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's

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? 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

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