THE FATE OF THE DEAD

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THE FATE OF THE DEAD

• 3RD Address
• THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• When does resurrection and judgment occur?
• Do our beliefs force us into believing in
  universal resurrection?
• Will baptized people be raised from the dead?
• Are unbaptized people judged in this life?
• Will any unbaptized people be raised for
  judgment?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• When does resurrection and judgment occur?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Death is the end of consciousness.
• Resurrection is vital if we are to ever live
  again.

• PSALM 1463-4
• Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son
  of man, in whom there is no help.
• His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his
  earth in that very day his thoughts perish.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Resurrection is vital to the Christian message.
• Without it Christianity is but vanity.

• 1 COR. 1512-15 NKJV
• Now if Christ is preached that He has been
  raised from the dead, how do some among you say
  that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• But if there is no resurrection of the dead,
  then Christ is not risen.
• And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching
  is empty and your faith is also empty.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Resurrection is a promise of the Gospel.
• It is based on the certainty of the resurrection
  of Christ.
• It will occur at his coming.

• 1 COR. 1520-23 NKJV
• But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has
  become the firstfruits of those who have fallen
  asleep.
• 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.
• But each one in his own order Christ the
  firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at
  His coming.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Our Lord Returns.
• He raises the Dead.
• He gathers the Living.
• The Judgment takes place.
• The Kingdom commences.

• 2 TIMOTHY 41
• I charge thee therefore before God, and the
  Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and
  the dead at his appearing and his kingdom

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• Do our beliefs force us into believing in
  universal resurrection?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Although Jesus used the word all the context
  denies the teaching of universal resurrection.
• Children who die will have neither done evil or
  good in their brief lifetime.
• Likewise, certain of the mentally incapacitated
  have no ability to understand the difference
  between good and evil.

• JOHN 528-29
• Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in
  the which all that are in the graves shall hear
  his voice,
• And shall come forth they that have done good,
  unto the resurrection of life and they that have
  done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• This prophecy foresees that only many would
  rise from the dead.
• It speaks of the Judgment in that those awakened
  receive everlasting rewards.

• DANIEL 122
• And many of them that sleep in the dust of the
  earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and
  some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• What keeps people in their graves is a lack of
  understanding.
• Due to their ignorance they are not amenable to
  the Judgment that follows resurrection.

• PSALM 4919,20
• He shall go to the generation of his fathers
  they shall never see light.
• Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is
  like the beasts that perish.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• Will baptized people be raised from the dead?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• In order for all those involved to appear before
  this judgment a great number of believers will
  have to be raised from the dead.
• We believe this applies at least to all that were
  baptized.

• 2 CORINTHIANS 510
• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ that every one may receive the things
  done in his body, according to that he hath done,
  whether it be good or bad.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• Are unbaptized people judged in this life?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• In general, Gods judgment against an evil work
  is hardly ever immediate such that many people
  believe there is none.
• This is not true for believers whom God regularly
  chastens.

• ECCLESIASTES 84
• Because sentence against an evil work is not
  executed speedily, therefore the heart of the
  sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• This scenario has been a real trial for believers
  of all ages.
• The great majority of unbelievers go through life
  without any perceptible judgments from God.

• PSALM 733-5
• For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw
  the prosperity of the wicked.
• For there are no bands in their death but their
  strength is firm.
• They are not in trouble as other men neither
  are they plagued like other men.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Those who have committed themselves to a life of
  discipleship through baptism should not expect an
  easy life.
• The Lord chastens us all and it should be readily
  apparent in our lives.

• HEBREWS 125-6
• And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
  speaketh unto you as unto children, My son,
  despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
  faint when thou art rebuked of him
• For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
  scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• The end of the wicked can be clearly seen when
  one knows what happens to them after death.
• This can only be made apparent by reading the
  word of God, or by going into the sanctuary of
  God.

• PSALM 7316-19
• Until I went into the sanctuary of God then
  understood I their end.
• Surely thou didst set them in slippery places
  thou castedst them down into destruction.
• How are they brought into desolation, as in a
  moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Again the Bible compares the righteous and wicked
  before and after resurrection.
• The judgments of God towards these two groups are
  not obvious before resurrection.
• The way that God will deal with the wicked will
  only be obvious after resurrection.

• MALACHI 317-18
• And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of
  hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels and
  I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son
  that serveth him.
• Then shall ye return, and discern between the
  righteous and the wicked, between him that
  serveth God and him that serveth him not.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• QUESTIONS

• Are unbaptized wicked people raised for judgment?

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Who are these people?
• They acknowledged Jesus and considered themselves
  disciples.
• Jesus never knew them.
• They could not have had a valid baptism.

• MATTHEW 722-23
• Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,
  have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
  name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
  many wonderful works?
• And then will I profess unto them, I never knew
  you depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• The word used in these passages similarly means
  never at any time.
• It is reasonable therefore, to believe that some
  people will be raised for judgment who never had
  a valid baptism.

• ACTS 1014
• But Peter said, Not so, Lord for I have never
  eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
• ACTS 148
• And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent
  in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's
  womb, who never had walked
• HEBREWS 1011
• And every priest standeth daily ministering and
  offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which
  can never take away sins

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• Who are the unjust?
• Justification occurs through our baptism.
• Almost exclusively the Scriptures teach that the
  unjust are those who are not baptized.

• ACTS 2415
• And have hope toward God, which they themselves
  also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of
  the dead, both of the just and unjust.

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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• The unjust in these passages is referring to
  unbelievers in general.
• It is unreasonable to conclude therefore, that
  the unjust who will rise in the judgment are
  limited to baptized believers.

• 1 CORINTHIANS 61
• Dare any of you, having a matter against
  another, go to law before the unjust, and not
  before the saints?
• 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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THE NECESSITY OF THE RESURRECTION

• THE RESURRECTION IS NECESSARY FOR

• Anyone to have life after death.
• The righteous to receive the fulfillment of the
  promise of everlasting life.
• The unfaithful to be judged accordingly.
• The disobedient to give an account of why they
  did not repent.