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Welcome to the Liberty Baptist 
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The message you're about to hear
was preached at Liberty Baptist 

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Church in Easton, MA. 
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And now we hope that this 

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message from God's Word will be 
a blessing to you. 

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You know, it's a lot of times we
say something last in. 

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Eternity. 
But it's really hyperbole, isn't

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it? 
There's an eternity. 

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You know. 
You're sitting there at the 

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restaurant. 
You're. 

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Waiting for them to deliver your
food, Like, man, there's an 

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eternity. 
And it's really, well, not an 

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eternity. 
It's just a long time, you know,

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to go to Walmart. 
They got that two checkout lanes

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open although they have 50 out 
there it still. 

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Bugs me, I can't get over it. 
You know they they put every 

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one. 
Of them with all those checkout.

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Lines. 
There's only two available. 

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You're waiting. 
It's like this is taking the 

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eternity. 
You want. 

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Someone to call we probably. 
Somebody with some good news, 

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you know, they, they, they, 
they're going. 

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To tell you something that you 
need to hear. 

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And you're waiting. 
To call and the waiting. 

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Can take maybe all day. 
And maybe days turn to weeks. 

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Who knows how long it is for 
that call to be able to come. 

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And what do we say this is 
taking an eternity waiting for a

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sermon to finish? 
Oh, that would. 

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Hit the mark all right. 
Is this ever going to end? 

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He's preaching for an eternity. 
No, I am not preaching for an 

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eternity. 
No, the waiter. 

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Is not taking an eternity. 
To come. 

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Nor is Walmart. 
Causing you to wait an eternity 

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in the. 
Checkout line. 

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Those all are very long. 
Things. 

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Yes, including the sermon. 
Very long things, I understand 

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it. 
But we. 

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Use that term eternity so 
loosely, don't we, about things 

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that really don't last for 
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Do you know what's in eternity? 
Are you ready? 

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Eternity, That which never ends,
that which goes on in 

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perpetuity. 
And I want to remind you this 

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morning that eternity is not 
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Eternity is literally forever. 
And this morning in our text, 

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Peter gives us several things 
that you need to know. 

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When it comes to the issue of 
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Not about a very long. 
Time. 

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But about where you will. 
Spend forever after this life is

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over and the end result of what 
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morning. 
Is this? 

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You'll either be born again or 
experienced the second death. 

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The Bible says there are only 
two choices. 

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Either you will be born again or
you will experience the second 

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death. 
We stand pleased for the reading

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of the word. 
Of God and. 

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We covered 8 verses. 
Last week, today. 

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Just one. 
All right, just one. 

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Second Peter chapter 3 verse. 
#9. 

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And it says this, the Lord is 
not slack concerning his 

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promise, as some man count 
slackness, but His 

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long-suffering toward us. 
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Not willing that any should 
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But that all. 
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Feels like almost a crime to 
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short verse like that. 
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Let's read it again. 
Shall we? 

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The Lord is not. 
Slack concerning his promise. 

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As some men count slackness. 
But as long-suffering to us word

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not willing that any. 
Should perish, but it all should

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come to repentance. 
Heavenly Father I. 

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Prayed you'll be with us this 
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short, pithy, powerful verse 
that tells us what we need to 

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know about eternity. 
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I pray that you would. 
Help us with these issues today 

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and I pray. 
From the bottom of my heart. 

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That if there's someone here 
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will spend eternity, that they 
realize these two options, these

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only two realities and they 
would choose life or thank you 

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for what we've seen here this 
morning and be with us as we 

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continue. 
We ask in Jesus name, Amen. 

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You may be seated. 
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when someone gives their final 
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Of their heart. 
And we looked at Moses 

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recounting the law. 
We looked at Joshua Choose you 

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this day. 
Whom you will serve we. 

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Looked at Jesus, the Great 
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the word be instant in season, 
out of season. 

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And then we saw last week these 
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That. 
Paul starts here, rather Peter 

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starts in the very last chapter 
and he talks about issues of the

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end times and we talked about 
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But here I believe he gives the 
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Life had become after. 
He had met Jesus Christ. 

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The central idea, the central 
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meeting Christ was this the 
gospel? 

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Why? 
Because the gospel message 

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changes lives. 
Peter knew what the gospel did 

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his own life. 
And so as he's giving the final 

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words, this, this final chapter 
inspired by the Holy Spirit, the

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last words that he's giving of 
his life that we have recorded 

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today, he wants everyone to make
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There are some realities that 
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eternity. 
In fact, the title of my message

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this morning is this, 3 Things 
You Need to Know About Eternity.

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There's three things that 
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it or not, they need to 
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Because what you believe about 
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determining factor. 
Of where you spend eternity. 

