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mother is having one of those
really bad days
and then her son came and who was playing outside with his pants
she send him immediately
to his room to mend his own
sometime later
she came to see how he was doing with his assigned project the notice that
there was a pair of toward pants line across a chair
and then the basement door
she walked to the top
of the steps
and with a loud and eastern four ways she yelled down the staffs
are you running around out there without your pants on
in unexpected
voice reply
no ma'am
i'm just down here reading your gas meter
it's easy to make a mistake
well what happens if we're wrong
the future resurrection bacteria is middle
future
resurrection let's think about that today hypothetical
form if we might
let me read to your tax first corinthians
chapter fifteen
and we're going to see where paul was clueless some hypotheticals if there is
no future resurrection
then this is where you are
child of god to imagine that
because what have we been taught up they will be in pots i think it's five
to be absent from the body is to be present with the war
and then there's going to come a time when
jesus comes back right for us and he's going to resurrect the body
and reunited with
the soul
but what if there is no future
resurrection
let's start this
first fifteen fifteen beginning inverse twelve
now if crisis preach
that he has been raised from the dead howdy some among you say that there is
no resurrection of the day
but if there is no resurrection of the dead then crisis not risen and of crisis
not risen
than our preaching his empty
and your faith is also
empty
yes and we are found false witnesses of god because we have testified of god
that he has raised up christ
who needed not raise up if in fact it did not rise
fourth the day i do not rise then crisis mattress and and of crisis not risen
your
faith issue no
you are still in your sean's
then also those who have fallen asleep in christ have perished
if in this life only we have hope in christ we are of all men
where something to think about it
father how can we go through life
surely not living as if jesus crisis race in the day
but father just for these few moments help mister
take a look at this passage from poll's
vantage point
contemplating that if
there is no future resurrection and there are many implications with
bother me we leave here today
greatly encourage
that there is of future resurrection because craze conquered death we have
lasts our study father
in a very special way i ask you know jesus
ball lays out the setting for us in first twelve now if christ is preached
that he has been raised from the dead
palm phrase assistant agree can a first-class condition assuming that
price
is being preached value has been raised from the debt and what i love about this
it's a concept that he has been raised in the past
and he continues to be raise
today
and can i ask you quite honestly are you living in light of the resurrection of
jesus christ
that he has been raised in the past
and that he is risen today
anne makes them promising you and me that i am with new always
even tiny and
the age
christ was being heralded king was being trumpeted they've been raising the dead
then paul asked this question
how do some among you say that they are is no resurrection of the dead
why did
some of the current views company conclusion
that there is no future
resurrection term with me that's chapter seventeen and let me set the uh... stage
for you
the greeks came out of a background of dual ism
dualism is usually associated with played out there basically taught that
anything that is spirit
is good
but anything that is material think about your body
is bag
and see so free now would come in the future
because when you died what we have freed from the material you would be freed
from
your
body and they just take you if you will be far reaching these few verses
beginning at seventeen first went to mister further
what were some of the other philosophies of
paul's days he was preaching to the finance you had the epicurean ps
they ascension lee said that the chief end of may and was pleasure
the reason you are here
is if you will to experience pleasure not just physical pleasure but
intellectual pleasure
as well these epicurious also believe that matter was eternal in other words
dodging create the world is always existed
and then you add also another group of folks called distorts ok cup followers
of
is enough
and they were apparently it's basically saying that god is in the creation if
you well when you look at the university dot is in all of that
not that he made it and is outside of it but god really permeates
those things that would that in mind knowing the norm paul is preaching see
what he points out acts seventeen beginning in verse twenty two
then paul stood in the midst of the area up against us if you will of the feeney
in
high court like the supreme court
they've gathered together
anne said now that since i perceive that in all things you are very religious
frats i was passing through and considering the objects of your worship
