1 00:00:10,923 --> 00:00:13,102 I mean, if there's not a love for Christ, 2 00:00:13,102 --> 00:00:14,805 if He isn't your all in all, 3 00:00:14,805 --> 00:00:16,683 if He isn't what drives your life, 4 00:00:16,683 --> 00:00:19,674 if He isn't the center and the core 5 00:00:19,674 --> 00:00:23,843 and the main movement of your whole life, 6 00:00:23,843 --> 00:00:30,148 if your life isn't just revolving around Him, 7 00:00:30,148 --> 00:00:36,093 you're going to get thrown away in the end. 8 00:00:36,093 --> 00:00:37,556 Can I tell you something? 9 00:00:37,556 --> 00:00:40,555 The wicked and the righteous - 10 00:00:40,555 --> 00:00:41,994 they're here in this room. 11 00:00:41,994 --> 00:00:43,255 We're here together. 12 00:00:43,255 --> 00:00:46,495 We're in the same net right now. 13 00:00:46,495 --> 00:00:48,703 We can't tell, 14 00:00:48,703 --> 00:00:50,065 but the day's coming. 15 00:00:50,065 --> 00:00:56,553 Right now, we're in close proximity with each other. 16 00:00:56,553 --> 00:01:00,433 So much so, sometimes even the most discerning of us, 17 00:01:00,433 --> 00:01:03,003 we can't tell. 18 00:01:03,003 --> 00:01:05,043 But the day's coming 19 00:01:05,043 --> 00:01:06,913 when a separation's going to be made 20 00:01:06,913 --> 00:01:08,391 and it's going to be final. 21 00:01:08,391 --> 00:01:09,982 We'll never be together 22 00:01:09,982 --> 00:01:12,113 ever again. 23 00:01:12,113 --> 00:01:15,235 Because you know what? In that Kingdom of Heaven, 24 00:01:15,235 --> 00:01:16,644 no liar is there. 25 00:01:16,644 --> 00:01:19,904 No coward is there. No adulterer is there. 26 00:01:19,904 --> 00:01:22,234 All the dogs, 27 00:01:22,234 --> 00:01:24,436 all the sorcerers, 28 00:01:24,436 --> 00:01:27,024 all those cowards, they're on the outside 29 00:01:27,024 --> 00:01:28,453 forevermore. 30 00:01:28,453 --> 00:01:30,770 The separation is final. 31 00:01:30,770 --> 00:01:34,295 The separation is absolutely right. 32 00:01:34,295 --> 00:01:37,665 It is absolutely perfect. 33 00:01:37,665 --> 00:01:39,564 In professing Christianity, 34 00:01:39,564 --> 00:01:41,751 there is the true and the false, 35 00:01:41,751 --> 00:01:44,270 but a day is coming when both 36 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:46,670 will be clearly distinguished 37 00:01:46,670 --> 00:01:49,651 and separated forever. 38 00:01:49,651 --> 00:01:52,921 Ladies and gentlemen, this is us. 39 00:01:52,921 --> 00:01:55,151 I'm not talking about a fairy tale 40 00:01:55,151 --> 00:01:56,720 or some Hollywood creation, 41 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,489 and I'm not talking about something 42 00:01:58,489 --> 00:02:00,049 that happened a long time ago 43 00:02:00,049 --> 00:02:01,448 or in a far away place. 44 00:02:01,448 --> 00:02:03,540 I'm talking about us. 45 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:06,760 We have all been drug along 46 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,599 and are being pulled along 47 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:10,847 by the Gospel net. 48 00:02:10,847 --> 00:02:13,390 I'm in here right now because of the Gospel. 49 00:02:13,390 --> 00:02:14,937 And for one reason or another, 50 00:02:14,937 --> 00:02:16,489 I suspect you are too, 51 00:02:16,489 --> 00:02:18,190 even if you're a child of somebody 52 00:02:18,190 --> 00:02:19,428 that came for that reason, 53 00:02:19,428 --> 00:02:20,989 and you didn't want to be here. 54 00:02:20,989 --> 00:02:23,100 Or your friend dragged you in or whatever. 55 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:24,828 You've gotten pulled by this thing 56 00:02:24,828 --> 00:02:27,720 one way or another. 57 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,061 This is us. 58 00:02:31,061 --> 00:02:36,161 Those angels are going to separate us. 59 00:02:36,161 --> 00:02:37,778 This is real. 60 00:02:37,778 --> 00:02:40,220 This is true. 61 00:02:40,220 --> 00:02:42,688 Jesus Christ came - 62 00:02:42,688 --> 00:02:44,369 do you know what He told Pilate 63 00:02:44,369 --> 00:02:46,671 about why He came into the world? 64 00:02:46,671 --> 00:02:48,839 To bear witness to the truth. 65 00:02:48,839 --> 00:02:50,570 And I'll guarantee you if He says 66 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:52,542 the Kingdom of Heaven is like this, 67 00:02:52,542 --> 00:02:53,889 it's because it is. 68 00:02:53,889 --> 00:02:55,399 And this day is coming 69 00:02:55,399 --> 00:02:57,548 and this separation is going to happen. 70 00:02:57,548 --> 00:02:59,488 Both are right now in the net: 71 00:02:59,488 --> 00:03:00,889 wicked and righteous. 72 00:03:00,889 --> 00:03:02,450 Though there's many kinds, 73 00:03:02,450 --> 00:03:05,048 bottom line, there's only two. 74 00:03:05,048 --> 00:03:07,961 He says there is the evil or the wicked, 75 00:03:07,961 --> 00:03:10,959 and He says there is the righteous. 76 00:03:10,959 --> 00:03:14,356 Look, there is not a third category. 77 00:03:14,356 --> 00:03:15,468 There is not. 78 00:03:15,468 --> 00:03:16,799 You have people today: 79 00:03:16,799 --> 00:03:18,110 "I don't go to church." 80 00:03:18,110 --> 00:03:20,206 "I don't bow to Christ." 81 00:03:20,206 --> 00:03:21,510 "I don't pray to Christ." 82 00:03:21,510 --> 00:03:24,150 "But... you know, I don't go 83 00:03:24,150 --> 00:03:27,295 persecute His people either." 84 00:03:27,295 --> 00:03:28,541 Listen, Jesus says, 85 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:32,008 "If you're not for Me, you're against Me." 86 00:03:32,008 --> 00:03:33,651 Lay it down. 87 00:03:33,651 --> 00:03:37,339 You're for Him or you're against Him. 88 00:03:37,339 --> 00:03:39,150 I'm not talking about whether you 89 00:03:39,150 --> 00:03:40,760 come to church or not. 90 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,666 This says there's many in the net 91 00:03:42,666 --> 00:03:44,283 that are going to be tossed out. 92 00:03:44,283 --> 00:03:45,988 It doesn't have to do with whether 93 00:03:45,988 --> 00:03:47,810 you say, "Lord, Lord." 94 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:49,408 He says it's not everybody 95 00:03:49,408 --> 00:03:50,607 that uses My name, 96 00:03:50,607 --> 00:03:52,061 that says to Me, "Lord, Lord," 97 00:03:52,061 --> 00:03:55,196 that's going to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 98 00:03:55,196 --> 00:03:56,938 You know who it is? 99 00:03:56,938 --> 00:03:59,931 It's those who have been genuinely born again. 100 00:03:59,931 --> 00:04:05,210 That's somebody - a new creation in Christ, 101 00:04:05,210 --> 00:04:09,590 who now, out of a transformed reality, 102 00:04:09,590 --> 00:04:13,183 they do the will of the Father. 103 00:04:13,183 --> 00:04:15,071 They practice righteousness. 104 00:04:15,071 --> 00:04:16,621 Is that not the description? 105 00:04:16,621 --> 00:04:18,433 My wife was hitting 1 John. 106 00:04:18,433 --> 00:04:21,683 1 John 3:9-10 - you see that kind of reality. 107 00:04:21,683 --> 00:04:25,514 If you're born of God, you practice righteousness. 108 00:04:25,514 --> 00:04:28,492 (Incomplete thought) 109 00:04:28,492 --> 00:04:29,978 You know the thing about this? 110 00:04:29,978 --> 00:04:32,782 You know the fact about this 111 00:04:32,782 --> 00:04:35,360 is that when we talk about the evil 112 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,981 and the righteous, 113 00:04:37,981 --> 00:04:42,680 nobody ever thinks they're the evil. 114 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,941 We have them in this room, 115 00:04:44,941 --> 00:04:46,997 but you don't think you are. 116 00:04:46,997 --> 00:04:49,273 The thing is, it's not even just those 117 00:04:49,273 --> 00:04:50,901 that are caught in the net. 118 00:04:50,901 --> 00:04:52,960 It's those that are out in the sea still 119 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,650 that aren't in the net. 120 00:04:54,650 --> 00:04:56,489 You go around to these homes out here, 121 00:04:56,489 --> 00:04:58,961 people think they're pretty good people, don't they? 122 00:04:58,961 --> 00:05:02,664 I mean, you go out and ask, it's amazing. 