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First Corinthians chapter 15 Let us pray.
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Our God, you are higher than any other our God, you are more
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mightier than any other God. We serve you, Lord, we honor
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you. We worship you in spirit and
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truth. God, we are here for you and you
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alone. Lord, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for many to be saved today.
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I pray in the name of Jesus for many to see their need for
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repentance today. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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for the church to rise up and to be the church in this hour.
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God, we wake up. O sleeper.
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Lord, I pray for revival rain to come down.
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God, I pray that it'll produce a fruit.
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I pray that the laborers are many.
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I pray God that we are locked eyes locked step with you,
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Father, and you alone. God, we stiff arm all the cares
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of this world, Lord. We stiff arm death and disease,
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God. We stiff arm poverty, God, We
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stiff arm luxury. God, we stiff arm our full
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bellies. God, we stiff arm our comforts,
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Father. In all of our wants and desires,
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Lord, and all of our preferences, God, we lay all of
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it down at the foot of the cross.
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God, we take up the full armor. Father, we take up the cross
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today. Lord, we go into certain areas
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of darkness and death. Father, we do not care anything
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for our lives and for this world.
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God, we are not cowards. God, we storm the hill.
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Father, we take back enemy territory in the name of Jesus
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Christ, we're indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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Father, I pray God for power from on high God, resurrection
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power from on high. God, I pray for a fresh wind to
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blow through this camp. Father, I pray fresh fire God
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and fresh filling today as we have fresh surrender today.
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We surrender to all of your will and all of your ways, all of
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your promises. God Almighty, as we open up your
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word today, let your word jump into our hearts and minds.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us to be men
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and women of faith today. God, increase our faith today
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for you and for all of your promises.
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Increase our love for you today. God, God the Father and God the
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Son, God the Holy Ghost, we honor and praise you.
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Father, we love you. King Jesus, we thank you.
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Holy Spirit, come and be our teacher, be our guide, correct
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us and discipline us. Today helped us to see the error
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of our ways. Lord, I pray in the name of
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Jesus that I will decrease as you increase and that it'll
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always be about you. It's always been about you.
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And so Lord, we say yes and Amen to all of your ways and all of
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your will and all of your promises.
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And Lord, I get out of the way, Let the Holy Spirit guide today.
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We love you, King Jesus, you teach us what it is that you
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want us to know for this day, for this hour.
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We do not worry about tomorrow. We let today worry about itself.
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And so, yes, Father, we love you and we praise you in this, in
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Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. Moreover, brothers, I declare
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unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also
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you have received, and where and you stand.
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What is the Gospel? The gospel is nothing more than
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the good news of what Jesus Christ did for us.
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A perfect, sinless man who came as a little baby, who lived a
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perfect life and went and died a criminal's death and was buried
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three days later, resurrected. And he is the atonement for our
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sins. He is the only way that we're
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going to stand before Almighty God.
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He is the only way that we're going to be ushered into
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paradise. He's the only way that we're
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going to be forgiven for every single sin that we are
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committing, have committed or will commit for the rest of our
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lives, for all times sake, for all of humanity.
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He is the only one that could make a way.
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Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life and no one
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comes unto the Father except through me.
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That is the good news is that he made a way where there was no
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way friends and it pleased God to crush him.
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Verse 2 by which also you are saved, if you keep in memory
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what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
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There are many who came to the Lord out of an emotional
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response. And as soon as persecution rises
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up, as soon as Christianity is no longer popular, they fall
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away. And you can see that there was
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no substance to their faith. There was no substance to their
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decision to follow Christ. They were shallow, and they let
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the tares and the cares and the snares of this life entangle and
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drag them away off into the pit of despair. 34I delivered unto
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you, first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ
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died for our sins, according to the Scripture.
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So you can see here Paul received the good news of the
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Lord Jesus Christ and it was all based upon the Scriptures.
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And Paul was a very learned man, a Pharisee of the Pharisees, and
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he could look back at all of the Old Testament and see how every
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bit of it pointed towards Jesus the Christ four, and that he was
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buried and that he rose again the third day according to the
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scriptures. So we can see here that he was
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brutally murdered at the hands of the Romans and out of envy of
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the Jews. And you can see here that they
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laid him in a tomb, a rich man's tomb, Joseph of Arimathea's
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tomb, friends. But as he told them and
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prophesied about, on the third day he rose from the dead.