i've even found an altar with this inscription
to the on known
god
therefore the one hand you worship without knowing him i've proclaim d_n_c_
that an altar said to be on them dot bosses they let me tell you to the true
god
now pick up in verse twenty four
because this is critical to understanding how paul connects with
those folks
it also shows how he corrects the thinking of you fini is
and if you will the christine's first twenty four
god
who made the world and what
everything in it
jim emr after days of creation one god say about in each day good
and you get to the six day what does not say it's a very good so therefore to
material is good because who made it
god
many it
who made the body
god made in the body any cares about the body to did agree that one day he's
going to resurrect
the body
so he says god made the world everything in it since he has a board of heaven and
earth
does not do well in temples made with intel still in chapter seventeen come
down first thirty-two
on allied preach the gospel to these people beginning with creation and then
he says
and when they heard on the resurrection of the dead
some mocked
notices
while others said we will hear you again on this manner
what was your response
dal
because since material is bad how can there be a future resurrection this is
what hall is dealing with now to going back to first refuse fifteen
fill out the a_n_c_ describes
uh... unique funeral custom
among african muslims
close family and friends
at the funeral what if you will circle around the casket
looking out the cool works
and not seen anything
there would be no tears
there would be no music
if you will there would be nothing but silence
this tradition at a certain point
everybody was given a piece of peppermint can you know some of you
would go that's the highlight of the funeral having a pepper making an answer
me okay
and what they want to at the point of time they were instructed to do so was
put it in her mouth
and just let it
venom point was made if you will at the funeral
that basically for this
person
their life is over your life just dissolves
can you imagine having that concept that one day when you die
if you will you just dissolve
and it's told me
over
let me start with the first hypothetical that paul gives
in first corinthians chapter fifteen
you see if there is no future resurrection number one
crisis not risen
if you get that
if there is no future
resurrection day in christ is not risen in first thirteen he says
but if there is no resurrection of the day had been christ is not reason
see if they get cannot rise
is because the jesus
was not reached
do you see how the two if you will stand and fall
together
because see if christ was not raise from the dead
that nobody else is going to be rays from the dead in the future
and if nobody in the future is going to be raised from the dead you know why
it's because christ was not raids
himself this is a huge
issue
the second issue as well that paul points out the second hypothetical
is simply this preaching would be pointless
you know i spent part of my life doing everyone
is looking out the word of god
trying to figure out the texas scripture says and then make a point
preaching
would be
pointless
because if there's no future resurrection
what is this sense to preach
winston churchill advised if you have an important point to make
don't ride it be subtle or clever use of powell
hit once in come back in again and again
what can i ask you
what point do you make
if there is no future resurrection what point do we make
if christ was not raised from
the dead paul continues in verse fourteen
and of christ has not risen then are preaching is
empty
and i'm playing with kids
the pedal bubble blower
and i find whitehead's
you know to get that it'll pay an eight
that have been also mixture and they just blow bubbles
now if you can't envision this from the time i started the sermon today
me below one one big bubble
and by the end of the sermon we would have this massive bobble
right in the entire building
and i know what you ladies would take after an airplane unique attempted not
to write it what would you do
you talk about all
c_f_ cries has not been raising the debt
if there is no future resurrection
then you're is no point
to preaching
in his art empty it is
combo
that's what this word main means it means to be
hollow of and meet me
and *** question now
looking at the other side of this what does god obsess over
cannot tell you what god does obsess over
self communication
p dot s
ka of cesses
over communicating
who ki
c dot since in two ways of first lady does it is true
general
revelation in song nineteen it says this in starting in verse one
that happens do what they haven't see what they declare
see their accounting if you well the prayer
ci
that happens declare the glory of god
and the firmer mint
shows his handiwork do work for for remains to be out of you have a look at
the expense of the sky
anchors on and on
and on on to be tapped the sky
god did that
and uh... patterns are talking
to us first too
day on today others speech
and night on tonight reveals not
i'd look at the side and i'm going and there is a smart guy and put that son
