This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
continues teaching through God's Word.
At this great White Throne judgment, there's going to be
famous people there, there's going to be rock stars there,
there's going to be people that did great things on the earth
and the world thought they were wonderful, but these people were
heathen. They never bowed their knee to
Jesus Christ. They never repented of their
sin. They never allowed the Holy
Spirit to save them because they rebelled against the Lord.
The small and the great will be standing there and the books
will be open. The Word of God is what judges
us. When I preach on Sundays, I'm
not judging you and you're not judging me.
There cannot be 1 without the other.
Often the love and grace through salvation that's found in Jesus
is shared with others, while the understanding of what true
eternal damnation means is left out.
Sometimes, in order to be able to really see the good news for
what it is, we need to share the bad news as well.
Today, Pastor Clark teaches us that we have a responsibility to
share both sides. We must warn our neighbors,
friends, and loved ones that if they don't believe, they will
have to suffer hell. Now here's Pastor Clark in
Revelation Chapter 20 with today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. This rich man is able to see
this beggar, and he is in torment, it says in verse 23,
And in being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and
saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried. And he said, Father Abraham,
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip
of his finger in the water and cool my tongue, for I'm
tormented in his flame. Think about the day that you had
the greatest thirst, that you were begging for water.
I had my appendix out when I was in 9th grade.
They couldn't give me water because I had perinitis all
through my body and they had tubes running in me.
I must die. And I remember making promises
to God. I'd hear the bells at Seton
Hill. I didn't even know who God was
at the time, but I heard the bells in the conviction.
I said, God, if you get me through this, I'll follow you.
All the days of my life I lied. When I got out of that hospital,
I went back to my sinful ways. But I remember laying in that
hospital so thirsty. All can't you saying to the
nurse, can I have it somewhere? No, the doctor said, you can't
have any water. Oh, please.
I I mean, I, I would do anything for a glass of water.
I was parched. I just, that's all I could think
of this water, this water, this water.
And finally they had mercy on me.
They gave me ice chips, but you know, it didn't work too good.
You know, ice chips didn't quench my thirst.
I'd let them melt a little bit so I could try to sneak and
drink the water, but they'd come in before the chips were
completely gone. And then soon as they saw water
and they dump it out and put ice chips back in again.
It was this terrible. But this man saying I just want
a tip of a finger and water to cool my tongue from tormented in
this flame. That's what your loved ones are
facing. That's what your neighbors are
facing. That's what your Co workers are
facing. Luke 28 verse 28 there 1628 for
I have 5 brothers. That he may testify to them,
lest they come also to this place with torment.
He's begging them send someone to my family and tell them they
don't want to come here. And Abraham says in verse 21
they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.
And he said no father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the
dead, they will repent. He said to them, if they do not
hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded,
though one raised from the dead now thanks.
Jesus rose from the dead. To this day people reject the
truth of hell. They don't believe Matthew 812
But the sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Those who are part of this Kingdom of darkness, of Satan
will be cast into this outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 2213. Then the king said to the
servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast
him into outer darkness. There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. Jude verse thirteen, way in the
back there, right before you get ready to go into the Book of
Revelation there. Jude verse 13.
This is talking about the lost raging waves of the sea, foaming
up their own shame, wandering stars, for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever. Luke 1328.
How long does this last for people?
Luke 1328 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for when
you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets and
the Kingdom of God and yourselves thrust out.
Hebrews 6 tells us it's a place of eternal judgment.
There's no hope of release and turn over to Revelation 21.
We'll be there next week, but we'll take a little preview of
what it warns and says is going to happen to those who don't
have Christ. Revelation chapter 21, verse 7
and 8. It says He who overcome shall
inherit all things. I will be his God and he shall
be my son. We overcome by the blood of the
Lamb and the word of our testimony.
It tells us earlier in revelation.
But this is the state of those who have these issues.
The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable murderers, sexually
immoral sorcerers, idolaters and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the
second death. Now we need prayer guys.
We all do, and I want to have some prayer today about lost
people, the people outside this building, the people that we
face every day in our life that maybe we've never shared our
faith with. We haven't warned people.
We haven't warned our neighbors. Maybe we haven't warned our
loved ones, our friends, our buddies in school, no matter how
old. We have this responsibility to
tell people about the grace of God, the mercy of God, His
forgiveness and His salvation. So great is salvation, but we
also have the responsibility to warn them that if they don't
believe, they're going to have to suffer hell forever and ever.
Turn to John chapter 3 Gospel, John chapter 3, the importance
of being born again. Jesus said in verse three, you
must be born again. I say to you, unless one is born
again, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God.
The way we're born again is that we repent of our sin and we ask
Christ to forgive us and have mercy on us and to save us.
