reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHAT IS THE RESURRECTION? IT IS BEING BORN FROM THE DEAD, NEVER TO DIE AGAIN, BEING MADE EQUAL WITH THE ANGELS. LK:20:35 BUT THEY WHICH SHALL BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO OBTAIN THAT WORLD, AND THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, NEITHER MARRY, NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE. 36. NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANY MORE: FOR THEY ARE EQUAL UNTO THE ANGELS; AND ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, BEING THE CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION. JESUS CHRIST, WAS THE FIRST BORN OF EVERY CREATURE, AND THE FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD THAT HE MIGHT HAVE PREEMINENCE IN ALL THINGS. COL:1:15 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE: 16. FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS: ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM: 17. AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. 18. AND HE IS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH: WHO IS THE BEGINNING, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD; THAT IN ALL THINGS HE MIGHT HAVE THE PREEMINENCE. GOD THE FATHER SAID THESE WORDS ABOUT JESUS , THE SON OF GOD, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY; "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON." MT:3:17 AND LO A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED. WHEN GOD THE FATHER ACKNOWLEDGED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SON HE FOREVER SET HIS SEAL TO THAT FACT. JN:6:27 LABOUR NOT FOR THE MEAT WHICH PERISHETH, BUT FOR THAT MEAT WHICH ENDURETH UNTO EVERLASTING LIFE, WHICH THE SON OF MAN SHALL GIVE UNTO YOU: FOR HIM HATH GOD THE FATHER SEALED. MANY MEN HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED, BUT GOD THE FATHER GLORIFIED HIS SON AFTER HE WAS CRUCIFIED BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD. THERE WERE LOT OF WITNESSES TO HIS RESURRECTION. 1COR:15:4 AND THAT HE WAS BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES: 5. AND THAT HE WAS SEEN OF CEPHAS, THEN OF THE TWELVE. 6. AFTER THAT, HE WAS SEEN OF ABOVE FIVE HUNDRED BRETHREN AT ONCE; OF WHOM THE GREATER PART REMAIN UNTO THIS PRESENT, BUT SOME ARE FALLEN ASLEEP. GOD THE FATHER, FURTHER GLORIFIED HIS SON JESUS WITH HIS ASCENSION. ACTS:1:9 AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHILE THEY BEHELD, HE WAS TAKEN UP; AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. 10. AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN AS HE WENT UP, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL; 11. WHICH ALSO SAID, YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS , WHICH IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN. WHEN SHALL THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS TAKE PLACE? THE RESURRECTION SHALL TAKE PLACE AT THE LAST DAY. JN:6:40 AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, THAT EVERY ONE WHICH SEETH THE SON, AND BELIEVETH ON HIM, MAY HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE: AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY. JN:11:21 THEN SAID MARTHA UNTO JESUS , LORD, IF THOU HADST BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER HAD NOT DIED. 22. BUT I KNOW, THAT EVEN NOW, WHATSOEVER THOU WILT ASK OF GOD, GOD WILL GIVE IT THEE. 23. JESUS SAID UNTO HER, THY BROTHER SHALL RISE AGAIN. 24. MARTHA SAITH UNTO HIM, I KNOW THAT HE SHALL RISE AGAIN IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY. 25. JESUS SAID UNTO HER, I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE: HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE. WHEN SHALL ETERNITY BEGIN? THERE WILL COME A DAY IN WHICH AN ANGEL SHALL COME, AND PLACE ONE FOOT UPON LAND, AND THE OTHER FOOT UPON THE SEA, AND MAKE A SOLEMN DECLARATION THAT TIME SHALL BE NO MORE? RV:10:5 AND THE ANGEL WHICH I SAW STAND UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH LIFTED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN, 6. AND SWARE BY HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE EARTH, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE SEA , AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE THEREIN, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER: WHO SHALL RISE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION? THOSE SAINTS THAT WERE BEHEADED DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION. RV:20:4 AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEAD, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 5. BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 6. BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HATH PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION: ON SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HATH NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS. IF THE LORD TARRIES, MEN WILL COME AND TAKE MY PHYSICAL BODY , AND PLANT IT IN THE GROUND. IT SHALL BE PLANTED IN WEAKNESS, IT SHALL BE RAISED IN POWER; IT SHALL BE PLANTED A PHYSICAL BODY IT SHALL BE RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. 