WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160
 Take your Bibles this morning, go over to 1 Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 this morning.

00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.900
 As we begin looking and continuing in our look at a maturing faith.

00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:15.220
 And part of a maturing faith is having the right perspective of what is to come.

00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:23.620
 Because as we look towards the future of what is to be, it helps us to live and to do what we ought to do now.

00:00:23.620 --> 00:00:31.120
 And we've looked here in this chapter about what Paul would have for them to encourage those at Thessalonica.

00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:37.060
 And we know we talked about a pleasing walk that we should have with the Lord.

00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:39.460
 To please the Lord in our walk.

00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.359
 But also a practical walk where we're growing and maturing in the things of the Lord.

00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:47.640
 And so this morning we're going to look at a perspective walk.

00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.260
 To walk in light of what is to come.

00:00:50.259 --> 00:00:51.280
 In light of eternity.

00:00:51.879 --> 00:00:53.679
 In light of our expectation.

00:00:54.299 --> 00:00:57.619
 Because these young believers at Thessalonica had been faithful.

00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.899
 And they had stood in the midst of all their trials and their troubles.

00:01:04.219 --> 00:01:07.219
 And their faith that was there.

00:01:07.379 --> 00:01:10.939
 The change that followed was spoken about throughout Macedonia.

00:01:12.019 --> 00:01:15.939
 And you know we know that Paul it tells us was encouraged by what he heard.

00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.299
 But he knew they still needed to mature.

00:01:18.299 --> 00:01:21.780
 You know no matter where we're at in life we've never arrived.

00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.599
 You know one of the most dangerous things to do is to sit down and say I've arrived.

00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.159
 You know often times we don't sit down and say that but we act that.

00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:37.340
 We think that we don't have to mature or don't have to develop in our life.

00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:42.879
 And to have that right perspective helps us keep that in the focus that it ought to be.

00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:49.679
 Because we still need to mature to possess our own vessel in sanctification and honor.

00:01:50.679 --> 00:01:53.759
 You know it was to be holiness not uncleanness.

00:01:54.099 --> 00:01:56.759
 That as a believer we're called we're supposed to be holy.

00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.659
 Yet they still had questions about some things to get in line.

00:02:00.739 --> 00:02:02.519
 Because we're going to look here this morning.

00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:05.539
 They had a question about when Jesus comes.

00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.039
 You know that's a perspective thing.

00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:09.859
 We're looking towards that.

00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:11.639
 The return of the Lord.

00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.180
 That's one of the key doctrines of the Bible.

00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.060
 That Jesus is coming again.

00:02:17.659 --> 00:02:20.219
 You cannot avoid that doctrine.

00:02:20.399 --> 00:02:23.780
 I mean the reality is Jesus is coming again.

00:02:24.299 --> 00:02:26.259
 He will one day return.

00:02:26.359 --> 00:02:27.699
 Now what does that look like?

00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:30.139
 You know that's an essential element of it too.

00:02:30.139 --> 00:02:36.359
 To understand what it looks like for the Lord to return.

00:02:36.519 --> 00:02:39.479
 And the believers at Thessalonica had some questions.

00:02:40.579 --> 00:02:41.899
 Some concerns.

00:02:43.279 --> 00:02:49.379
 Because their concern was of the things Paul taught them about being ready for the Lord's return.

00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:54.560
 Their question had to do with what happens to those who aren't alive when it happens.

00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.920
 And today we're going to look here at this prospective thing.

00:02:59.060 --> 00:03:03.699
 Because even after we die we need to understand it's still a hope that we have.

00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:06.580
 It's a realization that's there.

00:03:06.659 --> 00:03:09.360
 So if you found 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 this morning.

00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.219
 Go ahead and take your stand together with me here this morning.

00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:15.960
 We'll pick up here in verse 13.

00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.080
 And we find here notice what the apostle tells them.

00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:19.420
 He says,

00:03:19.419 --> 00:03:42.060
 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord.

00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:47.239
 That which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.340
 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout.

00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:53.760
 With the voice of the archangel.

00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.980
 And with the trump of God and the dead of Christ shall rise first.

00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:04.219
 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds.

00:04:04.740 --> 00:04:08.200
 To meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:14.939
 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:16.699
 Let's pray.

00:04:16.699 --> 00:04:18.620
 Heavenly fathers we come before you this morning.

00:04:18.620 --> 00:04:24.740
 Lord we just thank you for the reality that you are coming again.

00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.560
 Lord and what that means and the reality of even if we are not here.

00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.719
 Lord that we've come gone to be with you before that happens.

00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:34.699
 Lord that we're still.

00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.060
 It's part of the hope that we have because of the resurrection.

00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:40.800
 The reality that's tied in.

00:04:40.899 --> 00:04:43.439
 Lord we pray this would work upon hearts and lives today.

00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:49.759
 That there be not one here today that doesn't know for sure where they would stand when this day comes.

00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:55.259
 Lord because they need to know the reality of what it means when you come again.

00:04:55.259 --> 00:04:57.639
 Lord and what it sets into play.

00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:00.079
 Lord the reality of it.

00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:05.399
 Lord help us to as believers just to trust you and to look for that coming.

00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.439
 Lord to be prepared for it to be mature in our walk.

00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:39.439
 Lord as you are now as you are as cold as you are as cold as you are as cold as you are as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold as cold

00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.819
 Jesus told his disciples many times, I'm coming again.

00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.540
 The Old Testament is filled with prophecies of his coming,

00:05:46.740 --> 00:05:50.740
 not only for the first, but for the second that have yet to be fulfilled.

00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:55.079
 And we're going to see those things as we see it mentioned throughout Scripture.

00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.379
 The coming of the Lord is tied, though, directly to the resurrection.

00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:00.779
 You know, oftentimes we forget.

00:06:01.779 --> 00:06:04.420
 The coming of the Lord is tied to the resurrection.

00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.240
 The hope, as we see here, Paul tells them,

00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:09.400
 don't worry about those that are asleep.

00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.079
 Don't worry about those who have died,

00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.060
 because the coming again is tied to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:22.460
 The resurrection is an important, essential understanding of the truth of the gospel.

00:06:23.540 --> 00:06:26.480
 You know, Paul expounded this a little later on.

00:06:26.579 --> 00:06:29.660
 You know, remember, 1 Thessalonians is one of the first letters written.

00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:33.860
 And in 1 Corinthians, when he's writing to the church at Corinth,

00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:37.500
 years later, he begins to expound on this same point,

00:06:37.939 --> 00:06:42.840
 this same principle that we find there in chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians.

00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:45.400
 It tells us this in verse 19.

00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:46.280
 It says,

00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.900
 In this life only have we hope in Christ.

00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:50.780
 We are of all men most miserable.

00:06:51.060 --> 00:06:51.420
 He says,

00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.400
 If there's no resurrection, life isn't worth it.

00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.639
 If there's no resurrection, what does life mean?

00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.399
 But notice verse 20, he says,

00:07:00.599 --> 00:07:04.039
 But now is Christ risen from the dead,

00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.219
 and become, notice this, the firstfruits of them that slept.

00:07:10.159 --> 00:07:12.680
 Now, I want you to understand, what is he telling us here?

00:07:12.979 --> 00:07:16.199
 He's telling us that Jesus, rising again,

00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.399
 ought to comfort us and give us hope,

00:07:18.479 --> 00:07:20.439
 because one day, if you're a believer,

00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.699
 you're going to rise again and be changed,

00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:24.959
 be transformed into his image.

00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.339
 There is a reality that we have.

00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.120
 The fact that Christ is alive

00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.799
 is the very fact that gives us hope.

00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:35.459
 The resurrection of Jesus,

00:07:35.599 --> 00:07:37.839
 you know, when somebody denies the resurrection of Jesus,

00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.359
 they deny the very hope of the gospel.

00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.000
 To deny the resurrection removes all hope.

00:07:46.019 --> 00:07:47.479
 You know, 1 Corinthians 15,

00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.179
 that's the theme of that chapter.

00:07:50.379 --> 00:07:52.379
 You know, it starts out explaining the gospel,

00:07:52.459 --> 00:07:53.379
 but the theme of the chapter,

00:07:53.379 --> 00:07:55.620
 he says, the gospel doesn't make sense

00:07:55.620 --> 00:07:56.659
 without the resurrection.

00:07:58.019 --> 00:08:00.180
 The resurrection is a key element

00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:02.899
 that Christ not only died for your sin,

00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:05.180
 but he had victory over that sin.

00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:08.120
 That he had victory over the penalty of sin.

00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:09.659
 Victory over the death.

00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:11.639
 Now, notice here what Paul tells them.

00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:13.319
 I want you to see as we look at verse 13,

00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:14.279
 because this is important.

00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:15.579
 Notice what Paul says,

00:08:15.659 --> 00:08:17.659
 But I would not have you to be what?

00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:19.560
 Ignorant.

00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.139
 You know, one of the things I tell people,

00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:24.759
 ignorance is a curable condition.

00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:29.079
 Ignorance is curable.

00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:30.660
 Now, some people are willfully ignorant.

00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:32.700
 You know, they think,

00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.480
 if I don't know, it's not going to hurt me.

00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:35.519
 You know, there are certain things,

00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.039
 if you don't know, you will get hurt.

00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:40.580
 You know, there are some things you need to know.

00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:42.759
 In other words, it's dangerous.

00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.720
 Ignorance is a condition that's curable,

00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:48.139
 for it's simply this,

00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:49.559
 it's a lack of knowledge.

00:08:51.500 --> 00:08:53.379
 A lack of accurate knowledge.

00:08:54.939 --> 00:08:57.059
 Of understanding what God says.

00:08:57.179 --> 00:08:59.059
 Verse 13 brings to light

00:08:59.059 --> 00:09:00.819
 that we don't have to be in the dark

00:09:00.819 --> 00:09:01.580
 about his coming.

00:09:02.299 --> 00:09:03.319
 You know, there's a lot of people today

00:09:03.319 --> 00:09:05.659
 who want to argue about Jesus coming again.

00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.319
 And there's a lot of people who want to argue

00:09:07.319 --> 00:09:09.480
 about even the passage we're reading today.

00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.120
 because it talks about us being caught up

00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:13.920
 together with him.

00:09:14.019 --> 00:09:14.779
 Oh, no, it's like,

00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:16.940
 you can't skip this.

00:09:18.180 --> 00:09:19.480
 Paul says, don't be ignorant.

00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:24.460
 Whether willfully or intentionally,

00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:26.620
 don't be ignorant.

00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:29.420
 Understand because it's important

00:09:29.420 --> 00:09:30.940
 of how we view

00:09:30.940 --> 00:09:33.639
 and have a proper perspective

00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.159
 of what is to come.

00:09:35.899 --> 00:09:37.039
 Because have you ever noticed

00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.800
 how you think about what's to come

00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:39.899
 impacts what you do today?

00:09:40.199 --> 00:09:41.620
 You know, how many of you get up on Monday

00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:42.419
 to go to work

00:09:42.419 --> 00:09:45.459
 because you just love

00:09:45.459 --> 00:09:46.299
 to go see your boss?

00:09:50.359 --> 00:09:51.459
 You know, the reality is

00:09:51.459 --> 00:09:52.959
 you might like people you work with,

00:09:53.019 --> 00:09:53.839
 you might like some other things,

00:09:53.899 --> 00:09:54.259
 but you know what?

00:09:54.500 --> 00:09:56.359
 Your perspective of going to work

00:09:56.359 --> 00:09:57.559
 isn't to hang out with people.

00:09:58.719 --> 00:10:00.339
 Your perspective of going to work

00:10:00.339 --> 00:10:01.159
 is because you know

00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:02.219
 that at the end,

00:10:02.299 --> 00:10:04.219
 somebody's going to give you a paycheck,

00:10:04.819 --> 00:10:07.279
 a reward for what took place.

00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.279
 Let's just face it,

00:10:09.299 --> 00:10:10.559
 that is really our motivation.

00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:11.879
 We need the money.

00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:14.299
 That's the perspective.

00:10:14.500 --> 00:10:15.299
 You work today

00:10:15.299 --> 00:10:16.399
 because of the perspective

00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:17.100
 of the future.

