Life is Hard, Then You Die

Certain phrases I have heard all my life. The trunk of the tree, the mainframe, the outline of things. I mean, you can compile a whole list of sayings and statements that we've all grown up with. And I've heard the word reality and messages over time. You will hear me use the word reality a lot because I deal with reality. And there are realities and there are realities and there are realities of truth. There are realities of human behavior.

There are realities of the world in which we live. Realities of this age that we are, in a sense, stuck in. Such understandings have stood me in good stead in my lifetime, and I want to deal with one of those realities today.

So let's begin in Genesis 3, verses 17 through 19. Genesis 3, verses 17 through 19. This is in the aftermath of Adam and Eve doing that which is getting them kicked out of the garden. And as a result of their poor choice, their wrong choice, God has been telling them some of the results. And here he says in verse 17, chapter 3 of Genesis, And to Adam he said, Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and you have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you saying, You shall not eat of it.

Cursed is the ground for your sake. It's gonna be tough, Adam. In sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread. You're gonna have to sweat. It's gonna be hard till you return to the ground because that's what will happen someday, Adam. The ground's gonna be cursed. There's gonna be thorns and thistles. You're gonna produce what you do in the sweat of your face.

It's gonna be hard. And then you're gonna return to the ground for out of it where you've taken. For dust you are. And now to dust shall you return. Let's take what God told Adam and Eve, of course, there too. Obviously she's involved. Let's take what is said there in scripture and let's condense that into a very simple and very accurate statement.

It's like Adam, and here's the statement, life is hard and then you die. That's your title for the sermon. Life is hard and then you die because that's what he's told. That's the essence of it. Life is hard and then you die. And isn't that how life turned out to be for Adam and Eve and their descendants for that matter? But think about it. Someday we can plug in the details, but what time of the day or the night or whatever was it?

When word came to Adam and Eve, Cain has killed Abel because at some point they were told, Abel is dead. Cain has murdered him. And so that day had to be one of the deepest, darkest days of their life when one of their sons copied the great murderer Satan and became the first human murderer and murdered his brother Abel.

That had to be rough. That had to be hard. That had to just suck the wind out of them, crush their heart. But it didn't stop there, of course. In Genesis 5.5, you don't have to turn there, but it tells how old Adam was when he died. 930 years. Genesis 5.5, he was 930 years. Now, one of the things that's significant about the 930 years is that was over halfway to the time of the flood. He lived over halfway to the time of the flood. And the magnitude of corruption that is mentioned in Genesis 6.5, and I will read that, in Genesis 6.5 it says, "...and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." I mean, that's all that was going on.

There came a time where it was just corruption, corruption, corruption. And Adam lived over halfway to the time of the flood, and so that magnitude of corruption that it came to that caused God to have to literally drown them all, except for the one family that's mentioned, was well, well underway long before Adam died.

Long before he died, it had become a very hard world. Adam and Eve experienced his 930 years. It doesn't say how long Eve lived, but we have to assume that she lived about basically the same length of time. They experienced a hard life, and then they died. So to say, life is hard, and then you die. That is a very accurate expression, a description of what life has been for almost 6,000 years on this planet for 99% of mankind down through this age.

And if we know anything about human nature, if we know anything about the history of mankind, we know the truth of that statement. It has been a world, a time, an age of such. Life has been hard, followed by death. I'm a student of history. I'm not an expert, but I love history. I love reading about it. And of course, you know the word history, and you've heard this before, but the word history just means his story. It's her story, too, but that's why it's called history.

It's his story. It's mankind's story. And when you read history, you see the truth of this. This 6,000 years, roughly, just to round it off, it's an age founded, founded by Adam and Eve. It's an age founded upon their wrong decision. It's a world where it was chosen for their descendants by their choices. We're the recipients. Mankind has been the recipients. That's not to put any extra blame on them. I don't mean it that way, but their choices set the tone of the world we would have to live in and function in.

It's a world condition that their actions brought upon their descendants. Notice with me in Romans 5 and verse 12. Romans 5 and verse 12. Paul wrote, Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world. It didn't say sin originated with that man. Sin was originated by Satan, but sin entered into the world, the world of human beings, the world of mankind, through this one man.

