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When we die what happens to our bodies? Ep 2805 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Dear heaven and gracious God, as we come before your
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  Speaker 1: holy presence, we ask your forgiveness for each and every
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  Speaker 1: known sin that's in our lives. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus Christ did at the cross a Calgary for me.
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  Speaker 1: Cause when in today's message, we ask you, allow your
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to take it and make it real. Continue
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  Speaker 1: to make it real for my individual life. But out
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  Speaker 1: of all made Christ and only Jesus Christ be glorified,
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  Speaker 1: and his precious name, we ask him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you all man.
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  Speaker 1: Like in your lives, many loved ones and family members
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  Speaker 1: and friends.
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  Speaker 2: Has translated over.
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  Speaker 1: Passed away, or it dies. The word lets us know
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  Speaker 1: not to sorrow. Got to think about it. You have
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  Speaker 1: people all over the world that's seeking some form of
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  Speaker 1: comfort today, and maybe that's you. You're longing for peace
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  Speaker 1: in your heart and you're coming to understand and only
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ alone.
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  Speaker 2: Is the one that can bring that comfort for you.
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  Speaker 1: In John chapter fourteen, verse one, he tells us the
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  Speaker 1: reasons for it. You believe in God, believe also in May.
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  Speaker 1: And for those who believe in the Lord Jesus, death
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  Speaker 1: brings hope as well as sorrow. You remember what the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul said over in First Desalonians about the death
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  Speaker 1: of a believer of the House of the Faith. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a following Jesus Christ, a Christian. Maybe that's you, he
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  Speaker 1: said in Chapter four, verse thirteen. But I would not
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  Speaker 1: have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
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  Speaker 1: asleep that you sorrow, not even those others which have
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  Speaker 1: no hope, I would not have you to be ignorant.
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  Speaker 1: Do you notice how Paul used the same phrase in
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  Speaker 1: the Corinthian Epistles when he says I would not have
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  Speaker 1: you ignorant brethren, which means the brethren are ignorant. You notice, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: he just didn't come out and say so in a
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  Speaker 1: negative way. He's being diplomatic and christ like. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you and I probably wouldn't be. Well, maybe you were good,
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  Speaker 1: but I know I probably wouldn't be. But concerning them
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  Speaker 1: which are asleep, think about your loved ones, whoever comes
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  Speaker 1: to your heart and mind. Paul was referring to the
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  Speaker 1: death of the body. The body. You notice this never
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  Speaker 1: refers to the soul or the spirit of man or woman,
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  Speaker 1: because the spirit of man does not die.
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  Speaker 2: And when you look at the word, you see that.
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  Speaker 1: There are several reasons that the death of the body
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  Speaker 1: is spoken of as being asleep. First of all, you
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  Speaker 1: got a similarity between sleep and death because you got
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  Speaker 1: to think about it. A dead body and the sleeping
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  Speaker 1: body are a slim alert. When one of my uncles,
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  Speaker 1: who owned the funeral home would hold a funeral or
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  Speaker 1: viewing visitors or the person's loved ones would comment that
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  Speaker 1: so and so.
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  Speaker 2: Look as if they.
