983 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 82 - The Resurrection of the Just - 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 82 THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST - 3 Daniel 12:13 Okay, good to have you back again from a coffee break. We’ll start half hour number three this afternoon. And again, for those of you joining us, we just appreciate so much your financial help and your prayers—everything. Your mail—my mail time is the best time of the day. Okay, we’re going to continue on with this series of the Resurrections of the Just, as Jesus called it in John 5. We’ve covered the firstfruits, and we’re now in the main harvest—which, I feel, is the resurrection and the Rapture of the Body of Christ. Because the Body of Christ is going to have the numbers for the main harvest, so far as I’m concerned. Okay, I’m supposed to again remind our TV audience and those of you out there, we have one book. Only one and it’s been so well received. It has touched so many hearts. We’ve still got plenty of them on hand, if you’re interested. Why, you just call or write and we’ll get a copy out to you. We’ve always charged $11, and that includes the postage. Okay, let’s just jump back in at the second portion of Scripture that deals with this main harvest, or the Rapture and the resurrection of the Body of Christ, which would be I Thessalonians 4. We touched on it in the last part of the last program, but let’s look at it again. I Thessalonians chapter 4 and we’ll start at verse 13. Because as the world’s situation is turning, I think everyone in this room (and I think most true believers) are anxiously awaiting this event. Because things are not going to get better. I can tell you that much. It’s nothing but a slippery slope, and we’re on a downward slide. We’d better hope that the Lord comes sooner rather than later, or we’re going to get our feet burned. We may anyway, but let’s just hope and pray that the Lord will come sooner rather than later. So, here is our blessed hope, as Titus chapter 2 calls it. I Thessalonians 4:13a “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, (Now see, he’s talking to believers and not to the world in general.) concerning them who are asleep,…” Or who have died. Now there again, I think I made the point in the last taping. There are certain false groups that refer to soul-sleep. The soul never sleeps. The soul never loses consciousness. The minute physical death happens, the soul of a believer and the spirit go immediately into the presence of the Lord, conscious. It doesn’t go up there to sleep. It doesn’t go up there to hibernate. It stays conscious and waiting for this great event when they’ll receive the body. Now the lost, of course, will do immediately the same. They go to their doom to the place of torment waiting for their resurrection. Hopefully, we’ll see that in the next half hour, if not this one. Yes, even the lost are going to be resurrected to be brought before the Great White Throne bodily. And from thence, then, to their eternal doom in the Lake of Fire. But right now we’re dealing with the believers who are in the Body of Christ. And all of our loved ones and our ancestors who before us became members of the Body of Christ are all involved in this company that Paul referred to in I Corinthians 15. We will be in that “lot,” or in that company. All right, then verse 14, we looked at it in the last half hour, but we’ll repeat it. I Thessalonians 4:14a “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,…” Now here is what I call the credentials for being in the Body of Christ, or to be involved in this great event. We have to have our faith in that finished work of the cross—or His death, burial, and resurrection. That is the criteria. And…come back with me. I can’t help it. Keep your finger in I Thessalonians. Come back with me to Matthew 16, again. Because it is so hard for even good church people to see the difference between the Gospel that the Twelve were saved by and the other Jews of that day, and for us today. As different as daylight and dark. But they refuse to see it. They just don’t want to see it. And I’ll keep hammering away at it. There is this stark difference. All right, in Matthew 16 we see the profession of faith of Peter. And, of course, it was equal to those Jews of his day as well as those who were saved on the Day of Pentecost and following. I’ll show you that on our way back to Thessalonians. But for now, so that you’ll see what I’m talking, go to about Matthew 16. We always start at verse 13. Now some of you have seen this a hundred times in the last ten years, but now once more. Matthew 16:13-14 “When Jesus came into the borders of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, (The Twelve who have now been with Him almost three years.) saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (Who am I? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible