1 00:00:04,796 --> 00:00:16,997 Well, I want to ask you guys a question. 2 00:00:16,997 --> 00:00:23,435 Now think with me here. 3 00:00:23,435 --> 00:00:26,919 If Jesus walked in here tonight, 4 00:00:26,919 --> 00:00:30,498 He did walk this earth. 5 00:00:30,498 --> 00:00:35,232 God became flesh. 6 00:00:35,232 --> 00:00:40,517 He walked this earth as a man. 7 00:00:40,517 --> 00:00:43,172 Many saw Him. Many talked with Him. 8 00:00:43,172 --> 00:00:46,990 Let's suppose the Lord Jesus 9 00:00:46,990 --> 00:00:51,181 came back to the earth bodily. 10 00:00:51,181 --> 00:00:55,803 Just as He was 2000 years ago, 11 00:00:55,803 --> 00:00:58,314 and He walked into this place tonight. 12 00:00:58,314 --> 00:01:01,084 And instead of me up here, 13 00:01:01,084 --> 00:01:04,518 He came up. 14 00:01:04,518 --> 00:01:08,702 And you had the opportunity to ask Him 15 00:01:08,702 --> 00:01:13,813 any questions you wanted to ask Him at all. 16 00:01:13,813 --> 00:01:15,884 What would you ask Him? 17 00:01:15,884 --> 00:01:17,068 Anybody have any idea 18 00:01:17,068 --> 00:01:19,063 what they might ask Him? 19 00:01:19,063 --> 00:01:20,888 I mean, if He came up here, 20 00:01:20,888 --> 00:01:23,524 and He was at your disposal 21 00:01:23,524 --> 00:01:25,387 to answer questions... 22 00:01:25,387 --> 00:01:28,163 Now, you have to think. 23 00:01:28,163 --> 00:01:31,460 This is the God-man. 24 00:01:31,460 --> 00:01:34,413 He has the right answer for any question 25 00:01:34,413 --> 00:01:37,400 that you might ask Him. 26 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,859 What would you ask Him? 27 00:01:41,859 --> 00:01:45,045 I'll tell you, I would have some questions 28 00:01:45,045 --> 00:01:48,064 I'd want to ask Him. 29 00:01:48,064 --> 00:01:49,887 It was that way with His disciples 30 00:01:49,887 --> 00:01:51,658 when He walked this earth. 31 00:01:51,658 --> 00:01:53,336 There were times that they did ask Him; 32 00:01:53,336 --> 00:01:54,882 there were times that they wanted to ask Him, 33 00:01:54,882 --> 00:01:56,659 but they were afraid to ask Him. 34 00:01:56,659 --> 00:01:58,190 And He knew they were afraid, 35 00:01:58,190 --> 00:02:01,605 and He would ask them what they wanted to ask Him. 36 00:02:01,605 --> 00:02:05,967 But, anything come to your minds? 37 00:02:05,967 --> 00:02:07,663 Anything at all come to your mind 38 00:02:07,663 --> 00:02:09,729 that if Jesus Christ was here right now 39 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:12,231 that you would want to ask Him. 40 00:02:12,231 --> 00:02:13,547 What would you ask Him? 41 00:02:13,547 --> 00:02:14,577 (from the room) 42 00:02:14,577 --> 00:02:16,876 Why is it so hard to get out of the flesh? 43 00:02:16,876 --> 00:02:19,161 So hard to go from flesh to the Spirit? 44 00:02:19,161 --> 00:02:21,287 Tim: Why is it so hard to go 45 00:02:21,287 --> 00:02:24,452 from the flesh to the Spirit? 46 00:02:24,452 --> 00:02:26,213 Why is it hard? 47 00:02:26,213 --> 00:02:26,956 (from the room) 48 00:02:26,956 --> 00:02:29,219 I mean, I know it's supposed to be hard, 49 00:02:29,219 --> 00:02:31,438 but some days it just seems really hard. 50 00:02:31,438 --> 00:02:35,166 Tim: Sin is entrenched deep. 51 00:02:35,166 --> 00:02:36,995 It's not only hard. 52 00:02:36,995 --> 00:02:41,137 It's impossible aside from the power of God. 53 00:02:41,137 --> 00:02:43,287 In fact, it takes a miracle of 54 00:02:43,287 --> 00:02:48,411 creational power to free man 55 00:02:48,411 --> 00:02:49,783 from the power of sin. 56 00:02:49,783 --> 00:02:52,316 It's so strong. 57 00:02:52,316 --> 00:02:53,711 Anybody have another question 58 00:02:53,711 --> 00:02:57,729 that they'd ask? 59 00:02:57,729 --> 00:03:06,505 How about this one? 60 00:03:06,505 --> 00:03:08,828 Lord, how many of the people here 61 00:03:08,828 --> 00:03:12,921 are truly saved? 62 00:03:12,921 --> 00:03:21,137 Lord, are there going to be many saved? 63 00:03:21,137 --> 00:03:22,371 Do you know what? 64 00:03:22,371 --> 00:03:24,139 We don't have to guess at the answer 65 00:03:24,139 --> 00:03:25,279 to that question. 66 00:03:25,279 --> 00:03:27,520 Do you know why? 67 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,500 Because His disciples in Luke 13 68 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:32,217 asked Him that exact question. 69 00:03:32,217 --> 00:03:36,272 Lord, are there many going to be saved? 70 00:03:36,272 --> 00:03:39,755 Now you remember this: 71 00:03:39,755 --> 00:03:44,551 This is God in the flesh. 72 00:03:44,551 --> 00:03:47,205 This is the One who knows 73 00:03:47,205 --> 00:03:49,666 all the right answers. 74 00:03:49,666 --> 00:03:51,248 This is the One that even knows 75 00:03:51,248 --> 00:03:54,057 the questions that ought to be asked. 76 00:03:54,057 --> 00:03:56,585 His disciples asked Him, 77 00:03:56,585 --> 00:03:59,963 "Lord, are there many going to be saved?" 78 00:03:59,963 --> 00:04:03,980 And do you know what He said? 79 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:07,411 It was so common with our Lord 80 00:04:07,411 --> 00:04:11,740 to take a question and make it 81 00:04:11,740 --> 00:04:16,097 real personal to people. 82 00:04:16,097 --> 00:04:18,128 He didn't just say yes or no. 83 00:04:18,128 --> 00:04:28,549 He said guys, this question pertains to you. 84 00:04:28,549 --> 00:04:30,057 You've asked the question, 85 00:04:30,057 --> 00:04:33,544 "Will many be saved?" 86 00:04:33,544 --> 00:04:37,567 What in the world? 87 00:04:37,567 --> 00:04:42,168 What do you think the answer is to that question? 88 00:04:42,168 --> 00:04:45,819 I can tell you this. 89 00:04:45,819 --> 00:04:49,613 That from time to time, 90 00:04:49,613 --> 00:04:51,108 the church I was at before 91 00:04:51,108 --> 00:04:52,566 the one I'm at now, 92 00:04:52,566 --> 00:04:55,464 and then where I am right now, 93 00:04:55,464 --> 00:04:58,779 I've talked to a lot of people on the streets 94 00:04:58,779 --> 00:05:03,143 and I've talked to a lot of people at their front doors 95 00:05:03,147 --> 00:05:06,613 in some door-to-door evangelism. 96 00:05:06,613 --> 00:05:09,794 I've been in nursing homes 97 00:05:09,794 --> 00:05:15,952 and in prisons. 98 00:05:15,952 --> 00:05:19,712 And do you know what most people believe? 99 00:05:19,712 --> 00:05:21,829 Most people are on their way to heaven. 100 00:05:21,829 --> 00:05:25,068 Most people are going to glory. 101 00:05:25,068 --> 00:05:28,234 I can remember Matt 102 00:05:28,234 --> 00:05:30,691 (Matt preached last night) 103 00:05:30,691 --> 00:05:33,068 Matt and I went to a little housing complex 104 00:05:33,068 --> 00:05:34,734 right there by where we live 105 00:05:34,734 --> 00:05:37,052 and I remember one young lady, 106 00:05:37,052 --> 00:05:39,330 we asked her, 107 00:05:39,330 --> 00:05:41,590 are you going to heaven? 108 00:05:41,590 --> 00:05:43,194 And she said, 109 00:05:43,194 --> 00:05:51,390 Well, I'm on the church choir. 110 00:05:51,390 --> 00:05:54,341 In other words, what was her answer 111 00:05:54,341 --> 00:05:55,728 by saying that? 112 00:05:55,728 --> 00:05:57,804 Yes. I'm going there. 113 00:05:57,804 --> 00:05:59,093 And you know what? 114 00:05:59,093 --> 00:06:02,579 You go down through this complex 115 00:06:02,579 --> 00:06:05,322 and you go from door to door to door, 116 00:06:05,322 --> 00:06:08,892 and you spend years and decades even 117 00:06:08,892 --> 00:06:10,657 talking to people about their souls 118 00:06:10,657 --> 00:06:12,022 and guess what you find? 119 00:06:12,022 --> 00:06:13,808 Everybody's going to heaven. 120 00:06:13,808 --> 00:06:15,752 Everybody's got that taken care of. 121 00:06:15,752 --> 00:06:18,663 Do you know why they've got it taken care of? 122 00:06:18,663 --> 00:06:20,307 Because just like many of you here 123 00:06:20,307 --> 00:06:22,157 they said that little prayer. 124 00:06:22,157 --> 00:06:25,369 You know, that was me. 125 00:06:25,369 --> 00:06:27,577 Growing up I remember I'd find a little tract 126 00:06:27,577 --> 00:06:29,365 and it had this sinner's prayer on the back, 127 00:06:29,365 --> 00:06:30,786 and I'd say that sinner's prayer, 128 00:06:30,786 --> 00:06:32,267 and I thought, you know the Bible says 129 00:06:32,267 --> 00:06:34,629 something about believing in Jesus Christ 130 00:06:34,629 --> 00:06:36,376 and I believe that He was true 131 00:06:36,376 --> 00:06:38,819 so I must be on my way. 132 00:06:38,819 --> 00:06:41,894 And you know what the vast majority 133 00:06:41,894 --> 00:06:46,780 of people around us believe just that. 134 00:06:46,780 --> 00:06:48,424 You can look at the percentage of people 135 00:06:48,424 --> 00:06:50,268 that believe they're on their way to heaven. 136 00:06:50,268 --> 00:06:53,347 Here were the disciples, and they came to the 137 00:06:53,347 --> 00:06:55,683 Man, the God-man, who knows 138 00:06:55,683 --> 00:06:58,071 the answer to that question. 139 00:06:58,071 --> 00:06:59,800 They said, "Lord, are there many 140 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,082 going to be saved?" 141 00:07:01,082 --> 00:07:03,357 And He threw it right in their lap. 142 00:07:03,357 --> 00:07:07,940 And He said, "You..." 143 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:11,087 You. This pertains to you. 144 00:07:11,087 --> 00:07:12,549 He says I'm going to tell you 145 00:07:12,549 --> 00:07:15,683 you better strive to enter in. 146 00:07:15,683 --> 00:07:17,376 Because there are going to be many 147 00:07:17,376 --> 00:07:20,278 that are going to seek to get in there 148 00:07:20,278 --> 00:07:22,043 and they're not going to be able to. 149 00:07:22,043 --> 00:07:24,567 Many are not going to be able to get in. 150 00:07:24,567 --> 00:07:25,898 That's in Luke 13. 151 00:07:25,898 --> 00:07:27,326 Back in Matthwew 7, 152 00:07:27,326 --> 00:07:31,393 Jesus said it this way: 153 00:07:31,393 --> 00:07:37,341 "Few there be that find it." 154 00:07:37,341 --> 00:07:38,528 You know what? 155 00:07:38,528 --> 00:07:42,307 Twenty years ago when I first came to Christ, 156 00:07:42,307 --> 00:07:44,865 that was an astounding verse. 157 00:07:44,865 --> 00:07:46,805 Even though I was saved, 158 00:07:46,805 --> 00:07:50,024 that scared me, that shocked me. 159 00:07:50,024 --> 00:07:55,479 Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:14 says 160 00:07:55,479 --> 00:08:03,236 "Few there be that find it." 161 00:08:03,236 --> 00:08:04,857 Listen. 