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three good they tell you god bless you say welcome to the shepherd's chapel welcome to this family Bible study are going to get brought back into our father's word 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 we'll be picking it up about verse 10 remember this Paul this is probably Paul's first letter okay that is to say from the father and Christ has been crucified about twenty years at this time and the letter addresses the return of Christ us to say both first and second Thessalonians address the second Advent the second coming of Christ so it prepares you for that and he said you know as we had gotten to this tenth verse is that as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you do it okay take care of each other love each other in Christian way okay so having said that this probably is one of the most important chapters in God's Word and probably is miss taught more than any other chapter in God's Word so let's pay strict attention let's follow the subject the object that Paul is addressing and you drop everything you've ever heard a man say and listen to the Word of God see what God has to say and you won't be deceived all right having said that a word of wisdom from our Father in Yeshua's name first thessalonians chapter 4 verse 10 and it reads and indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that you increase more and more you keep doing that missionary work and you let the word spread and you let that brotherly love increase more and more verse 11 and that you study to be quiet that is to say sincere that you've got it in other words okay and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you everyone should set a good example in the commune and that good example in the community will protect your credibility whereby people will listen to you there's 12 that you may walk honestly that means becoming Li okay toward them that are without and that you may have lack of nothing but you've got it all verse 13 but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep you know what that saying I don't want you to be ignorant about the dead and where they are okay that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope in other words the heathen don't know where the dead are we as Christians know that instantly like we just completed Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 7 6 through 7 where we know instantly the flesh goes into the ground and goes back to dirt which is what it is but the spirit the intellect of the soul nephesh in the Hebrew and the rock that is to say the spirit of the man the intellect of that soul returns to the Father that gave it instantly okay so what is there to be sorry about that naturally we're gonna miss them but they're with the father and as it is written in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verses 7 and 8 to be absent from this body flesh is to be present with the Lord he said I don't want you to be ignorant like the heathen that don't know that I want you to know that all that are dead or with the father did we not read in John chapter 8 that God is the god of the living not the dead that Abraham Isaac and Jacob walk with Him daily they're not dead we could even go one step further and say not even Satan is dead and he's been sentenced to die but nobody dies until the great al the great white throne judgment and that's a long way coming yet we've still got the Lord's Day to go through which how long is the day with the Lord a thousand years let's go with the next verse please verse 14 listen carefully for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again I hope you do I hope you believe that he resurrected or you're not a Christian even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him why they're gone on so they resurrected they went to heaven to be with the father I mean the good the bad and the ugly do you know why because God is the one that judges them some of them are going to be judged straight to hell after the end of the millennium but they all go to the Father this is why Jesus would teach us in Luke chapter 16 the parable of Lazarus and the rich man that here they are in paradise and there's a gulf in between those that overcame and those that have to wait for judgment to overcome at the end of the Lord's Day so let that settle into your mind it says here they're not out here in some hole in the ground that's the flesh it's just dirt but the person if you believe Christ rose from the dead you better believe that they have also their spirit body that is to say not their flesh you better believe they are with him that's why you don't want to mope and grieve like there's nothing wrong with grieving but at the same time let there be joy for you know they have reached what they sought and that is to say the presence of Almighty God okay so amazing that people you know one of the greatest gifts a Christian can have is to be able to comfort someone that loses a loved one and assure them that they're with the father okay now not not later now okay verse 15 for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord do you understand what are they saying this by the word of the Lord what what when did the Lord say that ecclesiastical it for you to be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord in khaleesi asked these twelve seven the flesh returns to dust and man's spirit and soul body go instantly to the Father that gave it that's by the word of God that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord that's the subject of these books of Thessalonians is that second advent of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep prevent means of the word for then and the Greek means in no way proceed in other words naturally we that are alive and remain there is no way we can prevent those that are already dead and have gone to join him nor can we proceed them why they're already there okay now it is true as we would read in John chapter 5 that at the day Christ was crucified but it appeared that many graves opened in Jerusalem and everybody walked that was only one time thing to document that Christ had defeated death so that people could see it with their own eyes that report those people weren't literally in the ground it only appeared their souls that was their spiritual bodies okay verse 16 and the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God what Trump is that the last Trump and the dead in Christ shall rise first notice there is a colon after the word God why why is it that the dead rise first they're already there that's why he said don't be ignorant like the heathen know they're already gone they're already there they are we and and so it is you know many false teachers go out into the world many of them well-meaning is just there a little bit on the ignorant side like the heathen well is that an insult no it's a true fact anybody that would say that you remain in the ground when they say God is the god of the living you know from time after time after time God encourages us to know he's a loving father he just told us practice brotherly love how could you love a God that would let somebody stick out here in a hole in the ground his own children he doesn't do that that's what he's telling you here if you believe Christ rose from the dead why can't you see that they have also and some of them to judgment to hell by the time it's all over with but they are there why they're his children but their souls belong to God and He will judge them as is necessary now this isn't the first time Paul taught this okay he taught this also in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 I won't I want to take you there we're gonna spend a little bit of time on this I want you to note in this other place when Paul was teaching here in this 15th chapter and he and he made it very clear if you don't believe Christ rose from the dead why do you call yourself a Christian and then he goes into the fact you got to believe that we have two bodies a flesh body and a spiritual body and that flesh body and that spiritual body the flesh body of course you know where it goes it goes back to dirt but this heavenly body goes back to the Father let's let's pick it up with the first 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 50 and it reads now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God and neither doth corruption inherit incorruption in other words flesh is in corrupt it gets a it gets crippled up and there's no way it's going to inherit they perfectly the flesh itself you got to separate them now in your mind the flesh body cannot I mean when we're through with it we're through with it and the spiritual body returns that is your true heavenly home all right so this is why if you have seen God you can't live in the flesh why because it's a different he's in a different dimension any pastor that has any years on him at all as that has been at death beds when people recognize loved ones and you can't see them but the person in the transition of dying sees into that dimension and they recognize that loved one God sends that loved one to comfort them and protect them but why they're in a different dimension it was like when Christ appeared the shutters were all locked the doors were locked and Christ appeared there was Christ not real of course he was was the wall there yes it was two different dimensions all right so verse 51 listen carefully behold I show you a mystery and this seems to be a tarot card mystery for a lot of people we shall not all sleep not all of us are going to die a natural death why that the second Advent christ is going to do what but we shall all how many all be changed we're going to be changed into that spiritual body verse 52 in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last Trump there again making no one do you know what that is in the Greek it says the farthest one out there how many are there seven don't ever let anybody try to throw some Trump's in on you he won't work they're trying to deceive you there are seven and as it is written in the great book of Revelation that is when we are all changed and that is when the true Christ comes not the fake Christ appears in the sixth and at the last Trump for the trumpet shall sound you can count on it that times coming in two dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed not part but all changed into that spiritual body wife because of the seventh trunk the end of this dispensation of time and we go into the Lord's Day and again what is the Lord's Day well as it is written in 2nd Peter chapter 3 verses 7 and 8 how long is the day with the Lord it's a thousand years that's known as the Millennium alright verse 53 listen carefully for this corruptible that means your flesh which is perishable sickly painful at times must put on incorruption you've got to put on this this has nothing to do with your soul now you understand we're talking bodies here your flesh body must put on an incorruptible body that means a body that is incapable of growing old or being sick ill or anything else all right and this mortal whoa we got into something else coming along here and this mortal must put on immortality mortal and immortality always have to do with your soul okay the hebrew word would be near fish which is your being but your soul must put on immortality which mortal means liable to die in the greek tongue this this liable to die soul has got to put on deathlessness so which means you will have eternal life Matthew chapter 10 verse 28 makes it very clear there he says God says hey don't through Christ's mouth don't worry about those that can kill your flesh body but you worry about he that can kill your flesh body but can also call yours cause your soul you're mortal to die to perish that's his business that's how he does it so we see that a change of bodies for everyone an ugly wine well to be judged you have to you have to be in that dimension before God can judge you or or you wouldn't even see before the great throne the great altar of judgment verse 54 to complete our reading here so when this corruptible let's to say when this flesh shall have put on incorruption when you step into that spiritual body in this mortal when your soul is still liable to die shall have put on immortality in other words you would have accepted Christ and you would have immortal T in immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory and so it is that Christ defeats death and that's