SERMON OUTLINE

9-10-11

THE DEAD: ARE THEY IN THEIR GRAVES?

SCRIPTURE: GEN. 2:17; 3:4. GOD WARNS, “YOU WILL SURELY DIE IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT; SATAN PROMISES THAT “YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE.” LOOK AT THE OBITUARY COLUMN OF YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER AND DETERMINE WHO WAS RIGHT. SATAN IS THE FATHER OF LIES AND DEATH.

  1. NEARLY 3,000 VICTIMS IN ALL DIED ON 9/11 AT THE HAND OF THE AL-QUADE ATTACKERS.
  2. SATAN, THE FATHER OF DEATH, MUST HAVE BEEN SMILING BROADLY TO INSPIRE HIS FOLLOWERS TO BRING ABOUT SUCH DESTRUCTION, CHAOS, AND DEATH.
  3. ALL ATTACKERS DIED AS WELL AS MANY POLICEMEN, FIREFITHTERS, AND EMT’S.
  4. WITH WHAT GREAT EVIL DO WE STRUGGLE? EPH. 6:12. SPIRITUAL ( SATANIC INSPIRED) WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
  5. SATAN GOD OF THIS WORLD. JOHN 14:30.
  6. USES WIZARDS AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS TO TRAP SOULS. LEV. 19:31; JER. 27:9-10.
  7. SPIRITUALISM- THE BELIEF THAT THE DEAD ARE ALIVE AND CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE LIVING.
  8. THE DEAD ARE, INDEED, DEAD. ECCL. 9:5,6;PS. 146:4.
  9. SPIRIT (BREATH) RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. ECCL. 12:7.
  10. WORD “BREATH” COMES FROM HEBREW RUAH. NOW YOU ARE CONSCIOUS, BUT YOUR BREATH IS NOT NOW CONSCIOUS; NEITHER WILL IT BE WHEN IT GOES BACK TO GOD AT DEATH.
  11. WHEN MEDIUMS PRETENT TO BRING UP SPIRITS, THESE ARE “SPIRITS OF DEVILS.” REV. 16:14; 1 JOHN 4:1; IS. 8:20.
  12. THESE EVIL SPIRITS WILL BE ESPECIALLY WORKING TO DECEIVE IN THE LAST DAYS. 1 TIM. 4:1.
  13. I COR. 11:14- SATAN HIMSELF WILL PRESENT HIMSELF AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
  14. SATAN WILL PERFORM GREAT MIRACLES. MATT. 24:23,24. REV. 13: 13,14.
  15. GOD WILL HAVE HIS FAITHFUL WHO RESIST SATAN. IS. 25:9.
  16. MODERN SPIRITUALISM IS DISGUISED AS: PARAPSYCHOLOGY, WITCHCRAFT, WIZARDRY, CERTAIN SPIRITUAL HEALING, CHANNELING, THE OCCULT STUDIES, ETC.
  17. RESURRECTION SHOWS GOD’S POWER OVER DEATH AND THAT THE DEAD GO TO THE GRAVE. I THESS. 4: 13-18.
  18. DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST.
  19. LIVING SHALL BE TAKEN UP INTO CLOUDS TO MEET CHRIST AND BE WITH HIM FOR EVERMORE. I THESS. 4:13-18.
  20. SUCH EVIL MEN AS HITLER AND KAISER WILHELM II, SOUGHT THE GUIDANCE OF SATANIC MEDIUMS.
  21. THIS SHOWS A PART OF THE SOURCE OF THEIR WICKED DEEDS.
  22. THEY WOULD KILL MANY, SOME CHILDREN, IN ORDER TO STUDY THEIR BRAINS.
  23. MILLIONS OF JEWS, GYPSIES, BLACKS, AND HOMOSEXUALS WERE KILLED BY HITLER.
  24. WICHED BURNED UP; BECOME ASHES UNDER FEET OF RIGHTEOUS. MAL. 4: 1-3.
  25. REV. 20:10- DEVIL, HIS FOLLOWERS, AND HIS ANGELS CAST INTO LAKE OF FIRE AND BURNED UP.
  26. NOTE: WHEN THE WORD “FOREVER” IS USED HERE, IT MEANS UNTIL ITS APPOINTED TIME HAS EXPIRED.
  27. EXAMPLES: JUDE 7 (SODOM AND GOMORRAH BURNED FOREVER; EXODUS 25 ( SERVANT TO SERVE FOREVER.)
  28. OF COURSE, THESE TWO CITIES ARE NOT STILL BURNING NOR IS THE SERVANT STILL SERVING. THEY BURNED AND SERVED UNTIL THEIR APPOINTED TIME HAD EXPIRED.
  29. WHEN SUCH TERMS AS “FOREVER” REFER TO THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND SIN, THE WORD MEANS UNTIL ITS APPOINTED TIME HAS EXPIRED.
  30. WHEN SUCH TERMS REFER TO GOD AND THE HEAVENLY REALM, THEY MEAN “WITHOUT END.”
  31. REWARD OF RIGHTEOUS- SPENDING ETERNITY WITH CHRIST AND EXPERIENCE NO MORE DEATH, SORROW, OR CRYING, FOR THE WORLD AND LIFE OF SIN HAVE PASSED AWAY. REV. 21: 1-7.
  32. CONCLUSIION: DETERMINE THIS VERY MOMENT THAT YOU WILL RESIST SATAN AND HIS TEMPTERS (THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT) AND BE READY TO MEET CHRIST WHEN HE COMES IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL REIGH WITHOUT END.
  33. MAY GOD BLESS YOU. PASTOR FILLMER HEVENER.