1 00:00:00,917 --> 00:00:02,477 That great day 2 00:00:02,477 --> 00:00:05,981 every soul is going to be there. 3 00:00:05,981 --> 00:00:08,254 They are all going to be there. 4 00:00:08,254 --> 00:00:09,898 Every man, 5 00:00:09,898 --> 00:00:11,141 woman, 6 00:00:11,141 --> 00:00:12,468 boy and girl, 7 00:00:12,468 --> 00:00:15,763 old and young. 8 00:00:15,763 --> 00:00:20,328 All the wealthy and successful. 9 00:00:20,328 --> 00:00:26,049 As well as every penniless beggar. 10 00:00:26,049 --> 00:00:30,003 All the wise. 11 00:00:30,003 --> 00:00:32,558 The intelligent. 12 00:00:32,558 --> 00:00:33,598 The accredited. 13 00:00:33,598 --> 00:00:37,341 Those with their academic excellence. 14 00:00:37,341 --> 00:00:39,120 Every fool. 15 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,478 The morons. 16 00:00:40,478 --> 00:00:42,916 The slow witted. 17 00:00:42,916 --> 00:00:44,602 The powerful! 18 00:00:44,602 --> 00:00:47,267 And the weak. 19 00:00:47,267 --> 00:00:50,207 The honest and the deceitful. 20 00:00:50,207 --> 00:00:52,894 The righteous martyr 21 00:00:52,894 --> 00:00:55,114 as well as the human butchers 22 00:00:55,114 --> 00:00:58,800 who murdered the saints. 23 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,156 The drug runners, the pimps, 24 00:01:00,156 --> 00:01:02,033 and the prostitutes. 25 00:01:02,033 --> 00:01:05,074 The false professors and the hypocrites. 26 00:01:05,074 --> 00:01:06,236 The timid. 27 00:01:06,236 --> 00:01:07,271 The fearful. 28 00:01:07,271 --> 00:01:09,255 And the unbelieving. 29 00:01:09,255 --> 00:01:13,255 All who love worldly life more than God. 30 00:01:13,255 --> 00:01:15,247 All are going to be there. 31 00:01:15,247 --> 00:01:18,219 And everybody's going to be stripped... 32 00:01:18,219 --> 00:01:20,577 of everything 33 00:01:20,577 --> 00:01:28,009 that flesh and wit and world 34 00:01:28,009 --> 00:01:32,723 and wickedness has won for them. 35 00:01:32,723 --> 00:01:36,192 Everything that your own strength of your flesh, 36 00:01:36,192 --> 00:01:39,135 your own intelligence, 37 00:01:39,135 --> 00:01:40,997 your own wit, 38 00:01:40,997 --> 00:01:42,882 and your own wickedness and device, 39 00:01:42,882 --> 00:01:44,086 and your own hard work. 40 00:01:44,086 --> 00:01:45,415 All that you put together 41 00:01:45,415 --> 00:01:47,469 to protect yourself and care for yourself 42 00:01:47,469 --> 00:01:48,703 and insure yourself 43 00:01:48,703 --> 00:01:50,724 and comfort yourself. 44 00:01:50,724 --> 00:01:53,381 You won't have any of it. 45 00:01:53,381 --> 00:01:55,169 You'll be brought back to ground zero 46 00:01:55,169 --> 00:01:58,485 without money, without possessions, 47 00:01:58,485 --> 00:02:03,359 without power. 48 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:07,957 But more awful than anything else, 49 00:02:07,957 --> 00:02:13,305 as far as the unrighteous are concerned, 50 00:02:13,305 --> 00:02:15,430 without Advocate. 51 00:02:15,430 --> 00:02:19,850 There won't be one voice in the universe 52 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:26,180 to say one word good for you. 53 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:28,119 Not one. 54 00:02:28,119 --> 00:02:29,469 You stand alone. 55 00:02:29,469 --> 00:02:31,754 Everybody else is worried about himself. 56 00:02:31,754 --> 00:02:34,979 No voice, no voice. 57 00:02:34,979 --> 00:02:36,832 No voice to comfort. 