Book of 1 Corinthians - Ch. 15, Vs. 31-58 (02/25/2001)

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We are ready to start. I had told you that I would go back to chapter 14 for this

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Sunday, but I got here and found out that my printer did not print it correctly.

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It was about out of ink. So come to chapter 15, verse 31. I protest by your rejoicing in which

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I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. I die daily. Bill, what does he mean by I die daily?

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That he suffers every day for the sins that he has done. That he relies on the flesh every day.

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Alright. He dies to the flesh every day.

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This is a continual battle that is going on. 1531.

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In Romans 6 and 3 we find, No you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death.

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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the

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Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. This is a daily walk.

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From the time you wake in the morning to you go to sleep at night.

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It is not an easy walk. It is a battle.

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But we are all being drawn closer to him by the battle. 32.

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If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage to me, if the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

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What does he mean by the beasts at Ephesus, David? The gladiator games,

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I suppose, where they fought the beasts. Well, it says he fought.

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Somebody else give me an input. He described the beasts as his opposition to the church at Ephesus, who were,

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I suppose, against all the fight against the beast. Proclamation of the word in an argument, almost.

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And he called these people beasts. Being baptized with Christ in his death and resurrection is a tremendous fact.

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That is something that we should not treat lightly. Let us not reduce it to some water baptism of service that would be meaningless.

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Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness and sin not.

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For some have not known the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. He is talking to the

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Corinthian church, that some in the church apparently are not saved.

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Or if they are, they are just saved and that is all. Awake to righteousness and sin not.

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If we awake to righteousness, Dennis, what does that mean?

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It is a realization of what

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Christ has done for us. All right. And sin not.

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Clarence, what do we mean here? Well, I think what he is saying is, for us to try to live by the tradition that Jesus Christ has told us to live by, not in sin.

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And it could mean that some, if you are a

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Christian, any sins that you have done are already paid for by Christ. There is a process that we do not skip.

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All right. Bill, do you want to add anything? No more than that.

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What he says awake to righteousness is talking about being aware of what is righteousness.

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And if you are awake to righteousness, and you are trying not to engage in sin, the amount of sin that you engage in, as Christ says, what you do is already given.

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So it is best to be aware of what is right and wrong, be aware of it and do it.

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All right. Apparently there were some to whom he was writing directly that had slipped, that had come around to not walking in righteousness.

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See, at the end of this where he said, I speak as to the shame, that he is chastising some other people as well, and not just the ones who slipped, but the others who have not slipped, and are not trying to walk in the

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Lord's righteousness. It is pretty raucous, I think.

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That's right. Thank you, Greg. The Corinthian believers were being deceived by those who questioned the resurrection.

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Now, we don't face that much today, at least I don't think we do. Maybe it's because we're in this particular church.

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They were listening to those who had plenty to say, but no knowledge of God.

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You wanted to add something? But some men will say, how are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?

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Logical question. If you were completely ignorant, and took the position that there was no resurrection, and you're listening to someone expound resurrection, then you might ask, how are the dead raised?

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How can that be? And what kind of a body do they have? David, what do you think about that?

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Well, in fact, it's something to figure with. In an archipelagical society, it's not as hard to believe as you might think, because even a seed that's planted has to die, before it comes up and makes a beautiful plant.

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If you liken this body to the seed, and the resurrection body to a beautiful flower, plant it.

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Alright. Did you ever think about a grain of corn that goes into the ground, and it produces new life?

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The grain itself dies. There is a center, the kernel of life, that produces new life.

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But, until it can get its roots, it lives off of the old shell, just like we are living off of the old shell.

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We have the new life in us, but it is the old shell that nourishes and furnishes growth.

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And the new kernel, that that is going to be reborn, is not identical to the old.

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It may look like it, but it's not. So, we're going to be resurrected, but we will not be like, identical, with the old.

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It will resemble it, but it won't be like the old. I don't know what it'll be like.

