THE FINAL ENEMEY IS DEFEATED

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THE FINAL ENEMEY IS DEFEATED
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• DEATH IS FEARED EVEN BY BELIEVERS
• IT IS AN UNKNOWN
• JESUS DEFEATED DEATH AND HELL AT THE CROSS
• HE CONQUERED DEATH
• WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID

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1 Cor. 1555 O death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory?
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• THANTOS Death, to be dead
• GRAVE Hades , the place of the unseen, the
  place of departed souls, the grave, hell

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• SHEOL HEBREW Used in the O.T.
• The place where the spirits of men go at the
  time of physical death.
• Literally means place of the dead

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• Translated hell, the grave, the pit
• Appears 65 times in the O.T.
• 31 times translated grave
• 31 times translated hell
• 3 times translated the pit

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• Psalm 4915
• But God will redeem my soul from the power of
  the grave for he shall receive me.
• Sheol - grave

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Psalm 1610 For thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption. Hell - sheol
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• Peter quotes Psalm 1610 in his sermon recorded
  in Acts 2 27-31
• Acts 227 Because thou wilt not leave my
  soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy
  One to see corruption.
• Acts 231 He seeing this before spake of the
  resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not
  left in hell, neither his flesh did see
  corruption.

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• HADES GREEK Used in the N.T.
• The Greek equivalent to sheol
• The unseen
• The place of departed souls
• Grave, hell

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Abrahams Bosom

• Luke 1622-26
• A great gulf fixed between two sides
• One side was Paradise
• One side was Hades
• The rich man went to Hades
• The begger went to Abrhams bosom

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• Luke 2343
• And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto
  thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• Paradise paradeisos an Eden (place of future
  happiness, paradise) - paradise. Believed to
  be Abrahams bosom

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• 2 Cor. 124
• How that he was caught up into paradise, and
  heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful
  for a man to utter.

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• Ephes. 48
• Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on
  high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts
  unto men.
• Psalm 6818
• Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led
  captivity captive thou hast received gifts for
  men yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord
  God might dwell among them.

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• Matthew 1240
• For as Jonas was three days and three nights
  in the whale's belly so shall the Son of man be
  three days and three nights in the heart of the
  earth.

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CHRIST WENT DOWN INTO PARADISE AND LED THEM TO
HEAVEN

• Christ went to the bosom of Abraham and took the
  souls with Him to heaven
• I Peter 46 He preached to the dead in Hades
• For for this cause was the gospel preached also
  to them that are dead, that they might be judged
  according to men in the flesh, but live according
  to God in the spirit.

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• 1 Peter 318
• For Christ also hath once suffered for sins,
  the just for the unjust, that he might bring us
  to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
  quickened by the Spirit

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• Proverbs 1524
• The way of life is above to the wise, that he
  may depart from hell beneath.
• Rev. 118
• I am he that liveth, and was dead and,
  behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen and have
  the keys of hell and of death.

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Rev. 2013-14 And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it and death and hell delivered up
the dead which were in them and they were judged
every man according to their works. 14 And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death.