1 00:00:03,211 --> 00:00:05,565 If I were to open this door right now 2 00:00:05,565 --> 00:00:08,363 and take you out there, 3 00:00:08,363 --> 00:00:14,007 and I was to show you 4 00:00:14,007 --> 00:00:18,280 what is described in the book of Revelation 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,683 where it talks about the wrath of God Almighty. 6 00:00:21,683 --> 00:00:24,452 It talks about the smoke of their torment 7 00:00:24,452 --> 00:00:26,471 going up forever and ever in the presence 8 00:00:26,471 --> 00:00:28,467 of the Lamb. 9 00:00:28,467 --> 00:00:29,903 If I could take you out there 10 00:00:29,903 --> 00:00:33,279 and I could show you a picture of the lake of fire 11 00:00:33,279 --> 00:00:35,849 as it's described in Revelation 20 12 00:00:35,849 --> 00:00:39,080 on that day when the books are opened; 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,599 if I could show you the many multitudes 14 00:00:41,599 --> 00:00:46,092 who are going to be frantically crying out, 15 00:00:46,092 --> 00:00:49,282 "Lord! Lord!" 16 00:00:49,282 --> 00:00:51,417 They already know something's wrong. 17 00:00:51,417 --> 00:00:56,148 Most of them came out of a holding place 18 00:00:56,148 --> 00:00:57,734 of the damned. 19 00:00:57,734 --> 00:01:00,690 They have been kept in chains 20 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:02,281 for that day of judgment. 21 00:01:02,281 --> 00:01:04,572 They already know something is wrong. 22 00:01:04,572 --> 00:01:06,586 They are not in paradise. 23 00:01:06,586 --> 00:01:11,054 They already know. 24 00:01:11,054 --> 00:01:13,948 But it's like one last, frantic plea: 25 00:01:13,948 --> 00:01:17,391 "Lord! Lord!" 26 00:01:17,391 --> 00:01:21,906 They're trying to reason. 27 00:01:21,906 --> 00:01:26,560 They're trying to find some way 28 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,779 to reason with the Lord 29 00:01:28,779 --> 00:01:32,366 to not ultimately cast them into that lake of fire. 30 00:01:32,366 --> 00:01:34,440 If I could take us all out there, 31 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,448 and we could look at it and we could see 32 00:01:36,448 --> 00:01:40,312 what the judgment of the damned 33 00:01:40,312 --> 00:01:43,751 really looks like. 34 00:01:43,751 --> 00:01:50,416 If you could know it the way it really is. 35 00:01:50,416 --> 00:01:54,892 What would your approach be towards the lost 36 00:01:54,892 --> 00:01:57,081 Now? 37 00:01:57,081 --> 00:01:59,144 Let me tell you something, 38 00:01:59,144 --> 00:02:02,018 if I could take you out that door right now 39 00:02:02,018 --> 00:02:05,557 and take you into Isaiah 6 40 00:02:05,557 --> 00:02:10,666 into the temple the day that Isaiah went there 41 00:02:10,666 --> 00:02:14,789 in the year that King Uzziah died, 42 00:02:14,789 --> 00:02:17,097 when he saw the Lord high and lifted up 43 00:02:17,097 --> 00:02:20,536 and His train filled the temple 44 00:02:20,536 --> 00:02:24,739 and the place was full of smoke 45 00:02:24,739 --> 00:02:27,020 and it was like an earthquake in the place; 46 00:02:27,020 --> 00:02:29,440 the doorposts trembled at the sound 47 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,021 coming from the seraphim as they cried out, 48 00:02:33,021 --> 00:02:36,751 "Holy, holy, holy." 49 00:02:36,751 --> 00:02:39,968 And this man was seized with fear. 50 00:02:39,968 --> 00:02:41,341 The prophet. 51 00:02:41,341 --> 00:02:43,013 And he fell on his face, 52 00:02:43,013 --> 00:02:45,027 and he cried out, "Woe is me." 53 00:02:45,027 --> 00:02:47,311 If I could take you right now 54 00:02:47,311 --> 00:02:50,417 and show you the vision of Christ 55 00:02:50,417 --> 00:02:52,983 exalted in His glory like that, 56 00:02:52,983 --> 00:02:54,997 and then come back here and sit down 57 00:02:54,997 --> 00:02:57,192 you would be in stunned silence. 58 00:02:57,192 --> 00:02:59,043 Some of you would be weeping. 59 00:02:59,043 --> 00:03:00,555 Some of you would be shouting 60 00:03:00,555 --> 00:03:02,150 in absolute terror. 61 00:03:02,150 --> 00:03:04,019 Some of you not even seeing it anymore 62 00:03:04,019 --> 00:03:06,240 would just be on your face, 63 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:13,272 and I don't think you would move for a day or two. 64 00:03:13,272 --> 00:03:16,805 If I could take you out that door right now, 65 00:03:16,805 --> 00:03:18,965 and I could show you the fullness 66 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:21,367 of what Paul meant when he said 67 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:27,641 an eternal weight of glory. 68 00:03:27,641 --> 00:03:29,832 If I could take you out that door right now 69 00:03:29,832 --> 00:03:32,957 and show you 70 00:03:32,957 --> 00:03:37,308 you, yourself... 71 00:03:37,308 --> 00:03:39,724 from a camera's perspective; 72 00:03:39,724 --> 00:03:41,683 a third person perspective; 73 00:03:41,683 --> 00:03:45,107 if I could show you what it will look like 74 00:03:45,107 --> 00:03:50,317 when it's your turn at the judgment bar. 75 00:03:50,317 --> 00:03:52,338 That's reality. 76 00:03:52,338 --> 00:03:53,760 The moment's going to come 77 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,840 when your name will be called. 