Revelation chapter 20, please turn there.
What we did just then in worship, and we continue to
worship through the teaching of the Word, is we're getting ready
for heaven. When we get to heaven, we're
going to be worshipping the Lord and singing together
collectively. I'm so glad that I am saved by
God, by His mercy. If you hear today and you don't
know Jesus Christ, my prayer for you right now is that before you
leave today, you would know Him. If you hear today and you're
living in sin, my prayer today is that you would sense the love
of God calling you to repent, to change, to come to Him.
He'll cleanse you, He'll forgive you.
He'll wash away every sin and he'll love you and love you and
love you. Revelation 20, the title of this
morning's message, and we have a bit of a chart there for you, is
where do you fit in? Where will you belong?
We always want to fit in and belong.
At school, people fit into certain groups.
You fit in with the, I won't use the American term, the jocks,
but in here it's you fit in with the football team or the cricket
team, or now they have a new, then the new term came out.
You, you're one of the nerds or you're one of the good kids or
the cool kids or whatever. And it's kind of like as we grow
older too, we're always looking to fit in.
Well, the great thing about the Church of Jesus Christ is
everybody fits in. Everybody fits in, but most
people have no idea what awaits them after death.
Charlie Kirk does. And you, the majority of them
believe that they'll go to heaven.
Every funeral, it's always the same.
They're going to see, they're going to catch up.
We know where they are, even though that person has never
acknowledged Jesus Christ, never lived for God in any way during
their life. But the sad fact of the matter
is also that the majority of believers, people in church
today, this morning, are ignorant of what awaits them
following either the rapture of the church or should we, as
Charlie Kirk did, He's gone before the rapture of the
church. Should we die before the rapture
this morning? In our text, we'll see in God's
words, great detail and information as we journey
through Revelation what awaits those who are passionate about
their walk. We're in the journey.
We've we've gone through Revelation chapter 1.
Jesus appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos.
Chapters 2 and three we had the church age.
The rapture occurred, Chapter 4, the church is in heaven.
Chapter 5 and the tribulation begins.
Chapter 6, the great tribulation, 6 years, sorry,
seven years. We got to chapter 17 and 18, the
demolition of religious Babylon and Mystery Babylon.
Then we have in chapter 19 the return of Jesus Christ, the
second Coming, and now we're at the point of the next phase.
It's called the Millennial mill, meaning 1000 annum per year
years, 1000 years, and now we're in that place.
We haven't got to the new heaven and the new earth yet.
That's in the next few chapters we'll cover a period, this
period called the Millennium, the thousand year reign and this
thousand year reign, Kingdom of Christ.
Christians today are totally ignorant of if you say well, you
know anything about the Millennium.
We've got no idea. I don't know what happens then
just I know I'm saved, but I don't know what happens then and
they treat it with little importance at all.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is
profitable. Second Timothy 316 Let's look at
verse one. We'll get through it now.
John says then I saw an Angel, a vision coming down from heaven
having the key. That means he's an Angel of
might power, rank. He has authority and he has the
key to the bottomless pit, the abyss.
You remember when Jesus came across the Galilee and he come
across to a place called Ghadera and then this demonic demoniac
met him and he knelt the Jesus feet and the the demons spoke
through Jesus. That's right to Jesus.
Jesus said who are you? And we said, legion this, now
the 6000 in the legion was this man possessed with 6000, We
don't know because demons lie anyway.
But they said please don't cast us out.
Don't take, don't send us to the abyss, Son of God.
Remember Jesus cast them and they went into the pigs and the
pigs threw off. And pigs do fly.
Pigs went off the Cliff and landed in the Galilee, and that
was the end of them, the bottomless pit, the abyss, the
abuso. And a great chain was in the
hand of this Angel, and he laid hold of the dragon.
And now in the Greek it says he grabs him firmly.
I love this because you and I think often people think, well,
the devil and and God, there's a struggle between good and evil.
