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Is there anybody here

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that you expect that when you die,

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you will end up in hell?

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Is there anybody here

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that thinks that when you die

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that you be cast into hell?

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Nobody thinks that.

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(to person in audience) You think that.

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You expect to go to hell.

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Do you want to go there?

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But you expect to.

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Is there anybody here that

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has ever believed they were going to hell

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even though now they 
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Yeah, that would be me.

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Do you think that is normal?

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Do you think it is normal that people

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don't think they're headed there

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who really are,

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who then come to realize that they are,

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and then they're saved and they don't?

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Does that make any sense or 
does that totally confuse you?

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(unintelligible)

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Let me ask this:

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Do you think it's common

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that people who are very much lost

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and headed there think they're not?

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(unintelligible)

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Right. But give me a Scripture

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that would tend to lead us to believe

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that people by the multitudes

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think things are okay when they're not.

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Matthew 7 would definitely be one place.

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But Matthew 7 is one that 
we talk about a lot.

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And I mean for a reason.

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It has some really powerful truths.

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But prove it from somewhere else.

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(unintelligible)

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There's a way that seems right to man

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but the end is not so nice. Right?

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Yeah, and that's a good text.

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Was that the one you were thinking about?

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No, you were thinking 
about a different one.

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(unintelligible)

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Right, and do we not 
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the reality that because the punishment

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for people's sins is not 
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men seem to think that punishment

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is never going to come.

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Yeah, men are naturally deceived.

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Most men - in fact, all men -

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you know one thing we know about all men?

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All men fear death.

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No one wants to die.

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Who wants to be thrown 
into a lake of fire?

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Obviously, nobody.

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And you know what the problem is?

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Again, out of Ecclesiastes,

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God has written eternity on men's hearts.

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God has given man a conscience.

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(incomplete thought)

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And you know what Romans 1 says.

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There is no true atheist.

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Men try to suppress truth

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but the problem is they have eyeballs,

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or they have senses

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that tell them that creation

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has God's fingerprints all over it.

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And they have a conscience

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whereby they know right and wrong.

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As shattered as that may be,

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that image of God

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that was first implanted upon man,

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there's vestiges of it.

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And men know and they can't run.

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And death haunts them.

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Men know they're going to die.

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act like they're going to live forever,

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men have a gnawing fear inside.

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And here they are in life,

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and there's a way that seems right.

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In other words, men have a plan.

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Men think that they are 
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that they're going to escape this.

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Every single man desires to miss hell.

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(incomplete thought)

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Now they may try to 
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or they stay here 
with the Jehovah's Witnesses,

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or there is a kingdom, or there is heaven,

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they try to construct something.

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Mormons have all their insanity.

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You've got the paradise of Islam,

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you've got basically nirvana.

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I mean you just reach 
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But anyways, whatever 
it is, it's not hell.

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Men try to construct any way they can

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because everything about hell

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is absolutely hellish.

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Men recoil at everything that hell is.

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But the thing is,

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every single man

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has constructed in his own mind,

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or her own mind some way.

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No man plans to go to hell.

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I guarantee if we could randomly

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take a cross-section of people -

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ethnicity, color, race, economic status -

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and we could resurrect 
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If we could bring up a hundred

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or a thousand people from hell right now,

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I guarantee every one 
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"I never thought to go there.

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I did not believe I would go there."

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And you know what?

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They went there.

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Why? They were dead wrong.

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They were dead wrong.

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They were deceived.

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Men are always thinking,

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somehow I'm going to miss it.

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How do they think to do it?

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One, by constructing religion

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that they think is going to get them -

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whether it's some form 
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or it's some other religion.

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They construct religions

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whereby they think to be moral and good

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and basically please God 
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and thus miss it.

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But you know the vast majority of people

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that have heard of Christ,

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you have to think that 
the way they thought

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they were going to miss it is,

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"I'm going to get right tomorrow." Right?

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It's procrastination. They put it off.

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"I want to live it up now,

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and I'll settle matters...."

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Brethren, you know I'm talking

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to real people here in this room.

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You know this is how we thought.

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I mean I thought,

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with all the wickedness in my life,

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I thought that I was 
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I thought somehow that I was 
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And I realize things 
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but I also had that other idea

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that I'll get it more right tomorrow.

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I mean, one of the things 
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that work over in Turkey told me

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is that you see these nominal Muslims.

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Turkey is vastly populated 
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Very few of them are radical.

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And what the missionaries 
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you know most Muslims get serious

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about their religion when they're old.

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Now you think about why that would be.

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You know why it is?

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Their conscience is telling 
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Now they may be deceived 
about who the real God is,

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and who the real Prophet is,

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but the fact is they have a 
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"You are in trouble."

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And so now when they get older,

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they're making sure they 
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Men never think to go there.

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Or men say this,

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and this kind of goes along with 
constructing their own religion.

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But men basically say this -

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how many people say,

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"Oh, well the Bible says
all I have to do is believe.

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I've called on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The Scripture tells me I'll be saved."

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And yet, they've never 
repented of their sins.

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They've never bowed the knee to Christ.

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And they've got this idea

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that they are forgiven of their sins,

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they've got this idea 
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One of the truths

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that the writers of the New Testament

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try to emphasize as 
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is this reality that if 
you are truly forgiven,

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if you are truly justified,

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if you are truly a Christian,

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if you truly belong to God

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if you're truly heaven bound,

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your life is radically different.

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Doesn't Scripture literally deal 
with that everywhere?

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You know why it does?

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Because men are masters

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at wanting to think

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that they get to heaven

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and keep their sin on the way.

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And they totally forget that 
the way is very narrow.

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And that there are few that are on it.

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Because unless you forsake 
all that you have,

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Jesus keeps you at arm's length.

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You can't come to His side,

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you can't be His disciple,

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you're no follower of His,

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if you think that you're 
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and still enjoy all your sin on the way.

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Hell. Hell is a reality.

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And just like we were talking 
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you know there's people 
in Reformed circles today,

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or at least would 
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that are seeking to dismiss

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the idea of hell.

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And I don't know how I came upon it,

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but something somebody sent me,

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and I think it was actually good stuff,

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but has anyone ever sent you a good video,

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and then you got the 
thumbnails over there,

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and you're like, oh, 
that one interests me.

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I ended up watching something by Rob Bell.

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And he's just putting out a book

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where he said that they had

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some kind of art exhibit at their -

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I don't even want to call it a church -

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but within their gathering

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there in Grand Rapids, Michigan,

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and somebody had done

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a picture of Gandhi.

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And he said somebody came

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and did a handwritten note

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and put it on that picture and said,

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"Why is everybody making a 
big deal out of this picture?

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Gandhi is in hell."

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Well, that just stirred 
Rob Bell to no end.

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Rob Bell is a universalist.

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He thinks everybody's on 
their way to heaven.

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He thinks that it's a strike

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at God's character

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if we would believe in a god

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that puts people in hell.

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And I would say Rob Bell is destroying

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the true character of God,

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by saying that God wouldn't.

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His idea of God is not 
the biblical idea of God.

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But let's think about hell.

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Let's think about what 
Scripture says about it.

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Somebody tell me somewhere in the Bible

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that you can think of

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where something about hell is described.

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(unintelligible)

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Where is it?

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Matthew 25. Well, let's turn there.

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I'll have you guys guide 
me around the Scriptures

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and we'll look at various verses

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that have to do with it.

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And by the way,

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if Jesus is right, and He is -

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few there be that find life.

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Do you know the reality is?

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The reality is it's very likely

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that there are a number of people

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in this room

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that will actually end up in the place

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that we're going to look at.

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You don't think you are.

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But see, you are crafting

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your own means of escaping it.

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And there's only one 
way to escape this place.

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You see, this place

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is that which God created

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to righteously deal with sin.

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It's a place where people rightly suffer

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what their sin deserves

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for assaulting the glory of God

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the way that they do.

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Listen, can I tell you something

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before we look at this Matthew 25 verse?

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I want you to hear 
something very carefully,

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because you know when we talk about hell,

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what happens is, a lot of times,

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people begin to think God's a monster.

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Rob Bell thinks the God

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that will send people 
to hell is a monster.

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But listen, God is no monster.

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The Lord says that God's kindness -

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you know right there in Romans 2

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where it talks about God's fury,

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and God's wrath, God's judgment,

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it says that God's kindness is meant

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to lead people to repentance.

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You need to think on that.

287
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Listen, one of the reasons people

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just have this idea that somehow

289
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it's just going to turn 
out okay in the end

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is because - listen,

291
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that text in Ecclesiastes is so real.

292
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You know what happens?

293
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People sin and then they eat.

294
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Or even when they're 
eating they're sinning.

295
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God is giving them food. He's being kind.

296
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Men and women sin,

297
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and the sun shines on them

298
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and it rose on them today.

299
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(incomplete thought)

300
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Jesus Christ by the word of His power,

301
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He upholds this whole universe.

302
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He is so relevant

303
00:16:28,285 --> 00:16:31,285
to every single little particle of dust

304
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and everything, every bird,

305
00:16:33,563 --> 00:16:35,523
every aspect of this creation.

306
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Christ is so real to it.

307
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He upholds all the atomic matter

308
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that makes up the air,

309
00:16:40,855 --> 00:16:43,488
that you can wave your hand through,

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He upholds it all.

311
00:16:45,247 --> 00:16:47,247
He is this reality

312
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that virtually engulfs this world,

313
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and yet man looks around at it.

314
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He strikes God out 
of it, he suppresses it,

315
00:16:56,394 --> 00:16:58,349
he suppresses what can be known,

316
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he doesn't want to see, 
he doesn't want to know.

317
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He looks around at creation

318
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and he invents evolution,

319
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and he wants to just dismiss God,

320
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and you can go through 
95% of the radio stations

321
00:17:11,593 --> 00:17:12,993
and God isn't there.

322
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And you can go through 95% 
of the television stations

323
00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,504
and God isn't there.

324
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And you can go through 
99% of all that's made

325
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to show at the movies,

326
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and He is not there.

327
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You can look on the 
billboards and He's not there.

328
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He is this great reality

329
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and in the midst of all of it,

330
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the sun and the moon and the rain,

331
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and just the beauty we can look at,

332
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and blue skies and to hear birds singing,

333
00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:40,363
and to enjoy the things 
that He allows us to enjoy,

334
00:17:40,363 --> 00:17:43,719
and to actually have a night where 
we can lay our heads on our pillows

335
00:17:43,719 --> 00:17:44,959
and rest and rise up,

336
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that happens repeatedly 
over and over and over,

337
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to people who are wicked.

338
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And they sin and they think

339
00:17:50,293 --> 00:17:52,183
because that's the case,

340
00:17:52,183 --> 00:17:53,936
there is no God to contend with.

341
00:17:53,936 --> 00:17:57,048
Certainly, He couldn't be like 
what we're about to look at,

342
00:17:57,048 --> 00:17:59,635
because if He was, how in the world

343
00:17:59,635 --> 00:18:03,389
does He abide us when we sin like that?

344
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And it's because God is indeed kind

345
00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:07,353
and God is indeed patient,

346
00:18:07,353 --> 00:18:10,626
and He's giving time for us to repent.

347
00:18:10,626 --> 00:18:13,098
And the time that He gives us to repent

348
00:18:13,098 --> 00:18:16,747
is never meant to make 
us think everything is okay.

349
00:18:16,747 --> 00:18:19,545
Oh, how many people think that?

350
00:18:19,545 --> 00:18:22,356
Listen, I've had people tell me this,

351
00:18:22,356 --> 00:18:24,993
you've had people 
tell you this, undoubtedly,

352
00:18:24,993 --> 00:18:26,967
if you've done any amount of evangelism.

353
00:18:26,967 --> 00:18:28,237
But people tell me, well,

354
00:18:28,237 --> 00:18:30,066
I was sick and God healed me.

355
00:18:30,066 --> 00:18:31,066
I got better.

356
00:18:31,066 --> 00:18:33,918
I got sick, I prayed, God made me better,

357
00:18:33,918 --> 00:18:37,246
so I think everything is okay with God.

358
00:18:37,246 --> 00:18:40,218
But you see God's kindness isn't meant

359
00:18:40,218 --> 00:18:42,848
to lead people who are 
living in their rebellion

360
00:18:42,848 --> 00:18:45,295
to think that everything is okay.

361
00:18:45,295 --> 00:18:51,700
God's kindness is meant to lead 
them to repent and turn to Christ.

362
00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:56,566
Brethren, you see, it's hard 
for people to imagine.

363
00:18:56,566 --> 00:18:59,131
You know, the fornicator 
and the adulterer,

364
00:18:59,131 --> 00:19:00,581
he goes and does his thing,

365
00:19:00,581 --> 00:19:02,673
the homosexual goes 
and does his thing,

366
00:19:02,673 --> 00:19:06,748
and then he comes home and he eats.

367
00:19:06,748 --> 00:19:09,232
And he sleeps.

368
00:19:09,232 --> 00:19:15,033
And he feels health 
pulsating through his veins,

369
00:19:15,033 --> 00:19:16,543
and he lives like that.

370
00:19:16,543 --> 00:19:20,052
He can't imagine that he just sinned

371
00:19:20,052 --> 00:19:25,323
in the sight of a God who is so angry,

372
00:19:25,323 --> 00:19:28,954
and whose glory has been

373
00:19:28,954 --> 00:19:31,874
so assaulted and insulted,

374
00:19:31,874 --> 00:19:33,149
and diminished

375
00:19:33,149 --> 00:19:34,609
and stamped on

376
00:19:34,609 --> 00:19:37,779
and trampled over.

377
00:19:37,779 --> 00:19:40,179
He can't imagine that what he just did

378
00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:41,724
deserves to be punished

379
00:19:41,724 --> 00:19:46,134
forever and forever and forever 
and forever and forever.

380
00:19:46,134 --> 00:19:48,089
Because when he just did it,

381
00:19:48,089 --> 00:19:50,319
all he got was kindness.

382
00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:52,100
And that's right, he did.

383
00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:54,730
But that kindness, the Scripture says,

384
00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:58,245
isn't meant to convince him

385
00:19:58,245 --> 00:19:59,965
that it's all okay.

386
00:19:59,965 --> 00:20:01,875
It's meant to convince him

387
00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:03,665
that there is a kind God

388
00:20:03,665 --> 00:20:05,645
that will indeed receive him

389
00:20:05,645 --> 00:20:10,025
and forgive all of his sins if he turns.

390
00:20:10,025 --> 00:20:15,262
Let's look at Matthew 25.

391
00:20:15,262 --> 00:20:23,865
Here's one place that 
we see hell described.

392
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Listen to what describes

393
00:20:28,265 --> 00:20:32,850
people who are going there.

394
00:20:32,850 --> 00:20:34,555
Verse 41.

395
00:20:34,555 --> 00:20:36,175
They're on his left.

396
00:20:36,175 --> 00:20:39,755
"Depart from me, you cursed,

397
00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:43,087
into the eternal fire

398
00:20:43,087 --> 00:20:46,977
prepared for the devil and his angels."

399
00:20:46,977 --> 00:20:49,177
Eternal fire.

400
00:20:49,177 --> 00:20:50,689
Brethren, being burned alive

401
00:20:50,689 --> 00:20:53,309
is one of the most horrific 
things we can think about.

402
00:20:53,309 --> 00:20:57,807
When you see somebody 
that has been burned...

403
00:20:57,807 --> 00:21:08,292
I was just reading about Gehenna,

404
00:21:08,292 --> 00:21:12,702
or the Valley of Hinnom.

405
00:21:12,702 --> 00:21:15,943
It used to be, I understand, 
a pleasant place.

406
00:21:15,943 --> 00:21:18,032
In fact, it was pleasant,

407
00:21:18,032 --> 00:21:20,052
had a river flowing through it.

408
00:21:20,052 --> 00:21:22,761
It was a valley not far from Jerusalem,

409
00:21:22,761 --> 00:21:25,732
but what happened in evil days,

410
00:21:25,732 --> 00:21:31,102
is that's where they sacrificed to Molech,

411
00:21:31,102 --> 00:21:32,802
and if you've read anything

412
00:21:32,802 --> 00:21:34,296
or know anything about it,

413
00:21:34,296 --> 00:21:40,008
is basically this god 
they created - a statue -

414
00:21:40,008 --> 00:21:46,745
that was part man and 
part cow and had arms.

415
00:21:46,745 --> 00:21:50,026
They would heat that thing 
up until it glowed red hot,

416
00:21:50,026 --> 00:21:57,570
and they would put their children 
in the arms of that statue.

417
00:21:57,570 --> 00:22:01,075
And in days of good kings

418
00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:03,055
that became a repulsive place

419
00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:06,130
and they would put their garbage there.

420
00:22:06,130 --> 00:22:10,857
That's the picture that is created.

421
00:22:10,857 --> 00:22:14,823
If Jesus could liken hell to anything,

422
00:22:14,823 --> 00:22:18,553
He likened it to a place

423
00:22:18,553 --> 00:22:22,303
that was absolutely abominable to the Jew,

424
00:22:22,303 --> 00:22:25,464
where children had been 
sacrificed to a false god.

425
00:22:25,464 --> 00:22:28,524
It was a place where 
fires burned all the time

426
00:22:28,524 --> 00:22:31,960
to burn up the garbage 
that was stacked there.

427
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,348
Dead bodies, and refuse, 
and sewage, and all sorts...

428
00:22:36,348 --> 00:22:39,647
I mean it was a place that 
was absolutely defiled.

429
00:22:39,647 --> 00:22:43,897
It had fire.

430
00:22:43,897 --> 00:22:47,353
To a Jew, you probably couldn't imagine

431
00:22:47,353 --> 00:22:52,465
any more horrible place in the world.

432
00:22:52,465 --> 00:22:55,231
"Cursed people..."

433
00:22:55,231 --> 00:23:00,852
Listen, when Christ says, "Depart,"

434
00:23:00,852 --> 00:23:07,032
people don't understand.

435
00:23:07,032 --> 00:23:10,601
Jesus upholds the universe

436
00:23:10,601 --> 00:23:14,581
with the word of His power.

437
00:23:14,581 --> 00:23:16,673
And in His kindness,

438
00:23:16,673 --> 00:23:21,013
He gives you everything you have.

439
00:23:21,013 --> 00:23:23,275
Anything that is enjoyable,

440
00:23:23,275 --> 00:23:25,175
anything that is pleasurable,

441
00:23:25,175 --> 00:23:27,034
anything that is peaceful,

442
00:23:27,034 --> 00:23:29,224
anything that is restful,

443
00:23:29,224 --> 00:23:31,862
He gives it to you.

444
00:23:31,862 --> 00:23:33,918
Men don't realize it.

445
00:23:33,918 --> 00:23:37,552
Because they live habitually seeking

446
00:23:37,552 --> 00:23:39,882
to strike God from their minds,

447
00:23:39,882 --> 00:23:43,698
suppress Him from their thoughts,

448
00:23:43,698 --> 00:23:48,068
they exchange the glory 
of God for everything else.

449
00:23:48,068 --> 00:23:51,722
They seek to worship money,

450
00:23:51,722 --> 00:23:54,312
and fun, and pleasure,

451
00:23:54,312 --> 00:24:00,221
and sex, and sports, and power.

452
00:24:00,221 --> 00:24:04,807
And they have so sought to "atheitize"

453
00:24:04,807 --> 00:24:07,227
(if that's such a word) themselves

454
00:24:07,227 --> 00:24:11,518
and to suppress God out of it,

455
00:24:11,518 --> 00:24:17,392
man doesn't realize that every good thing

456
00:24:17,392 --> 00:24:20,392
comes from the Lord.

457
00:24:20,392 --> 00:24:23,503
And when He says, "Depart,"

458
00:24:23,503 --> 00:24:28,803
He is withdrawing every good thing.

459
00:24:28,803 --> 00:24:30,757
When He says to "Depart,"

460
00:24:30,757 --> 00:24:33,597
that's it. Cursed.

461
00:24:33,597 --> 00:24:35,772
Everything in this life 
that was a blessing,

462
00:24:35,772 --> 00:24:38,858
everything in this life that was 
an expression of His kindness,

463
00:24:38,858 --> 00:24:41,667
it's pulled.

464
00:24:41,667 --> 00:24:45,117
Men don't understand

465
00:24:45,117 --> 00:24:51,048
if God withdraws everything.

466
00:24:51,048 --> 00:24:58,052
It's not just the church down 
on the corner goes away,

467
00:24:58,052 --> 00:25:01,638
every pleasure is gone forever.