Of course, obviously death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. But by one man or through one man sin entered into the world. With that thought in mind, let's read an interesting scripture in Isaiah 43 verse 27. Interesting scripture. See what you make of it. See what we can make of it. Isaiah 43 verse 27. Isaiah is inspired to write this inspiration.

Isaiah 43 verse 27. Your first father has sinned. Who is our first father? Who's the first forebear? It's Adam. It doesn't matter if you're black, red, yellow, brown, white. We all go back to the same first father. And first mother, for that matter, Adam and Eve, made of one blood.

All the nations, all the races. It's an interesting statement here. Your first father has sinned. And your teachers have transgressed against me. God is notating through Isaiah the sins of mankind going back. And I'm not talking about false doctrine of original sin. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about exactly what the scripture says. How sin entered into the world that we have to function in through one man and his wife, who sinned, who set the tone, and life became a hard world, at the end of which is death.

It is a world of transgressions. Your teachers have transgressed against me. It is a world of transgressions. It is a hard world. A world of transgressions is a hard world. Notice Proverbs 13, verse 15. Proverbs 13 and verse 15. It says, good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard. Do we have to have somebody prove to us the veracity of that statement that the way of transgressors is hard? Do we not have a world full of examples around us in families, communities, cities, the nation, the world of transgressors and transgressions and the hardness that it produces?

And it's not just the hardness it produces on them, but the transgressors, which is hard enough, also it's hard on others. You know, the man who transgresses and gets soused, gets plastered, and then gets behind the wheel of a two-ton vehicle or a one-ton and gets out on the highway and gets himself killed on the highway, that's hard. That's hard on the people who love him. That's hard on the people who are attached to him. But the family that he takes out and kills, or the breadwinner, the father, the husband, or the grandfather that was just innocently out on the highway going someplace, now that family's life as well, that family's life as well, will never ever be the same in this age.

There's a gap there that can't be closed. The way of transgressors is hard. It's hard on the transgressor and it's hard on others that has what I call a spillover effect. It spills over. It's hard on those around them, and it generates hard times and hard conditions. A scripture that, going even back into my youth, I can no longer lay claim to my youth except in memory because I'm not young anymore. I know that, and I accept it.

I'm thankful that I had youth. I very much am thankful that I had youth, and I'm thankful for the life I have, but I certainly am not young anymore. But I'm definitely younger than I'm going to be. But something that I was warned about in the church, going all the way back into the days of my youth, is Matthew 24 and 12. Because again, it's one of those realities. Matthew 24 verse 12, and because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

It talks about the reality that when iniquity sends transgressions, hard things like that, and the results multiply, it's so easy to become calloused, cynical, skeptical, turned off, negative, and certainly shuts down, diminishes, and can even come to the point of shutting down the outgoing love and concern for others that God wants to see stay vibrant in us. But it speaks to the fact, again, of the fact that life, when iniquity abounds, life becomes harder. Not easier. And when I read that and think of that, I can't help but think of 2 Timothy 3. 2 Timothy 3 and verse 1.

Paul tells Timothy, he says, "...know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." Parallous times. And then he lists about men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents. I mean, there's quite a list going on here. Unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, etc., etc. Incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.

Talk about a list. Traders, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. You think, okay, any society that has that as a list that defines that society is going to be a tough one to live in? True. These two scriptures that Matthew 24, 12, and 2 Timothy 3, 1, these two scriptures came to apply fully. I don't mean partially. They came to apply as fully as they have ever applied before and leading up to the Noatian Flood.

They were totally fulfilled by the time God had to drown mankind. And they are coming to apply fully in our day and age. They don't apply fully yet, but they're on that road. They're in that direction and on that road, and they're coming to apply fully in our day and age leading up to Christ's return. And they have had a strong measure of meaning all along the 6,000 years. I know I think about just simply 2018, and then I think about the year I was born, 1950.