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Death had no claim on him. Hell could not hold him.
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He resurrected and we will rise to the same resurrection power
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that lives in Jesus Christ lives in US.
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Friends, that is what you need to understand.
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He's not going to leave us in the grave.
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We will rise. We will be resurrected unto
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eternity with our new bodies. He's going to talk about it
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here. Five and that he was seen of
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Cephas then of the 12. So here he appeared to Peter in
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a private moment before his public reinstitution of Jesus,
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when he asked him on the beach when he was cooking the fish.
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And he said, Peter, do you love me?
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Peter, do you love me? Peter, do you love me?
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He had already. That was not the first time that
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Peter had met up with him according to scriptures.
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Peter had met with him prior and that is an unknown fact for many
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believers. But here Scripture interprets
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Scripture line upon line, friends, and we need to
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understand precept upon precept. You need to understand what does
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the Word of God say? And here it is telling us that
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he appeared to Cephas and then to the 12 6 After that he was
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seen of about 500 brothers at once, of whom the greater part
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remain under this present, but some are falling asleep.
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So here Paul is saying go check the track record.
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There are people that are still alive that you can go and ask
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and get eyewitness accounts, which is credible in the court
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of law. Friends, especially in the
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Jewish customs or two come together in agreement.
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Then they could know that it was a truth.
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And so therefore he's saying there are the majority of 500
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people who saw Jesus Christ in his resurrected body who could
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tell you that they did. So then he's talking about
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falling asleep. We're going to learn some more
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about that as we go through. 7 After that he was seen of James
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and then of all the apostles. Think about it, friends.
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So James, this brother of Jesus who grew up with him, he did not
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think that he was the Messiah. Whenever Jesus was in his
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earthly ministry, he was trying to get him to go up to Jerusalem
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before his time. And then you could see here
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something quick, something changed, something snapped, and
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James became a prominent leader in the Jerusalem church.
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Friends, what happened? Well, he's going to tell us
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about it in his epistle to us, the book of James.
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Let's keep moving. Eight and last of all, he was
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seen of me also as of one born out of due time.
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So Paul is humble and practices humility.
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But we know that Paul had a very special calling placed upon his
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life as he went off into Arabia for 12 years to learn of God's
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ways from Jesus. We know that during his three
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day fast, when he was on straight St. before Ananias came
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and the scales fell off his eyes, he was receiving from
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Jesus himself all the things that he must suffer.
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And so we know that Paul is a super St.
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He's a super apostle in regards to the other 12.
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He did not have the three-year gestation period of trying to
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figure it all out. He actually was able to receive
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directly from the Lord. And here we are eternally
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blessed by more than 1/3 of the New Testament being written by
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Paul. How amazing is God Almighty to
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give us His inspired God breathed words pinned from Paul
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from this calling that he's referencing here.
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He was born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the
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apostles, that I am not mean to be called an apostle because I
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persecuted the Church of God. That is Paul and his humility.
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And he is saying that I'm not even worthy to tie his shoes, to
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unlatch his sandals. He's saying that he persecuted
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the early church, and so it grieved him in his mind that he
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would even succumb to such violence to the believers of our
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Lord Jesus Christ. 10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am,
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and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I
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labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the
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grace of God which was with me. So he knows that it was only by
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the grace of God that he learned as much as he did, and that he
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worked as much as he has. And here He is letting you know
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that when you come unto the Lord, it's work, it's out in the
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harvest, it's the missionary heart, friends, it's going out.
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It's not sitting on the sidelines.
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It's not sitting on your blessed assurance.
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It is putting your hand to the plow, which denotes work.
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Friends, so many times you see these great men of faith that
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are called into ministry while they are busily working.
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Think about it friends, perhaps God does not call the lazy into
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ministry. Must not be lazy, not be
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gluttonous. Don't put your hand in the bowl
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and be so lazy. Just you don't even put your
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hand back to your mouth. Consider the Ant.
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It was the grace of God that was with Paul and taught him and
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fueled him for all of his missionary efforts and journeys.