00:10:18.339 --> 00:10:20.179
 You know, we live for Christ today

00:10:20.179 --> 00:10:21.679
 because of what the prospect

00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.279
 that he promises for the future.

00:10:25.439 --> 00:10:27.019
 That perspective future

00:10:27.019 --> 00:10:28.539
 that he promises to us.

00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:29.819
 And we're going to see here,

00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:31.360
 this is one of the four times

00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:32.439
 that Paul talks about

00:10:32.439 --> 00:10:34.079
 truths that we need to know

00:10:34.079 --> 00:10:35.059
 that we don't need to be ignorant.

00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:37.079
 You know, it's interesting

00:10:37.079 --> 00:10:38.559
 that Paul mentions many times

00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:39.119
 and tells people,

00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:39.699
 don't be ignorant.

00:10:41.939 --> 00:10:43.039
 You know, one of the things

00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:44.259
 he tells is very important.

00:10:44.339 --> 00:10:45.099
 This is one for today

00:10:45.099 --> 00:10:45.779
 that's very important.

00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:46.479
 Paul tells them

00:10:46.479 --> 00:10:48.059
 in Romans chapter 11,

00:10:48.959 --> 00:10:49.279
 he says,

00:10:49.500 --> 00:10:50.139
 don't be ignorant

00:10:50.139 --> 00:10:51.899
 about God's plan for Israel.

00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:53.859
 You know, he tells them,

00:10:54.079 --> 00:10:55.359
 don't be ignorant about it.

00:10:55.719 --> 00:10:56.779
 You know, he tells them

00:10:56.779 --> 00:10:57.939
 in verse 25 there,

00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:58.139
 he says,

00:10:58.199 --> 00:10:59.119
 for I would not, brethren,

00:10:59.179 --> 00:11:00.239
 that you be ignorant

00:11:00.239 --> 00:11:01.399
 of this mystery,

00:11:01.899 --> 00:11:03.459
 lest you should be wise

00:11:03.460 --> 00:11:04.660
 in your own conceits,

00:11:04.980 --> 00:11:06.200
 that blindness in part

00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:06.980
 has happened to Israel

00:11:06.980 --> 00:11:07.700
 until the fullness

00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:08.800
 of the Gentiles

00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:09.879
 is come in.

00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:10.639
 I want you to understand

00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.080
 we don't have time

00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:12.040
 to expound on that,

00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:12.920
 but Paul said,

00:11:13.100 --> 00:11:13.759
 don't be ignorant

00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.200
 about Israel's place.

00:11:16.940 --> 00:11:18.040
 There's a lot of people today

00:11:18.040 --> 00:11:19.400
 that are ignorant of Israel.

00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:21.660
 They don't have

00:11:21.660 --> 00:11:22.680
 a right perspective.

00:11:24.280 --> 00:11:25.220
 Secondly, you find,

00:11:25.300 --> 00:11:25.480
 he says,

00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:26.160
 don't be ignorant

00:11:26.160 --> 00:11:27.340
 about spiritual gifts.

00:11:28.460 --> 00:11:28.680
 You know,

00:11:29.060 --> 00:11:30.480
 1 Corinthians chapter 12

00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.160
 in verse 1,

00:11:31.220 --> 00:11:31.460
 he says,

00:11:31.460 --> 00:11:32.900
 now concerning spiritual gifts,

00:11:33.019 --> 00:11:33.259
 brethren,

00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:34.800
 I would not have you

00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:35.800
 to be ignorant.

00:11:37.900 --> 00:11:38.379
 You know,

00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:39.100
 there's some things

00:11:39.100 --> 00:11:40.240
 that you don't have to question.

00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:41.519
 Paul says you want to know.

00:11:42.180 --> 00:11:42.400
 You know,

00:11:42.420 --> 00:11:43.700
 the third time he did this,

00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:43.960
 he says,

00:11:44.019 --> 00:11:44.720
 don't be ignorant

00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:46.960
 about suffering and trials.

00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:47.660
 You know,

00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:49.460
 2 Corinthians 1, 8,

00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:50.220
 for I would not,

00:11:50.700 --> 00:11:50.900
 brethren,

00:11:51.019 --> 00:11:51.879
 have you ignorant

00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:52.660
 of our trouble

00:11:52.660 --> 00:11:54.120
 which came unto us in Asia.

00:11:54.500 --> 00:11:54.900
 You know what?

00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:55.360
 Paul says,

00:11:55.400 --> 00:11:55.840
 I don't want you

00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:56.440
 to be ignorant

00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:57.180
 of some things.

00:11:57.820 --> 00:11:58.320
 And he says,

00:11:58.379 --> 00:11:59.019
 particularly here,

00:11:59.019 --> 00:11:59.540
 I don't want you

00:11:59.539 --> 00:12:00.199
 to be ignorant

00:12:00.199 --> 00:12:01.799
 of Christ's return.

00:12:02.839 --> 00:12:04.000
 To understand

00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:04.759
 in context,

00:12:04.899 --> 00:12:05.799
 don't be ignorant

00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:06.959
 about the rapture

00:12:06.959 --> 00:12:08.620
 and the coming Savior.

00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:10.000
 You know,

00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:10.459
 that's what we're

00:12:10.459 --> 00:12:11.259
 looking at today.

00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:11.559
 He says,

00:12:11.599 --> 00:12:12.419
 don't be ignorant

00:12:12.419 --> 00:12:13.439
 about what's going to happen.

00:12:14.179 --> 00:12:15.240
 Because it's important

00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:15.939
 to understand

00:12:15.939 --> 00:12:16.719
 what's going to happen.

00:12:17.699 --> 00:12:19.179
 You don't have to be ignorant

00:12:19.179 --> 00:12:20.480
 about the Lord's return

00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:21.839
 and the resurrection.

00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:22.559
 You know,

00:12:22.579 --> 00:12:23.439
 this is a concern

00:12:23.439 --> 00:12:24.379
 being addressed.

00:12:24.719 --> 00:12:25.919
 Notice back in our text,

00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:27.519
 notice how Paul phrases this.

00:12:28.179 --> 00:12:28.939
 And it tells us

00:12:28.939 --> 00:12:29.980
 the context

00:12:29.980 --> 00:12:31.740
 of why they're asking.

00:12:32.299 --> 00:12:32.539
 It says,

00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:33.220
 but would you have not

00:12:33.220 --> 00:12:33.779
 you to be ignorant,

00:12:33.939 --> 00:12:34.079
 brethren,

00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.539
 concerning them

00:12:35.539 --> 00:12:36.919
 which are asleep.

00:12:37.579 --> 00:12:38.139
 You know what?

00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:38.740
 These believers

00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:40.079
 had a genuine concern.

00:12:40.199 --> 00:12:40.360
 Hey,

00:12:40.659 --> 00:12:41.740
 if those that died

00:12:41.740 --> 00:12:42.819
 before Christ returned,

00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:43.779
 what's going on?

00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:46.379
 Did they miss out

00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:47.159
 on the promise?

00:12:48.059 --> 00:12:49.159
 Did they miss out

00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:49.600
 on those things?

00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:51.159
 They had a genuine concern.

00:12:51.659 --> 00:12:52.439
 They had a concern

00:12:52.439 --> 00:12:53.539
 about what was happening.

00:12:53.539 --> 00:12:56.699
 It was a concern,

00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:58.899
 not just curiosity.

00:13:00.819 --> 00:13:01.039
 You know,

00:13:01.079 --> 00:13:01.740
 one of the problems

00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:02.439
 I find today

00:13:02.439 --> 00:13:03.319
 when it comes to people

00:13:03.319 --> 00:13:04.579
 studying what's to come,

00:13:05.419 --> 00:13:06.939
 a lot of people study

00:13:06.939 --> 00:13:08.219
 what is to come.

00:13:08.319 --> 00:13:10.039
 They study eschatology,

00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:11.219
 that's that fancy term,

00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:12.599
 with curiosity

00:13:12.599 --> 00:13:13.939
 instead of concern.

00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:15.059
 Because we ought to be

00:13:15.059 --> 00:13:16.539
 concerned that others know.

00:13:18.419 --> 00:13:19.959
 Because what's to come,

00:13:20.459 --> 00:13:21.399
 they need to know.

00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.919
 The Bible tells us

00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.679
 that you're going to die

00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:26.600
 and face judgment.

00:13:28.659 --> 00:13:29.259
 That's something

00:13:29.259 --> 00:13:30.159
 people need to know.

00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.620
 People need to be aware

00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:34.100
 of what has happened.

00:13:35.319 --> 00:13:36.679
 It's directly tied

00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:37.620
 to the Lord's return.

00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:37.819
 You know,

00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:38.259
 the whole book

00:13:38.259 --> 00:13:39.279
 of 1 Thessalonians,

00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.459
 you find this theme throughout.

00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:42.980
 Look over into chapter 1

00:13:42.980 --> 00:13:43.480
 for a moment.

00:13:44.059 --> 00:13:44.240
 You know,

00:13:44.259 --> 00:13:45.299
 you already got your Bibles there.

00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.240
 Turn over to chapter 1.

00:13:46.579 --> 00:13:47.340
 And we find there,

00:13:47.379 --> 00:13:48.340
 look down at verse 10.

00:13:49.179 --> 00:13:50.879
 Chapter 1 and verse 10 there,

00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:52.080
 it says this,

00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:53.139
 at the end of this chapter,

00:13:53.500 --> 00:13:53.899
 it says,

00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.320
 and wait for His Son

00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:55.840
 from heaven.

00:13:55.899 --> 00:13:56.659
 What's He talking about?

00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:57.559
 Christ,

00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:58.039
 what?

00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.000
 Return.

00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:01.519
 He tells Him

00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:02.600
 who He raised

00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.220
 from the dead,

00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:04.039
 resurrection,

00:14:04.439 --> 00:14:05.120
 tied to it,

00:14:05.580 --> 00:14:06.500
 even Jesus,

00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:07.519
 which delivered us

00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:08.500
 from the wrath to come.

00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.039
 There's a purpose behind it.

00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:11.279
 He's going to deliver us

00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:12.980
 from God's wrath.

00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:13.659
 That was the reason

00:14:13.659 --> 00:14:14.480
 Jesus came.

00:14:15.340 --> 00:14:16.340
 Look in chapter 2,

00:14:16.419 --> 00:14:17.559
 look down at verse 19.

00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.339
 We see this theme throughout.

00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:19.679
 It says,

00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.199
 for what is our hope,

00:14:21.619 --> 00:14:22.459
 our joy,

00:14:22.599 --> 00:14:24.000
 our crown of rejoicing?

00:14:25.099 --> 00:14:26.379
 Are not even ye

00:14:26.379 --> 00:14:27.019
 in the presence

00:14:27.019 --> 00:14:28.619
 of our Lord Jesus Christ

00:14:28.619 --> 00:14:29.279
 at His coming?

00:14:30.319 --> 00:14:31.139
 Think about that.

00:14:31.199 --> 00:14:31.699
 What's He saying?

00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:31.979
 He says,

00:14:32.319 --> 00:14:32.639
 hey,

00:14:33.459 --> 00:14:34.539
 Jesus is coming.

00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.319
 Don't you want

00:14:35.319 --> 00:14:36.259
 to be with Him

00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:37.099
 when He comes?

00:14:37.439 --> 00:14:38.159
 Be in His presence.

00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:39.339
 Look over chapter 3.

00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:41.279
 Chapter 3,

00:14:41.339 --> 00:14:41.559
 verse 13.

00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:42.219
 Verse 13.

00:14:42.699 --> 00:14:43.259
 To the end

00:14:43.259 --> 00:14:44.079
 He may establish

00:14:44.079 --> 00:14:44.679
 your hearts

00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:46.000
 unblable in holiness

00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:46.859
 before God,

00:14:47.219 --> 00:14:48.139
 even our Father

00:14:48.139 --> 00:14:48.539
 at what?

00:14:48.599 --> 00:14:49.979
 The coming of our Lord

00:14:49.979 --> 00:14:50.839
 Jesus Christ

00:14:50.839 --> 00:14:51.879
 with all His saints.