Not that I really remember that year. You know, when I was growing up, when I was born in 1950 and growing up in the 50s and the 60s, it wasn't as hard in those years as a hard world as it is now. I'll tell you why. It was a hard world economically. In Northeast Mississippi, and same over here, same over in Georgia over there, there was no money to speak of.

People bartered, traded. It was hard to get by. Times were tough. You had to work from can to can't. You had to really struggle. But it was more the economic side of it. That was a time when people didn't lock their doors. They didn't have to lock up their tools in the barn or shed.

People would help each other. There was integrity. There was honesty. There was work ethic. The moral fabric was still pretty solid, pretty good. Now, whether the economy is going good or not, the moral fabric of the nation is rotting. The world today of 2018 is far more down the road of 2 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 5 that we read, and Matthew 24, 12, by far than it was then.

The pre-noation world was a hard world. The world after the flood became a hard world. It became a world of transgressors. And again, that is a hard world, as we read the way of transgressors is hard. Let me ask a question. How many sinners does it take to make things hard for everybody? How many sinners does it actually take to really make it hard for folks? Notice Ecclesiastes 9, verse 18. The Bible is full of answers. God knows what the questions are, and generally, if you come up with a question, he's got an answer somewhere in his word. Ecclesiastes 9, verse 18. Ecclesiastes 9, verse 18, it says, wisdom is better than weapons of war.

And obviously, there's many a time where if wisdom had been exercised or listened to, war would have been avoided. But notice what it says here, but one sinner destroys much good. Sometimes you will read of a big fire, California, Northwest, or wherever, where so many hundreds of acres wind up being destroyed. And it comes out later that there was an arsonist that struck one match and destroyed all that was destroyed.

One sinner destroys much good. A man goes up to an upper floor in a hotel in Las Vegas. Secrets in guns and ammo sets up there and when a music concert is going on in the midst of it, starts firing into the crowd. And a couple of years ago, how many? Was it 58 that were killed? It was 50-something that he killed. That's not counting those who were wounded.

And every one of those killed had somebody who loved them. Every one of those was part had an immediate family, extended family. There is no telling how far out it rippled in terms of the damage and the hurt and the pain that it caused. You know, we live in a day and age of technology and technology has its upside and has its downside and we should be trying to do the upside of it.

Now Angela's on Facebook. I'm not. I don't have anything against it. When I was in Paducah, she could not travel with me on a regular basis. She would be home along the lot and it gave her a way to be connected with folks and keep up on some things and she would keep me informed, too. And she's still on Facebook and, of course, in this area, due to distances, if her health that she does have holds up, she will be able to go with me a little bit more. But I find it to be a very good tool for connection and interaction.

So again, I'm not against it. I just have enough going on to keep me tied up that I don't have the time and energy to get into it and still attend to the priorities that I have to attend to. But here's something I find interesting. On Facebook, it seems to be I won't say a fad, but there seems to be something about how many friends you can have.

Well, I'm connected to a thousand people or five thousand people or whatever it might be. And again, I'm not knocking that. But because of technology, now what a center can do to cause damage through social media and everything can even ripple out and affect even more people.

How many centers does it take to create hard conditions that everybody has to deal with to some degree? How many transgressors can a society tolerate before things are made harder and hard for the society? And again, according to Proverbs 13 verse 15, we have transgressors as hard. What we got right here in front of us in Ecclesiastes, one center destroys, not to mention Matthew 24, 12, and 2 Timothy 3, 1. The more transgressors, the more transgressions that they multiply, the harder life gets. And there's no surprise to that. Human history proves that point, and we're seeing that point proven in front of our eyes all the time on a daily basis.

Since Adam and Eve's loss of the garden, life on the planet, starting with themselves and continuing with their descendants, has been hard. And again, it's been hard because it, the planet, and the descendants on it have been and are living under a curse. This planet is under a curse.

Mankind is under a curse. We live under a curse. If you go with me to Proverbs 14, 12, we will look at the curse. Proverbs 14 and verse 12 addresses the curse. The curse we're living under is what I call the curse of, quote, the way of man. Not the way of God, the way of man. Proverbs 14, 12, an old familiar scripture, there is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Oh, it seems right. It seems good, but the results are deadly. The end thereof are the ways of death. Life is hard, and then you die. It's interesting when you read this, you read it as though it addresses the individual, and it does address the individual.

Now, we understand that the way it's worded, there's a way which seems right into a man that is speaking to a reality that simply applies to people. But it's given in the way of defining it, it's tied to the individual. But what happens when you start multiplying the individuals into a crowd, and it becomes more and more cumulative, and we might say collective. We could speak of Proverbs 14.12 in an individualistic way, but we also could take what the reality of this verse is and magnify it into all mankind. And that's what Matthew 24 does in verses 21 and 22. It magnifies Matthew 24, and I'll go over there and read it, verses 21 and 22 is the magnification of Proverbs 14.12 on a cumulative collective basis of all mankind.

So in Matthew 24, verses 21 and 22, For then shall be a great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world, to this time no one ever shall be again. It's going to be a time so troublesome it's unique.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved. It's going to result in death. Not just the death of some, but if the way things are running at that time, if they are not stopped in their course, this planet becomes a burned out cinder floating in the darkness of space with no life on it.

Of course, we know, but for the elect's sake, the faithful of God, those days shall be shortened, and we know what the shortening is. It's Jesus Christ coming back. But you think about it.

Proverbs 14, 12, builds what is on an individual basis becomes collective enough. And one set of scripture here is talking about the collective side of it, where it goes to eventually.

The other one's individualistic, but at the same time the results are death.

Matthew 21 and 22 is where it culminates. But it began, it was initiated long ago, at the Garden of Eden. Let's go back to Genesis 2 and verse 17.

Genesis 2 and verse 17. So God instructs Adam here. He says, But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

You're not teet of it. You shall not eat of it. For in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die. Not that you'll die that very instant, but you've brought death on yourself. And now there's going to be the issue of your passing towards and eventually into death. You're going to die. You've brought the death penalty on you if you go against this command.

There is a way that seems right, that looks right, but it's deadly.

It's the result. It results in death. Notice chapter 3 and verse 6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good, she saw that it was good for food.

Can you picture birds flying in and out of the tree, lighting in the tree?

The tree was beautiful. The tree didn't look bad at all. It was a beautiful tree.

And it wasn't apples. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't apples.

And probably a fruit that's not even on the planet today.

But picture Eve watching and, let's say, seeing the birds going in and some other pecking on some of the ripe fruit. The fruit looks great. The tree is beautiful.

Birds are eating it. They're flying away. They're not dying. It's not poison. It's obviously good.

Maybe there's some other critters because it's not a problem for the critters to eat it, but the humans are not to touch it. It's good for food. Well, you know, boy, that sure looks good.

Pleasant to the eyes. Had to be pretty. A tree to be desired to make one wise. That's always appealing to the intellect. So she took of it and did eat and gave also to her husband with her, which gives you the distinct impression that Adam is standing there with her through this whole time. And he's a non-participator where he should be and a participator where he shouldn't be.

Anyway, there is a way that seems right. It seemed right. It seems so good. This, well, bang. Shot dead, so to speak. Not immediately. But boy, what it said in motion. They put this pattern, life is hard and then you die. They put this pattern into operational behavior for the planet that became the MO, the modus operandi, the operational manner and method of mankind.

The way of man produces curses. Curses cause hardship. And the biggest curse at the end of the road is death. It's not the only curse, but it's the biggest one. Back in Romans, Romans again. This time, Romans 6. And I'll reread, since we're right there next to it, I'll reread chapter 5 verse 12.

Chapter 5 verse 12. Wherefore, Paul says, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

And then, of course, right across the page, chapter 6 verse 23, For the wages of sin is death. And yes, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Yes, but the wages of sin is death. The statement that I title this with, Life is Hard, Then You Die, is verified by human history. And again, one cannot study human history and fail to see this reality. The earth currently lives under a certain curse.

Mankind functions under a certain curse. Proverbs 26 verse 2 makes a very important statement about curses. Proverbs 26 verse 2 basically says that no curse comes without a cause.

I grew up hearing the phrase cause and effect.