162 00:08:04,857 --> 00:08:08,623 Not only are few going to find it, 163 00:08:08,623 --> 00:08:12,437 but He says that many 164 00:08:12,437 --> 00:08:14,625 that want to get in, 165 00:08:14,625 --> 00:08:18,578 won't be able. 166 00:08:18,578 --> 00:08:24,175 Does that terrify anybody? 167 00:08:24,175 --> 00:08:27,408 It ought to. 168 00:08:27,408 --> 00:08:31,453 It ought to in a day and an age 169 00:08:31,453 --> 00:08:33,094 when everybody just believes 170 00:08:33,094 --> 00:08:35,642 getting to heaven is an easy thing. 171 00:08:35,642 --> 00:08:39,561 The fact is, Jesus said it's a hard thing. 172 00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:43,938 This may sound shocking to some of you. 173 00:08:43,938 --> 00:08:45,929 You may not have heard this before. 174 00:08:45,929 --> 00:08:47,241 You know why? 175 00:08:47,241 --> 00:08:48,787 Because it's very likely that 176 00:08:48,787 --> 00:08:51,840 many of you are exposed to the idea today 177 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,037 that one, being saved is easy, 178 00:08:55,037 --> 00:08:58,963 two, God just hovers around out there 179 00:08:58,963 --> 00:09:01,757 right over your head wanting to do you good, 180 00:09:01,757 --> 00:09:03,037 wanting to make you rich, 181 00:09:03,037 --> 00:09:04,787 wanting to give you health, 182 00:09:04,787 --> 00:09:06,860 wanting to give you everything 183 00:09:06,860 --> 00:09:08,717 that your heart desires. 184 00:09:08,717 --> 00:09:12,990 Basically, that's the religion of today. 185 00:09:12,990 --> 00:09:14,831 You come to God and He's just going to 186 00:09:14,831 --> 00:09:16,809 make you happy. 187 00:09:16,809 --> 00:09:18,580 He's going to give you everything you want. 188 00:09:18,580 --> 00:09:21,020 He's going to make life prosperous for you. 189 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:22,633 He's going to make sure you get a good job, 190 00:09:22,633 --> 00:09:26,519 beautiful spouse, that you're not going to be sick. 191 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:28,309 That's basically what's taught today. 192 00:09:28,309 --> 00:09:31,402 Come to God and you'll be able to speak in tongues 193 00:09:31,402 --> 00:09:34,046 and rattle off and do all sorts of crazy things, 194 00:09:34,046 --> 00:09:35,775 and you'll be able to run around 195 00:09:35,775 --> 00:09:37,089 and it will just be one big 196 00:09:37,089 --> 00:09:38,982 exciting, fun thing. 197 00:09:38,982 --> 00:09:40,986 And you'll probably get rich in the midst of it 198 00:09:40,986 --> 00:09:42,897 if you've got enough faith. 199 00:09:42,897 --> 00:09:44,918 That's basically what's said today. 200 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:47,851 And here's Jesus, 201 00:09:47,851 --> 00:09:50,851 the One who had the answers. 202 00:09:50,851 --> 00:09:56,517 And He says, "Few there be that find it." 203 00:09:56,517 --> 00:09:58,254 And if you've got a Bible,, 204 00:09:58,254 --> 00:10:00,045 I see a lot of you don't, 205 00:10:00,045 --> 00:10:02,071 if you've got a Bible, you can look there. 206 00:10:02,071 --> 00:10:08,634 Not only does He say in Matthew 7:13-14, 207 00:10:08,634 --> 00:10:09,948 He not only says that 208 00:10:09,948 --> 00:10:13,252 "Few there be that find it," 209 00:10:13,252 --> 00:10:21,420 He says the way to get there is hard. 210 00:10:21,420 --> 00:10:24,873 That doesn't sound like what's 211 00:10:24,873 --> 00:10:29,797 being taught today, does it? 212 00:10:29,797 --> 00:10:31,796 I mean, come on, 213 00:10:31,796 --> 00:10:34,404 you guys be honest with me. 214 00:10:34,404 --> 00:10:36,319 Is this something you hear? 215 00:10:36,319 --> 00:10:37,816 What I'm telling you right now. 216 00:10:37,816 --> 00:10:39,344 That few there be that find it, 217 00:10:39,344 --> 00:10:40,776 and that getting there is hard, 218 00:10:40,776 --> 00:10:42,067 and many are going to seek to get in there 219 00:10:42,067 --> 00:10:43,478 and they're not going to be able. 220 00:10:43,478 --> 00:10:44,817 Is that new to any of you? 221 00:10:44,817 --> 00:10:51,062 Or is that just, oh yeah, we hear that all the time? 222 00:10:51,062 --> 00:10:53,756 What do you think? 223 00:10:53,756 --> 00:10:57,902 Well, let me throw this in your lap. 224 00:10:57,902 --> 00:11:01,316 If few there be that find it, 225 00:11:01,316 --> 00:11:03,531 and many that think they're going there 226 00:11:03,531 --> 00:11:05,220 and are trying to go there, 227 00:11:05,220 --> 00:11:07,681 don't in the end get in, 228 00:11:07,681 --> 00:11:09,420 and only few find it, 229 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:16,507 and the way is hard, 230 00:11:16,507 --> 00:11:20,661 then is it not likely... 231 00:11:20,661 --> 00:11:23,870 By default, if few there be that find it, 232 00:11:23,870 --> 00:11:24,732 then what? 233 00:11:24,732 --> 00:11:28,188 What's the opposite? 234 00:11:28,188 --> 00:11:31,062 Many don't find it. 235 00:11:31,062 --> 00:11:32,540 And if you don't find life, 236 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:34,199 what do you find? 237 00:11:34,199 --> 00:11:35,829 Death. 238 00:11:35,829 --> 00:11:39,268 It says destruction. 239 00:11:39,268 --> 00:11:42,012 So if many find destruction, 240 00:11:42,012 --> 00:11:46,523 and few find life, 241 00:11:46,523 --> 00:11:49,705 is it not likely that among this group 242 00:11:49,705 --> 00:11:52,286 that I talk to right now, 243 00:11:52,286 --> 00:11:53,889 is there not a great possibility 244 00:11:53,889 --> 00:11:55,305 that many of you are going to 245 00:11:55,305 --> 00:11:56,833 find destruction? 246 00:11:56,833 --> 00:11:59,221 And only few of you are going to find life? 247 00:11:59,221 --> 00:12:00,894 Is that not consistent with 248 00:12:00,894 --> 00:12:02,867 what Jesus is teaching there? 249 00:12:02,867 --> 00:12:04,651 Is that not concerning? 250 00:12:04,651 --> 00:12:06,516 Does the word "destruction" just 251 00:12:06,516 --> 00:12:10,193 go over your head and through your ears 252 00:12:10,193 --> 00:12:15,004 and off your back as just a light matter? 253 00:12:15,004 --> 00:12:19,881 Let me describe destruction for you. 254 00:12:19,881 --> 00:12:21,511 You know Jesus gave us the 255 00:12:21,511 --> 00:12:24,810 most vivid descriptions. 256 00:12:24,810 --> 00:12:28,995 He called it outer darkness, 257 00:12:28,995 --> 00:12:31,221 a place of torment, 258 00:12:31,221 --> 00:12:32,798 a place of weeping, 259 00:12:32,798 --> 00:12:34,626 gnashing of teeth, 260 00:12:34,626 --> 00:12:37,321 a place of fiery furnace, 261 00:12:37,321 --> 00:12:40,144 a place where there smoke of the torment 262 00:12:40,144 --> 00:12:41,626 of the people that are there 263 00:12:41,626 --> 00:12:44,035 go up forever and forever. 264 00:12:44,035 --> 00:12:46,975 It speaks about the fury and the wrath 265 00:12:46,975 --> 00:12:50,801 of God the Almighty. 266 00:12:50,801 --> 00:12:55,612 You know why there's weeping there? 267 00:12:55,612 --> 00:13:00,914 Do you know why some of you will weep there? 268 00:13:00,914 --> 00:13:02,980 Some of you that hear my voice, 269 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:05,703 will indeed, I have no doubt, 270 00:13:05,703 --> 00:13:10,690 weep in that place, 271 00:13:10,690 --> 00:13:13,735 for a variety of reasons, 272 00:13:13,735 --> 00:13:15,476 but one of them is this: 273 00:13:15,476 --> 00:13:19,319 Listen: You know the devil fell. 274 00:13:19,319 --> 00:13:22,839 The devil was an angel. 275 00:13:22,839 --> 00:13:27,716 The devil and a third of the angels of heaven 276 00:13:27,716 --> 00:13:29,406 fell into sin. 277 00:13:29,406 --> 00:13:30,961 And do you realize this? 278 00:13:30,961 --> 00:13:35,473 When they fell, that was it. 279 00:13:35,473 --> 00:13:38,796 Their judgment was final. 280 00:13:38,796 --> 00:13:43,930 Do you realize you were not the first to sin? 281 00:13:43,930 --> 00:13:50,434 The devils, the demons, they sinned first. 282 00:13:50,434 --> 00:13:52,385 God never sent them a Savior. 283 00:13:52,385 --> 00:13:54,563 God never sent them a way of escape. 284 00:13:54,563 --> 00:13:57,832 God never sent them a remedy for their sin. 285 00:13:57,832 --> 00:13:59,207 God never offered them hope, 286 00:13:59,207 --> 00:14:00,505 never offered them heaven, 287 00:14:00,505 --> 00:14:03,871 never offered them good, grace, mercy. 288 00:14:03,871 --> 00:14:06,135 They were damned. 289 00:14:06,135 --> 00:14:08,135 In fact, we're told that the lake of fire 290 00:14:08,135 --> 00:14:13,038 was created exactly for them. 291 00:14:13,038 --> 00:14:14,887 Do you know one of the reasons that 292 00:14:14,887 --> 00:14:19,407 some of you will weep in destruction 293 00:14:19,407 --> 00:14:24,856 the way you will weep? 294 00:14:24,856 --> 00:14:28,824 Can you imagine if as a demon, 295 00:14:28,824 --> 00:14:32,457 you find yourself in the lake of fire? 296 00:14:32,457 --> 00:14:34,886 The fiery furnace where there is fire 297 00:14:34,886 --> 00:14:40,273 and brimstone and torment for your sin. 298 00:14:40,273 --> 00:14:42,608 Can you imagine if you were them 299 00:14:42,608 --> 00:14:47,295 and you find yourself there? 300 00:14:47,295 --> 00:14:52,689 There will be sorrow on their part. 301 00:14:52,689 --> 00:14:54,583 There will be torment, there will be pain. 302 00:14:54,583 --> 00:14:57,267 There will be anguish, there will be sighs, 303 00:14:57,267 --> 00:14:59,379 and groans and wails. 304 00:14:59,379 --> 00:15:04,735 But can you imagine if you find yourself there? 305 00:15:04,735 --> 00:15:08,028 After God sent His Son into this world 306 00:15:08,028 --> 00:15:10,673 to save sinners? 307 00:15:10,673 --> 00:15:13,889 Can you imagine if you find yourself 308 00:15:13,889 --> 00:15:15,673 in the lake of fire when 309 00:15:15,673 --> 00:15:18,582 there was a way offered you out? 310 00:15:18,582 --> 00:15:21,470 When a Savior came into the world 311 00:15:21,470 --> 00:15:22,814 who came specifically 312 00:15:22,814 --> 00:15:25,041 to seek and save sinners? 313 00:15:25,041 --> 00:15:27,028 When mankind was given a remedy 314 00:15:27,028 --> 00:15:28,446 for his sin? 315 00:15:28,446 --> 00:15:31,420 And not only that? 316 00:15:31,420 --> 00:15:33,933 But you remember back to that time 317 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:37,211 in June of 2010 when people came 318 00:15:37,211 --> 00:15:39,152 from this church on the east side of 319 00:15:39,152 --> 00:15:41,210 San Antonio and they came 320 00:15:41,210 --> 00:15:43,612 and they told you about Christ 321 00:15:43,612 --> 00:15:46,034 and they showed you the way out, 322 00:15:46,034 --> 00:15:47,947 and they told you the Gospel, 323 00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:50,228 and they said that if you would flee to Christ 324 00:15:50,228 --> 00:15:53,093 you could find salvation from your sin. 325 00:15:53,093 --> 00:15:56,493 Can you imagine what weeping? 