00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:53.239
 So I want you to understand

00:14:53.239 --> 00:14:55.059
 when we're understanding

00:14:55.059 --> 00:14:55.959
 chapter 4,

00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:56.939
 you better understand

00:14:56.939 --> 00:14:58.159
 chapters 1, 2, and 3

00:14:58.159 --> 00:14:58.779
 before it.

00:14:59.779 --> 00:15:01.199
 The theme was there.

00:15:01.259 --> 00:15:02.139
 He's building

00:15:02.139 --> 00:15:03.819
 the reality

00:15:03.819 --> 00:15:04.739
 of the connection

00:15:04.739 --> 00:15:05.959
 between the saints

00:15:05.959 --> 00:15:06.639
 of God

00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:08.419
 and Jesus coming again.

00:15:08.619 --> 00:15:09.419
 I'll just throw this

00:15:09.419 --> 00:15:10.319
 in here for your benefit.

00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:12.439
 There's a phrase

00:15:12.439 --> 00:15:13.439
 that people use

00:15:13.439 --> 00:15:14.939
 when it comes

00:15:14.939 --> 00:15:15.739
 to this passage.

00:15:17.239 --> 00:15:18.219
 The rapture

00:15:18.219 --> 00:15:18.719
 of the church.

00:15:18.819 --> 00:15:19.500
 I want you to understand

00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:20.559
 the Bible never talks

00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:21.219
 about the rapture

00:15:21.219 --> 00:15:21.699
 of the church.

00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:23.599
 It talks about

00:15:23.599 --> 00:15:24.119
 the rapture

00:15:24.119 --> 00:15:24.699
 of the saints.

00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:28.219
 Terminology

00:15:28.219 --> 00:15:29.119
 gets us in trouble

00:15:29.119 --> 00:15:31.619
 because we might

00:15:31.619 --> 00:15:32.579
 understand what

00:15:32.579 --> 00:15:33.159
 it's saying

00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:33.739
 but oftentimes

00:15:33.739 --> 00:15:34.339
 people hear

00:15:34.339 --> 00:15:35.199
 the wrong thing

00:15:35.199 --> 00:15:36.779
 and tie it wrongly

00:15:36.779 --> 00:15:37.099
 if they have

00:15:37.099 --> 00:15:37.719
 wrong thinking.

00:15:38.059 --> 00:15:38.819
 It doesn't say

00:15:38.819 --> 00:15:39.439
 that the church

00:15:39.439 --> 00:15:40.279
 is going to be raptured.

00:15:40.319 --> 00:15:41.000
 He said the saints

00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:41.459
 are going to be

00:15:41.460 --> 00:15:41.879
 raptured.

00:15:42.920 --> 00:15:43.540
 He's talking

00:15:43.540 --> 00:15:44.740
 about all those

00:15:44.740 --> 00:15:45.300
 that have called

00:15:45.300 --> 00:15:45.980
 upon the name

00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:46.500
 of the Lord.

00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:47.639
 You say preacher

00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:48.820
 you're arguing

00:15:48.820 --> 00:15:50.180
 minor distinctions.

00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:50.840
 No I'm arguing

00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:51.820
 something very important

00:15:51.820 --> 00:15:54.840
 because it changes

00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:55.759
 our perspective.

00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:56.740
 I want you to

00:15:56.740 --> 00:15:57.440
 understand that

00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:57.900
 you don't have to

00:15:57.900 --> 00:15:58.400
 be a member

00:15:58.400 --> 00:15:58.900
 of a church

00:15:58.900 --> 00:15:59.519
 to go to heaven.

00:16:01.400 --> 00:16:02.120
 Now if you're

00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:02.879
 ready for heaven

00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:03.379
 you ought to be

00:16:03.379 --> 00:16:03.680
 a member

00:16:03.680 --> 00:16:04.280
 of a church.

00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:07.560
 That's two

00:16:07.560 --> 00:16:08.379
 different things.

00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:10.700
 One is obedience

00:16:10.700 --> 00:16:11.720
 the other

00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:12.419
 is preparedness.

00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:13.539
 Both of which

00:16:13.539 --> 00:16:14.240
 we have

00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:15.679
 both practically

00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:17.399
 in our walk

00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:18.860
 as we practice

00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:19.759
 the things

00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:20.340
 that Jesus

00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:21.000
 would have us

00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:21.340
 do.

00:16:22.419 --> 00:16:22.840
 That's

00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:23.460
 sanctification

00:16:23.460 --> 00:16:24.419
 it's part of

00:16:24.419 --> 00:16:25.340
 being obedient

00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:26.679
 to the Lord.

00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:29.179
 But notice here

00:16:29.179 --> 00:16:29.919
 he uses another

00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:31.279
 phrase in here

00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:31.919
 that's important

00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:32.679
 as we define

00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:33.519
 some things here.

00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:34.200
 He says

00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:35.039
 concerning them

00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:36.439
 which are asleep.

00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:39.539
 Which are asleep.

00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:40.339
 This was a

00:16:40.339 --> 00:16:41.319
 common expression

00:16:41.319 --> 00:16:42.079
 that was used

00:16:42.079 --> 00:16:42.719
 to express

00:16:42.719 --> 00:16:43.279
 that someone

00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:43.860
 had died.

00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:46.259
 You know

00:16:46.259 --> 00:16:46.480
 you say

00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:47.919
 it's important

00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:48.539
 because

00:16:48.539 --> 00:16:50.339
 even in Paul's

00:16:50.339 --> 00:16:51.000
 day this was

00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:51.679
 an expression

00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:52.579
 that was used.

00:16:53.779 --> 00:16:53.959
 You know

00:16:53.959 --> 00:16:55.019
 secular writers

00:16:55.019 --> 00:16:55.980
 would write

00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:57.120
 about life

00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:57.779
 and death

00:16:57.779 --> 00:16:58.059
 and what

00:16:58.059 --> 00:16:58.539
 would happen.

00:16:59.299 --> 00:16:59.500
 You know

00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:00.179
 you take a look

00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:00.899
 here you find

00:17:00.899 --> 00:17:02.179
 a one here

00:17:02.179 --> 00:17:02.919
 that says

00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:03.699
 hopes are among

00:17:03.699 --> 00:17:04.159
 the living

00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:04.680
 and the dead

00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:05.140
 are without

00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:05.540
 hope.

00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:07.820
 Another one

00:17:07.820 --> 00:17:08.140
 of his

00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:09.019
 in the days

00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:09.460
 of Paul

00:17:09.460 --> 00:17:10.100
 wrote this

00:17:10.100 --> 00:17:11.660
 suns may

00:17:11.660 --> 00:17:12.440
 set and rise

00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:12.740
 again

00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:13.140
 but we

00:17:13.140 --> 00:17:13.640
 when once

00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:14.200
 our belief

00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:15.080
 light goes

00:17:15.080 --> 00:17:15.480
 down

00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:16.240
 must sleep

00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:16.820
 an endless

00:17:16.820 --> 00:17:17.320
 night.

00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:18.860
 You know

00:17:18.860 --> 00:17:19.240
 what even

00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:19.800
 the secular

00:17:19.800 --> 00:17:20.500
 writers use

00:17:20.500 --> 00:17:21.220
 this terminology

00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:21.980
 of sleep

00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:22.640
 referring to

00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:22.940
 death.

00:17:24.320 --> 00:17:24.840
 You say

00:17:24.840 --> 00:17:25.800
 why is that

00:17:25.800 --> 00:17:26.180
 important

00:17:26.180 --> 00:17:26.720
 because some

00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.460
 people confuse

00:17:27.460 --> 00:17:27.860
 this.

00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:30.240
 There's a lot

00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:30.940
 of confusion

00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:31.820
 all over

00:17:31.820 --> 00:17:32.480
 Lincoln about

00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:32.880
 this.

00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:35.259
 I'm going

00:17:35.259 --> 00:17:35.779
 to spend

00:17:35.779 --> 00:17:36.400
 just a moment

00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:36.720
 here because

00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.019
 I think it's

00:17:37.019 --> 00:17:37.460
 important because

00:17:37.460 --> 00:17:37.660
 you're going

00:17:37.660 --> 00:17:38.019
 to come into

00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:39.060
 people who

00:17:39.060 --> 00:17:39.500
 have some

00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:40.519
 false doctrines

00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.000
 about what

00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:41.300
 this is

00:17:41.300 --> 00:17:41.960
 talking about

00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.060
 because when

00:17:44.060 --> 00:17:44.500
 he's talking

00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:45.380
 about sleeping

00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:46.100
 it's important

00:17:46.100 --> 00:17:46.519
 to understand

00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:46.920
 what's he

00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:48.660
 saying and

00:17:48.660 --> 00:17:49.380
 how we

00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:50.120
 reference that

00:17:50.120 --> 00:17:50.840
 from scripture.

00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:52.200
 You know

00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:52.980
 look back over

00:17:52.980 --> 00:17:53.680
 to John 11

00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:54.240
 for a moment

00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.200
 because if

00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:56.380
 you're going

00:17:56.380 --> 00:17:56.940
 to define

00:17:56.940 --> 00:17:57.540
 something from

00:17:57.540 --> 00:17:58.080
 scripture you

00:17:58.080 --> 00:17:58.500
 need to go

00:17:58.500 --> 00:17:59.000
 back and look

00:17:59.000 --> 00:17:59.440
 at scripture.

00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:00.940
 Jesus if

00:18:00.940 --> 00:18:01.460
 you remember

00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:02.380
 John 11

00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:05.080
 Jesus

00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:06.860
 had been

00:18:06.860 --> 00:18:07.779
 called because

00:18:07.779 --> 00:18:08.620
 Lazarus had

00:18:08.620 --> 00:18:08.980
 died.

00:18:09.340 --> 00:18:10.120
 In John 11

00:18:10.120 --> 00:18:10.900
 in verse 11

00:18:10.900 --> 00:18:11.500
 you'll notice

00:18:11.500 --> 00:18:12.039
 there that he

00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:13.039
 says this

00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:13.640
 Jesus says

00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:14.360
 our friend

00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:15.320
 Lazarus

00:18:15.320 --> 00:18:15.920
 does what?

00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:17.519
 Sleepeth.

00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:20.039
 Which they

00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:20.400
 were a little

00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:21.259
 confused because

00:18:21.259 --> 00:18:21.960
 Jesus is he

00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:22.519
 just sleeping

00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:23.059
 or what's

00:18:23.059 --> 00:18:23.519
 going on

00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:23.820
 here?

00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:24.720
 Now look

00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:25.100
 down at

00:18:25.100 --> 00:18:25.880
 verse 14.

00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.440
 Jesus says

00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:28.940
 I don't want

00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:29.220
 you to be

00:18:29.220 --> 00:18:29.800
 ignorant about

00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:30.140
 what I

00:18:30.140 --> 00:18:30.440
 said.

00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:31.400
 Lazarus

00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:32.020
 is what?

00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:33.640
 Dead.

00:18:33.900 --> 00:18:34.560
 So now we

00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:35.000
 have a

00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:35.360
 biblical

00:18:35.360 --> 00:18:36.140
 definition

00:18:36.140 --> 00:18:36.940
 and use

00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:37.200
 of the

00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:37.620
 term

00:18:37.620 --> 00:18:39.060
 that Jesus

00:18:39.060 --> 00:18:39.760
 used and

00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:40.100
 Jesus

00:18:40.100 --> 00:18:40.800
 defined it.

00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:41.260
 That's

00:18:41.260 --> 00:18:41.680
 important.

00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:43.080
 To say

00:18:43.080 --> 00:18:43.600
 how is it

00:18:43.600 --> 00:18:44.020
 used and

00:18:44.020 --> 00:18:44.400
 how is it

00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:44.800
 defined?

00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:46.080
 Paul uses

00:18:46.080 --> 00:18:46.940
 this idiom

00:18:46.940 --> 00:18:47.680
 referring to

00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:48.280
 death as

00:18:48.280 --> 00:18:48.660
 sleep.

00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:49.640
 It doesn't

00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:50.220
 in any way

00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:50.960
 support that

00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.520
 idea of

00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:52.220
 soul sleep.