1COR:15:42 SO ALSO IS THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. IT IS SOWN IN CORRUPTION; IT IS RAISED IN INCORRUPTION; 43. IT IS SOWN IN DISHONOUR; IT IS RAISED IN GLORY: IT IS SOWN IN WEAKNESS; IT IS RAISED IN POWER: 44. IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY; IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. THERE IS A NATURAL BODY, AND THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BODY. GOD THE FATHER BY THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD JESUS HAS GIVEN US HOPE THAT WE TOO SHALL BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD. IT IS WONDERFUL TO KNOW THAT THE GRAVE IS NOT THE END. 1PT:1:3 BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HATH BEGOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD. IN THIS PRESENT LIFE WE PROBABLY MAKE MILLIONS OF DECISIONS, AND THESE DECISIONS SHOULD BE MADE WITH THE RESURRECTION IN MIND. THOSE OF US THAT MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS, DECISIONS BASED ON THE NEW TESTAMENT, KING JAMES TRANSLATION, WILL HAVE A GLORIOUS RESURRECTION, BUT THOSE THAT MAKE THE WRONG DECISIONS WILL HAVE A HORRIFYING RESURRECTION. FOR THERE IS A HEAVEN TO GAIN, BUT THERE IS A HELL TO SHUN. JN:5:26 FOR AS THE FATHER HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF; SO HATH HE GIVEN TO THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF; 27. AND HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO , BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. 28. MARVEL NOT AT THIS: FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, 29. 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. SHALL THE FLESHLY BODY BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD? THESE BEAUTIFUL WORDS WERE SPOKEN BY JOB . JB:19:25 FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, AND THAT HE SHALL STAND AT THE LATTER DAY UPON THE EARTH: 26. AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN WORMS DESTROY THIS BODY, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD: 27. WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER; THOUGH MY REINS BE CONSUMED WITHIN ME. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HIDE FROM GOD IN THE RESURRECTION? THERE ARE MEN THAT HAVE THEIR BODIES CREMATED AND THERE ASHES SCATTERED OVER LAND OR OVER WATER. BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT A PERSON WILL BE ABLE TO HIDE FROM GOD IN THE RESURRECTION. FOR THE LORD WILL SPEAK, AND THE GROUND WILL BEGIN TO SHAKE, AND THE BONES WILL BEGIN TO COME TOGETHER. EZ:37:1 THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME, AND CARRIED ME OUT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, AND SET ME DOWN IN THE MIDST OF THE VALLEY WHICH WAS FULL OF BONES. 2. AND CAUSED ME TO PASS BY THEM ROUND ABOUT: AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE VERY MANY IN THE OPEN VALLEY: AND, LO, THEY WERE VERY DRY. 3. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE? AND I ANSWERED, O LORD GOD, THOU KNOWEST. 4. AGAIN HE SAID UNTO ME, PROPHESY UPON THESE BONES, AND SAY UNTO THEM, O YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD. 5. THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO THESE BONES; BEHOLD, I WILL CAUSE BREATH TO ENTER INTO YOU, AND YE SHALL LIVE; 6. AND I WILL LAY SINEWS UPON YOU, AND WILL BRING UP FLESH UPON YOU, AND COVER YOU WITH SKIN, AND PUT BREATH IN YOU, AND YE SHALL LIVE; AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD. 7. SO I PROPHESIED AS I WAS COMMANDED: AND AS I PROPHESIED, THERE WAS A NOISE, AND BEHOLD A SHAKING, AND THE BONES CAME TOGETHER, BONE TO HIS BONE. 8. AND WHEN I BEHELD LO, THE SINEWS AND THE FLESH CAME UP UPON THEM, AND THE SKIN COVERED THEM ABOVE: BUT THERE WAS NO BREATH IN THEM. 9. THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, PROPHESY UNTO THE WIND, PROPHESY, SON OF MAN, AND SAY TO THE WIND, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; COME