58 00:02:36,832 --> 00:02:39,199 No voice to defend. 59 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:44,653 None whatsoever. 60 00:02:44,653 --> 00:02:47,240 Even if I wasn't a Christian, 61 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,893 if I had a hard day in this world, 62 00:02:48,893 --> 00:02:52,036 and everybody gave me a beating and a kicking around and a cussing, 63 00:02:52,036 --> 00:02:54,928 when I got home, I would tell my wife and she would put her arm around me 64 00:02:54,928 --> 00:02:57,443 and hug me and say, "That is alright, honey. I love you. 65 00:02:57,443 --> 00:03:00,109 You're alright. Don't you pay any attention to that." 66 00:03:00,109 --> 00:03:03,214 There won't even be that. 67 00:03:03,214 --> 00:03:04,865 None at all. 68 00:03:04,865 --> 00:03:06,747 None. 69 00:03:06,747 --> 00:03:08,932 Credentials will be gone. 70 00:03:08,932 --> 00:03:11,744 All the honors and accolades that have been given to men, 71 00:03:11,744 --> 00:03:12,920 their worldly applause, 72 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:18,362 the hands have stopped clapping. 73 00:03:18,362 --> 00:03:22,349 The fine robes with the medals 74 00:03:22,349 --> 00:03:23,767 and the honors and the crowns 75 00:03:23,767 --> 00:03:25,303 and the stations and the badges 76 00:03:25,303 --> 00:03:29,954 and the seals of authority and position! 77 00:03:29,954 --> 00:03:31,804 Gone! 78 00:03:31,804 --> 00:03:33,577 Naked. 79 00:03:33,577 --> 00:03:34,959 Nothing left. All gone. 80 00:03:34,959 --> 00:03:38,007 Everything that sets men apart 81 00:03:38,007 --> 00:03:39,771 and above other men. 82 00:03:39,771 --> 00:03:46,987 All that is gone. 83 00:03:46,987 --> 00:03:51,183 Nothing to plead your cause. 84 00:03:51,183 --> 00:03:54,284 Nothing to plead your case 85 00:03:54,284 --> 00:03:57,259 before Him. 86 00:03:57,259 --> 00:04:00,817 All things are open to clear with Him with whom we have to do. 87 00:04:00,817 --> 00:04:02,400 He is separating. 88 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,897 What we are; 89 00:04:03,897 --> 00:04:08,030 what we have done is crystal clear to Him. 90 00:04:08,030 --> 00:04:10,784 We are going to be stripped of all of our pretenses. 91 00:04:10,784 --> 00:04:12,424 Our lives will avail nothing. 92 00:04:12,424 --> 00:04:15,781 The hypocritical veil 93 00:04:15,781 --> 00:04:19,297 that all of us wear - 94 00:04:19,297 --> 00:04:23,039 going to be stripped away. 95 00:04:23,039 --> 00:04:26,293 Now don't tell me you don't have any. 96 00:04:26,293 --> 00:04:30,142 You do. 97 00:04:30,142 --> 00:04:32,132 Why else when you want to say something; 98 00:04:32,132 --> 00:04:33,902 when you want to be real honest, 99 00:04:33,902 --> 00:04:37,419 you say, "Honestly, I'm telling you honestly speaking." 100 00:04:37,419 --> 00:04:39,231 "I am going to be perfectly frank." 101 00:04:39,231 --> 00:04:40,875 Well, the reason you say that is 102 00:04:40,875 --> 00:04:42,699 you are not always perfectly honest. 103 00:04:42,699 --> 00:04:44,614 You are a little hypocritical. 104 00:04:44,614 --> 00:04:47,485 All that is going to be gone. 105 00:04:47,485 --> 00:04:50,463 Even those hypocrisies that you don't know about 106 00:04:50,463 --> 00:04:51,312 that you have; 107 00:04:51,312 --> 00:04:54,756 they are going to be gone. 108 00:04:54,756 --> 00:04:58,814 That is all going to be there. 