Well, good morning. Welcome to
our continuing Bible study in the Gospel of Luke. We're in
chapter 20 and we're still in Luke 27 through verse 40 here. Kind of to keep things in context,
the Lord has been interacting with some folks, and the chief
priests and the scribes tried to trick Him into saying something
against Caesar, under Caesar the things would be Caesar, and
under God the things would be God. And he dealt with that situation. And then the next thing we find
is this group called the Sadducees, were a religious sect that were
in existence at that time. And there were Essenes and Pharisees
and Sadducees. There were the priests, there
were the elders, and all these different religious entities.
And the Sadducees, had a strict view of only looking at the Pentateuch,
the first five books of Moses, and they didn't believe in the
resurrection or angels or anything really spiritual. And so this
group comes up to him in verse 27 in Luke chapter 20, and then
came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any
resurrection, And they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote
unto us, if any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die
without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed unto his brother. And there were therefore seven
brethren. And the first took a wife, and
died without children. And the second took her to wife,
and he died childless. And the third took her, and in
like manner the seven also. And they left no children, and
died. And last of all, the woman died
also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of them is she? For seven had her two wives."
I try to put him in a trick here and ask him an impossible question. And it was kind of like, we're
pretty smart to have figured out this and give us the benefit of your learning
on this subject. And Jesus answering them said,
the children of this world marry and are given in marriage. But
they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and
the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in
marriage. Neither can they die anymore,
for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God,
being the children of the resurrection. Now that the dead are raised,
even Moses showed at the bush where he calleth the Lord the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he
is not a God of the dead, but of the living. For all live unto
him. And certain of the scribes, another
sect answering, said, Master, thou hast well said. And he took
care of those ignorant Sadducee scribes. Thou hast well said. And after that, they durst not
ask him any question at all. And so that's the context for
our scripture today. And we kind of went through that.
We brought to everyone's attention that in Matthew's account, when
they asked him that in Matthew's account, he said, you do err
not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. And then we
looked at those two fundamental errors that religious folks of
all ages have fall victim to the two things. They don't know
the scripture. They can read the words, but
they don't really understand the spiritual meaning of them.
And you don't know the power of God. Those two things you're
erring in. And if all of your, everything you have is based
on those two errors, then you're going to have problems. And so
we looked at some scriptures dealing with that. And so we
wanted to spend some time kind of aligning our, I guess the
point of this lesson is to align our perspective with who and
what we are as far as the resurrection. And in the resurrection, everybody
wants to know, well, who, what way, why, when and where, you
know, and the scripture tells us that The when is not for us
to know right now. And the when will be when the
last sheep is saved, then the Lord will return and all these
things will take place. And so we're not going to delve
into all the millennial aspects because it says no man knows
when this will happen. But we can know the who. Christ
said, because I live, you shall live also. And we have eternal
life in Him. And in the resurrection, He will
be the first of many brethren. And the what, and we're kind
of looking at it a little bit, the what does it, how does it,
things occur and what will happen and how and why. we're just going to look at the
Scriptures that briefly tell us about the thing. And one of
the things that we looked at was the things about God. Because
the Scripture says, when He comes, we shall be like Him. So in order
for us to understand what will happen in the resurrection, we
need to understand a little bit about God that He provides for
us in the scripture, and what do the scriptures actually say
about the resurrection. So number one, we know that God
is eternal. And God is light, and in Him
is no darkness at all. And the Psalms say that He's
very great, and He's clothed with honor and majesty, and covers
Himself with a light as with a garment, and stretches out
the heavens like a curtain. And then we looked at Genesis,
and when God created something, it was good. And then in Genesis
1.31, it says, when He had made an end to creating all things,
He said it was very good. And then we have the fall that
takes place and kind of creates a different situation
and the cursing of the earth and the ground. So that causes
us to look at our present conditions and speculate about what is to
