426 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 36 - The Invisible Make Up of the Saved

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 36 THE INVISIBLE MAKE-UP OF THE SAVED Now for starters let's get right back to Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 1 and Paul is speaking to us believers. Ephesians 2:1 "And you hath he quickened, who were (past tense) dead in trespasses and sins:" Adam could have lived forever. God gave him a personality of a mind, will, and emotions patterned after the very personality of God Himself. Also in that first circle we found Adam also had that third part the spirit that made him complete so that he could fellowship with God. So Adam was under a perfect set of circumstances in a perfect body, and with perfect soul and spirit. We're talking about physical death with his soul being separated from his physical body. He also lost that third part, the Spirit. Now we're going to pursue the lost person a little further, because that's the format of Scripture. Let's go back to John's gospel chapter 5, and we're going to jump in at verse 28. John 5:28-29a 29. And (they) shall come forth, (there will not be anyone that won't hear that call to come forth from the grave, whether they're lost or saved. They will come forth, not the saved and lost at the same time, but all will come forth.) Remember there's only one way we can please God, and what is it? BY FAITH! John 5:29b "... unto the resurrection of life;..." John 3:16 Now let's look at the next part of the verse. John 5:29b "...and they that have done evil, (or having no faith) unto the resurrection of damnation." Now I could stand here the rest of the afternoon and give you scriptural instances of lost people who were lost only because they would not believe what God said. No Faith! He couldn't believe what God had told him to do, so Cain goes out into eternity lost. Esau. No faith! Oklahoma people know all about bean soup. John 5:29b In other words every lost person from Cain, who left this life when their body died, their soul continued to live. So many times Paul uses the word "sleep" when he refers to those who have died. Let's just drop down to verse 51. I Thessalonians 4:13 Listen the soul never sleeps! The lost person is going to go to Hell! All right, the soul never sleeps, but what about the body? The old body is put in the grave, and it's really asleep. The Lord's going shout, and the trumpet of God is going to sound, and that body is going to be raised from the dead, and will be awake in a split second. But always remember, "the soul never sleeps" OK so let's deal with the lost person first and then we'll come back and look at the believer. So the lost person's body dies, his old sin nature, which has never gotten right with God, goes out into eternity, to Hell, the place that is waiting for the resurrection of the lost person. Ephesians 2:2-3 Now turn with me to Matthew chapter 7. Matthew 7:13-14 14. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, (eternal life) and few there be that find it." Never! A remnant." Well you see that's what God has kept all the way through human history, is that little remnant. In other words these 7000 were still believers. Matthew 7:13b Because they're going out into eternity with nothing more than that physical body that's now been laid in the grave, it's a sleep waiting for the resurrection that Jesus talked about in John chapter 5. Now if you doubt me that lost people go to Hell consciously just read Luke 16 about Abraham, Lazarus, and the rich man. The rich man was in torment. Now the Lord Jesus Himself used that. After they're resurrected out of Hell, they're going to be given a body, not fit for glory, but rather a body fit for their next abode which is found in Revelation chapter 20. Revelation 20:4 Now verse 5. Now we look at the lost being resurrected. Revelation 20:5a "But the rest of the dead..." Well if you've got all the believers involved up here in verse 4, then naturally who are the rest of the dead in verse 5? Lost people all the way from Cain, and Esau, and all the way on up through when there was a time of opportunity. Revelation 20:5a Revelation 20:5b Revelation 20:6 Revelation 20:11-15 12. And I saw the dead, (the lost who have been down in Hell in torment ever since they died) 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 (those spiritually dead who never entered into salvation) were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. (remember a believer will never face second death, because we experience our second death when we identified with Christ when He died on the cross. Remember Paul says, `we are crucified with Christ!') #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible