1 00:00:01,900 --> 00:00:05,000 The burden of my great responsibility tonight weighs 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,700 heavily upon me. Through The Years. 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:12,100 So many preachers gospel preachers have Grace, this 4 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:17,300 pulpit, and because of their preaching, from the word of God. 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:21,800 And because of the power of the Gospel, how many scores of 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:28,200 people have come here, not ready to face eternity, but have left 7 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:31,500 ready? And so many have died and passed 8 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:38,400 from This veil of sorrow and have left this world ready 9 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:41,400 because of the power of the gospel, and because the church 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,400 here as remain faithful to their great responsibility. 11 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,500 You have a great responsibility also tonight because your 12 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:55,400 attitude towards the gospel and towards the word of God May mean 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,300 the difference for you eternally. 14 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,800 And so with that, thought in mind, I like you to turn with me 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,300 to Hebrews the second chapter we like to read just a few verses 16 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:07,400 introduce our study. We've entitled The Great Escape. 17 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:17,100 Hebrews chapter 2, beginning with verse one reads this way. 18 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:23,200 Therefore we must give the more Earnest heed to the things we 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,400 have heard, lest we drift away for if the word spoken through 20 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,300 Angels, prove steadfast and every transgression and 21 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:34,900 Disobedience, received a just reward. 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,500 How shall we escape if we neglect? 23 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:43,700 So, great a Salvation which at first began to be spoken by the 24 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:48,200 Lord and was confirmed to us. By those who heard him. 25 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,900 We'll talk about this great salvation. 26 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:56,500 When you talk about those of us who have responded to this great 27 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:00,600 invitation have also made a great escape want to talk about 28 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,700 that for a little while. Fascinating, when I did this 29 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:07,900 study to learn how much the idea and the thought of escape 30 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:11,400 permeates the New Testament, we find it in a number of places 31 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,600 mentioned by number of the gospel writers and a gospel 32 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,200 preachers. And Matthew 3:7, the Bible says, 33 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,000 John the Baptist speaking who hath warned you to flee to 34 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,900 escape from the Wrath to come and Matthew 23 verse 33 to the 35 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:31,500 scribes and the Pharisees Jesus said, how can you escape the 36 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,200 damnation? Okay, well, Hebrews 12 verse 25, 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,300 where they did not Escape, who refused him, who spoke on the 38 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:42,400 earth, much more, shall we not Escape if we turn away from him 39 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,500 who speaks from Heaven? Romans 2, and verse 3, the 40 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:50,400 Apostle Paul writes. And you think You hypocritical 41 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:55,300 juice that you will escape the Judgment of God and 1st. 42 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,800 Thessalonians, 5 verse 2. And 3 says that the day of the 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,500 Lord will come as a thief in the night. 44 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:11,000 And they shall not Escape. We're talking to tonight about 45 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,700 what may be the most negative subject that we could talk 46 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:21,200 about. But that's only if you and the 47 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,300 life you're living are not right with God. 48 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:25,900 We're talking about hell tonight. 49 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,400 I hear everywhere I go, you know, we just don't hear too 50 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,700 much about hell anymore. Someone mentioned that last 51 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:37,200 night we need to be reminded about hell. 52 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,600 We need to talk about heaven and we look forward to heaven and we 53 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,800 look forward to being with the Lord throughout eternity. 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 We need to talk about hell to reason is because Jesus himself 55 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,800 talks about hell and the idea of Hell permeates the New 56 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:58,000 Testament. But now, the subject of hell is 57 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,800 a positive subject? If you're ready, if you know 58 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,100 that, although although because of your sins, you deserve and I 59 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:11,100 deserve hell, but because of what Jesus did we've made that 60 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:13,300 Great Escape Through The Obedience of the Gospel, what a 61 00:04:13,308 --> 00:04:17,200 positive and what a beautiful thing, the idea of Escape comes 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,800 to mind, we read a number of Bible passages. 63 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,400 We read the story of the ten virgins and they all wanted to 64 00:04:24,407 --> 00:04:28,400 make the Escape when it came time when it came Judgment Day. 65 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,900 When they were called five already and five were not the 66 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:40,400 story of rich man. And Lazarus is about a man who 67 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:45,000 decided he wanted to escape, but he waited too late and then, of 68 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,100 course, he wanted his brothers to escape. 69 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,100 He said, surely they're headed to the same place. 70 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:57,300 But all they had was the word of God, Moses. 