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11 Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preach and so you
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believed. He's saying no matter how it
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comes to you, it doesn't change the fact of the matter of what
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we're preaching and what we're about and what this whole thing
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is about, which is Jesus Christ our Lord and our Messiah.
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Believe upon him and be saved today.
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Call upon that name and be saved.
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Believe that God raised him from the dead and be saved today. 12
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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say
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some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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So they're saying that, yeah, perhaps Jesus rose from the
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dead, but that does not mean that we will.
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And they have adopted this sad, you see spirit where they're
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trying to turn their backs on the spiritual.
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And here Paul is going to correct them and he's going to
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correct us and he's also going to comfort us for all time sake
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by these words. And we are eternally grateful
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that God chose to reveal this facet of himself to mankind.
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And this is what we can know about the resurrection, friends.
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Lock in, pay attention, make notes, underline, highlight it.
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This is of paramount importance when it comes to the
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eschatology, when it comes to what's next on the timeline. 13
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But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
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risen? He's saying, how ridiculous is
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it? You know that Christ is risen,
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so therefore we will rise, and the same power that rose Jesus
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from the dead lives in US, friends. 14 And if Christ be not
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risen, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in
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vain. Think about it.
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What is this? Some kind of big religious show?
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What is this for? Some tax exempt status?
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What is this for A-401-C3 nonprofit?
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The notion? Think about it.
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What is all of this for? If Christ is not risen, shut the
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doors, lock the doors. If it's all about a show, if
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it's all about vanity, if it's all about reputation, if it's
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all about heritage, if it's all about traditions, if it's all
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about ceremony, shut the doors. Lock the doors, friends, but we
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preach A risen Christ. He is alive and active and you
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cannot go to his grave today. You can go to all of the other
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religious teachers graves which cannot go to Jesus Christ's
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grave because he is alive today. We serve arisen Lord. 15 Yeah,
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and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have
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testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up.
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If so be that the dead rise not he's saying this is of utmost
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importance. You cannot say and you cannot
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confirm that Jesus Christ appeared to the 500, appeared to
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the apostles, appeared to the early church, and then turn
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right around and say that there is no resurrection of the dead.
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16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised?
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17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is in vain.
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You are yet in your sins. He's saying if there is no
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resurrection of Christ, we are still dead in our sins.
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We're stuck in our trespasses. We have no hope, friends.
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There's no way to get to God if there is no resurrection power
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in Christ, 18 Then they also which are falling asleep in
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Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in
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Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
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If this is all a big game and all we ever get out of it is
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people's praises in this life, and it's all for nothing, then
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we are to be pitied above all men.
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If this life is all that there is, then I would never make it
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about all the sacrifice that God asks us to make it about.
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That is what is referenced here, that if this world is all that
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there is and it's just get it, get it, get it, get it as much
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as you can, then we are to be pitied as more than anyone.
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Because we didn't make it about pleasure and we didn't make it
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about Mammon and we didn't make it about position and power for
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this life and this life alone as some have.
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We have made it all about Christ and the resurrected Christ.
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And our hope is in Christ and our hope is that He went to
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prepare a place for us. Our hope is that we will get
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eternal resurrected bodies and be there with Him forevermore.
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That is our hope. And we stiff arm this world and
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we preach Christ, and we give up all of our pleasures and
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pleasantries, we give up all of our preferences, and we serve
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Him and Him alone. And when you come to Christ, do
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not be surprised that you are hated and persecuted and killed,
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because they hated and persecuted and killed Him first.
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And that is what you get when you come to Christ.
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And that is why we are to be pitied above most if there is no
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resurrection from the dead. 20 But now is Christ risen from the
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dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.
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Think about it. Christ proved that we will
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resurrect, that we will get our resurrected new bodies, and he's
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going to talk about it. 21 percents by man came, death by
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man came also the resurrection of the dead.
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So he's talking about in Adam, Adam sold us out to sin and
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Jesus Christ bought us back. Praise God, he snatched the
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keys. 224AS in Adam all die, Even so in Christ shall all be
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made alive. That think about this beautiful
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exchange that happens when you are a regenerated new creation,
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when you're born again, Friends, death has no hold on you.
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You need not fear death and disease and decay.