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What you believe about the 
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determining factor about where 
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Spend eternity. 
So what are those 3 facts that 

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we read in this very short verse
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Verse #9. 
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God is truthful. 
God is truthful. 

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He, He isn't just the truth, or 
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truth. 
He literally is the embodiment 

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of truth. 
Everything about God is true, 

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for He is true. 
Well, where do we see that in 

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verse #9 Well, it may not be as 
readily apparent as you think, 

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but look at verse number. 9 the 
beginning it. 

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Says the Lord is not slack 
concerning his promise, as some 

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men count slackness. 
Now, the word slack here doesn't

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actually mean. 
Truthful. 

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If you're kind of wondering, 
that's where we're going with 

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this. 
The word slack means this to 

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Terry, to slow or to loiter. 
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word this way anymore, but we do
use it on occasion to maybe help

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us understand what is being said
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#9 if someone's lagging behind 
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somewhere, what would be 
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you need to pick up the slack? 
No, not pace, all right? 

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Slack. 
We're talking about Slack 

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people, all right? 
Come on. 

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Right. 
You woke up. 

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All right, That's good. 
That's great. 

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You need to pick up the slack. 
Am I the only one that says 

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that? 
Pick up the slack? 

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Yeah. 
Hey, what if somebody's not 

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doing? 
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A slacker, you know? 
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Sitting around, they're standing
around, they're not doing 

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anything. 
They're being a slacker if 

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you're pulling a rope and it's 
got some slack. 

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What does that mean? 
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You need to have some greater 
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greater way. 
You know, this idea of slack 

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means to tarry, to slow, to 
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No, that's not in there. 
Nevermind. 

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But I'm trying to make you feel 
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All right, listen. 
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not slack, meaning this God is 
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God is not. 
Waiting. 

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God is not tarrying in the way 
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or tarrying. 
Now, why would Peter be talking 

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about this? 
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let's look at verse #8 It says 
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But beloved, be not ignorant of 
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with the Lord as 1000 years and 
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Remember we saw last week that 
God's timetable is not your 

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timetable, that the way God 
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way that God has his designs 
upon this world is not upon our 

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timetable. 
It is upon his timetable and his

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alone. 
And He's not Privy to let us 

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know what his timetable. 
Is and so the next. 

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Verse says this, in case you're 
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Listen, God's not a slacker. 
God is not slow just because you

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don't see things happening the 
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Happening. 
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because we see things not 
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World, what do we say? 
Well, man's not working fast 

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enough. 
They're not doing what they 

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ought to do. 
They're not pulling their 

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weight, whatever we might say, 
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things may not be going in this.
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The way that we think that they 
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Listen, God is not slack in the 
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If he said he's going to do 
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it comes in. 
If God said He's going to do 

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something, He is truthful that 
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Just because you don't see it in
the moment doesn't mean it's not

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going to happen. 
Mankind is slack concerning His 

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promises, but God is never 
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People can be loose with the 
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God is never loose with one 
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Why? 
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And this is an important. 
Point because you may look at 

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the world and not see a God 
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Now, I know we're many here this
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that they know Jesus Christ 
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But even those of us who are 
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sometimes it looks like it's 
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It feels like things are out of 
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And so sometimes people look at 
human suffering and they wonder 

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if there is a God, that he must 
be slacking. 

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So this is what the world would 
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If there's a God, where is he? 
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something like that? 
They look at warfare, they look 

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at cancer, they look at natural 
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political unrest, they look at 
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They look at all of these 
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and they say, well, if there's a
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Why is he showing up? 
Why is he allowing these things 

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to happen? 
It's like they believe that the 

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world other than it's like they 
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exists, is slack. 
He's not showing up. 

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He's not keeping his promises. 
Yet I would. 

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Submit to you here this. 
Morning that God has promised 

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that there will be a time when 
all things will become new, and 

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just because that hasn't 
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he is untruthful, because there 
is a time when all things will 

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become new. 
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I saw a new heaven and a new 
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For the 1st heaven and the first
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there was no more sea. 
And I, John, saw the holy city, 

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New Jerusalem, coming down from 
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Out of heaven. 
Prepared as a bride adorned for 

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her husband. 
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And he that sat upon the throne 
said, Behold, I make all things 

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new. 
And he said unto me, Listen 

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right, for these words are true 
and faithful. 

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Listen, will there be a time 
when there is no more suffering?

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Yes. 
No more pain? 

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Yes. 
No more sickness, no more 

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doctors. 
I mean no offense to the 

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doctors. 
They can get saved. 

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But they won't need to. 
Practice their trade anymore. 

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Why? 
Because there will be a time 

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when all things are become new, 
say, well, I don't. 

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See it? 
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Truthful. 

