MODERN DAY
SADDUCEES
The Sadducees were a sect of Judaism that did not believe in the resurrection
of the dead, or in the spirit. (That’s why they were sad you see)
We
have those today that don’t believe in the resurrection from the dead or in the
spirit.
Mt:
Acts:
23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor
spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
We even have religions that claim to be
1Cor:
a. The bible clearly teaches we have a
physical, natural body and we have a spiritual body.
1Cor:
Today Society teaches that there is no God, we all evolved from apes, but what
does the Bible say of those that deny the existence of God?
Ps: 14:1 & Ps: 53:1 the fool hath said in his heart, there is no
God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that
doeth good.
The Bible tells us to turn away from those that believe and teach such things.
2Tm:
3:5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn
away.
Those that believe and teach such things are in for trouble. WOW!
Ezek:
13:3 Thus says the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish
prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
a. These people are blind to the things
of the Spirit.
Mt:
b. Choose to reject God’s Son and you face wrath and
eternal damnation!
Rom:
2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurers up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God;
c. The choice that we have is life or death.
Jn:
5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth
my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall
not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
d. God has set before us life and death, you choose!
Jer:
21:8 And unto this people thou shalt
say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you
the way of life, and the way of death.
Deut:
30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
I
watched the hearings in Congress on human cloning. As I watched and listened,
as the scientific community presented their case in favor of human cloning, I
was astounded at what the true agenda was!
One prominent scientist stated that he
was an atheist and that the denial to go forward with human cloning research,
would deny him his religious rights under the constitution. By legally banning research in human cloning,
we were denying him his only chance for eternal life.
He stated he rejected the Christian
religion and the oppression involved with its tenets. It is interesting that he
wanted eternal life, but was not willing to submit to what it takes to acquire
it. He wanted eternal life but only on his terms, not God’s. He puts his faith in scientific research as
the means to achieve eternal life.
The best that could possibly be
attained from cloning is that a twin would be produced. There is no chance of
duplicating yourself through cloning.
Cloning as a method of reproduction, fails more than it succeeds.
When it does succeed, it produces more
often than not, a genetically impaired life.
Now unless these scientists are
thinking of growing a twin of themselves and cutting off its head or removing
it’s brain and replacing it with their own, there is no way they are going to
produce eternal life for themselves. If they cut the head off of their twin it
is murder. If they remove their twin’s brain it is murder. In either case, it
is the sacrifice of the life of another, so they can have eternal life.
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Does this sound familiar to you as a
method to attain eternal life?
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Have we heard of this same thing being
done before?
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The sacrifice of the life of
God so loved us that He sent
John
3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
It seems that a large portion of people today choose to reject God’s offer of
eternal life.
Acts:
In fact it is clear that there is a goal to erase the knowledge of God in every
arena of life.
Romans
1:28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
a. Cloning is not a convenient method of
reproduction.
B. Cloning is a perversion of God’s method of
reproduction.
The result of created beings rejecting the Creator’s plan for eternal life, is that they find themselves looking to man Himself,
as the means to attain eternal life.
Rom:
Another
woman scientist that had been deported from her home country of
The couple loved the boy deeply and
heard about cloning and asked her to take cells from their dead son and store
them and attempt to clone him. She felt it was wrong to deny these people a
chance to have their son restored to them. The people had experienced the
greatest love in their life for their son and also experienced the greatest
pain and sorrow of their life when he died.
She wanted to know how we as a nation could pass a law denying them the
return of their son.
Again a clone is a twin not a resurrection or duplication.
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If they did manage to clone their son’s
twin he would be born with the same genetic defect the donor cells had.
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The clone would not be the resurrected
son they lost, but a twin with the
same heart defect.
It is evidenced again that these people are looking to science to be the means
to resurrect a person from the dead. It appears that higher education is
looking for another way to eternal life other then God’s way.
There is no other way to eternal life, than through believing in the name of
Acts:
Jn:
As
Mt:
12:40: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so
shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
There are numerous religions and philosophies that purport to have the way to
attain eternal life, but not one of them has DONE IT!
Jn:
The proof was the empty tomb:
He
is not here: for HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and
tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead;
and, behold, he goeth before you into
a.
Mt:
26:32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into
Mk:
The resurrected
Mk:
16:9 Now when
The resurrected
Mk:
16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided
them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them
which had seen him after he was risen.
John
21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples,
after that he was risen from the dead.
The resurrected
1Cor:
15:6 After that, he (Jesus) was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of
whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
The disciples were totally convinced and preached the resurrection from the
dead.
John 2:22 when therefore he was risen from
the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they
believed the scripture, and the word which
Acts
If
Romans
1:4 and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of
holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
If we trust in
Romans
8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Resurrection won’t come through man’s plan but through God’s man,
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
There will always be those that refuse to believe.
Acts
17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics,
encountered him. And some said, what will this babbler say? Other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he
preached unto them
Acts:
1Cor:
15:21-22 For since by man came death, by man came also
the resurrection of the dead. For as in
We have hope because of the resurrection of
1Pt: 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our
WHICH RESURRECTION WILL YOU BE IN?
John
5:29 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.
Acts: 24:15 and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that
there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
There are two resurrections, one to
eternal life and one to an eternal death in hell.
Revelations 20:5-6 But the
rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This
is the first resurrection. 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
We all will enter eternity; it is just a matter of where we will spend it.
Mt:
25:46 and these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous
into life eternal.
What must I do to be saved?
Acts
16:30-31 (the keeper of the prison) “brought them out, and said, Sirs, what
must I do to be saved”? And they said, Believe on the
You can be saved and have eternal life!
Romans
10:9-10 That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the
You have eternal life and shall never
see death!
Rom
Jn:
God’s plan for you!
Jn:
3:15-17 That whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him
might be saved.
Have a GOD-day!