123 00:05:02,664 --> 00:05:04,792 You can go to a prison 124 00:05:04,792 --> 00:05:06,831 where people are armed robbers, 125 00:05:06,831 --> 00:05:08,420 murderers, and rapists, 126 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:09,970 and they're pretty good people. 127 00:05:09,970 --> 00:05:12,030 They think they're pretty good. 128 00:05:12,030 --> 00:05:14,560 You know, who is wicked? 129 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,192 Hitler. Right? 130 00:05:16,192 --> 00:05:19,218 Everybody says Hitler. Hitler is wicked. 131 00:05:19,218 --> 00:05:25,720 You know anybody else that's wicked? 132 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,431 You know what Scripture says? 133 00:05:28,431 --> 00:05:31,071 In 2 Thessalonians 2:12, 134 00:05:31,071 --> 00:05:33,811 when Jesus comes, 135 00:05:33,811 --> 00:05:35,348 He is going to condemn - 136 00:05:35,348 --> 00:05:36,789 now check this out - 137 00:05:36,789 --> 00:05:38,640 He is going to condemn 138 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:46,670 all who had pleasure in unrighteousness. 139 00:05:46,670 --> 00:05:51,681 You say, "I went to church." 140 00:05:51,681 --> 00:05:53,462 A profession of faith 141 00:05:53,462 --> 00:05:56,201 is no guarantee you're saved. 142 00:05:56,201 --> 00:05:58,663 The fact that you sing the songs 143 00:05:58,663 --> 00:06:01,320 and even feel good feelings over the songs 144 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,900 and say "Lord, Lord" in the songs, 145 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:05,687 and cast out demons, 146 00:06:05,687 --> 00:06:08,101 and do many mighty works, 147 00:06:08,101 --> 00:06:09,430 and all those things - 148 00:06:09,430 --> 00:06:14,254 the Scripture says there are no guarantees there. 149 00:06:14,254 --> 00:06:17,583 No guarantees. 150 00:06:17,583 --> 00:06:19,051 Think with me here. 151 00:06:19,051 --> 00:06:21,461 They had pleasure in unrighteousness. 152 00:06:21,461 --> 00:06:23,830 That's what you need to ask yourself. 153 00:06:23,830 --> 00:06:26,640 Can you sit back and watch a filthy movie 154 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,378 and take good pleasure in that? 155 00:06:28,378 --> 00:06:30,758 Can you hear a guy tell a dirty joke at work 156 00:06:30,758 --> 00:06:32,900 and you laugh at that? 157 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:35,290 I mean, you're just going through life, 158 00:06:35,290 --> 00:06:36,938 and you're just taking pleasure 159 00:06:36,938 --> 00:06:37,883 in unrighteousness. 160 00:06:37,883 --> 00:06:41,109 You take pleasure in gaining money. 161 00:06:41,109 --> 00:06:43,301 You take pleasure in the things 162 00:06:43,301 --> 00:06:45,530 that the world takes pleasure in. 163 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:47,490 You take pleasure in sports 164 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:49,371 or in sewing or gardening 165 00:06:49,371 --> 00:06:51,870 or whatever it is 166 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:53,879 over and above Christ. 167 00:06:53,879 --> 00:06:56,472 Christ is not first. Christ is not chief. 168 00:06:56,472 --> 00:06:59,200 Christ is not loved. 169 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,401 (incomplete thought) 170 00:07:01,401 --> 00:07:02,780 How about Romans 2? 171 00:07:02,780 --> 00:07:04,528 "But for those who are self-seeking 172 00:07:04,528 --> 00:07:05,880 and do not obey the truth, 173 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,090 but obey unrighteousness, 174 00:07:07,090 --> 00:07:08,638 there will be wrath and fury." 175 00:07:08,638 --> 00:07:11,670 All you have to do is be self-seeking. 