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Philippians chapter 1, while you're turning there, I'll read for you from the statement of faith of the seventh-day Adventist on Adventist.org. Under point 26 it says, the wages of sin is death, but God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to his redeemed. Until that day, death is an unconscious state for all people. Did you hear that? Until that day, death is an unconscious state for all people. Look at Philippians chapter 1 and verse 21 and see if that's true. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor, yet what I shall choose I want not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. Why did Paul say that for him to live was Christ and to die is gain? Because he said, if I die, I would depart and be with Christ. He didn't say, I have a desire to just die and then just be asleep. No, he's saying, I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Go to 2 Corinthians chapter number 5. 2 Corinthians chapter number 5, there's a lot of scripture that we could use to show that this is false. I'm just showing you a few. But in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 6, the Bible reads, therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. Now let me ask some, does that teach that the mind, body, and spirit are inseparable? No. Because they're saying, look, right now we're at home in the body. But one day we will be absent from the body and present with the Lord. That's when our bodies physically die, we will give up the ghost, and the spirit will return to God that gave it. And we will be in heaven consciously awaiting the day of judgment and all the different things that are going to come. But we're not going to be asleep. Now you say, well, but the Bible does talk about those who are asleep, right. But here's the thing, it's the body that's asleep. The body sleeps. That's why the Bible says many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise. Some to, I don't have it off the top of my head right now, but in Daniel chapter 12 it says some are going to be raised unto everlasting life and others are going to be raised unto everlasting shame and contempt. But what you have to understand is that the body remains here when we die, but the soul is going to go to one of two places the moment we die. You're either going to depart and be with Christ, you're either going to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, or you will lift up your eyes in hell being in torment. In Luke chapter 16 it says the rich man also died and was buried and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torment. So it was that fast. And a lot of people say, well, how can they go to hell, they haven't even been judged yet. No, the Bible says he that believeth not is condemned already. Doesn't need to be judged at the great white throne to be sent to hell. No, hell is going to deliver up the dead that are in it and they'll be judged every man according to their works. You go to hell before the great day of judgment if you're unsaved because you're condemned already the Bible says. And the moment that an unsaved person breathes their last breath, the soul will go to hell. And the moment that a believer breathes their last breath, the soul will be in heaven. That's why John in Revelation, before the rapture took place, before the first resurrection, before the trumpet sounds, he says, I saw the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held, and he said, I saw the souls that were up there and they cried out saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, does that not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth. So they're not unconscious, they're not asleep, they're up there saying, how much longer do we have to wait? They're not being just warped forward to that moment as the Seventh-day Adventist, Jehovah's false witnesses and others teach. Go to 1 Thessalonians 4 because this is a powerful truth. I'm just showing you how these teachings of LNG White are not authoritative, they're false and they contradict the Bible. Oh, it's an LNG White's writings are an authoritative source of truth but they have to be tested by the Bible. Well, I'm testing them right now and they're failing. This is one of her key teachings, this is one of their 28 fundamental truths that they've chosen. I mean, I didn't pick 28 things about the Seventh-day Adventist, they've chosen and listed these things and said, these are our 28 fundamental teachings. Fundamental means that it's the foundational, it's the most important to them, and it does not line up with scripture, it's false, which proves that LNG White was a false prophet and wait until we get into more on that. But I think I told you to turn to 1 Thessalonians 4. This is that famous passage about Jesus Christ coming in the clouds, the trumpet sounding and us which are alive and remain being caught up together in the clouds with him. But that's not what I want to focus on, I want to focus on those who've already died and gone on to be with the Lord. Let's see what the Bible says about them. This is a fascinating passage and in fact, it's one of those passages that's so famous, we've read it so many times, we've heard it so many times, but it is so deep and there are many biblical truths in this passage that I've never heard expounded because it's so deep, there's so much going on here, and I think often we overlook things in famous passages because we feel like, oh yada yada, I've heard that a million times. But read it again, beginning in verse 13. It says, but I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep. Now isn't that what we were talking about with Ellen G. White? Hey, she's teaching this soul sleep doctrine, that people's body, soul, mind is all asleep until the judgment day. Listen to this. Concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. So notice, it says in verse 16, for the Lord himself shall descend. So the Lord Jesus Christ is going to descend from heaven, right? And it says that those that are asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Now are their bodies up in heaven right now? So how's he going to bring them with him? Because it's the soul. See if there was an inseparability of the body and soul, that wouldn't even make sense. So it says right there very clearly, it says them which are asleep in Jesus, at the end of verse 14, will God bring with him. Verse 15, for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Now stop and think about this. On one hand he's saying the Lord's going to descend and bring those who are asleep in Jesus with him. Which direction is that? Bringing them. And then over here it says the dead in Christ shall rise first. How can that be? Because the body is rising. The body is in the great and it's rising and then the Lord's bringing them with them as far as their souls and then there's a reunion that takes place where they're changed in a moment and a twinkling of an eye, we're changed and the Bible says that God shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. The Bible says that in the resurrection it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. So we see here that according to 1 Thessalonians 4 we have the soul coming from heaven because we have the believers coming with Jesus, God's bringing them with him and then we also have the dead in Christ rising which is only possible if we're talking about the body and the soul. And we could go to scripture after scripture after scripture to prove that but that's just a small sampling of what we could show on the fact that the doctrine of soul sleep is a false doctrine. Now another major doctrine.