ninety three million miles out there
then i'd i'd look at the stars in on courses a travel ongoing someone that is
a awfully powerful
put those stars out there in a scripture says he even knows them
by name
the billions billions
there is no speech door language where their voice is not
so god does he abscesses
over a self communication in general
revelation if you want general revelation deals with
if you will in general communication
all the time
because it doesn't tell you specifically who made it
i can look at the sun is say oh i don't sac with the way that what do you need
you need
special
revelation
you had spectacular people talking
at a special time communicating a message estore at first it is fifteen
it's revelation
paul says for i believe it to you
first of all that what i also received
that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures
and that he was buried
and that he was raising the dead when on the third day that special revelation
we should be so excited
that we were just not left with general revelation of creation
but god council specifically who made this on
who made the stars
who made the moon and houses how we can have a right relationship with him
he gets very particular in that
and by the way that is why paul would say in
romans one eighteen i'm not ashamed
of the gospel of christ
it has the power of god and the salvation to every one who believes
to did you first and also to the greek
and if you well jesus took his went on
in matthew chapter twenty eight
and he says not hitting you know but on the truth he says you'll go
and you make the cycles of all the nations in class ke something
as i look at our state were about fifty two percent people voted
for gay marriage
how have we premiere he did
this state
with who only have we shared a document jesus christ
with who have we taken under weighing and said let me talk to you and tell you
the ways of god
that the one that i worship jesus christ said he who made them in the beginning
made their mail and female my friends when we look at the bill as a society
and we see what is going on all around the city compromise i just ask you this
what are we doing about his children of god we have been handed it on the truth
and we ought to communicate that truth
from one generation to the next generation
and we just say this is what i stand up on and i'm not going to my right
i'm not one of my left
this is truth
this is what i believe that we pass it on
we talk about moral decline just over a number of decades
if we don't become soft if we don't become light
if we don't take the word of god instructed passive along and my friends
we are excuse let's
when it comes to sharing the gospel because number what jesus said to a
cycles just before you send it in writing and a father remember what he
said
he says he'll wait
and when the holy spirit is come up on you know
i'm gonna make you well witness for me
in jerusalem
in judea and samaria t other most parts of work
the moment the spirit of god came into our lives what we believed on christ
he hasn't howard asked to be a witness for economic asking where all the
witnesses
why are we speaking up while we telling people
god save my soul this is what i was
but now this is who i am because in jesus christ
this is how i've learned
but now this is how i live because of jesus christ my friends or we give unit
this is what is being communicated the oscar and of christ has been the range
from the dead and he is with us today and he promises to be with us
why are we intimidated and a wider we holding back
and why are we speaking up for pricing while we're waiting for him
if his presence is right with us
see if you have
no future resurrection
preaching would abhi
can i tell you something further number three
faith in the consul would be
if you have nothing to believe
if jesus has not been raising the dead
because there's no future resurrection
we have not
team to look
fourteen
see my friends your face
is only as good as the object
of your faith guys remember you first waits at
number your first hundred ten-pound weights at
gay men i've ever write so very well
and i think it was so frustrating is the way in a bar was designed
when you wanted to put weights on t_v_ kinda had a hornet with one hand
and slept like a ten or fifteen pound on the other
because he didn't want in what happened
fell over right
and then we grew up
we start looking at
olympic weights that's right okay guys i've worked with before mem you back at
forty five pound precision bar
analysts are fighting to take a forty-five com plate
and as the barber saini you can just walk to one side you put on a slap it on
their side so you had a forty-five template right now so it works
buddy wants to know why because the object in your face
clinic and all the way it said it was designed
one legalities
leader
so if they spoke the other day
and i'm not that i got his campaign yet there was a set of legs
pasted on one of the face book
page is not the people i have
at my friend's gently don't post acetyl eggs
on and the face book page
at a time for other master gation
