Title: 13
Author: Joe G
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Scottish Arts: Lindsey Lubrano, Highland Dance & Alex Lubrano, Bagpipes; Resurrection Life for Unbelievers, Dan 12:2b; Jn 5:29b; Rev 20:11-14; Conclusions

Scottish Arts
Prelude:		“Amazing Grace”:	Alex Lubrano, B Band, St. Thomas School, Houston, Texas: Bagpipes
Introduction:	Joe Griffin, Pastor
Today I am pleased to welcome to Grace Doctrine Church two friends of mine.  Both are students at St. Thomas School in Houston, Texas (www.stes.org) and members of Berachah Church.
St. Thomas has just completed its fiftieth year competing in the Scottish Arts.  Beginning with kindergarten and going through the fourth grace, all students, boys and girls, are required to learn and compete in Scottish dance.  In addition, beginning with the fourth grade, all boys are required to learn either bagpipe or drum.  They begin with the C Band in fourth grade and move up to the B Band and, finally, the A Band.
The St. Thomas A Band has won the World Juvenile Championship three times in competitions held in Scotland against not only the best pipers and drummers the world has to offer but, even more impressively, that Scotland has to offer.  The A Band will be returning to Scotland this August to seek its fourth championship.
The level of competition that students of St. Thomas engage is world class.  I am pleased to introduce two of them to you this morning:
First of all please welcome Miss Lindsey Lubrano.  Lindsey competes in the Premier level which is the most advanced stage in Highland Dance.  She is in St. Louis having competed in the Southwest Regional Highland Dance competition held yesterday at Forest Park’s Missouri History Museum.  I am pleased to announce that Lindsey qualified for the National Champions Finals to be held in July in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Next, please welcome her brother and St. Thomas piper, Alex Lubrano.  Alex is in the sixth grade and is now playing in the B Band.  It is rare at St. Thomas for a seventh grader to advance to the B Band, but Alex did so as a fifth grader.  He is advancing quite rapidly and he will no doubt be playing before too much longer in the A Band.
This morning Lindsey will perform a Highland Dance for us entitled “Highland Laddie” and she will be assisted by her brother, Alex, on the pipes.
Scottish Dance:	“Highland Laddie”: Lindsey Lubrano, Premier Class, St. Thomas School, Houston, Texas.
			Alex Lubrano, bagpipes.

1.	Resurrection Life for Unbelievers.  This is called the Second Resurrection.  Those who have rejected Jesus as Messiah are brought out from Torments and issued a body that functions under Forever Life but separated from God for all eternity.
Daniel 12:2b -	… and some to shame [ Great White Throne judgment ] and everlasting contempt [ incarceration in the lake of fire forever and ever ].
John 5:29b -	… and those who have practiced [ pr£ssw, prassō ] evil [ faàloj, phaulos: wickedness ] to a resurrection of condemnation [ the Second Resurrection ].
Revelation 20:11 -	And I [ John ] saw a great white throne [ the Tribunal of Divine Integrity ] and Him [ Jesus Christ as Chief Justice ] who sat upon it … 
v. 13 -	And the sea [ the Nephilim of Genesis 6 ] gave up the dead [ toÝj nekroÚj, tous nekrous ] which were in it, and death and Hades [ ¯dhj, haidēs: Torments compartment ] gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their works.
v. 14 -	And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.  This is the second death, the lake of fire.
		14.	From the Doctrine of the Categories of Life Defined in Scripture we are able to draw some conclusions that have direct impact on our involvement in the angelic conflict:
1.	Our original parents were imputed soul life to biological life in Eden along with a human spirit making them trichotomous.  Created by the Lord Jesus Christ they were perfect people and they possessed Perfect Life.
2.	However, when they fell, the sinful nature came into existence and contaminated every cell of their human bodies.
3.	This caused spiritual death reducing them to status quo dichotomy.  The body was contaminated with the sinful nature and their souls were classified as “lost” having volitionally broken fellowship with the Lord.
4.	Their salvation, based on faith alone in Christ alone, resulted in regeneration and a return to a trichotomous state: body, soul, and human spirit.
5.	Their faith also resulted in the imputation of Eternal Life to the divinely created human spirit.
6.	However, the sinful nature, which now contaminated their bodies, presented an ongoing challenge to fellowship with God.
7.	Recovery was rebound through ritual, the execution of appropriate sacrifices.
8.	However, Adam’s genetic contamination was passed on to his progeny by procreation, encoded into their children’s DNA.
9.	The biological life of Adam’s children developed through gestation.  For example, Eve incubated the biological life of Cain and at his physical birth soul life was imputed to Cain’s biological life creating human life.
10.	But because each of their progeny, from Cain down to the last birth of the Millennium, were seminally in Adam when he sinned, then all are born physically alive but spiritually dead.
11.	This is the result of Adam’s original sin being imputed to the sinful nature at the moment of physical birth.
12.	The soul of every human being has Never-Ending Life.  For each individual the question to resolve is where that life will continue following physical death: Eternal Life in heaven or Forever Life in the Lake of Fire?

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