Chapter 21, the Book of Revelation, verses 1:00 to 8:00.
I've been praying hard and long. I don't want to get in the way
of how wonderful this passage is.
So I I need to pray again. Lord, you are my strength.
You've become my salvation. I'll give thanks to the Lord for
his good, for His mercy and Jews forever.
Lord, let our ears hear from you.
Holy Spirit, teach us the wonder.
Help us to see and hear the wonder of the scriptures as they
reveal to us this passage. Father of Heaven, pray and ask
this please in Jesus name, Amen. So we come near to the end.
We're close. We've had the tribulation
period, 7 year period. Then Jesus came second coming at
the end of the tribulation. Then there was 1000 year reign.
It's called the millennial reign.
And now we look at a new heaven and a new earth.
The word heaven in the Book of Revelation is mentioned 55
times. The Bible speaks of heaven 532
times. So heaven is a very real place.
It's just not a thought or a concept.
It's our ultimate home. We're citizens of it.
If you're a born again Christian, Paul wrote to the
Philippians. He said for our citizenship,
where we belong, our passport, our heritage, our who, who I am,
where's home is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our reward is there eventually will be rewarded there every St
everyone from the beginning of creation right through everyone
who has received Christ as the Lord and Saviour will be in
heaven. And it says let's read verse one
now I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the 1st heaven and the
first earth had passed away and there was no more sea.
No more sea always freaks out the surface.
They go oh man, but please listen.
There are many people here who love the beach, love the ocean,
but whatever you loved and enjoyed in this current world,
heaven will be seismically better and beyond than which you
could currently fathom. So if you love the ocean,
fishing, the the beauty of the ocean, listen, heaven is going
to be way beyond. It'll be like looking back at
the sea now and going that's like Lake Munga.
It's, it's, it's, it's no comparison.
And we, we try to compare good things here on Earth and we say,
well, how will heaven? It's beyond that.
It's so beyond that words can't describe.
The oceans currently cover over 75% of our planet.
This mass of water separates the continents, doesn't it?
Australia, we're way down the bottom here, away from everyone
else. Well, that separation will be
gone on the new heaven and the new earth, but there's more.
Verse 2 Then I, John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for
husband. I saw this, this new city.
It's just dazzling. And I heard a loud voice from
heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle will explain that
simply means the dwelling place or the tent of God is with men.
He will dwell with them. God will dwell with them, and
they shall be his people. To explain it even deeper, John
says God himself will be with them and be their God.
You know God has desired in his heart to enjoy with you, yes,
you, you and I and his church intimate fellowship.
Remember in the book of Genesis and Revelation is is is not only
winding the clock back putting things right, but he's making
everything new that we had in the beginning and was ruined,
damaged and made sin. Now we're we're getting the
rewrap, but a far better deal. God walked with Adam, remember
in the cool of the evening, Imagine walking with God.
Yeah, look at that flower. That's amazing.
Look at that plants and talking with God face to face.
Commune with him. Or God wants to do that with
you. He wants to have fellowship and
not fellowship. We kind of use a a churchy word
fellowship, but it's it's, it's much more than that.
It's it, we can't describe it. It's more intimate.
And we we use the word communion when we have communion.
God wants to have communion, but it's, it's more than just being
in the same communion, like hanging out with someone who has
the same thoughts and ideals. It's, it's a bond that is only
found in heaven by God and he desires to have that with you.
We don't have that just yet because sin has always been in
the way for that relationship to be possible.
But through the journey through the Bible, God has set the path
forward because He wants to be close to you.
He wants to hold your hand. He wants you to see His face.
He wants you to hear His voice. He wants you to be present with
Him personally. In the Old Testament, God gave
to Moses a plan and it was a a tent, a flash tent didn't look
very flash on the outside, but it was awesome on the inside and
it was called the tent of meeting.
It was the first Tabernacle, Tabernacle, place of dwelling,
tent of meeting during the great Exodus, as the children of
Israel were led by Moses out of Egypt on their way and they
wandered through the desert to the Promised Land.
They would erect this Tabernacle and God would meet Moses in that
place and talk with him the things that were needed to to go
on at night. Each of the tribes, the 12
tribes had a designated position around the camp and in the
centre of the camp at night, there was this massive pillar of
fire that just charged up in the air.
