WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:05.379 I wish I could answer all of your questions. 00:00:07.259 --> 00:00:13.099 But if I were able to answer all of your questions, 00:00:13.179 --> 00:00:17.339 then I would be God. You must remember that I 00:00:17.339 --> 00:00:23.260 have questions that I'm waiting to receive the 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:30.399 answer to. And it's just like that. Oh, sure. 00:00:31.070 --> 00:00:36.329 you'd be amazed how many questions that i'm waiting 00:00:36.329 --> 00:00:43.450 for the mastery himself to answer for me you 00:00:43.450 --> 00:00:50.130 see i'm human too but that's where real faith 00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:53.840 and trust and confidence comes in I think so 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.579 very often whenever we think of faith, we always 00:00:56.579 --> 00:01:00.079 think of it in connection with the healing of 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:05.140 a physical body. Divine healing. Oh, that's such 00:01:05.140 --> 00:01:12.859 a small part of faith. When I think of faith, 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:23.069 I think of faith in my relationship to Him. Guarding 00:01:23.069 --> 00:01:31.049 his wisdom and his knowledge and his absolute 00:01:31.049 --> 00:01:42.489 perfection. When I think about my faith, I always 00:01:42.489 --> 00:01:53.379 think about my complete confidence. In his perfect 00:01:53.379 --> 00:01:57.560 knowledge, even though I do not understand. His 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:05.319 perfect wisdom. If I have faith in the perfect 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:09.819 wisdom of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, then 00:02:09.819 --> 00:02:13.819 I'll never question anything he does. Never. 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.180 Never. Let me ask you, do you have that kind 00:02:20.180 --> 00:02:25.400 of confidence in him? Do you have that kind of 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:32.740 faith in him? Do you have perfect faith and confidence 00:02:32.740 --> 00:02:42.580 in his absolute judgment and wisdom? Then you'll 00:02:42.580 --> 00:02:47.669 never go around bawling around and... Feeling 00:02:47.669 --> 00:02:51.409 sorry for yourself and whining and saying, why 00:02:51.409 --> 00:02:55.469 did he allow this to happen? Why did this happen 00:02:55.469 --> 00:03:00.050 to me? Every time you ask that question, you 00:03:00.050 --> 00:03:04.430 prove that you do not have complete trust and 00:03:04.430 --> 00:03:08.810 confidence in his perfect wisdom and his perfect 00:03:08.810 --> 00:03:13.469 judgment. Well, I just threw it in for good measure. 00:03:15.310 --> 00:03:20.530 Because... We've been talking about... Well, 00:03:20.590 --> 00:03:25.610 in fact, I started out yesterday to answer the 00:03:25.610 --> 00:03:30.430 question that a lady from Long Beach asked. Will 00:03:30.430 --> 00:03:35.990 we know our loved ones over there? And I just 00:03:35.990 --> 00:03:40.210 got started when I looked up and... Pleasure, 00:03:40.210 --> 00:03:43.969 it was time for me to leave your house. I never 00:03:43.969 --> 00:03:48.849 had 30 minutes go so quickly in my life. I just 00:03:48.849 --> 00:03:52.889 looked up. I couldn't believe my own eyes. I 00:03:52.889 --> 00:03:54.069 thought for a minute there was something wrong 00:03:54.069 --> 00:03:55.509 with the clock, but nothing has ever gone wrong 00:03:55.509 --> 00:03:59.669 with this clock. So I knew it just had gone so 00:03:59.669 --> 00:04:02.069 quickly because we were talking about something 00:04:02.069 --> 00:04:05.710 that was most interesting to all of us because 00:04:05.710 --> 00:04:09.569 it will affect... all of us. We're all involved. 00:04:10.550 --> 00:04:14.150 And we're talking about the resurrection of the 00:04:14.150 --> 00:04:18.370 physical body. And that's one thing. I don't 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:21.050 care who you are, whether you're rich or poor, 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:25.610 Jew or Gentile, regardless of your race, your 00:04:25.610 --> 00:04:30.870 color, your nationality. If you are a part of 00:04:30.870 --> 00:04:34.329 humanity, the very thing that I'm talking about 00:04:34.329 --> 00:04:43.079 will affect you. You marvel not at this, Jesus 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:48.120 said, very clearly, very distinctly. For the 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:52.639 hour is coming in the which all that are in the 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:57.180 graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth. 00:04:57.740 --> 00:05:00.800 They that have done good unto the resurrection 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.240 of life. They that have done evil unto the resurrection 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:11.180 of... Damnation. Some claim that the departure 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:15.360 of the soul and the spirit from the body is what 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.319 is meant by the resurrection. But that cannot 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:25.740 