It was true then, it's true now. Curses don't come without a cause. I'm reading here in Proverbs 26 verse 2, it says, As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless, or that is, the curse that has no cause, shall not come.

There's no such thing as a curse without a cause, is what it is saying. Curses have a cause.

And the cause of such curse upon the planet in regards to humanity goes back to Adam and Eve.

And their wrongful choice, their bad decision. And because they made that bad decision, and as we started out reading how God told Adam, because you have done such and such, because this is what you all have chosen to do, because of that, life is going to be hard, Adam.

It's going to be hard, and then you're going to die.

Adam, because of your sinful choice, this will be the condition of your existence.

And so we read that, and we get it. It's easy to see how the earth is cursed, and it's easy to see how that would make life hard. It's just like crops.

You know, if weeds were a crop, there'd never be a crop failure.

You go out here and you plant something, and if you don't do everything you can to take care of it, if you just let it grow and go, go and grow, the weeds will take over.

Over in southeast Missouri, they have miles and miles and miles of flat land there in southeast Missouri, and just miles and miles of crops. And over the years, of course, they've used round up to kill the weeds, to where there's a certain strand of weeds that are now impervious to the round up. It's called pigweed, and they can't kill it with a round up. In fact, some of the stuff is so tough and hardy, you pull it up by hand, and people will even be hired to go out there and pull it up by hand out of the rows, and they'll lay it over on the side. And there's actual cases where some of that pulled up by the roots and laid over on the side that's just laying there on top of the ground, and they get a little rain or something, and some of those roots reattach to the soil, go back down, and it starts growing again. I mean, we have some thorns and thistles and stuff that are just, you know, they're getting out of hand. And of course, driving across that area, I could look across certain fields and see that pigweed sticking up all through there. No, the earth has certain curses that we've been living with since that time. It may have been moderated some after the noisian flood. God may have moderated that curse some, but it hasn't been removed, and it makes life hard. And that's easily seen. We can see that. But what is not as easily seen is how the air is cursed. People, religious or non-religious, can see visual proof that the ground is cursed up to a point, but what is not easily seen is how the air is cursed and how it actually would be a bigger factor in making life hard because there was now definitely a curse in the air.

Past, present, and yet for a time future tense. Ephesians 2.

Ephesians 2.

And verse 2. Paul speaks of that curse in the air. And in time past, brethren, he's writing them, you walked according to the course of this world. There is a course. There is a flow. There is a current. According to the course of this world, which is according to the prince. The prince is someone who has power. Okay, what is his power? The prince of the power of the air, the spirit, that now works in the children of disobedience by Adam and Eve's choice. They chose a world for their descendants in which the air would be cursed, in which the fallen Lucifer would be the unseen God of this world. And of course, Paul speaks of the prince of the power of the air in present tense here. What is supposed to be past is the members aren't walking according to that course anymore. They recognize it. They fight it. They go to God for his strength, and they push against it, and they fight it. But it's still current in the air that curse is there. And Paul addresses to the Corinthians in his second letter to them in chapter 4, verse 4. He acknowledges to them, he says, "...in whom the God," 2 Corinthians 4, "...in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds, and whom the God of this world has blinded," Present tense.

And it was him who enticed Adam and Eve. By their actions, you think about it, they stepped into the world of the chief transgressor. They stepped into the world of the chief sinner. They introduced his ways and his influence into the world of humanity. This was and is the biggest factor of all in making life hard. The curse of the way of man, as magnified by Satan, has produced 6,000 years of hardship, of pain and suffering and misery. Yes, life is hard, and then you die. That has been the common story of mankind and still is to this day to day. It's a very accurate description, summation of man's history. But thankfully, as we know, it's not the end of the story, not the whole story. It's not the rest of the story. There's far more to come.

Notice with me a scripture, Hebrews 9, 27.

Hebrews 9 and verse 27.

We have very good reason to believe that Paul was the one who wrote Hebrews.

But whoever wrote it, the man of God, the apostle, who wrote it says this, and as it is appointed unto men, wants to die. Adam, life is hard, and then you die.

As it is appointed unto men, wants to die.