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You will live forever, but if you refuse to come to Jesus
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Christ in this life, it is death forever.
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It is death a billion times over and you cannot die. 23 but every
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man in his own order, Christ the first fruit afterward, they that
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are Christ at his coming. So we know that those that die
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as a St. and those that are still living will be raised to
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life at the rapture of the Church and we will get immortal
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bodies and we will be receiving our rewards during the
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seven-year tribulation that is happening on the earth.
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That is what happens to the Saints that are alive and dead
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whenever He raptures His Church. There are many who are all
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turned around and confused about this order, but lock in, pay
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attention to what is being said here. 24 Then comes the end,
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when he shall delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father,
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when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and
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power. So he's going to give Jesus
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Christ his thousand year earthly ministry.
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So the order of events, friends, is we're just going along
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following him, telling people about the Lord, and in the
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moment we're caught up to meet him in the clouds.
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Those of us who believe both the dead 1st and then us who are
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living friends, we're caught up for seven years.
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The earth will be in hell. It'll be worse than it's ever
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been since the beginning of time.
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And if God had not made those days short, no one would
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survive. And there's coming a time that
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the power is going to be so strong, this powerful delusion
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is coming on the earth. It'll be so strong that it would
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even deceive the elect if that were possible.
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And as we go up to meet him for seven years, we receive our
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rewards. But most of what we do is wood,
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hay, and stubble. And what you need to understand
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that on this earth, there's hell on earth.
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Friends, for the whole earth, there's hell.
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Only 3 1/2 years of peace for Jerusalem so that they can
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rebuild the temple. And then after they rebuild the
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temple, the Antichrist will demand to be worshipped as God.
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And it will be hell for Israel too, friends, for 3 1/2 years.
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And then what you're going to find is that the battle of
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Armageddon ensues at the end of the seven years and Jesus deals
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with all the wicked in the world and that ushers in His thousand
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year peaceful rule and reign on planet earth.
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And we will be there with him, ruling and reigning with Him
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friends. And there will be mortals and
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immortals intermingled into the mix there for the thousand year
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reign. It'll be what was pictured at
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the mountain of Transfiguration where the Kingdom of God came to
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the earth and you had Elijah representing those raptured, and
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you had Moses, those that were dead and came back to life with
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immortal bodies. And then you're going to see
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friends that the disciples were there in their mortal bodies and
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Jesus was there in all his glory.
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And that is what the Kingdom will look like for 1000 years.
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Go back and check the track record, look at the stories
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throughout the Gospels, and you're going to see it all lines
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up perfectly and in accordance with scripture.
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Friends 25 For he must reign till he has put all enemies
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under his feet. So that is what you're going to
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understand. He's already dealt with them in
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Armageddon before the thousand year reign.
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But there'll be a lot of sycophans during the thousand
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year reign who give false allegiance to him as the tempter
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is taking out of the world and put into prison.
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Satan is in prison for 1000 years, not able to go out and
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accuse and tempt as he is now, friends.
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But you need to understand there'll be a lot of false
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allegiance during that thousand year reign until Satan is re
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released for a short time. He's going to put all his
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enemies under his feet for 1000 year reign.
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And then at the end of the thousand year reign, Satan is re
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released into the world to gather all those that had false
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allegiance to Jesus. And then God will deal with them
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at the very end. And what is he going to do at
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the very end of the thousand year reign?
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The great white throne. And what's he going to do?
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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Even in the thousand year reign of Christ there is still death.
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But he says those that die at 100 will be considered a babe.
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He's going to reinstitute the 900 year plus lifespan during
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the thousand year reign of Christ.
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How amazing is our God? This is facts friends.
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All scripture aligns with it friends, and it is ignorance of
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the word of God that's plaguing the church more than anything
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else. We want to be.
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We want our ears to be tickled friends, We want to be satisfied
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in our curiosity friends, and we want everything in little spoon
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filled Nuggets friends. We want these little sound bites
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in these short videos. Friends 27 For he has put all
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things under his feet, but when he says all things are put under
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him, it is manifest that he is accepted which did put all
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things under him. Jesus Christ is perfectly
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accepted by God, and all the wrath of God is satisfied at the
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cross of Christ, Friends. And if you will come to him and
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get washed in the blood, you will never have to suffer.