Nah, the devil is a created being and so most likely this
Angel who has might and power, it's probably Michael the
Archangel. We don't know, we're not told,
but he just grabs hold of Satan, grabs, he lays his hand on, he
says come here, chains him up. And to know who this is, we laid
hold of the dragon, the serpent of old Genesis, who is the devil
and Satan. So we're clear and bound him,
chained him for 1000 years and cast him into the Abuso, the
abyss, the bottomless pit, and locks him in there, shuts him
up, puts a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no
more for a period, the period, the millennial reign till the
1000 years were finished. But after these things he must
be released. Note that.
So we have the second coming of Jesus, the millennial reign.
But between sandwich between those and it's not on the chart,
there is what's called the judgement of the nations.
So when Jesus returns before the millennial reign begins, it's
called the judgement of the nations.
You can turn with me into your Bibles and it's a good thing to
have a Bible, especially in church.
Matthew 25 and I'll speak from it and you can follow along and
check it. And Jesus says, verse 31, when
the Son of Man comes in his glory, the second coming, and
all the holy angels with him, remember we dealt with that on
Wednesday. All the holy angels are
returning with Jesus and the Church, the armies of heaven, it
says, and he will sit on the throne of his glory.
The throne of God's glory, of Christ's glory is Jerusalem, the
city of Jerusalem, and it says all the nations will be gathered
before him. Now it says nations, actually
the Greek is individuals. Every individual who has
survived the tribulation up to this point will be gathered
before him, and he will separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
Now I was learning to be a livestock buyer back in my
younger years as a job. It was a, a, a good job and we
had to learn how to draught what we call draught draught sheep
and also cattle as well. Cattle you standing from, I hope
they don't run over the top of you, but sheep they run through
and you draught them. And so you have this gate they
run through and you just go Yep, no, Yep.
And they go off in different ways.
Well, Jesus is doing this, not drafting, but he is separating.
He is the shepherd, and he divides his sheep from the
goats. So there's a gathering of the
nation's individual people. And in this great gathering of
the nation's individuals, there are sheep and goats.
Not literal sheep and goats, but they're all people, and he will
separate them one from another. He will set the sheep on his
right hand, but the goats on the left.
So Jesus returns, he takes his throne.
All the nations are gathered and it's called the sheep and goat
judgement. These are the survivors of the
tribulation period. Now half of the world's
population. So it's it's about 8 now it's
nearly 9. Let's let's round it off, say 8.
Half the population has been decimated by, I think it was a
Revelation chapter 8 by the events 1/4 and 1/3.
So it's just 4 billion, let alone all the other incidents
that will wipe out people. So the world's population has
dropped considerably. It's less than 4 billion.
And in this group of the sheep and the goats who survived the
tribulation period, both Jews and Gentiles who have trusted
Christ as their Saviour during the tribulation, but also the
people who are not saved but still somehow survive the
tribulation period, the saved people.
Jesus calls them the sheep and he speaks of them in Matthew 25.
The unsaved people, people who have not received Christ, but
yet still survived the tribulation period of the goats.
Verse 34 And the king will say to those on his right hand, come
you blessed of my Father, that is those who got saved and
survived during the tribulation period.
And he says inherit the Kingdom. This is the thousand year reign
prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
So people surviving the tribulation period who are saved
will now be invited into the next 1000 years of living upon
the earth. Come inherit the Kingdom amongst
those who remember the 144,000 Jews, remember evangelists went
around the world. These saved survivors will
immediately join Jesus Christ and the Saints because remember,
prior to the Millennium, Jesus has returned.
We cover that on Wednesday and we the Church returned with Him
at the second coming. So then that second coming is
not something where we watch and see it happen because we're
taken to heaven in chapters 4, we see the throne of God worship
God. Chapter 5 tribulation begins in
chapter 6. The church is not mentioned
between chapter 6 and chapter until chapter 19 when we return.
Jude tells us also we we we return on horses, remember with
the Son of God, the angels and the church, the bride return.
We've had the wedding and we're returning also and remember for
the marriage feast which will be upon the earth.
And then he says to the goats at Jesus left hand and he
immediately commands them. Verse 41, he'll say to those on
the left hand, depart from me, you cursed into the everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil. It was never prepared for
humanity. This was not what God wanted to
happen. Man chooses to reject God and
ends up going to the place Jesus said that was prepared for the
devil and his angels, the fallen angels, the demons, and these
will go away into everlasting. It's eternal judgement, but the
righteous into eternal life. So to the unsaved survivors,
we'll go to hell to await the final judgement, the great White
throne later. So we have the saved survivors
who lived during the tribulation period and got and and and
survived and saw the coming again, the second coming of
Jesus with the church, with the angels.
Now the people who came to Christ during the tribulation
period, not killed by the Antichrist, that's a separate
group. They join Jesus and his Saints
in the millennial Kingdom. But there's a significant
difference between the people who have survived saved, people
who have survived the Tribulation period, and them
entering the the millennial reign, the millennial Kingdom
and the Church and every all the Saints who returned with Jesus,
who too are now going to live upon planet earth for 1000 years
with Christ as he rules and reigns.
What is the difference? Those who returned with Christ,
the Church, you and I and his second coming will be what in
different bodies, because Paul says, remember, we're going to
change in the twinkling of an eye, this mortal, we'll put on
immortality. 1 Corinthians 15, One Thessalonians chapter 4,
verses 13 to 18 and we're raptured.
We're raptured, we get a brand new body.
We're changed, but the earthly survivors of the tribulation
period, and it's important to know this, are still in their
mortal physical body, just like you and I.
Now we're saved, but I live in a sinful body.
They still have their sin nature as they enter into the
Millennium. They are saved, they receive
Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour, but they haven't had
the final separation from their bodies.
They're still living in sinful bodies.
So two different groups of saved people.
Now in verse one, Jesus has already cast into the lake of
fire the Antichrist, the Antichrist and the false
prophet. He did that.
Remember, We looked at Armageddon.
That was over in a flash, wasn't it?
Jesus spoke. It was done.
They all the armies turned up there, the armies under the
Antichrist turned up to Jerusalem.
They're going to take take the city of Jerusalem.
They're going to conquer Israel. The kings of the East, remember,
had also turned up at the same battle.
They were going to fight the Antichrist.
They'd come through the river Euphrates, which had dried up.
They meet, Jesus returns, they see him, and they all unite and
fight to fight Christ. Christ speaks and they're all
dead, every one of them. The Angel calls for all the
carrion birds around the earth come gather to the feast because
there's so many bodies. And Jesus treads out the
winepress himself. A stamping on this judgement
that occurs at Megiddo we call the Battle of Armageddon.
It's over before it happens and the blood flows up to the height
of a bridle on a horse and the blood, remember, was seen on him
riding the White Horse, faithful and true.
And it's the blood of those who's who is crushed at Megiddo.
Armageddon is over now an Angel comes down from heaven.
Chapter 20 with the key to the bottomless pit, a powerful Angel
and a great chain. He grabs hold of Satan, chains
him, casts him not into the lake of fire at this time, but into
the abyss locks it for a season 1000 years.
Verse 4 and I saw Thrones known as plural on a throne, but
Thrones and they so there's many people on the Thrones sat on
them and judgement was committed to them.
In other words, people that sat on all these Thrones, they were
ruling and reigning over the earth during this thousand year
period. At the same time, John says, I
saw the souls of those who had been noticed, how they'll die
during the Tribulation period, people who died for the Lord,
beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God.
This is the people, martyrs who won't receive the mark of the
beast. They won't worship the
Antichrist and they'll die for their faith, just like Charlie
Cook did. They had not worshipped the
beast or his image, had not received the mark on their
foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with
Christ for 1000 years. So what happens?
These people are resurrected. Remember, before back in
Revelation, we saw that these souls were under the throne of
God and they were saying to God, God, when are you going to
avenge the people that have killed us?