there was something that really struck me i know you guys are going to white
house again to get out of this and all the women are gone boy he's really in
trouble
i know this is a little pair of
helps
three inches high
holing up that gals weight
and i'll be honest with me for a moment for someday house to have those spikes
it takes a little bit more faith they really believe that's going on for that
person uh... okay
but what is safe
faces only as good as the object of your faith what people job
walk-in culture
this is the definition of fame biblically
is taking dot it is war
and acting upon
it's not only
that i believe in a word of god because it is eternally true
and god cannot lie and i can put on their hope
all might ross and everything i have janet because it's true
imagine raising
assignment
teaching them play baseball usa hey there's this place
in cooper's
and if you're really good
one day you wind up in the baseball hall afsane
just awesome slide for week there
years ago next in the campaigns that's really story by itself
or you know you've got sides of the play football
and you know you talk about this place in canton ohio
and you know one dating girl when you can see the super bowl rings and you can
see the old helmets you know there was sunny journey to know how fun it was a
see all that stuff you don't talk about
but what happens if you raise your children
and one day you going to take a trip when you find out there is no
cooperstown and baseball hall of fame there is no canton ohio and their is no
football hall of fame sania how to do your faith was what funeral
there was no point to it
whatsoever so he wonders and if christ has not been raising the dead
and there is no future resurrection
then why are we here
and why do we bother reader bibles and why do we bother live like rations that
why do we pass the baton of truth because it's not sure if then
to the next generation
you see how this works my friends us asylum reason portents
if there is no future resurrection the gospel
would
any
pointless
but it's not looking for strength is fifteen first ten
but by the grace of god paul says i am what i a m
and is grace toward me was not in gimme that next word
vania was an empty
part of a lot of abuse
because he knew there was a future resurrection part of a lot of abuse
because he knew that jesus christ was raised from the dad he was a hope that
went along with this
the fourth hypothetical if there's no future resurrection
the apostles
and other witnesses
to price resurrection
would be lives
it's true
when peter stands up on the day pentecost ax two twenty forney says whom
god raised up when indeed jesus christ having loose the pains of death because
it was not possible be should
be held by
no future resurrection if jesus was a raising the dead peers a liar
plain simple and how about you know
poor jeno
geno understood his troubles were sold that
that there was no hope in the present life what did he look for
the life become in job
chapter nineteen first we fix this is what he says and after my skin is
destroyed he was probably waiting for skin to be destroyed
this i know
that in my flash ice shall see guy
c if there's no future resurrection
if jesus is a race for that
jill had no hope
nothing to look forward to
what cell
alvare
you see in the second half of ours fifteen here
notices says because we have testified of goddesses pawnee others
that you raised the price you we did not raise up if in fact
the dead do not rise over sixteen
for if they dead do not rise think christ is not
job paul right-wing cautious chapter three if u
be then raised with crohn's can i ask you have been raised with christ
position where you have because when jesus was raised from the dead who was
he raised four
you and me
so paul says if you began race with price assume it to be cherry says seek
those things which are about
see if there's no future resurrection
if christ was not raising the dead
it's a waste of time talk about seeking heavenly things he says that's her
faction on things above
not on things earlier if you get
annual i think rice now is hidden
but when christ viewers are life appears nadia
when how do we know that governor's race in the dead
then
if you will we will have great reward at that time because we were also appear
with him in gruel worry this is so huge my friends if these things are not true
if it's a fable about future resurrection
if it's a non shrewd about price resurrection that we have nothing to
live for whatsoever
the fifth hypothetical paldon simply think about this poll people would still
be in your sins
you when i'd would not have to give missus sins
we would be miserable for seventeen says that if crisis not risen
then your faith is feudal
it's a different greek words not can i ask that was used as emptiness survey in
the earlier
this is the word it means to blade of true seige of crisis not rescind your
faith instantly of truth and you are still
in your seat
imagine how bummed john the baptist would've been
speaking to his disciples when he points out that jesus he says it all
the lamb of god who takes away the same of the world