come and base our trust in God and that He doeth all things
well. we wanted to look at last time was what we don't know and
what is not revealed at presence. Two scriptures point out that
mystery of what's not known, but we are told concerning the
wonder of it. In 1 Corinthians 2, verse 9,
it says, But as it is written, I have not seen nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man the things which
God hath prepared for them that love him. And as Norm pointed
out here Wednesday night in Ephesians, we have all spiritual blessings
in Christ, but we can't fathom the depth of that. We can't fathom
the full scope of all spiritual blessings in Christ. It's just
overwhelming for us, and we get a glimpse of it, and whatever
he reveals to us is so wonderful. And in 1 John 3, verse 2, it
says, Now are we the sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be, doesn't appear, but
we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we
shall see Him as He is. And so, kind of a change that
we noted a little bit in Genesis chapter 1 and in verse 26 and
27 that says God created man in his image created him. And
then we find in the fall, Adam looked at himself and says, well,
I'm not like I used to be. I'm naked now. And I'm afraid
of God where I used to be fellowshipping with him and all those things
that occurred in the fall. And since we're all the product
of Adam and his seed, then we all inherit that disposition. And it's impossible for us in
this life then to comprehend an existence without sin and
without the effects of sin in our life in this world. Everything
we have is impacted by that. My hearing's not as good as it
once was. I used to be a lot taller and
more handsome. Now look at me. All because of shrinkage and
old age setting in, you know. And so we have these things that
we're faced with in the world. And the Lord says, cursed be
the ground, you know. And we're always dealing with
that. You know, we talk about weeds and insects and things
that try to thwart us and everything we do. And our very bodies are affected
by disease and imperfections and all things that have their
roots in sin from the very beginning of the fall. And, you know, Paul
wrote of that very conditioned and seeing that the world then
was very good in its creation and now And everything about
it is totally impacted negatively by sin and the fall and resulting
in the situation that we're now in. In Romans 8, 22, he says, creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together until now." Everything is impacted by the
fall. Our physical circumstances, our
appearance, and being in this world are all impacted and affected
by sin. And how we will be in the world
to come in the resurrection will be quite different when sin is
taken out of the equation. And so we looked at some things
about that. and how we gave some examples
of when the Mount of Transfiguration, when Jesus went up on the Mount,
and he was transfigured before some of the apostles' eyes, and
his face did glow, and his apparel was white. as light and there
appeared with him Moses and Elias and who spoke with him about
his deceased that he should accomplish at Jerusalem. So it was different. Remember Moses when he was exposed
to God and he came away and his face kind of glowed and it scared
everybody so he had to put a veil on so he was just near him you
know he had the kind of osmosis effect I guess we might say.
So we looked a little bit about marriage and how it was a picture
of the lamb and the bride and what it was supposed to be a
typical picture of in the Old Testament and how we'll be known in the world
to come. Given a white stone, it says
in Revelation, and we covered that that stone was from a Greek
jury system where if there was a trial they were they would
vote with a stone, a white stone or a black stone. A white stone
meant you were okay, you were innocent, and a black stone meant
you were guilty. So it kind of led to the blackballing
that we are probably more familiar, you get blackballed out of something,
they don't want you. So that's kind of where that
comes from. So we are starting to look at
some scriptures that talk about our future existence. In 1 Corinthians
chapter 15, we'll do some reading from 1 Corinthians 15, beginning
in verse 35, where the apostle writes, by the Spirit, and as
we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly. It's sown a natural body there
in verse 44. It has raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. And then
we skip down to verse 50. Now I say this, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither does
corruption inherit corruption. Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we all shall be changed. In a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trump
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
death is swallowed up in victory. according to that quote from
Isaiah 25 8. So as part of our view of perspective
here that when we're born again we come to realize that death
is just a change and it's not the end, it's just a change and death doesn't have
the Doesn't present the fear to us that it does to the the
natural man. It doesn't present the the same
issues to us because Paul said well to live is necessary for you,
to die is to gain. He says, but it's better for
me to be here with you because I still have some work to do
