Amir Tsarfati, "The Two" - January 29, 2023

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[Applause] makes it very clear that Jesus was there right at the beginning and all things were created through him and he is God and I love that's the introduction through him all things were made nothing that was made was made apart from him and so that's the beginning of John but then we see in Revelation that we get a glimpse into how Heaven worships Jesus and we like to attribute worthiness certain things is is he worthy because he created us well yes but there's a lot of religions that claim that their God created us some people believe that aliens created us I don't want to worship aliens right but so uniquely [Music] is the Christian faith represented in the cross and we were just singing about that that so many religions is about us trying to reach God or become gods or become like God but the cross says that God went to Great Lengths to reach us amen and so what is the song Worthy is the Lamb who is slain to receive honor and power and Glory the lamb that was slain is who we will be worshiping the fact that God sent his son to die for us and that he didn't remain in the Tomb he conquered death he conquered sin and now he's seated at the right hand of the father and now he is ready to receive our worship and so if you've walked through those doors and we're singing you're worthy of it all and you're looking at your circumstance and you say what's worthy of Praise in my circumstance [Music] yeah God created me but look how bad things are going for me well don't hinge your worship on things that you see as worthy and your worship on the fact that he is worthy he is a lamb that was slain before the foundation of the earth before earth was formed he had thoughts of you isn't that incredible before earth was formed and he knows all things [Music] from him all are all things to him so he knows all things and yet he still went to Great Lengths to reach you how many of us that if the person next to us knew our deepest darkest secret they probably wouldn't want to sit next to us anymore but God wants to reach you this morning God knows you he knows your innermost thoughts he knows all that you've done and yet he says I love you and I forgive you and if we would just turn to him and submit to him and make him more doesn't matter what's going on in this life he is always worthy of Praise amen so we're going to continue to sing we're going to sing about that Living Hope the fact that we don't serve a dead God we don't serve a god that is Seated on some Mountain far away that we have to approach through intermediate areas or or processes that that are impossible for us to accomplish but what he wants is a Living Sacrifice he wants us on the altar this morning he says you know seek my word on your heart and that it may change the way that you think I want you more like Jesus when you leave this place so not only is he saving you but he's making you more and more to his image and so we have a lot of opportunities that we're going to open his word we're going to sing quite literally truths from his word to encourage one another but also to bless his name then we also have an opportunity to give and so there's a link that will pop up if you're unfamiliar with how giving happens through Calvary Chapel East Anaheim I say it all the time but I want you to hear me we don't solicit giving we facilitate it and so if it's a way that God has called you to honor him we want to facilitate it so it's right there on the screen if you're watching online it's there on the screen you have a physical gift there's Agape boxes on the wall as you leave um and then another thing we want to make you aware of is you know you're not supposed to just spend time with family one hour a week that would be a weird family although some of you are like I'm cool with that that's fine no no we want to do life together and so we also have our community groups that are meeting all throughout the week and you can jump into those anytime and so if you go to our website or go to into the church app or scan that code that's on the screen right there you can get connected with a community group and start to go a little bit deeper with your relationship so let's pray and let's offer our time to the Lord and let's just sing to the Lord because he is so worthy of praise or thank you for who you are but also what you've done who you are is is worthy enough of praise but the fact that you've you've saved us you've reconciled us to you and that we can freely come to you and worship you know we can stare into the face of Jesus and be be changed by it uh you revealed yourself to your creation didn't owe that to us but Lord you desire to have a relationship with us and so thank you for that we pray that we would hold nothing back in our worship to you our Adoration of you or that we would be changed because we've spent this time with you take our tithes and our offerings make our intentions to meet together everything that's done here we want to use to glorify your name so we love you we thank you is in Jesus name amen foreign [Music] and then through the darkness your loving kindness tore through the shadows of my soul the work is [Music] oh Jesus Christ [Music] so crazy [Music] [Music] forever [Music] Jesus Christ [Music] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah [Music] [Music] the Salvation in your name Jesus Christ [Music] let's hear The Promise [Music] Rory declare the great has no claim on me [Music] everybody it begins [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] knowledge [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you worship team good morning Calvary Chapel how are you doing this morning good to see you guys if you're joining us glad you're here online or in person and I today it's not the announcements it's an announcement I'm a singular rare rare Rarity amen why are you clapping did you want me up here this Wednesday we have our Wednesday night service as always and I want to invite you out personally to be a part of it we have it at seven o'clock but we even serve dinner at 5 or 30 if you want to be fed physically and spiritually and we have a great time to hang out in our Courtyard out there with a balancing for the kids we have a different meal every week and it's a great time to Fellowship our pastors are mingling out there really a great chance to fellowship and then we have service at seven o'clock worship right here