326 00:15:56,493 --> 00:15:58,868 It says weeping and gnashing of teeth. 327 00:15:58,868 --> 00:16:00,861 Do you know what gnashing of teeth is? 328 00:16:00,861 --> 00:16:03,098 Can you imagine? 329 00:16:03,098 --> 00:16:05,649 I had it. 330 00:16:05,649 --> 00:16:11,362 I had it. It was set right there before me. 331 00:16:11,362 --> 00:16:14,988 And I said, Nope. I want my sin. 332 00:16:14,988 --> 00:16:17,265 I don't want Christ. I want my sin. 333 00:16:17,265 --> 00:16:19,222 I'm still young. I want sex. 334 00:16:19,222 --> 00:16:21,419 I want the fun. I want the party. 335 00:16:21,419 --> 00:16:24,184 I want what this world has to offer. 336 00:16:24,184 --> 00:16:25,759 And I don't want Christ. 337 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:28,148 I'm going to go drink deep of this world 338 00:16:28,148 --> 00:16:31,862 and maybe sometime else, I'll take care of that. 339 00:16:31,862 --> 00:16:33,765 And all the time, God was saying, 340 00:16:33,765 --> 00:16:36,138 That was the day of salvation! 341 00:16:36,138 --> 00:16:38,581 This day is the day of salvation, 342 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:40,699 and you passed it by. 343 00:16:40,699 --> 00:16:42,159 And now you're damned, 344 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:44,105 and you're in that lake of fire, 345 00:16:44,105 --> 00:16:45,270 and you had it. 346 00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:47,641 It was right there! 347 00:16:47,641 --> 00:16:50,480 It's like Christ said, 348 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:55,065 He offers you drink. 349 00:16:55,065 --> 00:16:58,408 And He says, if you will, 350 00:16:58,408 --> 00:17:00,113 He says, drink the water of life. 351 00:17:00,113 --> 00:17:01,487 Drink freely. 352 00:17:01,487 --> 00:17:02,925 Come take it. 353 00:17:02,925 --> 00:17:06,019 If you will, whosoever will. 354 00:17:06,019 --> 00:17:08,831 Come and drink. 355 00:17:08,831 --> 00:17:12,370 And you will grind your teeth 356 00:17:12,370 --> 00:17:14,748 at the thought, 357 00:17:14,748 --> 00:17:18,988 "What a fool I was!" 358 00:17:18,988 --> 00:17:20,992 And you will weep, 359 00:17:20,992 --> 00:17:24,308 not only because you were a fool, 360 00:17:24,308 --> 00:17:25,454 you will weep because 361 00:17:25,454 --> 00:17:29,905 eternity will be placarded over everything. 362 00:17:29,905 --> 00:17:32,736 Your torment isn't for a moment. 363 00:17:32,736 --> 00:17:35,384 You know what it's like when we get sick. 364 00:17:35,384 --> 00:17:37,634 You know what it's like when we get injured. 365 00:17:37,634 --> 00:17:38,983 There's always this hope, 366 00:17:38,983 --> 00:17:41,304 God created our bodies to heal. 367 00:17:41,304 --> 00:17:43,005 Well, I won't be sick for long. 368 00:17:43,005 --> 00:17:44,691 I won't have to suffer for long, 369 00:17:44,691 --> 00:17:46,742 even if I'm experiencing this pain, 370 00:17:46,742 --> 00:17:48,077 the pain goes away. 371 00:17:48,077 --> 00:17:50,319 You get cut, you get the break, you get the scratch, 372 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:57,885 you get injured, the sprain, it heals. 373 00:17:57,885 --> 00:18:03,380 But in hell, there is no healing. 374 00:18:03,380 --> 00:18:06,582 It's forever and forever 375 00:18:06,582 --> 00:18:13,458 and forever and forever... 376 00:18:13,458 --> 00:18:18,717 Few there be that find it. 377 00:18:18,717 --> 00:18:21,858 So here's what Jesus said, 378 00:18:21,858 --> 00:18:27,099 He said ok here's what this is like, 379 00:18:27,099 --> 00:18:29,325 it's like two gates. 380 00:18:29,325 --> 00:18:32,751 You can understand a gate. 381 00:18:32,751 --> 00:18:36,033 There are gates in fences. 382 00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:38,612 Sometimes you find gates in a wall. 383 00:18:38,612 --> 00:18:39,600 A gate. 384 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,315 A gate is simply a sort of door, right? 385 00:18:43,315 --> 00:18:46,246 And Jesus says this is how it is. 386 00:18:46,246 --> 00:18:52,123 You have a narrow gate, 387 00:18:52,123 --> 00:18:54,750 and you have a very wide gate. 388 00:18:54,750 --> 00:18:56,473 Two gates. 389 00:18:56,473 --> 00:19:03,489 And both of the gates are places that we enter. 390 00:19:03,489 --> 00:19:05,460 A gate is for entering, right? 391 00:19:05,460 --> 00:19:07,067 People walk through gates. 392 00:19:07,067 --> 00:19:08,845 That's what they're there for. 393 00:19:08,845 --> 00:19:12,942 And Jesus says that on both sides of these gates, 394 00:19:12,942 --> 00:19:15,447 there's a path. 395 00:19:15,447 --> 00:19:17,654 There's a way. 396 00:19:17,654 --> 00:19:19,091 You have the narrow gate, 397 00:19:19,091 --> 00:19:20,577 and beyond the narrow gate 398 00:19:20,577 --> 00:19:22,706 is a narrow way. 399 00:19:22,706 --> 00:19:24,727 And it's difficult. 400 00:19:24,727 --> 00:19:29,762 Over here, you have a wide gate, 401 00:19:29,762 --> 00:19:34,285 followed by a very broad path. 402 00:19:34,285 --> 00:19:39,029 And Jesus says it's easy. 403 00:19:39,029 --> 00:19:41,321 And you know what He says? 404 00:19:41,321 --> 00:19:46,855 Few go in the narrow one. 405 00:19:46,855 --> 00:19:52,596 The vast multitudes go in over here. 406 00:19:52,596 --> 00:19:57,453 You say, but I go to church. 407 00:19:57,453 --> 00:20:03,452 You know, the people on the broad way, 408 00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:06,790 we find just a few verses down 409 00:20:06,790 --> 00:20:09,978 in Matthew 7 410 00:20:09,978 --> 00:20:13,481 these people went to church. 411 00:20:13,481 --> 00:20:17,294 In verse 21, there are people that say, 412 00:20:17,294 --> 00:20:19,588 "Lord, Lord..." 413 00:20:19,588 --> 00:20:21,213 They're people that use His name. 414 00:20:21,213 --> 00:20:22,938 They're people that sang songs 415 00:20:22,938 --> 00:20:25,877 just like were sung tonight. 416 00:20:25,877 --> 00:20:27,825 They had the name Lord on their lips. 417 00:20:27,825 --> 00:20:29,393 And if you look at verse 22, 418 00:20:29,393 --> 00:20:31,644 they were doing things: 419 00:20:31,644 --> 00:20:34,343 prophesying and casting out demons, 420 00:20:34,343 --> 00:20:37,302 doing many mighty works. 421 00:20:37,302 --> 00:20:39,509 See, they were in the church crowd. 422 00:20:39,509 --> 00:20:41,351 See, that's no protection. 423 00:20:41,351 --> 00:20:44,341 Jesus doesn't say going to church 424 00:20:44,341 --> 00:20:46,717 is the way. 425 00:20:46,717 --> 00:20:48,667 So you have the narrow; 426 00:20:48,667 --> 00:20:50,277 you have the broad. 427 00:20:50,277 --> 00:20:51,491 Guess what? 428 00:20:51,491 --> 00:20:55,217 The crowds are going in over here. 429 00:20:55,217 --> 00:20:58,168 Few there be that go in this way. 430 00:20:58,168 --> 00:20:59,996 And you know what? 431 00:20:59,996 --> 00:21:01,239 Not only is there a gate. 432 00:21:01,239 --> 00:21:02,931 Not only is there a path beyond it. 433 00:21:02,931 --> 00:21:04,877 But there's an end. 434 00:21:04,877 --> 00:21:07,851 There's a big gate, a large way, 435 00:21:07,851 --> 00:21:10,386 at the end, destruction. 436 00:21:10,386 --> 00:21:13,248 Narrow gate, followed by a narrow path, 437 00:21:13,248 --> 00:21:18,272 at the end, eternal life. 438 00:21:18,272 --> 00:21:22,334 Few there be that find it. 439 00:21:22,334 --> 00:21:24,538 Does that concern anybody here 440 00:21:24,538 --> 00:21:30,266 that you may be headed to destruction? 441 00:21:30,266 --> 00:21:32,048 How can you know? 442 00:21:32,048 --> 00:21:34,992 How can you know if you're on that narrow way? 443 00:21:35,001 --> 00:21:36,068 Let me tell you this: 444 00:21:36,068 --> 00:21:38,697 Few there be that find it. 445 00:21:38,697 --> 00:21:40,284 You know what that means? 446 00:21:40,284 --> 00:21:43,380 That means those on their way to heaven 447 00:21:43,380 --> 00:21:45,656 are in the minority. 448 00:21:45,656 --> 00:21:47,767 And you know what that means? 449 00:21:47,767 --> 00:21:50,889 That's means one thing's for certain, 450 00:21:50,889 --> 00:21:54,175 that those that are on their way to heaven, 451 00:21:54,175 --> 00:21:58,927 they've left the crowd. 452 00:21:58,927 --> 00:22:01,358 You see, I know some of you. 453 00:22:01,358 --> 00:22:04,210 You go to church, you have parents that go to church. 454 00:22:04,210 --> 00:22:07,715 you're here at the camp. 455 00:22:07,715 --> 00:22:09,649 You say well that must mean something. 456 00:22:09,649 --> 00:22:12,131 The vast multitudes of San Antonio 457 00:22:12,131 --> 00:22:16,775 they're not in church tonight but I am. 458 00:22:16,775 --> 00:22:18,922 But like I said, 459 00:22:18,922 --> 00:22:21,509 Jesus shows us a little further, 460 00:22:21,509 --> 00:22:23,398 many of the people on this broad way 461 00:22:23,398 --> 00:22:24,989 over here, they're people that go to church. 462 00:22:24,989 --> 00:22:26,836 They're people that say, "Lord, Lord." 463 00:22:26,836 --> 00:22:31,701 They're people doing many mighty works. 464 00:22:31,701 --> 00:22:34,854 I know some of you. 465 00:22:34,854 --> 00:22:38,514 You've got a little bit of religion. 466 00:22:38,514 --> 00:22:42,886 But you, aside from that little religion, 467 00:22:42,886 --> 00:22:45,486 you are just like the world. 468 00:22:45,486 --> 00:22:48,176 You are just like the multitudes. 469 00:22:48,176 --> 00:22:50,977 You're just like the crowd. 470 00:22:50,977 --> 00:22:58,058 Because the truth is, 471 00:22:58,058 --> 00:23:01,196 you play the same video games 472 00:23:01,196 --> 00:23:04,696 that the world plays. 473 00:23:04,696 --> 00:23:06,089 And you go to the same movies 474 00:23:06,089 --> 00:23:09,452 that the world goes to. 475 00:23:09,452 --> 00:23:12,173 You laugh at the same things 476 00:23:12,173 --> 00:23:15,350 that the world laughs at. 477 00:23:15,350 --> 00:23:16,881 Watch the same t.v. shows 478 00:23:16,881 --> 00:23:18,770 that the world watches. 479 00:23:18,770 --> 00:23:23,268 You love the fashions of the world. 