here according to the purpose of God. He says, but it would
be better if I was dead and I would be with Christ. So as we look
at these, the things that we want to examine a little bit
what has to take place for us to transition from how we are
now to being equipped to handle eternity. Because right now,
the flesh and blood can't inherit the kingdom of God. It's not
suitable. It's not able. It's in the wrong the wrong way. So the form that
we are now in is a being that's constrained by time and human
physical nature. After the new birth, we begin
to understand and to look at things from a spiritual perspective
that is really born out of eternity. And, you know, Paul looked at
himself and said, who shall deliver me from this body of death? He
recognized that the body that he occupied In this world, he was really
a spiritual being that occupied a body in this world to accomplish
the purposes of God. And he kind of looked at it that
way, and he wrote that way. Who shall deliver me from this
body of death? In Hebrews, again, we looked
at that in Hebrews chapter 2, about how the children are partakers
of flesh and blood. So Christ himself also likewise
took part of the same, that through death you might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is the devil, Hebrews 2.14. And
so we looked at the fact that in God's view, we were His before
the foundation of the world. And Isaiah 8, 18 says, from the Lord of hosts which
dwelleth in Mount Zion." And we're often fond of quoting Jeremiah
and other scriptures that I've loved you with an everlasting
love. That just didn't mean I started loving you from the moment you
were born or the moment that you were born again. I loved
you from eternity. I gave you to my Son to redeem
in the covenant of grace. Called you by the gospel. All
those things that are incorporated in the resurrection is kind of
the final part of the puzzle that comes together in the mystery
of godliness, how things will be in the eternal
spectrum. In 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse
7, we have this treasure, this thing that comes from God, we
have it in earthen vessels. 2nd Corinthians 4 7 we have this
treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may
be of God and not of us so that we understand that nothing that
we could do in this flesh or this body that could could present
us spotless in front of God we have this We have to depend on
Him in everything. Job understood clearly that he
was in a condition according to God's purpose in this world,
which was a temporary condition. And he said in Job chapter 10
verse 11, he says, Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,
and fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou has granted me life
and favor, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit." And
then a little bit later in chapter 14, he said, if a man dies, shall
he live again? Brings up this question of the
resurrection. And then he says, all the days
of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Isn't that
an interesting... that scripture is just so interesting
to me that he recognized that he was in a temporary condition
and waiting for a change to come. So he put up with a lot of things.
The trials of Job are kind of synonymous with a lot of bad
luck coming your way. But in the end, the Lord takes
care of him. Peter in 2nd Peter chapter 1
verse 13 says, I think it meet as long as I'm in this tabernacle
in this body to stir you up by putting you in remembrance knowing
that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle even as the Lord
Jesus hath showed me. So he knew that his time in this
world was drawing to a close. But he says, then I'll just be
in a different world, in a different dimension, in a different realm
with Christ. He says, but in the meantime,
I'm supposed to, I have a job to do. I have to stir you up
to remembrance of the gospel and what Christ has done for
you. In 2 Corinthians 5, he says, we know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved, We have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. In verse 4 it says, for we that
are in this tabernacle do groan. While we're in this body we groan,
being burdened. Not for that we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up in life.
We have this We're in this body that's subject to this realm,
this dimension, this time, these conditions, and it's subject
to all the natural laws that affect it. In Hebrews 11 13 it
says these in that great faith chapter he lists all those ones
that are by faith by faith by faith And it said these all died
in faith not having received the promises but having seen
them afar off were persuaded of them and embraced them and
and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the
earth." That word is only found in Hebrews and 1st Peter actually. Paraepidemos, which is translated
as either pilgrim or stranger in this particular verse that
we just read from Hebrews and in 1st Peter. Sometimes he refers
to them as strangers and sometimes as pilgrims. But that word is
a compound word formed from two Greek words, para and epidemio,
which are defined as an alien alongside of, a resident foreigner. And when Peter wrote, he wrote
to a bunch of primarily Jews that had been kicked out of there
where they had previously lived and were scattered throughout.
