,
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  Speaker 1: they cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Nor does corruption
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  Speaker 1: inherit corruption. And again, as Paul has already shown us,
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  Speaker 1: we have borne the image of a man of the
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  Speaker 1: earthly atom when we came into this world, and now
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  Speaker 1: we will bear the image of the man from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: that is Christ Jesus. But in order for us to
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  Speaker 1: inherit the kingdom, this flesh and blood body of corruption
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  Speaker 1: and decay, it has to be radically altered from its
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  Speaker 1: presence state. And so from the moment, please understand and
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  Speaker 1: never forget, from the moment that we came into this
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  Speaker 1: world to this falling world of corruption and decay. Our
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  Speaker 1: bodies came under the assault and the weight of the
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  Speaker 1: sin nature that is bringing forth death to all of us,
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  Speaker 1: all of sin falling short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says the wages of sin is death.
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  Speaker 1: So when we come into this world from the moment
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  Speaker 1: that we are born, we're born with the sin nature
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  Speaker 1: a man. And when we come into this world, our
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  Speaker 1: bodies are under assault, they are under the weight a man,
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  Speaker 1: because the sin nature takes us a man further and
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  Speaker 1: further into corruption, and we begin to destroy these temples
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  Speaker 1: a man, We begin to destroy these bodies, and they
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  Speaker 1: cannot remain here a man when we have a radical,
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  Speaker 1: corrupt sin nature that is destroying it. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is the nature of Adam that we all inherited, that
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  Speaker 1: we all were born with, and that we're all going
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  Speaker 1: to die from. We were born with it, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna die from it. Sin is the cause of all death.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we we we we we we do autopsies
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  Speaker 1: to to to to try to figure out why a
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  Speaker 1: person passed away. We say heart attack, we say kidney failure,
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  Speaker 1: we say a gunshot wound, we say a fatal blow
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  Speaker 1: to the skull or something that was the cause of
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  Speaker 1: death or an instrument. But the calls the root cause
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  Speaker 1: of our corruption, our decay, our mortality is because of sin. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And in order for death to be defeated, which is
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  Speaker 1: what Paul is also arguing here, in order for death
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  Speaker 1: to be defeated, then the thing that causes death has
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  Speaker 1: to be dealt with. And that is what Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: has done. By the way, Sin is what he dealt with.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is what he took on in his body. Sin
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  Speaker 1: is what he became. By the way the Bible teaches this,
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  Speaker 1: he who knew nos sin became sin. So in his
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  Speaker 1: body a man, he became the sin, offering the sin atonement,
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  Speaker 1: and a man, righteousness was transferred to us. Our guilt
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  Speaker 1: was put upon him a man. And so sin has
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  Speaker 1: been dealt with a man. And now is simply a
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  Speaker 1: matter of your forgiveness. The forgiveness of your sins. And
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  Speaker 1: the only way that you can be forgiven of your
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  Speaker 1: sins is by Christ Jesus, through Christ Jesus, in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: by coming to Christ Jesus repenting a man, acknowledging all
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  Speaker 1: of that. Amen. And this this is when, as Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself said, no one who comes to me will be denied. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I will in no wise cast out a broken heart
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  Speaker 1: and a contrite spirit, he says, I will in no
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  Speaker 1: wise despise. Amen. So the problem of sin has already
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  Speaker 1: been dealt with in the death of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again this is what the apostle Paul expounds to
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  Speaker 1: the church in this treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead,
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  Speaker 1: because this is the very essence of the Gospel message.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus died for our sins. He was buried in a tomb,
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  Speaker 1: and on the third day he rose again, triumphant from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. Amen. He triumphant over the grave, triumphant over sin,
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  Speaker 1: triumphant over death, triumphant over Satan and all of the everything,
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  Speaker 1: all of it has been defeated. Now, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: and Paul argues here in this chapter that death is
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  Speaker 1: the last enemy that is going to be destroyed. A man,
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  Speaker 1: death is going to be destroyed. But again sin had
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  Speaker 1: to be dealt with first, because sin is the causation
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  Speaker 1: of death. And Jesus, by the way, when he rose
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  Speaker 1: again from the dead, he demonstrated the metamorphosis, the transformation
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to also have when we a
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  Speaker 1: man again rise from the dead. And so a man,
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  Speaker 1: he showed himself by the way, And give you some
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  Speaker 1: examples how if you're reading the gospels, he showed himself
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  Speaker 1: to the disciples and others post resurrection. This is after
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  Speaker 1: he rose from the dead. And on one occasion, while
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  Speaker 1: the disciples were in a meeting together, or they were
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  Speaker 1: together in a house or wherever they were gathered together,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus suddenly appeared in their midst, and they thought he
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  Speaker 1: was a ghost a man, because he didn't use a door.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't need the door. By the way, he says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the door. Amen. So he came into their midst,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly appearing before them. And then on another occasion, if
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  Speaker 1: you're reading the Gospel of Luke, I believe this is
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  Speaker 1: in the last chapter of the Gospel of Luke, in
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  Speaker 1: a sudden appearance, a man. Jesus came to two disciples
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  Speaker 1: who were on their way on the road to a Maus,
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  Speaker 1: and so Jesus adjoined himself to them. And they didn't
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  Speaker 1: see him come. They didn't they didn't know he was there.
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  Speaker 1: He just suddenly appeared, and he didn't he didn't surprise them.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he came out. I don't know how he came
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  Speaker 1: into their midst, but a man. He appeared to them
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  Speaker 1: on the way to a Maas, and he journeyed on
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  Speaker 1: with them, and they were having a discussion and talking,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus asked about their conversation, and they say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: where were you? Where have you been? You're a stranger?
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  Speaker 1: Have you not known? Have you not heard about what
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  Speaker 1: these all of these events that have transpired in the
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  Speaker 1: last few days. Where have you been? Man? And they
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  Speaker 1: didn't because they didn't recognize Jesus for who he is
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  Speaker 1: in his glorified state. He his his, his, his, his,
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  Speaker 1: his recognition was veiled from them. So they're talking and
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  Speaker 1: they're going along, and then when they get to their destination,
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  Speaker 1: they get to the house. Amen, he's invited in and
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  Speaker 1: he he has a dinner as it was a supper
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  Speaker 1: with them and he breaks bread, and he gives thanks.
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  Speaker 1: And in the way and in the manner that he
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  Speaker 1: did that, they recognize him. The Bible says, their eyes
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  Speaker 1: were opened and they knew it was Jesus. And but
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  Speaker 1: this is the point I want to get to. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, in that moment, he vanished out of their sight.
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  Speaker 1: Now you cannot do that in this in this body
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  Speaker 1: that we're in, in this mortal, corrupted house of clay
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  Speaker 1: that were in, that cannot happen. And so Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: that moment vanished out of their sight. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, a man when he ascended back up
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  Speaker 1: to heaven, a man after he met with the disciples.
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  Speaker 1: You can read this in the Gospel of the I'm Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the end of the Gospel of Luke, also when he
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  Speaker 1: was taking up to heaven, but also in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts of the Apostles, a man just before
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  Speaker 1: Jesus ascended up to them to heaven, he gave his
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  Speaker 1: final charge to his apostles, a man. And then the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, a cloud received him and took him up
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  Speaker 1: out of their sight. Amen. And so he ascended back
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  Speaker 1: upton to heaven, and his body the body that he
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  Speaker 1: was in was not the same body that was put
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  Speaker 1: into that tune. Yes he had the scars, Yes he
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  Speaker 1: had the hole in his hand and in his feet
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  Speaker 1: where and in his side also where he was thrust through.