480 00:23:23,268 --> 00:23:26,804 The idols of the world, the rock stars, 481 00:23:26,804 --> 00:23:29,838 the movie stars, the sports stars. 482 00:23:29,838 --> 00:23:32,714 They're your idols as well. 483 00:23:32,714 --> 00:23:34,369 The cars the world loves, 484 00:23:34,369 --> 00:23:36,184 the motorcycles the world loves, 485 00:23:36,184 --> 00:23:39,256 the fashions they love, the magazines they love. 486 00:23:39,256 --> 00:23:40,917 You love the same. 487 00:23:40,917 --> 00:23:43,020 You may have some conservative 488 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:45,257 parents that don't let you stay up as late 489 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:46,433 or don't let you watch, 490 00:23:46,433 --> 00:23:47,724 but you know in your heart 491 00:23:47,724 --> 00:23:49,227 you desire those same things. 492 00:23:49,227 --> 00:23:49,951 You want them. 493 00:23:49,951 --> 00:23:53,615 The truth is, you're just like the crowd. 494 00:23:53,615 --> 00:23:58,003 Folks, the crowd is on the way to destruction. 495 00:23:58,003 --> 00:23:59,226 And it's easy. 496 00:23:59,226 --> 00:24:01,548 You see, it's easy because 497 00:24:01,548 --> 00:24:02,687 you can be religious. 498 00:24:02,687 --> 00:24:03,786 You can play religion. 499 00:24:03,786 --> 00:24:06,757 You can say, hey, I said the sinner's prayer. 500 00:24:06,757 --> 00:24:09,190 I did the little deal. 501 00:24:09,190 --> 00:24:11,335 And it's real easy. 502 00:24:11,335 --> 00:24:13,440 Because you can just go along with the crowd, 503 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,695 you can go along with the world, 504 00:24:14,695 --> 00:24:17,175 you can go along with the flow. 505 00:24:17,175 --> 00:24:19,147 And Jesus says there's destruction 506 00:24:19,147 --> 00:24:20,377 at the end of it. 507 00:24:20,377 --> 00:24:22,715 You know what He says in Matthew 7:23? 508 00:24:22,715 --> 00:24:27,332 He says, "Depart from Me, 509 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:31,104 you workers of lawlessness." 510 00:24:31,104 --> 00:24:33,338 You see, the real issue is, 511 00:24:33,338 --> 00:24:35,394 though you have a little bit of religion, 512 00:24:35,394 --> 00:24:37,711 you're just as lawless as the world. 513 00:24:37,711 --> 00:24:41,018 You love sin. 514 00:24:41,018 --> 00:24:47,213 You love what Jesus came into the world 515 00:24:47,213 --> 00:24:49,662 to save us from. 516 00:24:49,662 --> 00:24:52,648 Few there be that find it. 517 00:24:52,648 --> 00:24:58,213 That should startle you guys. 518 00:24:58,213 --> 00:25:04,092 Look, our lives are... 519 00:25:04,092 --> 00:25:08,450 the sands of time. 520 00:25:08,450 --> 00:25:12,483 You guys have seen an hourglass. 521 00:25:12,483 --> 00:25:16,110 And the sand falls. 522 00:25:16,110 --> 00:25:18,690 And there's only so much sand in there, right? 523 00:25:18,690 --> 00:25:22,954 You've seen an hourglass? 524 00:25:22,954 --> 00:25:25,147 There's only so much sand. 525 00:25:25,147 --> 00:25:27,640 That's your life. 526 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,105 Your life only has so much sand. 527 00:25:30,105 --> 00:25:32,557 The time alotted to you 528 00:25:32,557 --> 00:25:34,179 is falling right now. 529 00:25:34,179 --> 00:25:36,420 It's very limited. 530 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:38,941 And when it runs out, 531 00:25:38,941 --> 00:25:48,579 how many in this place are going to find destruction? 532 00:25:48,579 --> 00:25:52,328 It's one thing if you lived your life the prostitute, 533 00:25:52,328 --> 00:25:54,408 you lived your life the heroin addict, 534 00:25:54,408 --> 00:25:55,995 you lived your life out there 535 00:25:55,995 --> 00:25:59,152 and you knew you just totally botched it. 536 00:25:59,152 --> 00:26:01,339 In the end, you expected to go to hell. 537 00:26:01,339 --> 00:26:04,282 You know that you lived bad. 538 00:26:04,282 --> 00:26:05,715 But can you imagine the shock 539 00:26:05,715 --> 00:26:08,565 on judgment day? 540 00:26:08,565 --> 00:26:12,062 Can you imagine the weeping? 541 00:26:12,062 --> 00:26:14,732 The weeping. 542 00:26:14,732 --> 00:26:17,248 To hear those words? 543 00:26:17,248 --> 00:26:22,611 You're thinking, 544 00:26:22,611 --> 00:26:26,827 "Lord, won't you receive me? 545 00:26:26,827 --> 00:26:29,203 I did the church thing." 546 00:26:29,203 --> 00:26:33,506 And He says, "I never knew you." 547 00:26:33,506 --> 00:26:40,114 Why is the way to heaven so hard? 548 00:26:40,114 --> 00:26:42,103 Have you guys ever been told 549 00:26:42,103 --> 00:26:47,293 that the way to heaven is hard? 550 00:26:47,293 --> 00:26:50,215 Why is it so hard? 551 00:26:50,215 --> 00:26:56,596 Basically, it's hard for this reason. 552 00:26:56,596 --> 00:27:00,231 Look, guys. 553 00:27:00,231 --> 00:27:05,657 The whole world is willing to say a little prayer. 554 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:08,521 What does a sinner's prayer sound like? 555 00:27:08,521 --> 00:27:09,929 How many of you have said 556 00:27:09,929 --> 00:27:13,365 the sinner's prayer? 557 00:27:13,365 --> 00:27:16,155 What does the sinner's prayer sound like? 558 00:27:16,155 --> 00:27:20,654 What do you pray? 559 00:27:20,654 --> 00:27:24,648 "Jesus, please come into my heart." 560 00:27:24,648 --> 00:27:27,288 You know one of the dangerous things 561 00:27:27,288 --> 00:27:30,255 about that prayer? 562 00:27:30,255 --> 00:27:33,507 You don't find it anywhere in the Word of God. 563 00:27:33,507 --> 00:27:37,379 Nowhere. 564 00:27:37,379 --> 00:27:39,016 That's not how Jesus said 565 00:27:39,016 --> 00:27:42,982 heaven is attained. 566 00:27:42,982 --> 00:27:44,744 But you know what we've got? 567 00:27:44,744 --> 00:27:47,030 We've got a world full of people 568 00:27:47,030 --> 00:27:50,816 that are happy and ready to say, 569 00:27:50,816 --> 00:27:53,169 "Jesus, I'm a sinner. 570 00:27:53,169 --> 00:27:57,407 Please come into my heart." 571 00:27:57,407 --> 00:28:00,286 And then you go enjoy all the idols, 572 00:28:00,286 --> 00:28:04,382 all the sin, 573 00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:06,738 love the same garbage on t.v. 574 00:28:06,738 --> 00:28:09,277 that the rest of the world loves; 575 00:28:09,277 --> 00:28:12,839 dress like them, look like them, 576 00:28:12,839 --> 00:28:14,898 pursue all the things that the world wants. 577 00:28:14,898 --> 00:28:16,871 Everybody wants to be able to 578 00:28:16,871 --> 00:28:19,354 say the little prayer as fire insurance 579 00:28:19,354 --> 00:28:20,706 to get out of hell 580 00:28:20,706 --> 00:28:29,426 and then go live it up and have their sin. 581 00:28:29,426 --> 00:28:31,260 Everybody loves to say 582 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:33,591 the little sinner's prayer 583 00:28:33,591 --> 00:28:34,926 and then go sleep with 584 00:28:34,926 --> 00:28:36,648 their girlfriend or their boyfriend. 585 00:28:36,648 --> 00:28:37,916 And think well, I've got this taken care of. 586 00:28:37,916 --> 00:28:39,728 I know this may not be exactly right, 587 00:28:39,728 --> 00:28:41,608 and I know God may not approve of this, 588 00:28:41,608 --> 00:28:44,847 but I said the prayer. 589 00:28:44,847 --> 00:28:49,717 Listen, does that sound easy or hard? 590 00:28:49,717 --> 00:28:52,312 Does it sound easy or hard 591 00:28:52,312 --> 00:28:54,507 to go say a little prayer 592 00:28:54,507 --> 00:28:55,521 and then just live it up 593 00:28:55,521 --> 00:28:58,148 and enjoy all your sin? 594 00:28:58,148 --> 00:29:00,319 That sounds real easy. 595 00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:06,615 You know what, that sounds real similar 596 00:29:06,615 --> 00:29:09,507 to a broad way that's easy, 597 00:29:09,507 --> 00:29:14,768 but the end is destruction. 598 00:29:14,768 --> 00:29:17,417 Destruction. 599 00:29:17,417 --> 00:29:23,343 Versus, over here you've got life. 600 00:29:23,343 --> 00:29:24,275 Life. 601 00:29:24,275 --> 00:29:25,532 But the way is narrow. 602 00:29:25,532 --> 00:29:27,188 You know what that means? 603 00:29:27,188 --> 00:29:34,028 That means that if you're going that way, 604 00:29:34,028 --> 00:29:35,897 most people are going to think 605 00:29:35,897 --> 00:29:37,426 you're a fanatic. 606 00:29:37,426 --> 00:29:39,641 I remember 20 years ago, 607 00:29:39,641 --> 00:29:41,548 I came to the Lord. 608 00:29:41,548 --> 00:29:42,975 You know what, when I was 609 00:29:42,975 --> 00:29:44,948 growing up in high school, 610 00:29:44,948 --> 00:29:50,270 most of my buddies were wild men. 611 00:29:50,270 --> 00:29:52,391 We didn't think about church. 612 00:29:52,391 --> 00:29:53,803 We didn't think about Christ. 613 00:29:53,803 --> 00:29:55,883 We didn't even know what John 3:16 was. 614 00:29:55,883 --> 00:29:57,411 We were watching football one time, 615 00:29:57,411 --> 00:30:00,716 and there was this John 3:16 in the end zone. 616 00:30:00,716 --> 00:30:02,604 What is that? 617 00:30:02,604 --> 00:30:05,938 One of the guys said something, 618 00:30:05,938 --> 00:30:07,709 Oh I read that, it's from the Bible, 619 00:30:07,709 --> 00:30:09,329 and what does it say? 620 00:30:09,329 --> 00:30:10,920 He said something - I don't think 621 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,897 it was anywhere close to being right. 622 00:30:12,897 --> 00:30:14,560 But we were all mystified by it. 623 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,745 We didn't know. 624 00:30:15,745 --> 00:30:19,807 We were just a bunch of wild pagan guys. 625 00:30:19,807 --> 00:30:23,740 But in my class, there were a couple guys 626 00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:25,537 that were religious. 627 00:30:25,537 --> 00:30:26,691 Two of them. 628 00:30:26,691 --> 00:30:28,633 In all my class, I think there were only 629 00:30:28,633 --> 00:30:29,881 two religious guys. 630 00:30:29,881 --> 00:30:34,594 One was Catholic, one was protestant. 631 00:30:34,594 --> 00:30:36,661 Well, you know what? 632 00:30:36,661 --> 00:30:39,733 When God saved me, 633 00:30:39,733 --> 00:30:43,639 I joined a church softball league, 634 00:30:43,639 --> 00:30:45,602 and we were going to go out into the outfield 635 00:30:45,602 --> 00:30:47,402 and take batting practice out there 636 00:30:47,402 --> 00:30:50,349 because the other team had the infield. 637 00:30:50,349 --> 00:30:52,127 And on that team was this guy 638 00:30:52,127 --> 00:30:53,546 I went to high school with, 639 00:30:53,546 --> 00:30:56,081 and as I walked by him, 640 00:30:56,081 --> 00:30:59,130 he said, "I have heard you have 641 00:30:59,130 --> 00:31:02,826 become a 'Jesus freak.'" 