00:18:52.540 --> 00:18:52.960
 There's a lot

00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:53.300
 of people

00:18:53.300 --> 00:18:53.880
 today right

00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:54.160
 here in

00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:54.580
 Lincoln that

00:18:54.580 --> 00:18:55.040
 believe in

00:18:55.040 --> 00:18:55.740
 soul sleep.

00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:56.300
 The entire

00:18:56.300 --> 00:18:56.880
 church has

00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:57.140
 a big

00:18:57.140 --> 00:18:57.960
 center right

00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:58.200
 on the

00:18:58.200 --> 00:18:58.620
 south side

00:18:58.620 --> 00:18:59.260
 right in

00:18:59.260 --> 00:18:59.480
 the middle

00:18:59.480 --> 00:18:59.780
 of town

00:18:59.780 --> 00:19:00.220
 over here.

00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:01.020
 They believe

00:19:01.020 --> 00:19:01.900
 that the

00:19:01.900 --> 00:19:02.640
 present dead

00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:03.220
 in Christ

00:19:03.220 --> 00:19:03.640
 are in a

00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:04.000
 state of

00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:04.460
 suspended

00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:05.240
 animation

00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:05.960
 waiting for

00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:06.700
 a resurrection

00:19:06.700 --> 00:19:07.580
 to consciousness.

00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:08.420
 You know

00:19:08.420 --> 00:19:08.600
 what?

00:19:08.620 --> 00:19:09.100
 They miss

00:19:09.100 --> 00:19:09.540
 a lot of

00:19:09.540 --> 00:19:10.000
 things.

00:19:11.280 --> 00:19:11.700
 Because

00:19:11.700 --> 00:19:12.480
 Jesus clearly

00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:13.280
 says sleep

00:19:13.280 --> 00:19:13.960
 is dead.

00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:15.540
 Now notice

00:19:15.540 --> 00:19:16.240
 something because

00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:17.000
 dead doesn't

00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:17.900
 mean that

00:19:17.900 --> 00:19:18.700
 you're separated

00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:19.500
 from God

00:19:19.500 --> 00:19:20.580
 because notice

00:19:20.580 --> 00:19:21.100
 what Jesus

00:19:21.100 --> 00:19:21.540
 look at

00:19:21.540 --> 00:19:22.440
 Luke 22

00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.340
 Jesus is

00:19:23.340 --> 00:19:23.820
 looking at

00:19:23.820 --> 00:19:24.740
 that thief

00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:25.100
 on the

00:19:25.100 --> 00:19:25.540
 cross.

00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:27.280
 What

00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:27.740
 happened to

00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:28.180
 the thief

00:19:28.180 --> 00:19:28.480
 on the

00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:28.860
 cross?

00:19:30.860 --> 00:19:31.460
 He

00:19:31.460 --> 00:19:31.940
 dead.

00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:32.460
 Nobody

00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:32.960
 questioned

00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:33.360
 whether he

00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:33.740
 died.

00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:36.260
 Look what

00:19:36.260 --> 00:19:36.900
 Jesus said

00:19:36.900 --> 00:19:37.280
 unto him

00:19:37.280 --> 00:19:37.580
 in verse

00:19:37.580 --> 00:19:38.180
 43.

00:19:40.180 --> 00:19:40.840
 Verily I

00:19:40.840 --> 00:19:41.380
 say unto

00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:42.560
 thee you're

00:19:42.560 --> 00:19:42.900
 going to go

00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:43.560
 sleep for a

00:19:43.560 --> 00:19:44.240
 while before I

00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:44.540
 see you

00:19:44.540 --> 00:19:44.860
 again.

00:19:45.560 --> 00:19:45.740
 Is that

00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:46.080
 what Jesus

00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:46.420
 said?

00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:49.160
 Thou shalt be

00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:49.860
 with me today

00:19:49.860 --> 00:19:50.340
 in what?

00:19:51.520 --> 00:19:52.080
 Paradise.

00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:53.480
 Jesus said

00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:53.839
 if you're

00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:54.599
 dead

00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:56.480
 in Christ

00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:56.980
 if you

00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:57.859
 die in

00:19:57.859 --> 00:19:58.419
 Christ

00:19:58.419 --> 00:19:59.419
 you move

00:19:59.419 --> 00:19:59.799
 to the

00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:00.199
 presence

00:20:00.199 --> 00:20:00.639
 of the

00:20:00.639 --> 00:20:00.960
 Lord.

00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:04.559
 Now your

00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:05.279
 body is

00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:05.859
 sleeping and

00:20:05.859 --> 00:20:06.220
 resting.

00:20:07.220 --> 00:20:08.159
 Your body's

00:20:08.159 --> 00:20:08.819
 corruptible.

00:20:08.939 --> 00:20:09.299
 It's in the

00:20:09.299 --> 00:20:09.720
 grave.

00:20:10.439 --> 00:20:11.379
 But you are

00:20:11.379 --> 00:20:12.159
 fully alive.

00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:12.599
 I want you

00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:13.039
 to understand

00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:13.759
 your body

00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.339
 is not who

00:20:14.339 --> 00:20:14.919
 you are.

00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:17.279
 The Bible

00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:17.960
 makes it clear

00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:18.819
 this body's

00:20:18.819 --> 00:20:19.299
 going to go

00:20:19.299 --> 00:20:19.659
 away.

00:20:20.919 --> 00:20:21.440
 Matter of

00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:21.759
 fact the

00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:22.379
 promise in

00:20:22.379 --> 00:20:22.980
 1 Corinthians

00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:24.299
 15 is that

00:20:24.299 --> 00:20:24.559
 we're going

00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:25.299
 to be changed

00:20:25.299 --> 00:20:25.579
 we're going

00:20:25.579 --> 00:20:26.000
 to put on

00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:26.940
 incorruptible.

00:20:28.399 --> 00:20:29.539
 This body's

00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:29.759
 going to

00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:30.139
 corrupt.

00:20:31.220 --> 00:20:32.220
 It breaks

00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:32.779
 down it

00:20:32.779 --> 00:20:33.579
 falls apart

00:20:33.579 --> 00:20:34.220
 and it

00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:35.299
 finally dies.

00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:35.980
 That's just

00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:36.559
 the process

00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:36.819
 it's

00:20:36.819 --> 00:20:37.419
 corruptible.

00:20:38.419 --> 00:20:38.859
 But our

00:20:38.859 --> 00:20:39.460
 hope isn't

00:20:39.460 --> 00:20:39.720
 in the

00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.259
 corruptible

00:20:40.259 --> 00:20:40.779
 our hope

00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:41.200
 is in the

00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:42.079
 incorruptible

00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:42.839
 of the

00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:43.319
 resurrection

00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:44.740
 that Christ

00:20:44.740 --> 00:20:45.579
 promises to

00:20:45.579 --> 00:20:46.079
 those who

00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:46.740
 follow him.

00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:47.319
 Look over

00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:48.059
 to 2 Corinthians

00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:49.059
 chapter 5

00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:50.099
 2 Corinthians

00:20:50.099 --> 00:20:51.000
 chapter 5

00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:51.759
 you see here

00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.599
 that Paul

00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:53.259
 tells them

00:20:53.259 --> 00:20:53.859
 here in

00:20:53.859 --> 00:20:54.419
 verse 8

00:20:54.419 --> 00:20:54.799
 he says

00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:55.200
 we are

00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:55.460
 what?

00:20:56.099 --> 00:20:56.599
 Confident

00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.359
 I say

00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:00.419
 and willing

00:21:00.419 --> 00:21:01.200
 rather to be

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:01.839
 absent from

00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:02.379
 the body

00:21:02.379 --> 00:21:03.339
 and to be

00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:04.559
 present with

00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:05.659
 the Lord.

00:21:07.379 --> 00:21:07.940
 He says

00:21:07.940 --> 00:21:08.720
 wherefore we

00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:09.279
 labor that

00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:10.039
 whether present

00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:10.599
 or absent

00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:11.200
 we may be

00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:11.899
 accepted of

00:21:11.899 --> 00:21:12.119
 him.

00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:13.119
 In other words

00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:13.559
 he says

00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:14.899
 once you're

00:21:14.899 --> 00:21:15.519
 in Christ

00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:15.960
 it doesn't

00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:16.440
 matter whether

00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:17.000
 you're drawing

00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:17.659
 breath here

00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:18.300
 or you're

00:21:18.300 --> 00:21:18.560
 in the

00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:19.080
 presence of

00:21:19.080 --> 00:21:19.340
 heaven

00:21:19.340 --> 00:21:19.860
 you're

00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:20.460
 secure in

00:21:20.460 --> 00:21:20.920
 Christ.

00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:21.420
 What a

00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:21.860
 promise.

00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:22.500
 What a

00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:23.519
 perspective to

00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.019
 live by.

00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:25.800
 What a

00:21:25.800 --> 00:21:26.620
 focus that

00:21:26.620 --> 00:21:27.340
 we have

00:21:27.340 --> 00:21:28.519
 in that

00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:28.840
 and we

00:21:28.840 --> 00:21:29.519
 see here

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.400
 that Paul

00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:31.000
 tells them

00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:31.400
 here very

00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:31.860
 clearly

00:21:31.860 --> 00:21:32.620
 and he

00:21:32.620 --> 00:21:33.200
 clears this

00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:33.560
 up.

00:21:33.820 --> 00:21:34.259
 Notice what

00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:34.580
 he says

00:21:34.580 --> 00:21:35.360
 verse 14

00:21:35.360 --> 00:21:35.900
 back in our

00:21:35.900 --> 00:21:36.340
 text in

00:21:36.340 --> 00:21:37.200
 1 Thessalonians

00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.059
 for if we

00:21:38.059 --> 00:21:38.620
 believe that

00:21:38.620 --> 00:21:39.480
 Jesus died

00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:39.940
 and rose

00:21:39.940 --> 00:21:40.519
 again even

00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:41.019
 so them

00:21:41.019 --> 00:21:41.759
 which sleep

00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:42.420
 in Jesus

00:21:42.420 --> 00:21:43.660
 will God

00:21:43.660 --> 00:21:44.259
 bring with

00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:44.539
 him.

00:21:44.860 --> 00:21:45.019
 You know

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:45.440
 even he

00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:45.840
 tells the

00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:46.480
 Thessalonians

00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:46.819
 he says

00:21:46.819 --> 00:21:47.539
 now if

00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:47.960
 you were

00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:48.559
 having soul

00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:49.059
 sleep how

00:21:49.059 --> 00:21:49.460
 did Jesus

00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:49.860
 bring them

00:21:49.860 --> 00:21:50.160
 with him?

00:21:50.460 --> 00:21:50.840
 Jesus

00:21:50.840 --> 00:21:51.440
 says I'm

00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:51.620
 going to

00:21:51.620 --> 00:21:52.180
 bring the

00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:52.539
 saints

00:21:52.539 --> 00:21:53.660
 that have

00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:54.080
 died

00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:54.640
 with me.

00:21:56.259 --> 00:21:56.980
 Now this

00:21:56.980 --> 00:21:57.180
 is an

00:21:57.180 --> 00:21:57.960
 important picture

00:21:57.960 --> 00:21:58.860
 to understand.

00:21:59.700 --> 00:21:59.880
 You know

00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:00.539
 he will bring

00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:01.160
 them because

00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:01.880
 they're already

00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.319
 there.

00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:02.920
 They still

00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:03.360
 have the

00:22:03.360 --> 00:22:04.180
 hope of

00:22:04.180 --> 00:22:04.720
 the resurrection

00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:05.640
 of the body

00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:06.380
 the corruptible

00:22:06.380 --> 00:22:07.000
 that puts on

00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:07.780
 incorruptible.

00:22:08.260 --> 00:22:08.400
 You know

00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:09.120
 1 Corinthians

00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:10.200
 15 51

00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:10.880
 tells us

00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:11.260
 this he

00:22:11.260 --> 00:22:11.940
 says but

00:22:11.940 --> 00:22:12.620
 behold I

00:22:12.620 --> 00:22:13.040
 show you

00:22:13.040 --> 00:22:13.640
 a mystery

00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:14.360
 that we

00:22:14.360 --> 00:22:14.920
 shall not

00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:15.960
 all sleep

00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:17.680
 but we

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:18.380
 shall all

00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:18.800
 be

00:22:18.800 --> 00:22:20.060
 changed.