468
00:25:01,638 --> 00:25:05,812
Every satisfaction is gone forever.

469
00:25:05,812 --> 00:25:09,148
Every joy, every smile,

470
00:25:09,148 --> 00:25:13,415
every form of happiness is gone forever.

471
00:25:13,415 --> 00:25:16,762
Any sense of relief - you know the relief

472
00:25:16,762 --> 00:25:18,512
when you've had a bad cold,

473
00:25:18,512 --> 00:25:21,207
and you start getting better?

474
00:25:21,207 --> 00:25:24,896
Or you pounded your thumb with a hammer

475
00:25:24,896 --> 00:25:28,149
and the pain begins to go away?

476
00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:31,093
You're exhausted and weary,

477
00:25:31,093 --> 00:25:34,395
and you're able to lay 
your head down and rest.

478
00:25:34,395 --> 00:25:36,500
Don't you understand?

479
00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,474
There's no rest, night or day,

480
00:25:40,474 --> 00:25:43,474
forever and ever.

481
00:25:43,474 --> 00:25:48,338
There is no rest. It's cursed.

482
00:25:48,338 --> 00:25:52,598
It's blackness of darkness.

483
00:25:52,598 --> 00:25:55,105
It's a fiery furnace.

484
00:25:55,105 --> 00:25:59,952
Listen, if you were 
thrown bodily into fire,

485
00:25:59,952 --> 00:26:01,782
that's the kind of reality.

486
00:26:01,782 --> 00:26:03,272
When you go to take a breath,

487
00:26:03,272 --> 00:26:04,297
there's no cool air,

488
00:26:04,297 --> 00:26:07,087
fire goes in your lungs.

489
00:26:07,087 --> 00:26:10,220
If you seek to have relief, there is none,

490
00:26:10,220 --> 00:26:16,642
because every nerve is 
being confronted by pain.

491
00:26:16,642 --> 00:26:22,404
There's no rest in the 
soul if that happens.

492
00:26:22,416 --> 00:26:25,435
Listen, things go bad now,

493
00:26:25,435 --> 00:26:27,975
we can find relief, typically.

494
00:26:27,975 --> 00:26:30,824
There's some relief. There's some way out.

495
00:26:30,824 --> 00:26:32,382
There's no way out.

496
00:26:32,382 --> 00:26:34,504
"Depart from me..."

497
00:26:34,504 --> 00:26:38,214
Those are the words of the cursed.

498
00:26:38,214 --> 00:26:40,377
They're words that are falling

499
00:26:40,377 --> 00:26:43,377
upon the ears of people who deserve it.

500
00:26:43,377 --> 00:26:48,772
Nobody is going to say, "This isn't fair."

501
00:26:48,772 --> 00:26:51,536
You say, "Isn't that overreaction?"

502
00:26:51,536 --> 00:26:53,788
"That if I sin once,

503
00:26:53,788 --> 00:26:59,728
God's going to remove every kindness?"

504
00:26:59,728 --> 00:27:03,115
You haven't sinned once.

505
00:27:03,115 --> 00:27:05,325
You've done nothing but sin.

506
00:27:05,325 --> 00:27:07,063
That's what Scripture says.

507
00:27:07,063 --> 00:27:08,839
Scripture says we're worthless.

508
00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:12,103
And even our righteousness's 
are filthy rags.

509
00:27:12,103 --> 00:27:16,892
And here's the catcher for 
everybody in this room.

510
00:27:16,892 --> 00:27:22,841
You can't argue the way a cannibal can

511
00:27:22,841 --> 00:27:27,187
who might live on a South Seas island

512
00:27:27,187 --> 00:27:31,837
(unintelligible)

513
00:27:31,837 --> 00:27:34,501
and he died before Clark

514
00:27:34,501 --> 00:27:38,841
and Harris and Paton arrived.

515
00:27:38,841 --> 00:27:42,215
You don't have that.

516
00:27:42,215 --> 00:27:44,194
You've sinned a lot,

517
00:27:44,194 --> 00:27:46,764
and you've had Christ offered.

518
00:27:46,764 --> 00:27:51,564
And if anybody in this room perishes,

519
00:27:51,564 --> 00:27:54,678
it will be with so much light,

520
00:27:54,678 --> 00:28:00,478
there will be no excuse.

521
00:28:00,478 --> 00:28:03,883
God's judgments may seem severe,

522
00:28:03,883 --> 00:28:10,044
but brethren, I think if 
we could have talked with Isaiah

523
00:28:10,044 --> 00:28:12,691
the moment he came out of the temple

524
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,421
there in Isaiah 6 -

525
00:28:14,421 --> 00:28:17,232
I mean he saw the Lord -

526
00:28:17,232 --> 00:28:19,041
brethren, there probably was not

527
00:28:19,041 --> 00:28:22,041
a more righteous man in the land.

528
00:28:22,041 --> 00:28:26,734
Isaiah was "the" prophet.

529
00:28:26,734 --> 00:28:28,354
I mean was God was looking

530
00:28:28,354 --> 00:28:30,605
for somebody to take the message,

531
00:28:30,605 --> 00:28:34,791
He chose Isaiah.

532
00:28:34,791 --> 00:28:36,791
Isaiah saw the Lord and he said,

533
00:28:36,791 --> 00:28:38,573
"I'm a man of unclean lips."

534
00:28:38,573 --> 00:28:40,952
"I dwell in the midst a 
people of unclean lips."

535
00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:43,827
He said, "Woe is me."

536
00:28:43,827 --> 00:28:47,695
If you would got him coming 
out of the Temple and said,

537
00:28:47,697 --> 00:28:49,866
"Isaiah, what do you think?

538
00:28:49,866 --> 00:28:51,595
You think when we sin it's overkill

539
00:28:51,595 --> 00:28:54,495
for God to send us to 
hell forever and ever?"

540
00:28:54,495 --> 00:28:57,886
He'd have said, "You have no idea."

541
00:28:57,886 --> 00:28:59,557
The Lord is so glorious,

542
00:28:59,557 --> 00:29:01,386
to sin against Him is a crime

543
00:29:01,386 --> 00:29:05,386
of unimaginable heinousness,

544
00:29:05,386 --> 00:29:08,205
and wickedness, and depravity.

545
00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:11,276
You have no idea when you sin

546
00:29:11,276 --> 00:29:14,036
the glory that you are sinning against.

547
00:29:14,036 --> 00:29:17,257
He would have been speechless, I'm sure.

548
00:29:17,257 --> 00:29:20,928
He probably would have looked 
at you with glazed over eyes

549
00:29:20,928 --> 00:29:24,944
of amazement and astonishment.

550
00:29:24,944 --> 00:29:28,258
To even think that he could 
have come into the presence

551
00:29:28,258 --> 00:29:32,537
of the high and exalted Christ like that

552
00:29:32,537 --> 00:29:35,384
and have emerged without being consumed.

553
00:29:35,384 --> 00:29:37,315
And there's only one way.

554
00:29:37,315 --> 00:29:38,885
It's the only way that you and I

555
00:29:38,885 --> 00:29:40,644
will escape in Judgment Day

556
00:29:40,644 --> 00:29:44,048
It's if our sin is forgiven.

557
00:29:44,048 --> 00:29:46,582
Brethren, we're talking a place

558
00:29:46,582 --> 00:29:49,582
that was made for the 
devil and his angels.

559
00:29:49,582 --> 00:29:52,188
There's a reason why,

560
00:29:52,188 --> 00:29:54,608
if you die unrepentant,

561
00:29:54,608 --> 00:29:56,438
you go to a place that was made

562
00:29:56,438 --> 00:29:58,120
for the devil and his angels.

563
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,254
It's because you are as bad as they are.

564
00:30:01,254 --> 00:30:03,144
They may have had a lot longer

565
00:30:03,144 --> 00:30:04,629
to do their wickedness,

566
00:30:04,629 --> 00:30:06,299
but listen, if you're being sent

567
00:30:06,299 --> 00:30:08,491
to the same place they are,

568
00:30:08,491 --> 00:30:11,835
it's because you are like they are.

569
00:30:11,842 --> 00:30:13,573
Do you not realize that?

570
00:30:13,573 --> 00:30:16,710
Men are like demons.

571
00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:18,160
They're like the devil.

572
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,707
That's why they're sent there.

573
00:30:20,707 --> 00:30:23,204
They are liars, they're murderers,

574
00:30:23,204 --> 00:30:26,364
they're God-haters, they're in rebellion.

575
00:30:26,364 --> 00:30:28,447
It is a place for those

576
00:30:28,447 --> 00:30:31,447
who have sinned against a kind God.

577
00:30:31,447 --> 00:30:33,438
Listen, if you end up there

578
00:30:33,438 --> 00:30:36,158
after all the kindnesses He showed you,

579
00:30:36,158 --> 00:30:38,596
and after the times you've had to repent,

580
00:30:38,596 --> 00:30:42,587
and after the pleadings of God's people

581
00:30:42,587 --> 00:30:46,177
to you, the brethren 
even from this church,

582
00:30:46,177 --> 00:30:49,003
and you were given 
opportunity upon opportunity.

583
00:30:49,003 --> 00:30:50,673
I mean what can you say,

584
00:30:50,673 --> 00:30:52,216
if you come to Judgment Day,

585
00:30:52,216 --> 00:30:54,604
and you're told to depart, 
and every goodness,

586
00:30:54,604 --> 00:30:56,304
every kindness

587
00:30:56,304 --> 00:30:58,284
is withdrawn and taken away.

588
00:30:58,284 --> 00:30:59,974
And not momentarily.

589
00:30:59,974 --> 00:31:01,957
It's not like when you get sick here,

590
00:31:01,957 --> 00:31:05,627
or you fall into some infirmity.

591
00:31:05,627 --> 00:31:09,157
There's no relief.

592
00:31:09,157 --> 00:31:11,947
And it will be just,

593
00:31:11,947 --> 00:31:16,847
and you will see that it will be just.

594
00:31:16,847 --> 00:31:20,665
Eternal fire prepared for 
the devil and his angels.

595
00:31:20,665 --> 00:31:24,617
And who goes there?

596
00:31:24,617 --> 00:31:27,727
Mass murderers,

597
00:31:27,727 --> 00:31:30,387
Adolf Hitler,

598
00:31:30,387 --> 00:31:37,247
pedophiles,

599
00:31:37,247 --> 00:31:45,887
no - yes, they do - 
and some of those don't,

600
00:31:45,887 --> 00:31:49,062
because they looked to Christ in faith.

601
00:31:49,062 --> 00:31:53,468
But listen to the description of those

602
00:31:53,468 --> 00:31:58,123
who find their place in the lake of fire.

603
00:31:58,123 --> 00:32:04,798
"I was hungry and you gave Me no food."

604
00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:09,609
Wait, where's the pedophiles, 
where's the sodomites?

605
00:32:09,609 --> 00:32:11,947
Where are the real wicked people?

606
00:32:11,947 --> 00:32:14,991
I mean, I thought you had to be 
like Adolf Hitler to go to hell.

607
00:32:14,991 --> 00:32:18,596
This is saying somebody was 
hungry and I didn't feed him.

608
00:32:18,596 --> 00:32:22,202
That ought to startle us.

609
00:32:22,202 --> 00:32:24,032
It's not just the Adolf Hitler's.

610
00:32:24,032 --> 00:32:29,471
It's not just the people 
that killed the six million Jews.

611
00:32:29,471 --> 00:32:32,827
This brings it down to 
where you and I live.

612
00:32:32,827 --> 00:32:38,326
No, you didn't kill six million 
Jews, and neither did I.

613
00:32:38,326 --> 00:32:40,491
But all you have to do 
to be like the devil

614
00:32:40,491 --> 00:32:46,241
and end up where he is,

615
00:32:46,241 --> 00:32:51,871
basically see other people in need,

616
00:32:51,871 --> 00:32:54,691
and you turn your back.

617
00:32:54,691 --> 00:32:56,741
You say, "Is that evil, is that wicked?"

618
00:32:56,741 --> 00:33:01,546
You better believe it is.

619
00:33:01,546 --> 00:33:03,685
"I was hungry, you gave Me no food.

620
00:33:03,685 --> 00:33:06,225
I was thirsty, you gave Me no drink.

621
00:33:06,225 --> 00:33:09,244
I was a stranger, you did not welcome Me.

622
00:33:09,244 --> 00:33:13,545
Naked, you did not clothe Me."

623
00:33:13,545 --> 00:33:16,711
Brethren, we jump down to verse 46:

624
00:33:16,711 --> 00:33:22,141
"These will go away 
into eternal punishment."

625
00:33:22,141 --> 00:33:26,010
You say, "What?! Some guy needed clothes, 
and I didn't give him clothes?

626
00:33:26,010 --> 00:33:28,827
I'm going to hell forever? 
Eternal punishment?

627
00:33:28,827 --> 00:33:38,206
Isn't that a bit overkill?"

628
00:33:38,206 --> 00:33:42,786
But you see, this is an 
expression of what's in men:

629
00:33:42,786 --> 00:33:46,285
rebellious, lawless,

630
00:33:46,285 --> 00:33:49,285
all they think about is themselves.

631
00:33:49,285 --> 00:33:51,365
Brethren, the idea here isn't

632
00:33:51,365 --> 00:33:52,817
that if you go feed somebody,

633
00:33:52,817 --> 00:33:54,803
you're going to earn your way to heaven.

634
00:33:54,803 --> 00:33:57,427
The idea here is look,

635
00:33:57,427 --> 00:33:59,747
if you turn from your sin, you repent,

636
00:33:59,747 --> 00:34:02,517
you bow the knee and surrender to Christ,

637
00:34:02,517 --> 00:34:05,700
and you trust Him,

638
00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:08,890
what Jesus does in your life,

639
00:34:08,890 --> 00:34:12,052
is He gives you a heart to love people.

640
00:34:12,052 --> 00:34:14,102
If you don't have a heart to love people,

641
00:34:14,102 --> 00:34:16,182
you can't say you're one of Christ's.

642
00:34:16,182 --> 00:34:18,892
And you have no claim on heaven.

643
00:34:18,892 --> 00:34:20,983
And listen, if you'll flee to Christ,

644
00:34:20,983 --> 00:34:22,953
He'll make you into a person

645
00:34:22,953 --> 00:34:25,573
who will be concerned to feed others.

646
00:34:25,573 --> 00:34:27,999
If you look and you say, 
"All I've had is hatred,

647
00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:29,759
all I've had is selfishness,

648
00:34:29,759 --> 00:34:31,412
all I've had is self-centeredness,

649
00:34:31,412 --> 00:34:32,412
that's all I have.

650
00:34:32,412 --> 00:34:34,009
I don't really care about others.

651
00:34:34,009 --> 00:34:35,669
If I ever do anything for others,

652
00:34:35,669 --> 00:34:37,944
it's just what I can 
do to be seen by others.

653
00:34:37,944 --> 00:34:39,537
Just so I get a good reputation.

654
00:34:39,537 --> 00:34:42,161
If that's all it is, and you 
know in the secret places,

655
00:34:42,161 --> 00:34:44,201
you don't really care about other people,

656
00:34:44,201 --> 00:34:47,179
you just care about how you're perceived,

657
00:34:47,179 --> 00:34:49,498
you care about your reputation,

658
00:34:49,498 --> 00:34:52,307
but you don't really care about others,

659
00:34:52,307 --> 00:34:53,307
turn from it.

660
00:34:53,307 --> 00:34:55,517
That doesn't mean you have to fix it.

661
00:34:55,517 --> 00:34:58,082
It just means run to Him who can.

662
00:34:58,082 --> 00:35:00,112
Confess it all to Him.

663
00:35:00,112 --> 00:35:02,272
Ask Him to make you like He is.

664
00:35:02,272 --> 00:35:06,247
Ask Him to begin to 
make you into His image.

665
00:35:06,247 --> 00:35:09,475
That's what He does. Trust Him.

666
00:35:09,475 --> 00:35:12,900
Turn from this. Turn 
from the selfish life.

667
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:18,080
The righteous -- they 
go into eternal life.

668
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,233
Eternal punishment.

669
00:35:21,233 --> 00:35:27,723
The fires there don't burn out.

670
00:35:27,723 --> 00:35:32,193
There's no end.

671
00:35:32,193 --> 00:35:37,013
Eternity.

672
00:35:37,013 --> 00:35:41,202
I mean, think about eternity.

673
00:35:41,202 --> 00:35:46,459
Listen, we can sit here now

674
00:35:46,459 --> 00:35:53,101
and we feel comfortable we're not there.

675
00:35:53,101 --> 00:35:57,312
We can breathe.

676
00:35:57,312 --> 00:35:59,462
You know, men comfort themselves:

677
00:35:59,462 --> 00:36:02,094
well, I'm not there right now.

678
00:36:02,094 --> 00:36:05,094
I've got time.

679
00:36:05,094 --> 00:36:09,071
Well, listen, what time do you have?

680
00:36:09,071 --> 00:36:10,611
Your life is but a vapor.

681
00:36:10,611 --> 00:36:12,522
You don't know if you have tomorrow.

682
00:36:12,522 --> 00:36:13,906
There's no guarantee of it.

683
00:36:13,906 --> 00:36:17,845
People get cut off.

684
00:36:17,845 --> 00:36:22,010
What you have time for 
is right now to repent.

685
00:36:22,010 --> 00:36:23,864
Listen, God has been kind

686
00:36:23,864 --> 00:36:27,104
to bring all of us to this hour.

687
00:36:27,104 --> 00:36:30,803
This is a real place.

688
00:36:30,803 --> 00:36:35,183
I can just move through some other verses.

689
00:36:35,183 --> 00:36:37,123
Just right here in Matthew.

690
00:36:37,123 --> 00:36:38,514
Matthew, by itself,

691
00:36:38,514 --> 00:36:45,149
just gives us material 
for an outstanding study.

692
00:36:45,149 --> 00:36:49,817
Let's all turn over to Matthew 13,

693
00:36:49,817 --> 00:36:52,817
a tremendous study on hell.

694
00:36:52,817 --> 00:37:01,307
It shows up again and again.

695
00:37:01,307 --> 00:37:04,807
Matthew 13:24: "He put another 
parable before them, saying,

696
00:37:04,807 --> 00:37:07,241
'The kingdom of heaven may be compared

697
00:37:07,241 --> 00:37:09,581
to a man who sowed good seed in his field,

698
00:37:09,581 --> 00:37:11,395
but while his men were sleeping,

699
00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:15,224
his enemy came and sowed weeds 
among the wheat and went away.

700
00:37:15,224 --> 00:37:18,510
So when the plants came up and bore grain,

701
00:37:18,510 --> 00:37:20,686
then the weeds appeared also.

702
00:37:20,686 --> 00:37:23,792
And the servants of the master 
of the house came and said to him,

703
00:37:23,792 --> 00:37:26,212
"Master, did you not sow
good seed in your field?

704
00:37:26,212 --> 00:37:28,805
How then does it have weeds?"

705
00:37:28,805 --> 00:37:30,989
He said to them, "An enemy has done this."

706
00:37:30,989 --> 00:37:32,589
So the servants said to him,

707
00:37:32,589 --> 00:37:34,913
"Then do you want us 
to go and gather them?"

708
00:37:34,913 --> 00:37:37,226
But he said, "No, lest 
in gathering the weeds

709
00:37:37,226 --> 00:37:39,326
you root up the wheat along with them.

710
00:37:39,326 --> 00:37:41,807
Let them grow together until the harvest,

711
00:37:41,807 --> 00:37:44,128
and at harvest time 
I will tell the reapers,

712
00:37:44,128 --> 00:37:45,368
gather the weeds first

713
00:37:45,368 --> 00:37:47,910
and bind them in bundles to be burned,

714
00:37:47,910 --> 00:37:50,210
but gather the wheat into my barn."

715
00:37:50,210 --> 00:37:52,711
And then He goes on to 
explain it, down in verse 36.

716
00:37:52,711 --> 00:37:58,624
But we'll just jump to verse 39:

717
00:37:58,624 --> 00:38:03,272
"The enemy who sowed them is the devil.

718
00:38:03,272 --> 00:38:04,952
These are the sons of the evil one

719
00:38:04,952 --> 00:38:06,889
who find their way into the kingdom.

720
00:38:06,889 --> 00:38:10,174
The harvest is the close of the age.

721
00:38:10,174 --> 00:38:12,214
The reapers are the angels.

722
00:38:12,214 --> 00:38:15,137
And as the weeds are gathered 
and burned with fire,

723
00:38:15,137 --> 00:38:17,907
so will it be at the close of the age.