642 00:31:02,826 --> 00:31:04,720 And I turned around and I looked at him, 643 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,011 and I thought of all people 644 00:31:06,011 --> 00:31:08,232 that I went to high school with 645 00:31:08,232 --> 00:31:10,545 that I would have least expected that from 646 00:31:10,545 --> 00:31:11,390 it was this guy. 647 00:31:11,390 --> 00:31:15,353 Because I thought you were religious! 648 00:31:15,353 --> 00:31:17,477 And I said to him, 649 00:31:17,477 --> 00:31:20,987 "Curt, how else can you be 650 00:31:20,987 --> 00:31:23,547 when you find Christ?" 651 00:31:23,547 --> 00:31:27,455 And what I realized for the first time, 652 00:31:27,455 --> 00:31:31,338 Curt was religious. 653 00:31:31,338 --> 00:31:34,408 But he was on the broad way. 654 00:31:34,408 --> 00:31:36,451 He didn't know a thing. 655 00:31:36,451 --> 00:31:37,723 You know what? 656 00:31:37,723 --> 00:31:39,187 When you're in the minority, 657 00:31:39,187 --> 00:31:41,307 people think you're in a cult, 658 00:31:41,307 --> 00:31:42,940 people think you're a radical, 659 00:31:42,940 --> 00:31:44,847 they think you're a fanatic, 660 00:31:44,847 --> 00:31:46,713 they think you've lost your mind. 661 00:31:46,713 --> 00:31:50,930 Why? Because, if you're among the few, 662 00:31:50,930 --> 00:31:52,968 if only a very few find it, 663 00:31:52,968 --> 00:31:54,746 but the many are over here 664 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:55,726 guess what? 665 00:31:55,726 --> 00:31:57,957 You don't look like them! 666 00:31:57,957 --> 00:31:59,669 You're different from them. 667 00:31:59,669 --> 00:32:02,420 Because you went through a different gate, 668 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:03,778 you're on a different way, 669 00:32:03,778 --> 00:32:06,061 and you're headed to a different end. 670 00:32:06,061 --> 00:32:08,865 And it isn't the same. 671 00:32:08,865 --> 00:32:10,515 You're on a hard way. 672 00:32:10,515 --> 00:32:13,926 And that way is not like their way. 673 00:32:13,926 --> 00:32:15,956 So they're cruising through life easy, 674 00:32:15,956 --> 00:32:17,239 and they see you over here, 675 00:32:17,239 --> 00:32:18,504 you're on this hard way. 676 00:32:18,504 --> 00:32:19,818 You're struggling. 677 00:32:19,818 --> 00:32:21,774 You're struggling to fight sin. 678 00:32:21,774 --> 00:32:23,140 You're struggling with the 679 00:32:23,140 --> 00:32:24,518 temptations of the world. 680 00:32:24,518 --> 00:32:26,324 The onslaughts of the devil, 681 00:32:26,324 --> 00:32:27,990 seeking to follow Christ. 682 00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:31,124 And He takes you through some hard places. 683 00:32:31,124 --> 00:32:32,238 And there you are, 684 00:32:32,238 --> 00:32:33,465 and they're just cruising along, 685 00:32:33,465 --> 00:32:35,348 and they look at you, and they think, 686 00:32:35,348 --> 00:32:37,749 you are too rigid. 687 00:32:37,749 --> 00:32:41,809 You're not right. 688 00:32:41,809 --> 00:32:43,838 I mean, just stop with that. 689 00:32:43,838 --> 00:32:48,252 My step-dad came in in total frustration, 690 00:32:48,252 --> 00:32:50,130 when God saved me, 691 00:32:50,130 --> 00:32:53,731 he was trying to set me up to date 692 00:32:53,731 --> 00:32:58,696 some young lady from Michigan State. 693 00:32:58,696 --> 00:33:02,280 And I wouldn't call her. 694 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,454 He gave her my number. 695 00:33:03,454 --> 00:33:05,456 She was leaving messages on the 696 00:33:05,456 --> 00:33:06,446 answering machine 697 00:33:06,446 --> 00:33:07,806 and I refused to call. 698 00:33:07,806 --> 00:33:10,863 And he came in to my bedroom 699 00:33:10,863 --> 00:33:12,787 in total frustration, 700 00:33:12,787 --> 00:33:14,322 and he said, 701 00:33:14,322 --> 00:33:19,431 "Religion is ok, but you've taken it too far." 702 00:33:19,431 --> 00:33:21,698 But see that is what the people 703 00:33:21,698 --> 00:33:24,239 on the broad way think. 704 00:33:24,239 --> 00:33:26,614 You Christians are radicals. 705 00:33:26,614 --> 00:33:27,773 And I'll tell you this, 706 00:33:27,773 --> 00:33:30,982 you get on that narrow way, 707 00:33:30,982 --> 00:33:33,220 and the world's going to look at you that way. 708 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:34,926 They're going to say you're too tight, 709 00:33:34,926 --> 00:33:36,731 you're too rigid, you're too narrow. 710 00:33:36,731 --> 00:33:42,336 You're a freak. 711 00:33:42,336 --> 00:33:44,079 I don't know how many times 712 00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:46,971 people have called our church a cult. 713 00:33:46,971 --> 00:33:48,240 Why? 714 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,321 Because we're not like most churches. 715 00:33:51,321 --> 00:33:52,123 Why? 716 00:33:52,123 --> 00:33:54,149 Because most churches are saying 717 00:33:54,149 --> 00:33:55,924 say the sinner's prayer 718 00:33:55,924 --> 00:33:59,599 and God's going to make you healthy and wealthy. 719 00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:01,385 And then they run around the pulpit 720 00:34:01,385 --> 00:34:04,216 speaking in tongues. 721 00:34:04,216 --> 00:34:08,330 Let me tell you, 722 00:34:08,330 --> 00:34:12,208 the Bible says through much tribulation 723 00:34:12,208 --> 00:34:15,057 we will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. 724 00:34:15,057 --> 00:34:17,776 That's why that path is difficult. 725 00:34:17,776 --> 00:34:20,888 Listen, Jesus comes to you tonight, 726 00:34:20,888 --> 00:34:23,682 and He says, I offer you heaven. 727 00:34:23,682 --> 00:34:25,833 And I offer it to you freely. 728 00:34:25,833 --> 00:34:27,501 and though that way be hard, 729 00:34:27,501 --> 00:34:29,134 that doesn't mean that you have to 730 00:34:29,134 --> 00:34:30,896 come pay Me a whole bunch. 731 00:34:30,896 --> 00:34:34,116 He doesn't say that it's something 732 00:34:34,116 --> 00:34:36,427 that you have to purchase at great 733 00:34:36,427 --> 00:34:38,161 expense to you. 734 00:34:38,161 --> 00:34:43,445 He purchased it at great expense to Him. 735 00:34:43,445 --> 00:34:47,584 But lest you be deceived here tonight, 736 00:34:47,584 --> 00:34:48,407 He says, 737 00:34:48,407 --> 00:34:53,188 Come to Me and I will give you life freely. 738 00:34:53,188 --> 00:34:56,538 But His call is always this: 739 00:34:56,538 --> 00:34:58,628 Follow Me. 740 00:34:58,628 --> 00:35:00,773 That path is very narrow 741 00:35:00,773 --> 00:35:03,632 because Jesus is leading the way on it. 742 00:35:03,632 --> 00:35:05,976 And He takes us down a road 743 00:35:05,976 --> 00:35:08,594 that you and I would typically not choose 744 00:35:08,594 --> 00:35:11,075 if we had it in our power to choose. 745 00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:12,299 But you know what? 746 00:35:12,299 --> 00:35:14,690 He takes us down that path 747 00:35:14,690 --> 00:35:19,248 in love, compassion... 748 00:35:19,248 --> 00:35:22,295 And He takes us down a path 749 00:35:22,295 --> 00:35:25,669 where He comes in, and He will 750 00:35:25,669 --> 00:35:30,931 cut your idols away from you. 751 00:35:30,931 --> 00:35:37,212 And He will cut pride away from you. 752 00:35:37,212 --> 00:35:40,388 You know what's difficult about that path? 753 00:35:40,388 --> 00:35:44,757 It's a path of humility and humbling. 754 00:35:44,757 --> 00:35:47,960 The people on this - they can have their pride. 755 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,622 You know what pride is? 756 00:35:49,622 --> 00:35:52,285 It's self-love. 757 00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:53,695 You just love yourself. 758 00:35:53,695 --> 00:35:55,049 You know why most people 759 00:35:55,049 --> 00:35:57,039 don't get on the narrow way? 760 00:35:57,039 --> 00:35:58,828 It really comes down to that. 761 00:35:58,828 --> 00:36:00,259 Self-idolatry. 762 00:36:00,259 --> 00:36:02,448 You see, people on the broad way, 763 00:36:02,448 --> 00:36:03,960 they can have their self, 764 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,253 their selfish desires, their selfish ways. 765 00:36:07,253 --> 00:36:11,021 They can have it "my way." 766 00:36:11,021 --> 00:36:17,033 I can get to heaven and I can go my way. 767 00:36:17,033 --> 00:36:20,343 But all you have to do is look at the Scriptures. 768 00:36:20,343 --> 00:36:22,045 When Jesus came into this world, 769 00:36:22,045 --> 00:36:23,784 everybody He called, 770 00:36:23,784 --> 00:36:25,657 He points to them and He says, 771 00:36:25,657 --> 00:36:30,378 "Follow Me." 772 00:36:30,378 --> 00:36:35,495 And if we follow Jesus, 773 00:36:35,495 --> 00:36:36,876 as we're walking behind Him, 774 00:36:36,876 --> 00:36:39,278 He says over His shoulder, 775 00:36:39,278 --> 00:36:43,406 "Learn of Me." 776 00:36:43,406 --> 00:36:47,426 "I am meek and lowly in spirit." 777 00:36:47,426 --> 00:36:49,773 And He will break our pride. 778 00:36:49,773 --> 00:36:52,405 He will break our self-trust. 779 00:36:52,405 --> 00:36:57,850 He will purge us and cleanse us of idols. 780 00:36:57,850 --> 00:36:59,828 You know what He says? 781 00:36:59,828 --> 00:37:02,821 "Unless you forsake all that you have, 782 00:37:02,821 --> 00:37:04,952 you cannot be My disciple." 783 00:37:04,952 --> 00:37:08,052 That sound easy or hard? 784 00:37:08,052 --> 00:37:11,856 Luke 14:33 785 00:37:11,856 --> 00:37:15,705 "Unless you forsake all that you have, 786 00:37:15,705 --> 00:37:18,091 you cannot be My disciple." 787 00:37:18,091 --> 00:37:21,113 That does sound hard. 788 00:37:21,113 --> 00:37:22,393 Jesus says, 789 00:37:22,393 --> 00:37:27,360 I will save you, but I did not come to bargain. 790 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,172 I will be precious. 791 00:37:29,172 --> 00:37:30,749 I will be all. 792 00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:33,646 I will be the object of your affections. 793 00:37:33,646 --> 00:37:35,623 I will be the object of your worship. 794 00:37:35,623 --> 00:37:38,341 I will be the object of your devotion. 795 00:37:38,341 --> 00:37:41,595 I will be Lord in your life. 796 00:37:41,595 --> 00:37:44,572 I offer you salvation. 797 00:37:44,572 --> 00:37:47,054 But He offers it to you on His terms. 