And when we repent, it isn't disagreeing with God, it's
turning from the sin. I'm coming to you, Lord, and I'm
asking you to save me. So I no longer live like I used
to live, and I live like a child of God now.
And God changes our heart, He changes our mind, He changes our
nature, and everything is new. We're walking the newness of
life. I don't want to go back and do
the stuff I used to do when I was lost.
Why would I want to live like I was lost when Christ has saved
me? The Bible says if any man's in
Christ is a new creation, old things are passed away.
Behold, all things are become new.
I don't want the old way of life anymore.
And unfortunately, some of us still want to go back and mess
around with the pig slop. And the Bible says that it's
like a dog returning to his vomit.
God's given us this wonderful inheritance and this glorious
new way of living, overcoming life.
And somehow we're like the children of Israel that God
freed from the bondage of Pharaoh in Egypt.
And God's taken them to the promised land.
And they start having some trials and difficulties and they
think, well, I need to go back and, and do this again because
this, this will make me happy, which is foolish.
And Jesus says in John 316, everybody's familiar with this
verse. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
This is how much God loves us, guys.
He did it all. He gave it all for you and me.
There's not one thing he didn't do in order to save us to the
other most, there's nothing that's short in his saving arm.
He can save anybody, the worst of people like me and like you.
He says if you believe in Him and believe isn't just a mental
assentage. I'm going to stake everything I
have and everything I am upon Jesus Christ.
And I'm going to live to honor him.
I'm going to live to follow him. And I'm not going to be a friend
with the sinful patterns of the world system anymore.
I'm going to live as a child of God, by the power of God, by the
Spirit of God. But this is a judgement verse
18. He who believes in him is not
condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already.
Why? Because he is not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.
So if you're here today, God's anger and His wrath is upon you.
Yes, God loves you, He wants to save you, but His anger is upon
you because of your sin. And that's why He pleads with
people throughout the history of time, through preachers and
prophets and evangelists and witnesses, to tell people to
flee from the wrath that is to come.
And verse 36 of John three, he who believes in the Son has
everlasting life. He who does not believe in the
Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
So if you're here today and you don't have Jesus as your Savior,
God's wrath is abiding on you. You don't want to leave here,
because if you leave here and you die today or this week,
there's no hope for you. There's no second chance.
You can't say, well, I was thinking about believing when
Clark was talking about this, but you know, I had some other
things on my mind. I thought I could do it later
and I sort of believed, but I wasn't ready to really repent.
And so you stand before God and say, well, this is really what I
was going to do. I didn't have time.
No, the Jesus says through Paul, the day is a day of salvation.
Don't put off what you know you need to do right now.
In John chapter 5 verse 24, he says most assuredly I say to
you, this is Jesus. He who hears my words and
believes in him who sent me has everlasting life.
And boy, I'll tell you if you're here today and you believe this,
take a sigh, a big sigh of relief.
You have everlasting life. It tells us in first John 513.
These things are written unto you that believe on the name of
the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life
by believing in the name of the Son of God, not hoping or
wishing or man. I I don't know, I'm not real
sure the assurance of our salvation.
Paul said, I know whom I believed in, and I'm persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him
against that day. And he who sent me and has
everlasting life shall not come into judgment, but has passed
from death unto life. That's the best thing, isn't it?
That's happened to you and me. If it's really happened to you
that you've passed from death unto life.
Now the clencher for me and for you as believers here today.
Luke chapter 10, verse 2. Jesus said in Luke 10 the
harvest is truly great, but the laborers are few therefore pray
the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest
field. Thank God for technology today
because we have means to get the gospel out that we never had
before. TV, Internet, video.
We can fly to different places in the world and take the
gospel. We podcast these sermons.
We have them on our website for people that want to hear and,
and people do listen. But in spite of all the
technology and all the things that we have, there's still over
850 unreached people groups in the world.
That's what Paul Dye told me when he was here visiting from
New tribes. 850 people groups in the world who haven't heard the
gospel once. And Jesus has been saying this
about the harvest since he was on the earth, and it doesn't
seem to change. The harvest is still great and
the laborers are still few. And he says for us to pray to
him, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth
laborers into his harvest field. Now that's what I want to have
today. I want you guys to come down
here, first of all, willing to yield your lives to be servants
in the harvest field saying, Lord, here I am.
Send me. I don't know who it is this week
you want me to talk to about Jesus, but I'm willing to do
that. I want to be concerned about the
people I work with. I don't know how I'm going to
bring it up in the conversation, but somehow I need to let them
know what you've done for me and what you want to do for them.
But they're not going to know unless I talk and I tell them.
And lots of times you're in places in your life that no one
else is going to be the witness but you.
God's put you in such a place for such a time as this that
you're going to be the witness to that person's soul.
You're the only person that's going to be the witness in that
person's life. Perhaps.
