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Alright, open your Bibles this morning Genesis Chapter 2 Genesis Chapter 2. We're going to continue with our testing this morning that we started and today we're going to take a look at a doctrine that I would say almost. Every Christian believes it is in the Bible, but from what I can see, the Bible says something completely different from what we have been taught and I mean a declaration that you have saved and that you have heard, I must say from the moment you were saved. Even until yesterday and the statement I'm referring to is because you have an immortal

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Immortal means eternal because you have an immortal

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. Then when you die, you either go to heaven or you go to hell. Almost everyone has that right. I mean. That's pretty much how we understand the process of life and death and boom and boom, you go to heaven, you're in hell, is there anything different to that? In your understanding, it is more or less what you have heard and been. taught, okay, I've been saying like clues for the last few months that we don't understand death, we don't understand it and we also don't understand what happens after death, and because we don't understand death, you and I have learned things. that we have believed because we have been taught for a long time, so today we are going to begin another journey in the scriptures in the word of god and for some reason what we are going to talk about today seems to me to be something that those who have been our teachers for years they have not even explored themselves one of the main verses that is used in the bible to say or prove that people go to heaven or go to hell when they die or especially go to heaven is second corinthians 5 8 we are confident I say and rather willing to be absent from the body and be

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with the Lord and yes I would recommend that if you have a piece of paper with you with a pencil that you write all the verses that you are going to see on this board today there are about 100 of them and then, when Go home today and have lunch, some of you will have breakfast, some of you will have dinner, some of you will be in bed and wake up tomorrow morning.

You're all over the world right now, okay, I suggest that if you live in the United States after I finish this message today, you go to lunch, take a nap, and then come back and read each of the verses that you're going to look at. today delete my comment completely and let the word of God tell you what it says and if you do that when you hear topics that are contrary to the word of God you will recognize it, you know how when when people. when the United States Mint looks for counterfeits they study the real they study real coins they study real dollars then when they see a counterfeit they recognize it immediately the problem with Christianity today is that people do not go to the scriptures and find in the Scriptures, what the Scriptures say, so when they hear things, they believe a lot of things that are not biblical, as you'll see today, but this verse is one that we've all heard cited frequently and of course you know it's not even something that The question of being absent from the bodies to be

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with the Lord is quite simple, of course, that means that my grandmother and my mother and you know your grandmother well, either they want to be with the Lord or they went somewhere else. and they're all there, they're there right now and they're all suffering and all of that is true, another verse that tends to go like this the question I would ask first before continuing a question I would ask about this verse is what is it? present with the

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that is what you are going to learn today another verse that is always added to this is Philippians chapter 1 verse 21 for me to live is Christ and to die is gain but I do live in the flesh This is the fruit of my work but what I will choose I do not want because I am in a line between two having the desire to leave and be with Christ which is much better to be with Christ Paul says that it is much better much better than How good If you're not familiar with Paul's life throughout the book of Acts and everything the man went through, the beatings, the shipwrecks, everything he went through, would it be much better for him to get out of here and get out of this? rat race, you know, we now live in times where we say the lord came well, he did too, but to be with christ and to be absent from the body to be present with the lord, I would ask the same question: what is present? with the lord your soul your body what is present with the lord right now if you die today so to understand this question and answer this question we have to go to the word of god and let the word of god be our final authority now You would think that for Christians who believe in the Bible that would be the normal thing to do well, that's the obvious thing, to let the Bible be our final authority, but it's not, it's not because most Christians believe what they were taught. .

Most Christians are like that. I have news. for you, not everything you have been taught in churches comes from the Bible, not everything and sometimes when you show people what the Bible really teaches, they actually get angry, not at the man who taught them something wrong, they get angry. Upset with the Bible because if you're happy with the man who taught you something that the Bible doesn't deceive, it teaches, and you're not upset with him, that means you're upset with the Bible. Okay, I highly recommend against it. be guilty of doing like these people right here in psalm 107 verse 10 those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron why because they rebelled against the words of god and condemned the counsel of the Most High word contem It means they despised, ridiculed, scorned, rejected with disdain the advice of the highest.

