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Is Jesus the Answer to Your Deepest Questions · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: What does the Bible say about death? First, the Bible
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  says that death is an enemy of man and God.
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  Paul calls it an enemy. He says First Corinthians fifteen.
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  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Now
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  it's an enemy to God because God never meant for
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  man to die when he created us. He meant for
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  us to live forever. But we broke his law. We
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  rebelled against him, and he said, if you do that,
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  you're going to die. He had to keep his word.
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  Neither sin, no pain, nor disease, nor death were part
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  of God's original plan for man. Death was the penalty
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  for sin when he said, thou shalt surely die, and
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  the judgment dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall
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  return came after man's rebellion. Now I want you to
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  think about death for a person who does not know Christ,
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  for an unbeliever. This jock is a reviving that old
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  pop song of David Clayton Thomas, which goes and when
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  I die, I pray there ain't no hell. But the
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  Bible teaches there will be a judgment. And you cannot
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  read the Bible and miss the references to hell. And
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  I don't see how a clergyman can preach without talking
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  about because it's so much in the scriptures, and the
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  one that taught so much about it is Jesus, more
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  than any other person in the Bible. For our God
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  is a consuming fire, says Hebrews twelve. But the Bible
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  also teaches that fire is used symbolically. It says how
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  tongues are set on fire of hell. That doesn't mean
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  literal combustion. In James, it's symbolic, and Jesus used this
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  symbol over and over. I believe that the fire is
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  a thirst for Almighty God that can never be quenched.
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  You'll go out into eternity thirsting for God, and you
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  can never find Him, and you can never find the
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  fulfillment that you missed him this life. In Christ, the
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  judgment has passed, the storm is.
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  Speaker 2: Over, the hell is passed.
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  Speaker 1: If you know Christ, there'll be no judgment for you.
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  There is therefore now no judgment to them that are
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  in Christ Jesus, there is no hell for you. You
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  will live eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ and with
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  the saints of all the ages. By his death he
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  destroyed death. In Christ, we no longer regard death. As
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  the king of Terros, Paul said, I have a desire
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  to depart to be with Christ, which is far better.
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  He said, to be with Christ is better than living here.
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  And now I want to be with him, said the
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  apostle Paul. Why was it because he worked so hard
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  for Christ or because he'd suffered so much? No, he
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  was ready because long ago he had met Christ on
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  the Damascus road and had an experience with the Lord
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  Jesus Christ and Christ came into his heart, and he
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  had found a fulfillment and of peace and a joy.
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  He found the purpose and the meaning of his life
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  when he had that encounter with Christ. You can have
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  that same experience with Christ. Tonight.
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  Speaker 2: God said, there's coming a day when I'm going to
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  shake the world. But some things will not be shaken,
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  some things remain. In other words, there's coming a time
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  when the world will be pressed and there'll be no
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  way out. Those times come in your life, in your home, tension, priction,
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  financial trouble. You're pressed and there doesn't seem to be
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  a way out.
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  Speaker 1: There is an answer, There is a way.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, I am the way. But in the midst
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  of all this changing. There's some things that never change.
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  Think of it a moment. What never changes. The nature
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  of God doesn't change. God hasn't changed. He hasn't changed
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  to adapt himself to our generation. God is unchanging. I
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  am the Lord God. I change not. God is unchanging
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  in his holiness.
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  Speaker 1: We're all guilty.
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  Speaker 2: Of coming short of God's holy requirements, and we're all sinners,
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  and we're all in need of the grace and mercy
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  of God. And that's why the Lord Jesus came and
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  died on the cross. He died for your sins. He
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  died for mine, and God took your sins and laid
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  them on Christ. God changes not in his holiness. And
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  let me tell you, because he is our holy God,
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  he is also unchanging in his judgment. There is a
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  judgment day coming. How God is a consuming fire. The
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  Bible is filled with stories of judgment. Our Lord talked
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  more about hell than he did Heaven. There's a day
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  of judgment coming. God is a holy God, and you
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  and I are going to stand there. And when I
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  stand there, I'm not going to ask for justice. I'm
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  going to ask for mercy. I need mercy, I need
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  the grace of God. I need the forgiveness of God.
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  And I want to tell you a wonderful thing. God
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  loves you, and he offers you tonight forgiveness, and he
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  offers you mercy. God can forgive every sin you've ever committed.
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  God can wipe the slight clean because of Christ, not
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  because you deserve it. For by grace are you saved
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  through faith? And that not of yourselves. It is the
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  gift of God, not of works, lest than Him. And
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  should boast. You can't work your way to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: You can't buy your way to heaven.
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  Speaker 2: God is unchanged. He's unchanging in his love. God loves you.
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  That's the most wonderful thing to go to bed with
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  at night, to know that God loves me. God forgives me.
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  God is interested in me, but I must receive him. Secondly,
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  the word of God does not change. The grass wither
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  it and the flower faded. But the word of our
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  God shall stand forever. I settle that a long time ago.
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  There are a lot of things in this Bible I
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  don't understand. There are questions you could ask me that
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  I cannot answer. I don't know all the answers in
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  this book. How can a finite mind like mine, comprehend
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  the infinite.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot.
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  Speaker 2: So one day I opened the Bible and I said,
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  oh Lord, I accept this as your word by faith.
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  And that settled it. From that moment all when I
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  quote the scriptures, I know that I'm quoting the word
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  of God. It's a living word. And lastly, the way
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  of salvation has not changed all these centuries. The way
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  to the Kingdom of God is exactly the same. Jesus said,
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  I am the Way, the Truth, and the life. No
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  man cometh to the Father but by me.
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  Speaker 1: He will never change.
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  Speaker 2: But you must change.