724
00:38:17,907 --> 00:38:20,086
The Son of Man will send His angels

725
00:38:20,086 --> 00:38:22,216
and they will gather out of His kingdom

726
00:38:22,216 --> 00:38:29,078
all causes of sin and all law-breakers."

727
00:38:29,078 --> 00:38:31,238
If that's your life, 
if you're a lawbreaker,

728
00:38:31,238 --> 00:38:33,704
and you're a cause of sin,

729
00:38:33,704 --> 00:38:35,948
here's your lot at the end of this age:

730
00:38:35,948 --> 00:38:38,986
"And throw them into the fiery furnace.

731
00:38:38,986 --> 00:38:43,700
It that place, there will be weeping

732
00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:46,030
and gnashing of teeth.

733
00:38:46,030 --> 00:38:48,140
Then the righteous will 
shine like the sun

734
00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:50,127
in the kingdom of their Father.

735
00:38:50,127 --> 00:38:54,536
He who has ears, let him hear."

736
00:38:54,536 --> 00:38:56,653
You get the same thing, look at verse 47:

737
00:38:56,653 --> 00:38:59,214
“Again, the kingdom 
of heaven is like a net

738
00:38:59,214 --> 00:39:00,925
that was thrown into the sea

739
00:39:00,925 --> 00:39:03,505
and gathered fish of every kind.

740
00:39:03,505 --> 00:39:04,745
When it was full,

741
00:39:04,745 --> 00:39:06,409
men drew it ashore and sat down

742
00:39:06,409 --> 00:39:08,539
and sorted the good into containers

743
00:39:08,539 --> 00:39:10,023
but threw away the bad.

744
00:39:10,023 --> 00:39:11,904
So it will be at the close of the age.

745
00:39:11,904 --> 00:39:15,153
The angels will come out and separate 
the evil from the righteous

746
00:39:15,153 --> 00:39:17,850
and throw them into the fiery furnace.

747
00:39:17,850 --> 00:39:21,556
In that place there will be 
weeping and gnashing of teeth."

748
00:39:21,556 --> 00:39:23,965
Listen, if you have a red-letter Bible,

749
00:39:23,965 --> 00:39:26,445
you'll notice, that's in red letters,

750
00:39:26,445 --> 00:39:33,401
which means Jesus Himself, the Christ,

751
00:39:33,401 --> 00:39:37,978
He came and He looked 
men square in the face,

752
00:39:37,978 --> 00:39:41,532
and He said, "There is 
a hell to be avoided."

753
00:39:41,532 --> 00:39:43,242
It is a place of outer darkness,

754
00:39:43,242 --> 00:39:44,556
it is a place of weeping,

755
00:39:44,556 --> 00:39:47,360
it is a place of the gnashing of teeth,

756
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,066
it is a place that He 
likens to fiery furnace.

757
00:39:51,066 --> 00:39:52,788
Now look, you say,

758
00:39:52,788 --> 00:39:55,788
"Well, it's called the lake of fire;

759
00:39:55,788 --> 00:39:57,718
it's called the fiery furnace,

760
00:39:57,718 --> 00:40:03,225
how can it be fire if it's outer darkness?

761
00:40:03,225 --> 00:40:05,859
Isn't that maybe just symbolic?"

762
00:40:05,859 --> 00:40:08,511
Okay, maybe it is. But I'll tell you what.

763
00:40:08,511 --> 00:40:13,337
If the closest thing Jesus 
has to describing it is fire,

764
00:40:13,337 --> 00:40:15,627
if that's all there is in this world

765
00:40:15,627 --> 00:40:17,584
that He can come up with,

766
00:40:17,584 --> 00:40:21,292
that even approximates 
what it is, I would say,

767
00:40:21,292 --> 00:40:25,471
even if it's spiritualization,

768
00:40:25,471 --> 00:40:27,211
even if it's symbolic,

769
00:40:27,211 --> 00:40:31,387
that certainly would not be 
anything to find comfort in,

770
00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:34,052
because it's not going 
to be better than fire.

771
00:40:34,052 --> 00:40:36,257
If anything, it's going to 
be worse than fire.

772
00:40:36,257 --> 00:40:38,398
And if it is the same as fire,

773
00:40:38,398 --> 00:40:40,898
being thrown into a lake of fire forever,

774
00:40:40,898 --> 00:40:42,368
brethren, do you recognize,

775
00:40:42,368 --> 00:40:44,476
when it happens, you're there.

776
00:40:44,476 --> 00:40:46,446
When you wake up, you're there.

777
00:40:46,446 --> 00:40:47,761
And it's all over.

778
00:40:47,761 --> 00:40:49,571
Eternity is written over everything.

779
00:40:49,571 --> 00:40:50,724
There is no escape.

780
00:40:50,724 --> 00:40:52,134
There is no second chance.

781
00:40:52,134 --> 00:40:53,895
There is no time to repent now.

782
00:40:53,895 --> 00:40:56,753
And for all you would kick 
yourself, and feel foolish,

783
00:40:56,753 --> 00:40:58,577
and hate God for putting you there,

784
00:40:58,577 --> 00:41:00,177
and hating everybody else

785
00:41:00,177 --> 00:41:01,938
that encouraged you in your sin,

786
00:41:01,938 --> 00:41:03,998
and realizing how many times

787
00:41:03,998 --> 00:41:06,998
you despised the preaching of the Word,

788
00:41:06,998 --> 00:41:11,082
how you'd want to pull your own hair out,

789
00:41:11,082 --> 00:41:12,642
gnash your teeth,

790
00:41:12,642 --> 00:41:15,060
whether in hatred to God

791
00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:20,660
or in absolute devastation

792
00:41:20,660 --> 00:41:25,373
because of your own foolishness.

793
00:41:25,373 --> 00:41:27,627
Brethren, this is real

794
00:41:27,627 --> 00:41:31,047
and Christ says, "Wake up."

795
00:41:31,047 --> 00:41:52,790
Christ says in another 
place, Matthew 18:8:

796
00:41:52,790 --> 00:41:57,316
"If your hand or your foot causes 
you to sin (or to stumble),

797
00:41:57,316 --> 00:42:00,371
cut it off and throw it away.

798
00:42:00,371 --> 00:42:03,683
It is better for you to 
enter life crippled or lame

799
00:42:03,683 --> 00:42:06,110
than with two hands or two feet

800
00:42:06,110 --> 00:42:08,770
to be thrown into the eternal fire.

801
00:42:08,770 --> 00:42:10,520
If your eye causes you to sin,

802
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,464
tear it out and throw it away.

803
00:42:12,464 --> 00:42:14,974
It is better for you to 
enter life with one eye

804
00:42:14,974 --> 00:42:20,051
than with two eyes to be 
thrown into the hell of fire."

805
00:42:20,051 --> 00:42:26,397
Listen, Jesus knows what hell is.

806
00:42:26,397 --> 00:42:36,940
And He is not only the Truth, 
and the Way, and the Life,

807
00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:40,791
He came to bear truth and to speak truth

808
00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:42,261
and He looked at men,

809
00:42:42,261 --> 00:42:48,871
and He said, "I know what you don't know.

810
00:42:48,871 --> 00:42:53,992
I know how bad, how hellish,

811
00:42:53,992 --> 00:42:57,532
how fiery it is.

812
00:42:57,532 --> 00:43:01,991
I know the punishment 
that takes place there."

813
00:43:01,991 --> 00:43:05,869
Listen, Jesus Christ is the One

814
00:43:05,869 --> 00:43:11,009
who tramples out the 
fury of God the Almighty.

815
00:43:11,009 --> 00:43:14,082
It is the wrath of the 
Lamb you have to fear.

816
00:43:14,082 --> 00:43:18,367
He knows His own wrath.

817
00:43:18,367 --> 00:43:22,231
He could look at everything in this world,

818
00:43:22,231 --> 00:43:24,221
everything that is to be prized,

819
00:43:24,221 --> 00:43:25,969
everything that is to be cherished,

820
00:43:25,969 --> 00:43:27,789
everything that is to be yearned for

821
00:43:27,789 --> 00:43:29,369
and longed after by man,

822
00:43:29,369 --> 00:43:30,899
and He could look at hell,

823
00:43:30,899 --> 00:43:32,186
and He could say to men,

824
00:43:32,186 --> 00:43:33,651
"I know.

825
00:43:33,651 --> 00:43:37,121
I know what the real value 
of things in this world are,

826
00:43:37,121 --> 00:43:40,530
and I know the real 
terror of what hell is.

827
00:43:40,530 --> 00:43:44,220
And I'll tell you this:

828
00:43:44,220 --> 00:43:47,984
whatever it takes for you 
to cut off or tear out

829
00:43:47,984 --> 00:43:50,566
the things of this world 
that hold you back

830
00:43:50,566 --> 00:43:52,602
and keep you from following Me,

831
00:43:52,602 --> 00:43:54,844
every idol, every lust,

832
00:43:54,844 --> 00:43:57,884
every sin, every thing,

833
00:43:57,884 --> 00:44:00,294
that you would have over Me,

834
00:44:00,294 --> 00:44:04,107
that would have follow 
after to disobey Me,

835
00:44:04,107 --> 00:44:06,953
that you think you need in your life,

836
00:44:06,953 --> 00:44:08,833
at the expense of Me,

837
00:44:08,833 --> 00:44:10,331
and surrendering to Me,

838
00:44:10,331 --> 00:44:11,912
and trusting Me,

839
00:44:11,912 --> 00:44:13,872
believing in Me,

840
00:44:13,872 --> 00:44:15,362
coming to Me,

841
00:44:15,362 --> 00:44:16,862
calling upon Me,

842
00:44:16,862 --> 00:44:18,365
putting all your trust,

843
00:44:18,365 --> 00:44:21,892
I know it is not worth holding on

844
00:44:21,892 --> 00:44:23,822
to all the money that Gates has.

845
00:44:23,822 --> 00:44:25,762
It is not worth all the money

846
00:44:25,762 --> 00:44:27,426
that is to be had in this world,

847
00:44:27,426 --> 00:44:29,228
all the treasure, all the pleasures,

848
00:44:29,228 --> 00:44:31,446
even if you could live 
as long as Methuselah

849
00:44:31,446 --> 00:44:33,256
and enjoy everything to the full

850
00:44:33,256 --> 00:44:35,615
and live life to the 
complete in this life,

851
00:44:35,615 --> 00:44:36,815
to have it all,

852
00:44:36,815 --> 00:44:38,720
to have all that men aspire after,

853
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,440
all the fame, and all the money,

854
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,509
and all the houses,

855
00:44:41,509 --> 00:44:43,391
and all the beauty,

856
00:44:43,391 --> 00:44:46,051
all the health, to have it all.