This is not just something that happened back then, this is something that has happened throughout all the generations of humanity and especially in this era in which we live. It is happening more now than ever before in human history, causing people to reject the clear teaching of Scripture. I'm going to tell you the narrative, the narrative of the box that indoctrinated you is what causes people to reject the plain Scriptures themselves. The fact today is that men have more influence on people than the Bible. I'm trying to eradicate that from their lives and the lives of the people listening because I want to really believe what the Bible says.

I'm grateful I did it. I have never cared about what men think about what the Bible says that is why my journey has taken me through so many different places because I saw what was happening and I only cared about God's book so let's go to do what we do in this church we are going to do as we do every week we are going to let the scriptures tell us what the bible means and I promise you that today is contrary to the teachings of men and let me add this, you know , we live in a microwave generation where answers can be found at the click of a button and that will not be the case with this topic.

I can't tell you how many impatient people contact me and say, could you get to the point? would you hurry up? you don't understand how this brain thinks I have to lay the foundation I have to present my case as I see it so to get to the biblical understanding of what we are going to see today it is very important that you look at what the scriptures have to say it is not just a question from here is a verse and here is a verse that confirms it let's start our bibles and go home like this it's not going to be today God did not leave the topic of what happens to a person when he dies without numerous cross references and details, God has punctuated the entirety of his word with many, many infallible proofs, proofs of what we are going to see today to support his theme, after all, who knows more about death than God?

Who knows more about what happens to a man or woman when he dies than God Himself? I'm looking around and I can tell you no. I can look at that camera and say: I know I don't, but God does this. The subject of him he writes about this in detail we just have to look for it so to understand what is happening we will start by looking at what God says about the soul because what God says is not the same as what men say, where did it come from? The teaching that the soul of man is eternal or immortal comes from the university, where does the teaching come from that upon death the soul disconnects from the body and remains conscious?

Where does it come from? I mean, this is where you get all these ghost hunter movies and you know. teachings about disembodied souls floating around scaring people you know you have movies where they are watching they go to houses they have electronic devices and they are searching you know suddenly the electron and you say oh, it's grandma, grandma is over Here you know grandma spoke to me, let me tell you that grandma doesn't talk to anyone, that's fine, not her. Most believers believe that the roots of this teaching come from the Bible, but the truth of the matter is that it comes from ancient pagan religions dating back to In Egypt, they believed that the soul was a solid entity, it was invisible, but while It was in this life in the fire, it was in the body, but when the body died, it left it when it died, so the Egyptians wrote a book.

You can search on Google. It was called the book of the dead and in that book there were secret charms and potions on how to get from this life to the next and protect your soul in the afterlife. That's where it started. They didn't know anything about the soul. They knew nothing. about what god teaches about the soul the ancient babylonians had their own view of the soul they thought the soul took the form of decomposing bodies while floating that's what they thought it was not until that teaching reached greek philosophy and they got I grabbed it and they started adding some eloquence to those concepts.

It was Plato who taught that humans possessed a soul that could never be destroyed. He was the first to speak of the soul as immortal. He wasn't even saved. You don't even know what the Bible teaches. I'm going to read you something that comes from the Catholic encyclopedia. I'm going to put it here so you can read it with me. For Plato, the soul is a being quite different from the body, related to it like the pilot of the ship, the charioteer. of the charity of the chariot the rational soul is the soul of man it is a divine element and it is what is immortal that is to say it has immortality in one of Plato's works called fiedo the soul whose inseparable attribute is life will never admit the opposite death to life, so it is shown that the soul is immortal and, as immortal, indestructible, according to Plato, the salvation of your soul depended on the soul separating itself from the body of death, but again, this is not in the Bible.

I did not find this in the word of God so in a book called Christian Doctrine the author Shirley Guthrie said this we refer to the belief in the immortality of the soul this doctrine was not taught by the biblical writers themselves but was common in the Greek and Eastern religions of the ancient world in which the Christian church was born or the Christian church was not born in the ancient Eastern religions of the world well, first of all, some of the early Christian theologians were influenced by it read the Bible in light of it and introduced it in the thinking of the church and has been with us since page 378 written in 1994.

So, there are many people who do know that the teaching of the immortality of the soul is not a biblical doctrine. Before I continue, let me just add this right now that's not what we're talking about you're not going to live forever you're going to live forever okay you we're going to live for eternity the wages of sin is dead but god's gift is eternal life through From Jesus Christ you will have eternal life, but not the way it is taught, not the way it is taught in ancient religions and Greek philosophy, which knew nothing of what the Scriptures teach.