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  Speaker 1: Were asleep, and in a way is true. The body
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  Speaker 1: of believer is asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: A sleeper does not cease to exist, and the inference
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  Speaker 1: is that the dead do not cease to exist just
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  Speaker 1: because the body is asleep. And you gotta remember sleep
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  Speaker 1: is temporary. Death has its resurrection. It's not that life
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  Speaker 1: is existence and death is non existence. And in second,
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  Speaker 1: you got to remember that the word which is translated
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  Speaker 1: asleep has its roots in the Greek, which means to
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  Speaker 1: lie down. And the interesting thing is that the word
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  Speaker 1: for resurrection is a word that refers only to the body,
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  Speaker 1: and it comes from two Greek words history, which means
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  Speaker 1: the stand at anna the preposition up, because there's only
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  Speaker 1: the body which can stand up in the resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: My brother and of a household of faith.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously a sleep refers to the body, and the
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  Speaker 1: same Greek word used here for sleeper is used elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: when referring to a natural sleep when the body lies
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  Speaker 1: down in bed. An example would be over in Luke
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty two, verse forty five. And when he rose
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  Speaker 1: up from prayer and was come to his disciples, he
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  Speaker 1: found them sleeping for sorrow. Could you imagine Peter, James,
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  Speaker 1: and John went to sleep at this time of this
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  Speaker 1: challenging crisis, And the word is the same word that's
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  Speaker 1: used in first dozen Onions. Again in Acts chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: verse six, and when Herod would have brought him forth
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  Speaker 1: the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound
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  Speaker 1: with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept
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  Speaker 1: the prison. And one thing we know about Simon Peters
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  Speaker 1: that he did not have insomia, even at times the
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  Speaker 1: faith challenges. You notice he was able to sleep. And
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  Speaker 1: again the same word for sleep is using. It's the
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  Speaker 1: natural sleep of the body. And then you see how
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, the Bible teaches that the body
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  Speaker 1: returns to the dust of the earth, but the spirit
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  Speaker 1: returns to the presence of God. And even the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament teaches that. And when you look at the Ecclesiasts
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve, verse seven, the word read, then shall the
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  Speaker 1: dust return to the earth as it was, and the
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  Speaker 1: spirit shall return unto God.
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  Speaker 2: Who gave it.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to remember, my brother in the household
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  Speaker 1: of faith, the dust that is our body. Remember God
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  Speaker 1: told Adam for dust our art, and unto dust, thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt return over in Genesis chapter three, verse nineteen. Got
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  Speaker 1: to remember now it was the body that was taken
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  Speaker 1: from the dust, and then God breathing to man the
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  Speaker 1: breath of life or the spirit. It's the body that's
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  Speaker 1: going to go to sleep until the resurrection, only the body,
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  Speaker 1: because the spirit of a believer is going to return
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  Speaker 1: to God.
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  Speaker 2: So the question becomes what is death?
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to ponder on if you want to,
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  Speaker 1: but allow the Holy Spirit of God to have his
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  Speaker 1: way in your life as you read and study and
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  Speaker 1: apply where to God. But most important, as you ponder
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  Speaker 1: those of you who have lost loved ones in the past, today,
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  Speaker 1: in the future. Because we're talking about knowing, not guessing
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  Speaker 1: hope again, what is death? Remember, now, everybody's got to
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  Speaker 1: go that way. Death is a separation it's not the
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  Speaker 1: ending of the spirit of the personality. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: These do not die. The real you and I we
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  Speaker 1: go to be with the Lord. If notice now, if
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  Speaker 1: now I didn't say it, so, don't take.
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  Speaker 2: Your darts out of me.
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  Speaker 1: If you are a child of God, remember now the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God lets us know that everybody's not a
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  Speaker 1: child of God. Everyone is the creation of God. But
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  Speaker 1: the word lesson know how you can become one. But
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  Speaker 1: it's the body that disentegrates. Death is the separation of
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  Speaker 1: the body from the individual, from the person. And you
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  Speaker 1: got to remember now, the body disintegrates, it decays, it decomposes.
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  Speaker 2: Dust, the dust and ashes.
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  Speaker 1: The ashes applies only to the body. The spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the soul doesn't die, and therefore the spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: soul is not raised. Only the body can lie down
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  Speaker 1: in death, and only the body can stand up in resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what Paul said in the Second Corinsions, chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: verse eight. It says that to be absent from the body.