00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:20.620
 In other

00:22:20.620 --> 00:22:20.900
 words he

00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:21.300
 says there's

00:22:21.300 --> 00:22:21.460
 going to

00:22:21.460 --> 00:22:21.840
 be some

00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:22.100
 that are

00:22:22.100 --> 00:22:22.560
 alive

00:22:22.560 --> 00:22:24.700
 and there's

00:22:24.700 --> 00:22:24.960
 some that

00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:25.120
 are going

00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:25.440
 to go on

00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:25.780
 before.

00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:28.000
 But he

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:28.280
 said the

00:22:28.280 --> 00:22:28.800
 outcome is

00:22:28.800 --> 00:22:28.960
 going to

00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.220
 be the

00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:29.480
 same.

00:22:30.620 --> 00:22:31.220
 There's no

00:22:31.220 --> 00:22:31.660
 difference.

00:22:32.280 --> 00:22:33.000
 The outcome

00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:33.480
 is the

00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:33.800
 same.

00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:34.880
 Notice what

00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:35.340
 he says

00:22:35.340 --> 00:22:35.920
 here in

00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:36.420
 a moment

00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:36.759
 in the

00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:37.080
 twinkling

00:22:37.080 --> 00:22:37.440
 of an

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:37.779
 eye.

00:22:38.100 --> 00:22:38.400
 At the

00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.080
 last trump

00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:39.400
 for the

00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:39.660
 trump

00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:39.900
 shall

00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:40.300
 sound

00:22:40.300 --> 00:22:40.539
 and the

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:40.759
 dead

00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:40.980
 shall

00:22:40.980 --> 00:22:41.140
 be

00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:41.519
 raised

00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:42.960
 incorruptible

00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:44.180
 and we

00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:45.700
 shall be

00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:46.840
 changed.

00:22:47.060 --> 00:22:47.279
 You know

00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:47.620
 what some

00:22:47.620 --> 00:22:47.920
 of the

00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:48.259
 saints

00:22:48.259 --> 00:22:48.580
 being

00:22:48.580 --> 00:22:49.220
 alive

00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:50.220
 doesn't

00:22:50.220 --> 00:22:50.560
 change

00:22:50.560 --> 00:22:51.120
 anything

00:22:51.120 --> 00:22:51.560
 regarding

00:22:51.560 --> 00:22:52.000
 to those

00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:52.240
 who have

00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:52.519
 died.

00:22:54.660 --> 00:22:54.880
 You know

00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:55.539
 your promise

00:22:55.539 --> 00:22:56.140
 in Christ

00:22:56.140 --> 00:22:56.560
 is the

00:22:56.560 --> 00:22:56.960
 same

00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:58.940
 in this

00:22:58.940 --> 00:22:59.480
 life as

00:22:59.480 --> 00:22:59.880
 the next.

00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:01.940
 The promise

00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:02.640
 we have

00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:03.200
 is real.

00:23:03.779 --> 00:23:04.420
 Notice how

00:23:04.420 --> 00:23:05.039
 Paul puts

00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:05.319
 it here.

00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:05.980
 Look down

00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:06.359
 at verse

00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:07.460
 14 or

00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:08.220
 verse 15

00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:08.420
 here.

00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:08.700
 He says,

00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:09.119
 For this

00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:09.579
 we say

00:23:09.579 --> 00:23:10.079
 unto you

00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:11.000
 by the

00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.079
 word of

00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:12.819
 the Lord

00:23:12.819 --> 00:23:14.319
 that we

00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:14.740
 which are

00:23:14.740 --> 00:23:15.299
 alive and

00:23:15.299 --> 00:23:15.920
 remain under

00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:16.319
 the coming

00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:16.559
 of the

00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:16.940
 Lord shall

00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:17.599
 not prevent

00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:18.079
 them which

00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:18.980
 are asleep.

00:23:19.379 --> 00:23:19.579
 You know?

00:23:21.420 --> 00:23:22.299
 Paul uses

00:23:22.299 --> 00:23:22.819
 the term

00:23:22.819 --> 00:23:23.480
 we because

00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:23.680
 you know

00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:24.240
 why he uses

00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:24.680
 we here?

00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:24.980
 He says

00:23:24.980 --> 00:23:25.480
 Paul's still

00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:25.839
 alive.

00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:27.619
 He says

00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:28.200
 all those

00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:28.420
 that are

00:23:28.420 --> 00:23:28.720
 going to be

00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:29.240
 alive are

00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:29.559
 the we.

00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:31.299
 We that

00:23:31.299 --> 00:23:31.859
 are alive

00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:32.379
 and remain

00:23:32.379 --> 00:23:32.700
 aren't going

00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:33.039
 to hinder

00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:33.519
 those who

00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:33.799
 have already

00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:34.379
 gone before.

00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.920
 He ties

00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:37.779
 that reality

00:23:37.779 --> 00:23:38.480
 for us.

00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:38.839
 It's the

00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:39.159
 we.

00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:40.119
 He includes

00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:41.019
 himself but

00:23:41.019 --> 00:23:41.819
 along with

00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:42.559
 all believers

00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:43.359
 alive at

00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:43.799
 the coming

00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:44.460
 the return

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:44.779
 of the

00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:45.099
 Lord.

00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:46.159
 Will not

00:23:46.159 --> 00:23:46.680
 prevent.

00:23:46.819 --> 00:23:47.159
 That's not

00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:47.639
 to hinder

00:23:47.639 --> 00:23:48.200
 the Lord's

00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:48.859
 promise of

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:49.420
 resurrection.

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:50.440
 When the

00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:50.779
 Lord's

00:23:50.779 --> 00:23:51.960
 return he

00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:52.440
 will keep

00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:53.059
 his promise

00:23:53.059 --> 00:23:53.460
 to both

00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:54.279
 those alive

00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:54.559
 and to

00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:54.980
 those who

00:23:54.980 --> 00:23:55.539
 have died

00:23:55.539 --> 00:23:56.359
 and we

00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:56.740
 must

00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:57.859
 understand

00:23:57.859 --> 00:23:58.240
 that

00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:58.960
 perspective

00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.740
 that Christ

00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:00.279
 will come

00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:00.680
 again.

00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.480
 think about

00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:04.820
 what Jesus

00:24:04.820 --> 00:24:05.420
 told his

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:06.160
 disciples in

00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:06.740
 John chapter

00:24:06.740 --> 00:24:07.340
 14.

00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:08.840
 John 14

00:24:08.840 --> 00:24:09.299
 in verse

00:24:09.299 --> 00:24:09.799
 3 he

00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:10.259
 says this

00:24:10.259 --> 00:24:10.640
 and if I

00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:11.019
 go and

00:24:11.019 --> 00:24:11.480
 prepare a

00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:11.920
 place for

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:12.799
 you I

00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.380
 will what?

00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:15.259
 Come

00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:15.960
 again and

00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:16.480
 do what?

00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:18.980
 Receive you

00:24:18.980 --> 00:24:20.259
 unto myself

00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:21.220
 that where I

00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:21.900
 am there ye

00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:22.660
 may be also.

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.100
 He also

00:24:25.100 --> 00:24:25.680
 taught them

00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:26.400
 earlier John

00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.160
 chapter 5

00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:27.820
 verse 25

00:24:27.819 --> 00:24:28.700
 he says

00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:29.299
 verily verily

00:24:29.299 --> 00:24:29.819
 I say unto

00:24:29.819 --> 00:24:30.399
 you the hour

00:24:30.399 --> 00:24:30.960
 is coming

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:31.799
 and now

00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:32.500
 is when the

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:33.019
 dead shall

00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:33.399
 hear the

00:24:33.399 --> 00:24:33.960
 voice of

00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:34.299
 the Son

00:24:34.299 --> 00:24:34.819
 of God

00:24:34.819 --> 00:24:35.700
 that they

00:24:35.700 --> 00:24:37.419
 that hear

00:24:37.419 --> 00:24:38.599
 shall live.

00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:40.339
 You know

00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:40.919
 it's interesting

00:24:40.919 --> 00:24:41.399
 a little later

00:24:41.399 --> 00:24:42.019
 he displayed

00:24:42.019 --> 00:24:42.579
 this at

00:24:42.579 --> 00:24:43.099
 Lazarus

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:43.519
 grave.

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:45.779
 It tells

00:24:45.779 --> 00:24:46.159
 us this

00:24:46.159 --> 00:24:46.559
 in John

00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:46.879
 11

00:24:46.879 --> 00:24:47.720
 verse 43

00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:48.659
 it says

00:24:48.659 --> 00:24:49.240
 he cried

00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:49.599
 with a

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:50.460
 loud voice

00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:51.240
 Lazarus

00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:51.980
 come forth.

00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:53.700
 You know

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:54.259
 last time I

00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:54.519
 checked

00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:54.960
 there's a lot

00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:55.439
 of similarities

00:24:55.439 --> 00:24:55.879
 between a

00:24:55.879 --> 00:24:56.379
 loud voice

00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:56.839
 and a shout.

00:24:57.139 --> 00:24:57.500
 We see

00:24:57.500 --> 00:24:58.339
 that picture.

00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:01.180
 So when it

00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:01.720
 says that

00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:02.279
 Christ will

00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:03.000
 return with

00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:03.640
 a shout

00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:04.279
 notice what

00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:04.880
 it tells us

00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.759
 here in

00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:06.460
 verse 16

00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:06.759
 for the

00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:07.359
 Lord himself

00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:07.940
 shall descend

00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:08.420
 from heaven

00:25:08.420 --> 00:25:09.259
 with what

00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:10.640
 a shout

00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.539
 the voice

00:25:13.539 --> 00:25:13.819
 of the

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:14.420
 archangel

00:25:14.420 --> 00:25:14.920
 and with

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.279
 the trump

00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:15.819
 of God.

00:25:16.619 --> 00:25:16.819
 Now

00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:17.420
 there's a lot

00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:17.700
 of people

00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:18.240
 that speculate

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:18.680
 a lot of

00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:19.079
 this but I

00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:19.420
 think this

00:25:19.420 --> 00:25:19.960
 really has

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:20.420
 to tie

00:25:20.420 --> 00:25:21.079
 when you

00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:21.420
 see the

00:25:21.420 --> 00:25:21.859
 use of

00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:22.339
 trumpets

00:25:22.339 --> 00:25:22.599
 in the

00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:22.779
 Old

00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:23.160
 Testament

00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:23.579
 one of

00:25:23.579 --> 00:25:23.839
 them was

00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:24.279
 to call

00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:24.799
 assembly

00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:25.579
 and to

00:25:25.579 --> 00:25:26.299
 call forth.

00:25:26.299 --> 00:25:27.500
 Numbers

00:25:27.500 --> 00:25:28.259
 chapter 10

00:25:28.259 --> 00:25:28.700
 makes it

00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:29.119
 clear that

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:29.460
 they made

00:25:29.460 --> 00:25:29.940
 trumpets

00:25:29.940 --> 00:25:30.440
 specifically

00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:30.960
 for that

00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:31.399
 task.

00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:32.879
 To assemble

00:25:32.879 --> 00:25:33.399
 everybody

00:25:33.399 --> 00:25:33.819
 get everybody

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:34.460
 packed up

00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:34.680
 and say

00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:35.039
 get ready

00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:35.440
 to go.

00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:36.639
 And then

00:25:36.639 --> 00:25:37.059
 the trumpet

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:37.659
 sounds and

00:25:37.659 --> 00:25:37.980
 everybody

00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:38.500
 goes.

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:40.299
 This picture

00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:41.059
 here is a

00:25:41.059 --> 00:25:41.980
 military type

00:25:41.980 --> 00:25:43.039
 picture of

00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:43.839
 Christ coming

00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:44.519
 and gathering

00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:45.279
 his troops.