798 00:37:47,054 --> 00:37:49,409 You know what's easy about the broad way? 799 00:37:49,409 --> 00:37:51,337 No terms! They're your terms. 800 00:37:51,337 --> 00:37:53,623 You pretty much set the terms. 801 00:37:53,623 --> 00:37:55,835 People on the broad way, 802 00:37:55,835 --> 00:37:58,181 they pretty much say, hey, we're going to heaven, 803 00:37:58,181 --> 00:38:01,305 we said the prayer, and the terms are, 804 00:38:01,305 --> 00:38:02,684 Oh, God is just so loving, 805 00:38:02,684 --> 00:38:05,460 He couldn't possibly throw me into hell anyways. 806 00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:06,528 My terms. 807 00:38:06,528 --> 00:38:08,137 I can have whatever sin... 808 00:38:08,137 --> 00:38:09,209 And you know what? 809 00:38:09,209 --> 00:38:10,543 People on the broad way, 810 00:38:10,543 --> 00:38:13,672 you know how Jesus describes them in Matthew 7:23 811 00:38:13,672 --> 00:38:14,890 and He says, 812 00:38:14,890 --> 00:38:17,264 "Depart from Me..." 813 00:38:17,264 --> 00:38:20,607 you workers of iniquity or you workers of lawlesness. 814 00:38:20,607 --> 00:38:23,277 You know what people on the broad way do? 815 00:38:23,277 --> 00:38:25,900 They commit all this lawlessness, all this iniquity, 816 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:27,865 they do all the things God hates. 817 00:38:27,865 --> 00:38:29,669 But they imagine God in heaven 818 00:38:29,669 --> 00:38:31,631 just smiling at them. 819 00:38:31,631 --> 00:38:33,092 It's real easy. 820 00:38:33,092 --> 00:38:34,905 They just recreate God. 821 00:38:34,905 --> 00:38:36,234 Oh, God understands... 822 00:38:36,234 --> 00:38:38,085 yeah, I'm sleeping with my girlfriend 823 00:38:38,085 --> 00:38:41,240 but God understands - we love each other. 824 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:43,296 I know I went to that movie, 825 00:38:43,296 --> 00:38:46,585 that R-rated filth that He probably doesn't approve of, 826 00:38:46,585 --> 00:38:48,545 but come on, I mean He obviously 827 00:38:48,545 --> 00:38:50,777 understands that we need to laugh sometimes. 828 00:38:50,777 --> 00:38:54,249 So, it's easy. You just explain all your sin away. 829 00:38:54,249 --> 00:38:57,030 You know, yeah, it's probably not the best thing, 830 00:38:57,030 --> 00:39:02,349 but God is just pleased with me, He smiles on it. 831 00:39:02,349 --> 00:39:08,031 In the end, you find out. 832 00:39:08,031 --> 00:39:11,842 In the end, you come expecting heaven. 833 00:39:11,842 --> 00:39:13,661 Can you imagine what it will be 834 00:39:13,661 --> 00:39:20,420 to hear Jesus say to you, "Depart." 835 00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:23,462 That'll be it. 836 00:39:23,462 --> 00:39:26,979 There will be no plea. 837 00:39:26,979 --> 00:39:29,766 There is no higher court. 838 00:39:29,766 --> 00:39:32,469 You cannot appeal. 839 00:39:32,469 --> 00:39:35,204 He is the authority. 840 00:39:35,204 --> 00:39:39,279 He is the Judge. 841 00:39:39,279 --> 00:39:43,478 When you stand before the judgment seat of Christ, 842 00:39:43,478 --> 00:39:50,436 His verdict is full and final and complete. 843 00:39:50,436 --> 00:39:51,873 Permanent. 844 00:39:51,873 --> 00:39:53,644 And when He says, "Depart." 845 00:39:53,644 --> 00:40:00,767 You will depart. 846 00:40:00,767 --> 00:40:04,097 Listen. 847 00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:13,563 Jesus Christ came into this world 848 00:40:13,563 --> 00:40:18,077 to offer a way to life. 849 00:40:18,077 --> 00:40:20,715 You see, I'm not up here tonight 850 00:40:20,715 --> 00:40:23,414 telling you there's no way. 851 00:40:23,414 --> 00:40:27,621 I'm just telling you the way is narrow. 852 00:40:27,621 --> 00:40:29,344 That is a glorious reality. 853 00:40:29,344 --> 00:40:32,434 That is one that ought to make you shout for joy. 854 00:40:32,434 --> 00:40:33,423 There is a way! 855 00:40:33,423 --> 00:40:35,529 You're not like the demons. 856 00:40:35,529 --> 00:40:37,714 God has provided a way. 857 00:40:37,714 --> 00:40:39,228 You know what? 858 00:40:39,228 --> 00:40:42,515 Listen, if you want to go to heaven, 859 00:40:42,515 --> 00:40:45,395 does it matter that the way is narrow or broad 860 00:40:45,395 --> 00:40:46,871 that gets there? 861 00:40:46,871 --> 00:40:48,905 The fact is, if there's a way there, 862 00:40:48,905 --> 00:40:50,440 there's a way there. 863 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,630 And what I find in the Scriptures is 864 00:40:52,630 --> 00:40:55,119 it's broad enough for you to fit on. 865 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:56,548 No, not with your sin, 866 00:40:56,548 --> 00:40:59,471 your baggage, garbage, idolatry... 867 00:40:59,471 --> 00:41:01,781 you've got to repent to get on that way, 868 00:41:01,781 --> 00:41:03,916 and you've got to follow Christ that way. 869 00:41:03,916 --> 00:41:06,193 And He's going to take you through hard ground. 870 00:41:06,193 --> 00:41:07,084 But so be it! 871 00:41:07,084 --> 00:41:08,427 There's a way! 872 00:41:08,427 --> 00:41:10,611 And in the end, there's life! 873 00:41:10,611 --> 00:41:12,960 And let me tell you about life. 874 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,737 Destruction may sound read bad and it is. 875 00:41:15,737 --> 00:41:17,420 In fact, it's so bad, Jesus says 876 00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:19,158 if you've got to cut off hands, 877 00:41:19,158 --> 00:41:20,908 gouge out eyes, cut off feet 878 00:41:20,908 --> 00:41:22,311 not to go there. 879 00:41:22,311 --> 00:41:23,637 And He's talking about idols, 880 00:41:23,637 --> 00:41:25,117 He's talking about sin. 881 00:41:25,117 --> 00:41:27,407 If you've got to do radical amputation 882 00:41:27,407 --> 00:41:29,937 to get to heaven, He says you better do it. 883 00:41:29,937 --> 00:41:32,697 He says it is better to radically amputate 884 00:41:32,697 --> 00:41:35,184 those things in your life that you want to 885 00:41:35,184 --> 00:41:39,882 hold on to, cut them off and get to heaven. 886 00:41:39,882 --> 00:41:42,844 Rather than to keep them and perish in hell. 887 00:41:42,844 --> 00:41:45,353 Jesus said it is a fearful place. 888 00:41:45,353 --> 00:41:47,202 It is a place you don't want to go. 889 00:41:47,202 --> 00:41:52,530 It is a place, listen, if you go there, you go there. 890 00:41:52,530 --> 00:41:54,713 And it's done and it's final. 891 00:41:54,713 --> 00:41:57,343 But He comes and He says, 892 00:41:57,343 --> 00:42:00,185 at the end of this is life. 893 00:42:00,185 --> 00:42:01,831 And He says that He promises to give 894 00:42:01,831 --> 00:42:03,506 men life more abundantly. 895 00:42:03,506 --> 00:42:05,609 In fact, there's several places in the New Testament 896 00:42:05,609 --> 00:42:07,660 where He calls it paradise. 897 00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:10,429 And we see this picture in Matthew 13 898 00:42:10,429 --> 00:42:12,398 of those that go there 899 00:42:12,398 --> 00:42:15,028 shining like the sun in the kingdom 900 00:42:15,028 --> 00:42:16,924 of their Father. 901 00:42:16,924 --> 00:42:21,610 We find that there are pleasures 902 00:42:21,610 --> 00:42:25,334 forevermore at His right hand. 903 00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:30,282 We find there that Christ Himself 904 00:42:30,282 --> 00:42:33,297 in all of His glory is the object of 905 00:42:33,297 --> 00:42:35,706 the love and the affection of those 906 00:42:35,706 --> 00:42:37,334 that are there. 907 00:42:37,334 --> 00:42:41,853 Listen, I have to think that one of the reasons 908 00:42:41,853 --> 00:42:55,021 that there is such weeping in hell, 909 00:42:55,021 --> 00:42:59,233 it's not only for the hell they get, 910 00:42:59,233 --> 00:43:05,691 but it's for what they could have had. 911 00:43:05,691 --> 00:43:10,977 I imagine that Jesus Christ 912 00:43:10,977 --> 00:43:15,117 will be the most fearful object imaginable 913 00:43:15,117 --> 00:43:20,400 to those who are being cast away. 914 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:21,521 Think with me. 915 00:43:21,521 --> 00:43:23,266 Can you imagine if it's you 916 00:43:23,266 --> 00:43:25,714 that comes there on that day? 917 00:43:25,714 --> 00:43:29,104 And Jesus says, "Depart." 918 00:43:29,104 --> 00:43:31,093 But you see there were other people, 919 00:43:31,093 --> 00:43:34,751 other people just like you with the same sins. 920 00:43:34,751 --> 00:43:39,640 And Jesus is smiling at them. 921 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:45,670 And even as fearful and terrible as He is to you, 922 00:43:45,670 --> 00:43:47,519 you'll recognize immediately 923 00:43:47,519 --> 00:43:49,692 there is such glory, 924 00:43:49,692 --> 00:43:54,366 there is such beauty, 925 00:43:54,366 --> 00:44:01,286 you'll realize these people found the riches of all riches. 926 00:44:01,286 --> 00:44:04,581 They found that which is bringing them 927 00:44:04,581 --> 00:44:08,659 a joy; they have glory that is everlasting. 928 00:44:08,659 --> 00:44:11,470 An eternal weight of glory. 929 00:44:11,470 --> 00:44:14,208 You will see what you could have had. 930 00:44:14,208 --> 00:44:17,015 It was offered to you. 931 00:44:17,015 --> 00:44:19,675 And the thing is, 932 00:44:19,675 --> 00:44:22,482 if you're told to depart, 933 00:44:22,482 --> 00:44:23,935 you'll not be able to say, 934 00:44:23,935 --> 00:44:27,142 mom, dad, it was your fault. 935 00:44:27,142 --> 00:44:29,876 My friend that sat next to me, 936 00:44:29,876 --> 00:44:34,490 distracted me, we walked out that night 937 00:44:34,490 --> 00:44:36,969 and immediately... 938 00:44:36,969 --> 00:44:39,126 you know what? 939 00:44:39,126 --> 00:44:43,909 Every sinner that rejects Christ 940 00:44:43,909 --> 00:44:50,403 and finds destruction in the end... 941 00:44:50,403 --> 00:44:51,868 one of the reasons to weep is 942 00:44:51,868 --> 00:44:56,380 because you will know it was all your fault. 943 00:44:56,380 --> 00:45:01,047 You'll only have yourself to blame. 944 00:45:01,047 --> 00:45:03,386 What misery. 945 00:45:03,386 --> 00:45:11,245 You were the cause of your own spiritual suicide. 946 00:45:11,245 --> 00:45:14,992 You did it to yourself. 947 00:45:14,992 --> 00:45:22,024 When life was offered to you, 948 00:45:22,024 --> 00:45:28,962 you willingly and freely chose to reject it. 949 00:45:28,962 --> 00:45:34,236 What weeping, what bitter sorrow. 950 00:45:34,236 --> 00:45:38,910 Jesus Christ went to that cross 951 00:45:38,910 --> 00:45:41,509 and He suffered the very wrath. 