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  Speaker 2: Is to be present with the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to remember now, our old body, young body,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the age you happen to be, is a frail
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  Speaker 1: tint that is laid aside temporarily in death. The word
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  Speaker 1: lets us know in Second Crensions, Chapter five, verse one,
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  Speaker 1: for we know that if our earthly house of this
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  Speaker 1: tabernacle was dissolved, we have a building of God, a
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  Speaker 1: house not made with hands, eternal into heavens. And when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Greek the Greek word for tabernacle,
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  Speaker 1: here scheme knows, which means a tint the body. You
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  Speaker 1: and I are living in our tents.
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  Speaker 2: And I respect of where you live.
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  Speaker 1: And some of you may live in homes costing hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars in millions, but the place where
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  Speaker 1: you really live is in a little tent.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not a.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of something living under a bridge on the street,
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  Speaker 1: or in our apartment or kindo in the mansion. We've
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  Speaker 1: all been given the same kind of tent. And you
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  Speaker 1: gotta think about it. You can reduce your body to
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  Speaker 1: his component chemicals, and to hold him out with sell
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of dollars, although inflated prices may push
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  Speaker 1: it a little higher. But you and I live in
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  Speaker 1: a tent that is worth about a few dollars. Our
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  Speaker 1: lives gonna be taken away at any moment. You already
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  Speaker 1: do that though, didn't you? And if you don't believe it,
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  Speaker 1: look at the various ages of those who have died
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  Speaker 1: in their ages.
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  Speaker 2: Look around, think about it.
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  Speaker 1: You could be walking across the street and somebody hit
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  Speaker 1: you with their car, by physical assault or by disease.
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  Speaker 1: You find that your tent is gonna fold up and
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  Speaker 1: silently slip away our bodies My brother in the household
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  Speaker 1: of faith, and those of you who don't know him
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  Speaker 1: will die, for you are very frail. And the second Comencius,
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  Speaker 1: chapter five, verse two and four says, for in this
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  Speaker 1: we've grown earnestly desired to be clothed upon him with
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  Speaker 1: our house, which is from heaven. But we that are
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  Speaker 1: in this tabernacle, or do grown? You notice how we
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  Speaker 1: grown within our tents? Think about it. As you get older,
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  Speaker 1: you find life is adding a way, and it's letting
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  Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna be around much longer. And
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  Speaker 1: you might pose a question, how does one know that?
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  Speaker 1: Because God says so?
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  Speaker 2: You say what?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, God says so, He's put gray hair in your hair.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the way you're walking now. Your shoulders are
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  Speaker 1: leaning over. You got their shortness of breath when you walk.
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  Speaker 1: Our loving heavenly Father is trying to tell you something
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  Speaker 1: that you're not gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Here much longer.
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  Speaker 1: You're living in a little tent and you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: slipping away soon again. Irrespective of your age. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: you were young, you would think about it. You go up,
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  Speaker 1: you can run up and down the stairs. But today
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  Speaker 1: you find it a little bit different, now, aren't you.
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  Speaker 1: You find yourself now doing one step at a time.
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  Speaker 1: Your knees are now hurting, and your grown, which is
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  Speaker 1: by the way scriptural to grown. Paul said that we've
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  Speaker 1: grown in these bodies. These bodies are gonna be put
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  Speaker 1: into the grave, and they're gonna go to sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit is gonna go to be with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Paul wrote in s.
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  Speaker 1: Grinton, Chapter five, verse six and seven. Therefore we are
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  Speaker 1: always confident. Notice that hope, no way not guessing that
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  Speaker 1: while we are at home in the body, we're absent
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord, for we walk by faith and not
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  Speaker 1: by sight.
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  Speaker 2: Now think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we're at home in this body, and this is
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  Speaker 1: where you and I live. Hebrew don't really get to
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  Speaker 1: see us, because you gotta remember now we're hidden in
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  Speaker 1: our bodies. But you already knew that, didn't you. You
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  Speaker 1: sure now don't you have hope down knowing what the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God is saying, knowing that irrespect whenever you
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  Speaker 1: cause your name as a believer in the household of faith,
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  Speaker 1: where your body and your spirit goes Hm