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  Speaker 1: But the body underwent a metamorphois, he underwent a change.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, while this may seem mysterious to some of
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  Speaker 1: us and perhaps unbelievable to others, this is the blessed
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  Speaker 1: hope and foundation of the preaching of the Gospel. There
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  Speaker 1: is life after this life. We shall be changed. And
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  Speaker 1: we have this assurance because Jesus, being the first fruits
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  Speaker 1: of them that were raised from the dead, that rolls
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Amen. We have his promises that he
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  Speaker 1: is going to return, Amen, and he's going to take
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  Speaker 1: us back to be with him. He first states this,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, in the Gospel of John. You can
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  Speaker 1: find it, Amen, in John chapter fourteen. Most of you
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  Speaker 1: are familiar with this if you're a Bible reader. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told us to let not our heart be trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You believe in God. Believe all he says. In my
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  Speaker 1: father's house are many mansions. People we're not so would
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  Speaker 1: have told you. I go to what he said I
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  Speaker 1: go to prepare a place for you, Amen, that where
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  Speaker 1: I am there you may be. Also he said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going away, but he said, I'm coming again to receive
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  Speaker 1: you unto myself, that where I am, you will be
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  Speaker 1: there with me. Amen. So that is a promise from
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself. So number one, we are not to be trouble.
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  Speaker 1: And then in First Thessalonians, chapter number four, Paul writes
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  Speaker 1: to the church and expounds to us, explains to us,
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  Speaker 1: informs us of this mystery of what we refer to
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  Speaker 1: as the rapture of the church. And again in John's
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  Speaker 1: Gospel he says, do not be trouble. And in this
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  Speaker 1: letter to the Thessalonians, Paul writes to the church, we
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  Speaker 1: are not to be ignorant. Amen. He said, paulses, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to be ignorant, brethren, uh. Concerning those
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  Speaker 1: which are asleep, as as as as as those who
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  Speaker 1: have no hope, we're not those. We're not like those.
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  Speaker 1: We're not like the unbeliever. We're not like the agnostic.
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  Speaker 1: We're not like the so called atheists. The unbeliever a
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  Speaker 1: man who have no hope. And then, for if we
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  Speaker 1: believe that Jesus died and rose again. Even so, then
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  Speaker 1: which sleep in Jesus fall, says God would bring with them.
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  Speaker 1: He said, for this we say unto you by the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord, that those which are dead, those
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  Speaker 1: which are sleeping Christ will not uh uh will be
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  Speaker 1: left in the grave, he said, he says, And those
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  Speaker 1: of us who are alive and remain, he said, what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen is at the in the moment, in
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  Speaker 1: the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, he says,
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  Speaker 1: we shall be changed. There's going to be a change.
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  Speaker 1: The dead in Christ, he says, will rise first. And
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  Speaker 1: then and we that are alive and remain, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be caught up together with them in the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: The dead in Christ shall ride first. Then we that
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  Speaker 1: are alive, we're going to be caught up together with them.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, in the clouds, just like Jesus went
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  Speaker 1: up on that cloud, our bodies that are going to
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  Speaker 1: be changed, are going to be taken up a man
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds. The Bible says, to meet the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in the air, and so shall we forever be with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And he says, wherefore, will to comfort one
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  Speaker 1: another with these words. Amen. That's the assurance that we
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  Speaker 1: have promises of God, the promises of Jesus himself, the
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  Speaker 1: revelation of God again a man concerning a man, the
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  Speaker 1: coming back or the return for the church, Amen, for
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  Speaker 1: those who are dead in Christ. So we again, we
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  Speaker 1: don't die. We do not die without hope. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: die with a blessed assurance. We die with the promises
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  Speaker 1: of promises of God. We die with the knowledge Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and the amen assurance that we will rise again. Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: look at look at this verse fifty one of First Corinthians. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,
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  Speaker 1: but we shall all be changed. There has to be
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  Speaker 1: a change the body, the seed that goes into the ground. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a change. It's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: the same body that same. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: when the Lord pronounced this sentence of death on Adam, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you were taken from the dust, and to
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  Speaker 1: the dust you shall return. And that's why we have