You know, and God says not, not, not yet this time there's still
more to join you. Well, that's happened.
They've been avenged. And now they all who died during
the tribulation period for their faith.
They enter into the thousand year reign as well.
So John sees Thrones, he sees the souls of those who have been
beheaded for their witness. And God's people now will live
and reign for 1000 years. There will be no devil, he's
locked up. Be no demons locked up.
There'll be no Antichrist lake of fire, no false prophet, lake
of fire. So who will these people on the
Thrones rule during the thousand year reign?
Remember, at the end of the tribulation period, those who
had not died will go into the millennial Kingdom in their
earthly bodies, the sheep and the goat.
Judgement 144,000 Jews to start with.
People who had not, who had received Christ and had not
received the mark of the beast, and they are welcomed into
Jesus, says come, come into the Kingdom that has been prepared
for you. So those people begin to live
and populate planet earth. Also the righteous Gentiles who
escaped the tyranny of the Antichrist, which I've
mentioned, but the difference is they will be in human sinful
bodies saved because no unsaved going to the millennial reign to
begin with. Save but living in normal sinful
bodies just like you and I. I'm saved now, but I live in a
sinful body. John sees Thrones, many of them
verse 4. Those who sit on the Thrones are
given authority to judge or to rule over the people Now living
in the the millennial period, who who's who's going to be the
who's going to be sitting on the Thrones?
Well, Jesus had said to his disciples in Matthew 1928,
assuredly I say to you that in the regeneration, this is a
millennial period when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his
glory, Jerusalem. You who have followed me will
also sit on 12 Thrones disciples judging the 12 tribes of Israel
so that the the apostles are given 12 Thrones and they're
going to rule over the people of Israel.
But the apostle Paul also said to believers, Christians in
Corinth, that they would help judge the world.
Remember there was a conflict in the church and people were
going, well, I'm going to take you to court.
Well, I'll take you to court. And Paul said, hang on a minute,
you need to be sorting this out and I'll take a brother to
court. And then he goes on to say, do
you not know 1 Corinthians 6 verse 2?
Do you not know that the Saints will judge the world, the
Millennium? And if the world will be judged
by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
So Thrones, who's ruling and reigning disciples 12 looking
after the nations of Israel, the New Testament Saints, you and I,
I don't know about you, but you can pick a place where you might
think, well, I'd like to actually rule over that place.
I'd like to be the head judge of Mukkabuden, the wheat belt make
it pretty cool. You know, the Old Testament
Saints as well. And the tribulation Saints,
remember those souls he's seen. They've been revived.
Now they're in brand new bodies. They're all living in the
Millennium verse 5. But the rest of the dead did not
live again until the 1000 years were finished.
So only into the Millennium at the beginning are save people.
No unsaved. This is the first resurrection.
What's this first resurrection about?
Verse 6? John writes blessed.
It's one of the beatitudes of the Book of Revelation.
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection
over such the second death has no power, but they shall be
priests of God. That's in there.
You and I as we rule and reign over the earth.
We're representing God's authority.
We do what he asked us to do in that role and of Christ and
shall reign with him. How long do we do this?
Thousand years. You know, it says 6 times, this
is 1000 years, 1000 years. So here's another thing, a
millennials and post millennials, and I'll touch on
that on Wednesday, they confuse everything terribly because
they'll come up and say, well, but is it really 1000 years?
Is it, Isn't this just some sort of like just a period of time?
No, because it says it's six times.
God's wanting you to know it's 1000 years.
Otherwise, the moment you make this thousand some sort of,
well, a period of time. Well, so were there 12 apostles
or was it just a rough, was it 6 days or was it just a rough
thing? Seven day.
The moment you make that spiritualization of a figure
that is literal, you are in trouble and in danger, and you
have spooked the rest of the Bible you make because you go,
well, what does this number mean?