109 00:04:58,814 --> 00:05:01,026 The exposure of every wicked deed 110 00:05:01,026 --> 00:05:04,652 and every impious thought. 111 00:05:04,652 --> 00:05:06,582 The Bible says every idle word 112 00:05:06,582 --> 00:05:08,623 that men shall speak in that day 113 00:05:08,623 --> 00:05:10,205 shall be brought to account. 114 00:05:10,205 --> 00:05:12,112 All those slanders. 115 00:05:12,112 --> 00:05:14,004 That murmuring and railing that you did 116 00:05:14,004 --> 00:05:16,537 behind someone's back. 117 00:05:16,537 --> 00:05:21,899 Every shameful thought. 118 00:05:21,899 --> 00:05:24,462 The most impious; the most lurid 119 00:05:24,462 --> 00:05:29,968 cogitations of your mind. 120 00:05:29,968 --> 00:05:34,012 Every dirty word you have ever said. 121 00:05:34,012 --> 00:05:39,692 Every bad deed weighed for its wickedness. 122 00:05:39,692 --> 00:05:44,528 And the full punishment pronounced 123 00:05:44,528 --> 00:05:51,574 for every one of them. 124 00:05:51,574 --> 00:05:54,130 All comprehended and weighed 125 00:05:54,130 --> 00:05:59,360 in this one awful, awful, awful final word. 126 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,057 "Depart from Me ye wicked." 127 00:06:03,057 --> 00:06:05,731 "Get out of My sight 128 00:06:05,731 --> 00:06:07,560 unto everlasting punishment." 129 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,217 Prepared not for mankind 130 00:06:10,217 --> 00:06:12,140 but for the devil and his angels. 131 00:06:12,140 --> 00:06:13,820 You like the devil. 132 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:16,447 You preferred the company of demons 133 00:06:16,447 --> 00:06:18,236 than the sweet blessed communion 134 00:06:18,236 --> 00:06:19,288 of the Holy Ghost. 135 00:06:19,288 --> 00:06:21,021 You enjoyed them. 136 00:06:21,021 --> 00:06:22,238 They aided you. 137 00:06:22,238 --> 00:06:23,981 Now you can spend eternity with them 138 00:06:23,981 --> 00:06:25,941 and listen to their mocking and railing 139 00:06:25,941 --> 00:06:27,607 and accusations and share 140 00:06:27,607 --> 00:06:30,208 their eternal everlasting punishment. 141 00:06:30,208 --> 00:06:32,763 Don't get mad at me about this. 142 00:06:32,763 --> 00:06:35,558 You say, "I don't like that hellfire damnation preaching." 143 00:06:35,558 --> 00:06:37,324 There's too much of it in the Bible. 144 00:06:37,324 --> 00:06:40,388 We've been silent about it too long. 145 00:06:40,388 --> 00:06:42,557 "Depart from Me ye cursed!" 146 00:06:42,557 --> 00:06:44,744 God says that! 147 00:06:44,744 --> 00:06:46,560 The suffering Savior says that! 148 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,361 The compassionate Son of God; 149 00:06:48,361 --> 00:06:50,059 He who died for men - 150 00:06:50,059 --> 00:06:51,421 He says that. 151 00:06:51,421 --> 00:06:54,828 "Depart from Me ye cursed 152 00:06:54,828 --> 00:06:58,796 into everlasting fire." 153 00:06:58,796 --> 00:07:01,920 But there is another aspect to it. 154 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,496 Both the sheep as well as the goats are there. 155 00:07:05,496 --> 00:07:08,995 There will be the revelation of every righteous deed, 156 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:11,449 even and especially those of which 157 00:07:11,449 --> 00:07:13,957 we're not aware. 158 00:07:13,957 --> 00:07:15,727 Who is going to bring those out? 159 00:07:15,727 --> 00:07:18,354 The Lord is... 160 00:07:18,354 --> 00:07:20,713 He is going to tell us what we've done 161 00:07:20,713 --> 00:07:22,807 that is right. 