I will show you just one verse that totally destroys the idea of ​​the immortality of the soul itself. Ezekiel chapter 18 verse 20. The first part of the verse says the soul that sins will die. Let me ask you something. Is something that dies immortal? Yes or no. No, of course. No, so the soul. dies, so if the soul is dead it is not floating around scaring people and can be recognized by some electronic device in a house that looks scary on television where we know that nothing is planned, nothing is prepared, where do they get those houses anyway in order to understand the soul we have to go back to the beginning in genesis chapter two well let me read first of all the first account of the creation of man which is genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and god said let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let us make them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth so god created man in his image in the image of god He created male and female, he created them, so that is the creation of man, but in the second story in Genesis chapter 2 God gives more details than in this story Genesis Chapter 2 verse 7.

And the Lord God formed man from dust of the earth and breath. in his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living soul notice this verse in the book of job job 33 4 the spirit of god has made me and the breath of the almighty has given me life and then there is another verse that I'm not putting it here, I'm just thinking about it right now, but he said that every created thing has the breath of God, well, every living thing has the breath of God. Now you would thinkthat in this verse there are three. separate things one would think that there is the body, there is the breath or the spirit of life in verse seven and there is the soul, three different things, but just think about what we just read here, Adam It has a body that was formed from the dust of the earth.

Now why our translators use the word dust is a good question because you really can't make anything from dust. Okay, the Hebrew word for dust is a distant fire. That's what that Hebrew word is. It's interesting that in Leviticus 14 42 and he will take other stones and put them in the place of those stones and he will take another engine engine that word engine is the same word translated dust in genesis chapter 2 verse 7. now we all know engine, you know, we have seen on construction sites where we grow up around construction sites and they have that big round thing that they take concrete or whatever in a bag, they pour it in there, then they pour some water and that thing spins around and mixes and becomes into something that You can put on a trowel and plaster a wall or something like that, but it becomes like mud, so you can work well with it.

If you leave it in the bag and leave it as a dry, powdery powder, you can't. It could not be formed into anything, it could not be formed and achieved the same with man. Man was taken from the moist, fertile layer of the earth and the Bible says, you know, it says dust, but it wasn't just dust, it was motor. created from moisture and earth together and god formed man, so the word formed here means that he carefully made, he carefully shaped it specifically as his own personal creation for his own glory, all things were created by him and for him, Colossians chapter 1 says it. in genesis chapter 2 verse 7 we find something that if we think about it for a minute will give us an idea of ​​the makeup of all humanity, so what happened in the formation of man was that the first man was formed from the dust of the earth, the soil. and the water so before god breathed into man the breath of life man was just a lifeless piece of clay that's all he was right sometimes I wonder if god looking at that didn't say to himself I know what What a horror story will you be if I breathe the breath of life into him or should I let myself fall back into the mud, well, we know that's not what happened, we know that's not what happened and I doubt that God had that thought, so don't understand it. all people get carried away, people write to me well, I can't believe you said that, calm down man, but after God formed man, now he is just a motionless, lifeless lump of clay.

Notice in Genesis 2 7 and the Lord God forms man from the dust of the ground. at this point he is lifeless and breathes into his nostrils the breath of life and at that moment Adam's eyes open, his ears open, he can smell the garden, he begins to see, he feels a pulsation that begins to flow through of his body and the man realizes and the man is now. called something now it starts to be something and what happens to it and the man became a living soul then from a lifeless piece of clay god blows on it and that's when it becomes a living soul now the soul is what gives sensation to the body the soul is what allows you to function and feel and taste and touch and think and have emotions allows your body your body the only reason you know this is here your body was made first and your soul came in and After you gained life your soul gave you this consciousness, so the soul is literally a part of the body, it is not a separate entity, as you will see in a moment, there are many verses that show that the soul is what hates or enjoys things like For example, Deuteronomy 12 15 despite the fact that you will be able to kill and eat meat at all your gates whatever your soul longs or desires Deuteronomy 12 20 when the Lord your god widens your border as he has promised you and you will say I will eat meat because your soul longs eat meat your soul is the one that longs to eat meat, if the place that the lord your god has chosen to put his name there is very far from you then you will kill your cows and your sheep that the lord has given you as I have given you commanded and You will eat at the gates everything your soul desires and the word coveted there means desires.