71 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:00,000 And the prophets. It were all they had. 72 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:04,700 And so today, all we have is the word of God. 73 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:08,900 Death itself is inescapable. We don't like to think about 74 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,700 death and we don't like to talk about death, the whole lot but 75 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:17,000 death is inescapable. Oh, so many advances today and 76 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,400 in medicine and vitamins and we spent a lot of time focusing on 77 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,100 health and fitness and certainly these have a prolong our life 78 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,900 and allow the quality of our life to be better than 79 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Generations before, but really, they're just delaying postponing 80 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,000 the inevitable. Listen, you will die and some of 81 00:05:40,008 --> 00:05:44,900 the ones in here that think that they've got the longest time to 82 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:49,100 live will die before some of those that think that we only 83 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:55,600 have a decade or two yet to live Death is certain Hebrews 9 verse 84 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:04,100 27 says, and as it is appointed unto men once to die, Then the 85 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,300 Judgment just. As surely is everyone will die 86 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,300 unless the Lord comes back before then. 87 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,400 Everyone will stand before God in judgment. 88 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,800 We do well to think about death and we do well to think about 89 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,500 judgment. In Ecclesiastes, chapter 7 verse 90 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:22,800 4. The wise man. 91 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,300 Solomon says it's better to go to the house of mourning and the 92 00:06:26,308 --> 00:06:29,400 house of feasting why? Because we think a little bit 93 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,000 more soberly. We think a little bit more about 94 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,800 God. We think a little bit more about 95 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,700 the life that we're living just before. 96 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:41,500 Actor, WC Fields died, a friend visited his hospital. 97 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:44,800 Room was surprised to find him thumbing through his Bible. 98 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,900 That wasn't something that mr. Fields. 99 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:49,900 Did you see? when he was asked what he was 100 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:55,400 doing Fields, replied, I'm looking For loopholes. 101 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,400 Mr. Fields is like, a lot of people today. 102 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,800 They think just a little bit about this idea of Escape, they 103 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,100 believe and understand. There's something coming. 104 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,000 Death is coming, judgment is coming. 105 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,800 Many of them believe, and understand that hell is coming. 106 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,900 And so, they look for loopholes and the world. 107 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:22,900 Even the religious realm is flooding With loopholes 108 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:25,800 suggestions of possible Escape Routes. 109 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,600 What do they say they talk about grace alone, through faith 110 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,400 alone. They talked about last rites and 111 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,200 they talked about Annihilation, they talk about once saved, 112 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,400 always saved. And these are escapes but 113 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,900 they're nothing more than a escapes from reality. 114 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,800 Judgment Day is coming. And the only Escape that's 115 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,800 offered is found the pages of inspiration, and these ideas do 116 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,500 not offer any realistic. Hope a fellow skeptic, once 117 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,600 asked the famous atheists Voltaire. 118 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:02,400 If he would speak some words of comfort to a dying friend, 119 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,200 Voltaire responded. I don't think I can. 120 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:12,100 The thought that there might really be a help help legs. 121 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:17,200 Me continually Voltaire, who is usually quite confident in his 122 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:22,700 atheistic beliefs. At this point admitted, some of 123 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:26,400 those deep thoughts that he had, you see, there's no real real. 124 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,500 There's no such thing really, as a confident atheist, all of them 125 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,200 are insecure with the thought of what. 126 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:41,799 If, what if the Bible is right? What if The teaching on hell is 127 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,100 really true. I'm here to tell you tonight, 128 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:48,600 it's real, and it's true. And if you don't make that Great 129 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,500 Escape, you will have to face the fires of Hell throughout 130 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:55,600 eternity. If you do not willing to forsake 131 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,900 some of those thoughts, and some of those ideas and some of those 132 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,500 Lifestyles and some of those religious practices, some of our 133 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:07,900 friends, you have to face it, unprepared c.s., Lewis, was told 134 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:12,200 about, A grave Stone inscription that read here, lies an atheist 135 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:18,900 all dressed up and nowhere to go to which Louis quietly replied. 136 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:26,000 I bet he wishes that were so Another Epitaph reads. 137 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:29,400 Consider young, man as you walk by as you are now. 138 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,900 So once was I, as I am now, you soon shall be. 139 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:35,800 So prepare young man to follow me. 140 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Someone else scratch the following on the same Tombstone 141 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:47,700 to follow, you is not my intent until I know which way you went. 142 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:53,800 If you were to die today. How might your Epitaph read? 143 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,700 The people who know you do? They know that you're living, 144 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,700 right? Do they know that you're ready. 145 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,600 What's more important than that? If you were to die today? 146 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:05,800 Would you be ready in God's eyes? 147 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,700 People, people here people that know you. 148 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,300 They may think you're ready and you may know that you're not 149 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:12,700 ready, the Lord knows people today. 150 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:17,000 Don't believe in hell though. Survey taking a few years ago, 151 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,500 gave some really startling statistics among folks that 152 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:22,300 although we disagree with, we thank that. 153 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,400 Well, they understand and they agree about the reality of hell. 154 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:33,400 from this survey, 35% of Baptists 54% of Presbyterians, 155 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:37,600 58% of Methodist and 60% of Episcopalian said that they 156 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,000 don't believe that there's any such thing as a literal hell, 157 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,900 Don't believe it's there didn't have any statistics any numbers 158 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:48,500 on what the Churches of Christ believe but I can't help. 159 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,400 But think that some of my brothers and sisters. 