Jeff gave me a video one time. It's a horrible video and it's
made-up, but it gets the point across where this these guys are
in high school, they're partying together, they're playing around
and whatever they sports stuff they do together.
One guy is a Christian. He's backslidden.
He's afraid to share his faith because if he shares it, his
buddy might not think he's cool anymore, doesn't want to hang
around them. And so his buddy ends up getting
in an accident and dies and he's in hell and he's writing a
letter back to his friend. I thought you were my friend.
Why didn't you tell me what was waiting me all the times we were
together and hanging out? You said you cared about me.
I thought we were best friends and now I'm in hell and I'm
going to be here forever and ever.
And you're just hearing him screaming and yelling.
Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me why?
And it's enough. You just want to turn it off.
It's it's haunting in John chapter 4 verse 2, but he said
to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know.
The disciples said to one another, has anyone brought him
anything to eat and Jesus said to them, my food is to do the
will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
What's your food in your life is your food to do the will of the
Lord who saved you and to finish the work he's given you to do.
Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the
harvest. That's all our in our minds.
Well, I'll get around to it someday later on.
Timing isn't right. I'm not real sure what I should
do yet, but I got time. There's still four months.
Then comes the harvest. Jesus said, behold, I say to
you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are
already white for harvest. In other words, I have all these
people who are ready to get saved.
They're ready. Their hearts are prepared.
My spirits convicted them. And who's going to?
Who's going to pluck it? Who's going to, Who's going to
be privileged to harvest that person?
And we're too embarrassed. Sometimes they're afraid.
Well, they, they might not like me.
They might laugh at me. How do you know?
You might go up to someone you think is like, totally like
against what you're going to say and they're going to say to you.
I've been waiting for someone to tell me this.
I need a savior. I've been haunted at night.
I'm afraid of dying. And I, I didn't know there was
an answer to my sin. I didn't know that there was a
God who loved me who would forgive me of all my guilt.
I remember I was a firefighter in Atlantic City many years ago
before I went to Bible college, and I was really on fire back in
those days. And all I wanted to do is tell
people about Jesus. And I need the Lord by his grace
to pour that same kind of fire in my heart again, 'cause I get
busy like you guys, I get focused and Jesus says, is it
nothing to you? All those who pass by that are
heading toward hell. So they fire him and they say,
hey, they laugh, Hey, here comes the.
They call me the Sneakin Deacon because one time I made a $2.00
bet on the horses at the Atlantic City racetrack.
They caught me in a weak moment. They go, we got him the Sneakin
Deacon. But in a way it was sort of cool
because when I did that, they sort of said this guy's just a
regular guy. He's not a holy roller.
He's not perfect. And but anyway, they said, oh,
we don't want to hear this. Eddie's the guy that needs it.
Eddie, he's a tough guy. He was a concrete guy, and he
was a fireman as well. And Eddie was a tough guy, man.
He's a big brawny guy. And I'm thinking, man, how am I
going to get in a conversation with him?
You know, it's just like, this is a challenge.
And, and I just tried to live it.
And I'll never forget one night, I'm laying in the bunk.
He's beside me in the other bunk.
All the guys are getting ready to go to sleep.
And he said, hey, hey, hey, Claire.
I said, yeah, Eddie. He said, what do you think about
that guy Billy Graham? I said, I like him.
Why, Eddie? Why do you bring up?
I don't know. I was just watching him on TV
the other night. And, you know, I think what he
was saying was really good. I think it made some sense, you
know, and I knew the Lord was drawing him in and I had the
privilege to pray with that man and see him come to Christ.
You just don't know the person you think as farthest from
heaven as many times the person who's closest to salvation.
He who reaps wages, receives wages, and gathers fruit for
eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together. Jesus says, For in this saying
is true, 1 sows and another reaps.
Don't worry about who's there and who isn't there, as long as
you're there, because you're going to give an account before
your Lord for what you did and how faithful you were.
Jesus says I sent you to reap that for which you have not
labored. Someone planted someone watered
it. The easy work is pulling the the
harvest off because it's already the Lord's prepared it.
Others have labored and you have entered in to their laborers.
So I'd like to just have a time and, and starting with me, the
revivals in, in Europe that occurred during the times of
the, the Welsh revival with Roberts and Whitfield and those
guys in the US. And yeah, it was a time like
this where there was people living that were busy with the
affairs of life. And we have intercessory prayer
here. And, and it doesn't matter how
many people are there. Sometimes it's 345 that's there.
And I know many of you are praying too, but we're praying
for souls. We're praying for the Lord to
get a hold of our hearts so that we're about his business.
We can be a church teaching the Bible and, and be proud, but we
go through the Bible expositionally, verse by verse,
and we teach line upon line, precept upon precept.
And the Lord saying, well, big deal, let's live the word.