176 00:07:11,670 --> 00:07:14,510 Look, you don't have to go through life 177 00:07:14,510 --> 00:07:17,832 living in the gutter; 178 00:07:17,832 --> 00:07:20,361 living the life of a prostitute or a drug addict 179 00:07:20,361 --> 00:07:22,191 or living in all sorts of heinous sin. 180 00:07:22,191 --> 00:07:24,487 You can just be a moral person. 181 00:07:24,487 --> 00:07:27,150 You just want to do life your way. 182 00:07:27,150 --> 00:07:30,180 You're self-seeking. 183 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:31,701 You know, you'll look pretty good, 184 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:33,231 pretty respectable. 185 00:07:33,231 --> 00:07:35,531 You'll even go to church, 186 00:07:35,531 --> 00:07:38,649 but God forbid Jesus Christ 187 00:07:38,649 --> 00:07:42,460 command your life totally, 188 00:07:42,460 --> 00:07:46,849 and you forsake all and bow at His cross. 189 00:07:46,849 --> 00:07:48,388 Just self-seeking. 190 00:07:48,388 --> 00:07:50,118 Taking pleasure in unrighteousness. 191 00:07:50,118 --> 00:07:51,669 These are the people in the end 192 00:07:51,669 --> 00:07:53,889 who are these bad fish. 193 00:07:53,889 --> 00:07:56,311 And they're separated from the good. 194 00:07:56,311 --> 00:07:57,389 They're separated. 195 00:07:57,389 --> 00:07:59,264 They're tossed out. 196 00:07:59,264 --> 00:08:03,160 The test is not whether you make a profession. 197 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,449 It is the fruit of your life. 198 00:08:05,449 --> 00:08:06,839 That's why in the end, 199 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:08,009 we're going to be judged 200 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:09,770 based on our works. 201 00:08:09,770 --> 00:08:11,457 You say, aren't we saved by faith? 202 00:08:11,457 --> 00:08:14,262 Well, yes. Then why are we judged by works? 203 00:08:14,262 --> 00:08:17,619 Because true faith always produces 204 00:08:17,619 --> 00:08:19,579 love for Christ. 205 00:08:19,579 --> 00:08:22,008 It always produces a love for His ways, 206 00:08:22,008 --> 00:08:23,490 a love to be ruled by Him, 207 00:08:23,490 --> 00:08:26,560 a love for His commandments. 208 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,039 That's always the case. 209 00:08:28,039 --> 00:08:29,719 The love of Christ. 210 00:08:29,719 --> 00:08:33,058 Brethren, you have the other parable. 211 00:08:33,058 --> 00:08:34,831 The man's walking along through the field 212 00:08:34,831 --> 00:08:36,049 and finds the treasure. 213 00:08:36,049 --> 00:08:37,730 He goes and sells all that he has 214 00:08:37,730 --> 00:08:39,420 so that he can have the treasure. 215 00:08:39,420 --> 00:08:41,470 I'll tell you what, that's forsaking all. 216 00:08:41,470 --> 00:08:43,457 Why? Why will a man forsake everything? 217 00:08:43,457 --> 00:08:44,852 Because he's found something 218 00:08:44,852 --> 00:08:46,159 that's a greater treasure. 219 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:48,059 And when people's eyes are truly opened 220 00:08:48,059 --> 00:08:50,920 to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 221 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,051 they will abandon everything. 222 00:08:53,051 --> 00:08:54,887 They will abandon. And you know what? 223 00:08:54,887 --> 00:08:57,130 You don't have to be around people too long. 224 00:08:57,130 --> 00:09:02,190 you can tell people who are religious church-goers 225 00:09:02,190 --> 00:09:05,900 versus somebody who loves Christ. 226 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:08,620 I mean, you can tell. You can tell the difference. 227 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:10,117 I was just reading about 228 00:09:10,117 --> 00:09:13,650 one of those first Great Awakenings - 229 00:09:13,650 --> 00:09:16,387 Daniel Rowland - he was a key 230 00:09:16,387 --> 00:09:18,600 Great Awakening figure out of Wales. 231 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,879 And he said this: lost men love doctrine. 