160 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,300 I'll probably doubting about the reality of hell. 161 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,300 And certainly, if we're not talking about it, they will, 162 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,500 Jesus himself spoke of gehenna. Hell 11 times, that's more than 163 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:10,700 more times in Jesus taught on the subject of love Jesus. 164 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,000 Why would he do that? Why would he talk about? 165 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,600 Hell well, Jesus promoted fear. Not because he was just a into 166 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,800 scaring people. No those are reason there was a 167 00:11:20,808 --> 00:11:25,100 motive is because he knows what he'll is about and he doesn't 168 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:29,200 want anybody to go there and he knows that sometimes and in some 169 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:32,600 some parts of our life we're not touch like we should be by the 170 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,200 love of God, we're not touch like we should be by the 171 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,900 sacrifice of Jesus Christ and we're not as anxious to do ride 172 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,400 because we know that there's a place called heaven but 173 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,300 sometimes he'll we'll get our attention. 174 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,700 It makes us sit up and take notice and stop and think, even 175 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:55,100 some of the most Godly men were motivated by fear. 176 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,200 Hebrews 11 verse 7. The bible says by faith Noah, 177 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:04,700 being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear 178 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,200 prepared an ark to the saving of his house. 179 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,300 He believed God, and he believed that God was a rewarder of them 180 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:17,300 who diligently sought him. That also inherently mean meant 181 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,600 that those who did not seek Him would also reward receive a 182 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,400 reward. It would be a negative reward. 183 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:28,800 I'm convinced that the lack of fear is why some folks Maybe 184 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:35,200 some people right here tonight. A lack of fear is the reason why 185 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,000 some people are not living. Right, there are Christians and 186 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,900 Bakersfield, you think about it. You guys know better than I do. 187 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:46,100 There are men and women living in Bakersfield California, who 188 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:48,900 used to sit in these pews right now who are not living, right? 189 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,700 And they know it. And if all of them decided that 190 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,800 they're going to get their lives straight, we wouldn't we 191 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,700 wouldn't be able to have enough seats here tonight. 192 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,900 You thinking about hell, most of them aren't both of them have 193 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:05,900 got that neatly packed away hidden away in the recesses of 194 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:07,000 their mind. They don't want to think about 195 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,600 hell because they don't want to live, right? 196 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:12,200 Some people never obeyed the gospel. 197 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:15,400 Because I don't think enough about hell. 198 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,400 Why did Jesus preached on? Hell, fire and brimstone, 199 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:22,300 nobody, preached. It more than Jesus did Proverbs 200 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:24,500 1 verse 7? Says, the fear of the Lord is 201 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:28,200 the beginning of knowledge. Psalm 111 verse 10, says, the 202 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,200 fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom, that's 203 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:35,800 where it starts sermons on. He'll remind the Christian of 204 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,100 how great an escape their salvation is and it also 205 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:41,700 motivates those who may not be living, right? 206 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:48,400 The think seriously about getting their lives straight 207 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:52,200 Jesus started early on preaching against hell. 208 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,100 In fact in his first sermon, you think about the sermon on the 209 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:56,200 mountain. We think about a lot of 210 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,000 beautiful things, a lot of happy things, the Beatitudes are very 211 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 positive, once he got through the Beatitudes, less than 10 212 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,100 verses. After that, Jesus was preaching 213 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,600 on hell and Matthew Chapter 5 Verse 22. 214 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,600 Jesus warned whosoever shall say. 215 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,800 Thou fool shall be in danger of Hell Fire. 216 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,400 Our Jesus, preached on hell. And the hell he preached on. 217 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:24,300 Was worse than anything. You or I will ever experience 218 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:27,900 while on Earth people say well that they've gone through it 219 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:30,600 here on Earth or this particular place or this particular 220 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,100 experiences just like hell and they call it hell sometime 221 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,700 listen folks. You don't know. 222 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:41,600 He'll I don't know. He'll and Luke chapter 12, verse 223 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,700 4 and 5. Jesus puts it in perspective for 224 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,200 us. In fact, you have somebody knock 225 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,500 on your door, sometimes it wants to tell you that there's no such 226 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:51,200 thing as hell. I don't know if there's an 227 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,500 easier or clear scripture than Luke, 12 verse 4 and 5 Points, 228 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:59,400 to the reality of Hell. The Bible there says, and this 229 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,000 is Jesus. And I say to you, my friends do 230 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,200 not be afraid of Those Who Kill the body. 231 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:07,300 And after that have no more that they can do. 232 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:10,900 But I will show you whom you should fear fear Him, who after 233 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:14,700 he has killed has power to cast into hell, yes. 234 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:19,800 I say to you fear Him. Something worse. 