Let's do what the word saying you're supposed to do with it,
right? Be doers of the word, not
hearers only. And so we pray and, and what
happened in Wales with Evan Roberts?
He was a discouraged pastor. He came in, people were
apathetic and complacent like they are everywhere.
There isn't a church where there isn't complacency and
lukewarmness and indifference. And that's not to condemn.
I said. God knows that's how we are,
right? I can't stir you.
You can't stir me. The sirit's the one that stirs
us. God is the one that pours out
His Spirit for revival. And so they prayed.
And I'm sure Roberts at the time, he goes in there as a new
pastor, 2 old ladies, they come here, they want to pray, and I'm
discouraged. Why isn't anybody else here
tonight? Finally, he just started getting
together with them and praying. Oh Lord, give us whales, give us
souls. Pray, pray, pray.
God had favor upon those three humble people that had nothing
to offer but a cry out to God for him to move.
God heard that prayer, poured out his Spirit upon whales, and
there was a revival of profile. Women would be walking across
the square with their shopping goods and their clothes and all
the things that were important to them as they were walking
across. No one's preaching to them.
They're falling on their knees and crying out.
God be merciful to me, a Sinner. The Holy Spirit's atmosphere
working everywhere. The bars were shut down and
whales. It's sad what happens as history
moves on. Everybody forgets, and God needs
to start another revival, right all the time.
That's because when you think you're going good and all of a
sudden human nature starts going backward, there needs to be
continual repentance, continual revival.
And so they prayed, and a little church like this wasn't filled
very often when the revival broke out.
The coal miners got off of work, weren't going to the bars.
They were coming to this little church and they were packed in
there. They were filthy coal miners.
And when the call was given to come and repent and get saved,
men were coming up front. But there were so many people
crowding the aisles and the pews that the men had to get down on
their stomachs so that people could crawl over top of them to
get down in the front and and cry out for God's mercy.
It was a move of God's spirit. Men would punch fists through
the window and say, don't forget me.
Don't forget me. We need this again in our world
today. America needs revival, and I
know there's many churches like ours around this country that
are praying for the very same thing that we're seeking God
for. God hasn't given up on us yet.
And so I'm just here today as your pastor, just saying, could
you come and say, Lord, here am I, send me for this harvest
field. I want to give my life for
what's going to last forever and maybe a burden for someone who
needs the Lord to intercede for them and pray.
Jesus said my house shall be a House of prayer.
It's not about having a service and going home and that's it.
It's about us doing business with God because God is doing
business with us today. The first one here, I want God
to do a work on my heart so that I am so compelled to share my
faith that I'm haunted by the power of the Spirit of God that
every chance I have is a spirit gives me opportunity.
I want to be able to proclaim the good news of the gospel with
my customers. I want to be able to talk to my
bosses and the people I work with and my gay neighbors and
need the Lord and my neighbors that live with women on each
side of my house. I want to be able to confront
them with not a judgement, right?
Because who am I to judge? I got my own sins, but the good
news is Christ is a merciful loving Savior and He's able to
save if we repent and he'll help us to turn from our sin.
Amen. This is what the church is
about. It's not about religion.
It's not about anything but salvation.
It's about forgiveness and it's about repentance.
And when God looks down in a church and he sees there's a
people that are going to pray for revival and pray for souls,
and God's hand will be on your life for these things.
He really will. And don't be embarrassed and
don't be shy because This is why we're here.
We're here in these last days as His children to come and to give
our lives and to let them work in our hearts.
We are digging into the Book of Revelation here on Living Waters
of Grace. Pastor Clark is tackling this
challenging book as we try to discern the messages that are
within its pages. There's so much imagery, and at
times you're not always sure what's literal and what's
metaphorical. At one point, there's a
reference to an adulterous woman riding on a beast.
And as someone else mentioned, at one point it almost sounds
like a rodeo from hell. And in actuality it kind of is.
You learn about the downfall and demise of a sinful and
rebellious world, falling down in worship to someone who is the
anti hero, the enemy, Satan working his insidious ways into
the minds of fallen people. It's sad and it's heartbreaking,
but it's a classic story of good versus evil.
Thankfully, we know how this story ends.
Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and evil is conquered once and for
all. We pray and trust you've
received Jesus as your Savior. But if you haven't, don't wait
until the events and revelation become what's happening on the
streets. None of us wants you to be there
at that time. Instead, we'd love for you to be
with us in heaven as we celebrate the marriage supper
with Jesus as his bridegroom. To get a better understanding of
where we are in the Book of Revelation, to listen to any
messages before or after this one, you can find them at our
website, calvarychapelonline.com.
That's it for today's edition, but we hope you'll want to hear
Pastor Clark teach more from the Book of Revelation.
It can be exciting to think about the future for believers,
but it can feel a bit harrowing for those who don't believe.
Come here more next time on Living Waters of Grace.