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He's not slack concerning his 
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Understand this, that our God is
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You just don't understand why 
the world is going the way the 

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world is going. 
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Why you see the? 
Things that you see you don't 

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understand. 
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But I want to submit to you that
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unaware. 
God's in control. 

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He's on his own timetable and in
his time, Satan's puppet Kingdom

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that is today, and I say it is a
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Kingdom of today in God's timing
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eradicated. 
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Because God is truthful. 
He's not slack concerning His 

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promises. 
The bottom. 

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Line is that God is not. 
Delayed in keeping his promises.

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His delay listen to this is. 
Actually his design and you can 

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trust him that he'll keep his 
word. 

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He's never not. 
Kept his word he's. 

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Patient with his promises. 
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patient. 
We live in a microwave society 

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today where everything has to be
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It has to be done right now. 
You've ever seen advertising? 

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From somewhere around 100 years 
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advertisements for those 
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I'm not talking about the 
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We have today, I'm talking about
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had back in the days and and 
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Not going there, but my wife's 
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Anything I say is not going to 
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But well, you may hold it 
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They say this now your wash day 
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all that extra time. 
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Lot of the advertisements of 
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50s were about you'll save so 
much time with these automatic 

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appliances and. 
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appliances. 
Keep getting faster. 

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impatient. 
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have a meal in a few hours, then
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could be made in the oven 30 
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a meal that could be microwaved 
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And now we're like, can I just 
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in? 
And not stop. 

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well I don't even know if this 
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I'm not hungry anymore. 
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sawdust mixed with. 
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Why? 
Because we want what we want 

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now. 
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now because He always is in 
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not our timetable that. 
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He has never broken one of his 
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We're going to put your trust if
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Christ. 
Put it in man, how many promises

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is mankind broke? 
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forth out of the womb. 
Uttering lies, you know. 

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Don't put your trust in man, 
trust in God because he is 

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truthful. 3 Things you know 
about eternity #1 God is 

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truthful #2 Understand this. 
God is a long-suffering. 

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He's long-suffering. 
Again, verse 9. 

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The Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, as some men count 

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slackness, but is long. 
Suffering to us Word. 

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Aren't you glad that God is 
patient? 

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And aren't you glad God is 
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God operates? 
In his time. 

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And that he cannot be hurried. 
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Be slowed. 
That God will work at the exact 

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appropriate time in which He 
needs to work. 

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Why? 
Because he's patient. 

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But really? 
I think sometimes we take the 

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word long-suffering and patient 
and we just. 

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Put them together and make them 
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another. 
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I would say to you this morning 
that while there are great 

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similarities. 
Between the word patients and 

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long-suffering. 
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Concepts. 
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Says this that long-suffering is
bearing injuries or provocation 

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for a long. 
Time patient, not easily 

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provoked and the way that we. 
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different from patients is in 
the very word in fact, the word 

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defines it. 
It's suffering long listen, you 

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can be patient without 
necessarily. 

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Suffering patience is a friend. 
Saying, hey, someday I'm going 

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to. 
Call you and. 

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We're going to go have. 
Coffee together and you wait 

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patiently that in and of. 
Itself Is patience 

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long-suffering? 
Is a friend saying hey, let's go

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meet for coffee? 
Next week at this location and 

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at this time and you go to the 
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They don't. 
Show up you pay for. 

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Your coffee, you go home, you do
it next week, you drive the 

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location because they promised 
you they'd be there. 

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You wait patiently, you buy 
coffee, you go home alone, and 

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you do it over. 
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Could you imagine somebody doing
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And you, the whole time you 
have, your time has been wasted,

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your money has been wasted, the 
emotional investment, it's all 

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been wasted and and you've had 
to eat that yourself. 

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And the question is what? 
Fool would put up with 

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something. 
Like that? 

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What fool would put up with 
someone else? 

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Say I'll meet you next week. 
I'll be there, you know, this 

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week I'll really be there, you 
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truth the last couple. 
Weeks, but this week. 

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I'm really going to be there. 
We're going to have coffee. 

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We'll have 3 cups of coffee to 
make up for the other two weeks 

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that I wasn't there. 
Like, listen, I'm going to you 

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say what fool at some point 
would say, listen, I'm not 

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putting up with that anymore. 
Who would do that? 

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Listen, I'm not talking about a 
sucker. 

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This morning, who is long? 
Suffering I'm. 

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Talking about your savior 
because what we have done to him

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is nothing but empty and broken 
promises where God is true. 

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The Bible says let God be true 
and every man a liar. 

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God, I'll do it. 
Then we don't do it. 

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God, I won't do it. 
Then we'll do it. 

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Remember, Paul talked about 
that. 

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By the way, if you feel too bad 
about yourself, Paul talks about

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the book of Roman. 
He says, oh, wretched man that I

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am, the things I don't want to 
do, I end up doing, and the 

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things I want to do I end up not
doing. 