235 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:28,300 The most vicious torture that's ever been put out or experienced 236 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,000 by man here. People have come up with some 237 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:38,400 violent ways in which to torture people but nothing compared with 238 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,700 that place the Bible speaks of as hell. 239 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,800 There's a lot of pressure today For people to say, you know, 240 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,200 you're okay, I'm okay, let's just, let's just leave it, leave 241 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:52,400 it at that. Let's just not. 242 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,500 Let's just leave each other alone. 243 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:55,900 Let's not talk about things like hell. 244 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Let's not talk about the reality of Hell. 245 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,400 Let's not talk about it. If you don't live by the book, 246 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:07,700 you're going to go to hell. Larry King on CNN, I saw this a 247 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,000 couple of years ago, 23 years ago, I guess now. 248 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,200 Larry King had this, a very interesting panel, a different 249 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,000 religious, people religious backgrounds. 250 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,900 He had a had a Muslim man there. He had a Jewish rabbi, he had a 251 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:27,500 fellow with a Hindu background. He had a liberal Roman Catholic 252 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,400 and then he had someone representing, the more 253 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,700 conservative so-called Christian views, John MacArthur from 254 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,100 Southern California, syndicated radio preacher. 255 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,300 They had and they discussed a number of things but it almost 256 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:46,900 seemed like the main thing that Larry King wanted to get to was 257 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:49,700 one particular question and it was this. 258 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,800 So do you really believe John MacArthur? 259 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:57,900 Do you really believe that if you don't believe, if any of us 260 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,600 do not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. 261 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:04,300 We're lost and we're going to hell. 262 00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:09,900 He's kind of squirmed around a little bit, but then he said, I 263 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:12,900 have no choice. Because that's what my lord 264 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:18,000 said. I am the way the truth and the 265 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,099 life no man cometh to the father. 266 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:23,700 But by me that's not the only scripture though that places a 267 00:17:23,708 --> 00:17:27,099 separation, there's a separation and division place in a lot of 268 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:31,900 different places. Except a man be born of water 269 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,800 and of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 270 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,700 That's not my idea. That was Jesus talking in John. 271 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:41,100 The next chapter that was John 3. 272 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:43,700 Verse 5. The next chapter John 4 and 273 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:47,600 verse 24. God is a spirit and they that 274 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,000 worship Him must worship Him in spirit. 275 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 And in truth, a lot of people have a lot of different ideas 276 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,800 and other on explaining why world we can't quite do things 277 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,800 that way because of this. That and the other reason listen 278 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,900 folks. The Bible says and Jesus says 279 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:06,700 you got to worship Him in spirit and truth if you don't, you're 280 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:09,300 wrong. And the word of God will judge 281 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:14,100 you on that final day. God doesn't classify us and 282 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:18,000 distinguish between us like the world does, doesn't matter to 283 00:18:18,008 --> 00:18:21,600 him of her rich, or were poor for educated or uneducated 284 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,800 intelligent or not black or white male or female, young or 285 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,600 old, that doesn't matter. He talks a number of times that 286 00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:32,800 a number of ways, if there's just, there's two classes. 287 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,800 Any separates them somewhere on the broad Road. 288 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,800 The broad way that leads to destruction summer on the 289 00:18:38,808 --> 00:18:41,500 straight and narrow way that leads to life. 290 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,900 Some are building their house. On the rock, some are building 291 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:49,800 their house on the sand back and forth back and forth there in 292 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,200 the very sermon on the mouth Mount, what's he saying? 293 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,400 He's saying there's only two ways. 294 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:59,300 You better make sure you're going down the right way. 295 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:01,300 There's a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end 296 00:19:01,300 --> 00:19:07,800 thereof Are the ways of death, only the gospel Highway leads to 297 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,600 Heaven. Let's talk though for a little 298 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,300 while tonight about some of the things about health at the Bible 299 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:17,100 communicates to us things that we can know about hell and 300 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:22,100 reasons. Why becoming a Christian is such 301 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,300 a great escape. First thing we want to talk 302 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:28,200 about about hell is it's never-ending. 303 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:36,000 It's not going to end if you end up in hell you can't look 304 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,100 forward to it being over sometime, it's never going to 305 00:19:39,108 --> 00:19:40,800 end. A lot of people talk about the 306 00:19:40,808 --> 00:19:43,200 doctrine of annihilation. That's becoming more popular 307 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,200 that at the end just poof it's all over and that's not right. 308 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,900 The Bible says in Matthew 25 verse 46 is Jesus again. 