And that every tent as they are allocated, no matter whether
you're the tribe of Judah or Benjamin, whenever, when you got
went to the front of your tent and you put your head out, the
kids put their head out. They could look directly and
they would see the centre of the camp and they would see this,
this pillar of fire charging in the air.
That was God saying, I'm with you, I'm here.
During the day as they journeyed, there would be a
cloud that would keep them cool and would lead them and guide
them, and they could see the gods with us.
Then Solomon built the temple. The children of Israel arrive in
the promised land. Time goes on.
Solomon decides to build a temple.
David couldn't this magnificent temple, it was a tent of meeting
to to replace the tent of meeting.
And in one Kings chapter 8 we have the description on the day
that the temple is finished, the workers are finished.
Solomon dedicates it and it says and when the priest came out of
the holy place, a thick cloud filled the temple of the Lord.
The Bible calls it the Shekinah glory, the very presence of God.
The priest couldn't continue the service in the temple because of
the cloud. Why?
For the glorious presence of the Lord filled the temple.
God was there. Then Solomon prayed.
Oh Lord, you've said that you would live in a thick cloud of
darkness. Now I've built a glorious temple
for you, a place where you can live forever.
So God was dwelling in the temple.
It was a meaning place, but there was still separation
between God and man and the temple, because there were
rituals that had to go through sacrifices and in the temple.
The priest could work in the holy place, but then only one
day of the year into the holy of holies.
Dividing a veil between the holy of Holies and the holy place.
The priest could go, the high priest one day a year.
So there was this still separation from God, and God
moved to the next thing he did. He sent his son into the world.
Matthew 123 Look, the virgin will conceive a child, she'll
give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel.
Not because he's Spanish, which means God is with us and in one
John, and I'll read it to you. When Jesus came and the
disciples followed Jesus, hear what John says, that which was
from the beginning, which we've heard, which we have seen with
our eyes, which we've looked upon, our hands handled, they
touched Jesus concerning the word of life.
The life was revealed, we've seen, we bear witness, we
declare to you that eternal which was with the Father was
revealed to us. That which we have seen and
heard, we declare to you. The disciples touch God.
And then John tells us in John 114.
So the Word became human and made his home tabernacled among
us. He was full of unfailing love
and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the
glory of the Father, one and only Son.
We saw God's glory in Jesus on the mount of Transfiguration,
Peter, James and John. So Jesus transfigured in all his
glory with Moses and and and and they're talking of Elijah.
They're talking of the death, the coming death of Jesus.
But you know, for you and I, they had that.
But you and I, we still ache within us.
There's something about wanting to see God face to face, to
touch him in heaven. Time will be no more.
We are living in eternity. Solomon wrote about heaven and
eternity. He said and Ecclesiastes 311 Yet
God has made everything beautiful for his own time, and
he has planted eternity in the human heart.
Your heart, my heart. But Even so, people cannot see
the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
We can't see it yet that we have this big hole in us.
We each long to know God. It's built in our DNA.
That's why even an atheist, when they're about to die or they're
they're scared to death, they'll go God help me.
But that closeness that you and I want, it still evades us.
Well, the New Jerusalem had been prepared as a bride.
That means now I saw new heaven and new earth for the 1st heaven
and the first earth that passed away.
Also, there was no more sea than I John saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride, adorned for a husband. Why would he say that?
Prepared as a bride? Speaking of a city, well it's
identified with the residents that are going to be there.
The residents are the bride of Christ.
You and I are going to be in this New Jerusalem, and there's
another loud voice, an important announcement.
Because there will be now no separation forever between the
Saints and God. John now describes heaven by
telling us what it is not like. He describes it in the negative
way. Why would John do that?
Why wouldn't John tell us what it's like when he says these are
the things that won't happen here because heaven is like
nothing. We know we can't, we can't
fathom it. The apostle Paul, he had a time
and he said, I don't know whether I was in a vision or
what happened to me, but I was taken to heaven.
And hear what Paul wrote 2 Corinthians 12 verse 4 as he had
a glimpse of heaven that I was caught up to paradise and heard
things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words.