why it's so very important that you be in him that you do defeat death that you that you that's the gift of God that's what it's all about well we explain that a little sample John 3:16 God so loved the world he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe upon him should not perish but would have eternal life and so it is hey the choice is always yours my friend as to whether you wish to have that eternal life or not let's return and let's go one more verse in the great fourth chapter of Thessalonians let's go with verse 17 and verse 17 reads then we which are alive and remain this is at the seventh trumpet then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air so shall we ever be with the Lord now Paul spoke colloquial Greek okay and that would be kind of like me saying you got people to speak country English okay and he had figures of speech then sometimes they confuse people let's let's take this word err do you know what it is in the Greek I'm gonna have it called up on the screen I'll read it with your arrow and it comes from Anna it's to breathe unconsciously respire by analogy to blow air as the natural circumvent the breath you breathe that your spiritual body God breathed in man his breath into man and the man became a living soul that's that's really you okay we're not talking about atmosphere here we're not talking about sky you're going to meet him in that spiritual the rock the rock means wind or breath okay and it means so in your spiritual body you're going to meet Christ when he returns you're caught up into that spiritual body you're not flying away anywhere because you got work to do here okay but all will be changed Christ is coming here to establish his kingdom don't you believe false teaching that God is actually against and be drawing into the sixth Trump deception by the spurious Messiah saying I've come to haul you out of here don't jump in his wagon friend and it'll probably be the last wagon you'll ever but what about this word clouds well you know here in the country I could say did you see that cloud of quail do you see that cloud of grasshoppers cloud of black bird just flew over okay it's a figure of speech let's document that let's let's go if we made in the book of Hebrews you're gonna have it on your screen Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 Paul was preparing them here in another place listen to it you're gonna have it on the screen Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 wherefore seeing we all so or accomplished about with so great a cloud of witnesses I mean there's a bunch of them there's a cloud of witnesses out there how many Christians do you know let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us do you know where this was it was in Greece were the where the original events took place okay of racing fighting and so forth we still celebrate it to this day but you're gonna gather in the cloud what he's talking about he's running a footrace you're gonna gather up in a cloud to run a footrace I don't think so again Paul's best tongue or the tongue he was educated in was Hebrew but he spoke street Greek so he can talk and communicate to people and they would understand what he would say we're saying just the same as in common English you would teach because you're a communicator and you want to get that point across where people are not deceived so you know you can fluff that up to some cumulus numerous cloud if you wish to but to run a footrace come on get with it it means I really see in the future we're gonna have some mini Christians to throw off our sins and run this footrace in life to the gold line and have victory that's what he's talking about not some flyaway doctrine and besides that there's something even more serious than that God long ago knew what would happen and what things would be taught and how things would come to pass and he could see he said I I'm I have out reached hands that that are salvation they're reaching right out there to the people and we want the peace to accept that salvation we want people to see my hands out reached for them I am God I will prepare salvation not some man he saw this way back if I may in the great thirteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel okay you're gonna have it on your monitor as I'm getting you loaded they're the thirteenth chapter starts out by God saying and the word of the Lord came in to me saying son of man prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts that's they make step up in their own minds hear ye the word of the Lord you hear what I've got to say God doesn't like false teachers okay so having said that let's pick it up if we may in the eighteenth verse where he's telling these prophets and he calls them his daughters because it is the daughters of Jerusalem those that would be with him he says in the eighteenth first and say this thus saith the Lord God woe to the women notice the women is as in italics so it's been added it means the children and that's so pillows to all armholes and make kurt shifts upon the head of every stature to souls when you hunt the souls of my people and when you save the souls alive that came into you do you want to do that use in other words you saw these things together and put them over my hands where people can't see the real truth you ever heard of that I don't know help for me how many preachers have you listened to and what kind of truth did they give you on that 4th chapter of first Thessalonians how many of them told you you don't have to worry about anything you don't even have to read revelation you're gonna fly away well that's not what it said all you said is you know where the it our first 19 to continue think about it and will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley you preach for money and for pieces of bread to slay the souls that should not die and to save the souls alive that should not live by your lying to my people that hear your lies take the little fourth chapter of first Thessalonians and turn it into a fairy tale don't be ignorant like the heathen he said if you believe Christ rose from the dead so have they verse 20 where for thus saith the Lord God behold I am against not for I am against your pillows we're with you there hunt