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Listen, the apostle Paul 
struggle with that. 

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You think you're not going to 
struggle with that? 

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And over and over, we test the 
very patience of God. 

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And it's not just that we test 
his patience is that we, if you 

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could put it this way, injure 
him in the process. 

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Now listen, we can't hurt God 
you. 

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Understand what I'm saying? 
What I'm saying is this is that 

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we do wrong against him and yet 
he is long-suffering. 

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It's easy to be patient when 
nobody hurts you. 

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It's a lot harder to be patient 
when someone is actively hurt 

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you and we have actively hurt 
the Heavenly Father who sent his

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Son Jesus Christ to die on the 
cross. 

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And yet he is what? 
long-suffering with us. 

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And I know I've said it here 
before, but it's like the old 

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preacher says that he's not just
long-suffering, he's 

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long-suffering with us because 
he puts up with a lot. 

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Say, how is he long? 
Suffering. 

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How is Jesus? 
How did Jesus patiently? 

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Endure. 
The harm and provocation. 

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Of mankind. 
Or we could start by saying 

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this, He was long-suffering on 
the cross. 

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Hebrews 12, verses 2 and three, 
looking unto Jesus, the Author 

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and the finisher of our faith. 
Who, for the joy that was set 

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before him, endured the cross, 
despising the shame, and is set 

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down at the right? 
Hand of the throne of God, for 

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consider him that endured such 
contradiction of sinners against

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himself. 
Thus you'd be wearied and faint 

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within your own minds that he 
put up with our contradiction, 

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our contradictory way of living.
By the way, He knew how wretched

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we would be before the 
foundation of the earth. 

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Because he was his 
foreknowledge, He understood. 

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Listen your. 
Way of living didn't take. 

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Jesus by surprise. 
The way you lived before you got

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saved didn't take Jesus by 
surprise. 

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He knows all things knowing how 
wretched you are. 

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And don't worry how wretched I 
am. 

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Jesus Christ. 
Willingly went to the cross he 

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didn't go eyes wide shut. 
He went eyes wide open. 

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What? 
And he said he endured the cross

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despising the same shame. 
But it says I'm sorry the says 

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for the joy that was set before 
him knowing that all those 

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things would take place it was a
joy. 

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And as I've said before, it 
wasn't a joy. 

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The physical, the physicality 
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that was not a joy. 
The Bible says he was 

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unrecognizable as a man. 
We can't even comprehend the 

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suffering of his humanity, but 
yet he joyfully went to the 

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cross. 
Why? 

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So we could be reconciled to 
God. 

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What an amazing thing that is. 
But it's not just that Jesus was

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long-suffering on the cross. 
He's long-suffering with you and

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I, not just before we got saved,
but after we got saved too. 

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David said in Psalm 86, verses 
15 and 16. 

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But thou, O Lord, art a God full
of compassion, gracious, 

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long-suffering, plenteous in 
mercy and truth. 

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Turn unto me, have mercy upon 
me, and give me strength. 

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I'm sorry. 
Give thy strength unto thy 

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servant, and save the Son of 
thine handmaid. 

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Every sin we commit, every time 
we've slandered His name by 

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using it in vain. 
Every hateful word, every 

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hateful. 
Thought every prideful, boast 

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every selfish. 
Claim every time we reject or 

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neglect His word, His house. 
Those were all weights that were

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added to him on the cross. 
But yeah, he's long-suffering 

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toward us. 
Look at verse number. 15 it says

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in the. 
Account that the long-suffering 

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of our. 
Lord is what salvation? 

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The long-suffering of our Lord 
is salvation, meaning this what 

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is the end result of the 
long-suffering of God. 

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If you go down the road of the 
long-suffering of God, you see 

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at the end it ultimately exists.
Our salvation, the fact that we 

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are able to be redeemed. 
So if you were to understand 

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something about eternity this 
morning, it would be this. 

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God is truthful then #2 that God
is long-suffering. 

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But #3 and most importantly for 
you this morning is this is that

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God wants you to be saved. 
God desires. 

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It says it right here in verse 
15, an account that the 

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long-suffering of our Lord is 
salvation. 

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God desires you to be saved. 
What does it say in verse #9 It 

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says not willing that any 
should. 

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Perish that all should come to 
repentance, this verse shows. 

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That there are two choices and 
two choices only repent or 

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perish. 
That's not my words. 

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It's not the conjecture of some 
wild eyed crazy independent 

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Baptist preacher. 
It just says here there are two 

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choices, you repent or you 
perish. 

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Now what does repent mean? 
That means a change of mind 

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which leads to a change of 
action, a change of mind that. 

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Leads to a change of action. 
No, no, it's not works. 

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The Bible says we are not saved 
by our works. 