232 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:25,179 I'm not saying saved men don't like it too, 233 00:09:25,179 --> 00:09:28,679 but his very point was lost men love doctrine. 234 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,242 Saved men love Christ. 235 00:09:32,242 --> 00:09:33,929 Oh, you can get somebody 236 00:09:33,929 --> 00:09:36,410 that wants to argue all the five points of Calvinism 237 00:09:36,410 --> 00:09:40,009 and they want to argue the supralapsarianism 238 00:09:40,009 --> 00:09:41,439 Sam was talking about before. 239 00:09:41,439 --> 00:09:42,860 They want to argue election. 240 00:09:42,860 --> 00:09:45,198 They want to argue about all these things. 241 00:09:45,198 --> 00:09:47,260 Bottom line, you can tell the true Christian 242 00:09:47,260 --> 00:09:49,580 despite what his theology might look like. 243 00:09:49,580 --> 00:09:51,201 They can be Arminian to the core, 244 00:09:51,201 --> 00:09:52,911 but you can tell people when you're around them, 245 00:09:52,911 --> 00:09:54,659 they are surrendered to Christ 246 00:09:54,659 --> 00:09:56,691 and they love Him. 247 00:09:56,691 --> 00:09:58,119 And they walk in the light 248 00:09:58,119 --> 00:10:02,382 of the glory of Him. 249 00:10:02,382 --> 00:10:03,642 Let me tell you this. 250 00:10:03,642 --> 00:10:07,410 Men and women are thrown into hell. 251 00:10:07,410 --> 00:10:09,039 They're not just put there. 252 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:11,250 They're thrown there. 253 00:10:11,250 --> 00:10:14,320 It is like a repulsive thing. 254 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,301 It's these holy angels. 255 00:10:16,301 --> 00:10:18,410 (incomplete thought) 256 00:10:18,410 --> 00:10:23,999 It's like, even a man like Paul could say, 257 00:10:23,999 --> 00:10:27,489 right there as he's wrapping up 1 Corinthians 258 00:10:27,489 --> 00:10:29,400 at the end of chapter 16, 259 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,411 he says let everybody be cursed 260 00:10:32,411 --> 00:10:35,968 who does not love the Lord Jesus Christ. 261 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,691 It's that kind of thing. 262 00:10:37,691 --> 00:10:39,453 They find these fish 263 00:10:39,453 --> 00:10:41,100 who they were in the church, 264 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:42,761 they were among God's people. 265 00:10:42,761 --> 00:10:44,576 They got pulled in. 266 00:10:44,576 --> 00:10:46,258 They're like that one that's found 267 00:10:46,258 --> 00:10:49,261 at the wedding without the garment on. 268 00:10:49,261 --> 00:10:51,131 They're naked. They're filthy. 269 00:10:51,131 --> 00:10:52,971 They're nasty. They're vile. 270 00:10:52,971 --> 00:10:54,493 And these angels, 271 00:10:54,493 --> 00:10:56,299 it's like they're so repulsive 272 00:10:56,299 --> 00:10:57,960 they're just cast. 273 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,191 They're thrown. They're rejected. 274 00:11:00,191 --> 00:11:03,461 Men are thrown into hell. 275 00:11:03,461 --> 00:11:06,940 It is a fearful thing. 276 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:08,698 You know, one thing that's just true 277 00:11:08,698 --> 00:11:10,861 of every one of us? 278 00:11:10,861 --> 00:11:12,860 You know how the Scripture says 279 00:11:12,860 --> 00:11:14,700 God is no respecter of men. 280 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:17,961 We are respecters of men. 281 00:11:17,961 --> 00:11:21,730 The truth is everyone of us in this room respects ourself. 