309 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:55,800 And these shall go away into Everlasting punishment, they can 310 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,700 be punished and this punishment will last forever, but the 311 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:04,200 righteous into life eternal Paul, speaks of the Everlasting 312 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,600 God what's he talking about? The God that's always been and 313 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:13,000 always will be and this punishment Will last forever and 314 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,700 ever. The eternal spirit on, and on 315 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:20,800 the holy spirit, will live on Without End never to cease. 316 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,200 So we want to be ready, we want to make sure we've made that 317 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,800 Great Escape. Some people say, well that's not 318 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,100 fair, you know, that's not reasonable. 319 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:31,200 If that's true. Then God, just not fair. 320 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 For man to be punished eternally for just maybe a few years maybe 321 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,100 just a few months, maybe just a few weeks days hours. 322 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,500 Of ungodly living that doesn't seem right. 323 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,300 Was it fair for man to be rewarded eternally on and on and 324 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:57,500 on for just a few years of Righteous living and godly 325 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,600 service and obedience. Oh, that's a little bit easier 326 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,500 for us to accept. We're ready for that. 327 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:07,200 It only takes a man, a second to stab, someone to death or shoot 328 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,600 them and take away their life but we expect more than a second 329 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,800 of punishment. Don't we? 330 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,300 In our judicial system? If it's not lethal injection, we 331 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:21,400 expect life in prison years decades, at least for something. 332 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:25,300 So heinous, 40 years for one second, we don't have a problem 333 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:29,700 with that at all, do we? Oh God's, right? 334 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:34,800 And God is just You need to understand if you live in 335 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,700 unrepented Rebellion, just even for a little while and die. 336 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:43,200 In that condition. You will be punished from now on 337 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,700 nine months before you were born, your life began. 338 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:55,000 And once your life began, There's no end to it, you're 339 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,900 going to live Eternal, either in the heavens or in this place 340 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:05,600 that we call hell. Makes are our Salvation, it 341 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,300 makes our Salvation at Great Escape. 342 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,000 Another reason why we want to make sure that we've made this 343 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:20,300 Great Escape is because Hell is a place of Darkness, a place. 344 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,100 So dark, we can't even comprehend it. 345 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,900 We think we know what darkness is we don't we don't really, I 346 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,500 think go back with me if you will, if you're ever Bible hand, 347 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:38,000 The Exodus chapter 10, there's a special kind of Darkness talked 348 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,300 about back here. Darker than we usually are 349 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:44,900 familiar with. This is a about as dark as that 350 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:48,200 ever got. Except for those three hours, 351 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,500 perhaps when Jesus was on the cross. 352 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,100 This is dark. Is it ever God on the face of 353 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:56,000 the Earth? Listen to this Exodus tennis the 354 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,400 ninth plague. Verse 21. 355 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,700 Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand toward 356 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:05,200 Heaven. That there may be Darkness, over 357 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:14,700 the land of Egypt darkness, which may even be felt That's 358 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:17,800 dark. He goes on and says some Moses 359 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,500 stretched out his hand toward heaven and there was thick 360 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:22,600 darkness and all the land of Egypt. 361 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,700 Three days. They did not see one another nor 362 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,500 did anyone rise from his place for three days but all the 363 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,600 children of Israel had a light in their dwellings. 364 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,900 This isn't hell, but they got a little taste of one aspect of 365 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:40,700 what hell was going to be. Like, they could feel the 366 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:43,000 darkness. It's going to be darker than 367 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,700 that. Inhale, we don't want to be 368 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,200 there over and over. He talks about it, he'll 369 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,600 Tartarus gehenna second Peter. 2:4 God. 370 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,400 Spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to 371 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,100 Hell and delivered them into chains of Darkness. 372 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:01,100 Jude verse 13, the writer says the false teachers to whom is 373 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:03,800 reserved the Blackness of Darkness. 374 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:06,500 Is forever. Jesus says of the one Talent, 375 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,900 man. And Matthew. 25 verse 30. 376 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 What's the great sin that he committed? 377 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,400 Buried his talent. But what does the Bible say, 378 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,600 verse 30, cast the unprofitable servant into outer Darkness, 379 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,100 we're not talking about a shady spot. 380 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:26,100 We're not talking about any kind of Darkness that we're we're 381 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:28,500 used to, we're talking about the Blackness of darkness and we're 382 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,700 talking about outer darkness and why. 383 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,800 So dark. There's not going to be like 384 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,500 this. We talked last night about God, 385 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,200 sends the rain on the just and on the unjust. 