be so. For as we have seen, the dead are to arise 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:31.180 from their graves and only that can come out 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:35.500 of the grave that went into it. and the only 00:05:35.500 --> 00:05:39.540 thing that is put into the grave is the body 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:45.519 i repeat all that goes into the grave is the 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:51.040 body and all that can come out of the grave is 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:56.540 the body then there are those who believe in 00:05:56.540 --> 00:06:01.660 what they call the germ theory and this is what 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:06.269 they believe that in every human body there's 00:06:06.269 --> 00:06:10.670 a living germ that is indestructible and though 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:16.009 the body turn to dust that living germ will exist 00:06:16.009 --> 00:06:20.290 in the grave until after resurrection a new body 00:06:20.290 --> 00:06:25.610 shall spring from it this theory explains how 00:06:25.610 --> 00:06:30.209 the body may be eaten by animals destroyed by 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:37.620 Lime are grown to atoms, are mutilated by the 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:40.980 loss of limbs, and so on and so forth, and still 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:46.959 the life germ exists from which shall come the 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:53.680 resurrection body. And those who are advocates 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.980 of this theory claim that Paul teaches it in 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:04.540 1 Corinthians 15. 14th chapter, where he compares 00:07:04.540 --> 00:07:07.100 the resurrection of the body with the plant that 00:07:07.100 --> 00:07:10.579 comes up from the seed. Now watch something. 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:16.180 We know that the seed is different from the plant 00:07:16.180 --> 00:07:21.720 that bore it, just as the acorn is different 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:26.160 from the oak tree. But the plant that springs 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.069 from the seed will be like... The plant that 00:07:31.069 --> 00:07:36.170 bore it. And so the body that comes from the 00:07:36.170 --> 00:07:42.110 indestructible life germ should be alike in kind 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:49.649 to the body that produced the germ. While the 00:07:49.649 --> 00:07:55.629 resurrection body shall be alike in kind, it'll 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:58.870 be different in character. and possess different 00:07:58.870 --> 00:08:05.550 qualities. This Paul declares when he says, all 00:08:05.550 --> 00:08:12.069 flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one 00:08:12.069 --> 00:08:17.110 kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, 00:08:17.269 --> 00:08:23.470 another fishes, another birds. And this is what 00:08:23.470 --> 00:08:29.139 he's saying, the flesh of God's creatures is 00:08:29.139 --> 00:08:36.679 adapted to their environment. Fish flesh cannot 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:42.299 fly in the air, nor bird flesh swim in the sea. 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:47.860 And so there are bodies that are terrestrial, 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:54.240 bodies that are celestial, and the human body 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:59.509 as it is now. as our bodies are constituted now, 00:08:59.850 --> 00:09:05.610 could not exist in heaven. Our physical bodies 00:09:05.610 --> 00:09:10.129 are not geared for heaven. This old physical 00:09:10.129 --> 00:09:11.990 body of mine, even though I'm talking to you 00:09:11.990 --> 00:09:17.649 right now, is not geared for heaven. There must 00:09:17.649 --> 00:09:21.909 be a change. There's got to be a change. And 00:09:21.909 --> 00:09:24.590 this change is brought about by the resurrection. 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.539 This is exactly what Paul is talking about when 00:09:30.539 --> 00:09:35.500 he says, So also is the resurrection of the dead. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:42.759 It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption. 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:47.559 It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. 00:09:47.940 --> 00:09:52.240 It is sown in weakness. But it is raised in power. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:59.850 It is sown a natural birth. body. It is raised 00:09:59.850 --> 00:10:09.009 a spiritual body. This does not mean that it 00:10:09.009 --> 00:10:15.929 will have no substance. We cannot conceive of 00:10:15.929 --> 00:10:22.750 a body that is to have the faculties of the spirit 00:10:22.750 --> 00:10:32.090 body not having form and substance. I believe 00:10:32.090 --> 00:10:39.789 with every atom of my being that our spiritual 00:10:39.789 --> 00:10:45.730 bodies, our resurrected bodies, will absolutely 00:10:45.730 --> 00:10:55.080 have form and have substance. I believe there 00:10:55.080 --> 00:11:01.399 will be bone. I believe that we will recognize 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:07.100 our loved ones. I believe with every atom of 00:11:07.100 --> 00:11:13.299 my being that I'll recognize Papa and Papa will 00:11:13.299 --> 00:11:19.659 know me. I'll recognize Mama and Mama will know 00:11:19.659 --> 00:11:27.860 me. You'll never, All of the forces of this earth 00:11:27.860 --> 00:11:35.480 could never change my mind on that. Now, I'll 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:40.500 tell you the reason why. Christ's resurrected 00:11:40.500 --> 00:11:48.759 body is a sample of what ours is to be. And I 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.419 have read everything. I have studied everything 00:11:52.419 --> 00:11:57.679 in the Word of God. regarding the body of Jesus 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:03.220 after His resurrection. For the Bible teaches 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:07.840 that our resurrected body shall be like unto 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:14.740 His. Therefore, if you and I know what His body 00:12:14.740 --> 00:12:18.299 was like after His resurrection, then we'll know 00:12:18.299 --> 00:12:23.909 what our bodies will be like. While it is true 00:12:23.909 --> 00:12:28.549 that his body did not seek corruption, and he 00:12:28.549 --> 00:12:32.950 rose in the same body that was laid in the grave, 00:12:33.190 --> 00:12:38.549 while it was the same in identity, it was different 00:12:38.549 --> 00:12:45.429 in character. All right? Let me read you a personal 00:12:45.429 --> 00:12:49.529 word of God, as recorded in the 20th chapter 00:12:49.529 --> 00:12:57.649 of John. This now, is after his death, his burial, 00:12:57.730 --> 00:13:00.610 and his resurrection. And I'm beginning with 00:13:00.610 --> 00:13:05.509 the 19th verse. Then the same day at evening, 00:13:05.830 --> 00:13:10.090 being the first day of the week, when the doors 00:13:10.090 --> 00:13:14.330 were shut, where the disciples were assembled 00:13:14.330 --> 00:13:21.649 for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in 00:13:21.649 --> 00:13:28.340 the midst. and saith unto them peace be unto 00:13:28.340 --> 00:13:40.820 you the doors were closed they were shut never 00:13:40.820 --> 00:13:47.659 before had he appeared to them in this way before 00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:55.139 his death burial and resurrection but suddenly 00:13:55.139 --> 00:14:00.740 the doors being shut where the disciples were 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:06.600 assembled for fear of the jews i dare say they 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:12.559 had them locked but suddenly came jesus and stood 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:17.620 in the midst and saith unto them peace be unto 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:25.259 you He stood there. He's standing there in their 00:14:25.259 --> 00:14:30.899 midst in bodily form. And when he had so said, 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:40.480 he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:45.120 were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. 00:14:45.899 --> 00:14:53.049 They saw him. They rejoiced. They knew it was 00:14:53.049 --> 00:14:59.730 the Lord. They recognized him. His body had flesh. 00:15:00.029 --> 00:15:08.289 His body had bone. It had form. It had shape. 00:15:10.509 --> 00:15:17.120 There he stands in their midst. and jesus said 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:21.159 unto them peace be unto you as my father hath 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:25.940 sent me even so send i you and when he had said 00:15:25.940 --> 00:15:31.159 this he breathed on them saith unto them receive 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:36.059 ye the holy ghost oh you know the rest of it 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:44.200 but there was one thomas one of the twelve who 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:48.919 was not with them when Jesus came. And the other 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.039 disciples therefore said unto him, We've seen 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:57.600 the Lord. They knew him. They recognized him. 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:03.299 We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, 00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:07.659 Except I see in his hands the print of the nails, 00:16:07.779 --> 00:16:11.620 and put my finger into the print of the nails. 