282 00:11:21,730 --> 00:11:24,410 I mean, there are things we just would not want done. 283 00:11:24,410 --> 00:11:26,988 Somebody throwing us into hell. 284 00:11:26,988 --> 00:11:30,082 People will say, "My God's not like that." 285 00:11:30,082 --> 00:11:31,670 But let me tell you something, 286 00:11:31,670 --> 00:11:34,081 the God of the Scriptures is like that. 287 00:11:34,081 --> 00:11:35,870 And the problem is 288 00:11:35,870 --> 00:11:38,002 it doesn't have so much to do with 289 00:11:38,002 --> 00:11:40,461 what God's like - well, it does in a great way, 290 00:11:40,461 --> 00:11:42,754 but it has a lot to do with what you're like. 291 00:11:42,754 --> 00:11:45,524 You see, people have a very high view of themselves. 292 00:11:45,524 --> 00:11:48,141 You know what it takes 293 00:11:48,141 --> 00:11:51,040 for a holy God to cast sinners 294 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:52,509 into hell like that? 295 00:11:52,509 --> 00:11:54,600 In such a detestable fashion? 296 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,221 It has to do with how filthy 297 00:11:56,221 --> 00:11:58,340 and how ugly and how useless 298 00:11:58,340 --> 00:12:00,061 and how wicked and how sinful 299 00:12:00,061 --> 00:12:01,666 you truly are. 300 00:12:01,666 --> 00:12:03,439 See, we're respecters of self, 301 00:12:03,439 --> 00:12:05,079 so we generally have 302 00:12:05,079 --> 00:12:07,348 much higher views of ourselves 303 00:12:07,348 --> 00:12:08,990 than what we ought to have. 304 00:12:08,990 --> 00:12:12,952 Even as Christians, that's true. 305 00:12:12,952 --> 00:12:14,717 But God is no respecter. 306 00:12:14,717 --> 00:12:17,730 And if He finds you in that net 307 00:12:17,730 --> 00:12:21,219 in that day by way of His angels, 308 00:12:21,219 --> 00:12:23,311 if you're found in that net, 309 00:12:23,311 --> 00:12:27,011 and you're found there in that condition, 310 00:12:27,011 --> 00:12:30,420 you are going to be thrown away. 311 00:12:30,420 --> 00:12:32,490 It is going to be violent. 312 00:12:32,490 --> 00:12:34,219 It is going to be on purpose. 313 00:12:34,219 --> 00:12:37,329 And God is going to be no respecter of you. 314 00:12:37,329 --> 00:12:41,437 And in that time, the age of the net is done. 315 00:12:41,437 --> 00:12:45,043 Men typically look in this life 316 00:12:45,043 --> 00:12:46,344 for a second chance. 317 00:12:46,344 --> 00:12:47,468 You know, we get sick. 318 00:12:47,468 --> 00:12:49,718 We have this idea we're going to get well again. 319 00:12:49,718 --> 00:12:51,220 You lose a job, you have an idea 320 00:12:51,220 --> 00:12:52,958 that you're going to get another job again. 321 00:12:52,958 --> 00:12:54,749 And this life is full of second chances, 322 00:12:54,749 --> 00:12:56,360 but I'll tell you in that day, 323 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,770 there will be no more casting of the net. 324 00:12:58,770 --> 00:13:00,864 There will be no more offer of mercy. 325 00:13:00,864 --> 00:13:02,838 There will be no more offer of grace. 326 00:13:02,838 --> 00:13:07,656 No more offer of God's compassion. 327 00:13:07,656 --> 00:13:09,809 You know what happens? 328 00:13:09,809 --> 00:13:11,392 They're thrown out there 329 00:13:11,392 --> 00:13:14,000 and there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. 330 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,709 And I'll tell you one of the things 331 00:13:15,709 --> 00:13:18,860 that will induce weeping in the damned 332 00:13:18,860 --> 00:13:21,133 if they were in the net - 333 00:13:21,133 --> 00:13:23,262 think with me here - 334 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:26,938 think with me if you're like one of the demons. 335 00:13:26,938 --> 00:13:31,026 The demons fell into sin. 336 00:13:31,026 --> 00:13:32,819 The lake of fire has been created 337 00:13:32,819 --> 00:13:37,790 for Satan and for his demons. 338 00:13:37,790 --> 00:13:41,349 You sinned. You got what you deserved. 339 00:13:41,349 --> 00:13:43,130 Justice came. 340 00:13:43,130 --> 00:13:45,168 You're in the lake of fire. 341 00:13:45,168 --> 00:13:46,789 It's horrible. 342 00:13:46,789 --> 00:13:49,566 It's horrible beyond imagination 343 00:13:49,566 --> 00:13:54,001 because the punishment is horrid. 