It's okay, it's not a bad thing nowadays. Lust is a bad thing. On that day it was a wish. There are places in the Bible where lust is evil. thing but this is a desire psalm 107 18 their soul hates all kinds of food and they approach the gates of death proverbs 6 30 men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his soul his soul proverbs 13 25 the righteous edith to the satisfaction of your soul but the belly of the wicked will want proverbs 16 24 pleasant words are like a honeycomb sweet for the soul and health for the bones proverbs 27 7 a full soul hates and honeycomb but for a hungry soul everything bitter is sweet Ecclesiastes 2 24.

There is nothing better for man than to eat and drink and to make his soul enjoy the good in his work. This I also saw was from the hand of God. You know, we see someone go through problems in their life, right, and we say, you know. that poor soul we only comment we do it automatically we associate the soul with the body we and also the bible also god I can show you more verses but these will be enough to show you the soul recognizes the sensation of food and longs for things and longs for happiness and has desires Everything that this body goes through is recognized by the soul, so what do we learn from this?

Until now, the soul is linked to the body to which it is linked. with your body, so not long after man was created, we don't know how long, but after man was created, we don't know how long passed, but he sinned and what God said to him in the sweat of your face . eat bread until when will you eat bread until you return to the earth for from it you were taken to dust you are and to dust you will return this is the first complete and detailed description of death in your bible the first time god spoke about death was before that Adam fell, he said, eat that thing, you hear that you are going to die, remember that the second time God speaks about now, he tells them exactly what death is, your dust and you are going to return to dust and this.

It is not an isolated concept in your Bible by the way in Psalm 104 29 you hide yourself like your face they worry talking about man you take away their breath they die and return to their dust you take away their breath they die they return to their dust This verse is full of meaning , but God gave life to man first. God breathed into Adam. This verse says that he takes their breath away and what happens when he takes their breath away. When they die, they return to dust. I'll explain it better. about this in a moment but in psalm 146 verse 3 put your trust not in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help why his breath does not come forth he returns to his land on that same day his thoughts perish now there are two things very important in this verse the first half of the verse is about death his breath leaves he returns to his land the second half is about what happens after the breath leaves the human being I am going to show you a verse in Ecclesiastes the context here is the death, it's like I'm only putting two verses here, but the verse is before it, that's why I say you should write these verses because then you can read the context, it's about death, there are many, many.

Images of death in this I'm going to start with this right here or ever the silver cord comes loose or the golden bowl breaks or the pitcher breaks in the fountain or the wheel breaks in the cistern, these are all images different of death, everyone has a different view of how men die, okay, some people think that the golden cup is, you know, when this is broken and verse chapter 12 verse 7, then the dust will return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to god who gave it now this is an explanation of death and what will happen to the lord in this verse the spirit the breath returns to the lord god breathes into the man the breath of life and that is separated from the man became a living soul your soul is attached to your body listen very carefully and when your body returns to the dust that part of your body that gave your body the sensation that the ability to feel that goes to the dust with your body Yes your soul goes to the grave the soul that sin will die now you say that the soul goes to the grave well, here is a verse that talks about the Lord Jesus Christ Psalm 16 10. because you will not leave my soul in hell now that word hell that it is the Hebrew word s-h-e-o-l shows that it is the tomb it is the tomb jesus christ went to the tomb jesus christ did not go to hell i know there is a popular teaching in christianity jesus christ after his death went to hell he preached to the spirits in prison that is not that It is not what first Peter chapter three talks about, he went and preached to the spirits in prison during the days of Noah, it says that he went by the spirit and preached to them, it had nothing to do with him entering an underground cave, but this word hell is now shown in this verse psalm 49 15. but god will redeem my soul from the power of the grave because he will receive me when when he will receive me in the resurrection but the soul is in the grave and in the resurrection the soul that gave him life or sensation to the body is now lifted up this word grave and this word hell are the word show s-h-e-o-l the same Hebrew word a good question is why our translators used grave here and hell there it is the same place it is a good question but they did, it meant that this meant something different to them what we thought is that's all I can say because that's what the word means and then in psalm 89 47 remember how short my time is why have you made all the men?