Pastor Bob is leading us to the Old Testament we're currently in numbers right now and then simultaneously we have a chosen issue which is so blessed right now a youth ministry and a Spanish Ministry so we want to really want to encourage you to come out Wednesday evening to plug into God's word to plug into Fellowship here at Calvary Chapo's Anaheim and we'd love to see you here so that is all from my announcement today and now our Senior Pastor Bob company thanks well good morning it's good to see you here and I'm excited about our speaker because it's not me but I'm excited for more reasons than that you know as many years ago now I can't remember when um Amir and I were sitting in one of the cafes I think it was uh there for the Dead Sea scroll you know the museum there and our folks were going around and seeing all the sites and he and I were having a another cup of jihad coffee for him and uh talking about Ministry and he said something on his heart that was also on mine and that was that the church needs to use technology and exploit it to the glory of God that someday when I was talking about how someday we're going to stand before the Lord and he's going to say what'd you do with the internet what did you do with media and Amir was saying it seems like most of the churches today are just so far behind using that he really thinks that they need to do an excellent job which I totally agree with anyway I tell you that because I've watched God do things through a mirror not just on the Torah in Israel now which he continues to bless us as a church with but throughout the world speaking as he did yesterday how many of you are here for the proximity conference wasn't that awesome and and all over the world and God is using technology but it's because he said Lord would you use me to the fullest and I think that's the prayer that every one of us should pray so rather than me saying much more about him what I want to do is something that he won't do which is in essence to expose you to his ministry there's a short video excellent in my opinion that was produced by by behold Israel that kind of talks a little bit more than about Amir but about what God's doing through that Ministry so if you're not yet subscribed to behold Israel you need to do that if you want to stay aware of what's going on in the world what's going on in Israel what's going in on in Iran and other places in real time you need to know what's going on prophetically and uh he's going to help you to do that besides that there's a book table with lots of good resources I'll say no more we'll show the video and then a mirror will speak to us so foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] all right good morning everyone uh so how many of you were there yesterday and what about the rest of you [Music] tell that to the judge well the good thing is we are exploiting this Evil's world's technology and almost 200 000 people were watching it online uh so it was it's amazing to see that uh from one building with a camera and some equipment messages can go to the four corners of the world we're talking about more than 60 countries we're watching it yesterday so it's it's wonderful this morning um so yesterday we were sitting here discussing Bible prophecy and current events and and while I was telling people that Israel has no choice but to attack Iran's installations while I was sitting here um there were explosions across Iran that none of you are aware of because your your media will only tell you about Britney Spears and your whatever I call them the medianites but um if you can if you want to be thoroughly informed about what's going on in the Middle East and even around the world from a Biblical point of view subscribe to my telegram Channel which is the fastest growing news channel from the Middle East and you really want to because I'm telling you you are not being informed you don't have a clue what's going on around the world because of these things um this morning I would like to talk about the two people often think that we're only having one shot this is it we're born let's live life the fullest and then we die so before we diem live the day I mean make the most fun you can because who knows so let's examine that um but before that let's uh ask the Lord to bless this morning Father we thank you for your word this morning we are truly not interested listening to man's teachings but we want to hear your word and your uh teachings your Doctrine father your word is true and we want to be Sanctified by this truth today we ask that you will help us to understand your word Open the Eyes of our hearts to behold the wonders of your word and we ask all of that in the name of the word of God in the name of Yeshua and all of God's people say amen all right so um this morning I want to take us all the way to the beginning and examine that because this is very important that people understand the principle of duality in scriptures and understand also that from the very beginning from the very beginning God created us in a very unique way in Genesis 1 the God said let us make men in our image isn't that interesting the plural case described God here let us the godhead the Trinity is already in action you see the Hebrew word for God is Elohim which is in the plural case the Hebrew name Adonai it's the plural Adonis single Adonai it's plural Aloha is single Elohim is plural let us make man in our image according to our likeness let them have dominion look what God intended for men let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air over the cattle over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth so God created man how in his own image in the image of God he created him next time people are talking to you about abortion and the right to kill a baby remember one thing God created us in His image and look what he says the Bible says in the image of God he created him male and female that's where the list ends I think here male and female he created them I'm reading from Genesis I told you let's I'm not even saying my opinion here we're reading God's word male and female he created them then God after he created them guess what he did curse them no then God what blessed them and God said to them be what in order to be faithful you have to have my own female okay be fruitful and multiply fill the Earth in other words God is encouraging what childbirth hello fill the Earth and subdue it have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth and God said see I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the Earth and every tree whose fruits yield seed to you it shall be for food also to every beast of the earth through every bird of the air air into everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life I have given every green herb for food and it was so then God saw everything that he made and indeed what is it written it was not just good very good so the evening and the morning were the sixth day by the way we don't call the day's names we just described them first day second Day in Hebrew you guys made up some many names I guess your Pagan background you know Sunday Moon day whatever for us it's Thursday second day Third Day the only day that received the name in the Hebrew is Shabbat Sabbath and it's because God sees from working so one thing we can see from what we just read in Genesis death was never God's intent for men never death was not there when God created you know everything it was life that he was breathing into them it was life that he wanted to see it was multiplication of mankind he didn't want anyone to die he never ever and he still is not he's not interested in death for everyone Genesis said the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden you may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat Why by the way why for and he explains for in the day that you eat of it you shall what surely die which means okay that's the first time death is mentioned in the Bible but it's mentioned in a way that God says don't do it so you will not die which means god interested is interested that we will what not die he is warning us not to do something that will lead us to death and of course we know what happened we know what the serpent said we know what Adam and Eve did and in Genesis 3 then the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die for God knows that in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil you see Satan actually is saying to Adam and Eve what he wants to be like God he says if you eat from it you will be like God of course you will not die see he is the father of all eyes he's the master Deceiver and the first thing God warned Mankind from Satan said exactly the opposite God says don't eat because you will surely die Satan says you will not surely die now we know the end of the story don't we we know who was right and who is wrong and it ended up that the punishment was so severe in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till your you return to the ground for out of it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you shall return that's it death has entered the world and now all of us will return to dust if you die right now 11 months from now you'll be dust that's it nothing will be left from you just bones I have the gift of encouragement this morning as you can see but listen God Sanctified life and that's very important that you know that in Genesis 9 surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning from the hand of every Beast I will require it and from the hand of man from the hand of Every Man's brother I will require the life of man whoever sheds man's blood by man his blood shall be shed for in the image of God he made man life is a serious thing for God and God says he will demand judgment Psalm 139 for you form my inward Parts you convert you you covered me in my mother's womb I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well he formed us he formed our inward parts and he covered us in our mother's womb life began in exception not at Birth we are just swimmers for nine months that's it it's amazing I said that yesterday it's amazing how when when a couple is not interested in a baby it's a fetus but what they're interested in a baby they go to the doctor and they're happy wow okay how is he what's going on I mean same couple same thing it depends if they want it or they don't want it suddenly the definition changes Jeremiah 1 5 you can see God is telling Jeremiah before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were even born I Sanctified you I ordain you a prophet to the Nations and then we know that sin corrupted life we know that so we are born our first birth we're born of the water water breaks we're born of the water that's the first birth all of you here must have gone through that birth hello the first birth is for every living human being actually for every Dead one also because he was born Genesis 6 5 says then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continue from the moment in Genesis 3 sin entered the World by Genesis 6 that's what man is doing evil evil evil in the thoughts in the heart in the Deeds everything is evil you're saying oh it's so evil now oh the world is turned into such the world was evil from Genesis 6. job says what is man that he could be pure and and he who is born of a woman that he could be righteous job understand that that's it when sin entered the world we have been contaminated whether we want it or not Psalm 51 David before Nathan the prophet confesses and says behold I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me Romans 5 therefore just as through one man's sin entered the world and death through sin and thus watch this death spread to all men because all sinned and sin brought excuses and shame we know that even in the Garden of Eden they heard the sound of the Lord Walking In The Garden of the in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden how pathetic God the creator of the universe walking in the garden and they're hiding behind the trees oh he won't see us the creator of the world and the Lord God Called to Adam as if he doesn't know and then he said I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself the word afraid Adam in his domain the one that was given to him is afraid now it's a shame he's hiding in the garden that God created for him he is now ashamed afraid and hiding that's what sin does to us Genesis 3 12 then the man said the woman whom you gave to to be with me she gave me of the tree and and I ate it all men are smiling right now aren't we saying that all the time it's your fault well I'm telling you it's excuses and it's shame it also brings deception and lies if you remember a chapter later Cain talked with Abel and his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him first murder in the Bible and then the Lord said to Cain where is Abel your brother again God knows everything but