FROM THE FOUR WINDS, O BREATH , AND BREATHE UPON THESE SLAIN, THAT THEY MAY LIVE. 10. SO I PROPHESIED AS HE COMMANDED ME, AND THE BREATH CAME INTO THEM, AND THEY LIVED, AND STOOD UP UPON THEIR FEET, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY. THE OUTWARD MAN OF FLESH, AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE, IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. NOT ALL MEN HAVE FAITH, NEITHER DO ALL MEN BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION. I KNOW THAT NOT ALL MEN BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION, IF MEN BELIEVED IN THE RESURRECTION, BELIEVED THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE THINGS DONE WHILE IN THIS TABERNACLE OF FLESH, THEY WOULD NOT MURDER, NEITHER WOULD THEY LIE, STEAL, BLASPHEME, AND DO ALL MANNER OF EVIL. IS BELIEVING IN THE RESURRECTION A NECESSITY TO YOUR SALVATION? YES, ROM:10:8 BUT WHAT SAITH IT? THE WORD IS NIGH THY, EVEN IN THY MOUTH, AND IN THY HEART: THAT IS, THE WORD OF FAITH, WHICH WE PREACH; 9. THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS, AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. 10. FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION. IN THE RESURRECTION THE BOOK OF LIFE SHALL BE OPENED, AND A SEARCH MADE FOR YOUR NAME. EVERY PERSON’S NAME NOT FOUND IN THE BOOK OF LIFE SHALL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. I TELL YOU THIS THAT YOU MIGHT PRAY, RV:20:11 AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND HEAVEN FLED AWAY: AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM. 12. AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD, AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED; AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. 13. 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. 15. AND WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. MEN ARE MAKING MANY DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. AND THESE DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS DO NO AGREE WITH THE KING JAMES TRANSLATION , THEREFORE THEY MUST BE ADDING WORDS , AND TAKING AWAY WORDS FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. AND IN THE RESURRECTION IF A MAN HAS ADDED TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, OR TAKEN FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES I BELIEVE THAT HE IS GOING TO BE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE . I BASE MY OPINION ON THESE HOLY SCRIPTURES. RV:22:18 FOR I TESTIFY UNTO EVERY MAN THAT HEARETH THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK, IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD UNTO THESE THINGS, GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: 19. AND IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK. 20. HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY. AMEN. EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS. TO HAVE A BETTER RESURRECTION THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT YOU MUST DO. YOU MUST REPENT. LK:13:5 I TELL YOU, NAY: BUT, EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH. YOU MUST HAVE FAITH. ACTS 16:31 AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED, AND THY HOUSE. YOU MUST BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST FOR ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND YOU MUST BE BORN OF THE SPIRIT, YOU MUST RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. YOU MUST EAT OF THE FLESH OF THE LORD JESUS, AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD. AND WE EAT OF THE FLESH, AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD WHEN WE PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. JN:6:53 THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. YOU MUST BE OBEDIENT TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. HEB10:26 FOR IF WE SIN WILFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE FOR SINS. WE MUST BE FRUITFUL, JN:15:1 I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN. 2. EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY: AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARETH FRUIT, HE PURGETH IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT. YOU MUST WASH THE SAINT’S FEET, AND THEY MUST WASH YOUR FEET. JN13:8 PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NEVER WASH MY FEET. JESUS ANSWERED HIM, IF I WASH THEE NOT , THOU HAST NO PART WITH ME. YOU MUST WORK IN THE HARVEST. JMS:2:26 FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO.