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Revelation, chapter of fourteen and verses
six through thirteen, hear God's word to
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us. Then I saw another angel
flying directly overhead with an Eternal Gospel to
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proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language
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and people, and he said with
a loud voice, fear God and give
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him glory, because the hour of
his judgment has come, and worship him
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who made heaven and earth, the
sea and the springs of water. Another
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Angel, a second, followed saying
falling, falling his babyl on, the
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great she who made all the nations
drink the wine of the passion of her
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sexual immorality. And another angel,
a third, followed them, saying with
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a loud voice, if anyone worships
the beast and its image and receives a
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mark on his forehead or on his
hand, he also will drink the wine
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of God's wrath, poured full strength
into the cup of his anger, and
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he will be tormented with fire and
sulfur in the presence of the Holy Angels
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and in the presence of the lamb, and the smoke of their torment goes
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up forever and ever, and they
have no rest day or night, these
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worshippers of the beast and its image
and whoever receives the mark of its name.
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Here is a call for endurance of
the saints, those who keep the
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commandments of God and their faith in
Jesus. And I heard a voice from
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heaven saying right this blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord from now
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on, blessed indeed, says the
spirit, that they may rest from their
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labors for their deeds follow them.
Please be seated. Back home in Kansas
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there's a lady in the congregation that
I have become close to in terms of
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she and her husband, and on
the Lord's Day in the afternoon, after
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our afternoon service that we have,
I dropped by their home my visit with
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her. I visit her with her
many times and she shared a lot about
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how she came to know the Lord
and she told me that she had been
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raised seventh day adventist and this,
this church building, is a seventh day
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adventist church building. They built it
and so I was wondering, what is
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the significance of this window? Have
you wondered about that? In the book
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of revelation there are seven angels and
seven trumpets, but that's not what's here.
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There are three and when I told
her, described it to her and
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told her that there were three angels, one, two, three, she
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immediately said revelation, Chapter Fourteen,
and I said, are you sure,
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and she said yes, I'm sure. As a child I had to memorize
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that because this very passage is kind
of the which we say the the basis
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of the seventh day adventist view of
their job in the world today, that
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they are called to share the Gospel, but they're also called to warn everyone
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about Babylon and about the mark of
the beast. I realize that the book
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of revelation seems strange to a lot
of believers. I think in reform circles
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it's probably one of the more neglected
books. I preached through this book and
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when I get back to Kansas one
of my duties will be to teach the
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adult class there at Church the book
of revelation and one of the things I
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always do when I start with looking
at the book of revelation is to go
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there, go to the first chapter
and the first verse, and the first
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first begins the revelation of Jesus Christ. A lot of people think of the
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book of revelation is the future for
told, and I'm not denying that that's
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here in the book. But you
need to realize that the things that are
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accounted are given in this book.
Some of them, at the time of
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this writing, had been fulfilled.
The letters to the seven churches were delivered
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to them with the warnings right there. There were things that were soon to
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be fulfilled and there were things that
were in the long distance. And is
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people approached the book. I think
often what they do with it is that
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they have a system that there are
some people who believe that most everything in
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the book was fulfilled there in the
first century, and there's some people that
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believe there's very little in the book
that has been fulfilled. And personally I
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like to stay out of those arguments. I like to approach the way the
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book the way my professor told this
in seminary. He said, if you
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want to understand the book of revelation, first of all you need to understand
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the symbolism of the Old Testament.
If you don't have a clear view of
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that, then this stuff gets crazy
and fantasy notions about things. As a
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matter of fact, as a young
man confession here I had hair cleared down
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to here. I show you a
picture of it. The graduate of college
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and I worked out at a Bible
camp in the summer there in Kansas and
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the director of the camp, his
sister in law, was really hung up
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on the book of revelation. In
fact I think she called it the book
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of revelations plural, but she was
really hung up on that. And one
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day we went on a car ride
and I was sitting in the front with
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him, his wife was sitting in
the back with her sister and we got
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to the end of the car ride
and we were getting out. We'd gotten
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home on seeing some things come back. Just before we were getting out she
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started reading from the book of revelation. It was about these terrible creatures that
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had the hair of the woman and
a face of a man, and I
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didn't think anything of it until Richard
said to me after she got out of
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ear sight, he came over to
me and he tugged on my hair and
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then he pointed to my nose and
he said the hair of a woman in
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the faith of a man, that
she was talking about you. He said
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she thinks you're part of the locust
plague, and so he said something about
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calling me locust and I said,
well, that's not nice. You know
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that I'm a brother in Christi says, okay, we're going to call you
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brother locust, and so that became
my nickname. Their camp was brother locust.
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So Anyway, I've had a interesting
relationship with this book and the things
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that are spoken of in here,
but I'd like to draw attention to some
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things. First of all, it's
very clear what the first angel is all
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about. The Gospel, and we've
seen the Gospel go out into the world.
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This isn't something that happens at the
end of the age. This is
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something that has been going on since
God made that promise in Eden, and
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the Church has been proclaiming the Gospel
since the day of Pentecost. The second
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angel comes with judgment on Babbel,
in the great judgment on those who have
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made the nations drink the wine of
the passions of sexual immorality. Now again,
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you might have some footnotes in your
Bible at that point that suggests that
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that it's that it's not talk about
sexual immorality, it's talking about idolatry or
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something like that. I've seen that. No, I've lived long enough that
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I realize that this is the thing
that the world today is really pushing and
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is always push and what we have
here is that clear promise that ultimately that
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will fall, no matter how successful
evil may seems to be in our age
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and how prominent it becomes, God
has pronounced judgment on it. And then
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the third angel is the warning about
those who worship the beast. Who is
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the beast? What it is?
His Mark? I'm not willing to speculate
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on that one, but I know
something for sure. If you are a
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believer in Jesus Christ, you've been
marked by him and set apart, and
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you don't need to fear ever being
tricked into following the beast. Those who
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follow the beast are those who receive
this and those on whom God's anger and
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wrath will be poured out. But
this section ends with something, something wonderful,
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something encouraging, a call for endurance. We believe in the perseverance of
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the saints. God encourages us in
there to stick with it, to not
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give up. There are times that
we may be tempted, there are times
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that we fail, but we are
to endure and to keep God's commandments and
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to keep trusting in Jesus. And
so we get to the verse that mentions
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the basis of my title of my
sermon this evening, and that is verse
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thirteen. And I whrror heard a
voice from heaven saying write this. Blessed
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are the dead who die in the
Lord. From now on, blessed indeed,
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says the spirit, that they may
wrest from their labors, for their
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deeds will follow them. There's a
rock group that went by the grateful dead,
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but we will be the blessed dead. There's a difference. Blessed are
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those who die in the Lord.
What is this special blessing that we have?
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If you'll, if you'll turn to
the back of your Hymn Books,
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the Westminster Confession, the the the
shorter catechism, question number thirty seven.
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Someone had the page on that.
What that is? Nine hundred and seventy
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n seventy. I'll ask the question. I'll read that and I'd like for
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all of you to read the answer
that we have here. What benefits do
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believers receive from Christ at death?
It's a beautiful promise. Remember the first
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time that I read that I didn't
find the first part strange, but I
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found a second part. Do you
find it that way a bit, that
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your body is united with Christ?
You See, the scriptures and the confession,
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reflecting the teaching of the Scriptures,
do not teach the notion that what
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we achieve in death is to get
rid of our bodies. And it doesn't
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matter what happens to your body,
if you're cremated, you're buried, if
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you're blown up, if there's no
nothing that anyone can retrieve, none of
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that will stop God from accomplishing his
purpose in bringing you back, raising you
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physically from the dead, just as
Jesus was raised from the dead. Turn
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to Hebrews Chapter Twelve, in Verse
Twenty three, just couple of proof texts.
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I'm going to read Verse Twenty Two
and Twenty Three there. But you
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have come to Mount Zion and to
the city of the Living God, the
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heavenly Jerusalem, and too innumerable angels
in festal gathering, and to the assembly
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of the firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven, and to God, the judge
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of all, and to the spirits
of the righteous made perfect. No purgatory
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there is there, not even limbo. Second I'd like to have you turned
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to John Chapter Five, versus Twenty
eight and twenty nine, where we are
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informed. Do Not Marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all
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who are in the tombs will hear
his voice and come out, those who
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have done good to the resurrection of
life and those who have done evil to
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the resurrection of Judgment. This was
some thing too, that became a surprise
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to me as a young person,
when I was quite young, the idea
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that the wickeder race from the dead. I believe that believers were because we're
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going to spend eternity in a perfect
body as well as having a perfect sinless
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soul, and that's why when people
ask me now if I believe in a
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literal hell, well, I believe
in a literal resurrection, and the physical
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body has to have some place to
be, and there's only two options.
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This is our real hope, the
resurrection from the dead. Remember speaking one
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time, to call him a skeptic, about his plans for the future.
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Young Man. Well, he was
finishing high school. I said, well,
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what are you gonna do then?
Go to college, and what are
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you gonna do after that? Get
a good job, and what are your
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plans after that? Will Helpe to
get married and after that have children and
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after that work until I retire,
maybe have grandchildren. I don't know whether
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he mentioned grandchildren or not. Some
younger people don't think so much in those
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categories, but you know it's grandchildren. And and then I said, and
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then what? And eventually got the
point. He says, well, then
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I'll die. And then I said
and then what? He was shocked.