162 00:07:22,807 --> 00:07:23,972 Now here on this earth 163 00:07:23,972 --> 00:07:25,088 you have men lie to you 164 00:07:25,088 --> 00:07:27,346 and give you flattering lips and brag on you. 165 00:07:27,346 --> 00:07:29,019 You know they lie when they do it, 166 00:07:29,019 --> 00:07:30,363 but you like to hear it. 167 00:07:30,363 --> 00:07:32,317 But the fact that men have said it, 168 00:07:32,317 --> 00:07:34,810 and you know that men are deceitful and flattering, 169 00:07:34,810 --> 00:07:36,448 detracts from the enjoyment of it. 170 00:07:36,448 --> 00:07:40,370 When the Lord says it, 171 00:07:40,370 --> 00:07:43,148 you know it is so. 172 00:07:43,148 --> 00:07:47,800 They will be brought out and commended by the Lord. 173 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,375 Every one of them. 174 00:07:49,375 --> 00:07:52,543 Not one cup of water given 175 00:07:52,543 --> 00:07:54,032 in the name of the Lord 176 00:07:54,032 --> 00:07:55,942 shall lose its reward. 177 00:07:55,942 --> 00:07:59,214 Do you think about that? 178 00:07:59,214 --> 00:08:01,662 That it is utterly impossible for you 179 00:08:01,662 --> 00:08:03,950 to do one right virtuous deed 180 00:08:03,950 --> 00:08:05,143 on the face of this earth 181 00:08:05,143 --> 00:08:09,043 and that slip by without His notice? 182 00:08:09,043 --> 00:08:12,118 Very few people know how good you are. 183 00:08:12,118 --> 00:08:15,449 Not too many people know about your good deeds. 184 00:08:15,449 --> 00:08:18,490 But dear friend, God knows about them. 185 00:08:18,490 --> 00:08:20,501 Every one of them. 186 00:08:20,501 --> 00:08:23,695 Now you talk about a motivation. 187 00:08:23,695 --> 00:08:27,329 You want to lay up some treasure? 188 00:08:27,329 --> 00:08:34,997 You want to prepare for your retirement? 189 00:08:34,997 --> 00:08:37,261 And then that greatest; 190 00:08:37,261 --> 00:08:39,306 that most blessed; 191 00:08:39,306 --> 00:08:40,848 that ultimate in comfort; 192 00:08:40,848 --> 00:08:44,864 the sweetest sound that ears could ever hear, 193 00:08:44,864 --> 00:08:48,191 "Come ye blessed of My Father." 194 00:08:48,191 --> 00:08:49,943 That is what you are. 195 00:08:49,943 --> 00:08:53,381 You are the blessed of My Father. 196 00:08:53,381 --> 00:08:55,569 "Enter into the rest prepared..." 197 00:08:55,569 --> 00:08:58,449 Not for the angels, but for you. 198 00:08:58,449 --> 00:09:01,430 From the foundation of the world. 199 00:09:01,430 --> 00:09:03,988 Oh dear friend, just as sure as we're sitting here 200 00:09:03,988 --> 00:09:05,611 breathing God's air this morning, 201 00:09:05,611 --> 00:09:07,028 you and I are going to hear 202 00:09:07,028 --> 00:09:10,252 one or the other of those two words. 203 00:09:10,252 --> 00:09:13,991 "Come ye blessed." 204 00:09:13,991 --> 00:09:17,263 "Depart ye cursed." 205 00:09:17,263 --> 00:09:21,973 So would it be that you would be ready 206 00:09:21,973 --> 00:09:24,153 to meet Him? 207 00:09:24,153 --> 00:09:26,959 Prepared for that great day, 208 00:09:26,959 --> 00:09:29,793 whether it come while we are living 209 00:09:29,793 --> 00:09:31,176 or after we are dead. 210 00:09:31,176 --> 00:09:33,959 Not going to make a wit of a bit of difference. 211 00:09:33,959 --> 00:09:40,122 We are going to be gathered before Him.