he's testing us to see if we will tell him the truth and then he said I do not know am I My Brother's Keeper he's lying lies deception he's not hiding behind a tree he is hiding behind excuses or he's hiding behind a lie right now and then he said what have you done the Lord is saying to uh to Cain the voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground you think that God sees death and he sees the innocent dying and he doesn't care the voice of the innocent blood is crying out this is why every baby that is being chopped through pieces in the womb of the mother and being killed do you think God is not hearing the voice of the innocent blood that cries from the ground so now you are cursed from the Earth wow curse is now being mentioned for the first time we're only in the fourth chapter you are cursed the Bible says the Earth which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand when you tilt the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you a fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth no long it's the earth that is you're the the owner of that you're the Lord of that you're the master you have dominion over you're now what look at look at what sin turn us into into fugitives and vagabonds from the rulers we are running away now from the creation that God created for us and Cain said to the Lord my punishment is greater than I can bear surely you have driven me out of the this day from the face of the ground I shall be hidden from your face I shall be a fugitive and Vagabond on the earth and and it will be it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me he killed his brother and now he says how dare you send me away people will kill me it's called in Hebrew hotspot and that the Lord said to him therefore whoever kills Cain Vengeance shall be taken on him God even takes great great seriously the option that someone would kill King and then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord which is really the death here and dwelt in the land of not on the East of Eden see Isaiah says the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save noise ear heavy that it cannot hear but it's your iniquities that have separated you from the from God and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue has muttered perversity no one calls for justice nor does any plead for truth they trust in empty words and speak lies I'm almost like describing politicians and then they just conceive evil and bring forth iniquity so we were all so so now we are born but we're like dead people walking but God hello but God Romans 6 23 for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in who in Christ Jesus our lord amen amen Ephesians 2 says but God who is rich in Mercy because of his great love with which he loves us even when we were dead in trespassers made us alive together with Christ by Grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches heir of his grace in his kindness towards us how in Christ Jesus Colossians says in him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in baptism in which you also were raised with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead and you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh he he has made alive together with him having forgiven you all trespassers having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us which was contrary to us and he has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the Cross having disarmed principalities and Powers he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them in it that's why we sharing he's worthy because everything that we had to bear and take upon us that should have led us to death eternally he took once we believe out of us and transferred to him so that's the lamb that was slain and this is why he is worthy and that is why there's not a single moment in your life that you cannot say that he is not worthy no that you can say that no never mind you know what I'm saying but then came the second birth John 3 3. Jesus is talking to a very respected Jewish leader who was so respected that he was so afraid that somebody will see him talking to Jesus so he came to him by night and Jesus says to him mosh assuredly I say to you Nicodemus unless one talk to me unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God see when I was in the Philippines 25 years ago I was about five years ago I was walking and I was talking to someone and then he said so what are you born again or Catholic it's like are these two options here said yes uh you know your Bible you're born again so wait a minute you think you can either or I mean there is no option for anyone to be either or Christian is only here born again or else he is not a Christian he's a religious man he can be a Muslim he can be a Jew he can be a Hindu but you cannot be a Christian unless you are that's it I didn't say that told you it's not about my ideas today this is it First Corinthians 15 for Since By Man Came Death by man also came the resurrection of the Dead for as in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive second Corinthians therefore if anyone is in Christ he's a new creation all things have passed away behold all things have become new First Peter 1 since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the Brethren love one another and fervently with a pure heart having been what Born Again none of corruptable seed but Incorruptible through the word of God which lives and abides forever so we now understand life is nice but birth there's not just one birth there's a second birth now life is something all of us go through some some unfortunately have only few weeks or a few weeks long life because somebody decided to kill them some live until 100 I think the oldest lady in the world just died at 118. wow the old tree of life can you imagine Adam and Eve were never told not to eat from the Tree of Life they were never told that God says there's two trees don't eat from this one from that one they could have eaten they could have lived forever the only time God says don't eat from this tree is after they've already eaten from that one and became sinners the Lord God said behold the man has become like one of us and to no good and evil and now lest he put out his hand and take also the of the tree of life and eat and live forever now as a sinner he might live forever no and therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken so he drove out the man and he