00:16:12.379 --> 00:16:16.620 and thrust my hand into his side i will not believe 00:16:16.620 --> 00:16:24.700 i've got to be sure i can't just take your word 00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:30.960 for it and after eight days again his disciples 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:35.720 were with him and thomas with them then came 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:42.759 jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:48.419 and said unto them peace be unto you then saith 00:16:48.419 --> 00:16:55.299 he to thomas reach thither thy finger behold 00:16:55.299 --> 00:17:03.799 my hands reach hither thy hand thrust thee into 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:10.880 my side be not faithless but believing And Thomas 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:19.640 answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:26.380 And Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou 00:17:26.380 --> 00:17:33.019 hast seen me, thou hast believed. But blessed 00:17:33.019 --> 00:17:42.140 are they that have not seen, and yet. have believed. 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:52.200 He was talking about us, about you and me. They 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.440 saw him after his resurrection. They conversed 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:05.099 with him. They ate with him. They partook of 00:18:05.099 --> 00:18:17.920 the fish. Sure. Sure, Thomas. Thou hast seen 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:25.099 me, and thou hast believed. But looking down 00:18:25.099 --> 00:18:27.980 through the telescope of time, he thought about 00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:32.799 you and he thought about me, those of us who 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.319 did not look upon those nail -pierced hands. 00:18:38.569 --> 00:18:43.950 who have not seen him in bodily form. Blessed, 00:18:43.950 --> 00:18:50.470 Jesus said, all they that have not seen and yet 00:18:50.470 --> 00:18:59.190 have believed. Going back to the physical body 00:18:59.190 --> 00:19:04.930 of Jesus after his resurrection, I still contend 00:19:04.930 --> 00:19:12.960 that his resurrection body was a sample of what 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:18.380 ours is to be like after our bodies are resurrected. 00:19:20.980 --> 00:19:26.839 While the nail prints and the spear wound were 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:32.839 visible, it could pass through closed doors. 00:19:33.500 --> 00:19:37.549 It could appear and disappear at will. It had 00:19:37.549 --> 00:19:42.549 flesh. It had bones. Read it. The 24th chapter 00:19:42.549 --> 00:19:49.910 of Luke. The 39th verse. But not blood. There 00:19:49.910 --> 00:19:54.470 was no blood in that resurrected body. For flesh 00:19:54.470 --> 00:20:00.309 and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God. For 00:20:00.309 --> 00:20:06.230 blood is that which causes corruption. To preserve 00:20:06.230 --> 00:20:09.549 a body, it must be drained of blood. Are the 00:20:09.549 --> 00:20:15.049 blood chemically preserved by an embalming fluid? 00:20:16.190 --> 00:20:20.970 As the sacrifice was to be bled, so Jesus left 00:20:20.970 --> 00:20:27.410 his blood on the earth. Our resurrected bodies 00:20:27.410 --> 00:20:35.089 will have visible form and shape. I believe that. 00:20:35.230 --> 00:20:40.470 It stands to reason that our physical bodies, 00:20:40.670 --> 00:20:44.869 after its resurrection, will have a framework 00:20:44.869 --> 00:20:51.990 of flesh and of bones. It will be the flesh and 00:20:51.990 --> 00:20:59.490 bones adapted to its new environment. And it's 00:20:59.490 --> 00:21:05.619 just like that. Go back again to that wonderful 00:21:05.619 --> 00:21:10.660 verse of scripture. The first chapter of Acts. 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:18.819 It was not a spirit that they beheld. It was 00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:23.960 a body that was visible to the eye. Those last 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:30.220 moments before the feet of Jesus left this old 00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:36.599 earth. and when he had spoken these things while 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:42.059 they beheld he was taken up and the cloud received 00:21:42.059 --> 00:21:49.420 him out of their sight and while they looked 00:21:49.420 --> 00:21:54.920 steadfastly toward heaven as he went up behold 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:58.900 two men stood by them in white apparel which 00:21:58.900 --> 00:22:05.440 said unto them Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:12.940 gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus. Oh, I 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:23.140 love those three words. This same Jesus. The 00:22:23.140 --> 00:22:29.539 same Jesus who challenged Thomas. The same... 00:22:29.930 --> 00:22:32.329 Jesus with the print of the nails in his hand, 00:22:32.509 --> 00:22:40.089 the wound in his side, the same Jesus whose physical 00:22:40.089 --> 00:22:45.230 body came through doors that remained locked 00:22:45.230 --> 00:22:50.490 and closed. This same Jesus was taken up from 00:22:50.490 --> 00:22:54.210 you into heaven, shall so come in like manner 00:22:54.210 --> 00:23:03.299 as ye have seen him go into heaven. in bodily 00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:11.140 form. And our bodies, our resurrected bodies, 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:18.200 will be like unto His body. As He was recognized, 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:27.539 so will we be recognized by our loved ones. God 00:23:27.539 --> 00:23:28.000 bless you.