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You will never have to suffer the second death, and you'll
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never have to suffer death again, Friends. 28 And when all
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things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also
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himself be subject unto him, that put all things under him,
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that God may be All in all. So what you're going to see when
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you get to the end of the Book of Revelation is that God comes
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down to be our God, and that everything is subject unto him.
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And you can see that the Son always glorifies the Father, and
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you can see that the Holy Spirit always points us to the Son.
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And you can see this great community of God the Father and
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God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. 3:00 and 1:00 And they
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are always pointing to each other, and they are always
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honoring each other. And that is such a picture for
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you and for me, that we should be pointing everyone to Christ,
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and we should also be honoring one another above the other, and
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always thinking of others as better than ourselves. 29 Else
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what shall they do which are baptized for the dead?
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If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the
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dead? So you need to understand that
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this is not teaching some kind of Mormon Catholic doctrine.
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This purgatory or being able to baptize, be back the living
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baptized to help save the dead. This is Pagan practices that
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Paul is referencing and he's saying here, do not even count
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it as anything. There is no such thing of it
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all, and he's wanting these early Christians to understand
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that there is for sure 100% a resurrection of the dead,
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friends, and to not try to buy into all the Pagan teachings of
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any kind of baptizing of the dead to get out of hell.
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That is heretical, friends, and it is not biblical friends.
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And Paul here is showing them the air of their way.
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There is no such thing, and that is a period and not a comma.
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And we need to make sure that while we still have breath in
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our lungs, we get right with God.
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If you were to take your last breath, or if anybody that you
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know or have known or will know ever take their last breath
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without placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, there is
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no more hope for them beyond this life.
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Your fate is sealed the moment that you take your last breath.
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Or whenever He calls the Saints home Friends and you also need
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to know that during the seven-year tribulation after the
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rapture of the Church. There will be opportunity to
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come to the Lord Jesus Christ. However, all of the things that
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were prescribed that the people who are mid tribbers and post,
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all of those people who say that we'll go up in the middle of the
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tribulation or we'll go up at the end of the tribulation, they
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will have to suffer. All the things that the Bible
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says that we'll go through. And it is sad that they will not
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come to him in the fullness of faith.
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They're only coming to Him in part, friends, because whenever
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you fully come to the Lord Jesus Christ with all your strength,
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with all your mind, with all your heart, He will be pleased
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to give you His perfect and pleasing plan.
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For all of Tom's sake, friends, and it will be congruent and
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it'll all make sense and it will all become synonymous as you
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read through the entirety of God's Word.
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It all points to us, friends, that we will go up prior to the
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seven-year tribulation. 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every
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hour? 31 I protest by your rejoicing,
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which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I die daily. That is our call, friends, to
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die to self. He's saying, if all of this is
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just a bunch of religious text, if we're just trying to
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institute some kind of new religion, then it is all for
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nothing and it is all for naughty, and we are to be
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pitied. But he's saying, but for the
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truth that I have received, I willingly died daily.
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I lay down my life daily to live his Christ and to die his gain.
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32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at
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Ephesus, what advantage it me if the dead rise, not let us eat
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and drink, for tomorrow we die. He's saying, what is all this
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persecution for if we're not going to rise and receive
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immortal bodies that live forever?
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He's saying that if that is the case, just live for the here and
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for the now and for the pleasure of now, and for money and greed
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and gain. Just live for yourself today.
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Live for your belly today if there is nothing beyond this 33
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Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good
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manners. So he's saying that we need to
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guard our tongues. That is why you have two ears,
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friends, is because you only have one mouth, and that is
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because we are to guard our speech.
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Do not be flippant with your speech.
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Think about how your character and witness is diminished
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whenever you make off color comments to people.
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You do it for acceptance, but it all it does is actually leads
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those people to not trust you. 34 awake to righteousness sin
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not for some have not the knowledge of God.
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I speak this to your shame. There are many Christians who
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are still babes in Christ, immature in their walk, friends.
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And you think that you can use your liberty to just go around
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and say whatever you want to say because it's all under the
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blood. But he's saying it's shameful
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because you're leading people into immaturity.
