The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

It falls to me to have the happy privilege to open the word of God to you

and consider the resurrection and its importance.

And I want to do that. I want to do it from a text that may be a little surprising to you.

It's the 17th chapter of Acts, Acts chapter 17. You can turn to it in your Bible,

and we'll be there in a few minutes. Job posed the question, if a man dies, shall he live again?

That is the ultimate question. Is death the end, or is there life after death? The Bible answers resoundingly, yes, people will live again.

Not only will you live again, but you will live again forever, forever.

It'll never end.

And though there's no time, there will be an unending moment of eternal life.

And it will not be some kind of mystic consciousness or some altered state, or you come back as some other person, nor are you just going to be folded in

to a piece of some eternal collective mind.

Every human being who has ever lived will live after death.

Personally, as you, you're not going to be folded into some non-personal entity.

Every individual will live personally.

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