00:25:45.639 --> 00:25:46.159
 The leader

00:25:46.159 --> 00:25:47.079
 shouts

00:25:47.079 --> 00:25:48.940
 gives the

00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:49.519
 command

00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:50.480
 then the

00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:51.119
 archangel

00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:51.359
 you say

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:51.859
 why is the

00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:52.339
 archangel

00:25:52.339 --> 00:25:52.639
 well the

00:25:52.639 --> 00:25:53.279
 archangel is

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:53.559
 kind of

00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:54.000
 like the

00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:54.899
 platoon

00:25:54.899 --> 00:25:55.519
 sergeant

00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:56.319
 that turns

00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:56.720
 around to

00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.240
 everybody else

00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:57.799
 and repeats

00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:58.500
 the command

00:25:58.500 --> 00:25:59.279
 and then the

00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:00.220
 trumpet sounds

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:02.019
 the commander

00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:02.879
 has spoken

00:26:02.879 --> 00:26:04.099
 put it in

00:26:04.099 --> 00:26:04.559
 action

00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.839
 that's the

00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:07.420
 picture we

00:26:07.420 --> 00:26:08.000
 see here

00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:09.599
 is when

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:10.539
 Christ shouts

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:11.539
 it's a command

00:26:11.539 --> 00:26:12.379
 to move

00:26:12.379 --> 00:26:12.859
 forward

00:26:12.859 --> 00:26:14.440
 a command

00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.079
 to come

00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:15.960
 and he tells

00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:16.460
 them this

00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:16.879
 he says

00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:18.299
 and the dead

00:26:18.299 --> 00:26:18.839
 in Christ

00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:19.460
 shall rise

00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:19.960
 first

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.639
 in other words

00:26:20.639 --> 00:26:21.059
 he says

00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:21.519
 don't worry

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.059
 about those

00:26:22.059 --> 00:26:22.299
 that are

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:22.680
 asleep

00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:24.080
 because he

00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:24.380
 said when

00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:25.200
 Christ comes

00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:25.620
 with his

00:26:25.620 --> 00:26:26.039
 saints

00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:26.640
 he's going

00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:27.019
 to bring

00:26:27.019 --> 00:26:27.420
 them

00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:27.900
 who they

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:28.320
 are

00:26:28.320 --> 00:26:29.380
 and their

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:29.960
 resurrected

00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:30.580
 body

00:26:30.580 --> 00:26:30.920
 now

00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:32.299
 I want you

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:32.799
 to understand

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.299
 there's a lot

00:26:33.299 --> 00:26:33.799
 of speculation

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:34.500
 about this

00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:34.860
 but Paul

00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:35.400
 calls it a

00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:35.720
 mystery

00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:38.060
 in other words

00:26:38.060 --> 00:26:38.560
 we don't have

00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:39.240
 all the details

00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:39.820
 how God's

00:26:39.820 --> 00:26:40.160
 going to do

00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:40.440
 that

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:41.000
 there's a lot

00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:41.320
 of things

00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:41.720
 that God

00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:42.200
 tells us

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:42.500
 we have no

00:26:42.500 --> 00:26:42.920
 idea how

00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:43.460
 he did it

00:26:43.460 --> 00:26:45.860
 but we see

00:26:45.860 --> 00:26:46.400
 the effects

00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:46.980
 of it

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:48.740
 you know

00:26:48.740 --> 00:26:49.160
 today when

00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:49.560
 you breathe

00:26:49.560 --> 00:26:50.080
 air you see

00:26:50.080 --> 00:26:50.600
 the effects

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:51.200
 of what God

00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:51.380
 did

00:26:51.380 --> 00:26:51.779
 we have no

00:26:51.779 --> 00:26:52.160
 idea how

00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:52.740
 God spoke

00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.519
 creation into

00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:54.019
 existence

00:26:54.019 --> 00:26:54.779
 God doesn't

00:26:54.779 --> 00:26:55.160
 give us a

00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:55.960
 detailed plan

00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:56.800
 as well I

00:26:56.800 --> 00:26:57.259
 did this

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:57.580
 and this

00:26:57.580 --> 00:26:57.880
 and this

00:26:57.880 --> 00:26:58.220
 and this

00:26:58.220 --> 00:26:58.500
 and that

00:26:58.500 --> 00:26:58.980
 over there

00:26:58.980 --> 00:26:59.900
 God just

00:26:59.900 --> 00:27:00.920
 says I

00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:01.259
 did

00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:03.440
 you know when

00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:03.880
 it comes to

00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:04.500
 the resurrection

00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:05.680
 he tells us

00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:06.140
 I'm going

00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:06.580
 to do

00:27:06.580 --> 00:27:08.779
 this is going

00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:09.080
 to be the

00:27:09.080 --> 00:27:09.540
 result

00:27:09.540 --> 00:27:10.640
 there's going

00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:10.980
 to be the

00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:11.660
 bodies that

00:27:11.660 --> 00:27:12.380
 rise up

00:27:12.380 --> 00:27:12.920
 and they're

00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:13.400
 going to meet

00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:14.180
 themselves and

00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:14.560
 then we're all

00:27:14.560 --> 00:27:14.960
 going to go up

00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:15.240
 together

00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:15.820
 now what that

00:27:15.820 --> 00:27:16.340
 looks like I

00:27:16.340 --> 00:27:16.880
 have no idea

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.220
 you can

00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:19.960
 speculate all

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.420
 you want

00:27:20.420 --> 00:27:21.800
 and we'll

00:27:21.800 --> 00:27:22.340
 probably find

00:27:22.340 --> 00:27:22.780
 out we were

00:27:22.780 --> 00:27:23.240
 all wrong

00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:23.780
 but I can

00:27:23.780 --> 00:27:24.200
 tell you one

00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:24.480
 thing it's

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:24.660
 going to

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:24.940
 happen

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:25.560
 that's the

00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:26.180
 most important

00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:26.700
 part doesn't

00:27:26.700 --> 00:27:27.380
 matter how we

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:27.940
 want it to

00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:28.460
 happen or what

00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:29.000
 we think about

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:29.360
 it happening

00:27:29.360 --> 00:27:30.340
 the fact is

00:27:30.340 --> 00:27:30.940
 it's going to

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:31.280
 happen

00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:33.140
 this is the

00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:33.720
 truth this is

00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:34.480
 the reality

00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:36.100
 that we have

00:27:36.100 --> 00:27:36.640
 that this is

00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:37.340
 what we are

00:27:37.340 --> 00:27:38.580
 and then notice

00:27:38.580 --> 00:27:39.460
 he says first

00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:40.460
 they're going to

00:27:40.460 --> 00:27:41.560
 rise and then

00:27:41.560 --> 00:27:42.460
 look verse 17

00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:43.559
 then we which

00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:44.460
 are alive and

00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:45.380
 remain shall be

00:27:45.380 --> 00:27:46.100
 caught up together

00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:46.720
 with them in the

00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:48.059
 clouds we're going

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:48.860
 to be caught up

00:27:48.860 --> 00:27:49.720
 together in other

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:52.000
 words somehow

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:52.680
 they're going to

00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:53.600
 join the saints

00:27:53.600 --> 00:27:54.840
 that died with

00:27:54.840 --> 00:27:55.620
 the bodies that

00:27:55.620 --> 00:27:56.759
 come forth and

00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:57.480
 all of us that

00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:58.279
 remain if we're

00:27:58.279 --> 00:27:58.940
 alive at that

00:27:58.940 --> 00:28:00.059
 time we're all

00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:00.640
 going to go up

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.420
 back up together

00:28:01.420 --> 00:28:01.920
 and meet the

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.059
 Lord we're going

00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:04.620
 to meet him in

00:28:04.620 --> 00:28:05.519
 the air we're

00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:05.779
 going to be

00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:06.360
 caught up

00:28:06.360 --> 00:28:07.600
 together now

00:28:07.600 --> 00:28:07.880
 I'm going to

00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:08.259
 take a little

00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:09.220
 rabbit trail here

00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:09.559
 for a moment

00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:10.019
 because there's

00:28:10.019 --> 00:28:10.660
 spot we need to

00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:11.640
 clarify because

00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:12.200
 you ever heard

00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:12.900
 it seems to

00:28:12.900 --> 00:28:13.580
 be more popular

00:28:13.580 --> 00:28:14.259
 again today it

00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:15.039
 runs in cycles

00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:16.759
 there's a whole

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:17.680
 propaganda out

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:17.980
 there where

00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:18.319
 there's no

00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:18.880
 mention of

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:19.480
 rapture in

00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:19.880
 the Bible

00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:22.440
 have you heard

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.000
 anybody say

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.400
 something like

00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:24.640
 that you know

00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.059
 there's a lot

00:28:25.059 --> 00:28:25.539
 of things we

00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:27.000
 talk about that

00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:27.819
 are not mentioned

00:28:27.819 --> 00:28:28.740
 by that specific

00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:29.299
 term in the

00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:30.080
 Bible do you

00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:30.460
 know that

00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:31.259
 grandparents must

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:32.100
 not exist because

00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:32.940
 grandparents not

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:33.340
 used in the

00:28:33.340 --> 00:28:34.340
 Bible talks about

00:28:34.340 --> 00:28:34.960
 your father's

00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:36.480
 father but

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:36.960
 doesn't mention

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:37.740
 grandparents so

00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:37.980
 therefore

00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:38.740
 grandparents must

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:40.640
 not exist that's

00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:41.500
 a similar argument

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:42.960
 that they're

00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:44.119
 using they're

00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:44.700
 saying if that

00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:45.680
 particular word

00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.599
 isn't in there

00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:49.079
 but we all know

00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:49.799
 that your father's

00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:50.440
 father is what

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:52.180
 your grandfather

00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:52.900
 that's how we

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.680
 refer to it today

00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:54.299
 we don't call it

00:28:54.299 --> 00:28:54.960
 well how's your

00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:55.539
 father's father

00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:56.500
 today you know

00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:58.079
 my grandkids don't

00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.720
 come over and say

00:28:58.720 --> 00:28:59.480
 how's my father's

00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:00.200
 father they just

00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:00.720
 call me papa

00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.339
 we have other

00:29:02.339 --> 00:29:03.420
 theological terms

00:29:03.420 --> 00:29:03.740
 like the

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.140
 trinity

00:29:04.140 --> 00:29:07.039
 the concept of

00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.880
 the three in

00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:08.299
 one

00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:10.259
 you never find

00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:10.960
 the term trinity

00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:11.519
 in the Bible

00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:12.319
 but the principles

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:13.079
 behind it

00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:15.279
 are clearly there

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.559
 it's laid out

00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:18.079
 even though it's

00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:18.980
 not called that

00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:21.200
 in other words

00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:21.860
 their argument

00:29:21.860 --> 00:29:22.620
 is kind of mute

00:29:22.620 --> 00:29:23.259
 to say something

00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:23.839
 doesn't exist

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.559
 because it doesn't

00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:25.600
 appear because

00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:26.240
 let me give you a

00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:26.740
 little clue

00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:28.220
 the word rapture

00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:29.019
 comes from a

00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:29.819
 Latin word

00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:30.779
 from the same

00:29:30.779 --> 00:29:31.319
 word that's

00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:32.140
 translated from

00:29:32.140 --> 00:29:32.920
 the Greek here

00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:33.579
 caught up

00:29:33.579 --> 00:29:35.720
 in other words

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.160
 it's just a

00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:36.779
 different way of

00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:37.480
 expressing the

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:38.019
 same term

00:29:38.019 --> 00:29:40.400
 so in other

00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:41.000
 words it's really

00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:41.700
 kind of a mute

00:29:41.700 --> 00:29:42.440
 argument that

00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:43.100
 people make

00:29:43.100 --> 00:29:43.860
 but it's important

00:29:43.860 --> 00:29:45.100
 because sometimes

00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:45.839
 people get oh

00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.519
 yeah I don't see

00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:46.980
 that in there

00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:48.559
 it's like it's

00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:49.039
 an irrelevant

00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:50.200
 argument because

00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:51.100
 what it's talking

00:29:51.100 --> 00:29:52.220
 about is present

00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:53.339
 no different than

