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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Clark 

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Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary
Chapel of Westmoreland, County 

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of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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At this great White Throne 
judgment, there's going to be 

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famous people there, there's 
going to be rock stars there, 

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there's going to be people that 
did great things on the earth 

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and the world thought they were 
wonderful, but these people were

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heathen. 
They never bowed their knee to 

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Jesus Christ. 
They never repented of their 

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sin. 
They never allowed the Holy 

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Spirit to save them because they
rebelled against the Lord. 

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The small and the great will be 
standing there and the books 

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will be open. 
The Word of God is what judges 

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us. 
When I preach on Sundays, I'm 

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not judging you and you're not 
judging me. 

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There is no exception to who you
are on the Day of Judgement. 

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Every person, no matter what 
kind of life they lived on 

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earth, will have to stand face 
to face with their Maker an 

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answer for their sins. 
It doesn't matter what kind of 

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glory you lived in on this earth
and how wonderful the world 

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thought you were if you didn't 
glory in the Lord before 

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yourself. 
Today Pastor Clark teaches us 

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that the judgment behold of each
other means nothing in heaven. 

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It's the word that holds 
judgment against us. 

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Now here's Pastor Clark in 
Revelation chapter 20 with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace, Revelation chapter 20,

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verse 7. 
Now when the 1000 years had 

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expired, Satan will be released 
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He will go out to deceive the 
nations which are in the four 

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corners of the earth, Gog and 
Magog to gather them together to

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battle, whose number is as the 
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They went up on the breadth of 
the earth and surrounded the 

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camp of the Saints in the 
beloved city. 

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And fire came down from God out 
of heaven and devoured them. 

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The devil who deceived them was 
cast into the lake of fire and 

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brimstone, where the beast and 
the false prophet are, and they 

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will be tormented night, day and
night, forever and ever. 

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Now we see in verse 7 that the 
thousand year reign, we know 

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that Satan had been locked up. 
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of weeks and Christ had 
dominion. 

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Christ has dominion. 
Even now we don't grasp that any

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way the devil can do anything is
through the permissive will of 

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God. 
So the Lord is ruling and 

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reigning. 
There's never been a second in 

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human history or the history of 
the universe that Christ has not

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been ruling and reigning 
supreme. 

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But we are in a world right now 
where the devil is loosed and 

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he's causing a lot of problems 
for people and blinding people 

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to their need of a savior. 
He's causing problems for us too

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as Christians, causing us to be 
lukewarm and indifferent and 

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apathetic and lazy about 
following of the Lord many times

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causes us to be distracted and 
focused on things that aren't 

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going to last. 
That's part of the battle that 

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we go through as Christians and 
the warfare. 

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But when these thousand years 
have expired, there's going to 

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be one more shot that Satan will
have after he's been locked up 

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in the abyss. 
He's going to be let out of this

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prison. 
And you might say, well, why 

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does this happen? 
Why would God do this? 

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We have to realize that there's 
a lot of people being born 

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during the Millennium, people 
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born in sin. 
Many of them will grow up coming

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to faith in in Messiah, but 
there will be some that will 

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refuse to believe on Christ 
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There'll be this outward form of
respect that's like the law. 

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OK, I don't want to break the 
law and get in any trouble. 

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But down deep inside these 
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And so those who are alive at 
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reign their whole interest and 
they'll they'll merge together 

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with the devil at that time as 
one last shot to overthrow the 

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Kingdom. 
They won't win. 

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Impossible. 
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And this is what this is 
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They'll go out to deceive the 
nations which are in the four 

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corners of the earth. 
Gog and Magog and and this 

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battle is a little bit different
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Ezekiel 37 and 38. 
That battle was tied in more to 

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toward the end of the 
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We call it Armageddon. 
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here is going to be a war that's
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The Lord is going to pour out 
his vengeance and his anger upon

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these people who are coming 
against the beloved city of 

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Jerusalem at this time to 
destroy the camp of the Saints 

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and fire, it says in verse 9, 
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heaven and devour them. 
So it's not really even a war 

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that's going to be over like 
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And the devil, which is exciting
here now, will finally the one 

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who's deceived people since the 
beginning of time will be cast 

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into the lake of fire and 
brimstone where you might want 

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to underline this, the beast and
the false prophet are there's no

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annihilation in hell. 
People that go to hell are 

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tormented day and night, forever
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And it tells you that at the end
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tormented day and night, forever
and ever. 