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We're just learning at 10:00 
this morning about Islam and 

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that Islam salvation, quote UN 
quote, is this. 

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Your good deeds and your bad 
deeds are matched up. 

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And whatever weighs itself more 
on the cosmic scales, good 

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deeds, heaven, bad deeds, hell. 
And you can never know what the 

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scales will be until the time 
comes. 

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There's no peace in that. 
There's no hope in that. 

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There's no salvation in that. 
The Bible says this. 

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Repentance means this. 
It's not a work. 

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It's a change of mind that leads
to a change of direction. 

457
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It's turning from one way and 
going the right way. 

458
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,160
I'm thinking of Peter. 
No, I'm not. 

459
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:50,760
I'm thinking. 
Of Paul. 

460
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,720
I'm thinking of Paul. 
If you only knew what goes up 

461
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,360
and goes on in my mind while I'm
up here. 

462
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:58,600
It's incredible. 
I'm really thinking of Paul. 

463
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,280
On the road to Damascus and he 
was running hard in One 

464
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,200
Direction. 
What was that? 

465
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:08,440
Kill in prison, do whatever he 
could to believers. 

466
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,400
This was his desire, whether he 
killed them personally or not. 

467
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,640
We know that, for instance, 
Stephen, he was consenting unto 

468
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,720
his death. 
His desire was that this way was

469
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,280
eradicated. 
But then what happened? 

470
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,960
He met Jesus. 
You know I. 

471
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,080
Don't say that he met. 
Jesus on the road to. 

472
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,000
Damascus and he repented. 
How do I know that? 

473
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,120
Because he was running hard. 
This way. 

474
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,360
And he turned around. 
And once he met Jesus, he was 

475
00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,840
running just as hard the 
opposite direction. 

476
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,400
Now the zeal in which he had. 
To. 

477
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,040
Persecute Christians was the 
very same zeal now put into the 

478
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,720
direction of I have to serve my 
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

479
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,360
It's a sign of fruit, of 
repentance. 

480
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,640
Isaiah 50. 5 verses 6:00 and 
7:00. 

481
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,680
Seek ye the Lord, while He may 
be found. 

482
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,400
Call upon him while he is near. 
Let the wicked forsake his way, 

483
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,800
the unrighteous man his 
thoughts, Let him return unto 

484
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:08,360
the. 
Lord. 

485
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,680
And he will have mercy. 
Upon him and to our. 

486
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,200
God, for He will abundantly 
pardon. 

487
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,480
That's repentance. 
The wicked forsaking their way, 

488
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,960
the unrighteous man his 
thoughts, and returning unto the

489
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,160
Lord. 
It's making that change of mind 

490
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,440
which turns into a change of 
direction. 

491
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,400
This means that when you. 
Repent, you are turning towards 

492
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,760
God, which also means this 
you're turning away from your. 

493
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,040
Sin because you're. 
Turning away from your former 

494
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,160
master, which was Satan, and 
from. 

495
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:40,400
His devices, which are sin. 
God calls upon all to make this 

496
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,120
decision. 
God calls upon all. 

497
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:48,080
To come to repentance. 
But it also says this, that if 

498
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,160
you do not, the Bible says you 
perish. 

499
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,280
And the Bible calls this 
perishing, the second death. 

500
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,880
Now this phrase, second death is
used four times in the Word of 

501
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,080
God, all in the Book of 
Revelation. 

502
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,920
What is the second death? 
Well, it says in Revelation 21, 

503
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,920
eight. 
But the fearful and unbelieving,

504
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:16,280
the abominable murderers, 
whoremongers, sorcerers, 

505
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,840
idolaters and all. 
Liars shall have part. 

506
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,680
In the lake which burneth with 
fire and brimstone, which is the

507
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,600
second death? 
The Bible says this. 

508
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,680
There are only two choices. 
You'll either be born again or 

509
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,720
experienced the second death. 
Do you see the difference 

510
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:41,280
between life and death? 
The good news is this, that God 

511
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,520
desires that no man perish, but 
that all come to repentance. 

512
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,120
It's the desire of God that you 
trust Jesus Christ as your 

513
00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:54,320
Savior today and that you trust 
Him. 

514
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,280
What of the Bible way, not your 
own way? 

515
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,040
God's long-suffering for a 
reason. 

516
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,560
He's not just long-suffering 
because he wants to take 

517
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,600
punishment. 
He's long-suffering because he. 

518
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,800
Wants that long-suffering to 
lead to your repentance and your

519
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,240
salvation. 
Luke 532 I came not call the 

520
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,200
righteous, but sinners to 
repentance. 

521
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,560
Luke 1910 For the Son of Man has
come to seek and to save that 

522
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,240
which was lost. 
First Timothy one verse 15. 