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:54.240
 trinity or even

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:54.799
 grandfather

00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:56.620
 it's not an

00:29:56.620 --> 00:29:57.480
 argument that would

00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:58.279
 make sense

00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:00.160
 but we're going

00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:00.759
 to be caught

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:01.740
 up you know

00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:02.880
 the Bible tells

00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:03.579
 us not to be

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:04.860
 deceived and

00:30:04.860 --> 00:30:05.819
 understand the

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.880
 reality that we're

00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:07.519
 going to be caught

00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:08.240
 up to meet him

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:08.779
 in the air

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:10.539
 as the dead in

00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:11.660
 Christ rise all

00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:12.220
 those that are

00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:12.839
 alive

00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.279
 now I want you

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:15.980
 to understand all

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:16.400
 those that are

00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.559
 alive in Christ

00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:18.420
 what does it mean

00:30:18.420 --> 00:30:19.240
 to be alive in

00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:20.259
 Christ it means

00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:20.960
 that you've called

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:22.000
 upon the Lord

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:23.940
 accepted what

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:25.019
 Christ has done

00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:26.700
 for you called

00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:27.420
 upon him as

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:28.100
 your Savior

00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:30.480
 recognizing you're

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:32.120
 a sinner that's

00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:33.300
 under judgment

00:30:33.300 --> 00:30:34.400
 under the wrath

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.620
 of God and

00:30:35.620 --> 00:30:36.519
 call upon him

00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:37.380
 the one who

00:30:37.380 --> 00:30:38.060
 took your

00:30:38.060 --> 00:30:40.640
 place took the

00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:41.220
 wrath you

00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:41.860
 deserved and

00:30:41.860 --> 00:30:42.500
 put it upon

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:43.980
 himself that

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:44.620
 there's a moment

00:30:44.620 --> 00:30:45.480
 in time when you

00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:46.539
 recognize that and

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:47.820
 said I'm going to

00:30:47.820 --> 00:30:49.000
 call upon you I'm

00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:50.440
 going to make

00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:51.960
 reality to say

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.380
 Lord I trust what

00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:54.259
 you have done

00:30:54.259 --> 00:30:55.860
 will cover and

00:30:55.860 --> 00:30:56.259
 that you're going

00:30:56.259 --> 00:30:57.039
 to pardon me

00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:57.700
 because you've

00:30:57.700 --> 00:30:58.359
 taken care of

00:30:58.359 --> 00:30:59.039
 it that

00:30:59.039 --> 00:30:59.900
 pardon that we

00:30:59.900 --> 00:31:00.819
 have in Christ

00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:02.039
 this is a mystery

00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:02.960
 that Paul talks

00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:03.619
 about in 1

00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:04.559
 Corinthians 15

00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:06.079
 I show you a

00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:06.740
 mystery we shall

00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:07.680
 not all sleep but

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:08.379
 we shall all be

00:31:08.379 --> 00:31:09.500
 changed the

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.160
 rapture we're going

00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.319
 to be transformed

00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:12.299
 this resurrection

00:31:12.299 --> 00:31:13.980
 was mysterious

00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:15.160
 because it was a

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:15.920
 promise to all

00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:16.779
 those that believe

00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:17.599
 on the Lord Jesus

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.319
 Christ

00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:20.659
 you know look over

00:31:20.659 --> 00:31:21.720
 to 1 John for a

00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:21.980
 moment

00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:24.139
 1 John tells us

00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:24.839
 something here very

00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:25.679
 clear 1 John

00:31:25.679 --> 00:31:26.519
 chapter 3 and

00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:27.079
 verse 2

00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:29.019
 says this

00:31:29.019 --> 00:31:29.480
 beloved

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:32.460
 now when John's

00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:33.059
 talking to the

00:31:33.059 --> 00:31:33.619
 beloved he's

00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:34.579
 talking to those

00:31:34.579 --> 00:31:36.139
 that have called

00:31:36.139 --> 00:31:36.859
 upon the Lord

00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:39.720
 said beloved

00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:40.659
 now are we the

00:31:40.659 --> 00:31:41.500
 sons of God

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.279
 and it doth not

00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:42.980
 yet appear what

00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:43.740
 we shall be

00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:46.380
 for we know

00:31:46.380 --> 00:31:47.180
 that when he

00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:47.940
 shall what

00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:48.579
 appear

00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:50.599
 we shall be

00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:51.279
 like him

00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:51.859
 for sure we

00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:52.420
 shall see him

00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:53.079
 as he is

00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:54.259
 and every man

00:31:54.259 --> 00:31:55.079
 that hath this

00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:55.960
 hope in him

00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.440
 purifies himself

00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:58.559
 even as he

00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.039
 is pure

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:01.839
 you know what

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.400
 he says when

00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:03.039
 you understand

00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:03.519
 you're going to

00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:04.000
 meet your

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.099
 savior face to

00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:05.880
 face one day

00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.019
 he says it

00:32:08.019 --> 00:32:08.700
 changes the

00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:09.559
 perspective in

00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:10.220
 which you live

00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:10.880
 this life

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:12.099
 it changes how

00:32:12.099 --> 00:32:12.720
 you look at

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:13.160
 what's going to

00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:13.680
 come

00:32:13.740 --> 00:32:14.220
 I want you

00:32:14.220 --> 00:32:15.259
 understand what's

00:32:15.259 --> 00:32:15.980
 happening here

00:32:15.980 --> 00:32:17.339
 he's not talking

00:32:17.339 --> 00:32:18.079
 about the Lord

00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:19.640
 coming as Lord

00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:20.299
 and King

00:32:20.299 --> 00:32:21.519
 his first coming

00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:22.259
 came in two

00:32:22.259 --> 00:32:23.059
 elements he came

00:32:23.059 --> 00:32:23.740
 as a babe in

00:32:23.740 --> 00:32:24.299
 the manger and

00:32:24.299 --> 00:32:24.980
 it finished with

00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:27.599
 a on the cross

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:29.940
 you know what

00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:30.839
 his second coming

00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:31.799
 has two phases

00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:32.640
 the first is to

00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.000
 take us out

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.660
 all those that

00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:37.420
 have called upon

00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:38.660
 him because he's

00:32:38.660 --> 00:32:39.480
 going to set back

00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:40.440
 a timetable that

00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:41.240
 he declared back

00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:41.740
 in the book of

00:32:41.740 --> 00:32:42.079
 Daniel

00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:42.859
 it's going to be

00:32:42.859 --> 00:32:43.899
 reinstituted

00:32:43.899 --> 00:32:45.879
 that he

00:32:45.879 --> 00:32:46.719
 foresaw and

00:32:46.719 --> 00:32:48.279
 he prophesied

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:48.779
 what was going

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.279
 to happen

00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.039
 the time that

00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:52.459
 the Bible

00:32:52.459 --> 00:32:53.099
 talks about

00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:53.799
 is a time of

00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:54.579
 Jacob's trouble

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:54.979
 now we don't

00:32:54.979 --> 00:32:55.439
 have time to

00:32:55.439 --> 00:32:55.839
 get into all

00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:56.240
 that this

00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:56.500
 morning

00:32:56.500 --> 00:32:58.139
 but I want

00:32:58.139 --> 00:32:58.299
 you to

00:32:58.299 --> 00:32:58.740
 understand

00:32:58.740 --> 00:32:59.159
 we're not

00:32:59.159 --> 00:32:59.799
 talking about

00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:00.319
 the time

00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:00.559
 or the

00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.179
 tribulation

00:33:01.179 --> 00:33:02.079
 or when

00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:02.779
 Christ comes

00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:03.419
 to establish

00:33:03.419 --> 00:33:04.019
 his kingdom

00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:05.159
 this is when

00:33:05.159 --> 00:33:05.819
 Christ says

00:33:05.819 --> 00:33:06.199
 I'm going to

00:33:06.199 --> 00:33:07.179
 remove everybody

00:33:07.180 --> 00:33:08.340
 from the wrath

00:33:08.340 --> 00:33:08.779
 that's about

00:33:08.779 --> 00:33:09.420
 to happen

00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:11.799
 if you read

00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:12.220
 about the

00:33:12.220 --> 00:33:12.820
 tribulation

00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:13.380
 in the Old

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:13.779
 Testament

00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:14.259
 and you read

00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:14.660
 about the

00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:15.200
 tribulation

00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:15.799
 in the book

00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:16.400
 of Revelation

00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.220
 and you read

00:33:18.220 --> 00:33:18.660
 about what

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:19.259
 Jesus says

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:19.660
 about the

00:33:19.660 --> 00:33:20.200
 tribulation

00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:20.660
 time

00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:21.460
 you ought to

00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:21.920
 say I don't

00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:22.340
 want to be

00:33:22.340 --> 00:33:22.660
 there

00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:26.539
 you know

00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:28.000
 it's amazing

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:28.460
 you have other

00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:29.100
 people who say

00:33:29.100 --> 00:33:30.120
 we're going to

00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:31.019
 prepare for the

00:33:31.019 --> 00:33:31.620
 tribulation

00:33:31.620 --> 00:33:32.360
 well I hope

00:33:32.360 --> 00:33:33.580
 you know the

00:33:33.580 --> 00:33:34.060
 problem is you're

00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:34.360
 supposed to be

00:33:34.360 --> 00:33:34.960
 prepared so you

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.460
 miss it

00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:40.259
 if you prepare

00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:41.039
 to participate

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:41.500
 you're in

00:33:41.500 --> 00:33:41.799
 trouble

00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:43.680
 there's a lot

00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:44.180
 of people that

00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:44.779
 try to prepare

00:33:44.779 --> 00:33:45.460
 to participate

00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:46.200
 you know what

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:46.539
 you got the

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.319
 wrong perspective

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:49.100
 you've got a

00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:49.980
 wrong understanding

00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:51.019
 because you ought

00:33:51.019 --> 00:33:51.700
 to be prepared

00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:52.299
 that you miss

00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:52.940
 it because I

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.340
 tell you what

00:33:53.340 --> 00:33:54.059
 it sounds a lot

00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:54.720
 better being up

00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:55.120
 there than it

00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:55.579
 will be down

00:33:55.579 --> 00:33:56.420
 here when you

00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:56.759
 read the

00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.319
 scripture trust

00:33:57.319 --> 00:33:57.620
 me what's

00:33:57.620 --> 00:33:58.079
 going on up

00:33:58.079 --> 00:33:58.400
 in heaven

00:33:58.400 --> 00:33:58.960
 is way better

00:33:58.960 --> 00:33:59.200
 than what's

00:33:59.200 --> 00:33:59.720
 going on down

00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:00.480
 here it ought

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:00.940
 to make us

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:01.779
 excited about

00:34:01.779 --> 00:34:02.400
 at the time

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:03.059
 of Jacob's

00:34:03.059 --> 00:34:03.640
 trouble God's

00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:04.019
 going to deal

00:34:04.019 --> 00:34:04.720
 with Israel

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.920
 but the

00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:07.519
 saints of

00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.159
 this age

00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:08.500
 will be

00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:08.920
 with him

00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:09.300
 forever

00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:10.519
 the encouragement

00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:11.940
 that perspective

00:34:11.940 --> 00:34:12.599
 about his

00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:13.300
 return will

00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:14.039
 bring comfort

00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:15.360
 to those

00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:16.139
 that believe

00:34:16.139 --> 00:34:16.800
 you know look

00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:17.240
 how Paul

00:34:17.240 --> 00:34:18.000
 concludes this

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.619
 passage look

00:34:18.619 --> 00:34:18.860
 down at

00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:19.440
 verse 18

00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:21.460
 notice what

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:22.119
 he tells us

00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.059
 in verse 18

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:23.800
 in our text

00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:24.860
 what's he tell

00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:25.240
 us does he

00:34:25.240 --> 00:34:26.740
 say well

00:34:26.740 --> 00:34:27.240
 if you think

00:34:27.240 --> 00:34:27.840
 so or hope

00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:28.420
 so he says

00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:29.699
 no wherefore

00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:31.240
 what comfort

00:34:31.240 --> 00:34:31.940
 one another

00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:32.860
 with these

00:34:32.860 --> 00:34:33.340
 words

00:34:33.340 --> 00:34:36.559
 I tell you

00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:36.940
 what there's

00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:37.760
 nothing comfortable