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Some people think when you die, 
that's it. 

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Some people laugh. 
Well, I know I'm a Sinner and no

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big deal because when I die, I'm
going to be with my friends. 

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We're going to party down there 
and these crazy ideas of what 

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the afterlife is like. 
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There'll be no sense of 
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You'll be alone by yourself and 
your own thoughts and your own 

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horror, being tormented day and 
night forever and ever. 

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And some people will say, well, 
God is a God of life. 

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Why would he create such a place
called hell? 

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Why would there have to be such 
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Well, we have to keep in mind it
says in Matthew 2541 that the 

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devil, hell was created and 
prepared for the devil and his 

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angels. 
God never intended one of His 

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creatures like us to have to go 
to hell. 

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It tells us in Peter He's not 
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but that all should come to 
repentance. 

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But in his justice he has to be 
faithful and true to His 

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Holiness. 
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Kingdom of heaven now. 
We're all sinners here today. 

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Even though many of us have been
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Christ, we still sin. 
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but we still are in this world, 
in this physical body, and we do

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stupid things. 
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we're doing less stupid things, 
I would trust. 

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We're becoming more like Christ 
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becoming more conformed to the 
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Christ lived on the earth 
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So there is this problem that 
the human race has, and those 

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who don't know Jesus Christ are 
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of fire forever and ever. 
Now there's two judgments. 

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There's a judgment seat of 
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Corinthians 510, and there's a 
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And I want to make a distinction
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there's sometimes some confusion
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The Christian, the believer, 
won't be at the great white 

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throne. 
Judgment. 

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This is a judgment for 
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The judgment that you and I have
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It's appointed on demand once to
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And after this, the judgment. 
Our judgment is Second 

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Corinthians chapter 5, verse 10.
For it says, for we must all 

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appear before the judgment seat 
of Christ, that each one may 

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receive the things done in the 
body according to what he has 

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done, whether good or bad. 
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knowing therefore the terror of 
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we are well known to God. 
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to your consciences. 
Now when I have to stand before 

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the Lord and give an account of 
my life, I'm going to be 

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fearful. 
I'm not going to be proud or 

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thinking I got it all together 
and, and no big deal, even 

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though I know that Christ has 
saved me. 

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It's going to be a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the 

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living God because all the 
sudden everything will be 

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revealed to me very clearly of 
what my motives have been on 

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earth, why I did the ministry, 
why I did whatever I did. 

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God will test everything as with
fire to see if these things were

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done for the glory of Christ or 
for the elevation of our own 

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self will our own self esteem, 
whatever it might be. 

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We can fool one another, but we 
can't fool the Lord and the Lord

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will test these things. 
The Bible says that some will be

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saved as though by fire. 
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Corinthians chapter 3, it gives 
a little bit more light on this 

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particular judgment. 
First Corinthians chapter 3, 

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verse 5, it talks about this 
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serving the Lord, warning 
people, and as Christians, our 

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job, all of us is what I'm doing
is I'm sowing seed, right? 

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It's my job to sow the seed of 
the Word of God. 

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The Holy Spirit puts it in your 
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Some of us will come along after
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water the message. 
They'll say, hey, you know, we 

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studied about hell and we 
studied about lost people and 

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people who need a savior. 
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that? 
And we'll challenge each other. 

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We need to be praying more. 
We need to be more interested in

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sharing our faith. 
We're watering what God has 

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already planted. 
And then some of us will begin 

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to warn people about their 
eternal destiny. 

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And Paul is saying about these 
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and different callings. 
He says in verse five, who then 

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is Paul and who is Apollos? 
But ministers through whom 

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you've believed as the Lord gave
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I planted Paul saying Apollos 
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increase. 
None of us can save anybody, but

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we sure can do an awful lot of 
other things. 