Remember they were scattered throughout Pontius and Galatia
and Cappadocia and they'd been evicted out of Rome, they'd been
evicted out of the homeland and chased off and scattered and
were strung all over the world at that time. And they were,
they said, well we're in this country but We're not from here. And isn't that what the scripture
tells us in John chapter 17? It says, these are in the world. They're not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. They're in the world, but not
of the world. And that's the perspective that Jesus presents
us. Interesting verse in Philippians
chapter 3, verse 20 and 21 Philippians 3 20 says for our conversation
is in heaven our our manner of life is what that really means
are from whence we we also look for the savior the lord jesus
christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned
like his glorious body according to the working whereby he is
able to even to subdue all things unto himself And this term, vile,
is an interesting word. It means, it suggests that our
bodies in this world exist in a depressed state. That's kind
of what that word means. Our bodies exist in a depressed
state. They're affected by the things
of this world. And then it further states in
this verse that This condition must be and shall be changed. He shall change our vile body. And you know, when we think of
vile things, in today's language, it kind of gives a negative connotation
of all manner of evil corruption kind of things. Something is
vile, smells vile, looks vile, but it really has to do with
just a function of the condition that we're subjected to in this
world because of sin and the fall. Our vile body. And so it says it must and shall
be changed, and changed is from this Greek compound word indicating
that a transfiguration will take place over the circumstance,
the position, and the external condition in which we now are."
This kind of a long sentence that means Things are not going
to be the same, and they can't be the same because the condition
that we were in is not suitable for the condition in which we
will now or soon find ourselves in. That's what Job said, I'll
wait till my change come. I'll patiently wait till my,
all the days of my appointed time, I'll wait till my change
come. And again, we looked at when God created it was good
and then in the sin and the fall, the effects of that that were
that the world and in man resulted in many flaws, imperfections,
deficiencies, weaknesses, defects, of which unbelief is the worst.
Now, all those things are kind of the opposite of God. And that's
where we come from in the natural sense because of the fall. But
imagine, if you can, a form or body with zero defects, without
sin, without the effects of sin, presented without spot or wrinkle,
a spiritual body, as it said in 1 Corinthians 15-44. Not like
the seed of Abraham, it says, but kind of like the angels. In Matthew 22.30 it says, They
are not given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
We can't really imagine how we would be if we weren't impacted
by thousands of years of sin that's impacted every atom of
the world. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12, about an experience, and he said,
I knew a man in Christ about 14 years ago, and he said, whether
it was in the body, I cannot tell, or whether it was out of
the body, I can't tell, but God knows. Such a one caught up to
the third heaven, and I knew such a man, whether it was in
the body or out of the body, I can't tell, God knoweth, how
that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words,
which is not lawful for a man to utter. He said, of such a
one will I glory, yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities. He said, there's nothing really
to glory about in my present condition. But he says, the body
that Christ gives me in the resurrection and the things that will happen
then, He says, that will be to the glory of God. That will be
something worth glorying of. 2 Corinthians 4.14 says, knowing
that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also
by Jesus and shall present us with you. So those things are
in the works. We skip down to verse 18 there,
and we're kind of skipping through some verses here because of time
constraints. But in 2 Corinthians 4.18, it
says we come to this perspective thing
again, knowing what we know. And we don't know everything,
but we know enough. While we look not at the things
which are seen, there in 2 Corinthians 4.18, we don't really look at
the things that are seen as the permanent situation. We look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things
which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not
seen are eternal. And so thus we must be changed
to exist and to thrive in an eternal environment and nothing
to wear out, no disease, nothing to debilitate, everything in
perfect harmony. We can't even imagine that, you
know, things being in perfect harmony, everything working the
way that God intends it without the impacts of sin. And we kind
of find a metaphor for that in the Old Testament where in Deuteronomy
chapter 29 where he says in verse 5, I have led you 40 years in
the wilderness. Your clothes aren't wax and old.
Your shoes didn't wear out. What a wonderful picture that
he shows us. He's able to subdue all things
unto himself. Able to give you a pair of shoes
that never wears out. Yvonne has to replace hers that
she walks in every six months. She grinds them down to nothing
on the pavement. That's not 40 years worth. And
it says in Exodus chapter 16 verse 35, the children of Israel
did eat manna for the same 40 years that they wandered in the
wilderness. They ate manna until they came to a land inhabited.