This is referencing, talking about, speaking of, this current age of man. And two weeks ago, when I was here and I spoke on the age, and if you want to put it in the plural ages, but the age of salvation, which actually there's ages of salvation. And I dealt with this age, which is not the age of salvation for mankind. It's the age of salvation for the firstfruits, but for mankind. For 99 point whatever percent of mankind, this statement applies as it is appointed unto men, wants to die. But after this, the judgment. That judgment is the general resurrection. That judgment is the second resurrection. That's that judgment, that period of time, is that hundred year period of the eighth day, or the last great day. This verse here, appointed unto men, wants to die in this age. It's talking about the current condition.

Cut off from God, of Satan being the prince of the power of the air, the God of this world, of life being hard, and then you die. And in that sense, this is. This age is the age of death.

Notice 1 Corinthians 15, 22. 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 22. I said, in that sense, this is the age of death. 1 Corinthians 15, 22 says this, For as in Adam all die. It's the age of death. As in Adam all die.

But there's another age after this age, when, as it goes on to say in this same verse, So in like manner, as in Adam all die, even so or in like manner in Christ, shall all be made alive. Shall all be made alive. And as we read two weeks ago, but every man in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, and this was touched on in the sermon at 2, afterward, they that are Christ, that's the saints, the firstfruits, the called of this age, the church, the ecclesia, the bride of Christ, the body of Christ, they that are Christ at his coming. Nobody else at that time. And as I pointed out, when Christ returns at that seventh trump, the only graves in any cemetery that you want to go out, if you want to take time to tour through Gadsden and look at the cemeteries, you walk through them, the only graves that will open when Christ returns will be wherever there's a first fruit buried. If a cemetery has one first fruit, one grave will open. If there are no first fruits there, none of them will open.

And those cemeteries will remain all the way through the thousand years.

See, in Revelation 20, we read this, we went through it two weeks ago. Revelation 20 verses 4 and 5 talks about the only ones resurrected is what it says here in 1 Corinthians 15, 23, they that are Christ at His coming. And it goes on to say there in Revelation 20 verses 5 and 6, the rest of the dead, the rest of the dead, live not again. They do live again, but they live not until the thousand years is finished.

But thanks be to God and His plan, they live again.

Think about it. At the end of the thousand years, after Christ has ruled the planet for a millennium, millennium just means a thousand, just like century means a hundred, Latin words, century means a hundred, decade means ten, after Christ has ruled the planet for a millennium, after the earth has been restored and beautified, had a thousand years to do it, think about what we, guiding and directing the human beings that will repopulate the earth, how beautiful and grand this planet will be after a thousand years.

Then the rest of the dead will be resurrected. All those cemeteries will be opened. The time of the general resurrection, the meaning of the eighth day, the meaning of the last great day, and again, we went through that, Ezekiel 37. The dry bones and the flesh put on them and breath being put into their lungs, their blood flowing and them eating and drinking, only this time the difference is what they didn't have previous. They now have enlightened minds and they're given God's Spirit.

It's their time of salvation. We read that.

And that's when Adam and Eve will live again. Can you picture the scene?

Can you visualize Jesus Christ when he brings them up, stepping between them, taking Adam's hand and Eve's hand and leading them around like he did long ago for a brief time in the Garden of Eden?

And can you visualize the beauty and the splendor of the planet after a thousand years of rulership by Jesus Christ and the resurrected saints? Can you picture the whole planet like a global garden of Eden? Can you picture Adam and Eve's jaws just dropping in amazement? And can you imagine Adam's question? Lord, where is the edge of the garden? And can you imagine Jesus Christ's answer?

There is no edge. It encircles the planet. And can you imagine Adam's next question?

Where is Satan? And all the concerns behind that and Christ's comforting answer, he's no longer around. You don't have to worry about him anymore. And can you imagine Christ's words, Adam? You lived 930 years. Life was hard, wasn't it? Yes, sir. And then you died. Yes, sir.

And you know why it was hard and why you died. Yes, sir. Adam, life is no longer hard, and death no longer has to be at the end of it. Now, are you truly willing to follow me and do it my way? What do you think his answer will be?