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And today we're planning the 
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We're sowing seed and hopefully 
all of us will water this seed 

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that's been planted today, but 
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God's anyone that can bring life
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And it says in verse 7, so then 
neither he who plants is 

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anything nor he who waters, but 
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So it's a marvelous thing to 
realize that I'm nothing today 

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and you're nothing not in a 
sense of being not important to 

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God. 
He loves us and values us and 

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and is watching us to do the 
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do, but we can't make anything 
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It takes the pressure off of us.
I don't have to try to whip you 

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guys up into some kind of state 
of emotional frenzy to try to 

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get you excited about the like, 
I can't do that. 

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I could do that and you might 
say. 

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Well, you know, that was good. 
I'm, I'm all charged up. 

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I'm going to go do this for God,
you know and all. 

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That but then you go out and 
about 5 minutes down the road if

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this goes down because the flesh
can't profit anything, only the 

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Spirit gives life and so again 
it's God. 

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To God be the glory for great 
things he has done. 

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It says that he who plants and 
he who waters are one. 

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We're one and the same thing. 
God isn't saying, because I'm 

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pastoring today and I'm planning
the word, that I'm any more 

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important than the one who's 
going to water. 

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Each one will receive his own 
reward according to his own 

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labor. 
For we are God's fellow workers,

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and you are God's field. 
You are God's building. 

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So we're all in this together, 
serving the Lord together 

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according to the grace of God 
which was given to me as a wise 

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master Builder Laid the 
foundation, another builds on 

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it. 
But let each one take heed how 

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he builds on it. 
For no other foundation can 

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anyone lay than that which is 
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And in this church, the only 
foundation is Jesus Christ. 

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We're all building upon him. 
We're not building upon my 

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ministry or the guy that will 
take over someday when I'm no 

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longer here. 
It's Jesus Christ, we're laying 

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upon him and him alone. 
It says that if anyone builds on

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this foundation with gold, 
silver and precious stone or 

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wood, hay and straw, each one's 
work will become clear for the 

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day, will declare it because it 
will be revealed by fire and the

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fire will test each one's work 
of what sort it is. 

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So in my own mind, at times I've
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conveyor belt and I'm sitting on
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oven ahead of me. 
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soul because I'm saved, right? 
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like an MRI. 
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every little nuance of my 
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I mean, it's all clear. 
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I'm thinking, what does he know 
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in time? 
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don't know, right? 
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beginning. 
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samurai, the spiritual MRI of 
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And my prayer is that when I go 
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there's some value to the short 
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that somehow I know I wasted a 
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I've done a lot of dumb things. 
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when I come out, there isn't 
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there's nothing. 
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and it's just like, and the 
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who suffer great loss because 
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We had this time on earth to 
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We wasted our life. 
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And then by the grace of God, if
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all of a sudden I see these 
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stone laying around my body 
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glory to me. 
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I was able to use your life to 
give me glory. 

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that are going to last 
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And the beautiful thing is I 
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don't put them on. 
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counted for eternity, but he did
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We'll take those things and 
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feet. 
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that we come out of that 
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sense of substance for the the 
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It says if anyone's work in 
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it indoors, he will receive a 
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If anyone's work is burned, he 
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will be saved yet so as through 
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I pray there's none of us here 
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least I'm going to be saved. 
That's good enough. 

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No, you don't want to. 
You don't want to live with that

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kind of focus. 
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this fruit coming out of your 
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And so we go back to Revelation 
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throne judgment, which is 
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We see that in verse 11. 
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and him who sat on it, from 
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heaven fled away and there was 
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end of time. 
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this present world, the heavens 
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anymore. 
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hide at that time. 
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or a tree or everybody's in the 
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throne judgment preparing for 
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Next week we'll look at the 
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new earth that Christ will 
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Revelation 21 verse one, but the
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verse 12 are standing before God
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Now today we got all these great
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Some of them are born again. 
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Some of them are going to play 
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them are going to play for the 
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The saddest thing to read about 
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Bowl years ago. 
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selling their ring on the 
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drugs. 
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all that glory and all that fame
and all that success and no one 

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remembers you anymore. 
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And at this great white throne 
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famous people there. 
There's going to be rock stars 

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there. 
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did great things on the earth 
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wonderful, but these people were
heathen. 

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They never bowed their knee to 
Jesus Christ. 

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They never repented of their 
sin. 