This David asks this question, why did you do good to all men? subject to vanity remember that what man is he who lives and will not see death that is a good question if he will free his soul from the hands of the grave if any man is going to free his soul from the hands of the grave you know what that means your soul will go to the grave, that's what it means, so according to the three four five verses that we just saw, the soul goes to the grave with the body and the spirit returns to God, who gave it to it. , if you keep listening, you are going to learn something today you are going to learn something about your bible look according to this verse then the dust will be the man the dust is fine, we are the dust then the dust will return to the earth as it was this is the true story of death from genesis 1 to revelation 21 22 it is well and the spirit will return to god who gave it the spirit does not have the same function as the soul the first adam became a living soul the second adam is a life-giving spirit it is a spirit that makes alive has a different purpose the spirit is what gives life but that's all it does it just gives life and then the soul that is with the body gives the body sensation and the ability to function right now the soul is what gives it consciousness and knowledge so the spirit does not have that consciousness and no, that is what your soul has that is the spirit that returns to God for safekeeping until the resurrection and in the resurrection your spirit that is kept By God it will return to that new body and that new soul that will live forever will give that life it will not be this soul that you have this soul that you have you cannot go to heaven in this vile and miserable body it cannot go but your spirit is not contaminated by your body you know in this world for 6,000 years until this moment the only thing that comes from eternity that is in this world right now is the breath of almighty god that is in you that is the only thing and when you die that the breath returns to god, who gave it, that is being absent from the body, that is being present with the Lord, isn't that Grandma Smith up there playing basketball and volleyball and sitting on the Lord's lap right now googling and saying oh thank you Lord for all I have done that is a false image of death this is the true image of death now I am getting ahead of myself because I am going to talk about the resurrection next week but we looked at this verse a few minutes ago I said I would return to it his breath comes out He returns to his land on that same day that he returns to the earth to his land his thoughts perish everything he thought even his ability to think when the breath that gave this life when the breath leaves this returns to the grave why his thoughts perish ecclesiastes 9 5. listen very carefully because the living know that they will die but the dead know nothing and have no more reward because the memory of them is forgotten listen please allow me to believe my bible for you if you are having difficulty believing this because to me It is not difficult for me to believe the words that I am reading on the page that says that the dead know nothing, do you know someone who is dead because the dead know nothing so praise the lord praise the lord oh my soul as long as I live I will praise the Lord I will sing praises to my god while I have some being so why is it good to sing to the Lord while you have your being because Psalm 115 17 says the dead do not praise the Lord nor the day that descends into silence the silence is in the grave yes Do you know anyone who has died I can tell you by the authority of the word of Almighty God that at this moment they are not praising the Lord none of them Solomon said this Ecclesiastes 9 10.

Whatever your hand finds to do do it with all your strength. forces why because there is no work nor device nor knowledgenor wisdom in the grave where you go like this when the breath of the man has gone from him or her and we return to our land what does the bible resemble that state of unconsciousness what does the bible look like in that also eh

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let's look at the word of god and the word of god only what is death according to god because now we know we know two things for sure the soul goes to the grave with the body does it well read the verses now I hope you don't have any problem believing what you see on the page of the word of god, okay, I mean there is a well, I could talk about this later, but look at this, so David slept with his parents and was buried in the city of David and Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father and the days that Jeroboam reigned were 2 and 20 years and he slept with his parents first kings 14 31 and Roboam slept with his parents and was buried with his father in the city ​​of david first king 15 8 and abigail slept with his parents and was buried in the city of david first king 15 24 and asa slept with his parents and was buried first king 16 6 and basah slept with his parents and was buried in terseah first kings 16 28 and omni slept with his parents and was buried in samaria first kings 22 40 and ahab slept with his parents first kings 22 50 and Jehoshaphat slept with his parents and was buried second kings 8 24 in jeroboam jerome slept with his parents and was buried buried with his father's city of david second kings 10 35 and jehu slept with his parents second kings 13 9 and joe slept with his parents in second kings 13 13 and joe hash slept with his parents and second kings 14 16 and joe hash he slept with his father's second king 14 22 he built elat and restored it to judah after that the king slept with his father second kings 14 29 jeroboam slept with his father's second kings 15 7. thus he slept with his father second in kings 15 22 and manaham slept with his father second kings 15 38 jotham slept with his father second kings 16 20 a slept with his father second kings 20 21 and hezekiah slept with his father second kings 21 18 manesah slept with his parents second kings 24 6 so joakim slept with his father second chronicles 9 31 and then solomon slept with his parents in second chronicles 12 16 robot slept with his parents in second chronicles 14 1 and abiah slept with his parents and you get an idea of Why is death compared to sleep because there is no consciousness or conscious thought in the grave where each of us will go?