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Paul says that we learn from nature that the bodies are not identical. They are the same, but not identical.

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36. Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.

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They discovered wheat that had been stored in a pyramid for thousands of years, kept dry.

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It was good, only it just hadn't been used. They planted some of it, and lo and behold, it sprouted new growth.

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The length of time makes no difference. It will reproduce itself.

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He says, Thou fool, if you had sense enough to see that the seed which is planted, there is a disintegration, continuity.

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A seed that is planted will produce seeds which are essentially the same as that seed, but the seed itself had died.

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So, our bodies die. They go into the grave. They disintegrate.

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When the Lord returns, he's going to call forth that body, and whether it's been mutilated, or whether it's been burned, or scattered, or what, it will come forth.

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But it will not be the same identical body. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat or some other grain.

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The seed, you see, does not provide itself with a new body. I think it's remarkable that the kernel of corn that we put in the ground, or wheat, or whatever it might be, does not provide itself with a new body.

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Think about it. When we sow the old body, it dies and goes into the grave.

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It does not provide itself a new body. Neither does the sower, but God provides it.

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But God giveth it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

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When it comes to the new body, the resurrected body, from where does it come?

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Dennis? When it comes to the new body, from where does it come?

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All right. Does he pattern it like the old? Dennis?

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To the naked eye it may look the same, but it is not the same. It might.

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We do not know what our glorified body will be like. All we know is that it will be like Christ.

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We're in an area that you can't answer. I understand that. But we can glean all of the information we have, and that's that it will be like Christ.

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Yes. Yes. Yes.

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Yes. It is the truth.

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If I understood your question. The old body dies, or is changed.

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The new body will be like Christ. Now, other than that,

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I cannot speculate. It will be similar to this body, but I have nothing to go on.

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Yes. Our body is what?

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Absolutely. That's right. I had a question.

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I'm 72 years old today. Or 78.

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I even forgot how old I am. I don't know if it's 78 or 87.

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We'll find out. It would be either one.

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I'm just kind of living on borrowed time. The old body dies.

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The new body will be like Christ. And I can't think of my question.

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I will not know. That's right. That's right. We will know each other.

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But as a family of God. Brothers, sisters, mothers, relation belongs on this earth.

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Not on the earth to come. All right.

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In 38, it says all of this pleases him. And to every seed his own body.

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We will be different. Yes. That's the person that questions something

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I haven't said before. Is that his own body referring to Jesus?

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His own body, God's own body? Or every seed his own body?

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It does say his own body. It says his own body. I wonder if that is something we can say.

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No. No. His is individual. How do

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I know that it's not capitalized? All flesh is not the same flesh.

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Now, Greg, how is it not the same flesh? But there's animal flesh, bird flesh.

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All right. This is a good verse to disprove evolution.

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But there is one kind of flesh of men, another of flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

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You didn't all come from the same seed someplace. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial.

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But the glory of the celestial is one. The glory of the terrestrial is another.

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What's the difference in terrestrial and celestial? Greg? Terrestrial is one.

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All right. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars.

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For one star differs from another star in glory. There's no two things exactly alike.

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In all of creation, there's nothing exactly alike.

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Can you... Bill, you're the scientist in the family.

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Can you mention two things that are exactly alike? Things that are put together what?

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We don't think of things that are made of matter.

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We don't think of things that are made of matter. All right. So also is the resurrection of the dead.

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It is sown in corruption, but is raised in incorruption. The same body.

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Bill and I die. We go into grave resurrection morning. We both get up. We don't look alike.

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But we are like Christ. How can it be like Christ, and yet everybody be different in the new body?

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David? We're all different here.

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We're all human. Different and different. We'll be different. I don't understand what you're talking about.

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Didn't he know it? Didn't know it. Well, he didn't know the concept of it.

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He certainly knew the presence of it. But he didn't have any life. But we know about that.

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We've been told about it. We know what that means. In dishonor, it is raised in glory.