857
00:44:46,051 --> 00:44:48,492
All that men think they 
want and think they need,

858
00:44:48,492 --> 00:44:50,787
He knows, if you had it all,

859
00:44:50,787 --> 00:44:54,260
and you could live as long 
as the oldest man ever lived,

860
00:44:54,260 --> 00:44:56,527
if you could have it all 
for a thousand years,

861
00:44:56,527 --> 00:44:58,047
He looks at it and He says,

862
00:44:58,047 --> 00:44:59,335
there's no comparison.

863
00:44:59,335 --> 00:45:01,795
Whatever it takes to 
cut it off and tear it out,

864
00:45:01,795 --> 00:45:02,834
you better do it.

865
00:45:02,834 --> 00:45:07,923
It is better for you to do that 
than to end up in this place.

866
00:45:07,923 --> 00:45:11,996
It's insanity to go after 
anything in this world

867
00:45:11,996 --> 00:45:14,676
that's going to be gone soon.

868
00:45:14,676 --> 00:45:18,781
And the truth is

869
00:45:18,781 --> 00:45:22,251
you're not going to live 
as long as Methuselah.

870
00:45:22,251 --> 00:45:29,016
The truth is, if you 
live 80 years, it's long.

871
00:45:29,016 --> 00:45:31,490
And the truth is, you're not going to get

872
00:45:31,490 --> 00:45:33,540
all the money in the world,

873
00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:35,633
and the truth is that whatever you do get

874
00:45:35,633 --> 00:45:39,273
in this world is not going to satisfy you.

875
00:45:39,273 --> 00:45:43,995
It's going to leave you empty,

876
00:45:43,995 --> 00:45:49,233
because it's a lie.

877
00:45:49,233 --> 00:45:52,453
(incomplete thought)

878
00:45:52,453 --> 00:45:57,579
Brethren, Jesus is 
offering men eternal life.

879
00:45:57,579 --> 00:46:00,539
He's offering men forgiveness.

880
00:46:00,539 --> 00:46:03,076
He's offering men the opportunity

881
00:46:03,076 --> 00:46:06,306
of seeing God face to face.

882
00:46:06,306 --> 00:46:09,025
He's offering men the opportunity

883
00:46:09,025 --> 00:46:12,025
of having every tear wiped away.

884
00:46:12,025 --> 00:46:16,566
All sorrows and pain and death.

885
00:46:16,566 --> 00:46:22,186
He's offering you

886
00:46:22,186 --> 00:46:25,196
the treasures of Christ,

887
00:46:25,196 --> 00:46:29,186
an eternal inheritance.

888
00:46:29,186 --> 00:46:36,053
He's offering you riches

889
00:46:36,053 --> 00:46:37,983
and He's calling you

890
00:46:37,983 --> 00:46:43,603
to flee from the wrath to come.

891
00:46:43,603 --> 00:46:49,108
Folks, this is what it means to be saved.

892
00:46:49,108 --> 00:46:54,261
To be spared from the wrath of God.

893
00:46:54,261 --> 00:46:55,991
Jesus said many are going to come

894
00:46:55,991 --> 00:46:57,354
from the east and the west,

895
00:46:57,354 --> 00:46:59,081
and from the north and the south,

896
00:46:59,081 --> 00:47:01,432
and they're going to sit 
down in that kingdom.

897
00:47:01,432 --> 00:47:03,891
They're going to sit down with 
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob

898
00:47:03,891 --> 00:47:05,884
while many of the sons of the kingdom

899
00:47:05,884 --> 00:47:08,297
are going to be cast into outer darkness.

900
00:47:08,297 --> 00:47:15,625
Brethren, let me hit you 
with another verse.

901
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:18,037
One of the pictures that we see

902
00:47:18,037 --> 00:47:23,427
comes at us in 2 Thessalonians.

903
00:47:23,427 --> 00:47:31,334
"When Jesus comes..."

904
00:47:31,334 --> 00:47:37,144
it says mid-way through 
2 Thessalonians 1:7:

905
00:47:37,144 --> 00:47:40,644
"...when the Lord Jesus 
is revealed from heaven."

906
00:47:40,644 --> 00:47:43,230
Here's His coming.

907
00:47:43,230 --> 00:47:45,120
"...With his mighty angels..."

908
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,871
That's what we saw in the parables.

909
00:47:46,871 --> 00:47:48,581
He's coming and He's going to

910
00:47:48,581 --> 00:47:51,091
send His angels out to gather in

911
00:47:51,091 --> 00:47:55,211
the wheat and the chaff,

912
00:47:55,211 --> 00:47:56,881
the good and the bad.

913
00:47:56,881 --> 00:47:58,211
Here He comes,

914
00:47:58,211 --> 00:48:00,111
"...in flaming fire,

915
00:48:00,111 --> 00:48:02,871
inflicting vengeance on those

916
00:48:02,871 --> 00:48:04,821
who do not know God

917
00:48:04,821 --> 00:48:07,479
and on those who do not obey

918
00:48:07,479 --> 00:48:09,649
the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

919
00:48:09,649 --> 00:48:15,344
They will suffer the punishment 
of eternal destruction

920
00:48:15,344 --> 00:48:17,588
away from the presence of the Lord

921
00:48:17,588 --> 00:48:19,688
and from the glory of His might,

922
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:21,148
when He comes on that day

923
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:23,246
to be glorified in His saints,

924
00:48:23,246 --> 00:48:25,216
and to be marveled at

925
00:48:25,216 --> 00:48:27,003
among all who have believed,

926
00:48:27,003 --> 00:48:34,410
because our testimony 
to you was believed."

927
00:48:34,410 --> 00:48:37,823
Listen, who are these people

928
00:48:37,823 --> 00:48:40,823
who are going to face this punishment?

929
00:48:40,823 --> 00:48:43,983
They're the people who are going 
to be condemned when He comes.

930
00:48:43,983 --> 00:48:46,436
Can I show you a picture of these people?

931
00:48:46,436 --> 00:48:51,243
It says here that they will suffer

932
00:48:51,243 --> 00:48:59,623
this punishment who did what?

933
00:48:59,623 --> 00:49:02,823
They didn't obey the gospel 
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

934
00:49:02,823 --> 00:49:04,025
They didn't know God.

935
00:49:04,025 --> 00:49:09,435
But jump over to 2 Thessalonians 2:12:

936
00:49:09,435 --> 00:49:11,975
"...in order that all may be condemned

937
00:49:11,975 --> 00:49:15,855
(here's our group who's being condemned)

938
00:49:15,855 --> 00:49:18,556
who did not believe the truth

939
00:49:18,556 --> 00:49:23,016
but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

940
00:49:23,016 --> 00:49:30,092
You say, who are the people

941
00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:38,692
who are going to go into the hell-fire?

942
00:49:38,692 --> 00:49:40,589
What describes them?

943
00:49:40,589 --> 00:49:43,329
They just simply live lives

944
00:49:43,329 --> 00:49:47,951
where they had pleasure 
in unrighteousness.

945
00:49:47,951 --> 00:49:51,649
You say, what? It's not the 
Adolf Hitler's? Yes, it's them.

946
00:49:51,649 --> 00:49:56,790
But listen, who has pleasure 
in unrighteousness?

947
00:49:56,790 --> 00:50:00,297
People who can sit down and 
watch things on the computer,

948
00:50:00,297 --> 00:50:07,427
on the television that's unrighteous,

949
00:50:07,427 --> 00:50:10,747
and just delight in those things.

950
00:50:10,747 --> 00:50:13,005
They can here a filthy joke at work

951
00:50:13,005 --> 00:50:14,805
and laugh with the other guys,

952
00:50:14,805 --> 00:50:18,180
then go to church on Sunday.

953
00:50:18,180 --> 00:50:22,166
Listen, one of the things 
about the parables,

954
00:50:22,166 --> 00:50:24,246
those parables by and large

955
00:50:24,246 --> 00:50:26,916
are not talking about the whole world.

956
00:50:26,916 --> 00:50:29,236
When it says the net gathers in

957
00:50:29,236 --> 00:50:30,824
the good and the bad;

958
00:50:30,824 --> 00:50:33,151
when it says that the 
angels are going to go out

959
00:50:33,151 --> 00:50:35,431
and they're going to 
gather some into the barn

960
00:50:35,431 --> 00:50:38,026
and the others they're going to burn,

961
00:50:38,026 --> 00:50:42,537
folks, this is a picture of the kingdom.

962
00:50:42,537 --> 00:50:47,321
This is the idea of who looks 
like they're in the church;

963
00:50:47,321 --> 00:50:49,961
who looks like they're on the way.

964
00:50:49,961 --> 00:50:52,907
When Jesus talks there in Matthew 7

965
00:50:52,907 --> 00:50:57,763
about the broad way,

966
00:50:57,763 --> 00:51:00,763
wide is the gate, broad is the way,

967
00:51:00,763 --> 00:51:04,029
brethren, that leads to destruction.

968
00:51:04,029 --> 00:51:05,869
He's not talking there about

969
00:51:05,869 --> 00:51:07,793
just anybody and everybody.

970
00:51:07,793 --> 00:51:12,690
He's talking about the crowd 
that's down in verses 21, 22, 23,

971
00:51:12,690 --> 00:51:15,686
who are saying, "Lord, Lord...

972
00:51:15,686 --> 00:51:18,686
we did many mighty 
works, we were there..."

973
00:51:18,686 --> 00:51:20,489
He says, "Depart from me."

974
00:51:20,489 --> 00:51:23,229
Why? Because you're lawless.

975
00:51:23,229 --> 00:51:26,381
You are people that 
took delight in lawlessness.

976
00:51:26,381 --> 00:51:29,976
You loved unrighteousness.

977
00:51:29,976 --> 00:51:34,176
That's it.

978
00:51:34,176 --> 00:51:37,758
And now they've lost it all.

979
00:51:37,758 --> 00:51:40,748
Listen, that's what repentance is,

980
00:51:40,748 --> 00:51:43,095
it's turning away from 
the unrighteousness.