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He said, what do you mean
when you're dead? You're dead. I
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says, oh no, I have
something to look forward to when I'm dead,
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and that is the resurrection. It's
a hope, and hope is not
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something that you know means I hope
it happens. No, it's something that
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I'm confident in. It hasn't happened
yet. I haven't seen it, but
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I believe it because God tells us
that, and they'll just briefly. I'd
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love to look at another issue,
and that is I have a real top
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problem with the apostles creed in that
line where it says that Jesus descended into
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hell. Now I realize in the
original, in the Latin, it's Hades
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is the place that's identified. It's
the place of the dead. It's not
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the place of eternal torment and torture. But if you'll turn again to the
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back here and this time to the
larger catechism, question number fifty, I
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don't know whether you've noticed it or
not, but I find the catechism quite
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helpful. I'm not equating the catechism
with the scriptures, don't get me wrong,
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but I do believe that the men
who wrote these things down for our
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benefit point us to the scriptures in
understanding these things. And again I'll read
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the question. Have you read the
answer here to number fifty? It's on
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page nine forty five, wherein consisteth
Christ's humiliation after his death. Christ suffered
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all the punishment due to sin on
that cross and before he died he said
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it is finished. So the the
teaching is not that Christ went to punishment
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after his death, but the teaching
is that Christ his humiliation continued even after
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he had died, and we understand
his humiliation in that, being the second
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person of the Trinity, the Eternal
Word of God, he came to this
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earth and was born of a woman
of Virgin and he suffered in this life
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and he died on that cross.
But when he died on the cross he
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did not immediately go to glory,
he remained with those who were dead.
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He wasn't living on the earth.
His body was lying there in that grave,
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dead and cold, but his spirit, or his soul was in paradise.
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Luke twenty three, verse forty three, Jesus is speaking to the penitent
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thief, the one who confessed that
he deserved that death on the cross,
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and that thief simply says in Verse
Forty Two, Jesus, remember me when
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you come into your kingdom. And
he said to him. Truly, I
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say to you today, you will
be with me in paradise. I read
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a tract one time that I picked
up some place. I don't think I
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burned it, I probably have it
at home somewhere. But then this tract
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that was written by someone who believed
you had to be baptized to be saved,
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that you had to have water baptism
to be saved. There was no
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way around it. And so what
he interpreted here was that Jesus told the
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thief, sorry, Buddy, but
to day you'll be in hell with me.
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Now that's not the way I read
it and I hope you don't read
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it that way. Paradise, Paradise, Abraham's Bosom in the story that Jesus
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tells about Lazarus and the rich man. They both are in the place of
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the dead, but Lazarus is in
the bosom of Abraham being comforted there.
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That's where the saints went under the
Old Covenant, and when Jesus, after
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his death, went to that place, when he left it, he took
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all those saints with him into the
Glory of Heaven, the glory that spoken
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of here in the book of revelation, and that's why it says blessed are
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the dead who die in the Lord
from now on, now that there wasn't
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some blessing before and that it was
a good place, but to see God's
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glory. It took the death of
Christ to accomplish that, and now when
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we die, we go there immediately. We are blessed indeed. The spirit
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says that they may rest from their
labors. I don't know about you,
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but the older I get, it
seems, the more rest I need.
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There's a lot of things to be
done and there's much that we can accomplish
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here, but we are promised rest. It's things like that that convinced me
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beyond any doubt that there is no
such place as purgatory. There is no
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halfway place. When a believer in
Jesus Christ dies, he rests from the
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Labors here and is blest in the
presence of Christ. And he comments that
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their deeds follow them. You ever
heard somebody say you can't take it to
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heaven? They never saw a hearse
with a you haul behind it. I
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think somebody's got to have done that
as a joke at some time or another.
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The physical things of this world,
know, none of those things will
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we take with us, but the
good that God accomplishes in and through US
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stands even when we die. There
are many people in this world that are
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very rich and have all kinds of
possessions and when they die, well,
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it's like Rockefeller, John D Rockefeller's
pastor was asked his funeral. So the
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reporter said how much did he leave
behind? And the pastor looked at the
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reporter and said, young man,
all of it, that wealth, he
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could not take with him. But
the good that we accomplish and our children,
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as we share the Gospel with them
and as God moves in their hearts
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and works with them, the ones
who are elect and draws them to himself,
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those children will one day be in
heaven with us. These are the
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things that count in life. The
world seems powerful, the world seems to
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succeed so many times, but in
the end everybody's going to die. I
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realize there's an exception. Got To
make this ex exception. When Jesus returns,
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those who are alive at that time
will be transformed. They won't have
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to go through death. But other
than that we're all going to die.
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What will it mean? My mother
had a plaque on the wall and I'm
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trying to remember the way it went. It said something about it closed with
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the words only what's done for Christ
will last. My resister remembered it.
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She's younger and I she's got a
younger memory. Only what's let something about
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this life will soon be passed.
Only what's done for Christ will last,
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and my mom sought to live that. When they were singing that Psalm earlier
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that we open and with it had
that line in there that the psalmist says
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that he was the son of the
Lord's handmade. I think he's talking about
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his mom. My mom was a
believer as it was growing up as a
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child. My father wasn't, but
she encouraged me and prayed for me and
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with me, and I'm looking forward
to being reunited with her one day.
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But the most important thing that will
happen to those who have put their faith
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in Christ is to see Jesus,
and when we see him, we will
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be like him. Doesn't mean identical
to him, like him, like him
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in holiness, like him in the
resurrection of his body, the last born
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eternity, in the joy of God's
presence. So every time you see these
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three angels up there, remember what
they stand for. I think it's good,
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good symbolism the Gospel, the judgment
that is going to become this is
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going to come on sexual immorality and
the judgment that is going to come on
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those who worship the false the beast. Two