344 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:56,354 But can you imagine 345 00:13:56,354 --> 00:13:57,961 to be in the lake of fire 346 00:13:57,961 --> 00:14:00,911 and to be a man or a woman? 347 00:14:00,911 --> 00:14:02,952 To belong to a race 348 00:14:02,952 --> 00:14:07,802 to whom a Savior was sent? 349 00:14:07,802 --> 00:14:08,978 But you know what, 350 00:14:08,978 --> 00:14:13,687 we support missions in Papua New Guinea. 351 00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:17,390 What if you're one of those cannibals 352 00:14:17,390 --> 00:14:21,031 and you died before the missionary ever came? 353 00:14:21,031 --> 00:14:22,420 That's miserable. 354 00:14:22,420 --> 00:14:23,911 That's miserable being in hell 355 00:14:23,911 --> 00:14:26,949 and to know you deserved it. 356 00:14:26,949 --> 00:14:28,978 But how much will it intensify it to know 357 00:14:28,978 --> 00:14:32,509 that a Savior was sent to your race, 358 00:14:32,509 --> 00:14:34,618 but you never heard? 359 00:14:34,618 --> 00:14:40,318 But in creation, there was light. 360 00:14:40,318 --> 00:14:43,150 You realized there was a God 361 00:14:43,150 --> 00:14:46,012 and you rejected it. 362 00:14:46,012 --> 00:14:49,542 But I'll tell you this, 363 00:14:49,542 --> 00:14:52,538 to not be like a devil, 364 00:14:52,538 --> 00:14:55,169 to not be like the cannibal, 365 00:14:55,169 --> 00:14:58,769 but to be like you - 366 00:14:58,769 --> 00:15:01,430 to have sat in the church; 367 00:15:01,430 --> 00:15:04,928 to have sat under the Gospel; 368 00:15:04,928 --> 00:15:07,519 to have had Christ offered 369 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:08,672 right before you, 370 00:15:08,672 --> 00:15:12,310 the cross set up in your sight, 371 00:15:12,310 --> 00:15:16,740 Christ publicly portrayed as crucified. 372 00:15:16,740 --> 00:15:19,092 If any one of you in this room 373 00:15:19,092 --> 00:15:22,220 ends up cast away, thrown away, 374 00:15:22,220 --> 00:15:26,039 your weeping will be the most intolerable. 375 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:30,140 To know that you had Christ set 376 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:32,449 right there before you; 377 00:15:32,449 --> 00:15:36,380 right there. 378 00:15:36,380 --> 00:15:38,420 And you chose your sin. 379 00:15:38,420 --> 00:15:39,950 You would not bow your knee. 380 00:15:39,950 --> 00:15:42,597 You would rather take pleasure in unrighteousness. 381 00:15:42,597 --> 00:15:44,151 There was some idol in your life 382 00:15:44,151 --> 00:15:45,259 that you held on to. 383 00:15:45,259 --> 00:15:46,849 You will weep. 384 00:15:46,849 --> 00:15:52,319 It will be the most distressing thing 385 00:15:52,319 --> 00:15:56,630 to suffer punishment rightfully, 386 00:15:56,630 --> 00:15:59,842 justly like the demons. 387 00:15:59,842 --> 00:16:01,180 It's horrible! 388 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:02,630 But to know, 389 00:16:02,630 --> 00:16:05,098 I had eternal life - 390 00:16:05,098 --> 00:16:06,601 not only did I have an escape 391 00:16:06,601 --> 00:16:10,768 out of this place I find myself in, 392 00:16:10,768 --> 00:16:15,140 but it wouldn't just to have been brought to nothing, 393 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:16,921 or annihilated, 394 00:16:16,921 --> 00:16:19,139 or just to have been relieved from the pain. 395 00:16:19,139 --> 00:16:20,480 There was a Heaven. 396 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:21,709 There was a glory. 397 00:16:21,709 --> 00:16:24,188 There was a Paradise to be had 398 00:16:24,188 --> 00:16:25,690 and I despised it. 399 00:16:25,690 --> 00:16:29,051 It was eternal, and I rather forsook Christ. 400 00:16:29,051 --> 00:16:30,691 I turned my back on Him. 401 00:16:30,691 --> 00:16:32,381 I didn't listen to the preacher. 402 00:16:32,381 --> 00:16:34,291 I thought more about the football game. 403 00:16:34,291 --> 00:16:35,820 I thought more about the work. 404 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:37,130 I thought more about money. 