1 00:00:01,409 --> 00:00:04,778 You're going out of the world someday. 2 00:00:04,778 --> 00:00:08,697 That day 3 00:00:08,697 --> 00:00:11,505 with your number on it, 4 00:00:11,505 --> 00:00:14,953 it's coming. 5 00:00:14,953 --> 00:00:17,873 You're going to die. Where are you going? 6 00:00:17,873 --> 00:00:20,765 To what are you going to face on the other side? 7 00:00:20,765 --> 00:00:22,262 And God warns you. 8 00:00:22,262 --> 00:00:23,923 And He warns you by the flood. 9 00:00:23,923 --> 00:00:25,558 He warns you through Adam. 10 00:00:25,558 --> 00:00:27,564 He warns you through the Amorites. 11 00:00:27,564 --> 00:00:29,904 He warns you by Sodom and Gomorrah. 12 00:00:29,904 --> 00:00:33,704 He warns you through a double destruction of Jerusalem. 13 00:00:33,704 --> 00:00:35,640 He told those people the same thing. 14 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,256 If you don't obey My voice, 15 00:00:38,256 --> 00:00:41,372 I am going to wipe you off the face of the earth. 16 00:00:41,372 --> 00:00:44,153 And they kept on and they kept on and they kept on. 17 00:00:44,153 --> 00:00:45,792 Can you imagine those prophets? 18 00:00:45,792 --> 00:00:47,293 One prophet after another, 19 00:00:47,293 --> 00:00:49,094 decade after decade, 20 00:00:49,094 --> 00:00:51,953 another prophet comes and warns: 21 00:00:51,953 --> 00:00:54,162 Death is coming. Destruction is coming. 22 00:00:54,162 --> 00:00:55,764 God is going to wipe you out. 23 00:00:55,764 --> 00:00:58,223 "Yeah, yeah, yeah... we've heard that before." 24 00:00:58,223 --> 00:01:01,373 "Kill that guy. Throw that guy in jail." 25 00:01:01,373 --> 00:01:03,757 "Where is it?" 26 00:01:03,757 --> 00:01:06,773 And they kept saying it. And it came. 27 00:01:06,773 --> 00:01:09,073 And the Babylonians came. 28 00:01:09,073 --> 00:01:11,852 And then it happened all over again. 29 00:01:11,852 --> 00:01:16,252 And even Jesus came and they killed Him. 30 00:01:16,252 --> 00:01:18,323 And then the Romans came. 31 00:01:18,323 --> 00:01:21,894 These things are warnings. 32 00:01:21,894 --> 00:01:24,392 He warns you in His Word. 33 00:01:24,392 --> 00:01:27,223 You must stand before Him 34 00:01:27,223 --> 00:01:31,023 and He is going to judge you in righteousness. 35 00:01:31,023 --> 00:01:34,713 Can you imagine those folks in Noah's day? 36 00:01:34,713 --> 00:01:37,403 See them. Hear them. 37 00:01:37,403 --> 00:01:40,018 Listen to them! 38 00:01:40,018 --> 00:01:43,994 That day, 39 00:01:43,994 --> 00:01:51,422 "Hey, Noah's not working on the ark anymore. 40 00:01:51,422 --> 00:01:55,783 The door's shut. 41 00:01:55,783 --> 00:02:03,010 Yeah, and the clouds are looking strange. 42 00:02:03,010 --> 00:02:07,792 It looks dark." 43 00:02:07,792 --> 00:02:12,144 And this was no ordinary rain. 44 00:02:12,144 --> 00:02:15,014 Something began to happen - something threatening. 45 00:02:15,014 --> 00:02:17,572 I'll tell you what had happened. 46 00:02:17,572 --> 00:02:23,259 Time ran out. 47 00:02:23,259 --> 00:02:25,893 It was over. 48 00:02:25,893 --> 00:02:30,063 Mercy was exhausted. 49 00:02:30,063 --> 00:02:34,190 God's patience had come to an end. 50 00:02:34,190 --> 00:02:36,394 And when those first drops of rain 51 00:02:36,394 --> 00:02:38,523 began to fall down, 52 00:02:38,523 --> 00:02:42,272 that door was shut. 53 00:02:42,272 --> 00:02:45,112 Remember how it says it in the Gospel? 54 00:02:45,112 --> 00:02:49,257 "And the door was shut." 55 00:02:49,257 --> 00:02:55,514 And those servants, those five virgins 56 00:02:55,514 --> 00:02:59,010 that were on the outside, 57 00:02:59,010 --> 00:03:03,226 when the door is shut, the door is shut. 58 00:03:03,226 --> 00:03:06,531 Today is the day of salvation. 59 00:03:06,531 --> 00:03:11,913 If you foolishly laugh and mock 60 00:03:11,913 --> 00:03:14,611 and play on and eat and drink 61 00:03:14,611 --> 00:03:18,273 and plant and marry, 62 00:03:18,273 --> 00:03:22,392 and that door gets shut and takes you, 63 00:03:22,392 --> 00:03:25,903 you're a fool. 64 00:03:25,903 --> 00:03:28,751 You were warned. 65 00:03:28,751 --> 00:03:30,751 This is a warning you want to take 66 00:03:30,751 --> 00:03:35,421 with the utmost of your attention. 67 00:03:35,421 --> 00:03:37,396 Imagine that! 68 00:03:37,396 --> 00:03:42,752 That door shut. God sealed them in. 69 00:03:42,752 --> 00:03:50,164 The one place of refuge... gone. 70 00:03:50,164 --> 00:03:52,600 If you let death take you 71 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,340 and you're outside of Christ, 72 00:03:56,340 --> 00:03:58,482 it's gone. 73 00:03:58,482 --> 00:04:05,202 All hope is gone. 74 00:04:05,202 --> 00:04:11,021 Who is laughing then? 75 00:04:11,021 --> 00:04:12,350 I don't know. 76 00:04:12,350 --> 00:04:16,202 Some of them probably said we've got to get to high ground. 77 00:04:16,202 --> 00:04:18,593 Some probably banged and clawed 78 00:04:18,593 --> 00:04:21,570 on the side of that ark. 79 00:04:21,570 --> 00:04:23,761 It was all for naught. 80 00:04:23,761 --> 00:04:25,533 They were doomed. 81 00:04:25,533 --> 00:04:29,010 They had crossed the point of no return. 82 00:04:29,010 --> 00:04:33,340 There's no more safety. There's no more hiding place. 83 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:36,241 It's too late. 84 00:04:36,241 --> 00:04:38,780 There was a place of salvation. 85 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:41,854 God did provide a way of escape. 86 00:04:41,854 --> 00:04:47,631 They laughed at it. They ignored it. They ridiculed it. 87 00:04:47,631 --> 00:04:53,960 Christ is the ark. 88 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,872 There is not another. 89 00:04:56,872 --> 00:05:01,502 When He comes, the door is shut. 90 00:05:01,502 --> 00:05:06,850 When you die, the door is shut. 91 00:05:06,850 --> 00:05:09,482 This excerpt was taken from the full sermon 92 00:05:09,482 --> 00:05:11,090 "Dying You Shall Die"