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Why are u crying? Ep 2808 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Dear, how any gracious God has 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, and we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for what Jesus Christ did on across the calvalry for
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  Speaker 1: each one of us. As we're prepared to enter the word,
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  Speaker 1: your message help us to understand the importance of our faith,
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  Speaker 1: the importance of the fact that because of your only
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  Speaker 1: begotten son dying for me the whole world, that we
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  Speaker 1: have hope. In Jesus' name, we ask you and thank
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  Speaker 1: you all man. Why are you crying? Why are you crying?
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  Speaker 1: Last time we left off it when Paul wrote over
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  Speaker 1: in second Corinstance, chapter five, verse six and seven. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: we are always confident knowing that while we are at
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  Speaker 1: home in the body, we're absent from the Lord, for
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  Speaker 1: we walk by faith, not by sight. And you can
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  Speaker 1: find that in second Crinstance, chapter five, verse six and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now think about it. Now, we're at home in this body,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to remember, if you're really gonna be
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  Speaker 1: honest with yourself, this is where you and I live.
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  Speaker 1: Because you gotta remember now people don't see the real you,
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  Speaker 1: the real meed and the reason why they're doing is
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  Speaker 1: because we're hidden in our bodies. And Paul said over
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  Speaker 1: in sech corinstance, chapter five, verse eight. We are confident,
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  Speaker 1: I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
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  Speaker 1: body and to be present with the Lord. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you at my funeral. I wouldn't want you
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  Speaker 1: to say that I look so natural, because I won't
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  Speaker 1: even be there, and you'll just be looking at my
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  Speaker 1: tent that I've left behind. It's my house, my body
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  Speaker 1: that's been put to sleep. I would have went to
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  Speaker 1: be with the Lord. And you gotta remember, after the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: our bodies is gonna be raised up. Remember in first instance,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen, verse forty four, how that the Word says
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  Speaker 1: through Paul, it has sown a natural body, it has
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  Speaker 1: raised the spiritual body. There's a natural body, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual body. You remember what Daniel spoke of as
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  Speaker 1: relates to the death of the body, as being asleep
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  Speaker 1: and the dangers chapter twelve, verse two. And many of
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  Speaker 1: them that are sleep in the dust of the earth
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  Speaker 1: shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some the shame
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  Speaker 1: and everlasting contempt. Remember, now dust is gonna go back
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  Speaker 1: to dust because that's the body, but the spirit is
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to God. Who said that? And you got
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  Speaker 1: to remember, as you're studying the word and doing your
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  Speaker 1: research historical studies, I know you are, remember how the
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  Speaker 1: early believers of the house or the faith Christians adopted
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  Speaker 1: the words for the varying places of their loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: which meant a house of rest for strangers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sleeping place. You remember that, Well, that's the same word
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  Speaker 1: you and I get our English words cemetery from. Oh
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, it's the same word that was
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  Speaker 1: used in that day for ends of what you and
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  Speaker 1: I call today a hotel or a motel. You know,
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  Speaker 1: places where you spend the night to sleep, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get up whatever day you get up with it
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  Speaker 1: the next day or however long you're there, but you
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  Speaker 1: get up the next day and you continue on your journey.
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  Speaker 1: That's the picture of the place where you bury your
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  Speaker 1: believing loved ones. Notice how I use the word code
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  Speaker 1: believing loved ones. And think about it if you really
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  Speaker 1: want to ponder it. Do you cry when a friend
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  Speaker 1: or loved one go and spend a weekend in a hotel?
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  Speaker 1: Do you the body of the believer has just been
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  Speaker 1: put into a hotel and motel into the resurrection, and
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  Speaker 1: one day our Lord is coming and guess what that
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  Speaker 1: body is going to be raised up? Look at firsts
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  Speaker 1: alone this chapter four, verse thirteen, that you sorrow not
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  Speaker 1: even as others which have no hope. And you got
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  Speaker 1: to think about the unbelieving individual in the world have
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  Speaker 1: no hope. So for that person, death is a scary thing.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're doing that research, I know you are,
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't alone in you, you will see it. You
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  Speaker 1: would have seen that there was a description that says
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  Speaker 1: after death, no reviving, after the grave, no meeting again,
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  Speaker 1: think about that. And then you had a Greek hote
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  Speaker 1: wrote hopes are among the living. The dead are without hope.
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  Speaker 1: Now think of that belief. You know it's pessimistic and
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  Speaker 1: without hope. Believers of the household of faith follows of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Christians are not to sorrow as the unbelieving world.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine a funeral service. You're looking around. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why you're looking around, but you're looking around.
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  Speaker 1: You might possibly be able to tell if the family
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  Speaker 1: knows Jesus Christ or not. And you can tell by
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  Speaker 1: the way that people cry whether they have hope or not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, believers follows of Jesus Christ we and there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that in terms of cry. But Paul
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  Speaker 1: never said that believers are not to cry. What he
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  Speaker 1: does say is that we're not to sorrow as the
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  Speaker 1: others which have no hope. Remember what the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did when his friend Lazarus died. You remember he wept
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  Speaker 1: and over in John chapter eleven, verse thirty three through
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  Speaker 1: thirty five. Do you read what it says concerning the
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  Speaker 1: death of Lazarus. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and
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  Speaker 1: the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit and was troubled and said, where have
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  Speaker 1: you laid him? They said, unto him, Lord, come and
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  Speaker 1: see Jesus wept. Butter of household of faith in those
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  Speaker 1: of you who don't know him who died for you.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know how our loving God feels
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  Speaker 1: about the death of your loved ones, look at this
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  Speaker 1: he was. He grown in the spirit and was troubled.
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  Speaker 1: You know, death is a scary thing, and you can
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  Speaker 1: he certainly ensure that he, our Savior, our loving heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: enters into sympathy with you, because his sympathy was for
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  Speaker 1: the living. He knew what he was going to do
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  Speaker 1: for the dead. Jesus wept. And John's Gospel, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, you notice how I was written to
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  Speaker 1: show us the deity of Jesus Christ. But here we
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  Speaker 1: see our Savior shown in all of this humanness. He
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  Speaker 1: mingles his tears with yours and mind, he groans within
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  Speaker 1: himself and believer. It's of the household of faith who
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  Speaker 1: say that one must not cry at a funeral, or
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  Speaker 1: must be a strong follower of Jesus Christ, or phone
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  Speaker 1: a strong believer or a strong Christian away with that.
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  Speaker 1: Death is not pretty. It's a terrible thing. Our Savior wept,
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  Speaker 1: Our Savior cried a Christian that follow of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: as a sorry with the death of loved one. But
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  Speaker 1: they also have hope and first as the lonest Chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen, the word not geary. For if we believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
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  Speaker 1: which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. Do
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  Speaker 1: you notice Paul says Jesus died and rose again. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say Jesus slept. He died, and he died to
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  Speaker 1: pay the penalty for your sins. You know, evil thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: evil words, evil actions and mind. But the next time
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  Speaker 1: we take a look at the different types of death
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  Speaker 1: that's listed in the scripture.