Oh, well, I'm not sure, but here it's 1000 years. 1000 means 1000
means 1000. So what is this first
resurrection? The Bible tells us that there
will be two resurrections. One the first covers all saved
people, people who receive Christ as the Lord and Saviour.
The second resurrection and it's called that is for all unsaved
people. It's pretty easy.
John chapter 5 verse 28. Jesus says do not marvel at
this, for the hour is coming which all who are in the graves
will hear his voice and come forth.
Those who have done good to the resurrection of life first.
Those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation,
judgement. The first resurrection leads to
life eternal and blessing and takes place in stages.
How is that? It began the first person and it
began the first resurrection. Began with who?
Jesus being the first one. Corinthians 1520.
Paul tells us that now Christ is risen from the dead and has
become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Christians are always never spoken of as being dead, but
asleep. The second phase of the
resurrection. First resurrection is what?
The rapture of the Church. We are seized, we are taken up
to be with the Lord forever, to be with him forever, meet Him in
the air. The third phase of the first
resurrection takes place at the end of the tribulation period,
when those souls who died for their faith, who were martyred
during the tribulation period are resurrected and we see them
and they now enter into the millennial reign.
So what's the second resurrection?
It is of the unsaved and it happens at one time.
We haven't got to it yet. And there is a period of 1000
years between the first resurrection and the second
resurrection, verse 6. John writes blessed and holy, as
he was part in the first resurrection over such the
second death has no power, that is judgement, condemnation, cast
into the lake of fire. But they shall be priests of God
and of Christ, and shall reign within 1000 years those who are
in the first resurrection, verse 7.
Now, when the 1000 years have expired, notice he tells us
again, it's 1000, He doesn't say.
And when this period of time is over, it's 1000 years.
So we're moving along now, and we're coming to the end of this
thousand years. Satan will be released.
The Angel will come down, unlock the abyss, unchain the chain
that's on him. Satan, notice what he does.
He will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
corners of the earth. Gog and Magog to gather them.
What's he going to do to battle? The number of his gathering of
this army is as the sand of the sea so many.
And they went up from the breadth of the earth and
surrounded the camp of the Saints and the beloved city
where Jerusalem, man, it's still on.
But remember, Jesus is ruling and reigning in Jerusalem.
What happens before Satan can go?
Everybody come done. Fire came down from God out of
heaven and devoured them. It's over.
The devil who deceived the nations is now cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone where the beast, the Antichrist, the
false prophet are. And notice how long they'll be
there. And they will be tormented day
and night, forever and ever eternal.
It's over. There has been a common cry from
those who deny the existence of God.
Well, if God exists, why is there evil and suffering?
Tell me that answer that why doesn't he just bring a stop to
all evil? And if God is all powerful I had
then he would destroy evil. But evil is not destroyed.
So all I can gather from that is that there is no God and that's
their they walk off. Our text this morning answers
that argument. Here we see God deal decisively
with both evil and sin. He binds Satan for 1000 years
verse powerful Angel chains him, locks him up after 1000 years of
heaven on earth. Jesus ruling with Christ's
ruling. And what will that thousand year
period be like while Satan's trapped?
Well, the Bible says, and there's just loads of scripture
that tell us about the Millennium.
First of all, there will be peace, finally peace on earth
during the 1000 years, a complete cessation of war.
Micah chapter 4 verse 3 says. And he has judged between many
peoples and given a decision to my nations afar off.
They have beaten their swords to ploughshares and their Spears to
pruninghooks. Nation lifts not up sword unto
nation, nor do they learn war anymore, no more.
Secondly, there'll be mass healing and healing throughout
the 1000 years. Healing of the deformed sickness
will be removed during the 1000 years.
The prophet Isaiah writes quite a deal about the thousand year
reign. He says in Isaiah chapter 29
verse 18 and in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their obscurity
and out of darkness. There will be a one word
language, unified language. Zephaniah chapter 3, verse 9.
For then do I turn unto people's a pure lip to call all of them
by the name of Jehovah. Any overt act of rebellion
against God, against Christ during the 1000 years will be
dealt with swiftly, swiftly judgement.