981
00:51:43,095 --> 00:51:45,289
It's not making yourself righteous.

982
00:51:45,289 --> 00:51:47,649
It's not making yourself clean.

983
00:51:47,649 --> 00:51:50,803
It's fleeing to Christ 
in your filthiness,

984
00:51:50,803 --> 00:51:52,773
to Him to clean you,

985
00:51:52,773 --> 00:51:55,127
to Him to save you,

986
00:51:55,127 --> 00:51:58,127
to Him to help you and forgive you,

987
00:51:58,127 --> 00:52:01,658
and wash you in His blood,

988
00:52:01,658 --> 00:52:05,438
confessing your sin to Him.

989
00:52:05,438 --> 00:52:06,951
That's the picture.

990
00:52:06,951 --> 00:52:09,951
He says this is to be 
escaped at all costs.

991
00:52:09,951 --> 00:52:12,316
And He bids men, "Come."

992
00:52:12,316 --> 00:52:15,747
The Scripture says, whoever comes 
to Him, He'll never cast out.

993
00:52:15,747 --> 00:52:18,891
You come to Him, He'll never let 
you fall into a place like that.

994
00:52:18,891 --> 00:52:21,191
But listen, if you think 
you're coming to Him

995
00:52:21,191 --> 00:52:22,591
to get your sin forgiven,

996
00:52:22,591 --> 00:52:23,911
but you're going to go on

997
00:52:23,911 --> 00:52:26,478
loving your unrighteousness -- 
no, no, no, no.

998
00:52:26,478 --> 00:52:28,640
You're not coming to Him in reality.

999
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,802
Nobody comes to Christ in reality

1000
00:52:30,802 --> 00:52:32,964
who just wants to get delivered from hell.

1001
00:52:32,964 --> 00:52:34,573
That's not it.

1002
00:52:34,573 --> 00:52:37,273
We come to Him to be saved 
from the wrath of God.

1003
00:52:37,273 --> 00:52:41,257
The wrath of God is for our sin.

1004
00:52:41,257 --> 00:52:45,178
It's to take care of all of 
the problems of our sin.

1005
00:52:45,178 --> 00:52:47,618
The guilt of the sin, 
the power of the sin,

1006
00:52:47,618 --> 00:52:49,190
the presence of the sin,

1007
00:52:49,190 --> 00:52:51,860
my inclination to sin,

1008
00:52:51,860 --> 00:52:57,940
my love of it.

1009
00:52:57,940 --> 00:53:05,798
Brethren, folks, friends,

1010
00:53:05,798 --> 00:53:09,348
I'll just look at one last verse,

1011
00:53:09,348 --> 00:53:11,963
I know there's a whole lot more

1012
00:53:11,963 --> 00:53:15,303
and I was going to have you 
guys throw them at me,

1013
00:53:15,303 --> 00:53:17,875
but I guess the one you threw at me

1014
00:53:17,875 --> 00:53:21,825
was almost good enough 
for an entire message.

1015
00:53:21,825 --> 00:53:30,216
But just think of Revelation 19.

1016
00:53:30,216 --> 00:53:34,506
You have them singing there.

1017
00:53:34,506 --> 00:53:37,569
The marriage supper of the Lamb,

1018
00:53:37,569 --> 00:53:43,149
they're singing, "Hallelujah!"

1019
00:53:43,149 --> 00:53:44,901
Great things.

1020
00:53:44,901 --> 00:53:52,661
“Hallelujah! For the Lord our 
God the Almighty reigns. (v. 6)

1021
00:53:52,661 --> 00:53:56,237
Let us rejoice and exult 
and give Him the glory,

1022
00:53:56,237 --> 00:53:58,647
for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

1023
00:53:58,647 --> 00:54:01,122
and His bride has made herself ready."

1024
00:54:01,122 --> 00:54:06,734
Oh, you want to be there at all costs.

1025
00:54:06,734 --> 00:54:08,753
"It was granted her to clothe herself

1026
00:54:08,753 --> 00:54:11,753
with fine linen, bright and pure -

1027
00:54:11,753 --> 00:54:15,190
for the fine linen is the 
righteous deeds of the saints."

1028
00:54:15,190 --> 00:54:16,924
You see that?

1029
00:54:16,924 --> 00:54:18,934
Jesus changes His people

1030
00:54:18,934 --> 00:54:25,094
into righteous-deed doing people.

1031
00:54:25,094 --> 00:54:27,212
"Blessed are those who are invited

1032
00:54:27,212 --> 00:54:32,762
to the marriage supper of the Lamb."

1033
00:54:32,762 --> 00:54:36,648
But this Christ,

1034
00:54:36,648 --> 00:54:40,558
who is marrying His people,

1035
00:54:40,558 --> 00:54:42,558
down in verse 15:

1036
00:54:42,558 --> 00:54:45,850
"From His mouth comes a sharp sword

1037
00:54:45,850 --> 00:54:50,480
with which to strike down the nations,

1038
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,937
and He will rule them with a rod of iron.

1039
00:54:53,937 --> 00:54:57,255
He will tread the winepress of the fury

1040
00:54:57,255 --> 00:55:07,135
of the wrath of God the Almighty."

1041
00:55:07,135 --> 00:55:12,617
Do you realize this?

1042
00:55:12,617 --> 00:55:22,257
When Jesus comes, Scripture says this,

1043
00:55:22,257 --> 00:55:25,765
earlier in the Book of Revelation 1:7.

1044
00:55:25,765 --> 00:55:30,306
Behold, He is coming with the clouds,

1045
00:55:30,306 --> 00:55:32,476
and every eye will see Him,

1046
00:55:32,476 --> 00:55:36,056
even those who pierced Him." 
And listen to this.

1047
00:55:36,056 --> 00:55:39,744
"All tribes of the earth will wail

1048
00:55:39,744 --> 00:55:42,864
on account of Him.

1049
00:55:42,864 --> 00:55:47,694
Even so. Amen."

1050
00:55:47,694 --> 00:55:52,913
That verse strikes me.

1051
00:55:52,913 --> 00:55:56,463
You say, wait, over in 2 Thessalonians 1,

1052
00:55:56,463 --> 00:55:58,714
it says that there are going to be those

1053
00:55:58,714 --> 00:56:01,174
who are awaiting His return.

1054
00:56:01,174 --> 00:56:03,152
They're going to rejoice when He comes.

1055
00:56:03,152 --> 00:56:07,584
They're going to be amazed, that's true.

1056
00:56:07,584 --> 00:56:10,511
But, brethren, can I tell you something?

1057
00:56:10,511 --> 00:56:12,770
Scripture speaks about a remnant,

1058
00:56:12,770 --> 00:56:15,422
and it speaks about 
few there be that find it.

1059
00:56:15,422 --> 00:56:18,920
And it says many are on the way

1060
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,090
that leads to destruction.

1061
00:56:21,090 --> 00:56:24,111
There are so many on 
the way to destruction

1062
00:56:24,111 --> 00:56:27,111
that when Jesus comes,

1063
00:56:27,111 --> 00:56:35,193
it says not some tribes 
wail, some tribes rejoice.

1064
00:56:35,193 --> 00:56:39,262
In John's mind, he sees a picture

1065
00:56:39,262 --> 00:56:41,482
of the coming of Christ,

1066
00:56:41,482 --> 00:56:46,962
where all the tribes wail.

1067
00:56:46,962 --> 00:56:50,272
Why?

1068
00:56:50,272 --> 00:56:54,774
Because there's so few in light of

1069
00:56:54,774 --> 00:57:00,164
the vast multitudes of humanity

1070
00:57:00,164 --> 00:57:02,940
that John can speak that way

1071
00:57:02,940 --> 00:57:07,100
and be biblically accurate 
and biblically true,

1072
00:57:07,100 --> 00:57:09,431
even though he does not mention

1073
00:57:09,431 --> 00:57:12,359
the saints being there.

1074
00:57:12,359 --> 00:57:14,601
Why do I stress that?

1075
00:57:14,601 --> 00:57:18,281
I stress it for this reason.

1076
00:57:18,281 --> 00:57:23,963
Throughout all of history,

1077
00:57:23,963 --> 00:57:26,891
most men do not hear

1078
00:57:26,891 --> 00:57:31,361
a clear presentation of the gospel.

1079
00:57:31,361 --> 00:57:43,139
In all of history, most men miss heaven.

1080
00:57:43,139 --> 00:57:44,845
You know it's true.

1081
00:57:44,845 --> 00:57:50,055
There are people in this room 
that are going to perish.

1082
00:57:50,055 --> 00:57:53,860
You know it's true.

1083
00:57:53,860 --> 00:57:56,497
I'm saying this because, look,

1084
00:57:56,497 --> 00:58:01,165
if God has not only shown you 
all the kindnesses of creation,

1085
00:58:01,165 --> 00:58:05,453
but in addition, He's 
shown you the kindness

1086
00:58:05,453 --> 00:58:08,256
to allow you to hear the Gospel 
and hear the truth

1087
00:58:08,256 --> 00:58:11,554
and know that Jesus 
Christ died on that cross

1088
00:58:11,554 --> 00:58:15,294
to save sinners just like you and me;

1089
00:58:15,294 --> 00:58:19,246
to save even the chief of sinners.

1090
00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:22,102
I mean, why would God want us to know

1091
00:58:22,102 --> 00:58:25,658
that God has saved the chief of sinners?

1092
00:58:25,658 --> 00:58:27,731
Why would God want us to know

1093
00:58:27,731 --> 00:58:30,201
that He saved the thief on the cross?

1094
00:58:30,201 --> 00:58:32,498
Why would God want 
us to specifically know

1095
00:58:32,498 --> 00:58:34,848
that Mary Magdalene had 7 demons?

1096
00:58:34,848 --> 00:58:36,778
Ever think about why these things

1097
00:58:36,778 --> 00:58:38,571
have been specifically told to us?

1098
00:58:38,571 --> 00:58:40,572
They're told to us 
so that you might see

1099
00:58:40,572 --> 00:58:43,572
how bad the people are that God saves.

1100
00:58:43,572 --> 00:58:45,732
And if you've had this kindness,

1101
00:58:45,732 --> 00:58:48,648
that God has not only given 
you all this light of creation,

1102
00:58:48,648 --> 00:58:50,328
all the light of His kindness,

1103
00:58:50,328 --> 00:58:51,612
but in light of all that,

1104
00:58:51,612 --> 00:58:56,076
in addition to all that, on top of it,

1105
00:58:56,076 --> 00:58:59,274
you've been allowed to hear the truth,

1106
00:58:59,274 --> 00:59:03,283
come, flee to Him at once.

