WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.779 We have been having a wonderful time together 00:00:02.779 --> 00:00:07.219 in these heart -to -heart talks regarding the 00:00:07.219 --> 00:00:12.599 resurrection. And those of you who have been 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:16.359 following me in these broadcasts, remember that 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.539 I made a very definite statement that the Word 00:00:18.539 --> 00:00:23.800 of God teaches three kinds of resurrections. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:29.870 The first, a national resurrection. which refers 00:00:29.870 --> 00:00:36.670 to Israel. Then the spiritual resurrection. And 00:00:36.670 --> 00:00:40.409 that was the resurrection that we discussed in 00:00:40.409 --> 00:00:42.289 our little heart -to -heart talk the last time 00:00:42.289 --> 00:00:49.170 I was in your home. That resurrection that happens 00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:54.369 every day in somebody's life happens to that 00:00:54.369 --> 00:00:59.619 one who accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior. that 00:00:59.619 --> 00:01:05.439 spiritual resurrection here and now. Oh, that 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.159 resurrection is marvelous. And that was the resurrection 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.859 that is referred to in the fifth chapter of John 00:01:14.859 --> 00:01:19.719 when Jesus himself said, Verily, verily, I say 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:25.079 unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:30.359 on him that sent me hath... Everlasting life. 00:01:31.340 --> 00:01:36.319 That means here and now. You don't wait to receive 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:41.739 your everlasting life after the grave. No. Hath 00:01:41.739 --> 00:01:48.400 now. The very moment that you accept Christ as 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:53.939 your Savior. Hath everlasting life that instant. 00:01:54.859 --> 00:02:00.560 And shall not. come into condemnation, but is 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:07.319 passed from death unto life. Oh, isn't that glorious? 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:14.240 Every person who's been regenerated, every person 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.879 who's had that born -again experience, whether 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.319 they be Jew or Gentile, whether they be Catholic 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:26.939 or Protestant, whoever that one is, Every born 00:02:26.939 --> 00:02:33.120 -again person has had a spiritual resurrection 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:44.020 and hath passed from death unto life. Every time 00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:47.460 a soul is born again, there is a passing from 00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:53.360 death unto life, a spiritual resurrection. Now 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.430 then, having finished, the national resurrection 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:02.169 regarding Israel, having finished the spiritual 00:03:02.169 --> 00:03:06.830 resurrection, which concerns the passing from 00:03:06.830 --> 00:03:14.409 death unto life, we are going now into the material 00:03:14.409 --> 00:03:21.949 resurrection. And I shall begin my next heart 00:03:21.949 --> 00:03:24.840 -to -heart talk And exactly the very place where 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:29.360 I will have to leave you today. Now, see something. 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.219 When we come to this spiritual resurrection, 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:39.740 this is regarding the dead body. Now, the spirit 00:03:39.740 --> 00:03:43.960 of man does not die. Do not think for one split 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:49.740 second that the spirit or the soul of any man 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:55.840 dies. It does not. At no time does the spirit 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:04.379 die. When death comes to the body, the spirit 00:04:04.379 --> 00:04:09.900 goes back to God who gave it. If right now, even 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:11.960 while I'm speaking to you, this split second, 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:18.399 my whole heart would take its last beat. In that 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:23.819 split second, As I'm sitting here on this chair 00:04:23.819 --> 00:04:28.600 before this microphone speaking to you, my body 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.180 would topple from the chair and probably fall 00:04:33.180 --> 00:04:37.519 to the floor. But in that split second, quicker 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:42.360 than you can blink your eye, my soul and my spirit 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:48.620 would leave the body and would go back to God 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:52.759 who gave it. In other words, Two -thirds of me 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:58.579 would go, and only one -third would remain. That's 00:04:58.579 --> 00:05:01.939 all. For man is the trinity, body, soul, and 00:05:01.939 --> 00:05:07.100 spirit. The body goes back to the earth from 00:05:07.100 --> 00:05:10.120 whence it came. For man is a strange combination 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:15.100 of the temporal and the eternal. The body is 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:19.600 the temporal, but the soul and the spirit is 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:25.310 eternal. Forever and forever and forever. And 00:05:25.310 --> 00:05:30.870 death never touches the spirit. It never touches 00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:37.589 the soul of man. You'd be amazed how many letters 00:05:37.589 --> 00:05:43.430 I receive regarding cremation. And I somehow 00:05:43.430 --> 00:05:46.689 have a feeling that when these folk write to 00:05:46.689 --> 00:05:55.800 me and speak of cremation, I often wonder if 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:01.120 because of their insecurity, because of the fear 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.860 of what may happen after death, they want their 00:06:04.860 --> 00:06:09.920 body to be cremated, to be dead sure, as sure 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:14.279 as is humanly possible, that they are absolutely 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.980 dead when they die, and that is the end of all 00:06:17.980 --> 00:06:21.939 things. There is no such thing as annihilation 00:06:21.939 --> 00:06:24.920 when it comes to the soul and the spirit of man. 00:06:25.459 --> 00:06:31.019 Your body can be cremated. Your body can return 00:06:31.019 --> 00:06:36.920 to ashes. And a physical body will return to 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.759 the dust of the earth from whence it came. But 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:46.550 no fire, no water, no power. will ever be able 00:06:46.550 --> 00:06:51.149 to destroy the soul and the spirit. For when 00:06:51.149 --> 00:06:54.930 death comes to the body, the soul and the spirit 00:06:54.930 --> 00:07:00.629 returns to God, goes back to God who gave it. 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:08.149 Before I go deeper into this discussion regarding 00:07:08.149 --> 00:07:11.930 the resurrection of the body, I must make this 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:15.360 very clear. And you must have a definite understanding 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:21.920 as to what happens when death comes. How often 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.480 I have seen folks stand before an open casket 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:30.000 and weep. Oh, beloved, I have done likewise. 00:07:30.699 --> 00:07:36.779 We're human. Oh, beloved, how often I too have 00:07:36.779 --> 00:07:41.019 stood there with the tears raining down my face. 00:07:43.050 --> 00:07:46.350 But because of that glorious hope that you and 00:07:46.350 --> 00:07:49.269 I have in the Lord, because of my confidence 00:07:49.269 --> 00:07:54.050 in Him, I know that that one whose body is lying 00:07:54.050 --> 00:07:58.189 in the casket is not there. That's only the physical 00:07:58.189 --> 00:08:04.430 body. That's all. That body will go back to the 00:08:04.430 --> 00:08:10.250 earth. That body is only temporal. I'm not really 00:08:10.250 --> 00:08:14.269 looking upon that one who's lying there in that 00:08:14.269 --> 00:08:19.290 casket. Sure, I can recognize those features. 00:08:20.250 --> 00:08:26.970 I recognize the body. But the real person is 00:08:26.970 --> 00:08:32.549 not there. The soul and the person, that which 00:08:32.549 --> 00:08:37.190 gives personality. That which makes you separate 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:40.830 and apart from everyone else, that which makes 00:08:40.830 --> 00:08:50.330 you, you, is gone. It is not there. I shall never 00:08:50.330 --> 00:08:53.629 forget when that became such a reality to my 00:08:53.629 --> 00:08:56.990 heart. I'll never forget it. Sure, I had preached 00:08:56.990 --> 00:09:00.950 on the resurrection. I had preached many a sermon 00:09:00.950 --> 00:09:03.789 on the resurrection. There was never an Easter. 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:08.259 of what I had preached on the resurrection of 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:13.039 the body, but it never became real to me until 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:17.120 that day in that little Baptist church, Concordia, 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.879 Missouri, when the church was emptied and no 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:30.519 one was left but just Mama, my brother, my two 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:39.700 sisters. the mortician, the preacher. Just before 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:44.820 the lid was closed for the last time, I had an 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:50.320 experience that I have never had since, and it 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.659 was my first, when I reached over and laid my 00:09:54.659 --> 00:10:00.360 hand on Papa's shoulder, the shoulder on which 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:05.830 I had laid my head. ever since childhood. And 00:10:05.830 --> 00:10:08.350 that I laid my head on that shoulder I had told 00:10:08.350 --> 00:10:12.029 him all my sorrows and all my