Now Paul was a university graduate, a man of high degree
of learning, yet he had no and he spoke many languages Aramaic,
Hebrew, Greek, but he couldn't find words.
He says, I cannot express in words no human is it able to
tell what heaven is like. This is why I believe John
describes heaven as he does. He says in verse 4, And God will
wipe away every tear from their eyes.
There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
There shall be no more pain for the former.
Things have passed away. They're gone, done.
Each and every one of us here this morning, especially those
older in years, usually to a greater degree, have experienced
tears when we've had great sorrows.
The phone rings. Dad's dead.
Granddad's dead, your brother's been killed.
The doctor rings and said the tests have proved that's not
good. We've experienced tears when
we've had great sorrow, we've experienced tears and I think
everyone has in this area too, of being alone.
There's a moment that voice that's risen up in you.
You can be in a happy marriage, have a good job, be of good
health, or you're going to have a whole stack of things going
against you. But for all of us without
Christ, does anyone know I exist?
Does anyone really know out of the eight point 9 billion people
that on this planet, does anyone know that I exist?
We've had tears of misfortune. Things just went wrong.
Some have had tears of poverty, lost everything.
Some of you have come from South Africa.
Many South African farmers have just left everything.
Zimbabwe as well. People have left countries and
come to Australia. They come from a refugee camp,
lost everything. We've had many tears of
sympathy. We've sat with the broken, we've
sat with the morning, those who have lost their loved one and
we've had tears of regret. I have as a father, as a husband
and I look back at my life to be Christ and and I look back at I
can't believe what sort of a person I was.
I wasn't a killer or anything like that in that sense.
And we kind of think, oh, why? How bad were you?
You know, No, no, I was just a selfish, inconsiderate, rude,
well accepted person by everybody else.
But I was all the all those things, tears of regret.
How could I have done that? How could I have acted that way?
How could I have been so selfish, absorbed?
But in heaven, all of that will be gone forever.
Praise the Lord. God will whisper in your ear,
I'm sure. Because it says God will wipe
away every tear. That's an action, isn't it?
God wiping away a tear. And I'm sure there will be many
of us when we get to heaven that will have the wonder of God
saying to us privately, personally, it's all over.
No more tears, my son. No more struggle for my
daughter. You're my child.
That's the intimacy that awaits us.
God will wipe away every tear. It's all over.
In heaven we will have nothing to cry about.
There's nothing to cry about. Death will be dissolved,
banished, the last great enemy. Paul speaks of 1 Corinthians 15,
verse 26. The last enemy that will be
destroyed is death. Paul says that now at the second
resurrection of the unsaved. We dealt with that the other
night. You need to watch that at the
great white throne Judgement Revelation chapter 20, verse 14.
It says back there then death and Hades were cast into the
lake of fire. Death is no longer now.
In the beginning, in the book of Genesis, death wasn't the plan
for Adam and Eve. It wasn't God's plan for this
planet, for this world. Adam and Eve were born into this
world, created in this world to live forever.
They disobeyed God. Sin entered the world.
Satan said you won't die if you ain't this.
Then in Genesis chapter 5, the first obituary column, then he
died, then he died, and then he died.
It says in heaven, sorrow will also pass away.
We have our trials, our storms, our heartaches.
Don't we sorrow sometimes, you know, we have such situations.
And I'm reading through Charles Spurgeon again about his life.
And he was a man that suffered fits of depression.
Luther did as well. Martin Luther Sometimes we have
sorrows and sometimes these drive us into the pit of
depression. Even the apostle Paul, great man
of faith, had this experience, he says in Two Corinthians,
chapter one, verse 8 For we do not want you to be ignorant,
brethren of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were
burdened beyond measure above strength so that we despaired
even of life. You thought, Oh my goodness,
you're going to die. Remember Elijah, the great
property. Elijah called stop the the the
rain coming down and he took off.
He said, God, kill me. I'd rather you kill me because
Jezebel wants to kill me. It's a bit funny that isn't it.
He's taken off because Jezebel wants to kill him.
And he says, God, you kill me. And God said to Elijah, what are
you doing here in this cave? Even Elijah, great man of
prayer. So God, take my life.
I can't do this. You see, when people feel this
depression and struggle so much, they want to end it all.