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It is sown in weakness, but it's raised in power. Now, those of you that are mentally incapable or physically incapable of being above average, when you're resurrected, you're all going to be like Christ.

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We get glory, power, and beauty with the new body. I don't think of glory, power, and beauty in relation to this life.

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It is sown a natural body. It is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

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Which is stronger, a noun or an adjective? A noun.

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A noun. The verse reads, Sown a natural body.

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It is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

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Now, is natural a noun or an adjective? Alright.

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So the noun is stronger. It is raised a body. It is sown a body and raised a body.

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Now, the verse reads, Sown a natural body and raised a spiritual body.

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The verse does not accentuate natural and spiritual.

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There are those that argue that it does. And so it is written,

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The first man Adam was made a living soul. The last

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Adam was made a quickening spirit. Why quickening,

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Bill? Quickening means to be brought into a...

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The presence of God has to be in it. It's more than just being alive. It is being alive, but it's more than that.

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But I would kind of call it the soul of the spirit. Alright.

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Now, let me get to Joy's question first. Well, it's a statement.

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The question may be wrong, but quickening means to raise from death to life.

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Yes. Alright, the difference between soul and spirit, they are different.

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We have scripture that shows it. The soul is life. Pneuma. Pneuma.

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The spirit is the image of God. Every man has the spirit of God in him.

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Okay, so those who have done the living soul and the quickening spirit,

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I'd like to say, the living and soul are the synonyms in quickening and spirit would then be in a way synonymous.

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That's right, except quickening means alive spirit. Back to the old three -finger exercise,

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Adam had body, soul, and spirit. When he, in the day he ate of the tree, he would die.

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He didn't die physically, but he died separate from the spirit.

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The spirit has to be put in everybody. If he didn't, he could not judge anyone.

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Be like an animal without a spirit. By the way, the spirit goes back to God at death.

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Who gave it? God. In Ecclesiastes 12, 7,

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I believe it is, we go into the ground, our spirit goes back to God. That's out of everybody.

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Everybody has the spirit. If he didn't, then they could not be judged.

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So, if the spirit goes back to God, who gave it, they will spend eternity in hell without a spirit.

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Like an animal. How be it, that was not first which is supernatural, but that which is natural, and afterward, that which is spiritual.

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Now I remember my question. What is necessary for you to become a spiritual being?

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The very first thing that is necessary. Dennis? No, you're a spiritual.

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Well, we can go back further than that. Burge? Is it before the time when he was created?

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That's too far back. Would it be thought, reason, why?

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All right. What does it say in regard to baptism? You must first be what?

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If you're not born of water and the spirit, what's the water?

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The physical birth. You have to be born first before you can be a spiritual person.

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He says so right here. How be it, that was not first which is spiritual.

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You didn't come into this life spiritual, you came into this life carnal. Well, is it when we accepted

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Christ as our Savior, is that when? Or was it when we're talking about here? That's right. You were wedded to your spirit.

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Now, let me clear all of that up. We come into this world separated from God.

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Spiritual. We have this image of God, but we are not wedded to it.

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We have the carnal body, which is alive, the spiritual body, which is separate.

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Then at the moment of salvation, you're given a new life that comes wed to the spirit.

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When the spirit goes home, you go home. Those that are not spiritual, when they die, their spirit goes home, but they don't.

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Any questions? One question. When a baby is still surrounded by water, it's blessed with blood.

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It's a creation of God. So how does that fit with what you're saying? I think so.

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You're conceived in sin. Earthly.

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The second man is of the Lord from heaven. I think we understand that.

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The first man was made from garbage. The second man was made spiritual. As is the earthly, so are they that are earthly.

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And as the heavenly, so are they that are heavenly. Now, we're heavenly, but we're still in the garbage body.

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Right? And as we have borne the image of earthly, we shall also bear the image of heavenly.

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Is that right? What does it mean,

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Greg? All right.

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That's right. Now this

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I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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Now we get down to... Yes. Yes. No.