Look at a couple more examples when Jesus Christ came to the tomb of Lazarus, then John chapter 11, these things he said and that's what it refers to. to what he had been saying and after that he told them now he is talking about the people he is talking to our friend Lazarus sleeps but I am going to wake him up from his sleep so his disciples said sir if he sleeps he will do well well of course how will it be that Jesus spoke about his death, but they thought that he had spoken about resting while sleeping, so Jesus told them clearly that Lazarus is dead now, if anyone knew what death is and he calls it sleep because of the unconscious state. of the person in the tomb would be the lord jesus christ he should know what death is compared to sleep because nothing happens in that part of our journey to this world and then back to eternity nothing happens here a couple more of the old testament deuteronomy 31 16 and the lord said to moses, behold, you will sleep with your parents then continue matthew 9 23 and when jesus entered the ruler's house and saw the minturales and the minstrels and the people making a noise, he told them to give place to the maiden is not dead but sleeps and they laughed at him with contempt because they knew she was dead but to God it is a dream and since the soul is there in the grave yes, you can call it a dream of the soul because that is what is happening?

Some people think this is something from the Old Testament. Things change when we get to the New Testament. No, what about our apostle? What about our apostle Paul? Did you have anything to say about this? We all know, first Corinthians, chapter 15, is the resurrection chapter. It is not about anything else that we read in first Corinthians 15 5 and that it was seen from Cephas after the 12 speaking of Christ after that it was seen about 500 brothers at the same time of which the majority remain until the present but some have asleep oh who are these that have fallen asleep oh we just read about 40 verses of people before these people who are falling asleep and there are more there is jacob we could have talked about jacob could have talked about the east we could have talked about isaac everyone They went and slept with their parents, there are all kinds of people, I mean when Paul talks about these people who sleep, they don't tell what happens to their children after them, who slept with their parents, and their children who slept with their parents, they don't tell, Paul continues. in Verse 17 and if Christ is not resurrected your faith is vain you are still in your sins then so are they who fell asleep in Christ now we are in the dispensation of grace now there are people who fall asleep in Christ nothing has changed death is not a dispensational thing death began in the garden death will continue until the end of time and the same thing happens to everyone who dies their breath the spirit returns to god and the dust returns to dust and those who are in the dust are sleeping verse 19 if only in this life we ​​have hope in Christ we are of all men the majority have no other hope beyond this life but now Christ rose from the dead and became the firstfruits of those who slept firstfruits means that more will come he is the first to rise from the dead so that is what firstfruits means there are more that are rising from the grave after him paul spoke of this also again in First Thessalonians 4 13 but I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant about those who sleep, so that you do not grieve.

Just as others who have no hope if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him. What happens to those who are not sleeping in Jesus? What about those who are sleeping in God in the old testament they did not have Jesus Christ they did not have a cross they did not have grace through faith what about them were they in God's program? okay so what did we do today? We began by asking to be absent from the bodies, to be present with the Lord and we asked what is present with the Lord.

One of the answers we saw is verse 4, there he puts his breath, he goes forth, he returns to his land and then to where the breath goes, well Ecclesiastes 12 7 then there will be the dust returns to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to the god who gave it and as we said, the spirit and the soul are two different things, the soul is united to the body, that is why the soul goes to the grave with the body. and he dies, he dies forever and the spirit is going to be with the lord this says he will return to god who gave it that is good news man that is good news the spirit returns what and what is he doing god man probably has a great father, you know as?