It's a massive problem in our world today.
People say it's a mental health problem.
The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart.
It's our hearts. We need God.
It's a soul problem because you see people looking for
everywhere to find their identity.
I think, well, if I choose this different lifestyle, if I, if I
put this term upon myself, if I call myself this, this will,
this will help my identity. Now your identity, you're
trampling over it. Your identity is that you are
made in the image of God. You're a creation of God.
He formed you, and when he made you, he said it is good.
In fact, he says it's very good. In heaven there'll be no more
sorrow. Therefore we will weep no more,
because we'll have nothing to cry about.
There shall be no more pain. Wow.
For the former things have passed away.
Pain will be a thing of the past, of the old world,
banished, never to be felt anymore.
No more pain. The pain of a death, of the
death of a loved one. I've seen it.
I've done many funerals. The pain of the death of a loved
1 words can't describe the herd. See a little child sitting in
the front row at a funeral at their granddad or the dad's
funeral. Heartbroken death rips your
heart apart because it's separation.
That person's gone. Can't touch them, can't hear
them, can't hold them. I don't look into their eyes
anymore. Oh, the enemy.
Satan brought that death in and it's a savage pain.
Yeah, so many today are living with chronic pain.
Not an hour without it now. Paul wrote Romans chapter 8
verse 18. He says, for I consider that the
sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in US.
And he's Speaking of heaven. And when we read this, we think,
no, no, let's listen. Nothing can can compete with the
the hurt and the pain that I feel.
Now, how can Paul write that? Paul saying, listen, he's not
putting down what we feel, how we hurt.
It's very real. Paul's sense that he knew that
himself. But what he is saying is when we
get to heaven, Heaven will open up something to us that will
help us look back on those things.
And it would be like a fire blanket on a raging fire.
The pain is a raging fire in our heart, like a raging Bush fire
and then a sudden thunderstorm and it just go, it's out, it's
done. Heaven will envelope us like a
blanket and our hurt and our pain will be gone, will be done.
And heaven in its vastness and it's wonder will, will just so
overwhelm us with the joy and the wonder of it.
That the comparison. Because Paul's saying the things
that you feel they're real. Yeah, we know how they hurt.
But the he says will not be compared.
Heaven just over overwhelms it. No hospitals in heaven, no
funerals in heaven, no broken homes in heaven, no broken
hearts in heaven, no rehab centres in heaven, no Hospice
care in heaven, no dementia in heaven, no Alzheimer's in
heaven, no wheelchairs in heaven.
It seems as if John is completely overwhelmed by all
the that he sees as he describes us.
And he, he stops riding. He says there shall be no more
pain for the former things have passed away.
Then notice verse 5. There's this kind of like
strange thing coming from the throne.
Then he who sat on the throne said, behold, I make all things
true, new. And he said to me, right.
For these things are true and faithful.
In other words, John's going, oh man, you mean no more pain, no
more sorrow, no more tears. Oh, and he's, he's thinking
about all that and he stops, he's overwhelmed by the wonder
of heaven. And he stops, he says, John, God
says to John, I make all things new.
And he said to me, write, write it down, John.
For these words are true and faithful.
Remember they were the words on Revelation chapter 19 when Jesus
wrote back faithful and true on his thigh.
John and God said to me, it's done.
In other words, as you write it down, you're writing it down.
It's, it's done in other words, to God, it's happened, it's
going to happen. It's happening.
It's it's concrete. I am the alpha and the Omega.
I am the beginning and the end. I've got all this covered, John.
It's done. It's going to happen.
All that you're writing down heaven, it's real, God on the
throne, tells John. But we're not finished, John,
Don't stop. Keep writing.
There's more, God declares. I'm going to do all this.
I'm going to make all things new.
What I'm telling you, John, what you're writing down is true.
I guarantee it. It's all done.
And then he says I will give of the fountains of the water of
life freely to him who firsts, he who overcomes shall inherit
all things. And notice God.
He's notice how intimate he's saying I'll be his God.
He shall be. Notice the intimacy of the
change now of the talking of you and I and God.
And he shall be my son. That word son there means my
child. God's saying you're, you're
going to be my child. God now describes 2 groups of
people in these verses and the ones that come those who will be
in heaven and those who will not be in heaven.