there's no future resurrection of christ was not raising the dead
we're still or so
ends every bad thing you've ever done my friend is still a fixed for you
every saying that you ever had committed
would still if you will
you would be accountable for each and every one
can you imagine that
ice shot her death on
number six all believers who have already died
whatever you turn repair
you know there's monsoon is dad's in his grandmother's in his relatives who had
put faith in christ love
whom i've preached funerals four right
it
if there is no future resurrection of christ has not raising the dead
just don't forget
take out the peppermint candies dissolve in your mouth because there is nothing
more
and in paul could not have been
the one in pending first corinthians chapter four and the debt in christ
will rise for
four-nation
you better believe in and finally
finally we will see
in number seven
christians would be the most hitting a ball people on
you know you had to show the biggest loser
you got it
the biggest loser
you know the biggest losers would be
optus
we would be tour with a sacrificial tell you why we'd be the biggest losers
centrifuge chapter eleven it was talked about paul for a moment
setting for instance chapter eleven
false profits had crept into the church of korean paul was defending the truth
and basically you know how you can tell the people who are jenny one person says
it or not
the ones you want jen you one when trouble comes dado exit stage left
doc higher lean it talks about a john chapter ten not that sure shopper
as soon as something goes wrong what is the highly do getting up and enough time
out here
or what the situation up or duty station he fights off the walls
in second christine's chapter eleven first twenty three think about this
paul says about the false prophets are they ministers of christ
i speak as a four high and more
in labor's more abundant in stripes above measure
have you ever been beaten so often you know i can even recall how many strikes
i've got
i remember each one i've got to tell you punch in alphabet recvd
i can tell you every elbow to the head i can say they stitch ever had i remember
everyone of them
can you imagine being beaten for your faith so much
that you go i'd i've lost count
notices in prisons
more frequently and deaths often so many times you know i'm open to live on the
dock
yeah first twenty four from the jews five times i've received forty stripes
minus one
three times i was beaten with rides once i was *** three times i was
shipwrecked
a night anyday i've been in the people i think about prices raise the dead
he actually is a sign of the body cuz he is the biggest loser ever why would you
ever go through all that
for something that's not true
let's continue in journeys often imperils of waters in payrolls are
dangers of robbers
imperils of my own countrymen in payroll so the gentiles and perils in the city
in paris in the wilderness imperils in the city endangers among false rather
verse twenty seven
in wariness and before you all
and sleeplessness often enough hunger and thurs in
castings often
in cold and make it means
who has quite a list what did he suffered for christ not feeling too bad
right now are you
u_k_ show you get rejected from a promotion
u_k_ shortening snob you're there
so little but look what paul suffered because he knew price was race we did
and you know paul must wait at times you know how you know we lost weight in
terms of the first twenty eight
decides the other things what comes up on me daily
my deep concern for all the churches
and one church is enough
to be
in charge of multiple churches and no all the problems and maybe the people
who are struggling they're not doing well and waking up at two a_m_ and
praying for that person and wondering
spong
but i tell you something
and take this the heart
you can risk it all
you can risk at all you should risk it all
you should risk your health
you should risk your finances
you can risk your family
you can risk everything on planet earth could you possibly have because jesus
has been raised from the dead
and if you were on their is a future resurrection and there will be greatly
ward for the people
that's sad
profiles for their god amen
in closing for the second peter
chapter one please
the courts a book of revelation not too far before that second peter chapter one
paul hill
was about time for him the dissecting timothy
clues us into that peter also understands it's about time for him
did i
second peter chapter one and if you pick it up with me please down in verse
fifteen
see i think we take so many things for granted my friends i do
i think we take it for granted everyday that jesus was raising the debt
jenny member when the women went to the two
right after jesus was raised what's your concern today point putting you might
want to concern think that what is to cancer
finances family
what's humane concert company than you might want to make answer
went to a concert
whatever it's gone
the winning confidence-building expect to find a dead savior
and the angel greets the ladies
and says you are not be alarmed in other words stopped wearing because jesus is