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  Speaker 1: a decaying of our flesh. Amen. When we go into
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  Speaker 1: the ground a man, when we die, when life is
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  Speaker 1: no longer in the body a man, the body begins
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  Speaker 1: to decay. Instantly. It happens instantly. There's a process that
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  Speaker 1: takes a little time, but within days, literally within hours,
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  Speaker 1: within days, the body is corrupted. It is going back
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  Speaker 1: to the dust. Amen. And so this body that we
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  Speaker 1: place into the ground as it were, Amen, it will
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  Speaker 1: not be that same body. Amen. The change is going
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  Speaker 1: to be by the way the Bible says, listen here,
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  Speaker 1: the change is going to be instantaneous. Paul says, we
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  Speaker 1: shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed
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  Speaker 1: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at
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  Speaker 1: the last trumpet for the trumpet, he says, shall sound.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I like this. The trumpet shall sound, and the
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  Speaker 1: dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I like it, I like it, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: We shall be changed. And again, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be an instantaneous change from the corruptible to the incorruptible. Amen. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And and and and by the way, let me just
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  Speaker 1: interject this and hopefully, prayerfully this will help our astonishment
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  Speaker 1: or unbelievability of such a radical, miraculous transpiring of of
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  Speaker 1: of all of all of us at once, Amen, both
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  Speaker 1: the dead and the living undergoing this metamorphosis. Amen. In
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  Speaker 1: order to help us, let's let's keep in mind that
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  Speaker 1: this is the God of creation, who spoke all of
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  Speaker 1: creation into existence, all of the universe, amen, everything that
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  Speaker 1: is in the beginning God created. A mean God simply
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  Speaker 1: spoke by the way word of his mouth. And so
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  Speaker 1: when the trump of God sounds, a man there's going
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  Speaker 1: just just as it was when Jesus raised people from
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  Speaker 1: the dead during his earthly ministry. We know about Latrus,
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  Speaker 1: we know about Jyrius, his daughter, we know about the
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  Speaker 1: son of the widow woman, a man that was raised
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Man. Jesus has the power over death,
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  Speaker 1: and he even demonstrated that that again before he gave
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  Speaker 1: himself up. He said, no one takes my life from me.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to take to lay it down,
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  Speaker 1: have the power to take it up again. And so
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  Speaker 1: in case we a man maybe uh again astonished or
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  Speaker 1: an unbelief about the possibility or the uh uh, how
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  Speaker 1: this is going to happen, and and and and not
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  Speaker 1: only that is going to happen, not only that it's
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a change, and not only that
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen in a moment in the twiggling
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  Speaker 1: of an eye. But it's going to be hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands upon thousands. I don't know what the number is.
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  Speaker 1: I just know it's gonna be millions of people all
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  Speaker 1: at once, the living and the dead. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us. Caught up together. And Paul says, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen in the twinkling. In other words, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen so quickly. But again I remind
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  Speaker 1: you we're talking about the God of creation, who, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, when we talk about the twinkling of an eye,
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  Speaker 1: God is not confined nor restricted by time as we
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  Speaker 1: are a man. God is not confined nor restricted by time.
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  Speaker 1: He's the God of creation. And when he speaks, when
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  Speaker 1: he speaks, when he commands, it is done. Amen, It's done.
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  Speaker 1: Amen's already done. Is not It's not something that perhaps
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  Speaker 1: might be altered or changed or hindered. He's already done
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  Speaker 1: in eternity, ladies and gentlemen. That's why the Bible speaks
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  Speaker 1: of us already seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Now we are the sons of God. And Paul says
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  Speaker 1: that the Bible teaches your brother, it does not yet
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  Speaker 1: appear what we shall be. But we know that when
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  Speaker 1: he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we
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  Speaker 1: shall see him as he is. So then verse fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: this corruptible must put on in corruption, this mortal must
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  Speaker 1: put on immortality. In other words, again we shall be,
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  Speaker 1: we must be changed. Verse fifty four says, so when
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  Speaker 1: this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has
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  Speaker 1: put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
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  Speaker 1: saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.