What's the requirement for heaven according to our text?
The answer You go to the text to get the context.
What's the answer to those who will be in heaven?
I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him
who 1st Who first? The word first here defined it
means those who painfully feel their want of they long for
things which the soul needs refreshing.
To get into heaven you must be thirsty to get into heaven you
must be thirsty. You must see your need to drink
from God's well. How do I explain that?
Well, Jesus sent his disciples on.
He said, you guys go ahead, I'm waiting here at a well and a
woman came John chapter 4. And he asked the woman, can you
give me a drink out of them? Well, what you, you're a Jew,
you're asking me, a woman, a Samaran.
And then they had this discussion.
It was an arranged meeting. Jesus said to her, Whoever
drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the
water that I'll give him will never thirst, but the water that
I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water,
springing up into everlasting life.
And the woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may
not first, nor come here to draw.
And there Jesus had spoken to her, and he said, Don't get your
husband. Actually, you haven't got a
husband at the moment, have you? You've had five men
relationships. The one you're with now is not
your husband. And he pulled down her mask.
You see, she had tried with the ache, with the thirst in her
soul. She had tried to find it in men.
If you just tell me you love me, I'll be with you.
She's just looking for protection.
She was trying to fill the hole in her with relationship with a
man. Some people try it with career,
some people try it with sport, some people try it with
athletic, some people try it with health and we try and fill
that first. Some people try it with drugs.
Jesus said no, the water that I give you, that's the only thing
that will quench your thirst. This poor woman, but however,
was desperately thirsty for the things of God and Jesus said I'm
the one I'm the Messiah, I am he and she went whoa.
She received him as Lord and Saviour.
She ran into the village. She says hey everybody,
everybody you've got to come. You've got to come meet this
man. Tell me everything about you got
to meet him. Her first was quenched.
Now out of her is bubbling this, this, this, this gallons and
gallons of water. She's telling everyone I'm I'm
no longer thirsty. You come, come and drink.
She was never going to be thirsty again.
Jesus said in the temple when he was teaching in John Chapter 7,
verse 37, on the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried out, saying, if anyone first let him come to me
and drink. You see only those, and you need
to listen carefully to this part, only those who are
dissatisfied with this present life.
You're apart from Christ who are thirsty enough.
How thirsty? The psalmist wrote it this way.
Psalm 42 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my
soul for you. Oh God, a parched soul aching
within will go to heaven and be in heaven.
Heaven will be populated by those who thirsted after God.
Are you thirsty for God? I remember being five years old,
holding a Gideon's Bible, King James, Gideon's Bible, trying to
read it and praying to God. God, please.
And I cried and wept. I remember vividly.
God, will you show yourself to me?
Because in my heart, five years old, I needed to know God.
I had an ache in my heart. There are those of you here
today. You have an ache in your heart
and you've filled it like the woman at the well.
You've filled it with relationships.
You've tried career, sports, you've tried health.
You've tried all academia. You've tried many, many things.
Your first can only be quenched by the water from Christ.
How thirsty are you? Verse 7?
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I'll be his God
and he shall be my son. So you got to be thirsty and an
overcomer to be in heaven. What's an overcomer, you ask?
When you're born of God by faith, when you trust in Jesus
alone and in his provision, you've received Christ as your
Lord and Saviour, then God after you've done that enables you,
empowers you to overcome sin and temptation through the power of
the Son of God in your life. Revelation chapter 3, verse 12,
Jesus wrote to the Church of Philadelphia.
He says he who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple
of my God. He shall go out no more.
He'll always be with me. I will write on him the name of
my God, the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which
comes down out of heaven. Oh my God, it's linked.
An overcomer. Well, what's an overcomer?
The other group John mentions now are those who will not be in
heaven. He says in verse 8.
Now notes, notice this, and you probably stumble at the first
one, but the cowardly, cowardly, unbelieving, abominable
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters and all
liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
These are those who haven't received Christ, didn't become
overcomers, but are overcome by their sin and would not trust
the Lord. I heard about the Lord.
Not interested, Cowardly. Now this is not Speaking of
natural timidity, but of the cowardice which is the last
resort where someone chooses self and safety before Christ.