placed a chair of him at the east of the Garden of Eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life that tree that was accessible that was there that was appealing it was wonderful it was the source of life that they could have taken from that they could have enjoyed and they decided not to now it's not accessible to mankind anymore and all of us before we were born again we live life but we lived our old for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because what because what may be known of God is Manifest in them for God has shown it to them for since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Goddard so that they are without excuse because although they knew God they did not glorify him his God nor were thankful but became futile in their thoughts in their foolish hearts were darkened professing to be wise they became fools that's our old life and change the glory of The Incorruptible God into an image made like corruptable men and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things therefore God also gave them up to uncleanliness in the lust of their hearts to his honor their bodies among themselves who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature or creation rather than the Creator who is blessed forever amen will continue to Galatians now the works of the flesh are evident the old life which are adultery fornication uncleanliness lewdness idolatry sorcery hatred contentions jealousies outbursts of Wrath selfish Ambitions dissensions heresies Envy murders drunkenness reveries and the likes of which I tell you beforehand just as I also told you in the time past that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God that's the old life and all of us If we're honest with ourselves all of us lived these lives but then we have a new life and to have the new life the old must come to an end it must be crucified and buried because it is now Christ who lives in us as in Romans for if we have been United together in the likeness of his death certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection knowing this that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be done away with that we should no longer be slaves of sin for he who has died has been freed from sin Galatians 2 I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me amen but the fruit of the spirit now in our new life is let's say together love joy peace long sufferings kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such there is no law and those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires and if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit let us not become concited provoking one another ending one another and trust me it's a daily battle trust me I see everywhere I see it within me but I see it all around me Christians are not perfect God is not saying that from the moment we become Christians we're now perfect it is now a battle a daily battle and now that we have the spirit in us we have a way to fight we have a way to let the spiritual man be the one that is leading us we are not pleased with sin we hate sin we do not want it to to overtake it we're not taking pleasure in it anymore this is not what we are looking forward anymore but you have not but you have not so learned Christ if indeed you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus that you put off concerning your former conduct that old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful us and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness and there is a new tree of life you see mankind cannot have access to the old tree of life but for us who had the second birth and new life we have a promise for access to the new tree of life revelation 22 says blessed are those who do his Commandments that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter through the gates into the city the New Jerusalem but outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually moral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices like he says once we are gods and we are the residents of the New Jerusalem we once again have the right to the Tree of Life and eternal life begins at the moment We Believe in him you also trusted after you heard the word of Truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also having believed you were sealed look at me all of you the minute you believed the minute you believe not you don't have to take a course 10 weeks will be five weeks or five years a Believer the minute you believe you have been sealed we the holy spirit of promise and you know what it means sealed this a Hebrew word eravon the Greek word arabon that means it's a down payment of an already done deal do you understand that that's it the holy spirit is now not upon you but you it's dwelling within you the indwelling of the spirit this is the uniqueness of the church something that the Old Testament Saints never had the indwelling it's in you God is Not only with you but God is now in you Spirit of promise and this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent you know a few months ago I was in Sicily with my brother-in-law Mike and with my father-in-law who joined us from Israel and I walked into the hotel room of my father-in-law and I found him dead and he was the most important man in my life and I stood there and I saw a man without life you know he's been dead for a few hours was the most godly man I've ever seen in my life and he's not there and I realized death is right in front of me I see a body but no one is there he's gone death is something that may happen to most of us hopefully not but if the Raptor happens today none of us will die but if not some of us will die now death has different consequences for believers and unbelievers the first death the one I watched in Sicily in Catania was a physical death Ecclesiastes says then the dust will return to the Earth as it was and the spirit will return to God who gave it for the believer look what I saw for the believer if we die right now there's a separation the spirit our soul goes up to be with the Lord our body is rotting here in the grave First Corinthians 15 says The Last Enemy that will be destroyed is death First Corinthians 15 55 says oh death where is your sting or Hades where is your Victory you see before Jesus's resurrection even those who trusted in God went down to sheol where there were two places in the show all the place of Abraham's bosom and the place of the torments and and but