952 00:45:41,509 --> 00:45:44,779 He suffered that destruction 953 00:45:44,779 --> 00:45:46,770 to open a way. 954 00:45:46,770 --> 00:45:48,469 Yes, it's narrow. 955 00:45:48,469 --> 00:45:50,678 But like I said before, 956 00:45:50,678 --> 00:45:53,508 so what? 957 00:45:53,508 --> 00:46:01,686 If it will get you to heaven, who cares? 958 00:46:01,686 --> 00:46:05,101 He suffered the wrath of God, 959 00:46:05,101 --> 00:46:08,203 that you might have life 960 00:46:08,203 --> 00:46:11,455 and have it more abundantly. 961 00:46:11,455 --> 00:46:14,173 Today is the day of salvation. 962 00:46:14,173 --> 00:46:15,482 Don't put it off. 963 00:46:15,482 --> 00:46:19,472 You don't know if you have tomorrow. 964 00:46:19,472 --> 00:46:21,224 And I have seen it. 965 00:46:21,224 --> 00:46:23,886 God is in the business of, 966 00:46:23,886 --> 00:46:27,786 oftentimes, letting people hear the truth, 967 00:46:27,786 --> 00:46:29,585 hear the message of life, 968 00:46:29,585 --> 00:46:34,042 right before He cuts them off. 969 00:46:34,042 --> 00:46:35,418 Lots of people... 970 00:46:35,418 --> 00:46:40,852 That step-dad I told you about... 971 00:46:40,852 --> 00:46:42,615 God brought him and sat him 972 00:46:42,615 --> 00:46:46,139 under the Gospel, 973 00:46:46,139 --> 00:46:49,964 he had a heart attack. 974 00:46:49,964 --> 00:46:51,923 Then he had a stroke. 975 00:46:51,923 --> 00:46:53,119 Then he had cancer. 976 00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:54,753 Then he was dead. 977 00:46:54,753 --> 00:47:01,172 And he rejected all the way to the end. 978 00:47:01,172 --> 00:47:04,419 I have preached a number of times 979 00:47:04,419 --> 00:47:07,303 to people - 980 00:47:07,303 --> 00:47:14,652 within two weeks, a month, they were dead. 981 00:47:14,652 --> 00:47:17,704 The Lord is very merciful to let you hear 982 00:47:17,704 --> 00:47:21,004 a word of truth and a message of life. 983 00:47:21,004 --> 00:47:25,410 Jesus Christ says to you right now, 984 00:47:25,410 --> 00:47:32,479 "Follow Me." 985 00:47:32,479 --> 00:47:34,409 You say how do I do that? 986 00:47:34,409 --> 00:47:35,580 I can't see Him. 987 00:47:35,580 --> 00:47:36,683 You call unto Him. 988 00:47:36,683 --> 00:47:37,962 You cry out to Him. 989 00:47:37,962 --> 00:47:39,941 You say that sounds like a sinner's prayer. 990 00:47:39,941 --> 00:47:41,481 No, I'm not talking about 991 00:47:41,481 --> 00:47:43,484 any little formula that you do. 992 00:47:43,484 --> 00:47:46,251 I'm talking about if you're sitting there today 993 00:47:46,251 --> 00:47:49,334 and you realize that you're not a good person. 994 00:47:49,334 --> 00:47:51,222 He came to seek and save. 995 00:47:51,222 --> 00:47:57,258 You know why this narrow way is hard? 996 00:47:57,258 --> 00:47:59,846 Because people that go in there 997 00:47:59,846 --> 00:48:02,822 realize they deserve hell, 998 00:48:02,822 --> 00:48:04,953 they realize they're bad people, 999 00:48:04,953 --> 00:48:07,424 and they realize they've got a ton of sin 1000 00:48:07,424 --> 00:48:09,286 that reaches up to heaven 1001 00:48:09,286 --> 00:48:10,829 and screams against them. 1002 00:48:10,829 --> 00:48:12,327 And they go in that way 1003 00:48:12,327 --> 00:48:14,138 no matter how hard it is 1004 00:48:14,138 --> 00:48:16,426 because that is the way where Christ is 1005 00:48:16,426 --> 00:48:17,677 and they need Him 1006 00:48:17,677 --> 00:48:20,105 and they see in Him a suitable Savior. 1007 00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:21,776 You know why that way is so easy? 1008 00:48:21,776 --> 00:48:23,732 Because the people that are on it, 1009 00:48:23,732 --> 00:48:24,705 if you ask them, 1010 00:48:24,705 --> 00:48:25,837 are you good people? 1011 00:48:25,837 --> 00:48:27,865 Yeah, we're all just a bunch of good old boys. 1012 00:48:27,865 --> 00:48:30,691 We're good people. 1013 00:48:30,691 --> 00:48:32,764 Of course, Christ is going to accept us 1014 00:48:32,764 --> 00:48:33,711 in the end. 1015 00:48:33,711 --> 00:48:34,989 They're good people. 1016 00:48:34,989 --> 00:48:36,417 But let me tell you this, 1017 00:48:36,417 --> 00:48:38,230 the Spirit of God came into this world 1018 00:48:38,230 --> 00:48:43,085 to convince and convict men of sin. 1019 00:48:43,085 --> 00:48:47,346 And convince you that your righteousness is rags. 1020 00:48:47,346 --> 00:48:49,522 It is filthy in God's sight. 1021 00:48:49,522 --> 00:48:51,240 You have nothing to offer Him, 1022 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:52,771 no matter how good you've been, 1023 00:48:52,771 --> 00:48:57,799 it's been so plagued and so corrupted by sin 1024 00:48:57,799 --> 00:49:02,340 that God cannot look at it, cannot stand it, 1025 00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:04,518 God cannot accept it. 1026 00:49:04,518 --> 00:49:06,212 And you deserve hell. 1027 00:49:06,212 --> 00:49:07,541 You deserve it. 1028 00:49:07,541 --> 00:49:08,817 Listen. 1029 00:49:08,817 --> 00:49:10,665 One thing nobody's going to argue 1030 00:49:10,665 --> 00:49:13,385 that goes and ends up in destruction in the end. 1031 00:49:13,385 --> 00:49:14,748 Nobody is going to argue 1032 00:49:14,748 --> 00:49:16,543 the fact that they deserve to be there. 1033 00:49:16,543 --> 00:49:18,736 But I'll tell you before they get there, 1034 00:49:18,736 --> 00:49:20,232 before judgment day, 1035 00:49:20,232 --> 00:49:22,326 that way is so easy 1036 00:49:22,326 --> 00:49:26,656 because people think, "I don't deserve hell." 1037 00:49:26,656 --> 00:49:29,487 "I'm a pretty good person." 1038 00:49:29,487 --> 00:49:32,672 Think with me about the answer. 1039 00:49:32,672 --> 00:49:34,205 We asked this girl, 1040 00:49:34,205 --> 00:49:36,478 "are you going to heaven?" 1041 00:49:36,478 --> 00:49:41,483 "Well, I sing for the church choir." 1042 00:49:41,483 --> 00:49:44,857 That's not what we asked you. 1043 00:49:44,857 --> 00:49:48,783 But you see, people on that road... 1044 00:49:48,783 --> 00:49:52,410 Of course, if I sing in the church choir, 1045 00:49:52,410 --> 00:49:55,525 I'm a good person. 1046 00:49:55,525 --> 00:49:57,610 It's just easy. 1047 00:49:57,610 --> 00:50:00,598 It's just like a flowing river. 1048 00:50:00,598 --> 00:50:04,226 You just flop in there 1049 00:50:04,226 --> 00:50:07,259 and you go with the flow. 1050 00:50:07,259 --> 00:50:08,838 This way's hard 1051 00:50:08,838 --> 00:50:11,577 because you're going against the stream all the time. 1052 00:50:11,577 --> 00:50:13,481 You're going up river. 1053 00:50:13,481 --> 00:50:15,105 You're going against the world, 1054 00:50:15,105 --> 00:50:16,720 you're going against everybody around you, 1055 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:17,897 people in your family, 1056 00:50:17,897 --> 00:50:20,614 people that were your friends... 1057 00:50:20,614 --> 00:50:22,996 they suddenly don't want to be your friends anymore. 1058 00:50:22,996 --> 00:50:24,089 Why? 1059 00:50:24,089 --> 00:50:26,054 Because you love what they hate, 1060 00:50:26,054 --> 00:50:28,175 you hate what they love. 1061 00:50:28,175 --> 00:50:30,092 And they don't want to run with you anymore. 1062 00:50:30,092 --> 00:50:31,531 That's what happened to me. 1063 00:50:31,531 --> 00:50:33,040 You ask most of these guys out here 1064 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,333 that have been converted. 1065 00:50:34,333 --> 00:50:35,930 That happened to them. 1066 00:50:35,930 --> 00:50:38,258 You don't run with the same crowd anymore. 1067 00:50:38,258 --> 00:50:44,341 But if you're sitting here today 1068 00:50:44,341 --> 00:50:49,203 and you have a sense, 1069 00:50:49,203 --> 00:50:51,245 what this guy's saying is right. 1070 00:50:51,245 --> 00:50:52,130 I do deserve hell. 1071 00:50:52,130 --> 00:50:54,907 I know it. 1072 00:50:54,907 --> 00:50:57,411 I've done enough things in my life 1073 00:50:57,411 --> 00:51:02,501 to warrant hell a hundred times over. 1074 00:51:02,501 --> 00:51:06,662 You realize that unless you find a Savior, 1075 00:51:06,662 --> 00:51:09,544 that's exactly where you're headed. 1076 00:51:09,544 --> 00:51:11,489 You see, there is a picture 1077 00:51:11,489 --> 00:51:13,547 in the Scriptures of a man, 1078 00:51:13,547 --> 00:51:15,628 he wouldn't even look to heaven. 1079 00:51:15,628 --> 00:51:18,832 And he beat on his breast. 1080 00:51:18,832 --> 00:51:24,891 He said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." 1081 00:51:24,891 --> 00:51:28,067 Jesus said that man went home justified. 1082 00:51:28,067 --> 00:51:29,545 You know what that means? 1083 00:51:29,545 --> 00:51:30,827 It means that he went home 1084 00:51:30,827 --> 00:51:33,240 declared righteous. 1085 00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:35,498 He went home saved. 1086 00:51:35,498 --> 00:51:40,981 He went home on the narrow way. 1087 00:51:40,981 --> 00:51:42,724 But you get in there not by saying 1088 00:51:42,724 --> 00:51:45,334 I'm a pretty good person, 1089 00:51:45,334 --> 00:51:48,132 I say my little sinner's prayer. 1090 00:51:48,132 --> 00:51:49,407 Nope. 1091 00:51:49,407 --> 00:51:52,576 If that's all that's happened to you, you're on this way. 1092 00:51:52,576 --> 00:51:54,070 And I'll tell you, get off. 1093 00:51:54,070 --> 00:51:55,872 Because you're in the flow, you're in the current, 1094 00:51:55,872 --> 00:51:57,460 you're going to perish in the end. 1095 00:51:57,460 --> 00:51:59,061 You say, well, I've never heard that before. 1096 00:51:59,061 --> 00:52:01,365 It doesn't matter if you've heard that before. 1097 00:52:01,365 --> 00:52:02,666 This is what the Scripture says. 1098 00:52:02,666 --> 00:52:04,152 You need to search it for yourself. 1099 00:52:04,152 --> 00:52:05,987 You need to read Luke 13. 1100 00:52:05,987 --> 00:52:07,152 Read Luke 14. 1101 00:52:07,152 --> 00:52:08,840 Read Matthew 7. 1102 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,193 This is what Christ is saying in the Word of God. 1103 00:52:12,193 --> 00:52:13,786 Read Luke 19. 1104 00:52:13,786 --> 00:52:16,773 This is what He's saying. 