They did eat manna until they came to the borders of the land
of Canaan. In Revelation 2.17 it says, it
talks about the hidden manna. that whoso eat of this bread
shall live forever." Also in John 6, 58. So, things that God
provides that have an eternal picture. eternal life there in John 3.15,
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal
life. Eternal life then is really an integral part of the element
of the gospel and the result of saving grace. And I think
the apostles got more trouble preaching the resurrection than
if you go through the book of Acts. They were always in hot
water for preaching the resurrection because people didn't, they didn't
like the consequences of it. So saving grace and the incorporating
effect of the elect into the realm of eternity are really
sovereign prerogatives of God, which he promised according to
his own will and purpose. And, you know, in Acts 13, 48,
when the Gentiles heard that gospel, they were glad and glorified
the word of the Lord. And as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed. So all these things were encompassed
into that ordination into eternal life and belief. And then we
looked at what things are eternal Well, God, righteousness, truth,
light, life, all those things we looked at in the last lesson. And if we're to be like Him,
then all those things must be incorporated into us as well
in this change. If we're going to be like Him,
then we must assume certain qualities that we don't have now. Right
now we're changeable, we're malleable, we're subject to effects of time. that won't be a factor. Then
time is like a bubble in eternity in which the elect and the non-elect
dwell until the purpose of God causes them to be drawn to Him
or forever separated. There's only those two outcomes.
The vessels of mercy that He have prepared for glory will
be drawn to Him through the gospel and the effect of saving grace
on them. or the others, the other ones
that the vessels of wrath before prepared under his wrath are
in the other bucket forever separated. In our human nature we have this
finite point of beginning, Then a series of events which we relate
to in increments of time relative to our beginning. We have birthdays. Somebody's not muted out there.
Anyway, so We have these things that we relate to, you know,
we get a year older we get We work so many days and then we
get a vacation of this length of time or we get so many hours
of sick time everything we do is related to increments of time
and and relative to our beginning and and to us time is always
a like right now and and Tomorrow really doesn't exist. Although
in our minds we count on it as guaranteed We expect it to occur
and on time we plan for it Norman's planning to jump on a plane the
14th at a certain time of day and fly hurdle through the air
and aluminum tube as we say and and land in Florida. He plans
on that time frame being pretty reliable and trustworthy. And thus we look at all things that
way. But you know Augustine One of
the early church fathers said, time is the means by which redemptive
history is fulfilled. That's the purpose that it serves
in God's eternal purpose. And for God, time is an instrument
to accomplish His eternal purpose. But we'll be transitioning from
that into an eternal perspective. Time is irrelevant in that realm. Opposite to our nature and being,
all of God's attributes are as eternal and unchanging as He
is. Light and life and truth and
righteousness and everything else about Him and about us will
be contained in those truths. In time, He utilized time For
the redemption of the Church in the fullness of time, God
sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, according
to His purpose. God has expressed His righteousness
in His Son, who is light and moves in those to whom He gave
the Son to extricate them from this darkness in which they exist. into this entirely different
circumstance where there is no darkness, there's only light.
In the Revelation it says Christ, there's no sun, there's no anything,
Christ is the light. And we've been called out of
darkness into that marvelous light. Sovereignly called out
of darkness into his marvelous light. And so this darkness is
a temporary function in time for the elect. Light is an existence
in eternity that will always be there in Christ. Darkness
is outside of God. Light is inside with God and
is God. That's what 1 John tells us that
this is the message that we have heard and declaring to you that
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. Light and true
eternity can only truly be understood spiritually after the new birth.
We don't really have time to go into it now, but we've looked
at the spectrum of light and know that we can only see a pretty
small portion of it with our naked eye. We can look at a spectrograph
and see the Frequencies of light go off kind
of eternally and in all directions and but we can only see a little
spider there The seven basic colors and some 50-some variations
of those I think and so that The light that we get from Christ
is it's it's there but it's simply not observable and Without the
new birth from above we we can't see it because we're in darkness
a spiritual light that we we often speak about In him was
light and life was the light of men He says but because the
fall men love darkness rather than light. That's where our
natural inclination is to be drawn to that that darkness until
we we have the new birth and then who were drawn into the
light. And then that affects how we
perceive God versus how we perceived Him beforehand. And now we're
starting to look at Him in more of an eternal situation and how
He operates and what He is. Psalm 50 says, you thought I
was just like you, but I'm not. You thought I'm like you and
I can be manipulated like you. You think that I'm persuadable.