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He's saying, wake up, O sleeper, and see that heaven and hell
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hang in the balance, friends 35 But some man will say, how are
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the dead raised up and with what body do they come?
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These are people that are questioning this resurrection
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from the dead are immortal bodies.
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They're trying to figure it all out.
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They're trying to say, well, what if somebody gets cremated?
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What does God do with the ashes? They're trying to say, but what
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if somebody gets stolen away? What what if they deteriorate
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into nothing? And he's saying here, don't be
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ignorant. 36 you fool, that which you sow is not quickened
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except it die here. I want you to lock in with the
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idea of a farmer who's planting a row of vegetables and fruit
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and produce friends. 37 In that which you sow, you sow not that
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body that shall be, but bare grain.
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It may chance of, but it may chance of wheat or of some other
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grain. 38 But God gives it a body, as it has pleased him into
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every seed, his own body. So that is what you need to
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understand is that unless the seed gets pushed down into the
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ground and dies, it does not spring up and produce life and
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fruit. That is what God has
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orchestrated. You and I are but bare seeds in
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these mortal bodies that are decaying and passing away.
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But we will rise up in our immortal state friends and that
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is what we push towards. That is why we count the cost.
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That is why we die to self friends, and we take up our
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cross and follow Him daily. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh.
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There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,
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another of fish, and another of birds.
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He's saying that plants have a body, animals have a body and a
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soul, but only men have a body, a soul and a spirit.
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And it is the Spirit of God that goes on to live forever.
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And it will receive a new body, a holy body.
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It will receive an immortal body that is uncorruptible and will
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live forever for all of eternity.
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Friends 40 There are also celestial bodies and bodies
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terrestrial, But the glory of the celestial is 1 and the glory
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of the terrestrial is another. Think about it, friends.
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God created us out of the dust, He created us out of dirt, and
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he breathed into Adam. Friends.
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And then when you and I, but our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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we were born again and we received the Holy Spirit.
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We received the Spirit of God, friends.
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And when these mortal bodies get pushed down into the earth, it
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is the Holy Spirit that will quicken inside of us and will
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raise us from the dead into our immortal bodies forever.
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Forever and ever and ever. For 10,000 years we've been
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there, and we have no less days to sing his praise. 41 There is
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one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
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another glory of the stars. For one star differs from
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another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the
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dead. It is sown in corruption.
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It is raised in in corruption, it is sown in dishonor.
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It is raised in glory, it is sown in weakness.
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It is raised in power. It is sown a natural body.
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It is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and
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there is a spiritual body. So what Paul is wanting us to
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know is that we do not need to try to concern ourselves with
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all of the little interest in all of our curiosity of what
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will we look like and what age will we be and all of the things
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that we try to sit down here and try to figure out.
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Friends. He's saying trust God, that when
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you became a new creation, you will be raised to life and you
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will have an immortal body that lives forever.
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And there will be differings in glory in heaven because it is a
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different economy there. And we need to make sure from
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the moment we give our life to Christ to the moment that we are
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caught up to be with him, or the moment that we die, that we are
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constantly trying to serve God Almighty with all of our heart,
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all of our mind, all of our strength.
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And our rewards will follow that disposition.
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But if we're working for the rewards, we've already lost the
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rewards. That is the different glories,
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the sun and the moon and the stars. 45 And so it is written,
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the first man, Adam, was made a living soul.
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The last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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So that is what you need to understand is that when Adam
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willfully disobeyed God by listening to his wife and eating
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the forbidden fruit, death entered in friends and that is
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the body and the soul that die. But whenever we are regenerated
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and born again, friends, we receive this quickening spirit
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that will raise us from the dead.
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Friends. 446 Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual,
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but that which is natural, and afterward that which is
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spiritual. That's what Jesus told Nicodemus
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when he came to him by night, that unless a more, unless a man
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be born again, he cannot see God, he cannot come to God, he
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cannot have eternal life. And here Paul is referencing us
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back there, that first thing, when we're born, we're born with
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the sin nature, we're born in corruptible bodies.
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But when we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, we have are given
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the incorruptible, eternal quickening spirit, the Spirit of
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God. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy, the second man is
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the Lord from heaven. So Jesus came and he made every
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wrong thing right when it comes to our eternal destinations.