523
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,520
This is a faithful saying and 
worthy of all acceptation that 

524
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,440
Christ Jesus came in the world 
to save sinners. 

525
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,760
And Paul said this, of whom I am
chief, what is this? 

526
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,600
Jesus wants you to be saved. 
The question is this, you turn 

527
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,520
from death, will you turn from 
sin and turn towards the living 

528
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,600
God? 
There's three things you need to

529
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,880
know about eternity. 
God is truthful. 

530
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,040
You can trust Him. 
He's not slack concerning His 

531
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,160
promises, you know. 
He's not behind schedule. 

532
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,280
He's not running late. 
He knows what time it is, and 

533
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,400
his time is the right time 
because He's truthful. 

534
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,480
We also know this, that God is 
long-suffering. 

535
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,440
He puts up with you. 
Yeah, I said it. 

536
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,240
But he puts up with me, which is
just as bad. 

537
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,240
He puts up with us. 
He's long-suffering with us to 

538
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,720
bring us to repentance. 
And then after we get. 

539
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,360
Saved I. 
Don't know about you, but I 

540
00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:28,520
still. 
Sit once in a while after get 

541
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,240
saved. 
How about you? 

542
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,440
Now if you didn't agree. 
You just send right now. 

543
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,240
All right, so we got you covered
too. 

544
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,920
All right, so the people. 
Who agreed? 

545
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,840
The people who don't want to say
anything that are lying. 

546
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,800
We're all sinners and even after
we get saved, aren't you glad 

547
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:49,280
he's so long-suffering with you?
But God wants you to be saved. 

548
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,720
Listen, there's no salvation in 
any other. 

549
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,360
There's no salvation in Islam. 
There's no salvation in Jehovah 

550
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,800
Witness. 
There's no salvation in the 

551
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,640
Mormons. 
There's no salvation in 

552
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,040
Buddhism. 
There's no salvation in any 

553
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,640
other worldly thought process. 
There's no salvation in 

554
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,520
humanism, there's no salvation 
in secularism. 

555
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,320
There's no salvation. 
In any other ISM. 

556
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,320
And there's no salvation by 
human enlightenment. 

557
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,920
I'm just going to become a good 
person and eventually I'll reach

558
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,640
my own plateau. 
I'll reach my own place of no 

559
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600
friend. 
Every single one of those roads 

560
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,480
made to have a different 
signpost on it, but they all 

561
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,400
lead to the same destination. 
Death, judgment, the great white

562
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,920
throne. 
But there is one Rd. that leads 

563
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,680
to life, and that's Jesus 
Christ. 

564
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,640
And you know what he's doing 
today? 

565
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,880
I believe he's actively in front
of the road telling you come, 

566
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,480
come find. 
Rest for your souls. 

567
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,680
Find rest not just in this life,
but in eternity and at the same 

568
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,120
time. 
In front of those other. 

569
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,520
Roads. 
He's putting roadblocks, saying 

570
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:03,560
no, don't go this way. 
This is not the way of which you

571
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,760
should go. 
And his word. 

572
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:10,320
Warns us of these things because
there is life in only Jesus 

573
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,520
Christ. 
Voltaire, who you may have heard

574
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,320
from the 1800s in France. 
Voltaire was not merely 

575
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,560
skeptical of Christianity, he 
was one of its fiercest critics 

576
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,200
during the Enlightenment, he 
famously wrote Frederick the. 

577
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,680
2nd of Prussia, that 
Christianity. 

578
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,800
Was the most ridiculous, the 
most absurd, the most bloody 

579
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,160
religion which has ever infected
this world. 

580
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,320
His campaign against religious 
dogma was so aggressive that he 

581
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,480
adopted the motto he Cretesse. 
That's in French. 

582
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,760
I can't do it. 
All right, this is in English. 

583
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,160
Crush. 
The infamous thing referring to 

584
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,880
the church through works like. 
Kennedy and his Philosophy. 

585
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Philosophical Dictionary. 
Voltaire. 

586
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,360
Ridiculed Christian doctrines, 
Clergy. 

587
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,920
And the violence he saw 
perpetuated. 

588
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,600
In the name of faith, he viewed 
religion. 

589
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,640
As a tool of oppression and 
superstition, often blaming it 

590
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,360
for wars, persecution and 
ignorance. 

591
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,760
His satire wasn't just literary.
It was. 

592
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,920
Personal, political and 
relentless. 

593
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,200
But now consider. 
This Despite his intellectual 

594
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:22,040
bravado, Voltaire's deathbed 
paints a sober in contrast. 

595
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,720
According to multiple accounts, 
including his nurse and 

596
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,280
physician, Voltaire died in 
torment, he reportedly. 

597
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,520
Cried out for forgiveness and 
begged for more time. 