the souls to make them fly and I will tear them from your arms and we'll let the souls go even the souls that you hunt to make them fly stop lying to people that won't cut it won't get it verse 21 your kerchief so your deception over my hands also while I tear and deliver my people out of your hand and they shall no more and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted so you shall know that I am the Lord you don't like it I'm against those that teach my people to fly to save their souls because well I mean what do you put the gospel armor on for if you ever read it or have you listened to man what do you wear it for what does it protect you from does it say anything put that rascal own there's a big older jetpack there that whenever you get that on you pull the trigger and you're out of here that's not what it says it says put the Word of God on the armour of God to stand against the fiery darts of Satan his lies I don't know have you ever been lied to about saying this means you're gonna fly away I mean God's against it what kind of church are you in you know I'd hate to be in a house that's supposed to save souls and is kind of condemning them misleading them you see the great sin in this is the deception that when you tell people they don't have to worry you don't have to study God's Word you're going to be gone they missed the fact that Paul said I don't want you to be ignorant like the heathen you're not going anywhere we're going to stay right here until that seventh Trump then we'll all be changed until then the fake will come he makes that very clear also don't be deceived it's so very important that you listen to the Word of God and that you you know what what does God want you know we've got it we've got a conflict here on earth he's going to fight the battle if Christians are gone when we come to the second book of this great book of Thessalonians you're he's going to shut this down for you where anybody can see the Cobb the real truth and he wrote this letter he wrote that second letter because he knew this these verses here confused them even back then and he says so in that second letter in the second chapter and he knew that it deceived them let's go one more verse to complete that chapter in chapter 4 of 1st Thessalonians and verse 18 and he reads wherefore comfort one another with these words it should be a comfort to you to know that your loved ones are not out hearing some hole in the ground that God is not the god of dead out here in the ground he's the god of the living he loves his children and and he has a better place for us the whole word is that so don't let man Rob you into saying the verses just read mean you're gonna fly away that's not the subject what was the subject again verse 13 don't be ignorant like to he them if you believe Christ rose from the dead you better believe they have also okay well do you or have you been taught that's the subject all right that's what this is about it's that they're already gone that's why you would say there's no way that we that are alive and remain can precede them because they're already there so don't buy into this you know when God is against a certain teaching and he makes it very clear back even in the Old Testament which the Old Testament is quoted more in the New Testament then that many people care to realize because there's nothing old about God's Word God is the same yesterday he is today and he shall be forever so you want to always remember that let's go one more verse down into the next chapter chapter 5 verse 1 but of the times and the seasons brethren you have no need that I write unto you you don't need to that I should write you know that nobody knows the exact moment as mark chapter 13 so stipulates but you know at the same time I have given you the seasons whereby you have perfect warning beforehand that that this comes to pass that the event shalt the seventh Trump is going to sound and he has told us exactly what happens at that seventh Trump verse two for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night know or you a child of night or day which is it who is the Prince of the night Satan is I believe that you're a child of life you know all prophecies that concern or given to God's children are given in days all prophecies that concern Satan are given in nights months moons moons that's it is lunar or lunar tick and it has always been that way and it'll never change so you don't need someone to tell you you already know the season you know that from the time that the fig tree was established and set out in Jerusalem that that generation would not pass away until all these things were completed in this dispensation of time so that's why you can relax and rejoice and know that God does give us this eternal life let's go one more verse verse 2 for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night now what is the day of the Lord you got to know this how long is a day with the Lord again first P 2nd Peter chapter 3 verses 7 and 8 be not ignorant of this one thing that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years with man it's the Millennium that day of the Lord where you're going to be teaching we're going to be trying for people that had no opportunity to know the truth God doesn't burn people to the crisp that are ignorant and never had an opportunity to learn well are you teaching the second chance they didn't have a prayer of a chance coming out the gate you get if you get a bunch of fake teachers out there which God really can't hardly stand them teaching falsehoods then how can they find salvation if they have the saving arms of God all covered and safe you don't worry you're going to fly away like a big bird that's not biblical you're kind of staking your eternal life on that and it's not in God's Word I would be real careful if I were you you know a child can read and common sense has come since what's the subject watch the object and follow God's Word don't miss any of these lectures in this these two books of Thessalonians because they have to do with the return of the Lord Jesus Christ seen you're not deceived all right bless your heart you this in a moment won't you please the mark of the beast

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