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He snatched the keys. Death has no hold on us, Hell
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has no sting. Friends, we just need to trust
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that God Almighty is going to do what He said and what He
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promises us. We hold tightly, we hold fastly
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to the promises of God that we will be resurrected with
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immortal, incorruptible bodies. We are not earthy any longer.
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We are heavenly. 48 as is the earthy, Such are they also that
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are earthy, and as is the heavenly, such are they also
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that are heavenly 49 And as we have borne the image of the
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earthy, we all, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
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Think about it, God gave you the Holy Spirit as a down payment,
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as a deposit of what is to come. And now we can only see dimly
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and impartly friends, but we will see in the fullness,
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friends, and we will be risen and raised up, and we will be
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resurrected unto immortal life, and we will see him face to
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face. Praise God, Hallelujah, we love
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you, Lord Jesus. 50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and
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blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, Neither does corruption
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inherit incorruption. That is what you need to know.
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That is what Jesus was telling Nicodemus there Old Nick at
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night, is that unless you are born again, you will not inherit
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the Kingdom of God. 51 Behold, I show you a mystery.
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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
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So those that die as a St. that have received the Holy Ghost and
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then they die and those that are still alive that have the Holy
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Ghost will all be changed. Those that have received the
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Holy Spirit, whether in death or in life, will both of them will
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be changed. 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
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last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
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be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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That is, both those that have received the Holy Ghost and
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died, and those that have received the Holy Ghost and are
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at that present moment living whenever he raptures the Church
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up into the clouds. 53 For this corruptible must put on
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incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality, and
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that will happen in the twinkling of an eye, at a
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moment's notice. Friends, we will be given our
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resurrected bodies instantaneously that have the
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Holy Ghost. That is the whole marker of the
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whole situation. And we can debate till the cows
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come home about all the eschatology, friends.
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But read it and watch the literal translation, friends.
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It all comes alive to you. If you will believe every
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syllable and every jot and every title, and not call any of it
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into question. Jesus Christ will be well
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pleased to give you the simple truths of the Word of God.
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It is plain as the nose on your face.
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It is black and white, Friends. We read it and we take it at
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face value and it all is congruent.
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This beautiful tapestry and scripture support Scripture and
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it is all line upon line and precept upon precept and it is
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beautiful friends, and it all adds up.
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And there's really no thing that is left unto mystery, whenever
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you come to the Lord God honestly, and He gives you your
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doctrine. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on
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incorruption, this mortal shall have put on immortality, then
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shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
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swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting?
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O grave, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin,
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and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God,
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which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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That is the whole crux of the whole situation, of the whole
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matter. What it all points to.
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What it's all about is Jesus Christ and what He did, and it
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is not about what we do. It's all about what He did is a
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free gift, friends. We must take it though.
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We must open it. We must receive it, friends.
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We must get covered in the blood of Jesus Christ so that we can
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have this incorruptible, eternal body that lives forever and ever
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and ever and ever. Friends with him and it's all
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about him. It's not even about eternity.
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It's not about mansions. It's not about the street of
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gold. It's not about anything other
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than Christ and Christ crucified.
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We'll end on 58. Therefore, my beloved brothers,
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be used steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of
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the Lord. For as much as you know that
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your labor is not in vain in the Lord, that is what you need to
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understand. Quit trying to be self seeking.
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Quit trying to show everyone how good of a St. you are.
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Quit trying to tout your deeds and works among men, That must
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stop. Let God reward you openly for
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the things that you do secretly. And do not forget to show
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hospitality to strangers, for in by doing so some have
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entertained angels. We do everything unto God and
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not unto men. He will openly reward you for
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the things that you do for Him that people do not see.
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And that is does not mean that we shouldn't publicly help
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people or publicly pray. It just means that we are never
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self seeking and stuck in vanity.
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Friends, that is not the heart of God.
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Don't do something and then immediately go and tell others
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about it. Let it come out naturally
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friends and you will be rewarded.
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I hope you've been blessed by this.
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Amazing, amazing, amazing chapter here in the Word of God.
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I know I sure have many times over.
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I love you. I'm praying for you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.