everybody went down when Jesus went up the direction of the soul of the believer is now up not down anymore you understand that he went up we go up now so death lost its thing we're not down we're not waiting we're with him to be absent from the body is to be what present with the Lord instantly but there's another death that if you are not a Believer today that death not your physical one that death is what you need to be afraid of the physical one is easy I saw the dead body of my father but I knew where he is it wasn't him it's that's it that's the Box that used to hold him that's it he's gone to a better place but the second death is eternal and that's separation from God forever Daniel 12 says and many of those who sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake some to everlasting life some to shame in Everlasting contempt those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever so there is great hope for the believer but not for the non-believer Matthew 10 says do not fear Those Who Kill the body but cannot kill the soul but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body ladies and gentlemen your eternity matters this is just the way station Revelation 20 says then death and Hades were cast into the Lake of Fire death is the body Hades is where the soul of the unbelievers and they will cast into the Lake of Fire this is the second death and anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire which means by the way that if death and Hades were cast first no one who is casted into the Lake of Fire can die anymore do you understand what I mean you are going to be burning the lake of fire without even being able to die oh you're too harsh today I'm not this is the word of God now you can either Believe it or reject it but don't say you never heard it but then there is also a promise of Resurrection and there is the first resurrection the first resurrection is the resurrection of the Believers from the moment Jesus was resurrected now we have a series of resurrections considered as the first resurrection First Corinthians 15 but now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep for since by many Came Death by what but by men came dead by men also came the resurrection of the Dead for as in Adam all die even so in Christ those who obviously believe in him be made alive but each one in his own order Christ the first fruit afterward those who are what Christ at his coming so the next thing is who is going to be Resurrected the dead in Christ who are the dead in Christ one of them is my father-in-law you see his soul is there but his body is here he has to get a new body and his soul has to reunite with his new body in order for us to go through the wedding and to reign with Christ for a thousand years you understand that First Corinthians 15 says there are also there are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another there is one glory of the son another glory of the Moon and another glory of the stars for one star differs from another star in glory so also is the resurrection of the Dead the body is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonor it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown in Natural Body it is raised as spiritual body there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body and so it is written the first man Adam became a living being in the last Adam a life-giving spirit however the spiritual is not first but the natural after and afterwards is spiritual the first man was of the Earth made of dust the second man once we resurrect we receive a new body remember is of is the Lord From Heaven as was the man of dust so also are those who are made of dust and as in The Heavenly Man so also are those who are Heavenly and as we have borne the image of the man of dust we shall also bear the image of The Heavenly Man for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of an archangel and with a trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first now if the Raptor happens right now I will be taken of course I will be changed first this is just a tent I need the building so I'll change and then but my father-in-law will be the first and I will then come to meet Jesus in the cloud the the biggest conference ever Revelation 20 blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection over such the second death has no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him Thousand Years but then there is a second Resurrection John 5 says do not Marvel at this for the hours coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation there are two resurrections one is from the moment Jesus resurrected all the way until you know the end of the tribulation and the other one is when Jesus is going to judge mankind at the end of the millennial Kingdom acts 24 I have hope in God which they themselves also accept that there will be a resurrection of the Dead both of the just and the unjust unbelievers will also receive a body fit for eternity one that can withstand suffering forever you see if I throw you right now with this body to the Lake of Fire you'll burn and die instantly you need a new body to live in the lake of fire forever so what is the order of the Resurrection take a look at this first resurrection the third day Jesus Christ then before the tribulation the church then the middle of the tribulation the two witnesses and then after the tribulation the Old Testament Saints and of course the Saints of the tribulation and then of course in the beginning of the millennial Kingdom as I said the tribulation Martyrs will be resurrected as well but then the second Resurrection is at the end of the millennial Kingdom for unbelieving dead your decision today determines your destiny for eternity you see Jesus gave us in Luke 16 the story a true story about Lazarus and about the rich man we all know what happened the rich man and Lazarus died the rich man was in the place of torments Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom and the rich man says please send Lazarus back to warn my brothers and family to live righteously so they don't end up where I am he's still giving orders and we know that there is no way it can happen there's a cast there's a barrier you cannot cross from one to another you cannot have a second chance death is it that's why why they're still alive right now you have a chance Doug hamiser Hamas jold swedish-born Secretary General of the United Nations from April 53 to September 