alive
dot relatives
who know the lord are about to die
perhaps a spouse
pratt you've had sick children
perhaps your finances aren't as good office they could be your circumstances
really just saying
i say do you stop in a frame
because jesus is alive
and you know if ninety eight percent of americans got work for gay marriage and
work pro-abortion
and if i don't people stand up in a stanford everything contrary to god
stopping in alarm jesus is alive yeah yeah hasn't entering promises to be
weapons to the n_b_a_ dream doesn't you know he makes a difference in our lives
or a we really don't believe me is there
pierce as a second peter wavers fifty moreover
i will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things
after my work
deceased departure somewhere accidents
here say they got there about checkout
i didn't go via bangalore
you are
me to carry on i've passed you to baton teachers for sixteen
deus est we did not follow connie we devised fables when we made known to use
the power to coming of lord jesus christ
but were i'd witnesses of his majesty was he talking about the image
chains figure nation
men would jesus do topiary took james into john
and before div three of them if you will be displayed his quarry at least in part
and have to see the glory of god
the number of moses is wearing doubt because two people have a few world
morgan out and what is he doing taxes chapter thirty three he says the i got
one question near broadway
see if i can see the face of jesus
and i can know that he is standing with me if paul understood jesus being with
him
you can so i mean the powers of hell and you can give me any bad circumstance and
you can bring death my way and it doesn't matter because in all these
things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us
these are not
fables i preach here every week when i preach to you jonna and a big fish there
was a disobedient profit who well anne was pissed obedient to god and god says
you know what you not to run away from anybody
wanna swallowing up
but in the net big fish
way without a bad rap
alright night chronic alito sissy ***
adding joan i learned his lesson
but as i walk you through the bible
you either believe these things
you know what i'm talking about the bible says about finances
you either believe what it says are you do not
when the bible cut-offs you about child rearing and how to do things god's way
you either believe what the word of god says or you down he got what i'm saying
everybody
it's god's way or not say these things really true
or give peter would say you know when i arrived preached a warrant
fables to u this
is
he saw the majesty for seventeen for a t_v_ scene from god the father honor and
glory
when such a voice came to him from the axel and glory this is my beloved son in
the bromide and well please
there was peter
an awesome moses appears and elijah appears that when peter wanted to make
three tabernacle xs one formal as this one for lied you want for jesus and a
moses and elijah don't compare to jesus of affluent voice came down
this is my beloved son this is how it's all about
you know
here him
and we have heard this voice
which came from heaven when we were with him on the holy melton and so we have
the prophetic word conform
when peter is writing these things that he saw all these things
which you do well to what did he
got a he to do
as a light that shines in the dark place until the day dawns in the morning star
rises in your hearts now in this first
that no prophecy of scriptures of any private interpretation of vietnamese
money goes i'm the only one who knows what this thing means you run from that
person
it's ratri one it's for you know it's for me to understand and then in verse
twenty one
for prophecy
never came by the will of may n
but a holy man of god spoke as they were
moved by the holy
sphere
so why should you waived your all things
for jesus christ
all the negative succumb awake why should we endure all as paul in third
all
because that's where it is true
and we are promised a future
and we are told that we will have a glorified body one bay that were
reflected glorified body of the lord jesus christ himself
so we don't know for the hearing now
or we live
for the colonel
knowing what's
which account on right now that's even live for
hegemony trusses word that you would have believed by
that jesus christ is raising the debt you have received by faith
and he promises to be with us that when you walk out of this building today at
by faith you know that jesus christ goes with you
would you tell him you were an embrace teachers of the word of god
and not deviate to the left
and i'm telling you get that but on the truth
and you need to start passing them on to others when you know the truth it is
your obligation to pass a truthful on others and do not allow any worldly
pleasure any so-called temporal delight move you away from that which is eternal
because prices range from the day
and he's waiting one day with the anticipation of take his loving child
his arms as you've been faithful over a few things i'm gonna give you much enter
into the chilling at the pool