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The First Resurrection · 5-Minutes of Good News

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, Christians.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is Dallas Beecham.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stand by for good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a quiet cemetery just before sunrise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The names carved into the stones belong to people who laughed, worked, prayed, and trusted God.
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  SPEAKER_00: To the human eye their stories seem finished, but heaven has not written the final sentence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said in John 5, 28 and 29, The hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice and shall come forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day the silence of the grave will be broken by the voice of the Son of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Revelation twenty and four speaks of a faithful witness who lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse five then says, This is the first resurrection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse six adds, Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.
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  SPEAKER_00: On such the second death hath no power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these blessed people?
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  SPEAKER_00: They are Jesus' people, those who belong to him, those who have remained faithful and those whom God has prepared for the day of redemption.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: The spirit that sealed them in life is the same spirit by which their mortal bodies will be quickened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul explains the order in 1 Corinthians fifteen, twenty two and twenty three, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: But every man in his own order.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ is the first fruits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Afterward they that are Christ at his coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus rose first never to die again.
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  SPEAKER_00: His resurrection is the guarantee that those who are his will rise again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Paul reveals a mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dead are raised incorruptible, and the living saints are changed.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Mortality puts on immortality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Corruption puts on incorruption.
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  SPEAKER_00: Death is swallowed up in victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first resurrection is not merely a return to ordinary life.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: Lazarus was raised, but later died again.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the first resurrection, the saints are raised beyond the reach of the second death.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are prepared to live and reign with Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel saw this long before John received revelation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Daniel 7 and 18 says, But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: What seemed like defeat becomes victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who were rejected, persecuted, or forgotten are raised to share in the reign of the Messiah.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: So when we stand beside the grave of a believer, we sorrow, but not as those who have no hope.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: The grave is not an eternal prison, it is a waiting place.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: The body sleeps, but God's promise remains awake.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yesterday we saw the seal of the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we see where that seal leads, to the day when Christ calls his people from death into life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow we will follow the risen saints upward to meet the Lord in the air.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope today's message has touched your heart and causes you to have a good day.