598
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,360
Saying to his doctor, listen, I 
will give you half of what I'm 

599
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,640
worth if you give me 6 months 
let to live. 

600
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,240
When told that was impossible, 
he exclaimed, then I shall die 

601
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,360
and go to hell. 
Some of his final words included

602
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,520
this. 
I am abandoned by God and man. 

603
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,440
His nurse later said, for all 
the money in Europe, I wouldn't 

604
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,120
want to see another unbeliever 
die. 

605
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,840
The man who spent. 
His life. 

606
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,480
Mocking Eternity ended up 
leaving that life with dread. 

607
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,280
I will tell you this, God will 
wait. 

608
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,560
He's long-suffering. 
God will wait, but eternity 

609
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,200
waits for no man. 
There will be a time where you 

610
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,480
have to answer this question. 
Why should you come into this 

611
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,440
heaven? 
At the Great White Throne 

612
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,480
Judgment, every single person, 
billions upon billions will be 

613
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,480
asked that question, and they 
will have to answer that it's 

614
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,240
not by Jesus Christ that it'll 
be by their own way. 

615
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,560
And as we said this morning in 
Revelation chapter #20 the books

616
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,000
will be open, the books of your 
life. 

617
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,600
And if you have sinned even one 
time, you will be found a 

618
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,360
Sinner. 
And the Bible said that all of 

619
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,960
sin and come short of the glory 
of God. 

620
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,320
What does that mean? 
That you will spend an eternity 

621
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,280
in the lake of fire? 
But that's not God's desire. 

622
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,880
Now I know that one our text 
tells us that to Jesus life 

623
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:07,160
shows us that because he came to
this world for 33 years he 

624
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,880
lived, he taught, he healed and 
ultimately went to the cross, 

625
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,560
died, was buried, resurrected, 
ascended into heaven. 

626
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,080
Why? 
With 1 mission and 1 mission 

627
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,720
only so that you could be saved.
That's John 316 that that's what

628
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,320
it's all about. 
So I want to encourage you 

629
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,880
today, if you don't know Jesus 
Christ your Savior, you don't 

630
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,160
know where you'll spend 
eternity. 

631
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,760
Listen, eternity is not found in
the institutional church. 

632
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,440
So what do you mean salvation is
not found in the Catholic 

633
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,240
Church? 
So Hester, you really can't say 

634
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,520
something that on the nose. 
Well, I'll tell you this, 

635
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:49,920
Salvation is not found in the 
Lutheran Church. 

636
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,400
You know why? 
I was a Lutheran for 16 years. 

637
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,360
Salvation is not found in the 
Presbyterian Church. 

638
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Salvation is not found in any 
denomination. 

639
00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,800
I'm going to tell you a secret. 
Are you ready for this? 

640
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,520
Let's go and get this close. 
Salvation is not found in the 

641
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,680
Baptist Church. 
What do you mean? 

642
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,000
I'm saying this. 
Becoming a Baptist doesn't make 

643
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,480
you saved. 
You're not supposed to say that 

644
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,920
as a Baptist. 
Well, I mean, I'm not supposed 

645
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,560
to preach the truth. 
No. 

646
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,280
No Baptist Church ought to be 
preaching salvation. 

647
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,120
But salvation is not found in 
the Baptist Church. 

648
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,840
Salvation is found in one and 
one alone. 

649
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,800
It's Jesus Christ. 
And if you think your good works

650
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,360
will get you to heaven. 
If you think coming every Sunday

651
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,000
morning will get you to heaven. 
If you think giving in the 

652
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,080
offering plate will get you to 
heaven. 

653
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,040
If you think that making sure 
that you do good works and work 

654
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,440
for community groups during the 
week will get you to heaven. 

655
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,719
If you think being a nice guy 
will get you to heaven. 

656
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,320
If you think being morally pure 
will get you to heaven. 

657
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,840
Really. 
If you think anything. 

658
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,840
Will get you to heaven other 
than Jesus Christ. 

659
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,040
You will find out that there is 
a second death. 

660
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,840
And you know what my heart, with
every fiber of my being is, is 

661
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,040
that I can't even imagine that 
there would be someone that 

662
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,520
would sit under the ministry 
here at Liberty Baptist Church 

663
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,600
for a Sunday or for months or 
even years that heard the gospel

664
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,320
message over and over again and 
ended up spending an eternity in

665
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,160
hell. 
That thought haunts me. 

666
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,560
It makes me want to go down to 
the seats and just grab everyone

667
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,240
by the shoulders and saying. 
Are you sure you're saved now? 

668
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:28,280
I won't do that because. 
We wouldn't be at church very 

669
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,640
much longer. 
That's not the way you do 

670
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:34,760
things. 
But it's that important that you

671
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,320
hear the message and heed the 
message. 