1107
00:59:03,283 --> 00:59:06,638
Listen, I remember my step-dad.

1108
00:59:06,638 --> 00:59:09,908
My step-dad came down to Texas,

1109
00:59:09,908 --> 00:59:12,076
and I wanted him to hear the truth.

1110
00:59:12,076 --> 00:59:15,090
And he sat under Pat Horner 
out at Community Baptist Church.

1111
00:59:15,090 --> 00:59:16,900
I was out there then.

1112
00:59:16,900 --> 00:59:19,392
He came and he heard me preach -

1113
00:59:19,392 --> 00:59:23,213
at a nursing home I know 
he heard me preach -

1114
00:59:23,213 --> 00:59:26,473
(incomplete thought)

1115
00:59:26,473 --> 00:59:29,894
but he was able to sit under 
the preaching several times.

1116
00:59:29,894 --> 00:59:32,019
I had evangelized my dad,

1117
00:59:32,019 --> 00:59:33,619
I had spoken to my dad,

1118
00:59:33,619 --> 00:59:35,349
but I think that was the most truth

1119
00:59:35,349 --> 00:59:36,994
he ever got in his life,

1120
00:59:36,994 --> 00:59:39,719
I know that was the 
first time he ever sat under

1121
00:59:39,719 --> 00:59:42,719
a good and solid sermon

1122
00:59:42,719 --> 00:59:46,191
that had truth in it 
that was actually preached

1123
00:59:46,191 --> 00:59:50,621
by one of God's messengers.

1124
00:59:50,621 --> 00:59:51,816
He refused it,

1125
00:59:51,816 --> 00:59:54,816
even when I was speaking 
at the nursing home,

1126
00:59:54,816 --> 00:59:56,416
he was rebelling against it,

1127
00:59:56,416 --> 00:59:58,182
he was rejecting it,

1128
00:59:58,182 --> 01:00:00,621
and he no more than 
went back to Michigan,

1129
01:00:00,621 --> 01:00:05,686
he had a massive heart 
attack -- it was amazing --

1130
01:00:05,686 --> 01:00:08,440
he had a massive heart attack, 
then he had a stroke,

1131
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,044
then he got cancer, then he died.

1132
01:00:12,044 --> 01:00:17,850
Brethren, folks, when you hear the truth,

1133
01:00:17,850 --> 01:00:20,850
there's a real hell out there.

1134
01:00:20,850 --> 01:00:25,302
And Jesus, by way of His 
ambassadors, is telling you,

1135
01:00:25,302 --> 01:00:29,532
escape that place at all costs.

1136
01:00:29,532 --> 01:00:32,854
What will you give in 
exchange for your soul?

1137
01:00:32,854 --> 01:00:34,914
You'll give everything.

1138
01:00:34,914 --> 01:00:38,122
(incomplete thought)

1139
01:00:38,122 --> 01:00:44,332
Look, don't wait until the flames 
overflow you to realize,

1140
01:00:44,332 --> 01:00:47,891
"Okay, okay, now I'll give 
everything in exchange for it!"

1141
01:00:47,891 --> 01:00:50,801
Don't wait till then. It's too late.

1142
01:00:50,801 --> 01:00:53,969
He speaks to you now while you have life.

1143
01:00:53,969 --> 01:01:00,579
Do not leave this place 
tonight if you are lost

1144
01:01:00,579 --> 01:01:02,281
and run back your sin.

1145
01:01:02,281 --> 01:01:05,011
It is suicidal. Don't do it.

1146
01:01:05,011 --> 01:01:10,472
You've heard the truth.

1147
01:01:10,472 --> 01:01:12,742
Oftentimes, when people hear the truth

1148
01:01:12,742 --> 01:01:14,142
and they harden themselves,

1149
01:01:14,142 --> 01:01:17,404
God will see to it that they get hardened.

1150
01:01:17,404 --> 01:01:20,967
And many times when you harden 
yourself against the truth, it's all over.

1151
01:01:20,967 --> 01:01:22,972
You won't get to hear it again.

1152
01:01:22,972 --> 01:01:25,224
You'll be like my step-dad.

1153
01:01:25,224 --> 01:01:30,004
The next thing you'll be in the grave.

1154
01:01:30,004 --> 01:01:33,377
I don't remember who it was,

1155
01:01:33,377 --> 01:01:39,657
they told the story about the 2 young men

1156
01:01:39,657 --> 01:01:42,872
that had girlfriends that went to church.

1157
01:01:42,872 --> 01:01:46,178
Their girlfriends' parents 
made them go to church.

1158
01:01:46,178 --> 01:01:49,353
The two guys showed up to get the girls

1159
01:01:49,353 --> 01:01:52,353
and the preacher saw them come in.

1160
01:01:52,353 --> 01:01:53,783
They stood there in the back

1161
01:01:53,783 --> 01:01:55,551
waiting for the service to get over

1162
01:01:55,551 --> 01:01:57,247
and he make a beeline to them,

1163
01:01:57,247 --> 01:02:01,947
and went back and began to talk to them.

1164
01:02:01,947 --> 01:02:04,242
And they rejected and they refused,

1165
01:02:04,242 --> 01:02:09,223
and one of those young men 
died right away after that.

1166
01:02:09,223 --> 01:02:12,250
We sought to proclaim truth

1167
01:02:12,250 --> 01:02:15,030
to a prostitute who 
came and lived with us.

1168
01:02:15,030 --> 01:02:18,387
And she rejected it and died after that.

1169
01:02:18,387 --> 01:02:20,397
There was a man that joined our church.

1170
01:02:20,397 --> 01:02:21,644
He was a heroin addict,

1171
01:02:21,644 --> 01:02:23,194
and he went back to his heroin

1172
01:02:23,194 --> 01:02:25,359
after he'd heard the truth,

1173
01:02:25,359 --> 01:02:27,851
and God took his life.

1174
01:02:27,851 --> 01:02:30,071
There was a young man.

1175
01:02:30,071 --> 01:02:32,071
He joined this church.

1176
01:02:32,071 --> 01:02:33,844
Exposed to a lot of truth,

1177
01:02:33,844 --> 01:02:37,804
he went back to his coke, 
God took his life.

1178
01:02:37,804 --> 01:02:40,037
There's a prostitute by 
the name of Zebedee,

1179
01:02:40,037 --> 01:02:44,783
she was exposed to the truth 
in this church in our early days.

1180
01:02:44,783 --> 01:02:48,103
God took her life.

1181
01:02:48,103 --> 01:02:50,823
There was a man from 
one of the local churches

1182
01:02:50,823 --> 01:02:52,269
that had us come preach,

1183
01:02:52,269 --> 01:02:55,104
and he tried to pull a scam on us,

1184
01:02:55,104 --> 01:02:56,940
but we preached truth to him.

1185
01:02:56,940 --> 01:02:59,822
He rejected it and God took his life.

1186
01:02:59,822 --> 01:03:03,434
He was young.

1187
01:03:03,434 --> 01:03:09,065
Brethren, folks, do not 
go out the door tonight

1188
01:03:09,065 --> 01:03:12,065
and go back to your sin.

1189
01:03:12,065 --> 01:03:14,862
This could very well be from God,

1190
01:03:14,862 --> 01:03:17,862
that it's your last time.

1191
01:03:17,862 --> 01:03:20,546
It's it. It's over. It's done.

1192
01:03:20,546 --> 01:03:22,226
And what's been described,

1193
01:03:22,226 --> 01:03:26,088
you may in unbelief go 
back to your sin right now,

1194
01:03:26,088 --> 01:03:28,776
but you will believe it one day.

1195
01:03:28,776 --> 01:03:32,461
And the sad things is, it's going to take

1196
01:03:32,461 --> 01:03:34,091
you being plunged into it

1197
01:03:34,091 --> 01:03:39,647
to realize how valuable your soul was.

1198
01:03:39,647 --> 01:03:43,307
How bad your sin was.

1199
01:03:43,307 --> 01:03:46,307
How foolish you are to reject --

1200
01:03:46,307 --> 01:03:50,255
do you realize that place was made

1201
01:03:50,255 --> 01:03:52,075
for the devil and his angels

1202
01:03:52,075 --> 01:03:56,169
and they don't get any chance.

1203
01:03:56,169 --> 01:03:59,169
They don't get the opportunity to repent.

1204
01:03:59,169 --> 01:04:02,039
Can you imagine those demons in hell,

1205
01:04:02,039 --> 01:04:11,049
screaming at you?

1206
01:04:11,049 --> 01:04:15,311
"You had the truth set before you.

1207
01:04:15,311 --> 01:04:20,140
You had the opportunity we never had.

1208
01:04:20,140 --> 01:04:22,801
You had the opportunity to be in heaven,

1209
01:04:22,801 --> 01:04:24,971
and to have Christ,

1210
01:04:24,971 --> 01:04:29,120
and to walk with God and to live forever,

1211
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,276
and you chose drugs, alcohol,

1212
01:04:32,276 --> 01:04:37,306
sex, partying, money, greed, sports, fame,

1213
01:04:37,306 --> 01:04:42,301
and just wanting to do life your own way."

1214
01:04:42,301 --> 01:04:45,443
"I don't want to feed any hungry people,

1215
01:04:45,443 --> 01:04:47,343
I want to live for me."

1216
01:04:47,343 --> 01:04:52,207
Just do it your way.

1217
01:04:52,207 --> 01:04:55,207
What a fool if that's what you would do.

1218
01:04:55,207 --> 01:05:02,492
Listen, there are people 
in here that love their sin.

1219
01:05:02,492 --> 01:05:05,509
I'm telling you, do not go out the door

1220
01:05:05,509 --> 01:05:07,759
without crying out to the Lord,

1221
01:05:07,759 --> 01:05:09,358
confessing your sin,

1222
01:05:09,358 --> 01:05:11,698
calling on Him to save you from it.

1223
01:05:11,698 --> 01:05:16,618
Don't go!

1224
01:05:16,618 --> 01:05:20,295
There's a good possibility you 
will never come back again.

1225
01:05:20,295 --> 01:05:25,009
Some of you.

1226
01:05:25,009 --> 01:05:29,242
Amen. We're dismissed.