You think that I'm changeable. You think that I'm evolving.
You think that I view sin subjectively based on changing opinions, tastes,
or feelings like we have now. He says, but eternally, I've
always been the same, I change not. And one of the factors that
we look at God is His love is unchanging. I've loved you with
an everlasting love or an eternal love, therefore with loving kindness
have I drawn you from Jeremiah there and Malachi. I change not, therefore you're
not consumed. If I was changeable, you would
all be toast, but I'm not. So there's many scriptures that
talk about the unchangeableness of God. There's many scriptures
that talk about all the attributes of Him and how they're all related
to His eternal nature. But I guess I would like for
us to have our view of eternity change from being screened through
our experiential nature, the distortion of time and the effects
of sin, and kind of try to look at them from a spiritual perspective. Paul said that now, after we're
reborn, after we're saved, we see through a glass darkly. We
have a glimmer of it, but we see through a glass darkly, but
then face to face, he says, now I know in part, but then I shall
know even as I am known. And again, in 2 Corinthians 4,
18, while we look not at the things which are seen, but the
things which are not seen, and take our view from that, from
the eternal things. In our flesh here now, we see
with the eyes of flesh, which can physically only relate to
the dimension and sphere of time in which we exist. Remember that
in one of our previous Bible classes, we talked about an episode
that happened in 2 Kings 6, verse 17. And Elisha had a servant,
and they were surrounded by the enemy. And the servant, he was
panicking out. And Elisha says, well, calm down. Everything's okay. And he says,
but look. They're all surrounding us and
we're going to be killed. And in 2 Kings 6, 17, Elisha
prayed and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may
see. And the Lord opened the eyes
of the young man and he saw, behold, the mountain was full
of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. They were
there. But with physical eyes, he just
couldn't see them. He had to have a spiritual eyes
opened up by the Lord to see what was there all along in that
dimension that he couldn't really see. And of course, you all know
the outcome of that and what happened to those folks. So the
natural man looked for things which can't be seen because they're
hidden, they're obscured by the darkness of sin. They look in
the Bible and they just see things which they can relate to in this
world, not being born again from above. Jesus said, unless you're
born again, you can't see the Kingdom of God. You can't see
it in the Scripture, you can't see it in the world. And the
natural man doesn't receive those things. And the more light we
do get, the more we see how much we can't see. The more we know,
the more we know how much we don't know. And we depend on
Christ to take care of that for us and trust in Him. And so as
time goes by, and as we become like Christ, we too must become
unchangeable, as opposed to this condition that we exist in now,
where we're always changing. Flesh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God. We're delivered from the power
of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son.
It means we're translated. It's an interesting word. means to be transferred, carried
away, deposed, which means to remove suddenly and forcefully.
We have translators over on the mountain across the river there
that takes electronic signals from Portland in the VHF band
and translate them into the UHF band and rebroadcast them. So
they come in in one form. instantaneously or change to
another form and rebroadcast it out. I like that hymn, I think I mentioned
this the last time, the bottom of page seven. Praise the Savior,
ye who know him. And the chorus is, then we shall
be where we would be. Then we shall be what we should
be. Things that are not now, nor
could be, soon shall be our own. When in the twinkling of an eye,
a mystery, we shall all be changed. So in our closing verse here,
and then comes from 1 Thessalonians 4.14.
We didn't quite get through all of the scriptures that I wanted
to today, says if we believe that jesus died and rose again
even so them also which sleep in jesus will god bring with
him for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that
we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall
not prevent them which are asleep we won't be ahead of them for
the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with
the voice of the archangel with the trump of God and the dead
in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord therefore
comfort one another with these words so with that be comforted
be free eternally and thank for your attention and it'll be a
Couple weeks till we're next week. We're having brunch. So
we won't have Bible class next week. So thank you