405 00:16:37,130 --> 00:16:38,900 I thought more about sex 406 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:40,587 and all the gods of this world. 407 00:16:40,587 --> 00:16:42,710 I thought more about drinking and drugs 408 00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:45,239 and partying and pleasure and fun 409 00:16:45,239 --> 00:16:46,670 and being with my friends, 410 00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:48,901 and I chose that over Christ. 411 00:16:48,901 --> 00:16:50,777 And I sat there in the church. 412 00:16:50,777 --> 00:16:52,782 I heard Sam and others 413 00:16:52,782 --> 00:16:54,071 stand in that pulpit, 414 00:16:54,071 --> 00:16:56,134 and week after week, I heard it, 415 00:16:56,134 --> 00:16:58,041 and I rejected it. 416 00:16:58,041 --> 00:17:00,259 I went out and I shook myself 417 00:17:00,259 --> 00:17:01,571 like Samson did, 418 00:17:01,571 --> 00:17:03,688 and I just blew it off. 419 00:17:03,688 --> 00:17:07,777 I wanted those demons to come like birds 420 00:17:07,777 --> 00:17:09,167 and pick the seed away. 421 00:17:09,167 --> 00:17:10,609 I wanted it. 422 00:17:10,609 --> 00:17:12,384 I tried to douse my conscience. 423 00:17:12,384 --> 00:17:14,800 I didn't want to feel it. 424 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,950 And it says not only do they weep, 425 00:17:16,950 --> 00:17:20,619 it says they gnash with their teeth. 426 00:17:20,619 --> 00:17:23,082 Christ is altogether lovely. 427 00:17:23,082 --> 00:17:25,080 He is altogether glorious. 428 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,551 And there isn't a thing in this world 429 00:17:27,551 --> 00:17:29,031 that is worth holding on to 430 00:17:29,031 --> 00:17:30,221 because you know what? 431 00:17:30,221 --> 00:17:32,141 There isn't a thing in this world 432 00:17:32,141 --> 00:17:34,760 that you're going to be able to hold on to. 433 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,649 It's all going to be taken away. 434 00:17:37,649 --> 00:17:40,148 I mean, what a fool that person is 435 00:17:40,148 --> 00:17:41,700 to hold on to something 436 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:43,662 and reject Christ, 437 00:17:43,662 --> 00:17:46,420 that they're going to lose in the end anyway. 438 00:17:46,420 --> 00:17:48,552 Absolutely foolish. 439 00:17:48,552 --> 00:17:51,686 Jesus Christ was nailed to that cross 440 00:17:51,686 --> 00:17:55,491 and He bore the wrath of God Almighty. 441 00:17:55,491 --> 00:17:57,769 He drank that cup. 442 00:17:57,769 --> 00:18:00,260 Even in anticipation of it, 443 00:18:00,260 --> 00:18:02,759 He said, "I sorrow unto death." 444 00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:06,342 Even the contemplation by the Son of God, 445 00:18:06,342 --> 00:18:09,651 the mighty Son of God even contemplating 446 00:18:09,651 --> 00:18:14,616 what horrors lie in wait for the damned, 447 00:18:14,616 --> 00:18:18,041 that He must drink on behalf of His people. 448 00:18:18,041 --> 00:18:21,891 The Son of God - it brought Him 449 00:18:21,891 --> 00:18:23,570 to the point of death. 450 00:18:23,570 --> 00:18:25,428 He sorrowed unto death. 451 00:18:25,428 --> 00:18:27,840 He sweat great drops of blood. 452 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,670 And He went to that cross, 453 00:18:29,670 --> 00:18:31,699 and the sun forbeared to shine 454 00:18:31,699 --> 00:18:33,420 and the wrath of God Almighty 455 00:18:33,420 --> 00:18:36,971 fell upon Him. 456 00:18:36,971 --> 00:18:40,032 The weeping and gnashing of teeth is real. 457 00:18:40,032 --> 00:18:41,841 He bore my weeping 458 00:18:41,841 --> 00:18:43,811 and my gnashing of teeth. 459 00:18:43,811 --> 00:18:44,958 He bore it. 460 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:47,469 Full, poured on His head. 461 00:18:47,469 --> 00:18:50,558 I am free.