00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:38.480
 about going

00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:38.860
 into the

00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:39.380
 tribulation

00:34:39.380 --> 00:34:39.760
 but there's

00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.120
 a lot of

00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:40.720
 comfort saying

00:34:40.720 --> 00:34:41.360
 Jesus is

00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:41.579
 going to

00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:42.420
 come take

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:42.880
 us out of

00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:43.300
 here before

00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:43.660
 it really

00:34:43.660 --> 00:34:44.280
 gets crazy

00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:44.900
 there's

00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:45.500
 comfort in

00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:45.860
 having the

00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:46.680
 right perspective

00:34:46.680 --> 00:34:48.800
 of what's

00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.320
 to come

00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:49.960
 it's something

00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:50.340
 that ought to

00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:50.980
 comfort our

00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:51.480
 hearts

00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:52.100
 you know this

00:34:52.100 --> 00:34:52.660
 morning does

00:34:52.660 --> 00:34:53.559
 the idea

00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:54.960
 of what we're

00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:55.620
 talking about

00:34:55.620 --> 00:34:56.200
 here comfort

00:34:56.200 --> 00:34:56.700
 your heart

00:34:56.700 --> 00:34:57.320
 are you

00:34:57.320 --> 00:34:58.100
 encouraged

00:34:58.100 --> 00:34:58.820
 because you

00:34:58.820 --> 00:34:59.420
 know Christ

00:34:59.420 --> 00:34:59.820
 is going to

00:34:59.820 --> 00:35:00.240
 come take

00:35:00.240 --> 00:35:00.700
 the saints

00:35:00.700 --> 00:35:01.039
 out

00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:02.900
 that we're

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.059
 going to

00:35:03.059 --> 00:35:03.920
 be changed

00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:06.099
 we're going

00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:06.259
 to be

00:35:06.259 --> 00:35:06.840
 conformed

00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:07.179
 to his

00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:07.539
 image

00:35:07.539 --> 00:35:08.000
 this

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.599
 corruptible

00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:09.139
 body is

00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:09.320
 going to

00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:09.639
 put on

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:10.360
 incorruption

00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:10.960
 going to

00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:11.559
 experience

00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:12.500
 the reality

00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:13.079
 of eternal

00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:13.800
 life with

00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:14.079
 him

00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:14.599
 we're going

00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:15.259
 to experience

00:35:15.259 --> 00:35:15.800
 eternity

00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:16.420
 with an

00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:16.779
 eternal

00:35:16.779 --> 00:35:17.320
 God

00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:18.159
 it encourages

00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:18.699
 me to

00:35:18.699 --> 00:35:19.400
 realize that

00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:19.960
 Paul's

00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:20.460
 telling us

00:35:20.460 --> 00:35:21.239
 to remind

00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:21.840
 one another

00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:22.340
 that this

00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:23.019
 life with

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:23.420
 all its

00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:23.960
 pains

00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:24.980
 all its

00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:25.500
 sorrows

00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:26.000
 all its

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:26.599
 problems

00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:28.279
 is just

00:35:28.279 --> 00:35:28.699
 temporary

00:35:28.699 --> 00:35:29.480
 he tells

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:29.799
 us to

00:35:29.799 --> 00:35:30.259
 find our

00:35:30.259 --> 00:35:30.759
 hope and

00:35:30.759 --> 00:35:31.159
 comfort

00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:32.539
 and our

00:35:32.539 --> 00:35:33.219
 encouragement

00:35:33.219 --> 00:35:34.799
 in the

00:35:34.799 --> 00:35:35.079
 coming

00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:35.500
 Savior

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:36.279
 all this

00:35:36.279 --> 00:35:36.939
 will pass

00:35:36.939 --> 00:35:39.000
 you know

00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:39.599
 this morning

00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:40.659
 I want you

00:35:40.659 --> 00:35:41.899
 to remember

00:35:41.899 --> 00:35:42.299
 the Lord

00:35:42.299 --> 00:35:42.759
 is coming

00:35:42.759 --> 00:35:43.359
 does that

00:35:43.359 --> 00:35:43.939
 comfort your

00:35:43.939 --> 00:35:44.279
 heart

00:35:44.279 --> 00:35:44.799
 or does

00:35:44.799 --> 00:35:45.339
 that concern

00:35:45.339 --> 00:35:45.599
 you

00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.039
 because if

00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:46.239
 you don't

00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:46.539
 know the

00:35:46.539 --> 00:35:46.879
 Lord is

00:35:46.879 --> 00:35:47.339
 your Savior

00:35:47.339 --> 00:35:47.739
 it ought to

00:35:47.739 --> 00:35:48.379
 concern you

00:35:48.379 --> 00:35:49.059
 because you're

00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:49.739
 not prepared

00:35:49.739 --> 00:35:50.259
 you know

00:35:50.259 --> 00:35:50.659
 today

00:35:50.659 --> 00:35:52.079
 we can be

00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:52.779
 encouraged

00:35:52.779 --> 00:35:54.779
 and comforted

00:35:54.779 --> 00:35:55.579
 at the reality

00:35:55.579 --> 00:35:55.919
 of his

00:35:55.919 --> 00:35:56.239
 coming

00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:58.459
 if you're

00:35:58.459 --> 00:35:59.059
 prepared

00:35:59.059 --> 00:36:01.519
 for it

00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:03.059
 because it's

00:36:03.059 --> 00:36:03.339
 coming

00:36:03.339 --> 00:36:04.019
 whether you're

00:36:04.019 --> 00:36:04.579
 prepared or

00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:05.019
 not it's

00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:05.339
 coming

00:36:05.339 --> 00:36:06.039
 the day to

00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:06.539
 be prepared

00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:07.119
 is now

00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:09.339
 to serve

00:36:09.339 --> 00:36:09.779
 the Lord

00:36:09.779 --> 00:36:12.139
 are you

00:36:12.139 --> 00:36:12.959
 prepared or

00:36:12.959 --> 00:36:13.199
 are you

00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:14.119
 fearful when

00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:14.459
 you think

00:36:14.459 --> 00:36:14.819
 about his

00:36:14.819 --> 00:36:15.159
 coming

00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:15.579
 you know

00:36:15.579 --> 00:36:15.899
 the Bible

00:36:15.899 --> 00:36:16.419
 says it's

00:36:16.419 --> 00:36:16.859
 a fearful

00:36:16.859 --> 00:36:17.459
 thing to

00:36:17.459 --> 00:36:17.959
 fall in

00:36:17.959 --> 00:36:18.539
 the hands

00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:19.279
 of God

00:36:19.279 --> 00:36:19.839
 to face

00:36:19.839 --> 00:36:20.259
 judgment

00:36:20.259 --> 00:36:20.959
 where are

00:36:20.959 --> 00:36:21.479
 you today

00:36:21.479 --> 00:36:23.739
 do you

00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:24.419
 find comfort

00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:26.940
 or concern

00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:28.780
 in what's

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:29.240
 to come

00:36:29.240 --> 00:36:30.820
 his heads

00:36:30.820 --> 00:36:31.240
 are bowed

00:36:31.240 --> 00:36:31.519
 and eyes

00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:31.900
 are closed

00:36:31.900 --> 00:36:32.340
 this morning

00:36:32.340 --> 00:36:33.059
 what about

00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:33.659
 you today

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.220
 are you

00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:34.680
 willing to

00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:35.099
 say Lord

00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:35.400
 I'm going

00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:35.740
 to get on

00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:36.240
 board with

00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:36.599
 what you

00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:36.940
 want

00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:39.000
 Lord I

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:39.680
 know

00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:40.639
 beyond a

00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:41.079
 shadow of

00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:41.480
 a doubt

00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:41.840
 that I

00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:42.340
 know I've

00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:42.940
 trusted you

00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:43.480
 as Savior

00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:44.460
 at that

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:44.840
 moment

00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:45.619
 locks in

00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:46.000
 no matter

00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.500
 whether I

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:47.780
 live this

00:36:47.780 --> 00:36:48.360
 life when

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:48.920
 I'm alive

00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:49.200
 when you

00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:49.559
 come

00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:50.380
 or if I

00:36:50.380 --> 00:36:50.840
 die I

00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:51.139
 know I'll

00:36:51.139 --> 00:36:51.500
 just go to

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:51.820
 be with

00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:52.099
 you

00:36:52.099 --> 00:36:52.840
 maybe you're

00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:53.260
 here today

00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:53.539
 and just

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:53.740
 need

00:36:53.739 --> 00:36:54.199
 encouraged

00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:54.659
 with the

00:36:54.659 --> 00:36:55.199
 trials of

00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:55.659
 this life

00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:56.199
 realizing

00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:56.619
 that they

00:36:56.619 --> 00:36:57.399
 will pass

00:36:57.399 --> 00:36:59.139
 that we

00:36:59.139 --> 00:36:59.419
 have a

00:36:59.419 --> 00:36:59.979
 far greater

00:36:59.979 --> 00:37:00.559
 promise

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:01.239
 whatever the

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:01.719
 need might

00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:02.059
 be

00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:03.599
 what about

00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:04.159
 you today

00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:04.419
 heavenly

00:37:04.419 --> 00:37:04.799
 fathers

00:37:04.799 --> 00:37:05.199
 we just

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:05.559
 take a

00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:05.819
 moment

00:37:05.819 --> 00:37:06.359
 here to

00:37:06.359 --> 00:37:07.139
 have an

00:37:07.139 --> 00:37:07.619
 opportunity

00:37:07.619 --> 00:37:08.539
 to respond

00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:08.839
 to the

00:37:08.839 --> 00:37:09.239
 truth of

00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:09.659
 your word

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:10.059
 Lord we

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:10.459
 pray just

00:37:10.459 --> 00:37:10.719
 have your

00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:11.099
 hand upon

00:37:11.099 --> 00:37:11.679
 each one

00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:13.059
 Lord you

00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:13.519
 know each

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:13.819
 heart

00:37:13.819 --> 00:37:14.379
 each life

00:37:14.379 --> 00:37:14.919
 here today

00:37:14.919 --> 00:37:17.019
 you know

00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:17.779
 exactly where

00:37:17.779 --> 00:37:18.239
 each one

00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:18.639
 is with

00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:18.979
 you

00:37:18.979 --> 00:37:20.539
 Lord I

00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:20.879
 pray to

00:37:20.879 --> 00:37:21.179
 you just

00:37:21.179 --> 00:37:21.859
 stir hearts

00:37:21.859 --> 00:37:22.439
 today to

00:37:22.439 --> 00:37:23.119
 realize the

00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:23.799
 importance of

00:37:23.799 --> 00:37:24.199
 not only

00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:24.759
 having the

00:37:24.759 --> 00:37:25.139
 comfort

00:37:25.139 --> 00:37:26.579
 but Lord

00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:26.980
 also

00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:27.619
 understanding

00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:28.440
 the necessity

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:30.900
 of being

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:31.799
 prepared with

00:37:31.799 --> 00:37:32.099
 you

00:37:32.099 --> 00:37:33.460
 and Lord we

00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:34.099
 ask all

00:37:34.099 --> 00:37:34.699
 these things

00:37:34.699 --> 00:37:35.000
 in your

00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:35.779
 precious name

00:37:35.779 --> 00:37:37.759
 as the

00:37:37.759 --> 00:37:38.400
 piano plays

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:38.839
 what about

00:37:38.839 --> 00:37:39.199
 you

00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:40.000
 today

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.679
 maybe you

00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:40.960
 need to

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.380
 spend some

00:37:41.380 --> 00:37:41.859
 time with

00:37:41.859 --> 00:37:42.139
 the Lord

00:37:42.139 --> 00:37:42.559
 today

00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:45.019
 is there

00:37:45.019 --> 00:37:45.380
 something the

00:37:45.380 --> 00:37:46.000
 Lord's speaking

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.619
 to you about

00:37:46.619 --> 00:37:48.799
 need that

00:37:48.799 --> 00:37:49.400
 you have

00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:48.599
 a need

00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:48.940
 that you

00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:49.400
 have

00:37:49.400 --> 00:38:11.480
 a need