1105 00:52:16,773 --> 00:52:18,627 The Bible says you're going to have 1106 00:52:18,627 --> 00:52:20,336 all sorts of people that are going to 1107 00:52:20,336 --> 00:52:22,328 come and tickle your ears. 1108 00:52:22,328 --> 00:52:24,388 The world is full of ear ticklers 1109 00:52:24,388 --> 00:52:28,001 that are going to tell you the way to heaven is easy. 1110 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:29,435 But if they tell you that, 1111 00:52:29,435 --> 00:52:30,989 then be certain, 1112 00:52:30,989 --> 00:52:32,445 what they're really doing is 1113 00:52:32,445 --> 00:52:35,160 they're trying to put you on the broad way. 1114 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,253 They're just lying to you. 1115 00:52:38,253 --> 00:52:40,809 They're deceiving you. 1116 00:52:40,809 --> 00:52:43,116 And they're destroying you. 1117 00:52:43,116 --> 00:52:49,385 And it sounds good; it sounds easy. 1118 00:52:49,385 --> 00:52:54,071 But in the end, there will be hell to pay. 1119 00:52:54,071 --> 00:52:57,880 I bid you, come. 1120 00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,407 Come with me. 1121 00:52:59,407 --> 00:53:04,893 Twenty years ago, Jesus bid me come. 1122 00:53:04,893 --> 00:53:06,784 And I knew it. 1123 00:53:06,784 --> 00:53:09,530 I was going to be destroyed. 1124 00:53:09,530 --> 00:53:11,835 I deserved hell. I knew it. 1125 00:53:11,835 --> 00:53:16,970 My sin was so wicked and so vile. 1126 00:53:16,970 --> 00:53:19,360 I knew I wasn't good. 1127 00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,624 And I heard His voice. 1128 00:53:21,624 --> 00:53:23,272 It said, "Come." 1129 00:53:23,272 --> 00:53:25,919 And I'll tell you this, 1130 00:53:25,919 --> 00:53:28,726 has it proved hard? 1131 00:53:28,726 --> 00:53:30,444 Yep. Harder than I ever 1132 00:53:30,444 --> 00:53:32,908 could have imagined in the beginning. 1133 00:53:32,908 --> 00:53:35,210 But I'll tell you this, 1134 00:53:35,210 --> 00:53:36,568 though there's few on it, 1135 00:53:36,568 --> 00:53:37,851 there are few on it. 1136 00:53:37,851 --> 00:53:39,855 And so I've found others that are on it! 1137 00:53:39,855 --> 00:53:41,277 And they're like me. 1138 00:53:41,277 --> 00:53:43,680 And you say, well, what, the few of you 1139 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:44,725 you get to go along 1140 00:53:44,725 --> 00:53:46,718 all miserable together on that hard road. 1141 00:53:46,718 --> 00:53:48,914 No, that's not how it is. 1142 00:53:48,914 --> 00:53:51,135 As hard as it is, 1143 00:53:51,135 --> 00:53:54,683 Jesus said, "Follow Me." 1144 00:53:54,683 --> 00:53:57,110 You see, we're following in His footsteps. 1145 00:53:57,110 --> 00:53:58,406 This is the path He took. 1146 00:53:58,406 --> 00:54:00,217 And He promised to be with us. 1147 00:54:00,217 --> 00:54:01,619 And He gives us joy. 1148 00:54:01,619 --> 00:54:03,318 And though life here is hard, 1149 00:54:03,318 --> 00:54:07,542 it's full of joy, it's full of hope, 1150 00:54:07,542 --> 00:54:14,803 it's full of many glorious realities. 1151 00:54:14,803 --> 00:54:17,895 And in the end, 1152 00:54:17,895 --> 00:54:20,542 we get Christ. 1153 00:54:20,542 --> 00:54:22,154 And we get to be like Him, 1154 00:54:22,154 --> 00:54:23,593 and we get paradise, 1155 00:54:23,593 --> 00:54:24,888 and we get joy, 1156 00:54:24,888 --> 00:54:26,045 and we get to shine 1157 00:54:26,045 --> 00:54:29,156 like the sun at noontime, 1158 00:54:29,156 --> 00:54:31,693 in the Kingdom of our Father. 1159 00:54:31,693 --> 00:54:35,665 We get such glories called in the Bible 1160 00:54:35,665 --> 00:54:38,301 an eternal weight of glory. 1161 00:54:38,301 --> 00:54:42,207 We get the riches of Christ. 1162 00:54:42,207 --> 00:54:45,108 We are heirs to the most glorious 1163 00:54:45,108 --> 00:54:47,215 fortune ever. 1164 00:54:47,215 --> 00:54:49,703 And I'm not talking in a worldly sense. 1165 00:54:49,703 --> 00:54:53,454 And I'm not the one calling this place paradise. 1166 00:54:53,454 --> 00:54:54,804 Jesus called it that. 1167 00:54:54,804 --> 00:54:57,827 And if anybody knows the right assessment of things, 1168 00:54:57,827 --> 00:54:59,065 like I said before, 1169 00:54:59,065 --> 00:55:00,871 if anybody can answer the questions, 1170 00:55:00,871 --> 00:55:04,525 He can. 1171 00:55:04,525 --> 00:55:06,916 Listen. 1172 00:55:06,916 --> 00:55:12,063 If you find that this resonates with you. 1173 00:55:12,063 --> 00:55:14,056 You're saying yes, this is what I need. 1174 00:55:14,056 --> 00:55:17,030 Don't go out of this place tonight 1175 00:55:17,030 --> 00:55:19,095 and go shake it off 1176 00:55:19,095 --> 00:55:21,002 and go be foolish with your friends. 1177 00:55:21,002 --> 00:55:22,976 I mean get serious with the Lord. 1178 00:55:22,976 --> 00:55:24,959 Do business with the Lord. 1179 00:55:24,959 --> 00:55:26,695 You go find someplace, 1180 00:55:26,695 --> 00:55:28,065 and you cry out to Him. 1181 00:55:28,065 --> 00:55:29,980 Do it right where you sit right now. 1182 00:55:29,980 --> 00:55:32,019 Plead with Him, "God save me! 1183 00:55:32,019 --> 00:55:34,016 I see myself to be like that. 1184 00:55:34,016 --> 00:55:35,735 I don't care how hard the way is. 1185 00:55:35,735 --> 00:55:38,355 I need to be saved." 1186 00:55:38,355 --> 00:55:39,405 And I'll tell you, 1187 00:55:39,405 --> 00:55:41,190 as hard as it is, 1188 00:55:41,190 --> 00:55:43,753 Jesus is tender. 1189 00:55:43,753 --> 00:55:45,930 And He's compassionate. 1190 00:55:45,930 --> 00:55:48,543 And it's only hard because as He 1191 00:55:48,543 --> 00:55:52,251 strips us of our sin, it hurts. 1192 00:55:52,251 --> 00:55:56,207 And as He smashes our pride, it's painful. 1193 00:55:56,207 --> 00:56:01,110 And as He molds us, 1194 00:56:01,110 --> 00:56:04,044 and causes us to take on more and more 1195 00:56:04,044 --> 00:56:06,927 of the image of His glory, 1196 00:56:06,927 --> 00:56:09,507 He has to shatter us, 1197 00:56:09,507 --> 00:56:11,281 and break us, 1198 00:56:11,281 --> 00:56:12,763 and crush us, 1199 00:56:12,763 --> 00:56:14,959 and it hurts. 1200 00:56:14,959 --> 00:56:16,951 It hurts. 1201 00:56:16,951 --> 00:56:18,382 But it's good. 1202 00:56:18,382 --> 00:56:21,083 He wounds us that He might heal us. 1203 00:56:21,083 --> 00:56:22,600 But it's good. 1204 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,479 Because what He really wants to do 1205 00:56:24,479 --> 00:56:28,335 is work righteousness in us. 1206 00:56:28,335 --> 00:56:32,699 He wants to present us blameless 1207 00:56:32,699 --> 00:56:36,162 and spotless as a bride for Himself 1208 00:56:36,162 --> 00:56:38,509 in that day. 1209 00:56:38,509 --> 00:56:43,992 At the end of that narrow way is glory. 1210 00:56:43,992 --> 00:56:45,956 And you know what? 1211 00:56:45,956 --> 00:56:50,997 The hard way - it's only for a little while. 1212 00:56:50,997 --> 00:56:53,526 And then the glory beyond it is forever. 1213 00:56:53,526 --> 00:56:56,960 The easy way - that, too, is only for a little while. 1214 00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,985 It's only easy for a little while. 1215 00:57:00,985 --> 00:57:05,058 In the end, it gets real hard. 1216 00:57:05,058 --> 00:57:10,052 Destruction. 1217 00:57:10,052 --> 00:57:17,539 And I'll just leave you with this thought: 1218 00:57:17,539 --> 00:57:26,403 The Bible says that God is not partial. 1219 00:57:26,403 --> 00:57:31,543 That's an important word to leave you with. 1220 00:57:31,543 --> 00:57:33,041 You know why? 1221 00:57:33,041 --> 00:57:38,541 Because you are partial. 1222 00:57:38,541 --> 00:57:42,602 Let me explain. 1223 00:57:42,602 --> 00:57:44,877 You think much more highly of yourself 1224 00:57:44,877 --> 00:57:48,912 typically than you ought. 1225 00:57:48,912 --> 00:57:51,359 Most of us can easily find fault 1226 00:57:51,359 --> 00:57:52,961 with others, 1227 00:57:52,961 --> 00:57:54,807 but when the same fault's in ourselves, 1228 00:57:54,807 --> 00:57:57,604 we don't see it near as well, right? 1229 00:57:57,604 --> 00:57:59,504 You know why that is? 1230 00:57:59,504 --> 00:58:01,558 We're partial. 1231 00:58:01,558 --> 00:58:07,139 We're partial to ourselves. 1232 00:58:07,139 --> 00:58:08,382 Let me tell you something, 1233 00:58:08,382 --> 00:58:11,480 God is not partial. 1234 00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:15,235 You would never throw you into hell. 1235 00:58:15,235 --> 00:58:17,668 And by the way, that word "throw." 1236 00:58:17,668 --> 00:58:20,673 It's in the Bible. 1237 00:58:20,673 --> 00:58:27,417 God throws people into hell. 1238 00:58:27,417 --> 00:58:29,560 You say, I would never throw me into hell. 1239 00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:34,386 That's because you're partial. 1240 00:58:34,386 --> 00:58:38,192 If you find yourself on judgment day 1241 00:58:38,192 --> 00:58:41,238 outside of Christ, 1242 00:58:41,238 --> 00:58:43,606 no matter how much you love you, 1243 00:58:43,606 --> 00:58:47,440 God will throw you into that lake of fire. 1244 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:54,491 He is not partial. 1245 00:58:54,491 --> 00:58:58,954 But you don't need to be there on that day 1246 00:58:58,954 --> 00:59:03,219 without Christ. 1247 00:59:03,219 --> 00:59:07,045 He bids you this very day, 1248 00:59:07,045 --> 00:59:09,427 Come unto Me, 1249 00:59:09,427 --> 00:59:11,811 you that labor and are heavy laden 1250 00:59:11,811 --> 00:59:14,869 under your sin. 1251 00:59:14,869 --> 00:59:17,064 Come unto Me. 1252 00:59:17,064 --> 00:59:19,674 And I will give you rest. 1253 00:59:19,674 --> 00:59:21,426 Is the way hard that leads to life? 1254 00:59:21,426 --> 00:59:22,994 Yes. 1255 00:59:22,994 --> 00:59:26,383 But it's a restful way. 1256 00:59:26,383 --> 00:59:31,541 Those two may seem at odds with each other, 1257 00:59:31,541 --> 00:59:33,450 but they're not. 1258 00:59:33,450 --> 00:59:37,319 You can be in a hard place 1259 00:59:37,319 --> 00:59:40,336 and be at rest. 1260 00:59:40,336 --> 00:59:42,971 You know why? 1261 00:59:42,971 --> 00:59:45,340 Because you can be fighting with sin, 1262 00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:49,016 and fighting with the devil, 1263 00:59:49,016 --> 00:59:53,724 and still feel the guilt of all my sin 1264 00:59:53,724 --> 00:59:58,793 lifted off and laid on Christ. 1265 00:59:58,793 --> 01:00:01,263 You can still battle 1266 01:00:01,263 --> 01:00:05,341 and feel the freedom of my sin, 1267 01:00:05,341 --> 01:00:08,852 not in part but the whole 1268 01:00:08,852 --> 01:00:11,021 is nailed to that cross 1269 01:00:11,021 --> 01:00:13,486 and I bear it no more. 1270 01:00:13,486 --> 01:00:15,533 Praise the Lord, 1271 01:00:15,533 --> 01:00:21,797 Praise the Lord. 1272 01:00:21,797 --> 01:00:23,266 May God help you.