You go to the doctor's offices and they have all these files, he has a file on every spirit that has been returned to him and then in the end that spirit will come back to life like it was supposed to be in the garden, except this time the people will never hear those words every tree you can eat but don't touch that won't happen again there will be no more sin nature can you see the bigger picture? the broader picture. I'm surprised you know we're here. like Paul in first Corinthians 15 and today believers have tunnel vision, they look at what you know are abs like this verse here, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord and they look at that verse and they completely forget it.

Everything that the entire revelation of God's word has to say about death and exactly what is going to be present with the Lord, we are told in the Scriptures what returns to God and it is not what we are thinking and what They teach us about this. day and age in which we live grandmother is in her grave her spirit is there and it is not active and it is not thinking and communing with the lord the same with hell no one is in hell burning right now I know they taught you not to , that the soul is in the tomb and the body is in the tomb and what judge would sentence someone before their hearing what judge would do that is not God the great judge is there not a great white throne judgment what is going to get them out of there ? hell to judge them and send them back.

I know that the word hell is used in chapter 20 of Revelation. It is the word Hades that shows what the tomb is, the tomb gave up the dead that were in it and then in the judgment, then there is a judgment that is another. story for another day I'm past my time but death is not a dispensational thing that happens differently for different people death began in the garden and death will end and everyone will return to the dust and the spirit will return to the god who gave That is the teaching of the Scriptures about the soul and death and the spirit returning to the lord.

If there is anything you really need to believe today it is that God gave some commandments but no man has kept them and therefore everyone has sinned and the wages of sin is death and you know what happens when you die well the spirit returns to the god who gave it. and it returns to the dust with the soul that made it work but today we learned that God sent his son Jesus Christ he died he was buried he rose again and our apostle said in Ephesians 2 8 9 because by grace you have been saved through faith and not of yourselves It is the gift of God not by works so that no one can boast and when any person lives today today not talking about people alive in the days of Moses when God gave the ten commandments, he knew that man could not keep them, but he still gave them those commandments and still said that's what you're going to try to do this day, now that and the ten.

The commandments prove that man could never keep them because we discover from Paul that God did not give the ten commandments so that men could keep them, he gave them to show men that they could not keep them, that they are sinners and that they need a savior and god produced to the savior and Paul is the apostle who explains this great salvation that is found in Jesus Christ and that is why when a person believes that today God stops looking at them through the law and God puts them in Christ and sees you in Christ and now instead of death you have eternal life and your destiny is heaven and you learn that in Paul's gospel and that is the simple plan of salvation for today when this dispensation ends this is over people in the tribulation period are not being saved by grace through faith in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ the people in the millennial reign are not being saved by grace through faith in the death burial resurrection of Jesus Christ this is something that was revealed to us today what we do not understand is the magnitude of that death that burial and that resurrection we don't understand the magnitude and the depth and the scope of what it covers we don't understand it because we have been brainwashed to understand something about it that has been limited by man Hopefully, one of these days, weeks, months, we'll get to that, but wow, Christianity, a bunch of brainwashed people, seriously, if you don't know Jesus Christ as your savior today, that's how you'll be saved today, not when it's over. this dispensation. not how people are saved, but there will be people who will be saved, there will be people who will go to heaven after this is over, but right now this is what we have and, thank God, this is what we have and this is the message that we proclaim today.

I hope to be honest with you for that day when I take my last breath and my spirit returns to God who gave it and he imprisons it, do what you want, I don't care, we should not think of death as something bad. Since death is the normal process of all life, we must think of death as part of the process and accept it. In fact, remember the attitude of Simeon Simeon after having seen the salvation of the Lord. He said: Now let your servant depart in peace. Leave your servant now. servant, depart in peace that should be the attitude of each of us when that time comes lord let me depart in peace that is the attitude of a believer amen but since you are not dead Jesus Christ died for you and just believe in this simple gospel and god He will save you amen, let us pray for our merciful God and our father we are grateful that we have the word of almighty God we already know the words of men but we have the word of God that is superior and transcends religious teachings. of men and I pray today Lord if anyone does not know Jesus Christ that they incline their heart and believe that Jesus Christ died for them that He was buried and that He rose from there and only trust in that for the forgiveness of their sins and they Receive the free gift of eternal life.

I pray these things in that name that was above every name, the name of our lord and our savior Jesus Christ, amen, amen.