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They never allow the Holy Spirit
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rebelled against the Lord. 
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standing there and the books 
will be open. 

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The Word of God is what judges 
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When I preach on Sundays, I'm 
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judging me. 
The Word is what judges us all 

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and sets us all in line with 
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repent of and be established. 
And these books are open, it 

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says. 
And another book was open, which

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is the Book of life. 
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according to their works by the 
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books as unbelievers. 
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time for God to reveal to you or
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we're guilty before God. 
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The Holy Spirit convicts us. 
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well, I can get saved later. 
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I don't think I need. 
We can have all kind of mental 

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gymnastics in our minds for 
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one day the inevitable will 
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And this is when there's no 
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There's one judge, and he's 
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There is no jury. 
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this judgement. 
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there's a verdict. 
You're guilty. 

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And whosoever is found not 
written in this book will be 

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cast into the lake of fire. 
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And there is no appeal. 
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There's no ability to say 
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Every mouth will be stopped and 
every tongue and every knee will

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bow, and every tongue will 
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Lord to the glory of God the 
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What a horrible thing to 
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sense at that point in time, and
then only know that you have all

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eternity to suffer and be in 
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Paul says today is a day of 
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If you hear his voice today, 
repent today. 

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You might be here without a 
Savior, without Christ, and 

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you're hearing the Holy Spirit 
say something to you that you 

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need to be saved today. 
You can't leave this place 

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unless you let Jesus Christ save
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It's very, very clear for your 
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And Paul says don't put off 
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to do today. 
Repent and ask Christ to be your

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Lord and be your Savior today. 
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in Hebrews 47, Harden not your 
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Wherefore in Hebrews chapter 3 
verse 7, as the Holy Ghost saith

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today, if you will hear his 
voice. 

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Second, Peter 39 says Christ is 
not willing that any should 

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perish, but that all shall come 
to repentance. 

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So let's look at some verses 
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So we're all on the same page. 
Hell is not a fashionable 

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subject to preach on. 
Many evangelical churches are 

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trying to downplay the reality 
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people not to come to church. 
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it makes unbelievers fearful, 
and it makes believers convicted

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because we know maybe we're not 
sharing the gospel. 

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And so pastors seem to think, 
well, it's better that we don't 

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really talk about this subject a
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Let's talk about some things 
that are more positive, you 

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know, but the, the Bible is full
of warnings. 

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And this morning we are in this 
text and we have to be faithful 

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to see what it is that the Lord 
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So that when we leave here 
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that are going to leave here not
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real place. 
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descriptions of what the Bible 
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Hell. 
The first place I want you to go

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to is Mark Chapter 9, verse 44. 
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He's talking about Jesus warning
of offenses. 

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Whoever causes in verse 42, one 
of these little ones who believe

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in me to stumble, be better for 
him if a millstone were hung 

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around his neck and he were 
thrown into the sea. 

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If your hand causes you to sin, 
cut it off. 

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It is better for you to enter 
into life maimed rather than 

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having two hands to go to hell 
into the fire that shall never 

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be quenched. 
Where in verse 44 their worm 

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does not die and the fire is not
quenched. 

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It's an everlasting fire 
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and ever. 
I mean, I don't know about you, 

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but when it's really, really 
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hot temperature for a long 
period of time. 

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I want to find air conditioning.
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the air on. 
I don't like sitting in the seat

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when your back sticking to the 
seat and the sweat's rolling 

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down your brow. 
You know you're cutting the 

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grass and it's a real hot day 
and all you can think is I just 

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need a glass of water to quench 
my thirst. 

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In hell, there will be no water 
to quench your thirst. 

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It'll be constant torment 
forever and ever and ever. 

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I go to the Y and work out a 
couple times a week. 

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I go into the steam room and all
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there and we just sort of talked
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I mean, some of those guys, it 
just seemed like they can stay 

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in there forever. 
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can't wait to get out of that 
place. 

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I couldn't imagine to be in 
hell, which is going to be a 

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million times worse than the 
hottest steam bath that you 

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could ever be in, that you don't
get any relief. 

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That is ongoing onward forever 
and ever. 

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Now I have relatives that still 
don't know Jesus Christ. 