There will be a mass reversion and a reversal of the current
interaction we have with the animal Kingdom.
The curse will be partially lifted upon our planet.
You know, you go near an animal now you can't.
They fly away. You know, if you see a Mad Dog
in the street, you want to go take off.
Well, Isaiah writes what will happen during the 1000 years.
It says the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the
dumb shall sing. For water shall burst forth in
the wilderness and streams in the desert.
A massive climate change our world.
No more deserts. All the deserts will be spring
out water, and it'll be just green all over the world.
But of the animals, it says in Isaiah 11, verse 6, the wolf
shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the
young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together, and a little child shall lead them out, and the
lion shall eat straw like the ox.
You see what it is during the thousand year reign.
It's the reversal back to Genesis, how it was, how
paradise was in the beginning. It says, notice this, especially
in Australia where we have a lot of snakes.
The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the weaned
child shall put his hand in the viper's den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the
earth. And here's what we pray about.
Shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.
The world will know Jesus is ruling as the waters cover the
sea. There'll be longevity.
People will live many, many years.
Isaiah 6520 No more shall an infant from there live but a few
days. Isn't that wonderful?
Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days.
For the child shall die 100 You'll be considered young if
you die 100 At the end of this thousand year imprisonment.
All this has been happening. Satan is loose for a season.
You go, Why does he do that? Why did God allow that go out to
the sea of the nations? Because once Satan is released,
the first thing he does is to organise a rebellion, a war
against Christ. The 1000 years of incarceration
did not rehabilitate. He didn't come out and go.
You know what? I'm a changed man.
I'm a changed devil. Oh yeah, That thousand years in
gaol that changed my life. No, gaol doesn't, can't and
won't change an evil nature. Why would God allow Satan to be
released? And that's a good question,
because as a final proof that the heart of the problem is, the
problem of the heart is that the heart of man is desperately
wicked and can be changed only by God's grace.
You see, during the Millennium the world will repopulate.
The living Saints, remember who went into the Millennium in
their natural bodies, will bigot children throughout the age, so
the earth's population will soar.
Those born in the Age will not be born without a sin nature, so
salvation is required. They will live longer lives,
marry, bear children who outwardly during that period
will conform to Christ's rule. But not all of them will become
born again as the Millennium progresses.
And this explains why Satan shall be able to gather a great
army of rebels at the close of the Kingdom age.
People who have been living and note this too, because people
say, well, you don't know my upbringing and that's why, why
am I am the way I am? It's an excuse.
Because people who have been living in a perfect environment
thousand years under the most perfect government, the ruling
of Christ will finally admit their rebelliousness of the
heart and they too will arise against the King.
Isn't it interesting as you go back and a lot of this is in
made me go back to read Genesis, Adam and Eve.
Yes, they sin you think they were godly parents.
What would your opinion Of course they would be when they
walk with God. They made a they made a terrible
sin. Yes, they disobeyed God, but you
think they were godly parents. But notice Cain and Abel.
Abel love the Lord. Sacrifice did everything was
right. Cain, I don't want to do what
I'm supposed to do. All the things the way I want to
do. Yeah, he was in a perfect,
wonderful environment. Same thing here.
It's a problem of the heart. You see, infants born during the
Millennium will live to its conclusion and will not be
required to make a choice, free will choice between the devil
and Christ until the devil is released, released, and then
they go, you know what? I'm joining him, I'm joining
him. Gog and Magog mentioned here is
not the battle of Ezekiel 3839. How do we know that?
For in Ezekiel 3839, that battle which will occur either just
before the Rapture or just after the Rapture.
Is an invasion of armies from the north.
Note Satan here goes to the four corners of the earth and gathers
this massive rebellion against Christ.
Jerusalem once again will be the target.
God deals with it swiftly and it's over in an instant and
Satan is cast into the lake of fire at last.