78 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,157 If I could take you out that door right now 79 00:03:58,157 --> 00:03:59,880 and show you that moment 80 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,875 as it really will be in that day... 81 00:04:04,875 --> 00:04:07,857 Brethren, C.S. Lewis in some small way, 82 00:04:07,857 --> 00:04:15,209 he captured in one of his stories, 83 00:04:15,209 --> 00:04:25,435 there is a cabbie from the 1800's or so, 84 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:31,776 he drove a cab that was drawn by a horse, 85 00:04:31,776 --> 00:04:34,098 and he was pulled into Narnia in the 86 00:04:34,098 --> 00:04:36,876 day of Creation. 87 00:04:36,876 --> 00:04:38,606 And as he saw it, 88 00:04:38,606 --> 00:04:41,645 he said this, 89 00:04:41,645 --> 00:04:43,654 "If I'd have known such things, 90 00:04:43,654 --> 00:04:46,103 I would have been a different man." 91 00:04:46,103 --> 00:04:48,181 If I'd known such things were true, 92 00:04:48,181 --> 00:04:50,378 were real, existed... 93 00:04:50,378 --> 00:04:53,866 let me tell you, 94 00:04:53,866 --> 00:04:56,037 the things I'm describing to you 95 00:04:56,037 --> 00:05:00,244 about your judgment, 96 00:05:00,244 --> 00:05:03,848 it's appointed unto every one of us 97 00:05:03,848 --> 00:05:06,399 to appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 98 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:10,055 That includes the Christian. 99 00:05:10,055 --> 00:05:13,802 What I described to you about the lake of fire, 100 00:05:13,802 --> 00:05:17,121 about the wrath of God Almighty, 101 00:05:17,121 --> 00:05:20,251 about the way Christ appeared in Isaiah 6, 102 00:05:20,251 --> 00:05:22,885 this is truth. 103 00:05:22,885 --> 00:05:24,657 Eternal weight of glory. 104 00:05:24,657 --> 00:05:27,674 If I could show you right now 105 00:05:27,674 --> 00:05:32,349 what Jesus Christ actually meant by 106 00:05:32,349 --> 00:05:34,199 treasure in heaven; 107 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:36,201 when He said don't lay up for yourselves 108 00:05:36,201 --> 00:05:37,644 treasures on this earth, 109 00:05:37,644 --> 00:05:40,313 but lay up treasure in heaven. 110 00:05:40,313 --> 00:05:43,804 If you could see what that actually was, 111 00:05:43,804 --> 00:05:46,866 you would give everything away. 112 00:05:46,866 --> 00:05:50,664 Everyone in this room would become that 113 00:05:50,664 --> 00:05:54,653 poor widow who gave her last two mites. 114 00:05:54,653 --> 00:05:57,613 If you saw what the treasure was, 115 00:05:57,613 --> 00:06:00,476 you would give everything. 116 00:06:00,476 --> 00:06:05,083 If you saw how short life is, 117 00:06:05,083 --> 00:06:08,185 and how you live will have mattered in that day, 118 00:06:08,185 --> 00:06:10,470 Jesus Christ said in Luke 14, 119 00:06:10,470 --> 00:06:12,549 when you have a meal, 120 00:06:12,549 --> 00:06:14,649 don't invite your neighbor 121 00:06:14,649 --> 00:06:17,234 and your wealthy relative and so on, 122 00:06:17,234 --> 00:06:20,303 He said, invite the lame and the maimed 123 00:06:20,303 --> 00:06:22,732 and the halt and the blind. 124 00:06:22,732 --> 00:06:27,778 He said you will be rewarded in the day of resurrection. 125 00:06:27,778 --> 00:06:31,991 If you could see what the rewards were like, 126 00:06:31,991 --> 00:06:34,151 I am absolutely convinced, 127 00:06:34,151 --> 00:06:37,089 if you could see what you will feel 128 00:06:37,089 --> 00:06:38,799 when you look at Christ, 129 00:06:38,799 --> 00:06:42,703 to know how much of your life you wasted, 130 00:06:42,703 --> 00:06:46,436 how much of it you could have had eternal reward for, 131 00:06:46,436 --> 00:06:48,791 but you wasted it. 132 00:06:48,791 --> 00:06:53,120 If I could show you how things really are... 133 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,969 but brethren, here's the thing, 134 00:06:54,969 --> 00:06:56,895 the Word of God does show us 135 00:06:56,895 --> 00:06:58,656 how things really are. 136 00:06:58,656 --> 00:07:01,945 The problem is not that you have not been shown 137 00:07:01,945 --> 00:07:03,944 how things really are, 138 00:07:03,944 --> 00:07:05,984 but the problem is we're too much 139 00:07:05,984 --> 00:07:07,313 like the disciples. 140 00:07:07,313 --> 00:07:09,930 See, the disciples had it told to them 141 00:07:09,930 --> 00:07:12,765 who Christ really was. 142 00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:14,980 And yet, in the face of a storm, 143 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:17,234 they forget who He really was. 144 00:07:17,234 --> 00:07:19,730 It wasn't until they saw by sight 145 00:07:19,730 --> 00:07:22,359 the storm stifled that they fell down 146 00:07:22,359 --> 00:07:23,721 and they worshipped Him. 147 00:07:23,721 --> 00:07:25,661 But the fact is, what was true about Him 148 00:07:25,661 --> 00:07:28,480 was true whether they saw the storm cease or not. 149 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,780 The point is this, 150 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:32,296 what is true about the treasure in heaven 151 00:07:32,296 --> 00:07:34,402 is true whether I can take you out that door 152 00:07:34,402 --> 00:07:36,559 to look at it or not. 153 00:07:36,559 --> 00:07:40,960 It's true.