troubles, all my 00:10:12.029 --> 00:10:18.470 woes. On that shoulder I felt comfort. No matter 00:10:18.470 --> 00:10:24.309 how terrific my toothache was or my earache, 00:10:24.450 --> 00:10:29.289 no sweet oil in that ear ever did for that earache 00:10:29.289 --> 00:10:33.440 what Papa's shoulder would do. No dentist ever 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.639 gave relief to a child's aching tooth that my 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.759 papa's shoulder would give to mine as I laid 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:47.240 my face on that shoulder. No one ever received 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.019 comfort from any human being as the comfort that 00:10:52.019 --> 00:10:58.440 I have received by just laying my head on papa's 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:04.820 shoulder. In that moment, I laid my hand on that 00:11:04.820 --> 00:11:11.220 shoulder. But in that split second, I knew that 00:11:11.220 --> 00:11:17.700 was not Papa. Papa was not there. Sure that was 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:24.139 his body. Sure, the world said, that's Joe Kuhlman. 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:35.110 But my Papa. had left that body. My papa, the 00:11:35.110 --> 00:11:41.750 spirit, the soul of my papa, had gone all the 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:46.950 way from earth to glory. As I stood there, that 00:11:46.950 --> 00:11:51.409 open grave, and saw them partially lower that 00:11:51.409 --> 00:11:54.850 casket in that little cemetery a mile and a quarter 00:11:54.850 --> 00:12:03.110 from town, I knew that was only the shell. No 00:12:03.110 --> 00:12:12.809 grave could hold my papa. No. When I lay those 00:12:12.809 --> 00:12:19.950 wreaths of flowers on that grave, I know that 00:12:19.950 --> 00:12:25.309 my papa is not there. He's very much alive. He's 00:12:25.309 --> 00:12:31.620 living. My papa and my mama are together. Dead? 00:12:31.740 --> 00:12:39.759 No. This isn't death. It's glory. It isn't grief. 00:12:40.620 --> 00:12:46.200 It's having one's last tear wiped away. Oh, beloved, 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:51.240 it's the end to praying. It's speaking face to 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:54.700 face with loved ones. It's meeting loved ones 00:12:54.700 --> 00:13:01.059 again. Beloved, it's the end of pleading. It's 00:13:01.059 --> 00:13:05.559 the end of pain. It's the end of sorrow. We'll 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:10.580 not even have the memory of suffering. Beloved, 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:16.460 it's even the end of faith. I think of that so 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:22.059 often. In that moment, There'll no longer be 00:13:22.059 --> 00:13:25.840 such a thing as faith. You and I live by faith 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:32.059 now. By faith, we must accept these things. By 00:13:32.059 --> 00:13:39.440 faith, we see him. I love him. I've given my 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:47.019 life for him. But I have never seen him. I have 00:13:47.019 --> 00:13:51.759 talked with him. I have known his glorious presence 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:56.159 more real to me than any human being that I have 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.340 ever met in my life. And yet, I have never seen 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:09.460 him. It's a life, it's a walk of faith. But in 00:14:09.460 --> 00:14:14.639 that day when my old heart takes its last beat, 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:21.779 That day when they say death has come to the 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:27.080 preacher lady. I will have preached my last sermon 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:32.340 on faith. I will have taken that last step of 00:14:32.340 --> 00:14:37.840 faith. I will no longer even speak the word faith. 00:14:38.299 --> 00:14:42.759 For that which has been faith all of my life 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:48.940 will have become death. A reality. Oh, to me, 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:53.419 that's marvelous. That's real. That's that glorious 00:14:53.419 --> 00:14:59.539 resurrection. That's what it's all about. And 00:14:59.539 --> 00:15:05.120 then in that moment, remember something. My redemption 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:12.340 will have been perfected. But you see, Miss Kuhlman, 00:15:12.460 --> 00:15:15.200 you're born again. You're a Christian now. I 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:23.879 know. I know. But my redemption will not be perfected 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:33.019 until that day when I stand in His glorious presence. 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.360 That day when it is no longer a life, a walk 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:48.980 of faith. That day. When I see Him face to face, 00:15:49.379 --> 00:15:56.059 in that moment, my redemption will have been 00:15:56.059 --> 00:16:02.539 perfected. Again, I say, I wouldn't exchange 00:16:02.539 --> 00:16:08.360 that glorious hope and that truth for a title 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.980 deed to the whole world. God bless you.