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  Speaker 1: So again, at the very moment of this instantaneous a
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  Speaker 1: man metamorphosis, when we will no longer have these bodies
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  Speaker 1: of corruption, nor will nor will we be subjected to
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  Speaker 1: mortality death any longer. At that very moment, instantaneous, you
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  Speaker 1: realize all of these things are gonna happen concurrently at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, in the same moment, when we are changed,
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  Speaker 1: death is going to be swallowed up in victory. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's already been decreed, it's already been a man declared,
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  Speaker 1: has already been set forth. But the manifestation of it
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  Speaker 1: for us happens when that trumpet sounds, and the dead
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  Speaker 1: in Christ and those who are alive will be caught
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  Speaker 1: up together, changed from mortal to immortality in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what Paul is saying here at that
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  Speaker 1: same moment of time, in that same moment of time,
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  Speaker 1: death will be swallowed up in victory. Oh death, he says,
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  Speaker 1: verse fifty five. Where is your sting? Oh death stings?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, one can deny that. Listen, you can be
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  Speaker 1: an unbeliever if and there people who aren't. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: it is more of a sting. I believe, absolutely believe,
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  Speaker 1: in any shadow of doubt. In my mind, death is
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  Speaker 1: more of a sting to the unbeliever. For the unbeliever,
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  Speaker 1: because they die without hope. That's why Paul is writing
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  Speaker 1: to the church. I don't want you to be without hope.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be with assurance. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know the promises of God. I want you your soul.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Summer said, my soul shall rest and hope,
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  Speaker 1: because you're not going to leave my soul in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: I know this, Amen Job said it. I know my
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  Speaker 1: redeemer lives, and I'm going to see him for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see him. But death stings, and it stings
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  Speaker 1: more to the unbeliever. Again because they're tied without hope.
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  Speaker 1: But death is going to be swallowed up in victory.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul says, oh Death, where is your sting o grave?
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  Speaker 1: Where is your victory? You thought you had the victory. No, Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has won for us victory. Total victory. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: over sin, over Satan, over death over hell. We got
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  Speaker 1: total victory. The sting of death is sin verse fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: And the strength of sin is the law. Death is
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  Speaker 1: able to continuously sting men because of our sin nature.
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  Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. And the law cannot deliver
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  Speaker 1: us from the servitude of our sin nature. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus came Amen. In the fullness of time, God
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  Speaker 1: sent forth his son Amen made under the law seat
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  Speaker 1: of the woman, Amen to deliver us from the bondage,
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  Speaker 1: to deliver us from the servitude of sin. The power
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  Speaker 1: of sin, and what the law could only do is
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  Speaker 1: Pall points out in the Book of Romans. It can
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  Speaker 1: only show us. It can only remind us that we
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  Speaker 1: were guilty. I know I ought to do good. I
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  Speaker 1: know I know I know what I ought to do. Romans,
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  Speaker 1: chapter seven. He says that we all have that sense
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  Speaker 1: of altness that's in us. We know what we ought
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  Speaker 1: to do, because the Law of God points it out,
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  Speaker 1: It tells us, it teaches us, He's shown us. We
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  Speaker 1: know what it's good, we know what it's right. We
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  Speaker 1: have the knowledge of good and evil and man. We
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  Speaker 1: have the Law of God written in our hearts, and
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  Speaker 1: we know. But the law cannot save us, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't have the ability to keep the law. Therefore we
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  Speaker 1: need it. And what we got was a savior, a
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  Speaker 1: redeemer to deliver us from the power of sin, from
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  Speaker 1: the power of death, from the sting of death. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But thanks be to God, that's what he says in
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  Speaker 1: verse fifty seven. Thanks be to God who gives us
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  Speaker 1: the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. You can't have
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  Speaker 1: it any other way. Therefore, my beloved brethren, he says,
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  Speaker 1: be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Because we have this blessed hope, because we have this
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  Speaker 1: blessed assurance of eternal life through Christ, Jesus, our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: our Savior, our King, we are to be steadfast in
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  Speaker 1: this faith. We are to be immovable from the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of our salvation. Amen. And we are to be found
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  Speaker 1: always abounding in the work of the Lord, in the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of our God. Knowing Paul says that our labor
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  Speaker 1: is not in vain in the Lord. Thank God for
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  Speaker 1: the hope of the Resurrection. Thank God for the assurance
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is coming back again for his people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Father again, thank you. Blessed be your name. From this
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  Speaker 1: time forth and even forevermore, from the rising of the
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  Speaker 1: sun to the going down of the same. Your name
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  Speaker 1: is worthy to be praised. And so we that have breath,
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  Speaker 1: may we forever praise your name. Every need, bows, every
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  Speaker 1: tongue confesses that you are Lord, that you are God.
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  Speaker 1: Be glorified this day in your people, in the earth
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  Speaker 1: forevermore in Jesus' name. Thank you, Amen and Amen. M