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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

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It's impossible. You cannot pass a law that causes it. It's absolutely impossible.

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But flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. To inherit something,

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John, means what? No. To inherit something.

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You can't receive it, what? All right.

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The flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

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Meaning that something can. All right.

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All right. The spirit... Yes. Yes.

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That's right. Now this

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I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom, and neither corruption.

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The old man will be put in the ground. It will be sown a natural body, but will come a spiritual body.

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It will be like the old body, but not exactly. Behold, I show you a mystery.

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What is a mystery? Greg? All right.

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Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed.

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Now, how can we be changed if we haven't died? It's a mystery, isn't it?

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It's a miracle. It must exist.

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I missed the first part of that.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. All right.

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Now, this is how... Excuse me. This is how we're going to be changed. How long is it going to take,

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Greg? In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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Immediately. For this corruptible must put on incorruption.

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This mortal must put on immortality. Notice the word must.

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This corruptible must put on incorruption. Why? Greg? All right.

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The first part. For the corruptible must put on incorruption. Must. Why?

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All right. Fifty -four. So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,

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Death is swallowed up in victory. How can death be swallowed up,

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Virge? Christ comes back, and he's going to take care of all that.

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He's going to take care of his own old death. I mean, I don't know whether that's what he's looking for.

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Victory's going to have... We're going to have victory over death when Christ comes back. All right.

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John, what do you have on that? The same thing that... Death is swallowed in victory.

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Because we're going to die, but we're still being alive in Christ up in heaven. So we...

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We have the victory. All right. Jesse, you have anything on that? No. David?

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I talked about the sin of death being the sin and the strength of the sin is the law.

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At that time, the sin will be removed, and the law is nailed to the cross already by the sin.

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So death won't have any stability. That's right. First heresy in the church was that of the denial of the bodily resurrection.

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That was the first big heresy that they run into. Stoicism says that the soul merged into deity at death.

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Paul says Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, our bodies to rise later.

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Epicureanism said there was no existence beyond death. Paul says

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Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. Platerism believed in the immortality of the soul, but denied the bodily resurrection.

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Paul says that our physical bodies shall be made alive as spiritual bodies.

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Before any of us can go into the presence, we have to be changed.

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Why? There can be no sin in heaven. That's right.

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

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But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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It is the sting of sin that has the death in it. The strength of sin is the law.

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Therefore, my beloved brother, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the

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Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the

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Lord. Things present, the things of time, the things out yonder, in the future, are all ours.

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We'll go to chapter 14 next time. But Greg, will you come pass these out, please?

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I have a list of the death of the apostles that you might like to have.

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Matthew was killed with a sword. Mark dragged to death.

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Luke hanged on an olive tree. John was placed in the cauldron of boiling oil.

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He escaped death, later died a natural death. James the

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Great was beheaded. James the Less, thrown from a pinnacle of the temple, then beaten to death with Fuller's brush.

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Do you know what a Fuller's brush is? Well, it's a brush used in making soap.

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Philip was hanged, Bartholomew flayed alive. What's flayed mean?

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Skinned. He was skinned while he was alive.

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Well, for all of it, I don't know, but he died. Andrew bound to a cross from which he preached until his death.

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Thomas run through with a lance. Jude shot to death with arrows.

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Peter crucified upside down. All the time that he was on the cross, he was telling his wife, she was crucified also on the right side up.

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And he was telling her all the time to not give up, not give up, not give up.

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And she didn't. Matthias stoned, then beheaded.

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All right, is there anything from anybody? Yes. I would imagine they gave this kind of treatment at once.

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They weren't, they had to speak the truth in such a way that it angered a lot of people.

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There's a lot of stress. When he started telling the truth, he was wrong.

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He was dying. Proud and angry. Also, like the saints, basically.

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This shows that they all held to their belief until they were...

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Anything else? If not,

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Clarence, would you dismiss this please? Thank you.