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We eat with them, we have 
holidays with them, we love 

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them, and they still will not 
come to Christ. 

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I need to be able to see them in
that hell now so that somehow no

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matter what happens, I need to 
keep telling them they need 

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Jesus not to ignore the subject 
because it makes them 

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uncomfortable. 
Or maybe we've covered it before

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many, many times and they didn't
repent. 

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So you just figure I'm just 
going to give up. 

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There's no sense talking to him.
I don't see Jesus or the 

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apostles ever stopping warning 
people about their need of a 

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Savior. 
They never grew weary. 

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They never got tired of telling 
people they need to repent for 

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the Kingdom of heaven is at 
hand. 

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The next section is Luke chapter
16, verse 23. 

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This is the story of the rich 
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I'll start in 19. 
There was a certain rich man who

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was clothed in purple and fine 
linen, and fared sumptuously 

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every day. 
And there was a certain beggar 

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named Lazarus, full of swords, 
who was laid at his gate, 

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desiring to be fed with the 
crumbs which fell from the rich 

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man's table. 
Moreover, the dogs came and 

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licked the swords. 
So it was that the beggar died 

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and was carried by the angels to
Abraham's bosom. 

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The rich man also died and was 
buried, and being in torment in 

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Hades, he lifted up his eyes and
saw Abraham afar off, and 

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Lazarus in his bosom. 
Now before the gospel and before

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the resurrection, there's this 
holding place where the Old 

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Testament believers were. 
It was called the bosom of 

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Abraham. 
And the other side was the 

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compartment, if you may, of a 
prison called Haiti. 

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So all the unbelievers were in 
there, and they're still there 

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waiting for the final judgment. 
And so this rich man is able to 

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see this beggar, and he is in 
torment, it says in verse 23. 

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And in being in torments in 
Hades, he lifted up his eyes and

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saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus
in his bosom. 

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And he cried, and he said, 
Father Abraham, have mercy on me

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and send Lazarus that he may dip
the tip of his finger in the 

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water and cool my tongue, for 
I'm tormented in this flame. 

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Think about the day that you had
the greatest thirst, that you 

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were begging for water. 
I had my appendix out when I was

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in 9th grade. 
They couldn't give me water 

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because I had perinitis all 
through my body and they had 

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tubes running in. 
They almost died and I remember 

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making promises to God. 
I hear the bells at Seton Hill. 

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I didn't even know who God was 
at the time, but I heard the 

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bells in the conviction. 
I said, God, if you get me 

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through this, I'll follow you. 
All the days of my life I lie. 

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When I got out of that hospital,
I went back to my sinful ways. 

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Thanks for being with us today 
here on Living Waters of Grace. 

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We are in the Book of 
Revelation, and we find it 

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fascinating how influential and 
involved the angels are in this 

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book. 
They bring about whatever it is 

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that God has instructed them to 
do, but it's through their 

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actions that much of the 
judgements come on the earth. 

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The angels are in submission to 
God as their authority, but He 

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utilizes them in unique ways 
throughout this book. 

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Like angels have a specific 
purpose from God, you have a 

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unique purpose and plan too. 
God wants to use you in your 

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life as a testimony to others 
and to bring others who are 

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currently lost into the fold of 
God. 

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God would love more than 
anything for all who are willing

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to come to Him for salvation, 
but he wants it to be their 

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choice, not a forced situation. 
This is the way God works, not 

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forcing himself on anyone, but 
giving each person free will. 

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If you're interested in learning
about this choice that's free 

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and that it's a gift, go to 
calvarychapelonline.com and 

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click on the About Us tab and 
then find the link for what we 

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believe. 
We'd love to be a help and a 

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resource for you as you walk 
through what it means to be a 

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follower of Jesus. 
If you find the contact tab on 

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our website, you can get in 
touch with us or submit a prayer

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request. 
We'd love to hear from you. 

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That's all for today's edition 
in Revelation, but there's much 

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more that Pastor Clark plans to 
share with us from this 

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culminating book of the Bible. 
Stay tuned for that and make 

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sure to mention this radio 
program to others. 

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Invite them to tune into Grace 
FM 91.7 FM and they can stream 

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worldwide at Grace Radio dot FM.
This has been living waters of 

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grace.