386 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,200 Yeah, he sends the sunshine on the just and on the unjust here 387 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,400 too. But after the Judgment Day and 388 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,600 that separation takes place, Jesus Will Be The Light in 389 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,600 heaven and will be light, it'll be daytime all the time. 390 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,900 There will be no night. There is no Jesus, and there's 391 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:00,700 no light in Hell. There's nothing to give off Y 392 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,500 and so, will be constant. Outer Darkness. 393 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:07,900 Blackness of Darkness, God, the Father lies won't be there, in 394 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:11,300 Jesus won't be either. We thank sometimes. 395 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,300 This Darkness aspect is no big deal. 396 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,900 That might frighten the children, but that doesn't get 397 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,000 to me when you think about it, though. 398 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,000 I enjoy going to cemeteries and I like just reading the the 399 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,200 grave markers and I don't get frightened easily and I'm not 400 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,900 superstitious either but you'll never catch me at a cemetery 401 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,700 after dark. I won't be there and you 402 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:38,700 probably won't be either why? Because we know we have that 403 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:42,600 feeling that sense. Of Darkness of fear of darkness 404 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,300 button to inhale. We're talking about an in 405 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:49,100 comprehensible Darkness, he talks about it some more and 406 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:54,300 talks about it as a as a place of fire as a lake of fire. 407 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,700 We think of lates, we think of water. 408 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,400 This is a different kind of Lake. 409 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,700 It's a lake of fire. Matthew 23, verse 33, ye 410 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:03,500 serpents, ye Generation of Vipers. 411 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:06,100 How can you escape the damnation of Hell Jesus? 412 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:08,500 Preached about hell? There's some of the people 413 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:09,800 there. He confronted directly. 414 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,100 I cannot see how you can make that escape. 415 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,800 You won't open your eyes, you won't open your hearts. 416 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,100 There are people like that. Today we're talking about 417 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:24,000 gehenna hell the Eternal punishment of fire and brimstone 418 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,200 gehenna now. And remember there was a place 419 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,400 that was a real live place. The valley of hinnom, and there 420 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,100 was a place there, believe a south east of Jerusalem, just a 421 00:26:33,108 --> 00:26:35,600 little ways. It was just like a big garbage 422 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,500 dump. They go take this trash and they 423 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,700 would dump it there. And this firewood just 424 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,400 continually be burning and burning, and were and never stop 425 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,000 burning. Keep burning up right now. 426 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:48,600 He wasn't saying that everybody's going to end up in 427 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,300 that little that pile of fire that burns on forever and ever. 428 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:57,500 He was using that as an illustration of what hell is 429 00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:02,300 going to be like it's garbage and all the refuse. 430 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,300 All those who had no faith who refuse to live and serve God, 431 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,800 they're going to be put in a place like that burns on and on 432 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:18,100 and on depart from me ye cursed into Everlasting fire. 433 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:19,900 Some people don't think Jesus can say that. 434 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,200 The Bible says he does Matthew 25 verse 41, he talks about a 435 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,100 furnace of fire and Matthew 13:49. 436 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:31,500 Fire and brimstone Revelation, 20 verse 10, Matthew 3, verse 12 437 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:37,300 of baptism in five. unquenchable fire in Mark 9 verse 47 and 48 438 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:41,500 and if I offend thee pluck it out, For it is better for thee 439 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,100 to enter into the kingdom of God, with one eye than having 440 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:46,400 two eyes to be cast into Hell Fire. 441 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:49,300 Jesus was preaching about hell a whole lot. 442 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,800 He doesn't want you to go there. He didn't want me to go there 443 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,700 and he says, where the fire is not quenched. 444 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:57,300 You know, it doesn't matter to me. 445 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:03,600 If there's a place where there's a fire burning on and on and on, 446 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,800 but I'm unconscious and I never know about and I never feel 447 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,300 about, I don't care about it. But now, if I am conscious and I 448 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:14,700 am experiencing it, and that gets my attention and I guess my 449 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,300 that makes me concerned. And that's why this passage is 450 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:23,700 one more proof that it goes on and on, and on Jesus wasn't 451 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:27,300 teaching self-mutilation. Here he was using hyperbole or 452 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:30,600 exaggeration to say, you do whatever it takes to make sure 453 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,800 you don't end up in this place. You seek first, the kingdom of 454 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,000 God, so you don't have to go there. 455 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:42,800 Revelation 20:15. Whosoever was not found written 456 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,300 in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire. 457 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:50,400 Your name written in the book. Do you know your name is written 458 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,900 in the book? Can't you hear what the Lord is 459 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:59,500 saying over and over and over? We've mentioned about 77 or more 460 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,700 passages. He's saying fire, there's a fire 461 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:04,400 coming. Fire fire and he's warning us 462 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:07,600 get ready. Make your Escape. 463 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:09,800 You don't want to have to go through this? 464 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,500 we don't want to have to go through that, you know, how long 465 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,700 it's little bit been a little bit over five years now since 466 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:23,800 that tragedy on 9/11 People were jumping out of the 80th story of 467 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,300 those buildings. That's crazy. 