61. he said in the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us there is no second chance after you die Deuteronomy says I call Heaven and Earth as Witnesses today against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing and God says therefore choose life that build both you and your descendants may live Hebrews 9 says and it says he's appointed for men to die once but after this is judgment that's it once you die judgment comes now the question is what happened in between your birth and your death look at what happened to the believer versus the unbeliever to the believer there's the first birth first life second birth Second Life first death first resurrection and eternal life look for the unbeliever he is born first he has got his first life carpe diem he dies and then he will resurrect at the very end second Resurrection to receive the second death which is eternal and that's it look what he's missing out he's missing out the second birth and the second life to have a portion in the first resurrection and not have the second death anymore it's interesting because when it comes to the first death and Resurrection death precedes the resurrection but when it comes to the second death and Resurrection Resurrection precedes death your first resurrect to receive the second death to have a second birth and a second life is a positive experience to partake in the second resurrection and the second death it's tragedy ladies and gentlemen can the dead become alive Ezekiel described in chapter 47 how the Dead Sea came back to life the Dead Sea will be made Alive by the River of Life you can be made alive as well by faith in the one from whom Living Waters come John said on the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out saying if anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink he who believes in me as this scripture has said out of his heart will flow rivers of Living Waters so I want to encourage you to reconsider your life ask yourself am I born again because if you're not you're not a Christian you're a religious man you come to church you give money you dance you never I don't know um but you're not a Christian you do not belong to Christ you don't have the indwelling of the holy spirit in you because only when you believe the down payment is being sealed in you ask yourself do I have the second birth am I living my second life so I will skip the second resurrection and the second death father I thank you for your word thank you for your promises I thank you that while we're alive and we were dead you provided us that source of life in Jesus and that he is worthy because he has been slain for us and thank you Father that in him we can live and we can move it's it's it's him that we need to give the glory and honor and worship forever and father we are thankful that we have today technology to be able to communicate this message to the whole world and today I ask that if there's anyone here as our eyes are closed and our heads are bowed down if there's anyone here that heard and understands not right now that I don't know if I'm experiencing the second birth and do I really live the second life the new life so if it's you as the eyes are closed and the heads are bowed down if it's you if I can see your hand so we can just I can just acknowledge thank God for the work that he I see your hand yes anyone else I see your hand over there I see her hand over here I see if anyone also that is watching back home father I thank you for those that raise their hands that the holy spirit is now going to grab them and shake them and cause them to be on their knees to fully repent accept you as Lord and Savior receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as the araban the down payment of their Eternal Eternal salvation of both soul and body we thank you we bless you and we we glorify you all of that in the name of the Holy One of Israel the Salvation the word the Lamb of God the lion of the tribe of Judah Emmanuel in the name of Yeshua and all of God's people say amen foreign just wish I just wish uh Amir could have used the Bible more amazing uh listen for those of you that raised your hand we would encourage you we'd love to talk to you about that need and that decision in your life the prayer room is on the far right of the sanctuary please don't just acknowledge you need the Lord and you want him but that you're ready to make that commitment I think one of the statements that I love that I always remember to sum up a lot of what Amir shared about today was that old bumper sticker that says born Once Die Twice born twice die once and if you have no awareness of a second birth I I like to say if you are what you always have been spiritually you're not a Christian that's not a criticism it's just the biblical reality and if that if you've come to that awareness today you need what he was describing like Nicodemus you might be religious you might be a good person but you're not good enough to get yourself into heaven see the that that tree of life that we see in the Book of Genesis that man was barred from for his own good that shows up back for the believer available in the Book of Revelation isn't that interesting at the very beginning and at the very end we see the tree of life my suggestion is to you that it shows up one other place in the Bible disguised as the tree of death it's the cross of Jesus Christ Paul said God forbid that I should boast in anything but the cross and that's what God has made available to you and to me to say Lord I need to get right I know I'm going to face death but you already faced it for me you already paid him paid for my sin so I don't have to die eternally so please don't leave here discouraged or hopeless if there's a place on Earth where a person should find hope it's in the Gospel of Jesus Christ amen so if you don't have that we want to give it to you we know where to find it because we found it too so praise the Lord excellent message let's thank the Lord for Amir let's all stand but let's and our service and praise [Music] [Music] hiding dishes [Music] everyone [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] bless you may he keep you may he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you may he lift up his countenance his face upon you and give you his peace in the name of the father and the Son and the Holy Ghost God bless you [Applause] 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Published: Sun Jan 29 2023