So as we wrap all this up, you go, well that's good
information. Do you care in 1000 year old
Millennium? So where do you fit in?
Where do you belong in all these events?
Who are you in these events? Because you're somewhere here.
Do you today know Christ as your Lord and Saviour?
If you are, then you're part of the church.
You'll be raptured, or should you die before the rapture, then
you'll return with Christ at the second coming.
The armies of heaven tells us we'll be wearing linen.
Armies don't wear linen when they go off the battle.
That's a nice outfit that you're wearing going off the battle.
The question now is right now, are you a child of God?
What if you we're to live through the tribulation period,
the rapture occurs and you still go well see, I survived.
Are you a sheep? Are you a goat?
How would you stand and the sheep and the goat would Jesus
say come enter in or you go you you just rejected me all your
life. You're gone.
The murderer, or assassination I should say, of 31 year old
Charlie Kirk at the Utah campus in broad daylight simply because
he proclaimed the truth, the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It must have an impact on any truly born again person today.
The death of a young man at a university campus simply because
he proclaimed the Gospel of Christ as the truth.
The Gospel of Christ goes against all the left wing stuff
that is being spewed out upon our educational campuses.
A Dean of one of the major universities in America
celebrated online his murder. This is no game that you and I
sit here today and talk about. We're not playing church by
millennials post millennials. They, they think, well, what
we're going to do is we're we're going to, we're going to just
survive the world and we're going to get into politics.
We're going to change governments and then we're going
to give the world back to Jesus. No, you're not.
That's a game. It's all about you, how good you
are, how good your churches. The outcomes of our decisions
today are eternal, each and every one of us.
The Bible says as a Sinner, there is none righteous, No, not
one. We've all sinned.
We've all fallen short of the glory of God.
We all will. Each and every person here will
face Jesus Christ, either to be rewarded the Bema seat well done
as his servant, or will meet Christ in the second
resurrection face to face. And he'll judge us on what we
did when we ignored his sacrifice at Calvary and we
rejected his love and we, we trod over, trod over his death.
As we see here in the Millennium.
No one can or will be able to lay the blame on their well, I
didn't know on their environment.
It was just how I grew up. It's, it's the way mum and dad
treated me. It's, it's weird, you know, I,
I, I went without and that's why I made my decisions.
It will all be because your decision will be because of our
depraved, sinful nature. All of us have sinned.
Not even 1000 years of peace will cleanse humanity of its
inborn sin. Satan is loose.
It's on again. The futile last gasp rebellion
at the end of the Millennium. The 1000 years demonstrates to
the universe, to you and I, in an unmistakable way, why Christ
had to die. Because man can't save himself.
We all live and we all die. Everyone in this room, 40 people
living today, we'll be in the morgue tomorrow at at the West
Australian Charlie Gardner 40. People walking around, sitting
around will be dead tomorrow 40 A day we all live, we all die
and we'll all be resurrected. But how is the big question you
need to establish today. We will all die, but you don't
have to face the second death. We'll all be resurrected, but
Jesus said some will be raised to life and others to judgement.
The lake of fire was not created for humanity, but for the devil
and the fallen angels heaven. However, God did design for
people to be a place where redeemed men and women created
in His image could spend eternity with Him.
But God leaves the choice. Heaven, hell, first
resurrection, second resurrection, sheep, goat.
He leaves the choice up to us. You choose your final
destination and God will honour your choice.
OK, that's the way you want to go.
It's yours and I pray this morning as we close.
You choose. Well, if you were here today and
you don't know where you are, you don't know if you've saved,
then you have trouble come. If that's you, we'll pray with
you, show you the Scriptures, tell you of the love of Christ,
and then you can leave here, guaranteed, knowing where you
fit in this chart. Let's stand and let's pray.
Heavenly Father, to you. We owe it all, all to Jesus.
I surrender all to him I freely give, for I have decided to
follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning
back, the cross before me, the world behind me.
Where do you stand? Where do you belong?
God has spoken to you today. Make the right choice today.