80 stories. 468 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,200 Horrible scene. Why would somebody jump either 469 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:38,500 80th floor of a building? Well, because they saw the fire 470 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:42,500 coming. And given the choice, they would 471 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:49,600 jump to their deaths rather than to be burnt to a crisp, but hell 472 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:55,900 is a place where people not only burn, but they never burn up 473 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,400 old-time. Preacher, Marshall Keeble says, 474 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,500 I'll tell you how hot hell is. You can remove the dam from hell 475 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:06,100 and place them in the hottest fire that's ever been 476 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:10,400 experienced here on Earth and they freeze to death. 10 477 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,300 seconds. That's about right. 478 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:17,500 Like he's about got it, right? Knowing about hello to be a 479 00:30:17,508 --> 00:30:21,500 deterrent in tonight. If you are not absolutely sure 480 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:24,300 that you are right with God, you ought to be scared to death. 481 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,600 Are you faithful to the Lord? Are you faithful to his bride? 482 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,400 The church. You faithful to the truth. 483 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,000 There's Fire coming if you're not ready. 484 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:44,600 Well it's a place of conscious pain and suffering will like 485 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,700 pain. We've got a lot of ways to help 486 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:51,300 us. Avoid pain can avoid this pain. 487 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:58,200 Everlasting punishment, Everlasting fire, Everlasting 488 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,700 suffering. Torment is one of the words that 489 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:05,300 used let me say just something that's something else. 490 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:09,200 So before we get into this, in John chapter 5 verse 28, Jesus 491 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,200 says the hour is coming in, which all that are in the 492 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,000 graves, are it shall hear his voice? 493 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,000 Every last person that has ever died? 494 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,100 Doesn't matter whether they've received just a normal burial or 495 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,600 if they've been incinerated, they're going to all come up. 496 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,800 They're going to all hear the voice of the Lord and come forth 497 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:34,300 and they that have done good unto the resurrection of life 498 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:36,400 and they that have done evil unto, the resurrection of 499 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,000 damnation, he's not going to miss a single person, 500 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,800 everybody's going to come forth and those people who thought 501 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,300 that they could fool and kid and slip by. 502 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:46,900 We're going to get a rude awakening. 503 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,400 Some people, this this this one passage right here, knocks in 504 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,300 the head so many false doctrines. 505 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,000 One of the ones though, is this idea of annihilation. 506 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,000 The only way I can work is the the Damned and the save rise. 507 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:05,000 And then the dam are told shame on you. 508 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,600 You've been bad and then they're put there gone. 509 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,700 Does that make any sense at all for the punishment that they'll 510 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:17,000 receive? Not at all where their worm, 511 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:20,300 dieth, I didn't say where the worm again, we're not concerned 512 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:24,300 about the worms, are we? But he says their worm and makes 513 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:28,000 it personal that worm belonging is attached to somebody. 514 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,100 It's not about worms, it's about us. 515 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:39,000 Conscious punishment is required for weeping and gnashing of 516 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,300 teeth. Six times. 517 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,000 The word torment is used to describe the state of the wicked 518 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,400 after death. You can't torment one. 519 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,500 Who was unconscious, we're going to be conscious. 520 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,800 It's a conscious place of suffering, not us, but those who 521 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,800 are not prepared, those who haven't made the greatest gate. 522 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,500 Revelation 20:10, says the devil was cast into the lake of fire 523 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:00,800 and brimstone where the Beast and the false prophet are and 524 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:06,900 shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. 14:10 11 men 525 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:09,700 shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the Smoke of their 526 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:13,500 torment ascends up forever and ever. 527 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,900 We smoking. If we don't make that Great 528 00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:23,800 Escape. Notice that that is for the 529 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,900 devil and his angels. God doesn't want any of us to go 530 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,800 there. It's only those of us who choose 531 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,000 not to serve the Lord and not to follow the lord. 532 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,800 Here's another reason I'm thankful, I made that Great 533 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:43,100 Escape. I don't want to be with all the 534 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:48,300 creeps, the go to hell. Most wicked men and women of 535 00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:51,200 ever lived in life. Now, there's going to be some 536 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,500 good people that just didn't serve the Lord, but there's 537 00:33:54,500 --> 00:34:00,500 going to be some monsters, they're men and women who have 538 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:05,800 committed sins. So abominable that they make the 539 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,000 devil blush. No, I'll be there. 540 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,800 The Manson's and Hitler's in the saddam's and the osama's and any 541 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,900 of these Wicked people to live. They don't repent and turn back 542 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:24,600 to the Lord Mass murderers, the child molesters the rapist, 543 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,800 they'll all be there, but they're also be people who live, 544 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,199 pretty, pretty good lives really but they were atheists. 