They won't deny themselves. Jesus said if you want to follow
me, what are you going to do? You got to deny yourself.
Take up your cross, which kills the old you and follow me.
You see, there are people who go, well, you know, I, I know
what you're saying is true and I believe Jesus is the Son of God.
But you know, I'm, I'm not prepared to go that path, go to
church, you know, turn over a new leaf, live that one.
Nah, these people, the cowardly are those who refuse to take a
stand for Jesus Christ. They don't endure, they quit,
they walk away. They turn their backs on God.
They never had a saving faith in the 1st place.
Maybe they said the sinner's prayer at a church service.
Maybe they had an emotional moment one time, but they never
made a real commitment to Jesus Christ.
You see, the Bible tells us here there is no second chance after
death. There is no reincarnation.
Let's have a crack. Come back the second time.
Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 21 says as it is appointed for men to
die once and after after that judgement, it says the
unbelieving, the cowardly, the unbelieving.
These people lack saving faith as demonstrated by their ungodly
lives, the abominable. That's not talking about
snowmen. It means polluted with sin in
your mind and spirit. Murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, all liars shall have their part on the
lake, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death. Adultery, homosexuality, incest.
Sorcerers. That says it.
Sorcerers. Well, is that someone wears a
big hat and waves a wand around a gown?
No, it's the term pharmakeias. When we get our English word
pharmacy, it's the use of drugs associated with the worship of
Pagan gods. In other words, you take drugs
to worship Pagan gods in our day it's called spiritism and I just
feel one with the universe might take idolaters.
What is that? Those who give supreme devotion
to anyone or anything other than God?
Liars. This would include those who say
they are Christians but fail to live in a way that honours God.
Timothy wrote, sorry, Titus wrote about this.
He says in verse verse 1, chapter 1, verse 16, he says
they profess to know God. Paul writing to Titus, they
profess to know God but in works they deny him.
You can't see that they're a Christian being abominable.
He uses that term again. Disobedient and disqualified for
every good work. Heaven in heaven.
I've done the funerals of many, and the hardest and most
difficult are those of infants. I remember my nephew going to
the back of the hearse. They had twins stillborn.
He grabbed the 2 little caskets that were joined together by two
bars and he carried them as we're doing the funeral, ready
to be loaded into the grave. My brother in law, my nephew's
dad, very strong man of Italian background culture strong.
I mean really tough man. He's standing there.
And it was at that moment, as his son carried those 2 little
caskets, he broke and he burst into tears.
Couldn't hold them, couldn't hold them.
Heaven wipes away those tears. Heaven removes the herd of that
situation. And I said to my nephew, after
that service, your two little girls will be waiting for you in
heaven. Heaven.
In heaven we are all children of God and in heaven we are all in
the arms of God. Finally, it's that place, it's
that intimacy where actually God will hold us home as we rest in
His arms. I'm looking forward to that
rest. It's hard living here and He'll
wipe away every tear from every one of His children.
No more tears. Our eyes will sparkle in heaven,
but not because of tears, because of joy, our broken
hearts, our broken bodies. No more.
We will be surrounded by our saved loved ones and reunited
forever. No more death.
You see eternity to live in the wonder and glory of God forever
and to enjoy this new amazing life.
I tell you, why would you choose to reject the offer of heaven
through Jesus Christ? Why would you choose not to have
all this that we can't explain because it's so good, so
amazing, so wonderful that it's going to take all of eternity to
unwrap for you to see, for you to touch, feel, enjoy, laugh,
sing. Heaven, I want to ask you this
morning as we close, are you this morning a citizen of
heaven? Are you thirsty?
Are you an overcomer because you've been invited?
No more death, sorrow nor weeping and more pain.
You see, when Noah had preached for 120 years and I feel a
little bit like that today, people ignored his words.
Is this kind of rain judgements coming?
I laughed. Then there came a day and God
said, Noah, get your wife, sons, they what?
Their wife go into the ark. You know what happened?
It says in Genesis, God closed the door.
That was it. Noah didn't shut the door.
God closed the door and the rain fell.
I pray with all my heart that if you're here today and you don't
know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, that this message
today, this time that you're in church today, that you'll
remember with regret was the time that you were invited and
you said no and God closed the door.