672
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,000
It's not of the pastor of the 
Word of God. 

673
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,320
All must be saved through Jesus 
Christ. 

674
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,240
Why? 
Because he's truthful. 

675
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,040
He's long. 
Suffering and he wants you to be

676
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,560
saved if you're not saved, 
listen, don't leave this 

677
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,440
building today without coming up
to me, without coming to someone

678
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,200
else and saying this. 
What do I need to do to know to 

679
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,720
go to heaven? 
What do I need? 

680
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,280
To do and the answer. 
Is this it's not what you? 

681
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,440
Need to do because. 
This Christ didn't receive 

682
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,120
gospel. 
The gift of the Gospel. 

683
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,400
That's already been provided for
you. 

684
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,400
You just have to accept it to 
repent of your sin. 

685
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,640
They call upon Jesus Christ to 
save you. 

686
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,160
Now I will say this and I'll be 
done. 

687
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,440
You say, pastor, that's a great 
message. 

688
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,440
I'm already saved. 
So that didn't really do 

689
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,480
anything for me today. 
I got something for you too. 

690
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,480
Don't worry. 
First of all. 

691
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,000
I think it's good for all of us 
to remember how good the gospel 

692
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,680
is of which we received. 
Like we need a reminder of that 

693
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:39,280
sometimes anyway. 
What did we learn last week? 

694
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,960
Or rather, what did we? 
Learn on Wednesday night, I 

695
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:48,000
guess That was last week that 
we're to have the mind of. 

696
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,800
Does anyone remember the mind of
Christ? 

697
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,240
Remember that? 
Well, if the mind of Christ is 

698
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:58,360
long-suffering, then what does 
that mean? 

699
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:03,040
That Christians are supposed to 
be long-suffering? 

700
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,280
If we're not careful, we are 
some of the most impatient, 

701
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,840
grumpy and grouchy people you 
will ever meet. 

702
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,360
Yeah, that didn't go over very 
well. 

703
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,440
So I'm going. 
To turn back here and say if 

704
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:18,600
I'm, you know, if we're not 
careful, I'm. 

705
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Going to talk to. 
This guy over here, you know, if

706
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,600
we're not careful, we as 
Christians are some of the 

707
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,040
bumpiest, the grouchiest people 
you'll ever be. 

708
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,400
I could see you agree with me 
right now and you know the. 

709
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,120
Thing is. 
Is that if we were billboards 

710
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,160
for Christianity, we would 
probably be one of the worst 

711
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,600
billboards possible. 
When we do not. 

712
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,480
Have the long. 
Suffering nature of Jesus 

713
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:39,440
Christ. 
I mean, do you agree? 

714
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:47,240
Yeah, this guy listens. 
The mind of Christ. 

715
00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:50,400
Means that we need to have the 
qualities of God within our 

716
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,560
life. 
One being truthful, but two I 

717
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,040
just want to focus on are you 
long-suffering? 

718
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,440
Will they hurt me? 
That's the very nature of 

719
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,400
long-suffering bearing the hurt 
and still being patient. 

720
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,680
Now, again, I know that there 
are consequences for sin and I 

721
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,360
know there's some difficulties 
and, and I understand that, you 

722
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,240
know, if someone's listen as 
someone robbed from you, you 

723
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:15,280
know, you probably aren't going 
to, you know, give them a loan 

724
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,920
the next week. 
Boundaries are necessary, aren't

725
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,560
they? 
But forgiveness is still real. 

726
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:29,920
long-suffering is still real. 
And Christian friend, are you 

727
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,520
willing to be patient for the 
sake of the gospel? 

728
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,000
Well, they hurt me. 
That's why it's not just 

729
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,360
patience. 
It's long-suffering, and God is 

730
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,960
long-suffering with us. 
Our. 

731
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,560
Version of long-suffering is. 
I'm sorry. 

732
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,120
Get it over with. 
As quickly as possible. 

733
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,400
That's at the mind of. 
Christ so this week. 

734
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,640
As we add to our. 
Faith, let's have a greater. 

735
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,080
Appreciation for the 
long-suffering nature of God for

736
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,360
the unsaved, may it call you to 
repentance. 

737
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,400
For the saved, may it be a 
quality of which we live our 

738
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,160
lives so we can show people 
Jesus Christ through our 

739
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,560
long-suffering nature. 
Thank you for listening to the 

740
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,200
sermon from the pulpit of 
Liberty Baptist Church. 

741
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,800
If this message was a blessing 
to you, or if there's any way we

742
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,920
can serve you, please let us 
know by contacting us at 

743
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,800
info@mylibertybaptist.org. 
Or you can visit us this Sunday 

744
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,720
at 800 Washington St. in Easton,
MA. 

745
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,760
May the Lord bless you as you 
grow in His Word.