545 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,100 Book of Revelation, says, they'll be some people there who 546 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,500 were just fearful, not the one who buried his talent, the 547 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:44,000 unbelieving, the backslider. They'll hear these words. 548 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:45,300 I don't want to hear these words. 549 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:49,100 Depart from me. You cursed it into Everlasting 550 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:50,400 fire. Get away from me. 551 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,900 Prepared for the devil and his angels, I don't want to be 552 00:34:54,908 --> 00:34:57,000 there. I don't want to be with that 553 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,600 crowd. Another reason, just have a few 554 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,600 more, a few more thoughts. A couple more thoughts will be 555 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,000 done. It's no rest. 556 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:10,200 Very red that Revelation 14:11 no rest day and night many of us 557 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,500 here tonight have gone for a couple of days without getting 558 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,700 any sleep. Maybe it was because of some 559 00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:20,600 emergency work situation, maybe it is because of Health, your 560 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,200 health, or taking care of someone else. 561 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,900 You could you couldn't sleep and it got to the point where you 562 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,300 crave more than food, more than water, just being able to lay 563 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,900 down and sleep. It's gonna be like that. 564 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:36,100 Inhale Well, there's not going to be any rest. 565 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,000 No, rest will be coming. Why? 566 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,500 Because their tormented day and night, Really already alluded to 567 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:47,800 this but I want to drive this point home a little further, 568 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:54,300 it's no hope. Once you once you get there, 569 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:59,800 there's no second chance. We get a net, we get an image of 570 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,600 of the separation in Luke 15 and that Parable that teaching 571 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,400 there, there's going to be a separation. 572 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,700 There's going to be a division. There's going to be a gulf 573 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,300 fixed. There's no going back and forth. 574 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,200 There's a finality about how there's no hope in hell. 575 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,400 If he'll I lasted for 100 years. Wow! 576 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,600 That'd be a long time to undergo all that we've talked about. 577 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,300 But you know, after the first year, you just have 99 more 578 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:33,500 years you could count the time off. but just like in heaven, 579 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:40,600 those who are in Hell, after 100 years, 1000 years, Their time 580 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,900 will have only just begun. The saddest part of all. for 581 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:52,600 those who don't make the Great Escape, will be because they 582 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:58,600 realize. when they're there, so many will We didn't have to go 583 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:05,100 here. God sent his son from heaven. 584 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,300 Down to earth. So, I wouldn't have to go here. 585 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:13,900 So, you wouldn't have to go there. 586 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,400 So none of us would have to go there. 587 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:24,000 I didn't take it serious, it was wrong when he was going to make 588 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,500 it right someday the time. Just kept slipping away. 589 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:33,600 Finally. Their time was gone, he didn't 590 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,500 have to go there, brothers and sisters. 591 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:39,500 Maybe your physical family, maybe it's just Brothers and 592 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:40,700 Sisters in Christ praying for you. 593 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:44,300 They knew you weren't right. You knew they were praying for 594 00:37:44,300 --> 00:37:47,500 you. You never did anything about it, 595 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:49,300 you don't know. We don't know what the hell's 596 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,400 going to be. Like we know we're going to have 597 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,200 a memory of things. Maybe you'll remember when this 598 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,800 be horrible, see your mother's tears. 599 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:03,100 Envision her praying that you turn, but you never did. 600 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,700 It said that about 200 years ago, the Tomb of the great 601 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:13,300 emperor. Charlemagne was open, the 602 00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:16,700 workmen saw his body in a sitting position clothes and the 603 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:22,500 most elaborate kingly garments. He had a scepter in his bony 604 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:27,000 hand, on his lie, his knee, lay the holy scriptures. 605 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:33,400 And he had a cold, lifeless, bony finger pointing to Mark 8. 606 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,200 Verse 36, which reads for what shall it profit? 607 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:43,000 A man, if he shall gain the whole world, And lose his own 608 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,100 soul. How is with you tonight? 609 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,200 I hope you can think of think about each of these and think. 610 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:57,600 Wow, I'm so glad I'm a Christian I'm so glad I've made that Great 611 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,100 Escape. I'm so glad that that that day 612 00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:04,600 or that night, I wouldn't have that water had my sins washed 613 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,200 away and I don't have to worry about that. 614 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:13,500 I'm so glad that I'm ready. I hope that you tonight, but if 615 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:19,700 it's not, I hope that tonight. Before this invitation song is 616 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:21,400 finished. You will walk down this aisle 617 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,800 and you will say I want my sins washed away, I want to be ready. 618 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,300 You're not ready as a Christian. I hope you will come down the 619 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:33,000 aisle. During this invitation song, 620 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,200 repenting of your wrongs, confessing your sins, asking for 621 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,400 prayer. 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